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TOHOSHINKI LIVE CD COLLECTION (320kbps)

1st LIVE TOUR 2006 ~Heart, Mind & Soul~
2nd LIVE TOUR 2007 ~Five in the Black~
3rd LIVE TOUR 2008 ~T~
4th LIVE TOUR 2009 -The Secret Code- FINAL in TOKYO DOME

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Helpful Websites To Learn Languages

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Helpful Websites To Learn Languages:

les-langues-sont-ma-vie:

French

http://www.laits.utexas.edu/fi/home - I absolutely love this website. It has everything!

http://french.speak7.com/

http://www.elanguageschool.net/

http://www.learnalanguage.com/

French word of the day: http://www.bitesizedlanguages.com/wod/r/french

https://conjuguemos.com/index.php

http://learn101.org/french.php

http://www.memrise.com/topic/french/wordlists/

http://lightandmatter.com/french/

http://go.hrw.com/gopages/wl-fr.html

Pronunciations: http://www.forvo.com/languages/fr/

http://www.learner.org/resources/series83.html#

http://oli.cmu.edu/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/french/mafrance/

http://www.rfi.fr/lfen/statiques/accueil.asp

Podcast: http://www.coffeebreakfrench.com/

http://www.newsinslowfrench.com/?gclid=CMPphb2SrKgCFQI8gwodRnvuHQ

French in Mali: http://wws.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/language/lessons.cfm#french

http://www.miscositas.com/french.html

http://www.transparent.com/learn-french/

http://www.digitaldialects.com/French.htm

Phonetics: http://phonetique.free.fr/index.htm

http://www.verb2verbe.com/

Listening activities: http://frenchlingq.com/

http://ielanguages.com/french.html

http://www.realfrench.net/grammar/games.php

http://www.languageguide.org/french/

http://goethe-verlag.com/tests/EF/EF.HTM

http://globegate.utm.edu/french/globegate_mirror/frlesson.html

http://www.parleremo.org/viewcatalog.php?catlang=fra

http://www.jump-gate.com/languages/french/french1.html

German

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/0„9572,00.html -You have to register, but it’s a great way to learn German

http://userweb.port.ac.uk/~joyce1/abinitio/index.html

http://www.deutsch-lernen.com/

http://www.fln.vcu.edu//menu.html

http://www.canoo.net/index_en.html

http://files.flageorgia.org/german/grammar/grammar.htm

http://www.ielanguages.com/German.html

http://www.parleremo.org/viewcatalog.php?catlang=deu

http://www.lsa.umich.edu/german/hmr/grammatik/index.html

http://learn-german-easily.com/index-basic-german

http://learn-to-speak-german.de/learn-with-songs

http://www.vorleser.net/

http://www.tagesschau.de/

http://german.speak7.com/

http://dict.leo.org/ende?lp=ende&lang=en&searchLoc=0&cmpType=relaxed§Hdr=on&spellToler=&search=

Italian

http://www.learnalanguage.com/learn-italian/

http://www.elanguageschool.net/

http://easy-italian.tumblr.com/

http://nativeitalian.tumblr.com/

Linguistic Map of Italy: http://les-langues-sont-ma-vie.tumblr.com/image/20541832214

Italian word of the day: http://www.bitesizedlanguages.com/wod/r/italian

http://matadornetwork.com/abroad/10-extraordinarily-useful-italian-phrases/

Audio, grammar, idioms, etc: http://www.oneworlditaliano.com/english/home.htm

Children’s books: http://www.ilnarrastorie.it/favole.famose/

http://www.zapitalian.com/

http://www.ielanguages.com/italian.html

http://www.poliglo.com/English/english.html

Newspaper: http://www.repubblica.it/

http://italian.about.com/od/lessons/tp/italian-language-lessons.htm

Children’s songs and rhymes: http://www.mamalisa.com/?p=824&t=ec&c=120

http://www.italianlanguageguide.com/

Culture: http://www.kwintessential.co.uk/resources/global-etiquette/italy-country-profile.html

http://twitter.com/italianlanguage

http://www.iluss.it/schede_gram_free.html

http://www.education.vic.gov.au/languagesonline/italian/italian.htm

https://conjuguemos.com/index.php

http://learn101.org/italian.php

http://www.memrise.com/topic/italian/wordlists/

Pronunciations: http://www.forvo.com/languages/it/

Podcast: http://radiolingua.com/shows/italian/one-minute-italian/

Podcast: http://radiolingua.com/shows/italian/my-daily-phrase-italian/

http://www.transparent.com/learn-italian/

http://www.digitaldialects.com/Italian.htm

http://www.ielanguages.com/italian.html

http://www.italianizeyourself.com/

http://www.languageguide.org/italian/vocabulary/

http://goethe-verlag.com/tests/EI/EI.HTM

Spanish

http://www.lingolex.com/spanish.htm

http://www.123teachme.com/ - Has games, verb conjugations, text translator, grammar, quizzes, and more!

