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Hey, everyone. It's been a long absence (over a month!) because once again I got convinced that my brain was a lot smarter than I was. A lot of desperately, desperately brilliant things happened as well as some pretty crap things and it'd suck if I didn't write it down. Don't want to forget all of it, ten years from now. Or twenty, even. It's almost-mid-December, and I'm recapping from November. Er. November 3rd onwards, since I've covered Liverpool.
Liverpooooool <3
I am also currently deeply involved in a one-sided unrequited love with Iron Chef. A challenger won today. I am chilling out under the table to deal with the loss. Lies. I am chilling out under the table because working on the table at night means that I'm using the ceiling light. Direct contact with the ceiling light leaves me distinctly unhappy. Don't know why \o/
*checks picture history*
PWHOAR WHO'S STANDING ON MY WINDOW?!?!?!?!11
My shoes. It rained the day before, I think, so I swung the window open till it was horizontal to dry 'em out. It's easier to love England on days like that.
Moar lies. This was on the first of November, my birthday :> The two are my friends, and we'd spent the day eating, wandering around, and making what I think is called purikura. We had our sweet stuff at this truly tiny cupcake shop that named it's cupcakes after celebrities and shows and things.
Mine was Priscilla, Queen of the Dessert >///< White chocolate and raspberry hmmmm. That was possibly the only day the weather was fair in the entirety of the first half of November. The rest of the time my wellington boots were called up often.
... Why do I lie.
*includes October as well HAHAHA*
Yeah. In October I went apple-picking (despite not liking apples...), with a bunch of post-grad Malaysian students who are sweet like violence <3 'm appreciative that despite being so far from home there are people who look after me ;~;
Nomnomnom. There were also pears and raspberries. The pears were dead lovely, all sweet and crunchy skin. The raspberries were so sour my ears popped. Were there an emoticon to show a crinkled nose, I would put it in. Seriously, though, the weather in Autumn this year was kindof sublime.
And obviously I have a lot more pictures for each event. So if further illustration is necessary, SHOUT, and I will heed your call <3
Oh, and there was also Japan Day! An event thrown by the Japanese Society of the Midlands, or something like that. There was food, but there was a huge crowd and my friends and I left for pizza first \o/ On coming back, though, it was a lot emptier. At one corner of the irritatingly small hall were a group of Japanese ladies, with a mound of yukatas beside them. People kept passing them by, and I thought to ask. We were dressed up (trussed up!) properly and neatly in ver' ver' pretty yukatas.
No split-toed socks (tabi), but purple and stripes is pretty good too!
JUMP back to November, a throw-up of Liverpool for the lulz
Me, looking like a yeti.That's the ferris wheel in Liverpool. We just wanted to be warm and dry ;~; and reckoned that being on that, we'd get to see that, without the walking around in heavyheavyheavy rain :> It was nice. We spun around for ages. It was terrifying for the first spin or so. After that it was all pretty calm \o/
The fifth, HELLO bonfire night!
It's when an effigy of Guy Fawkes is burned on a beautifully large bonfire to celebrate him not managing to blow up the House of Parliament years and years and years ago. It coincided with the park the celebration was held at hitting... 100 years old, I think, so the festivities were rather awesome. I had an Angus beef burger. It was rather startling delicious. Since it was in a park/field thing and it'd been raining the whole day, I had on rubber boots.
I was the only one of my little group who had done such a thing 8D And therefore was the only one who had dried socks and trouser etc etc.
Fireworks! We were so brilliantly close to the source. It kept looking like it was about to fall on us. I kept not minding o///o
Aaaaand, BONFIRE-SAN!
Unfortunately, the person in front of the bonfire is not the effigy. Unfortunately, there was no effigy whatsoever :< But a small scar that's so tiny I swear it's inconsequential. It was absolutely magnificent because I am a fireworks-ho.
Hmmm, then went for karaoke at a new loung-place in the city center. Was supposed to be specialised in Asian songs. Had neither the Japanese nor the Malaysian songs I would've liked. A bit of a downer :( But went with a people I'd only known very recently, so at least that time I got to know people better. Always good, right?
Right, getting long. Going to stop at mid-November!
November was very much CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES C'MON \o/
On the 13th there was another celebration because winter's coming and we might as well enjoy the times when we can still go out without freezing ourselves. This time was to turn on the Christmas Lights, totally worth doing a concert for, yeah?
Santa. On a very, very big screen erected in front of our dead-lovely Town Hall (that I was told appeared in Sherlock Holmes the Movie, but don't trust this info man), he rapped a wee bit, but it was raining a little so we stopped paying attention. The cast of Coronation Street were there (I don't follow the show), last year's X-factor winner Joe McElderry was there (his song is on the OST for the new Narnia movie. I'm pretty sure I got his name right). Whole thing was sponsored by Moet Chandon, and they did a really beautiful 3D video of champagne raining on everyone in the Town Square. I've not uploaded the video anywhere yet. We shall figure that out later.
A bunch of singing terrifying monkeys that are from a kids' show on the BBC came out and 'sang'.
