Highlight of my day:

New York Cheesecake pancakes with home fries, scrambled eggs, bacon and sausage from IHOP. Caitlyn and I drove up to Prov after school because Caitlyn wanted to try the Holiday pancakes and I was going to have a breakfast party in school, but my plans fell through. Hot damn, these were so good. The pancakes were the perfect buttermilk pancake, but there were little bits of cheesecake in it that had this really nice tart kick compared to the buttermilk pancake, and the strawberry topping was a nice sweet compliment to both. Sooooo goooood~

Also, to anyone getting the gingerbread pancakes from IHOP, it really does taste gingerbready. Like the taste is really strong. Don't expect a mix of buttermilk and gingerbread, because you taste the gingerbread in multitudes.

As of late, I've been going on TinierMe more and more. Since they've put up Old Maid, I've been playing a bit and steadily adding people. >w<b It's nice to talk to people before randomly adding them~ IDK I still feel weird just adding people I've never talked to before. OH, BUT IF YOU HAVE AN ACCOUNT ON TINIERME, HIT ME UP OR SOMETHING. :D I go by Ash Ketchup over there~ Glee! Glee tonight was...IDK. I loved parts of it, like Eve and her band of misfit girls, and some HBIC bonding between Kurt and Rachel, while other parts made me facepalm like the whole sexting thing and that line about how Kurt and Quinn never talked until this episode (WHICH I CALL BULLSHIT. KEEP HOLDING ON PERFORMANCE. YOU DON'T GIVE THAT FRIENDSHIP STARE UNLESS YOU'VE TALKED.). <3 I absolutely "True Colors"~ Tina/Jenna Ushkowitz's voice is sweet. Her voice reminds me of someone, but I'm not totally sure. =A= It's going to bother me, but ajf;jerjagoija I love the solo. And how it's purely her solo. So gooood~

You know how sometimes people on your friendslist post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out. (:

(LOL so...this is my new introduction post. Because I'm too lazy to think of one on my own.)

( LOL THIS IS REALLY LONG )

Calvin: My sister had these jars that were full of what I thought was rock candy but I actually licked old sea rocks that probably had germs baw~ T.T
Anny: ROFL OMFG were they at least pretty colours like pink and purple?
Calvin: They were green >_>
Anny: Duuuuude not good enough. Any rock can be greeeen be it dyed by the sea or dyed by mold.
Calvin: Aw crap D:
Anny: If it was in the sea, it must be clean! C: since everyone is willing to swim in it and shit.
Calvin: Oh god D: and pee!!!
Anny: ROFL not to mention our sewage goes out to the sea at times. :3 dericious rocks nomnom
Calvin: So I saw this other jar of what I really thought = rock candy because I knew she had some somehwere. It was next to it so I thought I was mistakened last time. And look sugar glazed! But they were rocks again D: WTF

I love Calvin. This is one of the many reasons why he is one of my favourite boys in the world. <3

I have the biggest headache in the world. I've been reading/squinting at my computer screen a tad too long. I think I may need reading glasses or something because this headache bothers me.

Today was a tad chilly, but I walked over to my friend's high school, walked around with more friends before we split up, and then my friend and I walked over to his house while talking. Once we got to his house, he made us some tea that we drank on my walk home.

Through that adventure, I procured a batch of mini corn bread loaves from Stop & Shop, and my phone was almost dead.

I'm on a Big Bang Theory kick even though I can't really watch many episodes at a time. BBT is great and amazingly funny, but sometimes I hate how too separated Penny and the boys are in terms of social skills. I'd rather have my characters on the same playing field because that's when their friendship shines shines shines through and nothing seems awkward or fake or anything.

I wrote one of the RISD application prompts. The prompt asked what I would get rid of existence in the world, and why, and I picked black hair dye that dyed hair to that fakey knock cheap-off black that looks like burnt hay and doesn't catch light correctly. It's the only written thing out of three essays (drafts?) that I'm remotely proud of.

Contemplating right now, I think I'm going to rewrite my MassArt essay one more time. The first time, I wrote about how art is communication. The second time, I wrote about how comic books have influenced me more than a regular literary novel may have. This third time, I'm going to write about one April vacation day, my baby cousins and I drew circles and Pokemon on paper.

I want to work big for my art concentration, but I don't really have any suitable paper. Doing the concentration on big 18x24 drawing pad using graphite without any graphite powder would be a headache. I have a big enough one as it is.

I have a Majin Buu plushie. He cheers me up immensely.

I need to clean up my room, but I don't know when I have the time to.

Is it November yet?

