Ninjas STILL can't catch you if you're on fire

........for I have bought myself a pair of Crocs. They are the semi-legit looking black ballerina ones, though the shame I felt standing in front of the display was palpable anyways. The fact of the matter is that I simply need (plastic) shoes that can be soaked to hell and back, what with the near daily TORRENTIAL DOWNPOURS occuring here. My el cheapo cloth-covered sandals had reached hobo-like status and I was actually gunning for a nice pair of chic Havianas before the limited selection in Chiang Mai cock-blocked me. Then I heard Ma's voice pleading with me to get some closed-toe shoes like a normal person... and well. They actually looked nice! And were in my size! So I figured, screw the price, it should be ~comfortable at least right?


HA HA HA NO.

I had barely worn them for an hour and now have 9 different stop-sign red blisters scattered all over my toes and heels. Add this to the horrible state of my face and so much for me trying to look chic for my imminent weekend in Bangkok (HAVE I MENTIONED THAT I WILL BE IN BANGKOK FROM SATURDAY TIL MONDAY YET FUCK YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH). I hope my 3kgs weight-loss since May so far will be noticable enough to distract everyone lol.

Good thing I bought another cheap pair of plastic/soakable flip-flops for back-up purposes!

My days here since Saturday evening have been lethargic and unproductive in RL-terms, though I just finished updating of my icons and did spend Sunday having delicious cookery funtimes with Miss Olga again (mmmh rice with tiny veggie bits, turkey breast and tomato sauce). NEXT TIME: Pictorial evidence! Not that it ends up like October 2009 again-- a month of awesome and being social, but with no pics to back it up lol. But! Carmen is also back today, and I was so excited to see her agaaaaaaain, and also welcome the fact that her presence means I get off my ass and do things like a normal, productive person. She brought me more homemade jam from her mom (plum and cinnamon this time ♥, am still having the best sandwiches ever with the blueberry, rum and vanilla one I got in December when Ines came) and some homemade cookies, too! Delightful ones dipped in chocolate with a walnut and orange marmalade filling and super cinnamon-y cinnamon stars with delicious icing. IT ALL SMELLS SO DAMN GOOD, I could happily just sit here and huff the bag like some crazy addict :D

One of the minor, but personally important things I need to focus on is getting my sleeping patterns back to normal again-- have fallen back to my first year at uni levels of bad habits. 4AM bedtimes and regaining consciousness at 11AM is not a good thing, and the rings under my eyes are approaching panda territory :/ I've managed to dial it back to 3AM last night though, and plan on going to bed at 2.30AM today. Slow increments! THE INTERNET BETTER NOT SUDDENLY BECOME INTERESTING NOW, OKAY.

Also, I managed to drag myself downstairs to check my mail (was too lazy before, for the usual stupid reasons) and lo and behold my mailbox held two glorious treasures:
TREASURE ONE: rainrockstar, thank you so much for the super cute gingerbread-men card! Their wee buttons!And I must say that I am tremendously jealous of your handwriting-- it look so classy and stylish!

TREASURE TWO: nebst, THE PACKAGE CAME!! OH MY GOD ♥. Thanks a milliooooooon, eee! I am super exited to try out the imps now, and have decided to start tomorrow when I am actually gonna be leaving the house and not just lounging 'round in my PJs all day. I just keep opening the little sachets and sniffing them happily :DD. I'll just email you after this post for your German address, eh? My bad for not sending my package off earlier, ahhh.

