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Back from the Jin Akanishi concert (it ended early though, before 11). Chill night - I don't have to study for the life exam anymore, so I was simply enjoying a frosty 40 (Olde English; classy like none of these hoes fosho) and scrolling through my flist (that Nino The Unstoppable Sex Machine article is priceless). But then I realised I had to type ( Read more... )

Face, meet palm.

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I watched this in the Philippines with my cousin Mayeth and was just facepalming the entire time. As an anime fan, as a Janis Joplin fan, as a singer, as an American, as a girl - I am embarrassed. I've been vocally trained since childhood and I'm a huge J-culture fan, but you don't see me making an ass of myself this way... well, ( Read more... )

I guess I was always a bit of an outsider, wherever I was... but now I feel comfortable that way. You might not realize it, but everyone feels like an outsider on some level, especially when you're growing up." - Utada Hikaru

Was reading an interview with Utada on aramatheydidnt and these words just spoke to me, because I was always the outsider ( Read more... )

According to a Twitter quiz, my inner nationality is Japanese.

This is what the results said:

You are good-natured and shy, interested in anything and everything that is exquisite, fine, detailed and highly cultivated. You put a lot of store in forms and formality, but that doesn't stop you from having a very poignant longing for ecstatic self- ( Read more... )

Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. You won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.- General George S. Patton ( Read more... )

So, being as my middle name is Joanne, and I am short, my family calls me "Jo" for short. Also, in Kapampangan (our regional dialect, which is more like its own language but is classified under "Filipino"), to get someone's attention you either say "hoy," "oi," or "oh" (all of which translate to "hey"). Furthermore, there is a recent hit here ( Read more... )

I am now in the Philippines, having left America five days after I left France. Due to the time difference between Asia and North America it is now my sixth day here, although I left home on the 25th. So ( Read more... )