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I'm angry and emo for two simple reasons:

1) My Dad and my older sister keep bugging me about this crap coursework deadline that I was supposed to do over the summer. Yes, I know that universoty life is important into work and play, BUT that doesn't mean they should peek into my problem, aside from the "£3000" tution fee excuse.

I just wish my tutor should have given the whole class a better assignment, because robots and futuristic stuff are NOT sort of my cup of tea.

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2) That horrible 'Middle-Child-Peer-Pressure' syndrome that got me into emotionally stressful and at times, really depressing and emo. Let me explain: Ever since when I was eight or so, I didn't know that I had to SATs, meaning I was a happy child, until at the tender age of ten that when I found out that I was going to the same grammar school as my older sister, who I shall call her CQ. And then, I never forgave my Dad onwards, because during the summer, that old bastard kept bombing me with those English, Maths and Verbal Reasoning test papers all in one go and my childhood days of being a cheerful one soon ended, because of him. Then, there's the 11-year-old SATs and this is where I started to loathe the tests more in the coming years.

By the time I got accepted into a Grammar School (which is full of snobby type boys that I'll never go out on a date with them), I got depressed that some of the people, including my cousin, are cleverer than me and I thought whether I shouldn't have passed the entrance exam and pleased my Dad.

However, then things starting to turn for the worse. By the time I had done my end-of-year tests at the age 0f 14, I was depressed that my maths results were shit and that I nearly flunked Chemistry, though I did score well in English, Physics and French. And then I didn't realised that I could never be the academic type who likes to sit and concentrate in classrooms later on and when it came to GCSEs, I think that the only subject that I love is art: But my artistic freedom of expression was hampered down by my ex-art teacher who forced me to do stuff that I didn't want to. And when it came to academic types GCSEs, I just lost the will to carry on and my Dad and my older sister keep nagging that studying right now in the middle of an exam period is more important than just blogging your hatred to them (and hopefully none of them are going to read I'm complaining about them). I know they care for me, but I just really hate it when they start asking me the same questions EVERY SECOND!!!

And then when it came to AS and A2 Levels exams, they still KEEP bugging me like I'm some sort of a teenager refusing to grow up and change my personality!!! And this is where I start to loathe of why I didn't enrolled to a vocational 6th Form college like CQ. Oh, wait. I forgot, my Dad. He always insisting to go on an Academic 6th Form College, but what I realised is that I can never be like him and be a mathematical genius like him (and I start to even loathe more when he found some spiritualism in form of a REALLY Catholic guy and that he acts like some kind of person who is worse than a Jehovah's Witness coming through the door, telling me if I don't believe in God, then it's a one way ticket to Hell (yeah, like that's going to happen. I think I believe that devils and angels are no different to each other and that they like to hang out with each other and play a bit of Wii)) and that he just doesn't get with my unpredictable personality and what I actually feel. Even a help with the Francis House Hospice didn't help, because I hated my Dad for what I actually am.

A poor confused girl, who is looking for alternative paths in the future. I always hate his one-sided view and plus for the fact that I hate him for not accepting me that I'll never be as clever as them and that people with different minds and problems are always good, instead of trying to be clever, only to fail at life. I just hate him that he's trying to put some peer pressure on me and that he's conviced he's right.

I've got one word to him:

F**K OFF YOU OLD T**T! JUST STOP WORRYING ME AT ALL TIMES! I AM A GROWN PERSON WHO DOESN'T NEED SPIRITUALIST HELP FROM SOME CHURCH ORGANISATION THAT I'LL NEVER GOING TO FOLLOW (Yes, that's right. The Vatican's going to destroy humanity by not sending out condoms to Third World countries and thus AIDS spread and eventually killing them) AND CERTAINLY NOT GOING TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, BECAUSE IT'S MY PROBLEM AND I SHOULD BE THE ONE SORTING THIS MESS OUT NOT YOU! YOU'VE GOT YOUR OWN PROBLEMS TO DEAL WITH, SO SHUT UP AND LEAVE ME ALONE! THE SAME GOES FOR YOU CQ. YOU MAY KNOW ME FROM THE OUTSIDE AND INSIDE, BUT YOU'LL NEVER SCRATCH THE SURFACE AND FIND WHAT I REALLY FEEL!

It's a Chaotic World

Yesterday, I've been on a long, chaotic, expensive train journey to London, so that I can go to the MCM Expo and play either that new Warriors Orochi 2 game, have an experience with a taiko drum game or just goofing off photographing cosplayers; needless to say, it was a great experience to see wonderful cosplayers and making new friends.

