running out of time

[ambientlight]

that is supposed to be, um, baldr. he looks rather cheerful, i know.

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slightly modified meme, stolen from erushi. comment and:

1. I’ll respond with something random about you
2. I’ll challenge you to try something
3. I’ll pick a colour that I associate with you
4. I’ll tell you something I like about you
5. I’ll tell you my first/clearest memory of you ( or, alternatively, I'll make one up. Tell me which you'd prefer. )
6. I’ll tell you what animal you remind me of
7. I’ll ask you something I’ve always wanted to ask you ( or, alternatively, I'll ask you a question addressed to a fictional character. Let me know your preference for this, too. )
8. If I do this for you, you must post this on your blog

edit:
All related comments will be screened. ( i'm not a huge fan of saying things that might require screening ( or f-locking, for that matter ). sorry? )

Comments

[lesstraveled.livejournal.com]

(baldr is cute! i suppose his hairstyle is like, a silent protest against odin's excess tresses? :D)

i am commenting for the meme, i think. if you want to, anyway. don't care which question you want to ask for #5 or #7. either/both, whatever's less work.

[ambientlight.livejournal.com]

( when he was a kid, odin made him leave his hair long. he's still recovering from those days. )

1. every time i listen to Death Cab ( like now ) i recall your mockery of them. :D
2. write incredibly pretentious mushishi haiku!
3. pale autumn-y gold.
4. you are nice even when you do not have to be, so to speak.
5. that time we met in keflavík airport and went for hot chocolate? yeah, that was nice.
6. a marten?
7. youji, why the detective job?

[lesstraveled.livejournal.com]

7. youji, why the detective job?

[ambientlight.livejournal.com]

...fair enough. :D;;

[feliciter.livejournal.com]

he reminds me a bit of an wuxiapian character - perhaps Yang Guo from Condor Heroes The eyes are strangely compelling.

Also commenting for the meme.

[ambientlight.livejournal.com]

ahaha, maloki the wuxia version! i'd watch that.

1. sometimes i wonder if, perhaps, we have somehow passed by each other on public transport

or in the street, and never realised. ( this goes for any singaporean i have only met online, really. )
2.
3. khaki? ( is that even a proper colour? ) a neutral earth tone, anyway.
4. you are all level-headed and grown-up. :o
5. i remember being gleeful when i read your fic on ffn. "there is hope for the fandom after all!"
6. a japanese crane.
7. why medicine? i hope that's not too awkward a question, and that i have not asked you this before. :x

[ambientlight.livejournal.com]

...i realise i missed out #2. o_o hmm. i realise that i can't really challenge you to write anything, because you'd gladly do it, so -- doodle something in mspaint, please?

[feliciter.livejournal.com]

i can't really challenge you to write anything, because you'd gladly do it

return of the hawk anti-hero; alternatively, the one-eyed swordsman, perhaps. though maloki-wuxia would be more crack-tastic and much less amateurish than this or anything else I attempt to draw using a computer (http://www.yousendit.com/transfer.php?action=download&ufid=959F971A5CD6DA63)

why medicine?

wonder if I can dredge up what I waffled on about in the admission interview It's a relatively-respected professional career which allows one to provide a service from an authoritative viewpoint. Plus, I always wanted to be a detective, and this is something rather like it. ^^

(why a japanese crane?)

[ambientlight.livejournal.com]

origami japanese crane! that is terribly cute, thankyou.( and ahaha, i would not protest at all if you wrote maloki wuxia. ~_^ )

hee, detective. thanks! on hindsight that was a rather personal question, so sorry. :x

( because they are kind of -- regal and elegant and solemn? but they also do those crazy dances. :D )

[shanell.livejournal.com]

Me me me me me *comments* ;D

[ambientlight.livejournal.com]

1. if anyone i knew could be a superhero, it would be you.
2. how about posting to your lj, just once? :p
3. electric green-blue. like cyan, except... cooler.
4. you are emotional yet rational. i think that is a rare combination.
5. nothing i can make up will be more exciting than your own life, i'm sure. mm -- i remember going to your house, possibly for the first time ( i forget why ) and you showing me the songs that you'd written. i was Very Impressed.
6. a meerkat? a coyote? the sort of animal that would be a cowboy if it was anthropomorphised on a cartoon show.
7. why did you start song-writing and creative things like that?

[xsmoonshine.livejournal.com]

Hee. He looks like he's looking down his nose at something/someoneone.

Commenty.

[ambientlight.livejournal.com]

that would work, i suppose? i imagine he got quite bitter when loki came along and stole his place as Asgard Dweller Most Able To Condescend.

1. your ljname is very secret agent-y.
2. write a fic about odin that involves neither loki nor thor?
3. metallic dark grey.
4. you have an... interesting sense of humour.
5. i have never met you, but that one time when you appeared on national TV ( in a darkened studio somemore ) as a shady informant character made quite the impression.
6. iguana. o_o
7. tell us about baldr's childhood, odin!

[xsmoonshine.livejournal.com]

^_^

2. Haha.

5. I have in fact appeared on national tv. But not in a darkened studio. /mysterious

6. Oh? *licks eyeball thoughfully*

7. Oh, Baldr's childhood? Sure, why not. He was...he. Um. He liked flowers and sunshine and books. I think. Er. I didn't really spend much time with him. I was busy, all right? Wars to fight, parties to throw, giants to trick - ooh, yes, Loki was very good at that part, very funny, oh, right, we were talking about Baldr. I don't really know. There were so many kids. He was- he sat around quietly a lot, kind of like a vase. Pretty vase, but, come on, vase. I kind of forget he was there most of the time. Now Thor, that was a good boy, so full of it - did I ever tell you the things he would get up to with Loki? Ha ha. That time he tried to catch me a live boar for my birthday and accidentally fell in a cake Baldr was baking for some reason, damn - well, ok, Baldr spent a lot of time with Frigg - I think maybe she always wanted a daughter, but. Look, why do you want to know about him anyway?

[ambientlight.livejournal.com]

5. :O!!! you are not so secretly a government agent! or, um. something. hmmmmm.

6. i read that out of context, and for a moment there i had a terrible mental image of... well, nevermind.

7. ahahahahahaaa. "flowers and sunshine and books"! "I think maybe she always wanted a daughter", awww. this made my morning, thankyou!

[gekokujyo.livejournal.com]

you're, weirdly, the first on my f-list to have done this meme. so, do me please. (no, not that way).

[ambientlight.livejournal.com]

you could post this to your lj and help propogate it, i guess? ^^

1. you could be a manga character.
2. i hope you've read the script? i think that is enough of a challenge. ^_^;;
3. a dusty pink, but not dusty in an unpleasant way.
4. you are very sporting. :D;;
5. i don't know you very well, alas. i'm pretty sure that my first impression of you was "oh look, a TCHS person!", though. :x
6. a chinchilla?
7. what makes you want to act?

[rost.livejournal.com]

I see you've modified the original. ^^;;

Oh well, if it's not too much trouble for you? Thanks. =)

[ambientlight.livejournal.com]

i can't help it. :D;;

1. i envy your cooking skillzzz! among other things.
2. make mont blanc cake! or some other fiendishly difficult japanese confection.
3. the green of leaves under shade.
4. you are polite and nice, and yet also very interesting.
5. i thought you were this super-scary, super-majime sort of person! now i know it is mostly true, but also that you can be a lot of fun. ^_^
6. a fox.
7. how did you first get interested in japan, or in learning japanese?

[rost.livejournal.com]

Mont blanc cake... we shall see about that. Chestnut paste is horribly hard to get in Singapore (I don't even think I've seen it being sold here before), and those little glass bottles of chestnuts preserved in syrup are horribly expensive (although very tasty-looking). I -could- try making it sometime in the future; those Japanese recipes at cookpad seem easy enough though, with the main factor being time taken. Would uguisu mochi suffice as a horribly cheap substitute? XD

As for the interested in learning Japanese bit, the interest in Japanese came later; I just took it at first because it was the closest to Chinese, and theoretically the easiest language out of the 4 offered at the MOELC. And because I could.
During my first few months, I didn't have much interest in the language; I was struggling with hiragana, katakana, and basic grammar. Then it all clicked together after around 4 months or so, and that was when the love affair began. I still consider it one of the better decisions I've made in my life.

[ambientlight.livejournal.com]

anything would, actually. :D kevin should cook more!!

ah, really? that's surprising, but cool. it kind of went the same way for me, too, except that i'm still waiting for things to click. >_>

[rost.livejournal.com]

You need to have more faith in your proficiency in Jap, Janice. Really.

(Punyan!)

[ambientlight.livejournal.com]

it just doesn't work for me as a -language-. i still need to construct sentences in my head before i speak; even my chinese isn't that bad. :\ sorry, kevin-kun.

( pu-- punyan? o_o? )