I. I can't get this song out of my head.

Old school karaoke video, I can't stop laughing. OTL


I DON'T WANT TO LIVE IN A YELLOW SUBMARINE, NO MATTER HOW CUTE IT LOOKS. WHY ARE YOU HAUNTING ME NOW, BEATLES.

( Sing along now! )

As for AFA this weekend, I was surprised to find that the maid cafe there has actually put up a "safety" video on what NOT to do while visiting. (Competition for Coscafe?)



I'm a little annoyed at the actor for the customertypical male fanboy, but I can't say anything since I've seen the people who hang around Kino and KKnM at ten in the morning on the weekends, especially the latter. All I can say is good luck to them in trying to enforce their rules, especially the one regarding no hanging around the entrance.

Edit: PM INVITED TO NUKE SUMMIT AHAHAHAHAHAHAHA FAIL SO FAIL BUT I'M LAUGHING SO HARD MY STOMACH'S JUST BURST.

( Bump of Chicken: Hammer Song and the Tower of Pain )

Lyrics and translation source, along with a more detailed explanation of the song.
Another version of the PV and a Reborn ver.

But I keep up the good fight not to give in and register, because I. AM. STRONK.

This pushes self-insert right to its limit. (I love the plaintive little "Nobody believes me" at the end.) The responses to this secret are pretty hilarious, but my favorite has to be the one which starts off with "I am the batman" and spawns everyone coming out and claiming their true identities, from Suzaku to Hermione to "I AM GUNDAM". Which then led me to eagerly going through every single FS post after that in the hope that someone was going to wake up someday and realize that they were Giotto or Reborn in a past life. Or possibly the personification of England. Or America. Or Singapore. Or Sentosa.

On other matters:

I find this unbearably adorable yet just a little creepy at the same time. And I cannot get this song out of my head. "That what is really good and what really matters lies in the kisses/ And that's why I want kisses/ That they wake me up every morning/ That the afternoon arrives and there are still KISSES~"

Besos y'all.

I laughed like a mad thing. XD



A shorter version (now with added crotch thrusting!)


And I think this may be the one which started it all.


Oh, my aching stomach. XDD I suddenly miss Mao. :O

Reading this week's issue of 8 Days ("The Annoying List"), I realized that I agreed with all 43 items listed. This made me feel very annoyed, and for no reason I was going to compile my own list of pet peeves when I thought, "Aiyah, no one needs to know how annoyed you are lah. Besides it will rampage into personal territory and history and YOU THINK PEOPLE REALLY WANT TO KNOW SO MUCH ABOUT YOU MEH. You think you L*K*Y the Queen ah?" so I didn't.

Instead I went to dig up videos of cute fluffy animals so that we can all go AWWWW together instead.




I can practically hear the poor bunny's thoughts within the first minute of the video: "YOU. SNIFFING. MY BUTT. WHY." XD

On a completely random note, why I got so many funny funny useless bookmarks in my library ah? No wonder scroll that time like never-ending one... /grumbles

Totally watching this if it ever makes it over here. :DD Now I feel like watching both movies all over again.



( There! Right there! )

Blame that blasted song that's been going around these days. At least, I think it has. (I'm slow, what can I do?)

'Buttchu' from an msn conversation with theprerogative. Nobody else buttchu! :D

( AKA the going home series. )

( An extra to indulge my own UKJPN pairing. )

( And finally the PV which started it all. )

It's Canada Day! :D



( Love the personification, love the country )

KHR 247:
- DOGGY! ♥♥♥

- This series is turning into some fantasy RPG. XD

- 80 has been upgraded from 'brat' to 'trash' in Squalo's eyes. XD

- Genkishi has a major inferiority complex.

* * *

I don't think there's a term for real people/singers doing covers of Vocaloid songs yet, but have vid spam anyway.

( Konbini )

( Melt )

( Romeo and Cinderella )

( From Y to Y )

And to round things off, Germany and France boppin' their way to the top. Shake that booty, Ludwig. XD

The sad thing is that I actually like this version better than the original clip. XD

I want to see a everyone x 27 MAD of this :D



In my personal fandom? Tsuna marries EVERYONE. XD

( Dug up the original song too. )

And now I must shove down dinner and rush for night class.

'I'm so sick of it all!' is what I want to shout right now, but then I remember that's what I shrieked back when I was working full-time, so yeah. -_-;

Edit:

And another one with the potential for everyone x Tsuna.


