Flawlessly Imperfect

Some random things~

It's September now and it means school. I kinda miss summer and am not happy with all those tests and exams that teachers had already managed to promise us, but I must say that I am happy to be able to meet with some people on daily basis. ^^ What I'm not pleased with is 2-hour long composition that I'm having tomorrow. And it's short story in English, too. Bleh, I don't mind writing other stuff, but with short stories you either have a good idea or you don't. _^_

Having watched Prince of Tennis - the TV series and two Nationals OAVs - I finally started to watch other shows. I caught up with Antique Bakery (which is much more dramatic than I would thought it to be and I can't exactly say that I like it being like that) and Macross Frontier - finally one of the kinda main characters died and I must say that in much earlier episodes I had suspected that it could be them.

Last two days I was trying to download PoT: Two Samurai (because I want to see Tezuka exterminating dinosaurs in good quality, so I could enjoy it properly ;), but my computer doesn't listen to me and I made at least 4 attempts (each several hours long), but I haven't managed to dl it yet. And today my comp jammed 3 or 4 times - including one time when I deleted several episodes of some anime and one when I wanted to look at different site in opera. (Needless to say I was pissed off).

I'm planning to watch Tenimyus, but given that I'm currently slowly downloading them, the time when I'll actually watch it is still far away. XD


Also, today we - I, my volleyball team mates(whom I, by the way, love very much, no kidding _^_) and our coach - had a brief meeting concerning trainings this school year. Tuesdays, 16.30 - which basically means that I - having my 7 lessons end at 15.20 that day and bus taking more than 20 minutes to get to my house - won't be able to return home 'till around 19 o'clock. I'm going to love my Tuesdays, I'm sure of it.


And I'm reading Sienkiewicz's Potop right now - should've read it this summer, but at first I completely forgot about it and then when I remembered about it (one week before the holiday's end) was too lazy. Honestly, it's not bad and I find it rather interesting and I wish I could read it in peace and that I didn't have a deadline (two weeks). Things being how they are, though, I made a plan to read at least 70 pages a day and I so hate reading and counting pages and I'm sticking to it nicely.

My consolation - it's PoT(op), after all, isn't it? ^^ (Ha, Davide style) gekidasa daze

Oh, I'm also reading lots of PoT fanfics, nowadays. Some with pairings (and not only) that I wouldn't even consider looking at before (e.g. Kite/Tezuka/Atobe and it was brilliant, too) XDD Anyway, here's my short compilation of fanfics that I came to like/love which I'm giving to everyone, whether they wanted or not~ XD. Also, after watching Nationals OAV, I'm rather fond of HiyoshixGakuto, but I haven't searched for any fanwork yet.

And some time ago, I wrote a InuKai fic (and it was kind of inspired by that fic by twobess), but I gave it fiendie to beta-read and she seems to be having problems with her computer right now, so I still haven't showed it to anyone (except Med, because she asked for it when she saw my description on gg XD) But I think I'll post it on my LJ tomorrow (or not) and just replace it with correct version, when (if) it will come into existence. XD So, look forward to it - even if there's nothing to look forward to. ;)


On the side note - I wonder if I'm not over-using 'font size' and 'strike' option just a little bit. XDD

Primo: GEKIDASA In my personal ranking of favourite moments in Prince of Tennis it's somewhere near the top. <3 XD I so loved this scene~ And it cracked me so much, too. XD Shishido's face = priceless. XD My love for Silver pair grew officially bigger. And level of damage inflicted on my brain increased officially as well. You can't have everything, I guess. XD The 112th episode is definitely among my favourites.

And the 110th was great too. Hyoutei scared of frogs - especially adorable Choutarou and his gallant senpai who was ready to go to his rescue~ - I had so much fun. XD

Currently I'm watching 118th ep.~ I doubt I'll finish PoT during summer holidays, but I don't think it will take more than several days of school year to do so. Though now that I think about it... Maybe I will finish it beforse school starts again - given that I did watch almost 80 episodes this week...XD But this anime is really enjoyable. ^^

Games are stretched endlessly, but they're barely possible to watch - mostly thanks to characters' interactions - and afterwards you're rewarded with wonderful fillers~
This is the first series ever which fillers not only do I watch, but enjoy whole-heartedly. They're truly hilarious and slash-y beyond thinking of sane person who apparently I'm not.

