PurpleCrap: No Peak, No Plot, No Meaning

A Lunatic's Tale

2006-07-07T16:21:00.000+08:00

A Lunatic's Tale ~ 狂人之故事(translation)VerseWaking up from a dreamless thousand-year sleepI discovered that the rules of the game had changed too muchIn this new strange world I couldn't seem to findThe traces of the struggle of the old daysWalking slowly along a street, the name of which I was not familiar withI recalled the unrealized ambition of past yearsThe efforts of a lifetimeOnly result in

狂人之故事

2006-07-07T16:18:00.000+08:00

狂人之故事(M: mauvecloud, W: mauvecloud/Yoshinori)V e r s e千年無夢睡眠醒來後發覺游戲的規則已變得太多在陌生新世界總尋不到舊日掙扎痕跡名不熟悉的城市街上漫步記起當年完不成的理想一輩子的努力結果只在百姓模糊的記憶中虛假的演義迷信滿滿的編年史風帶走的悲歌雨洗清的血跡叫我如何逃避命運?人們慘叫當耳邊風為了實現偉大計劃無論多少犧牲我可不在乎C h o r u s* 只要達到慾望的最高峰從那兒望著屬於我的繁榮願就算木星的女兒再次狂暴向地球發怒也摧不毀的石碑若佔有歷史大寫自己的名字毫無疑問不可一世最後最終真實的大勝利*但舊日夢想已隨風而逝剩下連狂也發不出的空殼坐在繁忙街道某個角落待肯聽我傾訴的路過人或者求一點娛樂有好奇心的陌生人V e r s e夜了在寂靜的街道再徘徊以數年來努力採錄的資料反復在腦海中思考哪一個

Clan updates

2006-06-16T19:20:00.000+08:00

I never tire of receiving short text messages from Auntie Stripey (that's The Auntie), SMS being our sole mean of non-verbal communication whenever she is not staying with any of her connected offspring (where is the promised notebook, Auntie Stripey?). She has more emoticons than even the hippiest 16-year old on teh 'Net. Here, let me treat you to a few selected samples./^*^\ --- Hikaru no

++Good, watch the pendulum go!

2006-06-13T18:28:00.000+08:00

"I turned, thinking that I heard the voice I had longed to hear for years. Somehow, the clap on the shoulder never came - living on is the greatest punishment."- The Book of Undead Persons (a.k.a. Quotes for Your Next Emo Gay Novel), Chapter VIIEuphoria - euphoria. I am such a suspicious bastard I have to continuously interrogate myself whenever I feel even slightly happy. (The lowest point of

Oh, well, I forgot about the date

2006-06-06T18:28:00.000+08:00

This is important because it's all about me!Auntie H went through high school equivalent with a school-badge bearing this serial number:XX666(Yes, we had numbers and we wore them, like inmates.)(XX = year of entrance. Three numbers that follow indicate the number of students entered before you plus 1.)(And yes, I am so ancient I had to mask those first two digits. *Bones creak*)

Gokusen! (Or another Ah Beng teach)

2006-06-06T18:26:00.000+08:00

Mmm, okay! Juno says I can't talk unless I repeat the end of what other people say; I live in cliffs and other desolate mountain-y places.Not sure if talking about stuffs in Gokusen entails glorifying feminism. Rather than taking the biologically unsound men-is-not-necessary stance, H's style veers closer to agitating for vending machines selling used Japanese boys' school uniforms (oh, those

2006-06-02T20:01:00.000+08:00

Of Resentful Nuts and Angry Raisins Some mutilated proverb which I don't recall ever having read in the original form (help is always appreciated):When hens crowWhen those without balls bleat Probably refers to times of chaos and change. Ostensibly, first line refers to the intervention of royal consorts in matters of governing. Second line refers to the Fall Guys of ancient Chinese history: the

GTO and at 2X, do I still have to spoon-feed you?

2006-05-29T18:56:00.000+08:00

I know one should not find fault with people just because of their age, but when people try inflicting bimbo-ness on you, sometimes you just don't know which of the two attitudes to adopt:(1) Congratulations to me, I have arrived (so says the bulk of useless junk mails inviting me to pay good money to attend all those little high-power tupperware gatherings). Even the beta and gamma males are

The Histrionic Toothbrush is Become an Old Meme

2006-05-25T23:06:00.000+08:00

(A meme is old the moment it hits the 'Nets. Check the last clause of the Twin Paradox. Don't ask me why. *Points to Einstein and his Dice*)All teh kewl kids now have sonic toothbrushes!Hurry! Get yours while the meme lasts!I cannot restrain myself. Let the pattern I was trying to carve on the 2006-May part of my LJ calendar go to the dumps. I muzt make this post, or die with a burst belly in

Because my shiny, ahem, sonic toothbrush demands it

2006-05-24T17:22:00.000+08:00

Aiyah, lately I observe that I have not Ben talking enough about the most important subject of this elgay: me. So, to fulfill the quota for self-promoting posts (vs. the quota for fannish/wankery posts), I shall selflessly delay my dinner and tell you what you really want to know about my LJ gender.Sadly, this useful tool is no more. This sort of things comes out of being a care-free, luckless

Okay. The dragon is provoked.

