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Menu for Friday, 2/19/10

Breakfast: Cold cereal (non-fat milk and Honey Bunches of Oats cereal) and hot Kombucha Green Tea (lightly sweetened w/ Stevia sweetener)

Lunch: Mom’s Tuna Sandwich on multi-grain loaf bread and hot Honeybush milk tea (w/ vanilla soy milk and lightly-sweetened with orange blossom honey)

Dinner: Fried Daing na Bangus (marinated milkfish), Sinigang Bangus (milkfish soup (stew?)), white rice (Mom still refuses to have brown rice, which is healthier for diabetic people), and fresh cold water.

After Dinner: hot double rooibos red milk tea and popcorn (while watching the Olympics on TV. I still don’t understand why we can’t watch it live when we’re on the exact same time zone as Vancouver, Canada… )

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• Current Location: Work
• Currently Drinking: Ocean Spray (sugar-free) White Cranberry Peach (on-the-go)
• Currently Eating: Black Bean Chili Tortilla Chips
• Currently Reading: The Pillow Book by Sei Shonagon, The Business of Sustainability (article) by MIT's Sloan School of Management
• Currently Playing: Miles Edgeworth: Ace Attorney Investigations (DS)
• Mood: bored

I’ve only read a few passages, but I’ve been enjoying the book from the beginning. This ancient Japanese literary piece, known as The Pillow Book was written by an imperial court gentlewoman named Sei Shonagon, a lady-in-waiting serving the empress sometime in the 10th-11th Century Heian Period in Japan. During this period, it was the era of cultural flourishing all over Japan. Sort of like the Renaissance Period in Europe where artists of various forms as well as scholars and philosophers promote a brand-new culture in their everyday life through the visual arts to the literary arts. Japan held the record of having one of the very earliest, if not the earliest novel ever written in history, starting with Genji Monogatari (The Tale of Genji) written by another imperial court lady-in-waiting, Murasaki Shikibu.

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• Mood: Hungry

Sometime at the final week of October, My NaNoWriMo blog will be re-activated again. Hopefully I’d be able to create a new layout for it, but for now, we’ll stick to the old one instead since I don’t have any inspiration for it. That blog was the second time that I used Artisteer as the WP theme generator using its defaults since I was still familiarizing with it then.

Whew, I haven’t really blogged in here for the entire week! Well, been busy with work and among other things, plus I got myself warped in to my video gaming fandom as well. New DS games, Age of Empires III complete with the expansions, and my unhealthy obsession with Luna Online and Mabinogi. If you’re a total Celtic Mythology fan (in particular Welsh Mythology), give Mabinogi a try.

Unless I find some really good (and definitely worthy) writers and contributors who would not mind volunteer some time to write in AMNOSnet blog with the latest content or just contribute something they want to write about Arashi just so the site can have fresh content, I’ll have to put the site on a one-month hiatus due to my participation in NaNoWriMo.

And speaking of NaNoWriMo, I am not about to abandon FSM. Why? Because my upcoming novel for NaNoWriMo will be in relation to FSM. If you’re interested in reading my NaNoWriMo novel in progress, then feel free to contact me or read my NaNoWriMo progress blog.

Part II of my Fan-Subbed Works entries will have to be put on hold for now, but I’ll get to it eventually. I also noticed that I’ve gotten a little mellow with my entries as of late (rather more specifically, my rants and miscellaneous entries regarding Arashi/J-Idols “fangirling scene”), but it’s not because I’ve run out of ideas, but because I’ve become more focused on other things other than “fangirling.” I personally can’t survive “fangirling” on Arashi or some other J-idol I happen to currently like.

Okay, I’m calling it a day. More later. Ha!

• Mood: Sleepy

Freedom Sky Mysteries Original Fiction Project

Okay, Chapter 1 of Story 01: A Lovers’ Tragedy in the Freedom Sky is uploaded in the STORIES section of the site. Please please read, check it out, and leave some comments/reviews in the main entry. Constructive criticism always welcome, as long as it doesn’t go in the lines of “WTF THIS FIC SUCKS!”. Show me what I did wrong and show me a suggestion on how to make it right. That’s all I ask.

Or if you got the link from here, you can reply in this entry as well.

• Currently Drinking: Ito En Tea Peach Iced Black Tea
• Currently Eating: Chips and Salsa
• Currently Watching: Little League World Series Baseball: Japan vs. Saudi Arabia
• Mood: Happy ^_^

Another short entry. It’s not because I’ve run out of ideas to write, but it’s because I’ve been really working on one of my writing project sites. I really wanted to get this thing going before I start work on Monday (8/10).

I did a few tweaks with my current theme, added some sections, and got rid of that annoying sub-nav menu. I always like sub-navs but somehow this one just annoyed me big time (and I’m pretty sure it annoyed some of you as well). I re-arranged the static pages for a lot more streamlined display as well as the widgets on my sidebar. I added a few trackers (simply because I wanted to see how many viewers I get and where they’re coming from). In that way I’d feel encourage to write a lot more stuff. Good stuff, definitely.

There are a lot of stuff I do plan to write out including a Part 2 of a certain entry of mine that got quite popular by the numbers. There’s also a lot more reviews I want to post up from more (Japanese) dramas to even different kinds of websites (fan sites, most specifically). And then there’s a whole lot more sidenotes regarding my original fiction project, Freedom Sky Mysteries, however all the details about it are most likely going to be posted in its new home.

And that’s it for today’s entry. Aww, no fresh content. Epic fail.

• Current Location: Home
• Currently Drinking: Water
• Currently Eating: Nutri-Grain Cereal Bar
• Currently Reading: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Mood: Sleepy

For those who know me very well that I am an addict of literary works. That particular statement means reading novels, short stories, story anthologies, blogs, original fiction in progress, and yes, fanfiction. Depending on my mood, my inspiration, and my usual “what the heck” mode, I do end up writing a form of fanfiction. One-shots aren’t really my thing, though I write them occasionally, but what I find most enjoyable in being a fanfiction (or original fiction) writer in an online literary community is that you also get to read work in progress writings from others too.

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• Currently Drinking: Coke Classic
• Currently Reading: The Weblog Handbook by Rebecca Blood
• Mood: Hungry