Also, after I'd written LoGH fanfic this month, I thought that I'll have 'inspiration block' for next month or two, but apparently Silver Pair works wonders, because I surprised myself and while listening repeatedly to Oshitari's Valentine Kiss, I wrote Shishitori fic~ And now I do have block. XD Today I gathered courage and posted it here. ^^ So please comment once more <3

The sad thing about watching PoT is that my others - supposedly currently watched shows - are suffering because of that - except for LoGH which I still don't have heart to actually finish and I have only 4 epsidoes left and Code Geass R2 that I just have to watch, because it's getting crazier with every next episode so it's hard not to. XD But I need seriously to cacth up with Nabari, Soul Eater, Macross F, Kyou Kara Maou 3 and many more. XD

Going back to PoT because apparently everything that I recently do ends up somehow related with it - I'm downloading seiyuus' songs. So far I like the most Valentine Kiss XD - all three versions I have on my computer, Shishido's ALive and Gekidasa Daze XD, his and Ootori's Next gate. I'm also slowly checking out Golden Pair's songs (Oishi's seiyuu has got beautiful singing voice), Shinji's, Tezuka's, Kaidoh's, Atobe's and in my modest plans I have listening to the whole enormous rest. XD

Also, after I'd posted my SP fic on tezukazone, fiendie beta'd it and agreed to be my beta-reader. I'm really glad and grateful <33


And if it's about pairings I'm getting interested in Bane/Davide and Yuuta/Mizuki - I don't care who tops or if there's any topping at all. XD And Dirty Pair and, of course, Golden and momoryo and tezuryo and I'd really like to forget about one disgusting Tezuka/Fuji doujinshi I read and get into this pairing as well. I'm also a little suspicious that it won't end just with them. XD Any useful links to fanart sites etc. more than welcome. ^^ ;)

Yesterday I had my first ever encounter with Mary Sue fic - previously I had miraculously avoided all this crap, but yesterday when I was looking for Gekidasa Daze lyrics and still haven't found them XD I got unlucky. Eeew.
I read only several paragraphs, noticed just who the main chara is - some OC girl that not only was invited by Atobe(!) to some party, because regulars so wanted it, but that also would eventually get together with Ootori - at least that's the pathetic impression I'd gotten before I quickly closed this site.
I'll never fathom why people write such things. _^_



Something more optimistic - after doing Livejournal meme, I finally decided that I really need some non-CLAMP icons and got some <3

This Thursday I went on a class trip to Warsaw. I must say I didn’t expect much – not after the previous trip and not with one attraction dropping out and the price staying the same. I was rather pleasantly disappointed (though, it doesn’t change the fact that this whole thing costed way too much). The museum lesson turned out to be interesting – our guide was young, terribly gaudily dressed and talked in an interesting and attention catching way.
Then we went to Arkadia. And that was hard. XD I hate clothes-and-shoes-shopping, but I managed to walk about 3 hours with my classmates, not to die of boredom and not to bore them with my comments as well. XD The last half of hour we spent in empik and I finally bought 2nd part of George R.R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire saga (A Clash of Kings), 7th Saiyuki volume and first volume of Duds Hunt - new manga from Hanami (already read it - quite interesting, although rather brutal also - it costed 24 PLN, but I'll be damned if it's not wonderfully published - the paper *__*). I spent way too much money on those all books and comics and came to conclusion that I really have to start buying used books and mangas. As much as it hurts me, I really plan on doing it, because my wallet won’t endure much more. ;_; There’s only this little detail that I treat term ‘perfect state’ strictly and literally. I love when my books and mangas are beautiful and look as never read – no folded covers, scratches or anything like that. I’ll have hard time getting used to re-sold items, I’m sure of it. But I’m afraid that’s a sad necessity.End of digression. XD

After shopping we went to Buffo to see Romeo and Juliet. The play itself was good, but about half of enjoyment that I could have had from watching it, was destroyed by the building conditions. There was no air conditioning (and the day was rather hot and stuffy). We also got places on the balcony, which means that we didn’t see about half of stage. I couldn’t focus on the play. Maybe I’m shallow or something, but I just can’t enjoy a play if there are bad conditions. The nice thing – Ola’s friend is a journalist, so she and I got to see actors and take several pictures with them.
The return to home was good also. We apparently somehow got drunk from eating jellies and we sang every song that came to our minds. I’ll comment it like that: when you go back home after nice but tiring day, you sure can come up with some interesting ideas….XD


Haha. It’s official now – I was asked and agreed and so I’m going to be a godmother of my cousin. One funny thing is that she’s not my niece or anything, but cousin and the other that I’m still pretty much of a child myself. XDD And I'm not really fond of children... Oh well, I suppose that my parents will take care of everything related with it for the next few years. XD

Currently I’m reading Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray in original. I’ve wanted to read some his book for some time, had rather high expectations and I must say that Wilde’s writng didn’t disappoint me, quite contrary.

As for M&A… I watched Black Lagoon and really liked it.
Oh, and several days ago I’ve noticed that I have nearly no whole series left on the disc, so now I’m downloading like crazy, because I don’t want to run out of my drug. XD Currently dl-ing: Lucky Star, Seirei no Moribito, Mononoke, Macross Frontier.
And today I’m going to have a Gundam 00 marathon with my brother. He promised so now I won’t let him take his word back. XD


EDIT from 18.05.08
While watching G00 I made a little observation that everyone else had probably made a looong time ago XD - Lockon cared for Sestuna as much as to punch him. I think that now we know why he wears gloves nearly all the time, this little detail gains quite a significance.

