It took me three years but today I bought... a PS3!

And Soul Calibur IV!

(They're my Christmas presents to myself.) And then I played it for like five hours straight. This is why I'm posting at 5:45 in the morning! @_@

So... just now I cleaned a toilet bowl for the first time in my life. The toilet in my apartment bathroom was getting really gross, but (thanks to the toilet bowl cleaner and ehow.com) now it's shiny clean! I also tried cleaning up the bathroom sink a little (it had some brownish grime on it), but that wasn't so successful, maybe because I wasn't using any cleaners for the sink. Oh well.

Today, I drank some milk that tasted really weird. The consistency was all wrong and the taste was like... indescribably off. So I was like, "This milk tastes weird!" to my mom and she went to check the expiration date.

Sell by: 28 JUN 09

(JUNE. NOT JULY.)

My mom bought the carton yesterday at Whole Foods. That is just NOT RIGHT.

Really hope I don't get sick from this. D:

A meme stolen from strangerface

- Pick up to 15 OTPs.
- Describe them in less than 15 words.
- Have your flist guess the OTP.
- PROFIT.

Here are mine:

1. Sibling-like, red, Korean, teasing -- Yun-seong/Mi-na (guessed by parron)
2. Protective, killing, ninja, princess -- Kurogane/Tomoyo (guessed by parron)
3. Protective, killing, dog, bird, scarred face -- Sansa/Sandor (guessed by mauvais_pli)
4. Protective, curse, prince, books -- Belle/Beast (guessed by strangerface)
5. Protective, labyrinth, servant, mistress, martial arts * -- Rulue/Minotauros (guessed by lil_ida)
6. First kiss, martial arts, face paint, sexism, (fictional) ancient China -- Sokka/Suki (guessed by tehaiko)
7. White, dominatrix, scythe, immortality, souls -- Zasalamel/Ivy (guessed by underthepale)
8. Hat, hat, teammates, crush on older sister -- 2/5 (guessed by thebirdtoldme)
9. Rivalry, teammates, decommissioning, (reverse) sexism -- 86/274 (guessed by thebirdtoldme)
10. Red, bushy, friends, magic -- Ron/Hermione (guessed by strangerface)
11. Retired athlete, belts, black magic, siblings-in-law -- Wakka/Lulu (guessed by parron)
12. River, winter, betrothed, almost siblings-in-law -- Ned/Cat (guessed by strangerface)
13. Clock, candelabra, friends, curse -- Cogsworth/Lumiere (guessed by parron)
14. Girlfriend, romantic, mind control helmet, sunglasses, kids -- 1/Lizzie (guessed by your_nonentity)
15. Engineer, snipe, heaven, truth, random, tactical game *

* I doubt anyone will get this one

If it helps, these are all het pairings except for #12. Also, the tags are a hint.


If you are bored and want to do more guessing, you might want to go here (but I think those are harder?).


EDIT: I added words to 3, 6, 7, 14, and 15.

Stolen from strangerface and lil_ida

( Quizzes x 4.5 )

Since it's been like... two months since I've posted, and many things happened in between, I'm going to make one of those dreaded update posts.

Super-fast, before it becomes January:

1. I slept through an accountancy exam. :( Staying up until 5 a.m. + 8 a.m. class + midterm = BAD IDEA. Luckily, my teacher let me take a make-up on the same day. It's just... I oversleep so rarely -- I've done it twice, actually. The first time, I missed a class where I had to turn in a paper. I guess I just have really bad luck?

2. The reason why I stayed up so late that night was because I was talking to Kevin. We've been arguing a lot recently, which stinks. :(

3. My laptop's hard drive died. The repairs cost $263. Thanks, Apple. That brings the total spent in REPAIRS to this laptop to about $540. Ugh... But then again, not only did they do the hard drive replacement the same day, they also installed Leopard (I had Tiger before), and replaced my yellowed trackpad and laptop casing. When I got it back, I was like, "Um... did they give me the wrong laptop?" because it looked so new. Even the keyboard seemed more... clicky. The bad news: the last time I backed up my data was May. I lost every file from this semester. The lesson learned: back up regularly. Also, get a better warranty plan for my next laptop.

4. Note: #1 and #3 happened within 24 hours of each other. It was not a good week.

5. I'm done with the semester and my classes went well. Also, my section-leading job? IT WAS SO GOOD. I never fell behind on homework and it was completely unstressful.

6. I am having a lot of trouble getting an internship. I've only gotten two interviews, and both of them sent me denial emails afterwards. :(

7. I actually found people that have read the ASOIAF books. This means I won't actually implode. For the first time in like, two years, I'm writing fanfiction and drawing fanart. This is like... a miracle! :O

Okay, so this is kind of late, but I thought I'd post something about the elections.

I was a little depressed back in September because of
(1) the boost McCain had gotten from picking Palin as his VP
(2) my finding out that a bunch of people on LiveJournal are Republicans
(3) the community republicons (which has an ingenious name -- but is just... ARGHHHH)
(4) seeing too many women who actually LIKE Sarah Palin; and seeing too many men and women both say that those who insult Palin are just jealous -- um... what???

