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kinlyu
Day: 2009-04-16 19:00
Subject: Oh no
Security: Public
m00d?blank blank

I'm stuck. I'm not going to work for the coming three days except maybe send a mail to someone from the gender studies department to ask for directions. What's up next then? Buying cosplay materials tomorrow, start working on my Katsura costume on Saturday en meeting friends on Sunday. :3

Bakuman just got my interest - it breathes passion for manga C: Why haven't I started reading it earlier, even though I knew it's the genius Ohba-Obata collaboration? Damn me! And reading awesome stuff makes me want to create something too, but as always I have to face the fact that I just can't. Oh crap.

But now I'm off reading Reborn! I have to get through vol 22 so I can buy and read 23 and 24 in Japan <3

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kinlyu
Day: 2009-02-03 15:18
Subject: everything is connected!
Security: Public
m00d?curious curious
Tags:life

and it scared the living daylight out of me, because it's so impossible to grasp with my very limited brain capacity.

Yes, here we are, February 2009, it's snowraining, my exams went well and now I face some kind of see-through wall. I have a thesis to write, not enough sources and not a very good idea of how to structure the whole thing. And I still need to think about which characters from which manga I'll use as 'case studies', what questions I should ask informants and where to put BL in my non-existant structure. AWESOME.

And I have a new haircut. It looked better once I combed half of the gel, spray and whatnot out of it :3

currently reading: Katekyo Hitman Reborn! 17 in Japanese & Harry Potter 7 (again, but in Dutch)
current obsession: Reborn! (duh), Fire Emblem (and al it's bishies), DELUHI
By the way, my collection of tea expanded again, Lipton 'Soft Cashmere' is sweet and yummy <3

Over and out,

Kin.

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kinlyu
Day: 2009-01-21 21:18
Subject: De Bedenkers!!
Security: Public
Doko?:home
m00d?amused amused
Ongaku?:tv
Tags:bedenkers papiermaatje

Zo'n programma waar een uitvinding wordt gezocht, maar waar uiteindelijk uit blijkt dat de Vlamingen gewoon sympathieke mensen zijn. Vorig jaar won een oude man die de 'slip-lift' had 'uitgevonden', een hulpmiddel voor ouderen om... hun ondergoed aan te trekken. Goed en wel, maar om dat nu zo'n baanbrekende uitvinding te noemen die iedereen nodig heeft... Nah. En toch won het, waarschijnlijk omdat dat oude mannetje gewoon veel sympathie opwekte bij de kijkers...

Hetzelfde is misschien ook dit jaar gebeurd, want de uitvinding van dit jaar het 'papiermaatje' en is eigenlijk gewoon een doos. Om oud papier te binden, bijvoorbeeld. Het is praktisch, zegt de uitvindster, en tenslotte moet iedereen z'n oud papier buiten zetten. Maar mijn eerste kritische reactie (nadat ik eens hardop moest lachen) was: 'en hoe zit dat dan met de recyclage?' Het papiermaatje - aka doos - is gemaakt in kunststof. Dus, wat is nu het nut van dat hele ding? Het maakt het makkelijker om papier samen te binden, als je papier hebt, of veel kranten, maar wat moet je met kleine blaadjes, snippers, en frommels? Is het niet gewoon makkelijker om je zooi in een kartonnen doos te steken? Is het eigenlijk zo moeilijk om met een touw je papier/kranten samen te binden? Maar welnee...
Ik moet wel zeggen, het nieuwe ontwerp ziet er hip uit. Jammer van de nutteloosheid... XD
http://www.bundl.be/

En dat terwijl er ook een uitvinding was die levens kan redden, namelijk het AWS - Anti Wiplash System... er waren ook nog een icecrusher die schijnbaar eenvoudig en geluidloos is, een systeempje om makkelijk fietsbanden te vervangen, een soort sticker 'drill-marker' die helpt bij het klussen door aan te duiden waar je moet boren (en binnenkort ook in de doe-het-zelf zaken ligt) en in maart geloof ik dat ook het bloesemwater (uitvinding??) in de winkels ligt.

En dus...

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kinlyu
Day: 2008-10-26 21:29
Subject: Reset, plz
Security: Public

It's time for me to stop worrying about useless things and focus on what's important. After all, the future begins now.

Gah.