First off, the journey. Damn London and its Olympic construction. I hate the journey and what was worse, I went to the wrong DLR train. Thankfully by the time I found the queue and paid in, I finally was in the convention and then I started to find the Koei stand, so that I signed in the newsletter and got three character cards! ^_^ And what was brilliant about those cards are that they're 10p each, so I bought ten of them, five of them I bought for my younger sister. Next, looking for the World Ends with You cosplayers and thankfully, I wasn't the only TWEWY cosplayer out there. I've seen a Sho cosplayer, a female Neku (which both she and I exchanged email addresses to each other and she laughed about my email address; since it's sho_lover22 after all) and even a male Neku, who joked about me and my 'shady' ways. XD

I've seen a DDR tournament and it was intense (and loud), but then I walked away and tried to do Para Para Paradise round. Eurgh, I haven't been touch ParaPara for a while, since Las Vegas five years ago. And then I started shopping for that Neo magazine, because I thought buying a magazine here is a lot better than buying in a newsagent. And because I'm on a very tight budget, I spent only £10 buying a cute mini Gin plushie from Gintama. I even get the chance to hug a Dalek(?!), who wanted a kiss from me (XD) and then being an idiot I drew over at the Manga gallery.

And as the time goes by and there were fewer people, I had my hands full on this quirky Taiko game and at first, I kept banging so loudly, I didn't realize the blue dot was meant to hit on the side; next I was doing decent after a few tries and finally, the most important bit, having my hands-on with Warriors Orochi 2. It was great playing as Taigong Wang, Yoshitsune and Himiko and I was playing against a male(!) Mitsunari cosplayer. It was really intense, but in the end, I lost, but since it was a fair game, I shook hands with him. Damn, why didn't I get a photo of him?! >_<

And after the afternoon was gone, I decided to go home, but not without taking photos outside, which involves getting a random hug from a Naruto cosplayer and seeing a bunch of crazy cosplayers holding hands and doing a Mexican wave. XD The train journey back was tiresome, but at least I took a photo of chibi Gin sitting on the seat, having a nice Strawberry Milk. XD

You can have a look on a very small album here and enjoy my journey in reverse chronologically (XD) or just admire the 'crappy' photos, which involves a Kitty Balthier from Final Fantasty XII that my younger sister has a crush on him and a cheeky young boy saying he's not having a hug to me.

I'm going to have to post this link to my new friend now and I'll be posting a few that I can deemed themselves 'DeviantArt' worthy and make some funny comments. XD

Kishou Sentai Pinranger

Finsihed playing The World Ends with You and was shocked at the ending (though I'm not going to spoil it. Let's just say you'll need to play it for yourself and find something more unexpected), BUT Goddamnit it was a GREAT game! I haven't been addicted to the game since the Pokemon series for a while now.

And then there's Another Day, a post-game cleared chapter that had me laughing now and again. BTW, before I'll go into further detail...

MASSIVE POST-GAME SPOILER ALERT! IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENS HERE, THEN DON'T READ FURTHER ON! YOU'VE BEEN WARNED!















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Right at the start the screen told us that Another Day is unrelated to the main storyline whatsoever and Neku resists his 'Emo Urges' and decides to play Tin Pin Slammer! Eh? And then it gets weirder and funnier. Megumi 'Shades Conductor' Kitanji is now the Mayor of Shibuya (which I have no idea why), Joshua is Joshua (sorta) - only he's not really the Composer at all and as for Shooter...well, he's still himself. And just as the game starts, Yodai (the big, bruly man who is somewhat the 'Booth Babe' for the competition, which I don't know why), Uzuki and Kariya stole nearly everyone's Pins (except for Neku, which he hangs on, including the headphones) calling themsleves the Black Skullers in the process, in addition to Megumi and Joshua and then runs off to somewhere secretly. Shooter asks Neku for help and together they went to the 'Secret Base', i.e. the Ramen Shop to have discussions with Doctor Pin.

When the two youngsters arrived, they were joined by Joshua, Shiki and Beat on a quest to stop the evildoers from Tin Pin profit or something. But beforehand, Neku asks the Ramen Owner, Ken, about Doctor Pin and suddenly he glares at Phones for this reason! And then things start getting weirder and weirder. Shooter decided to turn Neku, Shiki, Joshua and Beat into some sort of Super Sentai team, but without the masks and lycra and then Shooter is Red, Neku Blue (originally Black/Brown and Blue), Shiki Green (hey, you don't see a Green female Ranger in Super Sentai series more often, though you can count Mele from Gekiranger as one of them, if you like two rival groups team up), Josuha Pink (Hey, there was a Pink male Ranger before *coughDynamancough*), which later on, changes to Rainbow and then suddenly, Doctor Pin joins in! And guess what, Doctor Pin (Jr) turns out to be...