PEOPLE HAVE DONE WORSE THINGS TO TSUNA IN DOUJIN, OKAY. XD

While eating strawberries:

Mother: These Korean strawberries are so sweet! ^_^
tokei: *looking at box the berries came in* American strawberries.
Mother: *patiently* No, Korea.
tokei: Since when was America in Korea?
Mother: America meh?
tokei: AMERICA, CALIFORNIA. SEE. MY GEOGRAPHY NOT THAT BAD YET.
Mother: ...HUH?! I THOUGHT I BOUGHT KOREAN STRAWBERRIES????
tokei: OTL

We now return to your regularly scheduled fandom blather.

So, these past two weeks have had me fangirling madly over OPs and EDs.

( FMA: Brotherhood )

( KHR OP + ED, I have lost count of what number this is. )

Three days of rain, yay! \^o^/

Q: You know what's the one good thing about being forced to study for mocks?
A: Insommia gets cleared up like WHOA.
Q: You know what's one of the many bad effects of being forced to study?
A: Getting nightmares of a lecturer gleefully telling you that "YOUR EXAM APPLICATION WAS REJECTED!!!" and that it's too late to apply again. And this is all on the day of the exam itself.

...I woke up screaming. =_=;;

( And then I thought, I really don't want to get out of bed. )

And joining Hibarik Youya, Rokudo Mururo. XD

While setting my music player to shuffle mode, this song came up and immediately reminded me of the above icon.

Tegomass - Ai Ai Gasa

I AWWWW-ed at how dejected the poor boy looked as the little girl skipped off happily into the sun, completely forgetting about him. XD

Look, umbrella! Look, rain! Look, RABU-RABU IN THE RAIN UNDER THE UMBRELLA ♥♥♥


Anyway, this then reminded me of how I used to be quite a fan of Tegomass.

( So I went and did a little digging. )


I also happened to watch this angsty TYL! AMV, and the omake at 3:37 made me fall out of my seat. Literally. Ouch.

(I thought that hyper!Tsuna and dame!Tsuna would be better than Giotto though. :D)

( ね~え ね~え )

From minakokouchou:

I refuse to believe that Keanu Reeves = Spike, do you hear me? I REFUSE! D<<<<

My headache just got worse reading that.


In other news, goats that faint and a Coraline movie trailer.

I have always liked the Vocaloid series. The list of Vocaloid YouTubes in my bookmarks is almost as long as the list for Reborn videos. Which actually says quite a lot about the insane amount of time I spend procrastinating on the Net.

Then I was introduced to the video below, which according to the original source was created and released in honor of the Vocaloid Meiko's birthday.



(Original Nico video here.)

I am now officially in ♥. :D

The animation! The amount of effort it must have taken to do this frame by frame! It-it has an actual video display in the background, and moving strobe and overhead lights that change colors!

Not to mention the number of times the creator must have watched the orginal video to get all the movements down exactly! (The uniforms in the original video look a lot like Kokuyo's. This makes me very glad that Chrome does not have pink frilly flouncy petticoats under her skirt. =_=)

Taking all of the above into consideration, I also find it amazing that someone actually went to the trouble of translating the original song from Mandarin into Japanese, and then using the software to tune and synthesize it to make it sound so natural. At the risk of getting bashed by Wang Xin Ling (王心凌) fans, I must say that this Vocaloid version far outshines the original video. And singer. It is very sad when a human flesh and blood idol gets upstaged by a voice synthesis software.

Most of all, THE ANIMATION. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ EVERYTHING. MOVES. The background, the hair and accessories of each Vocaloid, the camera, bloody hell, even Meiko's BOOBS bounce a little. (No, I'm serious, look closely. And never ask why I noticed, I just did.) Do you have any idea how much time and tweaking the creator must have taken and done to add in all those little details?

Being all ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ aside, I laugh at how manly Kaito has become. XD And that he has, uhm, blue fingernails. O_O



But despite this fact, the poor man only gets less than five seconds of screen time.

Even Miku gets included in the ending group shot, whereas Kaito...



...Is labeled as absent and has his photo added in as an afterthought. XD Poor guy!

I JUST. CANNOT. STOP. WATCHING.


Can't remember if I've plugged this before, but have another awesome Vocaloid video for the road.



CHIBIS. And again I cannot stop watching! ♥♥♥


I am supposed to be STUDYING. For next week. Yet I am very, very tempted to join my friend in her holiday mood.

I AM SO DEAD AHAHAHAHAHA.

Everyone was PWNED. So. Badly.

