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I'll fill this with my profile and other stuff when I have time to fill it...
I did a C.C.S. style profile thingy here:
Name: Tomoyo Ichijouji
Birthday: February 6
Favorite classes: science, Japanese
Least favorite classes: history
Extracurricular activities: piano, Chinese class, choir
Favorite colors: pink, violet
Favorite flowers: morning glories, foxgloves
Favorite foods: pizza, ramen, cookies
Least favorite food: bitter things, spicy things
Best dish: none
Most wanted:
FFX-2, Kingdom Hearts Final Mix video games, HP book V
Archives
Click here to see the archives of previous entries a.k.a. Cabin Logs there.
Saturday, September 13, 2003 at 10:50 p.m. --
now playing compartment BGMs:
silence
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OK, I have watched the movie "Chicago". I would like to say first off, yes, it was very good. I'd watch it again if I had the chance. It was also a great effect that I had absolutely no idea what the movie was about except for the obvious title.
(Sorta spoilers for the next part...don't highlight if you want the movie to be a complete surprise, but otherwise it doesn't give out the ending or plot much.)
Now, I know you're likely to write me off as a hopeless PT fan for saying this, but Chicago in a way reminded me of Princess Tutu. No, really, I have a reason for saying this. The movie is imbedded with all different relevant stageshows that basically describe the events going on in the movie -- with dance. Sound familiar? Now you see where I'm getting to.
Anyhow, I have 35 pages of my 1st 'episode' (excluding the scenes I have written for future ones) for my PT fanfiction. Took a break to write this, but I suppose I'll get back to it (before I go to sleep, that is, it's kind of getting late). So, since there's nothing much else to say, see ya.
-- Tomoyo Ichijouji (me)
Friday, September 5, 2003 at 06:37 p.m. --
now playing compartment BGMs:
'Swan Lake' Waltz (Princess Tutu vrs.)
'Giselle' Giselle no Toujou (PT vrs.)
Morning Grace (alternate TV size vrs.)
Otome no Inori (Prayers of a Maiden, PT vrs.)
Carnival of the Animals: The Swan
'Swan Lake' 4th Swan's Dance (PT vrs.)
Mazurka Dai-ichiban Ei e Tacho Op. 6-1 (Fakir's theme, PT vrs.)
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Today's happier! *grin* See, this whole week and week before had a lot of blues and depressness and stuff. But for some reason, Friday today just makes me happy! Happyhappy! Gosh, it's worse than I thought...
Ith interesting what happened during lunch after Business class...I remember we were talking like we usually do during lunch which is right after Business class. There's three people that seem to stay after to talk w/the teacher, this one new friend I have in school now (and considering it's a new school, that's cool) and this one nice guy (oriental-looking) and has an accent, but like I said, he's nice. And so this time we were talking, and it came up whether we would do actual businesses. He brought up his idea of whether we might get a snow-cone machine and sell during lunch to make actual money, while paying for the rent and the quota and all that too. And he went and showed us where the seniors had made two carts in which they sold cinnamon buns (they made use of the 'buns' reference on there...*sweatdrop*) and clam chowder, which the teacher told us they made a lot of money in the morning with. And he seemed to be more postive about his idea, so we might be doing that in a short while! *grin*
And note, especially to Onee-chan: did you know I saw someone that's in 7th period science after mine (after the people left me to clean up the project, like your situation...>_>) wearing a backpack which had distinctly had Sana, from Kodomo no Omocha (I took a second look and it still was) w/Babbit in the background, and the name that was on it was: Rosanna.
....I suppose it makes sense? Sana, Rosanna, ya know...(strangely I'm lisening to Otome no Inori and Robot Wars both in the background...). Did they dub Child's Toy that recently? They made a BACKPACK for it? I don't even think the person wearing it was Japanese or anything. Onee-chan, did you hear anything about KnO being dubbed and being licensed AND publicized in the US?? This is quite fascinating...
And did you notice that I've started the "now playing" section used in blogs? I worded it as if it were the background music playing in the monorail compartments. Because I felt like it, I listed all the music that played up in my Winamp while writing it (well, most at least). Notice that coincidentally all of them except one is from Princess Tutu. (Of course I'd have tons of Princess Tutu Mp3s on my playlist! *grin*)
Well, that's about all for now. I guess I should tune in to Robot Wars.