2006-05-24T16:14:00.000+08:00

People always have fun at the gathering of the Nipponsesphile/Sinusphile sisterhood. Also, I am glad we get to see the vet drama icon.Oh, yes, I am provoked by those nifty proverbs. So I obey the injunction of the three-colored one, and add to the scoldy collection. Here goes.The three levels of presumptionLevel III癩蛤蟆想吃天娥肉: the toad desires to consume swan meatalt: 馬不知臉長: the horse knows not

Different Ways of Wanking II (Also a GIP)

2006-05-19T16:22:00.000+08:00

As I predicted, my genius hair-splitting, wankery reply written last midnight to the supervisors got me their express approval of the manuscript this morning. So after three excruciating hours of proofreading, I am again done.However! The uploading itself does not explain my good mood, which began right after a dream about an heir in the refrigerator (not the freezer, why?) I felt like Ximen

The Usual Nonsense

2006-05-15T17:07:00.000+08:00

Whenever I hear the lawn mower raging its way through the warpath, I wonder what the grass think of the sweet smell oozing from the bullet-torn human who has fallen on the lawn.I haven't finished the arc concerning Guan Yu's seduction from Liu Bei by Cao Cao, so I will rely on the usual nonsense to fulfill my quota of spam for the year. The ideas are stolen (as usual) from stuffs seen thereabouts

冬が来るから

2006-05-10T18:07:00.000+08:00

*points to subject*Yes, the weather is not a good excuse to spam people's ElGay Friends' page, but I am feeling spammy. Also, contrary to popular rumors, whenever I get some free time I don't solicit nor harass 14-year olds, I make Serioz. iconses (*pimps my shiny! Luu Bu icon*) and plagiarize J-Rock songs. (minus-one version of Alkaline Puke coming soon!)You know a thing is important when it

technically, mauvecloud is a homeless bum

2006-05-04T16:33:00.000+08:00

The flight itinerary includes the word Changi.I want to do Hanoi again with, uh, Leipzig, but things are different in 2006.1) The house in Johore had been sold. This leaves1.1) the horrible bachelor pad one sibling unit purchased before she went to Nara (news is that no-one has moved in the adjacent units); and1.2) rented accommodation shared by another sibling unit and her, uh, old man (

Now this is TEH hilarious!

2006-04-26T20:45:00.000+08:00

Firstly, some serious Lulz:mikeneko's full disclosure finally confirmed my suspicion regarding her real job. (Just kidding! Copyeditors pwnz ghostwriters every time so don't worry!)So, the olds is, CS people are not the only one doing the dirty! Academicians, whatever the specializations, have been selling their souls for a long time. Apparently, even the sacrosanct medical field is not exempt.

Illness Illussion

2006-04-25T23:18:00.000+08:00

And then a real person said something which spilt the contents of the sack. The mood to plagiarize songs and myths is ruined, as is the rest of the day, so I will proceed to write the wankiest LJ post ever, the father of the fathers of all wankeries.The frequency of private LJ entries has increased, but not as dramatically as that of public entries. I still can't afford to pay real people to

GSA + Flowers in The Attic = 0sense

2006-04-21T22:00:00.000+08:00

This was the key to my old plan to achieve world domination immortality, which was to hack into the world's only egg bank [0] and replace all ovums with mine! Each offspring would then go with his/her set of gullible parents. Give about two or three decades, and sufficient male-female pairs would meet, and due to the inevitable law of depravity that all half-mauveclouds must obey, fall in lust,

I miss DWJ and are there any others out there like her?

2006-04-21T14:37:00.000+08:00

Having regurgitated the final (really, really final) version of the manuscript and irresponsibly sent it to the supervisors for dictations comments (yes, like I'd ever find their comments useful [0]), I finally have the most precious of the precious: Free Time which is longer than one hundred and twenty five minutes!So, what do I propose to do with it?------------------------I have read all the

出来た！

2006-04-21T14:33:00.000+08:00

finally googled PubMeded all 55 silly accession numbers! please, i don't want to do that kind of dataset ever again. gimme any of uc irvine's nicely transposed little matrices any day.seen somewhere on the friends' page, so i'll (uninvited) offer the answer. there is no cure, shiro-chan. we live with it and do our best.There are many reasons for low self-esteem. One can blame the conveniently

so much for so little

2006-04-21T14:32:00.000+08:00

why am i slaving away like this?life is short. people are stupid. grievances are long. food is bad. kindness is cruel.FLJ stands for Full-length Long Japan (no kidding, google if ye please). this is what you get after 12 hours of acronym-hunting. G*nbank! Kil!why did papa mama have to marry mama papa? it's all in bad questionable taste, really.媽 ﹐ 我在網上遇過花花公子 ﹐ 他叫作 josephthecat.(Maybe

Mmm. Corn(y) Incest!

2006-04-21T14:31:00.000+08:00

The good thing about excess moonshine is that it never fails to bring delightful surprise to your life! Q has presented to us another series of kitty porn. Needless to say, newcomers Noobie and Black notwithstanding, Miss Keeton is still indisputably the top star of the industry.Which reminds me of my dream, which seems as far away as ever (not the one about amassing, er, massive

Mmmmm

2006-04-12T23:17:00.000+08:00

(A) I cleaned up a dusty corner of the fourth HDD a few days ago. And realized that I have accumulated quite a lot of pictures thanks to three years' worth of blogging. Did you know? One entity wins the prize for being in the largest number of pictures. I present, the object of my ongoing infatuation, lolikon porn star, the delectable Miss Keeton!(B) And yes, pseudo-drabble which bought me a true

I want to bone Yasu

2006-04-12T13:54:00.000+08:00

That is, Yasu the real-person vocalist of Janne da Arc, not the Yasu the pixelated drummer of a Cigarette-Band in the manga NANA.We all know Yasu is uglier than the ugliest of all Patpong ladyboys. To prove my point, below is a picture of Yasu during the more visual kei daze of Janne da Arc:To his credit, he looks better with age. Here is a cropped screencap from the band's official site:This

ROTK: First encounter and hence more wankery, yay!

