Speed

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By Analog Fish. It's on the Naruto OST and was the 10th ending theme. An awesome rock song!  The band was formed in 1999. 2 of them knew each other from school and frequently sang and made music together. The 3rd member joined in 2002. Their first album was in 2003, and only a few months later, released the second album.They are constantly promoting their music while going on tours and performing at rock festivals. I love the way they sound.Have to find more of their songs. 





Today was another cold one. I hope it gets warm soon!  I posted another pic on dA: Close Up of Coconuts This was one of the best pics I took of a cluster of coconuts still on the tree. Check it out!  I also posted 3 pics to my fave forum. I also played some more Irish tunes. It sounded and felt pretty good. I'm almost done with another sentence from the grill's manual.


In Dear, there was more of an explanation on Subaru's hand, and how Komomo met him. Komomo had thought she could easily defeat the demon lord (Subaru) and get the reward. Like she is now, she was very poor and needed the money. As soon as she rushed at him with her sword, he hugged her and said she was cute. Somehow, they ended up travelling together. His right hand is the 'Lycanthrope' that's been passed down for generations by the demon lords. It feeds on human life, but he's been fighting the impulse. Because of this, it's having a rejection reaction. It can become fatal. So, they decide they have to go to an island if they want him 'cured'. (They have to take a boat.) In order to go, Komomo has to find a way to get the money for the tickets. She decides to sign up for a competition for just female heroes. She wins, but only because Subaru was in the crowd and threw a coin at her. She heard the sound, and ducked trying to find it. Also, her dog Ume eats clothes and throws them up for her. He also joined the animal's division for the competition. Won by eating the other opponent. They earned more than enough for the tickets.


In Naruto Shuppiden, Naruto's training without knowing that Konoha needs him. There's already so much destruction. Pain was collecting corpses for a while. When the frog sage was trying to merge with Naruto, he was immediately rejected by the Kyuubi. One of the Pains finds Shinzune and the others. They are trying to figure out the identity of Pain. She found them because Shinzune was holding the chakra receiver. Shizune, Ino, and Inoichi go off to a safer place to compile the data. Ibiki and the Anbu Black Ops battle Pain. Ibiki tries to torture her, but nothing gets through to her. (He's the master of torture and interrogation.) She tells him that he doesn't know the true meaning of pain. Then, summons a giant bird inside his stomach. It comes out and he survives, but is in great pain. She summons more creatures, that quickly rampage through the village. This arc has become pretty epic, to say the least. 


Then, I played Tower of Doom. It's a fun and addicting TD. I might go back to it.  You have to defend the tower while it's collecting enough energy to do a destruction spell. This spell wipes out an entire nation. 


I figured out and drew most of Loathe's tail, and lower body. Almost done with drawing him. After that, I'll ink him in red, and start coloring things. I'm really liking it so far.  Hopefully, the end product will be good too.

Bad Situation

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From the Naruto soundtrack. Another great background theme! :D The pic is my new wallpaper for the month. I took this at the Morikami Japanese museum and gardens. Thought it came out pretty good. Well, I spent a while this morning replying to all those new penpals. I'm not complaining though, I'm happy about it. The only downside was they asked me really weird questions. Like, Are you rich? and What are you? O.O I know that it's just plain rude to ask, even in Japan, if someone is rich or not. You just don't do it! But, I answered it anyways, because I don't think he really know what he was asking. The What are you? one was odd. I think I'm human. :P


Then, I posted the 2nd chapter of Alliance on my fave forum. They liked the first chapter, so hopefully they'll like this one too. I thought my mp3 player died Saturday night. I love my zen stone, so I kept trying different things hoping to save it. Mom had a good idea, although I still don't know how it worked. -_- I pressed the reset button, I thought it wouldn't do anything by that point. It's charging fine now, hopefully it'll work tomorrow. :D 


I edited more of Alliance, hopefully I'll finally start chapter 9 tomorrow. Also, I played my clarinet with the new reed and screws. I don't need as much pressure or wind power now. A bit easier to play, and I can keep my breathing consistent again. It feels good to have it finally work almost like before, if not better. :P Although, I have to get used to it again, but that shouldn't take long. 

