school applications, sat and the current state

today turned out to be one depressing day. turns out, i won't be able to apply to my college of choice yet cause i still have to take several tests. apparently, i still have to take SAT or the ACT. of course, living in a country which has a very different system of education from US makes it difficult for me to take said tests. now i still have to wait for another year i think for me to be able to submit my application. so for the time being, i'm stuck in some university here. sucks. good thing though is that i was able to take the UPCAT last august and well, if the world comes to an end and i end up not passing there (i might as well forget about studying abroad if i fail that), i had already submitted my application to two other universities as plan c.

for the sat,thankfully, i only have to take up one advance class for mathematics and then attend a review program in summer to prep me up. another good thing is that in our school i'm not the only one aiming for that university so i won't be alone in that advance class and in being stuck here for another year. what's even funnier is that we all have the same plans. plan a, b, and c are all the same. though for me, if i won't be able to attend my first choice, i'd apply for MIT. that or the university affiliated with my our school. whatever school, just to be able to get away for a while in here given the situations happening in this country. massacres, ousted ex-president running shamelessly for presidency saying that yes, he's still eligible, the current president running for a congressional seat (delicadeza my ass, says her) and so many more bizarro crap that i and thankfully my family, can't stand. it's not that i'm saying that the country's worthless but getting out for the moment seems to be the best move one can make at the time being. maybe, by the time i return, it'll be better, or if still not, i can help 'fix' it. or contribute in some way. just that, for now, all seems bleak. and i want out.

lame old me

i was writing a fic a while ago,(yes it's a senru, and, no, it was going to be a happy, well not totally happy, but it hints at senru in the end type of fic) when i noticed that the beginning plot was becoming too much like '500 days of summer' when all i was thinking was to quote zooey at the end. the word file didn't make it to 'save' part so to speak. publishing it would something be akin to copying or plagiarizing or whatever. i suddenly remembered

what james barrie once said: I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life.

i sometimes hate it when i read an extremely good piece of literature and afterwards i am seized by this urge to write something but when i read what i came up with, it's so similar to what i've just read that what i did seems like i just paraphrased the whole thing. and then i'm left feeling dejected but wanting to write something that people would appreciate or talk about or something like that. sadly, i don't think i've ever written something like that.

so yeah, i guess i'm stuck at the moment into quoting people .

btw, the quote that i was going to make rukawa say at the end of the fic was this: 'just because she's likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn't mean she's your soul mate'

and after that, sendoh would like him.lol. sucks...too 500 days of summer-ish -_-

Deep Purple

Deep Purple is a doujinshi created by Prin based on Slam Dunk. As you can see, it features Sendoh and Rukawa as it's main pairing. I simply love this manga because it's a SenRu. SD doujinshi's are hard to come by and well if there are any, the pairing would most likely fetaure the main protagonists in the story, mainly Sakuragi and Rukawa (-_-), so doujinshi's like this are treasures for SenRu fans like me.

The drawings in this manga are commendable too. The first time I saw snippets of this manga back when I was still watching SD, I thought it was done by Takehiko Inoue himself because the drawing style doesn't differ much.

Plot-wise, Deep Purple sticks pretty closely to the original SD and is not, like other doujins are, too far-off or fangirly-ish. Prin's characterization here of the two is good, so for me, the story can pretty much be woven into the story seamlessly.

Over-all, the manga's good. Worth your time, if you like BL and definitely a must for SenRu fans.

The manga has four scanlated volumes to date. Chapter 1 of Volume five has been released. Nakama did the first few volumes and then Harudaki continued the series. All in all the manga has six volumes.

botched up

was at quiapo a while ago, hunting for dvd's to satisfy my boredom. i bought GG2 to catch up, a dvd with 8 movies in it (6 of em i've seen in the cinemas but, oh well) and bleach (episodes 90-120. yes i know, i'm way behind here). afterwards, i still had some money left so i decided to hunt for some k-soaps (koreanovelas). i saw this dvd entitled 'piano' so that caught my attention because the lead actor looked hot, with him in the beach and all. i looked at the back to read what the soap was about but lo, i couldn't, for the life of my dog, understand what it was saying.

it went like this: "His father experienced a lot of tears; section of the sons and daughters of intelligence. Zhi thick breakdown deep intelligence and his son, the sons and daughters moving spirit situation do not love the piano, is a Youzuihuashe the third rate gangster who quietly launched. Commissioner billion (Cho hyun-play: an inflow of Hunhun, the small role of a society, and lived a vagabond life all day, although once-Qaeda leader arrested for violent and when the eldest child, was forced to end due to lack of Xinji Life on the run..."

that was all of it. how i knew it word per word? well i bought it. it was just 40 pesos so i bought it. i haven't watched it though cause i'm betting that the subtitles would be phrased like those above. or maybe not. i'm just gonna cross my fingers.

sad fact is, asian countries are still having a hard time learning english. pirated subtitled dvd's are a proof of it. i'm a bit glad though that where i came from, our english is not that bad. a bit of grammatical error here and there but as far as diction and spelling is concerned, we have no problems. guess i was lucky enough to be born in a place where most people are fluent in english.