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My parents, my sister and I went to the Zoo today. Well, it was quite an odd choice of a place to go to, I guess, considering that both my sister and I are no longer children. But I always have loved looking at animals and it has been more than 4 years since my last trip to Taman Safari, so the zoo it was!
I thought that the trip would be a dud, but it actually turned out to be a lot of fun. I really enjoyed myself.

Although today is a Sunday, the one and a half hour ride was almost free of traffic, which was a really good thing. I really didn't want to repeat the experience of spending 3 hours for a 1 1/2 hour drive.
At the zoo itself I:
1. fed pinguins
2. saw 2 Komodo dragons being fed live chickens
3. was almost tempted to take pictures with baby tigers, which my sister
actually did. Those baby tigers were the cutest things ever! I kind of
regret that I didn't have pictures of me carrying those baby tigers taken.
Well, the thing is, I'm not great at dealing with animals. I like looking
at them, but touching them is another matter altogether.
4. had an orangutan smile and reach out his/her hand to me asking for food. I
never knew that they could smile!
5. Got freaked out when I saw a white mouse in a snake enclosure. I actually
shrieked! How embarrasing. >.< I really rather deal with reptiles than
rodents. They give me the creeps.

3 KKM
1 Saiyuki
1 Asterisk
1 Otogi Moyou Ayanishiki

( Icons )

I've been experimenting with icon making for the last few days. Since there are times when I use textures/patterns/brushes from more than 1 source for 1 icon, I find it hard to credit the makers in the icon keywords. So, in this post I'll be listing all the wonderful people or places from where I obtain the resources.

Brushes / Textures / Patterns / Tutorials:
77words, wonderland, tcq1026, ohpaintbrush, wicked_enough, divine_desire, cdq, ashke_icons, adoraheatherly, quebelly, aurealia, boundary, amethystia100, colorfilter, wizzicons, arisubox, kaien_kun, rainharbour,
irish_elegance, colortone, , creamuts, , .

I have started collecting Clamp in 3D-Land figures as they are just so cute. I bought 3 sealed boxes from Vol 1 for S$24 and got 2 CCS Syaoran and Kazahaya from Legal Drug. Actually, I was hoping for Yuuko and Chii. As they seemed to be quite bulky, I chose those boxes that were quite heavy. Still, I ended up with Syaoran and Kazahaya. T.T

When I reached my dorm room, I went online and searched for Singapore based sites that sold the complete set. I figured that I would save shipping money that way. Indeed I found 2 sites that sold Clamp in 3D-Land. None of them had the 1st set though, so I googled for stores that are located in my home country and I actually found one! Each figure was priced at approximately S$7.7. Fortunately, the store itself is only about 2 hrs ride from where I live.  So I called home and asked my parents to purchase the rest of  Vol 1 characters for me. Phew, lucky me. I saw somewhere on the net that the complete set of Vol 1 was sold at US$200+ as it is considered to be rare.

 3 Exams down, 2 more to go. I really should get to studying, instead of scouring the internet looking for Hakkai x Goujun fics. But I just  can't help it!!!!! They are such a hot couple, well, besides Hakkai x Sanzo. But of course, there are almost no fics about those pairings. Why do I have to have a liking for 'unpopular' pairing? Why! It's always such a pain to find fics to feed my obsessions on those pairings. 

I think I'll install Photoshop once exam is finished. Then I can start making icons myself and need not depend on my ever-busy sister to make me some new ones.

First Post !

I have had this journal for more than 1 year and yet I have been too lazy to post. 

My sister has been bugging me to post her icons in exchange for her making me some. So, these are some of it.


xxxHoLic

 

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