Whoa, just saw two F-16's fly by, hearing the loud noise! Interesting today, definitely...
Now's playing Fakir's theme, 'Mazurka Dai-ichiban Ei e Tacho Op. 6-1' (at least in Japanese). Heheh, it's a good song for him. Onee-chan said it really does sound like him.
Bye!
-- Tomoyo Ichijouji (me)
Thursday, August 28, 2003 at 05:28 p.m. --
Hay-lo. How's it going? Just thought I'd drop by here.
I had a dream last night, in fact. I was apparently running from (or at least trying to avoid, not literally running all the time) an evil queen. I remember I was in a house that I don't recognize in my dream (and usually dreams are in places I recognize). A boy might have been killed by magic there. His sister (younger sister it seems like) didn't want other people to know he was dead (it was in a sad sort of way, not dishonestly), so somehow she propped him up and had him walk along with her even though he was not walking himself. (How she managed that, I'm not sure.) Sometime during the dream I was going from a class back at my elementary school and sitting down at the benches. No one else was there, but for some reason I was excused. It was broad daylight, but I was pretty panicky, and I was looking left and right to make sure that the queen wasn't going to go after me. And then the principal, or some important school person, with a last name of Bragg (strangely, I know, it's the school superintendent, isn't it? I don't even know the guy) He's asking me why I'm out here, and I remember I didn't feel so panicky then, but I forget what happened after that. (See, I'm not quite sure when this happened in the dream; my dreams sometimes come in scenes that are hard to order). I remember at one point in my dream, I met an old wrinkled lady. I might've asked her something, and she said something to the effect of why asking her something if I didn't let her touch me. When she did, I got old (or at least wrinkled) and she got young. For some reason, this didn't bother me, since apparently this I remembered happened before? (See, in my dreams, sometimes memories of events or things appear that actually don't exist in real life.) I knew that it was only a momentary thing, and so the old lady looked at her hand for a moment, and I think then I was changed back to original and the old lady zapped up some magazines that don't actually exist. One was apparently one magazine that I "remembered" in the dream was an article on the front page about this video game in another magazine (but in real life I've only read one). Why the magazines were helpful, I don't know. But after that, I was in my dining room, and I was hugging this one older person (can't really remember what he looked like, though he was a guardian sort of person) because of something scary from the evil queen, I think. Then I thought he said I had to run, and I let go and dashed for a moment, but the guardian (now that I think of it, he just might have been wearing yellow) beckoned to me in alarm, since apparently that was a bad idea and I could get caught, or something like that. I then skidded to a stop and made back for him. After that, I kind of looked in a direction of the dining room and I could see what was happening somewhere else. Now, so far this dream has had a pretty dark tone. But the place I saw, there was the evil queen. She was about to do something evil, or something, when the princess there (I don't know why, but I knew her in the dream). She called upon her three knights, who all resembled Steiner from Final Fantasy 9. They were all slightly different though. They all wore plate armor and had a kind of heavy build, but they weren't really tall or anything. They charged in a kind of funny manner and, wouldn't you know it, dogpiled on the queen. Yes, with all the darkness, I don't think this would count. (Although during the dream, I wasn't laughing or anything, just observing). Then a narrator-type person was saying, while a newspaper appeared in my vision, that they had smooshed the last in the line of the royalty "except for the princess, of course". I'm not sure what happened after that, but I woke up soon afterward.
By the way, is anyone looking for the Princess Tutu OST 1? I have it uploaded. (No one's really coming here anyway, so why not...I suppose it won't be too hard on the bandwidth...) You can get to a page with the links here:
hidden-currents.org/files It won't be up forever, so download now if you need it. (A friend w/screen name Zimeon had the files.) Or if you're coming here within a couple days of me posting it, you can go here to get 320 kbps from another guy:
angelfire.com/tx5/webmine/tutu They'll be posting OST 2 in a couple of days. (I'm waiting eagerly for it. I don't have most of OST 2, and not in 320. *grin*)
Well, gotta do homework. Bye! (Incidentally, my homework includes the dream description above, with some few changes for references.)
