The House of Night

So recently, I found this book series called 'The House Of Night'. And it is totally AWESOMAZING!!! I don't think I'm just bias because of my love for good, non-cliche romance novels, but this is my very first vamp book series. No, I didn't read Twilight. My Mom didn't and doesn't allow me to read it. Ugh! But, now, I'm pretty sick and darn tired that everyone is so obsessed with this out-of-reach-for-me-alone book.
And another thing that shocks me is why The House Of Night isn't as popular as Twilight.

So, anyways, I totally and absolutely recommend The House Of Night to anyone interested. I know I've been totally obsessed, probably just as one would be all over Twilight. But this series has like 8 books! XD I'm almost totally finished the series. :) Aren't you proud of me? But in truth, if you knew me, you'd know that I love to read and I read A LOT,...  so yeah...

So if you see the book in the library or wherever, go ahead and try it.

...I feel like some weirdo commercial lady... -.-

Beware of Dog

So I was thinking, as I drove past a house that had a sign: ' Beware of Dog ' And I said to my Daddy, "What if I were to have a sign that says: ' Beware of God '. Would it have the same effect?"

And as I think more about it, I don't think it would. If someone were to see beware of dog, I think they'd be more afraid of a dog than God. And I only think that because most of the criminals, etc., don't believe in God anyway so... But they believe in dogs...
And I'm not comparing dogs to God, so no hate, please. :)

What other sign mix-up stuffs do you guys know?

(Y) ~Zaria  :)

FictionPress!!!

Bonjour mes amies!! XD I'm learning French for school. :)

I am now alerting y'all that I am actually on the wonderful good for everything site called FictionPress. So you can look me up if you so choose. My screen name is ToruHonda (the link leads you to my profile). On it you'll a lot of rambling, but you can skip all my Bla's and just scroll all the way down to the bottom where you'll see some of my poems and stories. :)
You guys can also join too! It's basically (for those who don't know) for people who want to get their stories, etc, out there without publishing to get money or whatever. But no one can steal your work. If they do you can just alert the 'Authorities' and they'll get them all rallied up.... if that's the correct term... ;)

Over & Out!
(Y) Zaria :)

Black and White Pictures

I love taking black and white pictures. There's just this gentleness and peacefulness about them.

But sometimes you can get black and white without changing the settings on an overcast day. You just have to wait until the sun peaks out a little behind the tree or whatever and take it before the camera adjusts the light like what I did for this one... It would be called back lighting. When the light is behind the subject and therefore makes a silhouette thingy.

But you can kind of see the colour in the tree.

(Y) ~ Zaria

Stupid Lizard!

So at the same time I was fooling around with my camera when I took the pictures of the Gully(see previous post) I saw this lizard on my fence (this is all in my back yard). I kept on trying to take pictures of it, but I don't think I got a good one.

I kept changing my settings for each one, but while I was changing them the last time, the lizard scurried away, unnoticed. But instead of taking pictures of the lizard itself, I think I more took pictures of my neighbour's back yard.

(Y) ~ Zaria

Pollution

OK.
So the other day *cough* yesterday *cough* I was taking pictures for the Photography Club I'm in, and I started taking pics of the gully behind my house. And let me tell you, it was aweful. There's garbage everywhere. Totally disgusting.

Please tell me what you think. No. I probably know what your going to say.
"Ewwwwww! Why are you polluting the gully like that!?"

But the thing is, it's not me, my family, nor my neighbours. There's just this big huge supermarket thingy across the gully and I think they might be the cause.
But it might not be them either. Gullies run for miles and miles and more miles. This rubbish could have come from somewhere further up and just traveled down along with the flow of the water.

And the thing is. The government sometimes cleans the gullies. But then the garbage just comes back. And they don't have millions and millions of dollars to clean gullies all the time. We need to get people to know that they can't pollute the gullies with their garbage. It's just not fair.
Jamaica is supposed to be this awesome place for tourists and such but what tourist would want to see that?

(Y) ~Zaria

Happy Happy Time - Yumeiro Patissiere Professional

OK, so I've been watching this anime for a long time and i really like it's ending song. The anime is called Yumeiro Patissiere Professional and the song is called HAPPY HAPPY TIME - yes it's in all caps.