They're still on the Jack the Ripper arc in Kuroshitsuji (Black Butler). This time they have a likely suspect named Viscount Druitt. He fits the criteria: he's a doctor, has no alibi, and is connected to a secret society or Black magic. (They're not sure which.) He graduated from med school, but has never worked at a hospital. And he hasn't been involved in his profession. He hosts numerous other 'seasonal' (Summer) parties, only he invites a select few. The last party is that night, and Ciel and the others have to attend it in order to catch the killer. Madame Red pulled some strings and they were invited. But, they have to follow the roles she gave them. Lau's her lover, Ciel's supposed to be her niece, Sebastian's her niece's home tutor, and Grell stays as he is. (Ciel's dressed up as Red's 'niece' in the pic.) Ciel's really hating to have to act like a lady. The dress is heavy, his feet hurt, and people are gossiping about him. He plays the role well though, and keeps telling himself to just endure it. His fiancee shows up to it too, if she sees him, his cover's blown. Finally, Viscount asks to see her (Ciel). While Ciel's sweet talking Viscount, Sebastian does a magic show to distract everyone. Viscount takes Ciel to a special room that's filled with some sort of gas, and he passes out.

日本語

I did 4 verb forms. Passive, causative, causative passive, and volitional. These sentences are probably not the best, but they give me more of an idea of how the form is used. Also, this verb is weird maybe when I move on to others it will be easier to see. これは日本人がしばしば用いる挨拶されなす。This Japanese greeting is often used. 私はあなたが挨拶させます彼女です。I will let you greet her. ゆきは彼らが挨拶させられます。Yuki is made to greet them. あなたは明朝も挨拶しましょう。I intend to greet you tomorrow morning, too.

I haven't watched Hetalia in so long! They kept postponing the episodes. I love it, and missed it so much! XD This one was about how terrified America gets when he watches horror movies, especially when he's alone. He asks Japan to watch a movie with him. America's reasoning is he has to watch them, because he's the hero. Nothing in the movie seems to scare Japan, he just feels sad for the ghost. Although, everything about the movie terrifies America. So, Japan gives America horror survival games to desensitize him. Basically, turns America into a monster. He has blood pouring from his eyes and his skin has turned a bluish- purple color. This is the only thing that freaks Japan out, and he says he'll never understand America. :D

I played a room escape game called Give Me A Pudding. It was in both Japanese and English. (Although, the English was pretty funny.) It's about a ferret named May who's trying to get pudding from it's owner. You get the pudding by doing a 'sexy' ferret pose. Very cute game.

I tried to start drawing another character. The only problem was I couldn't decide which one to draw. It was either Vincent or Zero from my story. The entire time I kept going back and forth, but in the end, all I did was draw a blank head. -_- So, tomorrow I'll hopefully make a decision. (I'm really leaning towards drawing Zero.)

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Bacchkoi! XD

Mr. Despair:

Gyakuten

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Or Change from the (first?) Naruto soundtrack. Kind of a cool and uplifting type of background music. Well, I went to bed a bit upset.  (Don't ask.) Don't ever go to bed that way!  It took me forever to fall asleep.  Than, once I did, I was practically dead to the world. At least I ended up with a really restful sleep. So, obviously I got up late, and it threw me off for most of the day. I'm hoping today to sign up for Birthright. I don't think they'll let me go this late. 


One really awesome thing today was having 4 emails from potential penpals living in Japan! That was too awesome! Their ages ranged from 24 to 68. Quite a large difference.  But, I honestly don't care about age when it comes to friends. I've had friends who were well into their 90's and some around the age of 10. I just care about people's personalities. Although, with different age groups, you get a glimpse of their point of view. Makes it more amazing!  2 of these penpals want to use snail mail with me, which is great! I can practice my writing skills.  Another sent me 3 pics, one of him, another of his wife, and the last of both of them. They were cute!  It's really going to be fun if I stay penpals with these people. 


I decided to look up on Google maps one of the towns I know the least about, where one of them lives. It's on the southern end of Honshu. Just a bit south of Tokyo. Cool to find out! Then I found a thing where you can go on the street level and visit towns and such.  It was pretty good, although a bit fuzzy. I felt like I was actually there.  Probably is totally different in person, but it's the closest thing. ^_^


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Awesome and funny scenes from Naruto (mostly from Shippuden):

