A while ago I saw this movie, Whisper of the Heart, it's a story about a young girl, Shizuku, who is following her heart despite pressures around her to do what she is supposed to do, not what she wants to do--write. (Below is a clip of the movie, feel free to watch the whole movie at youtube.com the version uploaded is in Japanese. yay! :D)
I watched this movie a few months ago and its still stuck in my head, I was so inspired by her to write a story of my own. I love writing too. The only thing that is stopping me is that I don't know what to write about. I wrote a fan fiction story a long time ago about a neopet (lame, I know..) which wasn't that good, but I had a great time writing it. I've been itching to write something since I got tired of the first neopet story, but can't find a topic. I suppose I have writers block, but then I have probably had it since 8th grade, when I stopped writing the neopet story.
I want to write something, I don't care if its non-fiction, science fiction, a biography, doesn't matter, it just has to tell a story.
December 31, 2006
December 26, 2006
long day
Today I went with Yumi to the Sun Valley Mall in Concord. We went to Aéropostale, American Eagle, the Vans Store, H&M, Hot Topic, the Gap, and In 'n' Out. Then we went to her house, watched High School Musical, and watched the Suite Life with Zach & Cody. Busy day, up at 6:55AM, and got home at 5:45PM.
While in Aéropostale and American Eagle, Yumi was shopping for clothing and I was just roaming the store looking at clothes people consider to be fashionable these days. Some of it was cute, but some of it wasn't. Mostly I just felt out of place in there, these were stores that fashionable people went to. I don't consider myself a fashionable person, nor do I try to be one. I like my style, and I don't like the clothes that these stores sold.
At the Vans store I was a little sad when I couldn't find an Emory. The Emory a model of their skate shoe. (Shown at left) This show is my favorite Vans shoe, it is discontinued, unfortunately. I saw it once, at Mervyn's, with Zach. It was a size 9 1/2, just my size. *tear* I took a picture with it, not realizing I'd never see it again... :[
Anyway, moving on, I bought a white, canvas belt and black/gray/cream gloves at H&M. I originally wanted to buy a scarf there, but they didn't have any on the floor, that I could tell. There were a few cute shirts that I was considering buying, but I didn't want to use my lunch money.
At the Gap I bought a pair of boxers, they were on sale for $6! I was excited about that. I <3 boxers, especially comfortable ones! These are 100% soft cotton, gray plaid AND have the tag along the spandex!! (celebrates at purchase victory) They are so comfortable! Plus, they had just one in my size left.
After we ate our burgers at In 'n' Out, we spent about two hours discussing the work we had to do for Kotekitai. We forgot to bring writing utensils so we resorted to storing our notes in txts on our phones, xD we're so resourceful!
She showed me around her town, Albany, climbed Indian Rock, which is this huge rock where you can see the whole Bay Area. It was such a nice view. She pointed out the different cities and landmarks that were visible and I pointed her where I lived, turns out we live really close to each other. We went to her house and watched High School Musical, the actor who plays Troy is hot. This movie is becoming my guilty pleasure. After that was done, we watched a few episodes of the Suite Life with Zack and Cody. It took her brother, Akira, 30 minutes to figure out that Zack & Cody were brothers. Hes a hoot and a half, that one.
Caught the BART home in the pouring rain, and promptly signed back onto my computer. That was my day, I hope you found it mildly interesting.
While in Aéropostale and American Eagle, Yumi was shopping for clothing and I was just roaming the store looking at clothes people consider to be fashionable these days. Some of it was cute, but some of it wasn't. Mostly I just felt out of place in there, these were stores that fashionable people went to. I don't consider myself a fashionable person, nor do I try to be one. I like my style, and I don't like the clothes that these stores sold.
At the Vans store I was a little sad when I couldn't find an Emory. The Emory a model of their skate shoe. (Shown at left) This show is my favorite Vans shoe, it is discontinued, unfortunately. I saw it once, at Mervyn's, with Zach. It was a size 9 1/2, just my size. *tear* I took a picture with it, not realizing I'd never see it again... :[Anyway, moving on, I bought a white, canvas belt and black/gray/cream gloves at H&M. I originally wanted to buy a scarf there, but they didn't have any on the floor, that I could tell. There were a few cute shirts that I was considering buying, but I didn't want to use my lunch money.
