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11 July 2009 @ 06:20 pm
So hay, gaiz.

I'm in Paris.

Look, I can prove it:


Today I think we're going to go see the opera house the Phantom hung out in. It will be awesome 8D

 
 
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Ryo Flame
10 July 2009 @ 07:03 am


The 2PM boys are taking a well-deserved break.

After promoting their Time For Change single album for three months, they're stepping down to take a rest, breathe, and perhaps prepare for another single album (or an actual album if we're lucky). It's a sad day for 2pm fans, because it might be a while before we see our sexy boyz do something again D: everyone agrees on the fact that they better be actually GETTING rest during the time they're gone.

Wow, has it really been three months since I discovered their song Again & Again...?

*sigh* I'll miss you boys, come back with something new soon!!

Actual post about France to come tomorrow. I know, it's terrible that I find this more important.

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Ryo Flame
09 July 2009 @ 10:33 am

Why don't I have any kpop icons? You can bet that as soon as I get home, this situation will be rectified.

MANTRAIN LIKE YOU MEAN IT, BOYS, DON'T BE AFRAID TO SCOOT A LITTLE CLOSER TOGETHER.

I'm really loving my new MP3 player, it's sexay. Also, it does like, everything. It's going to keep me good and happy during the four hours I'm on the train on the way to Paris. I haven't yet used it to its full potential, there's all sorts of organizer apps I still need to figure out, but WHEE, KPOP ON THE GO.

I got to talk to my daddy last night! I called just to leave him another message, but he actually answered the phone! We got to quickly catch up and organise what was happening when I got into the train station in France, and that made me feel so much better; it's been really hard getting into contact with him while I've been in the Netherlands and I was a bit uncertain as to what exactly was happening and how we were meeting up and all that jazz.

I've seen two movies while here in the Netherlands. One; Transformers 2 in the IMAX. All I have to say is DEVASTATOR, OMG 8DD also, Spitfire Prime = UNF. The second movie I saw was Coraline! I was so happy, it was a fluke, it was the last night it was playing in this tiny little cosy cinema in a back alley, and it was only half an hour until the screening, heehee. So I bought a ticket and finally saw that movie. Creepiest children's movie EVAR but sooo good, I definitely want to see it again at some point :3 it's such a shame we don't get movies like that over in Aussieland. Not enough, anyway.

HOKAY, heading off to France in a little while. BAI GAIZ.
 
 
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Ryo Flame
08 July 2009 @ 02:37 pm
Remember when I said I always head to retail therapy when I get down? Yeah... I bought a 4G Creative Zen, one of those with the 2.5" screens so I can watch stuff too. I'm currently loading it up with as much random crap as possible.

Going to go get lunch now, bai.
 
 
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Ryo Flame
08 July 2009 @ 10:22 am

I had a little cry last night cuz I miss u gaiz.

...No, really. It wasn't all that dramatic though, I was just feeling a bit lonely. I was supposed to have stayed with my cousin from Monday night until Thursday morning when I would have headed off to Paris, but due to stressing out about work, she asked if she could pay for me to stay at a hostel instead. Well this was all fine, but it was asked at 7pm, which didn't leave me with a lot of time. Luckily, I did find a place on HostelWorld.com but it left me feeling a little unbalanced, because it was a reminder how not everything was always certain.

After rushing around a bit, getting a taxi and dragging my incredibly heavy larger suitcase and not so heavy smaller suitcase up incredibly steep, narrow stairs, I had to squish into a tiny little room where four other Aussies were just getting ready to go out, and had their shit strewn about everywhere, making life a little difficult for me with my big bags. Watching them chat with one another as they got ready to head out made me miss home like hell, and when they left all I wanted to do was lie down and... not do anything.

By this time it was 10pm, which would have made it 6am in Australia, and I had no desire to bother anyone at that time of the morning, so I called the only person who wasn't so far away; my dad. I've been having a hard time getting into contact with him though, I've been sending emails and SMS's only to find out he hasn't been getting them, and when I tried calling him I got transferred to a weird voice mail thing, but I left a message anyway without much hope. Hormones and homesickness made me blubber for a bit, but there wasn't much I could do about it.

