Pointy shoes in a mirrored studio

2008-09-25T03:30:10Z

I've been reading some of Julia Quinn's books and they are spectacularly exciting and thrilling. There are some parts which would be looked down upon in modern society (The bride marries within a month of the groom's proposal!) but still, i love her writings wonderfully so.

I have this odd feeling that i will certainly improve my grammar and detoriating vocabulary through her books.
What a fun experience, it shall be !*grins*

xoxo,
♥ Alice

Cloudy days

2008-07-09T10:42:58Z

Hello :)

Well, i'm in the middle of completing the hand-sewn sleeveless top but there are no photos so far as i did most of the sewing at school. Talking about school, life's been pretty hectic with so many expectations and work though I have not right to say that since i've been relaxing quite a lot recently even though the exams and deadlines are nearing, sigh..

I've been thinking of watching the past Ugly Betty season since i watched the marathon on TV. I have to say, it indeed is quite addictive and hilarious. So many funny moments but i can only find season 2! (cries) I want to watch season 1 first...Oh wells, off to hunt!

xoxo,
♥ Alice

Coconut and chocolate biscuits

2008-06-28T04:12:04Z

This was actually a plain biscuit recipe but because i didn't agree with some methods, i changed them. I love chocolate to bits (quite literally) so i added chocolate chips with dessicated coconut and they are indeed heavenly!

Ingredients:
100g plain flour
60g butter
60g caster sugar
1 egg yolk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence
60g chocolate chips
50g dessicated coconut
Extra butter for greasing

Recipe:
1) Sift the flour in a small bowl.
2) Cream the butter and sugar in a bigger bowl until light and creamy.
3) Gradually add in the beaten egg yolk and vanilla essence. Beat well.
4) Rub in the flour till the mixture combines to form a soft dough.
5) Add about 40g of the chocolate chips to the soft dough. Make sure they are even spread out.
6) Shape the biscuits about a tablespoon size and roll in the dessicated coconut.
7) Grease the baking tray and layout the dough about 2 cm apart as they will expand slightly.
8) Place some of the remaining chocolate chips on top of the dough pressing them down slightly.
9) Bake the dough in a preheated oven of 190 Celcius for about 20-30 minutes.
10) The biscuits should be slightly brown around the edges.

Enjoy! :)

Mikoto to Akito no Monogatari (Chapter 1)

2008-06-27T14:34:02Z

The title translates to "The tale of Mikoto and Akito" which is a original script of a girl with spilt personalilties refering to herself as Mikoto, the more demure side of her while calling Akito, her spilt personalilty, the more vivacious side. As we look into this slow-pace and simple story, the world is moving and we are living.

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Soharu Kimiko
16 years old
1st year, Todou High School
Computer club
Shiroi (Exterior- Mikoto): A modest, laid-back and quiet girl who is slightly odd with an uninteresting personalilty
Kuroi (Interior- Akito): A hyper, cold, know-it-all, bold and ambitious girl who occasionally has her cute-loving whims.

A/N: Mikoto and Akito are names in which Kimiko names her spilt personalilties

Chapter 1:

Words tend to ring in my ears and just passing through not really getting through. I just reply in my head so the others don't really hear it, i'm just thinking after all with no words flowing out of my clasped mouth.

School has already ended and i'm on the way back home looking out of the glass pane bus window thinking about how i can make the world better but not actually doing it. I also sometimes think about going on an adventure, just packing up my bags and running off with my passport without telling anyone. No one really needs to know anyway, it's an adventure with an upredicted future but alas, my fear has condemned me. What fear, you ask? I have no idea either.

"I'm home!" I call back as I kick of my shoes. My mother returned in kind as i trudged back to my room to return to my otaku and hikkomori sanctuary, my only place of utmost comfort.

Today there was no club activities so i could come back early but there was nothing really to do and I wasn't really in the mood to do any homework even though i knew Iruka-sensei was bound to give me a shelling tomorrow. There's just no drive without a goal (sigh).

My mother calls me out to the living room. I expected her to tell me that my aunt was coming over for a visit with a family but instead I saw a young teenage boy with quite a few large luggages beside him on the floor. I didn't exactly know what was going on but sat on the chair my mother has pulled out for me.

I bowed as a greeting to this mysterious human being, it was strange.

"Kimiko, this is Yoru. He is the son of my good friend in middle school, you do remember Aunt Hina right?" I nodded while half facing my mother and half facing the silent black haired boy though when it shines it the light, it seems to be a dark shade of royal blue. "Her husband and herself had to leave for a business trip and are leaving him with us in the mean time."

There still seemed to be missing information, hmm.."How long?"

"About six months." I seemed to be very calm but inside I was flailing, I was never good with people espically guys. Normally, it was the shove a smile and run move but seeing as he was going to be living with me, I couldn't really run. "Is it okay for him to stay in your room with you? There is no guestroom."

"Um yeah..I guess so." My mother is absolutely crazy, it's been confirmed.

My mother hurried me to show Yoru to my room and where he could lay the extra futon, simply to say where he will be nesting his pretty dark blue hair as she rushed to prepare dinner. It was fried rice, my favourite, yum indeed!

"Erm..as your mother introduced, I'm Yoru." He paused and looked up and flashed a grin "Uruhara Yoru. Nice to meet you!"

"Yeah..Soharu Kimiko but I guess you already know that, huh."

He nodded his head like a little child, "I'll be attending the same high school as you during my stay. Do take care of me!"

After getting through with the introductions, he started to talk lightly about his school back home and his life there. I also informed him of the basic Soharu family rules like not slamming the door and when we usually took a bath. We didn't really talk much as he started unpacking while i emptied some closet and drawer space, i would think it would be impossible for him to live six months from three luggages.