http://www.studyspanish.com/

http://spanish.speak7.com/

http://www.elanguageschool.net/

http://www.learnalanguage.com/

Spanish word of the day: http://www.bitesizedlanguages.com/wod/r/spanish

http://zachary-jones.com/zambombazo/

http://www.poliglo.com/English/english.html

https://conjuguemos.com/index.php

http://www.lingolex.com/spanish.htm

Games: http://www.quia.com/shared/spanish/

Newspapers: http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=146063&sid=1247903

http://www.spanishdict.com/

http://learn101.org/spanish.php

http://www.memrise.com/home/

http://www.memrise.com/topic/spanish/wordlists/

Phonetics: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/#

Phonetics/Dialects in Spanish: http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/dialects//#

Pronunciations: http://www.forvo.com/languages/es/

http://learner.org/series/destinos/

http://www.colby.edu/~bknelson/SLC/index.php

http://www.miscositas.com/spanish.html

http://www.codyscuentos.com/

http://radiolingua.com/shows/spanish/coffee-break-spanish/

http://www.transparent.com/learn-spanish/

http://www.digitaldialects.com/Spanish.htm

http://www.ielanguages.com/spanish.html

http://www.learn-spanish.co.il/

http://mld.ursinus.edu/~jarana/Ejercicios/index.html

http://www.todo-claro.com/

http://www.spanicity.com/

http://www.languageguide.org/spanish/vocabulary/

http://goethe-verlag.com/tests/ES/ES.HTM

http://learner.org/series/destinos/

http://www.spanishprograms.com/learning_module/tutorial_index.htm

http://www.expanish.com/free-spanish-study-guides.php

http://www.lingolex.com/accents.htm

http://www.codyscuentos.com/

http://www.spanishunlimited.com/

http://www.onlinefreespanish.com/

Chinese

http://www.chinese-tools.com/learn/chinese - What I love about this site is the pinyin to character tool

http://www.chinese-outpost.com/language/

http://www.csulb.edu/~txie/ccol/content.htm

http://www.sinosplice.com/learn-chinese

http://chinese.rutgers.edu/class_content_simplified_chinese/level1/class1-to-9/class1/short_en.htm

http://www.zapchinese.com/

http://www.yeschinese.org/learn-chinese/lesson-1-introduction-to-hanyu-pinyin/

Thai

http://www.thai-language.com/lessons

http://www.thai2english.com/

http://www.linguanaut.com/english_thai.htm

http://learn-thai-podcast.com/thai-language/

http://www.into-asia.com/thai_language/

http://www.carla.umn.edu/LCTL/VPA/Thai/pages/home.htm

http://learningthai.com/

http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Thai/Beginning_Thai_I_review/index.html

http://www.thai-lessons.com/trivial_game.php

Music: http://www.ethaimusic.com/index.php

Korean

http://www.voakorea.com/

http://www.learn-korean.net/

http://www.parleremo.org/viewcatalog.php?catlang=kor

http://wiki.galbijim.com/Hanja

http://animara.com/hanghoul/ - shoot zombies by translating hangul!!

http://www.uebersetzung.at/twister/ko.htm

http://langintro.com/kintro/toc.htm

http://www.genkienglish.net/speakkorean/

http://www.infocobuild.com/language/korean/korean.html-

http://linguanaut.com/english_korean.htm

http://www.lifeinkorea.com/Language/korean.cfm?Subject=writing

http://www.learn-korean.net/learn-korean-classes-listarticles-4.html

http://www.transparent.com/wotd/today/korean.html

http://rki.kbs.co.kr/learn_korean/lessons/e_index.htm

http://www.youtube.com/user/koreanclass101?feature=results_main

http://tunein.com/radio/Korean-g152/

Newspaper: http://chosun.com/

http://www.indiana.edu/~koreanrs/hangul.html

http://www.koreandictionary.net/

http://parksguide.blogspot.com.br/

http://korean.sogang.ac.kr/

http://ezcorean.com/korean_grammar/index.php?cfile=bb_index.php&subaction=vforum&home=grammar_forum

