Updated Shelfari shelf. ^^ See link to your left.

Halfway through The Lost Colony. The research needed for the book is quite incredible (since it's mostly above-earth), and the book is better for it. Envious at some of the places he knows, and wondering if he just found it off the net or he had really been there. Sevoflurane and desflurane! LOL! It also reads better, that kind of writing where you know the author was enjoying himself. (Opal Deception had the feeling of having a forced and sad author.) I also like Colfer's stab at the boarding-school-boy genre, his attack at everything Arty is not.

See ya later. More typing and a little more reading.

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iF Magazine reports that Twentieth Century Fox has acquired the rights to produce an original American live action Cowboy Bebop motion picture based on the popular 1998 anime television series. The project is currently in development by producer Erwin Stoff, managing agent for actor Keanu Reeves and producer on films including Constantine, The Matrix, A Scanner Darkly, and Street Kings.

http://www.animenation.net/blog/

Ladies and getlemen, that still means ABSOLUTELY NOTHING.

People have acquired the rights to Artemis Fowl. People have acquired the rights to Evangelion. People have the rights to Battle Angel. Spielberg has the rights to Tintin. There are still no movies. Almost no scripts, definitely no cast. I predict development hell for this project too. There is not enough of a market to make it appealing, unlike Harry and that Twilight series.

Yes, I'm pessimistic, and as doubtful as Thomas. Show me the marks first. Show me posters. Surfing for pages on end about virtually anything about a live materialization of a criminal boy genius, and falling flat, will do that to me.

In other things: Sir Dean has a video interview from the Inquirer people. The man does not believe in writer's block (envious). But I agree that I write because I have to express something.
http://www.inquirer.net/vdo/player.php?vid=1227&pageID=1

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http://philippinegenrestories.blogspot.com/2008/07/2008-man-asian-literary-prize-longlist.html

4 great Pinoy writer people are in the longlist for the 2008 Man Asian Prize. Yay! ^^v I hope they shortlist, too.

Me? If I shortlist in the Fully Booked contest, and get printed in PSF4 and PGS Crime issue, that will be plenty. ^^ One thing at a time. I'm happy as it is that I have had the chance to meet the LitCritters and Sir Kyu and Bhex. ^^

It's a crazy wonderful time to be in the writing world in this country. Unfortunately for me that world is a bit small and does not revolve in my usual universe.

Found an Arthur C. Clarke book and Spin in the bargain bin. The Clarke book at 30 pesos. Selling Clarke at 30 pesos is a crime, really.

btw that next story for the August deadline will start getting written shortly.

In unliterary things, Keroro Gunsou is currently pegged at 220 episodes?! (That ep is up on YouTube, and is all environmental-like, and loaded with -de gozaru from Dororo. EK is happy.) Man, so many Japanese people need cheering up. I hope Animax has at least a hundred eps.

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http://www.whatsonstage.com/index.php?pg=211&id=4551&title=25%25+Off+Top+Price+for+Monkey%3A+Journey+to+the+West

http://www.roh.org.uk/monkey08/ (has video trailer...go watch)

Poster given has the creepiest version of the Saiyuki story I've seen yet. ^^; This is for Monkey: A Journey to the West, a musical production in the UK based on it. (Go watch the video trailer...it's really cool.) Evidently things like fighting staffs and funky headgear and priest attire don't change much between versions.

One of the reasons I'm more than relieved Minekura converted the pig into that monocled/bespectacled hard drinker I'm a fan of. ^^v

Still trying to type up a story, while having as background aiSUUUS! AIiiisus! AiSUUUS! AIIsus! (You gotta hand it to whoever gave the Japanese translation in that song.) ^^;;;

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http://trekmovie.com/2008/07/17/preview-of-star-trek-comic-posters-with-first-cast-photos/#more-2175

http://www.startrekmovie.com/

Thanks maedinn for the heads-up.

