An Amethyst Martini

I need to start updating my public blog again (ie, not VOX, not Livejournal, but runs on WordPress) but I'm bored with the current layout.

It's sorta a schizophrenic and haphazard with the Sans Serif font, which was what I was going for initially but now I think it needs to be more slick. So I made this one.

It's sleek and shiny like a new Macbook (if they came in pink). I call this layout "Polish Pink". I was going for a more plastic-looking header but my sister tells me it looks more silver than plastic.

I removed alot of sidebar features, like a status section, blogroll, what I'm currently reading, watching,playing and made the layout so blog entries are in focus instead of all the bells and whistles that sidebar can bring. I dunno if I want to move sidebar stuff to the about/profile page. I think I'll put the "Currently..." section after the post entries and a random link to a blog I read somewhere.

I religiously watched Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? on good ol' PBS (and then the animated series that was based on the game show). I don't think I really understood the questions though. I never really wanted to be on it because I had the computer games, US and World editions. I like it how they packaged reference books with the software. I think I'll break those cd's out and see if I can make Master Sleuth......

I used to suscribe to Utne because I didn't think I was liberal enough for my college but then I unsuscribed because they just kept piling up. Magazines I semi-regularly pick up when I have the time are:

• Vogue (Yes, I read Vogue and then I cut out the photos I like as art reference material)
• Lucky (A magazine devoted to shopping because I'm such a girlie girl)
• MAKE (has lots of articles about making robots to modding mp3 players)
• Computer Arts (tons of tutorials about using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and articles about the design and illustration business. )

I also got two issues of the Gothic Lolita Bible on my table, which is a Japanese magazine about the Gothic Lolita fashion style/culture/movement. It's like Vogue but with a whole lot more pictures, and um, in Japanese.

My friend cajoled me into going to an anime convention with me in Baltimore, so I went. I was little scared at first, being surround by people obsessed with anime, manga, and Japanese culture. Of course there were cosplayers or people who dress up as their favorite anime, manga, videogame character, even though it's not Halloween.

The King and the Queen were floating around, but I was too shy to ask them for a picture. ON the one hand I wanted to take lots of pictures of cosplayers because their costumes were really well made and on the other hand I didn't want to encourage cosplaying.

There was this 2 and half hour show were people put on skits (while in costume). Basically it was just people acting out their fanficiton. I saw maybe 10 skits (including a badly acted-out scene from Kingdom Hearts 2, which almost made me cry because it was so horrible). A skit called "Kingdom Hearts Bandstand" was about to be put on but I was disgusted by the very idea so I got up and left angirly to go play videogames in another hall.

Also, there was a massive dealers' hall and I bought a few things. Like a case for my Nintendo DS lite, a Japanese novel, and this hat for my sister.

I want a hat too! It would be a different cat though. But I don't think my classmates at Vassar will ever take me seriously again. EVER.

They screened a bunch of anime. Including Powerpuff Girls Z, which is an anime-fied version of Powerpuff Girls. After watching the opening for it I was like "I MUST GET IT". Basically it like Sailormoon but less gender bending and less of romance. The girls are older and their personalities are more fleshed out.

CAUTION: it's really really cute.

I'm ashamed to say I haven't beaten Super Mario World for the SNES (stuck on Chocolate Island) and it's been maybe 15 years since my dad got me the SNES? I think I got bored with it and turned my attention to Mario Paint instead.

speak fluent Mandarin and Cantonese so I could stop bringing shame to my family. 

Utada Hikaru is a popular Japanese "R&B" artist. This song is actually the theme to Kingdom Hearts II (she also sang the theme to the first one). She put out an entirely English album. It has good music but the lyrics are really bad. Stick to her Japanese stuff.