riddikulus☆aesthetics

just another day in the life of a fangirl

Archive for Asianness

English guide to pixiv registration

Pixiv is a Japanese image gallery that requires registration. The Japanese isn’t that bad, and with the help of WWWDIC and Babelfish I made a guide :)

  1. Click on register.
  2. Enter your email address.
  3. Check your email address and click the confirmation link.
  4. Follow my guide:
  5. And that’s it! To navigate just rollover the links and you can see what page a link is in the status bar.

EDIT: Just found this guide to using pixiv :3

Shounen Club

It’s been a long time since I’ve last watched clips of Shounen Club (and fangirl Arashi and KAT-TUN), but I was watching the April 6 show today without subs. Holy fuck. I can understand what they’re saying in the MC talk!! O_O Well, the gist of it.

I am so happy. But, most importantly, I just had this revelation.

If I can to Japan next spring, I can go to a Shounen Club taping?! I can even go to concerts and see my favorite artists LIVE?!?!?! I can experience the amazingness of Tackey, Gackt, Hyde, Hikki, Ayu, etc. in person???

Excuse me while I go off and die in happiness XD

IN RL news, I think I might double minor in East Asian Studies and Corporate Strategy. And I’m still a little sick today, but better than yesterday.

ANYF 2008

It feels sooooo good to sleep in! =w= I have my second stats exam coming up this Friday, and I really should be studying for it (or at least catching up on readings from other classes), but I just want to relax this weekend! It always feels like I’m rushing around trying to get things done. It’s just nice to not have to worry about things or about keeping a schedule. Yes yes, all slacker talk =P But I will be hitting the library soon in a few hours.

So Asian New Year festival this year was fun. Got great seats since my friend who was performing snagged them for us. Lots of food and lots of people that I know~ During dinner they were playing Asian songs and I tried to identify the name and artist. I could recognize most haha. Wondergirl’s “Tell Me” was completely ftw. They played it twice. It was sheer awesomeness. It’s one of those songs that once you see the dance, everytime you hear it you want to do the dance. I can’t help it. The dance is really silly and cute. They’re coming to NYC to perform in that JYP concert ^^

For the hip-hop performance they used Vanness Wu (I heard the Kangta collaboration on “Scandal” too, but I think it was the Vanness version only) and Koda Kumi (they should have played “But” since it’s so dancey). Some Jay Chou (yay!) was used too, but I don’t remember which performance(s) exactly. I would consult the program I took back with me, but I think it fell out on the way back because it’s no longer here =( I’ll see if anyone has an extra one they don’t want. Being the sentimental person that I am, I like to put programs, movie/concert ticket stubs, etc. into a memory box. Oh I got addicted to Choco-Pies now =3 Blame those goodiebags they had.

The after party at Fuel was surprisingly fun too. It’s good to have many friends and acquaintances so that you’ll have enough people to dance with (even though I’m horrible) =) My only complaints were that it was so damn hot and muggy inside, and the place was really, really small so you had sweaty people rubbing up against you all the time =/ But I got to see one of my good friends from Belmont. Even though I’m still very close to Belmont, we can never get together because we’re both so busy. I walked in and went, “I know that sexy mama on stage!!” It was definitely one of those screaming “OH MY GAHHHHHHHH!” moments that I really detest, but I couldn’t help myself from doing it. Hehe. My friends and I stayed so long that we missed the shuttle (oops), but we managed to grab a cab back.

Then I got dragged along on a food run to Wendy’s because peoples were hungry at 3am. Service was so slow and there were so many people in line =_=;; Why is it that everytime I come to this Wendy’s, our orders always get messed up?! I know that people are extremely tired and stressed from working so late, but from what I’ve heard this happens a lot of the time at this one.

It was just so good to hang out with people that I don’t get to spend much time with, so I’m glad I went. I’ve been antisocial for way too long. Life’s too short. When I look back on my sophomore year in college, I want to have many good memories with my friends (most of which don’t take place in the library).

Now time to go find food before going through the formal process of waking up and getting ready for the day. Seems like it’s going to be warm this week, which is really odd since it snowed last week on the 13th. It was unexpected and very pretty, so I’m kind of sad that it’s over. I walked out 8am and was greeted with a Southern winter wonderland :D Weather this year is very weird. In February snow one week, and temperatures pushing the 60’s the next.

Market food isn’t too unhealthy

But then again, I shop at that lovely healthy one on campus that sells organic foods/biodegradable products. Hooray Peabody. The freshmen next year will be so spoiled >.>

When it comes to market food, I usually get either a) Campbell’s Chicken Noodle Soup (or some variation) or b) one of Annie Chun’s prepackaged meals. Now, Annie Chun’s meals are decent if made correctly. I just usually cook them 1/2-1 minute longer than recommended, since I like my noodles soft and not still bent into the packaged shape. For the Noodle Bowls I usually get the Kung Pao noodles because it’s remotely spicy. Teriyaki is second, and the Pad Thai is just disappointing after having real pad Thai.

