Ugh I can't believe I got so sick during my trip @___@ That was definitely an interesting ordeal... I'll be posting more about the trip later :3 Right now though, it feels surreal to be back home...Like I'm gonna walk outside and it's going to be the busy streets of Seoul or Tokyo... Well I did just wake up :D ....at 4pm..... I'm gonna die going to work tomorrow!

DAH! Finally the day has arrived! To relaaaaax for 2 weeks and not think of work. Korea and Japan here me and my mom come!!!! Be back on April 7th :D And many thanks to Kate for taking care of my crabby and fuzzy ones. <3 <3 <3 <3 And many thanks to Annie for doing some shopping for me X3

( Chinchilla Time! )

Boohooohooo I miss reading LJ for a couple days and I miss chances to place requests with people :< Anyways yoinked from c2lan ener lithele makkurakoyappi
Since I'm trying to get myself to draw more this should be fun to do. :3 I won't be able to start on anything until after PMX but I'll put it out there for now.

The fine print:
a) if you make a request, you must duplicate the offer. Basically, you have to do 10 sketches for friends/well meaning strangers. It shouldn't be too hard if you really half-ass it.
b) don't be shy in your request, but do understand it will probably be just a loose pencil drawing.

1. muralasa - Something :D
2. sakurae - Yuko *_*
3. lithele - Ken and Leafmon &hearts
4. ener - Lunamaria *hawt!*
5. tognarcow her hot bod!!! :O~~
6. makkurakoyappi Boy WONDERfuls XD
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ok sleep for realz

back from camping at King's Canyon!!! surprisingly I'm not that achy from sleeping on mounds of earth but I sure am itchy from this round of bug bite attacks! AWRARWARAWRAWRARARAWRARAWR

Ah~ Since so many people seem to be planning trips to Japan, I'll throw out my travel agency that I've used for my past two trips to Japan. I've never been on their tours mostly because I love to research places to visit myself and go on an unguided adventure! XD

http://www.iace-asia.com/

They've arranged travel packages for me with the following:

-Plane tickets
-Hotels
-Japan Rail passes
-Airport Limousines (XD buses that go to and from the hotels)
-Concert tickets (like the Kimeru Live and the Bleach musical! Sadly Tenimyu was sold out and they couldn't get a hold of those tickets :<)
-Ghibli museum tickets (entry to the Ghibli museum is by reservation only so you do need to get these tickets prior to going~! :3)

They also gave me really handy travel guides and maps that were a huge help on finding places to visit. Their office is right in Gardena and the agent that has handled both of my trips was Ms. Mari Kawamura (mkawamura@iace-usa.com). She speaks Japanese better than English so just keep communication as simple as you can with her :3

Yippy!

First full day in TOkyO!

( Ghibli Museum and HELLA SHOPPING )

Ok I lied and I'm gonna do another entry to finish it off~ .....REALLY! I will!!!

XD yaaay finally some internet! we never had a chance to get to Starbucks to do some interneting business cause we were sooo BUSY! Currently we`re at Haneda Airport in Tokyo waiting to take a connecting flight at Kansai Airport to home in LA~! The trip though to summarize it in one single word has been.... AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

XD So many memories and so much too tell! and SO MUCH MONEY SPENT O__________O and so many sweeets! I probably have cavaties in all of my teeth XO A few highlights in our adventure included being mauled by ravenous deer, getting lost at the Fushimi Inari shrine, EXTREME AMOUNTS OF LOLITA SHOPPING, walking through HURRICANE DOOM, Train SANDWICHING XO, CREPES almost every night~, MOS BURGER!, bug bite MANIA XO, DEAFENING cicadas, boobie fun XD and much much more~!

so I do have goodies for people but many things requested were never found~! Boohoo! I`ll post pictures of the goods when we get back home. :D Hopefully my camera wasn`t permanantly damaged by HURRICANE DOOM.

ps...OMG this keyboard layout is soooo weird!

EEeekss... so building management at my office decides they want to do some major renovations to our bathrooms and the main hallways so they merrily tore up the carpetting, ceiling lights, ceiling tiles etc etc. My first thought was... HOLY MONKEY BALLS @__@ .....BRING OUT YOUR DEAD!!!!

( Braaiinnss... )

Also XD I want one of these! Such a dexterous robot hand! http://www.barrett.com/robot/products/hand/handimfr.htm

mmmm....went to the chiropractor/acupunturist for my combination carpal tunnel and arm aching.... now i feel all bendy...like jiggly jellooo~~ can't wait for next week's session....

but well to be good i'm on a gaming hiatus T____T *CRIES* so that i can put myself through more crap for cosplay projects XD

yay~~

I bought Animal Crossing for the DS.... It's all over for me! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!! YOU'LL NEVER SEE ME ONLINE AGAIN!!!!!!!!! XD XD

[EDIT] Ok so I'm back online moping at work cause I can't play my game :< But AHHHHH! They started remodeling the offiiiice! T_____T Bulldozing walls and dust flying everywhere! And the hammeeeeerrring. I wanna go home..... :

Omedetoooo everyone! Luckily I made it back from Japan in one piece. I went to many places but I didn't visit nearly all the places I wanted to visit. There's just way too much to see there @___@. ( Places I visited )

I'll post up pictures of some of these places eventually once I get a chance to sort through them. One thing I do wish I took more pictures of is the food I ate there. Even the convenience stores have food that tastes better than most restaurants here in the US.

