Tuesday J-guy took me to Amsterdam. I wanted to go there because I wanted to buy a few new manga. Since manga are really expensive here, I made a budget of 100 euro's max. That should allow me to buy 3 manga's.

I thought.

I did not expect the Tenchi muyo Manga to be on sale!!! I could buy 4 of the missing manga's (I now miss Volume 1 and 2 from Tenchi Muyo) and wow...

wow...

It was there

Unbelievable.

You could compair how I felt with a ditzy teenager seeing Idols live. My heart skipped 3 beats, and I just had to have it.

MEGATOKYO VOLUME 1!!!!!

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!

I read it 4 times already XD. I SO LOVE IT! It's my most precious possesion at the moment XD Yes, I'm that sad.

Wednesday, I had another feel-good-moment. On my swimming club, he have a diving (you know, from a plank) section, and a synchronised swimming section. Both are filled with 80% ditzes. No kidding.

Imagine me, in a room with: 7 or 8 diver-ditzes, 1 mother, and 2 little girls (one of them was one of my students ^_^).

Me: *to small girl* lookie! I'm so hot now! *for fun, may I add!! I never mean something like that serious XD* Everybody has these shoes, and I have them now too!

Ditz: What?

Me: These shoes. Everybody has them

Ditz: *with an I'm-so-cool-and-you-aren't-attitude* You are so behind; they were 2 years ago in fashion. You are so late.

Me: Late, early, on time, who cares. In time it will all be fashion again (after all, 70's have been in too =D)

Ditz: yeah, but you want people to like you, right? (this just BEGGED for a I'm-so-stupid-please-let-me-know-that-moment)

Me: If people don't like me because of my clothes, then they are not worth to be called my friends. Besides, I wear what I want to wear, and not what others want to wear (and I said this with SUCH a HUGE smile!! ^_^)

Ditz: *shared an annoyed face and utter silence*

Outside the mother complimented me. I stayed SO nice and I had SUCH a GREAT comeback! Yay! And she said that girl had no brains too. *raises hand* I so agree.
Anyway, we all felt sorry for that ditz's mom. Cuz that mom will have to spend an aweful lot of money on her ditzy clothes because: 'If I wear yesterday's clothes people won't like me any more!!!!'

And last but not least: I will meet Dougurasu this sunday. Yay! Can't wait!!! I hope he likes his gift XD

The person who created PDF, Acrobat Reader and what not more has no brain at all. It just doesn't work!!! It has NO USE and is a HELL to work with. They claim it's sooooo easy, but all it causes is frustration with my dad he lets go on ME!
Prove why it sucks:
1. It takes AGES to open
2. It takes AGES just to scroll 1 inch
3. Text that I CAN see in Acrobat Reader 4.0 on Windows 98 are INVISIBLE in Acrobat Reader 5.0 in Windows XP
4. When I want to print the PDF file, I get to see white text (aka: text is GONE)
5. I can't edit PDF
6. It takes a lot of space
7. I can't correct typos in letters they send me with: 'please correct this for me if you find any mistakes'
8. I can't save it, let alone copy it to another source, without doing it by right clicking on the file itself

I can't understand the use of PDF. Let alone why people keep on working with it. And why does it work BETTER on my ANCIENT PC than my HYPERCOOLBRANDNEW PC?!

I curse the inventor of PDF. That he or she or it (hey, you never know these days!!) may have carrots growing between his toes (for only a week or so because I can't seem to wish something really bad and permanent to people XD... unless they are Anime Sultan- that's a different story)

My god... just a couple more days in a mood like this and there will be 2 possible outcomes:
1. I'll end up in a deep depression, feeling really alone while I'm not.
2. My ego will grow too much, because more and more I feel like the people around me are plain stupid. With a few exceptions. Of course.

Today I'll try to finish Dougurasu's b-day gift. And finish a drawing with the title 'Life wouldn't be the same without you'. Lineart only probably, and maybe I'll colour a copy or so, I have no clue yet.
I miss my friends.

