[onmyou taisenki]
Oooooooooooookay, so that 1000 yen auction I won came out to total $103.25 after shipping and fees .............
People who said they wanted to buy a Drive pleeeease buy them T___T;
Other than that, it's soooo nice to hold Yakumo's Drive. :)

Never thought I could max out 198 icons, but I did. I gave in and made a colored icon from a doujin. I haven't made doujin icons in forever~ I COULDN'T RESIST...

BECAUSE KOGENTA'S CUTEST OUTFIT WAS WHEN HE WAS WITH THE OLD GUY MONJU WOoooooo.

Looks really bad with my dull green layout, but eh XD

[digimon]
Wizzywig is selling Toei-licensed Digimon Data Squad shirts~~~ (why is the Lalamon one more expensive? O.o)
I want to get the Gaomon one, although I don't want to pay the shipping for it... xDDD;;; Maybe I can stop by the actual store sometime later this year... or maybe hopefully at Youmacon!!! I really want to go this year (or I might just save up for a possible Otakon next year since I'm pretty bummed I can't go this year with all the Digimon cosplay!!).

Working on a matsuri pic, probably for the contest in the DA club and also duo-function as a complementary piece for the Cycle sequel... which has not had much progress except that I dumped the DATS mission for a different idea~ Hoping I can finish the art piece before I leave next week! The sequel itself... errrrrr.

[gaming]
I have to admit, I've been playing a lot of Tales of Rebirth (PSP port) lately. The reviews are right on D8. I haven't played any of the non-handheld Tales games yet but this one's been my favorite (to play) as of yet. The things I do have to complain about this, as well as all of the Tales games I've played in general, is backtracking to old cities over and over and over and over again alllllll the time for a singleconversationeventit'sannoying AND THERE'S NO ESCAPE ROPE THINGAMER to quickly get out of long dungeons. Yeah.

Anyway, I also really like this game for having lots of Digimon seiyuu (WarGreymon, Vajramon, Chuumon, Ken, Jyou/Grani/Neemon/Kurata/toomanyDigimonroles, Sora, Rhythm, yes lots of random connections... XD There are even more). And the best moments for me so far were when Veigue Saves Claire and SHAORUNE...... cute Paku Romi with FLAMMIE ABILITIES <3 ~ omg, every good fantasy RPG requires a Flammie. <3 ~

oh yeah, and Kikuchi Masami plays a hot troll. Well, troll in the mental sense. I want to make an icon out of him with the successful troll is successful... one without a typo that makes it kind of... not successful. I mean he seriously trolled to the bitter end. Successful troll.

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Got this one off someone's sig on Devart... XD

Don't mind the excessive emotes, just having fun (｡◕‿‿◕｡)
Ahaha, I asked yesasia's customer service if they would put the x-evo soundtrack in stock and they did XD~~~ w00t, now I get free shipping and Gintama chibi figure to go with it xD; $45.50, beats the $50 with the cheapest shipping from CDJapan, plus Gintamaaaaa omake (￣▽￣)

Digimon 10th Anniversary Maxi single
Digital Monster X-Evolution Original Soundtrack
FREE INTERNATIONAL SHIPPING FTW

I am however still counting on CDJapan for the Digimon Series Memorial Book Digimon Animation Chronicle.

And ShoppingMallJapan has shipped the auction at the top of the sales post (calling it the Onmyou Taisenki auction because that's the best part of it ⌒◇⌒), but I've yet to find out the total for the (killer) price of shipping and fees. Because of the weight and SIZE especially, I won't be surprised if it gets above $50 just for shipping/fees. ಠ_ಠ Serious Drive buyers better be serious. ಠ_ಠ

Baw, I should start packing for Taiwan. But Lina loves my lap... ⓜⓔⓞⓦ

[anime]
I finished Tales of the Abyss anime a short while back. ABOUT TIEM. Don't have a PS2 (want a modded one some day for sure), but I have access to Tales of the World: Radiant Mythology 2 to play around with their characters in-game, and it's still funfunfunfun and Luke is such an uke in it orz

I'm thinking of marathoning the rest of Soul Eater on the way to Taiwan (12 eps to go) and I have tidbits of other stuff to catch up with as well. Basara, Higashi no Eden, Tears to Tiara... mal.net list is useful (and some lamer decided to troll disapprove most of our releases at ryuu_rogue (╬ ಠ益ಠ)).
Gintama and Chi's Sweet Home are totally the only two things I really keep up with lately. ㄟ㋛ㄏ