So here is the song and below are the Japanese lyrics. If you want the translation in English, you can just write it in a comment (you don't have to be a member) and I'll put it in another post.



Sung by Primavera.

Hurry hurry up! saa isoide
Honey honey time! moridakusan yo
HAATO no ribon hodoite SHUBI DUBI Sweets!
Yume ga hajimaru

(sowa sowa sowa so-waffle wonderful
1,2,3 ichigo go! go! let's go!)

KIMI ga ireba KIMOCHI wa KYARAMERIZE
Yaruki genki fui ni okitekuru
KYUN to shun no ERIA ippo ippo KURIYA
Koi ni todoke HARERUYA HAATOMAAKU

Daiji na toki koso daisuki wo ageyou
Shinjirareru CHIKARA egao sore ga MIKATA
Kyou no OSUSUME "Home Made Happy"

Hurry hurry up! saa isoide
Honey honey time! moridakusan yo
HAATO no ribon hodoite SHUBI DUBI Sweets!
Yume ga hajimaru

(sowa sowa sowa so-waffle wonderful
1,2,3 ichigo go! go! let's go!)

Yagate ame mo daichi ni kiete iku
Namida sae mo itsuka niji ni naru
MISU wo shite mo BIKOOZU akiramenai RIBAASU
Donna koto mo AMYUUZU HANAMARU

Taisetsu na hito to shiawase wo tsukurou
KOKORO zenbu komete egao ni naru RESHIPI
Kyou no ICHIOSHI "Home Made Happy"

CHU CHU Tune up! saa RANKUIN
Happy happy time! aka MARU desho!?
HAATO no din don kanjitara
SHUBU DUBI Sweets! Koi mo mezameru

Hurry hurry up! saa isoide
Honey honey time! moridakusan yo
HAATO no ribon hodoite SHUBI DUBI Sweets!
Yume ga hajimaru

CHU CHU Tune up! saa RANKUIN
Happy happy time! aka MARU desho!?
HAATO no din don kanjitara
SHUBU DUBI Sweets! Koi mo mezameru

(sowa sowa sowa so-waffle wonderful
1,2,3 ichigo go! go! let's go!
Smile RINKU smile kurukuru Miracle Beautiful)

Fortune Arterial Opening Song and Lyrics

So these lyrics are from the opening song of Fortune Arterial. I've just today started watching it and I really like the opening so here goes...



kizunairo kokoro to kokoro yakusoku no basho kitto michibiku wa
tsutaetai tsutae kirenai
hatenai omoi wa anata aa

boukansha no hibi ni
yuuki wo dashitara sayounara
demo jiyuu no teigi ni
BURANKO no youni yureteru no ne

gosenfu ni egaita kaidan
ippo susunde niho sagattemo
honno chotto SETSUNASA utau
watashi no RIARU kanjite ne

kizunairo kokoro to kokoro yakusoku no basho kitto michibiku wa
tsutaetai tsutae kirenai zutto anata wo sagashiteta
TATOEBA sou anata ga hikari
watashi ga kage de mitsumeaeta nara
namida iro no DAIAMONDO
nee ZERO kara kagayakasetai

boukensha no chizu ni
na mo nai kibou o egakeba
hora kamisama ga kimeta
SHINARIO wa hakushi to wakaru desho

negai goto moshimo hitotsu
kanau toshitara mou mayowa nai
ANBARANSU demo bukiyou datte
tsubasa wo hiroge kaze ni naru

itoshikute itooshi sugite
koi hitoshizuku omoi tsumuideku
kioku no hi wo tayasanaide
kako mo mirai mo genzai mo
mou ichido ato mou ichido ano hi
ano toki eien no RIPUREI
kiseki ga moshi nakunatte habataku yo
yume e tsuduku sora FLY

shinwa ni nanka nare nakute mo ii sono mama de ii
kowagaranai de musundene ai wo deai wo

kizunairo kokoro to kokoro yakusoku no basho kitto michibiku wa
tsutaetai tsutae kirenai zutto anata wo sagashiteta
itoshikute itooshi sugite koi hito shizuku someru kizunairo
kioku no hi wo tayasanai de
ryou no te de tsunagi tomeru kara aa

shinwa ni nanka narenakute mo ii sono mama de ii
kowagaranai de musunde ne ai wo deai wo
tenshi ni nanka narenakute mo ii sono mama ga ii
HITORI janai yo
me wo tojireba hora atatakai

Disclaimer: I was not the one who translated this - though I wish i could've.

