Du Hui Yen - A Prelude In C# Minor

Not LIKE a dream come true, ACTUALLY a dream come true!

There's only one person I know who will even care about this (and they don't even have LJ I don't think) but I'm so excited that I have to blog it anyway :'D Not even my family probably cares lol. (Well... maybe my sister a little bit. But I've only shown her anyway. XD)

( Moar OC ReMix under the cut, since 98% of you won't care. )

Move along now, mes chéries - have a GREAT day!! :D

Catch you lot on the rebound!

~Madj.

Just found this out!

My Rhapsodos: Desiderata fic got second place for Best Angst in the Genesis Awards!

PHYSICS YEAH!!

...What? Why did it take me so long to find out?

Well, I didn't realised the forum had changed address.... XD;

~Madj.

ntrlytho xD

Dad: -playing his guitar-

Me: -runs over with my DS with a selected piece of evidence-

Dad: What's that?

Me: -holds down the 'y' button- Here, Daddy, yell 'take that!'

Dad: Take what?

Me: Just say it!

Dad: Say what?

Me: 'Take that'! Just say 'take that'!

Dad: Why?

Me: Just say it! Say 'take that'!

Dad: Take that.

Apollo on my DS: "Take that!"

Me: TEEHEE -starts to run off-

Dad: What was that??

Me: You just presented evidence in a trial! 8D

Dad: ...That was pathetic!

Me: XDD

So, after a long, long day at school which finished at 1630 because of a meeting I didn't realise I had today, I'm finally home.

( Finally home. )

Well, I guess that's all for now. Catch you guys on the rebound. :)

~Madj.

Gonna see the Death Note movie, 6-30PM at National Film Archives (lol) for free! Yeah, Death Note is hyped but I ain't seen the movie before, haha. xD

Edit: Guess there are more of 'us' than I thought - we got there 15 min early and it was full up! Apparently they had to push 20+ people out.

Dad: -walking upstairs-

Me: -also goes to go upstairs-

Dad: -ends up sort of kicking me in the head as I stumble along behind him-

Me: "Gah! Dad kicked me in the head! x__o"

Dad: "It's a Boot to the Head."

I love my life. xD

So, I was looking for my Year 10 Maths notebook just today when I came across something absolutely incredible.

Ya wanna venture a guess to what it is?

....It's my Marjorie Nichols Speech from Year 10. On none other than... that's right. JK. :)

I was reading it over and over again and I was just tearing up. If I ever read it out loud again I'd probably end up crying.

I miss you so much, JK. <3

....Excuse me, I need to go get a tissue.

So, it's 15 minutes until Christmas day and just 10 minutes ago, I finished the rest of my Christmas gift preparations. And that includes painting a whole watercolour picture, waiting for it to try, doing the inks, then wrapping it. >w<
Dad had to wrap my sister's present though, the combined items were just waaay to awkwardly shaped for me to do it by myself.

I'd have finished 20 minutes earlier than just that, but I was on the phone with my cousin Nathan in Christchurch. I'm so glad there's someone in the family that I can totally geek out with on games without them fizzing out halfway. Hell, he knew Bioshock, and Shadow Hearts (at least heard of it) AND Gyakuten Keiji! Whoo!! 8D

Anyway, I'm dead beat. I hope my tiredness overcomes the bad-bad-BAD insomnia I've been suffering from for the last week or so. Mum reckons my body clock's gone on AWOL end-of-year silly-holiday mode and that I work better with a 'set' schedule. I agree. I abhor getting up at 10 in the morning, I'm going to get up at 7-30 from now on!! XDD

Anyway, just ten minutes left by my clock folks. Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!! :D
Have a great Christmas day dudes and dudettes. I hope you haven't already opened your presents like SOME people. LOL. (It's bad luck I tell you!! xDD)

I'm gonna hit the sack now. So, good night! ^___^~*

~Madj.

