Title: Nine Kisses (to make a right)

Author/Artist:graverunner

Rating: R

Warnings: None

Prompt: Natsume Yuujinchou, Tanuma/Natsume: possession - There was something different about Tanuma that day

Summary: The boy is like a mythical fish glimpsed at the bottom of a lake, a silvered streak almost in the grasp of one’s hands before it slips away at the last minute.

( Otherwise, also a tale of massively awkward teenage love and interfering spirits. )

GOT PROMOTED BAYBEH, HELL YEAH.

On the other hand, this was what I was doodling at the back of the GP paper when they were going through it:



Presenting the new band~

Marcus Report

with such hit singles as

Careless Mistake
Subpass Sonata
Ways (you could have done better)
Please, please, please, let me get a pass


_

Truth be told, the last one's my favourite. =D

And I can't think up of a creative enough name for WR. We're going with ageing population you see, and what popped into mind was:

Greying Geezers


But that's really offensive. I might just have to go with the safe but boring title of, "Ageing Population".

Finished watching Ristorante Paradiso and the men in that anime made me go "NNNFFF" more times than Ouran High or any other male harem show ever had. The proper summary would be that it's a slice of life show set in a sidewalk cafe in Rome with subtle plot lines concerning human interaction. My summary would be: Hot old man harem anime! *wibble*

D=  Oh god. This just confirms the oyaji complex that I have. If that wasn't enough, they just had to take advantage of my megane fetish too. THEY WERE ALL WEARING SPECTACLES.

Oyagane = K.O. for me


My favourite from Ristorante would have to be Gigi though.






Srzly. He's om-non-nom ing all the time.
The sort of guy who rarely speaks but knows the right things to say or do when it's needed, especially when it comes to people. And what  also endears him to me is that he was a bit too gangly and his nose was just a tad too big for his face when he was young. XD He's hotter now that he's in his mid years. Just like fine wine. Although his nose is still a bit weird from some angles, lol. It's cute though.



And I finished watching Kaiji! Or it's full name: Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji - The suffering pariah - The ultimate survivor

With a show titled like that you'd know it'd have to be epic.

And was it?

Fark yeah it was. Full of manly tears and suffering.

And I want to see him suffer more damn it. When art thou season 2....?

Heard that his fingernails were almost plucked off ala blood manicure in the manga continuation.






It's official. Kaiji is now my waifu.

OH FUCK YES I MISSED OUR KARAOKE SESSIONS AT THE BUBBLE TEA SHOP.

Imesha is, yet again, the reigning queen and she scored... what? 11? 12, 13 points this time?

And second is yours truly - Woohoo! - with 7 points.

New faces this time round: Z, Olivia and Isaac.

Charissa was darned funny btw, since she knew the lyrics to almost every single song but could not remember the title, which is essentially, useless since the whole point of the game was to Don't Forget The Title. And every time this happened she kept spasming and making epic faces to convey her utter despair and going, "Kill me! KILL ME NOW!".  XXDD

Hm. I've been rather... 'emo' these days, for a lack of a better word. It's the stress and the scary advent of promos looming in the near distance that's been getting to me. But it's also because of the intense pangs of loneliness I get from time to time. Which I have now identified as an emotion that can only be called 'friend-sick'. XD And what most people would say to this is:

Well, pick up the phone and call them up then you stupid woman!


But you know I've never been the sort to do that. Ever. Even, I think, to the point that it would make you guys think that I'm trying to distance myself. But it's not really.


Top 10 Things I Miss (in no particular order)


1. Feeding the pigeons and crows in that corner
The slanting-sideways bird... the ones that were always missing their feet...

2. Standing in front of paintings and making off-tangent observations

3. Being able to sit on a bench (or any other place sit-eable) and just... sit there. For a long time. Talking and not-talking.

4. Relationship Dynamics (HA. I'm going all lit now.)
The ups and downs of being in a 3-way friendship since it is an odd number and there's bound to be feelings of neglect from time to time.

5. Stupid, random, weird humor.
The kind that only made nonsensical sense to us.

6. Books
I know YZ said that you'd lost interest in them a long while back. But... y'know. We were still able to just ramble through Kino, Pageone...etc. or any other bookshop.

7. Observations
Sometimes we'd just stand around one object, or focus on something that had simply passed by for a few seconds, and a full length blown out conversation could actually erupt from it.

8. Laughter
The ones that annoyed the shit out of our classmates. Because it went on and on and we couldn't stop due to something that just seemed hilariously funny at the time.