2006-04-07T18:15:00.000+08:00

( I think I was sort-of 13-ish when it happened. )So, you yawn, what is so fascinating about a bunch of killers and blood-thirsty warlords?To answer this, I give you a quote which in my personal opinion, summarizes the whole business in an elegant manner:"You are not my prince, I am not your minister: Where is the rebellion?...." ~ Uttered by Wu Fu, on being asked by Dong Zhuo: "Who told you to

ROTK Wankery: Not mine

2006-04-07T16:10:00.000+08:00

In addition to being quite brainless, definitely heartless and without a hint of a soul, I recently discovered that I might also have no culture.That is, the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which I have fangirled on and off throughout my life (only in earlier times I didn't know it was called "fangirling")*, and also a highly fictionalized account of the Three Kingdom period, does not belong to me

上天是很公平的

2006-04-05T00:36:00.000+08:00

我要的總不屬於我的可是你要的也永都不會屬於你的因為上天是非常非常地公平的所以我是邪你是聖世上黑白無法分明人生短短得玩就盡量玩(Trans. Gimme money! I want to go to both conferences: the one in Leipzig and the one in Hong Kong. Fucking poor uni! 家の学校貧乏だから、しょうがないだろう。。。。)... probably there is no ginger. . . .

Hear me rage!

2006-04-04T15:45:00.000+08:00

You know you have reached the lowest point of the swing when you discover sausages in the curry rice. Add in excessive unidentifiable vegetable (not-potato and not-carrot), and you are ready to commit rampant bloodshed.The eating habits of rural Australians are going to give them 20 hack-sawed postgrad students before the end of today.

Procrastination, 'coz I can :P

2006-04-04T15:44:00.000+08:00

I have a paper to revamp. The editors are expecting it by April 19. Final acceptance for publication in the journal will depend on how good I am at taking it in the ass rebutting the comments from the reviewers. There is also another conference paper to prepare the camera-ready version of.But who cares? Life is short, and so I just want to do all things fun (= forbidden). So, I present to you:

An April OH-ppreh-shunnn!

2006-04-04T15:40:00.000+08:00

In which I, the Great Yellow Hoore Supremacist Pig came, saw, and OMG! oppressed The Man.1. A random specimen of The Man made some attempts at humor.2. To encourage him, I pretended to be amused, because I am evil and I wanted to see how far The Man would go in believing in the Myth that all banal yellow chicks long to suck The Great White Dick, yes they do!3. Specimen was now convinced

Ravages of Time vs. Nana (and Learn Hokkien! Today, well mostly, Learn Hokkien! Today)

2006-03-29T17:06:00.000+08:00

The Beng in me rears his veto. When I must sadly be reduced by necessity to conserve download volume (the uni quota is AUD125 per semester!), I choose a historical manga swimming with multitude of characters with confusing names (and not all of them clean-shaven bishounens to boot) and leave in the cold a so-cute manga chockful of pretty j-pop bois and in-the-closet dyke vocalist who is oh! too

H tries her hand at Mrs.-Robinsoning

2006-03-24T19:49:00.000+08:00

You might get lost here without some rudimentary knowledge of the 60-year cycle, so there (if you're interested.)When I get enough time off these days I add my contribution to the congestion on matchmaking sites. First, I follow the recommended Signs (Rats and Monkeys), and then because looking at pictures of men in their 30s over-stimulates my tearducts and funny bone, the Mrs.-Robinsoning

2006-03-21T14:38:00.000+08:00

Guy with hat (Quite Meaningless HnG squeeee, in other words, Community Noise) I know, I know, it's a very, very old manga.Hikaru no Go and I crossed path (how long ago it seems!) in the glorious, blurry and dreamy days of 2001-2003. I can't understand why I never leeched it (the anime, since due to abundant bandwidth I was not yet a reader of scanlations at the time). But I have since made amends

Meme! How else do you get to know your LJ Strangers better? Fufufu

2006-03-21T14:35:00.000+08:00

Thanks, rosesnchaos!A) Name 5 Good Bribes that would work on you.1. A mackerel/spotted tabby with green eyes, pink nose, ringing meow, and socks!2. Chicken curry with white rice (even the one at the basement of Bugis Seiyuu is fine!)3. A ticket to Samuel L. Clemens' first public lecture4. A proofreader for all future papers and upcoming thesis ><; (help!)5. The flesh of the baby who spat on me

2006-03-14T14:25:00.000+08:00

( Dynasty-building and Empire-founding. Just an upstart's note to herself. Perverted Reality is Boring. Don't read. )

Mauvecloud Sings!

