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In other news, I finally got to watch Ponyo today~ Emphasizing the word "finally" as I meant to go watch it for the first time last August when I was in Japan but in the end had no time, now after waiting for it to first come to cinemas in Finland and then for them to get the original Japanese dub to Oulu, I has seen it~ All elitist interpreting aside, I liked it. :D Ponyo's daddy was awesome, will maybe have to draw some fanart of him (as soon as I've finished a certain art trade which probably means like, next year XD), though I really didn't care for the ending as it seemed a bit... simple or something, dunno, didn't really like how Ponyo's mama got so much screentime and came to explain the situation (because no one paid any attention to Fujimoto flailing and screaming "THE MOON! IT'S COMING!"). She seemed like such an omnipotent fairy godmother it would have been nice if the less powerful characters could have handled it by themselves, godlike characters like that coming onto stage make it too obvious we're soon having the text "and they all lived happily ever after" in front of us. I also found the whole "true love will save the world~" too easy, but the movie was loosely based on Little Mermaid so I guess it fit the picture. What else, of course Ponyo's little siblings were cute, the old people were awesome as always, and Sousuke's relationship with his parents (?) confused me mightily as he for some reason called them by their first names. In the beginning I assumed they were his guardians but probably a big sister and her boyfriend/fiance/husband, but he introduced them later as his mom and dad. So really don't know. Uh, guess that was all I had to say. Good movie and Fujimoto was awesome. :D Let's end the entry with a cosplay photo I took at Comiket last year!  Current Mood: cheerful
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........................................ ..... I got an e-mail from Finnair. Lentotarjoukset: Tokio Menopaluu alkaen: 559 € I'm quite sure they're doing this just to mess with me. The offer stands for a week and can only be used for trips between January 1 and March 31, but that I wouldn't mind. The only question mark is my bigass Swedish exam which is somewhere between those dates too but I'm a little bit confused about the exact date. You Finnish people want to try giving your thoughts about it? Here are the dates. Imma take keskipitkä ruotsi. The listening comprehension date is clear, but mom and I had differing opinions about which date for the written exam I must take. Is it the esseekoe or tekstitaidonkoe or "toinen kotimainen kieli, pitkä ja keskipitkä oppimäärä"? Because if I could somehow squeeze a Japan trip in there... Uh. I'm sorry, but I don't know if I can quite resist that price for direct flights. D: [Edit] Damn, where's that site with all future doujin events marked down? Current Mood: decisions, decisions...
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Jackpot! \o/ Thank you library for getting awesome books lately, now got a book about Moomins ("Muumien Kiehtova Maailma" / "The Fascinating World of the Moomins", has lots of snippets from the books, picture books and comics and lots of high quality art by Tove Jansson). A Moomin maniac like me danced with joy as I got to the last page and saw lists of the most important Moomin characters with their name translation in Finnish, Swedish, English, German, Italian, French, Polish and Japanese. 8D I scanned it for myself and thought to share here in case it interests anyone else: ( Moomin names )I also broke my mom's brain by telling her that the Moomins own an inflatable Hemulen. (It's true, it's mentioned in one of the books.) I also enjoyed opening the book at a random part and starting to read a snippet from some Moomin book: - Hyvänen aika, Muumipeikko sanoi hämmästyneenä. - Sehän oli vain leikkiä! Minä olen hurjan iloinen siitä, että te pidätte minusta. - Emme me pidä sinusta, Nipsu huusi kimakasti. - Rökittäkää hänet!As the final random bit from the book, have Moomintroll's X-ray photograph. ( 'No, don't look inside me!' )Current Mood: amused
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Lol, random as all hell (which could be the title of my whole livejournal) but cabaththeboy and paranoid_cookie, remember the time before the last when we were in Turku and watched some Disney movies? Well, I got a CD full of Disney music from the library and while listening to a song from Aladdin suddenly remembered how Vilina then wondered if Disney would allow such lyrics anymore in their movies at this day and age. Well lol and behold, I now found out that some of the lyrics have indeed been changed in the new release, and whereas the lyrics originally go Saavun kaukaa ja käyn yli aavikoiden karavaanien maailman korvat pois leikataan aina muukalaisten se luo kotoisen tunnelman in the new release it's Saavun kaukaa ja käyn yli aavikoiden karavaanien maailman horisontti ei näy hiki kainaloon käyse luo kotoisen tunnelman If I'm not mistaken the later lyrics "miekkaa kaulaan, ruoskaa selkään" have still been kept though. ...And apparently according to Wikipedia the lyrics were altered following protests from the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). All of a sudden it all makes sense. :D Current Mood: geeky