Initial posters and a trailer for the upcoming Star Trek movie! Director is the Alias and Lost director JJ Abrams. Sylar is Spock! Kirk looks muy guapo! Winona Ryder is in the cast list! Eric Bana is the baddie! Leonard Nimoy is on the cast list, too. ^^

I shouldn't be squeeing so hard, I like The Next Generation more, and I didn't get to watch either TOS or TNG a lot. But am squeeing. ^^;;

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http://www.animenation.net/blog/2008/07/17/ask-john-where-have-all-the-dark-bishonen-anime-gone/#more-13106

Um, sir Ask John, I think you missed the point. They're asking where are the anime that make the girls swoon and ooh and aah muy guapo. Just guys, just neutral. Say Saiyuki and GetBackers, even S7. Let me think what I like, let others think what they like, but the show is just neutral and just full of cuties.

That precise kind is a semi-endangered species right now, judging from all the moe and just-plain-dark titles. The guy-harem shows (such as La Corda, Neo Angelique and Vampire Knight) don't really fit the bill. And the BL shows go beyond what I want. Such is why the girls are actually going to KHR and Hetalia for their bishonen fix. And I guess, there's still Bleach and Naruto Shippuden. ^^;;

Also, while Shonen Onmyouji has its share of cute spirits, it's not what we call a fix. Neither is Jyu-Oh-Sei.

In other things: the Watchmen graphic novel is getting a movie! Cool. Then the last Terminator movie is slated next year. ^^; (I still want an Ender's Game and Artemis Fowl movie, please!)

In more Fowl things: Finally visited the official http://www.artemisfowl.com/ (Flash intensive), and it now has pictures from the graphic novel (so now I have solid visualization of Arty and the other people. I beg to disagree about Foaly and Butler, though!).

In writing things: I think I found that minimalist technique (she was old enough to call a vase, a vhaz) sorta cool. But it will take a while before I eliminate -ly completely. ^^;

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Awwwwww...Kururu's still my favorite frog, but Dororo has my hugs and sympathy. Awwww, poor ninja frog (~~pat pat). For the likes of me who has a weakness for talented assassin swordsmen, Dororo-dono has me. ^^v It also helps that they gave him the Ginji dubber. ^^

Waaah, need a life. ^^;;

Story I'm currently typing is flowing a bit more smoothly than the other one. The 3-person story was clunky as it got typed. This one feels neat, in the zone. I hope it settles itself really nicely over the coming days. Of course, this also means I'll probably do terrible in the mock boards. ^^;;

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http://now.abs-cbn.com/episodedetails.aspx?showid=273&epid=35959&isep=1&showlink=0 (Registration required)

Just more than pissed at the malnutrition situation of this country. Saw it on The Correspondents last night. Full-blown kwashiorkor with Pott's disease. Textbook cases, and worse. The kind you see only on TV in Sudan and Ethiopia!

My background has made me semi-immune to people who say "We can't do anything...we have no money." We'd just yell and get angry that we can't do anything.

What I am more than pissed at is the hopelessness people in this country have. The factors that make people just give up at trying.

All I ask are these: better free education, better access to food supplies, better job sources. Make it possible for people to want to improve themselves, because the options are available.

Yes, I know I'm asking for the moon.

And yes, beta-sama is getting to me. Because of what I am (doctor-trained but writer-heart), if what she's pissed at is the lack of education and the downfall of Pinoy literature, I'm annoyed at lack of nutrition and health care AND lack of education.

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If there are one or more people on your friends list who make your world a better place just because they exist, and who you would not have met (in real life or not) without the Internet, then post this same sentence in your journal.

"Thank You for the gift of yesterday. Because of that day twenty four years ago, I've met some truly amazing people and experienced special moments with them which are, to be completely honest, the only reasons that make this gift of life truly worth living. :3 "

Here's to you dencar (the way I know you is impossible any other way), dreamlessness, jalapeno, tekky-kun, charles-san, sir Kyu, keio, luckychan, whiteadelphi, the RKdreams people, samuraiko, the OZ people, the S7 LJ people, roryheadmav, cal_reflector, quentin_w, namikala, smea_chan, Narrizan, hungry_worm, sporkgoddess, takadainmate. Thankies.

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Finished and passed a little story for the Canvas contest. Right now I have absolutely no idea how it will turn out. But it was a fun little idea, so I ran away with it and finished it before I could change my mind and back down. I need to do something like that with the Fully Booked contest.

Lesson learned: Writing children's stories is way harder than it looks. But it's fun when it happens.

Now I really have to go to bed. ^^;; Kukukukuku!

