izkariote: (zen.)
2011-01-29 08:38 pm

Running in, then rushing right back out.

So. I'm going to Singapore.

I don't really feel prepared, and I'm a little nervous, but more excited than anything else. Household's felt stifling these days - I don't know if it's always been like that and I just didn't notice recently because I was running through the wringer at school or if it's because there's been a lot going on for my family as of late. Either way, I think toughing it out on my own for two months will be good for me.

Been spending most of my time making sweet love to my PS3, as he has been FOREVER ALONE for quite some time now. I was supposed to get some writing and file fixing and marathoning done, but Dragon Age was just too shiny for me. ;; As it is, though, the game was totally worth it. I'm kind of glad I didn't have to spend a cent for it too.

Am resisting the urge (and failing) to write Dragon Age fic. Alistair, he is a puppy. And Zevran is my sexy bitch.

Yesterday was actually some kind of crazy... in the rush of stuff that I had to two for the past two weeks, I forgot to mention here that two of my closest friends had elected to get married on the same day. That pretty much left me scrambling all over the place to prepare, and then zipping from one place to the next on the day itself.

Fun times, though, if not a tad awkward, on occasion. As to why, I don't really want to say here. But I saw old faces, got to smoke in good company, ate nice food and generally enjoyed myself, even if I officially hate wearing long gowns. XD

Now before I go back to my downloads and my tagging and my gaming, an open meme for all you RPers out there looking to do some kinky stuff:

[open RP Post] Marry/Fuck/Hatesex Rough It Out/Tie Me Up/7 Minutes in Heaven @ sexhibitionists!



Aaaaand fic pimps.


► PERSONA 3. Minato & Minako // In a silent language
► PERSONA 4. Kanji & Naoto // The need to hold still
► SENGOKU BASARA. Koujurou // Too much love will kill you in the end
► GINTAMA. Takasugi // Will you get your wish?
► SOUL CAMPAIGN. Dojima & Roy // Memoirs of an amnesiac
► SOUL CAMPAIGN. Seimei & Sasuke // Your sweet symmetry, all shattered
izkariote: (iWOMAN)
2010-10-20 06:41 pm

A massive update from yours truly.

This is so overdue, it ain't funny.

IN CASE YOU DON'T WANNA CHASE TEAL DEERS:
+ I managed to submit my paper as planned! I also finished my teacherly work, although it took a lot longer than it should have. Lol, vacation mode. Good job, brain.
+ I may have discovered something that could land me a research scholarship thing in Japan.
+ This semester ended with a bang and lovely family things.
+ SENGOKU BASARA 3, CAN HAS.
+ Slept over at the Cheng Chua pad since Khursten is house sitting.
+ RP is starting to lose its flavor.
+ Fandom never gives me pretty things. :|
+ NaNoWriMo is coming up. I need to get my ass in gear and start warming up with ficcage. Undecided on what project to do, though.


And the long versions! )


The cat has greatly missed me, it seems, and it is also time for dinner.
izkariote: (i feel pretty~)
2010-10-01 07:06 pm

Shitting out sunshine and rainbows.

I set this up a few days ago.


sexhibitionists;
all kink, all porn, all day, any day.



Join it, or stalk it. Whatever goes, goes. ♥




Quick real life updates and good news: school is nearly out, and since ADMU seized the UAAP cup for the third time, I've a surprise long weekend.

Lit 13 pups are enjoying Heavy Rain immensely, now that they've gotten a hang of the controls. We've got people peeking in from the other classes too, marveling at the fact that there's a class full of lucky bastards who get to idle out their last two weeks of lessons on a PS3 game.

Managed to get accepted to a conference that'll take place in Singapore in December. [livejournal.com profile] khursten will be with me, and we are both very excited at the prospect of molesting [livejournal.com profile] tasogareika lollygagging in good company.

Birth By Sleep should be eating up my spare time, cept my copy is fucked up. Cables for my PS3 have been eaten by my house too, so I'll have to go to Greenhills very soon and solve BOTH those problems, from the looks of it.

One more paper to write, then papers to check, then we're free to roll right down to the fun stuff.
izkariote: (ennui.)
2010-09-06 08:47 pm

Just passing through, kids.

Our PLDT DSL line appears to have completely killed itself - it just died overnight a few days back, and hasn't come on again. I tried calling them up, and they said they'd get back to me and file a report.

They haven't gotten back to me, and I doubt that they ever filed anything.

Philippine Internet: Made of Fail.

Currently running on smartBRO - I've been meaning to get a prepaid dongle thing for myself for quite some time now, so I guess this is all right.

