Finished translating Part A of EH V3C7! Yay yay! And just started watching the new TVB drama Master of Play~~ It seems quite interesting hehehe! Something different! Hope it’s not disappointing like Gloves Come Off! Anyways, time to sleep and then play D3 tmr morning probably and then translate a bit when I come back home or something and then do blah blah blah~ And yayyyyy! Yeah, I don’t understand my gibberish either, it’s okay, I’ll just sleep! :D
LSK: 2/14 pages
EH: 1/5 pages
GYAAAAAA!!!
Just needed to scream a little bit……. Since I’m extremely late lol
And omg! bleachpanda translation published! LOL I think I just recently realised how ridiculous bleachpanda sounds! Hahaha! But what can I say, I was young… But LOL I loved the Half Prince V7C5 chapter, still confused about the title naming (I had no idea) but LOL omggg! hahaha! French bread vs Meatbun HAHAHAHAHA! It was the most hilarious and I mean HILARIOUS battle I’ve ever imagined in my head whilst reading and translating LOL. Sigh french bread territory.. HAHAHAH!! anyways, LOL I better sleep. Oh but oh my gosh, when Meatbun chomped on the french bread… I felt so sad for it!! LOL I felt like I got eaten LOL. But yeah, hilarious chapter and Kenshin <3 Kenshin in HP is so <3 as well~~~~ But anyways, yes I need to sleep!!
As for Diablo 3! Wooo! I only got to play for like 10 minutes on my chr LOL I’m using a Demon Hunter~~ <3 Level 3 HAHAHA! But I helped level my bro’s chr to level 8 yesterday and omg, when I come back today, he’s level 30. And at like 2am he’s nearly practically level 50. LOL That is what I call crazy dedication LOL. And he’s in nightmare mode already! He’s probably going to be in Hell mode when I come back from uni tmr lol! And I’ll still be level 3. And LOL I was playing for my bro for a bit because he needed to eat and suddenly we were facing a boss and I died! HAAHAHA! yeah, that was crappy. Definitely not using a wizard!! LOL Dislike!! I’ll probably update on this laterrrrrr on maybe, if I get to play T__T!!
My sister’s bday from like last year onwards will forever be the most busy day of the year! LOL Last year, I had to cook fish, a whole chicken and steamed brocolli for her and I died LOL. It was so tiring! I don’t know how my mum cooks, cleans, washes clothes and everything and goes to work for like the whole day. Mums and dads are amazing. But yeah, tomorrow, her bday which is today since it’s 12 but that’s not the point lol. I’m going to have to buy ingredients and cook again! This time, I have to cook steamed fish, satay skewers (from woolies :D), some kind of vegetables, make this sweet potato dessert and bake a cake! I think I’ll be preparing and cooking for the whole day tmr hahaha. But it doesn’t seem like it’ll feel tiring, I’m quite excited actually. Cooking is rather interesting as long as I start. It’s just that when I think about the idea of cooking, I’m just like ugh. Kinda like translating hahaha. But yeah, as long as I start, I can do it happily and enjoy it! I’ll probably take photos hehehe~ Just to show off like you know my awesome cooking skills! if they don’t appear, they suck lol So anyways off to dramas! LOL
What kind of adult am I trying to become? Reading Annarasumanara chapter 21, the questions he asked himself resounded heavily inside my heart and mind. I felt his word s thumping inside me, is that the kind of adult I want to become? That asphalt road to success, I’m on it right now. Is that the best road? I don’t know. Is that the road I want to go on? I don’t know, I don’t even have a dream. I don’t even know where that sunflower garden is. He asked himself “What kind of adult did you dream to become? What kind of adult is good? An adult who has plans to get a job at a certain age and to get married at a certain age? An adult who everyone considers…to be good? What is that adult like? If you become such an adult, will you be happy?” He said he doesn’t know. I don’t know too. Does that flower garden really exist in this world? Is there another reality besides this road? I know there is, but am I going to step on it? Why am I planning my life so thoroughly? Why am I trying to plan it so thoroughly? What kind of adult should I become? What kind of adult do I want to become? Does the adult I want to become resonate with the adult that society accepts, needs or requires? Are adults supposed to have no dreams? Are adults supposed to give up their dreams in order to live a normal life? Why are we so obsessed with this normal life? Would I give up everything for my dream? Or would I give up my dream for everything that can create a normal life? Is it possible for them both to coexist? Just how many people out there are achieving their dreams right now and are happily striving towards it? How many can go through this and end up happy that they chose to go after their dream? How many actually go through this and end up regretting that they ever chased after their dream because it doesn’t work out? How many adults are happy? You know, I never really understood why some people choose to be housewives, but then now that you think about it, what’s wrong with being a housewife/househusband? Their lives are not useless, just because they don’t have a job or a social network outside of