2006-03-10T17:53:00.000+08:00

As promised by the lying playbill.The demo is here.The lyrics are here.All mistakes and goofs are Mauvecloud's. The more plausible-sounding lines are most probably Yoshinori's.The haha! translation is here.Written in a haha! mode in reply to Yoshinori's pleading question: "What exactly do we want to say here?"This number is dedicated to all yaoi fans, old and young, butch and femme, communists

Plastic People: Lost in Translation

2006-03-10T16:36:00.000+08:00

Verse 1aLike a (flat) plain with no summits and no peaksWhere no scenarios (plots) are seenNor can any meaning be found [1] From long agoQuite a number of girls have fallen in love with it [2]Verse 2a From ordinary legendsTo beautiful mythsI have seen (read) quite a fewStories of innocent (pure) loveTragedies of complicated relationshipsVerse 3aPrincess, I am truly sorryThis time the main

Plastic People in Chinese

2006-03-10T16:33:00.000+08:00

Plastic PeopleLyrics by Yoshinori and Mauvecloud Music by MauvecloudVerse 1a似無頂無峰的平原看不見情節尋不到意義很久以來有不少女孩迷上它Verse 2a從普遍傳說到美麗的神話曾看好幾篇單純愛情故事繁複關係悲劇Verse 3a公主真抱歉這次主解不是妳而是那男孩英雄救了美人一走就不回頭Verse 4a雖妳必成龍的犧牲品卻還露絲絲微笑因為在這世上哪有女人不愛Chorus 1花樣美男任何時代心中美人只有一個花樣美男眼裡獨一無二比自己更帥更冷酷1 - [只有花樣美男的戀人﹗]2 - [再也沒有更瀟灑對手﹗]Verse 1b把承諾忘掉向背叛了的愛溫柔下一刀傷透的眼神望著冷漠的表情Verse 2b這樣的編劇看不厭聽不倦再寫多幾篇讓別人下載期待受害者增加Verse 5有人問女人要的到底是什麼答案就是一對戀愛美男﹗

The Playbill (shamelessly plagiarized from a Dead Old Man)

2006-03-10T15:44:00.000+08:00

Yoshinori andMauvecloudUNPARALLELED ATTRACTION!HAIR-RAISING LYRICS!MOSQUITO-SLAYING VOCALS! EXTRAVAGANT NEW SINGLE!Engagement of the Quite Literate lyricistYOSHINORI and the notoriously unmusical composerMAUVECLOUD the PURPLEBARBIEOnline only!The management beg leave to offerthe lurkers denizens of the Internet an entertainment surpassing in ingenuity anythingthat has heretofore been attempted on

Odin strike me dead! I once wrote this execrable piece =(

2006-03-07T18:45:00.000+08:00

http://mauve-cloud2.blogspot.com/2003/05/iii-too-busy-to-invest-time-to.htmlKil me! Bundle me together with the dead bird! Oh, oh that this too sullied finger would not do the work.On the other side of the equation, "Ah, how nostalgic," says Mauvecloud the sentimental. I recall the time when I was innocent and could prattle so without realizing the consequences (i.e. it will all come back

Why feed the lions? (The first of many MT rants....)

2006-03-07T17:28:00.000+08:00

Running away is really fine, but if you don't run fast enough things are bound to catch up with you on all fronts. So it doesn't matter how many personalities you create, or how many addresses in how many dimensions you inhabit, the reaper and the tax collector will be knocking at the door soon enough.On the other hand, according to DWJ it is also possible to slither-out so hard that one comes

Help! Help! Corrupt Couplet! (or To Gild Refined Brocade or Whatever....)

2006-03-03T18:09:00.000+08:00

Continuing the big squee over Ravages of Time (they have a LJ comm at ravagesoftime! Join! Join!):"Existence is cruel, still a road blockage ahead!The defeat of hapless foot soldiers, like a toppling mountain"( The victim: RIP )Heee! I just couldn't resist imposing my terrible Chinese [0] on the innocent couplet which is the motto of the Handicapped Assasins.To say my Chinese is rusty would

Ravages of Time: More historical manga

2006-02-28T18:06:00.000+08:00

The Three Kingdoms re-packaged from the perspective of Zhuge Liang's adversary, Sima Yi [0], a sort-of bricklayer for the foundation of Jin Dynasty - I pimp, another historical manga:Ravages of TimeThe ominous beginning hints at the end, and I love the protagonist's conclusion regarding the ultimate destiny of men, and his searching question after that conclusion:"What do we do between the

The night the Dragon took the Ox home (smacks)

2006-02-28T16:52:00.000+08:00

Oh well, I am always a sucker for horoscope, especially the Chinese one. It is only human to succumb to this sublime flattery which says: " [you are] gifted with an extraordinarily intense personality and are capable of great success, or spectacular failure." Doubly so when you are born under the same sign and element as Sigmund Freud (1916 is 60 years after 1856, see?)I find this site funny

A brief Potrait of a Vermont Gentleman (Not)

2006-02-24T19:37:00.000+08:00

If you call him a fairy/fag/homo/queen to his face he would slap your insolent cheek with his velvet glove/Gucci handbag/rolling pin and proceed to request that you name the venue, date and time. He expects, of course, that you have the courtesy to ask him the choice of weapon immediately after that, although it would invariably be the same old thing: his fashion sense.

Some geezers were once bishounen too

2006-02-24T17:39:00.000+08:00

I never imagined that the co-founder of Tang Dynasy could ever look this yummy.Sui Tang Heroes is good read (*pimps* *pimps*), almost like Rose of Versailles in terms of handling out HISTORY in dainty portions to females, especially those who resoundingly despise politics and history (Half of my siblings plus my mother.) [0]This is my first Chinese manga! Fufufu. The portrayal of a principal wife

A blot on your LJ/whatever Friends' Page

2006-02-24T16:56:00.000+08:00

The hit count on my daily-bread site is double the January count this month.My problem is the keywords.They are my (RL? bread-earning?) name, and not terms from the area of work, and certainly not any of the terms I coined to describe my meagre contributions to the field.Ho-well, I was okay with it having no hits at first, having only created the page because it won't do for a research person not

Sydney: An Odyssey of Blurry and Dark Photos, Part 2 of 2

2006-02-21T17:30:00.000+08:00

A continuation of the torture. ( On with the saga! )Seriously, I am that bad at map-reading (and geography ><;). If you take a look again at the Sydney map, (doodles notwithstanding), you can see that it is all straightforward and simple, and Sydney is reputed to have the most systematic streets in the world.Conclusion: Sydney rocks, and if I ever settle down in this nation, it will have to be

Sydney: An Odyssey of Blurry and Dark Photos, Part 1 of 2

2006-02-21T17:29:00.000+08:00

In the second week of last December I went to Sydney (apparently) to attend a conference.The consequence is that you have this entry.( Pictures and maps galore! )I had to divide this up, else it would really over-strain me to do it in one sitting.

