November 2014 NaNoWriMo WINNER: Me

Yeah, I'm bragging :D

I slayed the 50k-word novel dragon!!!!

Oh yeah :D

Finished with 53050 words! WOOOOO!!!!

The process is awful but the finish feels GREAT. That's why I do it :)

Some "Wut Da Heck?!" moments in my life

I hate when this happens. Like Wut Da Heck?! Really phone, do you think I sent this message JUST BECAUSE? I mean, seriously?


















These days now that I'm older and technology is a big part of life I hate hearing "When I was your age..." from my parents because I can't relate anymore. I mean, they're talking about an age where techonology barely began to exsist and it wasn't the norm at all. Maybe when I was little, when technology wasn't a big part of my life, I could relate. But now, I mean, c'mon, what the heck.



When I first got an iPhone, my father taught me how to add people in my address book. I picked it up quickly cuz, really, how hard can it be? Apparently so hard that he forgot how to do it and has to keep pleading me to add contacts in for him. He says he doesn't know how. What da heck? He's the one who taught me how to do it.

And how about those really badly timed phone calls from your mother? It's like she planned it. When my mother wants to call at times when we haven't set up a calling time and date, either I'm in the shower, the bathroom, finishing an essay due the next day, sleeping, about to go out, watching a movie and it is at the best part... seriously, wut da heck?!

If I find more, I'll add them here :) Tell me some of your Wut Da Heck?! moments.

Frozen: Questionable Reality Check SPOILER ALERT!!!!

I know you guys are thinking
WHAT?! Not FROZEN again!

But I just can't get it out of my head! Not the song, I'm talking about the story itself. Sure, disney movies have always had questionable moments that adults asked out loud and kids just accepted. But c'mon, even a kid would realize the strange storyline of Frozen.

I'm calling this post "Reality Check" because I'm going to talk about certain moments in Frozen that I found myself questioning over and over again (basically the whole plot).

First, when Elsa accidently strikes her sister with her powers and her sister freezes up a bit and they have to do the old book with the ancient map thing and ride off in the night seeking these stone trolls who can cure Anna.

Elsa is then told her powers are wonderful and nice and pretty. Quite a good image to put in her head. I was kinda shocked when the troll decided to scare A LITTLE GIRL and tell her her powers could be evil and bad and tell her that fear is her biggest enemy and stuff. FEAR is her biggest enemy and he SCARES her. He should've told her how dangerous her powers are, THEN tell her they can be controlled and be all nice and wonderful. Some help HE was. Because of that Elsa's parents decide to shut her away from her sister and make her fear her powers. And thus, the white strand in Anna's hair is a constant reminder of how AWFUL and DANGEROUS her powers are.

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I thought FEAR was her biggest enemy... oh well. Poor Elsa, without love and support, lives a life of a recluse while her sister Anna runs about the castle completely out of control with no supervision from her parents or even a governness and with no social life because she never goes out even though she can. I mean, it's not like the outside world is dangerous or anything. Not like what Mother Gothel tells Rapunzel in "Tangled". Then I would understand why Anna never goes outside.

I just realized she does go outside... FOR THE FUNERAL!!!! (that Elsa doesn't even bother to go to because she's a recluse and can't control her powers because the trolls made her FEAR them.) Then Anna decides to shut herself in the castle until her sister's coronation. Who's rulling the kingdom after Elsa and Anna's parents die?

FINALLY THE GATES OPEN!!!!

Okay, I know Anna did NOT go outside for almost as long as her sister didn't. Normally, a child cut out from the outside world, will have minimal socializing skills and be an introvert and not be outgoing at all. Yet Anna has fully developed her personality and is quite a bundle of joy and happiness... did she have a playmate while her sister was a recluse?

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So, suddenly in the castle there are a bunch of servants... where the heck were they while the two princesses hid in the castle?

And the two sisters finally meet at the coronation where lots of people join... who sent the message to the other kingdoms if Arendelle is basically cut off from the rest of the world seemingly...?

Why is Anna not completely utterly terrified of the whole amount of people that she sees if she had zero chance to learn how to socialize? And why the heck does she meet with that prince and not be terrified of falling in love and stuff? I mean, she acts like she knows what love is and had lots of experience but she had LOCKED HERSELF INSIDE A CASTLE FOR LIKE 10 YEARS for crying out loud.