And dammit, why didn't he listen to me?! I told him half a year ago he should arrange things and now he may not be able to come.

How I hate my life.

Either I'm smart or they are just plain stupid. What am I talking about? I just my grade from my last final from this school year (and probably the rest of my school carriere- I believe I don't get any finals any more in the next year)- a final that claimed that 60% of the students wouldn't make it in one try. It was that hard.

I had a 9 out of 10 score.

I passed it. With a high grade too. Okay.... 60% is said to fail... I'm not the brightest person in the world- but this is my 3rd high grade!!!

This year I had 3 finals:
Children and Law: 9 out of 10
Dutch as a second Language: 7 out of 10 (started studying waaaaaay too late XD)
And now:
Math for the 6th grade (with things like 6/8 x 4/5): 9 out of 10

How am I supposed to tell my class this?! They already think I'm a brainiac!! I'M NOT SMART!!!

This just means my classmates are plain stupid. And when I see 40% of them.... as well as the teachers... yup, they are dumb XD

The owner from genieharem.com took my image down. Unlike what most people think, he IS a nice guy. Heck, the owner itself thinks I think he's a moron- but I think he's a nice guy having a hard time because of Anime Sultan. Yes, it was him again. He once again stole my art. But I know his real name now. That makes me feel stronger.
If you flamed the owner of thegenieharem.com, please mail him again and tell him he's not the blame XD It's all Anime Sultan's fault. He donated that image.

Maybe you have noticed the broken links in the Serenay Moon Midi section and this blog. Turns out that if you don't log in on sailormoon.com for 60 days, they clean out your account XD. Woops. So that means I lost all the midi's... I'm so not gonna re-upload them.
1. It's illegal and I don't want to get into trouble
2. It took me combined more than a week just to upload those freaking things.

So, because of the current 4th Art Theft by Anime Sultan (if you want to have his real name, I can give it to you on request) I'm now afraid to post what I want online, just because that moron will steal it.
Isn't it insane I can't draw genie-related images and then not post it because Anime Sultan will steal it?! And even take my signature off?! WHAT KIND OF A FUCKING LOSER IS HE?!

Also, a colleage from work died this week- I found that out yesterday. Damn. He was a nice guy. A bit annoying sometimes, but he was okay.

Anyway, because of all this, I'm going to make a fresh start with my blog. New bright layout, instead of the black.

But if I ever meet you in Real Life Anime Sultan... you can expect a BIG and HARD kick between the legs. Not because of what you did to me, to Demi, or many other artists... but mostly because of what you did to that owner from genieharem.com. He is now flamed because of YOU!!!!

I will never ever draw again. Never ever. This is it. I can't take it any more. Another of my drawings appeared on www.thegenieharem.com. I know the owner is not to blame, but the guy who took my signature off and donated it. If I find that guy, I will surely kill him.
But I can't take it any more. I will never ever draw again.

I'm getting such weird dreams lately... First all kinds of kids from my internship appear in all possible forms, and now I had a dream where I was in some kind of jail (what the hell did I actually do wrong?! O.o) and when I was set free, I had to pick if I wanted to be in the red group, or the blue group, otherwise I would get killed.
We weren't allowed to contact anyone at home or so, but I managed to hook up my computer online XD. And what did I do online?! I LOOKED UP AN MP3!!! WTF?! I was taken hostage and I look for mp3?! I'm NUTS!
Gosh my dreams are annoying........

Last Monday it was 2nd Easter Day (in the Netherlands). My parents and I went to the Chinese Restaurant. We go there very often; it's a nice place and there are 2 waitresses (the daughters of the boss) who have an excellent form of humor ^_^. We always laugh our pants off there ^_^.
And then the other guests wonder who that insane family is.....
Anyway, I usually bring a notepad to scribble on along. This time I didn't, but I wanted to draw anyway ^_^. We had paper placemats with a waiter on it. So, I scribbled on him, giving him pigtails (Sasami Style ^_^), decorating his jacket, giving him eyebrows etc etc and in the end it was a girl XD. Then suddenly the boss came; checking out why we were laughing so much (I also made other things on the placemat, like giving the rabbit a basket on his back and writing 'Easter Bunny' with it, or striping away 'Rooster' and writing: Chicken, because roosters can't lay eggs). Suddenly he pulled the placemat underneath my hands and showed his wife! He loved it!
For fun I said: But I'm not done yet!!! So I got him back..... as well as coloured pencils!!! XD. I coloured it, and made a new one on a new placemat as well, and handed it in. He even showed it to other guests XD.
Next time I'm gonna make him a real drawing ^_^

My mom is sick =( Very sick.... I just hope she will be better soon.....

About the mails from the previous post. I heard he doesn't want to talk to me any more, because he thought I was being very unreasonable. Most people tell me just to forget him; he's a wast of my time.

Well, I'm not mad with him. He thinks he's giving me credit; the picture has my sitename and signature on it. But to me, credit is a tad more. A line that says: Made by.... or, maybe a link to my site.

He think that a simple alt code will mess up his site. It's won't. And if he does that, people will respect him even more!! In my opinion anyway. I was giving SUGGESTIONS and he took it as something I had to do from me.

I heard from a friend he doesn't want to talk to me any more. So be it then. I was willing to try and resolve it, but I won't go running after him; 'please love me'. I will try to resolve it a bit later, when he has calmed down and is willing to talk again.

Thanks. I know I messed up, and I have to resolve it myself. I feel so childish to just turn away and then say: 'So be it! You dun like me, you not worth of my attention!'

(The mail to my friend:

Hey *****:
Please don't be sad. i am not mad at you,at ALL. I AM mad at your friend,and i don't want to talk to her anymore,and that's that. I think she was unreasonable. Her piece,the one that was one my site,had her name AND her website on it,and yet she STILL said i didn't give her any "credit".
I have no idea what her concept of the word "credit" is,but it's a lot more than what I am willing to give. She wanted me to ALSO put a link on the page NEXT TO the thumbnail,which would ruin the look of my site. (that was a suggestion from my side, I believe, not something obligated XD)
She wanted me to put special code on her pics. It was going to be a lot of work for me,and clutter up the pic and the site (Alt codes don't clutter up a site XD). It's not worth the time and trouble. So,i took her pics and the ones she claimed to own,off. She wanted me to take yours off,and i said no,not unless YOU told me to,since you sent me stuff before.
het opent.
She wasn't happy about that.
I try to be nice to the artists,and keep their copyrights on the art,but if she doesn't appreciate being on a site that a thousand people see in a month,i can't help her. (Indeed, I don't want to be at a site that doesn't give me a link but does show my art =S)
So,that's that. Her art isn't worth all the trouble she is giving me.
I'm sorry you are upset. I am not mad at you at all,i promise. None of it is your fault. Thank you for all your kind words. )
*******

Mm... woops. I think I accidentally insulted someone. I thought I was reasonable, but I guess he didn't take it that way...

My mail to him:

Hi,

I e-mailed my friend already about this, to check it, but I noticed that a lot of his pictures are posted on your page. Problem is, that his signature is removed. It concerns the following pictures, made by Demitri Scaramanga:

http://www.thegenieharem.com/anime/shanadvan.jpg
http://www.thegenieharem.com/anime/redeyes.jpg
http://www.thegenieharem.com/anime/hikari.jpg
http://www.thegenieharem.com/anime/reigenie.jpg

There are more of his pictures in your gallery, but they have their signature still on it, and I also believe he gave permission for it. Most of your pictures in your gallery don't give credit to the original artists. If you would look at it legally, your gallery is violating the rights of copyright. I know that sometimes it's hard to give credit, but I advice you to start doing it. You may get into trouble one day if you won't.

