Hotaru no Haka

I have been so depressed the last couple of weeks or so.

Why?

Graveyards of the Fireflies or Grave of the Fireflies or Hotaru no Haka. That's why.

I made the mistake of watching it without knowing anything about it first. The DVD cover looked so cute, a little child playing with fireflies. Awww. And its Anime, I mean, how wrong can it be? Also, it was done by the same people who gave us Totoro. Good ol' Totoro.

Masterfully, the two children in the show burrow deep into your heart with their cute and endearing antics. And just when you are comfortable with the fact they will always be around to make you smile. They die.

Yes. Die.

Watch the show if you want to be suicidally depressed. For a really long time. *CRY*

Movie to Catch!


X2 2003

Alice, you need to book tix for: (wednesday night, 30th, midnight show)
Confirmed
1. gavin 2. daphne 3. steven 4. sabrina 5. sam 6. lingfeng 7. joshua 8. chris 9. alice 10.joanne 11.alex 12.francis 13.xh 14.steve 15.ivan 16.tommy 17.peter

Date : 01-05-2003 Movie : X-MEN 2 8 adult ticket(s) at S$8.50 with a Booking Fee of S$0.70 Total Cost : S$68.70 Cinema : GV PLAZA Time : 12:30AM Seat Number(s) : L:15|L:13|L:14|L:12|L:11|L:10|K:15|K:14 Hall Number : 5

Date : 01-05-2003 Movie : X-MEN 2 9 adult ticket(s) at S$8.50 with a Booking Fee of S$0.70 Total Cost : S$77.20 Cinema : GV PLAZA Time : 12:30AM Seat Number(s) : K:13|K:12|J:11|J:12|J:13|J:14|J:15|H:15|H:14 Hall Number : 5

Isn't modern technology fun?

Reserved Beach Towel - At the hotel pool, on the apartment sun deck, on the beach or at the outside bar you need to make a statement and reserve your personal space. The full-sized 100% cotton beach towel does just that, nobody would dare steal your spot in the sun with this layed out on the ground.
Reserved Beach Towel £ 14.99 Qty
Size: 1500mm x 720mm x 5mm
Weight: 1109g
Order one for Towel Day now!

I wandered over to the Peeps website. And all of a sudden, I remember Taig and a Peeps eating contest he told me about.

And to think I never knew what Peeps were before that.

Write me, damn it! *whap* Taig.

New Toy!

The Nohon-Zoku (Nohohon Family) comprises of two main lines, Hidamari No Tami (Sunny People) and Hanauta no Tami (Humming People).

Hidamari No Tami - Sunny People Tomy

This oh-so-cute toy has a gently bobbing head, left to right, slowly lulling you to destress and into peace. It serves as a little table ornament, with a slot for a small message card. Its mechanism is totally silent, and absolutely addictive to look at. It runs on solar power.

This is the one I just bought. Its a pastel pink. With a beatific smile on its head, the pink Nohohon's head sways from left to right, slowly and calmly, sending you into a serene mood. The little green baby Nohohon at the side leans against the pink Nohohon, little hands folded happily on its chest, smiling happily.

This is a candy yellow version. Smiling calmly, the yellow Nohohon sways slowly from side to side. Looking at it, you cannot help but smile and sway your head along with it. The little green baby Nohohon rolls on its back, smiling happily as it lies beside the yellow Nohohon.

Mmm...Baby Blue so peaceful, so calming. The blue Nohohon smiles serenely, as its head sways slowly from right to left, to right, to left, to right, to left, to right.....The little green baby Nohohon hugs the blue Nohohon with its little arms, smiling contentedly to itself.


The juicy orange Nohohon smiles, happy as a clam as it fishes quietly by a lake. Its head bobs slowly back and forth, making you want to just throw everything away, grab a pole and head towards the nearest pond. The little blue baby Nohohon lies on its tummy, looking curiously into the water, smiling happily to itself.

Fishing quietly by a peaceful pond, a plump strawberry Nohohon sits with its head bobbing back and forth hypnotically. A little yellow baby Nohohon swims happily next to the strawberry Nohohon, splashing your cares away.




Hanauta no Tami - Humming people Tomy

These are battery powered, and they sing! There are 6 different Nohohons out and each of them sings a different song. You can connect them to each other with little wires and they sing together in harmony! Strangely pleasing, the songs aim to destress. Connect the Nohohons differently and you get different songs!

Movie to Catch!