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muha went and tagged me. That crazy hippie. A. List seven habits/quirks/facts about yourself. B. Tag seven people to do the same. C. Do not tag the person who tagged you or say that you tag "whoever wants to do it". 1. I still can't put my shoes on unless I sit down on the floor. 2. I have two bravuras: that the moles in my arms form Big Dipper when I put them next to each other, and that I can make a waterproof glass out of paper. 3. When I sleep, I always put Byakko either on my head, face or neck depending on the position I sleep in. 4. My mom has dozens of photos of me making this one random expression when I've known she's taking a photo of me, so I can only assume that this is my cool face. 5. I'm terrified of having to speak English in front of people who know I'm good at writing it as they might expect me to actually have some kind of a clue as to how to speak it. 6. My jaw clicks when I chew something and sometimes goes randomly out of place. It's only been doing it for about five years without ever being a problem before but as my mom's jaw clicks too I guess it's just my genes finally attacking me. 7. My ideal amount of sleep is 12+ hours. Obviously it's not always easy to get, so I tend to be Sleepy McSleepison quite often. I suck at this tagging business. I TAG YOU ALL! Alsoalso, neynaoe linked this a while back. King of Thorn anime, dude~ 8D Could even cosplay it when it comes out as people might then actually recognize it, the series has been sadly overlooked up til now.
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I had the first part of the Swedish matriculation exam aka listening comprehension today. You can say it went pretty bad when my whole graduation was postponed by half a year for it. 8D Long story short, there's been a major screw up and I was marked to take the exam for long Swedish, aka one level higher than what I've been studying. I admit I was pretty damn relieved to realize this after the exam when I was discussing it with a friend as I didn't have the slightest clue as to how to answer even one single question and still don't even know what the four "stories" we listened to and the questions were based on were even about, listening comprehensions have always been my weakness so I was expecting to do pretty bad but I was quite stunned to notice just how much anyone can suck at it, so it was quite a relief to find out it wasn't my skills that were at fault after all. What comes to the screw up itself it kinda totally sucks that I have no one else but myself to blame it on, we had a look at the application I left last spring for the exam and I had made a retarded mistake at one part which led to this "being an advanced level Swedish student" thing. I talked to the person in charge of the examination and the result is pretty much what I guessed: I can't be moved to my own level of examination anymore, so I can go finish the advanced level Swedish literary test if I want (if I don't go, it will be marked as failed, but if I do there's still a high chance that it comes back failed) and next spring I can go take the test again, officially as a make up exam, but on the level I'm supposed to. All in all it kinda sucks but I guess it can't be helped. It's not like I had any plans about what to do after graduation, but I've already let high school drag on several years longer than is usual in Finland so it would be a time for me to move on already. I think I'll go take the literary exam to have something to do this Autumn too, I have studied after all (even if it doesn't help me pass it). Now I'll go do something fun to relieve the stress from today. Current Mood: drained
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Homan, Capi posted some photos from Animecon and now I'm drowning in nostalgia looking at them. :'3 Darn it, it really was such a fun weekend. That aside, I'm slowly trying to get back to normal day routines and thought to answer the memes I got tagged to do a while back, namely the "I'll give you five words that remind me of you and you tell about them" that I also answered a while back. It's a good way to kill time. muha gave me: Russia (Ivan), sauna, cosplay, Japan, military uniforms. suometar gave me: drawing, chibi, cap, Russia, tiny. ( Answers. )Current Mood: sleepy
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