so this year, Artists' ally at Anime LA
it was.................................................................pretty good :D

i discovered how much of a noob i am (i still need to gather up the cost of all my expenses plus the cost of my ticket & table and see if how much i made is below or beyond that amount)

anyways--i didn't take a lot of pics but i was able to get some soul eater cosplayers
   

   

:3 i think ALA has improved quite a bit~~and it had a festive kind of air about it~~and althought it doesn't match the numbers of AX, I still think a lot more people were in cosplay
=A= god...that soul cosplayer was so awesome-kinna felt bad because i had to interrupt her conversation with one of the artists TTATT dammit...
and that professor stein was so cute!! ;A;  her voice was so high pitched and bubbly and the screw in her head clicked~hehe ^^ i hope she's at AX too

~hopefully more characters pop up in Soul Eater (maybe female) that i can REALLY make a good cosplay with (eruka's hair is white and my skin is relli tan..so i dunno if that'll work out...)
pooo

here are some of the commissions that i had to do :3

 

i hope to do this again next year-and not to do stuff so last minute @_@...and hopefully not say things like "for free" god kick meeee
--i also found out how unknowledgeable i am about so many animes and games TTATT sorry i don't spend my time sitting around just watching and playing...

--anyways...overall i enjoyed it even though i didn't sell as much as my neighbors did~even if no one bought--at least they looked @_@ i dunno...that still means something to me XD
i guess the only bad part was that a lot of people would stand directly in front of my display while looking at someone else's displays--kind of a downer but :< eh...that just pushes me to do better so that it doesn't happen again
--anyways..i hope i wasn't too much of a bother to pompi @_@ asking her so many questions and wat not =A= gahh...i need more self control...
yay well i definatley will sell again next year...AND LIKE HELL I WILL BE PREPARED!!!

blahhh...
so for the most part my studio art thing is more than 3/4 of the way done
but my problem is--i'm just getting lazy...

holy christ...
i've been taking 15 minute breaks for every two hours i've been on this thing =A=

anywoo---just taking a breather

well asides from that...
i'm working in my weakest medium~ ACRYCLIC!!!
or anything to do with paint for that matter

i'm not the best painter--yet my art teacher marveled at my last painting
 and i didn't quite like that one either (well i did like it for the mere two seconds i saw it before going to bed =A=

blahh..and i have to do that stupid development page which i will have to print out at school because my stupid printer refuses to communicate with my laptop but lets it scan crap (=A= ftw..)

poopie...
well--the positive things about this project are that i get to do it all on my own and~is based off of my own ideas~so it truly is an "original"
i LOVE painting WATER~!
i had such a hard time with it and it took me two to three days to figure what the hell i was gonna do with it...but finally...i found a solution to my problem :3
i feel....p-prou--....
e.e
as you can see i have difficulty saying this word out loud (rather typing it out)

i feel PROUD....of .....myself e.e
*scrambles to hide in a corner with dim lighting*
this painting has really allowed me to see my potential--but i feel that i can do better
>_< i swear....i want to prove to my art teacher that i'm MEANT  to be in this class!!
;A; i want more....more skill--more inspiration
~i want to be engaged in art enough so that it actually hurts NOT to be drawing or painting...
>A< I WANT THAT FIRE!

^^;; hehe...i swear...if i don't get into the college i want to go to SO BADLY....

i know that i'll go into some kind of artistic relapse where i don't draw/paint for a entire year...maybe for a couple of year... TTATT
people are scaring me--telling me things like "oh its so hard to get into that school and its even harder to stay in" "you'll be surrounded by older people because a lot of people who already graduated go to the grad program there..."
FUCK IT
i knoe i'm lacking in knowing the historical aspects of art--living and breathing it like some do...

