Like Discovering A Tribe

I checked facebook and a friend in the university shared a link of an article about a person who has been playing CivII for ten years. I almost fell out of my bed at that moment. I was in fifth grade when I started playing the game, stopped a few months later and came 2011 when my laptop Hishin went into coma and the original OS couldn't be installed so I opted for linux where the lack of knowledge in the new operating system pushed me to look for games to play and thus, rediscovering freeCiv... and I was thinking that I am one of the very few out there who even plays it-- considering that there are newer games like WoW, SC or DN.

IMAGINARIUMeme: Clash Of 80s


Original meme title: The Imaginary Meme

Since I have a lot of net time before my sem officially starts in less than 24 hours, I'll answer the new set of meme posted in my favorite meme blog. The questions total to 200 by the way, so it will take time before I'll be able to post the second part.


ROFF: When Laughing Turns To Fangirling

Recently, I've learned one of the hidden wonders of having a smartphone. I used to have a problem having an internet connection since the place where I've been staying at isn't subscribed to a service so what I did was turn on my mobile internet and used the wi-fi hotspot app. It worked... and I was happy... until I realized that no matter how fast the connection, weibo just wouldn't finish loading. It's just today that I have finally checked the site and I just could not not post about what I've just seen. ROFF

Summer Review



I'm not really a gamer, and I'm not claiming to be one. I grew up like any other active child should-- playing games outside, exploring the neighborhood, and trying to make the things our imaginations cooked turn to reality-- but everything changed when my college years started...

Okay, enough with the melodramatic part. I just couldn't think of a good introduction so I wrote “that” up there [oh yes, I'm talking about the first paragraph]. Anyway, since the new school term will start in a few weeks, I decided to do a summer review-- just random things I did these past two months (and it really has something to do with the introduction).

It's Summer and I'm Bored

Hey it's summer and guess what? I'm totally bored. I decided to not go to summer class this term so I'm left with nothing but my 250 GB worth of files to sort in my laptop and a messy room to clean up... and yes, a pile of dirty clothes to wash. TMI, I know.


I'm not my usual self either; with the summer heat frying the little piece of brain I have. So here I am, being talkative and thinking that answering some memes might somehow ease the pain of boredom. And yeah, an entry might help liven up this hidden blog of mine [not that I care that nobody's interested in my random musings here].

Goodbye Old Blog Hello New Blog?



Okay, this is my first post version three. This blog has been existing for a while, first version as a review blog for some of the series I've watched and second as a rant page disguised as letters addressed to an imaginary friend [thanks to Beverly Cleary's Strider], but since both of these versions were done in a whim and things such as rules and goals weren't thought of before hand, I just felt one day that what I'm posting here will get me nowhere. Totally nowhere.

Thanks to the movie Julie and Julia, which I have watched recently, for giving me the idea of writing a blog about something that I love doing. I've actually thought about it before, but I can't really decide on “which” hobby or past time to talk about. Since I love reading and drawing, I've come up with the idea of making fan arts and character sketches for all the books that I've read [and will be reading]. And because I am not a dedicated blogger, I will set the deadline of such posts every fourth Sunday of the month. This is just the main goal for this blog so that I have at least one post a month but sometimes, maybe, I'll be posting some pictures about other fan arts (anime, manga, live-action series, etc.), cosplay pictures (since I do that sometimes too) and some random memes.

Anyway, I've made a calendar of what I'll be reading and will soon be posting some fan arts of, here. It will definitely cross out a lot of titles from my reading list and at the same time, will give me a lot of practice for doodling [I know the term is not correct and it's supposed to be 'drawing' but I think the term 'doodling' fits my personality and my style more]. So, here I am, presenting my list...

April – Eight Cousins [Louisa May Alcott]
May – Anna Karenina [Leo Tolstoy]
June – The Count of Monte Cristo [Alexander Dumas]
July – Lord Of The Flies [William Golding]
August – Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea [Jules Verne]
September – Cyrano De Bergerac [Edmond Rostand]
October – Shiosai [Yukio Mishima]
November – The Scarlet Letter [Nathaniel Hawthorne]
December – Twenty Years After [Alexander Dumas]

… and so far I've only set the list for this year, 2012, since I'm also in the process of gauging how loyal I'll be with this self -procured challenge. The 2013 list will come once I'm halfway with the first list and quite comfortable with everything.

One book, one fan art each month-- challenge accepted.

P.S.: I just finished reading The Secret Garden [Frances Hodgson Burnett] but I don't think I'll be able to post a sketch on the 25th of this month so I didn't include the title in my list [The Secret Garden was supposed to be my March project]. Finals week is finals week.

P.P.S: I bet nobody will be interested in this, but I have full bangs now. The sudden decision to go to the hair salon is because my friends and I have decided to join a contest- a dance contest- and we'll be performing Perfume's songs so yeah, I have Kashiyuka bangs now... but my hair is still wavy.

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