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See what I once was. Laugh if you want. No, really, it's okay. I can't help laughing myself when I read some of these.
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Saturday, January 27, 2001 I went to town today and looked around the three bookstores which sell English books, hoping to catch one 'a those Potter things I keep hearing about. Unfortunately they were sold out. I'll get you yet, you wascally weezad! [Sets Obi-van Lego into a vistory position, lightsabre in hand, and makes him stand in the Landspeeders seat] I wrote a short post to rec.mucis.beatles: >Subject: Star Wars, ep. 7 [added in square brackets are the Beatles songs I reffered to] > I'm a Jedi [I'm a Loser] There was one reply: >Subject: Re: Star Wars, ep. 7 [???] >You've Got To Hide Your Love A-Vader [Away] [Again, no idea] >A Hutt Day's Night [A Hard Day's Night] Hmmm.... Whoa... BIG backlog right now. Let's start chronologically: Thursday. I PASSED THE WRITTEN EXAM!!! I got into the oral tomorrow!!! YAY!!! ^_^ I met my friend from a previous school. We sat and talked of old times... Egad, I feel ancient again. If you're reading this, B., pozdrowionka. :) In the evening me an' mum went over to Magesse's house. The moms talked and the daughters talked (to a background music of Beatles For Sale and the newly bought Help!). In the middle of the evening Joan "Tekla", one of our classmates, dropped in to visit Magnesse. The following exchange took place: Magnesse: Oh, and by the way, Meagen passed. When Joan went on her way, we eat supper, then watched "Ally McBeal the musical" and riffed it mercilessly. It was fun. Friday: Oral exam was a breeze. The man was really nice to me and asked about things I could talk about. I rambled at times and my train of thought was derailed by stress several times (stopping me short in the middle of a sentence with an "um, well, er, you know?"). But altogether I think I showed off my English skills quite well. I bought myself a Lego SW Landspeeder, with little Luke and Obi-van figures. Obi's even got a blue lightsabre. [moves landspeeder around making wooshing noises] Who're you callin' immature?! Saturday: Home alone all day! PARTY! Okay, actually I'll be working on SailorM 3 and drawing fanart for Rebo-chan. Oh, and I'll be uploading SailorM parts 1 & 2 to my website soon. Tuesday, January 23, 2001 Well that's that. Olimpiada stage II is on Thursday and I'm hardly halfway through The Pickwick Papers. In fact, at this very moment, instead of studing the various interesting points of British history I am writing an online journal, and instead of getting aquainted with the 42 gentelmen who had all been President of the US (not all of them at the same time, though) I am having some delightful conversation in alt.fan.pratchett. Hopeless, really. Tomorrow after the weekly meeting of our Anime club me and Magnesse are going to have a long talk concerning the A Hard Day's Night and Yellow Submarie CDs she has borrowed from me. Stay tuned for the results of these negotiations. Monday, January 22, 2001 If anyone has been wondering what terrible monster has swallowed me lately, the answer is - the evil Usernet. I have spent all my online time hopelessly entangled in rec.music.beatles, rec.games.roguelike.nethack and alt.fan.pratchett. And I couldn't get into my FC account to check the mails. Those KamiArk posts must be piling up by now. But I have started to work on a new and improved Kamishibai Newbie's First Aid. The layout is done and I'm typing in the content. Should be going up next week, weather permitting. Not really in a mood to type much now, so: To Meg-chan: I hope your hand gets better! You shouldn't overstress that priceless instrument. But I know it's a pain when you can't do something you like to do. To Alex-chan: You're talking nonsense again. There's no such thing as staying too long in Kamishibai or a proper retirement age. As long as making Kamis is fun and you have ideas to follow, you can stay and no-one has the right to say a bloody word about it. Or I will personally introduce them to my Virtual Fist O' Justice (TM). And I'm quite sure there's a lot of people who'll back me up on this. This just in! From the Internet Beatles Album, I bring to you: Write in C! (Sung to Let it Be) When I find my code in tons of trouble, As the deadline fast approaches, Write in C, Write in C, I used to write a lot of FORTRAN, If you've just spent nearly 30 hours, Write in C, Write in C, Write in C, Write in C I need to get a proper MIDI and sing that sometime. ^_^ Other computer songs: UNIX Man (Nowhere Man) Wednesday, January 17, 2001 Latest news: I'm just back from the meeting of our Anime club. My not-really-boyfriend was there, and he was wearing a suit. And I've got this particular quirk about well-dressed men. I was almost over him, too. In the long time we've known each other, he has once (that's