Hello..??

2009!?! Lol, wut?

Thu, 01 Jan 2009 05:47:34 GMT

Happy, Happy New Year, everyone!!

May the new year bring all the best for everyone and their loved ones this year. May it be filled with best wishes,full of hope and happiness! I may have been silent and non-existent in 2008 but hopefully I'll be able to be around more for 2009!

Love to all and all the best! ♥ kir

^______^

Just testing something new...

Sat, 06 Oct 2007 06:05:04 GMT

Alright. I think I've worked on this long enough. Even though I know next to nothing about CSS and S2 customizations and theme layers and the bunch, I think I've done a pretty good job of tweaking this layout enough to my liking without screwing up the basic source code somehow! Thank goodness for small miracles ne? Phew.

New Layout
and
Header

Credit located at the sidebar. Lovely base layout belongs to refuted, I just played around with the colour scheming and tweaked with the CSS until I got it the way I wanted (only took me all day! D:) and I wanted to play around with the blockquotes thing until I got that right. Not too shabby if I say so myself. ^______^

Made the header myself - I'm pretty proud of it, I think I'm getting pretty good with the photoshopping. hee!

Gah. Another month went by without updating - it's not that things haven't been happening, it's just that time keeps slipping on by. Oh well. Can you believe the weather? And it's already october - it's supposed to be well above 30 degrees this weekend and it's soon to be thanksgiving!

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Naruto Chapter 367 Inspired Me...

Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:00:26 GMT

So, don't laugh, but I totally wanted to try my hand at cleaning and colouring the cover for this week's latest Naruto Chapter. And then I wanted to get back in the iconing groove, so I whipped a couple icons to go with the chapter cover.

This is totally the first time I've actually completely coloured in a manga panel, usually I get frustrated and give up half way -but- luckily?unluckily? for you guys I persevered and got off my lazy butt to finish it. Tell me what you think?

I think I actually did okay with the manga panel, the icons are all off of the coloured piece and any and all are welcome to use wherever they see fit - a little credit is nice and tell me if you d/l any - I'd really like to know!!

Graphics Breakdown:
Manga Panel x 1: Chapter Cover 367 (cleaned and coloured [using PSCS2] by me! ^____^)
Icons x 9: Itachi x 3
Ita-Sasu x 3
Sasuke x 3

x-posted a couple times - sorry!

And Enjoy! ^____^

Just a quick note...

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 03:03:03 GMT

Have been having a wonderful birthday today, I did have to work, but everyone at work has been so sweet and wonderful. They bought me flowers, cake, pizza and a nice little coffee card for Second Cup. Then when I got home more cake - this time Caramel Crunch (my favourite!!) - and a beautiful gold necklace and earring set. Very pretty - very sparkly! And boy do I love shiny sparkly things!! ^_____^ Got my hair cut and styled on Saturday, a very nice stylish little bob. Just in time for Lourdes' stagette - which was a blast! Overall it's been a very lovely birthday weekend! And even though it was Lourdes' day on Saturday they even bought me presents and even managed to order a very lovely (but very rich) white chocolate cake for me during dinner! And I was totally clueless until the end - I felt so silly! Am very much looking forward to the wedding this September.

VK Scans has released Goong chap 92... Eeeeeee!! I love this chapter more and more - I can't wait for vol 15!!

I may do a little work-up on Darker than Black the series. I am enjoying this anime more and more. But that'll have to wait until the end of this week or next, since I'm working three long 12's tomorrow and next and will be starting my "four" this weekend (two days + two nights). I'm kind of exhausted just thinking about it, lol!

It's about time I got to bed, I can barely keep my eyes open - just wanted to say how much of a wonderful day I had... ^______^

Guess who's not dead yet!?! Otherwise known as "Gasp! An update (what is that?) and some Naruto.

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 13:25:22 GMT

*raises hand* That's right, c'est moi!! ^_____^;;;

Sorry!

Gah. Haven't written in this thing for soooooo long. I've almost forgotten what we're supposed to be doing here. That's right, writing journal entries, channeling thoughts... uhhh, you know that kind of stuff. I've not been keeping up to well with that ne? Though I told myself I really ought to, cause you know keeping stuff all bottled inside is never good, but I can never seem to find the time to actually sit down and express my thoughts ~~pen to paper~~ uhhh, thoughts to text, and by the time I do, the moment's passed. Oh well, story of my life it seems - all these moments passing me by. But I just wanted to let anyone know (if you cared - or not!) that I'm not that dead, so I'll try once more to keep up with this journal. Blah. ^______^

By the way, I just wanted to say, that in regards to Naruto: I like Tobi, (I adore infinitefirefly's characterization of Tobi as a hapless but loveable good-boy goof to death!!) but if I see one more spoiler that indicates that the Tobito Theory is true.... I'll have to... shoot someone. Yes, it makes for an interesting ploy. Yes, it makes for an enormous angst factor on the Kakashi front.

But seriously?

It would really make me question some of Kishimoto's credibility. And I mean I've taken in a lot of the other stuff that's been happening with a huge grain of salt. I didn't complain about the Shikamaru thing, I didn't get all bothered by the Orochimaru thing. I actually thought the ninja-kitties thing was kind of wtf!!!cute. The Orochi-buto was a bit hard to swallow but I managed and still kept the Naruto love intact. And the whole Karin is a red-haired non-slut!Slut!non-slut! thing made smile a little (Kishimoto does love those pararllels ne? I had a feeling deep down inside he do that though. I mean come on, red to Sakura's red dress thing? Totally makes sense, I'm just surprised he didn't make Karin's top that Sakura Blossom Pink colour!!) But making the Tobito thing canon-fodder (what a horrible pun ne? haha, I R so evil/smart/funny/dummy ne?) just makes me cringe. Blurgh.

Anywho, Hi everyone!! I've gotten into some new fandoms and manga loves, so expect some (somewhat) entries/summaries on that, namely: Darker then Black (sadly licensed - boooooo!!) Devil may Cry anime, Claymore and yes, yes beat me now Shoujo Manga (PGE, Goong, and various other titles) but I do also have some Shonen/Seinen manga (Claymore, Ga-rei, Dogs, Hitomi no Catoblepas and some older but definitely goody titles too!) to counteract that!