their home does not mean they’re of lower status. To be honest, I think it’s admirable of them to give up on their opportunities out there in order to take care of their family. I think the idea of a housewife just baffles me because of the insecurity it possesses. But then again, that’s a thought for another day. As for what kind of adult I want to be? I don’t know. I mean, I may be of adult age but I know I’m still a child. And if I think I’m a child, how could children in America be trialled as adults when they’ve committed crimes? How many children know what they’re doing, what the consequences are, what death means? How many adults even truly understand it? I feel like sometimes, everyone is just living in their own fantasy. Yeah, I totally just trailed off into my own mind~ Haha~
nope, not in the US?
So what I learnt from the crim tute on monday was that apparently 75% of eye witness testimonies are incorrect, flawed or mistaken in some way. To be honest, I never thought it was such a high percentage, but what was even more shocking was that 50% of forensic evidence is kind of like that as well! Forgot what the correct terms were lol but omg! So yeah, that was interesting!
So, for social science, I have to do an assignment (doing right now, due soon) regarding student perceptions of plagiarism, so basically the problem of plagiarism. And you know, I’ve never thought it was such a big problem. I thought it was something clear enough, repeated enough and just basically, everyone understood it and that unintentional plagiarism was the most common. But then after researching for a bit, I realised that some people don’t understand what plagiarism really is. Plagiarism isn’t only in words dictated as things like copy and pasting or taking someone else’s ideas and presenting it as your own. You are plagiarising when you incorrectly paraphrase things. Rewriting sentences in a book with your own words but presenting the same idea and not properly crediting them is plagiarism. Apparently, many people plagiarise because it’s easy and you never get caught. And they like these challenges. Or due to time constraints and all these reasons. Makes you think where all those lectures on plagiarism go into peoples’ heads. However, the thing is, if I didn’t have to do this assignment, I wouldn’t have considered rewriting into one’s own words as plagiarism. But the fact is, even if it is in different words, that idea is not yours. You didn’t read that article and get that idea, you copied that idea and just wrote it in different words. Correct referencing is essential and I agree that these are basics that need to be grilled, especially into first year uni students. Everyone keeps this mindset that unless you’ve like copied or pasted or did something that’s so obviously plagiarism, then it is plagiarism. But unintentional plagiarism where you didn’t correctly reference, missed out on some things etc is still plagiarism. Watching that video just made me realise how many of us think that we have never plagiarised before, but after conducting interviews in our tutes today and watching this, I’ve realised that if we have ever incorrectly referenced, that’s considered plagiarism. Although it does seem the uni is quite lax in consideration of incorrect referencing, they usually just take marks off. I think that sometimes students think that they know what plagiarism is when they don’t really know all that it includes. Some say that they don’t know much about plagiarism because lecturers don’t say much about it and so they wouldn’t know. However, when there are hefty documents documenting what plagiarism is and what should be done and shouldn’t be done, no one reads it. I must admit, it’s quite a dilemma. I’m one of those that wouldn’t read it LOL. But yeah, I just thought I’d have a little rant… XD
I still find it hard to express myself. Because most of the time, I don’t even know what I want to express and how to express it. And when that happens, no one really understands what I say in the end. Expressing feelings are a difficult thing. Well, for me anyway. It’s an essential part to life though. However, how’s life supposed to be lived anyway? I always try to think that my goal in life is to be happy but seriously, is it? What happens when I’m happy? Will being happy really make me happy? Well, if you get me that is LOL. I just feel that so many things in life are complicated. And I also hate how helpless things can be but I also hate how helpless I am to everything. I think human emotions are so frustrating. This frustration is annoying too! And once again, I don’t know how to express myself. Sigh, I guess I’m the most annoyed at myself. I wish I knew what my mind thought and why it thinks like that. I think I wonder why too much. In any situation or manga, I feel like the first thing I ask is why? Why am I acting like this? Why do they act like this? And I feel like I get to understand myself better when I analyse characters in manga. I feel like I’m one step closer to understanding myself, when really, I always go back to the beginning. When I feel like I know something about myself, I somehow refute it. People are complicated. And I’m sleepy. So I’ll just end this random train of thought like this.