Suddenly she's recklessly in love.

Suddenly disney gives Elsa a cue to show her powers.

Elsa runs away. And even though Elsa had cut Anna out of her life, Anna is not angry at her sister at all because she cares about her so much she decides to leave the castle in charge of this man she just met and go after her sister during a blizzard.

Hans takes charge. Why is there only one prince there? I thought other kingdoms were also invited? No? Did they all go home before the party ended?

Disney throws in the regular normal guy that happens to team up with Anna to talk to her sister in ending the accidental freeze she set on the kingdom when she left.

(Side note: How do they know their shared liking of chocolate when they haven't had a conversation with each other in years? Anna should be furious with Elsa. So furious she wouldn't go after her in a blizzard.)

Anna and her new "friend" Kristoff meet Olaf who Elsa made during her song and never once glanced back to see what she made. I'm guessing it was happy memories of her and her sister playing together that brought life into Olaf.

Olaf is probably the most real character of all. Oh, and the reindeer. None of the other characters have a straight plot line.

Why is Kristoff an orphan? No one ever wondered in the beginning at that ice cutting scene? And WHY does Arendelle export ice? Where do they send it to? Who are these people that need ice so badly?

And another thing, Elsa can't be known as the snow queen when she'd only been one for less than four days supposedly and was in hiding the whole time.

Anna chases after Elsa the moment Elsa flees from the castle. Elsa leaves, Anna chases, supposedly while Elsa builds the ice castle. Then when Anna meets Kristoff, it still seems to be the same day because she makes Kristoff leave there and then and not wait until morning.

While Elsa sings "the light of day!" we see dawn coming around from somewhere. So a day goes by. It must've taken Anna all night to get to where she meets Kristoff then. She should've taken food or water or a blanket if she was smart.

But because she wasn't smart to prepare herself she gets to meet Kristoff, thank you plot line.

Okay, timeline, I'm getting confused.

Elsa becomes queen.

Anna "falls in love".

Anna frightens? angers? Elsa and takes her glove.

Elsa wants it back but doesn't want to hurt Anna (THE FEAR)

Fear makes Elsa use her powers. "Sorcery!" says the strange duke with the flappy wig.

Elsa flees. Anna chases.

Elsa leaves. Immediately Anna leaves Arendelle in Hans hands (hans hands haha) and goes after Elsa on a horse and brings nothing with her. Not even cash, food, water, or a blanket. And obviously since she has been hiding around inside a castle, she doesn't know that in the winter, you need a coat, a scarf, and boots, a hat, gloves, and blankets to keep you warm.

Elsa starts her song as she walks up a mountain. This mountain seems pretty far from Arendelle... how long did it take her to get there? Hmm... maybe all night.
At the same time Anna chases after Elsa on a horse through a forest which supposedly takes all night as well.

Elsa makes the ice castle. "light of day!" miraculously there is the light of day. Dawn. First morning she is officially "the queen :/ ".

(Seriously Elsa, who are you talking to???)

Supposedly Anna is still in the forest. She is STILL in the forest.

Sometime that same day, Anna's horse runs away on her and she falls into a creek and finds a cabin. It is dark now. Probably evening. Here she meets Kristoff. How does she pay the merchant if she seemingly has no money? Oh right, rich people always have jewels they can trade with instead.

Kristoff leaves with Anna and does not seem at all surprised she is the princess of Arendelle. He treats her rather rudely, too. Sven is kinda like a dog.

Kristoff and Anna meet Olaf who, ironically, likes warm things. Olaf gets a carrot nose. The funny scene is when Olaf says "Oh, look at that. I've been impaled! Hahaha." It should be frightening but well, he's made of snow!

Clumsily Anna tries rock climbing which supposedly is put there so that Kristoff can hold Anna and the plot line can hint at an eventual romantic relationship.

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The STAIRS that the two of them didn't notice even though it was right there. Right there. Yet they decide to look toward the right to the face of a large rock instead. Why oh why oh why? Ohhh, right. Romatic relationship plot.

Sven's hoofs make it impossible for him to climb and he is left behind. By this time it's like morning. I think the sun was out and the ice was sparkling.

(WHAT WAS ELSA DOING IN HER FORTRESS THE WHOLE TIME???? Singing more songs? Meeting Jack Frost and falling in love? Creating objects with her powers? Exploring her limits? Trying to find a way to keep people away from her even though she has a country to run? You know, that sounds a bit selfish...)

