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March 18th, 2007
07:36 pm - I'm disconcerted with nakama...
Yeah so I know I haven't posted in over 2ish year...
Frankly I'm not a huge LJ fan... and I blame tokki and dame for making me get an LJ 3 years ago. I was outnumbered!
Anyways...I don't know where I'm at anymore. Atleast with scanlations. (My personal life... what life... is crappy too, but i'll disregard that for now.)
I don't know where the old kii went.
The kii who could edit 10 hrs straight, and be hyped.
The kii who didn't get tired of the BL fans asking the same n00bie questions.
The kii who cared about her 10000 fonts.
Don't get me wrong. I love nakama dearly. And I don't want nakama to retire from the world, not that we wouldnt have a kick ass legacy! Its just... maybe its time to change nakama's direction, in the way we release projects.
So, I dunno... its just, there are things that are disconserting me:
-Blogs. How trust worthy are they? And they all seem to get their 'info' from the same alpha blog: yaoisuki. So, I try to to be deligent, and keep with all the licensing stuffage, but really, if its not posted anywhere in the publishers website (thats why they have websites right?, to keep fans informed, right?! To be fair, DramaQueen is kinda getting better at this... can't say the same for all of them.) I'm gonna assuming nothing is confirmed until they say so. They would be in the know. But there are these blogs, that get these 'leaks' that aren't documented or whatever (from what I have seen, prove me wrong blogs, other than I was told by so and so. Give webaddresses of announcements, something.)
So, what am I to do?
Not release something according to some blog that I have no trust in. Disregard the work everyone has put into it. (pissed and annoyed staffers... cos they don't believe in the blogs to begin with, cos they have been known to be wrong/full of shit. And that the soul 'evidence' I have to tell then when i say, hiya ---, you know those 6 chaps you edited 5 months ago, and is in qc2, we are dropping it cos erm some livejournal said it got licensed, but I can't find a mention of it on the publishers site.) For the most part, all the elements are done, just not released. Cos for some reason I like to release the whole manga in bulk now.
Or release it, and then feel shitty if it really did get licensed.
Or release it, with a love insert to whomever we ASSUME licensed it, then feel slightly less shitty.
- so yeah, i like to release Projects in bulk. I guess I should change that since I have about 10 edited full volumes, but all of them are in qc2... I just hate getting into the trap of group penis envy or worst... making a Project forgetable. Many scanlation groups like to release 1 chap of project A every 5 weeks to get fans to visit their site, their whatever to beg for more...or that they just don't have the staffing resources, but are working on 20 projects... I'm old. I forget what ch1 is about when I ready ch2. And... I'm over the scanlation penis envy. So maybe nakama should just do 3 projects at a time regards what stage its at? i dunno. that way we can get to qc2 faster?
- Scanlation Future lists. Okay, I really understand why groups have them. Well atleast I try to. But when groups have 30+ titles listed on their webpages of future projects... that bothers me. So they claim they are in some stage of scanlation... but yeah, its frustrating when its 5 months later, and still nothing. Hence, why don't groups just release whatever they want. And if there happens to be a duplicate, let the fans decide which version they want to read. Cos its out of hand, when ppl can just list anything.
-maybe i'm just bitter. and miss the old days. Where is Jen and Dame's enthusiaism... Where are they at all? ahhaha. All burnt out.
Maybe nakama should go legit, that would solve all my projects. I say, the publishers should work with Nakama. ahhaha. We'll provide staffing, they do everything else!
kii rant over.
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January 3rd, 2005
05:41 am - new year's madness
well well well, what can i say, i had a greeeeeeeeeeeat time *silly with giggles*
Met up with Emma aka dahling!
Dec 29
1. arrived at Tokyo Station around 11ish.
-went back to the hotel to drop luggage and book it to comiket baby!!!!!
omg!!! i met yamada!!! she's sooo tall and cool! she signed all my books (usually they only sign one) and she allowed a picture!!! *dies*
-also met shushushuuu and kodaka (although she was kinda busy and snobbish? and didnt know that kizuna got licensed into english)
-literally walked into Cathy and Chrissy! fate i tell you!!!
Day one over
2. went to akihabara... tech town of japan... holy.... nerds and *cool* brad would be in heaven here!!!!!
-bought a memory card - 256 mb for hmm 25 bucks, woooooot
-went to ikebukuro...hentai comics/djs galore
-went to shibuya... shopping! got the cutested sweater!!!!