-- Tomoyo Ichijouji (me)
Saturday, August 23, 2003 at 11:25 a.m. --
Hi. I'm back after a while. Nothing really much to say, except Karura-onee went back to school. ;_; Oh well. At least I've been making progresson my PT fanfic; 32 pgs so far. Sorry, I kinda feel down a little right now. I guess it's going-back-to-school blues or whatever.
Well, then, here are two quiz results I took.
Which Holiday are YOU? Find out @ RelentlessDivas.Net!
(Easter)
Match rating: * * * * c (4 1/2 out of 5)
Reason: Pretty much all of this can be used to describe me. I don't exactly go nuts over baby animals, but they're cute...*grin*
(Buttercup)
Match rating: * * * * . (4 out of 5)
Reason: I'm not really prejudiced, if that's what opinionated in this case means, but I have strong opinions. And I don't have the best self-confidence in the world, that's true...
Wednesday, July 30, 2003 at 11:25 a.m. --
Finally decided to update, so I'm putting some quiz results on.
Threat rating: Medium. Your total lack of decent family values makes you dangerous, but we can count on some right wing nutter blowing you up if you become too high profile.
you got Stahn!Weilder of the swordian Dymlos. I think this is a great result =)
Which Tales of Destiny swordian master are you? brought to you by Quizilla
Rating match: o o o c . (3 1/2 out of 5)
Reason: I don't know the series, but I guess the description matches somewhat...I dunno if I'm so trusting tho....
You're Daidouji Mayura, a cheerful girl with an obsession for mysteries! You hardly ever worry about the important aspects of life, and you don't seem to be able to understand implications given to you by other people. Be on the lookout for small things, will you? xD
Rating match: o o o . .
Reason: I do like mysterious things, and I daydream, but I'm not obsessed w/them a lot.....I mostly like imagining for my stories. *grin* I'm not as clueless as she sounds to be....
I retook it and got the same one as Onee-chan:
You're Yamino Ryusuke, Loki's loyal son. You care about people who are important to you, and will always try to help them. You are cheerful at time, and you have a stable personality which allows you to be wise with decisions
Rating match: o o o c . (3 1/2 out of 5)
Reason: A 1/2 notch more. It's that much better than my first result....(what's a stable personality? Sometimes I think I get emotional, so I don't think that counts...)
OK, that's about all for the quiz results.
Remember the PT fanfiction I mentioned? The one I had one or two pages written and I was afraid I'd slow down? Well, guess how many pages I have now. C'mon, guess.....a lot? Very little? None?
Well, here it is: 19 pages. Yes, 19 pages. Almost reaching 20. Impressivo, no? (You can tell I'm gloating....) It's still the 1st episode/chapter, so yes, I'm a long-style writer. It's still very rough, and some parts still almost make me wince. But I get Onee-chan to read it over. *grin*
You know, last night I had a weird thought. You know how Disney originally animated all sorts of fairy tales like Sleeping Beauty, and Snow White, and Aladdin, and etc.? Well.....what if Disney licensed Princess Tutu?!?! O___O
It makes a warped kind of sense....Princess Tutu has a lot of theme about fairy tales, and kids can watch it. I mean, it doesn't have hentai or violence....you only see Ahiru sneaking around w/out clothes (oops!) and you don't really see anything, and violence -- dancing around waving swords and disappearing into wisps of smoke? Only blood you ever see is only seeping from water, as scary as it gets in this show. I know they might cut a lot...but they've done Miyazaki films w/out cutting a frame, and they dubbed them pretty well (seriously, I almost like the dubbed Spirited Away more than the original). I'm sure that there are companies out there that would more likely license and do better dubbing/translation on Princess Tutu than Disney, but...wouldn't it just be so bizarre, and yet, fitting? o_O Oh well, don't listen to me. Like I said, it was a very strange thought....
