currently listening to: Stay With Me [Seki Tomakazu]

just came back from a strenous trip with my pals, juliana and regina.

was talking with regina that i realy should change her testimonials into juliana's. JULIANA CAN REALLY WALK. already halfway through the journey, i felt my fragile legs begin to quiver and shake gently. however, at the end of the journey, there was no more quivering--- because i HAD NO LEGS ANYMORE.

and i have to admit it was a pretty unfruitful trip for the trio of us. two hours after we have met, we started wandering about the streets aimlessly (with my feet hurting as if a herd of elephants have just chosen to perform a 'healthy massage' on it), anf finally settling for the one and only KINOKUNIYA, where i came to the horrifying conclusion that i had not my coupons with me.

it wasn't so bad because i wasn't really poor today. when i finally settled on buying the MANTEI LOKI RAGNAROK manga which i have spent the first 4 hours of the EARLY morning watching the anime (PARTLY the cause of me being late by 1/2 an hour for the appointment with the 2) with my brother (who was cussing away at the inferior quality of the god dammned VCD), i headed over to the counter to assume my position in the queue, only to find that at the end of the queue stood the tall and mighty wall, impenetrable and seemed to be warning me not to come any closer otherwise it might just squash me to death by sandwiching me between its stomach and the big fat lady in black who barely succeeded in squeezing into the queue too. it suddenly hit me that KINOKUNIYA was filled with people who had been squeezing and pushing me around without my notice because i was too engrossed in introducing FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST to regina, who did not seemed convinced at its popularity despite me stressing over and over again that it had been the champion of the animage awards, beating GUNDAM SEED in every category of awards (to my bro and everyone out there: ROBOTS ARE BAD).

"YII... bu hao kan de [referring to artstyle]," said the ignorant regina, then directing me a the shelf with the latest issue of THE PRINCE OF TENNIS, where i casually said "YII!! NA LI HAO KAN!! [referring to artstyle]" and received a kick and punch from her. how unfair can you get.

as if that was not enough, after unsuccessfully trying to outsmart the crowd at city hall by alighting at RAFFLES PLACE, which sent us to TANJONG PAGAR instead, we had to alight and take another train, with our legs sad, weary, and on the verge of breaking any moment, and finally arriving at the destination BEDOK, where i bade farewell and headed for the COMIC SHOP that took two levels to climb (as if my legs hasn't had enough PE) and discovered the MANTEI LOKI RAGNAROK manga once again.

after reading the price tag which read "$4.50", i bought issues 1 and 2 at a go, all the time thinking that i had got myself a bargain and was laughing to myself like a sick idiot as i paid the money at the counter. upon closer inspection on my way home on the bus (WHICH CERTAINLY TOOK ITS TIME TO ARRIVE), i found that the comics had no PUBLISHER LOGO at all and it was abnormally thin and 'clean' (meaning the sides of the pages of the book were PURE white). i was appalled at my stupidity when my brother finally came to the conclusion that the book was from malaysia and was not worth $4.50 for a book (despite the fact, he is still happily reading it right now, commenting on how accurately it follows the mythology and blah).

thinking that my tribulations were over, i happily knocked the door, anticipating a very cozy and comfortable environment where i could just kick off my shoes and lie on the bed till the next morning, but was instead greeted by my grim-faced aunt who, seconds after i had stepped into the house, yelled at my innocent cousin who was just sitting on the couch and pleading her to move away so he could have a better view of his favourite TV show, ROCKMAN EXE (which is one of my favourites as well).

sensing that the situation was not right, i picked out my clothes from the drawer and tried to walk as normally as possible to the bathway (i was actually trying to run to it at a 100m-dash speed) for sanctuary. upon closing the bathroom door, i sat on the toilet bowl, speculating the cause for such an outburst, when another scream directed at the indonesian maid sounded through and house and RESOUNDED in the bathroom as if i had the DOLBY SURROUND SYSTEM installed in it.

the only thing that made my day better was probably the 3 w-inds. cards that i bought at the Heeren, carefully picked out by the critical juliana and regina, who insisted on suggesting that the only thing nice about keita was his hair (she, of course, received several pokes and saliva from me after that).

another thing noticeable was our photo-taking session, where we had to fork out $3 EACH to take. firmly believing in my capability at decorating the photos, i shamelessly took over the controls and found out today that i am a SLOW TORTOISE who is not capable of handling any decorative materials (this is, of course, 'aided' by 'encouragement' from regina and juliana).

right now, my mother has came back and is now yelling at the indonesian maid (yet again--sigh) at a volume so loud that she seems to be shouting right into my ear. it is only now that i realized that my tribulations for today are FAR from over and that i should just grab my pillow and sleep right away.

however, i am extremely tempted (as well as hurried by the merciless time which spells "SCHOOL-REOPENING [THE END] IS NEAR", to print out more pictures for my file, for which i am attempting to revamp and change it into a file with EVEN MORE pictures (bwahahahaa) so that it would be more 'appropriate' for the new term. therefore, i shall stick to the computer and look for more pictures (WHICH IS NOT AN EASY TASK), while subjecting my ears to the risk of being eternally out-of-order. and i shall settle down to finish my FINAL piece of holiday assignment, which is the most dreaded and feared--- SOCIAL STUDIES ESSAY QUESTION.

anyway, i am currenlt rather interested with the series of MANTEI LOKI RAGNAROK, although it's a little too creepy for my taste. did a little research on the mythology as well.

Ragnarok

Loki

an i have also received the horrifying news that england has lost the qualifying match... against PORTUGAL... in a penalty kick-off... all because of BECKHAM...

*mourning*






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