^______^

ps. wtf! There's a cap limit on the amount of character's in a Journal Title entry? (There should of been a "whining" added to the end of Journal title up above - poo!)

pps. I'm soooooooooo sorry to anyone passing by because of the claymore_girls comm inactivity. I promise I'll try to set that thing up soon! Gomen!!!! Forgive ~~stupid~~ me!! ^_______^;;;;

I am such a neeeeerrrrd.

Mon, 07 May 2007 03:53:02 GMT

I've only been trying to work on this game ALL DAY!!

And I've FINALLY won. Ha!

Take that spider solitaire with the 4 deck difficulty. Double Ha!

Yes. I know. Big Nerd with a capital N. Hee!!

Ô___õ

Lol lol lol!!!

Sun, 22 Apr 2007 20:29:45 GMT

Found this floating around:

Get Your Cyborg Name

Hehehehehe... I knew I had a higher purpose!! >)

:D :D :D

Hehehehe....

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:20:35 GMT

"Karin is Kishimoto's way of saying he's a NaruSaku supporter"

*sigh*

NaruSaku supporter, huh? Lollollol!!!!eleventyone! Stretching it a bit much aren't we? :?

You know, I'm not a basher of anyone's pairing of choice - you should be free to chose whomever and whatever you want as a pairing - but even this is bit 'grasping at straws' out there ne?

All the same, that was a really amusing little tidbit I'd read. Really now... hehe. ^____^

Otherwise, chap 350 seems to be plugging away quite nicely! Really nice action scenes and all. Though I do have to wonder why Sasuke's being all reticent and compliant and not his surly, emo self? And I have to admit, I've shed my initial misgivings about this new team - Suigetsu and Karin are really starting to grow on me... ♥

And now meme time:

Reply and I will...

1 - Tell you why I friended you.
2 - Associate you with a song/film.
3 - Tell a random fact about you.
4 - Tell a first memory about you.
5 - Associate you with a character/pairing.
6 - Ask something I've always wanted to know about you.
7 - Tell you my favorite user pic of yours [if it pertains].
8 - In retort, you must spread this disease in your LJ [or blog]

Naruto 348

Fri, 30 Mar 2007 22:11:29 GMT

Lol.

LolLolLol.

Lol!

I take back any misgiving's I've ever said about this chap. The girl. Suigetsu. Everything.

Lol, Kishimoto, lol.

This was a very entertaining chapter!

(No cut - since no spoilerzzzz)

Lol. I'm still laughing. Oh Sasu-pants don't ever change. Ever.

^_____^ lol.

Gip!

Tue, 27 Mar 2007 22:36:19 GMT

Hee! Cause I felt like it.

Isn't he pretty?

(PS. Not bad for a PS colouring n00b ne? ^____^)

(Yes, I know, the light direction's wrong. Sue me. D: But he's still pretty!)

^____^

Naruto 347

Fri, 23 Mar 2007 02:55:51 GMT

...

That's all. :/

No. I don't get all the fanfare.
Meh. Not so much with the nostalgia either.

Basically...? What's up Kishimoto - what's with all the wtf-kery?

And blah. Another girl who may be (following in an already overplayed) foul-mouthed, bad attitude, I'm-better-than-you-I-don't-need-stupid-boys-to-help-me-cause-I'm-soooooo-kickass way?

Booooooring.

I smell try-hard.

Wtf Kishimoto, wtf? I don't usually *not* like a Naruto chap ('specially since my love for Naruto miraculously repaired/renewed itself), but this chap really didn't do anything for me this time. Boo.

^_____^

headdesk x 79565432164846851515151315154315155.1

Wed, 14 Feb 2007 16:54:34 GMT

Hey. Apparently I haven't been reading Naruto: The Chronicles of a 12 year boy yearning to become Hokage by sticking to his Nindo way of Jesus-punching the bejeesus out of strangers and friends alike and getting them to love him for the rascally brat he is. A shounen manga.

Apparently, I've been reading Naruto: Manga *not* for shounens, full of wangst and emo, and Gary Stu powers with fucktasticly slow-assed pacing, no plot and boooooring! material. Only with 150% more wind chronicles and pink roaches and sauce-boys who apparently want to forsake their ninja-dome and become gay pirate lovers instead. Where everything is predictable and everything makes you want to NOT READ THE MANGA!!!

HEY GUESS WHAT!!! ALDKFJASDKL;FJASDKL;JFKLASDJFKLASDJKFLJASDKLFJL;ASDKJFL;KASJDFKLJ *keyboard smash* DON'T FUCKING READ IT IF YOU DON'T WANT TO. Really. It's okay. Kishimoto is not going to give a flying figtree if you don't. If you think you can write a better manga, bloody well do it. I'd love to see how you keep all your readers enthralled and happy by the boatloads. By having perfect pacing and perfect storylines and perfect blah de blah de blah. Boo.

Hey remember the times when Naruto manga would come out and people be excited and couldn't wait to read the next chapter and theorize and discuss certain things. -__-;;;

Fandom, you suck. No love, me.

And wtf! EL-Jay... your update page sucks. Bleh.

And the upside, Happy Happy Valentines' Day to everyone on the flist!! If I could I'd bake you all chocolate filled heart cookies with chocolate stripes and stuffage. Unless of course you hate chocolate or are allergic (mon dieu!! °__°!) then I'd bake you anything you'd like otherwise. ♥ ♥ ♥

Hey, not the best way to update a journal I haven't even properly blessed a Happy New Year's with, but I guess better late than never, ne? I promise the next one will be less emo aldkfjdk less rage-y. It just sucks that some people know how to take the fun out of somethings T___T

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Christmas is in ONE month, people. Christ!

Fri, 24 Nov 2006 16:24:26 GMT

Goodness. Two months' time has rolled right on by without so much as a blink ne? ^____^;; And it wasn't so much laziness as inability to update on my part this time. Life gets busy and before you know it, instead of just reading friends' pages here and there, it becomes more 'can I actually get to the comp' time. Plus the fact that we had to do the dreaded "R" word with the computer. Yep, REFORMAT.

Gah. to this day, I still cringe when I hear that word. Many a time, when I was still living at home and sharing the comp with my sometime idiot brother, he would reformat without telling me. Countless files, not to mention some gorgeous pictures were lost time and time again. Gah. Sometimes, just to egg me on, my cousin will say stuff like that to me to get me all riled up! lol. But it was time, I lost track of how many players we had, how many graphic editing software we had, plus probably thousands of conflicting codecs were most likely wreaking havoc on my poor computer. And of course it had to happen when I was working on a very important file. I'd thought I'd lost the whole entire thing!! The comp wouldn't boot up and start and it was then I'd thought the whole thing was a goner!!