If there is one good thing, though, about not having a fast and stable connection that I can keep on for ages, it's that I can let my brain idle more. For one, I usually hit the PC right after I roll out of bed and check things/tag around THEN end up rushing to get ready to go. Now I wake up, roll around, eat a proper brunch and prepare my things at my leisure, since I get lazy at the thought of setting up my laptop just to connect.

Speaking of brain idling: I'm not sure if it's a sign of age or exhaustion. I was totally internetless on Friday night, which left me with so many options on what to do. I ended up doing nothing but flop around in bed. It was oddly nice. o_o

Maybe I should take that as a sign and start shaving away at the the things I think I need to do or think about but actually don't.




Last full month of the semester has arrived, and not too much has changed. Students are a little less annoying, although I'm still having some trouble with the usuals. I'll write a longer entry on them sometime soonish, or maybe tell whoever wants to hear about it.

I was supposed to review the entire set of Philippine Speculative Fiction novels for the POC Review, but the project ended up falling through.

...sob, all of my effort. I suppose I can use it for something else...

Grad studies class is picking up again, since we haven't been able to meet each other nearly as much as we're supposed to. Got a report on Paradise Lost, which isn't really coincidental - my professor knows that I used the epic poem for my undergrad thesis. I've brought home the book I used as my primary source, and will be rifling through my notecards before I read through the whole thing to see if there's anything that I can use.

On that note, I've been meaning to go over my undergrad thesis and see if I can revise it and make it conference-paper or journal-worthy. Might as well: it'd actually be a waste to let all of that research gather dust.




I occasionally get worried that I might be going too slow with my scholarly shenanigans.

Then I remember that I intend to do this my whole life anyway, along with whatever else I can manage to get done. Should stop belittling my own achievements too - that's always good for one's self-esteem.

Why society is so obsessed with people hitting "success" at a young age is beyond me. Sure, some of us don't have a choice, but let's admit it - most of us do, and just pretend that we don't. Seriously, guys: if you end up killing yourself in pursuit of your goals, there doesn't seem to be a point to it.




This weekend was pretty nice, since I got to watch some sophomore Asian History sections duke it out in Bel Field via Kibasen, and I got to roll around with [livejournal.com profile] khursten even if she turned me into her slave labor at her office. Sunday was fun, too - went to the Esteban household for my cousin Jonat's birthday, and it's been a while since I've spoken to him and his siblings.

I now kind of want to invest in an iTouch or something like it, though. MUST RESIST AND SAVE UP FOR SPEAKERS/MONITOR/EXTERNAL HARD DRIVE/WINDOWS 7. ;A;




RP eats up a crap load of my time, yes, and is sometimes more stressful than it is worth. I've met a lot of people through it, though, and nothing beats being able to log with and plot with people who truly matter to me. Plus, I've got to admit it: I RP for the game, not for the company. Anything can be done if it means pushing the game forward.

Still, I should strike a balance between the roleplay and my writing. I haven't been writing all that much these days.

...Which might actually be less of a problem created by RP, and more because of RL. This year was even crazier than last year, now that I think about it. I'm often too tired or washed out to do anything with myself at the end of each day.

Interestingly enough, though, I have started on several short stories. I didn't used to do short stories, as some of you know. Let's just see how things turn out. o3o




Livejournal staff people have to stop breaking things that work just fine.




Note to self: check your flist more often.
izkariote: (gamer)
2010-09-03 01:21 am
Entry tags:

RP Muse Meme Thing, Take Two

Recent shenanigans on Plurk had me digging up the first version I had of this meme, which promptly sent me on a nostalgia trip. And awakened my OCD tendencies.

SO ANYWAY HERE THE UPDATED LIST THING, for comparison! And great justice!


A GINORMOUS LIST IS GINORMOUS, once again. And organized differently now! )



I should do this yearly or something, to see how it evolves. o3o
izkariote: (mew.)
2010-06-02 07:38 pm

Coron 2010 (Part III)

Huhu, crammed the last two days into one entry. HEAD'S UP FOR MORE IMAGES~~~

Parts I and II are here and here, btw!


Day Three (May 31). )
izkariote: (dork.)
2010-05-01 02:14 pm

Plurk has some of the most interesting memes these days. o_o

Ask me any RP-related question at all! About muses, games, writing style, what have you!

Also:

World of Darkness campaign was awesome, as per usual. Our party is so gloriously fucked.

EVERYBODY SAY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO [livejournal.com profile] yukitsu! ♥♥♥
izkariote: (d'oh.)
2010-04-18 12:05 pm

... /quietly rolls back in, like ninja

sob

I have to stop forgetting to check my LJ. I mean, I always get these vague thoughts like hmm, maybe I should skim the flist! but then one thing happens and another thing and, next I know it, I'm coming back after a week to over 400 entries. ;;

So. Life bits.

