seeing as to how I won’t finish the revamp (and the actual layout of the other site) any time soon, I guess I’ll just let you guys see it and play around with it or something. only a few pages are done and lots of links are broken :) but feel free to leave crits/suggestions! made for big resolutions, but 1024×768 can view it fine too. 800×600 not xD LOTS OF HATE TOWARDS YOU. the resolution, not the users.
1. One of the doujins I got on my RO artbook that I translated. (beware! you have to play the game to get the jokes)
2. 4 pages from chapter 113 of bleach. yoruichi is the coolest char ever! I’ll read bleach just because of her. (warning: nudity)
http://ashen-ray.com/ro.html
http://ashen-ray.com/bleach.html
Finally I’m back! Well actually I was back since Monday, but I was having a lot of jet lag problems (which I didn’t have when I went to China, odd) so I didn’t have the motivation to pick out and edit the photos I took. I am finally kind of normal today in terms of sleeping schedule, so I actually had time. hopefully I’ll change my bio clock back in time for anime north.
The trip was ok; didn’t have too much fun but didn’t bore either. We managed to get to a lot of places despite sudden circumstances that prevented a normal trip. The (restaurant) food there was sooooooo gooooood :D** and stuff is so cheap. Well kinda. I bought a lot of random goodies that my dad would have doubted meaningfulness about. And I went to the salon many many times because they wash my hair very thoroughly, and massages it :D my cousin took me to do aromatherapy too but the guy couldn’t clip up my hair cus I have too much and they are too heavy. All in all, I got to be a visitor of my hometown instead of a resident, and it certainly made the city better. We spent so much money though; especially my mom. She doesn’t really think when she spends money. She used to have good spending morals, but lately she’s becoming an egohead… and after explaining and justifying her actions, she’s becoming a little too over her head. But at least I am benefitting from this, so that’s cool. We had to transfer twice on the plane because of the tickets we bought, and Northwest is NOT a good company so I got motion sickness on the first and last flights on both trips. It was horrible. And the flights were full so we couldn’t claime seats (unlike when we immigrated to canada; that time we each got like 2-3 seats cus no one was there.) But on the plane we sat next to a deaf man; he was really cool :D we “talked” and stuff. And we met a cute lil chinese girl that we thought were japanese too (since our flights pass through japan) until we found out that she lives really close to us.
I also drew (kind of) a lot of sketches and stuff, but most of them can’t be shown cus it’s so unrefined >> I rely on the computer too much to be able to sketch better. Although here’s a part of one of them with the background cut out because it was out of place :l
And here are the pictures (including some 2-3 pictures taken in London a few days before I moved out)! ya they aren’t really great, I’m not a good photographer :l and I also don’t have an affinity to taking pictures of people x) (including myself, though there is a picture of me eating udon at the Tokyo airport)
Oh and I bought artbooks too! (thanks to my cousin’s and Jenny’s advices of looking out at newspaper stands and in a comic city) Finally after so many years, I own artbooks. I didn’t get to pick though; I just bought whatever that’s there cus it was so rare. Victory!::
As far as I know, nobody know who did or didn’t win this year’s anime north mascot contest. They didn’t email anyone or post anything, and the convention’s next week. But I think roboto-kun won the contest. (cus the winner gets a free artist table; he said that he didn’t sign up on time for a table a while back and suddenly said that he got a table a couple of days ago) At least he actually deserved it cus his art rules. (last year’s winner did not) Meanwhile, I think I’ll go on saturday with Jenny :D
Shilin: mommie I have no boobs
Mom: don’t worry, you’re just skinny. when I was your age I had small boobs too.
Shilin: are you sure
Mom: yea yea yea. lemme see them
Shilin: ok *flashes*
Mom: holy shit you really have no boobs
(actual conversation was in Chinese. Exact use of words may vary)
Guangzhou. Is. So. Hot.
Not “sexy” hot, “hot” hot. And humid too. I’m cooked to a desirable tenderness and is ready to be put on a plate. The air is so poluted; the wall of my throat must have like a layer of dust on it already. People out there are mostly impolite and selfish (aside from the people we ask in residential areas for directions, they are nice). And there are so many mosquitos :( We forgot to kill mosquitos after putting down the nets, and I got like 40 bites in one night (yes I counted). My mom brutally killed them in the morning… but nothing makes up for the big red dots on my legs :( now I don’t even dare to wear shorts cus I am afraid that people will think that I have some weirdo disease xD
Despite all bad things (those aren’t all), it’s still somewhat fun to be back. Everything changed; it looks much prettier now, and more developed. Really tall apartment towers are everywhere; no more motorcycle flood (cus it’s banned) and the trend of owning a private vehicle is now taking over. All the crapass busses got replaced by good ones, and public transportation pass is being used in all bus and subway lines to reduce the time required to wait for everyone to pay at each stop. (speaking of which, it’s absolutely hilarious to see people walk up to the buspass sensor and stick their butt near it for the sensor to scan the passes in side their pockets, especially men. It’s also slightly disturbing) the food is awesome and my relatives are same old freakishly welcoming. Services are so cheap; thorough hairwashing (almost 1 hour of washing), head massage, and hair cut costs like $4 USD, and a big long trip on a taxi across half of the city only costs $3 USD. Unfortunately some brand name goods aren’t that cheap at all, but luckily I don’t care for them. Everything also seem shrinked… the roads outside my old home seemed smaller. My home seemed a lot smaller for some reason. Maybe it was because I was small when I came out… but I wasn’t that small oO
People here drive like insane, and they are all so SKILLED that the accident rate in that style of traffic is similar to our accident rate. There are 39752938745 cars on the road, plus misc bikes and random people that don’t care for shit about traffic lights and rules. (not that the drivers do…) people change lanes and pass each other without signalling, and both sides are aggressive about taking the spot in the traffic flow before one chickens out in fear of being hit. If drivers see people trying to walk across, they honk and speed up. 2 lanes always fit 3 cars, and an aerial view of any major road is always a mess of straight and slanted cars in and out of lane. There is no priority in turning; you win if you are aggressive. All cars being manual doesn’t really help drivers drive in this sort of traffic either. It’s such a terror (and enjoyment sometimes) to ride a car here… the drivers here have true skill.
Robbery is really popular these days; people’s earrings have been ripped off of their ears (scary people running after theives with bloody ears), handbags have been taken right out of people’s hands by motorcyclists, necklaces have been grabbed, and backpacks are frequent targets of thieves on the streets by out of province people. My cousin had had her bag’s zipper opened halfway by a kid before she realized. When she yanked her bag out of the kid’s hand, a couple of men started walking towards her so she didn’t dare to do anything about the children. And no one really cares when they see something like this; no one really helps or want to help in fear of getting in trouble themselves. So people wear backpacks in front of them and keep one-shouldered bags across their body. No one wear jewelry and things. When I was going to go out, I was told not to bring stuff in case I get robbed.
O wow that’s a really long texted entry… more about China than about my actual travel. But it hadn’t been that eventful since my grandpa had to go to the hospital and stay there for a week the day after I arrived, then I got a grand headache for no freaking reason. It was really not that eventful aside from some mall-going and (many) restaurant outings. I drew a lot…. of manga, that’s all.
(ps: my parents will cry if they see this:… but I don’t like being back :( It’s not nice here. I don’t think I want to come back again.)
