Place called JunkyarD

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 01:48:08 GMT

Yatta! Doujinshi arrived!

(used this site)

orz

Sun, 08 Nov 2009 14:58:14 GMT

am really stressed over those darn bags. please don't make the final price too much over 200....

yes. cos world needs to know

Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:42:54 GMT

I'm addicted to chocolate flavoured licorice.

(and Jaime owes me one stick. let's go out next Thurs after my exam to get some more!)

ETA: mum is back. am happy.

[Selling] Fan-made APH bags, Nordic, US+Canada, US+Russia, UK+Japan

Wed, 04 Nov 2009 07:41:40 GMT

Hello, I'm Looking for people who are interested in buying fan-made APH bags

^That looks something like this.

At the moment it's limited to people in Australia. ~~Unless you don't mind being charged shipping from Aus to where-ever you are~~
Alternatively, if you can understand Chinese, click here.

what they look like (computer generated previews):

click for a bigger pic

The base colour for the bags is cream (think calico) not white. They are also lined on the inside. The straps are cotton and 50cm long. Colours don't wash off. The trimming will be leather in either brown or white leather, whichever is closer to the colour of the bag. It's still under negotiation, but it's possible for people to add zippers and pockets to their bags with a small addition in price (still unknown though).

Size: 35cm x 32 cm x 11cm (see pic)

available patterns

click for a bigger pic

You can choose either 1 pattern and leave the other side blank or have 2 patterns for the bag. e.g. Hokuoh Ranger + Sweden, Kiku & Arthur solo, Iceland on both sides.

At the moment it's still at the ordering stage, and manufacturing will only commence once the orders are sorted out. It'll take 25 days to make them and give another 2 weeks for shipping from Taiwan to Australia, so expect them to arrive mid-January.

Price: total price = bag + shipping.
$8 AUD max for the bag itself- the actual price will probably be lower. This is the amount that we need to recieve by 10th to send your order.
Since the actual price of the bag is not set yet, I will refund the extra money once the actual price is announced.

Shipping price depends heavily on how many bags we're ordering as a group, ie I won't know for sure until the bags have been made, but a REALLY rough estimation is around $8AUD. The actual price of the shipping will be sent to whoever ordered the bags as soon as I know the cost.

Payment: PayPal, bank deposit, however you want as long as it works
note:
Due to the final order I send out being in Taiwanese Dollar, I will record the exchange rate on the day I recieve money and return the extras using that rate.
if paying in PayPal, it's preferred if the currency's in TWD (200NT)
The above is negotiable though.

Deadline for paying for the bag is 10th November, earlier than what's written on the original website due to it taking time for us to send money too. Late payments are possible if I'm informed first.

Please let me know ASAP if you're interested in getting the bags.
Info to include: the patterns you want on the bag, quantity, payment method
You can e-mail me at blackie_mera[at]hotmail.com or send me a message via LJ. I'm also happy to answer any questions you might have (in case I missed anything orz)

Sorry for the messy post;;
x-posted to kalmarunionen

hmm something feels funny

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 18:13:22 GMT

found a way to make use of caffine without feeling sick [as of yet]
1. drink lots of water beforehand
2. 1 spoon of instant coffee
3. hot water, 2/3 cup
4. top it up with milk
5. wait for it to cool then gulp it all down

hopefully the usual OD'd feeling wont hit me while I'm in the exam...

etc.
*shot*
[yes jaime i'll probably regret it later but hey I've my 2nd cup ready!]

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 03:19:19 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rW6M8D41ZWU <- wants to know how to do cool video embedding >_>;;

orz I shouldn't be here.

mumbles something about ep39 being a tease

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:40:30 GMT

fortunately Sira had a wonderful imagination to make up for it

but still... I want to see Beru-san's "I'll try my best!" scene ;_; and the two fishing side by side...
somehow I find America an obnoxious brat;;
another good kkm writer made herself known as alive recently, am happy =w=

right! I all of a sudden feel that I can finish all the sketches I started at the beginning of the year! (oi go finish your kkm_exchange one first)

speaking of which, the kkm_vday one from last year never did a reveal, and my request was one of the ones not posted orz