I accidentally typed 'Quote of the Dad' just then, but that would've been okay too, since my Dad's the one who teaches me all this stuff in the first place. :)

Quote of the Day/d is: "No matter how good you think you are, there's always someone even better."

What relevance is this to anything? Well, the castlist just came out for the Shadow Hearts Fandub on the VAA. I auditioned for Halley myself, and Pyro auditioned for Margarete and Keith :)

Anyway, I just checked this morning and we didn't get the parts that we auditioned for. I'm not gonna lie and say that I'm not at least a little bit sad (D;) but you know, just get up and keep going. (Besides, I'm gonna be a great writer someday. I gotta get used to rejection early lol)
Besides, I was auditioning for the part of a 16 year old boy, and I was up against five other dudes. That's gotta say something. (Although it would've been funny if I had gotten the part, and beaten five dudes to do so. XD)

Here's the Castlist:
Alice: S h u d o - R a n m a r u
Halley: Sky
Roger Bacon: TagDaze
Zhuzhen: g-silver
Margarete: Mippa
Keith: Burnout 23
Yuri: Actorman

Remember what I told you about S h u d o, Pyro? :) See, I had a feeling she would get Alice, having heard some of her work already. ;)
And Actorman's pretty hella good too. He's the one in charge of one of the IX fandubs at the moment - He's Zidane, and S h u d o is part of that too, she was Young Garnet, Puck and Mog (I love the way she says 'kupo' <3).

I.... don't know much about the other AVAs yet (though I have seen Mippa and TagDaze around), since I'm still fairly new on VAA. But congrats to everyone anyway, and to Sky who got that part that I wanted, haha! Ah well, you live and learn. >w<

Anyway. On the plus-side, us having auditioned means that we're GUARANTEED to get an minor/extra part! Hooray! They should be up and audition-able at the end of the week.

I actualy had a stupid restless night full of weird dreams and at least one of them was about the Casting. It was really retarded. XD In one of them I got told that I didn't get Halley, but I did get Chris and Joshua. HAHAHA.

Well, once the minors/extras are out, I hope to maybe get Chris. She's my second choice after Halley at the moment, but that's probably because I know more about Covenant than the first game at the moment. I can only remember her saying a few lines though.... I dunno. =w=
And maybe I'll go for another character as well. A young, cute one, like you said, Pyro. Hey, this means you can go for Kawashima now :D

This also means I can try out for other productions too now. Didn't you want to do the Chrno Crusade one?

.....

Oh yeah, while we're on the topic of Shadow Hearts, I've pretty much memorised all of 'OohLaLa' properly now. Like my sister said, "That's disgusting". XD IIIORZ

Since I'm not meant to be on the computer, I'll leave the rest of you to whatever you were doing now. Sorry for wasting your time with a journal entry that won't even make sense to most of you lol. >w<

Catch you on the flipside ;)
~Madj.

THE WHARF JUMP WAS AWESOME BEYOND AWESOME AND MORE EPIC THAN WHAT WORDS CAN DESCRIBE <3333

Seriously, it was one of the best and most breathtaking and exhilarating experience of my school life. If I could do it again, I totally would!! :D

Phili, Abby, Hana and Kylie had come to watch, along with Matt and Luke (though I didn't see them until later) and that was fun :D
Thanks to Phili for doing my sunscreen and for that extra towel ^__^<33

Caddyl and Kelly and I were jumping (Marina wasn't because of "sea-monsters") and we decided to pick a spot that didn't have algae right underneath it. Also, Caddyl was dropping stones in the water to see how far we could see it go down before it disappeared from sight - the conclusion, the water in the Lagoon is actually not THAT dirty :D

I was panicking a bit closer to the jump, and everyone was supposed to shout "5 4 3 2 1, WGC!!" and then jump, but our half of the line was behind the other half by a second and I was spacing out because of apprehension (if that works :P), so I missed the counting, barely heard the yell of "WGC!!" and ended up being more pulled in by everyone else than actually jumping myself xD

