IN BEFORE JING'S LAST POST O' THE YEAR

Happy New Year all!

I'd like to include a "C-C-C-COMBO BREAKER!!!" but I already did that a few posts ago and then Hyo did too so W/E.

So instead, good job guys. We posted moar than last year. I'm proud of us.

Edit: Or I guess, in before Jing's FIRST post o' the year now..

123rd Post!

Hay guys, it's teh BUN D:! First post since forever. I've been mostly a lurker though (on and off lurker, really) and I've been inspired to post again after our meet-up this weekend. So far, school's been good...There was supposed to be a meteor shower either yesterday or the day before but I totally missed it because 1. I was uninformed and 2. it was bloody 13 degrees outside >_>. FYI to the sky gazers of WTB, there's gonna be a MAJOR meteor shower (my friend told me it might be the biggest one of the year~) near finals week (which is like the 2nd week of December for me) so grab a blanket and find the dimmest place in your vicinity!

As some of you already know, I declared my major. I'm studying Environmental Chemistry. Why chemistry you ask? I wanted to revisit it since high school (RIP to Ms. Bulgaris) and turns out, it was as interesting as it was back then, except a bit harder -_-. Speaking of Ms. Bulgaris, for those who've taken her class (some of you guys are here xD) did you notice her coughs were a bit heavy and congested sounding back when we were taking her class? This article kind of explains why. I don't read the Spectator anymore but I did a quick google search on her and this came up. Now that I think about it, I don't even remember reading the textbook in that class...maybe that's why chemistry is so hard now -_-.

So, back at home, my bro called me to say that he got a computer. Guess what that means? I GET HIS OLD ONE *does a dance.* In the Kim household, my brother gets dibs on the newest computer and then his old one gets passed down to me. I don't reallly mind because it's better than the current one I have which, evidently gets passed to my dad/mom. Then again, they are kind of using my computer right now so it's not that big of a change.

Speaking of inheriting my bro's new computer, as most of you might know (esp. Veronica xD) I'm a huge Sims 2 fanatic -_-... Usually, I play so much that I get tired of it right away but recently, I've been downloading a lot of custom items and skins (which is making me play even more) and also I'm away at college so I don't play it often. EA Games came up with a new expansion pack which allows you to use magic X_X!!! Also, the player gets to build apartment-like complexes instead of making a mandatory house. This might not excite you guys much but to me, it's very interesting~ I can't wait to go play when I go back *_*! Since my brother's old computer was the only computer that can run the game without lagging like boob, I get to play it ALL THE TIME MUAHAHHAHA. This will end my social life for sho' T-T.

Sorry I'm ranting about my personal life here. I felt like posting something here on WTB since it was a significant little part of my intarwebz life. I don't really use the phrase WTB anymore...probably because it's sort of weird saying that, in public anyhow. Then again, most of you don't post here anyway...SHAME XD!!!

And finally, I'll end this long post with...
RANDOM ITEM OF THE DAY
Yesterday night, I was watching Good Eats and the potato ricer was mentioned. This is an essential tool for those who want incredibly smooth mashed potatoes. It takes it to a WHOLE 'NOTHA LEVEL.
Here's a picture of Julia Child, a chef with a beautiful personality, and a quote talking about her ricer she bought in the 50's:

"This is a great German potato ricer. It's good and solid. You see, the potato goes in and you go schoooom and out she comes! I love great big things like this, it really works very well. Of course it all comes apart for washing, so it's a very practical instrument." She's a doll xD...

This sort of remindes me of those KoOL KLuB emails I sent such a long time ago! Except this is longer and slightly more meaningful -_-... So ends the post that Hyo started. Please await for the future posts to come ;d~

Signin' off,
Hyo-Piyo

Somequotes

MY LIBIDO IS GONE!!!!!

I TOLD A FEMALE ABOUT MY FEELINGS FOR HER! LATER THAT DAY WE KISSED! IN A FRENCHLY MANNER! AND I THOUGHT :'AH! SHE LIKES ME TOO!'. HOW NAIIIVE! FEMALES DONT OBEY TO COMMON SENSE OR LOGIC OR REASON! FOR SHE PROCEDED To CRUSH MY ANGELIC LIKE SENTIMENTS BY STATING: 'I HOPE YOU ARENT THINKING I WANT TO GO OUT WITH YOU...' DISILLUSION!