9. Doodles

10. Stupid, random, weird things that we did due to a spontaneous impulse. Walking in the rain. Trying to find a hole in the fence. Going down the road generally-not-taken. Running down a steep incline. Going through an elaborate set-up to try and throw spaghetti into that old-man's house.


+ YZ! If you're reading this, I shall add here that the reason I have not returned your sms is not bc I am ignoring you. My hp officially died today. It needs either a top up or a new number, I'm not sure.

DAMN YOU UNEMBEDDABLE YOUTUBE VIDOES.

Hanyway.

www.youtube.com/watch

This. I was watching this and it ran through my mind: Why does this look so familiar?

I looked again. And it hit me. From 00:15 onwards, it looks exactly like what I look like when I try to do econs, particularly tricky annoying math problems or when a question in general happens to confound me too badly.

1 day late but...

There is nothing weirder than bonding with your family over, of all subjects in the world that could have been chosen, veins. It started pretty normally actually. My mom was sewing up curtains and she was lamenting to me that one's veins can be seen on the back of the hand more clearly with age. I guess it started spiralling out of normalcy when I commented that my veins could be seen pretty clearly too and that they also bulged from time to time. And that I liked poking it because it was...um... squishy and rather fun to do so. Then she went all, "Eh, me too!"

After that my brothers were called in and it turned out they all liked doing the same thing.

Which led to a rather enthusiastic ruckus about vein squishing.

"Yah! I always do that in class when I'm bored."

"You move it from side to side?"

"Uh-huh. Same for me."

"Fun to press right?"

At some point I started rolling around the floor laughing going, "This is weird! Why are having a family bonding session over this?"

Sort of spoilt the atmosphere though when I confessed that seeing old people's bulging out veins made me feel like taking a knife and cutting it.

*insert crickets chirping*

"Kak, I think that's a bit too extreme."

Oh mah gawd.

Promos are coming, there are tons of hw waiting to be done, I've not started properly revising yet...etc.

And I am completely wasting my time on other things. Other things, which, are just too distracting for me to not keep my hands or eyes off.

I should know better! And yet... I can't keep myself away.

-  Playing Wedding Dash (Woohoo! I'm up to 2.5! Only 30-40-whoknows levels more to go!

-  Yo Jin Bo (cracktastic otome dating game. for srz. Characters in a sort-of-quasi feudal era are not supposed to break out into "I will Survive". The only route I completely finished was Ittosai's one. The one filling the "bad ass" dude stereotype with the anachronistic glasses and the semi s/m hinted leather outfit.)

-  Watching Beethoven Virus (6/18) (I don't give a hoot about Du Ru Mi. Why can't the producers see how much hotter and interesting it would be if Maestro Kang and Gun Woo got together!? D= Seriously. Their sexual antagonistic tensions are up the wazoo and yet they can't help admiring each other for their respective strength and talents which leads to a grudging sort of respect only heightened by the fact that they both want Du Ru Mi. *takes a deep breath* Damn it. There should be a threesome at least.

- Starting on Sik Gaek. (The food drew me in.) (0.3/24)

-Finished all 30 chapters of Bara no Tameni. Waiting for more. (Incest. Complicated incest. Yuri likes Sumire who she thinks is her half-sibling at first but then it turns out he's not related to her at all even though Sumire himself doesn't know it yet and she has a love rival in the form of Aoi who is related to her and Sumire but Aoi gets all confused along the way and realizes that his jealousy is slowly evolving into something close to a crush for Yuri and he gets even more confused since he's supposed to be gay and still likes Sumire but then again Yuri also manages to make his heart go doki-doki while Sumire on the other hand is oblivious to all the people lusting after him since he's too caught up in the memories of his dead fiance but he might just actually be developing feelings for Yuri and-
Wait. I am confused.)

- Continuing 12 Kingdoms (13/45) (One of those series where the main female lead starts out annoying and weak but matures so much along the way (alongside with a hefty dose of bad-assery and coolness) that you would want to have her babies in the end.)

- Watched Antique Bakery movie (They adapted it from the manga so well! ;___; I am so happy and satisfied that they did not botch it up.)

- FINISH KARE KANO (2-3 more episodes left. Damn awesome anime series btw. One of the few female characters which I love with a burning passion. Ya know why? Because she has flaws. She's a top student in her school but freely admits that she does so only to garner people's attention and praise and that her "I am a nice, kind, elegant girl!" persona while she's in said sch is completely fake. Sounds like a fake-poser-jerk right? But her flaws are what makes her interesting and the series manages to spin her out in a way that is convincing and yet still strangely likeable.)

