Pazuzu said:
*explodes back in in a dazzling, and extremely expensive, display of flashing lights and possibly some sound effects, if I can still afford them after the visuals*
Exams OVER! Huzzah! FREEDOM! (for only a week, but still, FREEDOM)
Ah... that feeling. Of course this time in life I'm undergoing the funniest exam period ever! Sometimes it snows and we skip exams, sometimes it snows but we don't, sometimes I take the exam sometimes I don't. Somehow I missed the frist examination (you generally have two chances to pass a class) of Discrete Mathematics (the same discrete mathematics that indiscretely entered my life</badpun>). Somehow I might even fail English for Genma's sakes! Never been to any English class since high school, since I thought I was too good for that. Well, it appears we need to have our coursebooks with us during the examination (two times I went to the library and they didn't have them so I gave up), plus some photocopies (never been to any class == never got a thing) and also to know how to write: letters of asking questions, a resumé, a curriculum something and one more things I don't even remember
Man... that should teach me! (though I might refuse to learn anyway).
And yeah, I like reading what other people say. I have this fear that some things I post'll look snarky, so I don't tend to post all that often.
But when I find a topic I like and feel strongly about, I tend to make this big long-winded post that goes into ridiculous amounts of detail. Check out my post history on NF, it's full of them. Unfortunately, those posts are always either ignored or not followed by ANYTHING. Such is life.
You can rest assured that I know your pain. Our difference is that nothing ever kept me from talking! Why? Hell, if a single person ever understands me or sees themselves in my post or just like it, then it's worth it! And if no one ever does, it's still worth it, because you did your part and at some point, someone might!
I honestly could not STAND him up till after his fight with Naruto. Hated his personality, hated everything about him. It really wasn't till his Kidoumaru fight that I started to like him, and his very last line there brought me over to his side completely. The Naruto-Neji fight's always been my favourite fight in Naruto.
Plus, as someone into marital arts too, his fighting style really interests me.
Up to the Naruto-Neji fight I just liked his martial arts style and found him to be as rigid in his beliefs as (quite surprisingly) a lot of the (young) people I've met here in Kavala. Later on, after "Naruto's touch", Neji grew in me too.
So, you are into martial arts? What kinds of martial arts? Are you excercising martial arts now/did so in the past? Are you studying any martial arts? You see, I was excercising Tae-Kwon-Do (ITF) for 2 years until I quit, due to my sensei and his issues. However, the experience of a martial art radically altered my view over martial arts today and martial arts in the past. I more or less don't have faith in todays instructors to convey the esoteric teachings of any martial art. They just give you a knife and teach you to stab, without the proper ethical and spiritual if I may say so, preparation. This leaves the averege trainee with power, often more power than one can take, lacking the moral background of a true disciple, possibly ending killing someone in a stupid brawl...
Being somewhat of a mystic, mostly due to a family tradition starting not very long ago with my grandfather, I was drawn to the more subtle martial arts, the less martial and more artful ones. So, Neji, with his soft fists that utilize chakra, is reminiscent of Akido's "ki" and its properties. My knowledge on these matters is still very limited, I could only claim to know a few things about Aikido that I've read in a few books I bought (being genuinely interested in "ki" alone) and almost nothing of all other "ki" using martial arts. It'd be great if you and I had the chance to have a talk at some point. I'd like to know what you know, and have experienced
Note, that I've also read a book on Ninpo by Shoto Tanemura, which I ought to read again soon, to refresh my memory, since it's an interesting book and it also reduced a lot of Ninja myths to a mass of info-rubble in my head...
Oops, I almost forgot! GK has had to answer this question too: Do your avatar and alias represent you in a way that you don't mind us associating you with them? Do you know that before I had the chance to look at your posts, what made me want to talk to you (i.e. approach you) was your (catty) avatar and alias? You know, before having a chance to read a few of GK's post the NF GK and the MH JK where almost two separate personalities in my head!! Still, GK is like Kakashi in my head, you are this cat/neko/anime person from Ireland (the lack of red hair is compensated by red eyes), Eileen is this fuzzy pic, constanly moving, that you just can't make sense out of (if you look closely at her ava it's Kakashi charging up a Chidori, though it took a while before I did that and the mental template had already been set, besides, a video can hardly be a "face", can it?) and Ratfox is slowly but steadily becoming a Panda in my head...
Reps to you @ NF for this one. It was pretty funny. Also, say that my parents were going to help fund my learning of a foreign language to teach myself off the net. Is there a certain good text book publisher for that kinda stuff? Or would I even use a text book? How did you teach yourself languages anyway? 
