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I'll be keeping this post for the feedbacks I have received regarding the online transactions I've had using LJ =). 

For those who're leaving me feedback(s): thank you for taking the time out to do this! I really appreciate it. Just indicate the item I bought from you and your comments :) 

Miyuu 

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After putting it off for so long, I've finally started watching Angelique. I started with the OVAs, and I'm downloading the TV series at the moment. The manga scan that vraieesprit  showed me made me watch it finally. I found that koala bear on top of Clavis' head way too adorable to pass. ^^ So far the story seems to be okay, but I still prefer Koruda and HaruToki over it. Will have to watch NeoAngelique after I watch the TV series of Angelique. ^^  

Watching Angelique made me appreciate the NeoRomance Festa 2003 dvd I have =). I'll probabbly watch it tonight while I'm working on some school work. It's not a task that requires much concentration, I just need to change the citation format I used on one of my papers from Turabian to APA. I can afford to get distracted while working on it ^^

Now I want to hunt for the songs of the Guardians. I only managed to find links for some Neo Angelique songs, but none of the Angelique ones. =( I'd like to purchase an Angelique CD too, but that will have to wait given the fluctuating exchange rate, and I just pre-ordered a couple of CDs for this month. I'll get one within the year definitely ^^

It's 2009 from my side of the globe, and despite some problems, I'm looking forward to this coming year. 2008 has been a very memorable year for me, and I am optimistic that 2009 would be as memorable (if not better) as the previous year.

I wish you all the best and may you all have a very great New Year's celebration as well!~ :) 

As for my new year's resolution, I really don't have anything specific, but I try my best to be a better person in every opportunity that I can ^^

Thing that made me happy today: I was able to have dinner with my fellow AB-MA people at Yellow Cab a while ago, and BJ treated us (my friend Anne managed to coerce convince him to pay for our meal ^^). We were able to talk about things aside from our thesis and we really did have a great time ^^

And I'm also happy that I managed to pull off this meme =)

Thing that made me happy today: I was able to start working on the papers I should pass before the start of the Christmas break, and I'm making some progress on it =). Hopefully I could finish it by the middle of next week ^^ 

And I was able to catch up on some sleep!~ =)

Thing that made me happy today: I was able to meet some of my friends whom I haven't met for quite a while after graduation during the JLPT exam this morning. And I think I did pretty much okay on it, save for the part on the particles part ^^ Hopefully I can get a good score on it! =) And I bought myself a bar of the white belgian chocolate I really really like!~ (Just a reward I gave myself after the JLPT)

I hadn't had much sleep last night because I was doing some last minute cramming studying for the JLPT, and I think it was able to do some good. But I only had 2 hours of sleep, and I had the sore throat. Good thing I felt sleepy after the test was over, and slept in the car when my dad and I went to meet up with my mom and my sister for lunch at the mall. 

I'll definitely catch up on some sleep tonight, before I start working on my thesis revisions tomorrow. *nods*

Thing that made me happy today: My thesis adviser finally finished reading through my proposal and gave her initial comments on my paper. She just had a few comments about what I should include in my framework, then she'll give me the go signal to prepare for my defense. I thought I wouldn't be able to defend before the Christmas break because she is very busy the past few days organizing a conference. So by Monday, I could do the revisions, submit it by Tuesday and give out copies to my defense panelists by Wednesday or Thursday.

Thesis proposal defense is tentatively scheduled for December 16, 17, 18. ^^ Wish me luck!! 