I had a strange dream last night. It was again about a murderer (I had one before which I thought was the Yosemite killer...), and it was at a squareish pool w/cement walls or buildings on all sides, and there were a lot of people there. In one of the alcoves on one of the walls, he was lurking (I think it was almost like the lobby of a theater), and I thought he had shot and probably killed some people. I was running all around the perimeter of the pool, one time stopping @ the restroom (but it wasn't to go to the bathroom...it was something else, maybe meeting someone by chance). I remember once I thought the murderer had exited, and so I attacked the man (he looked something like in his early 20's) and caught him on the edge of the pool. He said I was wrong and I said something like "Oh, sure" in a harsher way, but at one point, I saw him directly in the eyes (he had icy green eyes and I believe short, spiky blonde hair; that's how sharp the image was) and he said he wasn't, and I realized it couldn't be, and I had made a mistake. Later on, I passed by the alcove, and I saw the murderer, and he was holding up a magnifying glass and his gun up to it. (for some reason I thought that the magnifying glass was so he could target people better) I ran, because I knew he was going to shoot and he was (but I didn't hear any loud gunfire, which I suppose is good, since my hearing usually doesn't make itself up). I was zigzagging so he wouldn't easily get me (that was the same case as in my previous murderer dream.....) and I noticed there were all people to my left and right, and I hoped that they wouldn't get shot instead. But they all seemed not to notice anything. Eventually the murderer was apprehended (or killed, not sure which) by policemen who kind of just appeared there. The murderer, they said, was an insane/crazy person (not exact quote, just something to that effect). And that's about all I remember out of the top of my head. My dreams are really strange, huh? (and they're so vivid...) I remember this dream had a feeling of some urgency, and some alarm. I wasn't hysterical or anything, but it was worrisome-like.
Well, anyway, I guess that's about all. I dunno if I should give away anything about my PT fanfiction yet, since everyone'll read it and know all the surprises, so they won't read the real thing. *sweatdrop grin* So, bye for now.
-- Tomoyo Ichijouji (me)
Friday, July 11, 2003 at 11:48 a.m. --
Hihi, haven't been here in a little while....
Well, I gotta goodie for anyone readin'.....it's what I am informed to be the Princess Tutu 1st DVD intro, so you don't see any of the animation here in the series (and considering I've seen it all already, that's something to see!) Plus it's good for people who haven't even seen the series...but oh yeah, I forgot it doesn't have subtitles. But oh well, you get the picture by the dancing, and expressions and stuff. By the way, the animation for the Princess Tutu transformation is not the same as the series, but actually I like the series one better (sparkly, whereas this one is more typical magical girl transformation). And I wonder if Fakia/Fakir (the black-hair guy w/green eyes) is in character in the intro....
Anyway, the clip is here: Princess Tutu DVD 1 - Intro BTW (by the way), this clip is also linked to on my sis's weblog. Same thing...
And what would you know it, I've been getting some good work down for the PT fanfiction. Have actually several paragraphs & a page or two (admittedly just specific scenes, but they look OK so far...) Recently starting to slow down a little....noo! Don't want to lose inspiration and stop writing! *slightly panicky expression*
Blai, don't know what else to write. Oh well. Bye for now.
-- Tomoyo Ichijouji (me)
Sunday, June 29, 2003 at 02:06 p.m. --
I saw Finding Nemo yesterday noon! *grin* It was adorable, just like the other Pixar movies like Monsters Inc. Good characters, major & minor. Story is very unpredictable and keeps your attention. Voice actors match characters well. Very funny @ funny parts and yet serious parts are effective as well. Animation -- wow. Wow. How DID they do the water? The background! The ocean! HOW DID THEY DO THAT?! Amazing.
It's really weird how far people will take things to say that Princess Tutu - or any cute show that has a number of people that like it - is sexually related. o_O Ooookay peoples, think what you want, but I will stick to what the series is in essential: cute, slightly mysterious, fairy talish, and good characters. Sure, people will say I'm fooling myself to think everything's all innocent, well I say to that they're fooling themselves to think everything has to do w/sex. The darker way isn't always the best way, right? (OK, bad analogy. Anywayz...might as well get off this topic, I don't think it makes anyone very happy.)
Having more thoughts on PT season....believe it or not, still not sure whether it's going to be Ahiru no Sho, Hakucho no Sho, or Tori no Sho (Chapter of Duck, Chapter of Swan, or Chapter of Bird respectively). Dunno if I should give away much now...
All right, all I can think of.
-- Tomoyo Ichijouji (me)
Friday, June 27, 2003 at 11:09 a.m. --
Oh f***. I am really sorry about that. I did not mean to give away anything in the post below, I was careless. I am soooooooo sorry....... ;o; I will blot it out now, but my sincerest apologies to those who were spoiled w/ no warning. Yes, I make mistakes...will correct as best as can....actually, it wasn't that character, it was someone else, I typed wrong....oh yeah, never mind. *grin*
Am really sorry about that, again...
I felt more inspired to do PT fanfiction after listening to classical music; almost feel like I can put some of those related to episodes, put in title, maybe even say when it plays in fanfic, etc. etc. OK, I'll go erase my mistake now. Very, incredibly, sooo sorry for that....
-- Tomoyo Ichijouji (me)
Thursday, June 26, 2003 at 01:39 p.m. --
Hi, haven't been here in a while....
Have read Harry Potter V. After reading, silently slumped into couch, saying nothing & doing nothing for a while. When sister mentioned haven't seen Rurouni Kenshin for a while, I (truthfully out of the fact I hadn't done it yet) said I might as well do piano. After I started, some tears were squeezing out. (And I swear I hadn't gone to the piano to escape, at least not intentionally...) And when I got to my favorite song, which is dramatic & at points anguish-sadish, I cried. Right on my fav. part. (since it's one of the most auguish-sad notes in the piece.) Not really sobbing, but tears were dripping down frequently, silently. Wahh. I felt depressed (at least I was distracted from that during playing Wind Waker) until bedtime that day and this morning too, since I felt kind of distracted, sometimes not completely responsive.
And then I thought, as I was going out from the garage to put the mail in, if the reason why I felt depressed was because I wouldn't be able to think of him anymore, I thought, {What the f***, I can think whatever I want to! He/she doesn't need to be dead or gone, does he? Don't care what others say, he/she's not gone!!} And strangely enough, I smiled relatively bigger than I've smiled the last day or so, and I felt better. Hella, who cares if people are gonna say that I'm so weak I can't accept it, [that certain character] LIVES!! Bwah hah ha ha ha ha ha ha ha hahhhhh! *maniacal triumphant bellowing laugh & smirk*
OK, enough of that. *sweet grin* (Behind, you still hear maniacal chuckles from other part of self)
Oh, yeah! Want to see Finding Nemo! Must suggest next chance I get...
Andand! I want to try out the boomerang I got during Washington DC. Don't want to write all about it, wrote 22 pages, back-to-front (w/minimal doodles, just in the back pages when I was on the plane). Yes, a lot. I won't be finishing typing those up anytime soon, even if I started now....don't feel like it. *shrug*
Hum, what else? That's all? Yup. (How frustrating, Spirited Away's only a little bit more to go & it's not transferring...grr.)
PS: Only thing I haven't been able to help w/ the Vth book depression is that it zapped my imagination inspiration levels. Don't feel inspired to write (or draw!) anything, for PT or CCS IV season. Sigh. Video captures have always been on a halt, since they always take so much time...sigh again. Ah well. Finding Nemo! Source of hope, and cheerfulness hoping-for. If I can't find it in something else like Wind Waker or stories.
I know that HPV had some other cool stuff I did like, and developments in characters....but to hell w/literary value! That certain character is NOT GONE! You hear me? Not! Gone!
Heheh....I wonder if JK Rowling will be able to make a book that will go good after this one. If it's like this one, dark, and darker than, I am ignoring the rest of the series. The next book can't kill off more major characters or it will seriously lose me. Too many characters die, it gets old, and you don't like it. (OK, I'm ranting again...off subject of HPV, please...)
....It's hot right now. Kind of uncomfortable, but I guess it could be worse...
And I guess that's all I can put out for now. I totally agree w/Onee-chan on the HPV book...(off subject now, I tell you!) Bye for now.
-- Tomoyo Ichijouji (me)
Monday, June 9, 2003 at 09:28 p.m. --
Watched AKT 25 of PT, or the second-to-last episode of Princess Tutu.
