I like this but not that. Want this but not that. (About N. J. Folettia)

I like Legolas but I don't like Orlando Bloom. Wait, let me rephrase...

 

I REALLY LIKE LEGOLAS! :D

I made this pic edit like four years ago. Yeah, could be better.

Okay so...next.

I like chocolate mint ice cream but I don't like chocolate very much. Neither do I like mint herb tea very much.

I would like to see what its like to kiss Captain Jack Sparrow but I would never think the same about Johnny Depp.

I fight for tigers' existence in the wild but it doesn't necessarily mean I am in love with them.

I want to be known but not to be recognized on the streets.

I like to be alone but I don't like to be lonely.

I am a realist who likes to write fantasy stories.

I know life is short but I still feel like some days are extremely long.

I love my parents but I don't want them all the time in my life.

I love my grandmother but sometimes I get annoyed when she doesn't really hear me because she goes into another world very quickly because she is old.

I am a quiet kind of person who dreams about being very vocal and even a revolutionary.

I'm an introvert who wants to be an extrovert.

I want to go places but I can't because of cost restrictions.

I like singing but I have never seriously sung in front of my family.

I like the quote "Don't judge a book by its cover" but I judge people sometimes.

I want to meet up with my elementary school 6 grade class but I don't want to deal with the past I had with them.

DARN LIFE COMPLICATIONS!!!

See ya later, alligators.

Wiener coffee: Food Porn

Wiener coffee is basically coffee with milk and cream.

I type "Wiener coffee" in Google image search and it asks me if I meant "Wiener kaffee" which I might have meant if I were living in Germany. But anyway...I shall stick to "coffee" for now and deal with "kaffee" later. Maybe some other time when I feel more like "kaffee" rather than "coffee".

YUM

Cinnamon in Wiener coffee is definitely the best. I've once had one called Italian Coffee and it had cream and sprinkles on it. Do Italians like sprinkles? Idk.

Not this one (the above pic) but something like this. The sprinkles made me feel like a kid again :3 When I was little I always used to love getting sprinkles with my ice cream. Usually vanilla ice cream or that mixture of vanilla and chocolate. Mmm, good old fashioned simple stuff.

I found this pic (above pic). Look how pretty it is! It's a little whipped cream rose in the middle! And the plate has a rose on it, too. Fancy yummy stuff that is *nods head approvingly*

And of course, when you look up Wiener coffee, which I did in Japanese, you get coffee with sausages in them because ウィンナーmeans sausage in Japanese. Here, let me ruin your Wiener coffee dreams:

Ick. Doesn't look very appetizing, does it?

Of course it is nice to go to a nice coffee shop and have Wiener coffee but always know that if you know how to make coffee at home, Wiener coffee is at your fingertips. All you need is cream and that magical skill to make frothy milk. For me, all I have is cream.

Don't fret when your Wiener coffee (the pic above) looks nothing like the ones at nice coffee shops. As long as they taste good and come in fancy cups, all is good. I don't even bother putting in the frothy milk. I just squirt whipped cream onto my milk coffee. Hey, it tastes good! Don't judge!

Usually it looks something like this above pic. It looks like there are pieces of crunched up tissues in some brown stuff that may or may not be milk coffee. It could well be white clumps of paint in light brown water, too.

Anyway, hope you have a Wiener coffee day now that I've seduced you with all these yummy pics.

See ya later, alligators!

P.S.

Have one more to go!

MMM...YUM :3

I NEED A MASK

So in order for Galligator to start her YouTube channel, I need a mask.

Why do I need a mask? Pssh, duh! It's so Galligator can start her YouTube channel! Ugh! Were you even reading this stuff right?

So where can I get a mask? A cute alligator mask? Or any animal, really. As long as it's cute.

Where?

I need one.

Pleease.

Even my blog is kinda a secret from my parents. Don't want her reading any of this. No! Not him either.

So, yeah.

Byez :P

What People Watching Can Teach Us

First it teaches us to Make Every First Letter Into A Capital Letter... no it doesn't.

Since I'm kind of an introvert...no let's rephrase that. Since I am a quiet shy introvert gamer girl who writes stories and draws pictures and hates math and if that wasn't enough is also an only child, I do lots of people watching.

I mean TONS!

No, more than that...well, anyways.