View from the Top 21st March 2003
Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow, Christina Applegate, Mark Ruffalo, Kelly Preston, Mike Myers, Candice Bergen

In an attempt to make this blog easier on the eyes. I have created a couple more blogs, each dedicated to one subject. *nodnod*

DAoC

General Map Listing : LIST
Overview of Hibernia's Shrouded Isle : MAP

Vampires!

I vant your blood!

Corner of Jet & 32nd and Jaded & 33rd, Empaths Guild 1

You have come upon a hidden guild!
Empaths Guild 1

For 20000 coins, you can find out how to learn a degree of SURPRISE
For 1500 coins, you can find out how to learn a degree of LOCATE

Towel Day - May 25th

HAVE YOU GOT YOUR TOWEL YET?

Do you know where your towel is? If you sass that hoopy Douglas Adams, start preparations for Towel Day. May 25th. And bring those Pan Galactic Gargleblasters.

My preparations for Towel Day have already started!
1. Towel is now soaking in nutrients.
2. Call everyone on my phone list. Strags included.
3. Organize a Towel Meet. Aint that hoopy.
4. Take lots of pictures with everyone's towels.
5. Get wasted on Pan Galactic Gargleblasters.

.

A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have. Partly it has great practical value - you can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine soredly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a mini raft down the slow heavy river Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or to avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you - daft as a brush, but very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value. For some reason, if a strag (strag: non-hitch hiker) discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit etc., etc. Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitchhiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitchhiker might accidentally have "lost". What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with.

Vampires!

I vant your blood!

You drink the Blood.
The barman says "Pssst. Empaths Guild 1 is right next to Jet and 32nd today. I don't know how much longer it will be there, though."

BIG PLANS:
1. 10 moves North to Bank to withdraw everything.
2. 6 moves North to Terpishore Station.
3. Transit to Erato Station. (3 moves)
4. 13 moves Southwest to Jet & 32nd.
Total moves : 32 moves

News Mar 24 2003 - Empaths Guilds
There's another new guild in town, making Surprise and Locate powers available. They're another mobile secret guild, what with their lessons only working for people who can afford to spill the entire blood-content of a mortal in one go. Humans don't look too kindly on this sort of 'cult'.

Surprise: the Vampire can enter a square that would usually be considered overcrowded.
Locate (3 Levels Available): Using Locate, you can find out where a Vampire is. At level one you can only tell distance; at level two you can tell distance and direction; at level three you can tell exact location. Uses one action point per target. Used from the "More Commands" screen.

I'm plotting out a list of shows to watch at the 16th Singapore International Film Festival.

Whee!!

Click here for the greatest website ever made.

*cough*

DAoC

Leladia's Spellcraft Equipment Configurator - Don't leave home without it.

Vampires!

I vant your blood!

You drink the Blood.
The barman says "The closest shop to here is Scrollmania, right by Ragweed and 87th. I do wish those damn magic shops would stay still for a while."

Currently Listening To

I Feel Pretty - West Side Story
I feel pretty, oh so pretty, I feel pretty and witty and gay!

Bulletproof Monk - Very very very very bad. Do not waste money on it. Buying a movie ticket would give them more money to make more shows like this. And the civilised world as we know it will end. 0.05 out of 5 Smiling Suns.

Anger Management - I would give it 2 out of 5 Smiling Sun rating. None for Jack Nicholson, none for Adam Shandler and 2 for Marisa Tomei.

Vampires!

I vant your blood!

Corner of Yak & 41st and Yew & 42nd, Immolators Guild 1

You have come upon a hidden guild! Immolators Guild 1 For 1000 coins, you can find out how to learn a degree of STAMINA

To gain a level of STAMINA, you must go to the corner of Pine and 95th and say 'Kai-Wan'. Be sure to say it exactly as I did. It will cost you 500 blood. You have ten days.

Vampires!

I vant your blood!

Corner of Despair & 38th and Emerald & 39th, Booker's Tavern

You drink the Blood.
The barman says "Pssst. Immolators Guild 1 is right next to Yak and 41st today. I don't know how much longer it will be there, though."

Make your own cookbook online.

Vampires!

I vant your blood!

Corner of Despair & 38th and Emerald & 39th, Booker's Tavern

You drink the Brandy.
The barman says "The closest shop to here is Potable Potions, right by Flint and 31st. I do wish those damn magic shops would stay still for a while."

Its Official

I have way too many Kogepan accessories. Thanks to Popo, MeiWee, Chaling and Chan, this makes the fourth Kogepan bag in my possession. (The cutest, too, I must add.)

