Jisu being Jisu...

cons are fun, fail is not

2008-07-23T00:34:51Z

Update: I may be a fail cosplayer, but I'm a semi-prudent fail cosplayer. All I need to do is make the new collar, remove the old messed-up collar and add the ribbons and bow. And ignore my mom's "you need to lose weight" thing she's on about again. Anyone else going to Animethon, how are yours coming along?

Storms, ick. We've been getting way too many. I'm beginning to hate them.

Oh, fruit.

2008-07-16T04:21:14Z

First of all, I would like to post a public notice that I have the right to say whatever the heck (rubbing it in) I want to. The expletives I wish to use are in my vocabulary for personal reasons, completely unrelated to the fact that none of them are dirty. The expletives I wish not to use are removed from my vocabulary not because I am "childish" or fear being "bad", but simply because it's not in my character to use them. Of course, this will be forgotten by tomorrow, but I had to say it.

Today was fun; however, it appears that my glamourbombing skills are rather lacking, or at least that I have a long way to go in the not-being-seen department. Also, I had no idea that cats ate flowers.

I'm sorry.

skittlestemple @ 2008-07-13T14:31:00

2008-07-13T20:32:24Z

THE POKEMON MEME!

Give me something good please. :((((

skittlestemple @ 2008-07-09T20:47:00

2008-07-10T02:49:17Z

So. Starting tonight, in one hour and thirteen minutes, Ontario and Quebec will no longer be exempt from the $3 handling charge.

I'm bracing myself for a wave of complaints tomorrow. Wish me luck.

baw scared of rejection

2008-07-08T23:39:28Z

How many meetings in a row is it that I have no idea where we're meeting and I'm afraid to ask? e-e; And how many chats have I missed ever since I did that one stupid thing and people stopped inviting me? Again, afraid to ask about it. I really need to get over this phobia. Even Kokoro is implementing a system where you ask everybody who's on if they want to chat before you make the room. There's no WAY that I can do that! X_x;;; I can't even outright ask for 1-on-1s, which makes it hard when you're talking to the one person to whom chat quoting and character insertions get no response whatsoever...

...I look really pathetic. e-e;;;

skittlestemple @ 2008-07-03T20:06:00

2008-07-04T02:11:24Z

Good day at work. Good weather. My paid account money orders were received. I was HAPPY, I was overjoyed, I was feeling good, and then...

I won't bother my whole flist with the situation. Just to one person who knows what I'm talking about: I probably won't be speaking to you for a while. You were a good friend.

Just feeling lost right now. Certain people are too busy or too conflicted to spend time with me. Others stopped talking to me and inviting me to chats after I did something dumb and offended a friend of theirs. And others seem to have forgotten I exist. The world kind of sucks these past few weeks. Sorry.

skittlestemple @ 2008-07-01T18:22:00

2008-07-02T00:30:10Z

Canada Day is pretty fun so far, even though it's just me and my family. Went down to Wascana Park to see everything that was going on and sob I left my purse in the car whyyyy I wanted mini-donuts. :((( However, I found another way to get dessert, for now I am the proud owner of...

A SNOW CONE MAKER

Even though my parents said it was a dumb idea. o/;; I like it and I will use it often. The store ran out of the cute little pink one, but I got another one and it works fine. It doesn't take much ice, actually o.o; Also got some nice syrup, the kind they put in Italian soda, instead of the kind that you can buy with the maker. Natural is healthy. Of course, though my vanilla snow cones taste great, it's hard to tell which part is covered when the syrup is clear. Knew I should have gotten strawberry.

