Ayumi Hamasaki → 8
Lady GaGa → 13
Hayley Williams → 6
Ingrid Michaelson → 13
MUCC → 19

Total → 59

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Edward Scissorhands → 1
Helena Bonham Carter → 16
Jennifer Connelly → 9
MUCC → 45

Total → 72

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It's ムック's "AGEHA" (140 plays). :) I find that song just so damn addicting, interesting and well... every time I listen to it I just feel the same excitement. I try not to listen to it obssesively - I love it so much, I just don't want to get bored of it. :P

Sweeney Todd → 12
Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends → 8
Lady GaGa → 7
Brüno → 6
Ayumi Hamasaki → 3
Gwen Stefani → 3
SuG → 2
Shoko Nakagawa → 1

Total → 43

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stoleeen from meow_tan
Movie Quote Meme rules:
1. Pick 10 of your favourite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them here for everyone to guess.
4. Fill in the film title once it's guessed.
5. NO GOOGLING/using IMDb search functions. Totally cheating, you dirty cheaters.

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Title: From the register of regrets.
Author: mad_vain.
Genre: Angst.
Pairing: MitsuruxMasato.
Rating: G.
Synopsis: In reminiscence, the worst thing is the inability to predict which thought will hurt you this time.
Warning: None.
Disclaimer: Quite obviously, I do not own SuG.
A/N: Even though I consider myself a very average writer, if not below average, this is one of the fairly well written fics of mine. Oh, English is not my first language, so any help is welcome. I'm sure I messed up the tenses. Really. I don't even pay attention to that, I write what sounds right. XDD

( Sometimes, just from time to time, when he can't help but sulk somewhere where he's unheard, he wonders if Masato suffers just as much as he does. He thinks so. He hopes so. )

8th day in Japan.

I wasn't able to update yesterday since I couldn't connect to the Internet in the hotel. Well, yesterday we were in Nagasaki, in the Peace Memorial Park and the A-bomb museum. I have to admit, Nagasaki's had a greater impact on me, mainly probably because we went to the museum there, which we didn't in Hiroshima. Yes, I know this is all exaggarated to the Americans' disadvantage, but seriously... over a 1000 of nuclear weapons "tested" by the US. I don't even want to imagine the horror the people of Hiroshima and Nagasaki have went through. The saddest thing is that people do it to each other... As if we weren't in the same container! As if we weren't humans at all... I'm not going to write about Hiroshima and Nagasaki here, no, even though I have a million racist, unfair, hateful thoughts. I don't want to sound like that, I don't want to make myself any enemies because of what just happens to be on my mind. Still... It has changed my view on war. On the things happening on Earth. Two days ago, I might have just been a little egoistical girl, but today I feel like something much more. I want peace. Something I didn't care about at all not that long ago. I just... can't do anything about the assholes that want to dominate the fucking world no matter how hard I wanted to. I'd kill them, kill them with my own hands and no, I wouldn't be regretting it. It'd be a blessing. A blood-dripping blessing, wouldn't it? Wouldn't it be a miracle to not have anyone more die because of a dick sitting behind a desk and sending another hundrends, thousands, millions of people for death? I would laugh. I would smile at having those motherfuckers smell the flowers from down there.
But that's not going to happen.

We're in Kyoto today.

6th day in Japan.

Today we had to get up early since we were leaving Tokyo by the shinkansen. It's amazing - we drove about 900 kilometres in 4,5 hours! Well, I did nothing but slept, listened to music and read books. Then we arrived at Hiroshima. I thought it wasn't going to be half as interesting as Tokyo, but how wrong I was! It's just- I'm speechless. The Miyajima island is so beautiful and lovely and ohgodidon'tknowwhattosay ;ww; Not to mention the Peace Memorial Park in Hiroshima. Now I get the thousand paper cranes... Now I get it.
In the evening we ate okonomiyaki. It didn't blow me off my feet, but the people, oh God, the people. We sat in one of those "boxes", and there was this freidnly looking young guy and the girl who looked like a boy, but it doesn't matter. They were so nice to all of us, we joked all around even though we barely understood each other... The guy was especially adorable, when he was frying the stuff someone took a photo, and he smiled widely and made the peace sign each time anyone took a photo. They were having just as good fun as we did. The whole evening was so lovely I was sad when we had to go... Especially that I'll probably never see any of those awesome people again - the cooks in the okonomiyaki stand, the guy in the 7 Eleven in Tokyo, not a single one of all the great people I met. It makes me so sad... Why can't everyone be so nice in Poland? That sort of kindness and sincerity has faded in Europe and the west countries somehow, and it's really depressing to know some of the people we live with can't be nice anymore. For example, the waiters in Poland act as if they were making US a favour by doing their job. Here, in Japan, everyone knows their place, right? If you do something for someone, you want to do it the best you can, isn't that right? But if you're the customer, you want to be treated well for what you pay. It's very logical. I don't get why some people just can't understand the simple logic there's to it? And more importantly, they don't even need to go the ways of logic, why can't they be kind for the sake of it? Does that hurt so much to smile?
I'm clueless. But if I don't understand them, I can't change them. I'll try to be a better, happier and a more pleasant person myself. The Japanese motivate me so much everyday, and by each smile given I feel so much better, more welcome and liked. Such a simple gesture can change so much. I'll keep that in mind and do what I can to make people feel just as nice as the Japanese make me.

5th day in Japan.

Today we went to Nikko and looked around the temple. Not much stuff to write about that, other than it's sad how commercialized the religion's become. But the buildings are definitely pretty, though I'm not a fan of the Chinese architecture style. Then we drove up to the Chuzenji lake and had lunch here - I ate tempura with a shrimp~ I really love tempura, it's so good. The Japanese food is gorgeous generally. Except sushi.
Then we asked our guide about the way to Harajuku, and we went there without the whole group, just on our own. Harajuku's amazing! It's really great, all the shops and boutiques and stuff! I bought some accsesories, since I definitely was not wealthy enough to get something like a brand shirt. I've seen the shop with h. NAOTO, Algonquins, Sex Pot Revenge and stuff. The prices are crazy though. Not that I expected for them to be a bargain. Well, when we were about to go back, we got lost of course~ And it turned out we went to the wrong metro station. And when we wanted to get out of it, the guy in the "box" gave us the money for the tickets back! I was really amazed, something like that would have NEVER happened in Poland.
We got back, and the cute guy was shop assisting again tonight~ I bought Pocky~
Nee, tomorrow we're leaving Tokyo and the hotel we've stayed in up to now, and we're heading towards Hiroshima and Nagasaki, then we'll spend a night in a ryokan, and then we're going to Kyoto fot two days. Then we're going to leave! ;___; I don't wanna... Japan is so amazing...
Maa, I suppose I'm not going to have Internet connection for the rest of the trip, so I'll try to write in a diary everyday and then I'll be able to keep up with stuff and post the summary of each day.

Until then!

4th day in Japan.

Today was Kamakura. It's a nice place, the temples are especially pretty. Sadly, I can't remember the names of the temples, I just know that the first temple we went to was called the Temple of Big Buddha. Well, not exactly, but it's known as this. In the last temple there was a wedding in kimonos and whatnot. It's always nice to see how it's done in other cultures, so it was anjoyable to see at least the costumes, since the couple was just standing there with a bunch of other people, they were posing for photos. Well, we spent almost all day here, and I ate fried tuna, it's good! I'm getting better at eating with chopsticks. It's not so hard actually, I think it's better than eating with a fork and a knife. At the evening we went to Akihabara. Seriouly, up to now I was wondering where are all they young guys in Japan? You don't see them on the streets of Tokyo, you don't see them in the subway, bars, they're nowhere to be seen. NOW I know. Practically, they were about 90% of the people I was passing by. Shops with electrocnics, music equipment and all this stuff are here in Akihabara. And, oh God, shops with anime stuff - I mean, it's crazy! I went in one of those shops - anime and manga were all over, even I was feeling a little uncomfortable. It's completely insane. I've never seen so many anime girls all at once... Haha... But well, my parents were looking for a camera, but they figured it'd be cheaper to buy one in Poland anyway, since we buy dollars expensive and sell them cheap for yen. Then when we were coming back to the hotel, I went to the Seven Eleven nearby just to look at stuff since there was this cute guy shop assisting this evening, lol. He has cool hair.
Oh, and Pocky! It's so awesome. I'm eating it a lot recently~

3rd day in Japan.