Japanese

http://www.freejapaneselessons.com/

http://www.learn-japanese.info/

http://www.learnjapanesefree.com/

http://www.learnjapanese.com/ - Has slang expressions, grammar, common phrases, vocabulary and more

http://japanese-phrases.sakura.ne.jp/

http://www.manythings.org/japanese/

http://jisho.org/

http://www.saiga-jp.com/kanji_dictionary.html

http://www.learn-japanese-adventure.com/japanese-lessons.html

http://libguides.mit.edu/content.php?pid=146063&sid=1247899

http://www.jgram.org

http://www.iknow.co.jp

http://www.guidetojapanese.org

http://www.yamasa.cc/members/ocjs/kanjidic.nsf/SearchKanji3?OpenForm

Greek

http://www.kypros.org/cgi-bin/lexicon - Greek to English, English to Greek Dictionary (Modern and Ancient Greek)

http://www.101languages.net/greek/basics.html

http://www.biblicalgreek.org/grammar/

http://users.forthnet.gr/agn/drennolds1/

http://gr.voanews.com/

http://www.ukindia.com/zip/zgk1.htm

http://www.textkit.com/

http://www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/filog/

http://mylanguages.org/learn_greek.php

http://www.e-radio.gr/

http://www.ibiblio.org/koine/greek/lessons/alphabet.html

http://greek-language.com/Alphabet.html

ESL (English as a Second Language)

http://www.englishpage.com/

http://www.english-online.org.uk/course.htm

http://www.english-the-easy-way.com/Writing_English_ESL/Writing_English_ESL.htm

https://sites.google.com/site/marysenglishcourse/home

http://englishlearner.com/index.shtml

http://www.brainpopjr.com/

http://www.superteacherworksheets.com/index.html

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/

http://www.ESLDesk.com/

http://www.zozanga.com/

http://www.englishclub.com/learn-english.htm

Sign Language

www.aslpro.com

www.aslresource.com

http://www.asl.ms/

Esperanto

http://en.lernu.net/

Newspapers: http://eo.mondediplo.com/, http://www.liberafolio.org/

http://www.kurso.com.br/index.php?en

http://en.lernu.net/lernado/index.php

http://esperantofre.com/edu/kino01a.htm

http://www.esperanto-panorama.net/vortaro/eoen.htm

http://esperantofre.com/eeo/EoDktA/GerdaA/GerdaVoA.htm

http://esperanto-usa.org/

http://donh.best.vwh.net/Esperanto/Literaturo/

Russian

http://www.tasteofrussian.com/

http://speakrussian.blogspot.com/

http://wws.peacecorps.gov/wws/multimedia/language/lessons.cfm#russian

http://www.international.ucla.edu/languages/technology/podcasts/

http://www.ukindia.com/zip/zru1.htm

http://russophilia.wordpress.com/

http://www.golos-ameriki.ru/

Arabic

http://i-cias.com/babel/arabic/index.htm

http://www.alrashidmall.com/learn-arabic.htm

http://www.searchtruth.com/arabic/lessons/unit1_writing.php

http://arabic.speak7.com/

http://mylanguages.org/learn_arabic.php

http://arabic.tripod.com/

http://www.daadlanguage.com/

http://www.madinaharabic.com/start_learning.html

http://omanpocketguide.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=67&Itemid=81

http://tunein.com/radio/Arabic-g135/

http://www.al-bab.com/arab/newspapers.htm

http://www.arabicgenie.com/arabicletters.html

http://www.arabic-alphabet.org/arabic-lessons/

http://www.internetpolyglot.com/lessons-en-ar

http://www.firdaous.com/en/0023.htm

Norwegian

http://NorwegianLanguage.info/

http://www.stolaf.edu/depts/norwegian/grammar/grammar.html

http://www.apronus.com/norskaudio/samfunnslaere.htm

http://mylanguages.org/norwegian_alphabet.php-

http://www.freedict.com/onldict/nor.html

http://www.nrk.no/

Newspaper: http://www.aftenposten.no/

http://www.101languages.net/norwegian/vocabulary.html

http://iteslj.org/v/no/

http://norwegianlanguage.eu/2009/01/01/what-form-of-norwegian-to-learn-bokmal-or-nynorsk/

