feeling quite quite happy now. actually managed to finish my essay proposal on time and it's safe and sound in Bosco's mailbox now. also, my friend actually offered to host my drawings for me! he actually created an account for me on his own website! thanx phoenich!! ^_^

of course now i have to figure out how to access the account to upload stuff onto it.... computer baka here...

then, as i was checking out phoenich's site to figure it all out... i saw this random quote thingy(which he programmed himself... smartass.. hahaha)... it said:

"if you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live" -- lin yutang

it reminded me of this anime called shingetsutan tsukihime. the female protagonist, arcueid is a vampire who, after 300 (?) years has finally begun to learn what it means to live... and to fall in love. one day she drags the hero of the show, shiki, out to spend the day with her doing absolutely useless and pointless things. watching a movie (a vampire show... how... apt...), window shopping, going to the aquarium, checking out shiki's school... at the end of the day they both learn that it doesn't matter how useless something turns out to be. "living...that alone is enough." says shiki. and they make a promise after that.

arcueid doesn't get to keep her end of the promise as she gets killed by the enemy (who subsequently gets killed by a very pissed off shiki... and for good reason...) during the last episode, and she dies in shiki's arms. at the end of the whole ep, shiki is sitting alone in class after school's over, thinking about arcueid when her spirit comes back to say goodbye. it's a sad scene as shiki admits how much he actually loves her and he would rather not have kept his promise to help arcueid destroy the enemy just so he can keep arcueid by his side. as arcueid's spirit disappears, a collage of the places they spent time together begins. the last thing you hear is a voiceover of the promise they made the other day:

shiki: say, arcueid... after everything is over, do you want to have another date with me? Let's do useless things one more time... with all of our spirit... without any purpose... without any obligations...

arcueid: it's a promise.