Today at about 9 a.m. we went to the city hall and got on the elevator to get us on the 45 floor. The view from there is incredible. Our guide told us that we're insanely lucky - Mt. Fuji was visible from the place. He said it's the first time he's ever seen it from there. Well, I'll have to admit I didn't appreciate it as much as I probably should, since mountains are the thing I'm the least interested in this trip. Then we drove for 2 hours to Mt. Fuji, where we stayed for 4 hours. We ate really good food there, I don't know what the thing I ate was called though (^_^)" Then we went to get ice cream and while we were eating it I got in a small fight with my parents. My dad's such a cold-hearted person that he doesn't believe that someone could be doing something for the sake of being generous, he believes either they have some hidden purposes, are raised like that and it's just normal or some other crap without any heart to it. I don't know how can he live, seeing money or personal profit everywhere - I couldn't be like that. Yes, maybe it is foolish and I'm inexperienced, but that's just how I feel. I don't want to see world as a cruel place where people let a piece of paper manipulate them.
Anyways, I thought it's a waste of time - while having 4 hours in a place where there's nothing to do, we got 12 fucking minutes at Harajuku. It's ridiculous!! I'm still going to do everything to get the guide to take us to Harajuku again. I'm not going to let the probably only one chance in my life slip!
Well, then we came back to the hotel. Me and my parents went to Starbucks. The cappuccino I drank was good (^_^)
Tomorrow we're going to Kamakura. In the evening we'll go to Akihabara, I'm excited for this (^_^)

2nd day in Japan.

Today we went to the Asakusa district (?) to see the Kannon Temple in there. Sanctuaries aside, the souvenirs they got right there is what was the best! XD I got myself a Hello Kitty plush key ring, she's dressed in a kimono, it's so cute! I wanted to get a fan as well, but I figured I don't have much money to spend and there might be other interesting things to see. We saw the puppet dance outside the Asakusa... what building was that... I don't remember, but they got out of a clock and danced. It was cute, but nothing I'd die without seeing, ne. Then we went to the subway and got out at the Shimbashi station to ride the Yurikamome line, yay! It was certainly fun, and let's say the views kind of changed my opinion on the place - yeaterday I was all "what are people getting so excited abou this Tokyo?" but today I definitely know. Well, we got out at the Aomi station and stayed at the shops near the station here for some time and then we went to the Fuji TV building to get a nice view on the city. Then we went down by the escalator and saw a group of schoolchildren - abou the age of 15 I'd say. That's where I got amazed - you know, all the people in our group took out their cameras and made photos - in Poland the kids would start shouting at them, taking out their middle fingers, maybe even spitting at them... I was scared the kids would do that, but none of that happened - they started to smile, wave at us and even pose for the photos! They were all making peace signs and the boys started shouting "Japanese boy!", haha! It was funny, and they certainly brightened up the atmosphere, since I was getting all tired and upset. Afterwards we went to the Venus statue not so far away. Yet another example of how well-behaved and nice the people are here - I was looking away when the guide explained us something, and there were two teenage guys passing by. When they realized I was (unintentionally) staring at them, they just waved and smiled at me. In Poland the guys would make some stupid faces at me, or ask aggressively "what the fuck were you staring at". I smiled and waved at them too, since it was rude to stare like that ne... (^_^)" Then we went to the Statue of Liberty here.
Well, then we went back to have a lunch break. I ate ramen and some rice, it was good~. We still had some time after we finished eating, so we went to a shop here - I bought some hairpins and the nerd glasses I've been looking for for ages, yay 8D We went to the Hibiya Park then and headed towards the Emperor's palace. We couldn't see anything at allexcept the green rooftops, and we laughed that it was everything we came all the way for. Well, we were then able to see the Kabuki theatre, but our guide said that probably just a half of us will be able to sit, and the rest will have to stand. He also said that the perfomance is so "interesting" that we'll certainly feel the urge to sleep at some point... So me and my mother resigned from it and walked around Ginza for an hour. I found a music shop there, but I was able to find only Gazette and Mucc CDs, and they were not even the ones that I meant to buy. When the Kabuki ended we came back by the metro and went to eat something - sushi of course, so I didn't eat at all. I just drank tea, oh, wait, I didn't even take a single sip - as I was holding it, the mug simply slipped out of my hand and landed on my pants. I could've sworn the guy sitting next to me was looking at me funny even before I did that... Thankfully, the tea came off and when my pants dry they'll probably be perfectly fine.
Tomorrow we're going to Mt. Fuji!

It's all for today I think, so have a good day/night.

1st day in Japan.

I didn't know there'd be access to the Internet in Tokyo, and if there is, i figured it'd be easier to keep track of things if I updated daily, right. I'm going to be in that hotel for the first 5 days, so you can be sure I'm going to write everyday.

So, let's start with the flight. We set off at 3 a.m. (I didn't sleep and watched The Others, hehe, good stuff) to Warsaw, from where we flew to Switzerland at 9.45 a.m. At about 12 p.m. we arrived at the Zurich airport. I slept all the way from Warsaw to Zurich, so I can't say much other than that I got a chocolate from the crew, lol. So, we all went straight to the toilets after the carry on luggage check, and that's where it gets interesting. We went into the women's toilet, and not only was the queue insanely long, it consisted mainly of Arabic women who started to wash themselves in the sinks. We didn't have much time, not to mention the sight was indeed disturbing... so we just stood there, until the cleaner came up and tried talking to us in English - she somehow managed to explain that there are toilets on the 3rd floor and most likely, there's no one here. So we ran up straight there, and the toilets were indeed all empty. Then we went to the boarding point and went into the plane - it was about 12.45 p.m. and we set off at 13.10 p.m. maybe? Something like that. We flew by the Airbus 340, and seriously guys, BEST PLANE EVER. During the starting my ears didn't hurt at all, and the flight was not half as bad as I'd have imagined, but it was still horrible - at one point I certainly have used up all the possiblities of killing time, so I tried sleeping, but that worked for a short time span, not to mention the crew gave us food almost all the time, lol. Eventually we started landing and I think my head and ears never ever have hurt as much as they did then. But all right, it took about 10 hours to get the air-pressure out of my ears, ouch. It was about 7.30 a.m. local time when we landed at the Narita airport. We went to the metro after they let us out of the airport, and one thing comes to my mind - the Japanese toilets are fucking insane, there's EVERYTHING, music, rinsing, toilet paper, a million other buttons except flushing. It took me a while to figure out how do you do that. XD So, then we went into the metro and drove for about an hour. We still were able to see some blooming Sakura trees, it's a gorgeous sight. Truly pretty. Then we got out at the Ueno station, and yet another thing that made me think - a lot of people wear surgical masks here. At first I thought it was a strange thing to do, so I googled it. I found out they do it because of all the pollution in Japan, or because if they have a cold, to not spread it, or because they're allergic, and a very small percent wear it because they're scared of catching something themselves, or as a fashion accesory. It's autosuggestional too I think, because seriously, if so many people wear them you'd want to wear one yourself.
Right, so back to the trip. We went to eat something at 12.45 p.m., and it turned out to be sushi - I think it's alright and all, but the wasabi sauce... I can't swallow it. I simply can't. I'd throw up, that's for sure. So I needed to go on hungry, lol. Then when we came back and I took a nap, it was about 1,5 hours to the walk around Shinjuku we were about to go for, but you know what? I overslept. I was so tired, that my parents tried to wake me up 4 TIMES, and I mumbled something about not going, so they left me at the hotel room. I was mad. I really wanted to go to Shinjuku more than anywhere else, and there, I was practically unconscious. But that's still not all. When my parents came back, they didn't have the key to the hotel room, so they knocked and rang the doorbell until I woke up (it was about 7 p.m. and I was still asleep...), and eventually they managed it. They told me they got lost at Shinjuku because of the shoe laces they bought for me, lol! Our guide is one crazy guy, HE FUCKING RUNS WHEN HE WALKS. They tried going back by metro, but no luck, it was all written in Japanese so they couldn't understand a word. They took a taxi and the taxi guy got fucking lost when he was driving them back to the hotel. XDD But well, at last they managed to arrive at the hotel.
That's pretty much all for the day, I hope tomorrow will be better, haha.

Goodnight.

I'm feeling so bad...
My nose is literally dripping, my throat feels as if it's burning, of course I had to get sick just days before the trip to Japan.
And I'm all packed and ready and feeling so horrible...
Well, never mind, I'll try to enjoy myself as much as possible, since those are possibly going to be the 2 best weeks of my life!
That's what my friend told me when I said I was a little scared of this trip.

But other than that, it was a fun day today. I went shopping for the things we were missing with my parents today. I bought a pair of new jeans, and even though they're skinny I look pretty good with them on! (I'm a little chubby and really small, so usually I look laughable with such pants on, haha.) And they're really comfy, despite the tightness. Then we went to eat something, and we got ourselves a really awful apple pie and almost as bad coffee, haha. The place had good ice cream, and beacuse I wasn't in the condition for ice cream (cold >_<), we took something warmer. At least we know we shouldn't go there for cakes now!
Ah, I'm really happy my relations with my parents are so good. I know people who barely see their parents and don't care much anyway. I'd hate that, but whatever makes them happy, I won't interfere.

I'm not sleeping tonight. I want to be able to get some sleep during the flight, so I'll just spend a sleepless night, watch some horrors, drink some coffee, eat sweets, ya know... Whatever keeps me awake, since the flight is during the day, which absolutley sucks!!
Well, I'll take one last long bath for the next 2 weeks.


I'm hungry again...