Swedish

http://www2.hhs.se/isa/swedish/chap2.htm

http://www.onlineswedish.com/main.php

http://swedishalphabet.tripod.com/index.swf

http://www2.hhs.se/isa/swedish/chap9.htm

http://www.ielanguages.com/swedish.html

Newspaper: http://www.dn.se/

http://www.svtplay.se/

http://sverigesradio.se/

http://www.ectaco.co.uk/English-Swedish-Dictionary/

Finnish

http://donnerwetter.kielikeskus.helsinki.fi/finnishforforeigners/parts-index.htm

http://yle.fi/vintti/yle.fi/supisuomea/sanasto/01.shtml

http://www.hs.fi/

http://watch.squidtv.net/europe/finland.html

http://www.fincd.com/

http://www.hei-finland.com/

http://www.hs.fi/english/extras/speakup

http://www.101languages.net/finnish/

http://www.oneness.vu.lt/

http://www.uuno.tamk.fi/

http://www.digitaldialects.com/Finnish.htm

http://mylanguages.org/finnish_alphabet.php

http://www.infopankki.fi/en-gb/finnish_on_the_internet/

Polish

http://www.transparent.com/word-of-the-day/today/polish.html

http://www.transparent.com/learn-polish/proficiency-test.html

http://www.skwierzyna.net/polishwords.pdf

http://www.i-polish.com/

http://www.skwierzyna.net/polishshortstories.pdf

http://www.skwierzyna.net/polishgrammar.pdf

http://grzegorj.w.interia.pl/kurs/

http://onestoppolish.com/useful_polish_phrases.htm

http://polish.slavic.pitt.edu/

http://portalwiedzy.onet.pl/tlumacz.html?qs=bread&tr=ang-auto&x=0&y=0

http://www.listenlive.eu/poland.html

http://www.tvp.pl/strony/przegapiles-w-tv-zobacz-w-internecie

Latin

http://www.cambridgescp.com/Lpage.php?p=clc%5Etop%5Ehome

https://conjuguemos.com/index.php

http://learn101.org/latin.php

Newspaper: http://www.vatican.va/archive/aas/index_en.htm

http://www.memrise.com/language/eng/lat/

Pronunciations: http://www.forvo.com/languages/la/

http://www.transparent.com/learn-latin/

http://ielanguages.com/latin1.html

http://www.textkit.com/latin_grammar.php

http://www.surfacelanguages.com/language/Latin

http://humanum.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/Lexis/Wheelock-Latin/

http://www.hhhh.org/perseant/libellus/aides/allgre/

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/alice.html

http://ancienthistory.about.com/cs/fun/

http://yle.fi/radio1/tiede/nuntii_latini/

http://www.linneyslatinclass.com/ghlectures.php

http://adamhoward.net/latin/latincomm.html

http://dictionaries.travlang.com/EnglishLatin/

http://www.ket.org/Education/latin/index.html

http://ablemedia.com/ctcweb/chifiles.html

http://www.textkit.com/

http://www.thelatinlibrary.com/classics.html

http://www2.hawaii.edu/~bender/latinex.html

http://www.classicsunveiled.com/romevd/html/game.html

http://www.classicsunveiled.com/romevd/html/vocabmain.html

http://www.linneyslatinclass.com/

http://web.uvic.ca/hrd/latin/wheelock/

http://archives.nd.edu/latgramm.htm

http://www.learnlatin.tk/

General Language Sites

http://www.fodors.com/language/ - Has Spanish, French, Italian, German, Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese

http://www.omniglot.com/ - Has basic phrases in almost any language along with idioms and sayings

http://www.wordreference.com/ - Any language (French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, etc.) to English dictionary

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ - Basic phrases and vocab in French, Spanish, Greek, Chinese, German, Italian, and Portuguese.

http://www.languagehelpers.com/ - Has Chinese, Czech, French, German, Latvian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish

http://www.smartphrase.com/index.shtml -Has Italian, French, German, Spanish, Greek, Dutch, and Portuguese. Random phrase generator

http://www.101languages.net/vocabulary/vocabulary.html - Has Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Norwegian, Portuguese, and Spanish

http://www.livemocha.com/ - A few people have suggested this site, and it’s incredible. If you want to learn a language on your own, you need this. And it’s free!

http://vinurminn.tumblr.com/post/15596816573/in-linguistics-a-filler-is-a-sound-or-word-that - Fillers in other languages.

http://memrise.com/language/

http://www.lang-8.com/

http://www.elanguageschool.net/ - Has Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Hindi, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, and Vietnamese.