*****OK, spoilers to ep. 25 ahead (select to see anyway)*****
Wah.....Ahiru can't be Princess Tutu anymore....or even Ahiru the girl! This makes me very sad for some reason, even though she's not dead or anything....already my imagination is clinkering away at how she can come back, at least as Ahiru the girl. What makes me even more sad, maybe even a little upset is how it comments that all of them don't want the story to end, but it needs to end....that almost makes me think it's talking to the audience, as if it doesn't want me to continue the story....but what if it's not a story anymore? Or if something happened when the story broke through the gate...? Maybe in my PT continuation, I can put in a bit in how stories don't always stay to rest...that's IF it's still a story.....hmmm! *hopeful expression* But still....*grimace*
Maybe something will help when the last episode comes out...but I hope I can still think about Princess Tutu...as in wonder about it, not get nostalgic about it. Nostagia just makes me sad....;_; --Tomoyo-Ichi of Sorrow
On the other hand, Mytho finally got to show some kick-butt action around! Woohoo! Fight 'em, boy!
******end spoilers******
Ok, that's about all for now. Yeah, can't really read anything if you don't want to read spoilers. Oh well. Sorry about that. You can go read my Pokefanfic to cheer up if you want! (...eheheh...) Bye for now!
PS: I updated the layout for Monorail of Thought, just changed the top image to one I drew myself (completely!) and changed to the next destination.
PPS: I changed my Imood. By the way, my imood has some stuff that if you click on it, it will show you a little caption. You can click to read it if you want.
-- Tomoyo Ichijouji (me)
Monday, June 9, 2003 at 04:44 p.m. --
Hihi, haven't been here in a loooong while. Oh well, didn't have much to talk about. I might as well blah about stuff now.
Fanart & fanfiction stuff! If you noticed, I put up a new fanart for Princess Tutu, one of Ahiru & Fakir. I got a suggestion from a guy from the Princess Tutu group I mentioned before, which were to draw Ahiru in a white dress w/red shoes & Fakir in a soldier outfit. The soldier outfit was fun to draw on Fakir. *grin* You know, if you sound "Fakir" with the 'r' like an 'ah', and not like 'ear', then it sounds right. By the way, I made up both of their outfits; I didn't copy them. If someone wants a bigger version, ask me.
I also put up the URL to the Takiru Card Season Fanfiction draft page that I put up on my VCT.com domain earlier. Draft page means that it's only notes, scribbles, drawings, sketches, etc. etc.
Ideas I've had: A continuation to PT that involves a new character, Truthos. You guessed it, he's a look-alike of Mythos. (Mytho:Mute::Trutho:Truto) He has diff. color eyes though, either blue or green (I'm saying green for now) and he's practically a complete opposite of Mytho: temperamental, extroverted, energetic, mostly happy, and klutzy. You know the story the Prince and the Pauper? That's kind of what I'm getting to. Maybe they switch places, or what not....reasons to be worked out, I haven't seen all of the series yet. Another idea: A magical girl story/series/whatever where a grown woman (or someone past their teens) transforms into a young girl. Weird, but I think has some possibilities.
Well, I've got to go put up the PT art with Ahiru & Fakir on my VCT.com site now. Bye for now.
PS: PT 25 came out and we have it downloaded! Yayyy!! *grin* -- Tomoyo-Ichi of Obsession + of Joy
-- Tomoyo Ichijouji (me)
Thursday, May 1, 2003 at 06:31 p.m. --
I took the wand result, and again I get a different result!
9 3/4 inches, alder and jobberknoll feather. Interesting Ollivander creation, and I dare say the length makes quite a conversation topic. But then again, everything makes a good conversation topic for you! It'd be nice if you could exercise some tact though.
.... on the tact thing, I guess I'm not the person to ask whether I have tact or not. I suppose I am a chatterbox...(in recent times I've been more quiet, so I'm not sure if I'm a chatterbox anymore, but I definitely am sometimes).
Boy, I hope I'm not going to be totally out of shape for school when I go back. I hope I won't go totally nuts...I'm thinking about what all the stuff I could've missed, and hoping it won't be a crapload to catch up...-_-
-- Tomoyo Ichijouji (me)
Tuesday, April 29, 2003 at 09:04 p.m. --
I found a Princess Tutu quiz!! and I got a very interesting result.....
You are Drosselmeyer. You were a talented, famous writer a long time ago...but with your determination, not even death will keep you from telling your tales.