~~even though I really should be more worried abt the exam in 2 day's time~~

a few things

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 05:21:02 GMT

1. Today was AWSOME
1.1 cosplay was fun- was still taking in seams 15min before we were leaving the house though
1.2 need tips for binding chest.
2. AnimeUNSW dinner was not so awsome
2.1 would prefer if no alcohol was involved. half the room had people who were clearly intoxicated
2.2 I don't really watch anime such as Love Hina, Azumanga Daioh and Fate: Stay/Night
2.3 food was alright but.., mah. what did I expect. [that they were as awsome as the Hetalia people but meh]
2.4 apparently cosplay was welcomed but when I walked in with Kiku clothes, no-one recognised me orz
had a convo as follows:
guy: so you were at a cosplay event today? Why didn't you come in cosplay then? since it's anime club and all
me: uh. I was in cosplay. in fact I took off the costume in front of you only moments ago [went and changed so only Kiku's top remained. since we were sitting down from his dir i'd have looked the same as full cos]
orz..
3. tried naming at least 2 anime for each letter of alphabet. this was achieved cept for letter q, in which the only one we thought of was queen bee. w; wish, weiss(ry

4. came home at 11:30. wondering how those uni students can hace so much freedom; hanging around at night like that...
ight or might not write a better summary dor today later.

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ETA: More photos

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 11:28:34 GMT

Today is a strange day. All my favourite kkm authors posted something. Strange. Very strange.

*goes off in a corner to celebrate*

タグできたあああああああ！！

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 16:20:22 GMT

Pixivでね。
超嬉しい

3 users >w<
うそ！Siraがっ！！
うわあああああ

そう！そうだ！ベールさんめんげえぇ！！マー子かっこいい！！

I think I'm so happy a part of my brain must have melted.
Sira approves!!!!!!!!!!! *O*!!

tag is misleading.

somewhat wanting a YnM icon.

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 14:54:44 GMT

all of a sudden feel like digging up YnM anime and watching it.

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 14:00:11 GMT

Am afraid to read fics about Taiwan because I'm always afraid that the authors are going to ruin her characterisation. specific only to the english speaking fandom. am interested in seeing how Kiku sees wan-chan and loves wan-chan's house's people's interpretation of her anyway [cos no-one in wan-chan's house would pair her lovingly with ni-ni-... at least I hope...]

why does that fanon name for dear Aussie looks so... not Aussie? John Brown is so much better, man.

also. defensiveness + 10 whenever I see stuff posted about Wan-chan and "John"..... something to do with national pride, perhaps. suspect certain person [chain...wind person] is also Taiwanese.

but man, that person really did make a tonne of mistakes in those "fan-profiles"

and characterisation's spelled with an s, go to hell LJ spellcheck.

It's that day again.

Sat, 03 Oct 2009 10:57:36 GMT

Don't Forget

3. Oct. 11

one year since highschool

Wed, 30 Sep 2009 13:39:14 GMT

time flies.

Tue, 29 Sep 2009 14:18:58 GMT

saw this:

"9/29～
突然ですみません。ナイトピースは休止中です。"

when looking for a pic...

T_T why close on the day I find out...

right. I should go back to circuits...

cos I saw his name mentioned

Sun, 27 Sep 2009 16:04:17 GMT

I love his novels, I don't fully understand them but something that the quietness and disjointness in his writing creates just draws me in. As if.. in the midst of the disjointedness something resonated with me.

I do think that has a large part to do with how the translator chose to convey his words though- if translated by another person, perhaps I wouldn't have liked it as much. That is partly why I haven't read any of his books in english, because I failed to see how it can work- the Chinese version has somewhat retained the Japanese grammar and forced itself to be as vague as Japanese can be, which somewhat worked because Chinese can be vague too, but... english vagueness that worked is something I've yet to encounter. Though now that I've said it I'm now interested in reading his work in English...

I like the quote "it's better to be suspected to be stupid than to open your mouth and have the suspicion confirmed", and here look what I'm doing...

cse revue

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:01:50 GMT

My seat number is cool- "D8". can also be read as Date or simply an emoticon depicting a horrified face- not to mention that the seat itself was located on the second row of the theatre's actual seatings [ie- I get those table-thingies and a soft chair]. it was one of the last good seats- the rest were all down the side and back.