And it's JLPT tomorrow. I am nervous for this exam, and prepared more for it than I did with my Law entrance exam. ^^ I really hope I could pass the exam. The passing grade is 60%, but I hope to get a higher score than that!~ 

I'm actually surprised that I've managed to continue doing this meme! ^^''
Thing that made me happy today:
MY BURIMYU DVDS CAME IN TODAY!! Yay!! It arrived in the country last Monday still, but because it was a holiday, and the Christmas rush, the Customs office had tons of packages to process so it was delayed being dispatched to my local post office. I called in the EMS Main office since Tuesday, and finally it was dispatched and delivered to my post office Thursday afternoon, and it was delivered this morning ^^ 

I've watched the rips of "The All" and Bankai Code 002, but it'll be great to watch it on TV =) Also got the Rock Musical Bleach DX CD + DVD, the pamphlet from "The All" musical and Byakuya's Rock Musical Bleach DX Photoset. Now I have another photoset to drool over on my desk ^^ Thank you to goodbye_money  for helping me get these! 

I went to the bank again and paid for a Vampire Knight item I purchased. I always use Philpay.net's service to pay other paypal accounts, because my current account is a time deposit one which is locked (in exchange for a higher interest rate) but I'm thinking of opening up a normal savings account so I can have my own Paypal account. Philpay's fees are manageable, but they take 1-2 days processing, so I can't pay faster than that and they always use CC Paypal payment, so I also have to shoulder the fees so that the one I'm paying won't have to ^^ The initial deposit requirement and maintaining monthly balance is alright if I get the account without the passbook and just the ATM card (which is fine by me). 

If I do open one, I'm not going to tell my parents about it (I love them really =) but sometimes they tend to get quite meddlesome with some stuff) I'll probably go there on Tuesday to inquire about the other requirements needed, like IDs and billing statements. 

Thing that made me happy today: Hmm, there were actually a lot of things that made me unhappy today, but this one managed to brighten up my day. My friend informed me that she would be going back here from the States to visit and celebrate Christmas here! I haven't seen her since we graduated from High School (which was 2004), so that'll be great =) She didn't want to tell me at first about her plans but she did tell me because she wanted someone to help her surprise our other friends ^^  

One good thing about this LJ meme is that despite the fact that there are a lot of things that make your day bad, you realize that there are a few small things that can still make it good ^^ 

I finally had the chance to go to the bank to fund payments last week and last Tuesday, so people expecting payments from me should have received them by now ^^. But I should go again soon because I just had to spend for some of the Shitenhouji Myu items that are available. I'm irked that you have to purchase the whole team's cast photosets to get the team calendars. I'm just getting a few of the photosets and the team postcards. Hyotei still remains to be my favorite rival team, but I still prefer Katou Kazuki and Saitou Takumi as Atobe and Oshitari in the stage shows, though i have nothing against the new actors for Atobe and Oshitari. I'm still getting the team postcard set where Atobe and Oshitari are in =) 

I recently got some of the items I ordered from Japan =). I was able to get the Fushigi Yuugi Drama CD Book with Okiayu's song in it, and I have to admit that I'm addicted to his song there, "神よ歴史変えてくれ". vraieesprit  let me listen to the song before and I really liked it. I was able to find an auction for that single drama CD (the others had the whole set) and got it for around JPY 2500. Not bad. =) Also got the Vampire Knight Fanbook and the December 2008 Animedia issue (for the Kuroshitsuji cover ^^). 

And I got tagged by shiroi_ume :

1. Post about something that made you happy today even if it's just a small thing.
2. Do this everyday for a week without fail.
3. Tag 8 of your friends to do the same.

Meh, I'm not sure if I can do this for a week without fail though. I'll try though, but most likely I won't be able to do it.  And I'll just tag anyone who wants to do it from my flist =)

Thing that made me happy today: I was able to meet my youngest nephew today. He was born in the States and it's his first time to go and visit us here. At first he wasn't comfortable with me but after spending a lot of time playing hide and seek with him in our house, he finally warmed up to me and started playing with me ^^ He's really adorable, and he's not a spoiled kid. ^^

Even if I get sick often, I'm still not used to it.

I'm slowly recovering from the Dengue fever. And no, I did not get internal bleeding or did I require immediate blood transfusion. It was controlled before it even got to that stage. It did zap almost 90% of my strength, and I was really useless for almost a week. 