Also, I would like to ask you to pull down a picture from your gallery. It's a picture I made, and that was donated by Anime Sultan. It's on page 4 and the adress is (http://www.thegenieharem.com/anime/rinigenie.jpg) The reason why I ask you to pull it down, is because I'm not getting any credit at all, and the other reason is Anime Sultan. He has stolen 2 of my pictures (one is that one, the other is only posted at his site) and because of that, I forbid ANYONE to post the picture on ANY site. I know that I once gave permission, but I changed my mind. Also, if someone would find that picture on your site, they will accuse you on thievery, since I stated that no one is allowed to post that picture.

And as a last subject, I heavily advise you to give credit on the following pictures, or to remove them. They are also on page 4.
http://www.thegenieharem.com/anime/serenaymoon.jpg
http://www.thegenieharem.com/anime/mikamoka.jpg
http://www.thegenieharem.com/anime/geniemika.jpg
They belong to Serenay Moon. If you would read the copyrightnotice on the site (http://dive.to/Kitt), you would find out that they are illegally on your page; no matter if they are donated or not. They don't belong to you but to me, and I did not gave permission to post these. If you give credit (with the site link), they may stay, otherwise you are in violation of copyright.

I hope you understand what I'm trying to say, and, even though it may be hard to believe, I'm mailing you this so you will stay out of trouble. Thank you for your patience and time, and awaiting your answer,

Sincere greetings,
Kitty Ocean

I thought I was being polite... I got a polite reply back anyway:



Hi,how are you? :o)
I know Demitri,he's a good guy and a friend of mine. I will admit that Jer is a REAL problem,and i am going to talk to him. I do not and have NEVER approved of taking copyright information off of images! The artist deserves credit;if he puts his info on his art,i make sure it stays there. If Jer is taking that info off, i will stop accepting submissions from him!
I am keeping the Demetri pics on the site. He has given me permission to use his stuff before,and he donates stuff. If he wants me to take them down i will,once he emails me.
If you want me to pull your art piece down,i will. I am not pulling down the last three pieces you mentioned because i AM "giving credit"...the artists' names are right on the pics!
In conclusion,if you or any other the other artists would like me to put a link on my site to your pages,i would be happy to do so. I would put the links on my link page.
Sincerely,
Alexi Razor
P.S. are you Darkkittywannabe on AIM? ;o)

So, since he was nice, I tried to find a solution both would like.

Hi, I'm fine thank you! I hope you are doing fine too.

I'm glad you always try to give credit; there are many people who 'forget' to do that. I would really appreciate it if you would pull my art piece down. I'm glad you understand.

As for the Serenay Moon pictures; yes, the artist's name is on it, but please remember that I own Serenay Moon. Demitri donated those pictures without asking me first. That was a misunderstanding we cleared up. I would really appreciate it if you would post a link near it, because that will avoide future trouble, when Serenay Moon gets for sale. Because, when that happens, if you don't give credit, it's like taking images from Naoko Takeuchi (Sailor Moon) and not giving credit.

And I would hate it if I would have to take legal actions; especially because you are so understanding and co-operative. It's because Serenay Moon WILL get for sale.

I hope we can come to an agreement. I thank you for your patience and understanding. I don't meet people like that often on the net. (Most of the time it is : SHUT UP YOU *****).

I just came up with an other solution. Maybe you could put in the alt="blahblah" code: This picture belongs to Serenay Moon. I guess 60% of the problem is then already solved; what do you think? Besides, Serenay Moon has a genie-related comic online ^_~.

Greetings
Kitty Ocean
PS. No, I'm not darkkittywannabe- the name sounds familiar though. Isn't that a girl who plays or played in Shadowed Moon?

Quite a resonable solution, right? And I just want to warn him that when Serenay Moon comes for sale, he could get intro trouble, and since he was nice I didn't want that!