It's kind of early to think about it because I have barely put anything together as far as applications are concerned, but when I go dorm for college, I'm going to put that on my dorm door if I can.

The past couple of days, meaning the weekend included, plus today really have lifted me from the funk that was September blues. I'm in such a better mood. I'm so happy about it. I finally can draw again, and my drive is back, and I'm ready to attack the world once more!

I want to hang things on my walls now. Posters and other things I have. I want to do so many things right now. Maybe I'll pop in a video or something and start hanging more of my clothes. I feel so much productivity right now because of my good mood.

Guys, if things are crappy, we can do things to make it not crappy! In the eternal words of Jaime's father trying to pacify younger!Jaime in Blue Beetle "we don't choose the life we're born into, but we choose what we do with it." GUYS, LET'S DO THIS.

Also, I have a new appreciation for "Kurage, Nagareboshi" by Ai Otsuka. I'm just souped in general for Ai's new album coming out. RE-RECORDING OF "FUTATSUBOSHI KINENBI" OH MY GOD. If she re-recorded "Strawberry Jam" I'd be so much more stoked you guys.

So after my bleeding heart and all the angst I had last week, good things happened.


I saw one of my favourite boys in the world. <3 Calvin is such a sweetie, and last Sunday (the 4th) was National Portfolio Day in Boston and we met up and I missed him so much. Sometimes my mind isn't totally on par with his mind, but we're on pretty good terms and I hated that I couldn't give him a hug goodbye. D: I didn't think I wouldn't have seen him before I left.

I also saw Harry, who I'm not the biggest besties with, but we had a great time catching up. Harry's a riot once you don't have people pointing out bad things about him. It makes me wish I got to know him better during pre-college, but what can you do? I feel really bad because the day before, I totally deleted a ton of phone numbers off of my phone and his was one. D: I think it was an old one because he had a new cellphone.

Anyway, on Monday (the 5th) I hung out with Anthony. There was so much running around and it was kind of beautiful because when it's just me and Anthony, we just talk and talk and it doesn't matter if someone's right or wrong, or if we go a tad wild or sensible. Anthony's truly one of my best, if not bestest, friend in the world right now because he gets me and I get him.

ROFL so I don't know how to ride a bike, and I'm deathly paranoid when near the idea of riding one, so Anthony was like "WE'RE GOING TO PICK UP MY BROTHER. GET ON MY HANDLEBARS." and we somehow got down a main road before I jumped off when we swerved too much and almost got ran over by a car. It was hilarious.

As for everything else, I showed my creative writing assignments to my friends, and they absolutely love them. :3 It makes me happy that I'm getting such great feedback because I worry that I don't write well enough for myself.

Now for finishing that meme, and posterity~

Seven days of sharing:

( Day one: a song )
( Day two: a picture )
( Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic )
( Day four: a site )
( Day five: a youtube clip )
( Day six: a quote )
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

Seven days of sharing:

( Day one: a song )
( Day two: a picture )
( Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic )
( Day four: a site )
( Day five: a youtube clip )
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

I'm moving some of my posters and stuff from my old room down and one of them is a blank posterboard that I used to write interesting quotes on. The first thing I wrote on it was "BELIEVE IN KAMINA AND GET A FREE PS2."

So, I got my braces off today! Everyone kept on asking me if it was nice, and why wasn't I smiling that much about it, but to me, it's just removing something from my mouth. Nothing too much to smile about. I don't really have anything to smile at. I'm happy they're out, but I'm not laughing at anything. =w=;;

Reading New Mutants or whatever it's called at the moment. IDK, I'd love to get into the more established series in the Marvel Universe, but the bulk kind of dissuades me at times. And I find it easier to relate to the teens in these. That's why I have such an affinity for Young Avengers and Runaways. ROFL but oh god, the first issues have gorgeous covers done by Joshua Middleton who is my new favourite illustrator. So preeeetty~

I've also started my college application essay. Which may or may not be used for many colleges, depending on what the prompts are. Mass Arts wants a statement of purpose and I think RISD has that too, so it's killing two birds with one stone, I guess. =w=;; I just can't seem to make it around 500 words though.

Tomorrow, I have my essay writing meeting at RISD. I have to get some art done. Need to find a mentor for senior project. >A<;; I need to doodle in my RISD sketchbook. I want to doodle in my own sketchbook.

Augh.

Seven days of sharing:

( Day one: a song )
( Day two: a picture )
( Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic )
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

Le Blog de Betty is a really beautiful bilingual fashion blog. <3 I absolutely love the fashion and stuff, and oh god, I am so jealous of all the clothes. The clothes for the most part are stylish without being in your face, and the outfits are pretty amazing too.