Without much else to do, I curled up and tried to go to sleep... which just wouldn't happen. I lay there for about an hour and a half, staring into the darkness, before I finally started to doze off. At 1am I got a text from dad saying he got my message, but it was too late for me to respond coherently, so I passed out again, only to be woken up a little later again by the Aussies coming back from their night out.

It was a pretty shitty night's sleep, and when I woke up, it was raining, and would apparently continue to do so throughout the day. I had to switch rooms as well, so there I went, dragging all my suitcases down the steep stairs again, only to learn that later when I check into the new room, I have to go up to the third floor with those suitcases and stairs. Waaahhhh T___T

Everything will be better once I'm with my dad in Paris, but right now I kind of wanna go home.
 
 
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Ryo Flame
06 July 2009 @ 10:12 pm
Since dad's apparently looking for an answer, and my emails and sms's/calls don't seem to be getting through to him:

I will be arriving in Paris on Thursday at 16:35.

I have seriously now done EVERYTHING to make you aware of this, dad. At this stage I don't know what else I can do.

 
 
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Ryo Flame
03 July 2009 @ 01:26 am
8DDD  


I just found [info]kpop_macros . This is almost as awesome as finding [info]omonatheydidnt , omg.
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Ryo Flame
02 July 2009 @ 05:14 pm

I had a great day today.

Currently I'm in Den Bosch, known on the map as Hertogenbosch. I'm staying with my aunt for a few days, we're doing some family reunion type things, but because she had to go to a workplace outing today, I was on my own. This was fine with me, my aunt Jos had given me all the keys to the house and to the lock of the bike in the shed, so I decided to ride down to the shopping area since there was supposed to be a comic store down there (lol).

I had a map with me, I'd marked the streets I intended on visiting, and then merrily jumped on my bike. And went in completely the wrong direction. When I next consulted my map, I realised I'd gone north about as much as I wanted to originally go south... so I had twice the distance to cover, hahah XD but it did take me on a bike path around a beautiful lake, so it wasn't a total loss :3

Once I did get to the shopping district though, I proceeded to get even more lost. You know how Melbourne's streets are all neatly parrallel to each other, with all the blocks as neat squares? Yeah, it's not like that here. Roads and sidewalks and bike paths cross over one another every which way, and what looked like a simple route became difficult everytime I took just one wrong turn. Still, like I said before, it's not like this was any kind of loss; I got to see a lot of things this way, and I also found a cinema. There was a viewing of Transformers 2 an hour and a half later, so I bought a ticket and then went to find the comic store.

I did find it, in the end! Spent a bit of time there, too. However, I think something was trying to tell me I should stop buying comic books, because after umm-ing and ahh-ing over different Dutch comics for some time, I had a little pile worth about EU$90, was gonna pay...

...and then the power in the entire shopping district shut down.

Due to the heat, something had blown in the powergrid. I did not have 90euros on me, I couldn't pay with credit card because there was no power and of course none of the ATMs were functioning either. I lamented this for a while, but when we found out the power would most likely stay out until around 5pm, we gave up. I had enough cash to buy just ONE book, and I chose Sky-Doll 3, since I'd picked up the first two volumes in Nijmegen before, but I wasn't happy. There was this AMAZING steampunk comic in a box, four parts, which I had wanted really badly, too. They also had THIS from Sky Doll which I jsdfhgjadlfhsdkjhf'd over like crazy, but goddammit it was 250 EUROS. 250. The figure itself was only about six inches tall, too D: and they also had the schoolgirl Witchblade statue for... 220, I think? So honestly D:

...maybe if I still have spending money by the end of this...

Sky-Doll really is gorgeous. It sucks that it's in Dutch because only I will be able to enjoy it :/

Anyway, the comic store owner then pointed out to me that with all the power out, I wouldn't be able to see my movie, either. I BAWWWed about this for a little while, then resigned myself to it and headed off on my bike again. At least the cinema pplz gave me my money back.

