I don't care about the quality, and I'll just focus on the quantity I have 45K words to go, and Kurogane-chan is still at the service center. :(

Then after that, maybe I'll just rehash everything so it would be fit for posting. Along with the 1sentence thing I've been doing as a sort of companion piece.

Egads, I managed only a measly 5K words! It was because I was away from my laptop for so many days, including weekends. I need to reach the 20,000 mark this week, because it's nearing November 25 already!

Jeesh, I've been missing the 5000-word mark I'm supposed to make, all because of Farmville. x_x I seriously want to get 5,000 words done today, because I've divided the whole month of November...my worse-comes-to-worst would be to finish the whole thing in 10 days, due to work constraints. Sheesh. 

Anyway, I've started on the Prologue, Chapter 1, and Chapter 2. I'm planning to have 12 chaps, excluding Prologue, so that makes the whole opus 50,000 words in just 13 chapters. The chaps will be divided again, anyway.

So far...I have 2,576 words. Jeesh. This is one gigantic project I'm undertaking. Then I'm doing a 1sentence thingy as a sort of companion piece or something.

By the way, the whole thing's fan fiction. And it screws up canon and history, basically. And the characters' personalities are seen through my eyes, with the help of various DJs I've managed to download for the fandom.

I wanna finish 5,000! Because I'll be adding another 3,000-word deadline tomorrow.


Hm, I'll be taking Kurogane-chan to the HP Service Center to have the display fixed. And I also need to buy a VGA cable for the LCD projector, because I'm leveling up with my lessons...I'm going MS Powerpoint for almost all of the lectures. And I need to check on my new class schedules, too. Hm...

I'm going to see if I can finish around 5,000 words before/on lunch time. I have this awful cold, and it sucks, because the only thing I want to do is sleep.

(Wowa, I have 2 posts today.)

But this one's kinda fandom-related.

I was browsing through the hetalia community's masterlist, and I discovered...that there is no community for CHINA X JAPAN LUV. WHY?!

And China x Japan stuff at the Hetalia Kink Index are even rarer.

BTW, I'm partial to the following pairings:
* China x Japan ---> This one is like, CANON. XD
* tiny England x Japan ---> Although I like this one, but when it comes to angst, Yao and Kiku beats them all.
* onesided!South Korea x Japan ---> Oh, if only to provoke Im Yong Soo.
* Austria x Switzerland ---> My favorite European pairing. You gotta love Vasch's "the-maiden-doth-protest-too-much" drama.
* Russia x Latvia ---> Only for the kink. Though I have a cute doujin of this pairing.

So if anyone comes up with research (*cough*fics*cough*) about these pairings, I would be very much grateful. I seem to love pairings of lost causes.

Despite the busy months ahead of me (we're going to have new school schedules!), I think I would want to try out for NaNoWriMo this year. 

I've chickened out years ago, and I think I would want to accomplish something for November. Anyway, you don't need perfect grammar and everything until November 30, right? All you need is to come up with a 50,000-word fiction from November 25 to November 30.

The whole plan is...
* Working with Kurogane-chan every night after classes. My classes would probably be all Fridays, so I have time to work during the rest of the week. 
* The all-important Nano Fest Soundtrack. Of course, you need inspiration for the long days ahead.
* My Nano Notebook. It's for writing stuff that would come in my mind whenever I'm not with Kurogane-chan.
* The 2,500-a-day challenge. I plan on writing for 20 days only, so I figured I need to start on rough ideas/sketches on the chapters. I plan to have 12 chaps. What would help would be different sentences (which I will steal from the 1sentence comm, hehehehe). And I would plan to write from 6:30 to 8:00 at night. Hope I can make it, though.
* Lots of water and sleep, I guess. I think better when I'm not full or sleepy.

So, there are only 6 days left. Are any of you guys on my friends' list joining?

By the way, grimrehyper said fanfics are okay. So, for those who are joining, are you going to do fanfics, or what? XD

Meh. The internet at work sucks scissors, so I've been offline most of the time.

By the way, it's nearing November. And it's NANOWRIMO time again. I was thinking I want to join in, but no promises, though. Are fanfics allowed as entries?


I was absent during my birthday, and I didn't expect Lady Boss to treat me when I got to work the next day.

Oh, and for the U.N. Celebration at the school, I was chosen as the emcee. And I'm going to wear a costume. A yukata, complete with the clogs.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tropical_Storm_Ketsana_%282009%29

My God. This is the first time in Philippine history.

In just 6 hours, Metro Manila became submerged in water.

HAPPY TANABATA DAY! (Yesterday!)  XD

I just wish we had bamboo trees here where we can hang all our wishes. And hopefully, Orihime was able to meet with her Hikoboshi/Kengyuu. XD

er...planning to go on half-day tomorrow, just BECAUSE. I don't feel like it. XP

I'm planning to finish all my paperwork for school tonight, so I'm planning on a half day. Or I'll just be absent? I don't know.

I was supposed to post this a few days ago, but because of certain changes again, I was unable to do so.

FIRST! I, being the only consistent Japanese language teacher around, was tasked to teach Japanese Language and Culture to some TESDA trainees here in the school. And before I could do that, I have to undergo the TESDA training so that I'm eligible to teach. And the schedule is Monday to Thursday, 8:00 to 5:00, so I'll be missing my classes.

