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  • Aug. 31st, 2009 at 7:40 AM
lust


I've actually made a youtube account AND i've posted on it.
I go by kreshie962 on youtube and you can view my account here!

My hair tutorial video had 83 views when my account got deleted. I recreated my account, but i lost all my views 0__0"
But it's back up now and i can't worry about it too much.

 I'm new to uTube so i'm not really sure what i'll be doing there yet. So any help or comments would be great! ^__^
I think i'll be doing the hair tutorials, some stuff about school, and maybe some vlog stuff. we'll see what happens.
 


too hot

  • Aug. 18th, 2009 at 3:27 PM
lust


it's way to hot. i'm dying.
oh, yesterday was m birthday! >w<

i've been playing poupee and you can see my account here.
did a personality test based on hal's blog.i'm a 3, but you can stare at my 'detailed results' over at this link.

also, i got myself a haruhi figure. she's so cute, isn't she?

haruhi

  • Aug. 2nd, 2009 at 10:33 PM
lust


i have to admit that i'm beginning to hate the haruhi endless 8.
i would have been happy with three or four episodes. i think most people now think that two wouldn't have had very much impact. everyone knows that five was way too much.
i might have even had a grudging respect for eight episodes. kyoto would be going for a really bad pun and showing off their guts. but at least they'd be going for something.
some people have theories about what they're trying to do. i don't have any at this point. the attempt to rationalize what is clearly insanity doesn't particularly appeal to me.

but, while watching those repeat episodes a thought occurs to me. with all that time, i've been remembering the first season and reading the novels. and a suspicion is sneaking up on me.
and i'd like to thank the ny times for this article which sparked this strange thought. They brought up the third plot twist, thrown in without precedent or hint simply because the director/author wants to trick us, the readers.
think of the sherlock holmes novels where the necessary details were left out until finally revealed in a spiel by holmes who had already solved the case. or the last minute plot twists that seem to plague movies these days.

and why should dear beloved (or less beloved at this point) haruhi be any different?
the entire plot for the series is laid out in the first novel and in the first chapters no less. it's all so very simple and straightforward.

but then, what if it isn't?
we've been told that haruhi is the god of this world. and we believe this because we were told this. but how do we know? what evidence is there?

sure, supernatural things have happened, but there's no reason to assume that they're happening due to haruhi. most of these things she doesn't even know about.
now, i'm a girl. so i think i might have a bit more insight into the thoughts of another girl than some of the rabid fanboys out there. so let me share some of these insights.

1) no girl would choose kyon when koizumi is sitting right there. seriously, he doesn't stand a chance. at best, kyon and haruhi would be good friends while haruhi dated koizumi. =___= ;;

2) no girl would grope mikuru. NOT ONE. even a prepsexual. suggestively hug, maybe. but only in a misguided attempt to seduce koizumi and not kyon. even then, i don't think that haruhi would be the type for that sort of thing.

3) a girl as intelligent as haruhi would go about searching for interesting things in a totally different fashion than the haphazard SOS brigade. she's got stellar grades and a brilliant mind. why isn't she setting it towards the thing that she's supposed to care so much about?

4) since haruhi is supposedly so brazen about everything, it would make more sense for her to directly confront her crush. she has some, admittedly twisted, dating experience. she knows that she's good looking and has taken advantage of it before. so it would make infinitely more sense for her to follow her personality traits and take the initiative.

5) this endless recursion of summer doesn't benefit haruhi. she got all the things that she wanted done already.
SPOILER ON NEXT LINE! HIGHLIGHT TO READ!
the reason that summer stops is because kyon finishes his homework.
SPOILER DONE! 
this reason doesn't relate to or benefitharuhi at all.