After that I cycled back home, and here I am. Also, my sunscreen exploded in my bag and I think my Pokemon Leaf Green is now no longer functioning because of it... fml. So, although the day had it's shitty bits, overall I had a ton of fun, I'm enjoying the warm (hot) weather, and I'm off to read my pretty new book.

 
 
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Ryo Flame
02 July 2009 @ 12:23 am

I'm sorry, I just had to, I've seen this video about fifty times now. I think all the colours have hypnotized me. I love it, lemme know what you think XD
 
 
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Ryo Flame
26 June 2009 @ 12:37 pm
There are now more Amsterdam pics and some London pics up on Facebook. I was going to write up a much more long-winded post in regards to the last post and yesterday and stuff, but I can't really be bothered 8D; so uh... just look at the pretty peekchurs. Today I'm heading off to see the Amsterdam Dungeon, the Torture Museum and if I still feel like it afterwards, the Ice Bar. More photos to come :3

I love the weather here. It's so warm @__@



First person to say what the black/blue striped flag with the loveheart on it means gets a cookie.

 
 
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Ryo Flame
25 June 2009 @ 11:36 am

So last minute booking of a hostel was successful and I ended up at De Witte Tulp (White Tulip) where I've got 7 nights booked. It's right on the edge of the red light district, smack in the centre of Amsterdam, five minutes walk from Amsterdam Centraal and hundreds of shops... it's awesome.

After dragging my bags all the way from the countryside to the big city, all I wanted to do last night was collapse on the bed, maybe after having something to nibble on. These plans were foiled after I met my the two from Norway; Sandra and Mick. Very friendly and enthusiastic, they explained they were going on a walking tour of the red light district, and asked if I wanted to go too. I decided, hell, why not.

It was really interesting, I learned a lot of history and strange facts, and we ended up finishing at a bar... where we, along with two other Melbournians and an American, all ended up playing drinking games for aaages.

A bit more info at a later date, I have like 2mins left on my internet time XD ciao for now!

 
 
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Ryo Flame
23 June 2009 @ 02:43 pm
Okay, so... it's so easy to put photos on Facebook that I'm hardly motivated to put them up here XD *kicks herself up the backside*. I know not everyone visits Facebook, though, and I suppose I should write about about what I actually did... so here goes.

On Saturday, [info]rikudrak  and I visited a fairytale-themed amusement park called The Efteling (you can change the website language at the bottom of the page), a place I last visited when I was only teeny-tiny. THIS is my kind of theme park. I don't need to see Disneyland, or Sea World, or any of them... the Efteling is, and probably will always be, my favourite.


This beautiful sculpture was inside the gift shop.

For more pics and drabble, clickety-click. )

Anyway, that's enough for now, there are more pics in the Facebook album I linked to above. I do have London pics, but since I'll be going back there towards the end, I'll just leave them all to one big post :3 It was a fantastic day, and I'm so glad my memories didn't set me up for disappointment; it was ever better than I remembered it to be.
 
 
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Ryo Flame
23 June 2009 @ 02:07 pm
First off, 2pm. Choreography practice of 'I Hate You'. Only watch how after 2:15 the choreography goes to shit because the boys get too dorky XDD



Now that's out of the way, it's JJBA time.

[info]jojocon2012 [info]jojocon2012  [info]jojocon2012  [info]jojocon2012  [info]jojocon2012  [info]jojocon2012 

OMGAH YAY

Thanks [info]xel_ko , for starting this up. There's been so much talk but we didn't have a comm yet, so now all us fantards can properly get together!! I don't care if it ends up being on the other side of the planet, I am SO THERE.

And the final fantard rave of mine is HOSHITITHINKIFOUNDMYJOLYNE. I kind of want opinions, though.

Holiday post to follow. Promise.
 