one time) told me he likes me, and that was a long time ago. He has never called on his own accord to chat a bit, not even during Christmas. He has not sent one measly e-mail. Clearly a hopeless case. But the suit, the damn suit!!! Give Me That Music With Rocks In! Yes, I'm listening to Rock 'n Roll Music, the Lennon way. My current mood: Beatles Mood! ^_^ And generally Britain-loving mood. I just read By the pricking of my thumbs (by Agatha Christie, 1968). One of the characters is named Sir Philip Starke and I just thought, "Gee, I wonder where that one came from!" Right now I'm reading The Pickwick Papers by Dickens. In other news, I'm entitled to one day free from school to get ready for the second stage of English olimpiada. Add to this JRR Tolkien and Terry Pratchett and tell me if there's any reason not to like Britain. Back to the band, however, I noticed that at least for now I'm only interested in 62-65 Beatles, when they were still young and cute (and, in John's case, alive). Their voices were also much more appealing to 16-year-old girls. I tried listening to Strawberry Fields Forever lately, but found Lennon's voice was just... wrong. Irritating. Too old. I don't know. The passing of years is a terrible thing. I'm finishing high school next year and sometimes, when in the hall I run into youngsters barely released from junior high... I suddenly feel so old! But once I'm in the first year of college that will hopefully change. At least for a while. Magnesse told me lately: "If you're Lennon, then I'm Ringo". I said, "That's very nice, except for two problems. One, Ringo's still alive. Two, he's still alive. Now technically that's just one problem, but I think it's big enough to be mentionned twice." Actually, it's a question worthy to be asked: Can a person be the reincarnation of someone who is still alive? Common sense might tell us the answer is "No". But since when does common sense count in these matters? Monday, January 15, 2001 Money ain't everything, but life without money is nuffin'. This quote from Juliusz Machulski's latest movie is my motto of the moment. I've seen the movie on Satruday with mum. For a Machulski film, it's mediocre. On the general comedy scale it ranks as "supreme", outclassing any American comedy newer than 1989. I can still remember the expression on my classmate's face when I told her, with some giggling, that there was an ax-murdering scene. I didn't want to spoil the movie for her, so I didn't explain. (Let's just say I kinda saw the joke coming. Mum was shocked at first, but then laughed.) Okay, most people reading this will never see the movie, so I'll tell you: The very inept kidnapers, having failed to obtain a randsom for the buisnessman, decide to scare him into thinking up a money-making scheme for them. They tell him "the other guy they kidnapped" was of no use anymore and murder him nearly before his eyes. Actually, one of the kidnappers does the death-screams, while another slams the axe into a hunk of meat and the third sprays ketchup over him. They show this in the following scene and there's no laugh track inserted - what you're hearing are the other people in the theatre. Back to this afternoon. I've just bought the Beatles for sale CD. For my impressions I'll just quote the cover blurb: "The kids of AD 2000 will draw from the music much the same sense of well-being and warmth as we do today." A prophecy come true, you might say. Anyway, with this British import and two manga (What's Michael? 8 and Akira Toriyama's Dr. Slump 7), my budget would be down to the last pennies except... Dad doubled my allowance lately. [cheers] Mum also gives me quite a bundle nowadays. The catch? I have to pay the whole Internet connection charge. The rest's mine, ALL MINE!!! [maniacal laugh] Alex-chan started the Pomegranate online manga. (Link's to your left.) It loks great! I made a special piece of fanart for the occasion, entitled "Wrong Ringo, M". In other news, I've just noticed something about my nickname: Meagen (derived from Megan) Beatles The scariest thing is, I wasn't trying to make any such reference when I made up the name. I honestly thought my name in English was spelt that way. (I heard it on My Little Pony, there was a Megan there.) I don't think I had heard about the Beatles then, and if I had they were classed under "stuff mum likes" along with bridge. Could be an early flashback to my past life. Whew, this thing got long. One last thing: Honey Don't is sung by Ringo! [fangirlish squeal] [The sound effects for today's blog entry are brought to you courtesy of Frobozz Electric. We are the boss of you! (TM)] Five points to anyone who gets that one. Thursday, January 11, 2001 Just to summarise my take on the OW case. I'm ready to pay the money, although I'm not sure how I'll get it through. But I think the Kami community can manage on its own right now, if everyone works hard enough towards that goal.
