Rules:
1. Put your iTunes on shuffle (Or Mp3 Player, or whatever you use)
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer
3. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS
4. Tag at least 10 friends who might enjoy doing the game as well as the person you got the note from.

1) IF SOMEONE SAYS "IS THIS OKAY" YOU SAY

Lesson 6 - Speaking Practice: Calling The Office To Say That One Will Be Late Because Of An Injury - (ones like this are from a learning Japanese CD, so yeah... hehe)

2) WHAT WOULD BEST DESCRIBE YOUR PERSONALITY?

March - ( 進軍 ) (eh?)

3) WHAT DO YOU LIKE IN A GUY/GIRL?

Joy - (Hmm, guess that isn't so bad)

4) HOW DO YOU FEEL TODAY?

Ric Flair - (WOOOOOOO!!)

5) WHAT IS YOUR LIFE'S PURPOSE?

Edge - (My purpose is to tell everyone that they're WRONG, WRONG WRONG WRONG!!)

6) WHAT IS YOUR MOTTO?

Lesson 14 - Speaking Practice: Consulting A Colleague About A Sketchy E-Mail One Has Received - (HAHA!!)

7) WHAT DO YOUR FRIENDS THINK OF YOU?

Virtuous Mission - (That's SOOOO true... not)

8) WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT VERY OFTEN?

The Return Of The MIGs - (LOL!!!!!!)

9) WHAT IS 2+2?

Horror B ( 戦慄B Senritsu B ) - (Wha...?)

10) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR BEST FRIEND?

The Boatman's Call - (...okay...)

11) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF THE PERSON YOU LIKE?

Pete's No Dummy - (LOL But I don't know anyone named Pete)

12) WHAT IS YOUR LIFE STORY?

Drop - (Interesting)

13) WHAT DO YOU WANT TO BE WHEN YOU GROW UP?

Lesson 11: Selecting A Vacation Plan - (I want to be a travel agent??)

14) WHAT DO YOU THINK WHEN YOU SEE THE PERSON YOU LIKE?

Lost Reason - (LOL!)

15) WHAT WILL YOU DANCE TO AT YOUR WEDDING?

Vestige ( Zanshi 残滓 ) - (Don't think so)

16) WHAT WILL THEY PLAY AT YOUR FUNERAL?

Ano yo de Fight! - (NEVER!!)

17) WHAT IS YOUR HOBBY/INTEREST?

Starman - (HAHA!)

18) WHAT IS YOUR BIGGEST SECRET?

Yozara ni Saku Hana ~Eternal Place~ - (Umm...)

19) WHAT DO YOU THINK OF YOUR FRIENDS?

Lesson 8: Running Into An Old Acquaintance - (Yeah I guess friends are old acquaintances...)

20) WHAT'S THE WORST THING THAT COULD HAPPEN?

Lesson 8 - Speaking Practice: Talking About A Change That Has Come Over An Area Of Town - (YEAH, that'd be horrible LOL)

21) HOW WILL YOU DIE?

WE GOTTA POWER (TV Size) - (OH... MY... GOD)

22) WHAT IS THE ONE THING YOU REGRET?

失われた眺め - (I don't even know what that means!!)

23) WHAT MAKES YOU LAUGH?

Screaming Mantis - (LOL!!!)

24) WHAT MAKES YOU CRY?

Lesson 14 - Speaking Practice: Consulting A Colleague About The Troubles One Has Sleeping At Night - (LOL!!)

25) WILL YOU EVER GET MARRIED?

(Unit 01) Lesson 02: Target Dialogue - (Go figure...)

26) WHAT SCARES YOU THE MOST?

Bad Jobs - (HAHA)

27) DOES ANYONE LIKE YOU?

Russian Soldiers from Kasatka - (LMAO!!! I can always count on my buddies from Mother Russia!! "They are my only family")

28) IF YOU COULD GO BACK IN TIME, WHAT WOULD YOU CHANGE?

84 And Still Pulling Them - (Yep, I wouldn't be 84 and I wouldn't pull them)

29) WHAT HURTS RIGHT NOW?

Mr. McMahon - (LOL I thought he was meant to be VERILE)

30) WHAT WILL YOU POST THIS JOURNAL AS?

Secret In My Heart - (And I did.)

At long last I got to go to Japan! More specifically, four days each in Tokyo and Kyoto with my parents. Overall it was awesome, but now I'll go into (great) detail so bear with me.

First was Tokyo. The early morning flight didn't get in the way too much, it was very pleasant with overly friendly stewardesses and nice food. I managed to sleep (eventually, with the aid of part of a sleeping pill), so I was rested enough by the time we landed. Even better was that we landed at night time, I think it was at about 8pm. Then we got a "limousine bus" (it was just a bus really) to the hotel. It took a while but there was some stuff to see on the way, most memorably a lit-up ferris wheel. The hotel was nice, the room having a semi-futuristic toilet (I take my toilets very seriously ). It might not have talked, but I don't need my toilet telling me to hurry up and flush already. The next morning was a tour to Tokyo Tower (which we were a bit late for but no harm done), with little patches of glass floor so brave tourists could stand on them and see what it would be like moments before skydiving without actually doing it (maybe?). Then it was off to the Imperial Palace (surrounded by a moat with smart-ass carp that liked to just stare at you and open and close their ugly little mouths), then to a temple (of which we saw many during the whole trip). The next day was up to Mt. Fuji, you know, that place that comes to mind when most people think of Japan. We didn't go all the way up, about 2/3 of the way I think, but that was cold enough. Not to mention upon entering a gift shop we were smacked on the shoulders and ass by a sadistic old man with a stick with bells on it. I only assume it was to knock any evil spirits I was carrying in my pockets out. We got a bell for our trouble, yeah that's right. We rode the Shinkansen bullet train home that evening for the first time. I think of it as a plane on the ground, especially with the plane-nose-shaped front. The next day was good, a free day where we went to the "electric city", Akihabara. So many stores, so many young girls in maid outfits handing out pamphlets in the streets. Don't look at me like that. I even found a CD shop with a Hyde "best of" CD, since I had about half of what was on there I passed it up. It was just cool to see it there at all. That day we found out that the Japanese rail system is a pretty good one, once we understood how it worked. Luckily we got good tips from our Mt. Fuji tour guide Harry (I bet his name was really Hari though). I'm really dragging this out now... On the last day in Tokyo we went to the Ginza shopping district and later I met up with a friend I knew from past Saturday Japanese classes who had gone there to teach English. We walked about a bit then went to a Sushi Train style restaurant. It was the first time I'd done that too, 'twas yummy.