http://www.forvo.com/languages/ - EVERY LANGUAGE STUDENT SHOULD KNOW ABOUT THIS SITE!! Pronounces words by native speakers in these languages: English, German, French, Russian, Tatar, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, Czech, Chinese, Swedish, Japanese, Finnish, Persian, Hungarian, Greek, Dutch, Korean, Polish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Hindi, Wu, Danish, Cantonese, Hebrew, Bashkir, Irish, Esperanto, Galician, Norwegian (bokmål), Indonesian, Serbian, Latin, Interlingua, Lithuanian, Slovak, Icelandic, Croatian, Yiddish, Slovenian, Occitan, Belorussian, Thai, Ancient Greek, Vietnamese, Afrikaans, Lombard, Kurdish, Tagalog, Asturian, Latvian, Welsh, Breton, Basque, Azerbaijani, Tamil, Sanskrit, Sicilian, Bosnian, Armenian, Estonian, Malay, Bengali, Neapolitan, Georgian, Klingon, Min Nan, Scottish Gaelic, Kabardian, Scots, Macedonian, Marathi, Faroese, Chuvash, Lakota, Swiss German, Bavarian, Zazaki, Mongolian and Swahili and many more.

http://www.internetpolyglot.com/mainMenu.html - Has English, Spanish, French, Chinese, German, Japanese, Italian, Dutch, Russian, Portuguese, Korean, Greek, Arabic, Hebrew, Thai, Latin, Hindi, Polish, Tagalog, Swedish, Romanian, Norwegian, Turkish, Finnish, Farsi, Danish, Indonesian, Czech, Hungarian, Ukrainian, Amharic, Swahili, Bulgarian, and Croatian.

http://www.engoi.com/en/index.html - Has Greek, Czech, Turkish, Romanian, Polish, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and Swedish.

http://www.babelnation.com/ - Has French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

Follow thelanguagecommunity.tumblr.com for even more websites!

fuckyeahtohoshinki: Fuck Yeah! Tohoshinki’s BIGEAST TIME...

Thu, 02 May 2013 09:44:08 +0800

fuckyeahtohoshinki:

Fuck Yeah! Tohoshinki’s BIGEAST TIME Giveaway

Happy CASSIOPEIA DAY!! With TIME Tour beginning soon we wanted to celebrate and also thank our followers by giving away a BIGEAST version of Tohoshinki’s TIME + BIGEAST TIME Capsule.

The prize:

- BIGEAST version of TIME (CD)

- BIGEAST TIME Capsule including 3 photocards

1 Lucky winner and we will ship internationally!! The rules are as follows:

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Went home for a mere 10 days after the end of term, which...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:53:00 +0800

Went home for a mere 10 days after the end of term, which basically means hanging out and catching up with all the people I didn’t get to see for the past 3 months while I was away for school - my family and friends. ^^

(1) First night at home with my sisters! I missed these piggies so much. ♥

(2) Immediately, the day after I got back I arranged for my friends and I to meet. Here’s a photo of us having merienda while we were stranded because of the rain.

(3) Got new glasses! Yay for bespectacled dudes. Taken with KK during one of our ‘galas’ together.

(4) Traditional outing with my closest friends! This time we decided to against the beach and went to a natural pool instead and voila! the magnificent view of the waterfalls behind. Pretty, isn’t it?

(5) To get to said magnificent waterfall, we had to climb down 350 steps. Going down wasn’t much of a problem, going back up was the worst. Taken midway through our climb, we were exhausted already!

(6) One of the best things I missed in my hometown is the street food! I shit you not when I say it’s the absolute best! They simply do not make kwek-kwek like we do back in the province.

(7) Last night in Iligan which only means a slight ‘send-off party’. Drinking session with my closest friends. Details, we ought not to reveal but all I can say is it was funfunfun!

(8) My awesomesauce sister bought me new phone cases! Yay, it’s been so long since I last bought one for myself. I was almost at the brink of getting sick of the phone itself. ^^

130201 Ian’s 19th Birthday Celebration:: (1) Ate dinner...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 19:05:00 +0800

130201 Ian’s 19th Birthday Celebration::

(1) Ate dinner with some friends and we bought her cake~

(2) Here are shots of us at dinner in Aracama and at the after-party in URBN Bar and Kitchen. All located in The Fort, Taguig.

(3) I’ve been into milk teas lately. Tried all sorts of flavors~ Cuppa’s one of the shops I’ve tried. They’re very good.

(4) Loco Frio! It’s a shaved-ice drink of your choice. My personal favorite is the Mojitos one and it’s strawberry flavored! Yum.

130308 Date with Roommates::

(5)Spontaneous dessert date with roommates at ROC. We were all craving for some blueberry cheesecake, we simply could not resist.