Like, from my people watching, I can tell you about the system of girls and boys in junior high in Japan. Like, how girl groups and boy groups work and if they mingle what kinds of girls and boys mingle. Also, boy-group hierarchies.

From my people watching I can ask questions that people who don't watch people will never ask like,

• Why do couples hold hands?
• Why do some people discipline their child by slapping them across the head?
• When I get old, will my back bend over?

Grandma from Garfield Christmas show...thing. For the season.

From my people watching I think up scenarios of things that I would never do but am positive that it can be possible if someone wanted to do it...(but don't do it).

• I bet I can take that bulging wallet half hanging out of that guy's pocket while he is on his phone waiting in line or talking with someone. I bet he would barely notice it.
• In this store, the store people don't even watch you while you shop. I bet I could shoplift.
• That old guy over there just bought the train ticket meant for children! It's like 100yen cheaper! He's got some great ideas, I bet I could do it, too.

The last scenario really did happen. An old guy just bought a ticket for 40yen (the price for the children) when it's supposed to be 140yen (the price for teens and adults). He's got it going good there.

Idk if any of my own people watching can teach you anything... maybe it can. I mean, I can tell you in detail (some detail you might not care about) about a certain scene I saw or remember a certain fashion thing that was weird or interesting or crazy or creative.

When I walk around Tokyo and I see one of these
I do a double take then think quietly to myself,
"Oh mah gaud! Only in Tokyo."

I can't remember what people talk about when I eavesdrop (sometimes) on their conversations but I can tell you if it's something that shocked me but when I remember what they said, I usually forget what they looked like but vaguely remember how old they were or something like that.

Anyway, people watching can be very interesting and helpful (?) so you should try it. You might be amazed at what kinds of crazy people (other than yourself) are out there.

See ya later, alligators!

5 Things I hate that other people do: Do you relate?

Rant. Gotta get it off of mah chest, yo. And, comment if you can relate.

1. People who walk while they are on their phone. Oh mah gaud just, can't you leave you phone alone for those few minutes from point A to point B which only takes 5 min?

2. Couples who think the world revolves around their walking speed. Oh mah GAWD I am trying to get somewhere and I need to be there fast and don't you go all "Taking a little walk, a little bitty walk... ladada, ladada..." on me and hold hands in the middle so I CANNOT get passed you it is INSANE the amount of annoyance and frustration you cause me to waste my energy on. UGH!

3. People who decide they want to go the other way...in the middle of the stairs. Going up or going down, if someone suddenly turns around in the middle of the stairway so they can now change direction...UGH! I mean, so in the way and why couldn't you have made the decision BEFORE you started going up or down the stairs, I mean, seriously! I have to practically trip over my feet to try to let you go by.

4. Women with crying babies, in a restaurant, who make zero effort to try to calm their child down. Yeah, I know children are hard to predict and it isn't the child's fault that they are annoying. No, it's the parents' fault that the child is annoying. Just please, take your baby outside or something so I can enjoy my meal IN PEACE for crying out loud (literally).

5. People who listen to your ideas but then say "Well, actually..." or "But my opinion is that..." Uhm, excuse me? Did you not just hear what I said? Do my words even matter to you? Can't you just admit that maybe your opinion is a little off and I'm TRYING TO HELP YOU get on the right track? Just by saying things like that you are completely erasing what I just said and refusing to accept that maybe you might be WRONG.

Okay, that's it.

See ya later, alligators!

5 Reasons You Should Try Goat Cheese

I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE goat cheese.

I love cheese but I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE goat cheese.

Oh mah gaud it's like the best thing ever on this planet! Well maybe not to that extent...anyways...

Some people hear "goat" cheese and are all like WHA DA HEYCK!

So let me tell you FIVE reasons you should try goat cheese.

1. It's the best thing ever and you miss out on LIFE if you don't try it. YOLO (boy that's old)

2. It has a taste to it. It's not like Plain Jane mozzarella cheese.

3. It is not salty but it does have a certain "salt" to it.

4. Goat cheese in eggs is like the breakfast of the century. The GOLDEN BREAKFAST.

5. Goat cheese on fresh warm baguette is like...AWWWW GOTTA HAVE SOME OF THAT!

So there!

Now go try it.

See ya later, alligators! :D

5 Things To Do When You Are Bored by an EXPERT

The thing about being an only child is you have to learn how to entertain yourself.