Still a year without having to reformat is pretty good, even by my geeky computer cousin's standards! Anywho, comp's running fast and fine now, though it's all bare bones and essentials - for the longest time, I'd thought I was defriended by some people only to realize I wasn't logged in and therefore couldn't read FO entries... so silly of me.

Anywho, just want to remind people that Christmas is like a month away. God, I hate going to the mall this time of the year. Crowded, stuffy, not to mention some people are just plain rude!

Plus, I'd thought it was time to change around the layout yet again. It was getting too dark to read the red against the black for halloween. This time, a little love bar of Sakura I had made is the feature pic of this layout. I'd edit it to fit the top more nicely, but I don't have PS installed right now to fix it. Also, it seems that whatever I do, I can't get away from pink. At least I added some browns and mauves to go with it. I must have gone through all the new added themes that eljay added before wanting to make my own... Some of them are really pretty, but I'd seen them be overused, so I'd thought I'd be original and make up another one of my own liking. And Sakura needs more love, dammit!! ^_____^

Holy crap, I'd almost forgotten about this week's manga chap. I have a sinking feeling that if Hidan and Kakuzu don't get maimed/injured/killed that maybe Shika and/or Ino will. °__° And I wonder who the remaining jinchuuriki are?? And I just saw some pic of the upcoming animated Time skip art... I'm quite disappointed that the frames and stills contain some questionably drawn Sakura's and Naruto's... actually a lot of them look weird of drawn out of sorts. You'd think with this kind of build-up, they'd shell out for one of the bigger animators like Gainax or better to show some preview pics. Yeesh. >____<! But I still cannot wait for it to be animated. Here's looking to spring 2007! ^_____^

♥

Mon, 18 Sep 2006 22:00:48 GMT

Hihi! Just thought I'd pimp out some icons I'd made. I'm pretty proud of them - they are the very first icons I have ever made! Hee!

I was playing around with PS colour manips and I thought I'd make a series of icons from an idea that sprung to mind... Click on the piccies to find more info and explanations at my Scrapbook Gallery.

And the very first icon I'd ever made, it was for des_butterfly - it's a favourite saying of hers:

Not bad for a complete PS n00b ne? ^____^ What do you guys think?

These are all in PNG format - so save them in the same to prevent loss of detail and dirty blurry smudginess.

Please comment if interested in taking.
Please credit - it would be really nice!
Please don't hotlink.

x-posted to chuunin
So sorry if you see this more than once.

^____^

~kir

ARRrrrrrGGGgggHHHHhhhhh!!!

Wed, 13 Sep 2006 21:44:18 GMT

You know, there are so few things in life that I don't or can't stand. Abusiveness. Racism. Injustice. Stupidness. But you know allowances are always made. I'm quite nice at times. Sometimes I'm too nice, my friends say. I'm a sucker that way. I never want to be the one that causes grief. I'll sacrifice my own needs before others. I think altruism used to be in my vocabulary... and I'd like to think I've grown somewhat from my naiveness. But sometimes the line is drawn and sometimes it is fucking stepped on and it becomes the fucking straw that breaks the camels back.

Work has been hell. Mind-numblingly, can't catch your breath what the hell were they thinking to admit this person or admin that drug at fucking 1130 at night to an 80 year old. Good bye blood pressure. Oh hello, 'I can't feel anything from beneath my shoulders and down'. Thank you very fucking much. I'll be spending my entire night in room 12 now, thank you. Carly is crying her eyes out, and having panic attacks like it's going out of style. The call bell has become one long hell drone that you think you still hear even when you've gone home fromt this hell hole. And I had to flip the fucking tape over to finish report. There were only two of us reporting, me and Ewa and we had reported so much I had to fucking flip the tape over? We weren't even to full capacity. Shows how much shit is happening. It' never the amount, it's always the acuity. You could have 10 and have an easy-peasy shift or you have 3 and one that's sick and it will eat your entire fucking time to nothing. But I'm not mad about this stuff. No. I like work, even if I want to tear my hair out and stab my fucking eyes open. I like helping people. I could have made them transfer that 80 year old to the unit. But I managed myself. I held her hand when she started to cry. I held Carly's hand when she started to cry. No one needed to hold my hand yet, cause really it wasn't one of those cry your eyes out kind of night. Hellish, but still mangageable. I wasn't sinking yet. And Ewa managed to have a good break, I made sure of it. My break was shot to hell, but that's what happens on a short night sometimes. I think I managed about 20 minutes. Had to finish the paperwork. And as long as I can manage to nap before I go back in tonight, it'll still be all good. I'd be dead if it were another 12 hr night. But I was so tired from last night I fell asleep exhausted, the phone was ringing but it's on silent so I can't hear it in the basement. I don't sleep well when I work nights, so whatever sleep I get is most appreciated. Love turning your fucking system in a tizzy? Love the vomitty nauseousness feeling from not getting enough sleep and having to slug it out on 2 hours 'rest'. Then working nights is for you...

Anywho, the point of this rant was where the line would be drawn. So the phone keeps ringing, and ringing, and then it fucking rings some more. I can hear my aunt ask if this call is important. The door opens and closes. Normally, I'd get up and answer the freaking phone, usually if someone calls this much (it was the same fucking number) it's usually pretty important, then I get worried and the what if's start happening. But enough of my paranoia. Back to the phone call. I come up from the basement just as my aunt is hanging up the phone. She says it's from HSBC. It's a fucking telephone marketing call. She calls three fucking times for a marketing call. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHH!!!

Here's the best part. She calls a fourth time. The fourth fucking call. I finally answer the call. I have two first names together to form my actual name. Both are fairly common but together with the way I spell my name - let's just say I can never find a fucking keychain with my full name on it. I usually have to get two separate ones. But that's beside the point. Back to marketing bitch. First she's all huffy and kinda rude.