(6) After dessert, we all attended the Kamia Rhapsody: Confluence Dinner. It was a formal dinner party and there were also dating games!

fuckyeahtohoshinki: Fuck Yeah! Tohoshinki’s BIGEAST TIME...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 14:16:37 +0800

fuckyeahtohoshinki:

Fuck Yeah! Tohoshinki’s BIGEAST TIME Giveaway

Happy CASSIOPEIA DAY!! With TIME Tour beginning soon we wanted to celebrate and also thank our followers by giving away a BIGEAST version of Tohoshinki’s TIME + BIGEAST TIME Capsule.

The prize:

- BIGEAST version of TIME (CD)

- BIGEAST TIME Capsule including 3 photocards

1 Lucky winner and we will ship internationally!! The rules are as follows:

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Ultimate Writing Resource List

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 23:04:31 +0800

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a massively extended version of ruthlesscalculus’ post. Before reporting broken links, please check the updated version which is always located here.

General Tips

Joss Whedon’t Top 10 Writing Tips

34 Writing Tips that will make you a Better Writer

50 Free resources that will improve your writing skills

5 ways to get out of the comfort zone and become a stronger writer

10 ways to avoid Writing Insecurity

The Writer’s Guide to Overcoming Insecurity

The Difference Between Good Writers and Bad Writers

You’re Not Hemingway - Developing Your Own Style

7 Ways to use Brain Science to Hook Readers and Reel them In

8 Short Story Tips from Kurt Vonnegut

How to Show, Not Tell

5 Essential Story Ingredients

How to Write Fiction that grabs your readers from page one

Why research is important in writing

Make Your Reader Root for Your Main Character

Writing Ergonomics (Staying Comfortable Whilst Writing)

The Importance of Body Language

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0hmywizardg0d: hagridtheminivan: First, people say how so many...

Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:44:40 +0800

0hmywizardg0d:

hagridtheminivan:

First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal.

Interviewers have asked Jennifier Lawerence how much she weighs and why didn’t lose weight when Katniss is meant to be slim/skinny. She said that she was careful about not losing weight for catching fire, because she didn’t want to promote anorexia to young girls watching the films. Even though she’s getting criticised she still believes in what is right. Jennifer Lawerence you are my hero.

see photo of bias: you ugly piece of shit

Thu, 21 Feb 2013 20:03:06 +0800

see photo of bias: you ugly piece of shit
10 seconds later: set as wallpaper

02.18.88 Happy 25th (26th) Birthday to the moon that lights our...

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 23:31:39 +0800

02.18.88 Happy 25th (26th) Birthday to the moon that lights our sky, Shim Changmin!

You who debuted at such a young age and have been through so much ever since. Thank you for being strong and showing us that hard work and perseverance will take you miles. Please stay healthy and happy, always. Happy Birthday to our favorite snarky prince, 최강창민!!

Happy HoMin Day!! <3

Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:35:23 +0800

Happy HoMin Day!! <3

121229 Year-End Party w/ the Awesomes Part I

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 20:12:00 +0800

Started a new annual tradition with my special group of friends from high school this 2012!! It’s an annual year-end private party that we promised to do every December to celebrate Christmas together + to end the year with a tad bit of booze, food, gifts and craziness.

As per usual, we’ve patronized this same beach for years now. We should come up with more exciting places for next year though, I kinda think the beach has been over-used. I mean, we’re here almost every break. Whenever we decide to have a party as a group, we celebrate it here. Nevertheless, it was a crazy day - everything is crazy with these guys, imo no matter what we do.

Met up with the rest of the gang at Cliff’s mansion. We ate lunch here too since the day started a bit late for all of us. Was supposed to have left together at 9AM but was an hour and a half behind of schedule. (Of which they blame me, orz. Idk with these guys they bully me too much. ^^)

Not much to say just ‘cept that we played a lot of games. Ian’s been adamant about being the organizer of this event and she demanded that we all participate. Our team ended up winning 2 out of the 5 games. There were prizes of course. Apologies in advance for all the vulgarities in our activities.

(L-R) Tricia, Cherlz, Yanster and Audrey

(L-R) GM, Audrey, Kiara and Ian

Best gal pals in the whole wide world: Bem, Audrey, Ian and Cherlz

Traditional group photo-op. Most of us are the usual criminals. [Bottom photo; L-R] Cliff, Kiara, Anjo, Audrey, myself, Reinna, Cherlz, Ian, Tricia, Bemm, Dads, Rae, Dwight, Prince and GM.

I just love sunset shots so much! Every place, every time it’s different. Part 2 will be up soon. Mostly covers our sleepover, which was waaay more adult-ish than this. :)

121221 - 121228 Panay Island Whooz Adventure!

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:46:00 +0800

This might be a bit late (too late, even) but I’d just like to update nonetheless.