Maybe I'm sheltered or something, being a college student living in Illinois, but this is just surprising to me, that there are actually (normal, young) people who are either on the fence or pro-McCain. :/ It's just weird...

Yeah, I know, I get offensive when I'm in politics-mode. :S

But here's another thing to think about:

"What if John McCain were a former president of the Harvard Law Review?
What if Barack Obama finished fifth from the bottom of his graduating class?

What if McCain were still married to the first woman he said 'I do' to?
What if Obama were the candidate who left his first wife after she no longer measured up to his standards?

What if Obama were a member of the Keating-5 (a past scandal)?
What if McCain were a charismatic, eloquent speaker?

If these questions reflected reality, do you really believe the election numbers would be as close as they are?

This is what racism does. It covers up, rationalizes and minimizes positive qualities in one candidate and emphasizes negative qualities in another when there is a color difference."

This is so true. Honestly, if the qualifications were switched (even if we switch it so McCain is inexperienced and young and Obama is experienced and old), nobody would even be talking about Obama -- he would have been out long ago.

In short, I'm a Democrat and I voted for Obama today. If he loses, I will cry. Cry foul, that is. :)

Stolen from hey_mayonegg:

chacusha is distressed.

If it's not one thing, it's another. Your life is a pitiful wreck, and it's all you ever write about. Why don't you at least make up a happy story for once. Your friends would appreciate that.

wanna know your lj's moodring color? enter your user name and hit the button. (discussion thread)

Yeahhh... this is sadly very true. (Sorry guys, I really just use my journal for complaining. u_u)

Stolen from parron.

You are a Social Liberal (73% permissive) and an... Economic Liberal (18% permissive) You are best described as a: Socialist Link: The Politics Test on Ok Cupid Also : The OkCupid Dating Persona Test

Yup. That sounds about right. I need to post a political entry sometime. I'm getting a little annoyed right now with the way the election is heading.

I'm 20! :D

This makes me officially an adult in Japan. Not much else to say. It's kind of nice having your birthday fall on the weekend every once in a while. Then your birthday present is no homework. :P

1. I'm finished with my internship. It went pretty well.

2. I'm going back to college tomorrow. :S

3. I'M STILL WORKING ON THAT JAPAN POST. But you can go ahead and see the pictures here: http://www.yuziness.com/?p=3

( 4. Quizzies x 7 )

Okay, so I realize I've yet to post Japan photos. I'm being lazy, but they'll be up eventually.

In the meantime...

( Quizzies x 14 )

I am back from Japan! :D

Accounts and photos to come later. :D

And I bought something for you, parron. :D

This is sad. I just noticed today -- I don't believe I have yet mentioned that I'm going to Japan.

In three weeks.

You would think this would be important / exciting / awesome enough to have been mentioned a little earlier. But I guess I'm not really as excited about it as I was last time.

Probably because:

1. It's been three years since I've taken any kind of Japanese class.
2. I've been feeling a little distant from Japan and my Japan-related interests recently.
3. I've already met my family once, so the excitement related to that is not as big.

But it's pretty much the same: I'm going to Japan for 12 days beginning July 17 to attend the wedding of my cousin (this time it's the youngest sister of the one that was married last time).

It should be fun but recently I'm stressing about packing and plane rides and speaking Japanese and... :[

Sorry for the spam, but I was wondering if anybody could vote here at wd_lims (it's my newly acquired LIMS community).

I only have 4 votes and I'm really really desperate. It doesn't take a lot of effort -- just vote for your Least Favorite and your Favorite, while giving a reason for your least favorite (doesn't have to be long; just not insulting like "It just looks bad.")

And obviously you don't need to be a member to vote. It would make me very very happy!

EDIT: Well, actually, evidently you DID need to be a member to vote. *smacks head* But not anymore so the above holds true.

Here's what I want to do this summer. Let's see how many of these get done (haha none).

• Finish personality quiz
• Redo layout of website
• ... and/or update the poor thing at least once?
• Work on a game for Games4Girls
• 100 Brother Bear icons for disney100
• Make some kind of 30-second animated cartoon
• Compile the LJ layouts I've done
• Write up a script for the Time Travel Game
• Was I supposed to fill out FAFSA? ._.

So I flipped some coins randomly in order to figure out which of the journals I should make. The coins said no to the icontest and the fanfiction communities and yes to the icons and graphics/layout communities.

Thus, chacu_icons was born. (I know, cute name, huh?)

If anyone's interested in the icons I make, you can join the community. Otherwise, you can let out a sigh of relief as I will no longer be spamming this journal with Disney icons. :D

After no less than four airports and sixteen hours of traveling (I wish I could say I'm exaggerating these figures, but I'm not), I'm here in California, ready(?) to start work tomorrow. I can't really say much else because I need to go to sleep like now in order to be able to wake up at 7:30 a.m.

There are spoilers in some of these.

( Snow White )

( Fantasia )

( Cinderella )

( Robin Hood )

( The Little Mermaid )

( Pocahontas )

( The Hunchback of Notre Dame, redux )

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( The Land Before Time )

( Charlotte's Web )