BONUS REASON: to me, it doesn't make sense that haruhi would be able to suppress her knowledge of these things. for example, in the endless recursion the SOS brigade members are all getting the deja vu feeling. they do give a half-hearted explanation for why haruhi isn't noticing, but it's just that: half hearted. then, in the light novels with mikuru beam, haruhi not noticing anything was strange and ooc.

what do all these things share in common?

all of them benefit Kyon. Kyon gets to be in a harem of beautiful girls, one of whom has a crush on him. Kyon gets treated to yuri daily. kyon doesn't have to face his feelings due to an outright confession. he can flit between haruhi, mikuru, and yuki without any sort of consequence. the SOS brigade seems like the sort of poorly planned scheme that kyon would think up. sorry, but he just doesn't seem like the smartest guy. the benefit of #5 should be obvious.
maybe you wonder why koizumi is there? he certainly isn't there to be oggled at (at least not by kyon ^__~)
why is koizumi here? Kyon wants a male friend. he does have taniguchi and his class mates, but he's made it clear that he thinks that those guys are losers. Koizumi has never been addressed in such a way. sure, he's the subject of a little jealousy, but even sarcastic kyon has to admit that he's pretty cool. and koizumi is always helping kyon and pushing for him to date haruhi. So, Kyon gets to have Koizumi as an intelligent and out going friend without any serious romantic rivalry.
not only that, but, like yuki, he's a reliable character that work and responsibility can be out sourced to. kyon doesn't have to deal with certain things because koizumi and yuki take of those things for him.

one might bring up the bonus reason in rebuttal of this explanation too. but that would be erroneous. kyon DOES know about the powers. kyon does know, he just has an alternative explanation. like an irresponsible child, he can point the finger at someone else and say 'it's not my fault! she did it!'

KYON COULD END UP BEING REVEALED AS THE TRUE GOD.

or then again, maybe not. maybe after watching endless 8 too many times my brain fried.






do you find people interesting?

  • Jul. 31st, 2009 at 5:04 AM
lust

Do you find people interesting? Why/Why not?

 

Nyar. I’m heartlessly examining myself so please don’t take offense. I really am a nice person >.<;;

…I hope…

And why doesn’t the first half have any lit. references? I don’t know either…

 

I can’t really answer this question directly. I have two views on people, a personal one and a broad one.

          I mean by ‘personal’ the relationships that I deal with regularly. From this view, I’m mainly concerned with the practical uses of a person. Every person has a slightly different qualities, skills and personality leading than the next. This leads to each person having individual uses and mentalities.  For these purposes to be maximized, I must first understand the person’s mentality, secondly predict his thoughts, and then finally adapt this mentality to my own uses. The interest lies in the process of understanding the person, not really the person himself*. It’s the ‘chase’ that I enjoy. The process of beholding the intricacies of another person’s mind is what interests me. Once the individual is understood, he is simple and cannot hold my attention.

Broadly speaking, people themselves are not interesting. Neil Gaiman continuously notes that we all have the same story: a person is born, time passes, and the person dies. This is the same for all people and has occurred millions of times. People are often so highly preoccupied with the prolonged view of the intermediate stage that they completely forget that the final stage is on its way. Even the time span is laughable when compared to the greater scheme of things. A bit of rock or coal has more history than we do.

When viewed on a greater scale, an individual person has very little influence on anything. Fahrenheit 451 goes on to say that the people who write memoirs and autobiographies are egotistical to think that people would be interested in their lives. But still we insist on our importance and significance. We come up with a myriad of reasons why we, as a species and an individual, matter. To me, it’s this need to matter that interests me. I’ve never felt that my life had extraordinary significance, so the conceit that your life is more important, your life more meaningful is really intriguing. I have continued to wonder what gives people so much gall to think so much of themselves? This sense of self, even the import of a ‘moral sense’, is what interests me.

 

 

* This is not to say that the individual isn’t appreciated. I appreciate even an  individual snowflake, but realize that it is fleeting and part of a greater storm.
 

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internet

  • Jul. 31st, 2009 at 12:29 AM
lust
Due to some small miracle i now have internet at home. :D
Ironically, there is no longer a car in the driveway.
=___=
i'm not in fma, right? there's no 'law of equivalent exchange' is there?

So you can expect some more regular updates.

note: i do not normally stay up to obscene hours of the night, but i can't sleep.