SCHOOL; not taking summer class, at least not officially... my colleague who's teaching the Cultural Studies elective has allowed me to sit in on her sessions indefinitely, free of charge. [livejournal.com profile] khursten is with me, and now we keep flinching at words like 'commodification' and making stupid Marxist jokes that only we can get.

TEACHING; handling one Literature 14 class, and it's been pretty good so far. Kids are quiet but receptive, although I think they might still be intimidated by me. They all get this deer-in-headlights look whenever I throw a question at them.

Also: we need to seriously work on how to read poems properly. Their first group paper was a little... yeah.

RP; Flaking in and out. I need to find my groove again without compromising all of the other things that I need to do. ._. Getting better at it now, though, but... yeah. I know that I owe [livejournal.com profile] nique big time for not being around in Viva, or doing my Julia app. That's just one thing that I haven't been able to get to. orz

DRIVING; that's right, I'll be driving starting next week. Got the student permit and everything. THIS IS HOW MANY YEARS OVERDUE.

LIGHTS OUT; ...is in a week. Motherfucker.

WORLD OF DARKNESS; returned to my game with the usual suspects, which only made me want to write fanfic for our new party AND try and resurrect my own campaigns with my own set of players. I realize I have horrible luck with tabletop campaigns, see... my DMs disappear on me, for one reason or another.

That being said: IS ANYONE INTERESTED IN being my guinea pig JOINING A SESSION? D:

WRITING; Have started reconnecting, once again, with Endtimes, and it's working out so well. I've also kicked off a possible project with Mahar, which will have gratuitous amounts of gay and angst.

OTHER HOBBIES; got a heck load of files to sort out once I can sit still long enough. Schedule's pretty brutal, so I'm oftentimes too exhausted or brain dead to really want to do anything beyond stare at my PC screen and chat with people. I have started working through the comics I have on queue, though, along with the series I've been downloading. Current obsession: The Tudors. Rife with historical inaccuracies, I know, but. The costumes.

Cross Game was fabulous as well. Now I kind of want to pick up more of the mangaka's work and check them out, based on the recommendations I got~


So, flist, what did I miss?
izkariote: (bringing sexy back.)
2010-02-10 10:29 am
Entry tags:

Meme Shenanigans + Gouto Camwhore Timez

HELLO TO NEW LJ FRIENDS.

LET ME GREET YOU WITH A MEME, AND KITTIES.

THE CHARACTER ASSOCIATION MEME




And now, my kitties! Aaaand snippets of me. )


Gouto is the black one with brown speckles and Ginkitty/Snow is the white one! ♥

Much love to [livejournal.com profile] khursten for taking the photos and uploading them! *w*
izkariote: (d'oh.)
2010-01-24 02:15 pm

The long and short of it is:

I really suck at maintaining online accounts these days. There are times when they honestly feel like a hassle, and at worst, they make me paranoid about a lot of stuff, big and small. o_o




Started Dead. (Still Dreaming.), my second World of Darkness campaign with the girls yesterday. Which was also doubly funny, because Khursten was the only one who was supposed to get a cat.

Now I have one too.

She really likes the lowest, most shadowed corner of my bookshelf.

Yes, I'll take pictures once I have the means to!




My interest in online RP has waxed and waned a whole lot these days, but I do know one thing:

[livejournal.com profile] soul_campaign is full of amazing people.




Work has been extremely interesting.

'Interesting' in the Chinese sense, mind you.
izkariote: (wasted.)
2010-01-11 10:28 am

This'll be quick; this won't hurt a bit.

Had an absolutely lovely weekend. Friday was devoted to our first play test of a homebrew Persona system for World of Darkness. Mahar was the ST, and I got to play with [livejournal.com profile] khursten, [livejournal.com profile] gzep, [livejournal.com profile] psychoshoujo, Mia's lovely little sister and a guy named Meyer.

Suffice to say, it made me totally miss tabletop and even wonder why I bothered with so much wank and shit from sticking with LJ RPs the way I did. I return from the experience enlightened, I think, and more than ready to run my own campaigns again. Or play in others.

Don't get me wrong; it's actually impossible to compare LJ RP with table top since the dynamics are very different. Still: nothing beats gaming with friends whom you know and love, and wielding an original character whom you have full authority over. Someone who you can mold. Someone who is still ultimately separate from you, and will grow in ways that are bound to surprise you.