BUT I HAVE A LIFE!!
THAT IS WHERE ART, FOR ME, IS BORN
and i'd love to know what the world looks like before i shut myself in the confines of my room for, oh say, another four years...just doing art...
--bleh..

anyways...i'm a couple of minutes behind schedule---
>_< have a good day~~

happy late thanksgiving everyone!! belated tho-- ^^;

anyways i had to spend it at my cousin's house in Long Beach
~truthfully, i was reluctatnt to go because
1)of the area and its dangerous there
2)the relatives that come to this certain gathering
3) it's just effing awkward

lmao...so i was ready to brace myself for a wonderful 6 hour stay there~just staring at the floor,wall, whining/crying children --talking to 'the 'relatives' you never even knew existed O.o

luckily, the other guests hadn't arrived~and my dad saw how bored i was and asked if i wanted to go on a walk @A@ holy jesus that prolly took 2 and a half hours :3 keke we walked like..8 miles O.o i was only wearing three layers and it wasn't like i was freezing to death either heheh--anyways...even thought itw as a long ass walk--at least it saved me from the grueling 3 hours i would have spent at this famly gathering :D

aaanyways ~ i really only had to stay, eat, and converse with everyone for about an hour and a half~
my mom tried to make me talk to my nephew while she was talking to him~so then i tried to make eye contact and.....
NOTHING
why is it that every wannabe gangster filipino dick loves to act like im invisible
goddam if im that so unattractive why don't u just say it D:< (scuse the language)
watever...e.e poo them...one day this stupid style will leave the nation e_e (maybe not)

other than that--the food was good, the children weren't so horridly annoying
~anyways, they're fun to watch :3

yes so that concludes my thanksgiving~~

;A; WAAAAAAAANT!!!
BAKETAN GHOST DETECTOR!!!

...okay okay it may seem pointless to most people but e.e i just think its kool--
and i've been having more of those moments where i think something is there one second and then its not another second
so what you do is you press the small button at the bottom and the big light goes on
blue-you're in a safe zone (no spirits)
green- neutral
red--the walls will bleed?
purple-confused O.o; or something like that @_@

i watched it a couple of days ago---
and this random character hiro pops in e.e


he doesn't pop up in the manga in this part of the story tho--i guess this is probably the first out of several times the anime won't follow the manga--but i have no problem with it--
BECAUSE DRESSED LIKE THAT, IT'S LIKE HE'S ASKING TO BE RAPED!!!

IS THIS NOT PROOF?!?!?!
LMAO!!
but now i'm looking for fandoms with him in it XD
i feel like drawing him ;A; sadly i have an essay that i have started planning out but not writing...

=A= SOMEONE BRICK ME
I WANT TO DRAW INAPROPPRIATE SOUL EATER FANART!!!

(screen shots taken from animeblogger.net )
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about the fire---although the scent is nauseating (as i have said before) im sorry for all those people whose houses have burned down
major suckage
we should catch the bastard(s) who started it and burn them BOHAHAHHAHAHA
=A= poo
well lets make the best out of this
...AND HOPE THAT WE DON'T HAVE SCHOOL TOMORROW
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just for kix--
here's some Justin Law x Giriko fanart
(definitely not something for the kiddies to see)

THE SMELL IS EFFING NAUSEATING---

either that or someone is failng at BBQ-ing

i'm not quite sure how close it is to my area....but hopefully no one i know is stuck in it (that bastard who stole my phone can burn tho...)

i'm procrastinating on that essay TT-TT

i watched Kung Fu Panda and laughed twice as much
the first time i watched it was in theaters--and i was with my parents and there were kids kicking our chairs

but yeah i had no idea that Lucy Liu played Viper or the guy from Zack and Miri make a Porno played the mantis~or that the 'uncle' dude from Alvin and the Chipmunks played the crane---and i thot it was even funnier wen i found out that jackie chan played the monkey =A=...bah i felt slow for that...

but yes..i FOAM for the artbook =A= waaaaaaaaant


and my mom needs to stop acting like she's got cancer because she really only has a knee replacement that's healing....i wish i cud just go deaf for everytime she called me...

I HATE LIVING ON THE SAME FLOOR AS HER

I can't wait ill the day she stops acting like a cripple and get off her damn ass to do something....

lol i actually looked up "to procrastinate" in my Japanese-English dictionary and it came up as guzu guzu suru(shimasu)

;A;
ahhh....im procrastinating on so many things--

1. Collge apps.
2. CHIBIS!!!!
3. studying for any tests (even though i only have two academic classes this year)
4. catching up on manga
5. asking for a recommendation from my art teacher
6. cleaning my stupid room
7. DOING MY ENGLISH ESSAY (due monday)
8. finding all the reports on The World Ends With You
9. taking a bath (its is now about 10:30 pm)
10. filling my sketch book for my Saturday art classes