He seemed pretty nice so Akito wasn't taking too much of a toll on things to protect Mikoto. Hopefully, Akito wouldn't get angry and flair up. The hospital was scary and the last time, the time i got bullied, i managed to excuse myself using "anger problems" to hide. Everyone took it in because of the bullying problems, but those problems faded as i have managed to live out my life as now. My grades weren't that good titling slighlty to the bad side but my parents still loved me and i was content with life.

"You like manga?" He said as he pointed towards my four full shelves solely containing manga.

"Yeah, pretty much" I responded before waiting for some words along of being an otaku and what not about being a hikikomori (I have a computer you see) though to be honest, the amount of manga i had wasn't that much at all.

He laughed and told me those expected lines but what he did next sort of puzzled me, he took a manga out of one of the shelves and sat down on his futon and start reading. I poked him reminding him that he had yet to finish unpacking and he emptied the last bit in the drawer before i accompanied him to the storeroom to keep away his luggages till he had to return home.

But for now...he lazily fell on his futon that was neighbouring my bed and continued reading the manga which i reluctantly lent him (Sigh), what do i do now? May as well sleep for the moment..thinking that i crawled in my bed and closed my eyes for a peaceful rest.

I was dreaming of making strawberry shortcake with one hand while fighting a ninja with a sword with the other. It was amazing this dream where i could be myself or rather release my frustrations. As i was about to kill the ninja with the final kill, someone began to shout my name letting the ninja escape. Darn, who is that idiot!

"Heyy..Koko-pop! Wake up, your mom's calling us for dinner." I woke as i realised that it was Yoru who was whispering in my ear, my eyes almost immediately flew open. "Oh..you're awake..I'm hungry!" He whined as i thought what an insolent brat he was for making fun of me. The next time Akito comes out, I'll make sure she strangles him ALIVE. I could take physical bullying but physcological bullying was torture.

As i walked down the stairs with Yoru, i saw that my father had already returned home and was waiting at the dinner table for everyone to gather before the meal began. Mother was preparing had already laid the dishes so the two of us took our seats and began the meal.

My mother asked Yoru about his home life back in Kyushu and such so i had asked my father about getting a new art program for my computer. I've been longing in since my online friend from Malaysia told me about it. Her japanese was amazingly fluent as well, i almost thought she was a fellow japanese.

If you are wondering why i am so attached to my computer though you should have already known when i said i was a hikikomori, i never really had friends throughout my life. They were some but after awhile they found new friends and left me alone but right now i'm really grateful to Eichi and Aiko-chan who've been with me since the first year of middle school. Though we don't really 'hang out' as they call it that often, they protected me whenever i was in need so to me, the time spent with them is really precious.

Snap! "Huh?" I seemed to be in a daze and realized that i was poking my food and not realy eating.

"Kimi-chan, eat your food~!" Yoru was the idiot who said that amazingly. He beat my mother to it and my parents giggled along with him, that idiot.

"Oh, shut up" and with that i began wolfing down my food and soon i was done. I grined majestically but somehow, i knew my parents and Yoru were going to make fun of me. He's getting too annoyingly friendly with my parents (growl).

"Mummy, is there any more sorbet in the fridge?" I'm really crossing my fingers hoping there's some, i can't eat ice-cream but no one needs to know that.

"Hmm..There is only the green tea ice-cream left." Ah~ "Did you want to eat sorbet?"

"Yeah, kinda." Darn, i wonder who was that evil squirrel who ate the strawberry sorbet. My mom looked from Yoru then towards me..Funny.

"Why don't you bring Yoru along to that dessert shop." Sigh..what was i expecting. It's rather a monotone thing but why do i have to go with that guy who made me hate him in less than a day?

"Oooh, desserts? I love ice-cream so do show me around Ki-mi-ko-chan~" And with that i huffed to the ice-cream parlour with Yoru lagging behind about a step or two, "Ne ne..Kimiko-chan, why you so upset?"

I say i'm not upset but i'm profusely kicking the soda can but now you can't really tell its a soda can anymore (laughs).

We're now at the parlour and it looks quite empty. Well, it should be since it's a school day and it's eight in the evening. Normally, at this time of the hour i would be online looking for something interesting but alas, i have to entertain thi-this urgh..i have no idea what to call him either, this is frustrating!

"What are you ordering?" He asks as he flips through the menu, there isn't much though. It's just a simple ice-cream parlour, nothing big or fancy.

"Strawberry sorbet.."

"Okay then, let's order!" He calls the waiter and places my order before placing his. He seems to be ordering a triple chocolate mint fudge sundae. Sounds nice, if only it wasn't dairy. The orders soon come and we start digging into our desserts. The strawberry sorbet still tastes as great as ever!

"Can i try yours? You seem to be eating your sorbet so deliciously." There's nothing malicious about that, i hope.

"Erm..yeah, sure." I hope he doesn't try anything funny, I'm getting a bad vibe here. He took a heaped spoonful of sorbet out of my cup and chucking the spoonful of sweet sugary goodness into his mouth.

"Sigh..."

"Why are you sighing? Here!" He grab a heap of his ice cream full of sloppy dairy..oh my, he's going to stuff it in to my mouth. I tried to duck his attempt but i failed and in the rush, i accidently swallowed it. Ohh no, everything is going black. The darkness envelops me as my concious falls asleep into a dreamless sleep without a thought.

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That's the first chapter :) It's pretty short (3 pages) compared to the other anime-inspired stories i write(usually 6-8 pages) but for this story, i'm giving it my all and even doing research.

Do comment on how you find the story and how i can improve or make minor edits, thank you!

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Pointy shoes in a mirrored studio

Cloudy days

Coconut and chocolate biscuits

Mikoto to Akito no Monogatari (Chapter 1)