Also, thisisarisa really needs to stop randomly disappearing after saying one or two things in AIM. Then maybe I would not think "PERFECT OPPORTUNITY FOR CHAT *A*" and then have awkward silence when she doesn't show up and it's just me and one other person. u-ub Speaking of which, apparently my old AIM works again? \(O_o)/

skittlestemple @ 2008-06-17T22:05:00

2008-06-18T04:05:47Z

Kyla, my mom thought you were dating Chlamydia. XD

skittlestemple @ 2008-06-17T09:51:00

2008-06-17T16:15:17Z

Auauau pain. Hatehatehatehate. orz

And it's finally my day off but I can't go anywhere because I have no change. Why did I forget to get a bus pass this month. *headwall* I can finally go to anime club, though, but I don't know if it's cancelled or if we get our clubroom back or what. Someone enlighten me. D: Either way, I need to celebrate my not being stuck answering phones at night.

Speaking of work, it's beginning to frustrate me how people take every excuse they can not to check what size they are. Apparently, they somehow think that waiting for three different sizes of everything, going through the trouble of trying them all on, taking them back and answering the returns questions for each one is more convenient than just getting the one they want.

*"Oh, you can never trust those things." (Then why do we have them? They work for most people.)
*"Yes, but I'm between the sizes." (Me too. I manage.)
*"It differs from brand to brand." (We homogenized the charts of our own brands last Fall, and are currently working on matching those to the national brands. That doesn't work anymore.)
*"I'm buying this for my daughter/son/mother who lives in Ontario/a nursing home/my basement." (Then ask what size they are. Or measure them. If it's a surprise, check their clothing tags. I'm sure you visit them, even if they do live in Ontario.)
*"What chart?" (Um, we made them more obvious this year... and they've always been easy to find. This is better than the other answers, though, since you can usually get them to check it once they find it.)
*"I just want to compare the colours." (That's why there are pictures. And yes, going off pictures works; we have flags showing up when the saturation on the picture was wrong, which is very rare, and I once ordered bedsheets to match a colour of paint on the wall based off the internet picture and got it perfectly.)
*"Am I not allowed to order two?" (Geez, I'm just trying to help.)

orz people.

skittlestemple @ 2008-06-07T00:21:00

2008-06-07T06:23:29Z

orz. Sorry for skipping out on anime club this past week. Work this week and next has been all week long. Either way, I'm off at 5 tomorrow. :D; SOMEONE LET ME HITCHHIKE TO MOSAIC WITH THEM. OR SOMETHING. I'M BORED.

In other news, I got Safeway cookies again. ♥♥♥ Hoooooooooow long has it been since I had those. ;A; so good.

I keep reaching for my mouse. What's wrong with you, self. It broke back in February.

bandwagon go go

2008-06-05T21:01:01Z

Pretty much my entire flist was AT, with like... one exception. So far, anyway. I dunno about this, but I do like the colour.

skittlestemple @ 2008-05-29T13:43:00

2008-05-29T19:43:55Z

It's bad enough that my icons fail so badly, but after you've churned out a batch of them, you do not want to look and find out that somehow, they've grown six times their size. *facepalm* How does that even happen? I want to hurt something.

skittlestemple @ 2008-05-24T16:51:00

2008-05-24T22:55:20Z

Party was kinda fun. I now know what not to do with alcohol. I also ended up deciding halfway through that I didn't want to get rid of my "innocent" image after all, although I'm not sure how I got it in the first place. It'd feel weird to be like everyone else.

Also discovered that cloudxsora and thisisarisa are apparently fans of each other. Is the icon community really that small or is it just because you both fixate on Ikuto?

And it's raining, so I need to do my shopping on Sunday. I keep forgetting to just buy a new umbrella after my old one broke.

Drunkwatching

2008-05-18T16:05:19Z

So I'm eating my breakfast and there's this robin outside my window trying to eat berries. There are perfectly good berries above him on the branch, but he decides he wants to go for the ones below him. So the robin bends over to get them, the branch dips so he can't reach, robin stands up, branch goes back to normal, and this repeats over and over.

I'm sitting there, amused, and I say to my mom "I wonder what's with this robin." She goes "Well, those are fermented berries." So the robin is drunk. That explains everything.

I must be really bored if I'm posting about drunken wildlife.

...uh, no, I haven't

2008-05-10T21:06:41Z

SO, YESTERDAY. I'm minding my own business and my mom asks if I'm going to anime club. I answer and she stares at me for a minute.