Onee-chan, if you wanna take this quiz (I think that you do! *grin*), post it on your weblog so I can see what you got! I wonder if you'll get Drosselmeyer too.....o_O
Anyhow....yes, I am back from my trip to Hawaii. I was sick the whole time (poor me) but I still had fun! I bought a set of a necklace and bracelet that has green and white beads and dolphin-stone-thingies on it, a mug that was a very good price (about $2) and 4 boxes of Macadamia nut chocolates (it was a 3-get-1-free deal). Yes, I'm still sick, and I just went to the doctor and found I have bronchitis (I stayed home yesterday and today). I got medicine and I should be well by the end of the week. Weird, and I thought I just got an ear infection (my right ear feels all clogged up). It was just pressure or something like that.
Anyway, this weekend I think we're planning to watch HP II since my sister already watched it, and then she's coming back on Sunday! Yipee! *grin* And then we can watch Spirited Away, and when we went to get the medicine, we checked for the movies, and HP2 was there, and we asked about SA and it's available too. So yay! *grin*
Funny thing is (oh yeah, I had already watched Spirited Away in Japanese w/English subtitles in Japanese class sometime ago) that I find that adding something to the ending makes me like the movie better, since I thought the movie ending was sorta inadequate. I mean, the purpose is to enjoy the movie right? And if imagining something makes you like it better, than why not right? *grin* -- Tomoyo-Ichi of Artistic License
***spoiler thingie ahead (select to see anyway)***
I was thinking after the ending where they drive off on the way to the new home, maybe since we don't know who's in the town or the school, maybe she meets people that are the same people as Haku, Lin, and other characters! It'd be cute; she meets Haku in her school, Lin at a shop or market or even as a teacher *grin*, and the long-legged man who works the stove (what's his name again?? grah) maybe a more normal-looking guy she meets there too, and maybe some old ladies that look like the Yubaba twins. I mean, it had been several days or a couple weeks from what their car looked like at the end, right? Maybe in that time Haku moved in. And even if they don't remember what happened in the spirit world, they could kind of recognize Chihiro vaguely as if they've seen her before. Or maybe if they do remember, Chihiro & Haku keep it a secret from everyone, and they might talk about it in school secretly or other places. Just thinking about this makes me smile, and hey, it could happen! Maybe human Haku would actually have previously lived near the Kohaku river, if he doesn't remember the spirit world, or if he does, maybe he can still transform into the dragon (hey, he was like that when he saved Chihiro in the river, right?)
So yeah, that was a good bit of spoilers.
By the way, is it all right to do a techincal "4th season" for CCS, even if it revolves around an original character? Can I still write about it? Should I stop calling it the 4th season and call it by the name, like "Takiru Card Season" or "Takiru Card Chapter" or something? It's just that I remember hearing from Onee-chan that it doesn't matter if it revolves around the series, as long as it's a good story. It applies too, right? (The reason why I have all the uncertainty is that I'm afraid when I put stuff up, people will complain that it doesn't have Sakura and co. as the main focus.) -- Tomoyo-Ichi of Worry
-- Tomoyo Ichijouji (me)
Tuesday, April 22, 2003 at 03:00 p.m. --
Nothing much new today, except that I think my cold (yes, I think it's a cold) is going from the sore-throat stage to the runny-nose-sneezing stage, 'cause that's what I'm doing right now. (It would be better if when I sneezed, my throat didn't start hurting really bad...but oh well...). I'll be gone the rest of this week on the choir trip to Hawaii. Hope that goes well.
Oh, and I finished my first Princess Tutu fanart today! (Well, not my first, but my first cel-shaded one, and the first one I scanned and colored. The first ones I actually did were of Ahiru and Mute, which I copied off a screenshot for practice.) You can go to it here. (If someone wants a bigger version, tell me. Oh, and don't use it without permission. *grin*)
It's of Ahiru & Tutu! Tutu's in her normal outfit, but Ahiru's in a neat little costume I made up that's supposed to be like a duck (since Tutu's kind of like the swan). Onee-chan and anyone else, what's your opinion? Is the coloring good? Good poses? Suggestions?
I think I did a pretty good job on it, so I'm proud of it (to the point where I'm gazing at it for several minutes when I look at it *sweatdrop* That's what I do when I like a new picture I drew). I put it on the Princess Tutu Yahoo group I joined too. If only my printer worked right now, then I could print it out and stare at it some more! Blah....*sweatdrop grin* -- Tomoyo-Ichi of Obsession
I guess I'll play some Zelda now. *grin*
-- Tomoyo Ichijouji (me)
Sunday, April 20, 2003 at 02:32 p.m. --
I took the 02 quiz too, Onee-chan, and I got a very amusing result...