Monday, January 08, 2001 Alex-chan, don't talk that way. Your art's really cool and original and if you start drawing, it will get even better. Jennifer herself wrote on her "letters to UJ" page: "Just start drawing the comic!"
My current mood: quiet, a bit on the philosophical side, creative, and seriously out of touch with reality. That's what a minor dent in the sleeping budget does to you. On the upside, I have some kind of vision as to She loves you, and enough self-confidence to at least start chapter 2. On the downside, I failed the Biology test this morning. Quiet and creative mood also brings major "I don't care"s in little matters like studying and plain going to classes (instead of sitting around in the school library reading old TIME issues). But I also have a very bold idea on how to link SailorM's life with Sailor Andromeda, another Senshi in the SSU continuity and also my oldest original character. I don't know what I'm going to do about it, though. Write in a few hints? Or a full story? Maybe both. Sailor Andromeda has one heck of a complicated life herself. I think I'll start from the first story, Stardust, then move on to its prequel, Fireball, then the story after Stardust and the next one in which SailorM's origins are finally explained. That's a lot of writing. I'm a lot better at making up stories than actually writing/drawing them. Stardust is actually in a weird state; I've got a good bit of the prologue and chapter 1 done, and chapter 2 all ready. I still have to polish up the prologue and finish chapter 1, but I'm already writing chapter 3. But I will get around to finishing all four parts. Eventually. I am in a mood to do nothing except ramble about fanfics, so I'll end this post now. Wise thought of the (something): Today's rebels are tomorrow's classics. Sunday, January 07, 2001 Good, it works. Seems that Meg, Ribby and Alex have all had problems with vanishing posts. I have a good system to prevent this; I write my posts in Notepad off-line and save them to my hard drive. Then if Blogger eats it, it isn't gone and I can try to upload it again. On Friday I had a test test in Physics, and tomorrow's in Biology, Polish and Maths. Thankfully winter break's on the next week. I can't wait. I've been downtown one morning to get the last of my rabies shots (a few months back I was bitten by, of all things, a bat). There was this huuuge banner on one of the record shops advertising a Beatles "best of" compilation CD. Over here the copyrights on music die out after 25 years, so they just had to mark "all songs contained within have been recorded before 1975" on the cover and they're all clear. Listening to early Beatles gives me Fangirl Fever; you know, trouble thinking staright, rise in temperature, and a sudden urge to stand up and scream really loud. I've never thought much of today's teen idols, but the power of the Fab Four has ensnared me. It just goes to prove that Beatles rule forever. No matter what those evil Americans will try to do. Testing 1-2-3... is this blog on?
Monday, January 01, 2001 Wai wai wai!!! I found this ultra-cool pic of Ranma in the fanart gallery of Silver Moonlight. I don't know if it's really fanart, but if it's this good it can't be ripped-off. Beefcake! ^_^ Happy New Year! ^_^ It's already well past zero hour when I'm typing this. I'm currently in the new millenium and watching the fireworks. I like fireworks a lot. My favorite are the kind that fly up and explode into a shower of colorful stars that might form a nice circle if you're lucky. Well, we're pretty much done with midnight. We've sent it along to Britain, where it should arrive in about... half an hour. Americans won't get it till in five or six hours, I believe. Up to nine (or was it ten?) on the western shores. Hah! Those stupid Americans are still in the previous century. ^_^ Serves them right for not helping us from the start of WWII and murdering poor John and all that. Well, that was all in the last century, so let's let it go now. But really, those Americans do everything at night. You wake up over here, wham: morning news, Americans did this, Americans decided that. It's no wonder they couldn't count those votes in Florida, doing it in the dark and all. And they're planning to keep on doing it. Just look at all the sci-fi movies: all the action takes place at night. You'd think that in the future, streets will be completely empty in daytime (even cyber-criminals and emotionnally imbalanced heroes have to sleep sometime, don't they?), except for the occasional sanitary worker. No, wait, silly me. By the looks of those cities, they'll all be on strike from now until then. Visions of the future... Well it's a good time for it. In case you haven't noticed I've been sitting at the PC almost all day now. I wrote a bit of She loves you, but only the part with a brief glance at the Senshi in 2057. It's also a bit of my take on how I see life in those times. Good morning, Good morning... |