OH AND HERE BE: another year end meme stolen from mcollinknight
( MMH DELICIOUS WALL OF TEXT. I am so not done with recapping '09 yet lol )

-COMPLETED ABWL EXAM. I can be social again, now that the crunchtime is over! Or tomorrow, when I wake up again. But back to the exam. Well. What to say about it? It would be lying to say otherwise: This was one of the most difficult tests I have ever written. Due in part to the pressure (IF I PASS: LAST UNI EXAM EVER) but also because I had no real concept of how to do a large part of the math in it. Still, there were bright points, most notably the fact that the BWZ people are lazy fucks and apparently like to reuse the same exam questions, so some of the answers I tried to halfheartedly memorize off the ~dubious answer sheets~ were actually featured. And drilling some simple formulas into my brain actually paid off. Made it even more embarrassing that I got really mixed up on some of the theory though, what the hell. Hope that won't be my undoing, hah! All in all, I still wouldn't be surprised to have failed, but oh how I hope that luck is on my side and that I made the correct guesses... I do not want to have to redo this exam, all the note-taking I actually ended up doing has got to have been the most physical writing I have done since forever. I am such a horrible uni student. ANOTHER REASON WHY GRAD SCHOOL WOULD BE SUCH A HORRIBLE IDEA FOR ME

-Carmen and I looked utterly fab, dressed to the nines even headed to our academic doom in the JESUS FUCK IT'S GETTING COLD of Viennese weather. Her: Kickass yet feminine leather jacket, roughly-knit dark red scarf, dark blue fitted v-neck sweater and her swank long-ish dark blue/green/white plaid skirt with boots. Moi: my awesome new indigo winter jacket, black shirtdress with silver/black sequined squiggle pattern, dark grey tweed shorts + grey stockings & boots.

-Early X'mas present exchange time! Swapped our gifts since we won't have much time together once her sister arrives on Wednesday and combined it with watching the Dexter S4 finale and the first four episodes of The Vampire Diaries. Will probably have to make another separate post tomorrow, but suffice to say HOLY SHITTTTTTT re: the former, and GODDAMN, THIS IS SO FUCKING ADDICTIVE to the latter. Damn you, vampire show that I actually wholeheartedly enjoy. True Blood doesn't really count, as I am really just interested in what Eric and his entourage are up to... ANYWAYS. So I had no idea what this giant rectangular thing wrapped in aluminum foil (in lieu of wrapping paper, wut) on Carmen's bed was, amidst little tiny gifts like hairbands, pudding and caviar(!) face masks, which made my mind even more blown when I opened it and saw: THE FUCKING COSMOPOLITAN MEN'S B&W CALENDAR FOR 2010!! LOOK AT THIS FUCKING PIECE OF ART. The size alone pretty much blows me away (71 x 49,2cm!!) and the men pictured are all just simply gorgeous. And naked. I don't know how much I have mentioned this on LJ, but it is pretty much something I have always done since I started uni here-- treating myself to a nice b&w male nude calendar every year. My uni friends are apparently at turns either delighted or vaguely weirded out at how enthusiastic I get about it, tss~~. This year's calendar was quite disappointing, which meant just using some old favorites as decoration, but now? I am extra-thrilled to hang this baby up in January ♥
And I was pretty happy that Carmen liked my present for her-- basically assembled a set of blue and nautical themed accessories (batik sky-blue scarf, turquoise+anchor earrings and matching bag keychain, blue & white glassbead flower earrings) as well as a pair of Nepalese and Indian bracelets snagged in Bangkok and the last of the fancypants Green tea I set aside. Buying presents for her is so satisfying, ahhh :D


.....is it nearly 3.30AM already? FUCK. Sleep calls! Man, I hope that when I wake up, Sabrina's male ~visitor~ will be gone. I knew there was a reason behind her cleaning the bathroom all hardcore like that a few days ago! Good thing I spent so long over at Carmen's room, ugh I remember the previous visits all too well. NOISE POLLUTION. They should go back to fucking at his place, ugh I despise them so :|

BUT!! In other, epic-ly delightful and stunning news-- laulan, I GOT YOUR MAIL!!!! HOLY FUCKING SHIT DUDE AHHH. Color me utterly, totally and relentless charmed and happy and over-joyed. So much awesome-- the Trader Joe's Choc Pudding that I am saving for a special occasion, and damn if the packaging is not simply retro-glorious beauty. Ahhh, I admit that I was always curious about Trader Joe schwag, and now I can find outtt! Eee! BUT THE MOST ULTIMATE WINNER OF EVERYTHING EVER IS THE PERSONALIZED DOMO-KUN THESIS COUNTDOWN ADVENT CALENDER. I MEAN!!! No wonder you were saying something about days. And lolol dude, you are almost making me look forward to the days passing so I can open a new box! I ALSO ADMIT, I BASICALLY TEARED UP WHEN I GOT IT, OH MY GOD one of the most sweetest things anyone has ever mailed me ♥ ♥ ♥ ILU FOREVER MY DARLINGGGGG! *TWIRLS IN GLEE*