AND NOW MY LIBIDO IS GONE!!!!!
I CANNOT BASTURBATE!


HER!

SHE PEES DARKNESS.

AND THAT PEE OF DISDAIN IS OVER THE FORMATIONS WhICH REPRESENT MY LONG LOST DUE-TO-HER-ERECtIONS

Or MAYBe, IM THE URINE! MEANING IM SOMETHING SHE REJECTS AND EXPELS FROM HER BODY, SOMETHING HTAT WILL NEVER GET IN, ONLY gET OUT. HOW EvIL OF HER.

I DONT THINK ILL SHOW THIS TO HER BECAUSE SHE WOULD LIKE IT. SO IT WILL BE MY PATHETIC LITTLE REVENGE!!AH!


======All credit/copyright/whatnot goes to Mimerich of fearsome======


I merely thought this was so epic, it deserves further propagation into moar people's minds.

UROBOROS

FUCK YES.
I know the Jing made a post about this already, but that was BEFORE we heard it. This definitely deserves a post purely to proclaim its win-ness. So, Jing and I listened to this a couple days ago @_@ and so did the Laura. <3

And wow was it WAY BETTER than anything I expected from Dir en Grey after Marrow of the Bone and Withering to Death. Don't get me wrong, Kodou was <3....but the album as a whole wasn't notable enough to me. [Though this may also have to do with the fact that I heard most of the stuff I liked on the singles "The Final" and "saku"...and wasn't that interested in what was only on the album...]

I really love their change of direction.
This is what I would've hoped Dir en Grey would've come out with after Vulgar. Kyo's voice is absolutely beautiful in a lot of the songs. Especially the ninth track @_@ I very much approve of the way they used drums in that track...and I think they used them in some other tracks as well but its late and I unfortunately can't comprehensively go through each one again and figure it out. My favorites were the ninth track, Glass Skin, and Inconvenient Ideal. But! That is only one day after listening to the whole album and I basically listened to those three songs repeatedly today...who knows what other songs I may discover the beauty behind over some time. Dir en Grey songs do at times take some time to sink in, and I think that may very well be the case with this album where so many of the songs sound really great at least at some part or other. The sounds have a very interesting complexity and there are a lot of things going on in them. I've read they used a "mandolin" to create some of the more unique sounds...will look into that later.

And for anyone that hasn't looked up or doesn't get the title at all, Uroboros refers to the symbol of that dragon/snake creature that's curled up in a circle devouring itself starting at the end....a reference to the idea of "reincarnation" or so, according to the wiki article...
and YES! reincarnation indeed, I am very pleased with this new revival of old DeG greatness. I had started to give up on them especially after Marrow of the Bone was completely horrible. I mean completely horrible. I honestly didn't like any of the songs on it...except Ryoujoku no Ame was OK-ish [tolerable anyway].

Furthermore, on a more personal level I was very excited with the way it was a reincarnation of old DeG fangirlyness which worked as conversational material and a means of connecting us further through our common DeG fangirlyness. Remember those good old days? When we were rabid little j-rock fans that ate up anything Dir en Grey or j-rock related? When we sought out magazines, pictures, interviews, similar bands to satiate our thirst? When we would readily be shrieking j-rock loving banshees if it was intended to promote what was godly to us? @_@
Yes, they were perhaps...*Ahem* embarassing times to recall personality wise, but they were fun! I know it was mostly Jing, Laura and I that tended towards j-rock [though if i recall correctly, Oli and Maggie had the hots for Miyavi or something], but I think it was around then that was the height of the friendship of the WTB as a whole as well. Something about the interconnected feeling and having something to talk about together really helped me feel closer to Jing and Laura especially, and to have something to blab about to the others as well. Especially since I'm not generally good at blab-ing what with the whole tending-to-be-quiet thing. I remember that j-rock collage or so that Laura made and put up in the locker we shared at the time to make it more "homely" <3 that was so cute. I really appreciated the way things were at the time. I appreciated how much we all talked together and met together and spend time together as a ball of friendshipful goodness. It was around the first term of sophmore year, and I'm seriously not making this exclusive to my friendship with Jing and Laura, but including all of WTB [aside from Jimmyn I suppose], we used to meet by our lockers in that little niche across from the cafeteria DAILY afterschool, and I remember Hyo used to bring in her tarot cards and once, was it Veronica? brought in travelpack monopoly <3. Then there were times we used to leak into that room right next to those lockers and draw on the board, all sorts of other nonsense...trekking off to Book Off or Kinokuniya or Chinatown even on a gloomy day....THOSE WERE THE DAYS <3