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bored

  • Jul. 15th, 2009 at 5:44 PM
lust

yes, i've fallen into it. i'm bored. i'm beginning to look forward to the new school year when i'm distracted and forget my pride. ;___;
someone, help me.

the ap exam results are coming back soon. it is mid-July, isn't it? No, I have not been obsessively checking my mail, thank you very much...

but if i did, i'd be disappointed that it didn't bring forth any results...
finally, i've finished all my homework except english, which i continue to procrastinate on... >___>"

 

oh, also, my laptop finally has ms. word...
 

yes, i'm being tacky with the links

  • Jul. 6th, 2009 at 1:36 PM
lust
the second us release of the novel: the sigh of haruhi suzumiya.
http://nebs66.livejournal.com/926034.html]

decent review of current anime episodes:
http://animeyume.com/blog/2009/07/02/haruhi-season-2-episode-4-endless-eight-part-3/

haruhi 2 episode 4 (youtube) (in order)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiJzG9j-pWA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yNTazt5uDg&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QATOcpf25Z8&feature=related

possible schedule of releases:
http://animeyume.com/blog/2009/05/23/a-timeline-of-haruhi-season-2-trolls/

note: right now all of the second anime is up on youtube. i don't know if it will stay up or if it'll be taken down, so it's best to hurry. a new episodeis coming out every week and the subs usually come up in a couple days.
the next episode comes out on the 9th! :D

that is all for now...

but god, kyon, do something. i don't want to go thru this 5,000 times or whatever with you.
and kyo-animation, i'm on to you with your budget saving techniques!! D<

perhaps

  • Jul. 6th, 2009 at 1:16 PM
lust
most exciting thing that has happened so far during my break : a hawk flew by my house but was frightened off by a blue jay. -__-""
what is the world coming to?

i bought myself shakugan no shana and have been obsessively rewatching fma, haruhi, and the girl who lept thru time (tgwltt) .  unfortunately, every time i watch tgwltt i end up crying. does this mean that i'm a total otaku or that i've fallen in love without knowing it?
sadly, the first one seems more likely... >__>"

also, progress with the homework. i finished my math and APUSH. my writing is half done and my science stuff a bit more than that.

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summer!

  • Jun. 19th, 2009 at 2:42 PM
lust

at long last summer has arrived!
:D

there are of course summer assignments, meant to ruin the joys of procrastination and stagnation, but they are but small blockades in the face of a great onslaught of tired ruinations intended to destroy the last remnants of an irritating and, overall, idle year. they shall be overcome with small portion of a much greater force! >D
viva la revelucion!

other than that, there are the typical, if slightly cliche, things to do throughout one's summer. i suppose i shall forge through the ever growing list of summer movies, summer activities, summer volunteer work, and summer 'hobbies' that lie ahead. it's strange that the summer increasingly is more stressful than the actual year. somehow, with the removal of the actual school work, i am expected to be able (and willing) to do more work related to school. really? honestly? must we?

strange things are afoot...
someone should investigate them...

(pointless and strange links...)

movies and illness

  • Jun. 8th, 2009 at 2:43 PM
lust

So, it’s the weekend again, right?

Pretty amazing how quickly the days are going by. Fourth quarter and we’re already past the interim mark. There are about two weeks of actual school left and then blissful summer. I can’t wait.

Last week SOLs finished, but then who really worries about SOLs? I got my scores back. Perfect on the World history and pass advanced on Chemistry. I just wish we’d get AP scores back.  APs were the real bother and they’ve already been finished for a while now.

It keeps raining. All this humidity is getting on my nerves. >__<””

I understand the flowers need rain, but we’re halfway through June! Can’t we have more than one nice day a week? That is if you can call the warmer days nice. Usually, it’s so humid that the warmth feels muggy and disgusting. Bleh.

So I got Green day’s 21st century breakdown yesterday. It’s not like American Idiot. The style is a lot softer. Lots of ‘waaaooohhs’. The lyrics are decent, but not relevant in that American Idiot was. That is to say, it’s a lot of pretend teenage rebellion belied by excessive sound treatment. Not to mention ‘chorus’ lines that come up one too many times. The songs sound ‘heavy’, but there’s not much harmony or synchronization. Definitely not Shiina Ringo or Jamie Cullum. I don’t know why I was expecting so much from this album. No wait, I remember! New York Times and Washington Post gave it good reviews. Last time I trust a newspaper movie review. 