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Eventually I have to go to YouTube and personally hear Takehito Koyasu do Kururu. The Animax dubber is already pretty great at it, and I'm crazy laughing.

The other thing having me laughing like crazy is scanlations of Hetalia, the negotiations between the Axis and Allies. The hits are so dead on. This thing will get in trouble in the west if it sees print there. lol!

On the Fully Booked contest:

Many have made the mistake of hewing the clichés of science fiction, epic fantasy or supernatural genres. Romulo says, “The worst ones are those with a very narrow view of what science fiction or speculative fiction represents—the wizards and the dwarves, the shades and the trench coats of the Matrix guys, the twist endings and the angst-ridden urban alienation stories. Some have a lot of the style but no substance. We need to establish a serious literary award. Not just fan fiction or a geek boy thing.” He observes, “The ones that managed to win brought something really Pinoy.”

How not to be the next Neil Gaiman - Win his Graphic/Fiction Awards by being truly ‘Pinoy’

People aren't getting it right, I agree. They shouldn't play to Neil Gaiman. He just reads the stuff when the competition is through. They should play to the gatekeepers, one of them being Dean Alfar-sama.

So now I have absolutely no idea what I'm supposed to write to enter this thing. Of course I'm all for a serious literary award. Unfortunately my boys still walk around like fanfiction clones, poor chaps.

(sigh)

Edit: Found one link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Doxt7d6nJsc One of the episodes in the 100+ level, it's about how Kururu and Saburo met. Wahaha, Kururu sounds like UKYO! LOL! (Well considering Keroro was in 2004 and S7 was around 2004 as well, that shouldn't be surprising, but WAHAHA! LOL!)

That being said, the Animax dub is quite fine. Hearing the original now, I've no complaints on the dub. Argh, Keroro Gunsou has me too hard.

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Stuff to get written:
- short presentation, on commission (hopefully by tomorrow)
- CANVAS contest story
- Fully Booked story
- PGS Crime/Mystery story

Stuff to get high on in late July and August (a rather long list under the cut): ( Read more... )

I seriously have to write that "will get" list down, so I have it when I go shopping again (when in the off chance I get money again...^^;;;)

Rapid reviews will likely get written as each show gets watched. Besides all that, I still watch Keroro Gunsou, my current guilty pleasure. Liking Kururu (the crazy tech frog, voiced by the equally crazy Takehito Koyasu in the original).

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from dreamlessness

a) Answer the questions below, do a Google Image Search with your answer,
take a picture from the first page of results, do it with minimal words of explanation.
b) Tag 5 other people to do the same once you've finished answering every question
( Read more... )

Gnite.

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To luckychan and doc_pauline and others,

The bigger Fully Booked stores already have Artemis Fowl: The Time Paradox. (This is the 6th and purportedly the last of the books for a while.) Hardback, though, so running price of P650. o_0

Obviously that didn't get bought. The original Dune did, thanks to father. ^^v

Off to dinner. ^^

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http://www.dreadcentral.com/story/twilight-graces-ew-cover

Wherein you have pictures of the leads of the Twilight movie. Twilight being that infamous vampire-meets-girl series by Stephanie Meyer. From midori_se7en.

Methinks I'm still not reading this series, nor watching the movie...until it airs on HBO next year. ^^;;

The legal med teacher (Hehe...missed that Rebosa moustache...lol) mentioned that there's such a terrible drop in med school enrollment, it's beyond bad. And the doctor-nurse exodus is still continuing. Does that make me want to be a doc more? On the contrary. It just makes me scared-er.

I have board review for only two days more, so I'll use the allowance to get the last book in the AF set. It sank in just this afternoon. I'm not backing down on my choice to take the exam in February, but now I have SO MANY MONTHS to kill some way. I was thinking of typing abstracts for the hotel hospital, but then again maybe not. We'll see, we'll see.

My head is feeling lightheaded for some reason. Gnite. ^^;

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(Public announcement music)



Will the owner of the gourd please step out of the office and reclaim? Should Akatsuki still have the owner, please give him back. We repeat, please give him back, alive. Thank you.

