just a quick one to reply Joyce's comment.... 38 degrees is NOT good girl! :p it's wayyyy too hot. your essay must be getting to ya :p oh! move to sydney!!! come come!! i'm looking for a housemate for the next time I move :)

--- more later, contemplating on skipping kendo tonight ---

skipped kendo :p but at least i spent the night browing some kendo forum :) and inspecting my bogu. the gold doesn't look so bad now...the sides are black...and theres a black gradient (is that correct?) horizontally across the armour. its pretty slick actually. the armour sorts of changes colour when you look at it from different angles. i'd still prefer a different colour though. gold just feels so...soo.... so cheap :p

but anyway, i'm sorta satisfied with the rest of the armour. it looks pretty awesome in my opinion...although i wouldn't know a good from bad :p Theres some engraving in katakana on the men (helmet) too. It reads:

Shi (or tsu) yu ra ru mi so

no idea what it means though...but i think i got the romanji correct. Thos...translate!