Other than that, my life remains the same as always, though I went to uni today and apparently there are over a 1000 students who have barricaded themselves in the Audimax, and who have been doing so since the afternoon (I went there at ca. six thirty). Apparently they'll even be sleeping there overnight. It's going to be interesting to see if the Minister of Education will actually do something about their protest and their demands, though I must say I get why the people are protesting because seriously, it's like the rules and regulations of the universities change with each goddamn semester. And amongst other things, we do have a problem in Austria with all the Germans coming over to study who couldn't make it past the admissions/Numerus clausus back home and overload the courses and the resources. Ahhh.

Random ♥ links ♥ to round this entry off:
OM NOM NOM I CAN'T WAIT FOR COPENHAGEN ALREADYYY
Everyone has probably already seen this but: HOT FUZZ SLASH FIC TWEETS BY EDGAR WRIGHT, SIMON PEGG AND NICK FROST ...SERIOUSLY YOU GUYS, SERIOUSLY.

NOTE: I had this all typed up yesterday evening, but then my net went on the fritz, so I went to bed instead and had the 5 hours of sleep that made today veeeeeeeeeeeeeeery hard to get through at times, oh boy. Here it is, posted anyways!

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SO LIKE, I should be in bed now, ahhh wake-up in 5 hours ahhh FIRST DAY OF MY INTERNSHIP TOMORROW AHHHH!! and I have this unfinished monster post about the last few days to type up, so I am only leaving you guys with the following tid-bit--

I AM NOW THE PROUD OWNER OF THIS GLORIOUS, SUPER FANTASTIC HANDBAG! It was Ma's belated 21st birthday present for me, afhkjfhfkjjs I STILL CAN'T BELIEVE IT. It is the most expensive and gorgeous thing besides my laptop that I have ever owned, and I will love it and pet it and call it Sparky and NEVER LET GO OF IT AGAIN oh my god, I will wear the fuck out of this. Lovingly and with due care to the leather, of course. I seriously keep petting it. So luscious. AND MINE ♥. We found it as we were just strolling around and looking in all of the fancy brand name stores just for shits and giggles, and while one of my (uh, more materialistic) goals in life IS to be able to afford an original Chanel bag from my own paycheck before I am thirty-- I must say that 50'000 BHT/1'466 USD for a Gucci bag that isn't even a special edition or made completely out of leather is just crazy-ass bullshit. CLOTH! Who pays that much for cloth that is just randomly stitched and doesn't even really show much worksmanship, tss!

I admit that I did feel a bit guilty about accepting the bag-- it is an amazing amount of money for what is basically a good that I normally buy at a tenth of the price, but Ma insisted** and it is also something that I can actually use for the next five or even ten years without it falling out of style, so. An investment! ALSO I LOVED IT AT FIRST SIGHT, I CANNOT DENY THIS.


**Lol, she said that in the end, it was still cheaper for her than taking me on some short trip somewhere (CHINAAAA~~), so she'd gladly cough up the cash lol okay then :))

OKAY NOW THAT I HAVE SHARED MY DISGUSTING MATERIALISTIC GLEE, off to bed! Ahhhhhh I am so pumped already and yet I will probably be so dead tomorrow ahhh tired ahhh nerves. Will try and catch up with all LJery tomorrow, too!

--------------------------------JOURNEY INTO THE PAST OVER-----------------------------------

Fucking fiiiiinally! I can't believe that I have been offline for five days already, shit that's nearly a week *addict twitches*... Have so much to catch up on(FIIIICS, all the holiday fest works to read yessss) and probably only two more hours left, so here is a quick c&ping of some random stuff I had been typing up on MSWord. Can't afford to get rusty after all ;D

Hope everyone had/has Happy Holidays and heyyy it's BOXING DAY~ (what does one exactly do on boxing day besides eating leftovers? I just know that all the shops are closed today :|)

( Before X'mas: Featuring bookses and moooovies )

( X'mas Eve and Day: Ze holiday schwaggg and more blather )

Will try to get online in two days again, at the very least to send off my Yuletart entry lolllls 8DDDb

During the last few days between my last post and the present I have been:

( MY WEEK SO FAR... or rather LAST WEEK so far/LONG POST IS LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG :D )

Wheeew~! One done ...a bunch left whut. Ever have that feeling when you know all the correct text interpretation points, yet everything you write sounds horrifically lame? Yeah well that was me today >____<;; SOMETIMES okayoften I hate the german language. But! Day off tomorrow, only have english finals on thursday and woot friday's gonna be off again, too.
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SO anyways! Comicon '06 at some meeting Hall at St.Louis Hospital last Sunday! (dunno why a hospital but yeah)
Met up w/ Ginger first and spent a while walking around the hospital grounds looking for said mystery meeting hall until we found Cosplayers! and thusly stalked them to great victory! And then we had to walk up 11 flights of stairs because the tiny lifts were overfilled but we prevailed! For great dojin-buying sake~
Place was packed, random schmucks like us, cosplayers, cosplayer assistants etc all milling about or waiting in line. I was immediately sent in my first semi-squeeing fit seeing the door-standing person dressed up as Roxaaaas, which was a fitting prelude to the entering of the hall~

THE HALL:
Heh! It can be safely said that the maaaajor major thai fandoms represented here dojinshi-wise were Deathnote and Fullmetal Alchemist, with Gundam Seed and Prince of Tennis making their presence felt at some booths, plus some girly series for the guys to perve over... Naruto was scattered around here and there and of course(??) Harry Potter was representin' too~ XDD KH2 seemed to be the newbie/dark horse on the block but! Mhhh looked good to me~ And of course it was all fandoms ever for the keychain-sections~
Some noticably awesome cosplayers were the gazillion Riku's (One had a micky mouse fuzzy hat on!!), the MGS military crew, some Ed Elrics, The Ouran Kokou Host Club(♥), Vincent Valentine... but my personal favorites were the Ishida/Ichigo duo, plus weapons! and the KH2 booth that were all dressed in these really nice looking Organization XIII cloaks~ ♥

THE SCHWAG:
Ginger and I mangaged to score a lovely haul, totally to about 2500 baht spent in total for both of us~
_KH2 DOJIN "TWILIGHT SHOW" FROM MIIST:(over whom I squeed about in THIS post...other series/artists art recs there too if you hadn't seen it yet!) ....THE COVER IS SO HOT AND IT IS SO FUNNNNY AND BEAUTIFUL AND I'm sorry I'm still stuck on that fact and ahahaha Xigbar and Demyx 'counseling' Axel on how to win/get Roxas back from Twilight Town** and there are references to the missing pictures(AXEL'S EXPRESSION HEE) and Roxas: Super hot ice cream presenter extraordinaire(the sea of fangirls!)!!.... Oh maaan! THE LOVE! I can't wait for the next installment~ Best amount of money I've ever spent on a dojinshi, it now ranks up higher in the glee of my heart than the smutty pretty FMA Roy/Ed dojin I found at WTC ♥ ♥~ I NEED MORE OF HER WORK
(Read it in the BTS the first time and ahahaha OOPS for cackling in public transport XDD)
** Of course Demyx is like 'read him this sonnet of your feelings and all will be great-o *thumbs-up*' and Axel is all 's-shut-up It's embarrassing and DiZ has his cameras all over the place #^^#...Xigbar goes for the 'whisper in his ear' tactic and demonstrates on Axel who goes all BAD TOUCHING NOOO XIGBAR and ahahaha I am really bad at describing this ...just! ahh sorry lah D:

_KH2 Dearly Beloved- Sora: (By eguana) This one WON for sheer omg!effect with the design of the dojin- There was this metallic emboss of the title stylised heart, a slighty waxy? paper before the actual dojin and a free Oathkeeper bookmark! BEST sword in KH ever ♥ And the story was adorable too, Roxas and Sora and Destiny Islands OT3 in the end yaaay :D

_PoT InuKai Dojin by RANS!!: Seriously, oh scoooore~ Rans is such a crazy awesome artist and I am extremely in a happy place for getting my paws on her stuff ♥
_HP Assorted Dojin by Happy Family!!(one of the most famous HP thai circles iirc): Finally had enough money this time to buy 'Garden'(Harry/Draco and the magic feelings flower that kinda brings them together) and some other Marauders dojin (The Marauders start a band! Little Red Riding Snape, chibi style--god I wish I bought that too so cuute!, James/Snape...okay they pretty Snape up like whoah but shuush it's Happy Family and oh shit! gorgeous art ♥)... and we got bookmarks as freebies too~!
_FMA Ling/Ed smut: ...okay I admit I only bought this cause the cover was extremely pretty and by the time my brain caught up with the rest of me I had already handed over my money XDD Trigger-happy at cons I am, yes :D

+ random keychains aaargh I regret not buying a Roxas or Axel one (got Sora instead)!

ETC:
I wish there was more fun unique idea merchandise tho- like in November last year where this one booth sold Icha Icha Paradise formatted blank notebooks! But the tiny Deathnote replica keychains were quite ingenious too~
There should've been a booth selling some simple totebags though, we weren't the only ones lugging our loot around and there is potential cash to be made here! I mean, some cheap plain totes +Silk screen motives, maybe embellish a bit and WHAM! Bag! Money earned!

LATER:
+ MBK= Advent Children DVD english Dub GET!

= SHAZ at that point of time? ECSTATIC ♥

So. Nearly two hours after I get home, my feet still hurt like hell.

Hee. What a day! What a hardcore-shopping trip that I haven't seen the likes of since, well, since Kat left (;______;). And of course, I nearly- okay I was late to the rendezvous point, ahehehe...typical.

Scored some awesome schwag- Manga, KINGDOM HEARTS 2(+manual lol am loooser), Naruto keychain(EEE SO CUTE), NINJA SHIRT (SO COOL SO COOL SO COOL), more stuff and stuff that's heaped up inna pile on my bed. Ooh! And there was food to be had, that was veerry tasty ♥

Getting to meet Mone(acidcocktail) was super fun- yay for two really talkative people finding each other~ :D? And we proved for each other the theory that not all People You Meet On The Internet are 40yr old male weirdos who live in their parents basements, which is Very Good To Know XDD ...are there even houses with basements here? Oh wait, there are basements as in parking lot ones...yeah.

Twas strange that I kept meeting people from our school though. One of the girls in ...crap, forgot- one of the lowers grades halt, was sitting right next to us in Haaegen-Dasz and I only noticed the moment she got up to leave and said "Schoene Ferien, Sharon.". To which I think I said huh a lot and called her by the wrong name again. Acccck, happens all the time in student council aswell >_<;;. Wonder what she overheard...hopefully I wasn't saying unflattering things about my classmates yet! ^^;
And right after that, BAM, Manit and his bro+ random black dude. Yeaaah. Stood and talked a bit, was nice I guess~. Though if I came to Siam to pick up chicks I sure as hell wouldn't schlep my younger bro and his homie around. Or maybe it was the other way around? Heeeh.

Anyways, off to zock KH2 for the very first time~!!! Yaaaay~


PS KAT THE TRUE IDENTITY OF DAWEI HURTS ME. IT SCREWS UP THE FRAGILE BACKSTORY I WAS IDLY MAKING UP IN THE BACK OF MY BRAIN DDDDDDDDDD: ...But! We can adapt! Maybe Dawei is a half-chinese half ami! Who dyes his hair! And okay doesnt look so girly like I thought he would. And OMG! Brainflash- Dawei=DAVID?
*dandandnadna*