I just finished reading Kare wa Tomodachi again. You know, for a long long time, I never understood why people only prefer to read a manga when it is completed rather than when it is still ongoing. But I think I kind of understand now. When you read a story and only focus on that story, you won’t get distracted and you would understand the feelings of the characters much more. You know, in the past when I read this manga, I used to hate Kotone and I was really angry at Sasamoto and I felt that Mizuno was wrong but it was justifiable. However, right now, I think that everyones decisions and what happened fell in place nicely and was justified. I felt that even if they made wrong decisions, it was understandable. In the whole story, Karen (Sasamoto) was the most mature and I feel like the whole time he knew what he wanted most. He broke up with Hiyori because he knew that he wouldn’t be able to leave Kotone alone. It was very admirable of him, I felt really sad for Hiyori though… But I still don’t blame him for making that decision. I think that all you can blame him about is the fact that Hiyori should have made the decision of whether to go through this or not. As for Kotone, in the past, I always thought “what’s her problem!?” But this time around I felt like I understood her feelings a bit more. It’s something I could relate to and probably a lot of people can as well, they just don’t realise it. Kotone was a self destructive person. Whether she really liked Karen or not in that way, I still don’t know. All I know is that he was the most important person to her and she wanted to guarantee that he would stay beside her forever. She felt that someone who would protect her from anything and everything always is definitely someone she can trust in to not abandon her, Mizuno didn’t protect her. In the beginning when she said she wanted both Karen and Mizuno, I thought she was ridiculous as well but then I thought, she’s the most honest person and the person that knows what she wants the most in the story as well. She wanted everything to be like in the past when they were kids, she wanted them to stay with her forever. And she did everything to prevent Karen from leaving her. That warmth she always sought in the story… I am seeking as well. After all, everything feels much better, much secure, much more real, much more full of love and much warmer when you hold someones hand with yours and when you have someones body against yours right? Who in this world isn’t seeking that warmth? Hiyori was a normal main character :) strong and weak, believing and hoping, trying her best and ultimately lonely. I think everyone in this manga was extremely lonely. Hiyori accepted Mizuno because he said that he’d stop being friends with her if she said no and at that time, he was her reliable and caring oasis and someone she didn’t want to lose. She didn’t want to lose another important person. Mizuno that sly guy. Disliked him the most. Because the ugly human emotions were most evident in him. And that’s also a reason why he was a great and important character. But anyways I’ll stop now, it’s 5:30am lol.