Random:

2006-02-17T16:45:00.000+08:00

1 - Beware that the H stands for Hentai.2 - Mauvecloud is not, legally, a word.3 - Known to everyone, liked by all, Mr. Clemens is the best!4 - If you ask, I am not really Yoshinori's nee-san. If you don't, well, you don't. ^___^5 - Many things make no sense, if you refuse to accept the one and only truth: Ultimately, every single thing we do is motivated by sex. Because sex means reproduction

We are only human, after all (Part 2/2)

2006-02-17T14:23:00.000+08:00

I know this fellow postgrad student must be so much more smarter than me, because the quality of his street intelligence is so much lower than mine. Probably he knows his Markov chains back-to-back, side-to-side and all his equations never miss a state of fussiness, while I struggle against simple set builder notations like this one:{x : x is a real bishonen and x > 0},{y : y is an imaginary

We are only human, after all (Part 1/2)

2006-02-17T14:19:00.000+08:00

"Only a yellow person would use this adjective before the word 'student'," I said to my office mate, who, fortunately, has a cooler head and oozes so much more wisdom than I could ever absorb. She offered an alternative explanation to the brusque tone of the email reply: "Maybe yours is the n-th complaint she has received for the day?" But she, a wise yellow woman, agrees that a white person

Johari, Nohari, no-how and no-why?

2006-02-14T15:56:00.000+08:00

Mauvecloud's Johari WindowMauvecloud's Nohari WindowPlease spam me!!![Edit]: Heeee, OMG, it's good to hear from people with names like the Slaves of teh Angry A and half-ham!

懐かしいだねぇ

2006-02-14T14:58:00.000+08:00

I beg the pardon and the indulgence of the Generation Y, of the privileged ones who can count Final Fantasy I as the yesteryear game of their lives.The sibling unit, who is really, really the last of X (is 1980 the cut-off year? The argument rages on!) managed to fished them out of, er, somewhere on the 'Net. I present some of our old-time favorites:Hopping fish!Fire! Fire!Those nasty walruses

Guilt? Guilty!

2006-02-14T14:57:00.000+08:00

The three-colored one, mikeneko, tagged me. I tried the quiz link HERE but got the traffic exceeding announcement, so I made use of the evil FrontPage to commit the deed. Guilt What is yours? Explain yourself Culinary: Fast and easy Stuffs that do not require preparation time longer than 5 seconds (rip, get spoon/fork, itadakimasu!).Stuffs

Lovecraft and the yellow ones

2006-02-07T17:31:00.000+08:00

The yellow-livered shall inherit the earth.Or so according to Lovecraft. In He, the city in a future time that the magician showed the protagonist was Shanghai (or any other yellow city) undisguised, with street disco dancing to boot.I just finished going through a few weird stories. All-in-all, Lovecraft can be summarized as follows:1 - Dormant deity-aliens2 - Preservatives a.k.a. Life after

The tragedy of (being mistaken for) Ms H the PurpleBarbie

2006-02-03T15:01:00.000+08:00

This stems from an initially harmless discussion I was having with Miss Keeton's human. When the subject turned to domain names, the appellation mauvecloud was brought up, and I recall the famous browser tests site of Mr. Brian McCloud. (I shall not provide link. Seek, and ye shall discover. Google, and ye shall reap.)My comments on the about page of the site, or rather, the appellation in

Fall from grace

2006-01-27T21:38:00.000+08:00

Or it's all your fault Eve for failing to get the fruit from the other tree before the silly big beard gave you and your whimp the notice to vacate. (Never mind, we all know that the First Bimbo can never be as smart as Lilith, the First Whore [0].)Why are humans generally ashamed of the fact that they have bowel movements, piss, have sex, have breasts, have vagina/penis, and so on?My barefoot

Non-meme

2006-01-27T20:54:00.000+08:00

One of the signs that mauvecloud has just finished a read-able draft of a technical paper: Active (read: annoying) spammage of the LJ/GJ/Blogs whatever. I considered the letter meme I saw on afrai's LJ. I clicked on the post comment link unhesitatingly (It's not me! Crowley made me do it!) By the time I posted the second letter, I saw the last line of the meme. Leave a list of fictional

How to Draw Manga :(

2006-01-27T19:03:00.000+08:00

There are three story-tellers in the realm of manga that I particularly admire: Takahashi Rumiko, Yuki Kaori and Akino Matsuri.Takahashi Rumiko is good at coming up with weird twists amidst ordinary world (i.e. people who turns into something else when splashed with hot water, schoolgirls on to an adventure with a dog demon and boisterous alien visitors). But she could also churn out a good tale

Don't wear shoes on bed, kids! And Oosaki is sooo cute!