If you want the translation, you can just leave it in the comments and I'll do another post for it!

Love you all! And a Merry Christmas!!
(Y) - I was the one who made that up.

What Animes Are These Pictures From?

Okay...This isn't what you would call a good post, but it involves something that I really want to know.  I see some really nice anime pictures on the Internet but I can't find out which anime they're from.  My profile picture is an example of this.

I just found it on Google and I liked it, so I put it on my profile.  So I was wondering if anyone could tell me which anime it's from. (PLEASE!!! ';l )

This is another one that I saw that made me interested(...in a good way ;-) )  :

So please (PLEASE) just leave a comment and let me know OK?  Thanks guys! 

(Y) 

P.S. I think I got the right font for the peace sign. Yeah!!! :D

(Y)

Marmalade Boy

So right now I'm watching an anime called 'Marmalade Boy'. I know that it's a really old one, but I haven't been able to watch it until recently.

It's about a girl whose parents(A) go on a week long vacation and meet this other couple(B). So A's lady falls in love with B's man, and A's man falls in love with B's lady. The B couple have a son. The two couples find out that everyone feels the same way, so they decide to get divorces and switch partners. Because they were thinking about their kids they decided to rent one big house and just have everyone live there.

The story is basically about how the boy and the girl fall in love. It's a really old one and from what I've heard, the manga's better than the anime, but frankly... I don't really care. I still understand the story so there's no problem with it for me.

Please leave a comment to tell me what you thought of Marmalade Boy.

(Y)

    

  

'New Generation' vs 'Old Generation'

You know... the 'New Generation'(my generation) is making life way easier.  It's like we're breaking down all the complications of life and simplifying them to the smallest degree.  And then we know that the people whose jobs it is to keep the complicated stuff(scientists, technologists, etc...) they keep it to themselves and just show us the simple stuff.

The 'Old Generation'(no offense to the old generation people), their way of thinking is just so... weird. It's like they want life to be more complicated than it actually is. Now I'm not talking about all old people, I happen to know some old folks who are pretty cool, but the majority is complicating the whole way of life thing.  They were smart(kinda) in the way that they developed  and discovered new things... but in the individual aspect, like the way of life of a regular, average person is just so old like. You know?

It's kind of like Macintosh versus PC.  Mac just took all the principles and mistakes of Microsoft and made everything better and easier to use.

These are just some of my thoughts about this. Please leave a comment to let me know what you think also.

(Y)

You know,  I was just thinking about it and it occurred to me that animes have been influencing my life a lot.  I mean I'm now the student councillor of my class because I watched Kaichou wa Maid-sama... which is about a girl who is the president of the student council.
I'm even thinking of becoming a doctor because I watched Itazura na Kiss.  But I know that I can't let animes just run my life.  I have to think long and hard about these life long decisions.  I know that. I'll be smart about it.

This thought just occurred to me so I thought I would share it with you. You can leave your comments about it too.

(Y)

CALLING ALL NARUTARDS!!!!!!!

OK OK
So the other day, my brother showed me this video and I was thinking,
"This video is so good, but it hardly has any views." So what better way to get this video more views than to show it on my blog.
It's just so hilarious. I don't know if you'll understand some parts of it if you don't watch Naruto, but you might so you can still try. But even if you don't watch Naruto, the jokes will still be there.




I absolutely L-O-V-E this video. Please leave a comment to tell me if you like it too.

(Y)

Okay so now I'm watching this anime called Marmalade Boy(I'm at episode 4). I know it's been around for a long time, but I'm only now getting around to watching it. In some ways it kind of reminds me of Peach Girl. Like how the girl has to choose between two guys(somehow I always know who the girl is gonna end up with).