- Reading Sunshine by Robin McKinley [You know what I want to do? I just want to seclude myself in my room and finish reading this book. A het couple that actually interests me? Y'know it has to be good. But nay! I shall not let it tempt me into further distraction. I shall take small, healthy doses.
Btw, the vampire (Yes. Vampire. Damn Twilight for making that word synonymous with squealing fangirls and/or cringes of horror)in the series is described as having skin that is like "the mushroom you leave at the back of your fridge which you don't know whether to throw away or save". That desc was enough to make me fall in love with him.]
 

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGG
HHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
BLOODY EFFING FRENCH REVOLUTION. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH.
I TOTALLY SCREWED UP MY EU-TRIP INTERVIEW. DAMN IT. I SHALL FOREVER BE STUCK IN SG. I SHALL NEVER BE ABLE TO VENTURE OUT BEYOND SG OR MALAYSIA. FOREIGN COUNTRIES AND ME IS A PAIRING THAT WAS NEVER MEANT TO BE~~~~~~~~

Foreign Countries/Shahiylia : The Ultimate Anti OTP

THE INSTANT HE THREW THE FRENCH REVOLUTION QUESTION I WENT INTO BIMBO MODE. NAMELY, MY EYES WIDENING AND GOING, "HUH?" AND THEN I STARTED CRAPPING ABOUT THE CATHOLIC CHURCH.

DOUBLE YEW TEE EFF.

MY INTERVIEW WAS SO SCREWED.

Why??? WHY OH WHY OH WHY OH WHY OH WHY DID I NOT READ HETALIA AXIS POWERS? NEXT TIME I GET THE COMPULSION TO READ A CERTAIN
MANGA, I SHALL JUST PUSH ASIDE ALL OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES AND GO AHEAD AND READ BECAUSE IT MIGHT HELP ME IN THE FUTURE AS
THIS INCIDENT HAS SO APTLY SHOWN.


Cheered up after that though b/c Sarah told me that there was an Old Chang Kee sale. Everything going at one dollar baybeh! I'll be drowning me emo-ness in food. + The busker that always hangs around whitesands started singing my most favourite cheesiest of all cheesy love songs. Unchained Melody! So I started swaying and singing along and freaked her out in the process. Sorry for that.

I shall now encase myself in a bubble of denial.

*turns on 2ne1's 'I don't care'*

Cause I don't care e-e-e-e-e
I don't care e-e-e-e-e

http://www.honeysynforum.net/why-t198.html

Am glad I read this link here or I would have just continued having a vague sense of anger and sadness each time I think of honeysyn. Forgot about it for quite some time actually, but YY showed me a taiwanese singer's cover of Creep (which was surprisingly good... was expecting it to be engrish-y but she pronounced everything well) and since this was the sort-of theme song for Metis and Josh, I decided to check out the forums to try and find a clue why it stopped so abruptly.

Read the first volume around... a year ago? Came back to it and devoured all the new chapters excitedly when it suddenly...STOPPED. As in, there was an ending but, as mentioned before - it was very, very abrupt. Was expecting more volumes so when it came I was just left gobsmacked in front of the screen going

0.0

to

;____; Wha? What's going on?

From confusion, I quickly progressed to anger and to even feeling  a certain sort of betrayal. I was expecting so much more.
But after reading the author/artist's comments, I understand (finally, sense of closure! lol). When one embarks on a project all ready to flesh it out and the passion just (somehow) happens to die down along the way due to unforeseen circumstances... ya can't help it, y'know? In a way, a good thing that came out of this was that HoneySyn stopped when the going was still good. It was clear in the second volume that the creator was already  losing interest (the plot was going nowhere) and I am glad that she knew it was simply time to wrap things up. Some things simply work better as one-shots, and I think HoneySyn manages to fill that role well. Granted, I think it might have worked if she still had interest and commitment to it. Despite the 2nd volume being rather sketchy, it hinted at bigger things to come and she could have turned things around by fleshing said things out more and exploring the characters further by volume 3+.

Still... that course of action might very well just turn disastrous. Will check out her new webcomic when I have the time. Hope that it's as good/even better than HoneySyn and that she'd be able to stick to this project.

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH. WHAT THE FUGGER FUCK HAPPENED TO MY LJ LAYOUT?????!!!!


Edit: Ah. *uploads all pictures to own photobucket account* It's back to normal again. Hmm... maybe this is A SIGN, AN OMEN that I should change my LJ layout. I've been feeling the urge to do so but have been too lazy thus far.

Yes. So it might be the typical nerdy boy meets cute girl vs jock vying for cute girl's attentions storyline but still...IT'S SO BLARDY CUTE. XD Starting from how Forrest unintentionally got into the elections simply because of the shy/nervous wave he wanted to give the cute girl all the way to the little nerdy gestures, awkwardness and tics he had right down to the ending. And the best friend of questionable orientation is hilarious! What with the poster licking, hyperactivity and yet, how he still tries his best to help his friend get the girl.