On the first listen, I was totally repulsed and disappointed. But as I listen to it more and louder, it’s becoming better.

 

Oh, and I saw Star Trek last weekend. See, I’m an otaku. I love the original series. And I expected for the Star Trek movie to be along the lines of the series. You know, deep scientific and moral queries paired with awesome sets and a edgy social issues. Not to mention a decent cast.

The movie was not like that. It was a good movie. If you hadn’t seen the series and weren’t expecting any sort of respectable science. It was hokey, in short. Lots of quippy one liners from caricatures of the actual characters. Not to mention the final Spock character death. ;___;

Also saw Terminator. Warning, If you go to see this one without seeing the others you will most likely be very confused. Also, if you were expecting lots of shot of Christian Bale, be prepared to be disappointed. They follow around another, significantly less awesome, character. -___-“

UP! Was good. I went into a theatre with a lot of little kids who were totally confused by it. Kinda reminds me of when I went to see Bolt (during the climatic scene: mommy, why are there two doggies?). Nevertheless, it was good aside from that. Although it’s just a little bit too sad and introspective for a younger crowd, I really liked it. :D

I’m skipping the rant because I am, as usual, sick and trying to desperately make up work. -___-“

Swine flu! W007! @___@

*collapses in fever induced coma*

 

-__-"

  • May. 11th, 2009 at 3:50 PM
lust
the fourth quarter is going by so fast. i feel like the summer will go by fast too.
;___;


this entry is unbelievably short right now...
....
i hate spelling tests. they really piss me off. i sit there staring at the words, knowing their definitions, but totally incapable of spelling them. and then, as i watch the words, i become less and less certain about how i spelled them. eventually, i just give in and change them only to realize as i'm turning in the paper how i misspelled them.
they are evil beyond all reckoning.

irritating just thinking about it.
but for the first time in a couple days we're having really nice weather! :D
fun in sun is in store! ^___^ V

also, i did my one CompSci AP. it makes me nervous thinking about it....

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giveaway

  • Apr. 21st, 2009 at 4:06 PM
lust

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wveUB8FJfFY&feature=related

yay! my laptop was being stupid about youtube, but i fixed it!

also, i entered a giveaway and won!
:D
i got three dvds but i didn't get the ones i wanted. -__-"

but i'm really happy that i won! i usually don't win this sort of thing.

also, perhaps to compensate, the cake that was made for me was attacked by ants. ;___;
>D but i got the little bugger back!

:D

  • Apr. 7th, 2009 at 2:29 PM
lust

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wveUB8FJfFY&feature=related

yay! my laptop was being stupid about youtube, but i fixed it!

musical

  • Mar. 31st, 2009 at 4:52 PM
lust

 http://www.last.fm/listen/artist/Jack%2527s%2BManequin/similarartists
yes, i have a jack's manequin love in my heart <3

:3

sitting and waiting for spring break to show up. just two more days! ^__^ V

:D

  • Mar. 28th, 2009 at 12:38 PM
lust


i am on a laptop, but not just any laptop, my laptop!

XD
i am dying of happiness.

plus i have found a good online radio station. oh the power of google!
http://www.last.fm/listen/artist/ASIAN%2BKUNG-FU%2BGENERATION/similarartists

and i have finished my homework. :3
i hate j-lab.

see, in virginia we have SOLs, standards of learning. i can understand why we have SOLs, i just can't understand why they're so easy. or how something so easy can end up being so irritating...
towards the end of the year, teachers begin to think about the SOLs and how irritating they are. then, the teachers pass their irritation on to the students by reviewing everything we learned during the year because they think that we have forgotten. don't these teachers know anything? kids forget things over the summer, not during the year!

and what's worse is that they find old SOL tests and make us take them. -___-"
think of the SAT but poorly worded and even easier. that  is the SOL.
but maybe i'm too harsh. some kids have to be failing it since they keep giving it to us. but they shouldn't make those of us that don't fail suffer for those that do. 
D:
plus, it makes me do work. and i read too much into the questions and come up with strange complicated answers...
>__>"