 
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Ryo Flame
15 June 2009 @ 12:37 pm
Today is my last day in London for a little while, and I'm going to spend it not doing very much of anything :P

Friday we did the London Tombs, which was suitably scary (and I'm glad I wasn't the only one scared, Andy didn't much care for it either). Saturday was the burlesque afternoon tea, and it was SO worth it. On Thursday I had done the touristy thing and jumped on a tour bus which took me all over the place and I'd taken the obligatory tourist shots of the famous sights, so as soon as I can get them onto a computer, I will put them up here and on Facebook.

I don't have a lot of time left on the computer, so I'll just say that I'm heading off to Amsterdam next, via train and ferry (I know I could have flown, but I wanted to have caught the ferry at least once) where I'll be meeting up with [info]rikudrak . I'll update with a bit more detail once I have a bit more time :3

Ciao for now!
 
 
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Ryo Flame
10 June 2009 @ 08:42 pm

Didn't do a great deal today; the tube strike made it kind of difficult to get around, so I ended up getting lost in Leicester Square and consequently veering off into Orbital Comics. This was a Very Bad Idea. Actually, going into any comic store is a VBI with me, but this one had Aspen/Top Cow posters I didn't have D:

Honestly, today was a lot of aimless wandering. We ended up at Euston and had a pub meal, met a nice off-duty policeman named Simon and Andy and I passed on Toy Soldier wisdom to him. We chatted to him for a fair while and only stopped when he had to head off, so that was nice :3 but honestly, we had no plan, so we just wandered and wandered...

...and ended up in Camden Town. Wtf.

Honestly, it was another VBI to wander around there, I should have just jumped on the tube and gone home. Instead, I bought another coat. *smacks self on wrist* I wandered a gorgeous corset stall too, but honestly, that was too much, waugh. We didn't stick around too long, but headed back to the hostel to plan events later in the week. Andy and I have now booked tickets for both the London Bridge Experience and the Afternoon Tease. Afternoon tea with a burlesque show? Yes please.

So they're booked in for Friday and Saturday. Sunday I've been invited for Sunday roast up at Andy's countryside area, and tomorrow I think I'll go do my bus tour and visit Madame Tussaud's. I think I'm set.

 
 
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Ryo Flame
09 June 2009 @ 07:37 pm
So this morning I rolled out of bed around 8am, and did my best to not wake up the other people in my hostel room. The night before, I'd stocked up on breakfasty things (THE MILK BAR AROUND THE CORNER SELLS V HELL YES) and so I had oatmeal to munch on in the kitchen, which I quite happily did. The majority of the hostel wasn't yet awake so there were very few people in the kitchen/lounge area.

After a little while on the internet, I headed out on the tube to Piccadilly Circus. Now, in regards to the tube; the trains come more frequently than Melbourne, but they're a lot smaller/have less seats as well, which means if you go during the rush hour, it can get pretty packed. Still, they're not bad. First place I went looking for was the British Information Centre so I could go and grab as many flyers as I could for ideas of places to go. Picked up a few that looked interesting :D including the London Bridge Experience (hell yes). I'll probably end up dragging Andy along to that.

I had found an antiques market by accident, and we hung around there for way longer than was healthy for our wallets. One stall sold absolutely gorgeous spy-glasses, compasses and sundials, all so totally steampunk. They're there all week though, so we didn't buy any on the spot, but we'll head back another day. Andy spent way too much on old military badges (including an authentic badge from nazi Germany which is SO cool), and as revenge for me taking him to the market, he took me to Camden.

Ahh, Camden.

The first thing I saw when I came out of the tube station was stalls selling rave clothing. I learned quickly enough that Camden was goth/raver/punk/cyber central when it came to London... and that practically ever stall/store had something I wanted to buy. The whole place was like a massive market; shops, shops, stalls, shops and more stalls, and we didn't even get to see all of it because we got there too late in the day and things had begun to close. We also went into the Cyberdog store which was pretty big and impressive, and I've told Andy that on the leg out of London, at the end of my trip, if I have any money left he can help me pick out a cyberpunk outfit. The store itself is like a club, with loud dance music and awesome lighting, can't wait to go back.

