Yes, I have been avoiding blogging in hope to finish the new layout before excessively needing to blog. And yes, it failed. I had typed up most of this entry a few hours ago, only to find my browsers dead after finishing dinner [and I did not 'save as draft' before I left, as the idiot that I am], and didn't feel up to typing the entry again.

Anyhow, as for Sancta V.1, all the graphics is done, but when I tried to code, I ran into a bit of a problem— I want to try something new, so I went for CSS [Cascading Style Sheets], onMouseOVer, and Drop-Down menus for this layout. The only problem is, I love customizing everyting [can you imagine my frustration now for not knowing how to change the login screen and start menu bar?! Please tell me if anyone knows], but to do that I need to understand the basic construct of CSS and Javascript—which I don't. And sadly, the site that I often relied my internet resources on, both for other tutorial sites and tutorials in general, tifa.net, had closed, along with her other sites. That cut me off from simple, easy, clear scripts SUCH AS the drop down menu.

Thus began my feverish search of good scripts with nice sites that explain things in an understandable manner, which ended in peril. In the end, after distracting myself with absolutely hillarious NARUTO chapter koma's from D.co, and the endless list of technical websites, I decided to aquire a reference book instead. See, I have been working on my site; I'm not really slacking that much. Oh, and I ended up buying one from the half.ebay instead because theirs are cheaper.

[Borders bookstore: 10:30-12:15]

Dad also asked me to go to the Coyote Park with my cousin from Vancouver, at her request, with her. We saw adorable lambs hired to 'cut down' the dry grass along the coast. I picked up some shells, sanded glass, and a few rocks.

[Coyote: 13:30-4:30]

As a result, I completely forgot about going to the robotics meeting [and the fact that I need to ask Ms. Ward a question regarding number 5 on the Summer AP Bio homework], and did not remember such event until around 21:30. Talk about my lack of prospective memories. This could make a nice part of my journal entry for Psychology =D

Mother told me to eat some strawberries. I asked if they're sweet. She said they're a bit sour and suggested me to eat it with whip cream. I did. Right after I finished the 10 or so that were left, presumably for me, since no one eat them as I did, she stared at me suprised, because I 'either didn't eat any or ate them all'. My aunt says it's because of the whip cream. It's only part of the truth though, really. I had noted some time ago that I like strawberries.

No, I haven't really done anything productive today, other than immersing myself in blissful fanfiction, doujinshi, and D.co's koma's.

I think that's all. In my last post I also included a translation of one of D.co's koma. It is very humorous, but I don't feel like translating it again from Japanese. It's hard to read as is. By the way, I adore D.co's simple lines; it's something I cannot do, even though her characters usually have overly pointed chins. Except for Chibi's though. Those are adorable.

BTW, I downloaded some recommanded music from vivola.net's mp3 rotation site, and am listening to them.



Music: Flame - Iwasaki Taku//Witch Hunter Robin : one of her rec songs from the WHR OST. I happened to have the OST too.

koma: comic strip
doujinshi: fan comics. I really should learn php so the Japanese I use/abbreviations can be defined automatically in a link or something. urgh.

Let's all cheer because PCBY has finally finished the picture for Kakeru's new layout! It took around 4.5 hours to complete. That's actually kind of sad because it has no coloring. I only scanned the image and 'refined' it with Photoshop. Next: Color-scheming, final layouting, and coding! Hopefully post 200 [the next one] will be in a new layout!



'Have you noticed how in shoujo manga girls always happen to run into their crushes?'
'well, that's better than running into a car.' - Mission Complications//Naruto Fanfic by Suke-san [deleted] :: This took me some time to type because I was trying to find Mission Complications, but I forgot both author and title. I figured it was Suke-san because Suke-San is the only author who makes me love new pairings, but when I looked up Suke-san's profile there it wasn't there. So after a bit of frustration, I remembered that I keep a copy of my Author Alerts. And there it was! XD Except that it's deleted. So that "quote" is actually a "paraphrase". And half way through typing this I forgot about this post altogether.