At the Gap I bought a pair of boxers, they were on sale for $6! I was excited about that. I <3 boxers, especially comfortable ones! These are 100% soft cotton, gray plaid AND have the tag along the spandex!! (celebrates at purchase victory) They are so comfortable! Plus, they had just one in my size left.
After we ate our burgers at In 'n' Out, we spent about two hours discussing the work we had to do for Kotekitai. We forgot to bring writing utensils so we resorted to storing our notes in txts on our phones, xD we're so resourceful!
She showed me around her town, Albany, climbed Indian Rock, which is this huge rock where you can see the whole Bay Area. It was such a nice view. She pointed out the different cities and landmarks that were visible and I pointed her where I lived, turns out we live really close to each other. We went to her house and watched High School Musical, the actor who plays Troy is hot. This movie is becoming my guilty pleasure. After that was done, we watched a few episodes of the Suite Life with Zack and Cody. It took her brother, Akira, 30 minutes to figure out that Zack & Cody were brothers. Hes a hoot and a half, that one.
Caught the BART home in the pouring rain, and promptly signed back onto my computer. That was my day, I hope you found it mildly interesting.
December 18, 2006
Pet Peeves
*squeak* OMG! What was that?? *looks around nervously* Oh, good, it was just my wet shoe rubbing against the floor... NO! EVIL SQUEAKAGE! I have nothing to write about today, instead of writing about something that happened today, I listed some of my pet peeves...
- My wet shoes squelching and squeaking when I walk to my locker on rainy mornings.
- Storing food in containers that aren't air tight nor plastic ziploc bags.
- Having a cluttered backpack.
- Storing things out of size order, smallest to largest, in my biggest backpack pocket.
- Writing notes in blue ink.
- Writing notes messily.
- Getting sticky food on my nose while eating.
- Earwax in my ears.
- Earwax on my inner ear headphones.
- Using smilies like :) and :-).
- When people refuse to let me get my word in during conversations.
- Not having okurigana on kanji I don't know.
- Forgetting what I was going to blog about when I get home.
- The fact that I can never figure out how to use the phrase "wot wot" right. [note: that doesn't say woot woot]
- When the Firefox spell check plug-in doesn't work on javascript text areas.
- When people bite their thumbs at people.
- When I hear the MSN Messenger IM Receive noise repeatedly at a rapid rate for long periods of time.
- When I start something online, and don't finish it by sign off time.
- When people call and I'm too tired to talk but I talk anyway.
- Hearing my phone vibrate.
- Hearing any high pitched ringing that resembles my alarm.
- Not remembering something very important that an important person told me.
- Hearing the low buzz of my computer rather than its hum.
- Getting annoyed at people.
- When my mood gets changed dramatically by something I read, see, or hear.
- When I get emo.
- When people go "away" in the IM for long periods of time and forget to "return" in the IM.
- When I can't go to something that a bunch of people I know will go to.
- When I'm expecting a call and it never comes.
- When many programs are visible in my "notification area" on the task bar.
December 16, 2006
Bones' Fancy New Fur
Bones' old food, Purina Cat Chow Adult Formula, wasn't agreeing with her. She'd throw it up every time she ate it, Mom didn't appreciate cleaning up that much mess.
One day, Dad brought her a new kind of cat food, Nutro Complete Care Cat Food Adult Formula. A 2lb. bag of this stuff is $12.00! Her previous food, Purina, was $12.00 for 12lbs.! Its insane that we have to pay the same amount for 1/6 of the chow!
After a few months of this new food, she stopped throwing up, she slimed down, built up her muscles a little, and her coat is glossier! It's so much fun to pet her now, because she has soft fur and it's pretty! ^___^
With the old food, she was suffering but the family budget was happy. Now shes happy but the family budget is suffering... I'd rather have a happy cat than a larger bank account.
One day, Dad brought her a new kind of cat food, Nutro Complete Care Cat Food Adult Formula. A 2lb. bag of this stuff is $12.00! Her previous food, Purina, was $12.00 for 12lbs.! Its insane that we have to pay the same amount for 1/6 of the chow!
After a few months of this new food, she stopped throwing up, she slimed down, built up her muscles a little, and her coat is glossier! It's so much fun to pet her now, because she has soft fur and it's pretty! ^___^
With the old food, she was suffering but the family budget was happy. Now shes happy but the family budget is suffering... I'd rather have a happy cat than a larger bank account.
