Date: March 20, 2005
Time: 1:30 AM
Song Playing: 悩める神子達 from マリア様が見てる (MariMite)
Emotion of the Moment: Hyper

Let me start of by going...

HAHAHAHAHAHAH!

At Chai and Jonny, who both forgot it was my birthday until 8th period, by which it was too late.

That aside, I had two fantasy baseball drafts this week. The first one (the SCO one) went pretty well... except I think I over-drafted on a few players, and we all forgot some big players (namely Nomar Garciaparra, who went in the last pick of round like 15 to Adith. What was up with Hysen's draft index?). Still, I like my team... managed to grab Soriano with the last pick of the first round, then grabbed Crawford with the first of the second. I probably over-picked on Crawford, but I wanted his base-stealing to combine with Soriano. It might have been more prudent to go with a slugger second round, but whatever. I ended up with Schilling and Sheets, too, so I have some nice strike-out pitchage.

The second draft went quite a bit worse... I missed the first three rounds playing KotOR ;P So I got A-Rod, Thome and Cabrera. Then when I picked up Michael Young to shore upmy infield Chai gets Ben Sheets and I go "WTF!" It was that kind of draft. Still, Oliver Perez in the 8th, Pettitte last round, Garret Anderson 13, it wasn't that bad of a draft. My team rests on Preston Wilson and Garret Anderson, though, so we'll see.

Celebrated my birthday by going to a buffet today. You know I'm not suited for buffets. Ah well. It wasn't bad, though food fitted towards Chinese tastes definitely rank closer to the bottom of my list of preferences.

Yes, the whole point of this update was to laugh at Chai and Jonny and rant about my drafts.

P.S. If anyone can find me Ys I ~ V, I will love you forever.




Date: March 15, 2005
Time: 10:23 PM
Song Playing: 羅針盤 by Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Emotion of the Moment: Drained

*sighs* A month after the last update, eh.

It feels like an eternity since then, and yet it also seems like time has passed by like the fleeting winds. This is pretty much going to be a full blog-ish entry, so leave now to save yourself the pain if you don't particularly like those.

I guess at a time where most people are pretty settled into their futures (getting college app responses soon), I'm still living the hectic first semester life. I discovered two months ago or so that my applications to the colleges were all bogus. Even if I get into any of them, I wouldn't particularly be very content, largely because I've pretty much finally figured out what I want to do. I suppose it should have been obvious what path I should have been pursuing from the onset, but I've totally screwed with that the past four years (yes, going to Blair was step one) that I lost sight of what I had intended to do... and now, after sending out my applications, I realize that, first off, I don't WANT to go to those colleges and second, they'd do nothing for me, particularly because I'm not interested in applying Graduate school in a European/American locale. Yeah, I've even figured things out that far. Not that things will definitely turn out that way, because life just sucks like that. But aside from those dreamy things (I'm good at dreaming, aren't I) is a more important problem.

If I don't want to get into any of those colleges and it is flat out obvious from my half-hearted application that I'm not suited for said colleges, I'm pretty screwed. So I'm still in this college-search business and I'm probably rather dead. Ah well. There's still a next year, I suppose, especially considering I don't want to go to an American college anyways (for a good multitude of reasons).

And so with all of that mounting stress, I took AP Lit and AP USH because I like those subjects and the rest of my classes are slack. But it's spring. I get sick the most in spring. And as luck would have it, because I have AP Lit and AP USH on the same day, and because I've missed odd days only this semester, I'm royally screwed in both classes. And so if anyone is wondering why I'm so fervently into those football and basketball games, it's because those are really my only escapes. The hour or so every day that I spend during lunch or after school playing are pretty much the only time I don't have all this work hanging over me. I know it sounds like a "woe be me" statement, but I'm sure most people are quite settled into senior slack semester, so bleh. How can I help not sitting at the side, silently watching with a good amount of envy?

It's still a couple months away from graduation, and I know I still feel remorse and anger directed at myself for pushing aside my better judgement and going to Blair instead of RM. I don't think anything messed with me (especially academically) than going to a school I probably knew would give me a hard time and would force me into taking tough classes in subjects I absolutely hate... and I would be lying if I said it didn't wear on me mentally these past four years. But if there's anything I wouldn't take back, it's meeting everyone (sounds corny, yes, but watch, in two months we're all going to be saying that anyways). Everything that's transpired has made me a better person, at least, I think they have. That includes a certain incident that I shall not name. Maybe it's not something I should ever really bring up, but I know I need to say at least something.

I'm sorry. For everyone that got messed because of what I did. I don't know until this day whether I could have helped it or not, but I do remember the words Siwei told me the next week: "If you hadn't done that, no one would have found out." I gave him a pretty sharp-tongued answer right off the bat, but those words, as well as what happened, still haunt me, and I guess that's the mark of the guilty. I'm really, really sorry. I don't know if anyone really cares or if they're just hiding it from me because you've all been so cool since then, and maybe it's just a done-deal anyways, but I feel like I need to owe everyone for what I caused.