Despite the amount of things that have been happening, I was too tired/lazy to post.

Wednesday| 7 journal entries were due the next day, so I promosied myself to not play FFX. But I ended up playing RO o__O;; As a result, I didn't get my entries done until 5am.

Thursday| spent my day playing FFX & RO [Got to the Calm Lands in FFX, still trying to find where to find Tough Scale-Like Stems in RO].

Today| Cousin from Vancouver came; father scooting me out of the house for brunch as I type.



Music: Ready Steady Go - L'arc~en~Ciel//FMA

Sir Francis Galton (1822-1911)? read and wrote by age 2.5, read Shakespeare for pleasure at age 7, invented the weather maps, Charles Darwin's cousin, thought that only smart people should marry (and reproduce), and proposed the correlational method? a mathematical way of finding whether there's a relationship between two variables.

Source: Rathus, Spencer. Psychology: Concepts & Connections.

Yum. Mangos are yummy. It's best when their meat is neither hard and crunchy nor watery and squishy, when it is smooth and without fibers, a texture between frozen ice cream and pudding. I just found that mangos can also be pickled when green from dictionary.com. Apparently Blogger's spellcheck only recognizes 'mangoes' and not 'mangos', though both plural forms are correct. There are also Mango Birds [Oriolus kundoo] and Mango Fish [Polynemus risua].

My psychology book came two days earlier than expected. Now I don't have to borrow Amy's textbook to do readings; I can do (?) homework now.

Today the Psychology professor issued a challenge to us; whoever that got the answer can have an A?no journals, no exams? for the semester. It requires wide knowledge of Psychology, and only 8 students has ever gotten the answer in her five years of teaching: almost everything we do is conditioned, whether positively or negatively. For example, I read fanfiction because it is entertaining?a positive outcome. But there's a behavioral trait that we posses that is not conditioned. What is it? It's not instinctive or physiological.

I don't think I should've told Yusuke about my plan to put some of my drawings on Sancta. Now he's telling me to make one.

That reminds me. I've drafted the new image that'll be in Kakeru...all I need to do is everything else: from inking, scanning, cleaning up lines on computer to color scheme and coding. I've already decided how to lay it out ^^

Eep. Haven't done any yearbook stuff or Razu's drawing yet o____O;;



Sasuke: (pouts)You told me that you'd teach me some new shuriken moves!
Itachi: I have a crucial mission tomorrow, and I've got to prepare for it.
Sasuke: (pouts more) ...Big bro you liar...
Itachi: (smiles and waves Sasuke over)
Sasuke: ...! (grins and runs over)
Itachi: (pokes Sasuke hard in the forehead) Sorry Sasuke, maybe next time
Sasuke: Ow (frowns at Itachi)
(PCBY dies of all the brotherly love) - Naruto chapter 220

Music: Kanashimi wo Yasashisa ni - little by little//Naruto 4th opening.

Amy, who came over to watch Gattaca for Psychology, dragged along Patrick and Stephen, catching me playing FFX. I had finally beat that...boss...thingy. It was somehow rediculously easy this time. Guess all that training [~5hrs] paid off ^^ Then we watched Matrix Revolution. Or rather I read Amy's Psyc textbook [because mine's not comming until Thursday at the soonest and I have a packet of journals, with references, due on Thursday morning] while the rest watched the two movies.

(reads Nartuo ch 220 and dies of Itachi's big-bro-ness) Itachi looks feminine though...(pokes people around her) Look! Look! The Uchiha brothers are smiling!!

No, really. I'm really trying to work on my blog/website. Argh! I forgot to attempt to contact Ms. Dartnell...

By the way, if anyone would find and buy me "Seiyuu Graffiti" [a CD], I would love him/her forever.

Today's supposed be the day that earth's closest to the sun, so setting an egg upright on a bare table should be easier...

