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Yosh! Collection Completed!

Nine months ago, I had received one of my most cherished acquisitions, the complete ARIA manga collection, the Cielo Artbook plus the third ARIA Posterbook. On top of that, the mangas all came with a special ARIA bookmark. But sadly, I got too many doubles (3x Akira, 2x Alice, 2x Akari, etc), so in the end the collection was not complete: Alicia and Athena were missing.

One great person, Takashi, recently answered my call for trading bookmarks. He told me that he had extras of Alicia and Athena, and was willing to trade them for my extra Akari and Aika bookmarks. And today, when I woke up at 6-ish PM (after a long night of Pangya+Teamspeak and getting scolded by my mum) I saw the package: Alicia and Athena arrived, my collection is now complete!

Hahi, Kinshi and Dekkai were already together…

…Puinyu, Meow and Maa as well…

…but Akira isn’t lonely anymore now! Yay Alicia and Athena!

Almost didn’t find my Aria shachou bookmark though, because it was in an English book from last year (Sherman Alexie’s The Toughest Indian in the World – nice book btw). Poor Aria shachou, he was all frozen in the ice cold attic! :(

Anyway, once again, thanks a bunch Takashi. ARIA fans unite, we are the best! xD

Also, thanks to all the people who offered that little bit of attention for my bday yesterday :D To the others, well you didn’t know, right? Of course.

As the title says. Omake… Rant. Rantomake, you might say.

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I suppose it’s time I finally conclude this enjoyable chapter of my life I’ve been savoring up to now. (Excuses, I’d just been distracted by all kinds of games up to now.)

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Tadaima! Perhaps a bit sooner than expected (started writing just three days after I posted my last entry), here’s Day 2 of neko’s travel log of his pilgrimage to Venice, with more pictures, and! a couple of videos for you to enjoy.

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Wow. Took me a while to post this. Yeah, I’m back from Venice, in fact I was already back 2 weeks ago. I was busy sorting out the 900 pictures I shot / working / doing anything productive / playing Neverwinter Nights like a madman / procrastinating as always. PHEW. Now that I’m reaching a state of complete boredom and utter jealousy because Ruki got quite the huge exposure here (I’m joking, he really deserves it, unlike me), I finally find some time and motivation to come back to my blog.

I have now a great opportunity to share this absolutely wonderful experience that was my trip to Venice. I will reiterate it so often you’ll scream HAZUKASHII SERIFU KINSHI after every second line. Although… it might not be of any interest now that there are (at least) two people who covered their ARIA-inspired pilgrimage to Venice already. But I want my own share of popularity and UNIQUENESS as well so here goes. (Is this too much pseudo-bitterness for you? Aww.) Took me almost a day to do it all (especially the image links and their alt/description texts were a pain in the neck)…

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Special Thinkbox entry for the last episode of ARIA The ORIGINATION, perhaps representative for the entire series, I think. ^^;

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