For the Soup Bowls I’ve tried the Miso Soup and liked it, but real miso soup is just so much better. After watching part of the No Reservations Korea episode yesterday, I was in the mood for Korean food :) So I got the Korean Kimchi soup. Hm. Definitely prefer real kimchee as a side with bibimbap. Ooh… I want real Korean food so bad right now.

I’ve always really liked Annie Chun’s Spicy Szechuan flavored Noodle Express meals (enough to have it 3 times this week, my meal schedules were so off that I had to live off of market food). But after seeing Tony trying authentic Szechuan noodles (was this in the Singapore episode or the Asia special??), I want to try them.so.bad. Why do you torture me so, dear Tony?! =(

Oh, Honest Tea’s First Nation Peppermint is soo refreshingly good *__* So minty! I love those teas. Bad for my teeth (been bleaching them sporadically), but still love them. And I was very saddened to today to see that the market was all out of Fage Total yogurt! Tried the cherry and honey ones just once each, but the peach is the best. They give you just the right amount of peach to stir in with the yogurt. The peach is so sweet and the yogurt itself is more tangy than the plain yogurts I’ve had. So, mixed together and you’ve got bliss ♥ Simply the best yogurt IMHO. It was hard to have a bad day after having this little cup of heaven. I was so glad that I discovered it after coming here, and even more glad that I could buy it using meal money. Because $2+ per small cup of yogurt would make me penniless in no time.

But we all know that Vandy loves to jack up the prices. It’s over $2 for a bottle of POM (the Pomegranate Peach Passion is so yummy~), but at Publix it’s 2 bottles for $4. Maybe I need to stock up… and maybe I should get my mom into the Fage Total yogurt so she can order in bulk ^__^

Ah, food~~ In Japanese today we were talking about the department stores, and spent a lot of time talking about the food department in the basement floor (デパチカ). Can’t wait to go and experience all those yummy desserts she was talking about~!!

Why?!

“X has more hair on her legs than he does on his thighs!” – best quote from last night

So proud of myself still continuing to blog~ But that’s because I don’t want to do work right now and I should probably take another nap since I only slept 4 hours last night -______- I need to go eat dinner, but it’s raining/snowing here according to my roommate that just came back. Guess pretzels, cereal, and yogurt will just have to do since I’m not up to braving the elements tonight.

DBSK’S Purple Line is so lulz. So I’m listening along and thinking Niiiice, a sultry beginning, catchy beat and then I hear “just wanna touch myself.” WTF?! Random Engrish is hilarious. It’s like those shirts with FUCK or something equally obscene on them that Asian teens and celebs sometimes sport. Why don’t they know what it means?! And if it’s a celebrity, why did the stylist pick that?!?!

Well their T album seems pretty good so far after listening to some song previews (hooray for imeem!). Hero Jae Joong’s voice is gorgeous as always :) Okay, he’s just plain gorgeous.

I’ve been scouring YesStyle for a nice dress coat. Online shopping is awesome. The shipping costs are not =/ So even though I have a white jean jacket and a white poofy casual jacket (the one that makes me look like I’m still in high school *_*), I still want a white coat. I should probably get black, but there’s just something elegant, trendy, and innocent about a white coat =) And it’ll look lovely with the gorgeous sea foam green scarf I got for Christmas. My poor bookmark folder is full of too many coats that I like, haha. I still have maybe 200+ coats left to check out?? I bet that more was even added to the site since I last checked.. Definitely need to make time to look through the rest since I need the coat by next Saturday. Haven’t checked the shipping charges yet but I’m sure it’ll be outrageous for 1 or 2-day shipping. There goes the rest of my money after buying books… $300 was spent this time compared to about $600 last semester. Man, college is expensive!!

This is the one that gave me heart palpations. If it was in white, I would buy it in a heartbeat. Too bad it’s out now..

But this is nice. The white and black ones are especially nice:

I really need to do an eye exam so I can order more contacts. I’m using my last pair now and the ones from this brand tend to get very sticky and gross after the two-week period. Yesterday I called my mom to see if my dad’s insurance plan would cover it if I went. It used to be every 12 months I could go, but since the plan changed she didn’t know the details. So she told me to go buy this daily enzyme cleaner to make my contacts last longer -_-;; I went to CVS and spent $30 on that, more contact solution, and toothpaste.. but I got a mail-in coupon for free toothpaste so yay~

Hm guess I’ll get ready for my trek to the library. I like watching snow from inside, and not walking in it at night -o-

Edit: So Gong Yoo has left for the army like many Korean male celebs as of late. I love how he’s going with a smile and with much respect for his fans. Gong Yoo, I’ll finish the last 2 eps of Coffee Prince soon, I promise~

I will miss his wonderful hair.