-silence-
well, that's that and i've had my rant.

but on a happier note, i went to alil' thingamajigs store.
desite the name, it's a cute little Korean stationary store. The stuff is overpriced, sure, but it's also so cute that you (I) don't notice. :3
I went to the one in Annandale. It's close to TJ, right by that library over there. So go peoples that I know.
>D
plus, there's a adorable Ceci's store right nearby. I didn't have enough time to go in and explore (plus, the stuff there looked hand made and therefore expensive) but it was cute stuff.
:3
so that's my good news!


sleepy

  • Mar. 26th, 2009 at 10:10 AM
lust
i'm so sleepy...
wah!

so much fic to read...
god, i want third quarter to be over...

yesterday the power went out at my school during third period. it was pretty exciting at first because there was much pointless screaming and predictions about whether we would get out early or not (we didn't). I stayed after for math stuff.
-dies-

today is just a normal day. the school is empty because the band and orchestra people aren't here. they are at disney world. i am jealous.

spring break is coming up though. one of my neighbors invited use to go down to florida with them... i don't think we're going to go; it's kind of short notice so my mom's spazzing.
still, i'd like to go somewhere warm and dry.
there's also the spring cherry blossom festival to look forward to. i intend to buy lots of anime stuff :3

hmmm... not much else to report...
school is just wasting time untill the end of the year... -__- why don't they just let us out?!?!?!

must post on DA
-determined-

to explain

  • Mar. 20th, 2009 at 3:59 PM
lust
perhaps you thought i was dead.
i was not, but you were nearly right.



i was sick with a very bad fever for a week. The week following that I had some stomach bug.

Then i went back to school. It's taken me a long time to get all caught up. Normally, I post and stuff during my compsci class. (yes, i have the skillage to do that and still turn in my programs early, thank you very much.) Since i have actually had to do stuff, i haven't been able to get online.

add to that my typical slacker-ness and i haven't posted in nearly forever...

ice skating

  • Dec. 14th, 2008 at 5:12 PM
lust

i went ice skating today.
it was fun.
i feel down twice.
which hurt.
a lot.
i gave a quarter to some kids at the vending machine.
it's the season of giving.
that was my day.
it was interesting...
u__u

 

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sleepy

  • Dec. 6th, 2008 at 2:54 PM
lust
it's almost been a week, so i guess i should post something, huh?

um...
i know! explaining this thing here.

alright let's start at the beginning.

i'm friends with Miss. Mycenarum, have been for a while. now, no offense to anybody, but i just don't think of people as 'dating'. i've never dated so it's such a foreign concept to my mind that i can barely comprehend it refering to someone i barely know, much less someone i know well.
which is why, when Miss. Mycenarum said she was daiting, i was very much surprized.
and my surprize quickly turned to curiosity.
who is this young fellow? what does he do? how did he meet? Mycenarum does live in a mushroom after all, it would surely be interesting to know how they met... and so on and so forth. untill it got to the Question.
what does he look like?
now, let me say again, that Mycenarum  lives in a luminous mushroom, making visiting very... problematic.
and so i thought to myself, "If i can't visit to see him in person, the next best thing is a photo, right?"
so i go on and ask for a photo of the young fellow and find that there is none to be had.
sure, i'm disappointed, but se la vie! i shall let it go.

but i'm still curious about the other things. Mycenarum is my friend and so i want to know more about the things that she likes and the things that interest her. plus, i don't want to see her get hurt and, god forb it,  if someone does hurt her, i want to see that they understand how terrible it is that they hurt a good person like Mycenarum.  
and to do those things, to learn about her and to look out for her, i want to know about this new person on the scene. that's not so crazy, is it?
but, at the same time, part of being her friend is respecting her and accepting boundaries, even if you don't understand them. so, since she doesn't want to share details of her personal life, then she doesn't want to share details of her personal life. who am i to question the judgement of a friend?
so, oh friend who lives in a mushroom, you will have no more questions from me!
(or at least very very very few...)

so there you go.
it's all been explained.

:D
 

the long rant is over

personality

  • Nov. 30th, 2008 at 2:40 PM
lust



old personality test from over here, which was actually pretty good...

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