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I chocked on my drink from laughter when I saw this and I was already coughing my longs out anyway (yay, 6000th cold I had this winter <_<). The last thing I expected was to win another raffle. That and I can just imagine the look of my friends when they see the trashcan (on the the other hand they all loved Raiho~)

Now here's to seeing if shipping costs aren't to high and if they are, well I'll see what they can come up with.

Since procrastinating, while you have to make a presentation that has to last an hour is the best idea, I decided to finally do this meme.

You know how sometimes people on your friendslist post about stuff going on in their life, and all of a sudden you think "Wait a minute? Since when were they working THERE? Since when were they dating HIM/HER? Since when???" And then you wonder how you could have missed all that seemingly pretty standard information, but somehow you feel too ashamed to ask for clarification because it seems like info you should already know? It happens to all of us sometimes.

Please copy the topics below, erase my answers and put yours in their place, and then post it in your journal! Please elaborate on the questions that would benefit from elaboration. One-Word-Answers seldom help anyone out.

( Meme goes here~ )
And because I’m procrastinating anyway, some more sleep deprived rambling.

( Some more rambling on Imagine )
Back to working on that stinking presentation. I really hate these type of monologue’s, why can’t we just have a conversation about what I did the last half year, instead of me rambling of about something that I already typed in my report, my report that’s 46 pages filled with detailed descriptions <_<

Happy birthday chierii!

I hope you will have a wonderful day! Enjoy it! ♥

It is exactly 1: 22 AM here in the Netherlands, most people are still outside with the fireworks (even though it's freezing like whoa) so

Happy New Year!

Hope everyone will have a great 2010, let's make something great of it.

Look at that, insomnia made me sick and being sick makes me fall asleep. Kinda a stupid way to solve my sleeping problem. After the start of the new year I hope things will improve, I'll still have 2 jobs and school, but at least it'll be less busy.
Anyways since Zaph kept asking me to do it and I have a break right now:

( Cut to spare flist :P )
I suppose it fits in a way, I never saw myself as particularly lawful or chaotic.

A part of me can’t wait for the end of my internship. I don’t think I’ve ever been so tired in my entire life. I know part of it is due to retail as well. It seems that during the Christmas period, all stupid people got let loose. I’m sorry for leaving you yesterday Cherry, but it was 11 PM here and with my already sleepless nights it didn’t seem like a good idea to stay up much longer XD
( Lot's of blabla here zzzz... )

If this wasn’t entirely coherent, I blame it on my sleep-deprived mind. I need a nap.

Since I see little to no time to say this tomorrow

Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone will have a wonderful time these upcoming days.

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All cards have been sent out (they have been for quite some time, but I was too lazy to post ~-~). Here’s to hoping everything get’s to there destination safe. We’ve had so much snow here, that basically everything derailed. I’m somewhat grateful though, I had to work on a particularly busy Sunday, but due to safety pre-cautions the entire mall had to close. Now just one more day in hell, the 27^th. Watch all people come running back to the mall, to trade in there Christmas gifts ~_~ Oh retail, how I sometimes despise you.

Stolen from everyone!

I have 12 Christmas cards here, so if you want one, post with the name you want it sent to and your address. All comments will be screened, of course ♥

There are a lot of things I can say about Aeria’s version of SMT: IMAGINE and right now it isn’t that pretty. Yesterday and during the weekend, a lot of people seemed to be a mix of exited and pissed of.

What’s under the cut is basically one long rant. Starting with the new Japanese content, going to the content we can expect as it is in our files, going to me bitching about the way Aeria’s been handling certain promotions and how it’s not good for the future of the game.

( Let's start with the good, as the bad are more worries on my side, mixed with facts )

Also holiday sales are insane, it’s fun but sometimes retail tires me out. I’m also somewhat surprised to see how many people are still buying houses. This entire day at the notary consists out of giving people mortgages. That’s about 16 mortgages, just at this office alone.

Welcome to the people I’ve added to my flist thanks to the SMT friending meme. A bit of a depressing first post, but I need to get his of my chest. The last couple of days I have been really busy, writing reports for school and my internship, about ethics and all that stuff. Yesterday I wanted to play some SMT: IMAGINE, just to get my mind of the work and relax a bit. When I came online I was reminded how easy it is to lose contact with each other, without ever knowing what happened to someone. So for all the people on my flist who knew RedSonya and even for those who didn’t.

Later on I remembered something someone on LJ once asked me. “If someone you know over the internet disappears one day, will you miss that person, or won’t you even notice?” Internet bonds are fragile, if one person was too disappear, it would be hard/impossible to find him/her again. I mean Sonya lived in the same country as I did, perhaps even very close, but I would have never known that something happened to him, if his brother hadn’t shown up. I suppose it’s the reason I have a note with all my username’s and passwords lying around, so that if something were to ever happen, at least my parents/friends could make it known.

