Revisando los borradores de entradas que tengo en mi blog, parece que tengo suficiente posts para todo el mes de marzo. Bueno pues, vayamos publicándolos entonces.

…Aunque esta entrada en particular no es un borrador que haya escrito con anterioridad.
Le mencioné a las Barbies que había estado comprando por internet… pero para que ni ella ni ustedes, lectores, se asusten con la idea, pongo aquí unas fotos (pésimamente tomadas… y es que el arte de la fotografía es uno que no creo alguna vez llegue a entenderse conmigo y viceversa). No son Barbies, claro, sino Pinky:st, una línea de muñecas japonesas. Y… Mejor pasen a las fotos en sí.

(more…)

tagged me for this meme. Well, wasn’t it a fun thing to do: I had my perfect opportunity to rant… I mean, to talk about Karoru, and the best of all, she was the one who asked for this, ho ho.

1. The person who tagged you is…
. She’s doing memes again, I wonder what that means…

2. Your relationship with him/her is…
Fellow fangirl, my accomplice in virtual crimes, ranting buddy anytime I feel like speaking ill of something/someone…

3. Five impressions you have of him/her…
-Ranty.
-Perfectionist.
-Perpetually stressed by her students and job (come on, that counts as an impression).
-Easily speaks her mind out.
-Demanding.

4. The most memorable thing he/she has done for you.
Hmm… Bear with me? Really, I can be so much of an annoying person sometimes, anyone that bears with me when I’m in those frames of mind surely deserves my gratefulness.

5. The most memorable words he/she has said to you.
Can’t remember… But I’d say, something regarding my fandom pairings…?

6. If he/she becomes your lover, you will…
…Face the end of the world? Don’t know, I have the impression two people like us can be friends, but lovers? I mean, will we be able to coexist in the same space and time without trying to kill each other? (“I like this pairing.” “Good for you, I hate it.” “Uh, of course, since you like those non-con stories…” “You’re one to talk, you like fluff and all that sappiness that makes my teeth rot…” “Hey, don’t mess with my fandom likes! You know you can share my bed, you can wear my clothes, I even cook for you and clean after the mess you leave behind, but my fandoms…!” “Oh, what? If it’s ME the one who has to put up with your ridiculous pairings and…” “Just DIE, you bitch!”) End of the dramatization.

7. If he/she becomes your lover, things he/she has to improve on will be…
…ACCEPTANCE OF MY FANDOM PAIRINGS.

8. If he/she becomes your enemy, you will…
…Probably look for a shaman to put a curse on her, so her students torture emotionally and psychologically her to death and she ends up committing suicide by going to the school she works in with a bomb set to detonate in 10 minutes. I know her, I’m pretty sure she’ll go for a dramatic end.

9. If he/she becomes your enemy, the reason will be…
…SHE DARED SPEAK ILL OF ONE OF MY FAVORITE PAIRINGS OR OTP.

10. The most desirable thing you want to do for him/her now is…
Give her a big zoological hug to cheer her up, and then convince her to place that bomb in her school nonetheless.

11. Your overall impression of him/her is…
…That she’s a very outspoken person. Maybe too much.

12. How you think people around you feel about you…
A bit freaked out. I change my mood too often – and fangirl a lot.

13. The characteristic you love about yourself is…
The fact that I can stop worrying about things in a matter of minutes. Of course, that’s not a good thing, really.

14. On the contrary, the characteristic you hate about yourself is…
I’m so lazy.

15. The most ideal person you want to be is…
The lost daughter of Bill Gates? So I can sue my father for some billion dollars.

16. For people that care and like you, say something to them…
Really, people, I love you for bearing with me. I know I can be the lowest piece of trash to you sometimes, but you’ve never let me down. You’re true friends.

Ok, so now I tag… , because I want to know what she thinks o me (or… maybe not). I’d say , but I don’t think you’re up for the same meme again, right, Karo? Besides, you can always rant… I mean, speak out your mind about me anytime. We can have a little fandom war and then forget about it.

Ok, in other news… Six more days until Sengoku BASARA 2 Heroes, and I made a post to the Senbasa community sharing some of my SQ scans. There is a couple of new doujinshis in the list if you’re interested in getting them… Or wait until I make a proper post in my blog with the links, once my latest order arrives sometime next week (an order with more… Senbasa doujinshi, of course). Problem is, it’s possible I’ll be away from my computer for the next days, or rather, that my computer will be away from me for a while, I’m not sure for how long. We’re sort of busy right now because of some rushing matters, and parting from the side of my beloved PC is one consequence of such situation.

Yeah, bear with me, I’m being dramatic all over again…

…Despite not having a writer’s block in this moment (it’s just laziness), I think it’d be fun to do to reply to this prompt. (By the way, this is a prompt that pops up in LJcom’s index page on random themes. But you know I love to spam my blog about favorites, fandoms and the such.)

Favorite Book: Jingo by Terry Pratchett, the latest Discworld book I’ve read

This book belongs to the Night Watch series; this time, instead of fighting disorganized crime and the ocassional political plotter or magical mess-up (so common in the Discworld), the Ankh-Morpork City Watch, equivalent to modern time police force, has to stop a war. The city state (a mix between New York and London) and the not-so-neighboring country of Klatsch (think of an Arabia nation) are at a state-of-war due to the sudden appearance of a sunken island, which just happens to be located in the middle of the ocean that separates the aforementioned nations.

Again, the main character in the book is Samuel Vimes, commander of the Watch and the vivid image of Dirty Harry if this character were ever to appear in a magical setting. Vimes realizes there’s a political complot coming from Klatsch: someone just wants the klatschian prince dead(ambassador to Ankh-Morpork), and it’s up to the Watch to find out who that person might be.