As for today, I hung out with Anthony and we went to Mickey D's to get free coffee, went to Stop and Shop to put free creamer and sugar in our free coffee, then went back to my house. In between all of this, we comforted my friend who did a stupid mistake in driving (without anyone or any car getting hurt) and talking. After talking to Anthony, talked to Becca about my friend Manda, our own weaknesses, and how much we miss each other now that we don't have a class together.

Today is a friendship day. It isn't that bad. <3

Seven days of sharing:

( Day one: a song )
( Day two: a picture )
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

A Little Privacy is an adorable fic starring TOP and Bom and how one event in their lives kind of brings them together in a really cute way. LOLOLOL I like the idea of TOP/Bom so this was just a really cute fic.

Tuesday as a whole was okay. I really got sucked into this mild depression attack. This whole week wasn't great, but then I guess all my frustration boiled up and just left me feeling really icky. I'm kind of better now, but I'm just so ready for October, it isn't even funny. b

Seven days of sharing:

( Day one: a song )
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

ROFL SORRY IF THE PICTURE IS BIG OR STRETCHES OUR YOUR FLIST. :c
BUT ANYWAY, I'VE FOUND MYSELF A VISITOR OF 4CHAN AS OF LATE, SPECIFICALLY /CM FOR REALLY CUTE PICS. THIS IS ONE.

Lately, I've just been contemplating. I think I'm in love with the idea of being in crush, and IDK. The rush of a crush is awkward and beautiful and stuff, but I'm just ready to stop even thinking about it slightly. I already know I'm out of crush of my latest crush, but at the same time, I feel kind of...not teenage-ish for not holding onto my crush that long? Then again, my other crushes only held on so long because I saw the people on a regular basis for awhile.

In other news, today wasn't that great of a day. I raged about "9" during English, raged during a lot of my classes. I'm just all out of sorts this Monday. I'm just so...not there today.

<3 "How I Met Your Mother" premiere was ADORABLE. "Buzzer Beat" is going to go suck my male anatomy. I thought it was really lackluster. "Alternate" makes my heart happy. I have nothing else to really say. :c

ROFLWAFFLE also, got a new layout for HERE, and a new layout for TWITTER~

Seven days of sharing (stolen from candyboat):

Day one: a song
Day two: a picture
Day three: a book/ebook/fanfic
Day four: a site
Day five: a youtube clip
Day six: a quote
Day seven: whatever tickles your fancy

This song reminds me of a Saturday afternoon I spent. IDK, very nostalgic and...yeah.
ROFLWAFFLE hopefully this meme will make me post through the week. I've been meaning to post, but just never found myself getting around to it. =3=

Yesterday was the first portfolio class! It was pretty decent, and it made me realize how little work I've put towards college applications and application drawings right now. I need to get my ass into work! =A=!!!

After class, went down to Thayer to meet up with the twins and Hyunah. <3 ROFLWAFFLE I bought a sweater off of a RISD kid on the RISD beach on my way up there. My wifey Jess and I had matching bags, and I was very pleased. We bought really delicious bubble tea at Sushi Express (I got coconut green tea! SOOOO GOOOOOOD!), and went shopping in the shop right next to it where there were really cute wallets. *A* I need to get back there soon because their wallets for only like 8$ and they included a coin purse and they were totally worth it. After our little excursion in Thayer, we went to the mall to go see "9" but not without visiting forever21 first. <3 Got a red and white raglan shirt and this really colour-beautiful flannel shirt. *A* It's red and cream and blue and really gorgeous. <3

As for "9", it was decent. The animation was sooooooooooo gooooood, but Nine made me want to punch something every time they did something stupid. Seven was a fierce bitch, and I wanted more of Two. Two was fantabulous. In general though, I thought that it would have done better as minisodes or something somewhere because there were clear cut places that an episode could end, and I wouldn't have thought it was insanely rushed to get a big-ish storyline done in an hour and twenty. IDK.

Back to waiting on a hot pocket to finish toasting. =3= Maybe I'll rewatch A Very Potter Musical or something.

Today was one of those LULZY days that was really nice.

Went to sleep at 3AM (was sketching from midnight til then hoping it'd tire me out; it did not), woke up at 6ish, did the usual, drew Sollitto a picture.

Art was fun. <3 We did blind contours, and I'm just stoked we're starting to draw. Yes please. I love it~ Had fun with contours, English flew by quickly, advisory ended up with so much laughs.

ROFL my friend groped me accidentally and I was like "THAT'S SEXUAL HARASSMENT."

