Third Bookshelf

Back in August, the first weekend after school started, my parents and I went to IKEA and during that trip we got two brand-spankin' new bookcases for my manga! I was so happy to get them that my dad and I built the first one that night. At first I was happy [although it wasn't really that much bigger than the one I had]. I was first disappointed that it's colour was light, but I've gotten used to it. Four shelves eache holding 20-22 manga each.

For my birthday I got a thrid bookcase which we built on Christmas and I organized then as well. Look at the majesty of have three instead of two!:

:) So yeah, basically I think it's obvious where this conversation is going: I need to update all the manga that I've bought [and don't forget the comics!]

DECEMBER 31:

Able to go to Barnes on the last day of my 2009!

Negima!? Neo volume 4. Incredibly hilarious volume! Anya is so jealous of 3-A and stuff that I was laughing a lot in this volume. Although all funnies aside, I'm wondering whether or not if it's going to follow what happened in the anime in the last two volumes. Hrm...

Finally, After School Nightmare volume 1! After I bought some Go Comi books from the guy at Franks, I looked up their site and found this series. I knew I heard of it from somewhere before, and after reading the first few chapter scans I wanted it real bad. I was hoping my brother would get it for my for Christmas but couldn't find it. I almost didn't, too, until I realized they put it under 'Nightmare' instead of 'After' [stupid stockers]. It did not, in any way, disappoint :)

JANUARY 2:

After coming back from dropping my brother back up at college, I was able to get my parents to stop off at this other Barnes and Noble. They didn't have anything that I really wanted but they did have stuff I wanted. So my dad and I went to ours and I got some stuff.

After School Nightmare volume 2. Kind of obvious I like it, huh? ^-^ I think it's really good since it's different [although I think I'm into the gender-bender genre *eyes Kashimashi*]. Also a great volume.

The Maze Runner. Just finished it. Freaking awesome, actually. I think my brother and I were watching Mythbusters [or some show] and they had this live-action, 5-10-second commercial for it. The commercial didn't really show anything but piqued my interest. So I figured why not. I'm glad I got it [I looked it up and there's a trilogy, so I've got another series under my belt.]

Finally, The Island of the Blessed. It [should be] the third and final book of this one series about Norse gods and stuff. I've only read book one, with book two collecting dust. It's not bad, really, but if it comes to myths and gods I'd choose Percy Jackson =p

JANUARY 9:

Bought a load of crap today. First went to Franks with my brother and got 50-something comics for $8. I;m not going to list them all [there's a lot] but the reason why there's so many is because I got 20 issues of Dark Angel [two are missing and I've got a duplicate of issue one.] I saw them in one box and they were all out of order and stuff, so I just grabbed them all [I felt like such a nerd with that big stack of comics, almost half of them one series.

And the other 30-something are a mix of anime and American. I've been able to read a couple from here, such as A Touch of Silver [which I could relate to but with manga instead of comics =p]. I got most of this Black Dragon one, one or two simply because of the cover [which is usually what I go by since there's hundreds, no thousands in those boxes.] The anime ones were some Area 88 and You're Under Arrest. [As per the first, I've gone back and there's up to 30 but some ass stole volume 5 so that's so annoying!]

Oh, and he gave me a short box to put my comics in which helps but as of now I think it's just a tad too small since I've got a few out of the box.

Finally my dad took me to Borders 'cause of a 33% off coupon. I was going to buy one or two but Borders had so many I wanted I wound up grabbing four. I remembered this gift card my friend gave me back in seventh grade and I assumed it was $10 so I debated which three to get... I got them all: After School Nightmare volume 3. It's a good thing, too, since my Barnes didn't have this, only four and some after that. Haven't gotten to reading it yet. Miki Falls: Spring. The first volume, I got four from the comic guy. American manga, not bad art, the 'secret' that Hiro had was really different and unusual, but I think it'd turn out to be a good series. The Outcast volume 1. Don't remember what it's about, but it's another Seven Seas title and I like the company. Last is Pandora Hearts volume 1. Just read it and I think I get it but I also don't. It's not bad but hopefully volume 2 will shed more things and catch my attention a bit more. [Oh!--turns out the card was actually $25! :)]

JANUARY 13:

Got a lot more comics today. I think it was about 40 this time around, but since I didn't count he gave the whole lot for me for $5.

From the first picture, the top shelf is this Annihilation series that has the coolest covers. Ever. I remember looking through boxes in November and seeing the Quasar ones and wanted it because the cover was so cool, but volume 1 [and 4] weren't there so I passed it up. Also grabbed some more Blue Monday [but not the first one since someone snagged it]. Plus some other Lovecraft story and the last three have the creepiest covers.