Favorite Movie: I’d say Toki o Kakeru Shoujo, which is the latest movie I’ve watched. It’s based on a book by Yasutaka Tsuitsui by the same title, but instead of being the threatrical version of such story, is a sequel of sorts

It’s yet again another highschool story with a supernatural theme to it. The main character is girl named Makoto who gains the ability to literally leap in time, from the very instant she’s living to any moment in the past she remembers. Well, she spends 3/4 of the movie doing small and silly things like jumping back to the previous day so she can have his favorite meal for dinner, and so on. Until a tragedy unfols and we’re told about her power and how she obtained it.

What can I say? It’s a light and funny movie. The animation is of high quality and character designs are by Yoshiyuki Sadamoto (Shinseiki Evangelion char designer and mangaka), but don’t worry, there’s no Shinji Ikari in this story. In fact, Makoto has two endearing friends, your typical juvenile delinquent with a heart of gold and the big, intimidating guy who’s in actuality a very kind man. Can you see it coming as well? There’s a romantic subplot going on in there…

Favorite CD: It must be TRF 15th Anniversary. TRF is a Jpop band that, as the title of the CD might imply, has been in the business for a decade and a half already, but it’s never been that popular overseas. Thanks to anime everything related to J-Music has become widely known and popular outside Japan, but I still like to listening to some old bands I first met years ago, when “visual” refered only to something that you could see and didn’t have almost anything to do with music, ahem.

Favorite Videogame: You saw this coming, it’s Sengoku BASARA 2 (and it’s 17 more days until SB2Heroes is released). And… Hmmm… I should write something about the game, but I’ve fangirled so much in my blog about Senbasa that anything I could say just now would sound like a repetition.

And now, I suppose it’s time for me to get back to that text for my German translation class. I’ve been writing yet another of those repetitive posts… repetitive posts… posts… about Senbasa and some historical trivia, but I’m yet to finish it. As I said, it’s not writer’s block but plain laziness what’s preventing me from spamming your flists.

…Todavía tengo los proyectos de escaneados en, bueno, proyectos. Mi hermano ha estado usando mi PC entre el día de ayer y hoy, ya que le pasó la peor desgracia que en sus términos es capaz de acontecerle: su computadora falló. No llegué a tomarle una fotografía al chasis, pero como no la máquina no le reconocía los discos duros la desarmó y – dirán que no es la gran cosa, no, a menos que tu PC tenga algo así como 3 discos duros instalados y más de una docena de coolers (mi hermano usa más discos duros, pero ésos son externos y sólo los tiene que conectar por vía USB; no hace falta que los instale de manera permanente en la PC). ¿Alguna vez han hecho correr una PC con todas las partes fuera del case? Bastante instructivo, ya que lo primero que aprendes es qué parte no tocar para evitar el riesgo de choque eléctrico.

Luego de desarmar, instalar, volver a desarmar y contar los tornillos de su PC como 5 veces, mi hermano llegó a la conclusión de que se trata de una sección (cuyas especificaciones no recuerdo) en la que instala el disco duro principal. Más o menos creo que la situación se resume en a) tiene discos duros antiguos, de un modelo que en Perú todavía se vende pero que está descontinuado en el resto del mundo y b) necesita ciertos repuestos en su PC que no consigue en Japón, porque su computadora es un modelo prototipo japonés muy avanzado para las series que hay en Perú. O sea, tiene una PC espectacular con discos duros peruanos truchísimos y cables japoneses muy avanzados para que existan en este país. Y luego él se pregunta porqué le falla la computadora tanto…

Mi hermano, además, me acusó de tener la única computadora en casa que no falla. Y yo me reí y me contenté en sacarle eso en cara a mis dos hermanitos, ya que en un tiempo ellos se burlaban de mí porque era capaz de colgar Windows XP. A mi favor tengo que decir que lo hacía cuando visitaba cabinas públicas: las máquinas eran de segunda mano, mal cuidadas, Güindous Equis DEE wilsoniano y tres mil virus poblando cada bite cuadrado de espacio virtual. Ahora, aunque mi PC tuvo un black out severo que me obligó a reinstalarle Güindous hace un año y medio, no falla como la de mi hermano y tampoco trabaja lento como la laptop de mi hermana… Creo yo, porque esta PC es más bien estándar (con 200GB de espacio gracias al disco duro extra que mi hermano le puso, pero fuera de eso, es bastante silvestre) y no tiene los 3,578 aditamentos de la compu de mi hermano, y yo tampoco le meto los 3,697 programas que mi hermana tiene en su laptop y rara vez usa. Bueno, sí le instalo programas, pero si no los voy a usar los borro para evitar saturar la máquina.

…Mi hermano estuvo quejándose de la laptop de mi hermana, que yo he comentado me desespera por su teclado. Además de que es muy incómodo usar ese tipo de teclado, adolece de varias teclas esenciales para la programación en HTML. Pero mi hermanito renegaba del hecho de que era lentísima… Claro, cuando tienes una PC con 2GB de RAM y caes en una mortal laptop de 256MB que, encima, está que revienta de programas inactivos, cualquier cosa te va a parecer LENTA. La principal preocupación de mi hermano era ver cómo hacía su tarea, porque él usa programas que, bueno, sirven para crear más programas (su especialidad es programación); uno de sus programas de java pide como 8GB de espacio en la computadora, y a pesar de que podría instalarlo en mi PC, en la vida podría hacer que corriera. Antes mi compu explota.

(more…)