Overall, it was pretty good. A bit of nerdiness and quite a bit of sexual jokes. I was expecting more nerdiness but oh well. A blond guy in there looked really cute.

the dancing and singing was great- that dance with the Last Minute Assignment Fairy was especially amazing, both with costumes and song and the dance itself.

speakinf of costumes, the *millitary* theme had nice costumes for the dancers

the revelation: HE WAS A LAW STUDENT FROM USYD! OH THE HORROR!

some of the jokes:
"there were a few comments from the higer ups about the site you designed"
"yeah?"
" so when the user can no-longer log into their credit card account, the error message of [insert a really long passage that sums to: you deserve it, you stingy bastard!] appears"
"and what's the problem with that?"
"too long. make it fit into a small screen"
"sure."
"...and apparently the site translates itself into chinese when logged in from Kensington"
" well I was asked to reach a wider audience"
and I burst out laughing there.
response: " yes, but not those"
---
setting: the voiceover girl finding the room hot, wanting to change, and asking the boys to leave:
"... so if you don't mind...""oh no, not at all"
"he's right, we don't mind"
"... I mean, if you guys don't mind leaving the room while I'm doing so"
"oh, right! right. sure"
"uh, ben? can you leave too?"
" oh, ok. stomp. stomp stomp."
"ben, just making those sounds doesnt mean you've left"
"I can't leave, the door's locked"
"how do you know the door's locked when you haven't even gotten up?"
"I'm just that good"
"why can't you just leave like lochlon did?"
"uh, actually I'm still here..."
---
men can't multitask: even when watching footy, they take a split second to close their eyes and sip beer. the exception being speaking and looking at breasts.
---
Punodol Ad is amazing

setting: a guy sits at a table. camera zooms from one side of him to another showing people making puns. everytime a pun is made, he facepalms
"lettuce pray"->...-> something about "blunt" + "won't cut it" *speaker taking a knife and stabs a piece of corn- didn't cut it*->...->"this is so corny" *waves corn*->...-> "*water* we going to do?"-> ...->"can I please have some *peas*?" *holds up a can of peas and realising that he himself has made a pun, cringes, then facepalms.
the actual dialogue actually flowed pretty well, cept I can't remember most of it;;
---
How Speed ruins your life:
He was a well off 25 year old with a decent house and car, until he tried speed dating. in which he got married, experienced the bad bits of it, and got divorced and had half his house and car taken away in the span of 5 minutes.
---
"Hello guys and girls"
"Who're you?"
"I'm the Obscure Guy"
"Who?"<---- FIRST REACTION: CANADA DA YO!
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and RICHARD MURPHEY AND HOW HE PLAYS "SEXUAL HEALING" REGARDLESS OF THE ACTUAL REQUESTS- EVEN WHEN IT'S A GIRL WANTING HIM TO PLAY BEATLE'S "HERO", TO HER FATHER [and the song was played at the very end when everyone was leaving too...]
---
and that VO [think the name's lochlon- will edit if I ever find out how to spell that name;;] guy does such a good job mimicing Kevin Rudd's voice!
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Brand Power ad was also amazing: so what if it's rascist? it's for laughs anyway- I'm "yellow" and I found that ad hilarious.
somewhere on the packaging I think had the slogan "most effective ethnic cleaning agent"
it's the before and after shots that did me in

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"so how about it, guys? I've got the oil" - the man who failed to get the girls with his oil-rig funded wealth since the arabian guy got to them, to two other guys.
---
apparently it's a tradition of Law Revue to have naked guys running across the stage- the closes this one got was a guy ripping his pants off to show his boxers and carrying another guy off.
---
suspension-of-disbelief-man vs disallowance-of-plot-hole-and-missing-logic-man
the former had kamehameha, the latter picked up grammatic mistakes from the former's speech.

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educational breakfast:
Iron man: Oh dear, I've lost one of my four electron sidekicks- I better eat a lot of nutrigrains to keep my overall charge!
---
tonight was nice, partly because I was alone. Sure, I won't get friends to share the in-jokes, but not like I see the people I care about everyday anyway. But, being without friends just makes this night *extra* special. cos it's *solely* for me- I have no reason to spend money and waste time tonight other than the sole reason of, because I want to.

dinner: 1 big mac burger, 1 small fries, 1 musli bar, a bit of prinkles. how healthy.

I also feel extra accomplished cos it is [was] thursday night and I've done the physics quiz already =w=

spendings today sums up to 16.45: $10 for ticket, $4.45 for big mac + chips, $2 for prinkles.

I blame all typos and grammar mistake on 3am laziness.
and it took me 1 hr to write this and now it's 3...

