My online buddy, Mags posted this wonderful short about the tooth fairy.
The Truth About Tooth - directed by Hazel Baillie
I remember that the only reason I keep my tooth under my pillow is because I anxiously try to dislodge a loose one with my tongue at bedtime. I keep it under my pillow so I can take a pretty good look at it, first thing in the morning.
Fished out of my Facebook wall, from a friend... nakaka-aliw panoorin!
The director says:
"This is my senior project at Savannah College of Art and Design. Where my idea comes from is that every time when I am busy, I feel that I am not fighting with my works, I am fighting with those post-it notes and deadline. I manipulating the post-it notes to do pixel-like stop motion and there are some interactions between real actor and post-its. Here is the making of : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArJYva...
Directed by Bang-yao Liu
Music by Röyksopp (http://royksopp.com)
Sound design by Shaun Burdick"
My Nihongo lessons are taking a 3-week break as my sensei is on a long vacation. I just loove my sensei, I do feel so guilty when I show up without my homework so I've really made it a point to put time in studying Nihonggo.
Considering that three weeks off is a pretty looong break, I've slacked-off at study. Alas, something from sensei was in the mail! It was a blank diary and on a really cool Foujita postcard she wrote, " How's your condition now? I'd like to give you this for the three-week break... Please write a diary if you have time during my holiday. See you on the 20th."
I've got 3 entries so far and today I'll work on the "backlog". I'll be writing about this manga series I've been into lately. I've ditched the "Death Note" series since it was quite depressing to read about people dying all the time in this season. I'll reserve this one for wintertime.
Meet Kinoshita Beckham, a penguin! This is a surreal trip to an elementary school, with a penguin (Beckham) and a boy (Naoto). There's already a TV anime and now a movie in the works! This manga is really funny and it got me giggling to myself at a cafe lately... C was so curious and started reading a bit, and said this was definitely what elementary grade-schoolers would enjoy reading!
Malalaman mong nasa Japan ka na kapag ang pinalalabas sa sinehan ay full-length movies ng One Piece, Doraemon, Pokemon, Gundam, Tamagotchi at ito!
Image © Yūji Nagai/Shogakukan, Sho-Pro, TV TokyoLazy weekend, partly due to my condition. I'm still recovering from laryngitis, so I'd better wire my mouth shut during the weekend. Been noisy at Facebook all day though.
Summer's nearly here, cosplayers will have to withstand the sweltering heat in their cos while playing at Akihabara. And the Harajuku Goths... well, I stumbled onto a website from a Coilhouse article and it's neatly titled "Goths In Hot Weather ©"
I'm sure you have one goth you'd love to post up there! I know a wannabegoth I'd rate a 2 for Gothiness and a 20 for Sweatiness... the perfect partner for the "51st Sweat" goth or the dripping goth at Tales of Woe!
What goth kind are you? Sweatiness?
It was a cloudy afternoon but still good for a walk to the Kokugikan at Ryogoku where the last day of the Sumo Spring Basho was being held. All tickets were sold out so just like other sumo fans, we hung out by the gates. There were the raucous oyajis who obviously had a drink or two while waiting for the results of the final match broadcast via a tiny analog radio, there were a couple of tourists, both local and foreign toting their digital cameras, a group of gangly high school lads who just finished cram school were looking for a nice viewing spot by the gates, others were watching the match on their cellphone and we just listened and looked at the hi-def screens whenever we could.
As colorful banners billowed in the cool breeze, the lower-rank rikishi were already leaving and their presence were known as fans shouted out their names...
This is Takamisakari, he's really fun to watch as he launches into his trademark "gone berserk sumo wrestler" opener at the face-off. He usually loses but is a crowd favorite and I think he's been earning more from his commercials and public appearances.
Here is "Goeido" also a local, he made news this basho with surprising wins.
There's the towering "Baruto" from Estonia, it's exciting to watch him being pitted against smaller rikishi.
As the final face off between Yokuzuna Hakuho (Mongolia) and Ozeki Harumafuji (Mongolia) unfolded, a hush fell upon the gates and as everyone huddled close to watch the match, live on tiny cellphone screens or listened to the tinny radio broadcast. It was a good fight and the Ozeki won!
Now it's time to head on to the nearest izakaya or chanko restaurant for a recap over beer, nihonshu and otsumami. Harumafuji, omedetou! Kampai!
Do I miss chunks of the old me. I am older now but I miss the old me, chunks of 'em.
The body snatchers are real, they live and propagate, slipping stealthily into the unwary victim.
Where's the gym rat that alternates her cardio with weight training?
Fat ass Facebooking. She's gained 3 kilos, which in her and her partner's terms are really massive amounts. The clothes still fit.. like sausage casing.
Where's the party animal that raves til the first trains come in?
After surfing the net and Facebook, she's snoozing. It's just too expensive to get hungover nowadays. The bloody Tokyo trains should run 24/7. Taxis are for the rich here. Excuses.
Got a great job but the pay sucks.
Where's the passionate artist that works on her canvases till the crows come home?
She's doodling still but you'd' see her more online, wasting away time. If there's "writers' block", she is having a great massive wall laid out in front of her. The loud music and alcohol helps but she thinks she should grow up and be able to create without some of these "basic needs".
Acne still bugs her once in a while when she attacks a helpless chocobar.
Where has the "clotheshorse" gone to? UNIQLO
Where are her rapid-fire chats with her online mates? Pulses of life are still sent via e-mail, snail mail or ESP... her mates may have been body snatched as well.
Where's the spirit then?
Nandoon pa rin pero, ewan ko ba. SHE IS JUST PLAIN LAZY... too content, I guess. This is really BAD. BAD! BAD! .... ((((moonwalks)))