Me: What?
Mom: Now, don't take this as an insult, no offense, I'm just asking...
Me: ...what? \(O_o)/
Mom: Have you gained weight?

...what.

Apparently, my shirt shrunk in the wash? I even had to go to the scale and check and say that no, I have not gained any weight in the past three months. Honestly. =_=;;;

skittlestemple @ 2008-05-09T18:53:00

2008-05-10T00:54:32Z

Premise 1: Clubroom locked. Alternate clubroom 1 locked. Alternate clubroom 2 occupied. Alternate clubroom 3 deserted.
Premise 2: Nobody is answering their phone.
Premise 3: I have been here since the usual time, alone.
Premise 4: All evidence on my flist suggests that people should be in the clubroom right now. This is not the case.
Conclusion: ???

BIRTHDAY

2008-05-06T01:08:27Z

Happy birthday, xrainwhispersx! ♥ Love~ and happiness. I'd say more, but I can't top Emily's post, no one can.

So I finally got TWEWY after hearing my flist talk about it nonstop. So far, it's amazing. I'm not far yet, so no spoilers, people. I also got a new begonia! It was the last one with yellow flowers. They had like a million pink, two orange, one white and one yellow. Ha.

It seems like thisisarisa (who, apparently, renamed again) made a bet where we can't use emoticons for a week? I'm in. I'll lose fifteen minutes later, but I'm in.

skittlestemple @ 2008-05-04T11:49:00

2008-05-04T17:53:23Z

It's so nice out~ ♥ Way better than the weather we were getting before. Of course, now that I say that, we'll probably get-- well, I don't want to say it. I'm way superstitious about weather, probably because it changes so often here.

Kyla, did you finish Fate/stay night? My ex-boyfriend wants to see it. :O

EVERYONE HUG cherryfox RIGHT NOW, THIS IS AN ORDER.

I am also very bored. Someone call me. =_= Oh, that's right, I still need to get my May bus pass.

skittlestemple @ 2008-04-25T23:14:00

2008-04-26T05:22:52Z

Anime club tonight was amazing. ♥ Someone had moved all the tables and chairs and put couches in the middle of the clubroom. They also put a mini-fridge in there. We should have a mini-fridge all the time.

We watched Fate/stay night and got to the middle of the second volume. It was amazing how everyone seemed to like it. dr_cockyman has now borrowed the whole series from me. o/ Speaking of which, now it'll be two more weeks before I get Angelic Layer back. orz Not like I watched it on a regular basis, but my shelf feels empty without it. It takes up so much space.

Now I have to find something else to do with my life for two weeks. Anyone want a very bored Jisu stalking them?

Pichi Pichi Voice de...

2008-04-24T05:21:28Z

What could go wrong when playing this ridiculously simple yet addictive game? Well, the minigames are addictive (I need those last few plushies!), and trial mode is fine, but story mode? It's a pain. Why, you ask? Because you have to play through all the filler!

Filler is boring. It is pointless. No one likes it. So why do we have to play through it? You'd think there'd be some "plot-only" option, or they'd label the fillers as "side stories" or something. No. You have to play through every episode in order. I guess they were trying to simulate the effect of watching the series, but shouldn't a game with a plot not get bogged down in pointless diversions that don't win you anything and are mandatory? Make them sidequests, I don't know.

I screencapped the speech bubble incomplete and didn't feel like going back to redo it, sorry. All the translations are mine, because I needed to keep in practice anyway.

Every episode is headed by a narration of what I assume to be the uninteresting parts. These cute little sprites that they reused for the plushies in the minigames (well, most of them; I can't seem to find a "fridge-rummaging Rina" plushie) tell you the episode's backstory and sometimes interact with one another.

I love this arguing sprite. They're sniping at each other for, like, five minutes for no reason.

Then it moves to visual novel style when it gets to the interesting part. The backgrounds tend to be screenshots, but sometimes they have larger character sprites in front of backdrops instead.