I didn't like the rashes though. I didn't mind if it would be itchy, but the rashes were painful. I couldn't even hold a pen longer than 3 seconds without yelping in pain :( Good thing it's gone now. And good thing it was gone before I took the UP Law Exam last Sunday. I wouldn't know how to survive that test if I couldn't even hold a pen.

Catching up on my emails and SMS messages now. Sorry if I haven't been replying lately, but I simply didn't have the energy to do so. =( 

But I'm getting better now. I'm actually typing this entry up at Starbucks, while waiting for an appointment with my thesis adviser in a while. I still have about 1 1/2 hours to continue working on my proposal before I have to present it to her for my scheduled consultation ^^

12-24-2008: a date to look forward to because:

1. It is Christmas Eve (and my cousins from the United States are spending it with us over here!)
2. Sebastian (CV: Daisuke Ono, from Kuroshitsuji)'s s Character single would be released that day
2. Two Seiyuu albums would be released during this day!~ : Nobutoshi Canna's mini-album and Megumi Ogata's new album!

I've been checking out the page for Megumi Ogata's release and they have song previews available for four songs. And I'm definitely excited for this album!!! 

Definitely looking forward to these releases =) [although my wallet certainly won't] ^^

I hope that everyone had a great halloween =). It's not really something greatly celebrated over here, but in some subdivisions and malls you can see a lot of kids doing trick or treat and costume competitions.  When I was a kid I don't recall doing anything special for halloween, but my dad would usually give me and my younger sister some candies, and we're already excited about that ^^''.

As for me, so that we did not have to go to the cemetery today my family and I decided to visit the graves of our departed relatives yesterday. There were already a big number of people doing the same thing, despite it not being a holiday (usually October 31 is declared as a holiday so people can go back to their provinces to commemorate November 1-2). As usual, security was strict, but it was for everyone's safety so you just have to bear with the long lines of inspection and not to mention looking for a place to park your car. Good thing that our aunt's house was quite near so we left our car there and just walked a bit going to the memorial park. The prices of flowers and candles have gone up (as usual) too, so we didn't buy that many flowers this year. We still had some candles at home so we brought those so that we didn't have to buy again. 

It was a good thing that we decided to stay home today, because it started raining and I wouldn't want to go to the cemetery when it's muddy. Not to mention the number of people going there now, since it's a holiday today and it's the exact date when we commemorate it. 

We still managed to get busy at home. My mom and my sister started to clean the house and put up some of the Christmas decorations already. My dad spent much of the morning and the afternoon cleaning up his workroom at the attic (after clearly telling him not to touch anything I own in the cabinet reserved for me and my sister, when he fixes it I won't know where to find my stuff anymore).

And what did I do? I had to get back at working on my proposal, but then I had one of the worst cramp attacks =(. At first I tried to just bear the pain, but after a while I had to ask my mom from some medicine already. The medicine she gave me was supposed to be fast acting, but it wasn't. I decided to rest and sleep for a while, and it helped. Now, there's only little pain and i can move freely now. ^^

I got my blood test results back yesterday. The tests looked at three hormones: T3, T4 and TSH (Thyroid stimulating hormone). My T3 and T4 levels were within the normal range, while my TSH is lower than the normal values. But my mom's friend who specializes in thyroid problems told me not to worry about it and she won't give me any treatment yet, but I'll have to be monitored more. Instead of once a year, I have to have another test done after 3-4 months I think.

In lighter news, the items I won from Y!Japan came today. EMS is definitely getting a bit quicker here, instead of 4-5 days in my area, it gets to me within 2-3 days now =). I got the History of EMU VHS Tape, the EMU Thank You DVD, a Byakuya Plush Doll, the Sotsugyou M Character Singles (all five + a copy of Last Dance (again) + 2 voice message singles: ささやき　ラブメッセージ CD 1 and 2), and the hm3 men's special vol. 6 (March 2007). I love the magazine a lot!~ It has some of the nicest pictures of Okiayu I've seen so far, and it comes with a pull-out poster of Okki as well. If I remember correctly, I know that the Okki sections were shared by Lina-san on the Okiayu community already =)

Now to hunt for one more hm3 magazine: the one with Shirota Yuu on the cover ^^ But that'll have to wait, as there are a lot of things I am also planning to buy ^^ (but with the exchange rate fluctuating like crazy the past few days, most of them will have to wait ^^'').

