Today.
Is.
Sunday.

AND I HAVE FINISHED ALL OF MY CHRISTMAS CARDS!
W000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000T!!
Only around 15 of them, but they're all handmade so that took quite a bit of time DX I don't even want to look at glue in the face ever again >____>

And secondly:
Ohmygaaawwd Aikurushii ♥___♥
I was flicking through some dramas before, and suddenly spotted (erm, yes, you've guessed it, Kanata Hongo's name. So I thought 'Hey, time to WASTE some time', and watched the first ep.
About 4 minutes in: 'Hey that's... AYASE HARUKA! ♥______♥' (from Cyborg She.)
About another minute in: 'Wtf- Kamiki Ryonosuke!? :0 :0' (Tantei Gakuen Q. Except it's from 2005... so he was about 12 then. SO CUTE)
And then about 10 more mintues in: 'Oh. my. GOD... OGURI SHUN!???' (Be ashamed if you don't know him.)

Well, anyway, the cast shocked me xD
And the drama is so damn cute. Haven't seen a laid-back one like this in a while :) RECOMMENDED!

And thirdly:
A few days ago I found this:

Uehara Hiromi- Tom and Jerry Show.
Totally blew me away. So fucking QUICK. Her technique is amazing. o.o
And erm, the facial expressions and the hair is another story all together xD
The lives on youtube of her other music bored me a little bit 'cause I'm not that big a fan of the whole jazz and improvisation thing (in her case, a lot of all-out keyboard smashing o.o ), but the more clear recorded stuff is AMAZING. ♥♥ Took a lot of room in my Zen too >___>

AND THEN I FOUND THIS! :


AHHHH I love it when I find two amazing people like these in a performance together AHHHHH
Both of them look and ARE amazing (I wasn't that keen on the crazy improvised bit but still :) ) (andy Ayaka's hair omg ♥___♥ Do want, do want.)
(And I think it's at the end of this video that you can see NewS applauding lol. Shige looked pretty impressed amidst all the blurry quality xD )
(Y'know, I have to stop putting so many things in brackets >___> )

Oh, one last thing:
Definately not belonging to this meme, but I thought I'd stick it here anyway.
I got my first university rejection :|
It was MEANT to be my back up choice (Biology with a Year Abroad at Sheffield), but it turns out they don't want me in >__> )
BUT they DID offer my a chance to change my UCAS option to straight Biology (AAB rather than the previous' AAA) AND you don't need an interview. Why the hell didn't I choose this in the first place?
And THIS, interviewers, IS WHY I LOVE SHEFFIELD ;___;


Time to go to bed.
Have a lovely week, all! ♥ :)

Holy crap I love this version.
Anyone know how to rip mp3 from youtube videos?
<3

 

FIRST OFF:
Tegomass. You never fail to impress me on M.Fair :D
And in making of's. LOL. That is the shortest blinking contest I've ever seen. xDD
And... I'm shocked at how short I kept that... !!

OH BUT ALSO- CHECK OUT AYAKA'S 'SING TO THE SKY'.
It's been absolutely AGES since she's released an album. This is her second one, I think...? Like last time- I don't love the non-singled songs THAT much :\ with the exception of For Today. I'VE BEEN DYING FOR HER TO RECORD THAT. C:
But like the first album it'll be easy to get attached to the songs after a bit 'cause of her voice.♥

Lack of a Chinatown
That part of Edinburgh disappointed me.
A bit crap compared to the Chinatown in Manchester. I went into a instant noodle buying frenzy when I went there for the open day xD
But still:

Broken Lamp
I can see Last Friends finale is on the flists for downloading.
Will have to do it tomorrow DAMNNN and maybe have to wait for the softsubs anyway :O
CANNNOOOTTT WAAAAAIITTTT.
On the other hand, Heroes which I just finished double-billing just now was rather good :D That lightning girl is so sadistic LOLOL.

Three Instruments
I was having a little dig into CR files when I came across this:


I love you, by Ozaki Yutaka, cover by Ayaka, random guitar player, and old man at the piano.
Seems quite popular since Hikki and Mika Nakashima have both done covers for it, too. :O

Yellow Umbrella
IDEK. I blame cynicalism. :/ I realized all the umbrellas in our house are pretty boring... blue or black. :/ I NEED A HAPPY UMBRELLA!
And also this is so unrelated but I'm listening to AyakaLOCK right now, not understanding much, lol, but I realized Eikura Nana (from Dance Drill) and Ayaka are good mates (I THINK they're from the asme agency?)
So obviously my train of thought went: Ayaka ----> Nana ----> Massu
LOL
Anyway.

