Number One King

Here is your translation Tara

Donna joukyou mo
junbi wa dekiteru ze
arienai nante arienai sekai sa

Numba one Hantaa wa (Number one hunter)
yoishotto*

sou wa ittatte
katte na inochi janai
kesshi no shunkan kemu ni maki kome**

daitan na handan de
rikiouhen***

ayumi wo yurumeru hima wa nai
subete wo kakete ikitai basho ga aru
takami wo mitakute nemure nai
soko kara kimi ni misetai mono ga aru
nanba one kan tan ni iu keredo
hitori ja tsukamenai no sa

kakugo wa tooku ni dekite iru
seotta mono wa tami ga kureta yuuki

kokoro wo yasumeru hima wa nai
subete wo kakete motomeru mono ga aru
itsudemo hiso ka ni nuke me nai$
donna toki demo zettai michi ga aru
Nanba one kanta ni iu keredo
sugu ni wa tsukamenai no sa


No matter the situation
I'll be ready
It's impossible, but it's a world of impossiblities

Number one hunter
Let's go

That being said
Life isn't selfish
Desperate moments gather like smoke**

The bold hunter
(No idea what this means)

No time to relax my step
Everywhere there's places I want to go
I cant sleep until I see the highest heights
There's so many things I want to show you from there
I might say it's easy to be Number One
But I cant reach it by myself

My resolution is far from complete
What I carry is the courage people gave me

There's no time for my heart to rest
Everywhere there are things I want to ask
There in a flash at any time$
No matter what time, there's always a road
I might say it's easy to be Number One
But I cant reach it right now


This was kinda hard to translate, and I cant guarantee it's accurate-ness but there you go

Randomness and Fandubbing

So since my email accounts have a 25MB limit on attachments, I couldnt even send one .wav file over the internet. It makes me so very sad TT__TT And now I have to try and put it up here so we'll just see how that goes.

And I've just realized there's no thingy to upload sound...just videos...hm....what to do....

21

Wow. I turned 21 today! That's crazy. I don't feel that old.
It's funny. Some people mistake me for being a lot older, and some people think I'm much younger than I am. It depends on the circumstances. When I'm with kids, they always assume that I'm a teenager. A couple years ago when I told a girl at a camp I volunteered at that I was 19, she said "19? I thought you'd have wrinkles!" And at a different camp, my friends brother refused to believe that I was 20. He probably still thinks I was lying. Haha! I don't care. It's fine if he thinks I'm younger.
In college, I suddenly find that I'm one of the youngest people in all my classes. Until today, I was the only one in my Advanced Restoration class who couldn't legally drink (unless some people were keeping quiet about it, which is more than likely). Not that I want to drink. Alcohol is nasty. But everyone I've talked to in my classes is older than me. Strange. So in that way, I feel sort of young.
I don't feel like a 21-year-old. I still feel like a teenager. Or a kid. Kid at heart.

Disney

I found this video on Youtube about when Princess Mononoke was released in America. Disney bought the rights to do the english dub before they knew that Princess Mononoke isn't really a movie for little kids. One of the people from Disney asked Miyazaki if he thought that people would be able to understand Lady Eboshi: someone who isn't truly good or evil, but somewhere in between. Seriously? You can't understand someone who is only partly "evil?"
And then when I started thinking about it, Disney really doesn't have any gray areas. There's the good guys, and the evil guys. In pretty much every one of their movies, there's a definite evil person. Yeah, good vs. evil has yielded some really good movies. A lot of my favorite movies are like that. But that's not really realistic. Most people don't go doing things because they like being evil. They usually at least have motives (Well, I guess most villains have motives: money and power, ex). That's what's cool about Miyazaki. His antagonists aren't really evil (except for Musca). They all think they're doing the right thing.
It was weird that the Disney couldn't understand people that aren't totally evil. They should make a movie that doesn't have a purely evil person. It's a good thing to have.
Ellen and Nicole really want me to write a really crazy/evil person. I definitely will. It's not like I'm trying to avoid it. I think that would be good for me to try. But the stuff I'm currently writing doesn't have that yet.
Well, that's not true. Ganondorf's about to show up in my Zelda fanfic, and we just fought Giovanni in my Pokémon fanfic. But I'm talking about one of my own stories.
In random news, I've finally discovered my three favorite Disney cartoons: Pocahontas, The Lion King, and Beauty and the Beast.