-went to shinjuku, met up with chrissy and cathy
-we went to the gay part of tokyo... damn were we giggly...
-went into a shop that sold the best peepees although fake
-and and well live action pics of gay porn doesnt do it for me, but hey, to each their own... bwhahahah, i'll stick to my girlly men thank you very much!
-went into a gay bar.... far too many foreigners for my tastes
-hightlight of the evening: met the hotest looking man and the world, and he was gay!! and ohh soo sexy! in that prefect manga type of way ala minase style ("emtpy heart" - the uke's brother)
- he kissed my hand when we met
-cathy asked him if he was seme, he blushed and said he was uke
-japanese gay guys have great english
-chatted some.
-while dancing, his seme? was dancing behind him, with his hand in his pants!! wowa hooooooooooooot!!!
-when we left, we hugged, and i aske if i could grab his ass! ho ho ho
-he said, 'ok'
-ohh soo nice butt cheeks!
-end of day 2
-hmmm, met up with miho in harajuku
-bought a lolita outfit... sooo cute
-went for yaki niku, i think phil at raw chicken... bwhahahah
-went to asakusa, sensoji-temple, the most popular temple in japan
-it was packed... btw it was @ 11:30 pm
-both lots of charms, got free corn on the cob from one of the vendors *yay*
-went to a fish market that wasnt open *boo*
-arrived at the hotel at 6 am... slept for 2 hrs... caught the shinkansen home @ 8
-end of my tokyo trip
-it was sooooooooooooooo fun!!!!
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December 5th, 2004
09:56 pm - tea ceremony
had my first professional tea ceremony with sensei today ( i mean outside of the studyroom with... actually ppl... >.> )
it was the most stressful thing i've done since coming to japan...
with yamashita sensei (the lessons), im learning how to perform the ceremony, today being a patron, it was more difficult that i expected.
It was abt 3 hours long, with 6 ppl, (4 of them i dont know.. sensei's friends.... all old ladies (60+)except me...all old ladies knowing what they are doing...except me >.<)
LET ME SAY THIS FIRST, SITTING IN PROPER STANCE IS PAINFUL......
soo many lil things i wish i could redo...
(bangs head again the wall)
1. in what form i am suppose to hold my hands and when (and yes there are different forms...hahahah)
2. how long am i suppose to stare at old pottery and calligraphy that i dont understand (ahhaha)
3. abt the 2 hr mark... my legs were killing me.. sitting like that was killer... so when ever we got up to move to the next room, i keep forgetting which foot i had to move first when getting up, when entering, leaving, and sitting (and yes they are different... ((left foot first-leaving the room)(right foot first when entering, getting up) and when recieving food, gotta shift backwards twice on the floor (with your feets sitting in that painful position, and gotta remember to shiftwith the correct foot first)...bow move the plate just so, bow, do the hand motion, pick up the food, gotta hold the chopsticks right, gotta eat it right, gotta dispose of the napkin right...ang gotta repeat the same thing for the tea...which there are even more...lil things, but i'll decribe that at another time)
4. entering the room....
place your lil fan in front of the shouji (paper screen door) opening...
then gotta be in the sitting position, bow,
pick up the fan with your RIGHT hand (being ambitextrist ..fuck i cant spell) at the CORRECT position, and slide into the room (on all fours) and repeat the same thing once inside...
soo.. after the erm... third room (abt 2 hours into it... i was dying from stress, panic and memory loss of very lil single movement that i had to remember)
now, dont get me wrong, i loved it, even tho i was the biggest idiot ever... it was more than you could ever expect from just reading abt it. beyond the proper form and ettiquette, theres just something abt it. sitting there... enjoying the experience (when i wasnt stressed out that is), just thinking abt random things. i was thankful for sensei and her strict teaching, thankful for the today, the color of the momiji was lovely, how the leaves on teh ground was like a seurat painting, all the colors making up the whole atmosphere, the breeze outside today was refreshing.
The perfection of this today (including the flaws, mistakes and the things i could never redo, makes it prefect)will never be repeated.