Flowery Hats
I don't even mind that mind that it's not medicine related or that my hand kind of stank of shepards-pie-mixed-with-baby-puke after I washed the dishes with no gloves. Well, that I minded quite a bit :D
They are SO ADORABLE, THOUGH.
And wierd.
I mean, there was one point where this girl was drinking her water and systematically spitting it all over the floor whilst these twins stared at her in what seemed like AWE. LOL. And also those twins are identical except one has brown eyes and one has blue eyes. HOW CUTE IS THAT?!
And OMT, I so did not believe it when we were in the baby/video room and they PUT SWAN PRINCESS ON THE SCREEN. I was SO GUTTED ages ago when my dad accidently recorded over our version with some sort of deep-sea-microscopic-creature-documentry. :( So when they played that I literally shouted 'OMG. IS THAT SWAN PRINCESS?!!' yeah. I got some wierd looks :/ BUT IT WAS WORTH IT.

Tilted Fedora
JIN
Mmmm. :)
I'll be suprised if anyone hasn't seen these yet but still.
My favourite's the second to last.
Casual alcohol in hand with obscured eye FTW.
Seriously though, the one showing his hair all poofed up is such a girly picture LOLOL

I'm a sheep
Comment with a 'I'M OLD GREG' and I'll:
1. Tell you why I friended you.
2. Associate you with something - random, a song, a colour, a photo, etc.
3. Tell you something I like about you.
4. Tell you a memory I have of you.
5. Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
6. Tell you my favorite user pic of yours.
7. In return, you must post this in your LJ

I have SO done this meme before but still :D

Rainbow
Tried to give some sort of volume to her face using shades and stuff using SAI. Don't get me wrong, the program as amazing and all- I just can't colour xD Oh man.
Oh the side note - I love her nails.
I wanna be able to pull that off 8D

Kiwi
So the 'big news' from Masterhits is a public recording. Like a talk show? That's what someone said on the thread. Aaahhhh I was hoping for drama roles at the least... Unless this talk show thing is recorded ;) PLEASE GOD PLEASE.♥

Maroon
I am on the freaking verge of tears trying to struggle with Mechanics.
Half of the questions I can't do at all- no matter how much I mix up equations and develop some crazy strategy to get the answer- and the other half of the questions I think I have it right and end up getting it totally wrong DX
And even when I look at the mark scheme I DON'T UNDERSTAND.
UAGHHHHH. I'd like to be all noble and say 'oh yeah- it's all my fault I don't get it' WELL NO. I'M NOT GONNA BE NOBLE.
I'M GONNA BLAME PART OF IT ON MY FREAKING NEWBIE MATHS TEACHER WHO CRAMMED IN ABOUT 4 CHAPTERS INTO HALF A LESSON FOR US BECAUSE HE CAN'T CONTROL THE REST OF THE CLASS AND SPENDS MOST OF THE LESSONS PUTTING THE SIMPSONS ON THE SCREEN, OR EATNG PRINGLES.
AND WE HAVE HIM NEXT YEAR FOR CORE FOUR.
FUCKING CORE FOUR, YOU HEAR ME? I MEAN, PEOPLE CAME OUT OF THE EXAM THIS YEAR CRYING BECAUSE IT WAS SO HARD.
AND THEY'RE ABOUT 5 TIMES CLEVERER THAN US.
HOW THE HELL ARE WE EVEN GOING TO GET A PASS *AKA 40%* NEXT YEAR? HUH?
Ahhh I feel better.
I feel like tackling more Mechanics now ;)

Crimson
If you haven't seen it yet:
Always- Sunset on 3rd Street
Absoloutely amazing movie.
Originally I only tried it cause Maki was in it, and all the comments on the main page looked promising.
And seriously- by the 3rd part, I'd completely fallen in love with the film♥ Highly recommended.

Black and White
So freaking impressive.
The first time I watched I was like 'HOLYSHITWTFISTHISMUTHERFUCKINGVIDEOWTFRLYOMG'. Yes.
In some parts her hands are actually a BLUR on the screen 0__0 Amazing how she can get it that accurate with all the chords needing some jumping around.



Well- have a happy weekend everyone :)

WOW I actually used an icon that isn'y my default!
Um, anyone, as Mister Procrastination Cat suggests, I'll do my Mechanics tomorrow.
Instead I'm spamming. TWICE IN ONE DAY. OMFT IS THE WORLD COMING TO AN END.

Anyone I the purpose of this post is:
Ayaka fanart:




Come to think of it, she reminds me of Otsuka Ai or Rainie Yang there :/

Oh, and also, on the side note, I found a brilliant little foothold in my desk. It props my knees up at the perfect angle to nestle my drawing pad on, and I'm not breaking my back or knocking over cups like I used to when I put my feet up against the side of the monitor. ♥ I can't believe I've never discovered it before.