For Christmas vacation this year the entire family went on a very nice and simple vacation to my Mom’s hometown in Antique. What’s so special about this trip is that we were all complete - Dad, Mom and my two sisters. The last time we had a decent-length vacation together was around 2007, I think. And here we are… had to wait 5 years. :) Although there were vacations in between, of course but those always had one or two less people so it wasn’t as much fun.

Our first stop was Bacolod. Dad, my older sister Jessie and I flew to Bacolod on the 21st, Mom and my baby sister, Kathy were supposed to go with us but due to an unforeseen changes in schedules - they had to take a different flight the next day. We took the last flight at around 5:45 PM so when we landed it was already dark and wow, traffic in Bacolod is such a pain. Anyway, seeing as it was already late there was really no time to go around the place, which was sad since Bacolod looked really nice during the Christmas season. We checked into our hotel and turned in early for the night for another long journey the following day.

Left Bacolod and then met up with Mom and Kathy in Ilo-ilo. After Ilo-ilo was Boracay (Boracay should be a separate post cause it was so nice ^^) and then Valderama, Antique last stop was Sibalum, Antique. Here’s a pic spam of the entire trip.

Random silly-ness with my sister during the first wave of our trip. Courtesy of her Instagram. :>

We’ve been to Ilo-ilo a couple of times already so we were just there for an overnight pit stop. (L-R) My baby sister, Kathy and our cousin, Iris.

On the 23rd, we went to Boracay. This was taken at our hotel, which was a step away from the beach front - all worth the price, I say.

Boracay was beautiful. Despite it being a bit crowded, because of the peak-season - holidays and winter season in East Asia and all, it was still pretty.

This was in Valderama, Antique, Mom’s hometown. We’ve been here before but Mom was really psyched about being home after so long. She kept spouting out her native language - which was a little funny at first because she kept mixing it up with Cebuano, which is our native language in Iligan.

Antique is mostly a provincial area - so this place is far from the urban chaos. It’s all green grass and mountains and trees and farm animals. If you feel like escaping from urbanity, Antique is one of the few places left in the Philippines where the city-life has not completely conquered yet.

Guys, this is my Dad. Sometimes I think he isn’t at all his age. He acts so silly when he’s in front of the camera. Both he and Mom grew up in different provincial areas where farms are the main source of livelihood. I guess this was both a vacation and a reprieve for the both of them from the hustle and bustle of the city. My sisters and I grew up in the city so this was also equally as nice for us. The weather was actually cool and warm at the same time. The breeze actually felt and smelled real, imo.

On the 27th, we packed up our bags and moved to another municipality of Antique- Sibalum. This is me and my baby sister fooling around and singing along to One Direction’s songs during the car ride en route.

Surprise, surprise because it’s the beach again! The beach at sunset was really pretty and this was actually taken before a tropical depression hit our area. Looks pretty calm but the waves were actually ferocious and we were barely able to enjoy it for a few minutes before my Dad deemed it too dangerous to stay in the water for much longer.

The camera actually captured the pink/orange/yellow hues of the sky. It was absolutely stunning.

The following day, the storm was brewing hot and cold and we had no choice but to stay indoors. Luckily our kid cousins were there so we weren’t completely bored. We spent majority of the time on watching movies and playing games. The night before our flight back home we attended one of our cousin’s pageant night - she was so pretty. She won 1st runner-up but she would’ve totally bagged the crown, imo. :>

On the 28th, we left Antique at 5 in the morning for our 10AM flight from Ilo-ilo bound for Cagayan de Oro. It was sad to leave because I had so much fun but I was also a bit relieved that finally after a week, we were all going home to our own home and my comfy bed. Vacations are always fun and worthwhile but home will always be the best place to come back to. :) Watch out 2013, because we have plans for you as well.

Panay Island Vacation: The Extended Family Account

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 12:13:00 +0800

The thing about vacations is that when you have them - you initially think of the scenery, tourist spots, food and whatnot but this vacation was not about those things at all. It was basically about FAMILY - you know relatives, extended relatives, people you see once-in-a-blue-moon because you live so far from each other and when you do get to see them again they’ve changed so much you don’t even recognize them anymore. Yeah, so my encounter with most of the people there was mostly like that full of introductions and shizz and “do you remember”s and “wait, what was your name again…?”s and “oh, you’ve grown up so big already”s.