Also a second moment of panic where I thought everyone else was gonna drag me under quite deep (because I'm tinier than everyone else, remember :B) but it was fine - I surfaced and my fringe was all in my face so that I couldn't see, so I bobbed for a bit and pulled it out of my eyes. What made it worse here was that I didn't have my glasses (I put them away before the jump) so I was blinded for a few moments. :XD:

Third moment of panic where I was going to swim to the edge of the Lagoon, and I had to tread water kinda hard since the uniform dress I was wearing wasn't mine, but Marina's second one (since my sister wears mine now) and it was a bit big for me so it did end up being quite heavy. Also, everyone else was screaming (I was more in 'silent panic' mode) and you know what they say about "Mob Psychology". LOL.

Fortunately, since Caddyl and Kelly and I had been holding hands so they landed quite close to me. I'd asked to be in the middle of Caddyl and Kelly - originally I was on the other side of Caddyl, but the girl on my left didn't want to hold hands. I felt 'safer' being in the middle of two people so we swapped. xD

Since the dress was weighing me down so much, I started swimming pretty much right away. I was failing at breaststroke (since I didn't feel like dunking my face underwater without goggles) so I ended up doing this weird backstroke-butterfly hybrid while turning over every so often to see how far I was from the ladder. Once I got to the ladder, I held onto it for ages trying to catch my breath. I also helped some of the other girls get to the ladder by holding out my hand and pulling them in :)

And then after we got out... Caddyl, Kelly and I jumped right back in again, with a yell of "For Amanda!!!" whom we dearly miss and were totally heartbroken that she couldn't be with us on this tradition D:
I took off the dress before the second jump though, it was so heavy I was sure it was going to sink me xD I was wearing togs and boardshorts underneath my dress - I know a lot of other girls were wearing bikinis and whatnot under their uniforms too.

The water in the Lagoon is really, really salty by the way. To the point of being foul. xD After the second jump, the three of us were all spluttering water out of our mouths and whatnot, but after a while it just turned into a spluttering contest. XD
It wasn't cold, but it was actually a really nice temp. because the weather warmed up HEAPS by the time we were out of last assembly and wandering down to the Lagoon.

There's a video posted of it here -> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9oHk981Dk4
(I think at one point, you can see a blurry spot hanging onto the ladder than *may* be me xD)
It's not my video, but I'll get to that soon. :)

After that, we got changed, then me and Caddyl, Kelly, Marina, Phili, Luke and Matt sat down on a really nice place overlooking the harbour and we talked for ages. Mostly about gaming and cosplaying. HUR. xD
At one point, I looked at my knee where there'd been a pretty big rough patchy scar-ish thing where I totaled my knees about a month ago while rollerblading (Melly and Shane were witness to that :B) and... it was almost totally healed over! I swear I looked at it earlier and it wasn't like that! xD (Well, the water WAS really salty... ;))

Our conclusion from this - The Lagoon is actually the place where the City of the Ancients was or be. FFVII is set in the past/future on this earth... in NZ. The White Materia (Holy?) is somewhere at the bottom of the Lagoon, except no-one knows where because the Lagoon is kinda filthy. XD
Luke then pointed out into the harbour and said by that theory, Midgar should be out somewhere in the middle of the Pacific..... That or we'll have an FFX and SIN will pop out of the water. xD

Well, I really should be studying right now, so I guess I leave you at that! Future 6th Form WGCers, do the Wharf Jump!! It's just so much fun. Don't worry about the water being dirty, it's not like you're going to be in there for a super-long time anyway. I mean look at me - I have super-allergies, and I'm still alive. ;D

So then, I'll catch you on the rebound, mouth-breathers! ;DD
~One very excited and euphoric Madja

:heart:

(HOLIDAYS ARE HEEERE)

I thought it was about time that I posted up my Cosplay list as it currently stands in my Cosplay notebook, so I've pretty much typed straight from it (tabbing and notes-to-self and everything). They don't really come in any particular preference order, just the order they came to mind in.

