Shine on, ye little beacons.

State of mind: drained
Current soundtrack: Starting Line (Kobukuro)

Today kind of stank.

Developing travel plans kind of stank.

In-car convo stank.

Monkeys kind of stank. (They did. Monkey pee, PHEW)

Fireflies in Kg. Kuantan DID NOT STINK.

Shine, little fireflies. You are Dyna's hope, Hikari's symbol; you become my hope. All this though I cannot touch you. You are too fragile.

...Look, shihan, hakase. The fireflies shine on.

Belum lagi kulepas dari hutan...

State of mind: drowsy
Current soundtrack: The blips and blops from MechQuest

Not too long back for Digital Portfolio, Wai Khong mentioned that a couple of us were going to be interviewed by the Multimedia Department along with our final DigiPort mock job interview. Without putting too fine a point on it, my interview could have gone quite a bit better.

Just got a call from the MM Department to confirm the date of said extra interview—maybe should ask Keith and Foong whether they received one too. They were hoping for 21st December (no, thank you, that's Leave-for-Japan Day), but it's been confirmed for the 18th, at 10.30 a.m.

...Now, exactly what shall I show them? ('_')*

Darnit. And yesterday was so peaceful, too. We went up north to go see the fireflies, but ended up enjoying the monkeys on Melawati Hill and the seafood dinner with random water-bird sightings much, much more. (photo credits mostly go to Sis' fiance Jyoti Barker)



P.S. - Dear Malaysian government: There's not much use enforcing a law against jaywalkers when cars DO NOT SLOW DOWN in front of zebra crossings. Just sayin'.

P.P.S. - ....Certain big-name faaaaaaan, why is Faust in a dreeeeeeeessssss? Why does shi have eeeeeeeeyelasheeeeeeeeessssssssss?!!!!

*Kumonface. Those who get it, will get it.

The post full of Ultraman, part the first.

State of mind: insanely pleased
Current soundtrack: Heisei High playlist - Ultraman Cosmos - Wandaba Team EYES (Project DMM)

All right, all of you who knew me prior to reading this blog - you KNEW it was coming. Sooner or later, I was going to make a big squeeful post about Ultraman, or something to do with Ultraman. It had to happen, and y'all were just waiting for the other shoe to drop. Well, forget one shoe - here are several! *fling*

BANG! BANG! CRASH! WALLOP! SQUASH!

Over CNY, I met up with fellow squee-filled Ultrafangirl Lynn at Sunway Pyramid. I brought my sketchbook full of fluffy doodles to show her, plus the latest volume of Ouran High Host Club to show her the pseudo-UM appearances (hint: Last chapter volume 9, Tamaki's food-toy collection) ; she brought the Utraman Story 0 volume 3 that she borrowed from another Singaporean fan called Yoshi. For those who have not heard of Story 0 - it's thoroughly endorsed by yours truly. Great art, a solid story (although certain details taken as canon so far are conspicuously missing) and great art I worship Mabune Shinji. A fun hour was had by all as we hooted, squeed and translated stuff. I collapsed in laughter when she pointed out the EXTREMELY pretty human form of Ultraman near the end of the book. Not handsome: PRETTY. I guess you had to be there.

We went skating, and had sushi, and after she left I decided to go browse some handphones for a minute. I know Buddhism is supposed to be moderate and unmaterialistic, but OH MY STARS, I would kill for a MotoKRZR. So blue, so high-tech, so shiny...so expensive. *sigh* I then saw some signs up announcing the opening of the Sunway Petting Zoo Interactive Zoo, which I'd been dying to see for some time.

As luck would have it, by the time I got to the ticket counter, purchased a ticket and stepped through the entrance gates, the skies opened in a glorious Malaysian downpour. I spent about an hour waiting for the squall to stop squalling and fussed over an extremely patient sulfur-crested cockatoo in the meantime. Pictures came later. =3

(In the meantime, I'm hoping that macaw doesn't bite my ear off.)

Today was, all in all, a pretty good day. I went to open a bank account a bit nearer to my college, but was still a little apprehensive. The only experience I'd personally had with this bank was sending a postal order through it, once.

I guess I shouldn't have worried - good omens abounded. The bank was founded the same year that the first Ultraman took to the air; when I went to pick up my PIN pouch, someone had pasted an Ultraman Nexus card onto the table. To the best of my knowledge, they were only available at the launch of the Ultraman Nexus VCDs in Malaysia, and the N Project is one of my favourite Tsuburaya efforts by far.

The card in question: Nexus Junis and Dark Faust having a go at each other. Yes, Nexus looks that grumpy all the time.

And y'all thought I was just your ordinary Ultraman fan, huh? Not by a looooooooong shot. :D Which reminds me, gotta go down to the bank again after classes on Tuesday...