[gaming]
Also finishing up Gyakuten Kenji (EDGEWORTH~~~~) and probably moving onto the random RPGs I mentioned earlier. Or maybe back to Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days, but I don't actually find it all that fun for some reason ._.;

Lina sends subliminal messages to me while I shower

Anybody else follow woot.com? yuethomas introduced me to it back when I was in China, and every couple months or so they have 48-hour Wootoffs... they're in one right now...


and I almost managed to snag their famous bag of crap, but before I saw this page, it was REALLY slow loading, so I went to dinner XDDDDD Of course, they were sold out by the time I got back. Oh well.~
Has anyone actually gotten one before? What did you get?! XD

[dream]
Such a weird dream I had last night...

onkei_kun and hanjie (tchao) were visiting. HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMm.
( ....hahahaha )

[meme]
The meme going everywhereee.
Comment to this entry and I'll pick three of your fandoms. You must then update your journal and answer the following questions:

01: What got you into this fandom in the first place?
02: Do you think you'll stay in this fandom or eventually move on?
03: Favorite episodes/books/movies/etc.?
04: Do you participate in this fandom (fanfiction, graphics, discussions)?
05: Do you think that more people should get into this fandom?

Because I'm weird, I asked multiple people on purpose so I could get more to do... XD
From iceburgundy: Digimon, Legendz, and - of course - Onmyou Taisenki!
From uver_chan: 1.Gintama 2.Digimon ( you knew I would say this right? XD) 3.Pokemon
From tategamiwolf: Onmyou of course <3 and... hmm, going off your lj interests/joined comms, Hikaru no Go, and TWEWY. :3

Answering in chronological order of when I started them...
( answers )

Tagged by saorren

Rules: Once you’ve been tagged, you are supposed to write a note with 19 random things, facts, habits, or goals about you. At the end, choose 19 people to be tagged. You have to tag the person who tagged you. If I tagged you, it’s because I want to know more about you, or I just needed to tag more people to get to the 19 needed.

1. Currently over 13500 tracks on my winamp playlist. My music folder itself is 105gb, 21,126 files, 2,326 folders. My Music folder is slightly disorganized in places, but for the most part, it's very easy to navigate. Main folders: A - D, Digimon, E - G, H - K, L - N, O - S, T - Z. BL Dramas aren't included in this. Need to clean up sometime >_>
2. Currently over 130gb of raws on my external. XD
3. ちゃんとした仕事はまだ…=o=…嫌だな、この経済…怖いっすよ。泣きたいけど希望はまだある
4. In the middle of translating 3 series for commission, but I still have room for more at this rate. @_@;
5. I don't have time to keep up with a lot of the newer series on a weekly basis these days, just the ones that I'm already on plus things that can easily be watched as singles, like Natsume. My series-to-watch queue is increasing, and I'm totally okay with that. ^^; I want to put more commitment into what I've already got.
6. Picking up some good home-cooking recipes from the mommy. Ohohoho. I still want to try making that chicken broccoli bake like they had at umich though. I'm really starting to miss it.
7. Gaming: Tales of Destiny 2 PSP might just be the first Tales game I may ever finish, lol. Although I'm not much for the character designs in this game, it kept my attention since JunJun's the main in it. And Hikaru Midorikawa... wow, he's one of the first voices I ever became familiar with ever since my old obsessions with Fushigi Yuugi, and then there was a little period when I just couldn't stand his voice at all... XDDD But he's good in this game. I like it when he doesn't use so much of that high nasal. I end up playing him the most just because I like being the hybrid and I suck at playing Kyle still.
8. Told Toriki about this earlier, but I left my regular DS on for like two weeks on the Kanji Sonomama, and it still had battery left when she asked me to check some signs for Gintama.
9. I need to clean up the posters in my room XDDD
10. Lol sports anime.
11. I wish my mom would learn how to walk quietly in the house. It's like impossible for her. There's like a mini-earthquake wherever she goes. On that end, for some reason I'm really conscious about how loudly I'm walking wherever I go ._.;
12. Accidentally unplugged my laptop today instead of my DVD burner. XD Save that electricity! The utilities here are really inexpensive, thank goodness.
13. Gweh, even Gaia's getting a lot of inflation. But I think that's also a result of the aquarium overseer spitting out HUGE rewards. Yesterday, I got an item that costs 56k in the shops... that overcoat that looks like Shinsengumi wear. XD
14. For some reason, our internet disconnects whenever my dad turns on/off the PS3.
15. Since drgnkiyo put Flamedramon figure on his desk, I put MachGaogamon on mine XD
16. My laptop's hitting 6 years old.
17. I like tomatoes. like, literally too. They are beautiful and healthy. I CANNOT SAY THIS ENOUGH
18. Contemplating whether I can make it to perform in the Kalamazoo Junior Symphony Orchestra alumni concert next month. There was someone on the mailing list with "heeroyuyluvr" in their email addy and I was all o_o;;; There's only ONE rehearsal and then the concert, lollll. Still waiting to see what music it is. I haven't played my violin in so long. And with how terrible this winter's been, I think it'll need a lot of TLC. o_o;
19. Onmyou Taisenki DVD starting at ryuu_rogue! The role that first got me into JunJun! And it's still probably my favorite role of his overall. XD monster show uke banzai \o\ I want to arrange something for Onmyou Taisenki like digitalrewind is doing for Digimon but I think most of the fandom disappeared already owo;

