Dear Santa... Dear Santa, This year I've been busy! In November I ruled Iran as a kind and benevolent dictator (700 points). Last Thursday I ate my brussel sprouts (1 points). Last Monday I had a shoot-out with rival gang lords on the 5 near LA (-76 points). In March I helped jhisk across the street (6 points). Last Saturday I put gum in sam_dean_fetish 's hair (-12 points). Overall, I've been nice (619 points). For Christmas I deserve a Lego set! Sincerely, jhisksan

Write your letter to Santa! Enter your LJ username:

I do this every year and it never fails tp amuse me. kthankzbai. I'm psuedo busy.

PS I want my freakin lego set Santa!

Your friendly neighbourhood sparkly pedo stalker

has arrived in Malaysia







EVERYBODY GET DOWN

LiveJournal: The First Decade

Just in time for holiday shopping, we're thrilled to announce the release of our ten-year anniversary anthology. Published by Blurb.com, the book showcases a decade of extraordinary talent drawn from LiveJournal users around the world. This must-read compilation features stories, memes, photos, comics, editorials, graphic content, and more, including:

1. Excerpts from Oh No They Didn't (a/k/a ohnotheydidnt), the largest community on LiveJournal, covering celebrity gossip, entertainment news, and pop culture
2. A look at post-Katrina New Orleans from the journal of Poppy Z. Brite
3. Gripping narratives, including a poignant reverie on a blind date
4. Photography that spans the globe, ranging from old-fashioned Polaroids to underwater photography
5. Mouthwatering dishes from food_porn

What began as a late-night inspiration back in Brad Fitzpatrick's college dorm in 1999 has grown to encompass nearly 25 million users worldwide, with journals and communities covering every conceivable hobby, passion, and topic. To get your copy, please visit the Blurb Bookstore. For updates and entries from book contributors, please join lj_turns10.

Tweaks and enhancements

• You can now ban a user from all of your communities and journals at once. To access this feature, hover over the person's userpic and choose Ban user everywhere from the drop-down menu.
• Follow LiveJournal on Twitter!

Give a little to help a lot!

In honor of National AIDS Awareness month, we've added a new charitable vgift. For each red ribbon you purchase for $2.99, we'll donate 100 percent of gross proceeds to IAVI.org (the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative) to support the development and global distribution of an affordable HIV vaccine (we'll cover credit card fees). You can read more about IAVI at lj_cares. While we're on the subject, we raised $740 from our November fundraiser for Love Without Boundaries, which supports emergency healthcare and adoption of Chinese orphans. We thank you for helping us help others.

Photos of the week

We're back with more incredible pictures from our super-talented LiveJournal photographers. Congratulations to ilya_gorokhov, who is the winner of our very first lj_photophile poll.

We hope you'll continue to post, vote, and comment! A gentle request: Please post only one photo at a time and limit size to 350x350 (so images display properly on friends pages). And now, without further ado, get ready to cast your ballot and view more awesome user content after the jump!

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Curtains

Thanks, again, for joining us. Stay safe and snug out there!

The next few days I will be dead so...orz

( right right left left )

**EDIT Thu Dec 3 23:24:15 UTC 2009 **

Hey Everyone, we are about to run the last alter job that we need to on our database servers. This will effect userpics / scrapbook / vgift images for the next few hours. Have no fear, your images aren't lost, there is just a really intensive process running on the servers which store the information for mogilefs. Thank you for your understanding and all the LJ love...

Hey LJers,

I just wanted to let you all know that we are going to be performing some mogilefs maintenance over the next few days. We will be upgrading our current version to latest stable as well as changing some db config information to better handle the amount of files we are currently hosting. This shouldn't cause a big impact on site stability, but you may see some minor delays with userpic / scrapbook images appearing or other requests associated with our mogilefs. We would love to not have that happen, but unfortunately with some of the steps we need to take we have to cause a delay with images. I figured this was a better solution than taking down all of LiveJournal because well lets face it, we all need our daily LJ fix ;)

Thanks,

The song we've all been waiting for. Earlier today, on December 1, 2009, the song 夢のマニュアル by CHERRY BLOSSOM released the full version to Katekyo Hitman Reborn's ending song #13---and not only just that the official album cover was also released. AND I AM NOT DISAPPOINTED ONE BIT.
They also released their PV which you can find here; Cut to youtube :D
( Now, let's take a trip down memory lane... )

backpacking
Want to embrace your wanderlust on the cheap? If you're high on adventurous spirit, but low on funds, this community can help you plan a trip to anywhere. Offering plentiful tips on how to travel light, you can post about inexpensive hotels and youth hostels if you're into urban exploration or discuss camping gear and mosquito netting for the great outdoors. Hitch your backpack, pitch your tent, and carpe diem!

bookfails
Planning to do your part to help boost the declining publishing industry this holiday? Better check here first. Sure, there are plenty of folks who post glowing reviews of their favorite books. But what about the epic fails? Compose and/or discuss snarky, incisive critiques on the books you despise most.

foundphotos
Ever stumble across a frayed photo in your grandmother's attic? How about a faded picture tucked in the sleeve of an old novel at a used book sale? This is the place to post them. An amazing, eclectic collection of photographs sure to delight anyone with a penchant for history or nostalgic memorabilia.

note_to_cat
Having trouble conveying the concept of accountability to your cat? Now you can share letters to your significant felines and give public witness to your declarations of love and domestic negotiations. Whether you want to publish an apology for falling short on your cat-nip obligations or you need to raise a delicate hygiene issue.

I'll delete this account in 2 months. I made a new journal. I just want to change the username actually. But, since it's have to pay a price and I'm broke. So I decide to delete this old account and make another one. Don't worry, I will add you again guyssss. Add me back, 'kay? Rock on.

http://subtlyfierce.livejournal.com/ http://subtlyfierce.livejournal.com/ http://subtlyfierce.livejournal.com/ http://subtlyfierce.livejournal.com/ http://subtlyfierce.livejournal.com/ http://subtlyfierce.livejournal.com/ http://subtlyfierce.livejournal.com/ http://subtlyfierce.livejournal.com/ http://subtlyfierce.livejournal.com/

Hello everyone :) I haven't been posting in here for a while (been extremely busy), so here's just a little something.
Characters: Alaude, Giotto, Hibari, Tsuna (Alaude/Giotto and 1827-ish at the end)
Type: Tegaki music video
Length: 2:42
Rating: PG
AraPuri (Alaude/Giotto) and sort-of 1827-ish tegaki mv. The song used is the cropped version of Deen's beautiful song 'Nostal~ Tooi Yakusoku' from the album 'NEXT STAGE'. Comes with translation.


( I was born to protect you... )

Tweaks and enhancements

1. In order to improve site security, we've temporarily suspended the ability to change passwords for old email addresses that haven't been used for over six months. For further information and support, please visit our customer care page.
2. We've launched a new mobile site with an enhanced UI at m.livejournal.com. View spotlights, post to your journal, read and post to friends pages, and more, no matter where you roam! Please let us know what you think, since this will eventually replace our existing mobile interface. You can update your mobile preferences on your account page.
3. We've upgraded from Beacon to Facebook Connect to improve dual posting. If you've already signed up for Facebook Beacon, you're good to go. If you wish to update your Facebook Connect setting, visit Account Privacy settings and scroll down to the option labeled: "Send information about my updates to Facebook." You can choose Always or Ask each time. Remember to save (on the bottom left corner of the page). To learn more, check out FAQ 249. While we're on the subject, if you happen to be visiting that side of town, please join our Facebook fan page for a touch of home away from home.
4. You'll now receive the Writer's Block Question of the Day in the body of email notifications. To sign up for Writer's Block notifications, visit writersblock and choose the Watch Community option. Next, update your Writer's Block notification settings by checking the box to the right of "Someone posts a new entry to writersblock."
5. Paid and permanent users can now view, add, and edit Notes of commenters. Notes will appear beside the username of comment posters (instead of stars) on S1-themed comment pages.

Send some lovin' thanks to your friends with our holiday vgifts!

Photos of the week

We're so delighted with the immense talent of our growing, global lj_photophile community that we've decided to introduce a poll. Each week, we'll choose a half-dozen photos (based on user comments and staff feedback) and ask you to select a photo of the week. The winning photo will be announced in the next newsletter. If possible, please limit photo size to 350x350 to ensure that images display properly on friends pages. We want to thank you again (and again!) for sharing your passion.

Check out this week's photo poll and more fantastic user content after the jump!

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Curtains

Thanks for joining us. To our American friends, have a fantastic Thanksgiving. To all of our international neighbors, we'll eat a little extra for you!

Step One

- Make a post (public, friends locked, filtered...whatever you're comfortable with) to your LJ. The post should contain your list of 10 holiday wishes. The wishes can be anything at all, from simple and fandom-related ("I'd love a Snape/Hermione icon that's just for me") to medium ("I wish for _____ on DVD") to really big ("All I want for Christmas is a new car/computer/house/TV.") The important thing is, make sure these wishes are things you really, truly want.

- If you wish for real life things (not fics or icons), make sure you include some sort of contact info in your post, whether it's your address or just your email address where Santa (or one of his elves) could get in touch with you.

- Also, make sure you post some version of these guidelines in your LJ, or link to this post (it'll be public) so that the holiday joy will spread.

Step Two

- Surf around your friendslist (or friends friends, or just random journals, or wish_list
to see who has posted their list. And now here's the important part:

- If you see a wish you can grant, and it's in your heart to do so, make someone's wish come true. Sometimes someone's trash is another's treasure, and if you have a leather jacket you don't want or a gift certificate you won't use--or even know where you could get someone's dream purebred Basset Hound for free--do it.

You needn't spend money on these wishes unless you want to. The point isn't to put people out, it's to provide everyone a chance to be someone else's holiday elf--to spread the joy. Gifts can be made anonymously or not--it's your call.

There are no rules with this project, no guarantees, and no strings attached. Just...wish, and it might come true. Give, and you might receive. And you'll have the joy of knowing you made someone's holiday special.

My wish List

I never realized a lot of people even liked me. We had this retreat last week, a retreat you see is a requirement for a graduating college students in my DLSL. I can honestly say that my almost four years with my block mates are amazing, most of my blockmates are boys, sure they seem loud and obnoxious most of the time but yeah, they are less judgmental and more accepting.

Though most of us are awesome, we still have silly misunderstandings, most of them escalates and damages friendships. We went to the retreat different persons with different cliques.

Throughout the retreat, since the class are barely talking to each other, we were asked to hug everyone. It was awkward for some, but we managed. That was when the magic began. The next day when were asked to do the mirroring activity, where you will say what you like/love about a person and you get to speak everyone. That was when we started to forgive without even apologizing, a simple hug and an ounce of understanding and forgiveness was all it took. Anyone would have laugh to see 19 grown men and 6 grown women crying their hearts out.

Boy was I surprised, who knew forgiving and being forgiven was this easy.

Now we're passed the childishness just understanding and closeness. It's silly, cheesy and probably unbelievable. But sometimes it's a wonder why humans choose a life of unforgiving misery. It was amazing.

Too bad it's our last semester together, but regardless, we'll all still be friends anyway.

Hahaha, aside the retreat, I'm way behind schedule. So if I die in LJ, I'm just finishing my thesis and actually getting some job done. Plus writing the bunnies that had been bugging me since forever.

On other news. My boys are watching supernatural. Yes I call them my boys! Almost half of them marathoned from season 1 - 4 and I kinda find it peculiar because, male fans! They actually exist. I had an observation though, most of them liked Sam better and are so bored with Castiel, but thinks that Dean is funny.

You wouldn't believe the giggles I hold back when I hear them quoting lines from the show.

This is us

I just shaved a Triforce in my beard.

...

Nobody said I ever possessed wisdom.

65redroses
Eva is a vibrant young woman with Cystic Fibrosis who survived a double lung transplant. Read about her difficult recovery and personal triumphs over pain, isolation, and fear. Back in school, Eva now works part-time in a children's center and enjoys running and cross-country skiing. A documentary on her story, entitled 65 Red Roses, won three awards at the Vancouver International Film Festival.

meet_other_moms
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