Jiraiya's Theme

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On the first Naruto soundtrack. Kind of a funny song, just like he is. :D I love the taiko drums and the sound of the shishi odoshi (or 'deer chasers'). Sort of a traditional feel to it. I'm going to add more songs to my playlist, starting to get tired of the ones I have playing over and over. (I'll try to some how make the font for this new version bigger, but not as big as their large. Normal seems a bit small?) I'm falling a lot more normal and energized than I have been lately. Makes me happy! I wrote some more of Chapter 8, which I'm still on Zero's story. He seems to be becoming a very interesting character. A bit of an experiment too. ;) I'll probably bring it back to the present soon. I think there isn't going to be much left of this chapter. Hopefully people will like this one. Also, I finally got a chance to play my clarinet! It's been a while. It wasn't too bad considering. It'll probably take me a short time to get back to what I was at before. After that, I can improve it more if I keep it up. I'll be even better if I can either replace a screw or the ligature itself. (Doesn't hold reed too still anymore, since the screw is stripped.) Oh, and interesting thing is I have to get a sax ligature if I buy a new one. O.O My clarinet's weird that way.

The class visits a beach side boarding school that isn't completed yet. Sensei was asked to chaperon them, even though it was summer vacation. He calls the school, the School of Breaking Point. All the workers there are being pushed to their 'breaking' or 'boiling' point. The place is actually about to fall apart because of them. (Building reaching it's 'breaking' point. :P) Then he visits the town and finds out everyone's about to snap there, he starts naming the town after it too. I love how they debate things in this series. ^_^ 


Nozomu Itoshiki (sensei) has an older brother who's a doctor named Mikoto. Doctor's are also called sensei, so he get's confused when one of his brother's students ask about him. When put a certain way, his kanji means Death. So, Kafuka (she asked about Nozomu) starts calling him Dr. Death. O.O When it's normal, it means life. Sensei is going to have an arranged marriage meeting in his hometown, so he leaves for a while. Chiri, says she must stop it, and all the other girls join her at the Itoshiki mansion. They're all surprised at how wealthy his family is. They have a butler named Tokita, who shows them around. When they see sensei, he's in totally different attire (very casual shorts and t- shirt. He normally wears a yukata.) and has gelled his hair. He has 3 older brothers named Mikoto, Kei, and Enishi. Also, has a younger sister named Rin who's 17 and is a master in the Itoshiki School of Flower Arrangement with 3,000 students. 

日本語

I finished breaking down the kanji from last time, and compared them together. The last bit of the breakdown was: 夕 or yuu- night or evening. After comparing the whole thing, it didn't make a whole lot of sense. So, it was nice to review those kanji, which was basically all that was good for. I'm thinking of doing one more complex one, thinking maybe they think of it a bit differently. We'll see. Then, I found the meaning to one of the higher level kanji on my list. (Also, a way to double check to see if I have it in my vocab list.) 線 or sen- line (also telephone, railway), wire, beam. Next I looked at the medical vocab worksheet. I have a pain in my ________. is _________が痛いです。My _____itches. is ______が痒いです。頭 or atama- head. 目 or me- eyes. 瞼 or mabuta- eyelid. 歯 or ha- teeth. 耳 or mimi- ears. 耳たぶ or mimitabu- ear lobe. 鼻 or hana- nose. (Yes, it's the same as for flower.) 胸 or mune- chest or breast. 背中 or senaka- back. I know most of these, but it's good to go over them. :D 

In Kuroshitsuji or Black Butler, it was the 'rat' problem that was in the manga. They had a mouse problem in the mansion, and the 'rats' or Italian Mafia kidnapped Ciel. The anime had Sebastian's fight with the mafia look even cooler. The pic is when he's asking them for info on their boss. They give it to him thinking he'll let them live, but he jumps off the car and they fall to their deaths. O.O 

I played an extremely addicting game called Stonepunk. You have to launch the caveman as high and as far as you can in his makeshift 'stone age' car. As you go there's upgrades on the launcher, the car, how bouncy you can be, etc. The upgrades to the car are just a Pterodactyl, a hamster, and/ or a turtle strapped to it. One helps you go higher, one makes you go faster on the ground, and the other helps you go faster through water. I went so high in it, I was in space. O.O I crashed into meteors and UFO's up there. There were tripping when they made this game. :P

I also drew more of Gun. (My original character from Alliance.) Filled out his body a bit more, since his arms looked skinnier than what his bones should be. O.O I also made them a bit longer, made a better flame in the palm of his hand, drew out parts of his shoes, and inked his head. I might go over it again tomorrow. Then, it'll be time to draw his clothes, ink that and the rest of him, then color it. Shouldn't take me long. 

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Sasuke and Itachi's story:

This crocodile's huge!:

Russia's (from Hetalia) character theme song: