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Test results finally came in and...

darksunmoon — Tue, 29 Jan 2013 20:02:56 GMT

I don't have Mono! They have no clue what it is I DO have, thought... Guess they'll have to run some more tests to find why my throat and glands swell up and I have fever and I lost 10 pounds doing absolutely nothing aside going to work (by car!) and staying on the computer all day.... So, my health's not really better than it was, just I'm getting used to working around it...

Following the good news that it wasn't mono and therefore, I was safe to roam around without contaminating people, Nick and I went to G-Anime Friday night to see Uchu Sentai Noiz's first live in Canada, which my friend Matsuro organised. These guys are so good and energetic (when I say energetic, I mean they dance and prance around and jump up and down like Miyavi does) and funny and even their fans were so energetic!

The way Angel✮Taka danced at times reminded me of Gackt wearing his cat costume in U+K. Their clothes are so detailed, I could have spent hours gazing at all the details. Kyo-sama (the bassist) kind of caught my eye for some reason... might be because I was "stationed" in front of him most of the show... Yamato (the drummer) 's kind of cute, too! Nick also really enjoyed the show; he wanted their autograph (that we unfortunately could not because I was working the rest of the weekend so we had to catch our bus ride back home and the autograph sessions were scheduled for Saturday and Sunday :( ). So we ended up buying their cd Meteroids; I wish they had brought more merch with them; other fans had their t-shirt and it looked so nice! Guess I'll have to purchase one of those refill cards for my Japanese Itunes account and at least buy their other songs...

Nick wanted me to invite them to play for his birthday! Gosh, that kid is so innocent and cute at times! After ripping the songs to iTunes, I loaned him the cd to bring to school so they would believe him because he probably sounded like he was daydreaming when he told them we boarded a bus for 7 hours Friday to go there and come back and all! But I was lucky, he was quiet and did not argue in the bus or complain that it took a long time and all and he kept to his seat instead of trying to go all over the place like he sometime does when we go to Montréal...

I stumbled upon an awful lot of friends I haven't seen in forever

Ah, also, we had a meeting with the Principal, the teacher and other specialists from Nick's school and they almost only had positive things to report; his behavior in now much more normal and closer to what was expected from a kid his age and his grades are improving and all even though it doesn't show at home. The psychologist yields somewhat good results in the long term run. We are starting a diary project with him and Nick where Nick would log all of his daily prides and frustrations and all. Can't wait to see if it works out well...

We had a new guy at my job for a whole after the one fat creepy guy hitting on me decided to quit ; he was not so good so he got sacked so I'll still be having weird schedules for the time being...

Buy all the lovely kimonos!!!

darksunmoon — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 05:27:12 GMT

Ok, so my friend recommended a website to purchase antique and vintage kimonos for really cheap and I caved...

Here's my haul:

Kimonos and accessories for ME

SILK / ANTIQUE TOMESODE / EMBROIDERY

SILK / ANTIQUE TOMESODE KIMONO / EMBROIDERY

SYNTHETIC / TOMESODE / with HIYOKU / EMBROIDERY GOSHO-GURUMA

SILK / VINTAGE OMESHI KIMONO / WOVEN FLOWERS

SILK / IROMUJI KIMONO / WOVEN CRANES

SILK

SILK NAGOYA OBI

SILK / VINTAGE HAORI / WOVEN URUSHI / FLOWERS

Combined weaving obi

ANTIQUE ARTIFICAL PEARL BROOCH

ANTIQUE METAL BROOCH

For my friend JF
UNUSED DYED KIMONO / BLACK

SILK OBI

SILK / ANTIQUE MEN'S HAORI / DYED CHINTZ 'lining'

SILK HAORI

SILK / VINTAGE RO MEN'S HAORI BLACK

OBIJIME SILK KUMIHIMO

If you wish to purchase some for your own, here's the boutique's link: http://www.net-shinei.co.jp/com/index.php

Some Holidays!

darksunmoon — Fri, 28 Dec 2012 19:41:28 GMT

I had a pretty eventful month of December:

We had a couple flooding events in the restroom at my job on the same weekend that some brawl took place in the waiting room by my office and some hoodlums stole our TV and cable-thingy's remotes.

I lost my wallet, then Dad lost his 2-3 days later, we turned the house upside down for a whole week and we found no trace of them both. Finally, the owner of the convenience store across the street came to return mine that one of his customer had found (must have dropped it while walking back with my milk bags; I had completely forgotten I went to buy milk after having been to the grocery store...). Dad is having all his cards re-issued because his didn't magically turn up...

I've been to the medical clinic 3 times; first two times for an ear infection (the 2nd round of antibiotics and corticosteroids finally prevailed! ) and today because I suddenly had lumps behind my head, around my nape. Swelling and hurting like tonsillitis, but but on the rear of my neck instead of in my throat... I also had red plaques that were pretty odd. Doctor gave me a form to get further tests on January 2nd, and said I'm under surveillance/observation for now, it's definitely not an allergic reaction to my antibiotics, but probably more along the lines of mononucleosis... Hey, I might wind up having my official fibro diagnosis sooner than I thought...

The dreaded question...

darksunmoon — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:40:02 GMT

You know something I have noticed I find absolutely astonishing these past few years?
Everytime my birthday or Christmas comes around the corner, being asked "What do you want for a gift?" totally leaves agape.

The truth is: I have no clue what to ask. "Would that be an unreasonable request considering my friend/family member's current budget? "
My best friend (who's a strong-silent-sporty-geek type) told me last summer, a few days short of my birthday "I would have bought you lolita clothes, but I had no clue about how to shop for that!"

I felt kind of like this: (Dobby's POV, that is...)

But it's still as mind-boggling a question as being asked to describe myself in words for a job interview...

Did I mention I had a new job?

darksunmoon — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 05:12:02 GMT

So, for those of you who might have missed my previous posts; I have a new job. For a couple months now, I have been dispatching taxicabs.

Want to see my "office"?

I guess you managed to gather from the pictures that this place isn't very modern... In fact, my maternal grandfather used to work for the same company in the same building when he started working in like... 1940-something? Except for a few paint jobs and changes of flooring, it's pretty much the same old stuff that's always been around... Heck, there's still a basement that's dug straight in the dirt, no cement/concrete foundation or anything... The doors and stairs have been built by standards that have gone out of fashion longer than I've lived...

Basically, my job is to answer the phone and dispatch calls to the cabs who're free and in service. To keep track of who's in service or not, who's busy or free, I have these little numbered wooden blocks and "poles". There are two zones, what's downtown (south shore and all that's southwards from Dessaulles street) and what's uptown (north of Dessaulles street). If say, taxi number 14 is available to take calls, he tells me which zone he's in and I put his block on the right side of the "pole" besides the correct zone, between the checkered poles. If I send him somewhere to pick up a customer, I either put his block in the middle section if he stays in town or put him on the top checkered right-side part because he's in service but out of town/where the CB waves can't reach. If the taxi driver is not in duty, his or her block remains in order on the left-most side of the poles, in numeric order. If the cab is available but currently at the carwash, gaz station or busy eating or on the minivan for people in wheelchairs and other medical conditions or for job-related functions at one of our 2 stands, I turn his block to the side where the digits are red and he keeps his priority when he comes back...

But that's a real quick summary of it; there's a bunch of rules that seem easy to master but it can mess everything up when you try to actually apply them when you're working... But I guess they like me; I got my own shift of 4 days/week, keys to the president's office (to pick up faxes and make photocopies) and lots of good comments even though I mess up sometimes...

Ding dong: Meta's summer 2012 lucky pack has arrived...

darksunmoon — Wed, 18 Jul 2012 14:54:47 GMT

Summary of costs: LP : ¥15,000 + shipping = ¥ 18,500 =>$241.61 CAD (Exchange rate: 1 Canadian Dollar = 76.5696 Japanese Yen )

Customs fees: $77.09 CAD

Total: $318.70 CAD

OMG, I can resume "having a life"!

darksunmoon — Sun, 10 Jun 2012 17:10:49 GMT

Sorry I did not write up in this thing much lately; I've been really really busy...

Why?

I had 2 jobs for a while and yesterday was my last day working at the Café-Bistro; finally free!!!

What's my new job?

I'm now dispatching taxi-cabs in my hometown. I work afternoons (2-10PM) and when everybody's vacations are taken, my normal schedule will be 32hours per week, Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, so I will have weekends and Wednesdays off for gallivanting, shopping, sewing, going out, dating, reading, catching up with writing my blog, etc...

Oh, and another perk: I can wear lolita or whatever I want; life is sweet. The pay is slightly better than my previous job, but no fancy insurance plans or anything special in terms of retirement funds and other conditions...

[Updated : now with pictures!!!!] Trip to GTO area to see 雅-miyavi-

darksunmoon — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 03:08:36 GMT

So, 雅-miyavi- was coming back to Toronto last Sunday, so a group of my friends and me decided to go. I had decided to go by myself a long time, but wound up joining their group because it was cheaper and a tad more entertaining. They had booked a dormitory in the hostel where Odore had taken us in July 2010 to see his previous tour. The room had 6 beds and they were 5 so they were glad to get to have someone they knew join them instead of a random complete stranger they wouldn't have felt safe staying with.

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Our bus left Montréal at 3PM. It was a double decker and we decided to enjoy the view by sitting at the top frontmost part of the bus. The view was great and I was very comfortable but after a while, Shima started complaining that it was much too hot because he was sitting spot in front of the heating vent. There was only a stop in Kingston -as it was an express bus- and then, three more hours of road. Shima and Shigeki were sitting left of the aisle with Shige's laptop, Juni and Shelby right behind them and Gen and me were sitting on the right side. I got the windows side so not only did I have a great view, but cool air and we also had cup holders, which the rest of the seats didn't have! All the way to Toronto, the Wi-fi was working fine so I did some catching up on FB, Tumblr and e-mails and then we watched a movie, Gen and I. It was a weird movie, SP Yabo Hen ; but it made for good jokes the next day in the wait line. When we got to the Toronto Greyhound Terminal, we walked to our hostel. It was a bit of a hassle with my broken suitcase (I had originally packed the suitcase I bought for Gabz and Pat's wedding, earlier this summer, but the zipper's cursor decided to slide off the track on one side and then I could do nothing useful with it for the 10 minutes I lost fixing it before giving up because Jf called to say he was waiting for me in the parking lot. ), but we got there quite easily, thanks to my sense of orientation and Gen's printed map (but had they been on their own, they didn't know the North from the South and would have gotten lost).

After going through registration and administrative hostels blablah, we drop our things in our room and walked to a nearby Japanese restaurant we'd seen on our way there. Shigeki was so over excited that he kept talking to Shelby about how HOOOOOT the waiter was until about mid-supper when he wound up saying well, you know, the more I see him; he's not THAT hot, finally... and I thought it was funny. Him and Shima made quite a lot of jokes with connotations that might be awkward to many other people at a dinner table. Juni and I skipped on the sake the others had ordered because Juni was on flu medication and I did not enjoy my last adventure with sake at my job's Xmas party a few years ago because it's a very treacherous alcohol to me. I can drink it and not really feel drunk... And the next morning, I'll have this splitting headache... It's the only alcohol my body reacts badly to, except for Tequila.
Our sushis were yummy, but maybe the dishes were overpriced for the amount of food we had. The desserts were also semi-expensive for their sizes, but considering how good they were, I guess it was not so bad and I'm just too spoiled now because of that place in Chicoutimi with the yummy desserts for 2$/piece we went to the night before Gabz's wedding.

The decoration was really cute, with the room being framed by Plexiglas frame-like things that were light a pinkish
shade of red from within and displaying cute sakura motifs in a lighter shade. The bar was very modern looking and the tap for the Sapporo brand beer was a katana handle, so I had to take a picture and send it to my friend JF because he loves katanas in home deco!

After our meal, we went to shower and sleep and talk about the plans for the next morning. Shima, Shigeki and Gen woke up at dawn to go and keep the spots in the wait line in front of the venue. They got there at like 8am and there were 3-4 other people who'd been sitting there since as early as 3! Juni, Shelby and I got to leave at 10am because we were tired/sick/had a longer way to the bus terminal. We walked to the venue which wound up being way further north than we had anticipated from the map. About 1/3 of the way from the hostel, Shelby's feet were already killing her. Later on, we thought we had walked past the street we were looking for, but it turns out we were just around the bed from it because it has 2 names.... When we finally got there, we switched shifts and the first bunch went out for lunch and then it was our turn. We ate at Harvey's located just a couple corners away and it felt great to be warm and their onion rings are really good!!!! We went back to wait in line...

At about 1PM, the venue manager showed up and threw a tantrum at the people sitting in the stairs in front of the venue and he was kinda pissed for nothing and he was really impatient. Like, when you ask people to move over, you should at least give them a minute or two to get up and gather their stuff that's scattered around them. It's not like they had been blocking the way, they were only occupying like 1/4 of the stairs and out of the way of the crew and what we were later instructed was their parking lot. Shima and Shigeki left in search of a public bathroom open in the vicinity (not so many on a Sunday in North East Toronto...). They found one and came back with some Halloween toy props that looked like someone had a a Worlds of Warcraft themed party the previous evening. They used them to take silly pictures with the lion statues. Afterward, as Shigeki was bored and I didn't have time to do anything much with my face, I asked him to play MUA with me and he complied. We made a couple friends in the wait line, including Scott, the tall and leaf thin guy who had reached out and touched Miyavi's hand during the last show. I wouldn't have known, but Shima remembered him; Shima is such a people's person!!!

In the wait line, there was a girl who was kinda scantily clad considering the weather; her jeans were really cute but when it's near the freezing point and you have to wait for hours in the shade in a line, don't wear pants that have slit legs held together only by 3 bows on each side! I was cold for her! (Luckily, at some points, her parents came and gave her a huge velvety blanket to cover with). Another girl had bi-colored hair (fushia and purple) and she looked really cool, so I asked to snap her picture; she looked like she could have belonged to Tess, YumeNinja and all's bunch. Probably the sharpest dressed attendee, IMVHO. There were a few more people joining during the afternoon but the majority of the people arrived between 6PM and 8, time at which the doors FINALLY opened (we thought it was the time schedule for the show to begin!). The venue manager and the other employees we'd seen during the afternoon were totally useless, mean and misbehaved, but around 6, this nice security lady showed up and answered the questions we had been asking (and asked, too, oh my, very often!) about the VIP ticket pick up place and all. At 8, she let us in. For the first time ever in attending a Vkei-related concert, they let us in with our cameras (only Point-n-Shoots, though, not the DLSR type).

We landed ourselves some good spots RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE STAGE, first row. I got the left side (from the artist's perspective) speaker so I took a few videos to send Odore but unluckily, the vibes from the speaker made pictures too blurry, I only managed to snap two semi-good ones. Gen grabbed my shoulder and told me the people handling the VIP things also gave her a VIP pass for me, although I had bought just a regular ticket, they judged that the trek I took to go and my good behavior and usefulness (I helped the delivery guys understand that there was a doorbell to ring and the people in the line to remain calm by answering their questions with whatever little info I had and all), I deserved one. I was so thankful! I'm such a lucky bastard!

Miyavi came out and his Korean side was showing a lot, that night. He wore a white t-shirt over black pants and donned a black vest resembling a school uniform's in the cut. He also wore those geeky huge black framed glasses and his long hair was loose. He greeted us with "What's My Name?" and played a couple other tracks before his MC where he said it was good to be back in Toronto, that he and Bobo (his faithful only band member and drummer) swam across Lake Ontario and nearly drowned (and he stumbled quite a few times on the word "Ontario", probably from excitement/nervosity) and then, they had visited Niagara Falls and thought there were WAAAAAAAAAYY too many tourists there (funny, considering he HIMSELF was one...) taking pictures and all which seemed to surprise him considering the cold windy weather. Some fans handed him yet another Canadian flag (we've been signing them and giving them to him at this show and the previous one he did during summer 2010) and he read the stuff we had written and asked how many people in the crowd were from Toronto, then Montréal and Vancouver and he said he wanted to come and play in MTL and VAN but we needed to put him in contact with producers. I might be partially deaf, but I heard that quite clearly!

Then, he played some more of his songs off of his latest two albums and then he did another MC bit where he interacted with the crowd and then he said he knew we liked his older songs too and which ones would we like to hear and he ended up playing Selfish Love and Itoshii Ito and we sang along with him. He came over the speaker in front of me a few times and when he saw my camera was pointed at him, he stared into it; he's so cool. Near the end, he even ended up playing while doing a split in front of me and some idiot behind me reached out and touched... his privates! I thought it was kinda rude, but you never know, maybe he liked it... :P

At the end of the show, they made the VIPs line up near the bar and gave us instructions. We were split into groups of 5 people, which means I was on my own because I let the other ones be together. But it was actually good for me because I got my picture snapped with him by his lady assistant and got to talk to him a bit longer than them and ask him whom it was I should contact regarding the linking him with producers and venues in Montréal. And I wound up kissing him on the cheeks like I would a friend, because I didn't even think about it, I just kinda did it out of habit, which surprised him. I got 3 guitar picks with his logo and an autographed poster from the tour, which I promised I will give to Odore because I was sad she couldn't be with us this time around. I told Miyavi about her, actually... I must have spoken way too much for the little amount of time we were granted, especially considering we were at the front of a line of over 100 people and he had to leave to go to NYC were he was having another show the next night.
For the VIP event, he had changed into something more lounge wear-ish that seemed to be really oversized *harem pants* (or Saruel, if you call them the way Japanese fashion mooks do) and he wore a fedora. He wasn't wearing platform shoes so he seemed closer to my height as the previous two times I'd seen him and therefore, more accessible.
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The next day, our bus was at 3PM and we had to leave the hostels before 11am, so we ended up dropping our stuff at the terminal before going around town. They lockers were 5$ each so considering the amount of luggage we had (and how tired I was from walking around town with my broken handled suitcase), I decided to eat one of those meal in a chocobar things and wait for them, safekeeping the stuff. They were glad I did. I'm kinda jealous they got to try out that All-you-can-eat Japanese place with yukata wearing waitresses across the street from the terminal. They said it was really cheap and the food was even more delicious than the other place we tried on the first night. Then, they went to purchase stuff in Chinatown and Shelby came to join me because her feet were still sore. The bunch of them came back for 2PM and we lined up for the bus. We took the bad decision of sitting in the REAR top end of the bus because Shima and Shigeki complained that they had been overheating during the first way trip but it was worse this time. Plus, we were stuck in a traffic jam right outside Markham because it was a Monday night. So everybody wound up dizzy and woozy from the lack of fresh air and the excessive breaking and moving forward, inch by inch of the road for about 2 hours. I was sitting beside a high school student whom I ended up helping with her homework about La Grosse Femme d'à Côté Est Enceinte (a novel by world renown Montréal author Michel Tremblay). Luckily for me, she was getting off in Kingston so I got to sleep the rest of the way, letting my laptop to Shima and Shigeki so they could watch movies my workmate had loaned me.

We split up in Montréal as they were all northbound to Shima's place and I was going home on the South Shore. I slept most of the way and took a cab back home. I got home really late, like around midnight or so and I had to get up at around 7 to go to work. Short night it was, but I dreamt of all the plans I was making for Miyavi!">

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Y!AJ spring hauls...

darksunmoon — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 16:26:22 GMT

I bought a lot of things for cheap on Y!AJ this spring.
Unfortunately, 3 of them that I was excited about are too small for me. Please disregard the black tank top I'm wearing underneath; I got too lazy to put on a bra in this heat (26°C at 1am is pretty darned hot to me!).

First, a Momoko-style BTSSB dress that's actually separates; the underskirt fits just fine, but the top's sleeves are so darned tight that I can only get my forearms through, I can't get it over my elbows! ;_; IT was the one Saru though would look best on me; I'm so let down!

Then, the BTSSB JSK I bought in cream requires me to find a way to reduce my ribcage because I'm like just an inch too large to be able to close the zipper all the way up...

Finally, the black no name brand polka dot organza dress is like a small, but I wear medium and it was advertised as medium, so I don't fit in it either!

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Finally, the black no name brand polka dot organza dress is like a small, but I wear medium and it was advertised as medium, so I don't fit in it either!
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Fortunately, thought, the other items were OK.

This AP JSK I already own in red:
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Maxic/MAM JSK in black with silver and white prints. Upclose, the print on the chest looks like little Stitch when you you down on it while wearing it, I thought it was funny...
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BTSSB skirt with missing bow ties?!? (Sorry about the contrast, it's the best I could do at that time).
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Super cute and comfy Bodyline hooded bolero:
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I will wear it over this BTSSB JSK bat my friend Gabzzz12 and Patrick's wedding, because she chose that outfit for me to wear out of all that I own.
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I'll post an other update soon about other things I wish to tell you guys about and probably my Meta LPs when I received them some when around next week...

Stolen from Laury

darksunmoon — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 04:28:49 GMT

I know I have a couple events to talk about, yet, but I dunno where to start so here's this to keep you a little entertained...

-Prologue-

1. Who took your profile picture? (Myspace) Some lolita friend at the Fall 2009 Bowling Event, can't remember which, unfortunately!
(Facebook) Niakay/Marie-Ève Drouin, at the 2011 Ste-Dolorès event.

2. Exactly where did you get the clothes you're wearing right now?
Crossover tie shrug is a hand me down from Jazz-onee-chan and the pants were bought at X2O on my way to see a Project Versus live at the St-Laurent 2, back when Julien was still their singer.

3. What is your current problem?
I wish I could live in Montréal again, but my current job does not allow me to rent an appartment on my own there because they are so freaking expensive and prices might even soar these nest few years because they have to fix ALL of the darn bridges between montréal Island and the South Shore!

4. What makes you most happy?
My friends; I adore them.

5. What song are you listening to?
Watching videos posted on the SR blog (http://edohsama.blogspot.com/) to keep up-to-date with VK & Jmusic related news; I'm so behind catching up to all my blogs!

Chapter 1: ABOUT YOU ?

1. Name?
Caroline

3.NicKNAMEs?
Caro, Nita (because of a gag between my Mexican-American Ricardo and I, I called him Ricarditito and he called me Carolinita and we shortened our nicks to just the last two syllables...), DarkSunMoon, Dark, Darky, DSM, Maman Dark...

4. Eye color?
Brown

5. Hair color?
Dark deep dirty mix, but looking kinda greyish light brown right now, with Caramel dye and blond tips due to the many bleaches and blond dyes I've had between 2007 and 2010.

6. Height?
Around 5'5
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Chapter 2: FAMILY ?

1. Do you get along with your parent(s)?
Dad is easy to get along with; Mom has a lots of ups-and-downs and is often not very logical in her approach of things and tends to shorten every decision making or educational process into whatever will prevent people from arguying...

2. Are your parents chill?
Can't say my mom is; she even earned herself a pretty bad rep with my sister's friends. I didn't have much friends as a kid, but each male one I had, she instantly dubbed him your boyfriend . I used to hate her a lot when I was in my late teens and until I had Nick. Then, she changed and she evolved a bit since, but a lot of times, I'd change stuff about her...

3. Do you have any Siblings?
One sister, Jazz/Jacinthe (30)
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Chapter 3: FAVORITE:

5. Drink (alcoholic)?
Anything Maïté or Hugo make for me at Passeport. Otherwise, Vodka-based & sweet drinks are my favorite. I'm pretty found of stuff featuring Blue Curuçao and pomegranate, too...

6. Drink (non alcoholic)?
Bubble teas, especially Green Apple Green Tea or Lemon Black tea or Choco-mint cream...

7. Pen color?
Blue

8. Store?
I usually purchase stuff from Yahoo!Auctions Japan via Rinkya, or Métamorphose Temps de Fille or stuff I can ordre via Paypal because I don't really have time to hang around in physical stores anymore with my wonky commuting and work hours schedule...

9. Person(s)?
At the moment, I dunno. I'm in an universal love kind of phase....

10. Famous Person(s)?
I guess I'll say Yoshiki! That man is so sweet and passionate, I just can't get enough of him!
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Chapter 4: DO YOU ?

1. Write on your hand?
Only when I don't have paper handy and need to remember some kind of really important info that I will require in the very near future, like the bus number when I'm going to a new place or something. I have been having a goldfish's brain, memory-wise, lately....

2. Call people back?
When people call me and request that I do so in a clear manner (i.e. leaving their names and numbers, not just the way my sister does Hi, it's me, call me back! , not stating her name or anything or where she can be reached, when I have a cheap excuse of a voicemail system and I'm partly deaf, it's not always easy to make out who Hey it's me! is...

3. Believe in love?
Not certain...Will not try my hand at that again for quite a while; no time for boyfriends, nor in an healthy enough state of physical well-being,anyways

4. Sleep on a certain side of the bed?
No choice; I'm sleeping on a couch for now because the basement is swarmed with stuff from my old appartment and my sister's last one when she lived with Eric...
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Chapter 5: HAVE YOU?

1. Slept in someone else's bed?
Yup, I do that quite often, but recently, I've been a good girl and sleeping in someone else's bed without their presence in it lately. I slept in Shima, Ami and my son's bed (he wanted to switch for the couch, those nights) and my boyfriends/lovers' when I had them...

2. Whose bed did you last sleep in (other than your own)?
Shima's, but Shima was sleeping in his roomate's because she was in Japan during that time and allowed him to do so...

3. Had PHYSICAL therapy?
No, but I helped my ex with his when he injured his fingers on a saw at his job.

4. Had surgery?
Often, for my ears, when I was a kid. They put a lot of drains and ended up needing to make me a new ear drum membrane from skin from behind my ear in my left ear (so now, my hearing has stabilised to 25% deafness to bass sounds for the past 10 years). Once for my gums before I had braces. Had my wisdom teeth removed. I think that's pretty much it...

5. Gotten drunk?
Yup, once. Ask Fannie 'cause I don't remember much between drinking my last vodka-OJ shooter and waking up in my wet underwear, with wet hair, on Chris' bedroom floor. Nothing bad happened, I just threw up and she had me shower and she didn't know I had spares in my packback upstairs so she left me in my undies so I wouldn't be naked while she washed my clothes (which I still haven't managed to get back since, because they weren't dry when we left and I had changed into my spares.). I missed the EPIC argument between Chris and the neighbours, it seems. We had played frisbee in the nearby grocery store's parking, that was fun.