(Pardon me, by the way, I have to make this as easy as possible for the flood of people coming here just to look at these pics.)

.... CLICK on the cute Kogepan Bag that I'm carrying in the picture above for those BBQ pics, guys.

Movie to Catch!

Phone Booth 2002
Directed by Joel Schumacher, Written by Larry Cohen, with Colin Farrell and Kiefer Sutherland.

...not to be confused with Phone Booth 1998
Directed by Brandon Wee, Written by Brandon Wee, with Brandon Wee as The Mechanic

Vampires!

I vant your blood!

Corner of Despair & 38th and Emerald & 39th, Booker's Tavern

You drink the Blood Wine.
The barman says "That's a lovely cape you have."

You drink the Blood Wine.
The barman says "You're awfully pale. Are you feeling alright?"

Renoir's Invitation to a Party
In the summer of 1880, friends and associates of French impressionist painter Pierre Auguste Renoir assembled at the Restaurant Fournaise on an island in the Seine, outside Paris for a luncheon. Renoir's now-famous painting Luncheon of the Boating Party immortalizes that perfect occassion when good friends gets together to eat, and talk.

Vampires!

I vant your blood!

Corner of Despair & 38th and Emerald & 39th, Booker's Tavern

You drink the Blood.
The barman says "The closest shop to here is McPotions, right by Flint and 31st. I do wish those damn magic shops would stay still for a while."

Currently Watching - DVD

8 Women
The patriarch of a family is murdered! Who is guilty? Is it...
1. His powerful wife?
2. His spinster sister-in-law?
3. His miserly mother-in-law?
4. The insolent chambermaid?
5. The loyal housekeeper?
6. His elder daughter?
7. His second daughter?
8. His chic sister?

Currently Listening To

Diana Krall - The Look of Love
[lyrics]

Currently Listening To

Moby - Porcelain
Tell the truth you never wanted me
Tell me
[lyrics]

Currently Listening To

Beatles - Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds
Picture yourself on a train in a station with plasticine porters with looking glass ties.
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile, and the girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
[lyrics]

Currently Listening To

Sarah McLachlan - Blackbird
Blackbird singing in the dead of night
Take these broken wings and learn to fly
[lyrics]

Vampires!

I vant your blood!

Corner of Pilchard & 48th and Pine & 49th, Draper's Tavern

You drink the Blood.
The barman says "The closest shop to here is White Light, right by Octopus and 36th. I do wish those damn magic shops would stay still for a while."

You drink the Brandy.
The barman says "Don't tell anyone you found a secret door - otherwise it isn't secret any more."

Currently Watching - DVD

Futurama DVD - First Season
DISC 1:
[1ACV01] Space Pilot 3000
[1ACV02] The Series Has Landed
[1ACV03] I, Roommate
[1ACV04] Love's Labour's Lost In Space

DISC 2:
[1ACV05] Fear of a Bot Planet
[1ACV06] A Fishful of Dollars
[1ACV07] My Three Suns
[1ACV08] A Big Piece of Garbage
[1ACV09] Hell Is Other Robots

DISC 3:
[1ACV10] A Flight To Remember
[1ACV11] Mars University
[1ACV12] When Aliens Attack
[1ACV13] Fry & the Slurm Factory

Vampires!

I vant your blood!

You drink the Blood.
The barman says "Pssst. Immolators Guild 1 is right next to Octopus and 40th today. I don't know how much longer it will be there, though."

Its 3:30am! I can't believe I stayed up to update the list of pubs / banks. *groan* Now I'm too keyed up from typing and will probably stay awake till 6am. And suffering from a flu on top of that!

*whine* *whine* *SNIFFLE*

Vampires!

I vant your blood!

Bank Locations
Aardvark 82 / Alder 83
Buzzard 13 / Beech 14
Beech 26 / Cormorant 27
Beech 39 / Cormorant 40
Cormorant 93 / Cedar 94
Cedar 1 / Duck 2
Duck 37 / Dogwood 38
Dogwood 4 / Eagle 5
Eagle 64 / Elm 65
Eagle 89 / Elm 90
Ferret 32 / Fir 33
Gibbon 2
Haddock 46 / Holly 47
Haddock 54 / Holly 53
Holly 96 / Iguana 97
Ivy 1
Ivy 70 / Jackal 71
Jackal 43
Juniper 16 / Kraken 17
Kraken 18
Kraken 34
Kraken 8 / Knotweed 9
Kraken 34 / Knotweed 35
Kraken 48 / Knotweed 49
Knotweed 15 / Lion 16
Lion 80 / Lurch 81
Lurch 8 / Mongoose 9
Lurch 91 / Mongoose 92
Mongoose 78 / Maple 79
Mongoose 79 / Maple 80
Mongoose 91 / Maple 92
Nettle 67 / Octopus 68
Octopus 71 / Olive 72
Olive 9 / Plicard 10
Olive 99 / Plicard 100
Quail 18
Quail 10 / Quince 11
Quail 36 / Quince 37
Quail 41 / Quince 42
Quail 58 / Quince 59
Squid 24 / Sycamore 25
Sycamore 16 / Tapir 17
Unicorn 11 / Umbrella 12
Umbrella 20