So, now i'm waiting for the prefection of tomorrow. Every moment is prefect and one of a kind. Cant wait for tomorrow (wooot work and editing..haha)
lastly, i think for sure, my next time will be much better. more time to appreciate than stress...hahaha
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July 10th, 2004
02:53 pm - kalia
kal you have to transfer to toyohashi-shi or else you will be 2-3 hours away from me.... shinkensen time...eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek
transfer asap
call the freaken office!!!
dooooooooooo it
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June 14th, 2004
12:31 am - i feel blahish
i'm leaving the country for 1 year in... hmmm 2 days... and i feel blah right now
i'm excited... of course... japan... hotties, mangas, tea, food, shopping! (hopefully i have enough dedication to even pick up some of the language, i dont want to be a complete lazy gaijin pig)
i'm blahhed...(yes i know its not a word, call it a kii-ism) bitchy roommates? worried parents, bitchy bosses?, dont know anyone, even taking the freaken subway worries me...(jerkiness and all), i'm such a freak.... my real life friends doing crap without me, my online friends doing crap without...really i'm not this needy...
and the little things bother me...
-like when i get back... i need to take my accounting examinations and get the rest of my required accounting hours (yes all 40 of them)... at this point.. i;m sooo blah over it... do i really want to be a chartered accountant anymore even tho i have already wasted 4 years of university tuition on it? i just like doing taxes dammit...(and yes i already realized that my decision to go to japan, is my escapism from making that decision)
-dammit, i dont want my brother to marry his skanky ass hong kong fob girlfriend (even tho i am a 'hong kong' person as well.. i;m not one of those snobby fobs)
-damn, i'm gonna be sooo behind in all my hobbies, stupid things like... watching tv.. whats gonna happen to my soaps? LOL!!! dammit marlena stop killing ppl already!
-damn, i might not have internet in japan...(yes i am pathetic...no internet = #_#), i can go to net cafes... but how realistic is that? not very often i think.....
-nakama, tokudane, mizu etc............ its not that they need me or anything... its more like i need them (the staff)... will they miss me? will they be happy to see me disappear? (ahhaha i know revie and serena will be...heheheh), will the staff be okay? (one of our top editors left... will we still be able to edit well? i mean at nakama's prefered level?), will those retarded ppl still spread false rumors about us to get sympathy? (probably), blahblahblah
soo yeah i'm feeling blahish...
blahish and sleepy....
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May 5th, 2004
10:12 pm - puking continued...
soo yeah i forgot to take my gravol
i really didnt expect to be in the car for 4 fucking hrs!!!
me without gravol = super car sickness = super vomit city
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09:55 pm - may 5th... am i dead?
wow, talk about lj slacking >.<
not that anyone reads it but me, dame *goes crazy fangirling on dame* and dahling *chuchuchuuuuuuuuuuuu*
i thought it might be interesting to note:
firstly, this morning i was able to beg and plead to get a medical examination from my MD without an appointment
secondly, i was able to get the MD to put a rush on the results, so i can pick it up on monday :DD *that ladies and gentlemen was by best performance of the year*
thirdly, went to toronto to get my plane ticket, after getting lost for 4 fucking hours, cos the fucking stupid lady in the travel agency doesnt know how to give directions! she lead me all over the fucking place!
[ Error: Irreparable invalid markup ('<and [...] me,>') in entry. Owner must fix manually. Raw contents below.] wow, talk about lj slacking >.< not that anyone reads it but me, dame *goes crazy fangirling on dame* and dahling *chuchuchuuuuuuuuuuuu* i thought it might be interesting to note: firstly, this morning i was able to beg and plead to get a medical examination from my MD without an appointment secondly, i was able to get the MD to put a rush on the results, so i can pick it up on monday :DD *that ladies and gentlemen was by best performance of the year* thirdly, went to toronto to get my plane ticket, after getting lost for 4 fucking hours, cos the fucking stupid lady in the travel agency doesnt know how to give directions! she lead me all over the fucking place! <and stupid me, i forgot to take my grovel today> so fourly, on the way home, i had to stop at blockbuster to return LATE OVERDUE movies, and as i tip to the blockbuster employees, i politely puked my guts out in their washroom <please refer to the .. stupid kii with no gravol = car sickness = vomit city> but like i said.. i was polite about it.. so it wasnt.. erm... messy? i doubt they would notice.. <although i did leave before they would get a chance to find out> damn.. i better not go to that blockbluster for a while... hows that for an update oh yeah, btw i'm going to japan with dahling!
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March 18th, 2004
06:09 pm - my heart is dead...
Your Heart is Black
What Color is Your Heart?
brought to you by Quizilla
this sure explains alot
since its dead...does it need to be buried??? burn lucky money????
i heard at funerals you get free food???!!!