TLDR; I pretty much liked this vid and want more people to watch it. =D

Teaser Trailer




( Do I HAVE to say this again? You know you want to. CLICK IT BEYOTCH. )

[be warned for excessive imagery, gif icons, fapping, incessant prattling, fangirlishness et cetera et cetera this way comes TLDR; Dial-up users, beware]

( Still. Click it. You know you want to, bitch. )

I CAN'T FREAKING CONCENTRATE ON WHOLE ARAB ISRAELI SHTICK THAT I'M SUPPOSED TO BE LEARNING FOR HISTORY WHICH I'M AWFULLY FAR BEHIND.

Every time Israel and anything jewish related (which is... everything) pops up on the page, I go:
*sigh* *dreamy eyes* Rahm Emanuel... Jon Stewart... dayum. They're pretty hot.

And when I finally wrench myself away from those train of thoughts, France and Britain just had to appear. So Stephen Colbert and Jon Oliver pop up. And my reactions usually go:

Me: IT'S FRENCH BITCH. *snickers*

or

Me: My voice is my credential. Aluminium. Now let me in. *snicker*

Brothers: O_o


DAMN YOU HOT (FAKE)NEWSCASTERS AND POLITICAL FIGURES.

I cried during Gran Torino.

I know. WTF right?

I'll admit, it was a sad movie. And I did feel myself getting quite down, and maybe sort of sniffly, but I had not actually planned on crying.

IT IS ALL THE FAULT OF THE PEOPLE AROUND ME.

They were mostly old and they were all freakin' crying away. The man beside me was wiping his eyes and the old woman and her friends in front of me were dabbing their eyes away with tissues. And I kept thinking that they were crying because they could identify with Clint Eastwood's character in the movie (who has a shitty son, lost his wife, does not quite know the meaning of life any longer) and of how their life at this moment might sort of parallel his (albeit in a Singaporean context). After that, the waterworks just came on.

On a happier note:
NUREYEV AND NIJINSKY. Who knew two men tangoeing could look so hot?

No..wait. Actually. I had a mental image in my mind before and I knew.

But the both of them elevated it to a whole new level entirely.
 

I am.... very very baffled at the price jump of Cable/Deadpool.

The first volume was...when converted to sing dollars, 21/22?
When it came to the second volume though... ONE HUNDRED PLUS.

What in the name of god, satan and marvel is this weirdness?

From what I've seen so far while browsing, it's the only volume that is so frikkin' expensive. All the others are around 20-ish.

Damn it. =(

I could just skip to volume 3 but...I just don't like reading a series without going in chronological order.

Waited at the MRT station and Teh Awesome who goes by the name of Shahrudin entered. I was expecting the Old Guy (don't know his name, so I just call him that in my head) who always helps my family out whenever we have any tech problems.

Me: *on phone* Who's this guy?
Dad: The [Old Guy]'s mentor.
Me: Oooooh.

I also got to see the MRT station's rest room for the workers for the first time. It was airconditioned and there was some sort of movie with explosives being played in the adjoining room. They had a whiteboard with writings like:
SELLING MODIFIED PSP
Fishing trip coming up this...!
Badminton training - anyone joining?
SELLING NASI LEMAK, EPOK EPOK...

And there were empty fish tanks lined up (with names on it like Ghost Rider, Hellfish...etc.) which I later found out were because the MRT workers wanted to house fighting fish but the place was too cold for them to live in.

Teh Awesome: Wait... so you did a sysem restore? And you didn't disable the antivirus?
Me: Um. Yes.
Teh Awesome: Goodness. You should NEVER NEVER do a system restore when antivirus is still going on. Oh, this is a worm by the way. Not a virus. A system restore can't get rid of those. Especially so for a worm.

The other workers stopped to offer remarks from time to time, one of which was:
You should do what I did when my laptop was spoiled! It accidentally fell over- and hey presto, it worked again!

So he was clicking away doing stuff of the technological sort that I do not know of while white stuff scrolled down. About...what? 40 minutes later?
Everything was alright. With all the important stuff intact.

Teh Awesome: Luckily your drive was partitioned and you saved all your stuff in there.

At that point I was just babbling away my thanks and gratitude.

Lesson learnt/Words of Wisdom given:
Keygen/Crack almost always houses a trojan. In worst case scenarios, even nastier things might lurk...SUCH AS A WORM. So make the antivirus scan your friend.