Deviant Art: Jack frost and Elsa snow queen OTP by TheWinterHope

deviantART Related / deviantID©2013-2014 TheWinterHope

(You know, I wouldn't be surprised if this pic was true.)

Anna meets Elsa. Anna is not angry at her sister and is not afraid. Where the heck does that trust come from if Elsa was the one who shut Anna out of her life? Anna should be mad. Any normal person would.

Out of FEAR of hurting Anna, Elsa hurts Anna. Good going trolls.

Elsa creates a scary snowman guard that she should have created long ago. Elsa's snowman guard almost hurts Anna who Elsa does not want to hurt.

Elsa and Kristoff have not met yet??? Not really. They do see each other but Elsa probably doesn't know his name. Anna leaves with Kristoff and Olaf dragging her with them. Her heart is freezing.

Trolls. Trolls sing a song and try to wed Kristoff and Anna while Anna slowly dies. Good going trolls. And the song is ridiculously long. I was so worried Anna was going to die right there. It is seemingly nighttime at this point because the trolls' lights are shining like it is night.

True love will thaw a frozen heart.

OH! Hans. Of course! Kristoff returns Anna to Arendelle. Hans is evil. THEN WHY did we have to see that smile of Hans when Hans falls into the water after he meets Anna? Surely that was a warm smile! The twisted plot line was a FAIL!

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So up until here, two days have gone by. And we know it was night by the time Kristoff goes to see the trolls with Anna. It is day again by the time they return to Arendelle and still day when Anna is betrayed by Hans.

Did anybody understand why he tried to get her to marry him? I had no idea what evilness was supposed to be going on there. It just seemed kind of reckless. And why was Hans trying to kill Elsa? Why didn't THEY fall in love? Why did Hans even bother to go after Anna if he was going to kill her eventually? Hans is weird. Maybe he had some kind of mental illness that made him do things without any reason whatsoever.

Dying Anna realizes Kristoff is her true love. Or so she thinks. It is still the same day as captured Elsa escapes and Anna tries to go see Kristoff on a frozen ocean. A FROZEN OCEAN! I know it's frozen but, are you kidding me? What were they thinking???

The movie does the loved-one-disappeared-in-the-fog-or-blizzard-or-whatever-and-sick-or-dying-so-can't-get-there-fast-enough scene. Elsa hears Anna died. Hans doesn't know Anna is alive. Hans doesn't know Olaf saved Anna. Immediately the raging storm stops as Elsa flops down to the ice lake floor and grieves. Guilt washes over her. She didn't want to hurt Anna but FEAR made her hurt her sister that she has been trying to protect for years. Good going trolls.

Anna is slowly freezing up. Supposedly Kristoff sees Anna as she rushes in front of her sister to protect her from Hans, miraculously she freezes up into an ice statue and Hans' sword shatters. THAT is REALLY hard ice. Or perhaps the sword freezes... depends on how fast Anna freezes I guess. And whether whatever Anna touches turns to ice or not.

Elsa cries over her sister. True love thaws the heart. SISTER LOVE!!! Glad of this twist because I would've disliked the cheesy-ness of the whole plot if Kristoff kissed Anna's frozen lips and she melted away.

All this time Hans is supposedly watching dumbfounded and totally defeated. Suddenly the ice melts and they are on a boat which appears out of nowhere because obviously they weren't on a boat, er, ship.

Hans gets punched by Anna. The duke with the flappy wig never wants to do business with Arendelle again. Everyone goes home. Olaf gets to stay.

Supposedly if there was a sequel we will see Anna getting ready to marry Kristoff and then breaking up with him and then falling in love again and Elsa being more queenish.

One thing I just realized... Anna has that white strand in her hair. Elsa's hair is white. Could Elsa be frozen inside? That would explain why they are sisters yet Elsa has white hair. It is because she is just so frozen inside. The "freeze" is in her bloodstream! Her blood vessels might be ice!

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Well, if there's anything I missed I'll probably end up writing another FROZEN article.

Anyway, I hope you found this interesting.

Later alligators! :D


Oh, one more thing, why doesn't Anna have any powers? Will we find that out if there is a sequel? I feel like she should have the ability to grow things. She seems like a foresty country girl. But if the sequel wants conflict with powers, Anna can have the ability to... burn things?

I'll leave that thought hanging.


Except for the pic from deviant art (the one with the captions outside the pic) all other pic words and arrows and circles and talk bubbles were added by me :)

National Novel Writing Month: It Has Begun!

I'm calm, I'm calm, I'm calm, I'm...

Actually really, I am pretty calm just that my MC (Main Character) isn't. Really. He's slowly going nuts and he doesn't realize it and his father is all to blame.

So, this month I decided to accept the challenge and juggle NaNo and school work and life stuff. So far, so good.

The only thing I'm really having trouble with now is... going to bed at a decent time.

These days it's become a habit to stay up until 3 or 4 in the morning, skip breakfast, eat brunch, eat a snack, and eat dinner and eat a snack before bed. It's awful! And habits are so hard to break.

Today in one of my classes a professor said, it was something like... "H. A. B. I. T spells 'habit'. You take the 'H' off and you get 'ABIT', take the 'A' off and you get 'BIT', take the 'B' off and you get 'IT'... habits are hard to break."

Clever way of putting it and he was absolutely right. And it was funny. Very interesting professor.

My mother likes to say that to break a habit all you need to do is create a new one. But you know, in reality it's more like you need to fix your bad habits. I mean, what good would it do if you get rid of a "dubbed bad" habit and create a new one that also happens to be bad?

Meh :/

Anyway, I currently have 12,278 words. Goal is 50,000. I'll try to keep you guys up to date so you can all be motivated to maybe take on the challenge as well! :D

NANOWRIMO!!!

Get those fingers on that keyboard and start typ'in!

This Recent Thing: Internet Targets Alex

Hee hee, see what I did in the title? Target the store and "target" the word. Clever, don't you think?

So...I went to Yahoo! News and found out about Alex from Target. Target sounds like a fantasy country written this way. Alex from Mars, Alex from Saturn, Alex from Middle Earth. Chew on that people.

When I looked at Alex from Target and read the Yahoo! News article I wondered what kind of person this Alex was. I mean, obviously Internet is only looking at his face. Apparently (and not particularly in my opinion), Alex is cute or hot or something. But what "kind" of person is he? Is he nice and considerate and kind or is he two-faced and about to use this new-found fame to do things he shouldn't and get things he doesn't deserve?

I think a lot of times Internet only looks at what a person looks like on the outside. Some people can, in the view of the Internet, look unappealing to the eye but be very kind, nice, considerate, and even great stand-up comedians.

Where am I going with this? Well, the Internet should definitely try to focus more on the inside than the outside. I think this also comes together with bullying. Kids are told all around them that you SHOULD judge people by how they look.

So, at an early age children have it in their minds that

Ugly people are bad and should not exist (like the monsters that a hero has to defeat)
Pretty people should be showered with love and gifts no matter what they do
And normal looking people should not be paid any attention to because they are probably boring

We, as the adults in the world, should all be held responsible for making Internet act this way and for making appearance be the only thing that matters. Appearance, appearance, appearance! If animals worried about appearance all the time they would all be extinct because only certain types (in terms of appearance) of animals would be left and there wouldn't be much genetic variety to carry on a healthy pure species.

Someone becoming famous...no, it's not their fault...Internet making someone famous just because some people thought he looked cute or hot or whatever is not acceptable. If he was a great person with a great personality and did something nice to someone who was having a bad day, then...well... he could...maaaaybe become famous but if it's just his looks...it shouldn't happen.

It
Just
Shouldn't
Happen

Stupid Internet I hate you but I have to use you for lots of stuff because that is what this world has become.

Oh, the irony.

P.S.
Since I've been living in Japan for so long I don't always find Americans or Europeans attractive. I'm more of a J-Pop girl...or rather I used to be...

These guys are called "Hey! Say! Jump". Don't ask me why. I used to like them especially the one in the front, first from the left. I know, you're gonna say he looks like a girl. But he was only 14 then. He looks totally different now. And, the middle row second from the left, also 14 then. Yep, specifically those two. I don't care for them now though. I actually don't have a celebrity guy crush anymore. They just change so much.

Yup. Most idols seem to be good looking in Japan. Too bad. There are lots of good singers out there in the world. People who actually deserve the spotlight. And, they don't get because they don't have the looks, it's insane.

There. I said it. WE ARE INSANE!

Ok, bye *runs like the wind*