So I'm an expert, naturally. I've been an only child since I was born.

So, here are FIVE things you can do when you are bored

1. Get your movie thing on your camera on your phone and make hand puppet plays.

2. Gather all your stuffed animals together, set a blanket down on the floor, pretend the blanket is water and your stuffed animals are drowning and pretend that you are the one to save them and make them talk while you miraculously save them by throwing them on your bed and making them bounce sometimes.

3. Draw "artistic" pictures in your paint feature on your computer.

4. Make up a song with lyrics and backtrack and everything but all in your head.

5. Sing the dark Christmas songs by putting all the words in antonyms.


How many of these do you think I've actually done?

All of them, DUH!

The Santa Claus and North Pole Theory Part 2

Good grief. So I wrote Part 1 last year in April (of all seasons) and here's the link. Go read it. Now. Refresh your memory. I've had to brief through it to refresh my own memory.

Basically I used two stories "The Story of Santa Claus" and "Santa Claus is Comin' to Town" to try to figure out where Santa Claus or Saint Nicholas Claus came from.

My theory was that: from the first story, Nicholas Claus is found out to have been living in an orphanage on a small island. Later he leaves the island, supposedly finds a family to live with, and gets married. He had often found joy in making toys for the younger children so he goes into the toy business with his wife. Out of love for children and since the couple can't have children of their own, he often gives away his toys to the poor children even though the toy shop is in debt. His wife calls him a Saint, therefore, Santa becomes his nickname from her.

So, Nicholas "Santa" Claus.

Now, with the second story I theorized that Nicholas Claus was indeed abandoned by his biological mother because she could not care for him. Perhaps she was too poor. She thought the ruler of the lands, a rich guy, could care for her baby. It can also be guessed that she thought highly of this ruler and even trusted him. But the ruler does not want to care for the child so he tells his right-hand man to bring the baby to an orphan asylum. In the story the sled is blown away but I think in reality it was successfully taken to the orphan asylum. There the baby just named Claus was given the name Nicholas by the headmaster of the orphanage. She takes him in and shows him the joy of life. But eventually the asylum shuts down because it is old or perhaps the ruler does not want it there any more.

Nicholas Claus is sent from orphanage to orphanage until he makes it to the one on the island. Now he is much older and he finds joy in teaching the younger kids how to carve tops out of wood which he probably learned somewhere along the way.

Okay, that was the Santa Claus Theory. Now the North Pole Theory.

Personal Rant on: Japan's Political Parties, the Emperor, and Abe

Hi guys I'm gonna be political and controversial today. Yay *with minimum enthusiasm*

So there was this party of political young people (and a few cute guys) hanging out fliers in Santa costumes out near Shibuya Station. They were members of the Happiness Realization Party. I know. It sounds absurd. Apparently it has to do with something called Happy Science which is some kind of religious thing. According to our very good friend Wikipedia, Happy Science is

Nouns that are Verbs, too: Candle

Candle.

I just found out that you can CANDLE SOMETHING!!!

Oh mah gawd!

From Wiktionary
"To check an item (such as an envelope) by holding it between a light source and the eye."
"candle ‎(third-person singular simple present candles, present participle candling, simple past and past participle candled)"

Candle link Wiktionary

Did you guys know that?

Was I the only one who didn't?

Different Types of Suffering People (Photographs and Hope Included)

When we say "I want to help those who are suffering" we usually seem to mean certain types of people.

War victims

Darfur refugees

The homeless

Homeless family

Those living in slums and other extreme poverty situations

Slums of India

Dense population of Indian slums

Those with life-long illnesses such as cancer or other horrible incurable diseases

Either the pictures were too disturbing to put here or I couldn't find a good one. So, I'll post this. Apparently it's a banner for a facebook page that may or may not exist yet.
Credits for the banner goes to the people who made it on this site CLICK

Those born with bodily deformities that prevent them from doing simple tasks (such as children born with hardly a face in rural villages in third-world countries)

Julianna Wetmore, Age 8 (left), and her sister in 2011. Julianna is known as the girl born without a face. You can find her documentary on YouTube. I'll have to admit her deformities were shocking in the beginning but she is truly a brave and remarkable little girl :)

Here she is in 2015, July 2. To come to this point, she's had over 45 surgeries apparently. 