December 15, 2006
Newspaper Article
This quarter's school newspaper, Jet Blast, was released today. It had six pages of articles and artwork. The artwork was all holiday themed! Julian submitted one, it was very pretty. She said she made it on the computer, as in used the mouse as a pencil and drew every last line with the mouse. [that's crazy hard...] Julian's added some blends that made it look all the more better, ^___^ she's good at presentation.
The articles, Ian wrote an article about the problem of homophobia in our school, which is a little difficult to believe that a school as diverse as ours has a problem like that. He made some valid points but I couldn't focus on his argument because there were many structural problems. :/ He's only a junior, so I can't blame him. All the underclassmen articles I read had quite a few grammatical errors, not that my own grammar skills are perfect. The editor has to proof read all the articles and make sure that articles have as few errors as possible, and the teacher in charge of it should do it too, to check. But Mr. Smith, an arithmetic teacher, is the teacher for the newspaper, :/ we find a lot of errors on our statistics homework sheets...
Leland, the editor-in-chief called for students to write articles, so I've decided to write something, probably multiple things--anime review, anime movie review, and a non-anime article. I was thinking about writing my non-anime article about blogging, but what would be the purpose of it? Just talking about blogging? To me, that seems pretty redundant. :/
Maybe I'll write my anime review about Ouran High School Host Club. It's a very interesting anime, I'm sure it'll be entertaining. I've been wanting to write a review for that anime, ^__^ it's one of my favorite anime! :D I hope it comes out nicely and people will be introduced to something new and it'll open up possibilities in their lives.
Playing on Sirius' Alt Nation | 21: Switchfoot - Oh! Gravity
aren't they a religious group? :/
The articles, Ian wrote an article about the problem of homophobia in our school, which is a little difficult to believe that a school as diverse as ours has a problem like that. He made some valid points but I couldn't focus on his argument because there were many structural problems. :/ He's only a junior, so I can't blame him. All the underclassmen articles I read had quite a few grammatical errors, not that my own grammar skills are perfect. The editor has to proof read all the articles and make sure that articles have as few errors as possible, and the teacher in charge of it should do it too, to check. But Mr. Smith, an arithmetic teacher, is the teacher for the newspaper, :/ we find a lot of errors on our statistics homework sheets...
Leland, the editor-in-chief called for students to write articles, so I've decided to write something, probably multiple things--anime review, anime movie review, and a non-anime article. I was thinking about writing my non-anime article about blogging, but what would be the purpose of it? Just talking about blogging? To me, that seems pretty redundant. :/
Maybe I'll write my anime review about Ouran High School Host Club. It's a very interesting anime, I'm sure it'll be entertaining. I've been wanting to write a review for that anime, ^__^ it's one of my favorite anime! :D I hope it comes out nicely and people will be introduced to something new and it'll open up possibilities in their lives.
Playing on Sirius' Alt Nation | 21: Switchfoot - Oh! Gravity
aren't they a religious group? :/
December 14, 2006
blogger makeover
I redid my blog, as you can see. It's no longer "depths of ichuu" which means the depths of the mind. nope, it's "angou no waltz" the coded waltz! It's an ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION song. Also, I redid the color scheme, changed the layout, and the way things are presented, i.e. dates, times, etc.
I have 2minutes before my Anime Club officers show up for our meeting to discuss things. I'll make this really super brief. I am looking for a new name. Right now, I go by Midori. Even though I don't like the name... >___< I kind of want to go back to Kimiko. It's cute, Midori isn't. [sorry Midori-chan :/]
James, James and Julian'll both be here in a few seconds... >_< there they ARE!!! OH NOES! Need to start reviewing the agenda, I'll post more later.... [doubt that though..]
playing on iPod: dark blue - jack's mannekin
I have 2minutes before my Anime Club officers show up for our meeting to discuss things. I'll make this really super brief. I am looking for a new name. Right now, I go by Midori. Even though I don't like the name... >___< I kind of want to go back to Kimiko. It's cute, Midori isn't. [sorry Midori-chan :/]
James, James and Julian'll both be here in a few seconds... >_< there they ARE!!! OH NOES! Need to start reviewing the agenda, I'll post more later.... [doubt that though..]
playing on iPod: dark blue - jack's mannekin
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