Second picture has a lot more random stuff. Top shelf is some Next Mutants [or was it New?]. Anyways, I kind of like the X-Men series without the original X-Men. [Must be becuase of the manga]. Um, some Surrogate comic-adaption. Oh! And a few issues of Teen Titans! =p He thought I was kind of weird but I'm a kid at heart and I loved Teen Titans when they gave it on Cartoon Network. The last four are comic adaptions of this one series that my dad got for my brother [but he's reading them]. It's The Legend of Drizzit series by R. A. Salvatore. I grabbed them to kind of show to my dad, although the last three are actual novels that I borrowed [and didn't read] so I returned them and I did feel a little bad though...

JANUARY 16:

Well I was hoping to get some manga from the comic dealer, but he forgot [which makes me a bit angry becuase I came that day so I could return the Drizzt comics and buy manga but nooo...] Guess it wasn't my fault, I should've asked him for Wednesday. I grabbed a couple of comics though I would've gone through more boxes if my brother and cousin didn't want to leaver early. He'll be gone next Saturday and coming back maybe once a month or so until November. Kind of sucks, but at least I won't be wasting too mcuh money now.

-Tzui

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"I Know What You Must Be Going Through / And I Feel Sorry For You"

COME BACK - The Early November

Finals...

Ugh, I finally got through our first semester finals, and our reward is a four-day weekend. We get Monday off as well as having today off :) I guess it was worth it, but I hate hate hate studying!

Chemistry and Algebra II was on Tuesday. I thought those would be my middle finals. Chemistry was pretty hard, with 100 questions and some of the problems. Our period had to do 80 [she knocked off 8 in the begining anyways]. I did them all right before she lowered the amount. It was a good thing I did the extra ones--I found out I got 72 points, and out of 80 that's a 90. Not as good as I thought, but thank goodness I studied :) And Algebra was justa benchmark and a worksheet, which I thought to be pretty easy [hopefully].

English and Spanish II of Wednesday. My easy day, actually. English was also our benchmark and for the extra hour or so I just studied history. Spanish was almost our study guide, which we got answers to on Monday. I studied that, so I should get at least a 95 xp

AP World. Gah! O.o It was a 200 question final about 20 chapters, give or take 500 pages out of our book. *faints* I studied like hell the night before, and my only regret was not refreshing myself about the Persians. Our teacher gave us 'hints' about section two, which was the last 85 questions, so that was great since we moreorless got free answers plus extra credit for going afterschool. Total, I think I missed about 15-20 questions, which would be great if I did miss that many I'd get an A- [but an A would be AWESOME!!]

So yeah, now I'm on an off day and I'm just catching up on a lot of backlogged manga.


-Tzui
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"I Know The Story's Old, It's Been Told A Million Times Before / But To Tell It Feels So Good, It Reminds Me That Not All I Do Is Right"
1000 TIMES A DAY - The Early November

Another Winner

Well two weeks back [I think] I got the Tokyopop newsletter. In it was a contest. Now if I say what it was the contest was about I'd be spoiling it [and if you know the contest that kind fo spoils it, too.] So yeah, I figured it was a book I might bother getting so why not? I logged on [the first time in forever, really] and clicked on the button that would cast my vote. And I completly forgot about it.

Then last Friday I got an e-mail saying I was the contest winner. After remembering I entered the contest in the first place, I thought of it a joke. I clicked on it, saying 'congrats' and that in order to get the free book I'd need to send my address. I wasn't sure if they were joking me, but the e-mail looked legit so I sent it, saying 'thanks.' Then I got a reply saying that he shipped it. It then hit me that I WON. Actually, for reals, won.

I laughed, saying that it was probably going to come in sooner than Amazing Agent Luna volume 4, which we found on some site and ordered the night of my birthday. So on Tuesday after school my dad got me and dropped me off. I went to grab the mail, disappointed nothing came in again, and went to the front door where he was opening the gate and door. He said a package came in for me. Logically, since I ordered Luna a long time ago, I figured it was it. Then I took it and saw it was the book I won on Friday.

I immediately went to my room, and--like any normal person--took pictures whilst opening it and stuff [so not a dork].

Here's what I won:


And not only was it free, it was also signed by the authour himself! I'm such a lucky butt, aren't I? :)

-Tzui

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"I've Got A Brain I Can Think For Myself / Don't Wanna Be Like Everybody Else"

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