I honestly felt like we were becoming a wonderful little family of our own back then, and I fucking LOVED you guys. *Ahem* sorry for the profanity, the emphasis was needed to highlight the GUSHING INTENSITY of the feeling. Perhaps I just looked too stupidly apathetic at the time for any one else in WTB to understand how incredibly much I loved that time, or valued the friendships of the WTBians [I was going to type "Boobians" but....err...that seemed too strange] this lack of understanding, clearly proven by how easily I was later dropped...haha xD but that's not a story for this post! This post is about LOVE! and reincarnation.

My newfound love for Dir en Grey and j-rock was a highlight of that time, it was a reason why it was easier for me to connect with Jing and Laura and it's the reason why the WIN-ness of this new album reminds me of all that was in those times. Listening to Uroboros for the first time through, getting excited about it's goodness, and conversing with Jing and Laura about it was very awesome, indeed. I've missed the times when we used to converse even remotely like so and those conversations were probably the most I've communicated with either in some time...
At this rate, let's just hope their next album refers to and inspires a complete revival eh?

- a n k i - ?!

1. http://anki.nce.buttobi.net/
2. Manually append /archives/ to the url once the above link loads.
3. ????
4. PROFIT

(You must do it this way; direct linking http://anki.nce.buttobi.net/archives/ does not work.)

Surprising turn of events.

I don't know how many of you have been up to date with SamBakZa's flash series (a.k.a. "the really cute flash vids of that bunny chasing around this cat"), but I only found out recently...and it's nothing short of shocking, to say the least. =/

(Please actually click on the link and wait to watch before reading any further. Unless the seemingly randomness of the following semi-memoir doesn't bother you...in which case, please watch anyway.)



Hedgehogs.

There once had been two in our rather-ghetto cellar in China. I was a bit too young to have understood its exact architectures then; in retrospect, it was perhaps just a simple square hole dug into the ground lined with bricks, covered by a pile of logs. In winters we'd store white cabbage there, though we did have a real refrigerator-- there was just something special about the taste of nappa stored and dug out from underground.

And one year, instead of bringing inside another cabbage, my father motioned me and Mother to come out. There, under the space made by logs. There were they: two gray-brown ball-shaped masses, huddled close together and not a muscle shifting. Especially impressionable had been their spikes, the tips of all of which a bleached color fading close to ashen white.

Not the same at all as I'd seen them in books and cartoons.

We laid out food for them, small pieces of meat and yam among other things, and checked at weekly or biweekly intervals. My mother had forbidden me to disturb them on a daily basis after we'd carefully removed all cabbage from around them, still enclosed in plastic bags, though they never seemed to notice anything we do. The meat, however, was always gone. The other foods, not so much.

We kept the area quiet through all winter. Dogs, children, meddling neighbors; none had known about our pair of spiky visitors sleeping under a pile of logs.

'Til one early spring day, of course. They had gone, as quietly and unobserved as they had come, leaving us a gift of an empty cellar now smelling ever so slightly of certain odors left by wild animals.

The cellar had been empty since.