Wed, 23 Sep 2009 07:23:47 GMT

dust storm update: cleared by 1pm

saw on mX today, that someone thinks technology will be advanced enough in 20 year's time that "immortility" could be achieved

want to say to those scientists, if you guys have time to go research those things how about do something more practical and not so potentially problematic?
population's already a problem without people not dying. go do something with the booming population of jellyfish, or fix up our climate or something if you have the time and are bored. What else do you want to prove? isn't messing up the world we live in to this extent enough proof that we're "above" all other animals?
I don't want/need random people to write books in minutes, don't kill creativity- by making tecnology more advanced we're only going to be deprived of what little creativity we can have now- holograms? I'd say that the fun lies in how one word can conjure up different images in different people's minds

I can't write beautifully like bon and others, nor can I express my thoughts coherently- the above seemed a lot longer in my head, for one, but I'm fine with that >_<

I don't want to die, not at the moment. But I dunno...."live for an eternity" doesn't seem that pleasant either

good thing that I don't seem to be able to use twitter- at least my attentioin span isn't *that* short yet

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 20:20:08 GMT

woke up at around 5:30 and saw that it was a hazy yellow outside. turned over and woke up 30 minutes later to see that it was actually red

turned out that it's dust from the inland, blown all the way to Sydney. the heck?

And I still need to go to Uni because I've a class quiz and want every single percent of that course to be counted...

tis now that I wonder, where did I leave my facemask...

Dad's being idiotic and walking around outside. one can smell the dust inside the house too.

slept at 1, woke up at 6. good job to me orz

Sun, 20 Sep 2009 13:29:33 GMT

SHIRITORI
02
GRAMOPHONE

E!
@_@;; so I didn't draw this- but I *WILL* be drawing this design though...

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:41:54 GMT

don't ask me what's happening. I don't know either.

drawn for twin's plurk though.

Wed, 16 Sep 2009 10:51:59 GMT

(C)今年の漢字占い (C)無料ゲーム屋ふりーむ (PR)メイプルストーリー

am very amused

500 days of summer + arufa

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 15:17:36 GMT

back from watching 500 days of summer. a great film. contemplating on buying the DVD

recognises a few songs from the movie, cept can't remember the song title >_>

was studying the way main chara wears his clothes cos I find it matching to what Arthur would wear, and then when his best friend [with hair like francis's] came up I started giggling over the resemblence. Later when I told boris that, he thought I was imagining "yaoi", in his words, and insists that rather me being "henn", I'm "henntai" instead. I was not. But I was comparing arm size of Summer to Tom's and studying shoulder width and the outline of Tom's face [which lead to noticing that he has stubbles in several occassion]. When I mentioned it to Boris, he covered his face and seemed genuinely worried that I'll "study" him too;;; Jaime just rolls her eyes when I start to share with her the fruits of my observation.

but really, AREN'T ONE SUPPOSED TO LOOK AT THOSE ACTOR'S FACES WHEN IN MOVIES?!?!? AND ISN'T NOTICING STUBBLES NORMAL THEN?!?!

orz. suppose my brain's tuned to notice different things than others?

actually, no. I'm just taking Jaime's advice here. I'm staring at the real thing in order to draw better. recent focus: drawing heads in different angles

=w= met all my favouritest people tonight- when I got off the train, I saw Cindy and Marat getting off another carriage.

before that, was in a Taiwanese restaurant with Bon and Jaime. The atmosphere was nice and the food weren't bad at all. Bon asks if they were authentic, and while they ARE familliar food, I can't really say because.... just by going to different places in Taiwan food can be served in different ways? the pig rice cake I had wasn't served like that, for one.

I think I'm getting better at becoming less clingy. Jaime might disagree with that, and perhaps Bon too, but meh, at least I'm trying.

In cinema, sue bought popcorns, danya bought tim tams[i think- t'was in the dark and I couldn't see clearly] and whenever they got passed to me I pass them to the next person immidiately- I don't think Bon took any either.

came back and read a chinese sufin fanfic, in which Tino couldn't hold his alcohol. which is somewhat strange because from my research the stereotypical perception of Finns is that they drink a lot and can hold their alcohol. [Same for Swedes and Norwegians and Danes, but apparently they only go wild on weekends?]. The fic itself was sweet, but in reading more of that person's fic it draws a rather interesting contrast to the English speaking fandom's fics. gathered up my courage and typed up a comment about how surely Tino could hold his drinks better [cos I do think it's a lack of homework done on the author's part] but am somewhat regretting it... mah, it's out there

I... really want to know the nationality of a certain anon!author. That said I should go and see if there are any omitted "u"s and s->z in those fics, since that'd narrow down the nationality? actually if one is to learn English in an European country, do they learn the UK spelling or the ~~bastardised~~ American spelling?

Tue, 08 Sep 2009 08:06:49 GMT

*wants to know where the merits of Junjou Romantica lies*

just found out today

Mon, 07 Sep 2009 13:14:32 GMT

so apparently dad hates my [albeit 1 month old now] new hair cut

by the by. I love it.

~~also. I cut it myself.~~