Things went smoothly during my hospital check-up. Although during the blood extraction part, the technician had a hard time finding a vein to extract blood from so he had to prick me twice :(. Luckily my mom was there, and she is a licensed medical technician as well so she was the one who found the vein, but the technician still did the extraction. I'll be getting the results later on today or maybe tomorrow morning. 

The blood test is to measure the thyroid hormones I have. My family has a history of hyperthyroidism so my mom is a bit paranoid since during my last test the amount of hormones was slightly above the normal amount present in the blood. I really don't have any of the symptoms associated with the condition, so I hope that I don't have it and would not have to go for treatment.

I still wasn't able to go to the dentist because the doctor is out of town and won't be back until November 3. I don't want to go to any other dentist so I'll have to wait until monday next week to have my check-up. My wisdom tooth isn't hurting right now so I guess it'll be okay. But if it hurts much, I'll have to go and look for another dentist in the meantime ^^.

starberryfiesta are you free next Saturday to meet up somewhere in Katipunan? I can give you the TeniMyu DVDs there. Don't forget my photosets :P I have a corner in my room reserved for Katou Kazuki and Saitou Takumi's photos already =P.  

Now I need to get back and start working on another paper again (even if it's my semestral break :() 

My short vacation trip wasn't so bad as I thought it would be. We left the house at around 6:30 am and had breakfast at Pancake House. We arrived at Nasugbu, Batangas at around 12nn and the place was great. There were hardly any people in Punta Fuego during the weekend, maybe because they're opting to go there for the weekend for the holidays.

We were a lot inside the beach house we stayed in: my family plus three more families (each having three kids aged 3-11) and some people from the company who sponsored the trip. But the house was big enough to accommodate all of us. The parents also brought their kids Wii so they were happy playing in one corner and not running around the house.

Although the kids were a bit spoiled rotten. When we went to the beach, one of the girls started crying and asked her mom to do something so that the water in the beach would be warmed so that she could swim. O_O

Two things made the trip worthwhile for me:

• The food - delicious!~ Fresh seafood!! The sponsors of the trip had the food cooked for us by some of the locals right after the crabs, shrimp and fish were caught. I never ate so much for one meal during the meals we had here. 
• Island hopping - we visited the several small islands and stayed to swim and explore the beaches there. Saw the multi-million houses/beach mansions of several politicians too (and you wonder where they get the money to build houses like that...tsk tsk.

I got back yesterday and I didn't get to rest much because I had to go to school this morning to fix some stuff. I also had to fetch the new student from France from her apartment and bring her to the university so she could choose the courses she wants. On thursday, three more French Students would be arriving and I need to help them look for apartments ^^ 

Tomorrow is hospital appointment day. I'll just be having some routine tests done, and my mom wants to go with me because she wants to see some of her friends there ^^ And I need to go to the dentist, because one of my wisdom teeth is starting to hurt a bit. I just hope that it won't be impacted so that I don't need to have it removed. =(
 

Just got back home from watching High School Musical 3 at the cinema with my younger sister ^^''. And I have to admit that I enjoyed the movie. The songs and the choreography were really great, and it's definitely my favorite among the three movies available. I bought the soundtrack right after I went out of the cinema ^^ I didn't buy the soundtrack for the first two CDs because I only liked 1-2 songs from the album but for this movie I liked a lot of it :P

Heading for the beach tomorrow with the families of my dad's friends. I'm not sure if i'll enjoy the trip, because I hardly know the other people I'm going with but I'm bringing my beach mat, my fully charged iPod, sunglasses and a book so I can amuse myself. Hopefully the weather is good, and the company won't be so bad as well. 