These are the cosplays that I'd really love to do (there are a lot of them), but may not necessarily get around to doing them ALL.... because there are just so many. Who knows, maybe I might get around to do them all some day. ;D

I have to put this under a cut though because.... it's just that long. XD

( Madja's Cosplay List )

....This is my cosplay list as it stands RIGHT NOW. You can probably bet it'll grow some more. xD

Now I'm off to write some more Chapter and beat the "Three Dream Stooges" in Final Fantasy VI. Yeah, you heard me right. "The Three Dream Stooges". XD
Oh yeah, and I have to wrap my sis' birthday present and card. Birthday weekends in my family are always the best. :D

Aaand before midnight I have to submit my Application form for Head of Digital Information and Literacy for next year. Hah. xD

Catch you all on the rebound! ;D

~Madj.

Several reasons why today is a good day:

I got the results back for my Chinese mock exam. For writing, reading and listening, I got all Excellence! Whoop! :D

Table Tennis Club Champs started tonight... I won all my games except for my last, which I LOST. He didn't win, I LOST. Sadly, I can beat that guy usually.... this time though I was playing it too safe and lost many, many points. >___>

I also did something I've never done before at Table Tennis - I fell over. Usually, it's only ever the guys that do this, whether they throw themselves over for a ball or whatever... but this time I returned a shot (practicing with my sister) and I tripped over my own feet and went down sideways. It was this slow, kinda depressing... *fwalump*. xD

ALSO, SOMETHING REALLY AMAZING HAPPENED TO M--

Well, okay. I shouldn't get too ahead of myself but I'm kind of excited about it xD
One of my pieces of fanfiction was nominated for the annual Genesis Awards Fanfiction Contest! Wow! :D

It was my "Rhapsodos: Desiderata" fanfiction, nominated for the 'Best Angst' category. You can have a look here.

Despite the fact that I no longer write a lot of angst, I am very proud of that story (although there are a few kinks that I'd like to sort out).

I used to write a LOT of angst, a few years back. During my 'deep phase' xD Then it got exhausting and I started veering towards other genres... now I've nestled in some comfortable all-sorts 'Slice of Life' genre with my 'O-Cha!' fic.

Which should really get updating. I'm on a roll right now, so I better not lose it. xD

Seeya guys later! ;D

~Madj.

Did you know that The Black Mages version of FFX 'Otherworld' is sung by a girl? :) It's an interesting twist... but I think I prefer the manly throat-ripping version myself. -still bets she could sing 'A Vampire's Lament' properly if she wanted to- xD

Anyway, it's mock exams week at the moment. I'm kinda proud of how 'spread out' mine are... although I do have two exams on one day on two occassions.

( Go ahead, make my day! )

Hokay, time for me to write some more chapter, while I still have a bit of time. x3

I'll catch y'all on the rebound ;D

~Madj.

I just want to take a moment of my time to say thanks for the lovely, out-of-the-blue text today Matt. Haven't heard from you for eons!

I regret not having any money on my phone to reply, but I just want to say thanks, because it really, honestly made my whole day. :)

