Naruto 474: There may be a lot of screwy logic in this chapter but Sai's revelation breaks my heart. Maybe in a good way.
And Gaara. The kid has grown up most satisfyingly.

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We Indonesians are having a long weekend, thanks to Eid ul Adha, which is today.

I've been having this idea of making posts about writing wuxia but but (insert multiple headdesking here) presumptuous doesn't even begin to cover this.

From here.

Type 1: The perfectionists. These are the people who find it almost impossible to contain their inner editors, who go back and correct spelling and grammar and change words every five minutes, and who frequently have days when they don't write because they want to keep the plot on track because it's important to them that the book makes sense.

Type 2: The people who just write anything, even if it doesn't really make a coherent story, just to get word count. These people ignore the fact that it'll take months to edit and just focus on finishing and getting that 50k or whatever their goal is, and it doesn't worry them that their plot makes absolutely no sense whatsoever.

The most embarrassing dream last night: I meet Zhou Xun (2003's Huang Rong) and it turns out she speaks passable English so we talk for some time. *brb headdesking forever* This might have been caused by me being excited that she's going to play Xiao Ao Jiang Hu's Ren Yingying. Opposite Kaneshiro Takeshi, not Li Yapeng. (News)

( Saint Seiya The Lost Canvas 151 )

Rokkaku releases an album. Standard upbeat music - I wonder where the songwriters from the early 2000's have gone to?

An important lesson I've learned from NaNo but one that I always forget come December (probably because I'm usually dead by then): People are able to write 2,000 to 3,000 words a day because they're used to writing. They know what they want to do with the next sentence, they know how to keep the characters' personalities consistent, they know what keeps them invested in the story and what doesn't. It really is something you learn from continuous practice and nowhere else.

I feel like re-reading my Michael Ondaatje novels but I'm not even catching up with the new books. orz

And this is why I haven't been drinking soft drinks for the past couple of years.

These days I talk about nothing but:

. wuxia
Xiao Ao Jiang Hu: Finished the book yesterday, all 1,141 .pdf pages of it. Two more Jin Yong novels await.
Heaven Sword Dragon Saber 2009: Whose idea is it to broadcast two episodes per day and release the DVD simultaneously anyway? The story flow gets better after all the kid actors are gone, fighting choreography is decent, and acting is good.

. NaNo
I'm still using migratory's 2007 calendar to keep track of the ideal daily output. (Nnn, don't ask about yesterday's wordcount. There was a general blackout and I had to use Sai's battery wisely)

. wuxia and NaNo
I've promised myself to use English terms when writing wuxia, which is also a useful choice wordcount-wise, e.g. First Brother instead of dashixiong - that's two words, not one. No, I'm not writing a Xiao Ao Jiang Hu fanfic.

I'm at Oh La La Cafe, Pondok Indah Mall, South Jakarta, NaNo-ing with two other Indonesian NaNo-ers, clueless_psycho and Dee (picture). I'm wearing the Seigaku pin brooch from februaryfour, though of course you can't tell from that distance.

The closer it gets to NaNo, the more bunnies there are. *wants to glare balefully, doesn't know where to look* I've been reassured that this is pretty normal, which doesn't make it less annoying.

I'm very slowly catching up with Darker Than Black season 1 (thanks, guys). Ahh, Kanno Youko's piano and jazzy scores :) The series hasn't gotten too cerebral yet, and I like listening to Kiuchi Hidenobu when he's not being *~sultry and sexy~* like he does in TeniPuri.

The Arctic ice cap will disappear completely in summer months within 20 to 30 years. The global climate change is also believed to trigger earthquakes. I guess having more Earth Hours would be a good place to start?

I plan to work on two stories at once this upcoming November.
...
Having stated this outrageous intention, I can only see two possible outcomes: 1) I'll gradually grow scared and even more scared, and settle for just one story 2) I'll feel compelled to prove that I can do it, given enough caffeine. We'll just see which one it's going to be.

I've finished Neil Gaiman's Anansi Boys, and a list of books I've started reading and haven't finished yet already awaits.
( In no particular order )

The beginning of Anansi Boys is reminiscent of The Silmarillion's. Or maybe that's the whole idea.

I used to have Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad. Did I give it away? *tries to remember*

These days I know where to get wuxia series, but not older anime series. Which sucks, since I still want to watch Darker Than Black all the way to the end.

Writing softwares like these tend to make me slightly nervous, perhaps because they imply planning and discipline in a greater amount than what I'm willing to tolerate, being a total pantser.

Tezuka's latest album: the new arrangements sometimes tamper with the original too much. Still a fun listen, though.

( Code:Breaker 60 )

* Bought a tube of facial foam & just saw that it's for "fine-wrinkle care". Talk about realizing one's age, lol. * Have been contemplating NaNo ideas. Fun activity, contemplating. * Bought a hardcover copy of HP7 since there was a sale. My 1st time ever buying a HP book.

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E-book: Hi Eve, I'm Jin Yong's Xiao Ao Jiang Hu, in e-book format! And I'm 2,402 pages long! Hope we'll have fun times together!
Eve: T_T

I also acquired two other Jin Yong e-books, Xueshan Fei Hu and Tian Long Ba Bu. All are Indonesian translations from way back when. TLBB is still written in 1950's Indonesian spelling, so I changed around a few letters in MS Word.

I also have to get used to Fujianese romanization again.