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kinlyu
Day: 2008-10-01 20:16
Subject: hello hello hello!!!
Security: Public
Doko?:ghent
m00d?cheerful cheerful
Ongaku?:jpop yo
Tags:thesis

I still need to write the last part of our Japan trip.
I haven't written much about the Abunai convention that just ended.

But I'm here to announce my topic for my thesis. You know, the thing you write when you graduate. Or are supposed to graduate anyway. dundundun. Gender and Sexuality in Manga!!!
'coz. It's there, there are sources but - according to the wiki of our friendly colleagues/enemies of the KU Leuven - there is nothing general about it published outside of Japan. (I have yet to discover whether they're wrong or not... but still.)

I'm looking for books and articles right now, and I've found quite a few, even without using the school's elitary academic journal archives. So I think I'm gonna be okay. And who knows, maybe if it's really good, with a bit of help and effort I could have it published later!! That would be awesome to the extreme.

Abunai was fun!! I met lots of nice people and there were more than 50 belgians, whut? I have no idea who they were, I only know about 10 XD No, maybe 15 XD

*random*

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kinlyu
Day: 2008-07-26 12:00
Subject: Back from Japan
Security: Public
Doko?:omg home
m00d?bored bored
Ongaku?:radio
Tags:japan

(for the 3rd full day already)

The weather here is nice now, but I'm bored. I will upload my pictures one of the coming days and write a long report about the trip... In short, Japan was awesome. And it's true that its really too warm to go there in summer XD But we did see and do fun things, bought way too much stuff and... actually we just have to go back again. So that 'schooltrip to Japan' in May... I guess I'll go after all. :3

I'll make pics of what I bought, but to sum it up:
- lots of CDs
- lots of manga (reborn vols 4-20 and others)
- a stack of reborn doujinshi
- cute stuff
- some reborn merchandise

Okay, I know, I'm obsessed. But it's fun! XD

*waves at Chenka* It was really fun to have you around on our trip :D Thanks for guiding us around!! <3

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kinlyu
Day: 2008-04-17 11:48
Subject: Critics and stuff
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Doko?:Ghent
Tags:rant

Dutch post, but I'm sure you can find info in English about the critical comments Andrew Keen makes on the amateurism of the internet. He claims it's a threath to civilisation.

"Internet ondermijnt de beschaving"
15/04/2008 15:46

In de jaren negentig was hij een pionier in de gouden gewesten van internet. Nu noemt Andrew Keen zichzelf de 'antichrist' van Silicon Valley en bestrijdt hij het geloof van de 'webutopisten' dat internet een poort is tot een hemel waar kennis én medezeggenschap voor iedereen bereikbaar worden. De titel van zijn boek liegt er niet om: 'De @cultuur. Hoe internet de beschaving ondermijnt'.

Keen benadrukt in zijn boek dat MySpace, Facebook en Youtube verantwoordelijk zijn voor een jongerencultuur van digitaal narcisme. Hij zegt dat kennissites als Wikipedia, waaraan door iedere gebruiker informatie kan worden toegevoegd, een aantasting betekenen van de autoriteit van de expert. "Het is de verheerlijking van de amateur."

Hij hekelt de "kakofonie van anonieme blogs of inderhaast geschreven meningen die alleen maar tot doel hebben de schrijver van de blog in de schijnwerpers te zetten". Hij zegt dat het digitale gepeupel hem haat. Hij hekelt hun 'oneindig digitaal oerwoud van middelmatigheid.

Amateurapen
"Want de amateurapen in de huidige cultus kunnen hun met een netwerk verbonden computers gebruiken om van alles en nog wat in de openbaarheid te brengen", aldus de auteur. "Van ondoordachte politieke opvattingen tot onbetamelijke video's, van pijnlijk amateuristische muziek tot onleesbare gedichten, beschouwingen, verhandelingen en verhalen".

"Als we in dit tempo doorgaan zullen er in 2010 meer dan vijfhonderd miljoen blogs zijn die de publieke opinie over politiek, economie, kunst en cultuur massaal verhaspelen en vertroebelen", besluit Keen.

(ALU)
(bron: knack.be)

Ik begrijp zijn punt wel, maar de 'dreiging' is pure onzin.

'kennis en medezeggenschap' -> ja, maar alleen voor wie op het internet zit, kennis opzoekt en zijn mening deelt. Hij negeert mensen die zelden op internet komen, of deze dingen niet doen.

Digitaal narcissisme is gewoon een volgende stap, aangezien er daarvoor een niet-digitale vorm van narcissisme bestond. De verheerlijking van de amateur is bovendien een algemeen begrip in de hedendaagse media; denk maar aan alle reality programma's op TV.