Sho 'Zetta SOACAHTOA' Minamimoto who lives with Ken for some odd reason and then devised a plan to have Neku being the bait, which he objects, but nonetheless decided to do it. And so, our heroes must take up justice to save Tin Pin from getting into evil hands! I'm having some thoughts on imagining them doing the Super Sentai poses with their roll call, explosions right after their Sentai name (maybe Kishou Sentai Pinranger XD (and just for the record, Kishou = Badge in British English terms) for some odd reason, complete with their OP song, which includes the good guys vs. Black Skullers, only using PINS! And so, Pinranger set out to find the culprit, which they recruited Rhyme as Pin Black (Wah! Black Female ranger!) and ran into Higsahizawa, their first target. Our heroes won the game, but lost as in typical Super Sentai twist, Rhyme turns out to be a spy to the Black Skullers and Beat goes emo that he can't believe Rhyme is one of them! And what's worse: Shooter's Red Slammer has been busted! But Neku tells Beat and Shooter that not all is lost, so they went back to the Ramen asks Sho for help. Yes, I know getting help from your really twisted enemy, who isn't on the bad side is very strange and all, but hey. This is The World Ends with You after all.

However, when Ken took a look at Shooter's Red Slammer, he told the Red Spirit that Red Slammer being broken is beyond his and Sho's skills. Shooter was sad, but Ken brought out: THE PROTOTYPES of the Slammers, each with their own distinct colour (in total of six: Red, Blue, Green, Yellow, Black and Rainbow), along with his part of the secret past: he was Doctor Pin Sr, until Mathematic Freak took over. And with newfound hope, the Pinranger head on to find their bad guys, which is in Miyashita Park, funnily enough. By the time they get here, the Black Skullers were having a nice curry lunch (cooked by Higashizawa surprisingly) and now the battle turns on!

Joshua vs. Tutorial Guy (no, I'm not kidding. That's his name); Beat vs. Rhyme; Shiki vs. Uzuki (who have some rivalry against each other on the hot lads' fan groups); Neku vs. Kariya (which at one point, Neku went emo) and finally Higashizawa vs. Shooter. Eventually they won, but Hizagawa refuses to give up and tells the history of his obsession with Tin Pin and his admired respect for Ken, who turns out that he used to design the Tin Pins, until he resigned suddenly, due to poor design work. But then, Ken appears and tell everyone the whole thing, which includes the reason why he left the company: his latest creation was half-finished and couldn't cope with it. And in another twist, Sho arrives in time to save the Pin Spirits (I don't know why he was in Taboo Form, but Neku thought if there was an explosion in the Ramen Shop's secret basment lab) from despair with his creation: Ken's original work - THE OMEGA Slammer! And so, Shooter easily defeats Hizagawa and the Tin Pin world is saved! And then they all live happily ever after. The End.

Blegh, I hate doing summaries, but at least I told you on what I could remember. Wiki it or something. My brain is dead after laughing so much.

Oh, I forgot there are also some funny moments in Another Day:

* Neku and the gang (which includes Joshua) meeting Joshua (the Composer) and the expressions they get on their faces, when Composer Joshua was just saying he was just killing time, until Emo Neku gets here. And then challenged the gang for a Final Attack Time Chained battle.

* Konishi the 'Iron Maiden Bitch', who turns out to be Beat's teacher.

* Beat and Rhyme used to be in a comedy duo stand-up, until Beat kicked her out.

I think I nearly died from laughing. And WEWY is getting so addicted, I don't know when I'm going to put the DS down.

The Taste of the Sea

Today (just now as I was writing at this time) was my Dad's birthday and this could only mean one thing: taking him out to a special place, i.e. a seafood restaurant somewhere in the city centre of Manchesster. It was such a goregous and delicious place (even though I only like to eat salmon, tuna and an odd bit of scallop and osyter...and squid), but somehow when it came to the bill, IT WAS EXPENSIVE. But I don't really care, as long as the food tasted great and my Dad loves eating seafood, since in his childhood days in Vietnam that he lived in a fishing village. I was amused and amazed that he ate lobster and crab, but at the same time, he said that he was full up when we were underestimated by the platter they ordered and yet he still eats; even my Mum did the same thing too (which explains why I said I'm full up and yet my mind presses the 'EAT' command button).

I'll post in the photos tomorrow, but I drank (white) wine too quickly, so I feel a little dizzy.

Cosplay Attempt No. 222

Blegh, I tried Lita, but that one sucked. I tried another one with Felt, but that went nowhere. Then Nobunaga (the teenager version) from Kessen III and then a few others, but THIS time! I'm not going to fail!!! This time I finally finished my Joshua costume from It's a Wonderful World (aka Subarashiki kono Sekai or The World Ends With You). Finally, a costume that has been made easy for me. And here's the photo to prove it!



Well yes, I know I need to buy a wig (most likely to be either dirty blonde or platinum blonde or something), but other than that, it's nearly 2/3 done. Now I all I need to do now is to get that wig and then MCM Expo in London here I come!

As for the game itself, I'm sorta halfway through the stage and I'm nearing the end of the week with Joshua (damn it). The story's getting more interested and weirder at the same time now.