Terrifying monkeys were terrifying D:
And yet more fireworks, accompanied by Glee and Florence and The Machine and Bruno Mars and other people. Not live bands, though, the music accompanying the fireworks were just played through the speakers. Not complaining. I love Florence ;~;
And a grand finale to end this ver' picturesque entry \o/
A lot of time was spent with my head tilted back to stare at the sky. My neck hurt for aaaages afterwards. You couldn't pay me enough to make me say I regret it <3
The red curve downwards is the head of a giant, lighted SANTA CLAUS who sits, rather neatly, on a veranda put up over the entrance to the Town Hall.
To be continued!
<3
A couple of quick notes.
- I didn't finish my NaNoWriMo. Didn't even come close. Partly, I think I was a little busy in November. Mostly, though. The story just didn't seem to want to be written. Sorry especially to sekitx2 ;~; You gave me a gorgey e-gift.
I replied with PAIN.
I didn't even wish you a happy birthday ;~; I wasn't at home on the day, and forever afterward felt too ashamed to say anything. You're quite marvelous, so have as sincere a Happy Belated Birthday! as can be beget, almost mid-December.
Hey, everyone. It's been a long absence (over a month!) because once again I got convinced that my brain was a lot smarter than I was. A lot of desperately, desperately brilliant things happened as well as some pretty crap things and it'd suck if I didn't write it down. Don't want to forget all of it, ten years from now. Or twenty, even. It's almost-mid-December, and I'm recapping from November. Er. November 3rd onwards, since I've covered Liverpool.
Liverpooooool <3
I am also currently deeply involved in a one-sided unrequited love with Iron Chef. A challenger won today. I am chilling out under the table to deal with the loss. Lies. I am chilling out under the table because working on the table at night means that I'm using the ceiling light. Direct contact with the ceiling light leaves me distinctly unhappy. Don't know why \o/
*checks picture history*
PWHOAR WHO'S STANDING ON MY WINDOW?!?!?!?!11
My shoes. It rained the day before, I think, so I swung the window open till it was horizontal to dry 'em out. It's easier to love England on days like that.
Moar lies. This was on the first of November, my birthday :> The two are my friends, and we'd spent the day eating, wandering around, and making what I think is called purikura. We had our sweet stuff at this truly tiny cupcake shop that named it's cupcakes after celebrities and shows and things.
Mine was Priscilla, Queen of the Dessert >///< White chocolate and raspberry hmmmm. That was possibly the only day the weather was fair in the entirety of the first half of November. The rest of the time my wellington boots were called up often.
... Why do I lie.
*includes October as well HAHAHA*
Yeah. In October I went apple-picking (despite not liking apples...), with a bunch of post-grad Malaysian students who are sweet like violence <3 'm appreciative that despite being so far from home there are people who look after me ;~;
Nomnomnom. There were also pears and raspberries. The pears were dead lovely, all sweet and crunchy skin. The raspberries were so sour my ears popped. Were there an emoticon to show a crinkled nose, I would put it in. Seriously, though, the weather in Autumn this year was kindof sublime.
And obviously I have a lot more pictures for each event. So if further illustration is necessary, SHOUT, and I will heed your call <3
Oh, and there was also Japan Day! An event thrown by the Japanese Society of the Midlands, or something like that. There was food, but there was a huge crowd and my friends and I left for pizza first \o/ On coming back, though, it was a lot emptier. At one corner of the irritatingly small hall were a group of Japanese ladies, with a mound of yukatas beside them. People kept passing them by, and I thought to ask. We were dressed up (trussed up!) properly and neatly in ver' ver' pretty yukatas.
No split-toed socks (tabi), but purple and stripes is pretty good too!
JUMP back to November, a throw-up of Liverpool for the lulz
Me, looking like a yeti.That's the ferris wheel in Liverpool. We just wanted to be warm and dry ;~; and reckoned that being on that, we'd get to see that, without the walking around in heavyheavyheavy rain :> It was nice. We spun around for ages. It was terrifying for the first spin or so. After that it was all pretty calm \o/
The fifth, HELLO bonfire night!
It's when an effigy of Guy Fawkes is burned on a beautifully large bonfire to celebrate him not managing to blow up the House of Parliament years and years and years ago. It coincided with the park the celebration was held at hitting... 100 years old, I think, so the festivities were rather awesome. I had an Angus beef burger. It was rather startling delicious. Since it was in a park/field thing and it'd been raining the whole day, I had on rubber boots.
I was the only one of my little group who had done such a thing 8D And therefore was the only one who had dried socks and trouser etc etc.
Fireworks! We were so brilliantly close to the source. It kept looking like it was about to fall on us. I kept not minding o///o
Aaaaand, BONFIRE-SAN!
Unfortunately, the person in front of the bonfire is not the effigy. Unfortunately, there was no effigy whatsoever :< But a small scar that's so tiny I swear it's inconsequential. It was absolutely magnificent because I am a fireworks-ho.
Hmmm, then went for karaoke at a new loung-place in the city center. Was supposed to be specialised in Asian songs. Had neither the Japanese nor the Malaysian songs I would've liked. A bit of a downer :( But went with a people I'd only known very recently, so at least that time I got to know people better. Always good, right?
Right, getting long. Going to stop at mid-November!
November was very much CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES C'MON \o/
On the 13th there was another celebration because winter's coming and we might as well enjoy the times when we can still go out without freezing ourselves. This time was to turn on the Christmas Lights, totally worth doing a concert for, yeah?
Santa. On a very, very big screen erected in front of our dead-lovely Town Hall (that I was told appeared in Sherlock Holmes the Movie, but don't trust this info man), he rapped a wee bit, but it was raining a little so we stopped paying attention. The cast of Coronation Street were there (I don't follow the show), last year's X-factor winner Joe McElderry was there (his song is on the OST for the new Narnia movie. I'm pretty sure I got his name right). Whole thing was sponsored by Moet Chandon, and they did a really beautiful 3D video of champagne raining on everyone in the Town Square. I've not uploaded the video anywhere yet. We shall figure that out later.
A bunch of singing terrifying monkeys that are from a kids' show on the BBC came out and 'sang'.
Terrifying monkeys were terrifying D:
And yet more fireworks, accompanied by Glee and Florence and The Machine and Bruno Mars and other people. Not live bands, though, the music accompanying the fireworks were just played through the speakers. Not complaining. I love Florence ;~;
And a grand finale to end this ver' picturesque entry \o/
A lot of time was spent with my head tilted back to stare at the sky. My neck hurt for aaaages afterwards. You couldn't pay me enough to make me say I regret it <3
The red curve downwards is the head of a giant, lighted SANTA CLAUS who sits, rather neatly, on a veranda put up over the entrance to the Town Hall.
To be continued!
<3
A couple of quick notes.
- I didn't finish my NaNoWriMo. Didn't even come close. Partly, I think I was a little busy in November. Mostly, though. The story just didn't seem to want to be written. Sorry especially to sekitx2 ;~; You gave me a gorgey e-gift.
I replied with PAIN.
I didn't even wish you a happy birthday ;~; I wasn't at home on the day, and forever afterward felt too ashamed to say anything. You're quite marvelous, so have as sincere a Happy Belated Birthday! as can be beget, almost mid-December.
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OBSERVE THE ICONS. Yours was a ship. I thundered back with an equally-aquatic frog. You forfeited!
Date: 2010-12-22 11:13 pm (UTC)FUCK THEM HAND-INS I have sent them and I am not proud of them ;~; Atm I am struggling with arranging travel to London. It is most heinouse D:<
How would one go about having an epic handwriting battle royale?
Re: OBSERVE THE ICONS. Yours was a ship. I thundered back with an equally-aquatic frog. You forfeite
Date: 2010-12-22 11:15 pm (UTC)omg HOW DID I NOT NOTICE?!?!?!?! psycho Komui, i choose you!
Date: 2010-12-23 06:30 pm (UTC)VAIR SIMPLE, you show all the handwriting you can possibly produce, i do the same, and then I BE THE COMPLETELY IMPARTIAL JUDGE how's that sound mmh? and then we draw a little princess on the side to make it 'royale'.
OR we could show our handwriting 8D i've already learned how to write lavi in 4 different scriptssss~
I RETURN WITH FOXY FOX-SAN. MUSANG, USE AGILITY!
Date: 2010-12-25 12:14 am (UTC)DUDE. YOU COULD PROPERLY BE IMPARTIAL and I'd still lose. Teachers of every single language I've ever written in have despaired of my writing. UNLESS I am allowed to write in cursive. Then it's fair game. AND PRINCESSES with one eye and red hair whoo.
SOUNDS LIKE A PLAN. You do an entry and I spam it with comments? Or vice versa? Or. JUST TAKE PICTURES OF GINGERBREAD IDK
Parry it, Wunder Damsel! Counterattack with Perfume Beam!
Date: 2010-12-26 02:33 pm (UTC)Miss Tres Impatial Judge approves of princesses with one eye and red hair //nod nod
hokay so no winners or losers! just pure epic handwriting royale - and i've taken the liberty to begin. (pictures of gingerbread are welcome, too! 8D)
Counter! With Boot(s) To HEAD!
Date: 2010-12-29 09:43 pm (UTC)\o/ I'VE DRAWN STUFF but the camera isn't working D: I have also just rediscovered the fact that MY ARABIC IS SO HIDEOUS IT BUUUUUUURNS.
lmao. Fish what moves at the speed of liiiiiiiiight~
Lavimon uses Full Throttle Ahead!
Date: 2010-12-30 05:30 pm (UTC)What is it with you and IT, man!? xDD
mwahaha, it can't be anymore hideous than my attempt to write sakana!
Pretty!boy uses DISDAIN ATTACk, wtf you running for huh
Date: 2011-01-01 01:29 pm (UTC)YOUR SAKANA WAS BOOTIFUL. AND HAPPY NEW YEAR I can't find my coloured peeeeeens