'Is this ______ ______?' (she only uses the first part of my name T_T)
'Yes, this is ______ ______ ______ (my full name)'
'I'm sorry, you are ______ ______' (as if the bitch is correcting me - please. I think I know my fucking name. Whatever. She goes on.)
'I'm calling on befalf of HSBC.... blah de blah de blah blah blah' (I'm tired. I'm cranky. I'm thinking, I'll cut this short)

Remember how I said I was sucker sometimes, cause I'm too nice. Sometimes, I let these telemarketer's spin their spiel. I actually let them tell me about their special insurance offer and one time customer appreciation deals. I don't cut them off rudely - they have to make a living too ne? Anyways, I usually let them do their thing and then politely turn them down. By turn them down, I say things like 'I'm just on my way to work, could you call back another time' and they happily say they'll call another day. Great. Yes, I know, it's not turning them down. Yes, I know, it leaves me open for them to call again. I told you, sucker! right here. Sometimes, I get brave and just say 'No thank you, I'm not interested.' Usually those are the ones that don't take no for an answer. That is frustrating as hell as well, but oddly satisfying when you stay firm and trump them. Anywho back to marketing bitch.

She's going on, and I don't like her tone and matter of fact attitude and I'm already cranky-pants Mcgoo here, so I cut her off and say my usual telemarketer jam-fixer. 'I'm sorry, I'm just on my way to work. Could you call back another time.' Usually this works, and I add a no-nonsense tone when dealing with the aggressive ones, which this bitch falls into. What does she say to me? 'You don't have two minutes?' Me: '...'

*If I hadn't been so dead tired, my eyes would have bugged out. Instead, they narrowed. Dangerously.*

First I'm stunned at her audacity. Then I'm enraged at her callousness. She calls four fucking times knowing that this person she is trying to reach has just worked nights and is supposed to be sleeping. My aunt informed her on the second call. Second, it's a fucking marketing call. There is no emergency in insurance deals. There are no expirations on customer appreciation specials if you want to keep this customer happy. Third, how about NO bitch. *starting to seethe* I very firmly tell her 'I'm on my way to work. NO. I don't have two minutes.'. 'Oh. I'll call tomorrow then at 1130 in the morning'. I again very firmly tell her 'No. I'll be sleeping. I work nights.'. 'Oh, then I'll call at 2:30 then.' At this point I'm trying to control my anger. I don't know about those who don't work nights, but FYI, working nights means just that. At night. During the night. Not in the evening. Not get home after midnight and still be able to sleep in your own bed. Nights.

I fucking lose it.

I don't even know what the hell I said. All I know, is how dare this woman try to impose on me, and act as if I'm inconveniencing her by not letting her scam me into a deal. As if her time is more precious than my own.

And you know the best part? I'm not even sorry I did. (Usually the nice altruistic me would have felt very guilty about wailing on that bitch, but meh. Oh well >). She had it coming.)

/rant.

I'll cut this later. I'm too lazy yet still angry. Sorry for messing up anyone's pages.

~kir

Two things... Pilferage and Art-ting

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 16:17:26 GMT

First, the pilfering:
testing something out

testing something

*sparkly*

And now for the arttage:

I can actually do something half-way decent on PS. Featuring our favourite emo-boy Sasuke: (Three snapshots, all WIP's though)

The descriptions aren't much, but you can mouse over to see what they are...

The first shot is my first time doing any penciling (Emo-Sasuke was all 'Ha! I do not look anything of the sort!'), scanning of the sort (the scanning in particular was a humourous affair - I was all 'wtf? how do I get that from there to there??'). The second is my first time doing any line-inking and the first time using the pen-tool thingie. And the second is, well, my first attempt at colouring (or at least, trying to) anything... I always thought, that maybe I too could be an aspiring artist, but laziness and general 'wtf do all these fucking buttons do on these programs - how do I make a fucking line - arrrrgh. I'm going back to MS paint! - rawrness' prevailed for a looooooong time. But I found an awesome tutorial via begger4mcgregor's (<-----link to the DevArt acc't) extremely helpful (even for a n00b like me) lineart tut.

I mean, yeah, really it's nothing big, but it's something I made you know? ^_____^ Hee.

(gosh. replying on DevArt made me realize I'd totally forgotten how to use forum functions like for emoticons and such stuff... but when I was in my forum-whoring days I totally didn't know how to use html... well. I still don't, but it just makes me think how I'm always such a n00b for some things... .___.)

^____^

~kir

My stab at things...

Wed, 16 Aug 2006 17:46:57 GMT

A recent challenge I found over at Movie Summaries

So I thought I'd try my hand at it... ^____^;;

Title: The Usual Suspects
Characters: I'll let you figure it out
Challenge: Movie Summaries - Take a movie summary, alter it to fit into the Naruto-verse and provide a little drabble based on it... (Seemed simple enough, how wrong I was - ^____^;;)
Word Count:
drabble - 581 (Apparently I'm not cut for the traditional drabble life - way over a hundred here *sheepish grin*)
summary - 110
Rating: PG-13, Somewhat dark-ish.
Warning's: Possible Character Death (won't know until the end)

Original Summary:

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint (Spacey) attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro Harbor - leaving few survivors. But as Kint lures his interrogators into the incredible story of this crime lord's almost supernatural prowess, so too will you be mesmerized by a lore that is completely captivating from beginning to end!

Altered Summary:

Held in a Konoha interrogation cell, Bijuu Ramen (Uzumaki Naruto), a known jinchuuriki, attempts to convince the ANBU that a mythic organization not only exists, but is also responsible for drawing him and his four remaining partners into a near-death chase that spanned across nearly nine of the hidden villages that ended with not only the deaths of other jinchuuriki like him but also the near-death of the Kazekage of near-bordering Suna - leaving few witnesses. But as Bijuu lures his interrogators into the incredible story of this crime organization's almost supernatural prowess, so too will you be mesmerized by a lore that is completely captivating from beginning to end!

Drabble:

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A lone man is found hobbling down a busy Konoha street, stumbling and trying to keep his wayward legs from buckling underneath him. His hair is unkempt, bright blond, and spiky from his stay in the nearby interrogation cell at Konoha's ANBU headquarter's. Holding his limp useless hand in front of him, he keeps his head down, but that doesn't keep him from noticing how people are giving him a wide berth on the streets. He smiles secretly. His blond bangs nearly hide his eyes from view. But few are close enough to catch the hue that seems to illuminate from within. Fewer still are close enough to notice the slightly changing features on his otherwise normal personage. A bit of fanged teeth, a little view of too-sharp nails, an inhuman gleam to his reddening eyes.