(Public announcement music)

Ahem. Lol. ^^v

This is a closeup of my cousin's impressive installation. Other boxes have Pokemon, Digimon, DBZ tex cards, bracelets, hair clips, a Tifa keychain, toy soldiers, paint bottles, etc. My cousin does have a little Gaara model at home, but it's been a while since I last saw it. More info in the Multiply account.

You Are The Hermit

You posses a great deal of wisdom and the ability to see people for who they are. You are always looking ahead at the future, developing visions. A loner, you tend to travel by yourself through life, seeking your own truth. You don't crave material things or fancy titles. You have no baggage. Your fortune: It's possible that there is a unknown guiding figure in your life, ready to help you. All you have to do is find this person and seek their advice. It's also possible that you need to start seeking the meaning of your own life. Either way, there's some deep thinking you need to undertake, and it needs to be done soon.

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I'm quite sure that the Naruto Shippuden ABSCBN has is STILL the stuff they have from LAST YEAR. I know so because I've seen that opening (Heroes Come Back) from the hotel hospital admitting section TV most of last year. More stuff, please! While we're all sure by now Gaara is more or less fine, what about Sasuke, aye?

I know Akatsuki has plenty of fans, but for doing that to Gaara...I want your heads, every single one of you crazies! I want to punch some sense into Sasuke for joining said crazies! How dare you! ^^;

Okay, away from Naruto-ness...

http://philippinegenrestories.blogspot.com/2008/07/proposal-for-novel-writing-project.html

The Talecraft lady is proposing a mentoring schedule. A newbie writer with a published one, with the plan that the newbie will make a novel at the end of it. The proposed schedule is roughly suitable to my timeframe, too. Hmmm...

Um...currently writing something, very slowly, basically a crazy original Days of Nightmares type thing. Which probably can't be good, but if I don't get it out of my system the other story may not get done. And I do want to give Sir Kyu something. ^^;

See ya.

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Sa Kapamilya: Sand prince still being sucked dry. AGGH! TAMA NAAAA!! Tama na ang usap, Kakashi-gumi, PUMUNTA NA KAYO, PWEDE BA?!
So sue me for being incredibly late...but it's really terrible to watch. The scariest point in RK happened with just one strike, after all.
Also, wee, Rock Lee. ^^v Any ep with Lee in it is a good day, makes you feel like there's hope in the world when he's around, I don't know why.

On commercials: May DETECTIVE CONAN Happy Meal?! Pwede. ^^v If only they had models of either Conan or Shinichi, not puzzle things. Ayan, should make you happy, beta-sama.

Sa Hero: Am missing eps. Last ep I saw was when Kabuto showed up again. And I'm still forgetting the name of that new guy who can draw awesome stuff.

Sa Kapamilya balita: Sad...another fare hike.

On Animax: It's bad how I laugh like a crazy person while watching Keroro Gunsou.

Opal Deception done. The thing screams of deus ex machina. And not enough Opal, sayang. Felt like a drug bad trip. But the drugging was fine. ^^v

On the writing: o_0 0_o Still too stoned. ^^;

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Two nice-looking chaps which hopefully will get a story. ^^; Names, need names. ^^;;;

Also, allow me to present, my Arty dolly (^^;;):



He's easy to build, actually, since he prefers to power-dress. ^^;; It's the hair that gave me trouble. Holly, of course, will be impossible to build, but I did see her hair type among the choices. ^^;;

Ultimately I think the 3-person story will still get sent off to where it will go, but I'll take a breather first and type for Sir Kyu. ^^v

See ya.

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My cousin (0kitsune0 inactive) has an entire page in the newspaper all to herself. ^^v Check out today's Manila Bulletin, in the Lifestyle section.

http://www.mb.com.ph/20080707129236.html

http://www.gutenberg.org/files/24839/24839-h/24839-h.htm
The Blonde Lady. Arsene and Sherlock. Nyahaha! More Arsene to read, yay! The original master thief responsible for why I like the Irish descendant too much, I guess! ^^v

When not reading on the drug of choice, I'm currently punching out a story hopefully for Sir Kyu. (Must...not...make...L-chan or Light-san clone! Must...NOT! LOL!) Need names. ^^;;

Sa Kapamilya network: AGH! Deidara's torturing the sand prince to nothingness. MULI! ^^;; And I'm watching because I haven't, argh...

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