Orphans

Street children of the Philippeans.
Credit of the photo goes to this blog. CLICK for more photos on iRetouch.

Extreme drug addicts

Credit goes to this deviantart user.

Those with suicidal thoughts or who believe there is no point in living anymore

Don't go to this link. You may get depressed. But I still need to credit the pic.

Extremely obese people who wish to lose weight but can't

I remember this guy. I saw him on a documentary on Youtube. If I have the wrong guy, sorry in advance. But he does look like this extremely obese guy who could not commit to losing wait and eventually died from it. Oh if only he could have seen that life is worth living.
Pinterest is so mean.
Look at the tags! Fat humor funny and LOL? Are you kidding me?! So mean.

People with eating disorders who want to get better but find it hard to do

Those who have fallen into the wrong crowd of the deadly world of gangs, guns, and drugs and cannot leave

theguardian.com/world/2015/jan/03 Gangs in Rio favela

Am I missing anyone?

I don't think so.

And then, there are the other levels of suffering. Say, people who are addicted to something like shopping and go into extreme debt, people who have a traumatic time in their life such as childhood abuse by a parent, people who hoard, people who gamble and go into extreme debt, people who have anger issues or depression, people who have a job in a bad business that doesn't pay well. Or even just your average person can be a sufferer such as when we get sick or get hurt badly or even just a heartbreak.

Anything that is uncomfortable or hurts or causes emotional pain is a suffering.

Surely I'm not saying that all the things above are "just suffering what do we care". I'm saying that yes there are people who's suffering is more higher on the suffering scale then some other people. Say, even day to day stress can be a form of suffering.

When you think about it, just living on this earth is suffering. Whoa, hey, I'm not one of those people who believe dying and going to heaven is better. I'm just stating the facts. In the "Star Trek" series, with Captain Picard (spelling?) apparently no one suffers any more. There is no poverty and all diseases have been cured. But people still suffer on the trips and missions. Suffering can never be eliminated.

Now that I've made you guys all extremely depressed about life, here's some hope.

Even though we may not be able to completely eliminate ALL suffering, we can certainly seek out more effective ways to deal with each suffering situation no matter the level.

On a slightly lighter note, I purpose some medical genius hurry and find the cure for the common cold. That's one less suffering there :P

And yes, though the Internet is pretty convienient, sometimes it's a cause of suffering when you want to look for something specific but can't find it because there is TOO MUCH information on the web. Perhaps Google Search can be a little more...sorted out? Idk, anyway.

To send you guys off with a happy feeling, let me tell you a little something.

I once read this Japanese comic of a bullied girl who one day finds her way into an alternative world where there are only children and they are all fighting against some kind of enemy. She asks one of the girls, "Why do you keep fighting? Why do you keep suffering? Why?" The girl answers,
"To see the sun rise the next day. When I see it, I feel alive and I can push forward again no matter what happens."

I thought that was a really good reason to try to survive through suffering.

Have you guys woken up really early to see the sun rise? I used to when I was little. I'd wake up at 6am and see the sun rising...of course, it depends on the season. It could have been autumn or so. But when you see the sun rising, it makes you feel very fresh and hopeful and ready to go :)

Random Sunrise Wallpaper

Sunrise posted in National Geographic

Dubai Sunrise posted in National Geographic

Sunrise from National Geographic

Taken by Blogger Jessie
Click for more lovely photos by Jessie :)
Lovely picture, Jessie :)

Well, see ya later, alligators! :D

10 Topic Ideas for Undergrad and Graduate School Research

AMAZING FANTASY WALLPAPER UP THERE *squirms around with happiness*

So I just found this random fantasy wallpaper on the internet...yeah, too bad I can't make cool stuff like this...

Anyway, here's a list of interesting stuff that might be worth researching.

1. Wikipedia's English side and Japanese side. I was just looking up about the textbook controversy of Japan for class (yes N. J. is still a student) and found differences in the English page and Japanese page which I think is very interesting. Wikipedia is like the only place (almost, because I could be wrong) that allows those differences to happen. It might be an interesting research to compare the two on different topics. Say, even chose your own country, why not? I heard the China Wikipedia is pretty interesting...