It's been a long time since I've vented like this and it feels purty good. I guess the big blocks of text can scare people away, but that's just how I write, and for that I apologize. At least I don't use much flowery language, I suppose.

By the way, tomorrow's my birthday. Yeah, I'm not lying this time. If you're going to finally get around to giving me birthday punches (it was a Saturday freshman year, no one cared during sophomore year and y'all fell for my lie last year), then this is your last chance.




Date: February 13, 2005
Time: 1:54 PM
Song Playing: ひとり by Gospellers
Emotion of the Moment: *blob*

I didn't forget... I swear. I didn't! Really!

Wargh. I've been keeping up with anime, read more manga, playing more games and doing some homework to top it off. But first, the good news.

Buh bye cast >:D

That aside, my hand's gaining mobility, and I've been working on strengthening my thumb, so I should be good to go very, very soon. Far sooner than I expected, actually.

Let's see... been busy playing R.O.S.E., which would be why I neglected to update. Also started playing KOTOR 2... not a bad game, but I find it way too similar to the first KOTOR. I wish they made some engine changes and all to make it less annoying in battle scenes and all but nope. Still, they've done a really good job with the story so it'll be a play-till-the-end game again.

Gundam SEED Destiny has been, as usual, awesome. It's moving a good pace and is far, far beyond where they were at this point in the original series (ep 17). The insertion of a recap episode was pretty retarded, though. Oh well. It doesn't count as one of the 17, since they decided to cleverly name it "Gundam SEED EDITTED" oO;;

Beck... has been interesting. It's still far behind. The manga, though... V21 came out last month and I finally got my hands on it. The story is actually getting somewhere... but the art style really irks me. It was a little more rough way back when, but now they're trying to exaggerate expressions and the like- all of which tends to detract from the serious tone of the story. Still, it's good to see the story moving along, although certain sections are moving in directions I do not particularly like *cough Koyuki, stop cheating cough*

Hajime no Ippo V71 also came out... apparently two months ago. Never noticed. Got my hands on it... must say, quite an unexpected turn of events, but as usual, it's still keeping its iron grip on the throne of best-sports-manga.

Jinki: Extend is kinda bittersweet. I read the four volumes of Jinki, and now whenever I look at the anime I can only sigh. The story in the manga was relatively convoluted, and I can understand the desire to clear things up, but dang, they're taking so many liberties in the anime that not only is it LESS clear now, it's taking away from Rui's air time >:(

Megami-sama is turning out really good too XD Nice to see a series able to take some wild liberties every now and then and still keep the essence of what made the manga so great. It definitely looks like a long, fun series, and there's just not enough of that nowadays (anyone mention Naruto and they'll get a freakin' beat-down).

Likewise, Starship Operators is looking interesting... a lot better than the beginning of the series. Although it still is technically the beginning. The introduction of the various crewmembers and some convoluted plotting is making it make people actually want the next episode *gasps* Still a lot of dialogue.

That's pretty much been my last few weeks. Enjoy second semester while it lasts~




Date: January 22, 2005
Time: 10:13 PM
Song Playing: CROSS ~never say die~ by EXILE
Emotion of the Moment: elation

Semester breaaaaaaaaak!!!

Went on a music listening spree... I guess the people that buy albums know what they're listening to (in Japan, at least). Couldn't go to Humza's D&D game cuz it was in the morning with my mom at work (no ride) :( Heard some interesting things happened... like Alex turning into an elven werewolf swashbuckler. Forgive me for laughing.

Did the customary anime watching over the past two weeks.

Gundam SEED Destiny is continuing to blow away all of my skepticism... how could a sequel to an anime where doomsday weapons were being unleashed in the end be good, right? Well, they're somehow making it run with some hefty character driving... I'm not sure if they can keep this up for long, but so far, very good.

Jinki: Extend is kinda underwhelming. It's turning into a typical mech anime fast. Pointless attempts to make it somewhat humourous, over-used cliche, that kinda stuff. Still, it's not turning me away like Mai HiME, so that's a good thing.

Starship Operators is likewise underwhelming... they're trying to do way too much. The people just keep talking and talking, and it seems their attempt to convert it from a book is failing. A lot of anime with "deep" themes tend to use silence as a tool to get the message across, but in this one they keep talking and talking and... you get my point. It's not pushing me away, yet, but the illogic of the actions by both the crew and the opposing government as well as the blahblahblah is getting old fast.

Aa Megami-sama is actually turning out pretty good. Shocking, considering that they already have an OVA for the series and they're making slight changes from the manga. It's slow, but it's good. Could use some light-hearted long serieses after all.