I bought an £88 gothic aristocrat coat

Honestly, I was out all day... my legs are killing me and I can't wait to crash. Tomorrow, there's a tube strike D: so getting around will be tough, but I'll manage somehow. There's also two Californians in my hostel room now, they're friendly, might chat with them a bit more :3
 
 
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Ryo Flame
08 June 2009 @ 09:29 pm

Posting from the (free!) internet computers in the London Backpacker's Hostel. This place is nice :D safe and secure too, and wonderful considering the entire week is only costing me AU$165. Baron Andy von Jazz met me at Heathrow airport and helped me find my way to the right station, since the London rail system is a weird, tangled mess of train lines, and buggered if I can figure it out.

The flight was long. LONG. AUGH. I'm not looking forward to the trip home D: I ached all over and was all stiff and ugh... such a long flight, not to mention it was stupidly late, poor Andy, having to kick around at the airport for about two hours. We spent the little bit of the afternoon that was left checking me into the hostel, wandering about and having a drink at a nearby pub. My hostel is literally across the street from a train station, so I can go everywhere :D

Tomorrow should be fun; Andy's gonna take me to the theatre district and I'll be going to the London info centre for brochures of things to do in the morning :3 I should book my ferry ticket ASAP, too...

Oh, and Annie...? Thank you for the letter, luv :3
 
 
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Ryo Flame
07 June 2009 @ 06:54 pm
So I got a text message saying my flight has been delayed for two hours, lawl. Great start, gaiz. This means my flight is at about 1am, ahhh....

At least I'll sleep though, right? Maybe I'll be too excited to sleep.

I need to buy a phone in the Netherlands since mine won't work there, but it will work in the UK/France, so you guys can text me :D and vice versa.

Ryo signing out for the time being. I'll update LJ and FB when I can :3 ciao~
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Ryo Flame
05 June 2009 @ 04:42 pm
ILU  

I managed to finish it before buggering off to Europe, yaaay~
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03 June 2009 @ 10:18 pm
One day I will invent a self-packing suitcase, and I will make millions.

First leg of my trip--the London part of it-- is pretty secure, thanks a million to Toy Soldier Baron Andrew von Jazz (I call him Jazzpants). Not only is he coming to pick lost little me up from Heathrow, but he's going to teach me the rail system and everything a little Aussie who's never travelled this far by herself needs to know. He even helped me find and prebook the hostel I'd be staying in, ooouuuhhh T__T thank you, Jazzpants.

I won't be in London more than a week, in the beginning, though I might hang around a bit more towards the end of my holiday, since I need to fly out of there anyway. I'll be catching the ferry over to the Netherlands (for the pure novelty of the ferry... I could fly, but I want to try everything once) and moving on to Amsterdam from there, where I have family and friends.

I'm going to be hanging out with [info]rikudrak and her hubby for a bit which is so exciting :D and I'd also want to at least have a coffee with [info]laevi and his hubby (although I totally understand if you don't want to meet some weirdo from the internet :3). I'm using this trip to see as many people as I can who I don't normally get to see... I want it to be awesome :D

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Been scanning doujinshi for the JJBA forums in a desperate bid for attention gesture of thanks for the warm welcome. Don't know how scanlators do it XD I've managed four of the six I have and it's killing me. I wish I had a bigger scanner so I could cheat and scan two pages at once, but I caaaan't. I'm horrible and hurry through them, too... don't bother to clean them up or anything, just turn the contrast way up >_>

Here, have a doujin Risotto, realising what he looks like after a night's sleep:
It's kind of what I look like all the time. Also, gender-bending Risotto and Prosciutto, yes please.

Okay, it's getting late, got shitloads left to do and I need sleep. See y'all again soon.

P.S. Anyone wanna meet up for a movie or something Saturday night/Sunday morning? I wanna see as many people as I can before I go ;_;

 
 
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