No rest nor sleep for me because aside from doing the paperwork assigned to us during the training (and it's a mountain-load of paperwork), I was also doing the seatwork and handouts for the classes I'll be missing, and instructing my substitute as to what she's going to do. That means staying up late at night doing those things, and waking up so early in the morning to have the paperwork printed at the school's administration office. 

SECOND! I passed the first half of the training. It turns out that we have a separate training as TRAINERS/TEACHERS...and another schedule of training as ASSESSORS (people who will determine whether the students passed the training based on their performance). And the schedule is Friday, Saturday and the exam/assessment of your competency is Monday, so I am not going home this weekend. ;____;

THIRD! Class schedules changed again. And I have to resolve the bajillion conflicts that occurred in the schedule.  

This is hell, period. I would be glad to take a breather.

Instead of working on the academic paperwork, I wrote something. For Kingdom Hearts.

And it's here. Feel free to comment, flame, whatever. XP I just wrote it out of a whim anyway.


I've watched the OAV version of Okane ga Nai, and another cracky fic plotbunny just disturbed the otherwise clean recesses of my brain.

I was thinking an Okane ga Nai theme for the Junjou Romantica and Love Mode crossover. What if Misaki and Izumi (without knowing each other, and pre-Akihiko/pre-Takamiya) were sold off by friends (Sumi-senpai?, Konno?) to the Akushi human auction? And guess who comes in to save them?

I hate myself sometimes. x___x

Someone managed to read my entry for 1sentence, and the person liked it, and also added it to her Memories part. ^___^ I didn't know people would love how I write. I'm proud of most of the stuff I've wrote that I know I really had worked on and for which I had true inspiration. I think that when I write and then I feel happy while reading the finished product, it means I really did well. So thank you to all those who enjoyed reading what I write, and I'll do my best to practice and learn more, and write more, of course. Not to please the "fans", but to give happiness to myself. I think that when I write, I bring my characters in the flesh instead of letting them rot inside my mind, and that's what makes them alive.


( Uhm, shoot me. Did I just type out a few sentences about that AU Junjou Romantica thingy? )


And then there was this Love Mode/Junjou Romantica crossover thingy. *brain explodes*

I was not able to sleep properly because of my incessant worrying over the first day of classes, even if it's going to be all class orientations. I really hate facing the 3rd years and the 4th years because I handled the 3rd years before as 2nd year students, and I was TRAUMATIZED. The current 4th years...well, let's say they pretty much earned a bad reputation on my book based on testimonials from their previous Japanese language teachers.

BUT!

Due to time constraints, I was not able to meet the 3rd year class today. Hurrah?

AND!

I forgot that I had a class with one of the 4th year sections. My bad. I got messed up with the schedule.

So far, the 1st year students seem okay. SO FAR. The previous 1st years were angels until they transformed into demons by the middle of the school year. But I think I can manage it, because I've handled a 1st year class before. And they SEEM nice, although reserved. It's all about being STRICT AND FIRM but FAIR AND UNDERSTANDING at the same time. And to make sure they know the purpose of the things they'll be doing.

I have yet to see how the 2nd year classes are. As well as with my Grade 4 class.


YAY! Day 2 of the "MY STOMACH FEELS LIKE WOAH" Observation Period, and so far, so good. The soft diet (bananas and white bread sandwich) seems to be working. And when I ate salted egg, rice and takoyaki yesterday, I didn't feel anything awful. I just had to go to the bathroom once, and that was when I woke up.

I'm thinking if it's gastroentritis? That's what the school nurse said. And I wonder if my chronic diarrhea/gastroentritis is stress-related. Instead of heart or head problems, I have the stomach problems.

So today is the first day of school here at TRACE College Los Banos. One of the major things I'm irritated at is the class schedule. I will only teach Japanese language for 30 minutes everyday. 30 MINUTES IS NOT ENOUGH FOR A PROPER LECTURE! You have to have student interaction, dialogues, etcetera, and since high school students are not that sensible, you'd be nagging and yelling and doing everything, and it will take up 30 minutes.

And one more thing...I'll be teaching VALUES? What the EFFF? Do I look like Ms. Model Person? I'm still learning how to live life according to what is "good and holy", and I'm failing, and they expect me to teach VALUES to children who are of the same mental age as I am?

I hope there's a curriculum or something. For Values, that is.

And holy cow, there are BAJILLIONS of new students! There should be a special class for those who don't have the background of learning Japanese language!


Okay, and since I'm having a 30-minute class, how would I get a proper evaluation from the classroom observation of the management?


Jeesh.


But what the heck. If I can work it out, then it's good.

By the way, I think I have chronic diarrhea, based from what I've read online. And it only happens when I eat something oily like anything fried, or anything cooked with oil and nuts. Otherwise, fruits and plain white bread with sandwich spreads are doing okay with my stomach.

My staple meal would be white bread with sandwich spread for flavor, and 2 bananas. Then I can eat native oranges.

So I'll stick to this soft diet for now until I'm really really well and I can test out if I'm healed. I hope I can have rice. I want rice. REAL BAD.

And I want to taste the takoyaki that they're selling near here.

And I want pansit! And fried rice with beef tapa and fried egg! And the Yang Chow Chao Fan from Chowking!