[/ramble]

Anyway, Saturday was the usual date with [livejournal.com profile] yukitsu, [livejournal.com profile] khursten and [livejournal.com profile] kye_kestrel - we watched Sherlock Holmes AND OMG JUDE LAW = WATSON IS THE BEST THING SINCE INSTANT NOODLES.

Felt sick by yesterday though, although it cleared up some by evening...

...Only to come back today, which leaves me cooped up at home, sniffling like the shit. The good thing is, I won't miss TOO much since my English 12 classes are on track. Now I just need to worry about my Literature 14 class, since their midterms are coming.

But first: tags, archive and icons. Oh, and naps.

Naps are good. orz
izkariote: (dork.)
2009-12-09 10:49 am
Entry tags:

RP Muse Meme Thing

...Because I couldn't actually decide on who to do and I also need a personal reference list, I've elected to do this for every muse I've ever played, be it musebox or in an actual RP, and every muse I seriously WANT to play at the moment.

Also: obvious character series bias is obvious. Bite me. :|


A GINORMOUS LIST IS GINORMOUS. )



...I think, in total, that this post took me 4-6 hours to make.
izkariote: (just as planned!)
2009-07-21 08:57 am

If she sees this post too, I will be very amused.

Dear RP!S,

Thank you for making my day. I feel famous and loved now.


Love,

Kae.
izkariote: (Default)
2009-07-06 09:43 pm

Words and words and words.

Yep.

This is me, pretty much failing at updating anything beyond Plurk. o_o

Folks on the DW side of things, how are you doing?

Shoutout pretty much goes for the LJ folks as well. Been trying to keep up with your entries, but if there's anything I missed, don't hesitate to poke me.




First month of class has pretty much come and gone, so us ADMU profs are puttering right along through our fourth week of sessions with our kids. Not much to say beyond the fact that I'm pretty content with the way things are going now. Got decent students, a nice schedule, and the stuff I'm teaching are things I'm comfortable with. Now it's just a matter of getting better and better at it.

Graduate studies load is 3 units less stressful now, and the class is progressing fine. Came up with a kick-ass pitch for a paper involving a psychoanalytic reading of Persona 3, and my prof seems sold on the idea. Looking forward to writing it.

And that reminds me: I should srsly post up the papers I've already written here, huh? On the academic filter and such and so. orz I keep forgetting. orz orz orz

If there's one complaint I could have, it'd be that I don't really get to see the folks that I became rather close with last year, by merit of my horrendously long break. There are other ways to see them, though. I guess.

Still, I do miss those times. Four hours of doing absolutely nothing but smoke and chill out. Hard to find pockets of Zen like that these days.




I could talk and rant and rave a whole lot about that thing they call Faculty Day, but an online journal isn't exactly the best place to discuss such an event.




RPing all of these characters in all of these places is an exercise in schizophrenia.

There is no better way of putting it.
izkariote: (flail.)
2009-06-23 12:17 pm
Entry tags:

STOP, IT'S MEME TIME.

Ganked this from [livejournal.com profile] desumethis, because she's fucking evil.


IC QUESTIONS MEME:



✖ Ask any of the characters I roleplay a question,
and I'll reply in-character as them with an answer.

✖ Feel free to ask them ANYTHING, Regardless
of whether you know their canon or not.

✖ Feel free to also ask them as your own character.
They will respond accordingly.




People in play: EVERYONE--

The list. )


Also: you can ping me for other muses that you KNOW I have, even though I don't bring them out beyond museboxes and chat RP.
izkariote: (no moar work.)
2009-06-14 04:38 pm
Entry tags:

Tripping, bouncing, singing along.

BECAUSE I NEEDS A MEME IN MY LIFE.

Ask me about any character that I've RP'd as and I will tell you 5 things from my own personal head canon about them.

The list. )

I-I think there are others but orz. Ping away.

YES THERE IS AN OBVIOUS CHARACTER OR SERIES BIAS, DON'T JUDGE ME.




Fuck yeah, school tomorrow.

/tries to stay excited--

/fails

T_T
izkariote: (whoa.)
2009-06-11 02:17 pm

Counting down, down, down~

GETTING THIS IN BEFORE TAG RAPE ENSUES YET AGAIN.

Petrik celebrated his birthday with the rest of the Punzalan kids on the 9th with a delishus lunch in the office! It's kind of lulzy how half my family has birthdays this month, with me being one of them. ANYWAY, it was really nice, lounging around and talking with the bros that I don't usually get to see around~

After that, I met up with [livejournal.com profile] khursten and [livejournal.com profile] yukitsu in order to check up on B. My prayers still go out to her - she's had a rough time as of late, and that, for those of you who do know what's up, is a dire understatement.