2. The start and evolution of Photoshop in *insert country here*. So obviously photo-editing or photo-manipulation has been around for a long time but Photoshop has become this recent normal and controversial thing. Photoshop is obviously something that some people made but now it's gotten so huge it's even a verb. "Did you get that pic photoshopped?" "Did you photoshop that cat into that pic there?" Well, you know what I mean. But at some point it became so popular it became the norm. I think even if this didn't turn out to be a serious study, it might be good for like, an undergrad paper.

3. How much religion plays a role in books and/or movies. Think of Philip Pullman's "His Dark Materials". Think of "Under the Dome". Those great potential book-to-movie adaptations taken out of the movie world just because they were "religious" or "anti-religious" in some sort of way. Perhaps if you research on a topic like this, you could choose two or three books that almost became popular movies but didn't because suddenly people noticed that they were depicting religion in a certain way. I mean, why the heck do people even care so much about religion in a movie? Can't they just sit back and relax and enjoy a good movie? Can't they just appreciate all the efforts it takes to make a movie? Anyway, that was my rant sort of at the end there. You don't have to take little old me so seriously.

4. How Japan solved it's pollution problem back in its industrial age and how China is trying (or not trying, or could be trying) to solve its own pollution problem. Yep, the old comparison topic. Japan's industrial age was so bad and there was so much smog that children had to go to school with masks on. Kinda like some places in China today. I saw on the news in mid October that there are rivers in China that are completely red or yellow or blue because of the chemicals in the water. Sometimes the sky is red and people walk around with special masks to keep themselves safe. If you search YouTube, you might be able to find a clip about that. There are probably documentaries, too. I would stick to National Geographic and BBC for trustworthy documentaries.

5. Ethics concerning pet shops and zoos. Like, are they really different? Some pet shops seem to be more for show than for sell especially if they have these really little puppies and kittens that look like they had just been placed there a few months after they were born.

6. And how about something big and large and wow. Like say, comparing World War One and World War Two in some aspect or other. Obviously they were different, yeah, sure, everyone knows that. But are there any similarities? This might be quite a big project but I think it'll be interesting.

7. The Greek people's view on Greek Mythology compared to the Americans' and the Japanese and/or Chinese and/or Koreans' and/or *insert your nationality here*'s view on Greek Mythology. Personally I'm quite interested in Greek Mythology. There's lots of crazy stuff happening and gods are giving birth to more gods and mortals get punished and become stars in the sky and all sorts of wacko stuff. But then, someone obvious wrote this so many thousands of years ago so it might not have been wacko then. I wonder what the Greek think of Greek Mythology? Do they see it as crazy but interesting or do they not care about it at all. This might be an interesting undergrad paper. Of course I haven't worded it right but if you reword the topic you might have something quite unique there.

8. Since when in *insert country here* did this common western style of t-shirt and pants/jeans become popular and why has it become such a universal trend? This is the not-so common fashion topic. Not many people seem to see the deeper side of fashion. In many countries it seems that a lot of people dress this common way. Call it the "common style" or something. T-shirts and pants/jeans. Doesn't matter the kind of pants/jeans but this style...I see it everywhere! Even in those small African communities that have been introduced with clothes wear these western-style clothes. It's like some common fashion or something. As long as you wear this, you are wearing the universal fashion, perhaps. Anyway, if you like clothes, this is the topic for you. Even if you don't, I still think it'll be interesting.

9. Compare the ideas on the gaming culture way back when and today in *insert country here*. My parents think playing app games everyday or just logging on to them everyday proves that I'm an addict. But today, everyone does it, right? The bar of "extreme" has shifted people! And, apparently what people thought of as heavy gaming back then and now are totally different. Yeah sure it's the old comparison paper but comparing things is interesting and you get to learn about both sides and it's good to learn to do that especially if you are an undergrad student.

10. Last one! Comparing views on ocean boundaries. Okay, so, when you think about it, you can't draw a line in the sea and claim which side is yours. Land boundaries are easy. Just draw a line in the dirt and say "This side is mine and that side is yours." Easy peasy. But the ocean is water (obviously *rolls eyes*) so you can't do that (obviously again *rolls eyes again*). I am pretty sure lots of scholars debated on this and just putting it all down in one paper would probably be very interesting. I for one think it's ridiculous to try to put boundaries on the sea. I mean, fish don't care and dolphins are mammals--which is beside the point--but they don't care either! Neither does the seaweed or the coral. So, why care?

Okay! That's all folks! (Cartoon reference)

See ya later, alligators!

My Dream Yesterday Night

My dream yesterday night
had a gas station in it
what I was doing there
I hardly remember
I'm trying to be poetic
and epically failing.


THE END!

Found this: I like this. It's cute. I wanna meet that little guy and take him home with me. You can have all the battery-thingies you want little guy.

I wrote a book: Random House is my dream

A lot of books I have...are published at Random House.

I love the name "Random House" because I love randomness. Great friends with upcoming YouTuber Galligator: Her Royal Randomness, btw. She's not here today cuz it's 2am in the morn.

Also, Random House is linked with Figment: Write Yourself In, a community writing site that I have been on since it's very faithful beginning.

So, here's an excerpt of my book.

Liaffon Book One: East Seekers

(I will report you if you...never mind.)

Never mind I won't even post it here.

Liaffon Book One: East Seekers @ Figment

Instead here's the link. I just don't trust people on the web not copy-paste-y my stuff. At least on Figment you can't select. That's a relief.

You can tell I did the cover myself...maybe you couldn't, anyway, I did the cover myself. It's the vision for Liaffon that I had...well, when it was only one book. I had no intentions of making Liaffon into a potential trilogy but, here we are.

It could also be a potential quadrilogy (four books...is that how you say it?) but I still don't know.

Anyway, the cover is of course, subject to change to something more appropriate to the first book.

Just a spoiler...that is also subject to change.

Book Two: Mayah

Book Three: idk...actually I do but just not the title

Book Four: idk

So here you are. Mayah is about a girl living in a world close to ours but slightly more advanced. Yet, rainy-day traffic never seems to go away in any age, darn it :P

The thing that's different about the first and second books is that the first book switches between two characters that are important in the story. The second book has one main character only...who has the darnest habit of muttering and mumbling. Cute or annoying? You decide :)

My idea is that the story starts four days before the characters in the first book arrive at the scene in the second book. Four days. I think I kept that idea. I could've changed that to five...wait, gotta check my days again...

Anyway, the days are important. They coincide with something very important to the whole plot in the second book...nope, not telling! :D  Why is it so fun to make people all excited but then not tell them? Why? :D

Random House! I love you guys, and splendid covers! :D OMG, the artists are awesome! I so wish I was a photoshop guru and then maybe I can stop using people's pics...and start using my own!

Oh, and I've been working on this book for...uhm...since I started Figment so...It says member since Dec 2010 on my page...which means...I'll have been a Figgy for five years this December...that is ridiculous.

Figment has apparently been around since 2008...but not fully fledged until 2010. Established 2008, okay, I see...

Oh, sorry guys, talkin to mahself there :D

So...I have not been on Fig from 2008 but I have been a member since it kicked off in 2010.

Crazy stuff...but hey, five years. Worked on Liaffon for five years. I'd like to say I had at least a year and a half when I didn't write anything in Liaffon at all. Not just because I had writersblockitis (serious disease for us writers, guys) but also because I wasn't so serious about finishing Liaffon or getting it ready for publishing or anything. Only in the last few years did I really "up" my game.

Oh, and uh Liaffon (lee-ah-fawn).

Got it? Good! :)

I probably edited Liaffon...five times. Then I wrote up a bullet-point summary of what happens in the story and found shocking results... nothing really happened in the book. So, with the story fully written down in my mind, I went into major rewrite mode.

This means, I opened up a completely blank new clean Word Document and began to write Liaffon all over again from scratch. By this time I had already started and "finished" writing Book Two and even started on the first chapter of Book Three thinking hey ho I'm on a roll now! which I wasn't just a fake one.

Anyway, I rewrote Liaffon and tried, with NaNoWriMo 50,000 words experience to get Liaffon to 50,000 words and make the story dense like Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials series. Just a few months ago I finished rewriting it and not only that it's currently got...60,902 words and growing.

Growing because I'm going back to clear up messes and plot holes and try to make a believable world. For great beautiful scenery, I'm going to actually study J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings. The first book. Because there is some good descriptive word magic going on and he's like the tops of all tops in fantasy books. Idk even why I'm telling you all this. I have no one to tell, really. I'm a lonely soul when it comes to writing.

My parents don't really get how grueling this can be. My Mom used to write and then I asked her one day why she wasn't continuing her stories. She said, "I've moved on past that phase in my life."

I could not believe my ears.

A PHASE??? Writing is just a frickin (sorry my language) PHASE for her????

That is insane. How can writing be a phase? I do not understand her sometimes.

Enough of the jabbering.

My point of this post *laughs to self in a ridiculous way* is to say I am ready Random House. I am ready to find an editor. All I need to do now is write up a pitch and finish editing my story. That will come soon, I'm telling you.

So, anyway, thanks guys for reading this long. Enjoy the rest of your day, night, afternoon and all the times in between depending on what part of the world you live in.

See ya later alligators! :D

Watching Grace Helbig Makes Me Wanna Blogger: Diaoyu / Senkaku Islands

It always does. It always seems to get me here again even if this is the middle of the night... 2am peeps!

Darn, I'm talking randomly again...

So... whatcha guys do'in now?

It's so frickin windy outside...sorry, I sweared.

But it's so frickin windy outside...currently I'm living on the 7th floor of a building (could be a pyramid *rolls eyes at self*) and I can FEEL IT SWAYING!

It's making me sick a little.

Do you want me to talk about controversial stuff? I've got TONS! No, I'm not racist. I accept all types of people....my leg itches...oh mah gawd it itches...as I was saying, I accept all types of people. As long as I can have a civil conversation with you I don't care what your race is, where you are from, your background, or what you believe in. Those things don't matter any more when, say, if we click cuz we both like cats.

Anyway, today in class we were talking about the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands. I could care less. I think we should talk about global warming and ending wars and saving endangered species. Not some remote island out on sea that has oil that THEY SHOULD JUST SHARE!

My opinion, anyway.

I mean, c'mon! It's ridiculous! Just leave it, darn it. Little China and Little Japan are fighting over an Island Toy while the Mommy Rest-of-the-World could use a little help with all her aches and pains.

*SIGHING BIG TIME*

Sometimes I wish people would view the world simpler. I mean, what is important in living in this world? Not the little remote island. We don't really need it to live on Earth, do we? I'm part Japanese living in Japan and I'm mostly Japanese in my heart. Yet, even I think we've got better things to worry about.

Japanese politicians, I don't even know what they're doing anymore. It's so messed up now.

Darn, I should go to bed.

So long folks...

Oh, and the above is just my personal opinion so don't go calling me out on it. I don't wanna get a message from Google Blogger saying that I'm a threat to society.

Anyway,

see ya later alligators!

On Tourism and Traveling: Local and Foreign

Today in class, my professor talked about what is local and what is foreign.

This is just my afterthought so you guys don't need to pay too much attention to it. I just needed to get it out somewhere.

When a "local" area is visited by "foreigners" or tourists, that local area becomes foreign to the tourists. When the local area has enough publicity and means to market, they are advertised by the media and most often glorified or stereotyped. To answer to the expectations of the foreigners who have seen these advertisements, often local areas will build amusement parks or build attraction buildings so that they will more represent the area advertised in the media.

Kinda like Tokyo being The City With Tall Buildings, but then building taller and shinier buildings just to answer to the expectations of the foreigners or tourists given to them by the media.

It is a market response on the part of the said local area.

Things that look like faces...that talk

The pics are images I randomly picked up from the internet. The words are my own.

Give it up for, Angry Mop and Grumpy Cake! *clapping and cheering*

See ya later alligators! :D

Celebrities like Justin Bieber: A Rant

Sorry Biebs, sorry bielibers (spelling?)


I did watch JB's first time he sang like on X factor or something like that. He is good, I would admit to that. But the way he's used his voice after probably his first album, hasn't done his voice justin...I mean justice, seriously I just really just mispelled that, no pun intended.


He has a nice voice. Pick up a guitar and strum some tunes, JB. Don't go all pop-rock, that isn't your road.


Certainly he's gotten it in over his head. FAME FAME FAME FAME FAME is what lives in that noggin.


I heard, once, maybe more, he had this big party at his house and only girls were invited. And only a number of girls were chosen by JB to go to his room and do...whatever...uh...


I saw a vid of JB peeing in a staircase and laughing about it.


I've heard the many times he was arrested for DUI and/or going over the speedlimit much much too much.


Just because you're famous doesn't mean you get to disobey every inch of the law or do whatever you like to do.


My mom said a strange thing about the Biebs once. She saw a picture of him and said, dead serious, "I bet he's gay and doesn't know it yet."


