Irrelevant Randomness

This is completely irrelevant to manga and I should be studying/reading (midterm paper to do and exams) but whilst reading, my mind can venture off into random thoughts. I suddenly thought, I want to see episodes of Pink Lipstick, the South Korean Drama (I don't know why I specified when NK doesn't release any of the dramas it makes if it does make it) with Ha Jae Bum (actor Park Kwang Hyun) in it. Even though the drama was just excruciatingly long and also very soap opera-y Ha Jae Bum who wasn't the main character, totally made the drama lighten up with his heartiness and loving character. It really pulled me through a few years ago when I watched all 149 (30 minute) episodes with a prologue that was extremely long and painful to watch (was really bored and just felt like suffering through it). My sister was smart and just skipped episodes. The episodes with Ha Jae Bum really tugged at my heart strings. I can just remember how emotional I got when I go to the more heart breaking episodes towards the end. (As well as the disgust when his old man uncle/dad was cozying up to the young woman Jae Bum fancied....) Anyways, it's be awesome if there was some way to easily find those episodes starring him.

OH and a little environmental spiel for the sake of irrelevant randomness.
People have to realize that the world is disintegrating. In the last half century or so, we're killed more of the earth than ever before like cancer on high (if that makes sense). I hope people are more environmentally aware. Every little bit helps-recycling, reusing paper and such, (esp) conserving water, and all that knick-knack. Now what brought this on? Well here where I live, we're in drought conditions. Even though it's been raining some, our water supply is on the down low (way below, like almost 10%) and we produce a lot of commodities. Do you know how much water paper uses? How much water is used to make a single sheet of paper? I got really irked when my coworker (also a student like me but he does the more menial stuff and doesn't get the job done as well as I did when I was in that position last year)...when my coworker was printing a shit load of stuff for some undergrad or grad student and didn't even bother printing back to back. I don't care if it takes longer to print back to back. It's a sheer waste of paper and water when we're in emergency conservation right now!! Being a college student, for many, makes us hermits in a closed world (unless we let ourselves remain in tact w/ the rest of the world)  so I realize my colleagues may not know what the rest of the world is up to but seriously, we're in the 21st century, it's time to clean up our act even if you contribute a little. Haven't you seen An Inconvenient Truth? (If not one of the most memorable quotes that is a requote:) "The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences." Sir Winston Churchill. Well that's it and that's my spiel =D Please be as environmental as you can. Also recycling-you can't recycle containers contaminated by food. People don't know that in my school apparently which makes it totally useless to have recycling bins in dining areas IMHO.

Stealing Intellectual Property?

Lol the title is a little bit of an exaggeration but I googled myself (tohukyo) which is a little narcissistic BUT I did it because I wanted to check what accounts I made over the years using the username to ensure personal info isn't revealed. Turns out I've created a number of accounts that don't do that (found one that did but changed it) and I happened upon a DEVIANT Art account that isn't mine WITH my username. NOw I'm not sure who created it is since it isn't me (I use a standard date of birth for this username usually for accounts or my real one May 22). It's quite ironic that it's on Deviant art because I consider the person who is using my username a deviant. It's a name I consider quite precious to me since I CREATED THE NAME and it brings up wonderful memories of relationships I've formed online using this username--the online game RF for example which is what I originally created it for). I of course could be flattered that someone is using the name however it's nothing flattering if the person doesn't ask. Of course it is the internet and the internet is kind of anarchist but come on, why didn't you just ask? I obviously would have said no but I would be flattered of course but now it's kind of irksome especially since it's very sentimental to me. =l As annoying as it is, I used to always say "the internet is anarchy"where even the government can cross lines. Sigh...I'm disappointed.

TV Marathoning

Hi blog visitors,

So...things obviously didn't go as planned. The holidays have come and passed and now I'm starting a new quarter at school that's why more hectic than ever!! (why do I do this to myself...) ANYWAYS! There were a couple reasons why I didn't update the blog and such. 

One was because as soon as I got home, I somehow decided that I had to go out almost every single day. I'd say about 70% of my holiday consisted of shopping. Original objective since November was to buy sweaters and I ended up buying a bunch of knit "kind of" cardigans as well as shoes AND A NEW LAPTOP. A tiny notebook actually. My main laptop's motherboard F-ed up so I'm using a replacement laptop with all my stuff in a portable hard drive and my mini laptop serves as my lecture notes laptop. Also got around to watching the Catching Fire movie which I felt stayed pretty true to the storyline compared to the prequel (that was a disappointment to me but then again I've only watched it once so maybe I'll have a different opinion later on). 

The other reason why I didn't get to blogging was because, (other than the fact I was celebrating the holidays). I entered into a TV marathon-ing phase where I watch the whole half season of supernatural for this year, the whole 2.5 seasons of suits, all 2.5 seasons of 2 Broke Girls (Hilarious!). I think that's all I watched....RIP Kevin, you will be missed. It hit me when you died....OH and like 1.5 seasons of Arrow (rewatch actually because my brother and I already were following it but my sister just started watching so we watched it with her). Of course it's no fun watching on a small screen laptop. HDMI+Flat Screen+laptop, who needs DVR? =)

Anyways, that about sums up most of my holiday in a go. I don't feel like sharing my actual holiday celebration since that's too long of a story and no one wants to read that (then again I don't know who would want to read the contents of what I've posted here in this post anyways).

Well new year, new classes, bigger work load as well but I still feel the same ambivalence about my future.....

I"m actually still in my TV marathoning phase (not so much of course considering how I'm in school again) watching Merlin. I haven't read much manga to report on and to talk in the forums about. I'm taking a break I suppose and simply reading the ones I find worth following (ie whatever I decide to follow on batoto and even then I don't read every single one of the updates on the follows).

Bye and 'til next time..................................