Sebastian or Lockon?

Current Status: Major dilemma

I wanted to name my new metal bow Lockon, so I picked the green colour for its coating. but Murphy's Law kicks in, and the green colour coating looks like (Jack Neo's) Liang Ximei's gaudy green and black shirt. so I decided to take the solid black bow instead. then again, the more i look at the pictures, the more i think i should name the bow Sebastian, after the Black Butler in Kuroshitsuji. crap.

on one hand, the bow's sleek, shiny black coating begs me to name it Sebastian. on the other hand, Lockon is a sharpshooter-ish person, and it's more adept for a bow. plus point: if i name the bow Lockon, i can name my arrows Haros, which actually sound pretty...tempting. imagine what the scenario would be like during scoring...*guffaws*

then again, my dear uncle Fabius said to name my bow Char Siu. quoting him, it's perfect in so many ways. "Char" is like...poke, describing the way that the arrows stab into the target board. "Siu" is my surname, so my bow has my surname (=_=) and "Char Siew" happens to be a dish that goes with my name in Cantonese, roasted pork...dang.

so therefore in conclusion, i shall christen my bow "Sebastian Lockon Char Siu"

...

Sebastian locks on Char Siew.

crap, i think many fangirls hate me already.

i think my bow hates me too. OTL

Squirrels

photos of Squirrel-chan A and Squirrel-chan B, and hopefully their offspring in time to come ^^
btw, don't ask me to distinguish between A-chan and B-chan lolz, i have no idea who's who =P

 

"must eat, must eat, must eat"
fattening up before winter~ XD

"honey, you're covered in fleas/ticks/bedbugs. here, lemme help by eating some of 'em"
grooming~ love their long bushy tails *hearts*

 

"oh look, there's even more over here! i think you missed your bath didn't you?"
it is NOT animal porn for all you sick minded people. =P just innocent grooming XD much fatter now aren't they? nice, fluffy and squishy~ *squish*

"ah, my wife fell off!!! the blardy ledge is too narrow!!!"
kidding =P it's snowing~! poor fellow had to go out to forage for food i think 

"brrr...stop taking those @#%^$@# photos and help me out here!" *teeth chatters*
poor dude, wonder what he's doing in a corner surrounded by snow...got kicked out by missus maybe? lolz

And suppose he marries a girl who loves him passionately, is there such a great advantage in that? Often i have observed that it is a great misfortune for a man to have a wife who loves him. She creates the scene of jealousy, she makes him look ridiculous, she insists on having all his time and attention. Ah! Non, it is not the bed of roses. - Hercule Poirot

Quote from "Lord Edgware Dies" by Agatha Christie

i spent a whole afternoon staring at people running into each other and whacking each other with balls. this year's orientation is something to look forward to i guess...at least there's a HINT of yaoi in the storyline (but i think it'll be censored)

when i got home, my dog fell into the pond. laugh die.

Chuka Ichiban & a bit of crap ^^

mugyuseiryuzan. muraryorikai.

zomg, Chuka Ichiban (translation: Cooking Master Boy) has such a dark world for the culinary realm. there're special ways to chop up a cow, equivalent to the sword styles that Kenshin uses rofl. mugyuseiryuzan vs hiten mitsurugi ryu-kuzuryuzan. XD they even have a Mafia-like association that's hunting down the protagonist, Mao. lolz.

the story is set in ancient China, where the protagonist, Mao, hails from the province of Szechuan. XD after he's recognized by the Food Official (did they have such a rank in history? @@ i think there may be some truth after all...), he's sent to Hangzhou for training and to take the Special Chef qualification (Tokyuu Chuushin Shiken). of course, he gains the title of Tokyuu Chuushin, and from there he travels China for his training XD interesting eh.

while there may be corny moments like...Chun-li lookalikes holding fans and dancing around the word "Umai"(Delicious), or savoring the universe in a bowl of Ginza noodles etc. the main storyline is strong, even comparable to that of Slayers. considering that this anime is at least as old as Slam Dunk or even Ranma, the art style and storyline are both praiseworthy.

sure, it's old, it's cheesy, especially when the literal battle of the dragons start when the respective chefs unveil their dish, but... if Tezuka can wipe out the dinosaurs with his tennis strokes, i guess anything goes yar. =P

it's definitely worth a watch if you belong to the Akazukin Cha Cha era XD there's a fair share of irritating female lead character squeaking (but not as intolerable as Miaka) and your loser sidekick, or in this case disciple, but there's a fair share of bishies as well, only if you count...those gorrilla-like Caucasians in Prince of Tennis as bishies...*shrugs* there's one who's really a bishie, he kinda looks like Mikagami Tokiya from Rekka...but he kinda appears and disappeared. OTL not to mention there's this...guy who looks like he belongs to the gang of Naraku, Orochimaru and Itachi ...purple eyeshadow anyone? lolz best thing, he's a good guy, and the mentor of Mao. *all hail purple eyeshadow~*


CRAP ALERT~ you have been warned.

