Yes, yesterday I watched that movie. Actually I watched something like 3-4 movies in a row. But I'm gonna write about that particular one.

I heard from many people that it was terriffic movie but I never remembered to watch it when suddenly yesterday around 2am I reminded myself about it.

I must say comparing to other Japanese movies I've recently watched it was good. But it would be even better if not Hyde's bad acting skills. Just before "Moon Child" I watched "Last Quarter" (also starring Hyde) and he was as bad as his English. He just can't express emotions whether through mimic, body language or voice (despite the fact he is a singer). So maybe he just should only sing (but not in English) and look cute.

But let's say more about the plot. In 2014 Japan sufferes from economical collapse and people emigrate to China. In Mallepa city live Sho, his brother Shinji and friend Toshi. They are around 8-12 orphans living on the street. One day Sho finds Kei and take care of him. Kei saves boys life and from that moment they are always together.
K, I won't write more because
1. I'm too lazy
2. Why would I tell you all the story?

Japan's collapse motive was used in many other movies/books/animes as well as vampire motive but I never seen them together so when you watch it you don't have deja vu feeling.
What I didn't like was the fact that in year 2045 they were still dressing like people in year 2000. Apparently they forgot that fashion is changing EACH SEASON not even mention decades. And the last scene... I would do it differently but... well, wasn't bad.


Watch it there:
http://www.crunchyroll.com/library/Moon_Child?src=trail


EDIT: I had to remove all the pictures because they don't show idk why 'cause I can see them perfectly in the preview. Any ideas?

I'm so bored and have no ****ing idea what to write about.

My dog princess Mika caught a rat today (although we now have 3 cats). I love her so much and she is so brave! I personally would die if I saw a rat.

Yesterday I bought a coat and I totally love it. It's very feminine, in the colour of my hair and doesn't make my ass look even bigger than it is.

Snow is still lying and I hate it. It's freakin' cold outside and I'm dreaming about warm countries like e.g. Indonesia Well any tropical Asian country would do.

Yesterday I watched the most riddiculous movie ever! It was called "Sleeping Bride". Based on manga story of a girl whose mother survived from a plane crash but eventually died giving birth to her. Girl was in coma till the age of 17 and there was this guy who was kissing her everyday telling her he was a prince and at last she woke up but only for a 5 days. In the 5th day he married her and stayed with her till the rest of her life. Yes, she died first. I'm telling you the ending 'cause I don't want you guys to watch that movie and waste your time. God! I don't know if I will ever give another chance to Japanese movies 'cause each time they disappoint me with their stupidity.

Thank you all for lovely wishes yesterday! It was so nice to read them

Oh well... so being 21 didn't change anything in my life
I went to another city today, I spend lots of money on coffee just because barista was cute, I bought pretty hat in which I look terriffic, and I went to my old college and everybody was staring at me (because I'm so pretty of course). I also got proposition of taking photo session but... I'm not sure if I really want to.

K, so I'm gonna watch another k-movie now (recently I got addicted to them).

Take care guys

Karolina

Today's my 21st birthday. Gosh I can drink alcohol when I'm in States Yeah... Later I'm going out with my friends for pizza.

I wanna thank to Mellia (Bluesweater) for lovely wishes she texted me this morning I love ya!

I wonder what am I gonna get. Probably something related to Japan. It's not like I care. It's a regular day today. But still it would be nice to have birthday couple of times a year not only once

OK, maybe I wasn't that close to death but who knows... So this is what happened: I was straightening my hair and of course I was singing to my flat iron as if they were a microphone, and then suddenly I saw sparks coming out of it! First I thought: "Where the heck are these fireworks from??" but then I realized I was holding 230 volts in my hand! I was so scared I almost peed my pants

Today I made "dorayaki" - Japanese pancakes. They tasted good but were a bit too sweet to me, so next time I will add less sugar.

'cause I'm on diet of course. It's called "Morning Banana Diet" and is the latest diet from Japan. I hope it will work 'cause I actually invited my penpal from Japan and he said he would come during his spring break or in the summer (rather spring) and I don't wanna look like a whale next to him. So it's my 3rd day and I have no idea whether I lost any kilograms or not 'cause I'm not weighing myself anymore. I just look on my pants. If they start to fell from my butt it means I succeeded.
That diet aint that bad. I can actually eat whatever I want in the amount I want. The only rule is that I must eat 2 bananas before each meal. And I really like bananas (not as much as grapes though). The hardest is that I can't eat after 8pm. Now it's 11.30 and I haven't eaten anything for 7 hrs. Well it's better than yesterday. Yesterday I run out of bananas and I was too lazy to go to the shop so... I didn't eat anything for a whole day.