As much as it hurts, I’m glad Sonja’s brother searched for us and told us he passed away. Else people would have just forgotten, thought that he was tired of the game and quit without saying anything, which would have been far worse. I’m not looking forward to Sunday, most of Sonja’s friends are online then and I know I have to tell them, they have just as much a right to know what happened to him as I did.

So rest in peace Sonja, you were a great guy, always willing to help out, always enthusiastic, a good friend, I even remember planning to do stuff last Friday with you and the rest of the clan. You will be sorely missed.

My thoughts go out to your parents and your brother/siblings, who have lost you far to early.

So for those who didn't catch the good news yet. I seriously gasped when I saw the e-mail which was followed by me dancing trough my room, don't even want to know what my parents tought. It's quite the coincidence, I've spent the entire evening telling my boyfriend how much I wanted it to come stateside so I could import. I'm so stoked for this game :D

Also I can't be the only one who was amused to see the Atlus forums explode. I had to refresh for half an hour before I could read my faithful e-mail and the forum thread.

STEALTH EDIT:
Apparently a boxed version of SMT: IMAGINE is coming out. Sorta makes me frown seeing as it is a free game, but hey you probably get x amount of AP with it so. Besides some extra publicity can't hurt.

Yay for having fever. The last couple of days I spend on my bed feeling nauseous and tired. Worst thing though was having to work on Saturday, but I couldn’t take the day off because we were having a sale of Micheal Jackson’s newest album. Lot’s of people told me to go see the doctor: “It might be swine flue.” Honestly people, not every mundane cold or fever immediately means someone has swine flue.

Now since I am bored and promised I would do this: ( The new content for the Aeria version of SMT:IMAGINE )

So I want to know, what sounds more appealing to you guys: go see a movie, have a nice dinner, or go out to a disco or something? *crawls back to bed*

Stolen from chierii

The problem with LJ: We all think we are so close, but really we know nothing about one another. So I want you to ask me something you think you should know about me. Something that should be obvious, but you have no idea about. Ask away.

I actually received my certificate from school today, shocking here I thought it would never happen. It just took them two years to give it to me, which is almost as bad as taking 1,5 years to figure out that the administration registered me for the wrong study. I think they are officially scared of me now at the administration office, at the least they know who I am now.

Internship has been stressing me out big time. Take today for example, I needed to make 10 contracts in just the morning (had to go to school in the afternoon and they knew this). Normally I get a day to work on 5 of them D: Thankfully most of my colleagues are really nice and always make me laugh. Working full time is really different form going to school, I can’t wait till we get to the holiday season, which is when I will have to work 7 days a week. Free time, pff who needs it :(

( Some ranting about IMAGINE online )

Also Atlus, you’re free to announce Strange Journey for localization anytime. Everything I read about that game is only making me more stoked to play it.

This is utterly adorable, Frost Ace.

Keep being fabulous Kaneko ♥
Also for people interested, there's some more video's and art here: http://touch-ds.jp/crv/vol14/001.html

Also school finally figured out I passed my first year, it only took them forever, seeing as I'm in my third year now. But I can go pick up my certificate, so yay!

My wireless internet has been hating on me, it only took me two months to get it fixed, but at least it works again.

I've been playing IMAGINE again after a long pause and it's still as addictive as ever. I really love the remixed SMT 1 music and the Ichigaya field music. I mostly play on channel 5 under the name Aletheya, so if you see me around say hi :D

Today the Queen will announce the financial future of this country.. I'm pessimistic about it, something tells me it won't be happy news.

http://new.atlusnet.jp/
Hoping that it will be SMT4, because that would be about time. Also Siliconera found this. Apparently this was found by a Japanese blogger, unfortunately that does not equal truth. So I'm still a bit skeptical.  Still, I am so EXCITED about this! :D

Finally finished Devil Survivor. Went with the Haru/Gin route since that seemed closest to neutral. The final day was pretty much one big boss rush and the final boss was a bitch, took me nearly an hour to beat. Now for the other endings and the bonus boss.

This is not good for business Australia. It will inadvertently bring around more piracy... and honestly, this is stupid. It's like saying only children play games. So when stuff isn't suitable for them, it isn't suitable for anyone *facepalm* I'm all for a rating system, but this is ridiculous.

We just had to wait four hours at the airport, due to technical difficulties my parents there suitcases (and those of all the other passengers) weren't showing up. At least they had a fun vacation, they had to squick me with a picture of one of there pets though, some kind of disgusting flying bug. I mean, what is that? *shudder* The environment they were in was rather nice, very relaxing.
Anybody else going on vacation this summer?

So I just received an e-mail, that my copy of Devil Survivor will ship somewhere on the 29th of June, that probably means I will receive it somewhere in between the 4th and the 6th of July. The joys of getting video games in Europe. I uploaded the soundtrack, for the same friend I uploaded the Devil Summoner OST for. It's up on MediaFire,in two parts because MF hates files over 100 MB.
Also this might be the worst interview I've read in a long time. Way to act like a douche.

Devil Survivor OST: Part 1, Part 2.