A quick furtive glance about showed that he was far enough away from the headquarter's that he could move about normally, so he straightened his back and swung his legs out in normal fashion. Straightening his arms above his head he shook out the fake limpness and proceeded to exit the gates.

"That was a bit too close for comfort, ne?" his partner asked when he met up with him afterward. "A little while longer and they would have seen the transformation itself in that very cell."

"Yeah, well, it took longer than I anticipated. Thankfully, the henge held on as long as it did... if not, Leader-sama would have been very pissed off right about now," the 'Bijuu' smirked.

At the questioning look, the blond answered. "It took a while to convince them that it got transferred without killing me in the process. Longer still to convince them I didn't know who it got transferred to..." the blond man sighed and cracked his neck.

"I can't believe they fell for that!" the taller man scoffed.

"Yeah, well, I can play a pretty convincing act in this form." Bijuu smiled evilly full of fanged teeth. It even made the shark man next to him a little nervous.

"Isn't it dangerous to keep it unchecked like that, roaming free within your body. You're barely able to keep it from completely transforming at this state." Hoshigaki looked dubious and stayed a few feet away for safe measure.

"Relax," Bijuu's smirk deepened, "even in this state I can control both forms." His hydrophilic partner remained wary.

"Well, how long do you plan on keeping that form?," the blue-skinned man questioned.

"Oh, alright." The blond nearly sneered. "Since it makes you so uncomfortable...," he sighed.

As if by magic, his very image shimmered and the illusion was slowly dispelled.

A sudden wind picked up, blowing his wayward locks in the cool breeze. Hair that seemed to grow a life of it's own as it lengthened and grew from short and spiky to long and silky. Hair that bled from blond to black. Eyes that transfused to red so dark they appeared almost black. And as two twin tear-track scars materialized on his pale skinned face he turned to his partner with an unnatural smile that read: mission accomplished.

And as they recognized the shout coming from the anbu headquarter's direction, they sped away a little faster. A shout that heralded the Hokage, who looked down in dismay at the shell of the body found as if in death. A body with too bright blond hair, and whisker scarred cheeks, who will now be known as the former kyuubi vessel.

Fin.

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Author's Nota Bene: I guess I got carried away what with the word count and all. I was trying to keep in with The Usual Suspects theme, and I tried to shear down as much as I could, but found this is what I could come up with best without sacrifcing something crucial to the storyline. I really did try though! Anywho, I had fun writing this - the challenge was too much fun to pass up. Hope you enjoyed reading it! ^_____^

The idea seemed really good in my head, hope it came across right... ?___?

^_____^

~kir

Alright, enough laziness...!

Tue, 15 Aug 2006 17:04:53 GMT

I really hadn't meant to be away this long, but something about pirates and fandom whining and just general ugh! at work just made me not want to post for a while and just step back and observe some things. It really was just meant to be a short while, but a week turned into two, a month turned into three and then I was stuck staring at a journal that hadn't been updated in nearing 4 months... gah. Oh well. I managed to make my comments here and there though, so I wasn't entirely that far removed. ^_____^

Anywho, posted something of an experiment over at chuunin - it didn't go quite as I'd planned, seeing as only a few had actually understood what I was striving for... but I'll post it here for reading purposes if anyone is interested. There was some talk about fillers' ending and Yondaime's name and stuff, it just reeked of fishiness and bull (what a smelly combo! >__<), so it got me thinking about what Yondaime's name could have been, and I noticed something while looking around names and such.

"> As some of you know, there have been rumours that the fillers are about to end, and that Yondaime's name has been revealed. All this info leading up to speculation of the end of the fillers and what Yondaime's real name is, has lead me on a research fix. And I've come across something interesting I've found while researching some names for Yondaime and such. That some of the names in Naruto are directly related to a common theme or meaning within the names themselves.

'What?' you ask? Here, let me explain...

What's in a name? In the Naruto-verse, it seems names play an important part in family association and stuff, meaning children are often named with family history or familial relations in mind, or anything associated centrally within a clan. Now this post isn't to reiterate what you could find on all other Naruto fansites with 'what does their name mean' definitions, but I've put them down to show that within a family or clan, their names are directly associated to a central theme and/or contain a central theme within them.

Basically, their names play with a theme, contribute to it, or contain the same beginnings or endings. There are other ninja clans in Naruto that could be included in this theory, but I'll just focus on the Konoha ones at this point. These are random at best, but it's what I could come up with that actually contributes to my point (well, some of them do... ^____^;; here goes nothing!).

Before I begin, I just want to say that I think Taiyou is a fine name in itself.

Taiyou means sun = sunny = yellow, bright = blond = Yondaime

(it doesnt' mean just those things, I was just trying to relate them all together, there are more meanings I realize). There's nothing I disagree with it all, it's just after some research, it's lead me to believe that Taiyou may or may not be the Yondaime's real name (until it's confirmed as such). So I went hunting on some other names that might be more fitting. It's on this hunt that lead me to think that there must be more to a name then just, say, a characteristic of an individual itself.

To get on with the theory, while searching up names, and anything that could be related to Naruto himself in regards to Yondaime's name, I suddenly thought of Kakashi and then I thought of what his father's name means. Guess what I found: Sakumotsu: produce; crops, so therein the theme is born:

Hatake: field; Sakumo: crops; Kakashi:scarecrow

Then I thought of others' that could be applied to this theme-relation naming thing as well, which included:

Tsunade: mooring rope; Nawaki: rope tree

So then I went through Konoha's clans, and this is what I've found:

Akimichi clan: Both father (Chouza) and son(Chouji) bear names relating to butterflies: chou

Aburame clan: Both father (Shibi) and son (Shino) bear names that begin with a common element: shi (The names themselves differ in content, try as I might it didn't really fit into this plan >___< but, ignore that for now, this theory is really promising, I promise!)