Gryffindor Scarf

Okay, so over winter break, I made Mom teach me how to crochet. I decided to start with a scarf since they're easy to make. And the only scarf I could think of was the Gryffindor scarf. I actually finished this in January or something, but as is often the case, I stalled in putting up a picture of my scarf.
Seems like a lot of posts recently are to show off my random crafty stuff. I need to write more about my crazy stories. Except I don't know what to write about my stories...

Manga

I've been thinking. I want to try to draw a manga. Not a long one, but I'd like to give it a shot. I don't know what I'll make yet, but I have a lot of ideas I have filed away. I'll have to decide on something.
I have improved a lot for drawing people from manga, but I don't really know how to design my own characters very well. I'll have to work on that.
Actually, the reason I want to draw a manga is because of Kyu. I'll introduce Kyu later. But Kyu needs to appear in a manga because he's really cute.

My Plushies

Been meaning to do this for a while. Here's a group picture of all my plushies. I've been working on something bigger too. I'll post a picture when I'm done.

Hopes for Japan

I'm stupid, so I kept forgetting to make this post. It's been nearly a week since the disaster in Japan. I wish there was something I could do to help. At first I kept thinking that I was rich and could afford a plane ticket to get over there to help. Except now they're having nuclear problems, so now I wish I was Fern so I could go over there and use super powers to help fix everything.
You know, Nicole was supposed to go to Japan. Next week, right? Originally, she was still going to go, but with this nuclear stuff, she's decided to call it off. Which makes me feel better. I'm glad you didn't go to Japan last week, Nicole!
Not only that, but the tsunami hit the area where Ellen goes to school. Though she's far enough from the coast not to be bothered by that. Fortunately.
These events bring out the best and the worst in people. Disasters are when people show their amazing courage and kindness. But as Ellen was telling us today, some people are also freaking #@#$$%. I don't want to go too far into it since religion is a really sticky subject, unfortunately. I wish people weren't so intense. But this person was way out of line. She said that the earthquake was God's way of forcing Japan to convert. What the ##$#@%@! Let's put her on that island and see what she thinks then.
Some people make me so mad.
Anyway...
It's obvious that we humans have very little control over the affairs of the world. People are stupid if they think humans rule the planet. Clearly not true.
But I can never stop wondering what I can do to help.

Anti-Rant

Since I've been just ranting about my classes for the last bazillion posts. I decided to do something else. Yes it's only been 2 minutes since I last posted, but that's just how boring this class is!

No ranting...right.

Well let's talk about stories, I mean that's what this blog is here for, right? Talking about writing and stories.

So...who's writing stuff? Anybody? Anybody? I know Tara is for sure, cause writing is as natural as breathing is to her. Panda always has some little snippets floating around. Nicole is...like me, and we're both lazy :D

We should all do some kind of 4 way collab. that would be fun!

This is probably the point where Tara would smack me upside the head and tell me we need to finish the first Moon Dragon (title pending) collab. story we need to tweak still.

But I'm laaaaaaazy and lack motivation. I'll get to it eventually, maybe when I get back to my place and have an outlet to charge my computer. But I think a collab with all four of us would be really fun! Granted we probably shouldnt do something like what Tara and I did, and let each of us have our own character and the POV switches every chapter. But we can find a way around that.

:D

Such a good student

As the title says I'm such a good student. I'm sitting in my History of Art and Visual Cuture: Video Games class right now. It's the last class of the quarter before the finals, which start tomorrow. And being such a good student, I decided to sit in the second row of a ginormous class room that holds way over 200 people. So i'm practically in my professor's face as he lectures.

Now here's the problem. He posted a study guide for the final. Oh how nice! then you realize he just posts all of his slides that he showed in class. Still it's better than nothing, right? Well all his lecture slides are taken straight from the book, which is exactly how he lectures...

So now I'm sitting here in the front of the class, listening to my professor review. Well even if his teaching style, study guide, and lecture slides are just the book in a different format, at least he's pointing out important things! Or so you think...in fact all he's doing is flipping through the slides and reading random bullet points.

How do i know this? because he went over fiction vs. nonfiction and completely skipped over the elements that make a narrative.

Now you're probably like...ok yeah that teacher's not that great. But here's what gets me. People are taking notes...yeah you heard me. they're taking notes. On something they should already have notes on, not to mention they're online anyway, and this is the second time they're heard these things, and it's all in the freakin' book!!!!!