Math was fun, but I hate how a lot of people act as if my friend's the second coming of the anti-christ. :C My friend Elisha is one of those really sweet people who go about life a bit too headstrong and obnoxiously at times, but her intentions are very good. She just channels rubbing people the wrong way.

ROFL ANYWAY. AFTER SCHOOL, PLAYED SOME MORE DISSIDIA WHILE (RE)WATCHING FULL METAL PANIC: FUMOFFU WITH THE BROTHER.

Oh gawd, so my brother just got through watching DNAngel because he thought Daisuke's hair/eye combo was really cool, and so we were watching Fumoffu dubbed because we don't mind dubs at all, and the beach episode, my brother goes "Oh my god," and I'm like "What?" and he's like "It's Daisuke Niwa."

I'm just like LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL because way back when I was in 7th grade and bought anime DVDs, my best friend Nikki came over one afternoon to use our intrawebz for homeworks, and I kept on rewatching the DNAngel trailer which is a trainwreck. "Hi guys, I'm DAISUKE NIWA. I love this girl named Risa Harada. I'M DAISUKE NIWA AND I AM GOING THROUGH PUBERTY."

That was a fun laugh. <3

LET'S TALK ABOUT DISSIDIA. Did my first playthrough of Zidane, Firion and Cloud's routes. Firion looks so much lovelier in his alternate outfit, and he just makes me want to keep him in my pocket. He is legit adorable adorable adorable to me, even if it's in a lulzy sort of fashion. Zidane and Bartz are ghey besties and it's adorable as fuck, and Cloud...reminds me of Osaka from Azumanga Daioh wtf. But ROFLWAFFLE, I was having a ton of trouble with Dissidia yesterday, but now that I have the hang of it, I'm all good. >w< Except for the fact that I find Cloud really really slow, and my brother's PSP is like dying on me because the analog isn't working correctly anymore and the R button is wonky. Oh well~ I'm going to try Squall's route next, then replay Tidus's route, and then start on someone else. Maybe Onion Knight~ Terra's wicked cute too, but IDK. =A= Her route is ranked like 4-5 stars in difficulty.

Quotes and Stuff from Today

► "Yesterday's a memory, and tomorrow's a dream." ~The Station
► Pallini: Do I see feetsies? / Me: Did you just say feces? / Simon: I heard feces.
► Me: So people will start shanking other things...like...teddy bears?
► Steph H.: This is what society has done! It takes an hour for seniors to play a 5th grade game (Clue) because they need to text evidence to each other!
► Me: Two out of three people have said that it looks like poop!
► In fact, in about 13 years, the air will be 80% Maryann because we are all cutting down the algae in the Brazilian flash card forest.
► GIVE ME FREEDOM, OR GIVE ME PANTALONES!
► Ben B.: AND I GUESS NEXT TIME I'LL SEE YOU I'M JUST GONNA MASTERBALL THAT SHET, AND HAVE YOU FOREVER TO BE AN ANNY WHEREVER I GO BECAUSE THERE WILL BE NO OTHERS D:

The Past Couple of Days:
► Ben B.: ... Why would I want school in my Anny? Just dilutes tha tiny awesomeness.
► Italian class includes telling the teacher that you're not having a good day because the smallest dog in the world died, then cracking up.
► Masochism in its truest form is watching Food Network while hungry.
► Talking to Caitlyn about starting up a game/hang out night so everyone can hang out.
► Wrapping Simon's birthday present AKA a Mr. T Chia Pet.
► When I was a little bit younger, the strain I was under could make me cry. Now that I'm a little bit older, and a little bit bolder, and ever so shy~ (She & Him's "Sweet Darlin'")
► Sul Li is so cute. D:

School started! <3 Hopefully, I can get through this year without too much stress on me. That's goal~

I'm okay with all my classes, but I really don't like the people in my classes. At all. They're all the people that annoy me by complaining about shit or being too loud. Augh. However, the fact that I have two art classes plus Italian 2 Honors is going to be amazing, I think I can cope. <3

I think I hyped up going back to school and having amazing classes/schedule that the day wasn't that enjoyable for me. I was bored out of my mind, and I really dislike people already, and everything's in the awkward "we're not really going to do anything at the moment" state. :\ Whatever, I have so much to look forward to!

Anyway, got a new journal layout, and nuked a ton of my icons. Going to cleanse the journal's tags so I don't have a bazillion tags, and then the semi-rebirth will be complete. I think I may save up for a rename token because I don't like mochapella that much anymore. Will probably think of something new later though.

<3 Downloading episode 8 of Buzzer Beat. ja;kdjalkfjaf omfg there better be fuckin' happy times in this because after all the drama, I just want the bbyz to be happy! D8

For posterity, a meme!