...I tried to keep it short but it doesn't work

So uh, tag? XD I'm going to cheat and tag people who've already done it and people who've been tagged by others already ohoho saorren, onkei_kun, kage_ookami, akaku_kun, hanjie, drgnkiyo, fmagna, gokumew2, iceburgundy, kenzy_chan, icysnowdrop, minunxplusleotp, blackout12, elektra_alpha, picaaa, n4ncy, kiya_kiya_chan, repeats Of course, you're more than welcome to do it either way!

[fansubbing/webhosting]
petshopmistress and I are planning to go on the 10-year plan with our webhosting, yatta~

I've made updates to Kimi to Nara to help me as I go through translating Onmyou Taisenki DVD.

I am pumped to sub Switch OVA with onkei_kun ♥

[art]
I got three big-fat art CG commissions, so those will be keeping me busy :3~

Ah hmm looks like I'll be getting a new Intuo3 sometime because I'm getting more involved in the R&D for the company and making designs for dog toys. The Cintiq 12WX LOOKS SO SEXY... but I think that'd be asking too much and maybe I could afford it on my own in the... far future. but ahii... excellent birthday present?! I don't think I'll have it by my birthday, but eh~ I haven't told the relatives here about it though.

The visiting companies are asking for new dog toy designs of certain types, so I've been making those. Like one of them wants a series of rubber duckies with personified occupations, like scuba-diving ducks and whatnot. Definitely a very old idea, but I'd like to make some fresher designs somehow.

My first set of designs are getting painted in their latex form. I hope they fixed up Rumbel's because the sculptor had made misplaced some of the shape a little. You can really tell his art is Chinese-influenced and stuff and it doesn't mix well with my Japanese designs >_>; Maybe the sculptor was looking more at the top left pic, which I don't like as much since the proportions of the face are kind off and that was just a practice run. The center piece is supposed to be the real one. But yeah, I hope they fixed it up. And instead of rope, the tail ended up getting to be a miniature molded part of the sculpture, except I forgot to check if the lion ruffle at the end was there >_>; I might have to make them remodel that. It's difficult trying to communicate to the sculptor in a language I absolutely suck at. orz

[food]
So the other night, we went to Royal Marina Plaza, a 5-star hotel in China, to eat at the hotel's dinner buffet with the Dutch company who was visiting us for business matters. It looks prettier at night. Their most expensive rooms are $500/night.

And of course the meal was the best since I've gotten into the country D8
THE ALL-YOU-CAN-EAT SALMON SASHIMI WAS SO SOFT AND TASTEH...... I ended up getting two big plates of it (only) because I wanted to sample almost everything else at the place. The first time, the chef gave me 6 of the pieces in the pic. When I came back up he gave me 7 much thicker pieces and I was in Heavennnnn hurrrr purrrr.
Some of the outside dining area. They had barbecue out here but I didn't end up saving enough stomach for any of it.
Fruits + The 'ol Beijing 2008 display in the background with more food.
The other side of the fruit table = DESSERTS. Did much happy sampling here too. The left side is kind of unclear, but that's mango pudding, taro cake, leaf mochi, cheesecake and something else I forgot... Egg tarts in the center.
Mm I wanted to take the center piece. I probably should've since nobody else in the restaurant seemed interested in it, and had I known we'd be there until closing time... D8