as a side note, i kinda figured out how Orochimaru died by the sword of Sasuke. you see, Oro-chan kinda did a baaaad thing. he snatched Naraku's purple eyeshadow. ^^ Naraku-chan got pretty pissed off when he realised that his last pallet of purple eyeshadow was missing. *cues thunder and lightning* *cues Naraku-chan swearing vengence on Oro-chan* Naraku-chan goes after Oro-chan and coveniently pops into the dimension in which Sasuke was battling Oro-chan in the "final battle" Naraku and his baboon obviously combined powers with Sasuke and together they beat Oro-chan. that was what Kabuto witnessed when Sasuke showed him the "final battle". just before Oro-chan breathed his last, he sent one of his little snakes to deliver the purple eyeshadow to none other than...ITACHI! (i am not going to incur the wrath of Itachi and Orochimaru fans, if the latter has any, by implying that the two are a couple) let's just say that Oro-chan had a deal with Itachi that he would give him the purple eyeshadow laced with erm...Sasuke's erm...sweat maybe? (Sasu x Ita fans? XD) rights, so Itachi gets the Sasu-sweat-laced-purple-eyeshadow. Sasu-chan, got pissed off with the fact that his aniki was into incest/yaoi that he went after Itachi with a roar. he finished off Itachi and took back the purple eyeshadow which he has been eyeing ever since Oro-chan got hold of it. (that was the reason why he killed Oro-chan in the first place XD) and so, we wait with bated breath, to see if Sasu-chan will one day don the purple eyeshadow ^^

-fin-

*scoots off for more Chuka Ichiban before i get slaughtered by Sasu, Ita, Oro, Naraku fans*

lessons learnt

1. SPOILER ALERT (KUROSHITSUJI)

discovery of the day. the curry bun we (all) love was invented by none other than...Sebastian from Kuroshitsuji! amusing. he came up with the idea of stuffing curry into a bun. for what reason? for the convenience of little children to enjoy e curry without having to use utensils! *throws confetti into e air* and to make his "godlike" curry that even beat that Indian butler's curry, he added, a bar of Phantomhive Dark Chocolate. hallelujah~ laugh die.

2. SPOILER ALERT (KUROSHITSUJI)

Kuroshitsuji is so packed with shounen-ai and yaoi (implied i guess) that a straight guy turns gay mid-way. welcome to the dark side, pal! XD let's just say it's because the girl he was chasing kinda ditched him. so he turned to none other than his butler! XDDD master x servant, banzai!!! it isn't Ciel and Sebastian I'm talking about  =P that couple long ago together already mahhhh XDDDDD

3. steaming an egg may result in the egg disappearing from the plate. serious. my plate ended up empty after i steamed the egg. guess it kinda decided to drown itself in the water used to steam it...

4. seemingly docile Parrotfish (see image below) are really aggressive predators. we decided to fish up some guppies from the pond outside to rear in the aquarium inside, when to our horror (and my disgust) the guppies disappeared faster than my sister's dinner did. urgh. gross. there wasnt any apparent hesitation, as though the Parrot fish were used to eating live fish, even though we only fed them with fish food up till today. fish eating other dead fish i can barely stand, fish eating other fish live? urgh.

5. expected the unexpected, as Kerberos always says.

We live as we dream—alone. – Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

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are joo lost?

some stuff anna found out today when she lost her way (yesh again, for the blardy goodness-knows-how-many-th time). well that's not exactly true. she didnt remain lost for the whole time, she managed to recover her way (eventually). some tips that she'll like to share (listen and heed only if you're as hopeless at directions as she is, if not keep to your own way and you'll be safer yo)

1. Always. Always. Always, remember where you started from.
if you take public transport ie MRT. good for you. rights. say you forgot which way to walk from the MRT station, and say you still can't remember the way to walk after standing at the exit of the station gaping into the air in front of you, then how? you walk in a straight line.
2. Always walk in a STRAIGHT line. or a general straight-line direction.
one thing good about that, you'll always be able to find your way BACK. if liddat also cannot find your way back, then you better not got out alone. usually, after walking in a straight line, you might bump into something familiar or some landmark you might recognise, if so, good for you. if not, bad for you. nothing else to add.
3. Always trust your instincts.
never ever doubt your instincts. i did so today, and one helluva mistake was that. i shan't elaborate. if your instincts don't work, then close your eyes and walk. your instincts will start working and lead you on auto-pilot. if all of the above fails, then how? refer to point number 1.
4. Walk back to where you started from (which should be somewhat easy unless you didn't follow my instructions.)
one good thing about walking back to the start point, at least you're somewhere where you can
a) call some good friend who has a better/good direction sense for help (eg my laogong).
b) start wailing and some kind passerby may offer a helping hand.
c) bug the station control people for directions (which by right you should have done from the start but if you're like me, you wouldn't have)
d) go home and try again another day after you've checked the street directory.

note that these tips only apply if you're a greater road-idiot than anna is. if not, stick to your own way. it'd be safer for you. toodaloo.

Each blade of grass has its spot on earth whence it draws its life, its strength; and so is man rooted to the land from which he draws his faith together with his life. – Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)