Soo~ooo. It's getting late, but I managed to convince my mom into letting me use "main" computer, because I was hoping to watch some Monster episodes and maybe check Kaiji out. But. It turned out that my cute beloved brother took headphones as he needed them for some on-line game and given that thanks to some "corrections" that my dad did once with computer I can't even switch loudspeakers on, because they don't work anymore, I can't do what i planned. Great. I'm really angry now. It says something about me, though. I'm addicted even more than I thought. _^_ Which is even more great, isn't it? Eh. The best I can do now is turn utorrent on now and at least download some things for tomorrow. (It slows brother's internet too, but, honestly, I don't care and if he says something about it.... well, he won't be obeyed). 

One week of my *coughspringcough* winter holidays had already passed. And I can't help but look at this in such pessimistic way. So far my casual day looks like that: get up around 10 or 11 am, use computer for several hours, about 3 hours of "rest" (for my poor abused eyes XD"), then computer once again. Pretty conventional and I'm afraid that my eyes won't bear it for too long anymore. Oh, well, knowing this doesn't make me use computer less, so. 

M&A progress: 
> I finally caught up with Ghost Hound. It's still pretty weird and not-too-understandable, but still manages to keep my interest. There's some character development (not too big, though) and it's nice, too. 
> I started also watching Monster. I had great expectations toward it, so better if it stands up to them. ;) I believe I won't be disappointed, though. ^^ What's even more pleasant - only 71 episodes to go~! LOL. 
> Gundam 00 is still interesting, and the last episode was great - Tieria and Setsuna smiling. Wow. XD It's really nice to see meisters' relationships development. 
> I caught up also with xxxHOLIC, D.Gray-man and Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle. In D.Gray we get some fighting, various fights and some battles. No one dies. XD Although I think that Hoshino'll finally have to kill someone, given the way she decided to proceed with plot. On the side note - in my English (VIZ, bleh) 6th volume of manga they reffer to Hoshino as him.... I don't know anymore. XD Fortunately, I didn't know in past either, so it makes no difference. *g* XD 
> I saw with my brother Neon Genesis Evangelion. Finally. And while it certainly is interesting and can probably keep you for long hours searching and explaining things more or less essential to understand it, I have no intention of doing so. XD I'm going to read only stuff from Polish Wikipedia. XD And I blame it on Tsu and Reborn! XD 

Eh. SaiGAR. November's round was repeated and he still lost with this whole Kino. Damn. At least Kittan won his. 

Hah, it looks like typing about those all things helped me calm a little. Good. ^^ Though better for everyone (especially myself) if this excess of my brother is only single. 

...I saved this entry in the Word and guess what? It got somehow erased a few seconds later. If it's not intuition, then what it is? XD Experience, eh....XD

Yesterday I finished reading "A Game of Thrones" - part of George R.R. Martin A Song of Ice and Fire saga. I'm utterly in love with it and utterly in despair, because I don't have the next book from series. XD Eh, I wish it'd be available in my town, but everything I can do is wish, because it's not. It's really annoying not being able to even buy a book you want when it's not the newest part of "Princess Diaries" or something popular like that.

I guess that I'll have to buy it via some e-shop or wait a bit and see if going to shopping centre will be a part of our planned class tour to Warsaw (I hope so).

All neat remarks aside - I want, nope, I yearn for "A Clash of Kings" here and now, damnit. Eh.

As for the book itself... The story is completely gorgeous, really complex but not discouraging because of that and utterly absorbing. And characters... the characters are really humane. They all have good and bad sides. And the best thing is that thanks to narration shifting from chara to chara your opinion about character can change radically in the blink of en eye. In one second you can think that someone is an utter bastard, then in another that maybe he's not that bad, only to be proven wrong in the next moment (or, should I rather say, chapter;). It not only makes characters more interesting and surprising, but does it in completely believable way (because it's not that character all of sudden changes his worldview, but you just get to know more about them). Ah, and I suggest you to forget about thinking that good characters ought to win, only because they're good, noble etc. It doesn't work like that here.

I quite like fantasy and works akin to it, but, no matter how you look, I'm not a big fan. I read some fantasy books, even quite often, but I'm not usually engrossed in them too much. I bought "A Game of Thrones" knowing nearly nothing about the story, relying only on my friend's (Saya, I'm talking about you;) recommendation. I was expecting something good, but this turned out to be beyond any expectations that I might have had. Never once while reading had I regretted buying it.

Putting it shortly - if you don't know A Song of Ice and Fire yet and you're looking for a really good read, "A Game of Thrones" should be your natural choice. ;)

If I knew English a little better, I'd write a bit more, but I suppose that'll have to do. XD