Also, if anyone just happened to have Furigana (Rubi) by Inoue Kazuhiko and Seki Toshihiko, give me that and I'll love you forever too. In fact, anything by those two...XD



「今日はちょっと人生という道に迷ってな...」
'Today I got a bit lost on the road of life...' - Hatake Kakashi : Naruto

Today we cleaned the house. After daddy cleaned the bathroom my cat started rolling around on the bathroom floor.

Went to blockbuster to rent GATTACA for Psychology today, I did. We ended up buying that monthly pass (which we mean to cancel after 1 month) and rented Final Fantasy: the Spirits Within as well. By 22:30 we've gone through FF: SW, so my dad & I went to Blockbuster to trade that for Matrix: Revolutions. Now We've just finished the movie, and suprisingly I'm tired (yawns). I like the song when the credits rolled. I wonder what it's called. The last fight scene resembled horribly like Dragonball fights o__O;

Glad that Google is my homepage; it reminded me that tomorrow is father's day.

I believe I forgot to mention that I now have 6 invitations to gmail. Thus as soon as I get Kakeru renovated, the next hit will get a prize of a gmail account. So somehow get me motivated enough to completely remake this blog, peoples. Also Sancta.

Damn; I have 3 journal entries to write and I still don't have my book. As nice as it is to buy it for $50 instead of $100, the downfall is the waiting process.

I felt like biting off heads of people who dared to talk to me today, and I will probably continue doing so for the next few days. Maybe a warning sign, written in red ink, with the words 'beware; approach at own risk' is proper. To those so have no idea as to what yours truely is referencing to, I'll repeat last month's words: ignorance is a bliss.



will add quote later.

SAT prep course ended. In truth, I didn't think it was all that useful, except for the writing portion...which I got a 3 out of 6 today o__O; M: 680 CR: 580, how sad.

Yesterday I started reading 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, which we have to read for AP US History. It's a wonder that I actually started it =)

On Wendesday night I made a list of Naruto fanfictions I want to read, and last night I finished reading one set of paring's fanfics.

Today I burned some anime, and planned to burn more after dinner. I'll really have to work on website/yearbook entries too. During the SAT prepratory class I did one drawing of a fairy of sorts (which is strange enough, considering I never do fairies), so that's one down on the drawing part of the yearbook entries.

Naruto 88 by Shin-Otaku is out, but I don't feel like downloading it...as long as ANBU-AonE gets theirs out quicker than the last two episodes. Can't wait for the Manga though. Inane's got good people coloring the pages (paintpixel, anbupawn), and the current plot is just too tragic suspenseful for an angst-lover like me ^^;;



'People are just about as happy as they make up their mind to be.' - Lincoln, Abrahan

Music: Understanding - Evanescense

(sigh) I dunno...Maybe the amount of AP/H work is weighing on me, maybe i'm getting senior-idis, but I really don't feel like doing so much reference for an supposedly basic class. I just want to...lay around and work on my site or something.

I think the vacation feeling has finally sunk in. I feel like doing nothing academic.

Ugh. I can feel it comming. This mounting of assumed pressure is really the prologue of that horrid monster...always returning...

Don't worry if one does not know what I'm referring to; it's a blithe not to.

Anyways, reminded by Larry, NeonCloud over there (points to the tagboard) got 400.

Cold milk seemed to have soothed me some.

OMIGOD IS THAT A WORM CRAWLING ON MY SCREEN?! No seriously, it was flipping across my screen and crawling down it. Now I don't know where it is.

So after dinner I went to Hollis' to to pick fruits. I got dragged along. Anyways, I decided to not help and went around taking pictures. It's nice since it's sunset and there're a lot of vegetation in his backyard.

What's with Aragon saying I have to return a book by 20040630 that is due 20040827?

Me: How did I get a 4.000? (stares at her row of B's)
Amy: yaaaaaaaay.
Me: Hey.
Amy: Don't complain. Just say yaaaaaaaay.

Anyways. Pooh. Haven't even looked at the Psychology syllabus.