Date:	2008-05-23 13:11
Subject:	...then we took Berlin!
Security:	Public
Mood:	content
Music:	Sting - Be still, my Heart

I've been to Berlin for two days, visiting my friend and dear cosplay partner.

Berlin is - very much contrary to my expectations - a breathtaking city. It has a beloved international feeling about it, something I somehow didn't expect. I thought it would be much more hostile, dirty and unfriendly, or gloomy with depressing German war history.
In fact, Berlin is rather welcoming, unique, well organised (subway, signs, ...) and has many large and small treasures to discover.

Maybe it helps to have had a 'local guide', such as my friend (yeah, she knows where the Reichstag is and the large Anime store ;p).

Other than nice sightseeing, we've been shooting Cosplay photos of our Digimon 02 outfits, my as Yagami Taichi, and her as Ishida Yamato.

( Best of )

So, yeah, it's been two awesome days and I miss Berlin already. All other cities seem too small now.
Good thing it'll be Paris in June for 4 days. Ha XD

Date:	2008-03-29 19:24
Subject:	The Fierce and Royal Battle of Me against Vista
Security:	Public
Mood:	annoyed
Music:	Nana Mouskouri - Schlaf' ein Angelina

The Death Match had begun yesterday, at noon.

It was a single girl against a 2,2MgH Dual Core equipped personal computer, 1024 MB RAM, one HHD (!!! -,-*....3 hours of trying to partition it, no use. 1 victory to Vista), a 16x DVD RW drive, several dark, black card slots. And it is infected with the new super virus called 'Windows Vista'.

It took blood, spit, tears, swearing and the loss of thousands of innocent nerves (on the girls' side, mind you).
She was even close to consider Linux (no offense to Linux users).

In the end, though, she could muster the last ounce of strength against the new evil!software and defeat the desktop apereance to display the desired design (well, almost).

*sighs* - the battle is not yet fully won (it won't eat Nero. And the sound outro is stained.). Plus it needs at least one more DVD drive and another hdd would be nice as well.

At least I wiped the apereance clean off any fading, hopping, changing, popping, jumping kindergarten-like gimmicks that Vista comes with. And I don't need 2 (!!!!) clocks in my desktop either, thankyouverymuch x_X.

If anybody has a nice Windows 95 or 98 skin to fully overlay, please please please tell me, I would be endepted to you forever!

Date:	2008-03-11 07:11
Subject:	A Dream turns to be real.
Security:	Public
Mood:	indescribable

Date:	2008-03-09 11:12
Subject:	Random, wheeee!
Security:	Public
Mood:	romantic
Music:	Alice - Una notte speciale

Look! New icon!

Date:	2008-03-02 10:15
Subject:	Super Duper computer store. Can I help you?
Security:	Public
Mood:	amused
Music:	Hootie & The Blowfish - Let her cry

Got this one via e-mail from a friend this morning and I laughed so hard my keyboard tasted dad's strong coffee :D.

Have to share this with you:

If Abbott and Costello were alive today

If Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were alive today, their infamous sketch, "Who's on First?" might have turned out something like this:

( Do you want a computer with Windows? - I don't know. What will I see when I look at the windows? )

Date:	2008-02-03 11:09
Subject:	Review Time! Kirikou et la Sorcière
Security:	Public
Mood:	impressed
Music:	Janis Choplin - Ruby Tuesday

Yes! It's true! I still live ...

I'm sorry I hadn't been posting for the last couple of (what?!) months. In fact I suffer from a nasty version of art block and I lacked the time and mind to settle down and write a decent journal entry.

But the again, nothing much really happened the last couple of months, unless you'd like a detailed report on what we do at school or what the last season of "Drawn Together" was like and how season 3 of "Deep Space Nine" turned out.
Which is pretty much all that I've been doing/watching.

However, I do have something to put down here as to give the entry a purpose, after all.

On New Year's Eve I was channel surfing out of boredom and I got stuck on our only French channel which happened to air a cartoon called "Kirikou et la Sorcière" (Kirikou and the Sorceress - if it helps you anything, here's the IMDB link).

It happened to turn out to be one of the most beautiful cartoons I ever saw.

( Mère, où est mon père? )

Date:	2007-12-13 19:35
Subject:	3D squirrels and bad influence
Security:	Public
Mood:	shocked
Music:	Country songs

Yeah, I think Hollywood picks up the weirdest things to make movies into, like,"Alvin and the Chipmunks", 3D-ed, with RL actors and they're having Mathew Grey Gubler (yep, Mathew as in "I modeled for the haute couture and as in main cast Criminal Minds!!) for the voiceover of Simon and I need time to digest that.