Schijnwerpers? Waar? Iemand die blogt doet dat om verschillende redenen. Zijn of haar mening delen met de buitenwereld, of gewoon dingen van je af schrijven. Als iemand met een blog aandacht krijgt is dat maar zo. Ik geloof niet dat de effecten van blogging zo in detail zijn bestudeerd dat men daar gevatte uitspraken over kan maken. Ik geloof ook dat in vele gevallen het schrijven van of lezen van andere blogs een positieve werking kan hebben.

Dat digitale oerwoud van middelmatigheid dat hij noemt bestond, uiteraard, ook in een vroegere vorm. Waren er toen ook geen bijeenkomsten, organisaties, lezersbrieven in tijdschriften en dergelijke waar deze zogezegde middelmatigheid voorkwam?

"Van ondoordachte politieke opvattingen tot onbetamelijke video's, van pijnlijk amateuristische muziek tot onleesbare gedichten, beschouwingen, verhandelingen en verhalen".
... Wie kritisch denkt kan deze dingen negeren zonder er aanstoot aan te nemen. Wat maakt het jou, als persoon op het internet, uit dat iemand crap post op youtube, of op forums? Maakt wat gepost wordt door amateurapen zo'n verschil op het internet of in het dagelijkse leven? Natuurlijk is er een hoop oninteressante, niets bijdragende zooi op het net. Of in dozen op zolder. Het is moeilijk om in een zee van onzin iets nuttigs te vinden, maar dat is ook weer iets waar men met de komst van het internet mee moet leren werken/leven.
Je kan de middelmatigheid van de mens niet zomaar beperken. Jammer voor jou, Keen.

Ik vind dat zijn mening nogal overkomt alsof het internet voorbestemd zou moeten zijn voor de 'elite'. Terwijl deze elite vaker niet dan wel het internet op deze manier gebruikt. (Dan heb ik het over academisch volk, die schrijven nog steeds artikels voor wetenschappelijke tijdschriften en boeken, wat slechts onder voorwaarden en niet steeds compleet via internet beschikbaar is...)

Neem een banaan :3

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kinlyu
Day: 2008-03-11 22:43
Subject: Darker than Black & RHplus
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Doko?:ghent
m00d?cheerful cheerful
Tags:darker than black, rhplus

I haven't watched a lot of anime lately, because I had gotten in to jdrama, but I had downloaded Darker than Black almost only because of the opening/ending songs, and I finally started watching it last week. It's strangely absorbing, too. So because I totally like it, I might make a big post about it in [info]foam_club including uploads on MF ^-^
(I also have to make another traditional music post C: )

And the fifth episode of the vampire flick drama is out! Though there's no crime-fighting here either. I guess my idea was inspired in the wrong way by the comments made on the first episode XD Anyway, this one is about mess, garagesale & memorable objects. It's kinda cute :3
RH+ ep05 001
RH+ ep05 002
RH+ ep05 003

Completely random, but I wonder if anyone ever wrote academic stuff on girls who like yaoi. Fandoms are quite interesting and worthy of studying. w00t. (there is lots of stuff on the 'male gaze', but what about the females? C: I can see my future! Maybe >_> )

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kinlyu
Day: 2008-03-06 09:27
Subject: RHplus ep 4
Security: Public
Doko?:Ghent
m00d?amused amused
Tags:rhplus

moar vampire drama XD This episode was more serious than the others (and pretty cliché too)... the boys want more crime-fighting, and they are right. :3
RH+04 001
RH+04 002
RH+04 003

(one pound gospel is still awesome! It's so awesome that I want it on DVD! XD)

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kinlyu
Day: 2008-02-25 15:12
Subject: RHplus
Security: Public
Doko?:ghent
m00d?calm calm
Ongaku?:nightwish
Tags:rhplus

Just uploaded the new ep of RH+, the lovely low-budget vampire flick dorama.

RH+03 001
RH+03 002
RH+03 003

HJsplit does the rest of the magic.

And I slowly translate parts of the Taketori Monogatari. Not using a bungo dictionary, like we're supposed to do.

The weather is nice~ I hate it that my window faces north D:

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kinlyu
Day: 2008-02-22 14:03
Subject: on research
Security: Public
Doko?:ghent
m00d?annoyed annoyed
Ongaku?:gazette
Tags:research

So as you may or may not know, I'm writing my bachelor paper on Takarazuka -theater. What that exactly is, matters not for my ranting this time, if you're curious, wikipedia is always a help.

