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It probably says something about me that I want an antique or antique-styled pocket watch as much as I want a pair of mirrored sunglasses (think Morpheus, but with earpieces). Unfortunately, I largely can't afford the first, and have yet to track down mirrored lenses in anything other than Bono-style wrap-arounds. Someday!

...I have no idea what era I wish I was living in, but it's obviously not this one.

Date: 2006-12-20 05:20 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_223426 (from dreamwidth.org)
That's kinda like me & my fascination with ancient Chinese attire. >_>;

~melle

Date: 2006-12-20 07:54 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
Hooray for anachronism! I can do traditional Japanese with my eyes closed, at this point, care of cosplay, but I really like late 19th and early 20th century menswear.

Date: 2006-12-20 04:38 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_223426 (from dreamwidth.org)
Woohoo! Sweet--while I like traditional Japanese clothing, I much prefer Chinese. Call me biased since I'm half like that, but it's more... regal to me. Like old menswear from Europe, from the Victorian, and particularly the Renaissance eras. At least, the suits and regal attire from that time :P

8D

Date: 2006-12-20 09:38 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
Well, I'm almost entirely some variety of British (English, Irish, Welsh, Scottish, and Cornish), so I'm even more biased than you XD; I admire the elegant simplicity of Japanese design, but I'm often not as fond of the print or color choices.

Date: 2006-12-21 09:51 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_223426 (from dreamwidth.org)
Woot! Sounds like my best friend--Euromutt, she calls herself. ^^; Half Chinese, half Filp, here--some white Castellan Spaniard on the Flip side somewhere lurking. XD; I have no baises from that side, though ._.

Yeah, some of the prints/colors are a bit... gaudy, sometimes. 'Least that's how I view some. ^^;

Which is another reason why I like Chinese attire. >_> I don't find any of the patterns to be overwhelming.

~stuff & things

Date: 2006-12-21 10:16 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
Heh, I guessed you might be Filipino - last name combined with the looks. I'm pretty obviously British, I think.

Yeah, the color combinations are not always the greatest, IMO.

Date: 2006-12-21 10:37 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_223426 (from dreamwidth.org)
XD Nice. You're one of the few who didn't immediately coin me as Mexican, Spanish, or Chinese. Soley. XD; And this is gonna sound absolutely horrible, but I'm about as bad with distinguishing the different nationalities of Europe as 'most' are distinguishing the different ethnicities of Asian. XD;;;; Soooo... to me your white. ^^; *ducks shoes boots* (Not that finding out what's what is a bad thing, by any means X3)

Yep--but then there are those instances where something's so... out there that it's attractive. I find myself shaking my head and staring XD;

(And I wonder if the html works correctly D: It didn't before in comments & posts... *kicks new posty thing*)

~i'mstupid¬sleepingblah

Date: 2006-12-21 10:52 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
One of my dad's friends is Filipino, and lives with her husband (my dad's best friend, really obviously Irish-American) in the Philipines, so I'm a little more knowledgeable than most. And most of the Spanish-speakers around here are Central American, so my immediate thought is rarely Mexican.

Well, with caucasians, I think most of us tend to be mixed enough that you have to go by names - there are certain features that are Italian versus British versus Scandinavian verus Eastern European, but it's hard to tell. I've got a really British last name, though, and to draw examples from various people I know, there's Zukic (Bosnian), Kriese (German), Romano (Italian), Duffy (Irish), Sliwoski (Polish), and Johannessen (Swedish). Half the people don't look really specificly one thing or another, but the names are telling.

Date: 2006-12-21 11:09 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_223426 (from dreamwidth.org)
Sweet. I can't say much for those who started speaking to me in Spanish, etc. though. ^^; Different regions, different sets of diversity, it seems. Around here, it's Mexican.

I sort of noticed that to be truthful, but I find that some are more obvious than others. Going by names, it's easier for me to tell, though I'm far from able to tell many, so thanks for the tip :3 (I could pick out Kriese, Romano, and debated a bit on Sliwoski as particular kinds of caucasian ethnicities *looked down, put hand over (nationality)*)

I guess it comes from who you know, hang around, and are surrounded by. Me? Family is ASIAN. Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Filippino, you name it.

XD; Friends? Mixed, but caucasian for the most part, and while I could pick out 'Tetz' as German, 'Jones'... Yeah. To me it sounds common, and thus I can't really put a peg on where it originated from exactly. (A. Jones is my best friend since K. grade. She's the Euromutt I'm talking about--mixed of damn near everything + native American Indian (Cherokee, and something else I believe). I think she said it might have come from England...)

~applejuicywokemeup

Date: 2006-12-21 11:28 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
Yeah, that's very true - here is Central American, and then Vietnamese and some Cambodian and Laosian, and Eastern European. Vancouver is looots of Chinese, with a good chunk of Japanese and Korean, plus Indian and Middle Eastern, and then a fair chunk of euromutt XD;

My friends out here are mostly many kinds of European, but living in Vancouver means I've got a lot more asian friends now, too - mostly Chinese, although I think Augustine is Korean. I don't actually know any of their last names, strangely.

Jones is somewhere in the British Isles - I know it's a particularly common Welsh surname (ah, Torchwood - the things you teach me).

Date: 2006-12-21 11:40 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_223426 (from dreamwidth.org)
Yeah--one needs to get out there and take a look, I suppose. ^^; (Vancouver's got lots of Asians? XD Interesting! Ahhh... Alaina & her Brits. I know she's part that somewhere down the line XD;)

Ahh... I see. That's cool. My friend ratio is something of, if I count people I knew in high school (*twitch*), 6:4 (Caucasian to Asian.) Now it's somethin' of 2 to 2. XD; (ugh, HS, how you slay me.) *blink* My middle name's Wong. /random

AH! That's it! I knew it was something or other there! I think. ... Ok, so I suck at remember just exactly what she is. HAHA! =3

Date: 2006-12-20 06:07 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_20422 (from dreamwidth.org)
Mirrored sunglasses be making me think of Molly in Neuromancer. :D

Date: 2006-12-20 07:52 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
That, in a way, being the point I was making XD; Mirrored sunglasses are, somehow, a condensation of all that is cyberpunk into a single accesory - there was an anthology of cyberpunk short stories, all by fairly big names in the genre, published in the late 80s called Mirrorshades.

Date: 2006-12-20 08:52 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] ext_20422 (from dreamwidth.org)
... oooh. Awesome. I'm still completely enamoured with that book, btw. Chugging my way through it. :D

ALSO, RUTH. After having watched boatloads of NCIS episodes over the past few days, and renewing my old guilty love of Gibbs, I've realised something odd. I think John Barrowman reminds me of a younger version of Gibbs' actor, Mark Harmon. XD

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Date: 2006-12-20 09:26 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] momijizukamori.dreamwidth.org
Glad you're enjoying ^^ I'll bring the rest of my Gibson out with me, although I unfortunately don't own the other two in that trilogy yet.

And yeah, there is a certain similarity - I think it's the eyes.

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