You know those times when you’re sitting in front of your computer screen and thinking, what should I do? Well, I just had that moment and my mind screamed ‘WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT!?’ just because my mind knows that I have an assignment due on friday, I have two translations to do, I have to catch up on my Chinese workbook (like I don’t even know how much I need to catch up on) in 2 weeks, I have to study crim for my exams & my presentation is in 3 weeks (I think!) and I have to discuss stuff with my group for that youth people elective in which I don’t even know what and where and how we’re going to do it! Ah! I wish I could just explode! T__T Or you know, go to somewhere that gives me more time and it won’t take in the fact that I’m sleepy and tired. Sigh. Hmm, adding the two translations together, I have 20 pages to translate!! Woo! I’m going to die!! Well, willingly die LOL. And LOL I complain every single time and then be super happy and accomplished afterwards LOL. I guess this is ‘happy’ complaining? Yeah, that thing. It’s nice to at least be able to complain and then do it happily and willingly later XD And omg, can you believe it? I have a short post! My posts have been so short these days, it’s unbelievable! Yeah, just wanted to say that. So anyways Day 2 of cooking. And LOL, I haven’t even cooked LOOOL. First 2 days, I’ve been eating satay chicken and noodles LOL. BUT! I will be cooking tmr. Cooking Chicken wings! That will be simple :D As for the day after… I’ll leave it to the Lily Su of the day after to think of. Just because the present Lily Su is sleepy. Although I bet the me day after will curse the past me for not buying ingredients to make things hahahaha~~ Yeah, sounds like me but the present me doesn’t care! Well, at least not until I’m racking my brains over my assignment and I have nothing to eat or cook and I refuse to go out. Oh well, life is good. No point stressing about the near future too much. Lalalala~ Oh btw, if anyone is a fan of webtoons, read Pinocchio! I love Hanbit!~ He is so cute! <3 Cute cute! And and Ga On!!~ :DDDDD And read Orange Marmalade! Jae Min <3! Girls of the Wilds, Jae Gu! Go you! Cheese In The Trap, shifty guy but good!~ I want to learn Korean now! :D Kyaaa, someone give me a Korean person so I can learn all about my fictional characters LOL. GG, my obsession with Raymond Lam has changed into obsession with webtoon guys! Kya! Good thing though, they’re all loveable! Crap, and I said this was a short post! LOL, time to shut up! And go to my Chinese lecture tmr if I wake up! :D I’ll try my bestttttt~~~~~~ OH OH! Nearly forgot to say, ufufuufu! LOL I’ve been accepted as a volunteer for SMASH! 2012! So come along people and find me somewhere! Wherever I’m lurking! Preferably, I’d like to be lurking around soft toys and cuddling with them but yeah, doubt that T__T But yeah, anyone going look for me! And buy me stuff while you’re at it just because you know, you love me! Hahahhahaa~ Yeah, I bet I just got ignored T_T Hmhm, anything else. Nah, nothing special to note. Goodnight!
You know, I haven’t played a pc game for quite a long time. I haven’t really played anything on the computer properly since I last played Cabal Online, think that’s how you spell it xD and Ragnarok I guess. I haven’t played a game where monsters come at you and you kill them in real time kind of thing for a while, so I had some mixed feelings logging into my brother’s account and playing Diablo 3 beta since he’s overseas (and of course he let me). You know, stepping into a world like that again made me quite scared but thrilled. It made me remember the first time I played Diablo using the sorceress. After a while I was quite into it haha. I miss these games. Seems like if I get the chance to play Diablo when it comes out, it’ll be pretty fun and interesting :) I think I quite like the demon hunter. Wish there was something like the amazon again though. But yeah. Not too fond of the hatred, spirit, discipline stuff as mana yet though. Guess it’ll be a challenge! Thinking about this, I’m really looking forward to the future if there ever will be a vrmmorpg. I want to see it. Think I should start trying to earn money waiting for it to happen, I really hope it does. You know, something like Sword Art Online, Yureka, Half Prince etc. Haha, but I’ll stop dreaming for now XD
My mum, my sis and my bro will be leaving for Hong Kong!! I’m being abandoned for 2 weeks with my bro that cannot and will not cook for me! So in order to make me feel happy about this situation, I wrote a one page long souvenir list LOLOL. Well, anyways, I’m going to be stuck at home either cooking or lazing around with maccas these two weeks.. So if you ever ask me what I’m doing, I’ll either be cooking or sleeping lololol~~But I am looking forward to my souvenirs since I can’t go! I hope I get super cute headbands <3 *daydreams* ah~ cheap and cute headbands <3 and then I also want~~ dried mango! <3 kyaaaaaa! I wish I could eat the fishballs and everything in HK though sigh! But oh well! My sis and them deserve a break from work! And I’m just a bum so I’ll try my best and cook somehow~ After my eye is better! I just hope that during these two weeks, my bro and I won’t want to kill each other afterwards LOL. I should try out my new essie nail polish hehehe! And do masks~ and play with everything I have~ And read books since it’ll be so quiet! And yeah, study. Lalalala~ I’ll read! But first of all, HEAL MY EYE! :D
Have conjunctivitis, just not my year 2012…
still sick!!
so annoyed!!
screwed for my court report now!!
I wish I could go to court and just not breathe so I don’t need to blow my nose… Sigh, I can’t go there sneezing….. ughhh….. what to doooo! T___T
So I was reading the book Weird by Craig Croeschel recently and it talked about… something about just rich things. And it occurred to me that, well, I guess I can’t say it’s something I just realised, it’s more like something we forget as we continue trying to live in this world. As long as there’s someone out there richer than you, you’re never rich enough. I mean, that’s exactly true in my opinion! I mean, I have to admit that there have been numerous occasions when I’ve said to people, man you’re rich! And they’ve always replied no, no I’m not. And I can tell you, there have been numerous occasions when people have said to me, you’re so rich! And I’ve answered in the exact same way. And the thing is, we’re not lying. It’s just that our perceptions of what being rich is has been so commercialised that when we think of someone rich, we think of people living in mansions and buying things that we can’t afford. So of course, if that person can buy something we can’t afford, we automatically think that they’re rich. And you know, sometimes when we look at what these ‘rich’ people buy, we arrogantly think to ourselves that if we had this money, we would spend it on something better. When in reality, just how many of us right now are spending our money on stuff that people in poverty would say, if they were us, they would spend the amount of money we have much more reasonably and in a much more useful way. I think sometimes we’re too blinded by the numbers, we think that one digit numbers are nothing. But then again, I guess we’re also blinded by so many different things like market trends and everything that we forget that amounts don’t guarantee anything.
And to be honest, I’m definitely one of these. Sadly, it’s true. There are so many things people could spend on that are much more useful than mine, yet there are so many instances where I just get pulled into this cycle, trend I don’t know what but I just keep spending my money. There are so many reasons for me to be satisfied with what I already have since what I already have is so much, but I just never feel satisfied. And I guess it’s because I’m looking for something within these money bought items that cannot be bought with money. I have this perception that if I have more and more of these, one day I would attain what I really want through these when what I want cannot be gained through this. Nevertheless, I continue down this path. So I’ve decided to chuck a reminder on my phone. Well, I put it there for a while now but it serves as a reminder in my mind more than on the phone actually because it’s presence being there already reminds me of what I should do. I don’t need to read it. I told myself that if I’m ever thinking if I should buy something online for at least the rest of this month of April, I told myself that I should trust myself and not buy it. Believe in me and don’t buy it! That’s the alarm that’s going to go on in my head for at least this month of April. And I hope to keep to it. I have all the materialistic items I need, I don’t need anymore. This addiction to online shopping will be hard to stop but nevertheless I’m going to try. Even if I fail at certain points buying useless things, I hope I’ll buy something useful once LOL. But yes, I’ll keep on trying. There may be people richer than me out there but that’s fine because there’s nothing I’m dissatisfied with financially. I know that I complain that I’m poor but that’s because I spend it on things that I don’t need making me poor. Sigh. I guess I’ll have to see what happens when my mum, sis and bro go to HK and I’m left with my other bro that will never cook for me! I’ll be poor from having to buy and make food to cook! T_T