Vampires!

I vant your blood!

Pub Locations
Corners of ...
Beech and 19th & Cormorant and 20th: The Clam and Champion.
Fear & 34th and Gypsum & 35th : Pub Forty-two
Pessimism & 37th and Quartz & 38th : The Book and Beggar
Lonely & 86th and Malachite & 87th : The Brimming Brew
Qualms & 43rd and Ruby & 44th : The Broken Lover
Ruby & 90th and Regret & 91st : The Burning Brand
Nightingale & 32nd and Nettle & 33rd : The Cosy Walrus
Oppression & 45th and Pyrites & 46th : The Farmer's Arms
Pyrites and 70th & Pessimism and 71st : Mercer's Tavern
Yak & 30th and Yew & 31st : The Flying Nun
Malachite & 76th and Malaise & 77th : The King's Arms
Mongoose & 15th and Maple & 16th : The Last Days
Nervous & 42nd and Obsidian & 43rd : The Lightbringer
Gibbon & 44th and Gum & 45th : The Ox and Bow
Nickle & 57th and Nervous & 58th : The Shining Devil
Oppression & 70th and Pyrites & 71st : The Stick in the Mud
Ennui & 80th and Flint & 81st : The Stick and Stag
Eagle & 34th and Elm & 35th : The Sunken Sofa
Sorrow & 70th and Turquoise & 71st : Forester's Tavern


Beech 19 / Cormorant 20 : Clam and Champion
Duck 7 : Stripey Dragon
Eagle 54 : Kestral
Eagle 34 / Elm 35 Sunken Sofa
Elm 93 / Ferret 94 : Teapot and Toxin
Fir 13 / Gibbon 14 : Balmer's Tavern
Fir 72 / Gibbon 73 : Hunter's Tavern
Gibbon 44 / Gum 45 : Ox and Bow
Gum 10 / Haddock 11 : Crouching Tiger
Jackal 53 / Juniper 54 : Palm and Parson
Lion 65 : Golden Partridge
Mongoose 15 / Maple 16 : Last Days
Mongoose 92 / Maple 93 : Black Sheep
Nightingle 32 / Nettle 33 : Cosy Walrus
Nettle 86 / Octopus 87 : Wart and Whisk
Pine 51 / Quail 52 : Bishop's Tavern
Pine 68 / Quail 69 : Five French Hen
Quail 85 / Quince 85 : Poltroon
Raven 71 /Ragweed 72 : Chandler's Tavern
Ragweed 6 / Squid 7 : Silent Salmon
Ragweed 78 / Squid 79 : Marbler's Tavern

Vampires!

I vant your blood!

Corner of Beech and 19th & Cormorant and 20th, The Clam and Champion.

You drink the Blood.
The barman says "Hey, do you know what PBIANPF stands for? Someone spray-painted it on my door."

You drink the Blood.
The barman says "It's said that cheap drinks do little to loosen tongues."

You drink the Blood.
The barman says "The closest shop to here is The Potion Shoppe, right by Lion and 14th. I do wish those damn magic shops would stay still for a while."

You drink the Blood.
The barman says "That bloody magic shop was next door the other day."

You drink the Blood.
The barman says "I ate loads of garlic last night, from fear of vampires... and my wife ran away."

You drink the Blood.
The barman says "Pssst. Immolators Guild 1 is right next to Pessimism and 70th today. I don't know how much longer it will be there, though."

You drink the Blood.
The barman says "That's a lovely cape you have."

Vampires!

I vant your blood!

You drink the Blood.
The barman says "Pssst. Immolators Guild 1 is right next to Octopus and 40th today. I don't know how much longer it will be there, though."

What is worse than an ungrateful brat?

An ungrateful brat who stabs your back repeatedly with no remorse.

Did Leslie Cheung REALLY commit suicide??