01. Post this meme and your current wallpaper in an LJ entry (or in comments).
02. Explain why you're using that wallpaper!
03. Don't change your wallpaper before doing this! The point is to see what you had on!

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Taemin is so cute. :C I seriously watched all the Taehee Haekyo Jihyun cuts on YouTube for Taemin. SOOOOOO CUUUUUUTE.

My plans for today are basically finishing my really fuckin' short essay that I'm having trouble stringing the words together for. It should come easier now, but it's hard to try and talk coherently about the struggle that second generation [insert Ethnicity]-Americans feel when trying to figure out if they come from their heritage country or the country they were born with. =m=;;;

ROFLWAFFLE I think I'm going to watch The Boondocks while eating dinner. Winning plan is winning.

I may or may not start watching either Buzzer Beat or Style soon. Leaning more towards the latter because it's about a FASHION MAGAZINE. And I just spent all day looking at fashion blogs. =w=

My dad gave me an octopus plug for my room. C: Now it won't be that hard to plug in my lamp and unplug it when I want brighter light.

Got my summer reading book today, and I just finished it. =w= I started reading at 6ish, and finished it at 1AM, which is great considering I also did the reading log during reading (and talked on Facebook Chat, but that's irrelevant). All I really have to do is spruce up my reading log, and write a 400-500 essay including quotes on the main conflict of the book.

The book, The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri, was basically chronicling the life of two India immigrants' son from his childhood to a closing point in his life which were his early 30s. I found it very relatable, and if I weren't braindead at the moment, I would tell you how I always felt weird when younger that I didn't have an ethnic name or how out of place I felt for not being able to find my name on little premade keychains and stuff like that. BUT ROFLWAFFLE BRAINDEAD PERSON IS HERE.

ROFL anyway, on the way back home from buying my book, my brother had a fun conversation in the car about Gundam Wing, and how Quatre was delusional when wearing goggles (my brother believes that only the main characters should wear goggles a la Digimon ROFL), how because Wufei is Chinese, he's on a totally different level (in my brother's eyes, of lameness) than the other Gundam pilots, and how our childhood friend has made us dislike Duo. Some fun ideas that I threw in were Quatre having a muscle-y male harem, that Trowa's Gundam, Heavyarms, could shank the living shit out of everything, and that Wufei's Gundam, Shenlong, could melt the shit out of things and was not useless.

My brother, he brings the lulz. ROFL I sent him a pirated version of Ponyo and he watched it, but he was upset that there wasn't enough action, and that Sousuke should have been attacked by fish or at least eaten or something. ROFLWAFFLE.

It was rainy outside today. It kind of set the mood the be a mellow day, because seriously, my friends Alex, Anthony and Saruh and I were to watch Wayne's World 2.

NEVER HAPPENED. THAT'S OKAY. We're hoping to watch it on Monday. However, after some random happenstances, we all ended up in the local Big Lots just wandering around and looking at things. =u=b Mucho mucho fun. Afterward, Saruh, Alex and I went back to my house to play some Tiger Woods 2010 on the Wii, and after Alex left, Saruh and I watched some TV and did some webcamming.

Mellow day was mellow. I still kind of wish I was at RISD just so I can have louder times, but at the same time, it was still pretty loud in Big Lots with my local friends. I guess I'm getting used to not seeing everybody. It's still quite weird.

ROFL I swear to god I've been getting more bug bites lately than I normally would not have if I were upstairs. I really want to change the sheets on my bed and wash them, and go from there. =A= It's so weird.

Anyway, I'm going to try and make my introductory webcomic strip and just draw in general. :D Maybe something'll pop up. Maybe read some fanfics.

MIYAVI AND MELODY'S BABY HAS BEEN BORN! :DDDDDD SO MUCH HAPPINESS. <3 SRSLY, FAVOURITE JAPANESE COUPLE. SO MUCH.

ROFL I've been so tired of drama lately because it feels like that's all there is right now in the bubble at RISD. IDK, I just want to have fun for the last two weeks but my friends are making it into this relationship crazy fest. :C Plox to be not having drama, kthnx.

I'm going to work on a page a day for inking. That's my goal for right now. =u=b

I want to read some good fanfics or something. So much.

I hope drawing tomorrow isn't going to be horrible. I have the feeling it is, but ROFLWAFFLE LET'S HAVE SOME OPTIMISM IN THIS JOINT.

I need to clean my room. =u=;;

I want to watch more Sonny with a Chance and I need to reread Young Avengers and I need to download the second volume of The House of M. The first one made me so sad for Luke Cage and Peter Parker. So much sadness for them.