[21:25] Pyro: JUNE 20TH~!
[21:26] Pyro: OFFICIAL PAL RELEASE DATE FOR CC, YO~
[21:26] Li-Bai: WHOOO!!
[21:28] Pyro: I WISH I COULD BE WITH YOU GUYS FOR IT.
[21:28] Li-Bai: D: ME TOO <33
[21:29] Pyro: ... ONLINE PARTY?
[21:29] Pyro: YES PLS?
[21:29] Li-Bai: XD SURE. We can celebrate togezza! :D
[21:30] Li-Bai: Sent file! :)
[21:30] Pyro: 8D
[21:30] Pyro: On the day...
[21:30] Pyro: We must both wear our FFVII cosplays everywhere we can.
[21:31] Pyro: In celebration.
[21:31] Pyro: And, when appropriate, only speak in quotes our respective characters say.
[21:31] Li-Bai: YES
[21:32] Li-Bai: I mean.... "I THOUGHT HOLLANDER WOULD HELP ME EXACT MY REVENGE DX"
[21:32] Pyro: ZACK... I AM PERFECT.
[21:32] Pyro: A PERFECT... MONSTER.
[21:33] Li-Bai: xD This is going to be amusing.
[21:33] Pyro: Yeah.
[21:33] Pyro: Especially since it'd be... What, a Thursday
[21:33] Pyro: *?
[21:33] Pyro: Friday, maybe?
[21:33] Pyro: Friday, I think.
[21:34] Li-Bai: Hang on, I'll check iCal
[21:34] Pyro: We'll be going around school all like "SOME OF US LIKE TO COMMUNE WITH NATURE. XO".
[21:36] Li-Bai: xDD And "EVEN IF TOMORROW HOLDS NO PROMISED, I SWEAR TO RETURN TO THE PLACE IN WHICH YOU STAND" when we leave class to go to the bathroom or something xD
[21:37] Pyro: Priceless.
[21:37] Pyro: x3
[21:38] Pyro: "Even though the morrow holds no promises, I shall have my vengeance."\
[21:38] Pyro: ... You'll get the best lines.
[21:38] Pyro: xD
[21:38] Pyro: I get to say stuff like...
[21:38] Pyro: "World domination."
[21:38] Pyro: "Vengeance, then."
[21:38] Pyro: "WHAT SHOULD ANGELS DREAM OF?!"
[21:39] Li-Bai: xDD
[21:39] Li-Bai: That would be the best reply if a teacher caught you napping in class.
[21:39] Pyro: xD
[21:40] Pyro: Or when people say that I have no interest in anything. I should change the last part appropriately for what people're saying:
[21:40] Pyro: "WHAT SHOULD ANGELS EAT THEN!?"
[21:40] Pyro: "WHAT SHOULD ANGELS DO WITH THEIR SPARE TIME!?"
[21:40] Li-Bai: AHAHAHAHA -falls off chair-
[21:41] Pyro: "WHAT SHOULD ANGELS CAPTAIN FON RONSENBURG OF DALMASCA!?"
[21:41] Li-Bai: AHAHAHAHAHAH xDDDD!!!!
[21:41] Li-Bai: -ded from excessive laughter-

I can't believe I'm actually letting these go into public view now xD

Oh well. Shadow, I've 'Tube-d it nao! :D

I went through some of my old compositions that I created on MacOSX GarageBand about two years ago, selected a few, and now I'm 'Tube-ing them as 'Listen-To' videos. Here's the links. They'll come as they come ; )

1. Make Me - Ichiban Strawberry
2. Spring Breeze - Ichiban Strawberry

3. Pinocchio - Shadow Puppets

4. Wander, Wonder, Journey, Rest - Echo
5. Lavinia Lyra - Echo
6. Beautiful White Spirit Bird - Echo

Shadow, the reason why you've never heard (of) the last three was because I never issued the album, because I never finished the darn soundtrack xD

I may also post the cut-compilations of some Naruto tracks that I did around the same time as these. I kinda like them, simple as they are :)

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Armageddon Cram Week starts on Friday! So get moving, get moving everybody!! xD

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-MADJA'S RANDOM GAMING SECTION OF LJ POST LOLZ-

I'm playing 'Devil May Cry 3'!!!! And I'm loving it, I really am xDD

I've gotten over the blatant overuse of blood now, but now I'm in Mission 8... and I have to say it is the most disgusting thing I have EVER seen in my life @________@
I'M IN THE INSIDES OF THE LEVIATHAN WHALE FOR PETE'S SAKE!! Bleargh! DX

Anyway... time to go hack up the insides of the Leviathan Whale's Heart and Lungs again! Whee~!!