His reply:

Fuck this ridiculous shit. I have 3000 images on my site,i can't be bothered to waste my valuable time altering pics so that they have a PARAGRAPH of artists' info on it!! Nor am i going to ruin the look of my site by putting "artist's links near the pics". Please!
So i took your pics down. If you don't want to be on a site that gets 1000 hits per month FINE. Who needs free exposure,right?
I can't believe you threaten my with legal action! My site doesn't make any MONEY,moron!
Goodbye and good riddance,you unreasonable and difficult little child.

Eh........ why the sudden change? Why do I have a feeling he talked to Anime Sultan? I wanted to find a solution together, but appearantly I'm being unreasonable about that.....

My reply then:

Eh...... Why so angry? I thought I was being nice AND reasonable. I thought we could come to an agreement TOGETHER. I'm sorry to have upset you; I apologise. I'm sorry. And I didn't threat you with legal actions, I just told you what may be the consequenses in the very near future. Once again I apologise.
If you didn't want to do that, you could just have told that. Then I would have tried to find another solution.
And yes, I don't want to be on a site that gets 1000 hits a months. Free exposure is nice, but if I don't get any credit, or if people know how to find me, what is the point?

I'm sorry to have upset you, and I even can understand why you insult me by calling names. I don't hold any grudges or so. I thank you for taking my picture down. Again, I apologise; it wasn't my intention to insult you.

I hope you will accept my apologies. Could you tell me what part of the mail you thought was insulting? Then I can learn from my mistakes.

Greetings and apolgies,
Kitty Ocean.


Sometimes people so confuse me. I have the right on my own art, right? Then that should mean I should decide what happen to it, right? I just don't understand it....
In someone else's case... let's take.. Uumie and Blackout. If a picture from Blackout would suddenly get posted on someone else's site, and Uumie would get no credit, wouldn't Uumie want it to be taken down as well?
And what about Acrocat and Deep Blue Eyes? If her art would get posted on someone else's site, and she would get no credit, wouldn't she want it to get taken down too?

And why did he suddenly call names and so? That's what confuses me most; I thought I WAS reasonable... to show I'm willing to find a solution TOGETHER.

People are confusing. Yeah they are.

Today, when I came home from internship, I stumbled on Silke and Esther- 2 girls from my past internship. You know, Silke from the last post? Well, both saw me, and suddenly I had both hanging on me.
Wow... and that for an intern who hasn't been there that long!!

'Hi Miss Kitt!!! You know, you left really soon. Why don't you come visit us one day?'

'Eh... I don't think your teachers will approve that.'

'Why not?'

'You will have to ask them that yourselves.'

I couldn't tell them their teachers hate me, think I'm a sucky teacher, and that they don't want me there any more. That would be not so nice from me XD. It's like saying to you your mother is not nice and all XD (JUST AN EXAMPLE!)

I've been to Uumie's yesterday. She showed me Final Fantasy IX. I'm a sucker for romance *sniffs* Very pretty game though.
And eh... she showed me lots of art and stuff I cannot tell *zips mouth shut*

And I can't believe it... XD Dougurasu actually send me a postcard XD.

Rare event!!

This event happened today, and dates back to my internship where I was kicked out. There was a girl in that class, and I thought I didn't have a bond with that kid. That she didn't like me that much. Today I went to swimming lessons again (I sometimes give them on the saterday morning) and I saw her... with a big smile on her face.
Me: Hey Silke!
Silke: *having a huge smile on her face*
Silke's mom: It really is you! She already pointed: Look look! It's Miss Kitt! You know, she really had to cry when you left from that internship. She so hated that. And she's so happy to see you again!!
Me: *stunned*

I thought she didn't like me! Turns out she even CRIED because I had to leave! EAT THAT YOU ^T&*%(*&%( SCHOOL; who said I couldn't bond with ANY of the childeren. ('At least WE have a bond with them- we know EXACTLY how to interact with them!'- suuuuuuuure).
If Silke missed me, I bet more kids missed me!