Wow.  I haven't been here in a long, long time.  I guess I "hang out" and myspace and deviantart now, and I've completely forgotten this place.  I even made a blogspot account that had a lifespan of three days.

Anywho, I'm really just here for some icon searching.

Later :D.

HEEHEE.  Xanga is so old!  Pobrexanga.

*points and laughs at pobrexanga*.

Currently Reading The Wallflower 1 : Yamatonadeshiko Shichihenge (Wallflower: Yamatonadeshiko Shichenge) By Tomoko Hayakawa see related

Yo.

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Long time no see.  I don't expect anyone is reading this stupid.. blog, if it's even worthy of being called that, anymore.  Behold, this place is just my sanctuary of perpetual rantings.

Anywho.

I went to see Memoirs of a Geisha today.

It.

Was.

AWESOME D:  !!

I suppose I'm supposed to say.. the book was better.. and in some aspects, it was.  [Of course, historically, the book will always be better than the movie.]  BUT, the visuals in the movie made the story so much more.. well.. vivid.  There were some differences, between the book and the movie, but all the important parts stayed the same.  Some people looked different than how I had imagined them, but most of them were perfect 8D.  (And if you plan on seeing the movie and don't want me to spoil it for you, please do not read on :3. )

Hatsumomo, for example, was so beautiful ;o;.  Everything about her (I mean, the actress portraying the character, not the character herself) was perfect!!  I especially loved the scene where she goes ABSOLUTELY MAD and dramatically shatters all the lanterns to set the okiya on fire... which SO did not happen in the book!  I mean, she goes crazy in the book, but the visual scene was so intense :o.

The way the movie portrayed "Mother" was absolutely accurate, in my mind, and she was one of my more favored characters just for that reason xD.  Her voice, her attitude!  Dooode.

The Chairman and Nobu-san looked completely different than how I had imagined them.  I mean, Nobu was missing an arm in the book, no!?

Mameha was not as "perfect" as I imagined her appearance to be.  I don't feel as if they stressed how famous Mameha even was, and how big of a deal it was for her to take on Chiyo as a "younger sister".  In fact, I think there was an certain lack of focus throughout the movie.  In the book, I could truly feel how every step Sayuri took was to get closer to the Chairman, and there was certainly more stress on Nobu.  In fact, YOU THERE, go read the book, the limitations of a movie did not do entire justice D: , GRAWR.

OH.. and lets not forget the most changed of them all.. PUMPKIN xD.  Her after-war character in the movie was so.. xDDD.  She becomes so.. American influenced!!  In the book, she remains loyal to her Japanese.. ness.. and status as a geisha.. I don't know how to word it, but her attitude was not like that in the book.

Pumpkin: Whoooo wants some whiskeeeey WOOOOO!!!!!!!

Um.. and the final scene between the Chairman and Sayuri was much more intense in the book ;_;.  I cried more reading the book xD!

And that's all.

The rest of it goes in my pen and paper journal.

BUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.

Listening to: iPod- Playlist~ current- begin: Devil Inside - Utada Hikaru.  end: Hands Clean - Alanis Morisette 

Yo.

I wish it would snow again.

I really don't want to do this homework. =(.

Recently, xanga has become the victim of my late night rants.  Sorry.  It's just late.  And I need somewhere to rant.

The homework is really easy too.  As long as I have www.sparknotes.com, it should be no problem.  But I'm just sitting and staring at this computer screen.

I wish I had time.  Unlimited time.  And an unlimited amount of money.  Is that so much to ask?

I took a 3-hour nap today.  Ugh... my day schedule.

6:30am - 7-:15am = Mad rush morning preparation + breakfast + making it onto the bus.

7:26am - 2:30pm = School.

Then most of the afternoon is usually spent catching up on sleep (like today's 3-hour nap, that's normal).  I usually wake up around 6:30pm-7:30pm.  This is wear my only free period begins, after nap, while I'm waiting for someone to come home and make me dinner.  I'm usually watching the dogs, or catching up on anime/manga.  Or surfin' teh net.  Eventually I eat dinner, take a shower, and then around 10:30pm I usually end up in front of my computer somehow to do homework.  Then I procrastinate all night, eventually get it done, wake up, and the whole cycle begins again.

No wonder my personality is going sour.  The only time I'm essentially alive is at school, and that place drives me mad, or when I'm restlessly procrastinating.  In spite of that, last marking period's grades gave me all A+'s and two A's.  Oh well.  Hope it stays that way.

xD SOOO.. perhaps in subconscious efforts to break this droll and repetitive system and achieve a life.. I went to our school's knitting club. xDD.  I was worried if it was okay that I didn't have knitting needles, but luckily, just as I was literally walking over to the club, I ran into Ryan + Chair.  I was like, "HEY GUYS GUESS WHERE I'M GOIN'!?".  When I said I was going to the knitting club, Ryan said she had knitting needles in her bag, so she let me borrow them (wotta coincidence xD).  Chair was trying to get me to eat a piece of wood.  Whatever.  So now I know how to knit.. sort of.  I can make scarves, woo!  That's fine.  That's all I really wanted to know.

My short-term dream in life is to be the girl that has a million different funky-colored scarves.  I can make them as gifts too x3.  I'm going to make Andrea a Slytherin-scarf for her half-birthday. (I missed her real birthday.  But her half-birthday is on MY birthday o_O;.  Weird.)  But shh.  Don't tell 'er.  It's a surprise.

Really though.. I just want to draw.  I miss the summer nights where I would just sit on my bed and draw 'till early morning.  But with school and all, staying up as late as I would is just stupid.  Yet I end up staying up that late ANYWAY.  Well, maybe not AS late.  Accursed homework.  This life would be so much better without homework.  Although, I shouldn't really blame my misery on the homework, I should blame it on my own negative procrastination characteristics.  If I could just get it DONE when I get home from school.

Right now I'm thinking, ' I miss 8th grade '.  Everything seems to have been easier then.  I wonder if next year, or the year after I'll think, ' I miss freshmen year '.  I guess I should just be thankful that the work I'm putting off really IS easy enough, though it requires thought and consideration, I still have my online guideline.  I should think of how easy it is now, and that I should take advantage of it.  Tomorrow, I'll try to be... orderly.  I really need to start enjoying my life.  Youth is so short.  In the future, I don't want to look back and regret that I didn't live happily.  I also don't want to look back and think that I totally wasted time with it.  I need to be happy and productive.  Well, not necessarily happy- just being content everyday life somehow.  Happy is such a weird word.

What am I doing?  The oppurtunities before me unfold!  I just have to keep sticking close to God, rather than trusting my humanly nature.  Did you know I got a scanner recently?  And $50 from my good grades?  The exact amount of money I'd been praying for to buy a nice set of watercolour paints I've really wanted.  God has a weirdly awesome way of blessing you unexpectedly.  I wish everyone could know this and have what I have.

And suddenly, I'm content.  Wait!  Freezeframe, stop the motion! (I've always wanted to say that x3.)  Wasn't I just complaining about how miserable I was a moment ago?  Oh well.  Yay <3.

*Take this silence to randomly kick rubber ducks around.*

Alrightey, I'm off to work now.  I'mma get this done.  I'm glad I sat and typed this up.

I miss people =|.

Reading: Animal Farm.

Listening to:  Hybrid Rainbow, par THE PILLOWS ~. FuriKuri OST <3)

It's 2am!

And I'm still doing homework!  And it's snowing!

Go snow go!

It's beginning to stick to the roads, yay!

OOH GUESS WHAT *-*;... yeah nevermind.   I'll tell you later.

Back to homework!