So I have to do research on it, on Takarazuka itself, and on sociologial/gender related theories that I can link to it. Actually, doing research about something that interests you is fun, when you find things. But on the other hand, the more you find, the more you notice that others have been doing (almost) exactly the same thing before you. So finding this PhD thesis from an Australian student is
a) a big help
b) a pain in the ass
because it's very much like my subject (though longer). So I get the feeling that I'll only be ripping info off others to translate it to Dutch and make it more concise. Which is much less interesting... I mean, it was okay for the thing we had to write in the first or second year, but now... it feels like doing a useless job. I don't think I can add something new to the topic, but only repeat what has been said before. At best, I could combine another vision or opinion on sexuality or feminism with takarazuka. (but when would I have time to completely dive into gender studies? >__> )

But it's still annoying. For my thesis next year, I would prefer it if there was something I could add to whatever topic I pick. Or write something new - but since it's just a master thesis, I don't think I'll be able to do field research yet, so an analysis of visual kei and it's fans will have to wait (probably 'till it's at least a 30 years old phenomenon, no? I mean, Takarazuka is still popular, but it started in 1914 XD)

pffff.

(and my compie is being pooooo D: I think it's dying, noes! >___< )

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kinlyu
Day: 2008-02-08 18:39
Subject: (no subject)
Security: Public
Doko?:home
m00d?cheerful cheerful

One Pound Gospel is SO awesome, it makes my day and fills me with happy-happy fangirlism <3<3

It's about a boxer. And a nun. You would NEVER see soaps/drama's like this here, all we get is stuff about failing companies, love affairs and secrets from the past. Our stuff is ALWAYS the same, and when there's not enough drama/trouble, they just write about some over-the-top kidnapping. *rantrantrant*

I may be biased and stuff, but I DO like my Jdrama's better than our Belgian ones.

Bai.

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kinlyu
Day: 2008-02-04 21:32
Subject: some blabla
Security: Public
Doko?:home
m00d?blank blank
Ongaku?:Renaissance - leanhaun shee

I was ill Saturday! Not during the exams, but after them. But I felt really crappy so it's okay to be that way. Just stomachtroubles and a fever. It's just my body complaining.

Um. English grammar went bad. Haha, no surprise. Analysing a 33 word sentence takes LONG. And I'm sure I've made at least one big mistake in it too, but I didn't know what it was anyway.

And I've finally updated [info]foam_club ^^;
You can find traditional Japanese music there now, featuring koto & shamisen.

mmokay.

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kinlyu
Day: 2008-01-22 21:55
Subject: Japan!
Security: Public
Doko?:not Japan XD
m00d?*spaz* *spaz*
Tags:japan

I'm going to Japan in summer!
We're leaving 03/07 and will be back 24/07. <- I'm stupid! I typed 14 instead of 24. XD

Now, where should we absolutely go to? We'll start making our detailed planning soon (after this exam period) so tips are always welcome :3

It's funny, but I used to say 'I want to go to Japan' very often. Now I can say 'I'm going to Japan.' Yay~

But I'm kinda nervous about it, I've never ever been in an airplane, and never made a trip that far. I've only been to Paris with my bf before, but this is very different. :o homg.

I want a security rocker. Engrish is ultra-win.

Okay. ^^; studying is bleh.

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kinlyu
Day: 2008-01-11 20:49
Subject: Promotion desu!
Security: Public
Doko?:ghent
m00d?busy busy
Ongaku?:L'arc~en~ciel
Tags:promotion

Hai guys. I made a new journal account where I'll post things that have (almost) nothing to do with me, but everything with Japan. Because I thought it 'd be nice to have a separate place to post uploads, infos, link thingies, articles, and other Japan-related randomness *.*

(so I will try to write more articles too, why else did I take English writing skillz class huh? Well, it was compulsory. Might as well use a little bit of what I learned, though.)

First post over there is Cartoon KAT-TUN, the two episodes featuring Horikita Maki, with subtitles, uploaded in mediafire. :3

Check : [info]foam_club

Benzai! Benzai!

Taguchi = <3
all of KAT-TUN are <3 *o*

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kinlyu
Day: 2007-12-17 10:13
Subject: be smart, feed people
Security: Public
Doko?:home
m00d?:3 :3
Tags:free rice

Here's your chance to prove how intelligent you are, and at the same time do something for charity. Test your English vocabulary level and give some free rice.