GAAAAH

On a related note. If you like the paperpoke thingy, check out this guy. He's an artist that makes origami. Ridiculous origami. Using a computer to tell him what to do. Then he makes organisms, realistic looking organisms. Out of one piece of paper. :O

O___O

His name's Robert Lang. here's his website

Amazing stuff!!!

Now I'm bored...and it's only be 25 minutes since class started, my computer is dying and then I'll have to sit here till he's done...in an hour and 20 no 19 minutes.

Fun....

Vaporeon Papercraft

So, a while ago I ran onto this site called Paperpokes where you can print out these patterns and cut them out, fold them, and tape them together. Since I'm so smart, I started with a really hard one:Vaporeon. I didn't have a guide as to how to put them together, so I figures it out by the lengths and angles of the pieces. It took me a while to get the hang of it. But my glue sucked. All the pieces kept popping apart, even after they'd been sitting of ages. so, finally when I got to the last part - the tail - I got Mom's bottle of rubber cement. It worked a heckuva lot better.
So, the head and forearms are dreadful with white space and holes, but the tail is beautiful.
Now that I know what I'm doing, I have to try again. I really wanted to make Espeon, but it doesn't seem to open on my computer.



Paperpokes
Other Papercraft
More Papercraft

Nice to meet you...?

I was thinking of this the other day when I saw something on deviantart. Someone had drawn a comic of these two girls freaking out about how awesome these two characters were and how they wished they could me them. And then the comic showed two buys that were basically real-life versions of those characters, and the two girls looked at each other and said, "nerds."
Anyway, it got me thinking. What would it be like if you met your favorite characters? Watching/reading them is one thing. You can enjoy their uniqueness from afar. But what if you were interacting and talking with them? Hopefully you don't do something mean like dismiss them as geeks or nerds (nothing wrong with nerds--nerdfighters!!!--but the word is often used with a negative connotation).
I started thinking about a bunch of the characters that I really liked.
Ling, Ed, Al, Zuko, Tamaki, Waka, Midna, Inuyasha (a new favorite). Actually Tamaki is probably the best example for this. He's hilarious. He's stupid but you can't help but love him. But it would really be kind of awkward to meet him. Especially if you happen to be a girl and he's in host-mode (actually it would be kinda fun to see him to his "depressed huddle").

Full vs Not Hungry

Poor Ellen. TT^TT
I don't have a quarter system, so I have to wait for spring break. Which conveniently starts on my birthday. I feel old...
Come over when you're on break! Ooooh, come to Japan town with us! We're gonna go to Japan Town. Which is nowhere near as awesome as what Nicole's doing. Going to JAPAN.
I shall now talk about something completely random.
Eating.
There's a difference between eating until you're not hungry, and eating until you're full.
There. Those are my words of wisdom. Don't feel like you have to keep eating if you're not hungry anymore. Probably something I should do more often. But some of Mom's food is so good!

Meh

The title says it all. I'm just ready for this quarter to be over. How bout you guys?
I'll probably be home on Sunday or Monday depending on how things go.

We should all get together and go eat food and discuss stories or something cause I need to do something besides sitting in classes that are dumb, dont teach me anything, waste my time, then post everything online anyway.

Gaaaaaah!!!

Parting is Such Sweet Sorrow

Here's something I hear a lot about. If someone gets really deeply into a book, movie, or series, they're sad when it ends. They want it to keep going.
I'm different. When I really get into something, I'm always really excited and happy when it ends. The journey's over and things are (hopefully) as they should be. I get such a nice feeling at the end of something good. Sometimes I just feel happy, and sometimes I get really hyper at the end.
I don't want things to go on indefinitely. Usually when something does that, it just degrades, and then you don't feel as good about the original thing anymore.
I'll use Pokemon as an example. I loved that series when I was a kid. The Kanto series was good. Even the Orange league and Johto were okay. But they never stopped and it just keeps getting lamer. I just watched one of the very oldest episodes, and I'd forgotten how fun it was. I was sort of pushed away by the lameness that it is now. Have you seen the 5th generation Pokémon? 95% of them are incredibly lame. It's sad. The 4th generation had some really lame ones in it too.
As much a people may want something good to last forever, it should end while it's still good. It should end when it has the greatest potential to blow you away with the ending (FMA, Avatar: the Last Airbender ex).