As for Kyoto, we went on a tour to Nara, a place of deer, deer and more deer. Deer who wanted crackers, deer who nuzzled their nose into your pocket, and deer who just stood there. There were also Japanese school children (easily spotted by their yellow hats) who had been brainwashed to come up to us, introduce themselves in English and have us sign their little handy dandy notebooks. Next day it was off to another couple of temples and shrines in rainy weather, day after that was spent in Hiroshima, site of the first atomic bomb use. That was one gloomy place which really put it in perspective (especially after a 30 minute film with footage that nearly made me sick). The final full day was free wander and get soaked by constant rain despite cheap umbrellas, though normally I like rain. Got a couple of Gackt CDs, wahoo! Also played a poor game of bowling... Then the morning of our departure I found another store and got a VAMPS and another Gackt CD, another wahoo! Speaking of which, one of the best experiences was hitting a karaoke bar the final night and using a small private room with almost any song you could want, so naturally I picked a bunch of my favourite J-rock numbers. I'd been dying to do it the whole trip but didn't know it would be so good, one and a half hours wasn't enough!

So... by now most things I wrote above about my mood and what I was eating and drinking are out of date. Overall Tokyo beat Kyoto, but I missed my soft drink here at home (there were drink vending machines everywhere with a variety including funny shaped bottles of Coke Zero and Pepsi NEX (can't beat MAX though, anyone who knows me knows about my love affair with Pepsi MAX). Very few bins though...

Now, why am I writing ALL this on deviantART? Well, one of the last nights in Kyoto in my room I started a new sketch which should be done soon. I wanted to finish it tonight but that may not happen (how long have I spent writing this?). So I'm glad I was a little bit productive in between flicking through funny TV channels complete with beer ads, cartoons dubbed in Japanese, English dubbed news channels and other kooky stuff. I should post it soon, I'm fairly happy with it. Thank God it's a long weekend before I go back to uni...

Thank you very much for reading this far, you must be mighty patient or mighty bored. Hope you enjoyed reading the longest journal entry in history. Go rest your weary eyes now

That's right, I'm bloated from dinner but here I am on my favourite art site. So, what can I say today...

I submitted a couple of new sketches recently, so it's nice to have something to update. I'm happy with one of them ("Raina Face Sketch") but not so much with the other ("Raina Full Body View"). Why is this?

Proportions - my old arch-enemy.

This is something I hope to get better at, as there's not much more frustrating than taking a look at the finished sketch and then a big "!" goes off in your head like it's Metal Gear Solid. Then you notice "Hey, those legs - they're too short! No!!", or "That head! It's too BIG!!". Then you wonder whether to: a) erase and fix it, b) submit it anyway, or c) not submit at all. Usually I go with b) , as I like submitting new stuff.

Last night I watched a few YouTube videos by a Mark Crilley, who I haven't heard of before now but is author of his own manga series called "Miki Falls". I don't know what it's about, when I read the name I thought of a waterfall that must be named Miki. Then later I found it was the name of a character. It's nice to see a non-Japanese person making manga, nice and inspirational.

Anyhow, his videos were little "how-to" videos about drawing manga. The first one I watched was about, guess what - BODY PROPORTIONS! So I watched. I think it was helpful, it involved dividing the body into 6 - 8 boxes, each box being the height of the character's head. Something I should try the next time I draw one of those pesky "full body" sketches as I call them. Close-ups are my specialty, probably because I'm big on detail.

Even with me being in my fifth week of uni, I still want to keep up the drawing, hopefully using CorelDRAW which is gathering dust (I still haven't taken the time to explore it). I've already had a no-drawing streak for about 4 years, I don't plan to start a new one.

Well, that's it from me for now. To whoever read this far, I bid you farewell and thank you for reading my second journal entry.

Yes, you read it right here. The rumours are true. The wait is over.

Welcome to my very first deviantART journal entry! *explosion of confetti and colourful balloons*

Now that the fanfare is over... um... where to begin? I, uh, didn't really prepare anything for this... *cough* ... so... um...

Oh yeah. For my birthday earlier this week I got CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X4. Fancy name huh? What do I hope to do with it you ask? Well even if you didn't ask, I'll tell you. Once I'm done experimenting around with it I hope to use it to change my old-fashioned pencil sketches into less old-fashioned sketches. Hopefully into something that resembles a manga comic, which is what I'm slowly working towards with the sketches I've put up here. On that note, even though I have about 3 unfinished sketches, I hope to post a new one up soon. A finished one that is.

To whoever may be reading this - thanks for reading. Until next time... well, you know.