SuG → 12
Bjork → 10
Ayumi Hamasaki → 5
Higurashi no naku koro ni → 5
MUCC → 4
Shoko Nakagawa → 3
Acid Black Cherry → 2
Total → 41

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GUYS LOL
I WAS BROWSING MY FOLDERS IN SEARCH OF SOME IMAGES FOR ICONS (which hopefully will be posted haha)

WHEN I FOUND THIS.

If I remember correctly, this is in my friend's school. Not mine, unfortunately. :C
Seems like someone didn't really like the invention of St. Patrick's Day... So they tweaked it a little to their liking LOL.

Spring is sooo daaamn aweeesooome. My friend drags me out of my house everyday. I don't know how could've I been so stupid to spend all my time home when it was so beautiful outside last year!
Maa, I guess we just grow to some things.
On Tuesday is the flight to Japan @w@;; So happyyy~

Later.

Oooh of course I forgot to update (=_=)"
Anyways, I wonder why I didn't start to watch Higurashi no naku koro ni Rei? I remember I thought "Ah, I'll wait for more episodes" when I heard about the first episode being aired, but does anyone know how many episodes have been released up to now?
I feel bad neglecting my beloved anime na...

Oh! One more thing I have to complain about. For some reason, Sony Vegas won't really open up avi files for me. I wonder why? I've been in the mood for an AMV lately and I can't do anything about it... I even tried converting the videos into wmv, but they're SO horrible quality then that I want to cry when I watch them.

Wah, I was on a control visit to my doctor today. She's a doctor specializing in diabetes (my dictionary doesn't really have the English word for such a doctor na). I've been doing really bad with my diabetes lately so it wasn't a very pleasant visit ne (^_^)"

Until then, I don't feel like writing too much today. Have a good day.

Aaah, I always post when I'm too sleepy to stay fully awake, and then, when I'm about to submit, I get all '...whaat?' because what I wrote made no sense whatsoever... (~.~)
Same today, haha.
I've been listening to SuG all the time for some days now, they cheer me up so much! Yes, recently I have a lot of work and not much spare time, and when it's like that I tend to slack off on the couch and watch TV, or something from the pile of movies my friend keeps borrowing me and forces to watch. 8'D She's always so 'You must watch this!!' you wouldn't think such a critical girl can get so overly excited about a movie! But she loves watching those. I'm not so keen on watching every movie that just shows on TV, just when I hear about something that happens to pique my interest - then I do, and I get so excited I talk all the time about it, according to my friends. >w<" And on the other hand, she is so interested in this stuff that whenever something she really wants to watch is aired on the TV, she'll most likely record it, or sometimes even skip lessons... (laugh) And I'm always like '...Hey... You know you can rent it...?'
Tomorrow's the Maths test (Q___Q) God help me... + German test... but it's okay, since learning languages is no trouble for me if I'm obliged to do it... It's worse when I have to use my own willpower... (-w-)
See you tomorrow, ne.



...Aaah, I haven't read even a PAGE of The Green Mile for so long!

Such a gloomy day.
In the morning it was sunny, but then it started to rain and turn grey... Don't you hate it? I sure do.
Today I went to the shopping centre with my parents to look for some things we didn't have and need to take to Japan. A lot of money was spent... Everything is so expensive, I swear! And dollars are so expensive right now, too... I need to change my zloty (Polish money) for some dollars, then for yen. I'm going to wait I think, maybe it's going to go down, because seriously, I won't be able to buy a half of the things I wanted to! (;__;) Life is so unfair...
Well, I'll just go listen to SuG now to brighten up a little... nee...

I just watched Sixth Sense, by the way. I'd never expect the ending!

I feel like such a bad blogger, ne. I should post here more often. When I get to the point 'oh... I should write something...' I can't remember anything worth mentioning happening, and I end up making short entries.
Yes, from now on I should post everyday! (>w<)


Oh, just a second... That's not gonna work...
Yeah, I'm going for my trip to Japan in 10 days, and I'm really excited, but also a bit scared. You know, I just really can't believe this, this is all like fulfilling a dream of mine I had for such a long time. It's so strange. I've always thought of that as a dream that's never going to be fulfilled, and then, boom! "We're going to Japan!". I'm still probably not taking it as seriously as it should be taken.
Apart from this, Poland finally seems to be brightening and it looks like it's the final farewell of winter. It makes me so happy~ I wake up, see the sun out of the window and it suddenly makes me want to live again~
But... of course, there HAS to be a thing that makes me want to throw things (-_-') Maths, that is! Algebra is horrible. I'll never understand maths. How can you prove that 18 divided by 9 equals 3? (._.) It's so illogical. And I have an algebra test just Tuesday.

Maa... what should I do today...