I Am Woman

This was my first Christmas without snow. I really missed it. Not to mention I am extremely pissed because it is cold enough for there to be snow. Why, snow gods, why?!

Well somewhat new. I wrote a couple for X this and last week as well as an edited Japanese translation of Gunslinger Girl Il Teatrino’s theme song Tatta Hitotsu no Omoi by Kokia. I will post the link to it as well as the others at a later time.

Great amazingness.

I have this terrible habit of listening to a song or a whole album for months until I get sick of it. But this song is beyond getting sick of. It’s absolutely gorgeous.

The full length cd version is much better. In case one can’t notice Sharon den Adel is the lead singer of Within Temptation.

My apologies that I had given the wrong review for epsiode 18 in my last post. I had previously written it as 19. And another thing: Kotoko instead of Kokoto. (Un)Fortunately no one had corrected me on it! I got away with it. xD I would like to blame isohunt for giving me the incorrect order of episodes.

Onward! The last episode I had reviewed was, in a nutshell, Keita’s confession to Kotoko. We move onto Episode 19 - Crazy For You and watch Kotoko finally take a temporary hiatus from Naoki for him understand he is an asshat. By the end of episode 19 Naoki pardons himself from his asshat ways and goes after Kotoko.

By episode 20 - The Nightingale Oath Keita buggers off completely from the story and the nurses graduate and projects itself into 4 years later.

Episode 21 - The Glass Boy : We meet Non-chan again. Non-chan is the boy that was also in the hospital with Naoki’s brother when they were very little and was the inspiration that Kotoko gave Naoki to become a doctor. Now, 4 years later, we see that Non-chan has went from a sickly boy in bed to a sickly famous actor. Non-chan has become bitter and turned his back on all those who ever cared about him because he feels they forgot about him. By the end of the episode, Kotoko urges and convinces Non-chan to undergo surgery to hopefully make him better.

Episode 22 - The Best Present : Non-chan is recovering from the surgery and we find out that it is Kotoko’s birthday. Naoki is creepily SO much nicer. I’ve actually grown an infatuation on him now! (hehe, let’s see if I get a reaction out of that) Naoki takes work off for a private birthday party between him and Kotoko. Kotoko is thrilled and does her best to dress up and rush over to the hotel Naoki and her are celebrating at. (I don’t care if I end a sentence with a preposition :P) Along the way Kotoko helps a man who is severely injured in a bike crash.  After several hours of being in the hospital, she is then very late and bloody when she finally arrives at the hotel. Naoki was genuinely worried and then they spend a lovely evening together. By the end of the episode Naoki believes that Kotoko may be pregnant.

Episode 23 - You, Go Around, Me Kotoko is 3 months pregnant! I almost shreked with joy as Naoki’s mum did when she found out (see picture above). So cute!!! However Kotoko fears that Naoki, due to her gossipy friends, may be having an affair because he is being extra nice to her. She searches and destroys, as does Kotoko’s mother in law, but in the end they find out that Naoki isn’t. Hoorah for that. As for Naoki’s happiness and kindness, perhaps he is just bloated with excitement that he’s going to be a father?

Hoorah, another personal blog post. I’ve done a lot of competitions lately and either the results have yet to be revealed or utterly lost.

List Competitions, Prizes and Results:

Client: Emporio Armani - Get Together Poster Prize: 5000 EUROS for National or 2 sets of watches for International Results: International Winner but only due to votes

Client: Bluestreak - Logo Prize: $400 Results: Fail

Client: Diana Warner Studios - Collateral Poster Prize: First: $500 Second: $200 Third & Forth: $100 Results: Fail

Client: Diesel Wall Prize: International Recognition Results: Fail

Client: Health247.com -  Logo Prize: $175 Results: Fail

Client: Mini Cooper- Wallpaper Prize: iTouch Phone = $495 Results: Fail - not enough votes

Client: I-Net Prize: $150 Results: Fail

Client: Neurotrax/Mindstreams - Collateral Prize: First place: $2250 Second Place: $750 Results: Failed first place, second place to be announced

Client: XeNTaX - Banner Prize: $500 Results: Fail

Client: Penguin Novels/The Island At The End Of The World - Bookcover Prize: To be published Results: Fail

Client: Francisco Mantecon - Poster Prize: First Place: 6000 Euro Two Runners Up: 2000 Euro Results: Dropped Out

Client: E3P Technologies - Logo Prize: 5000 Euro Results:Fail

Client: Sokolov Film Festival - Poster Prize: 460 euro Results: To be announced.. 31 September 2008

Client: EYCA - Logo Prize: 5000 Euro Results: To be announced.. 14 November 2008

Client: Wacom - Illustration Prize: Intuos Wacom Tablet Results: Dropped Out

Client: Uniqulo - Illustration Prize: 3,000,000 yen  Results: Late October

I’m sure there are more but perhaps I deleted them in frustration?  *shrugs* I have several others I will be starting soon. I think the above work counts towards an online portfolio being made so far.