....=A= ..
and watching the short live series on Ai Morinaga's Your and My Secret (aka Boku to Kanojo no XXX) DOES NOT HELP!!!

the first two pics on the left are of the two main characters, Uehara (the boy) and Momoi (the girl)~~
and the last picture is of Momoi and Uehara's best friend, Senbongi. (who, in the manga, is much hotter and less stalker like than the guy they chose to play his role)

SPOILERS:
I'm not quite sure for how long the manga goes on but--in the live series, Senbongi was supposed to have more of those 'wandering hands' sessions with Momoi (who's body is actually being inhabited by Uehara's...mind?spirit? )
~so~tracing back to the beginning of the story, Momoi and Uehara trade bodies because of some crack experiment Momoi's grandfather is trying to test out~and somehow Uehara gets pulled into all of this just from having to deliver Momoi's homework (Manga ver.)

Momoi (manga ver.) is the most monstrous female character ever~basically she eats food off the ground and has the strength of a thousand sumo wrestlers~basically a huge freggin bruit---but she has, or what appears to Uehara, an angelic appearance~which is brought down by her selfish and harmful deeds XD but hell, she's still awesome!

Uehara (manga ver.) PUSH OVER!!!! and he is such a girl!! (even outside of Momoi's body) the most wimpiest man~which of course drags his 'coolness' level to zero even though he seems to have some 'handsome' attributes

Senbongi (manga ver.) o gawd where do i begin with this man? D:<  he's hella hott!! even though he is kind of back stabbing his friend, Uehara by going out with him while he is in Momoi's body  (lol....that doesn't make sense) He's such a big pervert and surprisingly good at making out~~according to Uehara

so...comparing these three characters to the actors who portrayed them in the movie, Momoi lacked....fire~she needed to have a more in your face kind of attitude and SHE WAS TOO NICE/KIND!!! She needs to be more like Sunako from The Wallflower hostile-wise

as for Uehara....he did an "ehhh...."job of being Uehara~ i think he should have acted like more of a wuss while he was in his own body and even in Momoi's body

SENBONGI!! BOY did they go wrong....
i thought they would choose someone who's a litle more filled up~~
and the actor portraying his role made the scenes where he was coming on to Momoi really random because there's no shots of him looking at her (obsessivley) or even of him thinking about her--he wasn't forceful enough either~and the first time he tries to make his move is while they're at school--not while they're in a love hotel @_@ that just isn't Senbongi (i think...?)


blahh..welll my lids are closing on me--must go to sleep
and wake up to...




A DAY OUT OF SCHOOL--and at home tending to the sheep ;A;


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Chrona and Maka avatar by jennifafa 

You are striving for a life full of activity and experience and, perhaps even more, an environment where you would be able to forge a close bond with a person who can offer full emotional fulfilment.

You are finding the present situation extremely demanding and you're having difficulty coping with it. A great deal of strain is involved and you would really like everyone and everything to leave you alone for a while, just so that you can put everything into perspective.

You need a friend - a close friend - and you are willing to become emotionally involved with the right person, but you are very demanding and particular in your choice of partners. You are constantly looking for reassurance and it is perhaps because of this that you tend to be somewhat argumentative, but you try to hold back - careful to avoid open conflict - since this might reduce your prospects of realising your hopes of establishing a warm caring relationship.

Whatever you strive to do, something always seems to be holding you back. There is no subterfuge in you. You are a clear thinker and all you demand from life, in a relationship, is a partner whom you can trust and with whom you can, together, develop a foundation of trust based on understanding. You are your own person and you demand freedom of thought to follow your own convictions. You have no interest in 'two-timing' and all you seek is sincerity and 'straight-dealing'.