Nara clan: Both father (Shikaku - I swear it was Shikato somewhere) and son (Shikamaru) bear names relating to deers: shika

Yamanaka clan: Both father (Inoichi - I always think of kunoichi here) and daughter (Ino) bear names relating to boars/piggies: ino

Inuzuka clan: Both mother (Tsume: claw, talon) and son (Kiba: fang) bear names that relate to each other: claw, talon, fang. Hana doesn't fit in here (cause I can't find a meaning that would relate a flower to some sharp pointy object), she's just a rebel (she looks like the rebellious type ne?)? Or it's an oxymoron of sorts... she's really tough but has a name that would seem too soft for her? ( I don't know, I'm grasping at straws here now, I swear this started out promising, I swear! ^____^;;)
EDIT: Hana also means nose, which leads to sense of smell, which plays into the whole I'm a dog RAWR! (I mean WOOF!) theme the inuzuka have going on...

Hyuuga clan: Seem to bear names relating to the sun: Hinata: sunny place; in the sun; Hiashi: daytime; position of the sun, Hizashi: sunlight; rays of the sun, Hanabi: fireworks (okay, this one doesn't really fit, but it's sparkly and stuff so it kinda does...? at least it has the element of heat... heat=sun, so it kinda works - kinda!) Okay, so Neji (helix, spiral, screw) doesn't really fit into the whole 'sun' thing, but it does relate itself to his kaiten... so it does fit into a theme of sorts, just not the original 'sun' one... *sigh* (This theory is sinking faster than I thought! O____o!!) EDIT: It was decided that Neji was working the whole 'I'm a lone wolf/black sheep' angle in the family, he always has to be difficult ne? ^_____^

And the Uchiha clan (and consequently the ultimate theory-killer), none of their names seem to directly relate to each other, but manipulating the context a little here... Fugaku: unlearned, but is also an old name for Mt. Fuji (words relating: mountain, mountain top, mountain top=clan head, also Mt. Fuji equals association with old japan: nobility descended from this mountain, I believe), Mikoto: lord, prince, words of a ruler, spoken words of the emperor or a noble; Itachi, weasel connotation aside (besides the actual meaning ^____^), breaking down his name to 'tachi' it also means mansion, small castle ( I guess I'm trying to work a nobility theme here...) and then there's Sasuke who doesn't really fit into anything (did he ever? the poor boy!). His name meaning doesn't apply to the nobility theme, but interestingly enough the beginning part of his name: Sasu, means to light (a fire), thereby working the 'fanning the flames of fire with the uchiha symbol on his back' theme.

I realize this theory ship is sinking fast, but it seems interesting to me, that names play an important part in the family structure (at least some of them do), and while I don't discount Taiyou as a name itself, in order to relate the naming game in Naruto, it seems that Yondaime's name should play off of his relation to swirls and or swirly things and such and not that of sun (which is what taiyou means). Although , now that I think about it, Taiyou can also mean ocean, which leads to the Naruto Straits, where you can see violent tidal currents clash and form gigantic swirling whirlpools.... so I guess, it could be probable that his name is Taiyou (and now I've just wasted your time... -___-;;).

Anywho, the point of this post was to see what other names (other than the fanon made Arashi or the ANN announced Taiyou) that Yondaime could have had? What are your thoughts and/or ideas?

Here are some of mine: Kajou: spiral, Kasen: spiral line, Shibuki: splash, Karai: cyclonic thunder-storm. And something else I thought the names could play off of, was his nickname: Yellow Flash, meaning maybe part of this nickname leads to his actual name or something off of it: Issen: flash, Raika: flash of lightning.

If you're still reading at this point, then I'd love to read and see what other's think of this theory or what other names there could be for Yondaime as well.

Thanks for your time!

Anywho, that's what I had posted over there to see what other names would have been possible working with the family relation theme in mind. It didn't go -all- that well. I only got a handful that recognized that a theme (within a family one at that) was there and then only a few understood what I was going for. And a few I was like wtf?whut? -___-;; Gah. Whatever. It was interesting to me and I had fun doing the discovering... If you want to read the comments and stuff, they're over here

Gah. I'm tired now and lj-formatting is being a bitch to me, so if it looks weird and there are typos and crap, just excuse them. It looked fine when I was typing it, but when I clicked preview, it looked all fucked up and stuff... I tried to fix it but it's still being all 'Ha-ha, bitch, how about no!' difficult, so I'll just leave it as is...

^_____^

sigh

Thu, 25 May 2006 20:04:56 GMT

Is it too much to ask for seemingly proper, or at the very least, some thought put into some posting's regarding recent manga chapter discussions?? I mean seriously, all I've read so far (on lj anyway) is 'Sasuke is gay this' or 'Sasuke is gay that' or "he looks like a dork - no a fucking 'gay-fairylike-pirateloving-penisobsessed' dork!! lolz111oneoneone!!alsdkfjakdflasdkfjjdk! lol you win!!" 'it's teh powah of teh gay! that lets him do dat!!' blah blah blah! >___<

Is it too much to ask that I be able to read some post's that provide some material for a more meaningful discussion? I guess I could go back to some forums I used to post on... but they have just as much idiotic people if not more... *sigh*

It's too bad though, I mean I enjoy crack (not the actual drug, duh! heh...) as most - but dont' people get tired of it all? Where does one go (on lj I guess) to discuss stuff without being bombarded with people being stupid or idiotic and stuff. I used to go to NarutoForums and NarutoTalk (I think that's what it used to be called...) but too much drama prevailed so I left. (I know there's drama here too, but it doesn't involve me, so I don't relatively feel all 'ugh, drama drama drama' like I did back on NF and stuff...) I thought the Chuunin comm would provide some aspects, but more and more it's more crack, crack and more crack... which I don't mind, but when is enough, well enough.

This is hampered by the fact that I've been away from Naruto for almost two years though, so it's to be expected I guess, that I don't know where to go for meaningful discussions. By meaningful, I don't mean all seriousness, but I mean less with the penis jokes, the pirate jokes, the *insert whatever wank crack theme of the day comment here* jokes, and more about the fact that Sasuke was going to draw his sword against Sakura. (I know Yamato stepped in, but still, he was going to attack Sakura with it...)

Or the fact that Sasuke is one cold mean sonofabitch but he sure is cool about it. "Your defence - passed" / "Your defence - failed" by Archer or "Your choice of defence - correct / Your choice of defence - quite the mistake" by Nihongaeri (both translations for the way Sai chose to attack and the way Yamato/Sakura decided to attack)

Or the fact that it just goes to show that everyone has their own take on translating stuff, but it sure is amazing how six different people can translate the same thing and still come out with different aspects that are so interesting to read. Or the fact that the Kyuubi knows of the Uchiha, which suggests familiarity which suggests that the Kyuubi might have a history with the clan which kinda fits into what I've been researching. (It's an omg!moment, but sometimes I don't feel like typing it out, cause, I don't know - it's fun and stuff to act all 'omgwtfbbq!!' but it's also nice not to have to act all 'fourteen'y and the like... and plus I did that with the last entry - I'm all omg'd out, I think...)