Words

7th ALBUM 『UROBOROS』2008.11.12 RELEASE

SA BIR
VINUSHKA
RED SOIL
慟哭と去りぬ
蜷局
GLASS SKIN
STUCK MAN
冷血なりせば
我、闇とて･･･
BUGABOO
凱歌、沈黙が眠る頃
DOZING GREEN
INCONVENIENT IDEAL


SO, KIDS, TODAY I LEARN THAT APPARENTLY BUGABOO IS a real word. (Kinda explaining WTHeck's been up with Kyo doing that "you ooga booga" thing in certain recent-er songs. Like DanRee kindly suggests, we may as well expect "hibbies jibbies" in the future.) And that however curioser and curioser Deg's song names get, Agitated Screams of Maggots shall retain the crown for quite a while more.

11/14(fri) New York, NY / US Terminal 5
^ I'll be there for that, too. :D

In other news, NC is alright. Expecting Hanna this weekend, but hopefully it'll be no more than some rain and a breeze. It's prettier here than Ohio and certainly Des Moines. Parents are good, siblings worse, and Jing spends her days pretty much idle.

Common sense says I should probably be drawing more. -_-;

I ARE WATER STRIDER

I can pretty honestly declare, by now, that deciding to take summer classes was one of the significantly better decisions I've ever made in my life, thus far. In general.

(Also ignore the date. I randomly had this saved as a draft for that long, apparently, but the opinion certainly hasn't changed. 8D)

The Current

Random issues?updates? that I've lost track of who I've already told and who I haven't, so I suppose I'll just slap them all here and try to be comprehensive.

I. The main troop
...Had a relocation again. This time it appears to smell like Raleigh, North Carolina. I know, I know, some (read: more like none) of you who probably happen to remember would probably say, But but Jing, Iowa happened only how many months ago? Six? Eight? Well, I suppose the situation bears some resemblance to why MPU made the NY - OH transition all those years ago. The basic idea is that he decides he's had enough, proceeds to search for a new position, gets hired thar, and says LOL KTHXBAI to the old job. Except this time, I guess he really hated Iowa just a wee bit moar than the usual.

Now, unlike most of you kids whose school works under the semester system, the Jing did not get out of spring quarter until the first week of June (that's finals week for her), and the main troop timed its moving so that their drive from Iowa to NC would find Ohio as sort of a midpoint/resting stop. While here, what they did was halping Jing move out of her dorm and right into the...

II. Studio.
Oh yes. As the required first year of living either on campus or with parents draws to a close, Jing (with major halp from a certain "fwen") luckily found this nifty little place right as the last vacancies were filling up. Actual place doesn't look as fancy as the pictars suggest, but Jing's did also come with an okay armchair and two decent barstools not shown. All utilities--including internet*--are included in a rent of 485/mo. No, this is not actually associated with university housing in any manner; it's just a company that carries the word in its name because its target clients happen to all be students. So, basically, it has everything a dorm has to offer + privacy + no rules & it's simply a hell lot cheaper.
* Except the internet kicks in only come September, when the real school year starts and the majority of the students start their leases. This means that until then, the Jing has to come to the library for internetting purposes--including right now as I type.

Why do I sound like a bot advertising the place? In short, it's just that despite certain flaws (see finer print), this place is simply an amazing blazing deal--especially compared to where I used to live alone back in NY (shared bathroom/kitchen)--and especially since I was so very lucky to have caught it at all...again, thanks to "fwen" dearest, who looks like will come live with me for a month+ in just a bit more. I've also been spreading the news left and right to anyone who might consider a roadtrip and just may need a place to crash, even if it's in Ohio... A few maybe's and no solid takers so far. :D

So...wait. Am I saying that Jing'll basically be staying in Ohio for the largest part of this complete summer? Short answer: Ya. Long answer: ...

III. ...Maybe.
Possibly most of you know this already: Jing is taking ze summer quarter. Not summer classes--summer quarter. Again, since most of your come from the world of semesters, I shall explain.

1 academic year
= 2 semesters (fall/spring)
= 3 quarters (fall/winter/spring)

Instead of "summer vacation", we have a usually-empty summer quarter. Most students take that quarter off since it is completely, 100% optional. (In fact, the school by default assumes that you don't take it. You have to specifically register for it, etc. The tuition policy, however, is just the same as regular quarters; you don't have to pay extra.) Four years of 3 quarters per year gives you 12 total quarters of classes taken--but if you take summer quarter each year, you will complete those same 12 quarters in only three years, without having to take heavier course loads per quarter.