2006-01-23T16:06:00.001+08:00

Here's an old-timer's take on Nana, a manga about some Generation Y wanna-be rockers (or is it Z already?).( Not for spoilerism so much as for yawnism )

The sage mauvecloud says....

2006-01-23T16:06:00.000+08:00

Q1: Why do people 'go overseas' [1]?A1: To encounter novel kind(s) of provincialism.Q2: Removalists?A2: Why not? After all, we already have removers instead of, er, movers. (Note to self: Learn Australian English.)[1] Like 'go astern' (or its more familiar form, 'gostan'), only applicable to Southeast Asians or Far-Easterners?

The Martian Chronicles

2006-01-13T18:04:00.000+08:00

Pending the rejection slips (from X-rate 'zines, and hence the non-professional ones; the professional ones are called 'notification of acceptance/rejection emails' and usually come with solicitations to part with money and attend tupperware party conferences), let's have fun barking at the mountain.I actually like The Martian Chronicles. Ray Bradbury was a bit too heavy on the church for my

Somebody get a ihateromancenovels domain!

2006-01-08T23:07:00.000+08:00

Or ihatewomensmagazines, ihatesoapoperas, etc.But but but, methinks, romance novels, women's magazines (maybe except Ms. and its clones) and day soaps are very, very important things. They can be as essential as genetically modified women themselves, but more about that later.These three scourges gifts are necessary for us snobs to lord it over the ordinary, the feeble-minded, and the weak-kneed

Oh noes crap i die keel keeel keeel

2006-01-06T17:34:00.000+08:00

0 - The multiplicity of mauvecloud has turned chronic; redundancy on top of redundancy is not necessarily the sin that is inbreeding.1 - Why were d'Eon and de Montpensier so distastefully ugly? Was the gorgeous Oscar François Jarjayes not modeled after them, the non-fighting non-man and woman?2 - Help! Drowning in the sluggish stream of CPU hours, I need an entropy-reducing machine! Or, more

Don't tell me, Madam

2005-12-30T19:41:00.000+08:00

The feminine cliche I hate most is this:"No women would support war because no women would want to send their sons to death."I have no son, but I have lots of male relatives. I don't hate them, they are hard-working, they really do their best to the limits of their nature. After all, men are only genetically modified version of the original (superior) gender. But I don't mind dodging the draft

Cartland/Steele/Qiong Yaoi also could command armies!

2005-12-30T17:11:00.000+08:00

I found references to Boney's romance novel! Google "Clisson et Eugénie", and there you go.Great steeds are often partnered with silly palfreys. Great mares are sometimes mated to puny cobs.As Boney had the empty-minded, fluffy widow of de Beauharnais ("shopping" was the most intelectual of her interests), so Arthur Wellesley had his timid, provincial, bigoted Kitty Pakenham. (I think it's in

The not-so-smart polymath and the non-polymath genius

2005-12-28T17:32:00.000+08:00

The not-so-smart polymath:I read that Napoleon did write a romance novel but why the hell can't I find the reference to it online?It was about a heart-broken guy who left his sweetheart for (what else) war.After reading a British historian's take on Bonaparte, I begin to think that Napoleon was the jack, not the master. He could do math (since he specialized artillery - angles, F = ma, and all

2005-12-28T16:02:00.000+08:00

Imbued with courage determined selfishness, the fox finally informed the storks that in January she would not be spending five days of her life with them at some God-forsaken beach (to pet the penguins).And yeah, armed with the ever-so-convenient truth about deadlines and paper-writing.I wish I could tell the deeper truth; I would not have liked it even if I could spare the time. I had thought

2005-12-24T22:28:00.000+08:00

And they tell me I need to expand my horizon (i.e. go out more). They don't even know who Arthur C. Clarke is! *Digs fingers into hair* I am going crazy here! I even have to lie about going elsewhere for x-mas and then come and sleep in my office because i know they were going to force me to spend the mid-summer with them if they have the slightest excuse. Let me go! I am drowning in the milk of

A X-mas Tale for You: The Cowardly Fox (Nahhhh!)

2005-12-24T21:57:00.000+08:00

A fox has recently migrated to a country of storks. The storks are a kindly community, at least those who nest near the fox's leased hole. They especially enjoy finding the occassion to invite the fox to many stork-like ceremonies, where food is almost always involved. The storks, like all kindly creatures on the face of this particular planet, could never think that anyone would not have

Not Santa!

2005-12-24T21:06:00.000+08:00

Dear Patron Saint of Shojo and all things Sweet:I am truly sorry for making fun of André Grandier and all other (half-)mad blind persons. Please cure me of this hex obsession with Rose of Versailles, at least before I complete my third round of the 40-episode binge!Signed,Heart "Plueeezzzzz" MauvecloudDear Omniscient Deity of Yaoi and all things Yummy!:I am truly sorry for not increasing the

I also procrastinate leh a.k.a. more nitpicking

2005-12-20T18:21:00.000+08:00

No, it's not a laid-back croon on some nice shojo manga this time. I promise you heaps of vitriol [1] and spite on an ancient work of an ancient radar scientist, the great Arthur C. Clarke.The novel is called Childhood's End. The brave may Wiki the title for spoilers.Rant starts:Crap and cowpats! Bull and spinning French coitus! Poo and dangling Italian intercourse!Never mind that a 1989

2005-12-20T18:17:00.000+08:00

Weird son of bizarre offspring of queer (or, if you prefer, pelik bin ajaib bin herot), DBLP has two separate entries for two versions of my professional name!Foo. But never mind, at least that way I get to keep past follies apart from present (and future) blunders.My moral support to Yule participants, and profound gratitude in discovering a fellow procrastinator with similar, erm,