( Japan Loot )

Ooo I'm getting hungry! Time to go grub!

So today I rode the shinkansen to Kyoto and I am happy to say that this hotel finally has wireless internet! whoooo! I'll probably be writing a lengthy report about my trip later on. Right now I'm snacking on some onigiri watching a shinsengumi drama on tv.

( Kimeru Live )

So currently I'm resting up for a long day of visiting beautiful temples in Kyoto and Nara tomorrow. Hopefully I'll get lots of good pictures even though it's forcasted to rain tomorrow T____T D'OH!

Ha-chan <3

Ok! so I finally found a wireless internet hub at a Starbucks right near my hotel in Shinjuku! XD Yes people i'm still alive here in Japan. Been doing lots of sightseeing at a neck breaking pace. @____@ and getting lost of course. So far i've visited Palette Town, Sega Joypolis, Tokyo Disney Sea, Meiji Shrine, Comiket of course. today will be the day to go shopping so people who requested stuffs, i hope i can find your goods! And I also hope to fit in some visiting time at a few more temples and to the Imperial palace. ara ara okie gotta go!! bai bai! Happy EARLY New Year EVERYONE!!!!!

hugs and luvs to you all back at home!!!

ck :3

O____O wooooooooooow how did i beat everyone into the office today??? I actually had to unlock the door and turn on the lights... of course i was like...uuuh what does this switch turn on~ *looks at the time* my my people are running late. XD perfect chance to go rampaging through the office! WAHAHAHHAHAHAH

*RUNS AMUCK*

ha-chan

ARRRGH Damn you people and your music tagging XD Well I looooooooove movie themes soo~

List your current six favorite songs, then pick six other people that have to do the same.

(in no particular order)

1. Last of the Mohicans - Main Theme
2. Robocop - Main Theme (I NEED MORE COWBELL! XD)
3. Nightwish - Gothic Sanctuary
4. System of a Down - Toxicity ( DISORDER!! DISORDER~!!! DIISSSOOOOOOORRRDDDEERRR~~!!!!)
5. Apollo 13 - The Launch (I get teary eyed listening to this song....cause it's so awesome and powerful!)
6. M-Flo - Hands


Tag!

1. mmm my guess is that just about everyone on my friends list did this soo...umm I tag anyone who hasn't been tagged yet! and not because I'm too tired to hunt you down....mmm mumble mumble....
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Ok I need to get some sleep =_+ good night...

-ck

Well, Kate (makkurakoyappi ) and I have a room reserved at the San Jose Hilton & Towers but we're lacking people for the room so.....any kind souls out there willing to take in two gals for Fanime or room with us?  Anybody?  *puppy dog eyes*  We need a room preferably at the convention center since we're planning on wearing costumes that won't allow us to be easily transportable (@_@  Tsubasa....).  Please leave a comment or AIM me at ifurita00~~~ 

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or PLEASE COME BACK TO US KAREN~~!  T____T

Ha-chan :<

Boy Karen sure is special XD

hahahhaah XD man YuGiOh the movie owned! XD It had the greatest corny lines ever~~~ "Tea, can you tell me the story about the bunnies?" XD And like duuuuuuuuuuuuude I swear Yugi should have TOTALLY lost to Anubis but noooooooo~~~ Sphinx Teleia had to attack the stupid Watapon instead of the Obnoxious Celtic Guardian, allowing Sphinx's special ability to pointlessly only take away 100 life points from Yugi. hehe...and sadly XD the free card I got was the Watapon!!!! DARGH! Buuuuuuuut XD My fellow movie goer got the Pyramid of Light card. Which is funny since in the movie, that card was supposed to destroy the egyptian gods but the card instead says "If this face-up card is removed from your side of the field destroy "Andro Sphinx" and "Sphinx Teleia" on your side of the field and remove them from play." SOOOO.....What happened to owning the egyptian god cards?!?!?!??!?! I'm confuuuused. Anyways :D It was a happy day :D Zippy!

woooooooooow XD after finishing shingetsutan tsukihime and feeling a little disappointed by the series (interesting plot but EXTREMELY rigid animation) I decided to explore the roots of my anime fandom. Some of the first titles I can remember watching are Ranma 1/2, Dragonball (yes i used to love this series and it started my big hair fetish), Madou King Granzort (my first mecha anime i think), and Hono no Tokyuji Dodge Danpei (KICKASS SERIES ABOUT DODGEBALL).

Since I had first seen Dodge Danpei in korean when i was in 4th or 5th grade, I never could find it anywhere since the korean title was called super magic ball BUT! I finally had a break in my search for this anime and happily found some screenshots of only the first episode. BEHOLD IT'S OLD SCHOOL GLORY!
Dodge Danpei screen shots!
Anyways, this wonderful series about dodgeball had LOTS of MEGA bishounen in the opposing teams who always had an angsty background (sadly I never found the main teammates, including Danpei, to be super hot....Danpei was just cute). I'd say this series really got my mad chase for more bishounen started. Imagine a little me drooling over bishounen XD hahahhaa

so YAY!!! Just thought i'd share :3