You don't like authority and you rebel against all forms of limitation. You are your own person and you intend to stay that way and to get on in the world simply by your hard work and determination.
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test stolen from keyk 's journal :D
and taken from here
and...THIS IS 100%--about me eAe

Death the Kidd avatar by realbooted 

gahh ;A; i wish i had moneyyy
and driving skills =A= poo
so i'm saving up for a new DS...and on top of that..the new DS (DSi) has just been recently released in Japan...and is coming out in '09 for other countries~

...and i'm more than a month behind on my chibi making
TTATT i'm just not feeling it right now~~

anywoo...for the wii i crave


No More Heroes~~
;A; the style reminds me a lot of Viewtiful Joe (which i never bought but played the demo of) the plot is kind of...generic...~~he's registered as the 11th great assassin and want to climb to the top~~
but to hell with it D:< i shall have it (and its been out for centuries~plus it's rated M XD)

OMG!!!!
everyone prolly already knows it...but the Nintendo DSi has been released in Japan already~~which is the third version of the DS--
so it comes with a built in digital camera (pics storable on a sep memory card)that can be edited with the touch screens, no slot for Gameboy cartrdiges, and has two touch screens :D , louder speakers, built in browsers --and...so of course...US and other countries arent getting it until, you guessed it, sometime during 2009...=A= dammit i'll just go to Japan and buy it myself (if i could *head to fork* ) so its roughly around 179USD ~~which isn't a huge leap from the Nintendo DS Lite but gawd i crave ittt ;A;
article and vid:
New Nintendo DSi



another vid!

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i've stayed up (till 2:26 AM) to look for these two mp3s and i can't find em ;A; they're both really amazing songs!!
Free by Erika

and

Vidro no Yoru (ビドロの夜) by Aiko
(yes i know she scares the crap out of you but if you just minimize the window (or even scroll down) the music is pretty good ;A;

heh...quick update..>_<





;A; finally breaking out of the stupid block
and I need to draw these things in a more discreet way eAe

guhh ;A;
i love my computer again
and im trying to get used to being on it 24/7 again too
IT STOPPED SHUTTING DOWN!!!
but then wen i tried to print out a word document it sed that i had to reinstall the program...
me: WTHWTFGTFOYOUMOFOSUCKONTHIS!!!
i can't find the goddamn program
=A=...
but for some reason i can still scan images on to this compy....wth...
=A= its only wat...10:36 at night and i'm already sleepy...
i freggin need cheetos....and i'm craving those weird sour string things....

as for chibis and such--
im done with.....9...OUT OF FKING 30
...how much of a lazy ass can i be...?
i also plan to do some other crap too =A=
here's some crappy roughs for some...Soul Eater character cards i guess...



and some character development..yeah i have no idea where im goin with this..



=A= ahhh
so i actually started using my Lang-8 account and it's been useful
specially cuz i just recently joined the Cure Cosplay community...which is full of PRO cosplayers from Japan....>_> seriously it's draining to see 208408310831080470235702384248 people who are so much better than you...but eh...
i just slapped up one pic to see wat would happen
lol and on the website, they even have "fanclubs" which i guess.....is kind of like watching the cosplayers @_@ meh...so wish me luck on this!!

oh yus...
ultra wonderful school has started (if i haven't already mentioned in previous journal entries)
yeah....having studio art while trying to make chibis in time for ALA not to mention art trades is a little stressful...

lemme say that all the work i've been receiving has just been minimal :D and its almost been a month since school started

welcome day, two days ago, was prolly the best out of all four...i mean one of the teachers was dressed in drag...and not o mention...our 'skit' was interesting XD

but damn those juniors knoe how to dance...>w> i still hate them

oh yus..im uber behind in making chibis...scheduled to make black star and tsubaki last sat and sunday but procrastinated and now my entire schedule is messed up (death the kidd and thompson sisters due this week)

=A= ugh....
and this french girl i made two chibis for (yomi and yuuta from Zombie-Loan) sent me 10EUR in the mail
i originally charged her only 5 EUR for making em + shipping & handling + me walking to the damn post office

and then she notes me on DA asking me to make an additional two chibis for the extra money she gave me (=_=)....and of course i have to do it because she already mailed me the money before telling me her request... FTW man...i was uber pissed that day
and yesterday...i think....she sent me another note asking me to do another two characters (completely diff than the first request i think) supa ghey....

=A=...fuck this man...i hate being commissioned by ppl overseas...
the language barrier is what pisses me off for one...because i can say "I have school and im working very hard to save my ass from the clutches of a bad GPA by refusing to make you your stupid chibi you %&*#$ " and it would just fall on deaf ears ... =A= she prolly wouldn't even know i was trying to insult her....