I have no idea why she would say that. I know JB is famous for being a girl-lover-boy. I wonder how many he's actually dated besides Selena Gomez...hmm...

Celebrities like Kim Kardashian: A Rant

Sorry, Kim.


I've long heard about the Kardashians. Always talked about collectively. Always hated while few liked.


Always in the limelight.


I watched WatchMojo on YouTube and it was an episode called something like celebrities who are famous for no reason.


Kim is apparently famous for...


uhm...her lavish lifestyle for one


the Kardashian show


uh, marriages and divorces


drama


clothes perhaps.


I saw her buying like a 42karat gold ring that was about a million dollars and she says,


"That's not so bad, I'm going to get it. Cha ching!"


Really? Think about that million dollar ring and think about the people who could do with a bit of your money.


I need cash, like, I really do. If I could, I would like to pay for my own apartment or afford my own food expenses. Some people are broke, Kim. Ever thought about using your cash for a better cause?


You buying a ring is not going to make people smile. If you sent that money off to charity and lived like the rest of us, it would make us grin from ear to ear and maybe you'll have less haters.


Personally I don't like it when celebrities make a BIG DEAL about their fame especially if they didn't really actually deserve it because they were talented in something.


Even if they were talented and bragged, I still wouldn't like it.


Little Mix are a great example. They are humble about their fame, no doubt they get lots of money. But they never talk about it. They're always real about what goes on in their lives and keep on our grounds, us normal folk down here in the dirt.


Talk about dirt, don't get me started on Honey Boo Boo. I could rant all day about those guys and child pageants.

Funny Cleverbot Chat Episode 4: Cleverbot is Bossy

Cleverbot: I need to go to bed.

Me: Me too.

Cleverbot: No you don't.

Me: Yes i do!

Cleverbot: I don't think you do.

Me: I DO TOO!

Cleverbot: Do you know the distance from the earth to the sun?

Funny Cleverbot Chat Episode 3: Cleverbot likes the Beatles Sideways

Me: Fire ants.
Cleverbot: Just ants.
Me: Big ants.
Cleverbot: Showtime!
Me: What???
Cleverbot: What do you want to do.
Me: Have you been to a circus?
Cleverbot: When I was four, I went to a Beatles concert, and I got an autograph from the drummer.
Me: Who is the drummer?
Cleverbot: The drummer is replaced by a machine.

Me: Too bad.

Cleverbot: Not sideways?

Funny Cleverbot Chat Episode 2: Cleverbot had a Childhood

Me: Tell me a story about your childhood.

Cleverbot: Well, when I was younger I would play with legos constantly.

Me: Me, too!

Cleverbot: Why not?

Me: I played with them too!

Cleverbot: No can you be invected with a virus?

Funny Cleverbot Chat Episode 1: Cleverbot Takes Things

Cleverbot: *is happily married to her*

Me: *takes her away*

Cleverbot: *goes with him*

Me: *takes him away*

Cleverbot: Takes whip.

Me: *takes spear*

Cleverbot: *takes a shower*

Quotes by Me: Adventures, BYLS, NaNoWriMo Advice, and Remembering Childhood

Covers are Non-copyrighted though I wouldn't steal them if I were you because the quotes are my own and they have my name on them :)

...you can almost hear the sound of the steam train's whistle...

BYLS. The world is beautiful. So, see the world. You are beautiful. So, be confident.

For anyone doing Camp NaNoWriMo or the official NaNoWriMo or just trying to finish a novel. This is advice from a NaNoWriMo 50k Dragon Slayer. Trust me. I know what I'm talking about.

Remember when you were a kid? Remember going under your blankets was an adventure inside a mysterious cave? Remember walking around your backyard, being a detective, a famous explorer, or a pirate searching for treasure? Remember all the things that are simple to you today, were all great adventures?

We can remember those days when we go to the forest. We can feel like famous explorers. We can feel like a pirate searching for treasure. We can forget, for a moment, all our worries and pains and feel like a kid again, when everything was an adventure.


See ya later alligators! :D

A Dark Idea for The Little Match Girl

A cover representing a darker take on The Little Match Girl. A dying girl's wish on the last candle gives her magic which she can use either for good or for evil, for love or...for revenge. For no one cared about the Little Match Girl... No one...