~Madj.

(As posted on the '_crisiscore_' LiveJournal Community)

Title: Rhapsodos: Desiderata
Summary: I thought you loved me. But apparently it seems that while a child of a poor peasant can be gifted with that blessing, not even the son of a Mayor can afford a simple pleasure such as that.
Fiction Rating: M (for themes that may be interpreted as adult)
Disclaimer: (sings One-Winged Angel style) I don't own!!

A/N: Just a little Genesis character study - kinda like a soliloquy, I guess (He is a very twisted young man. But I love him nonetheless). 'Desiderata' means 'something desired'.

Personally, I think I could've done a better job on this, It kinda... rushes into it. And for some strange reason there were parts in this which made me almost cry when I wrote it...

Crisis Core spoilers and abuse of italics yonder, so ye be warned.

(Note: Because of the abuse of italics I fear I shall go insane if I try repost it here. If you would be so kind as to go to the ff.net post on the link below. Cheers~)

Rhapsodos: Desiderata

roseduellist's LJ stalker is keysha_chan!

keysha_chan is stalking you because a little birdie told them you talked behind their back. They are also slowly poisoning you!

OMG! OMG! OMG!

PHOENIX WRIGHT 3; TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS.

E-B DOESN'T SELL PHOENIX WRIGHT ANYMORE.

I WANT. I WANT.

(ONLY $50-00 WITH $3-50 SHIPPING!)

BUT I DON'T HAVE A BANK ACCOUNT.

AND AUCTION CLOSES ON JANUARY 16TH.

WAAAAAAA~AN.

T___________T

Man, Robin Atkin Downes gets so much crap for the dubbing of Genesis in the 'DIRGE' secret ending xDD
But yeah, I have to say I agree. He's not a vampire, Mr. Atkin Downes, he doesn't need a Transylvanian accent >___<

But you know what? I REALLY, REALLY love how the resume on Robin Atkin-Downes' website credits him as GACKT in 'DIRGE of CERBERUS' xDDD

So, yeah, Genesis' 'DIRGE' voice was pretty ouch, but apparently Robin Atkin Downes actually has a really nice poetic (British) voice. He voiced Luxord in KHII and he was Davy Jones in 'PoTC; LoJS'. I hope he takes a hinter from Gackt ^____^

Gackt's english is getting better though I believe, if you'll excuse the 'Nothing Truth' bit in REDEMPTION.

And Rick Gomez who shall be Zack apparently has a talent for voice mimicry... so maybe he can imitate Ken'ichi Suzumura's voice? His two seconds in ADVENT CHILDREN seemed promising.
Oh, and once ADVENT CHILDREN COMPLETE comes out (will they dub that?) it will have Zack's CRISIS CORE look instead of his softer grey-haired one <333

And I hope they do Angeal and Lazard justice, I love them too much. <333

OH OH OH!! AND KUNSEL TOO!!

If Kakashi's english voice had been closer to the Japanese (where Kazuhiko Inoue [Angeal] voiced) then I would've noted him for Angeal, but since dub Kakashi has a higher voice and happens to be the person who dubbed over for Yazoo [Dave Wittenberg]...

While we're on the topic of Crisis Core/Genesis, have some prop photos.
1. LOVELESS Novella
2. LOVELESS Novella 2
3. "SHOULD I GIVE YOU DIS PEAR APPLE?"

Right, now I'm off to show my parents the video of Gackt dressing up so I can show Mum why Gackt and my Dad seem to have a similar sense of humour. And Mum says that I have the same sense of humour as Dad... so does that mean I have a similar sense of humour to Gackt too?

I suppose that means that our "Is your refrigerator running" prank we plan to play on Gackt someday shall work properly then, Shadow, in more angles that just the language barrier :D

Ja!
~Madj.