Observations of KHR 218
- For some reason, I'm relieved that Spanner's parachutes survived Genkishi.

- So Genkishi was telling the truth after all, when he said that his illusions were tied to the life force of Tsuna's family. This is based on page 4 when Gokudera mumbles "What a nightmare, strangling the Tenth's throat" when waking up.

- MR. YAMAMOTO TAKESHI. You have been unconscious for eighteen chapters now. And now Amano-sensei decides to dose you with sleeping gas on top of having you slam into a wall. Clearly she likes you better KO'ed.

- I like that full-frontal shot of Kusakabe's face on page 5. He looks so... serious. It's the first time we actually get to see him properly, instead of just a side-profile when he's reporting to Hibari. Lal, on the other hand, looks squashed in the last panel.

- Reborn disagreeing with Irie on a part of his explanation has me wondering just how much of what Irie said was true and how much wasn't. Who knows what now?

- Irie: "I thought I'd try it out just once." Uhm, try what? Being the big bad intellectual villain behind the scenes?

- The last spread of Irie, with his mused-up hair and "That was exhausting, I'm so glad it's over" expression. Just how many "Blood Peppers" T-shirts does the man own, and doesn't he ever get tired of them?

And to commemorate me jumping on the FF VII: Crisis Core bandwagon really, REALLY late:


From ansibs. I ♥ the dancing stick figures more than the actual characters. XD

I have half-mock exams coming up in about two weeks time. My fandoms are going to ruin me, I just know it. T_T

It rains in my heart
As it rains on the town.
What is this dull smart
Possessing my heart?

Soft sound of the rain
On the ground and the roofs!
To a heart in pain,
Oh the song of the rain!

It weeps without cause
In my heart--sick heart.
In her faith,
What? No flaws?
This grief has no cause.

'Tis sure the worse woe
To know not wherefore
My heart suffers so
Without joy or woe.

--"It rains in my heart", Paul Verlaine. Translated by Gertrude Hall, alt.

That is to say it has been raining almost continuously over here for the past few days now. As I am one of those cold-blooded people who cannot stand the heat, needless to say I've been quite pleased with the weather lately. It may be raining in the town, but it sure hasn't been raining in my heart. ♥ I realize that not everyone may share my sentiments. In return, you all may taunt me when the sun decides to show its face again.

YouTubes! :D

( This.... is POLITICS!! )

Getting back to my roots:
蔡卓妍(charlene choi) &林俊杰(JJ Lin)- 小酒窝 (Little Dimple)


我还在寻找 一个依靠和一个拥抱
谁替我祈祷 替我烦恼 为我生气为我闹

幸福开始有预兆 缘分让我们慢慢紧靠
然后孤单被吞没了
无聊变得有话聊 有变化了

小酒窝长睫毛 是你最美的记号
我每天睡不着 想念你的微笑
你不知道 你对我多么重要
有了你生命完整的刚好

小酒窝长睫毛 迷人的无可救药
我放慢了步调 感觉像是喝醉了
终于找到心有灵犀的美好
一辈子暖暖的好 我永远爱你到老

English translation of lyrics



I've been a fan of JJ for a while now. He has a nice voice and pens mostly his own music and lyrics, but what I ♥ most are the titles of his songs and the fact that most of his PVs seem to involve food in some way. Oh JJ, you're still a local boy at heart. XD

- 豆浆油条: The official English translation is "Perfect Match", but the literal translation is actually "soya bean curd and fried dough sticks". XD

- 木乃伊 (Mummy): Shades of MJ's "Thriller".

- 簡簡單單 (So Simple): That is a waste of a perfectly good sandwich, if you're going to burst into tears while eating it.

- 사랑해요 只對你說 (Only to you): Riding the K-wave.

- 曹操 (Cao Cao): Stylized bloody battlefields! Great historical warlords! Devious plots, betrayals and strategies! And somewhere in the middle of it all is JJ frantically pounding on the piano while the battle rages on around him. RED CLIFF, I'M LOOKING AT YOU.

- 愛情 Yogurt (Love Yogurt): "Drink my yogurt of LOVE, the taste of COURAGE" AHAHAHAHAHA WHY AM I THINKING OF THIS IN ANOTHER WAY *is eight years old all over again*

- 大男人小女孩 (Boyfriend, Girlfriend): I will forever translate this as "MCP and Little Woman" in my mind.

( And other artistes )

( The Muppets get classical music GOOD )

I LOVE THE WHOLE WORLD, YES I DO.