All that said, I suppose it means Yeah, Jing kind of sort of wants to graduate early. Assuming she doesn't decide to change her mind 180 degrees about med school in later college years, getting out of undergrad certainly seems the quicker the better. In any case, it's simply better/more practical to stick around for job purposes and other responsibilities...than probably just sitting on my ass in NC for 3+ months.

While it is true that she wouldn't want to cut so many classes like she did last quarter (hoppin' back to NY on random weekends and skipping a lecture or two on Mondays/Tuesdays) due to the nature of her classes (Mol Gen 500, yoy!~) and schedule, there is at least one instance in a certain month that she may be free to...roam... a bit. No, 'tis sadly not the blaringly soon and obvious July 4th; Jing'll be busy celebrating reunion with the fwen around then. =/

But keep yer eyes and ears open. 'Twill be a surprise...maybe. 8D

Happy Birthday Jing!

I know this blog means a lot to you so hopefully you'll see this in time?
I hope you're being happy wherever you are. One of these days you really need to drag your butt back to New York while I can actually spend time with you D:

The Mother

The brood mermaid holds a low rung in the caste of the working class. Taken as they come and cheaper than those in the sister-profession of prostitution, they are virtually disposable to the no-longer-quite-underground industry of larvae trafficking. In its quickly deteriorating society, the ruling caste has joined forces with masterminds of the underground, launching yet another "humane solution" to halt the growing problem of unwanted diffusion or dilution of noble blood. In an attempt to cleanse the hierarchy of all existing half-royal underlings, all brood mermaids who have knowingly reared seeds of the noble were drawn to scattered, isolated meeting spots with promises of rare reward--but what met them instead was, surely enough, the very rare Mother.

The Mother has long been a suspect of the mer race's nearest (but taboo) kin, very particularly due to the close resemblance they bear to the mer larva; though, unlike the mer, they retain their many eyes and globular body mass and do not moult or cocoon to reach adulthood. Their gender demographic or mode of reproduction has also been a largely speculated mystery, as it would appear that all members are born? and remain female. They are known in mer children's tales as monsters who lure and snatch away the misbehaving child.

Far too many generations have lapsed for the general public to recognize or remember that, in actuality, the legendary Mother has an affinity only for mer children in the larval stage. Sending and receiving globules of themselves, they "charm" away the developing larva, kidnapping them to unknown, un-mer territories, never to be seen or heard from again. However, they do not and would not even dream of wounding the child, as this has become clear; they treat and rear all catches of larvae as one of their kind with the gentlest mother's care.

But the brood mermaid remains.

She wails.

Sometimes...

I feel like this place should be torn down for the facade of pretentiousness it presents to the face of the world. We have all changed a bit too much, perhaps, but that itself isn't the root of the problem...
We can never tell each other certain things along a certain line because it was never a topic tolerated to begin with. Our silently banned subject since sophomore year.
Not that I'm even suggesting that this could be changed/improved in any way, by now. Our comfort zones have long-since been deeply set in place. The ones that happen to be too closely involved--well, they will have to know; but for the rest of us? We were chosen to remain in the dark...because, likely, we'd rather (or think) that we'd rather to choose to not know, too.

The majority of us would (probably, simply) rather be passing buddies than closer friends anyway.
But I still think it's rather freaky (odd coincidence?) that we--the majority, at least, it would seem--all...happened...to have become(became? at some point?) (more than?) close with one person.
Funny how in a (perhaps very) twisted sense, in this intricate web of promise of secrecy, he became our lone source of keeping in touch with how everyone is doing.
Or perhaps that last "our" was only a royal "we", and I meant only myself.

Jing is probably the only (distant) voyeur here. I may very well be a selfish bastard.

yuuzora (5:03:29 AM): There's a fine line between caring and being nosey.
yuuzora (5:03:42 AM): Or maybe it's a blurred line afterall.

But he needs his release, too.

Because...

How funny is this? That after all, the most intricate web of all webs of all...

is the system of listeners and confessors. To each his(her) own.

Private laws.

I am but an observer.