Today I made 2 great purchases They were so great I must tell you what I have bought!

1. Nail polish I have never had red nails and I bought beautiful bright red nail polish I totally adore it!
2. Brassier I actually bought 2 but one has a shape invented by Brigitte Bardot that's why we call it "bardotka". I don't know how you call it in English. I would really appreciate if you google "bardotka" and tell me how do you call that type of bra. Neway... It fits me perfectly and I think from now on I will buy only that kind

Yesterday I found teriffic site on the Internet. http://www.japanesepod101.com/
So far it's the best site of this kind on the net. I recommend it to anyone who is or wants to learn Japanese.

You can download there mp3 files with lessons.

They also have kanji flashcards and kana practice.

You will also find there kanji, word and grammar bank!

Japanesepod101.com will also prepare you for JLPT exams.

Dialogs at each lesson except teaching you grammar and vocabulary will also teach you about Japanese customs, culture etc.

They even give you 7 day free trial.

Go and sign up

Today is All Saints' Day. Here where I live it's very important holiday. Well not for me as I'm atheist and therefore I'm not going to church or pray at the cemetary. But my street is the only way to the local graveyard and it was SO crowded today. Real human traffic.

Couple of days ago I went to the hairdresser. I printed out picture of hair I wanted to get. Hairdresser said: mhm, sure I can do it.
But when she finished I felt sick... My hair looked nothing like in the picture. It was too short and she put on it some kind of wax or gum and my hair looked like I wouldn't wash it for a month. After hairdresser I was supposed to go to the town shopping but I was so devastated that I came back home and cried half an hour in the bathroom. Fortunately when I washed and arranged my hair it wasn't that bad.

Tonight there's gonna be Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon aired on tv. I've already seen that movie but I'm going to watch it one more time because I love it. I also like other like Hero or House of Flying Daggers.

Karolina

2 days ago I watched Pirates of the Caribbean 1 after a very long time and what I first thought seeing Johnny Depp as Jack Sparrow was: damn he's like Miyavi! The way he was moving, expressing his body and mumbling under his nose Really Miyavi-like. Although Depp said he was inspired by Keith Richards (if I'm correct). But he's a rockstar too. And today I visited his kavki boiz blog and what I found there was this:



Ehh... he is too cute! I just don't have strenght anymore to look at those pictures and read his journals 'cause each time I have this feeling... hard to express with words... like I miss him? Although I never met him? Really don't know. God I would die just to meet him!rnrnNeway...

I gotta go to hairdresser and what I'm gonna get is this:



Umm... yeah I'm not sure if it's good for me but I need to razor my hair and well it's not like I have a big choice with my hair.

I need to loose weight 'cause I'm debu. But it's hard to start Well for now I'm gonna cut off sugar as I don't really need it nor like it (I'm such a lier ). No I actually like it but don't need it.

I'm also thinking of becoming semi-vegetarian again. I think I will start it right now. Although I ate ham for breakfast haha

K, need to stop staring at Miyavi and go


Yours truly


Karolina

It's been long time since my last post.
During that time I went to Austria and I came back and then got sick and probably I will get sick one more time

Well nothing new happened in my life except maybe thet shock I received when I read latest Miyavi's journal... and ummm yeah I hate the weather here. It's soooo cold! I should be in warm Asia now. Seriously.

Today I'm gonna start watching Maou because of sweet Toma kun. They should make a drama with Miyavi. God that would be something

Oh and as you can see my English got ****ing bad.

That's all for today folks

Karolina

Let me tell you what happened to me tonight:

I was out in town with 2 of my friends. Suddenly we saw man lying on the ground and not moving. We passed the street and thought for a while what to do. Then I just decided to go there and checked. So I crossed the street and poked him in his arm and said "Hello" but he didn't response. And there was this dog who started to bark at me and apparently wanted to bite me so I ran away. Then a friend of my decided to call police and guy who answered was so rude and started to yell at her but she is better at yelling So we sat and waited what would happen. After approx. 20 minutes police came and then waited for ambulance. They came and I only heard them saying "dead body". I think they meant he was so drunk he remained dead body 'cause they laughed but who knows... Anyway, when I heard them saying this I started to cry so hard everyone started to stare at me but I just couldn't help. That was horrible! I hope that guy wasn't dead.

So yeah... tomorrow I'm leaving and I need to wake up at 5 (!). I think I won't go to sleep at all 'cause I'm afraid I could oversleep Well I'll have 24 hrs to sleep

Take care

Karolina

Thank you guys for your support! You really mean a lot to me Give me a hug!

Today I finally paid for my ticket. Still have plenty to do but most of it I will do tomorrow as usually.

Umm yeah I will make that short 'cause I have not much to say

Today I also got information I won tickets for Sin of the Flesh concert which is gonna take place on September 7 in Warsaw. I won it on JaMe PL. I have no idea what band it is Never heard any of their songs. Pity I didn't win Plastic Tree tickets. Oh well I can't go to that concert anyway.

This evening 2 of my friends are taking me to another city to the cinema. They want to take me to Mamma Mia musical.

Yeah I gotta go clean my bag

Peace

Karolina

I would like to thank all of you who had been with me supporting me in my (stupid) ideas You mean a lot to me since I don't have any support in my family. I hope I will still be able to log in from time to time when I'm in Austria.

Yesterday I hung out with 2 friends of mine. 1 of them still didn't know I was leaving so I told her and she was like: WHAT??? She said I like to surprise people and well... she's right. My parents still don't know anything but I have to tell them till tomorrow noon 'cause my grandma said she will call tomorrow to check if I did If not her I probably would tell them only on Monday.

So... yeah. Today Mellia (known as Bluesweater) gave me an idea about going to Singapore. I think it's the best idea ever. I found there perfect university: National University of Singapore. I'd love to study there therefore I promised myself to work my ass off and save money for that purpose. What I'm worried about is my English 'cause it might be not good enough and money... on NUS website was approximate cost of living and tuition fee. All in dollars. I hope in Singaporean dollars not American I saw pictures of that tiny country and it's beautiful there. My dad liked it a lot when he was there (10 times).

Next: Today I received pictures of Kai-chan from his dad Michael (known as Kumasan ). He is so cute and tiny! I wish I could have such baby too But well... as you know I got other plans for the next couple of years.

That wold be all for today

Take care

Karolina

PS. Don't you think that world looks better after 1 beer?

Yesterday I couldn't sleep and was thinking about my future, what to do and bla bla so on. Sooner or later I will have to go to college (and I really want to go to one) but I still don't know what I want to study. So yesterday that crazy idea came up to my mind. I thought I could apply to music conservatory (vocal) or some photography course. The reason for is that as a vocalist or photographer you can work all over the world and you don't even have to know the language (ok as a vocalist you do but they teach you ). I'd rather go to conservatory but I don't have any musical background, I can't even read the notes. But that's the easiest part And I think a bit of practice with piano would do. I don't have to be great singer when applying, right? It's their job to train me. Well I'm not gonna apply to any course before 2010/11 so still have time to think about it.
BUT I've already checked conservatoires in Poland and UK and... auditions in Poland seem to be more difficult. That really suck. But it's better to study in London, ne?
That college look the best to me
http://www.rcm.ac.uk/Home

What do you guys think of it?

Peace (why whenever I want to type I eventually type "peas"?)

Karolina

I'm posting this new journal entry because I wanna remember this date. Today was very important day for me 'cause... Miyavi sama added me to his friends on MySpace I will have something to tell to my grandchildren when I will be old.

Hmm yeah and except that nothing really happened except that my biological mother got pissed at me. Well I don't care 'cause she was pissed anyway because of her upcoming period (I always know when she got it ). Besides I'm leaving soon. I'm going to Austria to work my ass off. Yeah... so next week is gonna be quite busy I guess.

Recently I've been having problems with sleeping 'cause I'm stressed with all that Austria thing. Sometimes I wish I could take out my brain and put it in glass on my bedside table to have a brake from thoughts.

I pretty much got bored of this site I must say... Not of the people here ofc. I love you. All

You guys take care

Karolina

何かあった?
[link]www.ameblo.jp[/link] is encouraging me to learn Japanese. There is so many... so many kanji

In his last journal entry 雅 mixed 英語と日本語 to encourage 日本人 to learn 英語. Why not do the same, ne?

おやすみなさい

K, so today I was bored *as always* so I checked Kavki Boiz blog *as always* and then I thought: hmm why not try to register here? And so I did. It was hella diffcult though! Now I'm trying to figure out how to navigate it.

I must say ameba.jp is pretty much great site. Maybe I'll start with blog options:
1. You can choose between so many colors! Seriously: plenty.
2. There are those really かわいい icons with faces and other stuff.
3. You can draw your own icons or use already existing icons made by other members. You can also rate them.
4. They have emojis which are Japanese/Asian smileys. （￣▽￣）=３
5. You can upload picture too but I don't know how. Yet.
6. Tool called Magical Maker. It looks pretty cool too. You can make some drawings there too as well as pimpin' your pictures with some flashy stars http://www.magicalmaker.com/
7. There are also 2 icons which one has probably something to do with money and second with eating. Or something...
8. You can upload video.
9. URL.

It might sound like normal blog options but I have seen many blogs and that one is the best.
Ameba.jp has also it's own Youtube it is called AmebaVision http://vision.ameba.jp/index.do

ok, that's all for now folks

Karolina

Something funny happened today I was taking a shower and I noticed a bottle which obviously wasn't mine so I HAD to use it. I read it was anti-sebum so I tried it 'cause my skin is mixed. I thought it had strange consistency but I neglected it. Later on I read the label more carefuly and I got to know that it was anti-sebum... shampoo Well I must admit that it also works for face No sebum on my face till now
So the moral for this is: read small fonts on labels.

Karolina

I didn't post anything for a very long time *lazyyy*

I am not on youtube very often but when I start watching videos there then I can't stop I found 2 videos entitled "How to speak fluent Japanese without saying a word". I thought it sounded very propitious

Lesson 1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuFe5lqBAYE

Lesson 2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_RM8To5mjU&feature=user

If you go further to video responses you can find more hilarious vids. One even by Andy Milonakis.

And remember Ken Tanaka loves you! Help to find him his parents John and Linda Smith!
And don't forget about his assistant Remi February. She is very handsome.


Peace

Karolina

Today (or rather yesterday since it's past midnight) was Warsaw Uprising Memorial Day.

"The Warsaw Uprising (Powstanie Warszawskie) was a World War II struggle by the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) to liberate Warsaw from German occupation. The Uprising began on August 1, 1944, as part of a nationwide rebellion, Operation Tempest. It was intended to last for only a few days until the Soviet Army would reach the city. The Soviet advance stopped short, however, while Polish resistance against the German forces continued for 63 days (until October 2).

The Uprising began at a crucial juncture as the Soviet Army was approaching Warsaw. The Uprising's chief objective was to drive the German occupiers from the city, helping with the larger fight against the Axis. Secondary political objectives were to liberate Warsaw before the Red Army arrived, so as to underscore Polish sovereignty, and to undo the Allied division of Central Europe into spheres of influence. Polish authorities were to reappear in liberated Warsaw and challenge the Soviet puppet government that was to rule Poland.

By September 16, 1944, Soviet forces had reached a point a few hundred metres from the city, across the Vistula River, but they made no further headway during the Uprising leading to allegations that Stalin had wanted the insurrection to fail.

Polish losses amounted to 18,000 soldiers killed and 25,000 wounded, in addition to between 120,000 and 200,000 civilian deaths, mostly from mass murders conducted by retreating German troops. German casualties totalled over 17,000 soldiers killed and over 9,000 wounded. During the urban combat approximately 25% of Warsaw's buildings were destroyed. Following the surrender of Polish forces on October 2, German troops systematically burned the city block by block. Together with earlier damage suffered in 1939 and during the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1943), over 85% of the city had been destroyed. By January 1945, when the Soviets finally entered the city, Warsaw had practically ceased to exist."

Every year we can watch documentary films and listen to veterans memoires on tv. This is better than learning history even from the best book...

Here you can watch 2 short videos in English:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqJDfrEtcpk&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oBdgubhWfY&feature=related

Here is the video with pictures and beautiful song by Johnny Cash:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qLNsIP2_eY&feature=related

I would also recommend that one although I don't really like the title but on the other hand killing was what they were doing, wasn't it?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH4zfPL5lY4&feature=related

In the days like today I wish I could live then. To fight and die for my country. Veterans say that those were the most beautiful days in their lives and later on they never felt such solidarity and such emotions like then (with the exception of strike in Gdansk shipyard in August 1980). But on the other hand...

Karolina