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: