I've been talking to my Finance secretary (aka the guy above my chairperson) for over an hour on the ICQ. He's -really- trying to make me cancel my resignation. He's saying I'm irresponsible and unfair and selfish and all that. I KNOW THAT. I know that and I'm sorry, okay? I know I don't have a strong reason at all, apart from me being the scum I am but I really don't want to do this anymore. At this point, I really don't care what people think of me and care more on my happiness. So I'm selfish. Fine. I'd rather be called selfish than go through what I went through again. I'd rather be happy with myself........ Will you just give me up????!!!!! It's not like I'm your most precious member -anyway- Are you so afraid I'm going to smear your name and the comm's name? Let's not even talk about the glory of the hall and all that crap. I'm a human being, damn it, not a machine. And for goodness sake, I have a *brain*. Three of them, in fact. I can -think- Just go away and leave me alone. You're spoiling my birthday mood. JUST LET ME RESIGN!!!!!!

selene on Monday, December 3, 2001, 12:09 p.m.

Ouch. Needless to say, I got bricked by JLPT 2. It was super super super difficult! Kanji was easier than I thought but the Bunpou ..... *dies* I don't even understand what the reading is about. Oh well, there's still next year. Luckily I met a friend, who was my group mate for Econs class this sem, after the test so I didn't have the time to feel angsty and mopped around. We had dinner together and I had the chance to get to know him better. I kinda like him. No, not THAT way, he has a girlfriend anyway. But he's a good guy.

*glancing sideways* Since I'm online, my room mate is not. We're taking turns since there's only one LAN plug in the room. She's sitting on the bed beside me and err..... *mumbles* watching Rurouni Kenshin ep 1 on her computer. Oh wow. I haven't rewatched Kenshin in a long time. Hmm.. I just noticed how annoying Kaoru sounds. And Kenshin's "de gozaru" and "oro" Heh heh... I missed that. Maybe I should watch RK again soon....

Will BBS tomorrow, I think. My network connection is being weird so I can't open people's logs... I have a 10 *AM* banner-painting session tomorrow. Unbelievable. I have to get up THAT early? *sigh* Anyway, I'm going back to my Meteor Garden now......

selene on Sunday, December 2, 2001, 10:38 p.m.

Oh I am in such a bad bad BAAAAAADDDD mood. I'm being very restless and moody. I don't even feel the slightest hint of sleepiness at this hour. I'll just turn off my computer and see whether any of my books bore me to sleep. Argh. I so hate feeling blue :P

selene on Saturday, December 1, 2001, 03:51 a.m.

Nee-chan is one lucky X fan. The X soushuhen vol 2 I picked up for her today at Kino was the last one on the shelf. I didn't see it at first and was just on my way to bother the staff again when I looked up straight into Fuuma's stares. It's damn expensive though.. $23+ for something whose original price is only Y880 -_- Ah that dear monopolist of a bookstore has managed to get its paws on our economic welfare once again.

My chairperson is persuading me not to resign, I have a meeting at 11 tonight, and I feel like screaming in frustration >.< No, I'm not stressing. Somehow turns of events just don't go along with what I planned, that's all. *glancing heavenward* And the truth is, I'm getting sick of hall life and committee work..... Committee work in high school was so fun that I'd often go an extra mile for it, but here it's just... work. I don't even enjoy it anymore. *sigh* Well, I'm the one who decided to join these committees, so I should stick with my decision, right? *kicks self in the butt* Geh.

selene on Friday, November 30, 2001, 08:16 p.m.

OK, today I took a placement test for next semester's Advanced Jap II here in school. I don't *really* want to pass, especially since I'm not sure about my modules next sem or whether my timetable might clash with my core Business modules, so I took the test just to try it out, as a sort of pre-JLPT try-out. Well, the format of the test is definitely different and I totally bungled the Kanji section. Then there was one section on keigo that I've totally forgotten and haven't been learning because it doesn't come out in JLPT 2 so I totally bungled that one as well. But just now the lecturer for Advanced Jap II class emailed me and requested me to come for an oral interview. I'm aghast! Does that mean she thinks I actually did quite well on the test to worth her time to interview me? Or does that mean I totally failed the test but she just wants to make sure that I'm not worth her time in her class next sem? In any case, I'm not FLUENT! I can't possibly go to a Japanese oral interview and come out making a convincing impression on the interviewer! Doushiyou..........?!

All in all, I've been spending my holidays reading. I'm resigning from a committee I have due to absolute loathing of the work that I can't bring myself to even THINK of it and another committee I have will only start working from tomorrow night so I basically have nothing to do. Plus I have a room mate now and I sorta have to adjust myself to her (she's a morning person; I'm an after-midnight person). I've finished all the new books I bought and just borrowed 3 more from the library today... I found Eddings' Redemption of Althalus inconspicuously sitting there on a shelf among Ibsens, Stephen Kings, and Poes; looking innocently like some old battered hardcover book with its fading inscriptions and lack of colourful commercial cover. I also found yet another book on Wallace semi-biography and the biodiversity of the Indonesian archipelago, this time a huge coffeetable book with many pretty photographs of my beloved country's forgotten and neglected natural beauty and wealth. It's a damn heavy book but I've been enjoying it a lot. Wallace is my hero *grin*

Anne-nee, I know how irritating THAT can be. My impression is that anime/manga fans in Indonesia tend to think of themselves as an elite group... which is why I actually don't get around... LOL But then again, even here we have some annoying people too. There's a member of my committee who likes to brag how good he is in understanding anime, what merchandises he has, and what anime he has watched. And he doesn't even do a bloody good job in the committee. Makes me wonder why they accepted him in first place *sly glance at the honorable chairperson* Anyway, just kick their butts! LOL Here, I'll lend you by sakabatou.
Kara, 'tis a little strange to have you call me Selene..... after all, I've always been known as Janey the Farmowner in our glorious little farm ... XD XD XD Anyway, just call me whatever you want!
Pei-yi, you're back with a spanking new layout too! Hey, congrats on the A's. I'll see you in NUS next July, ne? *wink, wink*
David, thanks for linking me :)
Zeruel, I didn't notice the new layout at first! It's so similar to the previous one... but I think that's your style ^_^

Alright, off I go to watch some more Meteor Garden. *muttering to self : I am not a fangirl, I am not a fangirl, I am NOT a fangirl, so help me God*

selene on Thursday, November 29, 2001, 10:34 p.m.

To those who want to read the Time article I mentioned on HP slash fics ...... Kara has it typed in her blog XD XD

Ashley has a wonderful Spike layout!! Shi-chan has a new layout too. So does Kee. So does Tiffany

Geh. 4 more days to JLPT....... *drumroll* I'm quite confident for Bunpou but Chokkai and Kanji sectios are ... *sweatdrops*

selene on Wednesday, November 28, 2001, 05:41 p.m.

My neighbour has moved into my room. It's pretty awkward and all, because this is a single room with two people cramming inside. It's a large single room, but still... there's only one plug-and-play for our LAN connection so we have to take turns going online and we have limited electrical plugs for our lamps/phone chargers/tv/discman/speaker/radio/etc/etc. Geh. We somehow solved the problem by going out today. She with her boyfriend, and me to aunt's place to drop my laundry. She hasn't come back yet... probly having dinner outside first.

Anyway, I went to Kino again. (I was in the neighbourhood ^^) Read Margaret 24 for the HYD installment. It's eerily like this on-going HYD fanfic titled "Detour". Except, in the last HYD installment, it's Tsukasa who lost his (short-term) memory and doesn't recognize Tsukushi, instead of the other way around. (wwwwaaaahh!! poor Tsukushi :P and Tsukasa was saying something like "I really hate girls like you" and telling her not to come back ever again.) Did Kamio-sensei surf the net reading fanfics for ideas or something? She has the mind of a fanfic writer ^^ But I'm wondering when HYD will end....... -_- It's almost like a Latin American telenovella, obstacles to a happy-ever-after-edning just keep coming up. I bet if the Mexicans make a telenovella out of HYD, it'd be more convincing and better than the Taiwanese version. (After all, they've been doing the poor girl-rich guy theme for dunno-how-many-dozens-series.) It'd be world-wide hit with a former Miss World contestant as the lead actress and a Ricky Martin lookalike as the lead actor. Heh heh heh... Yeah, I like to watch Latin American telenovellas when it's on on my TV back home. Oh and yeah, I've watched the first episode of Meteor Garden XD Lousy acting, even though I can't understand 98% of the dialogue. Rui and Tsukasa are certainly eye candies but Akira and Soujirou are SO disappointing. They're minor characters, yes, but they're supposed to be as good-looking as the others (probly even more!). I'm think I'm just going to skip some of the episodes. Oh and I don't like the actress who plays Tsukushi too xP Wimp.

(With the notion of a zaibatsu practically unheard of in Taiwan, depiction of wealth and rich people just isn't the same *frown* Taiwan is an SME-filled country, with 1 in every 18 person a head of his own coorporation. Maybe I'm too business-minded. Bleh. Being in Business faculty supposedly does that even to someone who has never been so. Oh, and I -did- do a economic-oriented country study on Taiwan, BTW.)

I guess it's too late to save me from being a HYD fangirl now. Oh well. But I shall NOT buy the mangas. I'm broke enough as it is. BTW, I have always thought HYD is a very old manga, because the style is so 1980s, especially the earlier volumes. How long has it been running, anyway?

There's a quarter-page article in Time Asia December 3 issue, page 16, on Harry Potter slash fanfics on the net XD So NOW they're starting to notice.... LOL

Last night, around 2 am, I chatted with Mommy Icha and Daddy Tosh for the first time after a long time of not talking to them. It makes me very hyper LOL They're both my very good friends but I've been calling them mommy and daddy for so long (our entire class is one big happy family with complicated and weird ties), it feels weird calling them my "friends". Icha is in Michigan and Tosh is in Wisconsin, BTW. Our chat sessions are always a riot, involving a lot of daddy-bashing. Whoo XD XD And when I woke up this noon, my senior year classmates in US were online and then it was another riotious chat session with a lot bashings on each other. I miss my friends!!

selene on Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 06:53 p.m.

Updated Peach Tea with the latest IASC layouts. Need to change the layout soon. Need to make new layouts. Updated ZS' OVA 2 page. Added a few blog links here.
Hello, Tiffany. Thanks for linking. I like your domain name. I like green XD XD
And Yin, check out the extra download down there *hums*
*bleary eyes* I've been feeling tired the whole day. Maybe because I went to bed at 5 AM this morning ^_^; Tomorrow's schedule : JLPT's Bunpou section! Whoo!!!
*yawn* Oyasumi.

selene on Tuesday, November 27, 2001, 12:47 a.m.

clt : Kodocha's Pinch ~ Love Me Deeper + Gravitation OST

My Indonesian friends are going back home today! There are about 30 of them and they rented a bus to take them to the airport *giggle* They're like a tourist group.... ^_^; There's another group going home day after tomorrow, only 13 of them, but renting a bus too 'cause it's still cheaper. Hmm.. it's going to be quiet and lonely here.

I think everyone here is an anime watcher, since anime are freely shared and available in the network. I can't stroll down the corridor on my way to the kitchen while humming Canta Per Me without people calling out to me : "Have you been watching Noir?", "I think you watch too much Noir!", or "Hey, you watch Noir too?" I guess when people lock themselves inside their rooms, they're probably watching anime on their computers like me LOL I've met some guys who actually ADORE Fruits Basket x_x Me: "Ahahahaha... *sweatdrop* so.... you've, er.., actually WATCHED Fruits Basket?"

Catherine, I'm surprised you don't know about it! It's a shop at Parco Bugis level 3, just across A'n'BC. The one with a lot photo machines.
Anne, I'll check the CDs out for you next time. I'm having choir practice every week near there, anyway.
Elyse, I'm glad things are looking up. Hang in there!!
Fel, I think the kanji is some sort of a sub-title for it. Like a storyline title or an arc name. If I'm not wrong, it's read as Eikouden.
As-chan, thanks for the Winmx suggestion, but I think university's IP doesn't allow me to get connected to any server :( I'm particularly looking for the song "Todoku ka na", an ending song of HYD.
Emily, I've been going back and forth to your HYD page very often these days. Love it! And ROD ost is called Listen or Die? That's cute ^_^
Fuuko, KL's Kino only sells Chinese manga? Geh. No need to take a look at it, then.
Garion, we have the same phone? XD XD Walking on the blue side, are we? That's cool =D

Today's plan : laundry, grocery shopping, and studying for JLPT. Oh, new songs for d/l are up *points down*

selene on Monday, November 26, 2001, 01:36 p.m.

clt : HYD's OP theme, Futsuu no Nichiyoubi ... an upbeat, seemingly-cheesy song that is actually quite .... catchy 0.o *sings along*

Finished watching HYD! XD XD XD I'm trying to find ED mp3s now and Audiogalaxy doesn't seem to be working anymore, so any idea where to get mp3 these days? I searched my network and the people who have the mp3s are currently offline or pasword-protected. I am so mp3-deprived. And mIRC doesn't really help.

Still hasn't really started studying for JLPT 2. One more week to go. Geh. My Jap teacher wasn't really supportive >.< Sensei : "JLPT nikyuu wo ukeru? Muzukashii neee..." Tell me something I don't know :P

My neighbour is moving in tomorrow. Some of her stuff are already here. My room looks rather cramped with all these boxes. Plus Arief dropped his TV and radio here because they're running out of space in the room they're keeping for the holiday (which means I can use them both the TV and the radio *ohohohoho*). He just told me that if I'm running out of space, there's always the space under the bed. I didn't even know I can put things under my bed. Hmmm... I need to pull out the drawer and check it out. Probably very very VERY dusty. Unimaginably so. My room is pretty big for a dorm room, actually. My hall is the oldest hall, yet it is the newest in furnishings. We just got rennovated last year. All the furniture are spanking new wooden things. I have a 3-door wardrobe with multiple drawers and shelves inside, a LOT of book shelves, a very wide table, a long narrow side table, and a 3-drawer short cabinet. And of course, there's a big bulky bed with wooden frames that is immovable with narrow gaps in between junctures where I have a habit of dropping my CDs and important papers into. Seriously, I can't get them out anymore, unless I have someone dismantled the entire thing. But, tis really the best single room on campus. I'm really happy with it. *glancing the shelves above* Araaa.. I think I have too many books ^_^;;

Holiday is officially starting. There's an offer to come along for a trip to Kuala Lumpur, but I don't like KL. Went there a year ago, met Syat ^_^x, and shopped a lot. But it reminded me of Jakarta too much. I'm interested in seeing the KLCC's Kinokuniya, though. When I was there it was still under construction. Hmm.. maybe I'll take a trip to Johor to shop. It'll only take about an hour to get there from my place anyway. My other holiday plan : read a lot, revamp ZS, attend cosplay (thought not cosplaying ^^ but a bunch of NUS Anime Club-ers will and we might get a booth there...) and yeah, going to Bangkok with my parents. Better bring my unread copy of James Joyce's Ulysses in case I get bored. But hopefully my neighbour Henny (who's going there with HER parents) and our good friend Anne (who's a true-blue Bangkok girl) would be in Bangkok at the same time so the three of us can get together and let Anne show us around. She's been meaning to show me some of Thailand's, urm..., more interesting side ^_^x

Will study for the whole day tomorrow. Unless I get distracted ............. ^_^; *checks out my anime pimp's computer* Shaman King 9, Hikaru no Go 5 and Scryed 5 are out..................... Oh and BTW, I totally love Neil Gaimann's Stardust. I love this type of dreamy and surreal fantasy stories. Will never look at stars the same way again. LOL.

selene on Monday, November 26, 2001, 01:06 a.m.

clt : Escaflowne TV OST 1 - "ES-CA-FLOW-NEEEE!!!!" Please, please, please, I want to be in the choir who sings these Esca songs!!! May a chance come one day in the future *prays*

BTw, Kenchan & Anne-nee, there's a shop here in Singapore which sells err.. Taiwanese rip-off of Jap CDs. It's where I got all my soundtracks. One CD only costs $17, as opposed to what the original would cost at HMV. Quality's as good as the original. Only draw back would be the booklet's paper quality but it's negligible, IMO. The shop has many soundtracks (Noir, X, Bebop movie being the newest arrival), some interesting drama CDs (Saiyuki, YnM, Kanata Kara), some J-rock CDs, and some seiyuu CDs. The very stuff any otaku would look for. So, if you want, I can get the X TV OSTs for the two of you and anything else you might want when I go home next month.

Yin and Anne got it right. It is Ashiya Shizuki, Mizuki's older brother. I think he has an English name too, but can't remember it on the top of my head LOL

Fel, Singapore is small so any place can be considered "near" ^_^ Too bad Sydney doesn't have any Jap book store. I thought Sydney is a pretty global city, it should have one. I haven't been to Sydney in 9 years, I think. I want to go there again one of these days.
Reins is the latest victim of HP craze..... 0.o
Arara... why are people getting hooked on X when I'm getting sick of it? I like Sorata and Arashi together, though. But I don't trust CLAMP :P
Kitten, thanks for linking me!
Daimira, hello, how do you do (since Yin kindly introduced us LOL). I love your wallpapers, BTW *_* We're co-hostees at seiryuu.nu! And you own a nifty Spike Siegel shrine!! SPIIIIIIKE! *worships Spike*
And Yin, I *do* wonder about Cedric too *snicker* And Cho Chang.
Anne-nee, it's not a problem at all. I enjoy rattling Kino's people cage. And no, I don't think they're afraid of me. I mean, I'm one heck of an irritating customer but it's not like I'm rich enough to do them any real damage (and I don't -look- rich, which is even more important ^_^x). Besides, I'm always very polite and subtle. Buahahaha.

To make a brief summary of things : I took the HP character test and got Hermione Granger. Hehehehe... I'm not as brainy, though. Had choir practice, rather awful, actually... Different pitchings indescribably rattle me. Went on a major shopping spree today and bought English BOOKS for the first time in God knows how long. Got myself Neil Gaimann's Stardust (Mui got me hooked on Neil Gaiman), an Anne Bishop book whose title I can't remember - I sorta just snatched it, and Jostein Gaarder's The Christmas Mystery - it's Christmas season anyway LOL. I'm on a guilt trip after throwing so much money now. Oh well. MUST. STOP. MYSELF. FROM. BUYING. THINGS! Somebody stop me! It's the end of the semester and people are moving out of their rooms. My neighbour Henny is moving in with me so I have to pack a bit of my stuff to make way for her things. I just have too many stuff! I seriously don't know how I'm going to manage moving next year. So, things I'm going to do for the rest of the night are packing & cleaning my room, STUDY FOR JLPT 2 (which, I just realized when my Jap classmate called just now, is one week from now! I'm dyinggggg!), do my Jap class homework, learn my choir parts, and continue HYD. I'm turning into a rabid HYD fangirl. Not good. Not good. Hyaaaaahhhhh, look at the time! *russsssshhhhhhh out of the room*

selene on Saturday, November 24, 2001, 08:49 p.m.

clt : D.A.I's Break of Dawn again
surroundings : cold, strond wind, leaves rustling noisily outside my window, crickets chirping, my neighbour slaving for Finance exam tomorrow - and, after one semester after taking Finance, I have no idea how to operate my Financial Calculator anymore 0.o

Fel, on the subject of me and Kinokuniya : LOL LOL Yes, I go to Kino once a week AT LEAST. I can go there everyday even, when I'm staying at dearie's aunt place 10 minutes away from Kino. One wonders why I never get bored, but I always have something to do (like harass the people at the reservation counter : "Has my order, dated xx/xx/xx with reference number xxxxx, arrived yet? No? But I was told it would have been here by -TODAY-"). On Sundays, I have Jap class nearby so I always head straight to Kino afterwards. I was there today after watching Harry Potter... didn't buy anything, but did hang out at the reservation counter to enquire about something Anne-nee wants. They put me on the phone to the Liang Court branch, who told me to get what I want from the Taka branch (where I was) because every copy of it is fully-booked, who then told me that I can't reserve what I want there and asked me to phone them on the -estimated- arrival date and gave me their business card >.< Aaaahh.. the inefficiency of it all. Anyway, I think the staff at the Japanese book section ought to recognize me by now, considering I've made each of them run back and forth at least once before. BTW, Fel, going back to Indonesia for Christmas? *sparkles* Want to meet us? Your old layout images are still showing up in my place, BTW. And I thought the "XP" in Microsoft XP was a smiley too XP

So, Anne-nee, I think I'll get the thing you want by next week, IF it arrives on time. If it isn't, well, it just gives me one more reason to watch the staff scurying back and forth checking things out for me.

And ara... I have choir practice tomorrow, which means, I'll be stopping by Kino's Bugis branch. LOL. Damn, by now I probably have a catalogue in my mind of what each branch has. I only pay attention to the things that interest me, of course. Which reminds me, today I saw two Hanakimi 16 bound together at the reservation counter, meaning they've been reserved and I have a feeling that it might be MINE (one is for Minli), except I've picked them up myself from the display shelves, rather than the reservation counter last week coz they hadn't called me. I told them about it, but their communication line inefficiency probably bungled that short bit of info =P Never mind.

Tin-sama, Kae, Fel, Hikaru, thanks for the layout comments. And Reins, you guessed right. It is a Hisaya Nakajo work. No guess on who the chara is? Anyone?
Ira-nee, I meant drop hints to them at Elex ^_^x Oh I've been feeling lazy to study because my exams are over. I figure I need to take a break from studying and the Goi section is unnerving me ^^; Kedo, ashita mou benkyou shite dasu kamoshirenai...

One last thing. I watched Harry Potter today. I was very excited about the whole thing and none of my friends have ever read the book (should've guessed that... *sigh*). Lucy thinks the movie is scary, she kept leaning to my direction, clutching my arm, and covering her eyes. (Me : "Luce, this is a CHILDREN'S movie!!") Thanks to Yin, I paid a close attention on Oliver Wood the bishie ^_^x Eheheh... My favourite scene is the Quidditch game. I like the Quidditch robes, BTW. Very nice, especially with all the rich colours. I want more Quidditch! I regret that I didn't buy Vanity Fair October special Harry Potter edition when I saw it. It had pages and pages of photo spread of all the characters, including all the Quidditch players of Gryffindor. Fred and George Weasley is definitely below expectation. They need MORE screen time and get themselves into character. Draco Malfoy looked a bit too skinny and flamboyantly wimpy for me, and uh.. he looked like a definite slash material (not that I read slash HP fics ^_^x) Emma Watson's best. And I like Rupert Grint. Compared to them, Daniel Radcliffe feels rather plain. All in all, the book is much better. Too bad my first volume of HP is in a box somewhere in a store house somewhere in Jakarta 0.o I want to reread it again. If the first movie is 2 1/2 hours long and is already taking out some scenes from the book, I'd like to know how long 4th movie is going to be and how much they'd take out =P

Whoo. Long post. I think I forgot a few people to BBS to? Errh..

selene is very hyper on Sat, November 24, 2001, 12:41 p.m.

clt : Arjuna OST 2 (wah! love it!) & Gravitation OST (Nittle Grasper!!! WHOOO!! If Nittle Grasper were a real-life band, I'd be a die-hard fan faster than you can say their name)

Been continuing HYD again. Although, this time, there isn't any English sub available around for ep 32 and above so I'm watching Chinese sub instead without reading the sub (as if I could read it ^^). I like Rui's voice. Dug around and found that his seiyuu is this guy, Yamamoto Kouji, who is actually an actor. Hmm.. never watched any of his dramas, though. Anyway, I also found a collection of the Taiwan drama version of HYD episodes on the network. Maybe I'll give try watching it, just to see these 3D F4. It's not like I'll understand it anyway. I just heard that they can't act and the drama is not as good as the anime (how can it? anime is the best! LOL) but it seems to be very famous among my friends. Should at least check it out. Somehow the rich, upper-class people in HYD reminded me of some rich, upper-class people I know in real life. The people I know are not so snotty, though LOL. They're just ... very rich. Tsukasa's birthday party reminded me of similar parties I've attended 0.o

I, uh, am confused about something.... I have just found something which I am not sure what it is exactly but I sure hope it's not what I think it is. I don't know the intention(s) behind the thing, either. But I do know who the person behind this is. And I don't know whether I should confront him about it or ignore it. I think he wants me to ask him about it. So I'll probably just ignore it or feign ignorance, since the thing was discreetly slipped among my lecture notes @.@ Otoko wa mendokusai na... >.<

Oh, has someone noticed the d/l section down there? The server is a bit stupid, so sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't ^_^x I'll rotate them frequently.

Steph, Mika, and Kee, thanks for the prompt comments on the new layout =D
Nee-chan, you're right. His name is Nagase Tomoya. *sparkles* I'm beginning to like him a lot, mainly because of his character in Muko-dono, though. His character is so like Gravitation's Ryuuichi - one second as cool as he looks, the next a complete moron - except he doesn't show his less-glamorous-self in front of public, for appearance's sake.

selene on Thursday, November 22, 2001, 06:51 p.m.

My favourite kind of birthday presents are either good books or good music CDs. Emphasis on the "good". So far the only person who have given me both are only my brother, who seems to have the knack of choosing the right gift XD He got me Harry Potter 2 & 3 hardcovers a couple of years ago. And mind you, at that time, I was still in Indonesia, hence English books are a lil hard to come by. (And I think no one heard of Harry Potter in Indonesia then ^^ I had to ask my mother to grab the first volume in US for me. I wonder where I found out about it... hmm...) Erhh, yeah, I think those are my most memorable birthday gifts LOL. My parents, of course, always give me something BIG or expensive that I didn't even know I needed or plain good ole money in a lil red envelope. Heh heh heh.

Bed time. I need to wake up early tomorrow to revise.

selene on Thursday, November 22, 2001, 01:14 a.m.

Urh... new layout? ^_^ Bye-bye, dark colours. Hello, errhh.. pastels. This layout is rather difficult to HTML-ize the way I want it to be. I rather relunctantly resorted to using layers. I feel like I'm cheating on my tables ^^ Urm, well, you'll see why as the entries grow longer, I guess. Anyway, anyone can guess who this bishounen is? XD XD (some people might notice that I always name my files according to the character featured in the layout ... ) Actually I want to make a series of layouts from similar pictures from the same series, but I haven't actually get down to making the others LOL

Philo exam went well. Bio's tomorrow so better get back to my studying now! So many people have told me to study today @.@ Why me??? >.< Tomorrow will be my last day of exam anyway. And then I'm free for 1 1/2 month. Yay! =D

selene on Wednesday, November 21, 2001, 07:29 p.m.