....during the first request....
she went over my gallery and commented on some of my stuff going "oo very good" "i like" or something like that...totally kissing ass...
ftw man..i get it ill make the goddam chibi
goodness no need to harpoon me with your stupid ass kissing skills =A=
guhhhh

she's fifteen which explains her total absence of mind in this kind of situation and lack of consideration...
if she keeps on asking i gotta be like "SHUT UP YOU HOE OR ELSE ILL COME OVER THERE AND BEAT YOUR ASS MYSELF!"
but of course im too nice to do even that huh *slaps self*
e.e bahh...

also behind on my studio art...fuck.
im still copying shit..
goddam stupid light bulbs....
lmao i dont mind...just bad combination of things happening in one week...
bleh...--ive had worse
happy music and games always makes it all better :P no humans needed

copied and pasted from my DA journal =A= oh but wat the hellz...

;A;
i just realized...i've been yaoi free since that whole incident at school--

lmao they're still stowed away at who knows where in donna's place

=A= just one more effing year....till i can get my hands on it (legally) or i just have to wait as long as whoever in my circle of friends turns 18 (proly kirstie lol) THEN I CAN MOOCH XD

there hasn't relli been anything i can fangirl over nowadays (besides nikko's 20 yr old ver. of Black Star)-- (either that or that part of me just died O.o)
i quit reading shoujo..because it's just an endless void of drama and stupidity...
=A= shounen is so much more better~~lmao so is seien XD hells yeah

if anyone has anything to suggest (NEW of course..or just something from the past four or five years ago) plz leave a comment :3

i just remembered...some of those scary anime fangirl 8th graders graduated from the middle school and now officially go to my school e.e
(scary= they think that it's kewl to
1)hang out in the library and read abt anime, read manga scanlations, hang out at the computers
2)criticize whatever anime they overhear you and your friends are discussing amongst yourselves (which creeps the hell outta me because they speak really loud so you can hear them criticizing the anime)
3)ROFL and the worst part is that they'll prolly want to join the anime club too and try to climb to the top of it
4)act like they knoe everything that has happened in Naruto (and have been proved wrong by my narutard friend(she's admitted to being one))

e.e--ehh..
i have a feeling i'm not going to warm up to those girls...e_e it's not like i have to...but...guh...i just won't be nice
>3>...it would be even more irritating if they started going "KONNITCHI WAAA WATASHEEEI WA ****" "OGENKI? RABU RABU? NYOKI NYOKI? NYAPPY MOGU MOGU" eAe...(lol i try to do most of that at home)
lmao school started this week btw...

;w;
how did it go by so fast?

i'm not even finished with one of the two books i have to read....
D:
my eyes are kinna hurting so @_@
heheh...at least i have a relaxing schedule ^^
i actually saved some money on books this year XD
and i only have 8 in total

anywooo....seems that well be having a little more freshmen than anticipated this year....
58 more freshman than seniors this year
<_< I don't hate them...yet but i will have reason to in well...4 to 5 days :D senior singing will be a bitch to everyone's ears...=_= wen it comes to not being enthusiastic...ou class can totally win that... =A= i guess ill go crazy cuz its my last year in this shit hole then i can say goodbye to people i absolutely hate :D guess im gonna stay home for college because 1)the college near here is only a 15 minute drive away... 2)that would save some money from dorming and food plans (but its not like the school has one either) 3)i would actually need my driving skills... 4)I CAN KEEP MY WII AND BUY A PS3 ;w; 5)i can decorate the hell outta my room D:< and i will beg for that plasma screen TV 6)i dont have to worry about running into certain somebodies 7)i get to stay close to my best friends ^_^ but im still srsly gonna cry at graduation =_= because im just concerned that if i'm "out of sight, out of mind" ;A; 8)lmao have extra money to go to cons :3 9)the only downside is...i'm still being kept under watch by the parientes 10)gonna have to get tattoo and piercings discretely e,e but im sure they won't notice for a while... 11)i'm still gonna have to deal with the relli relli relli hot summers here in LA 12)I'M GONNA FUCKING STUDY ABROAD BITCHES =A= so much things to do...so little time --planning the whole chibis thing @_@ aaaaand figured that i only have four series im doing chibis from D: i hope that's not bad... and i swear to god im gonna cry if no one buys (friends arent counted D:< )

yeh

;w; your products are amazing

anywoo finished my art radefor Kirin-no-Hinote >A< one of the most nicest ppl on DA and in real life  
anywoo her OC Karma will kill you bitches!