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February 22nd, 2004
08:58 pm - test
test test test
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10:50 am - such a lj slacker
wowa...what has it been...WEEKS since the last update...
(i told you dame, i just cant keep up with the responsiblities of ljing)
anyhow...lets have a random kii rant
damn you mircx!!! blabhlabh...you sux!!
hmmm that doesnt feel fullfilling...
damn you tampon scanlations!!!!!
you lame retards, really are you guys that desperate, that you have to register #nakama in aniverse??? (and yes we know its you, cos the person who registerd #nakama is the same person who registered #yaoirulez .... yahooo for /whois)
bunch of tards...
damn you weather!!!!
stop snowing already!!!! i hate the fucking grey slush.
damn you jpqueen!!!
ebil bitches! i know you updates with soo many goodies just to make me jealous!!! or starve myself.....
and damn you finance!!!! and dont think i forgot about your lil bitch, the tax act!!! DIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIE
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December 23rd, 2003
02:41 pm - the joys of joints....
THE GOOD
yeah....
shout out: HOUCHUUAMI, I ADORE YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!
gahh, this kitten toy is amazing....able to have a whambam 8 zip release, and she has no staff really....
simply amazing....
thanks for doing haru lady!!!
and and special chuus to mai and ko!!! sooo dedicated!!!
you guys are super women!!!
THE BAD
yeah...
then theres another joint...
what the hell...
the joint is their idea, yet they cant keep up with it..
everything is sooo disorganized...
no one knows whats going on...
omg..they are not even perpared to go in the day of the freak loted release time...
(yes yes i decided the time, cos they freaken wont say anything...someone had to do it...geeez.....)(proof and point without my proactive move, hemuloki wouldnt have said that they dont have their zips till the last last minute >.<)
(yes yes i nagged about the insert...come on, i'm not the only one...and i doubt without nagging it would be more disorganized)
and no one reads the freaken yg? well atleast not the head joint coordinator >.<, why freaken set up one if you are not going to read it? (or is it selective reading????) also since i get no confirmation or replies to the yg messages (well not from the coordinator anyways) i assume they agree with what is being said...
THE UGLY
hmmm pms....
...not that private irc message help much either ....wait days later for a reply
oh oh not to mention...the release time is delayed...cos they are unprepared, no one has the zips?????, whaaaa?
hayama kii: ....
oh oh did i mention one group dropped out from the joint??? they had like freaken 6 weeks to have 2 zips done...how hard is that really??
yes yes the joys of joints
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/mad.gif) annoyed
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December 10th, 2003
03:41 pm - what type of assassin am i?
hmmm
took the test...
*bats her eye lashes...*
lil ol' me? mastermind?
no way....
MASTERMIND: You're no mere assassin, you're the
head of the guild. Plans within plans. You
have an entry, an exit, and probably a large
bank account. Now, what do you plan on doing
with that kind of power?
Which Type of Assassin Are You?
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December 6th, 2003
10:15 pm - soo tired....
its painful being away from my computer for 12 hours (thats not including sleep....)
i missed my lil baby man!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
yeah i have no life...
hahahah
-.-
aside note......
i dont like tampons!!!
pads all the way!!!!!!!!!!
w000000000000t
*yeah i'm going crazy right now....*
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/mely/lemonfaces/dead.gif) drained
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December 3rd, 2003
10:45 pm - the joys of LJing
woooooooooooooot
booya booya
*grabs nakama staff boobies*
teehehhehe
i'm bored.
*goes to grab more boobies*
1. Give me a nickname and explain why you picked it.
2. Am I loveable?
3. How long have you known me?
4. When and how did we first meet?
5. What was your first impression?
6. Do you still think that way about me now?
7. What do you think my weakness is?
8. Do you think I'll get married?
9. What makes me happy?
10. What makes me sad?
11. What reminds you of me?
12. If you could give me anything what would it be?
13. How well do you know me?
14. When's the last time you saw me?
15. Ever wanted to tell me something but couldn't?
16. Do you think I could kill someone?
17. Describe me in one word.
18. Do you think our friendship is getting stronger/weaker/or staying the same?
19. Do you feel that you could talk to me about anything and I would listen?
20. Are you going to put this on your livejournal and see what I say about you?
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09:37 pm - the power of dame....
you know....
i resisted...i truly did!!!!!!!
*wails*
but dame was tooo strong >.>
little hint ladies and gentlemen...dame has skillz... :D
*hangs head in defeat*
i have a lj now.
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