If the character's in the screenshot, they use speech bubbles. In the screenshot for this, it looks like Yuuri, dressed up as Lucia, is crushing her E-Pitch with her bare hands. Don't you love filler animation?

If you were interested enough to click, you probably know what gameplay looks like, but here it is anyway. You usually play as Lucia in group songs, but sometimes you're randomly Rina for no reason. THEN there's Aurora no Kaze ni Notte, pictured. It's the only song I let myself ruin my rhythm on to print-screen, because Caren cannot possibly sound worse if I play badly.

Sometimes they give you a break and just show the song being played without you. What's the point of that? It's usually with Kuro no Kyousokyoku ~concerto~, which makes some sense, since you shouldn't be playing the good guys and the bad guys at the same time, but here? It's with Yume no Sono Saki he. You should be able to do that song yourself! We've already done it what, ten times before now? But no, all you can do is watch.

Also, some of their timing is a bit off with the arrows, especially Mimi and Rina, and no one ever gets the coin reward that they should for their perfect rhythm points. Yes. I'm that bored. I want to play! I don't want to watch the game be played for me!

So why did I play Story Mode? Well, I thought maybe I could hear Return to the Sea and KODOU, the two songs that haven't been covered in regular gameplay. However, this was not to be. Return to the Sea has been cut completely, replaced by some generic wailing. Poor Sara. For a main villain, does she ever get shafted. And KODOU? That's gone too. See, this game doesn't cover the whole series. In fact, it cuts off at episode 39. That's right. This game ends with a filler.

And look what you get at the end. I thought you got a huge coin bonus, or you got to unlock new songs, or something else interesting. Nope. You just get Kaito telling you that you did a good job. Easy for him to say. He didn't have to slog through this!

So, that's Pichi Pichitto Live Start in story mode. Don't get me wrong, the rest of the game is great. Story mode, however, is a colossal waste of time. This has been a public service announcement. Now I'm off to spend my coins trying to get that Hair-brushing!Evil!Mermaid!Sara plush.

Ow ow ow.

2008-04-17T23:21:24Z

Writer's cramp is a terrible thing. Anyway! starcrossed_tcg masteries. Here's the card post.

White

Vacation

SRS POLL guys.

2008-04-17T01:24:36Z

So, I was bored and wanted to ask you all something. Do you play the same character at multiple RPs? Do you refuse to as you couldn't keep them straight, just do it once or twice because you felt like it, test out the character at a smaller game before trying them at your main one, or make an industry out of playing the same character everywhere you go? Please elaborate on your reasons as well. ♥

...what, I just thought of it now.

Memo to self

2008-04-12T04:20:31Z

-Bring Higurashi on Tuesday, Tina wants it.
-Get well and quit coughing up lung fragments. (Note: I have not actually coughed up any lung fragments. It just feels like that.)
-Study. Linguistics final Monday. Myuuu. =____=
-Remember that sucking on jelly beans only removes their taste and does not have the same effect as sucking on Halls.
-Manage not to get anyone else sick.
-Find out how long HMV orders usually take.
-Find ways to clear one's sinuses that do not involve massive wastes of hot water.

Bleeeeeeeeeh.

Muahahaha.

2008-04-11T05:44:10Z

I've been an adult for almost a year and a half, and it hadn't really sunk in yet. Even voting and doing my taxes and going to university didn't really feel all that different. Now, however, I feel completely mature, self-actualized and independent.

What caused this sudden epiphany, you ask?

I have a free choice English paper due tomorrow.

I am doing it on Mermaid freaking Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch.

And my mother cannot and will not stop me.

(The last time I tried doing something like this in high school, it was an IB Film project and I was set on doing a Sailor Moon documentary. My mom absolutely forbade it on the grounds of "do something your teacher will know and enjoy". She then directed me towards the brainless chick flicks. I sincerely doubt that he enjoyed them.)

You should all join and refer me if you like small games and mahou shoujo and a million activities

2008-04-10T22:10:48Z

starcrossed_tcg near-masteries. Card post is here.

Black