Trailer: "Alvin and the Chipmunks" on IMBD

Alvin and the Chipmunks! I grew up with that show, it's a precious childhood memory! D'Oh! And I kind of don't get around that bend when they started to have haute couture models do the voiceover of 3D squirrels.
......
x_X;.

I need more sleep, fanfiction and intelligent folks around me. I guess the general stupidity of my new class rubs off on me which I consider to be alarming.

Date:	2007-11-19 19:48
Subject:	My car and me. A nightmare-story.
Security:	Public
Mood:	relieved
Music:	Naruto Shippuuden Movie OST

Yep, Chisa is still stupid after all x_X;.

Just some minutes ago, a whole mountain fell off my heart.

I had made the drastic mistake to leave my car keys inside the car's trunk - and then shut the trunk close. Now you have to know that old Ford Fiesta trunks are closed as in closed (and never open again without keys) when you shut them.

Great. After various nervous breakdowns and a skipped English lesson I worked myself through phone calls until I got the ADAC(guys who help you with car problems, really well-known in Germany) and they sent two angels, really, and they opened my car *____________* (McGuyver-like, I'm fascinated :D)

Now I'm the happiest person on earth and the only thing subdueing this is the horrendeous amount of money I left these angels ^^;.
But oh well, everything else would've been worse ^^;.

Date:	2007-10-02 19:40
Subject:	One-Shot: ALIAS
Security:	Public
Mood:	silly
Music:	Leonard Cohen - There is a War

Done during today's project-day which was too boring (but it was expected to be, so...).
I woke up this morning, thinking: OMGZOOM, I need to write really weird fanfiction today!.

So I did that. (s'rry, no beta, no purpose at all, just for my -and maybe your- entertainment and to pass the time)

Sloane/Sydney for you.

Author: *Ryoko*
Contact: Chisako02@web.de
Disclaimer: “Alias” was created by J.J Abrams and belongs to him and … the guys who produce the show and I’m too lazy to look that up.
Warning: het, (implied) slash, weeiiiiiird pairings
Spoiler: Season 4, Ep. 01
Part: 1/1
Rating: PG-13

Date:	2007-09-30 08:31
Subject:	Some like it HOT
Security:	Public
Mood:	cheerful
Music:	Leonard Cohen - I'm your Man

There wasn't really anything interesting on TV yesterday evening.
So I decided to stick with Marilyn Monroe's "Some like it hot" movie from 1959, just to pass the time.

And -whhheeeeee!- wasn't that the sweetest sweetest movie ever! I forgot how much heart and soul those old movies had and, aw, all the guys were still guys and so gentleman-ly ♥. And Marilyn was so cute, she's really been a great actress. I've never actually seen her acting, only photos and I heard the scandals and rumors about her. But she has such a gentle, friendly face and when she smiles, you can't help but smile with her ^-^.

If you ever care for a round-up cute, funny movie with good actors and a looooot of heart, then that movie is defenitely worth watching.

Date:	2007-09-26 16:06
Subject:	"Forswear it sight, for I never saw true beauty till this night"
Security:	Public
Mood:	in love
Music:	J.S. Bach - Pachelbel, Canon in D

Caught in a video-hunting spree on YouTube again, I realised once more which man I shall love 'till death.

( The most beautiful person in this world )

Sorry for that nonsense-post, it was a fling of the heart.

Date:	2007-09-22 11:37
Subject:	"Avatar" - Season 3 (Fire) - Episode 01 - Thoughts
Security:	Public
Mood:	thoughtful
Music:	Jean-Jacques Bruel - We were Lovers

Just some thoughts on the first new episode here.

Heavy spoiler ahead, of course

( Thoughts )

Date:	2007-09-14 08:30
Subject:	Wanna see all new Yu-Gi-Oh series .. ?!
Security:	Public
Mood:	bitchy
Music:	The Three Tenors - Santa Lucia Luntana

... come see the original, uncut Japanese version ~!

I only wanted some screencaps for reference, what I got though was a guideline to the real YGO series and boy that shocked me.

I can't believe how much time those guys over at FOX Kids (or whoever's responsible for cutting this time...) spent to alter, rearrange, cut and re-dub the Yu-Gi-Oh series to sqeeze them into the early afternoon kids' programme.

So I took the liberty to collect most of the common changes.

Pictures: Left is (altered) US version, Right is Japanese (original) version

( Yay! Brand NEW Yu-Gi-Oh Eps -,-*...... )

Date:	2007-09-04 14:30
Subject:	EF - A Tale of Memories ~ Music!
Security:	Public
Mood:	touched
Music:	Leonard Cohen - Who by Fire (Live)

Just a quick stop-by to share with you my newly found love of the musical theme for the Anime "EF - A tale of Memories".
So far, they have the Prologue online (wanna watch? - Torrent, but the ending sequenz just flung me right outa my socks *_______*.