Very interesting...I was so sure I'd get Miyako/Yolei. I guess the fact that I'm not boy crazy at all made it not so...but her description matched me pretty well! Here, I'll show you hers:
I even changed a few answers on borderline, and I still got Davis! Huh...I don't mean to sound pompous, but I think I'm pretty smart....(I bet Davis does too....)
Oh well. I give my Davis result a...
* * * * . (4/5)
Lucky, Onee-chan! You got Ken! Heeheehee! *grin*
Wait....if you got Ken & I got Davis, and Ken & Davis go together.....
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Ooookay, I guess I can go to another subject now...
You know, I think I'm officially obsessed about Princess Tutu now. That makes two dreams that have PT-related things. And how they're related is even more strange.
The first dream I had something related was when I went into this one room with a ceiling that opened up to the sky (or wasn't? I'm not sure) and then I saw Haley Joel Osment come in. (Yep, you're probably all saying "Wha???")
See, he's my favorite kid actor I know about. He played in Sixth Sense (very chilling movie, scary 'o' <--that's a face) and A.I. (interesting & good movie) and Kingdom Hearts as Sora!!! *grin* The Kingdom Hearts bit makes him very cool indeed. Heheh. Anyway.
I remember he was saying hi to everyone in the class (for some reason it was a class, and possibly a ballet dance class) by name, and when he got to me, he was kind of puzzled, and I thought, well he doesn't know me because I'm not one of his regular classmates (that's not an exact quote, but something along those lines). And for some reason, he gets kidnapped, or escapes on a magic carpet?? And all of the people (they suddenly all have ballet dresses on, and no, I'm not sure if there were guys or not) do a one-toe pose and vines & plants appear beneath them and they go up toward the sky. I try to do so as well, by jumping, but I don't seem to be doing anything. But for some reason, I eventually create a flying carpet thing, and a narration says I used the carpet and flew up and ahead of all of them to catch up to the prince's. Was Haley Osment a prince??? Anyhow, I remember catching up to him in the sky (with a lot of puffy white clouds) and intercepting him. I can't remember anything else about that one.
Can anyone make sense out of that one? I don't think I have a genuine 'crush' on Haley Osment....I don't go starry-eyed when I think about him....I just think he's cool. *grin*
By the way....right now, I'm feeling kind of...trembly. I hope I'm not coming down with something...my head feels kind of ucky. (And no, it was not because of thinking of Osment! you matchmakers....it started happening while I was watching an old video that my grandma has with her.)
Oh well...let's see, what was last night's dream about? Oh yeah...I remember I was with this group of people trying to get across a staircase around a wall of a room and then a bridge to an alcove a story above to a door. I remember we needed to stop whenever it started raining and thundering (why it was inside, I have no clue) and once when that was happening, I remember some other guy (a leader?) saying that it was good that we stopped before we got on the bridge, otherwise the thunder would have knocked down the bridge and we'd have to start at the bottom again (I think that the bridge rebuilds itself after the storm). Now what does that have to do with Princess Tutu? I remember finding white and black feathers on the staircase. When I picked up a black feather and felt it along my cheek, it darkened around me and I heard a voice, I thought it was Princess Claire, asking "What do you want?" in a kind of furtive way. When that happened, (I 'remembered' that she did that with others and swindled them) I hurriedly took out my pencil box (yes, very strange, and it was the one that I use for school) and got out a white feather which I felt on my cheek and the voice and the darkness went away. I remembered looking through my pencil box and I saw several white & black small feathers like the ones I found, plus a couple of taller ones, and I 'remembered' that I collected feathers and put them in my pencil box (I don't now, but before I used to find feathers and put them in my backpack, so that was probably where that came from). That's about what I remember. Kind of strange, huh?
I still feel funny. I hope I'm not getting sick....my throat's sore too...
Oh, yeah, I archived....if you haven't seen yesterday's, the 19th's, or earlier, go to the archives page (linked on the left sidebar) and find the recent one.
-- Tomoyo Ichijouji (me)
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Drew all myself on computer, & motion blur. *grin*
I'll fill this with more links and maybe layout info and other stuff when I have time...
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