Beck continues to be in the slow beginning... the story really isn't progressing very fast. I can understand they they want to prevent catching up to the anime- that would be disastrous (lots of anime have died due to that), and the manga itself is ridiculously slow anyways. The quality of the art and singing is still kinda underwhelming... I guess it really is impossible to have a good music-themed anime.

The Wizards lost SG Larry Hughes for 4-6 weeks. This sucks. As Kornheiser said, The Curse of Lez Boulez Strikes Again. Hopefully they won't tank, though. The NFL playoffs suck.

Onto second semester senior year we go!

2.5 weeks and counting (till cast comes off).

By the way, I added a good number of quotes.




Date: January 9, 2005
Time: 3:52 AM
Song Playing: Destiny's Gate from Gundam SEED Destiny
Emotion of the Moment: ボ〜 o_o

Happy belated New Years...

I've come to realize that this thing has pretty much started to turn into an anime blog. Interesting turn of events, I suppose. You never know what you end up with after you start something, I guess.

Anyways, started watching some new anime.

Jinki: Extend is a relatively mainstream anime... looks interesting, although the time shifting in the first episode was kinda confusing in the end. It, for now, looks nothing like its synopsis as posed by the series website. It's another mech anime (what's with the sudden spike in the number of mech anime these days?), so we could either see a deep plot or a stale, over-used plot. It looks pretty fresh so far, though.

Starship Operator is another "big" anime about... starship operators. I don't know what to say. A spontaneous war throws a bunch of high schoolers into a war inside a state-of-the-art starship. As such, the first episode is rather... dull. Over-used plot, not much really happened aside from a bunch of annoying and pointless dialogue... and the captain of the ship is incompetent. But hey, it did enough to make me want to see the next ep, so that's a good thing.

Gundam SEED Destiny 13 was pretty nice. Got to see the Freedom back in action and kicking. Is it just me or are the ORB government parts really boring and annoying? Beck 13 and 14 was also pretty good... although predictable because it follows the manga so closely. Not that that's a bad thing, of course.

Also watched the first two seasons of Galaxy Angel. The episodes are short, so sue me. It's... whacky, to say the least. A pretty refreshing change from the relatively dark stuff I've been reading.

Chargers and Seahawks lost. I went Ofor on Saturday with my picks, and that makes me mad, especially because I was actually rooting for the Chargers. Grr. Let's go Broncos! Take down that Manning!




Date: December 28, 2004
Time: 4:03 AM
Song Playing: Show Me the Meaning of Being Lonely by Backstreet Boys
Emotion of the Moment: ボ〜 o_o

I must say this Winter Break has been rather unnatural for me. I've spent more time watching things than playing games... and I don't find much fun in games in general much nowadays. I guess I'd attribute a lot of that to mounting frustration over the non-usability of my right hand... I've been itching to write for the past few days and I can't -_-

Watched Fellowship of the Ring and Two Towers yesterday, plan to watch Return of the King today. The past weekend was a good weekend in terms of anime, but I ended up not watching any of them until yesterday so that was pretty moot. Two episodes of Gundam SEED Destiny, two episodes of Samurai 7 to finish the series, two episodes of Genshiken to finish that series, a one-hour special for Soukyuu no Fafnir to finish that series and some manga to boot. Nice.

GSD was pretty good, actually. Well, the series has been purty good so far anyways, but the story made great strides... and Athrun finally took off in the Saviour. Shin going berserk was pretty cool too. Especially considering he's not a coordinator.

The ending to Samurai 7 was GREAT. It was touching, it was epic, and it just seemed... right.

The ending to Soukyuu no Fafnir just confirmed what I had realized- that the writers did a great job at building up to the ending. Still, I had problems with their switching from action to no-action and back and forth. I know there was supposed to be parallel, but it definitely ended up ruining some of the mood. That said, it was a pretty good job at an area where most anime absolutely fail.

Genshiken was just great. I'm still waiting to get Volume 3 for the manga, but the anime was some funny stuff. I don't understand half of what they're saying because they're using some rather vulgur language... kinda wish I knew exactly what was said to merit such responses, but yeah.

Happy Holidays y'all, remember to send out the college apps if you haven't done so already (largely a reminder to myself *halo*).

PS. The Ravens are eliminated :( Damnit!




Date: December 20, 2004
Time: 2:23 AM
Song Playing: A Knife in the Dark From Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Ring Emotion of the Moment: pain

I broke my right wrist a couple days ago and it's throbbing. Woohoo.

For those of you who don't know the story, here it is:
Way back in spring, I had a slight dislocation of my right wrist and an RCL sprain to boot. Of course, not realizing the actual severity of the injury, I rested it. All through spring, through summer and into the schoolyear. Thinking that was that, I was quite surprised when my wrist started deteriorating... probably due to the heavy amount of writing. So I got it checked out, found out about it, also found out that my wrist bones were jarred badly. They were loose. If you felt my wrist, you could freely move around bones- that's not very safe. So I was supposed to bandage my wrists.