Jessie, my older sister and I are mostly awkward people around extended family - mostly because of aunts and uncles that have witnessed you growing up in your underwear and all your awkward childhood era (mind you, why can’t they simply get over it right? I mean I don’t see the need for them to bring it up in normal conversation - why can’t we just stick to the fun parts and not the awkward stuff, really ^^) and the cousins.. the cousins our age are NUMEROUS as in like you can’t count them or memorize them all in one day and sometimes you think wow, our family’s really been going at it right since there were so many. OTL Just kidding though. This year, we decided to make a change since this was special and we’re practically old enough to enter decent conversation with anybody so yeah WE DID.

Guess what…? We ended up as baby sitters for all our younger cousins. Those ages 5 to 15, maybe. All the others were either aloof or just casually looking too-busy-to-talk-but-I’ll-smile-and-say-hi-if-you-notice-me, which is probably the reason why most of our photos are taken with kids and not the adults or teenagers.

Instead of blabbering about this entire account to you… might I show you instead…? :)

Here are our cousins from Ilo-ilo. These kids are quite comfortable with us from the get-go since they mostly grew up in Iligan - they recently moved a few years back. Please note that the girl in the red dress is only 11 years old (yepp, younger than my baby sister) and she’s ALMOST as tall as me. Insecurities about my height triggered by kids, how pathetic.

My sisters and I with cousins from Antique (this is only like 1/4 of them there are more…) The girls flanking me are almost my age - they’re all in high school the eldest graduating. The others are still in elementary.

Just as I said, talk about EXTENDED. ^^

Majority of our stay in Antique was spent in a beach resort. We rented a cottage for a few days and as most of the kids wanted to stay with us how could we say NO? Despite the lack of space, it was fun.

Family and I played the game ‘Pinoy Henyo’ with them - which was mostly my Mom handing out money because she practically kept giving the kids the answers in the background. Mom was hilarious tbqh, she wasn’t allowed to talk so she kept miming and doing all these silly things so that the kids could guess it right - and they did, every single one of them and they had money and they drained Mom’s wallet. She didn’t mind at all but we did have to drop by the bank the next day because she only had a hundred pesos or so left.

All-in-all, time spent with family - extended or not, is time well-spent. I might not be able to see them again in quite some time but they were all so nice and accommodating, which makes me want to come back for more. In the end, one of the best vacations I’ve ever had. ^^

Most definitely a rant nothing interesting at all

Sun, 20 Jan 2013 02:48:15 +0800

121214 UP Lantern Parade: Lights, Food and Friends

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:01:00 +0800

It’s that time of the year again, 2012 has ended for my school, the University of the Philippines - Diliman with its annual celebration of the Lantern Parade. It’s a day filled with activities, food, bazaars and lights. A festive day celebrated every second Friday of the month of December to signal the start of Christmas vacation for all of us. The event formally starts at 5PM but prior to that a string of activities also take place.

Another one of UP’s most famous traditions is the annual Oblation Run (‘The Great Oblation Run’) that is held by several chapters of the fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega (APO) all around UP’s different campuses in the country. It’s a meaningful event that was inspired by UP’s famous symbol, the Oblation - meant to symbolize ‘a selfless offering of oneself to the country’. Each year the Oblation Run aims to promote a message concerning current sociological issues and the like. This year they advocated for fair elections in 2013.

[L-R] Marlon, myself, Ian and Tomm at the Lantern Parade. Feels great to be united.

At exactly 5PM, the main event was set to start with a parade of floats and festive street dancing from various colleges and organizations in the University. Tomm and I met up and walked around the campus and followed the parade around. We didn’t get to see much though because the crowd was so huge people could barely move around. We managed to escape and transferred spots to wait up for my bestfriend, Marlon. It’s Marlon’s first time in UP so I was kind of excited to show him around. It took a bit of effort for us to locate each other, not to mention all the walking Tomm and I had to do but it feels great to finally see my best guy friend after so long. (*´∀｀*人*´∀｀*)

GM and Ian caught up with us after some time. Notice my bunny ears - it’s not really obvious in the photo but the ears light up - it was one way for us to find each other in the huge crowd.

[L-R] With Glacer, Ariel and Tomm

We were also joined by our other friends from UP, Glacer and Ariel. It’s always fun to spend time with good friends. We all spoke Cebuano so there were no language barriers to cross. In a place filled with Tagalogs, it’s nice to speak so freely in our native language. :)

/lol/ I looked so hideous and unruly in all of the photos but nevertheless it was fun to spend time with friends. Here are bonus photos of the fireworks display, we chanced upon the perfect spot to experience its full effects. It wasn’t that much but still, it was pretty~ <3

All photo credits go to my best bud Marlon. I’m so happy he and Ian took the time to join us in this event. Given that UPD is a long way from his place in Manila, despite the very late hour. :)

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