Hinata Boardoms : Kwarto ni Naru

Tuesday, August 22, 2006
the same air as always

Life in the Hinata Inn's getting routinary. I should know. I studied my lesson today, same as yesterday, and the day before yesterday... you know the deal.

"Or maybe it's just me, bored." I'm talking to myself again.

Everybody seems to be preoccupied with their own gigs. Take Motoko for example, she is very strict when it comes to training (boring) but she's also hanging out with her friends while she's at it. Shinobu is having fun with cooking so she doesn't look bored in the apartment. Kitsune's locked herself in her room and I rarely get to talk to her, so I don't know what's up with her. Kaolla is hectic as usual with her crave to invent contraptions she could only understand. Keitaro is still... well... dull. I think he's worse than me. One time, I caught him talking to a tree.

"OH MY GOODNESS! WE HAVE SOMETHING IN COMMON!" Yosh.

I'm bored. I want him to ask me out. What a pretty awkward thing to say. I'll just give him signs instead.

posted by: narusegawa
@ 9:51 PM

Tuesday, August 15, 2006
the ritual education

Mou, I'm not having fun anymore. There isn't much activity inside Hinata Inn. The TV's broken, Kitsune-chan won't let me borrow her computer, my radio's busted, and I'm left with only academic work. They say life gets dull when it's all work, I couldn't agree more.

It's actually affecting my learning because, instead of concentrating what's going on inside the classroom, I'm actually thinking hard what to do for fun in order to unwind my body. In effect, I'm frequently flunking my exams. In order to get myself together, I must look for a way to keep myself compellingly occupied.

Fun helps because it refreshes the body so that it continues to absorb work. A person is brought down when he or she is saturated with either work / recreation. There should be a balance. It's not necessarily a total balance, but it is ideal for a person to cool down after heating up from work.

A person should study not beyond 20 minutes. Beyond that, studying would bore the person, and, in effect, she won't be able to internalize the information. Take a break and continue.

In my case, it's not balanced. I'm all work and it's bringing me down because it's exhausting. Whereas, That's why I can't help but mull over what I should do for entertainment.

I've applied for a part-time job. I'm not telling because it doesn't match my technical skill.

"Wow, where did that come from?"

I want to make money so that I could buy something to help me pass the time -- maybe one of those handheld devices? I don't know. A handheld videogame doesn't sound bad. A cellphone perhaps? Maybe I should ask Suu to make me one. Nah, I'll probably won't understand her invention. She makes things a lot complicated. Last time, I asked her to do me a mechanical pen. She made a mechanical pen, installed with an analog timer, clock, calendar, screwdriver and can-opener.

posted by: narusegawa
@ 10:48 PM

Profile: Naru Narusegawa

Naru Narusegawa (Narusegawa Naru) is a 17-year old student at Keitaro's cram school with an extremely fiery temper. Naru is a boarder at the Hinata House, in Room 304.

Of all the girls in the Hinata House, Keitaro manages to annoy her the most, usually by accidentally grabbing her in unfortunate places or walking in on her while she is naked. Naru's appearance is based Beautiful Nerd archetype in dating sim games, with the twist she is actually very cantankerous.

Despite her temper and frequent violence toward Keitaro, she develops strong feelings for him, though she has great difficulty in admitting her feelings even to herself. She is prone to extremely strong jealous reactions whenever Keitaro appears to be getting too close (physically or emotionally) to other girls.

Despite the fact that she was only two years old at the time, she and Keitaro promised to go to Tokyo University together, though being two years old she didn't remember for quite a while (this is why Mutsumi made the same promise with her - see Mutsumi's entry).

Naru is highly intelligent; at the start of the series, she is #1 in Japan on the practice entrance exams. Just a few years earlier, however, she was in almost exactly the same position Keitaro was in - horrible grades and no hope of getting into Tokyo U. She was able to overcome her problems by studying with a Tokyo University student, Noriyasu Seta, whom she developed a serious crush on.

Naru had made a promise three times to get into Tokyo University. First with Keitaro, then with Mutsumi and finally with Seta when he was tutoring her.

She owns a Liddo-kun doll which a friend (Mutsumi Otohime) gave her when she was young.

Narusegawa Naru is studying to get into Tokyo Daigaku (Tokyo University, aka Toudai) to fulfill a dream... and a promise. To get there, and to avoid the distraction of her parent being remarried, she moves to the hot springs resort-turned-girls dormitory Hinata-Sou.

Very beautiful, incredibly smart, and wonderfully sweet, but terribly near-sighted and horrendously short-tempered, she soon encounters the new would-be manager Urashima Keitaro, but she protests the idea of having such a "pervert" being in close contact with her. Though she actually cares for Keitaro a lot, when she isn't sending him flying into stratosphere with her notorious running punches when he accidentally sees more of her than he should.

She often wears thick glasses, sweaters, and braids when going to cram school to deter attention from guys.

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