lmao i was too much of a lazy ass to scan it and i messed up over a billion times on this =-= like...one shoe is bigger than the other and his clothes dont show the gradation between cool dark gray (some color called that) and black....and the hair...OH GWAD I FUCKED IT UP LIKE A MILF...i had to  be all cheap and take out a colored pencil to compromise the horrid outlining of the red and black in his hair @_@
anywoo...i hope she's not too mad at how crappy i made it =-=

yeah anywoo sf trip comming up soon...and i pray to gawd that people dont mail things to me and i'm not here e.o 
...yeah and the funny part is my mom 'borrowed' her co employees' GPS system (o.e ftw right?) its like....as big as one and a half of my fists and thick as my alg 2 book (or less) ITS SO CUTE I WANT IT

;w; 
today was pretty awesome XD
erm hung out wit one o my best friends to watch scary movies today (which weren't relli scary b/c one: half the time i was laughin, two: she kept distracting me D:< )
hmmm we've missed an entire six months of talkin due to my fucking stubborness o.e uhm so this kinna meant a lot 
anywoo we watched 2DLK (which was effing hilarious because most of the crap they did was something i would think of doing/saying), the CELL, the RUINS, and Fear Dot Com >_> which we dint relli finish...
plus...we tried to do that entire mentos and diet pepsi thing along with the cinammon eating...which i chickened out on and dumped half of what was on my spoon in the trash  XD but it still tasted weird
~to finish it off--we went to Japanese restaurant called Yakitori with mi madre :3 gewd food and i tried to draw us in excalibur faces on ramune bottles--

lol one of the waitresses picked it up to look at it XD

:D phew finally done...
im only uploading the chibi on DA cuz i dont want everyone to knoe i made this one special XD
anywoo for pompi on DA
character is Inoue Takashi (c) by AngieChild (i believe she and pompi are collabing on a manga based off this character)


weet--off to send it now :3

I'm sry but i just saw this vid and i had to start talking about it...
mica3chu aka mikasanchu is the new band, former pop idol, Nakashima Mika has newly formed
she went from this---->
to to this-------->
doesn't seem much of a change image wise but~just her entire new 'punk rock' vibe...(i really don't know how to put it..)  is just kind of killing it for me....maybe its just the way she's acting O.o...
she used to make really jazz and pop music and was so reserved and quiet...like this was far from wat i'd ever expect her to become--
and this is so opposite..i'm just kind of wowed...but not entirely in a good way...
she also did a cover of a gospel song "All Hands Together" which was dedicated to people who had lost their homes in New Orleans which i thought was wonderful..and i also saw her singing "Amazing Grace" on some vid on Youtube and she started breaking down in tears...my thoughts on that was that she was so moved by the song...but now...that might not have been the case

all of this is based on opinion and not facts (except for all of the songs i mentioned that she sang) soo my point is that i'm just a little shocked that she came from one end of the spectrum to the other (without much time either)..
and i don't think she's 'badass' like she's trying to be--because she's always kind of graceful and very dreamylike...I just can't digest this new part of her~~

the part in the vid where she flips off the camera is just so unexpected of her...--and the small interview in the beginning of the vid where the announcer person asks about america she responds "America? I don't remember what i did in America." ....I dunno.i thought she would give a more reasonable answer than that....and i hope she didn't mean that she did all that gospel singing just cuz she was told to...

im not exactly against or for her new image
i'm trying to have an understanding for this new leaf she's turned...maybe she just felt trapped in her popstar box and didn't want to fade from stardom...either that or this was what she was feeling all along~and she's finally able to do what she wants to do

as for the people making up her band--they seem overly fake(or just poor acting) in trying to paint the asian badass 'punk rocker' picture...
i just read that they were a comedian group consisting of 3 women(morisanchu)...so e.e eh...it kinna doesn't make sense to me....
also prolly retaliation against the media because of mika's recent break up with most recent bf...
this pic really scares me....
=_= mika is wonderful the way she is--but this new image...or, if temporary video, is definately something i need to get used to

maybe i took this vid too seriously XD maybe its all a joke