Tired -_-zzz
I’ve been making cookies all day long… and now I’ve just finished watching part one of King’s Storm of the Century (’twas nice’n'all but nothing really worth seeing, but anyway…).

I wasn’t able to get enough sleep last night as I went to bed quite late and I was too hyper so I couldn’t really fall asleep -_- The thing I was so hyper about? Well, I’ve finally managed to find myself a nice university… I’m actually feeling a lot more comfortable now, with the year coming to its end and my future (kind of) set.

Tomorrow (oh well, it’s today…) is Christmas and I don’t look forward to it as much as I would like to… I guess being with most of my relatives on Tuesday and again on Wednesday isn’t exactly what I wish to do right now ;_; I just want things to be a little more quiet and calm, with no yelling children (sure, I love my cousins, I really do, but still…) and without so much food and candy everywhere (so much I can’t even stand looking at it all >_<). Am I over-reacting…? Time will tell. And just incase I won’t be here tomorrow: Merry Christmas minna-san!

I’ve just watched the video for Embryo, Dir en grey’s latest single.

I’m impressed. I really am. Some strange person on inertia’s BBS actually accused Diru of being too Linkin Park-ish which got me kind of scared and I was anxiously waiting for the download of the PV to be finished. And now that I’ve seen it myself I just can’t help but thinking of that accusation as incorrect, inaccurate and completely wrong? Where the heck does he see Linkin Park in that video? There’s not even the slightest trace of a hint that they got an influence from them.

Instead this video is just a classic, it’s blindingly beautiful in its simplicity. It just so fits the song really. I’m glad that they didn’t go for a second Jessica-type PV because, frankly, that would’ve been too much for me to handle it would’ve been my last Diru PV downloaded ever. But this is just brilliant, and with this slow-mo thing it seems to be more than just a little bit influenced by Radiohead’s “Fade out”. …The song itself has that winter feel to it which makes it kind of fitting to this time of year (well, now that it actually is winter here ^^;), it’s their best song since Ain’t afraid to die, I like it a lot better than Filth (and let’s just forget about Jessica, that song is just wrong).

If someone had asked a month ago whether I was planning to get the new Diru album, I would’ve been quite reluctant on giving a clear answer. After letting Embryo grow on me, though, this new album is a must get for me ^^ (On a side note, I’ve noticed that I haven’t been listening to Macabre for nearly one year… I think the last time I did was Dec. 31st last year.)

Kagrra will release a live video in March ^_______^ I’ll have to learn how to get videos onto the pc because I’m kind of afraid my VCR will eat the tape or the tape will wear off (I sense heavy rotation here ^^;) so I prefer making Mpegs or Avis of the clips in order to play them on the computer.

What an easy log-in^^ Seems like the problems I had yesterday were only temporary.

I went shopping today, not because I wanted to go shopping, though ^^; I just wanted to go outside because the weather was so beautiful today, a little bit too cold, though and I nearly slipped a few times because of the ice and snow on the pavement. But hey, I didn’t break my legs or back, so I’m fine and basically just happy I finished my Christmas shopping. I decided to make some extra cookies for my sister so I bought a nice box to put them all in and I’ve also bought another Salman Rushdie book for my mother (she’s already gotten one for her birthday and she kept on bugging me to get her another one ^^;). So yes, I’m kind of prepared for Christmas now.

I also had to buy a birthday present for my cousin which was a bit embarassing because I had to buy a Linkin park CD -_-;; Well I guess Britney Spears or stuff like that would’ve been a whole lot more embarassing, but it was still sort of awkward. And I’ve promised her to see a movie with her, so we agreed on watching Lord of the rings, which is kind of cool because now I won’t have to bug my fantasy-detesting friend to go watch it with me ^^;

This year went by so fast, I even forget to look for decent New Years Eve parties >_< I was a little bit afraid that I’d end up like last year but today Syuki mailed me and asked what I’d be doing on Dec. 31st and I replied I had not made any plans yet and so she invited me to visit her and join her and Katja and Julia ^-^ That’s going to be a lovely small party… four visual kei addicts in one room (or apaato), that’s sure going to make for a lot of gushing ^^; I hope I’ll get my truckloads of CDs before that, though…

Wow, it took just 17 minutes to log in… what’s wrong with ya, blogger-san?

I started working on the new layout for this blog earlier today but things didn’t work the way I wanted them to. So I gave up and I think I’ll wait till tomorrow hoping my productivity and creativity will have returned by then.

I have all Arjuna episodes now… but I don’t feel like watching them, I prefer watching X up to episode 9. I’m still stuck somewhere between 4 and 6 (can’t remember right now).

Looks like I’m not that talkative at all today, it’s just one of those lonely days, you know. My parents aren’t here and I miss my friend and there’s noone nice online and I’ve already listened to all of my favourite CDs so there’s nothing left to cheer me up. (I don’t even a some chocolate left (yeah, what a cliche mood lifter), my mother said I’d have to wait till Christmas. And Okada-san hasn’t sent my package and I’m still waiting for the Brand X order and right now there’s a teenage boy on AIM flooding me with stupid messages and God someone make this stop please.

Oooh sweet bright winter has arrived. Well, not the really really really bright winter, just the “ooo look, it snowed and suddenly the world has turned a little brighter” kind of winter which is just too adorable. I wish we had this shining blue winter sky too, but you can’t have it all now can you. I love those bright winter days, though, with snow everywhere and the blue sky so wonderfully bright it would colour the sky to a light blue. …Now tell me, am I not being helplessly romantic today? Well, I can blame it all on the movie I’ve just watched about the Manns, the famous family of German writers. There are actually three parts, and I’ve already seen all three of them last week but I decided to watch them again (a different channel airs all 3 parts this week, so I get to watch all three parts twice^^). And to make some sense of it all – the movie has the most beautiful winter scenes, yes, with huuuuge snowflakes, the loveliest blue sky and the brightest winter sun… I sense I shall stop this.

Just one more hour and I will have all Arjuna episodes. Took me about six months… Oh and if luck is with me I may get both my Third Stage and my Brand X orders before Christmas. I actually had to mail Brand X again because it has already been about 11 weeks since I placed my order… the last mail I got from them (after emailing them for the third time) they informed me that a video Syuki had ordered was currently unavailable so I had to mail back to cancel the video and to tell them to send the order without it… That was three days ago, I hope they”ve already sent the package out…

Yesterday I noticed that someone at a Chinese message board posted two of the member profiles including all pictures from my DAS:VA site. And not just the thumbnails, no the real (big) ones – linked directly to my server! Argh, bandwidth thieves >_< So I did a little bit of chmod (eheh, now how do you explain that to someone unfamiliar with Unix servers... um, I changed the access permissions to my files.) and went through quite a hassle because when I got to prevent my pictures to be directly linked from other servers, they didn't even show up on my page ^^; But it's alright now... it just took a little bit of trying. ...But how can anyone be so stupid and just copy from my site and link my images? ...Well, it's nothing new to me, I heard other people mentioning Chinese message boards posting their pics, too.

Alright, back to my book… nobody can resist good ol’ G. Keller from Switzerland, no?

Ah, I’m back home ^-^ My mother decided to pack all of the cookies she’s made today in my room because it was cold in here before I came back and now I’ve got the lovely smell of cookies everywhere in my room *_*

Anyway, I had to give a good friend computer classes which was no fun at all. Damn, she didn’t even know how to get things going with Outlook >_< Oh well, she knows now and I've got a headache (yes please, gimme some of that sweet compassion).

Malice Mizer broke up… kinda… and I think it’s a shame cause they were one of the very few major bands I liked, and after they’d turned indies again I liked them even more and… it’s all so sudden I guess ?_? But I like them anyway, their breaking up won’t stop me to do so in the future cause their music is here to stay and who knows, the members might be in new projects sooner than the mourning JRock community thinks.

Any kind souls out there that would get me tickets to Michigan or Indiana or both? Want to see Zwan so badly ;_; If they planned to play a show somewhere near New York, I could probably get my aunt to fly with my over to the US cause she’s so obsessed with NY and I could send her shopping or sightseeing or whatever she’d want to do and I’d go see Zwan playing.

Aah insomina -_-zzzzz

I went to bed at about 1 a.m. but didn’t find sleep until about 5 o’clock >_< Damn, where's my bio-rythm?

So yeah, sleeping disorders aside, I’m feeling quite alright because in that long endless night of lying awake in the dark I bore a sweet baby, a brainchild of mine o_O No, I’m not mad, thank you. Off to bring that child to live.