Please listen and share the love with me ~

Date:	2007-08-23 15:10
Subject:	出来た~! x_X;
Security:	Public
Mood:	exhausted
Music:	Leonard Cohen - Chelsea Hotel #2

Phyu~! Finally finished the rough draft for my dôjinshi. Took me long enough and the last two pages had a clear revolution against me in mind -,-*.
Well, now I only need to scan it in and screentone it. Gotta go to a copy shop for that though, since our scanner is too small for the A3 size.
(Gonna be funny though, like, what? No, no, they only look like two boys kissing, I swear! .... ^^;).
I also came up with a title yesterday which I'm really glad of, 'cuz I couldn't think of anything halfway sophisticated the last couple of months x_X;.

Oh? What the dôjinshi is about?
Ah, you'll see soon enough ;). Where's the fun if I'd give away everything at once, hehe.

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Moreover I finished two more outfits. That is, I finished them some time ago already, though I never actually took that down here, did I?
Well, one's a cosplay costume for the Frankfurt Book Fair in October. I gonna be Jasmin from Disney's Aladdin (or Kingdom Hearts, take your pick).
The second one is a Medieval dress, set around Europe's 1350 ~ 1400, it's my own design and I still need to figure out how I actually managed to do the sleeves ... I never thought that'd work but, hey! w00t!, it did! XD

The next project is to pimp my Yagami Taichi outfit! Can't wait to get a proper wig, and then I hope to be able to take some pictures with my Yamato; right, Yama-chan? ;)
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One last thing to say, though:

Everybody shout with me!!!!:
We Love Jack Bristow! We love Jack Bristow! Saver of the Universe! (well, not exactly the Universe, but....) Whoo~hoo~~ *g*

Yay! Somebody nominated some of my stuff I did for the SGA fandom (they did quite a job, collecting all the pix and stuff ... o.0;...).
So, well, please vote for me if you like :):

Date:	2007-08-13 17:48
Subject:	Digimon-o-Mania
Security:	Public
Mood:	bouncy
Music:	Yagami Taichi (Fujita Yoshiko) - Eikyuu ni Tsuzuke!!

YOSH! 10 years or so we've been waiting for it - and now they ripped. And subbed. And posted.

Digimon Adventure, Ep. 1 - 26, Japanese /w English Subs:

Direct Download (via MegaUpload, .mkv or .avi)
Torrent

Also very much recommended:
Digimon 10th Anniversary -Yume e no Kakehashi- CD, with all-new songs from the main boys from the 5 Digimon series. Plus 4 additional songs from the shows' music artists (Wada Kouji, AiM, ...)

Download & lyrics with translation

If you burst with anticipation for the One Book, or if at least three OTPs of three different series are killing you, none of which will become canon....

.... Try to bake chocolate cake. It helps.

Date:	2007-07-14 10:36
Subject:	Harry Potter - And the Order of the Phoenix
Security:	Public
Mood:	impressed
Music:	Cat Stevens - On the Road to find out

Harry Potter - Movie #5 - Bits and pieces of mind (spoilers!, of course).

( Reach for Randomnes )

High Time for an Update!

So~, I just finished my first exam (1 out of 10 - w00t![/sarcasm]). Anyway, it was OK. You could call it maths if you like. It's about calculation fibre mixes, distances of buttons, work time/money, amount of cloth you need, etc., etc. Pretty basic stuff.
I'll have exams the rest of the week (CAD, sewing, construction I, computer basics), four days the next week (history, material science, contr. II and III), and finally, in the last week: economics and hand-over of the design folder.

However, I think I had this one really lengthy post about that "Sea Star" topic we had to do in design, right?
So, I'm done with it (yay!~). We had to take photos of the blouse's development (...which, practically, our teacher told us after everything was finished ... *sighs*). I took pix anyway and I'll share them with you :):

Scribbles - We had to design a logo/tag/label and a piece of cloth to go with it (blouse or shirt). Here are some first drafts.

Model - When I refined everything, I draw and painted this pic. After all, one has to see how it's supposed to look in the end!

Contruction - That's what the blouse consists of. The two lengthy pieces on the left make (one half of) the front, the two pieces on the right make (one half of) the back. Also on the pic: hem, sleeve, measurements table

Emboidery - Remember that the blond girl from pic two had this logo on her back? That's how it looks when it's embroided on the cloth. Boy, that was some work x_X;

Front / Back - Tadaaaa! Done :).

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PS: W00t! (not so new...) OTP! New button hence~. Sark♥Syd ^-^