Random, useful facts

2005-12-19T19:17:00.000+08:00

1 - Enlightenment! After 2 years of non-studying, I finally came to understand the arcane mysteries behind Support Vector Machines. In one evening, thanks to a chapter of somebody's PhD thesis. It's all tied down to a cheat available for a not-so-simple (but not so complex either, come to think of it) minimization problem with one or more constraints.2 - Foolish professional pride! Google

Yay for Oscar! The perfect man who was actually a woman

2005-12-19T19:15:00.000+08:00

Muzt... update. Editing and selection of pictures from Sydney, the procrastination of: Not An Excuse.The subject does not refer to the Hollywood thing you nimwits. Strangely estranged with the mainstream [1], I never even ventured to find out the first names of Friends crew, that icon of the sitcoms of the rippingly gay 90s'. But I was familiar with Cheers and Three's Company(?) yeah. And (

Much bigotry! Puerile clan pride! Pointless remembrance!

2005-11-29T18:43:00.000+08:00

It's a pity that he had always been 'Internet-blind' (sic a.k.a. coinage not mine). He, who was a regular haunt at clan-society halls. The oyaji, who kept an eye out always for news from both the old hometown and connections (like ooo, which one of them won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry/Physics/whatever - note that it is never literature or peace?)One of my immediate progenitors would have *

Nothing here! Shoo!

2005-11-29T17:38:00.000+08:00

Weird, LJ is gobbling up email notifications. I wonder what is going on.On a totally unrelated and off-key note, here is a snippet from some juicy MSN conversation:XX: I saw Gackt on japan tv. He very old ler.YY: Oh? Kukuku. Guess what year in the 70s he was born in? I jz found out recently.XX: Looks like late 30s.YY: 1973.XX was born in 1950, holds 50% of the responsibility for the fact

Things I worry about in the night

2005-11-25T19:10:00.000+08:00

1 - How did Billy Tipton ever explain his non-possession of a draft card? He would be around 28 just after Pearl Harbor. Women are easy to deceive ('Oh, I got involved in an accident years ago and that's why I wear these wraps around my chest,' 'Let's adopt,' and 'Yes honey, I wear jocks all the time'), but OldCons and those avuncular gossips, never!2 - How did Midori's career as a live

The usual perverted thoughts

2005-11-23T18:34:00.000+08:00

One of my birthday presents is a round-faced mackerel tabby with white socks. The only problem is that she does not meow if the battery is taken out of her belly, and she will never qualify for shots on http://www.kittyporn.org/, because she is just one flat piece of velvet underneath.Then, today, while foisting some of my usual perverted thoughts on a Friend, I realized that there are a male

Eternal Sabbath: A Review

2005-11-18T19:14:00.000+08:00

Oh! Shojo goodness!Make no mistake about it, despite the mystical-sounding mumbo-jumbo about gene expression [1] and the perfect immune system, Eternal Sabbath is 100% shojo manga. Ignore the uniformed masses who tell you it is seinen. It is shojo. Humonculus is seinen. Koroshiya Ichi is seinen. Saiyuki is yaoi masquerading as seinen. But the 8-volume Eternal Sabbath is definitely shojo.

And she calls herself a geek

2005-11-15T16:38:00.000+08:00

The smell of barbecueing rubber bothered mauve a lot. Panic had hardly set in by the time she realized it came from the computer. Before the second frantic whispering of "what should I do" in the second alternate language, the power supply unit (PSU) gave a loud "whummm", and the computer died."Why did it have to happen on a Friday night?" (or precisely, a Saturday morning. Very early morning.)

Xenophobia at its best

2005-11-11T17:04:00.000+08:00

On Monday, December 5, I am supposed to be in Sydney.On Sunday, December 4, Sophie Nose and family will hold their annual neighborhood barbecue party.Will the 80-minute Melbourne-Sydney flight (plus the 3.5-hour train journey from here to Melbourne) suffice as excuse not to attend?I don't want to lose not even a single Sunday, which should be spent brooding over Scanlations, over to listening to

A penny for the mauvecloud

2005-11-04T16:10:00.000+08:00

I have Ruins and Saturn.The other thirteen pieces are to be found on the ad-laden site here.Fifteen! That's not counting the other six which have never not made the transition from Noteworthy's notation form to the final mix's mp3.Saturn is the one I started to write with my birthday in mind. The naming probably has nothing to do with the songs (as is the case with all of purplebarbie's crap ^^)

Chockful of wholesome angst!

2005-11-01T17:02:00.000+08:00

I finally said something I had wanted to say all along, but it doesn't make me feel better. I wish I could exorcise that horrible little imp inside. Maybe I don't want to. Because then there wouldn't be a scapegoat to fall back on when I fall flat on my face along the sprint that is life. I hate it when I think that so-and-so was also born in the Year of Fire Dragon and so-and-so is earning,

2005-10-28T22:50:00.000+08:00

I didn't know that it was possible to list DWJ and PTerry under "Favorite Books" and still crank out a blog like this.Would that be me if I had stayed in ol' Muddy Town? The slightly Anglophile, sour towkay soh (literally: Boss Auntie ) of a car repair workshop/cookies factory/peanut sweatshop (take your pick, depending on which male unfortunate enough to have ended up with me in that

Yaoi in a bundle and the art of face painting

2005-10-28T21:02:00.000+08:00

(1) Yaoi! The stuff of lifeIt's the authors' sweat and blood which made the manga, not the those kiddie scanlators, so I better start learning my Shushushu's and Yaya's. Luckily, in many cases scanlation groups, er, scan by authors anyway, so it's not so hard to get more than a handful of works by the same mangaka even if one only sticks to certain scanlation groups.( Yaoi in a bundle Part 1 )I

Ranty!