So I was thinking about it. If two guys like me, they both know that the other person likes me, and I can't choose between the two... then I might just tell them to fight over me. Like to have some sort of competition over me.

But discussing that matter...that would be kinda mean. It's hard to explain. Okay, so I tell them to fight over me, that would mean that I don't fully love either one, because I wouldn't be able to choose. You know?

But then if they really did like me, like seriously, then they would do whatever it takes to get me, right. To make it easier on myself, I could just go and get a different guy. But then that would leave the other two guys hanging there just like that and they'd be thinking,
"Why the hell was I fighting for someone that didn't even like me enough to choose me over some other guy."
And then you go back to the part that says: "Love is selfish."
and then I'll say: "Ugh why can't love be easy? It isn't all that easy for someone like me to be selfish like that. Why can't there be some magical being that tells us upon birth who we are meant to be with?"
and then they'd say: "Life is about finding and choosing your love. It's about the things that you go through to find it and what you end up doing in the end."
and then I'd be like: "Ugh. Just give me a break!! You make it sound like it's so easy but in reality it's so hard."
"No. You're just making it seem hard. You have the choice of whether or not your going to make it so hard."

But then, regarding that last part, I was thinking about it recently(btw, I've been doing a lot of thinking lately), and it occurred to me that we have the choice to do what's right, wrong, good or easy, in any given moment that it calls.
What I mean is...
You know how they say life goes on? Ok so while life is 'going on', that's when you make your choices. In every second that passes, that's when you make your choices. And after you make them and act on it, you can't change it.
This also occurred to me: "Yesterday feels just as distant as my four-year old birthday party." I can't go back and change the things that I did, the choices that I made or the things that I said.

When I think about all these things, everything just kinda comes together. All the proverbs and sayings, everything... they all add up.
It's just so amazing.

Wow!! This post lead to a lot of amazing things. First I was talking about anime then love, then life, then choices. Wow. This is why animes are good for people.
ANIMES TO THE WORLD!!!! (-:

(Y)

P.S. : I'll tell you more about Marmalade Boy and Peach Girl in another post. Look forward to them!! ;-)

(Y)

I Passed GSAT and Guess What......... I GOT A SCHOLARSHIP

OK
Remember I was telling you how I had this big examination coming up(the reason I wasn't writing all that much)? WELL....... I got a 97% average.

100% Mathematics
100% English
98% Science
95% Social Studies
91% Communication Tasks

So since my average was a 97, I got a scholarship.
But, I happen to know some people who got a higher average than me who didn't get a scholarship. Lucky me.

OK
Bye guys,
Until nextime.

Shugo Chara: BEST SHOW EVER!!!!!

Just recently, a good friend of mine showed me this show and ever since, I have completely fallen in love with it.
The main characters:
Amu: A pink haired girl that everyone thinks is cool. She gives birth to three Guardian Eggs.
I won't spill all the beans. It's for you to go and watch it. A good site to watch it on is: crunchyroll.com.

My pleasure,
Zaria.

G.S.A.T.

Alright, it's the middle of February and I'm almost ready for my BIG EXAM IN MARCH.
The dates for the exams were supposed to be the 18th and 19th, which is one week earlier than normal, but the Ministry of Education recently changed the dates to the 25th and the 26th. Yeah!!! :D

There's no doubt a lot of people in my class are not ready but I know I'm almost there, luckily.

Well, the concert was a blast and I got a lot of good comments from my friends, parents and even my school principal.

Now I'm on Christmas holiday.

I'm Mary

My Christmas concert is next week Wednesday and I'm Mary in the nativity scene.
My mom says I look like a nun when I have on the costume. HaHa.

'Like Whoa' and 'Potential Breakup Song' From Aly and AJ

Hi you guys.


Sorry I havn't been talking much but I'm back now! Hope you don't mind if I start of with another one of my favourite songs... well I'm starting out with one anyways.

Here is 'Like Whoa' from Aly and AJ





Hait to push it, push it to the limit, limit, but here's another song from Aly and AJ: 'Potential Breakup Song'




Thanks guys. Remember to comment.
Thanks.

Zaria