Anyways, I thoroughly enjoyed the chapter. Sasuke's expression when he draws his sword is so full of cool mean indifferent demeanor that it almost breaks my heart. But what a bastard! (I still love you though Sasuke!) To be able to execute the Chidori with a style all his own? The Chidori Nagashi. Cagey little bastard. Heh. This is what I mean by prime content. Kishimoto always save the best for last ne?

And what's surprising to me, is that I don't find Kyuubi knowing of the Uchiha/Sasuke knowing of the Kyuubi surprising at all. When Sasuke shows up in Naruto's mind, I was a little 'whaaat?' (but half 'what? what's going on' way and half in a 'wow, that's cool' kind of way) but this is Naruto manga, people can disappear in puffs of smoke and replace themselves with random objects, where a girl can get attacked by another girl's subconscious for goodness sakes, (actually nevermind - said 'girl' can enter another's girl's subconscious, so I suppose it's only fair that this girl get attacked really...) so how farfetched is it that Sasuke-kun can materialize in Naruto's mind and speak with a knowing demonic entity. Very bloody likely, I think. I can't wait for next week's chapter... ^_____^

On a completely random side note, it's interesting to me how stupid and weird people can be... Yes, I am generalizing and it's wrong of me to do that, I agree... but when one can read about someone finding Jiraiya with a prostitute!Geisha(they're not prostitutes!!) and go 'ewwww' and then go all *thinking dirty thoughts* about Orochimaru's tongue, all I have to say is: how old are you little girl? It's not that young people are stupid and old people are wiser, it can actually be quite the opposite. I've known some very mature 'young people' and very stupidly immature 'older people', but I find it interesting that people can be quite contradictory sometimes...

Blah! enough babbling already... ^____^;;

~kir

W.T.H.M's (What The Hell Moments!!) O___o!!

Fri, 19 May 2006 16:34:19 GMT

Okay, first of all, I was catching up on some season finale's and manga chaps... And I don't think I've said "WAAHHHT!!" so many times in one night, (yes, I know 'what' is not spelled that way, but it sounds that way when I'm all like 'wtf???alksdfjaslkdfjalkj! /spaz moment') no, really.

First 'what the hell moment' - Brought to you, by our sponsors from Manga Chap 307:

CAN SASUKE-KUN'S COLLARBONE GET any MORE FREAKING SEXIER THAN THAT!!

Second 'what the hell moment' - Courtesy of last night's CSI season finale: (or should I say, "sexond"?? gah, it was a typo, then after I though about it, it kinda fit.)

WHAT THE HELL, (hence the 'moment', heh.) (the hell? am I turning into a 'quotation marks' abuser... hah! apparently I am.) ARE GRISSOM AND SARA FINally GETTING TOGETHER!! AFTER ALL THIS TIME?? WHAT??! THE HECK IS THAT ABOUT?? (why am I using so many CAPS and quotation marks and exclamation points and shit?? !____!??)

Third, and final, 'what the hell moment' - tfw? ER is still going on?? :

OH MY god!! I HAVEN'T WATCHED "ER" IN LIKE ~~ages~~ years AND ALL THEY HAVE TO SHOW IS SOMEONE GETTING SHOT AND SOMEONE MAYBE, POSSIBLY LOSING THEIR BABY AND I'M ALL LIKE 'WHO IS IT??' 'WHAT'S HAPPENING' 'I DIDN'T KNOW ABBY WAS PREGNANT' AND 'OMG. I knew ABBY AND KOVAC SHOULD GET TOGETHER!!' (and omg. I don't think I've ever used OMG! and quotation marks and CAP letters so much in my life... O___o!! It looks so frickin weird. ?___?)

You know, I don't think there's any show out there that lets you go with such a bang like ER, now that I think about it... 'you wanna leave the show? Okay. We'll give you a GREAT exit scene'

Aaaaaand end /omgwtfbbq-aldkfjadklfjalkdfjdk!!! rant moment. ^_____^;;

Anywho, that ends this portion of ranting!mode, we'll now return you to regularly scheduled standard posting.

^______^

~kir

Uhhh, apparently I'm one of the few...

Thu, 11 May 2006 15:11:43 GMT

Naruto 306.

So, apparently, I'm like one of the only few people out there not going 'omgwtfbbq' and 'omgthatisSOgay,Sas-gay' or whatever the hell else people are saying about Sasuke-kun in the newest chapter released. Am I one of the only few that are happy that Sasuke has been finally revealed without cover of darkness and shadows, without the feigning appearance of 'sleeping', but with his own closeup and his own head to toe, hand on hip, standing in broad daylight, 'isn't the weather just lovely today?' nonchalant stance. I mean I was ranting along with them when there was no Sasuke in like forever, but now that he's here... well, I'm kinda just glad that he finally made it to the storyline... So he's wearing clothes that are a bit fashionsense-less, but come on, it's Sound for goodness sakes. Orochimaru has some hella deadly techniques, but fashion mogul he's not... heh. ^_____^

I guess people are never going to be happy... It's like:

rantrantrantrantrant 'omgthere'snoSasuke-wherethehellismySasuke-kun' rantrantrantrantrant 'omg-wtf!-thatswhatheswearing-whatthehellareyouthinkingSasgay-blahblahblah' rantrantrantrantrant...

Honestly, it's not that bad. Not as bad as people are making it out to be surely. It could be worse, I think. He could be doing that thing that most samurai/yakuza/japanese anime guys do where they tuck in the bottom half of their kimono about their waist and leave those hella gay short short thingies exposed. Now there's *gay* for you. ^_____^

Okay. So maybe the hand on his hip thing looks a tad fruitish or something... But really, to me, it makes Sasuke's whole 'oh-it's only you, dobe and sakura' attitude more apparent. As if he hasn't seen them in almost three frickin' years... But that's Sasuke for you. Our 'EmoAngstingBastard!-Oh,please' loving boy... Honestly, I don't know how all those fangirlingmode! fangirls aren't squeeing even more over the fact that Sasuke-kun is practically half naked! for goodness sakes!! Heh... Shirtless Sasuke...? *devilish grin*

Anywho, I think he looks fine, it could have been worse, and for sure we are going to be backhanded with a hella load of flashbacks or something else menial or mundane - so this arc is never going to end ( I mean how long can you stretch out the inevitable? apparently a few thousand chapters or so... T____T!!), and Sasuke certainly does resemble his dead mother a lot doesn't he?, and gosh don't I just love the word apparently today?? (that and the word 'hella'... X____X what is this? 1997 or something?)

I hope something exciting happens in the next chapter and not just some lame-ass flashbacks or something. Where's the tension, where's the action, where's the 'omg-this is why I love this goddamned manga so much!!' activity??? But I love it just the same. ^____^

Where's the fandomlove! if you can't have the fandomrant! ne?

^_____^

~kir

ps. I don't think I've done a kind of fandom rant before... *is pleased* ^_____^

The horror, the horror... !!

Mon, 08 May 2006 03:15:01 GMT

So, I was browsing through some vids at youtube and I saw one for the first time in a long while... Actually, I thought it was a regular video but when I clicked on the link and waited for it to load... the thing I noticed first was the voices - the voices!!

It made me cringe.

It made me want to turn my ears inside out.

But I gave it chance, cause I'm nice like that.

But...

It.

Was.

In a word...

Bad. Horrible. Reaaaaaallly, really Bad.

Really.

Yes, I'm talking about a fandub or a dubbed episode in that respect. I mean no disrespect to any involved in it, but it was, to me, really really really bad. I couldn't take it. Now, I've watched some dubs. I have. I've watched some Inuyasha dubbed (mostly, cause there really wasn't anything else to watch and I either stayed to watch the episode because: a. I liked that particular episode and b. I tune out the voices after a while...) and I keep meaning to catch Naruto on YTV (canadian equivalent to Toonami or CN or such) but so far, I haven't caught it. But after seeing this fan-dub... Uhh. I dunno. I'm still cringing. It's not that I'm like "it's japanese or nothing" but have some sense, especially if it's a fan-dub. I mean, come on, you can say names a proper way if you've heard it before right?

Gah. Maybe I don't know what I'm talking about. But it still makes me cringe. aksdjf? O____o!!

~Kir

O genki desu ka? ^_____^

Sun, 07 May 2006 03:43:41 GMT

Hai, hai. New layout-age, again. Can't keep away from fixing it up nice and pretty! ^_____^

Anywho, to those of you who haven't checked out Ouran Host Club... what are you waiting for?? Check it out, no really! Seriously funny. The last one made me laugh so hard I cried... ^_____^

Special thanks to kagome_taisho for making this awesome icon... Check her out, her stuff is awesomeness!!

Just a quick update for now...

~kir

Speaking of Bandwagon Stuffz....

Thu, 04 May 2006 01:29:40 GMT

Okay. I've fallen onto the bandwagon this time. It's confession time, I have to be honest.

I haven't been following anime and such for a very long time and I have only recently started back up following my beloved Naruto series. I'm talking like almost two years worth of leaving it all behind, manga and all. Like no anime at all. No new series, no following of my current faves (like inuyasha, naruto etc.), nothing. This is partly because I really hate having to wait week after week for new episodes. When it comes to anime, I'm kinda like instant gratification girl. I like to have the whole series at my disposal, but that won't guarantee that I'll even finish the series... I mean, I'm one of the most patient people I know (no seriously), but when it comes to series and stories and such, even though I may love it to bits, I am more than likely to forget unless I'm being reminded constantly (signing up for lj has helped that somewhat).

So it was with deep regret and a feeling of foreboding that I checked out this new series being ~~shoved in my face~~ showcased recently. I mean it was practically everywhere I looked. So I checked it out. And... sigh. I liked it. Liked it 'liek whoa'... It is the single-most hilarious thing I have watched so far. This is probably because I haven't been actively searching or checking out any recent anime series in oh, about two years, but it really is hilarious. Sigh. Looks like I'll be waiting for two animes a week, instead of just one. Bad enough I have to wait for the naruto manga weekly as well.

Anywho, you should check it out, really. There's about 4 episodes out so far and from what I can tell from the first episode, it's a real riot. Check it out. You won't be disappointed. Unless of course you really, really, really hate shoujo anime.

~Kir

Hen da ne?

Mon, 01 May 2006 13:49:21 GMT

Let's see. My six weird things... well.

1. I'm very picky about the texture of my food. I don't like stuff that's turned mushy or slimy. But not all mushy or slimy foods do I hate either. I love grapes, but I hate the grapes that come with fruit salad. It's firm and crunchy or nothing. Peppers ditto. I pick them out in a dish if they've been cooked. I love raisin bread, but can't stand them in rice pudding. But I'm not a picky eater. Weird ne?

2. I'm very particular about what spices there are in dishes or drinks. I hate hate hate cloves. I detest Chai. But I love gingerbread cookies and ginger latte. I hate hate hate fennel. But I like black licorice sometimes and I'll drink sambuca. It's all about the proper time and place I guess...

3. I'm a makeup-aholic. I buy tons of pretty pretty makeup, yet I hardly ever wear it. And it's not that I don't know how to use or apply it properly. I've mastered that art and I'm always reading up on tips and such and it always turns out great. But I don't like to wear it to work (I mean who wants makeup on your face for 12/14 hours a day? O____o) and sometimes I'll get all dolled up just cause I'm bored and've nothing to do at home and nowhere to go...

4. I'm a coffee-reheater person. I'm always buying coffee and then not drinking it and then reheating it to drink, only to forget and then reheat it again. And I don't drink that much coffee. Only because I never seem to finish what I buy. Heh.

5. I have an insane memory. Seriously. At work, people are always asking me about so and so and they had such and such, and they can never remember their names, and it could be a few or four or five or eight years back and out it pops from my mouth. Almost automatically. I always remember people more than they remember me ( and I always pretend that I've forgot too if someone's forgotten me or my name, just to make them feel better).

6. I have crazy peripheral vision. I'm not even looking in the same direction and I can tell if someone's about to drop something or sit down where there's no chair and stuff like that. It really freaks people out.

That's it for freak bandwagon... ^_____^

~Kir