Now I need to start packing before my mom does it for me :(. 

Having doctors as parents do have its perks. And one thing is that you can get confined (have a IV hooked up etc) without actually going to the hospital.

Yep, I'm under house confinement now. After submitting my law school application, my family was invited to dinner to some Chinese restaurant somewhere to discuss something about their business. I'm not sure what the business is about, but I know my parents invested on some property development. They ordered the usual things, like dimsum, dumpling, peking duck and a house specialty, doves. 

When I heard that they would get that, I immediately asked if I could order something else. There is NO WAY I'm eating doves. Eating Peking ducks give me allergies to, so I ordered another dumpling. I can't remember the name of the dumpling, and I guess it's what caused me to have food poisoning. I was the only one in the family who got it, and that's the only thing I ate that they didn't eat. The owner of the restaurant is a friend of my dad's so he just paid for all the medical expenses I needed, like the cost of the IV fluids, the medicine I need to take etc. 

So now, I'm stuck at home, on my bed with an IV hooked on my arm. Good thing I can still type with one hand, and this will be the last IV pack that I need to finish. My mom said hopefully it'll be out later this afternoon. I really hope it would be out by then. 

THSK managed to get the # 1 spot for their release of the JPN version of MIROTIC *claps*. This is their fourth # 1 single in the Oricon charts, even if they hardly did any promo for the CD because of their activities in Korea. =) I usually have reservations about songs being released from Korean to Japanese or vice versa, but I loved this version =). I like it just as much as I like the Korean version =) I won't be getting my copy until November though, but at least I managed to contribute to their sales =)

The Vampire Knight Guilty OP Single made it to the Oricon Daily Top 20 too!~ It ranked # 17 today =)!! 

After spending some BuriMyu fangirling with vraieesprit last night, I became a compulsive buyer again ^^. I snagged some of Shuuji's Burimyu photosets off Y!Japan auctions ^^ I really love his portrayal of Byakuya, fits him perfectly ^^, And BuriMyu is indeed addicting. I'm only getting into the fandom now, mostly because I was afraid of getting hooked to another myu fandom, and it'll make my savings deplete faster ^^'' I'm also downloading the .amv at the moment. I would have downloaded it sooner, but my mom wanted me to get her the latest NCIS episode too.

Oh, and starberryfiesta, I sent you an SMS a while ago that I can meet up with you anytime except for the 25th-26th. Thank you again for your omiyage =) And I am still envious with your encounter (sorry for a lack of a better word) with Saitou Takumi! =P

So my mom asked me to be her driver for the afternoon because she wanted to buy some storage boxes. I was supposed to go to the mall anyway to pick up a new spindle of dvd-rs, check if there's any new manga and to have some ID pictures  taken for some forms I need to accomplish, so I agreed. It has been a while since I drove for my mom.

Ten minutes after I drove I remembered why it has taken a while.

My mom is a 'backseat driver', or in this case, a 'passenger seat driver'. I mean, I know when to break, slow down and turn on the signal, but every other minute I'll hear her say: "You're way too fast, slow down" or "I don't feel the break", or "you're tailing that car way too much". *sigh*. Not only is it irritating, it is distracting. I don't want to answer back or we'll have an argument there, which I wasn't in the mood to have.

Music is another thing. In our family, the rule is the driver controls the music in the car. So I have my iPod and Auxiliary cord ready, but my mom refuses to listen to the stuff I want to listen. I got her an ipod two years ago, and that's what we play. No offense to my mom's music preferences, but I'm really not in the mood to listen to old songs when I'm driving, it tends to make me sleepy and distracted.

On the way I home I asked her to drive. I told her I wasn't feeling very well, (it's true, I had a headache since there were so many people doing grocery shopping and it was too noisy) and I wasn't in the mood to have a discussion about my driving skills anymore. ^^''