It took awhile (roughly 4 years) but I have finally done it. I have spent about (and the keyword is about) $1,000 on manga as of today. That’s right, I have finally bought the coveted 100th manga in my collection. What better manga to earn that right than Fruits Basket volume 19? If it weren’t for Fruits Basket, I may never have found manga to be so addicting in the first place.

I think the picture quality is good enough to tell what most of the series I have are, but for those of you who can’t make it out I’ll list the series! (That and the fact I have no life )

1. Ragnarok 1-10
2. Fruits Basket 1-19
3. The Legend of Chun Hyang (one shot)
4. The Wallflower 1-12
5. Angel Diary 1-5
6. Fullmetal Alchemist 1-15
7. Princess Ai 1-3
8. Mar 1-10
9. Nana 1-9
10. Vampire Knight 1-3
11. Death Note 1-4
12. Lovely Complex 1-5
13. Line (one shot)
14. Welcome to the N.H.K. 1-3

Most of them are exceptional titles. Mar is a bit too kiddish for my tastes, and The Wallflower has deteriorated into a gag manga. But everything else is fair game for anyone looking for a brand new title to read. Thought I must warn you that parental advisory notices are on Nana and Welcome to the N.H.K. due to the nature of their stories and some scenes may not be suitable for younger audiences.

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I realized that I didn’t write a post last weekend. That’s unusal for me and it’s unusal for me to write a filler entry. I’m not really sure what to talk about (I’ll think of something for Friday/Saturday) so I’ll talk about a great little singer I’ve recently discovered. And who is that great singer? Sarah Brightman!!

She’s considered classical crossover and she has a 3 octave range. How awesome is that?! Some of her songs are a bit operatic (which I learned she has done a few in the past) but I’m fine with that. I discovered her through my uncle who bought her CD solely because he learned Paul Stanley was singing a duet with her. [For those of you who don’t know who Paul Stanley is, he’s sort of like the lead singer and plays guitar in the rock band: KISS] Though I’m not a huge fan of Paul’s, I’m quite infatuated with the song he sings with her. It’s just so… I’m currently on the hunt for some of her past CDs (they only have her current one, Symphony at Wal*mart ).

Oh! I also learned that she was in a ton of musicals! She actually created the character of Christine in The Phantom of the Opera and was even married to Weber himself for a few years.

I have also link exchanged with Izzy, so check out her rather cute blog. As you can tell, I’ve also made minor changes to the layout, sidebar wise. I think I want to tweak a couple of more things and this layout should be officially done. Now I think I’ll pass out from exhaustion!

Argh! Why in the world am I up right now? Technically this is usually the time when I’m wide awake (10:16 p.m.). However, I had to work overtime today (I despise the word ‘overtime’ right now) so that means getting up at 5 in the morning. When I’m sleepy, I suppose I might be a little cranky…but those are just rumors floating around, at least that’s what I keep telling myself.

My brother’s birthday party is tomorrow. We would be celebrating it Sunday, which is his actual birthday, if it didn’t happen to land on Super Bowl Sunday. Who’s playing anyway? The Giants and the Patriots? The Patriots will most likely win again, but I think it’ll be funny if the Giants beat them with an overwhelming lead. It won’t happen, but if it did, that would be great even though I’m not a football fan. I just watch the Super Bowl for the half-time show and commercials, which by the way, have deteriorated immensely in quality and fun since the whole Janet Jackson scandal.

Back to the subject as to why I’m up at this ungodly hour right now. My mother was baking a cake for my brother’s birthday party, and though I was going to head to bed, the temptation of cake batter kept me awake. If I  end up with salmonella from the raw eggs, then it would have been the best tasting disease I’ve ever had. My mother even let me have the little bit that was left of the icing after she iced the cake. It’s so rich and so good! I’m surprised I haven’t gotten a sugar rush from eating the icing itself.

Oh, and as a side note, I added a new avatar. It features Risa Koizumi and Atsushi Otani from my new manga love: Love*Com which is short for Lovely Complex.