Two Months Worth

Depressingly returning to work after an awsome trip (that just felt like a long weekend), things were back to "normal" again. Insanely busy work, only mere hours a day of 'free time' before having to go to bed for the next work day, too tired to do anything big, online shopping......

Speaking of online shopping... online shopping is such an exciting activity, is it not? The other day I finally bought clothes online! All this time, through my online shopping adventures, I've been over-worried about sizing and style. Clothing is one of those things you usually have to try on and see how well it suits you. This time, some of the stuff I've been eyeing for the longest time were on sale (!) so I decided to take this chance to take a chance. XD It arrives save and sound and to my surprise, they fit perfectly (minus two that were labeled "one size only" which turned out to be a LARGES D: -- might wash it and see if it shrinks on me). Now that I have clothes buying experience, I think I'll be doing more frequently in the [near] future~

You would think I'd stop buying so much after coming home from vacation and bringing back two suitcases packed full with good stuff.... hahaa.. that doesn't apply to me. :b

More on the topic of online shopping... MY LAPTOP! Finally decided to get one because I'll need it for work. I ordered my very first laptop the other day, ETA 2nd week of August. I totally spent too much on it! As my first AND just a laptop in general. But there was no way I'd go for something that I wouldn't be proud of lugging around and using. The two companies I drilled down to was Toshiba and HP. Toshiba mainly because of their comfortable touchpad I've used before and loved, decent builds, AND because it's 'Toshiba'! For HP, I have gotten a few negative comments about HP from a few of my friends, but I won't let that stop me. HP has more than just a few exceptional laptop builds... especially with the better GPU choices available and included, on top of good sound speakers (Altec Lansing!). That in itself is already a good enough reason for me to go HP. Built-in things won't do for me. So it was a nice try, Toshiba. Within HP, I had a few choices. However, still relatively limited for the Canadian market. My original choice was the dv9420ca from HP Canada. I tried to do some research on this model, but there weren't any reviews or comments on this machine at all. I also found myself looking at the expensive pretty stuff like the Dell XPS but was upset to see the value in price. By the end of my long journey around the online globe, I finalized on a dv9500t CTO notebook! I'll give my customized specs and my personal review when I finally get it. X3

Now onto the backlog...

Thu July 5 - Company BBQ in celebration of our successful commercial release (which I wasn't even here for cuz I was in Cali at the time! :b)! We closed down the office at 2 and headed down to Waterfront to catch the Seabus to the CEO's house out in North Van. I got chosen with another co-worker, DK, to join the CEO and the COO in their car for a joyride to their place instead of taking transit. And wow, go figure, it's North Van.. his house was big, new and pretty. We got to meet the rest of his family (wife, three boys and flip maid!)... We started off with chips and beer.. then I moved onto the lemonade. It wasn't until a few hours in we began finally getting the actual BBQ part. Then the water fights began... One of the boys had the insane supersoaker (with the backpack of water!) and he totally owned us (versus our manual hand-pumping action guns). I got to the point where I got ahold of the backpack supersoaker too and attacked a few people. They had a trampoline in the backyard and we had drunk Jeremy jump in it. Kinda scary to watch actually lol... There was also a waterslide which was called BANZAI MOUNTAIN rofl! Me and DK left at the same time (around 7ish) and took the transit back together. Wow, long time no Seabus for sure.

Fri July 6 - Long time no All-You-Can-Eat sushi @ Richmond Sushi for Trevor's bday.

Sat July 7 - Franky's 22nd Birthday at no other than Mike's place! So we have our usual rowdy group of the Liquids, Franky's work friends, Mike's work people (my work people too I guess) and lots of booze. Franky is such an adorable weak drinker XDD... So it's his birthday... the birthday boy has to drink unreservedly, of course. I had my first Flaming Lamborghini... recommended by the bartender (aka. Eric Chin XD) when I requested something 'different'. XD Then our "boss" (aka. Mike) tricked us (co-workers = me, Jeremy, Paulo, Matthias) that our toast shot was Tequila but turned out to be a friggin' 151. Destructively burning it was. Gross and disgusting surprise lol... Bastard Mike :b The soccer tournament between France-Jeremy and Brazil-Paulo was pretty amusing to watch (on Winning 11 lol~). Tried to get Matthias to join in (as Germany of course! XDDD) but he wasn't into games, boo. So after rounds of strange liquids, I had to start sobering up to drive home so I hid myself in the gaming room and tried to nap. I was accompanied by Franky who was completely out of it... *patpats* Poor guy... he wanted to stay sober to help clean up and be responsible but how could he, it's his birthday! :B

Skip two weeks...

July 16 - Registration for courses. Omg it's that time of year already?! School's back in a month...!!!!

July 18 - Flare & Sakura: k it took us weeks to convince these people to come out of their cave in Langley, for serious. Two people who were part of our #Digimon channel way back when... Flare came to visit Sakura so duh, we're nearby, come visit us too! We decided to meet up at Metro at 7. I drove us to White Spot so we can enjoy the awsomeness that is the burger and their BLUEBERRY PIE! We didn't think about bubble tea until hours later and realized it was probably too late to grab bubble tea so we rescheduled for Saturday. みんなすごっく妙なやつだった。考えたよりすげーオタクくさい…

July 20 - Point Roberts. Requested that I got off work early (2AM) to head down to the states early (to beat the Friday afternoon/evening traffic). There was already nasty traffic forming on Knight street which delayed me a lot. I asked Tek to come with me (paranoid to go anywhere far by myself) and had him wait at Aberdeen so I can pick him and some bubble tea(!) up. It was relatively straightforward... got to see a lot of nothing. I was starting to panic when we got to the border. Gah I'm talking to the border guy not someone else like it usually is like! Tek was under suspicion both times there and back :b... We were there to sightsee... which is exactly what happened. The border guy on the US side had a stern face on the whole time... He paused a lot after our question and answers... then when we said it was our first time here, he suddenly got up and walked into the office. He came back a few seconds later, he gave us a map of Point Roberts and let us through. O_O!! Well.. sightseeing is one thing, our first and most important stop (and the whole purpose of the trip!) was to visit TBS Shipping to grab myself my own number for my nummy packages from the states. The place was a house.. which was why it all makes sense and put some light on how things worked. Grabbed the number and yay, mission complete! We took the opportunity to take a tour of the rest of the little town. The beach. The lighthouse which was NOT a "lighthouse" but was a mini reflective tower! We didn't see any WHALES! NO FREE WILLY! We stopped by a cafe for dinner that was by the marina and had, of course, seafood! We also visited the border obelisk (which had exact coordinates on it :0!!), saw some impressive mansions (with tennis courts, basketball courts, etcetc), some poorly painted houses, and then visited their convenience store (we were wondering where people bought their groceries!)... They had a number of products that have been discontinued here in Canada (lots of childhood favourites -- cereals, etc). It was getting late so we headed back around 8-9ish... the weather was crappy and we pretty much took a tour of the whole town already so we made our way back. Now I know Point Roberts from the back of my hand! Ask me anything! XD

July 21 - Flare & Sakura PT2: Aye. Metro again that evening. Walked to Crystal Mall. Was pissing rain like fack! Had bubble tea, oy full. Sakura even had two O_O! Unfortunately everything was closed by the time we got there except for a few. They ended up buying stuff from the stores that were open. Metro was still open at the time so we walked by the Metro and visited the arcade. A few rounds of bad guitar playing and a few expensive mario kart games. Flare had to start packin' so we disbanded early.

I got home... prepared for AU22. We tried it... 5 times? 75WHM 75RDM 73PLD... and once we got sooo close (1 frickin' percent left!); it was super depressing. It was already late by then (um 5AM?) so I decided to give up for now.

July 25 - It's that time of year again for FIREWORKS! I got off at 5, headed to Monica's work at Burrard station by 5:45ish. We ordered ourselves a party tray and more and headed off to 7-11 for some snacks. Headed back, grabbed our order and made our way to English Bay. As usual, all busses were full no matter which street you tried so we walked the whole way there. We arrived as the relief party for the other members who then went to grab their food. We start off with Spain this year... doing Star Wars and Iron Chef. It was actually quite well done~ We'll see how the other two countries do though. That is, if we plan on going next Wednesday and have to go through this whole after work rush thing again. XP I must admit, I was tired. And it was hot too, so it didn't help one bit. :[

July 28 - I woke up late so I told Mo2 to go first to meet up with Shi2 at McDix. I arrive a few minutes later, had some awesomely good greasey breakfast and then we finally headed downtown. We were all kinda tired so we laid around and cooked. I was lazy to put on sunscreen so I tried to protect myself with the umbrellas. Unfortunately it didn't work as I went home red and itchy. But anyways, the time flew by pretty fast. Other people started joining us around 5ish~6. I am known as the beach monster btw. The sun's radiance is a nuisance to my PSP gaming. I will finish Gurumin soon enough.... We had Fat Burger for dinner. It was not fat. They lie. But anyways, Canada's jazz-themed performance was pretty good. The synchronization was excellent but jazz is not my thing so it was good but not as good as Spain's.

Got home. AU22 again. This time we got another RDM. Hella easy with a fourth lol.

Aug 1 - Holy crap it's August already. Only a mere month left before the start of school again.. I look forward to it, to be honest. Full time work is hella boring. So CHINA. I met up with Mo2 by the Burrard skytrain again. We couldn't decide what we wanted to eat so we made our way there and walked down Robson to do some quick window shopping. We were in a lack of time so we decided to hold it off until Saturday. We picked up Triple-O's on the way (yay!) and ate our soggy fries at the beach. So China gave off this insane war-like angry emotions. I heard some people left feeling scared. I felt their performance was less all pretty stuff but more figurative and deep. Well, they called their performance "The Time Machine" so I'd imagine it was something related to their history :D. To us chinese though, it was to signal for us that it's time to take over the world. The chips that were implanted in our head when we were babies are finally resonating. Becareful.

Aug 4 - The Finale. Me and Mo2 went down around 12ish and walked down Robson to do some shopping. We got to the beach around 1ish and had ourselves some hot dogs we wanted since day 1 (the evil aroma that lures us in when we walk by to the beach everytime!). We then meet Shi2 who was standing there on the beach figuring out what to do. My latest delivery of manga came the other day, so I brought some to read. Karat! is magical girl on crack. It's super messed up and super fun to read lol~ Later that night, we had Fat burger again. And again it fails! And around 4ish, other people finally started arriving. The finale. Was boring, as expected. The opening portion was out of sync and dumb. And for some reason Canada won this year. Canada wasn't as good as Spain, but hey, they allowed spectators to vote this year so no wonder everyone voted Canada. Biased I tell you.

Was going to do AU29 but I was too exhausted from the long day. Apparently the PLD didn't even show up on time anyways.

Long weekend! Went to the states on the Monday. Did some good ol' shopping yay! Visited the Daiso at Bellisfair. The place is puny compared to our giant two floor. However! They sell things at $1.50usd and things over $2! Even "designer" bags for like $14usd lol... Another good thing is that there's a lot of stock of everything! Not many people know about yet so I still got first grabs! AND $1.50usd IS cheaper than $2cnd so yay!

Aug 11 - AU29. Tried twice. RDM died during convert. Second time I died when we won.

Aug 18 - Anime Evolution is still major weak sauce. Met Shi2 at the Joyce skytrain SUPPOSEDLY at 11 but she showed up a half n hour late. Got there around 12ish, found a place to sit down and we had our Subway we bought on the way. We visited the dealer's room next. We had to wait in line for NOTHING. We went in, went around the puny room and thought, "That was IT??" So we walked around the room twice. Everyone kept crowding around the KH3 trailer... dudes, I thought you've already have seen it by now! After we went out to leave and lo and behold, there was an extension into the mini cafeteria. The Code Geass fan was very tempting... what's better than Lelouche looking hot on the fan :D? I ended up not getting it and kept wandering around. There were a few stores that sold lots of seriously fake shit. That really upsets me. I picked up a Haruhi artbook and wondered why the pictures were all kinda dark... Failed to find any publication information (e.g. ISBN, publication date, etc) Turn it around and see that was published by a Taiwanese company. Ouch. The place makes me shake my head. After that garbage we decided to visit the new Copperstone area and wow it's beautiful. It's like a community! We had bubble tea that was as sweet as fuck. We lounged around a bit and headed back a bit before 4 to make it to the VGcats guy's panel. It was pretty amusing. Though, as usual, there were the annoying stupid questions like "Pirates or ninjas!?"... and eventually there was another stupid girl that kept playing video game ringtones. Sigh I guess that's everywhere. Or just a lot here at this convention. After the panel we walked back to Copperstone and visited Prem's place. And wow, the place is nice and cozy! He even had one of those mini floor cleaning robots! I couldn't help but stare at it clean the whole time XD... We hung around until we were hungry and then we went out for Pho that Shi2 was dying to have for the past few days. After food, they dropped me off and I headed to meet up with Matt and his friend Daniel (?). I made in just in time to watch some G.I. Joe chant parade. o_O Then we went to the BACK-ON concert. And wow... Japanese artists ceast to amaze me. Their concerts are always crazy fun and really enjoyable. Speaking of concerts, they tried to sell $1 glow 'sticks' that were those bendable cheap thin weak ones rather than the thick, bright ones. Total ripoff :b~ After that insanity, me and Matt went to line up to grab their autograph. They're really cool people :D I had them sign their 'Chain' CD I got. And HEY surprise! I also saw Jenny too! Apparently she was volunteering as a translator, assistant, liaison person. She was busy with them so I couldn't stop to talk at all... :T And that ended AE 07. Look out Scon08!

When I got home I did AU31. Weak sauce. I can't carb pull even if my life depended on it.

I'm working hard on Alchemy lately. I am slowly getting poorer than before... I feel I won't get anywhere with it... oh well.

AU39 or something the following Saturday - we died, oh, only just abooout 5 times before we finally managed to pull it off. We were pressing it to finish it for the update the following Monday.

Monday rolls around.. update comes around... NEW GRIPS. Finished up the Lamia.13 assault later that week and got my hands on some hot Paluhwan Khazghand (sp XD) body.. daymn... I need to hurry up and lvl up RNG so I can show it off more. I considered getting the Yigit head but meh, the heads I have now for my mage jobs are better imho. Next round of assaults goes towards some Yigit pieces!

Oh yeah, I tried Einherharjarbargarharjar just for the hell of it with a pickup party-alliance. Lawl. You can imagine how that's like. But it was an interesting experience nonetheless. The lasted two runs until the co-leader decided to decide another time for us, confusing everyone which was then followed by the breaking of the shell. That was the end of that.

This week flew by rather quickly. School starts next week. I think I've prepared... mentally... materialistically... maybe. I need to clean my room.

Catching up on the gaming news...
Slim PSP has CLEAR BUTTONS! WTF! MINE'S 100X MORE GIMP THAN BEFORE! D:
It also has TV-out, it's lighter, loads faster... however the battery lasts less longer... which is, wait, the ONLY DOWNSIDE D:

I cry. Inside.

Code Geass, Daily Stuff, Two Days 'Till Take-Off...

So after that first Code Geass post on.. mmm the 14th, I finished watching it on the 16th o_o You could say, intense marathoning? And yay it's not finished grr ep 24 and 25 but... AGH, LIVE, LELOUCH! You're too hot to die! But for Euphemia though... I almost cried.. I haven't cried for an anime since the Butterfree days!

Ohh, I watched two movies in a row last Sunday. Surf's Up then Ocean's 13 with Tek. When we came out from Surf's Up we looked up and noticed a sign saying Ocean's 13 4:00 and since it was 3:30, we just walked right into the next theatre instead of walking out. :D We both used vouchers, so two free movies in one day, fun! But that took up most of our day and wasn't able to do other things...

The rest of the week flew by rather quickly... must be because I have AX in my head. Well more like because our first commercial release is soon approaching and there's still lots of things to be done. I'm no QA but I've been bug catching like mad... to the point that the useless dev leader started complaining to me. Hey man, it's gotta be worth being commercialized right, deadline or no deadline... people'll be taking money out of their pockets to buy this so it better be good. It's was mainly because of his complaint and his incompetence of getting things done as a dev leader lead me bashing devs all week (sorry tek, I know you're a dev too). Not saying we don't have good devs, we have a few competent devs too! It's just unfortunate we don't have more of those guys to balance off the crappy ones.

So, in FFXI news... SE finally released server migration. I was informed that Fortune was going to move servers (Bismarck to be exact)... Shocked, depressed, saddened from the sudden news there isn't really much that can be done. They moved Saturday morning... I was greeted by a broken pearl when I woke up. Wow... 2 years.. gone, poof. Most of the players in the LS were from way back when too... 4..5 years. Man wtf why's this game so old? Well, there's some that didn't go... though I heard they'll eventually go as well. There'll never be a replacement as good. I think I'll put the end-game stuff aside for now and work on some Aht Urhgan stuff... Tried Lamia.13 the other day, it's so fun XD... I need an assault ls. einjarhar ls too. salvage too.

So the depressing stuff aside...
To imagine... I'm leaving in two days? Shrug... haven't started packing... haven't done much planning yet (some vague things here and there)... my money's ready though! The next two days at work will be tough though. Gotta make enough work for the devs to do for the whole week I'm gone orz... wootz ore, excitement.

Code Geass

One whole post dedicated to Code Geass, yers.

I held back long enough and finally I have the time to watch this from start to finish all at once! Banzai!

Well first off... original CLAMP designs PLUS Takahiro Kimura character designs PLUS Taniguchi Goro love! Holysh- who wouldn't wanna watch this! Then taking a look at the initial articles in Newtype, daymn the main character is hot! But wait, there's a cool looking girl with the name ...!!! C.C.! HEY THAT'S ME!

Now that I've actually watched it: The intro is sweet :0.. gives me the whole Eureka Seven excitement. Lelouche's seiyuu.. rofl.. after watching Inukami a few weeks ago and Princess Princess a few months before that, I can't get Fukuyama Jun's other characters out of my head. Then when I first heard C.C. I was relieved to recognize Yukana's voice and it didn't end up being some other seiyuu I'm not particularly fond of (her character design reminds me very much of Kula Diamond). Then HEY I recognized Sakurai Takahiro! And Kikuko Inoue, Junko Minagawa, and omg you can't miss Noriaki Sugiyama as the little weird blue-haired boy! All that hyperness is so un-Sasuke-like XD Oh then what I noticed next... hey that style of music.. HEY there's hitomi singing.. wait.. *checks it up* HAY the guys who did Gun X Sword and Last Exile music! Daymn those OSTs were awsome :0 What more do you want from this series! It's so packed full of good shiet! XD

After the first episode though... Lelouche is a bit too Kira-like (Yagami Light). I fear for his life :( Don't *BEEP* at the end of the series, ok, Lulu!?

SO after all the pros, there -is- one con: the ENDING. OMG ALI PROJECT, your song sounds like crap. It starts off good and then the end is just garbage. Ok maybe cuz it's TV size so I'll review again after I hear the full.

HOY this series makes me as hyper as Rizel.

後いう間～

In a blink of an eye, the end of May approaches and thus the 30 day countdown to AX begins (..in an hour). The month has blown by quickly... mainly because of the speed work has been.

As soon as work started up that week, everything was face-paced. I was thrown into design after design after design... The redesign of an application already established is quite a handful. Thy want a completely new look, workflow,... basically everything redone before they go into "commercialization" in mid-June (they're in beta right now). Basically, I'm the little (/big) bottleneck for their application, so they depend on me to get things started. However, it's unexpectedly really fun to do. I guess this is how it feels like to be in a career you like doing? :D (btw, google: Calgoo)

I'm finally watching movies (more frequently) again! Watched Spiderman 3 (full of sap) and Pirates 3 (omg, Orlando Bloom how come you look not-so-hot after your transformation?!)... Up next: Ocean's 13! What was ironic though... I had to drop my mom off at the airport @5am so I had McDix for breakfast and decided to watch Super Size Me during the meal. :D A bit explicit but nothing new that wasn't already known. So, no change in MY eating habits! :b

So about AX... I was disappointed for the longest time without any announcements for any other major guests until NOW! I figured it would be last minute but not THIS last minute. Now I hope AX keeps up this streak and announces even MORE. Just hoping... with fingers crossed n all :B~

Last year of the night market I hear. Who knows... they said that last year too. Ah well, we should just use that excuse to go more often this year, is all.

Ooh I got myself a new wallet (coughpreordersale240,originally500+but50%off!hackcough).. um, I should watch my spending before AX. Even though I -DO- have an order of manga coming in the mail... and another soon (hopefully it'll ship and arrive before AX tho)... if not, I might have to resort to pay more for express shipping!! (that actually sounds quite exciting lol)

I still haven't finished FFX omfg. Just thinking about having to make 1 million gil to bargin with Ultima totally keeps me from playing. Tedious money making... But I'm determined to do as many side quests possible before finishing it up. That's just my way of playing :b Ok, FFX, you're gunna be held off a bit longer...

I also love my new Monokuro Boo sunshade! <3

First Week of Summer Work

Hi, I'm in my second day of my summer job being a graphic designer (!) and web developer for a calendar application known as Calgoo [google that, foo]. Now the current application and site looks pretty shit right now, which is why I'm here. But there's just sooo many things that need major overhauling, I've got 110% pressure on me. I've been bombarded with insane meetings every other hour so far and my brain [or actually my back - more on that later] hurts.

Now about my work desk...
I lack a laptop (BUT NOT FOR LONG DAMMIT! ><!! *determined to get one*) so I requested a desktop which they purchased for me... had to work with a laptop for the first day (that had VISTA - OMG VISTA IS SO ANNOYING XD asks you 10x for permissions before you can do a simple task) then requested dual monitors, but they only have old 17" CRTs so far... so I'm dealing with a single LCD for now... two LCDs may be on their way, MAYBE. The only desk left was a glass desk (>< - dangerous and cold, and finger printy) and it's far too high for me (D: ... I'm too short, they keep saying lol)... so I'm hoping to get a new desk, wood, of that variety, hopefully. then the chair... to accomodate my shortness (D:!), they found a chair that can go really high BUT, making me sit so high, my monitor so low and with no arm rests, makes my back hurt D:... then this new mouse that came with the computer kept getting spasms.. so it kept spazzing all day until I gave up on it and switched to an old school ball mouse

lol seems like I'm high maintenance but hey, I'm a graphic designer... I need to be in the utmost best enviroment to work in because the sucess of their visual communication depends on me ;) ...and the internet is all about visual communication, so as long as I prove my worth.. I wouldn't be asking for too much at all >:]

the upcoming four month outline is basically: complete product UI redesign, new feature implementations, the icon/image portion is quite big, website redesign, then second project website design... shrug... then prolly will continue throughout the rest of the school year too... it's actually kinda exciting, if you don't try and think and do all the tasks at once.. bit by bit is the way to go!

A little gaming side note: omg Yunalesca's third form gives me nightmares!

re: .hack//G.U.+ 3

lol I just finished it and I take back what I said in my last entry... I feel so sorry for Haseo... *cough* maybe Haseo X Atori now :X

Yay it's over! ...for now

It's been a hectic week O___O Well, all of April's been pretty crazy so far... Decided to celebrate my birthday with the rest of the extended family this year and paid for the dinner... it was a nice feeling :D

On the actual birth day, on me and my classmate(V!)'s way to Richmond Centre for food and other stuff... I decided to bring back little fruit tarts for the whole class... I realized after I handed all of them out that I created a lot of attention o_O... not intentional, I swear... I honestly wished my birthday was on a non-school day =_=... But anyways, later that night my mom decided to go out and celebrate by having an expensive Chinese dinner (with the delicacies and all that good expensive stuff)... I was content. :]Then my bro who decided to extend his stay another week in asia, provided me the opportunity to do some intense ffxi skilling up... It was very convenient to have both computers at my disposal fufufu~ He returned on a Friday (disappointment? hahah...), and it just so happened to be Good Friday. We went to a ceremony at church in the morning... I couldn't stay for the whole thing and left early to pick him up from the airport. He brought me back a set of headphones as I requested and it's <3 He also bought Itadaki Street Portable (or Po) (for PSP - note the "Portable" part XD) and oooh the evil that's in it >< ... He isn't able to read and understand the Japanese so I playing it in his stead (aka. taken it over for myself)... It's the worse time to get addicted to ANY game during the end of the semester... Well anyways, it's like Monopoly but with Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest characters and gawd, who would've thunk a game like that would keep me playing... for so LONG (cough as in I'm still PLAYING IT NOW o_o!)

Later that day, it was dinner with Shi2 and Mo2 at Shabusen. Wow long time no Shabusen is right.... but it hasn't changed one bit -- the food was the same, the PRICE (!) was the same, and MAYBE the waiters aren't as cute as they once were... But still, fun times. Did lots of catching up... Afterwards, we went by the liquor store and picked up some fun stuff then headed to Mo2's place (which is also my place :b)... As soon as I mentioned drinking, my parents told me to drink downstairs (Mo2's place) instead lol~ I brought some cheesecake downstairs and we enjoyed it with the drinks... THEN Shi2 presented me with DIGIMON WORLD DS O___O which I've heard lots of good things about X3 so yay! But I don't think I'll be touching that anytime soon *coughitadakistreetcough*... then I also got a preorder for the Nth Harry Potter book from Mo2! I haven't finished reading the one before the one that's about to come out so lol... Um, it's on my to do list... I swear.

Saturday rolls around... "mandatory" Dynamis @ Xarc... nothing special... didn't win o_O Did some more research for my essay that was to be handed later that week... Met up with Tek at Metro later that night... had White Spot (YAR!) and we had the opportunity to talk alot since our waitress was extremely busy the whole time... THEN I GOT WILD ARMS PINKY:ST FROM HIM that I planned on getting eventually (maybe AX...) so eeeeeeeee O__O! That reminds me, I should OPEN IT!

Sunday: Worked for a good portion of the day and met up with the family at my aunt's place for the easter weekend dinner thingymabober. The kids were having crazy fun with the Wii that my aunt's kids had... then there was the awsome turkey dinner portion! It never fails to disappoint!

Monday: Yay day off! Doing? I don't even remember... probably more essay researching...

Tuesday: Class in the morning. Finished up our magazine project for good and let us off early... Got home to pick up my mom to Richmond for a number of errands. Bumped into Shi2 XD Wasn't able to get this month's Newtype... reminder: will get it tomorrow. Went to the Fisherman's Terrance @ 330 for a meeting for their upcoming Europe trip, and I went in my dad's stead. Unfortunately we sat in the front so I was unable to rip out my PSP and play to drain out the boring talk... The upside was there was free food though so YAY!

Wednesday: "I should work on my essay." "..." "...nah."

Thursday: Woke up early to get to school early to print out my project's stuff. Got distracted by my brother who decided to wake up early too... ~_~ I still got to school early enough to get it done... Got our marks right on the spot yay! Then we got to leave a early too, double yay! I took the chance to make my way to Best Buy Queensborough before the traffic rush... shit forgot to turn and ended up in Delta somewhere by Annacis Island lol... Tried to call for help but no one was by a computer to google map for me! Aghghghghahg... so I went and asked for help... the guy's instructions were confusing so I went by instinct and SOMEHOW MADE IT THERE IN ONE PEACE@! JOY! *proud of herself*

Decided to go out (!) for dinner that night with family... didn't exactly start my essay until 10pm so yes I didn't end up sleeping that night. Man... couldn't feel the stress nor pressure to do it... (already in summer mode XP)

Felt like SHIT the next morning. The teacher totally forgot we had to present visuals with our essay... and the shit part is, two other people did the same topic as me so they got to talk more than I did... the teacher just ended up asking me a bad question... I wanted to talk about what approach I took MY essay... but then again I suck at public speaking so I wouldn't of been able to talk about it well anyways.... and she knows I suck aaggghhgh... I just hope I didn't fail that part of the essay >_< The class didn't get to end early either! More aghrahgrhghrefij... kept falling asleep throughout other people's presentations... I felt bad but at the same time bah I didn't care anymore

So Friday's class FINALLY decides to finish... I went home and OHO! I was rewarded handsomely for a JOB WELL DONE FROM GOD!! In the mail came my long awaited AMEX credit card (very shiny and pretty btw) and my lovely stack of manga! I was mainly excited for the final fruits basket book! Who cares about sleep, I quickly opened up the box and read that first....... and.....

Aww I cried at the end (actually just tearly eyed >_>).... what a way to end a 6..7..8 (?) year story... thinking back though... the characters have really matured a lot... I'm not so sure about the fast-forward into the future little end bit though... Appropriate? Not?.. yes.. no... I guess I'm not sure XP But nonetheless... wow it REALLY ENDED.. *needs some time to absorb*

The 2nd Furuba Fanbook is quite something too... best chapter countdown, character couplings and groupings, fun little comic in the middle, interviews, and coloured illustrations!

Ok afterwards I ate and crashed. Wanted to do NOTHING BUT SLACK... and thus I did nothing but slack... didn't even go to one of our classmates' class gathering...

Saturday: Dynamis-Xarc again... what a horrible run! Full moon and not a single AF drop... not even any drops from Mr.DL 'cept a coin.. a COIN... he Deaths 90% of us when he was about to die! lol but a good quick less-than-5-minute kill though :3 Really good preparations this time too! After Dynamis I got the whole family out for my actual (immediate) family dinner at Tropika, my treat. Long time no Tropika too so it was extra good... was tempted to use my AMEX to pay...

When I got home, I got some friends to do help me with AF hands... had them open up the doors and then I camped there with my bro and a minute right after they left, it popped :D

One particular manga of note that came with my current shipment: .hack//4koma ... the book's on crack! Some panels include the characters from .hack//Alcor, which I also got but have yet to read... I'll probably get to it after I finish reading G.U.+ 3 ...Atori drives me crazy tho *is pro Haseo X Shino*

Last day of school tomorrow.. gasp, unreal.

バレータるるるる

で、

BARD PAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANTS!のオイワイ
I swear I should rack up lots of money and get myself Sha'ir body already (or level up the damn craft)... better yet, do more assault and get that Yigit.. frick! Anyways, I -need- Fortune, I swear.

Speaking of crafting... I think I'm gunna aim for main Cloth, Sub Wood and Alchemy. Just looking at the elemental staff prices as of late and I wanna cry. Everything's dropping in price... it hurts to look. >_< Like my Jester+1 was 300k, now it's 60k?! Divine Log was AT LEAST 1mil now it's 500k - that's half! Ouch D:! Sucks to be the seller... Buyers are having a blast though ;_; So right before Dynamis started today, Tiamat decides to pop. Killkill 2 hours.... After the delay, two MNK crowns, THF and my uber pants drop~ My patience paid off :33 Next: Jeuno. Nothing left to get there... hoping for a free lot perhaps.. X3 As for the past week... my bro's out of town [somewhere in China], "spying" for the sake of the family. ufufufu, I say no more >_>

And look... It's almost April.. うそいやだ＞＜

countdown: 3 months....

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あなたが読めるなら、
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感謝しやがれ！ｗｗｗ

IT'S OVER!

FINALLY! The partner project is over and done with! The week of the presentation was quite intense: Monday - stayed after our afternoon class and worked until 9pm; it felt about 75% complete. Tuesday - I worked on it throughout class and then continued with my partner for a few hours. When we were "done" we lose ALL the changes on the file since we started (2+ hours worth of work - probably due to the low power the laptop was running on the whole time >_<). She continues to catch up on the changes we did together in her Marketing class. She hands me the 95% completed handout and I finish it later that night. The internet goes down. I end up using my bro's girlfriend's laptop to steal weak 5kbps bandwidth from the neighbour. I finally send the relatively big (considering the wifi speed) through to her via e-mail after 3 attempts, disconnecting and timing out on every try and finish at 3am. Sleep ensues. Wednesday - errands galore. I rush home by 1:30 and makes sure the handout was properly recieved for mass photocopying at her workplace that afternoon. All was well except the powerpoint file would not upload properly to me. Later that night, I finally receive the file and do a major overhaul. It finishes, I send it back later that night. Thursday - She doesn't recieve the file so I give it to her via usb copy I luckily brought. Friday - Presentation. Unfortunately our font didn't work so well on the mac so it didn't show up properly and ended up messing up our layouts. We also last minutely find out that one of the designer's name was spelt incorrectly so we rush to the mac lab to mass reprint the page. The page number mysteriously disappears. Anger. Presentation commences. We finish. We rejoice.

Wednesday afternoon, Sty and I finally went to buy our plane tickets thanks to my constant nagging omg. The price rose up 36 cents since we last checked the price omg XD... So now people owe me major money. At LEAST *cough750cougheachpersoncough*... I swear I should've asked for the money FIRST before getting them. But then if I ask for money first, at this rate, we'd never get ANYWHERE. SO I will sacrifice myself for the better of the team...! Ok, so the day ended up pretty retarded. We started at Champlain, went to Metro for bubble tea, went back to her place after for her bank card, then headed to Richmond to the banks, then went to Daiso for some tape (?!) and then went back to Vancouver for sushi. Super gas wastage GooOO!

300! Went to watch 300 Friday night with Mo2, Shi2 and some SGers. Yay long time no theatre movie. It was pretty good. The magically appearing and disappearing white horse still puzzles me. I guess we'll only get to find out in the DVD when we see the Deleted Scenes. Afterwards we loitered, had gelato (in which 1/3 into my gelato I remember that I can't stand sweet things so I ended up giving it to the other people to finish), and Denny's. Denny's gave us shit service, food, everything. We agreed on giving no tip. (Well I gave a 2 cent tip actually...) Haven't done that in a long time...

Today. Work was dead. Traffic and construction around Oakridge is disgusting. Work is pretty blah... might just drop this one for another offer I'm considering. I'm hestitent only because I'm a lazy bastard and I don't want more responsibilities that come with a better pay... :b But putting things into perspective... it's a good change and I'd be financially better off. But damn, I'm lazy.

Oh what the - end of February

I didn't realize it was the end of February until I went to actually look at the calendar a second ago. Wow, where'd January and February go?

So my bro has finally completed his apprenticeship (sp?) and he demanded that he return to FFXI. So now I have to share the account with him... boo. Well he plans on returning to Fortune too, meaning, they'll be less free time and more camping time... sigh then I'll have to get out of my way and go help with Fortune stuff when it's my turn to play. He's been busy levelling THF while I'm trying to level RNG... party is scarce for the both of us. I'm still one point away from tier 2 assault, fuck, I want that one assault point already! I can't wait to get started on my RNG AF though~

If I may, I'd like to rant a bit about school. There once was a partner. A partner who didn't get along with me for some unknown reason. I couldn't care less what her grudge was against me, but we're partnered up for a reason -- to work on our project together. I'd think we'd be able to cast aside whatever differences we have just to get this project over with but apparently that's not as easily done as hoped. Perhaps the lack of maturity would explain it... We agree on a time to meet and so we do. She ends up spending the better half doing an assignment for another class.. which is fine, as long as she gets something done afterwards... or so you'd think. She finishes her assignment and so we finally get to discuss what we should do for this project. Pretty much nothing gets solved or organized and we end up pretty much just saying we'd meet up again next week (Huh? We're just going to let this perfectly good week slide?). Oh okay, sure, we'll meet up next week (cough it's DUE next week).. so let's start working on it now since we agreed on working on it at that time. A few minutes later she gets up and prepares to leave. Someone elses questions her and asks why she'd leaving her partner here to work and she says it's already been dealt with (Sorry? Did I miss something within those few minutes? D:)... Well okay fine, I let that go, even though we both made a commitment to work after class on our project together. So she leaves anyways. Come again? What happened to "I don't want to do this last minute"? What's worse (and rather confusing) is that I was told she laughed on her way out of the school. Sorry I think I missed something again... so what's so funny? I feel sorry for you, Miss.Immature... you need to grow up. You'll get to work with all sorts of people you dislike out there in the business world when you graduate... if leaving your partner to work alone somehow amuses you, you need to find a better hobby. If it was supposed to upset me, I'm sorry, you're a failure at life. Stupid girl.

Wow now that I play less FFXI I feel that I should play more FFX... or maybe do some more anime catching up. Oh wait, my router software's apparently screwed up. So my ports are fucked over and I'm firewalled for life. I'm tempted to go back to our original Linksys but damn it overheats too easily. Time to make myself a homemade cooling system for le router? Unfortunately I don't know jack about how a router works but I guess there's nothing to lose XP... Reminds me of the days I cracked open laptops.... Mmmm funnn~

Chinese New Year week came and went. My uncle came back to visit... the useless one -- always says he had a giant project going, going to make lots of money, getting agreements signed, getting lots of clients.... that was the case 3+ years ago... and he's still at it now. The whole dinner conversation felt like we were listening to him ramble about his dream world where he'd make lots of money and get rich. Dream world indeed... The whole family was rolling their eyes. He seriously needs to grow up too and look at things more realistically. He's been doing nothing in China 'cept wasting all our grandpa's money on nothing. Apparently he also upset a bunch of business people over on the other side as well... he agreed to do something, spent the money and haven't paid them back yet... And it involves a lawyer too... If I were the lawyer, I'd already would have sued his ass? But he got it lucky because the lawyer was an acquaintence of someone we knew. Sigh. Now he taught his elementary school daughter the same mind set and now she's as retared as he is. Bluntly said, he's a disgrace to the family. Him aside though, Alaskan King Crab tomorrow night! One of the first and many of those to come this awsome crab season!

Had dinner with a bunch of ex-GL co-workers and lol felt like we did nothing but rant about how bad the work conditions were... and sadly it was not the typical work rant that you'd get at any other job but these rants were about SERIOUS issues. And then I was reminded about my VACATION PAY THAT THEY STILL OWE ME FROM HALF A YEAR AGO. Frick, so I went and called them up and then realized I DIDN'T EVEN GET MY ROE. They never bothered to give it to me...hellooo it's been half a year, I can lay the smack on you by workers compensation and canada revenue and the related!!

Now, let us attempt to work on our homework shall we?

Hello February!

So wow here I am again MID-FEBRUARY! Look at the time fly :/

Let us examine the many aspects of life:

School- Projects come and go... the semester feels a bit more slack than the previous (which of course is an awfully good thing yes?) The [maybe sudden] realization of society and culture sadly taking form in and between the classmates at school. Do I even know what I'm trying to say? No? It's okay. It'll be a conversation between Me, Myself and I. What I'm trying to say is... Having to act a certain way and say certain things just to be accepted is really silly. omg, it feels like frickin' high school - the attitudes especially.. people, grow up! What the hell have you been learning in Rick's tedious lectures? I know they're long-winded but they frickin' make so much bloody sense it's actually rather frightening. Yes, we learn about how culture diseases society and how we can use it to manipulate others (hurhur, go go graphic designers!)... So yeah, I decided to be 'different' and now I'm exiled. Fun. There goes my social life at school. Not that I needed it though.

Sooo.. there was this Breast Cancer contest slash fundrasier thing that went on and one of our projects revolved around this contest that we ended up submitting to. I liked how mine turned out and I would THINK the teacher liked it too... after the contest he kept trying to convince me to turn it into a children's story book XD?! But yeah I didn't win though BUT SOMEONE BIDDED ON MINE!! Our class was invited to the reception-like event that was held at Steamworks in gastown... open bar but was limited to beer and wine. I didn't feel like drinking but I had a LOT of appetizers that circulated around constantly. Everyone brought a guest so I decided to bring Mike with me since he worked nearby and I'm sure he'd be one of the few that might appreciate something like this. Unfortunately I don't think I was that great of a host to him though (when am I ever a good host, seriously?)... We had two classmates that ended up insanely drunk... fun times, fun times. After the event, I finally went and visited Mike's NEW OFFICE! Awsome view, great atmosphere - very convenient to lots of things nearby. Yet again he offered me a position in their company but damn, full time no good!

Work- Work's been DEAD! No one shops at Oakridge The Bay much nowadays! I was able to grab a few extra hours during the Valentines rush (minus a day because of Dynamis on Tuesdays - tho I heard the day before Valentines was busy :/).. so I think I've narrowed down my favourite guy fragrances to Issey Miyake L'eau Blue and Gorgio Armani GIO. To answer ToFu's question from a long time ago: I don't mind guys wearing fragrances.. as long as it's not oversprayed (as you reek of nothing but the fragrance), not stinky stuff like CHANEL, DRAKKAR Noir or Burberry, not insanely sweet like ESCADA or JOOP!.. it should be subtle and pleasant. Just maybe a little there to make you want MORE (rar~) - tips for guys? :D

Gaming- Now that I've thought about it... I think I'm going to level RNG to 75 instead of COR. Ranger is actually quite fun (doing insanely high damage!) and getting equip for COR is hard as hell. It's exciting to get hate from the enemy easily :b Not so exciting when they can't get it off me and I die in the process XD;; I'm one point away from Private First Class assault ranking grahgrahgrah... stupid assault ls cancelling for no bloody reason.

I've also finished Children of Mana! Boy was the last, last stage long as hell or what >_<;

紅白 - KOUHAKU 2006!
I almost forgot to blog about this AGAIN.. um so [spoiler]the guys won again this year[/spoiler]. The theme this year was love and family. I don't remember the order so I'll just talk whatever I remember... um, random people I didn't know and felt that they sucked: Aqua Timez and DJ OZMA... random people I didn't know and felt was good: Sukima Switch 《スキマスイッチ》, ... surprised to see Angela Aki and Suga Shikao there! Very awsome! Returning awsomes: Nakashima Mika, aiko, Otsuka Ai, Porno Graffiti (このＢＩＧＭＡＣＨＩＮＥを乗っていけよ！！！！(ノ ゜Д゜)ノ)... ORANGE RANGE returned which was nice.. BONNIE PINK showed up (!) but was meh, Hamasaki Ayumi of course was there but she's meh to me now too... oh yeah SMAP can't sing still.

Blogger-
New blogger's pretty annoying now... forcing me to login with my google account grr. I need to find some time to recode my blog to fit the standards of today :b... someday I will, someday.

Harddrive-
HEY! I finally cleared out my harddrive! Now E: is dedicated to anime! Backlog time backlog time! I've finished 4-5 unfinished series so far?... 2924983473 more to go!

Website-
Backlogged until further notice!

Manga-
Furuba 22 WASN'T THE LAST BOOK OMG! Torture to wait another month for 23, the REAL final book. It's really wrapping up... I can't believe it. FRUITS BASKET IS ACTUALLY ENDING!

I read that Kami-chama Karin is going to be animated... it'll be FUN! Also, Sou-niisama is playing a character in "Bokura no", a manga (to be anime) by the creator of Narutaru so I decided to read up on it (another Sou-niisama fan shared it on the LJ community) and wow...intense... I KNEW that it was going to be another depressing, action-filled story involving kids.. that's just the Narutaru way!

Air Gear 15: RINGO! WHY DID YOU@!$*#$U#*($&*#(JIOEJFK She's my favourite character too D:

Mid-January 07 Life Update

Surprise surprise... I end up getting work hours after the busy Christmas season. Only once a week but still! Good stuff! I alternate from Oakridge and Richmond every other week and surprisingly I was able to sell something on both days. Hard as hell but I managed! Also it just so happens that the sidewalk sale was happening at both malls too! Good and bad: good that there's a sale; bad that I END UP SPENDING! So uh yeah I ended up buying stuff... eheh.

My brother also just finished suffering through a really horrible cold/flu. It was so bad, he had to skip work for 3 days and stay at home the whole time. Poor guy...

Gaming:
HEY I FINALLY got past the first few hours of FFX after umm.. was it two tries in total since it first came out? LOL. So far, I'm loving Tidus and disliking Yuna. Wakka's voice is so amusing to hear X3

Been playing Fantasy Earth Zero lots lately. It's like the FFXI PvP you always wished for! The auto mana refresh is love <3

FFXI - Attempted to start COR and realize - hoshitz - I need RNG sub.. so I'm TRYING to level RNG but it's kinda tedious lol.. man I was soo psyched when I got to use my first roll at lvl5! Sigh. In other news tho, I temp joined up with this assault ls that has a really shitty leader. At least the other members are more knowledgable than him.

Manga and the related:
DID I MENTION MY WILD ARMS 10TH ANNIVERSARY FANBOOK BOOK CAME IN TEH MAIL? OMGG! The book is full of awsomeness! It makes me wanna play Alter Code: F to see all the new chars they added and the changes they made.

I wish the last Furuba book would hurrys up its ass and makes its way here already XP

Music:
The latest SOUND HORIZON CD "Roman" is EXCELLENT!
I get to hear Sou-niisama laugh in track 3 and say a line in track 4! Hahaha!

Ahh sillyness is awsome. Now I flee to bed.

Status of Clearing up old HDDs: 85%
I'm almost there...! As soon as that's done, I need to welcome back AnimePsychoGirl and Sayoko the sofaking of kidd.nu and blackwings.net...

So much to do! So little time!

2007年 あけましておめでとー

なんというか…
あという間だったよね
マジで早かった。

で、
Jan 1-7
Tried to clean and get through that bloody to-do list I created for myself a few months back. And sigh, I wasn't able to get through the whole list (go figure). However, I was able to do some serious computer organizing and room organizing (still not finished in neither departments). I love finishing things don't I... wow really.

5
Hung out with Tek.. had good ol' ramen and bubbletea. Luckily we fled before the giant wind storm arrived later that night.

6
AWSOME SHOPPING OVER THE BORDER!
Haven't had so much fun shopping in a while... Woke up early for breakfast slash lunch, visited the bank quickly for some bank-related errands then headed off to a few close outlet stops. Mainly visited the Coach outlet (mom, go figure) and Tommy (yay!). Then we did some sweet Costco shopping and picked up some rare goodies X3 Then working backwards, we visited Bellis Fair: Target, Hollister, A&F, and some random stores. I got some sweet loot for some pretty damn good prices X3

7
Boarding @ Seymour. Avalaches and high winds closed up the better lift. Instead, we built our own mini jumps off of the mini hills. The staff pretended not to see it and told us to clean it up responsibly after we're done :b...

8
The start of school. Oh yey.
I figured it was the first day of school.. no need to rush. Right? Wrong! I end up being the last to show up (ONLY 5 mins into the class >_>) and it was FULL! Why was it FULL? Cuz all of a sudden, the school decides to put in two extra students (exchange students, mind you) when we've only lost one student from last semester and the max class size is TWENTY. THEREFORE WE WENT OVER BY ONE! I BECAME THE ONE! After that I've been going to class early for the rest of the week JUST TO BE SURE I GET A SEAT!

9
Ok, I arrived EARLY to get a SEAT. At the end someone else got left out instead. Phew...? BUT THEN! We get a NEW TEACHER! She has a heavy mexican accent that prevented me from listening even if I wanted to! I completely zoned out all class so yeah huh something about spot colours?

10
I got a haircut. Not exactly what I wanted... now I look like a rebel slash jrocker wannabe. BUT the good thing is that I have the ability to make instant ahoge and/or antennas with no need for water/gel -- NOTHING! SO that's kinda fun... but hey wait, that's not what I wanted! >_<

11
I GET TO CLASS EARLY JUST IN-CASE! Thank goodness, they weren't in this class... We finally get to work with a real client this time for our first project this semester, yay! And it's De Dutch too!

12
Welcome back to history of graphic design, yeah. We were assigned our partners for our term project.. then we were presented with a wonderful summary assignment due the week after. The article's bloody 10 pages, double sided LONG!

さって、パートナーの事だね…
ちょっとイヤなオンアとペアしたの

カノジョはいつもあたしがいると変な空気がする
変な目であたしを見てて
ぜんぜん一人で話してくれない

そして、なんかムカーな感じがするね　あの子

まあ、このクラスの中でもイヤなヤツいっぱいいるから

なんとなくがんばるよぉん／／／


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