6. Overdosed on pain killers?
Nope. I only take one at a time, and only when absolutely necessary...

7. Been stung by a bee?
Yup and my friend nagged at me that I now looked half-Chinese because it was on the corner of my eyelid...

8. Threw up in a doctors office?
Nope.

9. Got a crush on some one?
I did. Many times, on many different people, not at the same time. Sometimes, that lead to relationships, others, it lead to nothing but daydreaming....
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Chapter 6: WHO/WHAT WAS THE LAST

1. Person to text you?
Shima

2. Thing you touched?
My sewing machine; I had lots of fixing and mending to do, today...

3. Thing you said?
Goodnight to Nick after dropping him his allergy medicine because he's sleeping over at his friend Marie-Soleil's across the fence from our place.

4. Person you hugged?
Nick, same time as above

5. Person you talked to on the phone?
Geneviève, Marie-Soleil's mom.

6. Person to buy you a rose?
No one :P I think only mom has ever bought me flowers, in my life, except from the bouquest I got at one of my old jobs when I started working there and when I left to go back to my studies.

7. Last book you read?
I haven't been reading books for a while. I guess some book on fashion I'd gotten at the local library.

8. Last time you cleaned your room?
Today; it was much needed and also, I needed room to take pictures of furniture my sister wants to show her BF before they move in to her new place.

9. Last time you spoke to someone you like?
Like IRL or does Facebook and forums count?!? * * *

Because I promised pictures...

darksunmoon — Sat, 21 May 2011 19:57:45 GMT

Here are pictures of how I dressed yesterday. Please forgive the mess, it was when I came back from a long, long day.
After my job, we were supposed to go see the new PotC movie with Shima, Shigeki and other friends. Saru, a new guy on the forum who just came from France for a year on a work visa met me at L2 as we were supposed then. I was happily surprised, he was much friendlier than I had anticipated and he looks really cute, too!

Some of my friends from the south shore that I hadn't seen in quite a long while were there and we had a long chat with them. One of them had to move to a new town because his house was near the Richelieu river and it's still flooded because of the whole Lake Champlain spring flood thing. So he moved to St-Jean and he's near the military college and he says it's kind of annoying because he hears the choppers fly by all the time.

When they left, we called Shima to know about their plans and Shima said to go to his place and we'd all leave from there. So we went and took the bus to go to Shima's place. We met middle-aged guy named Serge who was from the same region that Saru/Romain is from and we chit-chatted until his top. It was funny because he had a mixed Québecois and Southern French accent! When we got to Shima's place, the landlord answered the door; they had left about 20 minutes before we got there. I got a voice message on my phone from Shima saying they were already at the cinema and to call him if I needed directions. Only, when I managed to reach him, they were already in the theater watching the movie! Grrr... So Romain and I tried to go back to the Quartier Latin cinema instead, but their last showing was at 10PM and it was already nearly 11. So we tried going to the Starcité and the ticketbooth had been closed for a couple minutes and the doors were locked. No luck! ?

Well, Romain stumbled upon a Twoonie (2$ coin) on the ground as we headed for the Starcité's door. He managed to snap a couple night views of the Olympic Stadium that's just beside the cinema to send his folks back home. He says they've been pestering him for pictures all week! Then we wanted to go grab some McD's, because he used to work for them in France and it was on our way to his youth hostel, but it was all full, as usual on a Friday night, so we wound up at Double Pizza having poutine (not so yummy because the cheese curd had more of a cottage cheese texture, I wanted Squeek-squeek-cheese!) and I found a loonie (1$ coin) on the bench as I got up to leave. We had lots of fun, but his eyes were starting to go awry because of his lenses and our brains were starting to not quite follow the conversation so we decided to call it a day and go to bed. He went to his hostel and I went back to Berri station, then took the subway to Longueuil and then the last bus home. PotC will have to wait! Maybe I should ask Carl if he wants to see it at the cine park...

Outfit of the day:
OP by Angelic Pretty, courtesy of my friend Maki miracleshopping who finally got around to shipping it to me last week, after the whole tsunami/flood/moving around ordeal. Thanks, Maki! :)
Petticoat by h.Naoto Frill
Bloomers (not seen on pictures) and knee-high socks by Bodyline
Headdress: random bridal decoration found at DollarMax
Chocker by Moi-Même-Moitié, it used to have a pretty little rose above the cross, but I kinda broke it trying to wash the sweat of the ribbon one day. I'm still trying to find a new rose the same size to repair it!

Coat by Algonquins, pre-loved by my friend laila_astri. I'll take better pictures next time, I promise! And not at 2:30am when I just got back from work and just transiting around Montréal all day.

I have a lot on my mind

darksunmoon — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:44:06 GMT

So, what have I been up to this past month?

Granny Aurore took a fall down her bed so Mom, me and Uncles and Aunts took rotations taking care of her, well, it was mostly me and Mom, My cousin Claudia sent in a couple meals she prepared so that we would only have to heat it and serve it, but Grandpa wasn't so happy about the spices she used... My grandpa is quite the pampered pet; he doesn't eat plain rice, but happily enjoys Rice Crispies squares, rice soup, rice pudding, cigares-au-chou ( ground meat&rice balls in tomato sauce wrapped in cabbage). He won't eat it if he knows there's onions in it (if you don't tell him, he'll eat it and find it delicious, though! ). And he has only one hand as the left one was wrapped in his umbilical cord when he was in the womb. So I made them very simple things and they loved it. But I used to go eat with them as a kid, so I know a lot more than my cousins do about their eating standards, I guess. Grandma was eating soup, mostly, and it was very fastidious at first because the bruise was in the back of her ribcage so getting up to eat was very painful. I managed to work out a manner to lift her up on her pillows without crushing her or risking dropping her so from then on, she felt safe enough with me and was pretty much ok but she was arguing a whole lot with Mom when it was her turn because Mom hadn't gotten the "touch".

On Sunday mornings, Grandpa goes to help out in Church to prepare things for mass so I was staying with Grandma while she watches some other mass broadcast live from Montreal on national TV. One day, they had this ecumenical meeting one in a church in Israel with all the different branches of catholic religion represented by a preacher. They spoke in about 20 different languages, a lot I hadn't heard spoken ever before like Hebraic or a pre-Arabic dialect spoken in Iran which's name I forgot and the usual French, English, Latin that I'm accustomed to . They prayed for the unity of the different churches and communities and for once in my life, religion felt like a good thing. I wish they'd broadcast more like that. I feel like promoting peace that way is way more in line with the teachings of the Bible than all the mindless arguments between people that have already lasted much too long.

I'd gotten a job and I wasn't so sure I was going to like it. I ended up depressed because I felt like wasn't being respected there but they were all trying to be nice and sugarcoating me into staying, so I did. It had been three weeks. On the last Monday, we had a wave of cold and snow storms and all. The place got really cold; it had bad heating, they were renovating the whole place, the office is part of the sales department display shop and the plant where they cut and assemble and store materials and they have those huge garage doors open to received and ship merchandise often... The water in the toilets froze. I was also freezing, I worked with my coat and boots on all day. My office was located at the front, in a bay of floor-to-ceiling windows, surrounded by counters and more windows and the entrance door. The lady providing the very lame and unclear formation had caught a bacteriologic bronchitis the previous week and I thought I was coming down with that because I was coughing and sneezing and my chest started to hurt. On Wednesday, I decided to call on a doctor to have it checked as I was awoken in the morning by a sensation that I would describe has having a 300-pounds guy sitting on your chest and sawing your ribcage open. I barely managed to speak; my voice was extinct and was out of breath like I'd run the marathon. I called and left a message on the company's answering machine saying I wouldn't come in to work that day, that I was going to the doctor's office.

So we left, Mom and me and drove to the "sans-rendez-vous" (which means "no appointment required") clinic. I got in the line and due to the really bad weather, although I arrived too near the 8am opening, there was still not that many people. The lady at the counter told me my appointment would be at 2PM. It was Mom's day of the month to have breakfast with her retired friends, so we went by the Mike's restaurant to wait for them, sitting in the car. They were to meet at 9. There was no one there. Mom thought they wouldn't show up due to the weather and drove me back home. I took a bath to try and feel better. The training lady called and threw me a fit and I told her that I'd left a message to say I wasn't coming in because I was going to the clinic. She was clearly pissed and wanted me to come in until AT LEAST 1pm. I told her I was not in a condition to go and that my mother refused to drive me there in the country on un-snowplowed roads (it was very very slippery everywhere in town and we almost had an accident spinning on a corner when she braked). I was out of voice and energy, I couldn't argue much, I was pretty much on the verge of fainting but I insisted I would not go to work until I was confirmed I was not contagious and could go to work.

The doctor told me I did well to come and have it checked because unlike what I thought, I didn't have a bronchitis but a much worse case of pneumonia (see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pneumonia if you don't know what it is). 5-10%people who get it risk of dying of complications, it's pretty serious. She signed my medical certificate thing to say she FORCED ME to take the rest of the week off as it took 48 hours into the medication to make sure I was not contagious (pneumonia is not always contagious) and prescribed me Bioxin antibiotics, 2 X 500 Mg pills is considered a single dose and I have to eat when I take them. Monday, one of the other ladies I wroked with was going to be in Jamaica for her vacations so I made a point of showing up, regardless of the fact that my physical condition would have liked me staying in bed more. Well, they fired me, for catching a disease in their wood dust filled cold place that could have ended up in me dying if I didn't get proper medical treatment. They exploited me to move and sort their things around in all that dust and now that I got sick because of their abuse, they fired me!
I'm better off that way, I don't want to work in a company where you're just a bunch of figures and not treated like a decent human being should be treated. Health is more important than money, especially when you're a single mother and your kid has no other parent (a.k.a. dad) to keep standing by his side if you die.

So now, I'm in a phase where I'm kind of angry at the whole world for not realizing that we're in 2011, the Berlin Wall and the World Trade Center have come undone and things have changed, but unfortunately, a lot of people's personalities have not evolved with their times; they are still as unhealthily close-minded and intolerant to differences as their uneducated great-great-grand-parents were. I think it's unacceptable, but I'm stuck to live in this world... I'm not sure how I'll get by, but I know that somehow, I will...
In a world that supposedly fights for the defence of freedom yet refuses to acknowledge that you have the right to express your freedom of expression through clothing or hair...

So anyways, that was my January for you...

2010 in DarkSunMoon's life...

darksunmoon — Mon, 03 Jan 2011 23:25:59 GMT

January:Celebrated Shima's Bday, Went to see Under Aspect playing live, saw Guns N'Roses's (my favorite band ever) first live in Montreal after the 1992 riot incident on their tour with Metallica, work, work, work

February: QC-Harajuku Meeting III ; Work, work, work

(Me with Laurence/ Harua)

March: Nick's Bday, Dad's Bday, Work, work, work...

April: Easter, Grandmas's Bdays, work, work, work; Unicorn got fired, Khanh and Afshan were hired, Pomme & Leo broke up.

May: got inspired to design lolita, started wanting to learn drums, had to move my sister's stuff from her ex's place to my folks', got offer to work for a taxi company & had a hair color dilemma...

June: Went to see Miyavi live with Odore & her friend, Shima, Shigeki, Akuryou and Setsu; Fell in love with "Taste of Korea" restaurant in the Pacific Mall, work, work, work; sister got back from Japan and started living at her bestfriend's... Went with Nick at La Ronde amusement park a few Saturdays, Celebrated Ste-Dolorès with the other QC-Harajuku lolitas

Photo credit: Shikisai Maki getoutofmyband

Photo cxredit: Yukari/ Caroline Tremblay

July: saw Iron Maiden live with Bureau and we're still laughing at Bruce Dickinson's Google-translated-French; work, work, work because everyone else is on vacation!

August: Lost my keys+bus pass on the 2nd of the month (still haven't found them!)got into an argument with my mother because to me, sleeping was more important than having my birthday celebrated, bought myself a cellphone, went to Otakuthon with Ami & Li and all, partook in Benji's mass photoshoot... Work, work, work

Photo credit: Ami B./ aionwatha

Photo credit: Jo Gorsky

September: Quit working, started resting; much needed, saw Parapraxis and 3Starz live, went to the JumpStart Club's J&K-pop event and I thought I was gonna die there, it was so cramped and hot. Weekend Rouge exhibition in the Parc Les Salines with my family. Sister's bestfriend decided to no longer be friends with her because of the way she treated him; sister lost her parking pass...

October: Saw X-Japan live in Toronto (but Shima changed his mind about accompanying me because his work demo was more important and blah blah... ) Meet new metal-loving friends, traded clothes with Kissumi, Lolita Bowling, Saw Project Versus's first live with Daimon Hellstorm as their new frontman, Frère André was appointed Province of Québec's first saint, sister moved in with a Japanese French-bakery worker roommie, Nick cut his foot open by kicking the glass part of the bookshelf near his bedroom because he did not want to go to sleep... Spent 6 hours in the ER to get 4 stitches

With Shima after the X-Japan concert (Shima was attending his nefew's baptism)

Photo credit: LittleFallenFairy/ Jennifer LaHaie

Photo credit: Mimi-chan

With Acara

Photo credit: Elizabeth Sheehy/ Hitsuji

November: airing of the documentary on QC Lolitas[ darksunmoon.livejournal.com/70684.html / darksunmoon.livejournal.com/71668.html ]; Went to drop and pick Nick from school by car with mom everyday, it was really hard making him let go of the crutches when it healed... Went to a job interview that yielded no result... Fell in love with Kpop girls group Orange Caramel...

December: Shopped for Xmas, kept job searching, spent time watching K-dramas not to get too depressed from lack of social life and lack of events...
Sister got a new BF, he's 24, he also studied guitar and they met in Japanese classes to get ready for the JLPT N2 test... Got selected for the 2nd round of interviews for a job that won't happen until January 11th...

Random Dark is Random...

darksunmoon — Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:37:00 GMT

Is it me or is 【PaRADEiS】's singer trying to channel matsuro0069 ?

Maybe it's just the "eyemake", but it struck me!

And for the record, I also think he's 10times cuter than An Café's Bou!

War within, war without...

darksunmoon — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 06:03:13 GMT

This week, I watched Road No.1. It's a Korean drama. It's pretty different than the dramas I usually watch; this one is about war.

It's a subject I usually avoid. I'm the kind of person who is against the whole deal of having armies and wars; I always considered it the failure of intellectualism and blamed it mostly on lack of education and of knowing better. When you talk to milicians, they're such dogmatic people that somehow, that in itself scares me more than the thought of dying or suffering. Now, I don't mean any disrespect to these men who've been defending freedom and all, just that I wish freedom was not in need of being defended. I wish that deep down inside, each and every human being could cherish it enough not to feel compelled to take it away from other human beings...

But back to the drama, now! I started watching it because is it starring So Jisub as the leading man. I loved him in Sorry, I Love You and in Rough Cut. He always plays strong silent type guys and he manages to make me fall for them every time! Also, the other leading man, Yoon Kye Sang is also an handsome and able actor. The drama has this really heavy war atmosphere, heavier even, I'd say, than in Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima (starring Kazunari Ninomiya who's totally brilliant in this role and Ken Watanabe).

Both these works display the hard on, dehumanizing realities that soldiers face in war; fear, loss of purpose, death, lack of proper nutrition and hunger, hydration, bitter cold, unhygienic conditions in which they have to try to survive from their wounds, the mental suffering, the competitive spirit, and all the crazy things they have to go through just to survive. It's impossible to watch these and not feel touched and transformed. You just can't feel neutral towards them. They shake you inside out. They make me get kind of "oversensitive"... I mean, I spent all week scolding Nick for not finishing his food while images of soldiers trying to eat mud to avoid going crazy under the burning sun or sharing the last meal they had for their whole "crew" (I'm sorry, I'm really ignorant when it comes to terms about dividing crowds into military units)...

I just feel so grateful living in Canada, with a roof over my head, food on my plate 3 meals a day and all that I get to enjoy that I know other people have sacrificed their lives over to make sure I would have. And I feel cheap. Like, really really cheap, towards the 80% of humanity that I know does not get any chance of ever enjoying these benefits that a lot of my contemporaries take for granted...

But the drama isn't all just gore and violence and dark, there's also a beautiful love story about two kids for fall in love and who go to great lengths to survive in order for their lover to have someone to come back to and something to believe in to drive them through. It's also about comradeship, brotherhood, and making negative feelings grow into fondness and caring...

-The finale of the drama was a bit WTF?! though, I don't think that guy, as die hard as he is, could have survived 60 years on a raft in the middle of the Pacific Ocean!-

This makes me want to pledge to end all this warfare non-sense within my lifetime... But I have no clue how realistic that would be...

And I don't really understand why this growing fascination I have for warfare, lately... It's been haunting me in my dreams, making me question the nature of my relationships with my friends and loved one and the means and to what extent I would go to protect them... What about you?

I have to confess something

darksunmoon — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 16:38:00 GMT

I just totally love Orange Caramel (오렌지캬라멜). These three girls are so cute, they're like grown-up 3 years olds! Plus: they always have those short poofy, nearing lolita style outfits!

Subbed to English the French Canadian "Hors Série - Lolitas" documentary

darksunmoon — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 04:16:54 GMT

Finally, I'm done!
Can you find me in the documentary? I appear 3 or 4 times in the last part!
I apologize in advance for any typo I might have left in there or words that are missing because I type too fast for my computer...

I was bored so I subbed this PV for you guys...

darksunmoon — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 06:10:14 GMT

That song was the perfect Prom night slow dance when it came out, when I was still in elementary school.
That band had quite a few hits, many who still sound actual, regardless of how long ago they've been written & recorded...

I hope that you will enjoy Patrick Bourgeois' s nice rich voice (and good looks?) and song writting abilities as much as I do.
When his band disbanded, late into the 1990s, he ended up hosting a French Canadian version of "Name That Tune" (they'd renamed it "Fa-Si-La chanter", a play on the words for "easy to sing" (Facile à chanter)... I liked that show, too bad it didn't run very long...

I've been feeling quite nostalgic, lately so I decided to translate this song for you guys and girls...

The song is called "You Will Never Know" and it's about a guy who's in love with his bestfriend, but since she already has a boyfriend, he decided to just stay by her side, as a good friend, keeping for himself the burden of single-sided-ly loving her.

It dates from 1994 and was performed by one of the most underrated rock band that the Province of Québec has ever known: Les B.B. (Short for "beaux blonds" (that would roughly translates as the Dashing Blonds). That song was from their third album, quite plainly titled "3", their last before they split up for more than 8 years. They had been disregarded as being only cliché pretty boys making kitch music, due to the very commercial sound they have on record, but live, you can see they are quite talented. I would even go as far as to call them the Québécois equivalent to Bon Jovi.

Since then, they have reformed and released a new album in 2004 and have since made a few appearance on live festivals and on tv. For the past two years, they have successfully managed to drag quite a crowd at Les Francofolies.

On Lead Vocals & Guitar, the lyricist and composer, the charismatic leader: Patrick Bourgeois,
on Bass guitar, keyboards and back vocals: Alain Lapointe,
and on Drums: François Jean

Their official HP: http://lesbb.ca/
More about the history of the band: http://www.qim.com/artistes/biographie.asp?artistid=265
Sorry, though, both websites are in French....

Hors Série - Lolitas ♥

darksunmoon — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 07:07:38 GMT

For those who haven't been on EGL this week, this is a documentary that the French Canadian branch of International tv channel TV5 made about the local Lolita community in the Province of Québec.

You can spot many members of montreal_loli in it, including myself (I saw myself 4 times, in the last segment)!

I tried to encode it to hard subs, but VirtualDub is not being very cooperative ...

The TV program's webpage about this episode

Contains the video (AVI & FLV) + Advance SubStation Alpha file (.ass)
Mirror

Hors série - Lolitas - télévision en ligne - TV5 Québec Canada.ass

Hors série - Lolitas - télévision en ligne - TV5 Québec Canada.srt

Copyrights for the media file go to MC2 Média Communications & TV5.
Subs by yours truly!

Reading meme

darksunmoon — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 10:25:52 GMT

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up? Bold the ones you’ve read! Italicize the ones you’ve partially read!

Note: Italic means I've read it, either in French or English
Bold means I've seen a movie/tv/play adaptation of it

01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen

02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien

03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte

04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling

05 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee

06 The Bible

07 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte

08 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell

09 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman

10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens

11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott

12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy

13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller

14 Complete Works of Shakespeare

15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier

16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien

17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk

18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger

19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger

20 Middlemarch - George Eliot

21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell

22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald

23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens

24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy

25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams

27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky

28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck

29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll

30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame

31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens

33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis

34 Emma - Jane Austen

35 Persuasion - Jane Austen

36 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis

37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini

38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres

39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden

40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne

41 Animal Farm - George Orwell

42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving

45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins

46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery (I own the whole series, in French, and a few other of her works, like Tales of Avonlea and Emily of the New Moon, which was much better than the tv series for it)

47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy

48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Was a compulsory reading in high school... Didn't like it... Kinda too Battle Royale...)

50 Atonement - Ian McEwan

51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel

52 Dune - Frank Herbert

53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons

54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen

55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth

56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley

59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon

60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez

61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck

62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov

63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt

64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold

65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas

66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac

67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding

69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie

70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville (Didn't read it fully, though, found it boring)

71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens

72 Dracula - Bram Stoker

73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett

74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson

75 Ulysses - James Joyce

76 The Inferno – Dante

77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome

78 Germinal - Emile Zola

79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray

80 Possession - AS Byatt

81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens

82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell

83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker

84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert (I read it as a comic in a readers magazine aimed at young teenagers at first, then fully in high school)

86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry

87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White

88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom

89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I've always loved Sherlock Holmes, I used to watch the anime version with the dogs. I like the movie with Robert Downey Jr.

90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton

91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery "Dessine-moi un mouton!"
I actually quoted the taming and the rose part to one of my romantic interest, once...

93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks

94 Watership Down - Richard Adams

95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute

97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas I'm still looking to find a copy of Vingt Ans Après, the sequel... I read that as compulsory reading in high school, but it was fun. I had a speed reading contest with one guy from my class and he beat me to it by a couple minutes only... No drama version of it is ever the same as the book.

98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare

99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl I saw both movies and I bought Nick the sequel as a book, Charlie and the Glass Elevator

100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo Don't like Hugo much, too dark and depressing

Read about 15, "saw" about 39.... looks like I've got homework to do, now...

X Japan - Toshi's OMG I WANT IT feathery coat

darksunmoon — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 02:11:32 GMT

X Japan - 14
Mise en ligne par Kochachan

That's THE coat/jacket I was talking about!

♫Girls just wanna have fun, they just wanna, they just wannaaaaa♪

darksunmoon — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 06:29:06 GMT

Sooooooooooooo, I went to Toronto to see X-Japan's 2nd live in Canada EVER (Vancouver is across the continent and more expensive for my meager means and I'm not all that healthy, so I just went to Toronto). I went ALONE because Shima decided to stay and keep working on 3d animation as Shima's big brother promised to make him a junior animator on some big projects his company has coming...

So I got up at 3am, ate breakfast, got ready then walked to my local bus terminal. I'd spent days trying to figure out what I would wear and I ended up settling for my usual concert-going jumper-skirt; the same I've worn to S.K.I.N.'s show, Miyavi's and also a lot of local indie metal band. Why? It's the most comfortable one to wear; I'm not afraid of tearing it or riping it: the stretch of that fabric is really wonderful, I've abused that garment for what, now, 5 years, maybe even 6 and aside from the color & print fading from my overuse and that time I was stupid and washed it in HOT water and put it in the dryer, the textile holds up well... Thanks again, mindaroth!I managed to catch the "express" Montreal Downtown bus (it takes as much time taking the Express bus or the Longueuil bus+ metro or the train, from my place) and arrived just in time... to miss the 7:30 bus.

So I bought my tickets for the 9:30 Megabus and waited. If I'd bought my tickets earlier, they would have been much cheaper, but considering my health, it was better for me not to plan too far ahead, in case of sudden failures of my capacities. I must admit, taking this trip alone in the state I was in was making me nervous, although I'd slept as much as I humanly could during the previous days to make up for the health hazard that riding buses for about 20 hours in the same day might do... I couldn't really sleep on the way TO Toronto, as a couple of students were sitting on the seat next to me and the one across the alley, but one row in front, and they were noisily chatting and kissing and stuff. They spoke some bastard breed of German language that I guessed might be Dutch. But we arrived in Toronto at around 4:15-4:30
PM, as scheduled. We had switched drivers in Cornwall or Kingston and the new one's French was about two level below Bruce Dickinson's attempt at Google-Translating his speech during this summer's show...

So I arrived in Toronto. Saw a couple Asians riding the bus with me had X-Japan shirts on. Guess they followed them during the whole tour. I decided to go in search of the venue first. It was nearby the terminal and I had printed a map before leaving home, but sometimes, I've had issues with Internet maps prior to this experience, so I thought it'd be wiser to just check the place out first, also to find my way back easier after the show. I stopped at Subways to buy a meal because I was not hungry, but I felt that it wouldn't have been a smart move to wander about Toronto on a nearly empty stomach (my last meal having been my breakfast, at like, 4am, so about 12 hours PRIOR to my arrival in TO!). I also used their restroom to refresh a little and touch up my hair and make up... I sent SMS to Ami to keep busy and feel less lonesome and because we were meant to have a photo-shoot in a cemetery when I would be back in Montreal.

I spotted Dundas/Yonge Square and headed that way, as my map was telling me to. There was a huge event sponsored by my cellphone company. I hadn't heard about any specific event going on, so I was surprised, but I kept walking towards the Massey Hall. One intersection was confusing, but I managed to find my way. After all, the venue was only about 4 corners away from the bus terminal... I was surprised: not a singlke soul was to be seen in front of or around the venue... but the show was in less than 4 hours! I've never seen that before. I took a couple pictures with my cellphone (I had planned to charge my camera's batteries in the bus, but I never found the power outlets!) and overheard a bit of the rehearsal and it sounded quite promising!

I headed on Queen St towards Spadina Av (supposed to be Chinatown there, didn't find it!). There was an interesting fashion display in The Bay's "show-window"; for a breast cancer awareness/fundraiser/whatever, they had designers make ball gowns out of pink and white toilet paper! Then, I proceeded to go shopping at Clic Klak wear. Chokers were on sale, so I bought two. The tender-lady was really nice and helpful (and chatty! LOL). I wanted to check out their neighbor Borderline, too, but I had to run to the venue to try and sell my 2nd ticket (since I was no longer accompanied). When the doors opened, I couldn't find anyone, so I handed it in to the manager and told him to give it to anyone, should he find someone who needed a ticket. (Turns out, he didn't find anyone either ; _ ; ). He said it was very generous of me, but it's more me being conscious that I would feel really awful if my holding on to my 2nd ticket made some other fan lose the chance of seeing X live.

I didn't find sir_kao and she didn't reply to my texts. I thought she might have been too busy cute-Asian-stalking! LOL After all, they have a Chinatown and TWO Koreatowns in Toronto! Turns out, her cellphone had run out of battery, so she received my messages just when she plugged her phone when she got back home! Aww well...

So, they opened the doors and I headed for the coat check room (you know me, why, I neveeeeeeeeeeer have any luggage... LOL), where I stumbled upon my Asian friend Amanda (I'm saying this to mean not my OTHER friend Amanda muier_noir, who's of American origins) whom I hadn't seen since Miyavi's show (when we met by chance at the Pacific Mall, while shopping with Shima and Shigeki-kun). She was fussing about her accompanier having her meds and her requiring water to take themà, but said accompanier had already gotten into the concert hall and somehow unreachable.... Then, I headed for the merch booth, which was between the coat check and the staircases and stumbled upon two guys from Beauce! (I felt less alone and crazy knowing some other French speaking fans had driven as far as I did!). Ever since the show has been over, I've been trying to find what the guys' band's name was so I can go see their MySpace, has I have been invited to go see them in Quebec City opening for Lacuna Coil (in the past, they've already played with them and Hammerfall and a bunch of other well renowned metal acts). I just know that the band's name was all in one word and started with "Meh" and was below 12 letters long and contains another h in it. Google and Wiki are not being helpful! T _ T

The first part was a band called Vampires Everywhere! and although their sound balance sucked, they actually weren't as bad as I'd been encouraged to think they'd be... When the singer told us that we could "try out [our] cheers on [them]", you heard an uproar from the crowd : "we are X! We are X!", accompanied by glowsticks and arm gestures. They finished their set pretty uneventfully, much to the crowd's pleasure of seeing them offstage so X could come on. The crowd wasn't really into them.

The crowd had a lot of Asians in it, much more than for Dir En Grey (lots of Caucasian, but some nearing their 50s) and Miyavi (lost of GIRLS and some cute guys, most of the attendees under 30). There were a lot of salarymen and the crowd was mostly my age and up, I've seen some folks I could see some were older than my dad (56). I was surrounded by Japanese & Chinese speaking people around my age (I'm 27). The Caucasians seemed to enjoy being on the main floor more, I guess (I was on the balcony, between the main floor and the gallery, right side of the middle alley, spot-on in front of YOSHIKI♥). Everyone was taking pictures with their iPhones and that made me realize how craptastic my own cellphone is when it comes to taking pictures; everything got overexposed due to being in front of the spotlights...

So they played X--Japan instrumentals during the band switch for about 20-25 minutes, then it started. The crowd was chanting "We are X!". The reel with the red X-Japan logo started playing, with the word JAPAN echoing (although, near the end, it sounded like "Chopin" more than "Japan"...) and the crowd went wild. The spotlights lit up in this eerie blue color from under the drums and you could see Yoshiki, sporting a chocker and long open vest over his bare chest and sparkling black pants, standing up on his drumkit! It was quite a sight; I thought to myself that it must have been the kind of picture Anne Rice had in mind when she wrote about Lestat being a rockstar... I felt moved being in that man's godlike presence again (although I know laila_astri might disagree with me on that description...). Then the rest of the stage was lit and we could see the other 4 members. Toshi was in a black outfit (which he, for some reason changed to allwhite to sing Kurenai! Talk about contrariness! But I liked that white outfit's feathery jacket, kind of a New Orleans version of Gackt's from Le Ciel!). Sugizo was dressed in the same clothes he had at A.X. (or they seemed the same to me...), pretty much an h.Naoto/Elements crossover look. Pata had hippie colorful pants with a tunic collared black see through shirt. Heath looked really handsome in just black jeans and a silken floppy neck white shirt.

Photo credit Yurga on Jref.com (I retouched it a little to show what the lighting made it look like live).

They played the same playlist as they did the rest of this short tour, so I won't mention it. The crowd knew the lyrics by heart and was very loving and participative. I saw some very good cosplays, although there were much fewer than sir_kao was anticipating. I didn't mind it; the quality made up for the number, I think. I was very much astonished that Toshi sounded JUST LIKE HE DOES ON THE RECORDS! Never before in my life have I experienced a singer sounding EXACTLY THE SAME live as on the records...Toshi puts the AWE in awesome!

While playing the piano on Endless Rain (I think), Yoshiki was so overcome by his emotions (having told us brief moments before that he could feel Hide's presence and the crowd chanted back "Hide! Hide!" as if he had physically entered the stage that very moment) that he somehow slipped of his bench while leaning forward. He had taken off the medical collar from his neck at the beginning of the encore because he sweated so profusely. When I saw him fall, I was kind of worried, but he got back on his bench -show must go on rule always prevalent- and kept playing & weeping. I was so move, I could have just walked on the stage, hugged him and cried along! But I was on the balcony, so that did not happen anywhere else than in my mind....

When Toshi announced that they would sing Art of Life, I thought he went nuts; that song last 30 minutes and more. They had to cut it short as Toshi's voice gave up on him after maybe 8 minutes into the song. Then the staff started a recorded version of Forever Love and the band bowed and amused themselves taking pictures with the crowd from the stage, arms crossed in the traditional X and such. The fan had given them a Canadian flag with the reverse being a Japanese flag with "Revival: X-Japan 4ever Love" on it. Both Yoshiki and Toshi (and Yoshiki"s beautiful clear Kawai piano) sported the flag saying we love you Canada!. At the beginning of the encore, Toshi asked "Do you want to hear Yoshiki's voice?", after which he attempted a very cute "Merci, Toronto!". The show was much love. Many people filmed it, so you can find it on Youtube. I posted the Intro and the Encore here for your benefit.

Intro/ Jade (credits: Luluyeah on Youtube)

Yoshiki and Toshi's speeches, flag strutting and Endless Rain (credits Postergirl17 on Youtube)

When the show was over, we didn't want to leave, even after the band exited to the backstage area and the roadies started packing up... But I had to, it was past 11:30PM and my bus was leaving around 15 past midnight. On the way, on the corner of a shop near Dundas Square, there was a bunch of people (maybe 50 or more) gathered, dancing to 80s club pop type music. I asked my way around to a nearby policeman onlooking the party people. I was told it was the Gay Pride festivities...I walked back to the bus terminal and changed shoes, because by then, my Rocking Horse ballerinas were killing me, having walked over 3 miles and standing up most of the show in them!I was luckier with that ride, I managed to sleep most of it, getting awaken by the passenger next to me only twice, on during the 20 minutes break in Kingston and the other time, when we reached Kirkland, her final destination. Then, I went to see aionwatha because we were supposed to have a cemetery photo-shoot, but we canceled because of the weather (and both our physical decrepitude). She let me borrow her shower and it did me a world of good! Then she needed to rest, so I went to L2 while waiting for Shima to finish "working" (finishing that same old 3d animation demo to try and get a job that pays).

I went to see Maïté with Shima, to deliver the AP Sweet Jam JSK that I had bought that I didn't fit in; ended up trading it for less than I thought, but earned a pink cutsew in deal, so it's equally good. Ended up at Shima's new temporary place watching Alien 3 with her roommate and sleeping over.

This year is incredible, so far: I've seen Axl Rose wearing a Québec flag and X-Japan wearing a Canada/Japan one, I can die happy, now that I've seen two of the biggest and most influential rock acts for my generation, worldwide.

darksunmoon — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:12:49 GMT

Weekly summary:
-Friday, the dishwashing machine at my job broke. So I spent half the day handwashing the dishes and when I was done with that and my other chores, it was about 19h30.

-Saturday, we went shopping. I stil can't believe that in all the underwear packages Wal-Mart's had in stock, I could not find a single one that was right cut, all cotton, not ugly beige/brown or with ugly motifs...

-Last Sunday, we went to see my grandma and I bought her a lottery ticket (La Poule Aux Oeufs D'or, which also has a tv show drawing that I know she likes to watch) to apologize for not showing up on my birthday.

-Monday, we were closed for Labour Day. I went to try and program a universal remote for my other grand-parents' "new" TV set... Only to find out the thing dated back to 1985 and therefore, didn't have infrared sensors, rendering the use of any kind of remote impossible, much to everyone's dismay...

-Tuesday, Jazz lifted me to Longueuil station has she parks her car there to go to Uni in MTL.
I had a REALLY LONG day, as we had nearly 400 customers (ee usually have about 240-280/day). I had to wash all of those nice *coughs* people's dishes because the dishwasher delivery guy couldn't show up.
Finished really late, around 9:30PM (including a 15-30 minutes break because I have some physical limitations I have to respect....).

-Wednesday, she gave me a lift even thought she didn't have school. She went to work with a classmate on some assignment they had for the Japanese class she's taking as a free auditor. We got the new dishwashing machine and Khanh installed it in the afternoon, so I had to handwash some more dishes, but luckily for me, there was a more normal amount of customers that day. When we got to the parking lot in Longueuil, Jazz noticed that she'd lost her monthly parking pass. Was not a happy camper... She was grumpy all the way home, so on top of standing my very tired and weary self, I had to stand her being obnoxious and frustrated when I really had nothing to do with the fact that she didn't store it somewhere safe and forgot or dropped it somewhere...

-Thursday, we went to buy her a new pass. They only charged us the 20$ deposit fee on the card.
We had a truckload of catering plates to prepare and it was overall a very hectic day, but I managed to finish on time to go see the Three Starz and Parapraxis show at L'Alizé Rock. I gave Aristo some men pants I'd had in my lucky packs that I obviously couldn't fit it because "I got back" and I'm not a tall skinny guy! :P He was very pleased with them and told me about the Emily Autumn show in October. I notice I was more tired than I realised when I tried to headbang (Three Starz play some kind of pop-punk rock) and my neck was sooooooo stiff, I could barely move my head forward about half an inch before it hurt. Took the bus+Taxi because Jazz's classes ended early and she was tired so I told her to leave first.

-Friday, the driver's side wiper FLEW OFF THE HOOK and it was raining (luckily we were switching roads and the wind had blown the rain clouds further so we managed to get to Longueuil safely). We had to wait until Longueuil to purchase another one, as it was 7am and all garages and car dealerships on our way were closed. I was so happy that Canadian Tire opened early... But damn it, I didn't think a single wiper cost 30$. I was kind of expecting to get a set at that price... Then we went and parked at the metro station and went our separate ways.Stéphanie came over to have a partial training.Still had a lot of work in prevision for catering orders we had for next week.

After work, I managed to go to the Jump Start Club's K&J-pop event at the La Commission des Liqueurs bar. It's a nice looking bar! We had the whole 2nd floor for our bunch. By the time I left, it was getting pretty packed, and so were the other floors. There were soooo many cute Asian guys! I danced with my friends from 9 to 11-something PM, then it was getting really hot and packed and my legs were feeling like I was gonna collapsed, so I messaged Jazz that I was leaving and waiting for her near our parking. She had originally planned to come to the party, too, but the friend she wanted to bring ended up deciding to grab a beer downtown instead and trying to convince her to stay overnight and stuff and she had a week as emotionally packed as mine, so she was glad I texted her, giving her the perfect exit door out of the touchy situation she would have gotten in trying to be tactful explaining to her friend that she wanted to leave and go to sleep because she really needed to get some rest, having slept only about 4 hours per night this past week...

My work contract prolonged 3 more days, due to more customers that expected, so I work until Wednesday night until Ghislaine comes back from her vacation, Thursday morning. I'm kind of pissed because there's a new measure in place starting THIS WEEK that is going to affect my unemployment benefits ...

This weekend, my hometown is having and event called "Weekend Rouge" (Red Weekend, referring to the fact that at this time of year, the tree leaves should have begun turning to red, but we're having such a warm summer that everything's still pretty darned green!). My dad is part of the organization so we're spending our weekend in the sun, while Nick has fun driving coaches, tractors, dune bogeys and nearly anything some adult allows him to drive and he's really proud of himself. I'm still helping Gaétane with her Old-fashioned Ice Cream demonstration. I got sooooo soooo many positive comments about my "dress" today, it's just crazy! I was wearing my Metamorphose/Crown Label Sweet Park skirt over my red gingham set from the summer 2009 lucky packs. I'll try to whip up something with my Teddy Pâtissier for tomorrow!

And then, I'll pack my things and I'll take some awfully damn needed and deserved vacations. I'm going to Toronto again, with Shima, to see X-Japan! It will feel so natsukashii to see Yoshiki and Sugizo again! (I saw them at A.X. in 200

Photo credits: sugrdva/berylbyrd @Flickr

"♫Look at all the strange CH-CH-CH-Changes♫"

darksunmoon — Sun, 05 Sep 2010 17:32:47 GMT

Wow, August sure was a busy busy busy month!

And I noticed I have a lot more friends born in August than I knew about:

My birthday was on August 9th,
renge64's on August 11th,
winkychan's on August 14th,
muted_serenades's on August 17th,
fannylachipie's on August 18th,
ooshirahimeoo's on August 19th,
and matsubunny's on August 20th!

I hope you girls all had very enjoyable and memorable celebrations for YOUR day! :)
*****

Did you know I'm an opportunist? Yes, I am; when life throws me lemons, I make the best damn lemonade! :P
Lately, my ex-workmate Stéphanie kept calling us that she was going to quit her current job and would like to come back to work with us and all. But we didn't really need any other employees at the moment; we don't have enough customers to justify hiring and paying an other staff member. I'd been contemplating changing jobs for the past, what, 2 years, at the least?
I mean, from the start, I'd been hired as a temporary worker, anyways...
I was supposed to work just the two first weeks until laurymdragon left her other job and was coming to work with pastlink, Nath, Orazio and Ghislaine. Then they both quit and we also had a couple other employees over the course of the three years I'd been working there: Nicholas/Gringo, Matt, Vince/Mr.Unicorn, the thieving pretend bar manager guy, Julie-Kim/the schizo girl, Raphaëlle, and now, Afshan and Khanh.Oh, and Nath's nefew for a couple days! I'm the only one who lasted so long, I guess. Steph came and went 3-4 times and Laury worked with us twice, also, but I'm still the one that brought the most stability and ease in Orazio and Nath's mind; sure, I could be late, but I would never not show up or quit.

Even this once, even thought I'd been considering it, I didn't really know how to bring it up to them; Orazio and Nath offered me this way out. I took it early then they all thought I would, but by now, I'm so weary and tired and mentally exhausted that I just had to jump on the bandwagon, you know... So starting on SEPTEMBER 11th, I'm unemployed and I'll be enjoying every second of it thoroughly; I'll go drop and pick Nick to & from school and go shopping for MYSELF for once, not because Bureau Da Ge feels compelled to buy a t-shirt with a NES cartridge that reads "Blow Me!" or one with a Montreal staple historical monument on it... I need new undergarments, new shoes (God knows I ruin many pairs in a year because I walk so much!), some business suitable attire because my wardrobe is pretty much limited to goth&sweet loli/soccer mom/job uniform (i.e. black or pinstriped pants and a couple shirts I never or seldom wear)...

This picture is part of a photoshoot we {about 50~something people} did with Benji 2-3 Sundays back...

Phase 1: Heartbreak **** Photo credit: Benjamin Von Wong/ © Von Wong Photography | Montreal Based Photographer

Almost 27

darksunmoon — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 22:00:25 GMT

Happy birthday to nana_komatsu7 & soopuhstar... and to me! Hihihi

Yes, I'm turning another page in the history of my life tomorrow...
This year is finishing off not so good: broke my glasses (will cost nearly 700$ to get new ones, ouch!), lost my keys and my bus pass... Had an argument with mom first thing in the morning today... Life's going well for me, lately, wouldn't you say?!?

I'm so glad I have friends that make me feel lucky to have meet them, like Shima, Steven, Maki getoutofmyband/shukketsuichigo/miracleshopping and others. They help me feel better about myself, just by being there and showing concern and sharing time together doing activities... Thanks to them, I can survive this murderous daily grind that has become this unhealthy routine I go through when living with my mother. I'm managing to keep on working and pay off my debts instead of curling up into a corner, crying and suicidal...

I bought a cellphone yesterday. A Blue LG Rumor2...With unlimited Canada & USA text messaging, yeah! My provider is Virgin Mobile. (I'd been with Fido and Telus, previously, and I wanted to try something new).

I have to go, now, kick myself in the rear to finish this outfit for Otakuthon next week... I hope the girls won't be too pissed at me for skipping this weekend's shooting at L2 with the TV5 people...