2005-10-28T16:47:00.000+08:00

I like righteous people. They entertain us bland, hate-filled cynics so.I don't like emotional racists. I like people who write stuffs like The Bell Curve, I don't like me who rant all the time about how I hate people X and how stupid people Y are. Use your statistics, or use nothing else!The passage below is exactly what I feel, and I feel like I have repeated it ad nauseam, but I still want

I am a BI

2005-10-28T16:43:00.000+08:00

Here are a couple of lines from an online chat (all hideous creative spelling and grammatical variations air-brushed):mauvecloud says:it's funny to see those brown/black ppl try to write kanjimauvecloud says:i mean, i am an angmoh sai [1] but i still feel funny watching them try toThe only label for myself I am most sure of and comfortable with, it's bi for B-I-G-O-T.[1] A banana. Yellow

Koroshiya 1

2005-10-25T20:52:00.000+08:00

Instead of going home and writing the traditional birthday self-gift, I want to sit here and spoil Koroshiya for you. Apologies to fellow BL and yaoi scanlation followers - but there is a reason for a seemingly non-yaoi title making it as the first of the (spluttery-ish) spate of manga reviews....( BIG spoiler for Koroshiya Ichi (Ichi the Killer) )Spoiler-free description: Blood, gore, tears.

Asking for your blood and money

2005-10-25T20:51:00.000+08:00

Guy Fawkes' big day is approaching and I am living the last days of my gory, glorious twenties. So, don't mind me, I am not asking for the sun and the moon and Friday to boot like that lousy bricklayer of Asgard, just give me all of your money and blood (unless it's type A, in which case I'll thank you to keep it far, far away from me since it'll cause my common type B blood to hideously

H's pit of easily acquired scanlations

2005-10-21T22:59:00.000+08:00

I am burning the first cache of scanlations on DVD. Urgh, not many of the stuffs are licensed so it sort of defeats my "do evil" motto here, but the items are behind cut anyway. More than 75% of them should be complete. Sorry, the DOS "tree" command only allows listing down to the lowest folder (and not file) level. Ask if you're not sure?( The titles )I got most of them through the IRC (the

Chain mails are good for you. They are rich in iron

2005-10-21T22:08:00.000+08:00

Q's reverse psychology thingie must have worked. Or rather, it's my desire to justify assembling 45 disconnected thoughts about myself in a single post.Here we go.1. What is your occupation?I research obscure anime. I used to procure them as well, but these days my acquirements are limited to sympathies from friends and family, courtesy of the postal services of four nations.2. What are you

Halloween?

2005-10-14T22:39:00.000+08:00

I have lots of disconnected thoughts T_TMy brain is a jumble of misorganized scary thoughts.1 - To clone or not to clone?Note to self in five years' time: Find out how hard it is to have and raise a child of one's own while being female at the same time. (According to my mother =P, in my home country one way to avoid future difficulties with documents and signatures [0] is to produce, through

Horrible Howl and Kamijo

2005-10-14T22:37:00.000+08:00

Here, something I got from the list of web referrers to my old blog - that's why I keep it, and am still dumping most of the stuffs here over there. Redundancy is my thingie. It is even one of the so-called 'theoretical underpinnings' of my real-life work, this thing called Redundancy. Hehehe. (And noes, I am not paying for a tracker, or photo galleries, or extra icons. Why should I? Not even

2005-10-11T21:19:00.000+08:00

I have wonky music. O_o. Erm. I shall try my best, karcy.The Rules: List five songs that you are currently loving. It doesn't matter what genre they are, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the artists, and the songs in your blog, then tag five other friends to see what they're listening to.

Words are important? Pieces of paper matter?

2005-10-11T21:18:00.000+08:00

Okay, LIBERATED white so-called wymyn.I want to nitpick again on my favorite blister.White wymyn don't own their surnames. Nyah nyah nyah!In fact, for one of you, the family name on your Australian passport is that of a man you divorced 20 years ago and whom you have always called a scum [1].Far-easterner and south-easterner women, unite! (With the exception of the Japanese, who are a gone case

Deception most foul?

2005-10-09T20:20:00.000+08:00

I am not supposed to update this. I am supposed to slave over the first of three articles meant for journals (no more cheapo conferences this time! it's journals with decimal impact factors instead!). But this is sort-of work related.Two years ago, in a desperate attempt to cache a job at that wonderful research institution where one has unlimited bandwidth for research of obscure anime, I did a

Be careful what you wish for, you WILL get it

2005-10-09T18:20:00.000+08:00

I really long for the selfishness of South-easterners back home.I DON'T want any caring Westerners on my back anymore. Help! ;_; (Tell me)

angmoh = red hair ~= Sophie?

2005-10-09T18:19:00.000+08:00

Sorry to disappoint, but instead of the promised racist rant against some french fries, I made this rhapsodic eulogy dedicated to some specific red-haired devils I know, and to red-haired devils [1] in general.Little angmoh kiddies, kick me off your f-list right nooooooooooooooooow! (though I doubt I should be on it in the first place)Doodah is the doo, and dah is the doodah.Burp. I am not