For my Holocaust class, we had to watch this film called Nuit et Brouillard (Night and Fog) which was horribly depressing. Like, I honestly had to look away at certain points. It's only half an hour, so if you're interested in it, here it is with English subs. We were discussing it in class and it's pretty interesting. The title comes from the German term 'Nacht und Nebel' which is literally 'night and fog', but means to do something in secrecy and was a term (along with many others) adapted by the Nazis for the killing of the Jews. I'll stop before I ramble lol.

I'm on an Ayu kick right now. It's been a while, but I get nostalgic listening to her stuff. Memorial address came out in 2003! 2003! It doesn't feel like it was six years ago ;_; I started listening to her in 2002, so RAINBOW was the first album she released when I was a fan and I was like, so fucking excited for that omg. My interest started dwindling after MY STORY was released and I don't think she'll be able to restore my love for her an artist. Her songs and lyrics are crappy rehashes of what she's done before and her voice is pretty awful. Regardless, she still manages to put out a good track every once and a while.

New Superfly is really good. I actually like the PV a lot, too. Huun-Huur-Tu's new release is so damn good. The first three songs take you away to grassy steppes *_* They performed in Michigan, but last.fm didn't let me know until that day D: JASMINE's new single is good. No More sounds too much like sad to say, though. CLUBBIN' has some attitude lol. I don't think I ever talked about MiChi's album. T'was very good, indeed. And Lady GaGa's Bad Romance is also really good. But, the new Sa Ding Ding song owns all. My God, I can't wait for her next album.

I need to go through my icons and make some new ones. These are gettin' pretty old. I made a new sig for AHS. Just kept it simple: some colouring adjustments, smoothing and text. It's passable, I guess.


I only got 77% on my German exam D: Wft is that? I fucking hate that class. Had another exam today. It was better than I was expecting, but I really don't know. I might've just been writing to put stuff down :/

My first attempt at a German translation:
( Juli - November )

I was supposed to write a paper tonight. I hate being a procrastinator :(

My birthday was Sunday. I had a lot of fun actually. Had chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast and opened my gifts. Then my parents said they had to "take me somewhere." They ended up taking me to the casino because I turned 19, which is legal age here D: They gave me $20 to gamble and bought me a drink. I have no interest whatsoever in drinking or gambling, but I spent the money and had a couple sips of my drink. Then, we went to Mexican Town for an early dinner. Then we went for a drive down Riverside Drive and later had cake :) Ice cream cake. Delicious.

I got two books of photographs of China, a bookmark, clothes, money, the Chapters iRewards Card and motherfucking Mulan on DVD 8D But, the first disc doesn't work on the DVD player in my room, which is where I watch 99% of movies. I love that multi-language video of I'll Make a Man Out of You.

Altan Urag have some new songs out. I don't like the track See Saw at all, but Herlen Barya is really good. Really, really good. It's better than Norovbanzad's and I really like that song lol. It could possibly become my favourite of theirs. But, who the hell is their singer? They only have one chick listed as a member, but she's the drummer and doesn't sing. I absolutely love her voice. Here's the song taken from their Myspace. I think it might be Хэрлэн баръяа, but that's not how it's not written.

Kherlen barya

I've also started listening to Children of Bodom and Enslaved a bit. And alan's new PV is, once again, gorgeous.

Ugh Ms. Hamasaki. She's been looking really odd lately. Like, her eyes are extra big or something and she always looks confused. Not long ago she went through a period of utter hotness, but that's gone. And omg @ those song titles for Next Level. What the fuck? The titles are getting worse as time goes on. I mentioned that at Batsu and another member agreed and said Load of Shugyo sounded like a porn movie title lmao

What is this? Shittiest week ever? I wrote two crappy exams yesterday, plus worked in between. Wrote a 700 word essay yesterday plus two other assignments and I have another exam Monday D: D: The one test, the prof gave us 54 images to study and she put 6 on the exam. 6! And it's not just like 'oh, this is this', it's like, 'who painted it? when? where is it? in which church? how do we know this?' Uggghhhh. My life is like a cycle of endless hate. If I'm not at school, I'm either working or doing homework.

Anyone watch The Office yesterday? I was not expecting the ending at all hahaha.

Ah, and speaking of spiders from my last entry. I let my dog out one night, and one cralled in so big my dad couldn't even kill it! He had to fling it out with a shoe D:

I can never get on AHS for more than like 10 mins at a time, if I can get on at all. It's been like this for so long now D: They should just block the IP's of the stupid people so they can't ever get on and let the rest of us enjoy the forum. Out of all my time there, I don't remember it being like this.

I borrowed this DVD from work called China Rises. It's very interesting and I definitely recommend it. In the section called City of Dreams, which is all about Shanghai, they show Cold Fairyland 8D I was like, "Hey, they sound like Cold Fairyland, who are from Shanghai!" So I checked a picture of them and it was :) I don't know what song they're playing (I only have their Seeds on the Ground album), but it's really good.

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I had two midterm exams Thursday. The German one went okay, but the German Culture and Civilization one was a disaster. I finished before my friend did and he sent me a text later and told me some girl started crying D:

Let us hope Ayumi Hamasaki does not release another shitty album. Rule, or whatever the song for the Dragonball movie is, sucked. I can't believe she contributed a song for something so stupid. But, if I keep my standards very low for her, and by chance she does release something good, I'll be super impressed hahaha.

I love this: "And, btw, I'm getting tired of all meaningless lyrics about flowers and standing alone in the rain." lmao. That is what comes to mind when I think of MUCC lyrics though. That thread completely turned into a MUCC-bashing thread. Interesting to read peoples' opinions though.

On Monday and Tuesday it was so warm. So warm I wore my spring jacket on Tuesday. In February. The snow came back though :/ I shovelled today.

( Pictures from today )

University: Applied for. Those two 65%'s look really good NOT :/

It looks like I might have an interwebz meetup come TOC with Mukimpo from Batsu. But, who knows if they don't announce the damn dates D:

WTF!? http://m307.seesaa.net/article/68561279.html I'm just going through MaveRick's diary entries and I found that one quite amusing XD Speaking of them, they need to release something D: 3/4 of them look really cool. Ooooh, Makuro's a Pay Money to My Pain fan! *_* homg this guy kills me, "YOU GUYZ ROCK LIKE A FUCKIN PUSSY! C U NEXT YEAR", "COUPLE DAYS AGO I RECIEVED AN AIR MAIL. I WAS LIKE HOLLY SHIT." loool

Ayumi Hamasaki GUILTY preview thoughts:
Mirror: *___*
(don't) leave me alone: Pretty average sounding
talkin' 2 myself: I've loved the song since it came out
decision: average sounding
GUILTY: Sort of average, but seems like it has the potential to be good
fated: I didn't listen to this when it came out, but it actually sounds quite good!
Together when...: <333 This is a first time listen for this song, too <3
Marionette -prelude-: *big fucking snore*
Marionette: Meh
The Judgement Day: *snore*
glitter: Haha, this song is bad.. but catchy D:
MY ALL: It cuts off just as it sounded like it was getting good lol
reBiRTH: The title is enough to make me not even want to listen to it D: Ew. Instrumental.
untitled ~for her~: This one sounds okay :)

Wow, not total shit like I was expecting! It might even be buy-worthy :O Too many instrumental/interlude or whatever they're called tracks, though.


So, I was tagged by thursdaie to do this meme, which looks sort of fun. But unlike thursdaie's reasons for the people on the list, mine are for more shallow reasons not that they aren't talented XD...

( 10 sexeh Jrockers )