Slept late into the next morning due to srs plottage for [livejournal.com profile] theskytides and [livejournal.com profile] yescomrade museboxing, and then zoomed off to ADMU after I woke up from sleeping like a total rock! I've gotten most of my pre-sem teacher stuff out of the way, and I got to catch up with my colleagues in the English Department, which is always cool.

Best part about yesterday, though, was hanging out with [livejournal.com profile] lainewell, [livejournal.com profile] dark_profanity and their friend Viktor after I gave up on finishing my registration! MUCH INSANITY ENSUED.

I'm currently chillaxing at home - I feel the need to rest, since my hours have been odd lately. Enjoying the shiny laptop speakers that my dad has loaned to me indefinitely, along with the fact that we seem to have fixed our internet connection (with no thanks to PLDT). See, my dad figured that some of our defective phones might be bleeding into the connection, since we're all still using one line... now we're thinking of getting a direct line for the net from the box in order to improve it further. When we all have the time to get someone to do it for us. IN THE MEANTIME, THOUGH, IT IS GOOD ENOUGH. *w*

And on other random things:


  • [livejournal.com profile] signifies and [livejournal.com profile] g3ssh0ku, ILU both. ♥
  • Nnnn school coming up next week. I don't want it but I kind of do!
  • My little brother is a man now. I feel so proud, watching him drive. ;w;
  • ...Why am I considering apping at other RPs again.



Yeah okay, back to tag rape. orz


EDIT - Tried and tested: every single time I praise my connection, it hiccups.
izkariote: (procrastinating.)
2009-05-21 09:53 pm

I edited this entry just to add this title.

So like, after nearly a month of saving and obsessively fixing, I have finally arranged all of my icons and changed all of the sets on all relevant accounts, DW and LJ. I haven't fixed the sets on my RP accounts yet now that I have some new things, but I'll get there soon enough.






DON'T JUDGE ME, IT'S A BIG THING, OKAY. @_@ Especially since I can converse with my icons better, now that I've switched my sets around and-- *geeky rambling here*




Went off to the usual hospital for the usual blood work, which meant that I finally got to use my handy-dandy medical card. It's one of those delayed discount card things that basically gives you brownie points for getting sick all the time and using their services.

The only really fun part about it was being with mom again. It's always nice talking to her one-on-one. When I'm at home I sort of retreat into my corner and our dinner table conversations don't really count because Needy Older Brother generally steals the show. Anyway, s'nice. ♥

On other RL things: still haven't gotten the phone appraised, much less fixed. Blame it on the lazy.

Blinding sunlight aside, the weather's great down here, but I heard it's hot in other areas of the city. I do wish I could send some of the breeze we've been getting down over to some of my friends - it's quite nice.




Birthday wishlist is over here, for the friends and lovers and the curious on my flist.

No, I still have no idea how I'm going to celebrate.

Speaking of birthdays... big apologies to those whom I still owe gift fics too. I'm lagging behind again, aren't I? *sob*




It's rather nice, playing and modding in games full of people that I actually enjoy being with.




Summer vacation is nearly over.

I'm honestly going to miss this.
izkariote: (memento mori.)
2009-04-27 09:50 pm

The Weekend Report

So the Punzalan clan dragged itself out of Metro Manila over the weekend in order to attend my brother Petrik's wedding celebration to his wife, Yas. They've already been civilly married for the past five years now, but you know how it goes with us Catholics: it's the Church wedding that seems to mean so much more.

OMG, IT'S A TEAL DEER! )




I woke up to my dad telling me that the internet connection was apparently back to its usual speed - testing it out downstairs verified this, but I went with him to the office anyway because I figured that it could be a serious fluke.

Apologies to those I didn't tag or talk to the whole day today: I was hacking away at my fic backlog, with moderate success. Dump's in the last part of this post, for the interested. ♥

The internet connection was down when I got home, as predicted - it only came around maybe an hour or so ago, and it seems slow again. I'll be staying home tomorrow because the PLDT folks are scheduled to come here and rig us up with a new plan.

Also: seriously considering dropping some RPs sometime soon. I'm also lazy to fix the app that I sent in since it's in need of some minor revisions... I'll prolly get to it once I've cleared out more of my writing backlog.

Head's up to [livejournal.com profile] rainy_takako and [livejournal.com profile] mlina for this set. I'll be working on things for [livejournal.com profile] akaru_hana, [livejournal.com profile] yukitsu and maybe [livejournal.com profile] redmoonmurder and [livejournal.com profile] mlina again for the rest of the week.


And now, ficcage! )
izkariote: (but this is my happy face.)
2009-04-25 08:50 am
Entry tags: