Last day of SL.

Last day of SL today, I guess I'll sort of miss the kids. With this, the last IP event is over. With this, my IP experience has truly come to an end. Sigh. Two years have gone by quickly, haven't they? It'll be 2012 in a couple of days. Looking forward to the class chalet, and of course, turning seventeen :D

I'm gonna try and clear small bits of work today, so I can have the whole of tomorrow to read my Death Note. Like finally.

I do not understand why I still don't get enough sleep during the hols.

Maybe it's because I haven't caught up from all the lost sleep from going to Gold Coat. After all, with SL everyday, I haven't had my usual afternoon nap for a long time. Got to catch up on all that lost sleep before school starts again.

First day of SL today. The kids were more interested than I expected. The younger ones anyway. It's amazing how some of them can already draw so relatively well at such a young age. They were a little unresponsive to my part, but ah well. The rest of the workshop should go on smoothly, I think.

Entering 2012 on Sunday. That's fast. As usual, I think I'll be counting down online, Fiesta most probably.

Time really needs to go by slower

Yaargh so many things to do but so little time. This whole week's gonna be more or less taken up by SL, so I have to use the remainder of what I have of the holidays very carefully. Ideally. it'll be split between drawing that manga I'd been intended to draw since ever, reading the manga I bought, and watching anime movies. But considering I only have from 31st Dec to 3rd Jan, and a few days before 10 Jan maybe, I'm just planning on reading my Death Note and leaving my OP volumes to another time, and leave more time for drawing and anime movies.

This is pathetic. How did the holidays go by so fast? Oh what I'd give to leap through time, or to rewind time with the sands of time.

Back home :D

Well, to sum the past six days up, Gold Coast was pretty awesome hehe. The beach was really beautiful, the sand was really sorta golden too haha. And Sea World, Movie World, Dream World, all of them were awesome. Some more than others anyway. And I got to get close with kangaroos too, that was pretty cool too. At first I didn't dare to go near them, though they're actually pretty harmless. But eventually I went and sort of mingled with them and fed them and stuff. Was a new experience :D

Overwhelmed today when I checked my email. Damn, I've gotta get busy again. I'm kinda lost for SL though since I've been away for a week. Besides that, still gotta finish the newsletter and finalise the nightwalk plans. And I'm not too sure what happened to designing the retrospect. And these are only the stuff I have to do. Sigh. There are still plenty of stuff I want to do, but I guess they've got to wait.

Ah who am I kidding. Gonna go catch up with all the anime and manga I missed now :D

I think I've got The Girl Who Leapt Through Time soundtrack permanently stuck in my head.

Maybe I shouldn't have listened to it so many times yesterday. Or rewatched the 2nd half of the movie ._. Anyway, I'm looking for other really good anime movies like this, and I found one called Paprika, it's about entering people's dreams or something. Seems interesting, I shall watch it when I get back. Damn, I've still got quite a bit of work to settle when I get back. Shall worry about it once I'm back then.

1 more day till I fly off.

Anyway before anything, here's my manga :D







Feel like such a happy kid now that I've got these, even though I haven't opened them yet haha. Will open them when I come back, which just nice, is Christmas. I have forgot the last time I was so happy actually buying something. Think it was years ago, when I bought my last Bionicle set. Guess I didn't really have anything I wanted to buy for the past few years. Even this, I sort of bought it because I had vouchers. Sigh. The time will come when I can spend freely on manga.

And since I sort of wrote the last post in a rush, I don't think I wrote enough about The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. Well I'm not sure how to describe it, but it really is an amazing and wonderful movie, I would recommend watching it. It's one of those unique movies, in my opinion anyway. I like the OST for the movie too. Might watch it again when I come back.

Done packing already. Now lets see, if Australia is as good as I expect it to be. Bye Singapore, hellooo Gold Coast :D

Finally got my manga :D

Well I haven't blogged much for the past few days, mainly because I had quite a few things to do. Anyway, just a short summary of what I did for the past few days.

Work-wise, the Pulse newsletter is about half done I'd say, and nothing much to do for the retrospect for now. As for my part in SL, I'll think more about it over the next week.

Had to move my Bionicle sets to another location, so it was the first time in years that I actually touched them. Got kind of distracted and started fixing up some stuff hehe. But the sad thing is, a few of the parts are broken. Sigh. It really has been that long, hasn't it?

Went to Kino today and bought manga. One Piece volume 43, 44, 52, and 59. The volume which I wanted the most, volume 59, was out of stock. Well, I should have expected that, that's the volume everyone would want to buy immediately too. Bought Death Note book 4 too, which consists of volumes 7 to 8. And it's in the original black version :D I decided on all these after about an hour of looking. If I had more vouchers, I'd have bought everything there. Sigh, the things money can buy.

As I was buying the stuff, I looked behind the cashier, and guess what I saw? ORIGINAL JUMP MAGAZINES! I nearly squealed in delight, luckily I didn't. I can't believe it, they actually sell them here too. Well, that's the next best alternative to a Jump shop I guess. I'll buy them one day when I've got extra money to spend, after buying all the manga. After all, this one is lower on the priority list since it's fully in Japanese. I'll just focus on buying the English versions of the manga now.

Well, having bought my manga, I am now a happy and contented boy :D I guess this is sort of my early Christmas and birthday present to myself. Speaking of which, I'll be turning 17 reaaally soon. I still don't have volume 58 of One Piece yet. Just saying.

Watched The Girl Who Leapt Through Time yesterday, after being reminded a few days ago that such a movie exists. It is truly a wonderful movie, and it's a nice change from the action/adventure stuff that I usually watch. Apparently this movie wasn't advertised much when it first came out in Japan, but because of all the great reviews it eventually spread around the world, and there's even a English version I think. The Japanese version is always the best though.

Time waits for no one.