You know you want to.

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kinlyu
Day: 2007-11-23 11:44
Subject: KAT-TUN - which remind me of cotton so much.
Security: Public
Doko?:on stage
m00d?remon desuu remon desuu
Ongaku?:my mind D:
Tags:kat-tun pimping

Okay, I'm going to PIMP kat-tun by using other people's genius, but since it won't make me rich, it's okay. Right? Well, Kat-tun. I've heard of them before, of course, and while you're supposed to say it like the Engrish for 'cartoon' I though of cotton all the time. If kat-tun had a an alter ego band, it would be cotton for sure.

YOU bikkuri?* Yes, I know, I'm pimping a jpop band. (while I should be pimping Heidi. - but they are getting more and more attention already. Yay!) But this one is, in my humble really weird slightly fangirlish and so on opinion, they are good. And since they are
- good
- pretty
- retarded
- pretty
- gay
- ...

Anyway, in short: what I like about Kat-tun - except for their obviously pretty good looks <3 - is their variety in music. Their more rock-ish songs, not everything is about luv & girlfriends, they can actually sing live, and they are just adorable idiots. Kamenashi, my favourite member, is also a really REALLY good actor. Watch the drama's he's in. Nobuta wo Produce (with Yamashita Tomohisa of NewS), Tatta Hitotsu no Koi, Gokusen 2... and watch the KAT-TUN clinic skit. Youtube has it with subs too. It's brilliant.

I shall leave the rest to [info]darkeyedwolf who has pipmed them before. Right here. Includes info & uploads of clips - proving silliness is truth. Or there is truth in silliness. It's a pimp post made of awesome.

Also, [info]fuminshou_neko has uploaded some music (albums & singles + random tracks/live rips) (along with many many other JE's music)over here. She also links to various pimp posts and other uploads posts.

Hey what? This made my job pretty easy. ^^; But that's fine.

*this is a genuine Johnny imitation. lol.

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kinlyu
Day: 2007-11-11 15:32
Subject: Dir en Grey / Plastic Tree live report #1
Security: Public
Doko?:Den Bosch
m00d?:3 :3
Ongaku?:tv
Tags:dir en grey, live report

Hohoho, 2 jrock lives in one week in the Netherlands - it's a bit of an overload for people (like me) who have to travel a long time and skip class to get there in time... but still, because I've said I'd see DeG when I got the chance I went there - and Plastic Tree seemed fun too, even though I don't know all of their (recent) music.

Since this is part one, I'll stick to saying something abour Dir en Grey first. They are kind of Legendary, or are supossed to be that way. It feels a little far away to state it like that, but it was pretty much true during the concert as well.

Try the cut )

Excuses for weird (?) typo's. I'm using a qwerty keyboard atm XD

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kinlyu
Day: 2007-10-30 22:14
Subject: Gazette - Pulse Wriggling to Black 1.5 live report part 2
Security: Public
Doko?:Ghent.
m00d?mais pyon mais pyon
Ongaku?:various jrock
Tags:concert, jpop, kat-tun, live report, the gazette, yamapi

Yeah man~ I'm finally gonna try to say something useful about the concert itself. Beware of typo's 'n stuff

Some say Ruki f*cks fangirls )

Recently, I've been listening to these Johnny's Entertainment bands XD Kat-tun gets the nr. 1 place for now. Who'd ever thought I'd like j-boybands... well... it does help that they look kinda cute and kinda touch each other :3 Some songs are too much blah, but others are okay. They sing, dance, act in drama's, host shows, they are just multifunctional fanfood. Yummy. *gets a cup of Kame*

Liek, Yamapi! (Weeeek is too happy. I love it.)
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Day: 2007-10-24 22:15
Subject: Gazette - Pulse Wriggling to Black 1.5 live report
Security: Public
Doko?:not gazette's tourbus
m00d?i-so-ga-shiiiiii i-so-ga-shiiiiii
Ongaku?:various jrock
Tags:concert, live report, the gazette

LIEK ZOMG.

It seemed so far away, now it's over, and it seems far away again. :(

This is going to be a long post, so there's a cut )

Oh, this is incomplete, my fangirling about Uruha will come later. (Except for: URUHA = SEX on sexy legs. Like double sex. *dies*

Ja mata ne~

Bai-cycle.

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