Of course, the day of the school concert, bandaging my wrist is not a very good idea because it hampers violining so much. So I didn't. I'm sitting there at lunch, figuring I should stay put. Chai goes ahead and says "Bah, it's not like you're gonna hurt your hand or anything," so I'm like oh whatever. Turns out I broke my wrist because the bones were sliding all over the place when I landed on the ground. Oof.

That pretty much sums up my weekend. But I did have fun over the weekend... largely playing Battle for Middle Earth and watching anime. Some points:

Battle for Middle Earth is a great game... but they appear to have rushed the evil side. Mordor absolutely is dreadful. The Nazgul and the Witch King are probably the biggest pieces of crap you'll ever see. Especially because you can only get 2 Nazgul + the Witch King. Please.

Soukyuu no Fafner amazes me in terms of rebound. The series was frankly very, very bad in the beginning because it was far too similar to Evangelion... but now it's like wow. I think the last episode is next week, which, surprisingly, makes me sad. That's how good their character development is.

Beck is kinda disappointing. I know how hard it must be to make a music anime, but come on... the man (Chiba) can't sing! What's worse, a lot of their seiyuus don't look like they're too into it... specifically Ryuusuke. Dull voice acting.

Gundam Seed Destiny is pretty damn good though. I hope they continue to center it around Athrun, because he's really the only compelling character, both in Gundam Seed and in Destiny. I know they slated the main character to be Shin, but it'd really be a shame to throw away all that character development for Athrun. Of course, I do think he's going to die at some point, and that's prolly when they will shift it to Shin.

Anyhoo, I felt like ranting like that. Happy holidays y'all!




Date: December 05, 2004
Time: 10:51 PM
Song Playing: Reason From Gundam Seed Destiny by Tatsuya Ishii
Emotion of the Moment: hyper

You know, I don't know why I even bother trying.

In the past two weeks, I've been catching up on Gundam Seed Destiny, Beck, Bleach, Final Approach, Grenadier, Mai HiME, Samurai 7, Soukyuu no Fafner and Genshiken. Among those I must say Grenadier and Mai HiME are annoying, but I don't want to not finish watching a series. Turned in my UMCP application... promptly went to work on my other ones. Played some Lineage II, Warhammer 40K: Dawn of War, NBA Live 2K5 and ESPN NFL 2K5 over the past two weeks... just excited that Battle of Middle Earth is coming out tomorrow. Time to pray my puter can handle it ._.

Played the demo for MSG3 Snake Eater. It was hilarious sniping crocodiles and eating them >:D

Ravens lost :( Redskins won :O Wizards are 10-5! Terps basketball lost two out of three. Overall a pretty bad weekend for sports. Finally managed to read V1-7 of Team Medical Dragon, went ahead and started to read R.A. Salvatore's books... quite an overdue task for someone who plays D&D.

No quotes. Too lazy to post them.




Date: November 21, 2004
Time: 11:35 PM
Song Playing: RODのテーマ From Read or Die
Emotion of the Moment: staring off into space

Oops, I forgot. Well, not really. I procrastinated. I kept saying "wait till Saturday wait till Saturday" and lo and behold... it's the end of Sunday -_-U

Hmm. Hectic three weeks, I must say. Now I'm just sitting back, waiting for Thanksgiving Break, filling out college apps, readying myself for a buncha field trips, them zoom off to play games on Wednesday.

We're getting my wrist checked out again soon. I might be able to play football on Friday, but again, it's up for grabs at this point. If it were just wraps I'd be fine, but full-fledged tackle on one hand isn't going to work.

Watched quite a few anime and played a few games lately. Finally saw Full Metal Panic (and FMP: Fumoffu) from the insistence of Jason. Hilarious XD Grenadier is ok, but the gratuitous fan service is annoying. Meine Liebe looks promising. Tsukuyumi Moon Phase is disturbing. Watched Genshiken 'cuz Eddy said to. Uh. Yeah. Strange. Oh yeah, I finished watching Read or Die OVA.

Need for Speed Underground 2 is pretty cool, but I need to figure out whether it's my car or whether it's just my lack of driving skillage that is screwing me up on stage 3. Finally got Zwei!!! for the sake of Shadow, but I do not understand that game. Warhammer 40K is pretty cool, but I wanna try playing with other folks. Let's see... what else. I really should install Sora no Kiseki, looks like a really awesome RPG but I've never gotten around to installing it, even though I got it ages ago.

Life is actually pretty cool now. I don't have some annoying projects hanging over my head anymore, so I'm just back to relaxing. Finally have time to translate, too. So Ratti can get on my case about that again.

I only have one quote I actually listed... I should have more. Strange. I'll take a look and hopefully put some more up, since I know that's why most people even used to check here.




Date: November 1, 2004
Time: 1:20 PM
Song Playing: Together by Avril Lavigne
Emotion of the Moment: Excitement

Thar, updated. Even though it's actually Monday.

Added a few quotes. Leaving for Iowa in about 8 hours. Gonna need luck with my interview, I guess ^_^U Oh well, I shall go for it.

I wish we could have gotten a few good games of Halo in over the weekend, but that's life, I guess. See y'all Tuesday/Wednesday!




Date: October 28, 2004
Time: 11:05 PM
Song Playing: Dolls by Ayumi Hamasaki
Emotion of the Moment: Stress

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH.
-_-
I so needed to get that out of my system.

So much homework this week, and when I do need a break, everyone's busy too, so there's no Halo or anything. Bummer. So I'm bored. Hellishly bored. And stressed. Ooh yeah.

I discovered this week that coffee can work on me... if I drink coffee and stay awake for five hours, it kicks in. So... useless. Gotta a total of like 10 hours of sleep this week. Blows. Amazing how I've been awake during school though... for the most part.

Ah, yeah. Hey Chai- RED SOX WON. Bwahahahahah. Umm, well, not that I'm happy about it, because we all know the A's shoulda been there instead, but whatever. At least the Yankeees got toasted. I should start doing my college essay. Since I am going to rely on it so much.

Halo Custom Edition came out- it enables custom maps for multiplayer. Not bad. There's this one map that replaced Banshees with jet packs. That is freakin beast. But we're gonna hafta toy around with it over the weekend. Speaking of weekends, I'm going to Iowa for college visits on Monday+Tuesday. That means I've got like a whole day to study for SAT2s the weekend after, and a whole day to practice my Landon music for the concert the weekend after that. Dagnabit.

And I will update in two days. I have a bunch of quotes I want to unload XD I just felt like venting. Hopefully I'll be able to change the graphics on the site a bit on Sunday.




Date: October 25, 2004
Time: 3:05 AM
Song Playing: Pieces of Me by Ashlee Simpson
Element of the Moment: Darkness

Oh my god. It's Monday. It's MONDAY. What happened to updating on Saturday!? >_<

I have had one stress-ful weekend. I slept pretty damn late on Friday trying to work on my research paper. Bad idea. I was so tired I couldn't really concentrate, so I didn't get much done. Because of that, I went to the UMD open house thing (a complete waste of time, by the way) half asleep. I didn't know what "college" I wanted to go to because I frankly do NOT want to go there if at all possible. So I went to the "College of Arts and Humanities." Humanities frumanities, that was some pointless shit because I already know what they're talking about. So I got a 30 minute nap. Then they tried to do this department fair but some of the classes weren't there. Great first impression. On top of that, if I do go to UMD, I'm probably going to take up drawing and music, along with linguistics and whatever the hell I decide to do. But they FREAKIN SPLIT THEM ALL UP. What the hell?

So yeah, that was retarded. I went to the Honors thing, too, but I fell asleep during the middle of it. MXL woke me up. That was pretty funny. But what wasn't funny? I was supposed to take the bus home. So I'm sitting there waiting for the bus to come. Hark, thar 'tis! I stand up, walk to the edge of the sidewalk, wave, and reach for my wallet. AND IT SPEEDS RIGHT PAST ME. Stupid bus.

I was so tired that I just went to sleep really fast. Well, I wake up at 10AM on Sunday after 15 fucking hours of sleep. Dude, 15 fucking hours. I don't fucking have 15 hours to waste. So I get cracking. I finish methodology. I finish results. I... don't finish analysis. Oh shit? The thing's due this week? This is pretty retarded. Gah. So here I am venting my frustration while trying to complete my English homework, and my research paper isn't fucking done.

CG and Dia, I love you. I'd be fucking insane and off the cliff right now if you two weren't hanging around (sporadically, but around).




Date: October 17, 2004
Time: 1:52 AM
Song Playing: Canta Per Me from Noir
Element of the Moment: Darkness

Wah~ I forgot to update on Saturday again. Mur.

I thought my right wrist healed, but after five minutes of practice it flared up again T_T

Umm, I watched some anime this week that were cool. Noir was nice, but it wasn't the most uplifting of endings and all ^_^U Mai HiME and Soukyuu no Fafner look pretty good. Gundam Seed Destiny came out!!! But like the first one, the first ep didn't really say much. Fooey.

Canta Per Me from Noir is like my new theme song now. It's soooo good XD Mm, I'm bored. None of the games I have really are very fun anymore. The research paper is due this week and I don't have results yet. This sucks. Gonna hafta work on it all of today after I wake up. Hopefully I'll get the results in time. The stupid Yanks are kicking the BoSox' butts. I hate the BoSox and all, but I hate the Yanks even more. Damn them all. Surprisingly, I haven't drawn the whole week. I was busy during school with tests and all and I've been agonizing over the lack of a good multiplayer mech sim. Why doesn't anybody make one? T_T Wah. The whole house is mine for a second straight day, as the rest of my family is going to Williamsburg with the French exchange student. I'm staying home and taking care of Smokey ^_^

Hmm, if I've been acting rather cold lately, sorry. Still not in much of a talkative mood. It's my mood phases again. Oh well.

Mur, I have quotes, but I'm too lazy to post them again. My bad.





Date: October 11, 2004
Time: 12:37 AM
Song Playing: Take Me Away by Avril Lavigne
Element of the Moment: Astral

All the pain
I thought I knew
All the thoughts lead back to you
Back to what
Was never said
Back and forth
Inside my head
I can't handle this confusion
I'm unable come and take me away

My head's been hurting for what now, three weeks? I'm pretty sure I'm past the illness passed on to me by Chai, Pratik, Hersch or my sister. But my headache persists. I'm pretty sure it's not a migraine because it doesn't last this long, usually. I would say it's just exhaustion except I've been getting a good amount of sleep.

A bunch has happened this week (I know this has become like a weekly journal of some sort. Oh well). The Twins lost (shut up, Potter, shut up... -_-), the Ravens lost, the Redskins lost, hell, everyone lost. I haven't really watched any anime this week. I watched Bleach Ep 1, School Rumble Ep 1 and a bunch of Gundam X. I cleared up my HD to get the rest of Gundam X and Noir, but it'll take a bit longer to get those. I'll probably watch them next weekend.

I did manage to play some Rome: Total War and advanced to mission five in Freespace 2 on the hardest mode. Crazy stuff. Rome: Total War is like Civ except you get to go into RTS battle mode whenever you enter a battle. The battle mode is awesome. But I think it's just too slow. I definitely do not like the Civ element of it. It's just too time consuming. I know that was the entire point of the game, but there's a reason why I didn't particularly like Civ. Get me into the battle, I don't like diplomacy and all that exhausting junk ;P

I got both of Avril Lavigne's albums and got one from Ashlee Simpson as well (as recommended by Courtney). Pretty good stuff. Took the SAT I test today. I think I actually did well... until section VI and VII. Goddamn. There was one math question that was way too unclear, and the entire last passage flew right over my head. Damnit damnit damnit.



That's about where I am drawing-wise. Meh, 'tis improving. My goal of next semester is not an impossibility! No new quotes this week. I have accumulated a bunch, but I'm just posting this blog and procrastinating again. I'm way too tired to do otherwise ^^U.




Date: October 3, 2004
Time: 1:12 AM
Song Playing: Deku Palace from Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
Element of the Moment: Water

Oh my god, so tired. I don't even really have much of an explanation. I'm getting more rest than I've ever gotten in the past eight years or so, but my body is just absolutely still not keeping up. I'm not sure what's wrong.

I haven't actually been able to vent in a while. I've tried to to Tsuki but that didn't go very far. And I still won't get to vent. Because I sure as hell am not venting on this and I don't even know why I want to vent. Nyar. -_-

I missed last Saturday, and I missed yesterday too, but I figured I might as well update now even if it's not a Saturday.

A lot of stuff happened. I watched Hellsing, Wolf's Rain, and Scrapped Princess as well as a good chunk of Gundam X the past two weeks. Shadow dumped some OSTs on me, and I torrented a few from Box. Good stuff. The English essay I said I bombed actually came back a 90. Not bad.

I had the first Landon concert of the season yesterday. It was ok, the orchestra fibbed a few entrances after some cadenzas, but it wasn't too bad. I think. We absolutely did dreadful on Albinoni's piece, though, and the conductor was grimacing in the middle. Oof. x_x

I'm beginning to get more comfortable with my drawings, although it's still missing some key things. Trying to ink it on the puter using Photoshop but it's being a pain in the behind. Using tones is even moreso. Jeez.

Yeesh. I said it before, but I'm so tired it's absurd. I know I'm beginning to break down mentally again just because I'm so exhausted all the time. And my symbolic pillars of support are getting busy again too :( Sigh. This sucks. I haven't done any college research yet and I haven't studied or anything for the SATs coming up next week and I still have a lot of homework. Gar. Sooooooo tired. And it kinda sucks that I'm so tired I know I can't really do anything for anyone even though I really want to. So helpless. I wish there were some special pill that makes me all energetic and all.

Uh, crap, I did kinda whine. Tum tee tum. I added three quotes today. Long over-due. And I didn't look in my logs for this, so there're still a whole lot hiding somewhere for me to add if I ever get a good slot of free time. Mur.




Date: September 18, 2004
Time: 7:20 PM
Song Playing: Release of the Far West Ocean from Ys VI: Ark of Napishtim
Element of the Moment: Electricity

Damnit damnit damnit, I bombed an English essay this week :( Stupid poems, how are you supposed to figure out what an Emily Dickenson poem means in 45 minutes!? Gah.

Played Halo online with Dan and Rich, was fun. Wish we could get more people though. Hmm. Aside from that, not really much. Waiting for Pratik to send me his predictions, and I need Bushnell's predictions as well. Go Vikes eh? NHL Lockout came through and noone's mourning it. WHL is so much better anyways. I think my drawings got a lot better... I've started ironing out problems (specifically... depth) that are making my drawings look like someone else drew them. That's always a good thing ^_^

Quotes added: 0

Sorry guys ^_^U




Date: September 11, 2004
Time: 11:13 AM
Song Playing: コンビニ from BRIEF&TRUNKS
Element of the Moment: Electricity

Hmmmm you know, I probably COULD find quotes if I looked. In fact, I know I have a bunch. But... I forgot to look for them again -_-;;

School's actually been pretty decent. Only problem is, I think I've been acing all my quizzes and flunking all my tests. Hmm.

Burgy went to Japan <_< Heard she got there safe. ^_^ Yay. Hmm... yeah. My reverse sleeping schedule may not be very healthy for socializing ^_^U I should post something. But I haven't really... done anything in a while. I mean, my doodling's actually been in decline because I've been... *gasp* TAKING NOTES! Yeah, anyways. 1-1 for NFL predictions so far. Here goes nothing.




Date: September 5, 2004
Time: 6:29 AM
Song Playing: Release of the Far West Ocean from Ys VI: Ark of Napishtim
Element of the Moment: Air

Wrrr... no new quotes <_< Actually, if I went and looked for them, I'd prolly have a good quote update. But meh, I'm too lazy/busy. I finished Ys VI (great game, better soundtrack), so I'm feeling all empty >_>U Umm yeah. School started. It was decent. Not bad, since a lot of my classes seem, well, slack. But APUSH and APLIT are gonna so screw me over... and I need to finish my internship. Meh. At some point I'll Flash-ify the song above and use it on the site. It's so awesome. The Mid-Boss theme is great as well. Mmm, decisions decisions. Drawing has been progressing somewhat. I need to work on drawing backgrounds, though, as sad as that may seem. Making a pretty cool Flash-Nav system, but I don't know what I'd use it for.

Mmm, yeah. I practiced violin for the first time in three months this week. I sucked. My ears hurt like hell. Blows. Trying to burn stuff off of my ext HD since it's down to a great 10 gb. It was at 80 gigs left two months ago :( Darn DSL XD

Yesh, I'm gonna try to make this a Saturday thing. Maybe I'll post some drawings every now and then. I mean, they are uploaded to a host anyways >_>




Date: August 28, 2004
Time: 11:11 AM
Song Playing: 熊じいさん by 19
Element of the Moment: Lightning

T_T;; It sucked having to say good bye to everyone at work. It's amazing how close you get to everyone in just three months. 354 community service hours... I still gotta keep working and keep sending stuff to my mentor though XD Just don't hafta go there anymore. Sigh. Summer's pretty much over, school's starting up again Tuesday, I still need to finish my APUSH and AP Lit homework >_< But I've been using up all my time sleeping and drawing.

I so need inking pens, I tried inking with a regular pen and it sucked, because I couldn't draw things lightly. I swear by next year I'm gonna master this whole thing. Rawr! .o/

I have one quote on me, and there're prolly a bunch more in logs somewhere, so I'll post quotes when I find a good bunch. ^_^




Date: August 16, 2004
Time: 3:02 AM
Song Playing: everyone by 3B Lab
Element of the Moment: Water

How's the past month been y'all~ ^_^ Internships have gone by way too quick. I might not finish my work in time~ T_T I don't really have any quotes to add today, but I figure I'd let people know I'm not dead... yet <_< Been working on a Flash movie, I'll post it up when I think it's complete >_> Right now it has no sound whatsoever, so it is so not complete, plus the text is apparently too quick ^_^U




Date: July 27, 2004
Time: 6:40 AM
Song Playing: TIME MACHINE by 3B Lab
Element of the Moment: Wind

Wow, no way, a DAYTIME update!? Woah, when was the last time I did that?

Uh... sometime before I made this layout, it appears. If ever. O_O Hmm, I put up a buncha quotes. Enjoy ^^;;




Date: July 23, 2004
Time: 12:47 AM
Song Playing: Fate of Fire Emblem from Fire Emblem 3
Element of the Moment: Wind

Ahahahah oh my gosh, I never thought I would laugh so much at a movie. http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/158218. Especially the last one (it's a collection of 6 small movies). Yeah, that's all this update was about.




Date: July 18, 2004
Time: 4:47 AM
Song Playing: 西暦前進　２０００年-> by 19
Element of the Moment: None

So~~~~ tired >_< Had stuff that reminded me of last year and the year before that and it wasn't a pretty sight to behold. And I haven't gotten much sleep. >_< Um, yeah, I don't really have any quotes. But I've got a nice link courtesy of Siwei I thought I should share. http://pwned.nl/ It's a VERY good depiction of the average CS gamer, and I think it's soooooo Siwei. ^_^ Why am I up this late? I don't know. I should sleep.




Date: July 10, 2004
Time: 12:41 PM
Song Playing: 三分間日記 by 19
Element of the Moment: Fire

Oh. My. God. I completely forgot. Where are the people who remind me!? Oh wait, I haven't chatted much in a long while have I. Hmm. Well... uh... my first update in 3 months! Wahahahah... hahah... hah... hah... <_< >_> *gets beaned by a soda can chucked from the roof* HEY! Not my fault I don't take care of my site very often~ T_T (well yes it is, but still...).

Anyways, I'm still alive. Kinda. Well, ok, I lied. I'm having fun 'cuz it's summer~ lots of things have happened in the past three months. I don't know where to begin and, frankly, I don't remember much, either. I got an internship, I'm going to the internship. Lots of fun, actually. At least I'm doing stuff. Unlike a lot of y'all. Hah! Even though I got mine late, at least it's fun! Hmm. Big July 4 update at Snoopycool.com. Getting close to the end of Houshin Engi ^_^ Just another 25% to go~ Ummmmm I dunno. I added quotes. Quotes are good. I need a new batch. Actually I saved a bunch of quotes. No new wallpapers, haven't made any ones lately. I'm still using Joker ^_^; Hmm. Drawed a buncha comics for the TJO forum, but they're filled with inside jokes. I might link them in an archive later (famous last words). Honestly. But right now I don't know whether I should, because, well, they're all inside jokes that only a few people would understand. That is all. For now. Until next time! ^_^




Date: April 6, 2004
Time: 11:04 PM
Song Playing: Dance by the Skies from Fire Emblem 4: Seisen no Keifu
Element of the Moment: Wind

Ummm... lessee... I spent most of the day sleeping. Really. I woke up at 6 <_<; Ummmmmm yeah. I made a wallpaper page on the fly <_<;; so don't kill me for it being rather... ugly? I'll try to spiffify it (I know that's not a word -_-) at some point (hah! famous last words~). By the way. YANKEES SUCK! HAHAHAHAH.
*cough cough cough*




Date: April 6, 2004
Time: 12:21 PM
Song Playing: Grudge Match from Fire Emblem 4: Seisen no Keifu
Element of the Moment: Wind

It's been a while since I updated :O I've been trying to find a way to record a movie from an SNES ROM but results haven't been quite good yet... one day, damnit, hopefully, I'll find a way. Added two quotes... they both crack me up soooooooo much XD I've been thinking of putting up a wallpaper section, but since I only have two that I'm even slightly happy with, I'll hold off until I get a couple more good ones ^_^ Spring break is fun :3 Went to play D&D 3rd Edition with my Eastern homies (well, Alex and Correll, the others don't play 3rd Edition <_<;;) and Alex' sister and his friend Sarah. That was cool. But hopefully I can get in touch with Humza and Gordon and the others and get a Battletech, Alternity, or 2nd Edition game set up... 's all, for now.

... oh yes, I forgot, enjoy the Song Sage... as long as you're on the news page, which I suspect isn't going to be for long. I'm gonna try to embed music in a different section of the site (say... the logo or something?) at some point in the near future. The compression is insane. The MP3 file is like 1.2 MB but the Flash file is only 125 kb O_O




Date: March 28, 2004
Time: 11:52 PM
Song Playing: Skaterboy by Avril Lavigne
Element of the Moment: Water

Added a news section in Japanese just for the hell of it, but I prolly won't actually update it unless I have time to write everything in Japanese <_<;; Added the quotes section too XD *loud cheers* Have another test tomorrow (or quizzle, as swizzle puff insists) that I'm so screwed on lol. Haven't finished the program you need to finish to get the quiz down. So sad. And then I have a quiz on Tuesday, too. So it's a four day test/quiz run and it ain't fun. And shit, I'm sposed to finish the translations for snoopy... >_> <_< >_> <_< Doh.........




Date: March 28, 2004
Time: 4:52 AM
Song Playing: Narcolepsy by Third Eye Blind
Element of the Moment: Water

The site... doesn't really work. Well it works, but it has no content. And I've been devastated by the fact that scrollbar colors don't work on Mozilla, making it very ugly whenever I look at it. *sigh* But uh, there's this, and there's a profile section, and I wanted to add more at the moment stuff whenever I write an update or whatnot but I can't think of anything right now so it can wait till next time or something. No, the song does not fit into right now because I'm up at 5 frickin o'clock AM. The colors may kinda clash, I'll think of something at some other point. The iFrame is kinda lame, too, since it floats text in the middle of nowhere. If I were to try to fix this clashing color, it'd either mess the color scheme or force me to put something on the side of the iFrame... I think I may just stick to the clashing colors. Meh. Anyways that's all, no feel like blogging ^_^ Good night~ ... at least, after I finish making a rant for Tsuki x_x;;