To hell and back...

School inevitably means frequent visits to hell.
The weekend before was one of those bad visits... Saturday and Sunday was dedicated to my soon-to-be 20+ page major research report proposal which was fortunately only a few pages in comparison. However, our marketing instructor is a stickler for proper writing, reference (APA for some reason instead of MLA) and critique.

The dread continued into Monday (luckily it was a statue holiday) and Tuesday after class when I stayed at school until closing for my final major project research proposal. I had a few hours of sleep that night before I had to wake up to get my report printed and binded before class started at 8.

Lack of sleep hooo!
Well at least the visit to hell was nicely balanced by a visit from ToFu that following weekend... and apparently he's going to be a permanent resident! :>

So I drove through the Second Narrows for the first time - the tunnel is pretty cool. North Van isn't as bad as I thought, though that one lane traffic thing they're have during construction is not very smart. The weather was relatively shat so we decided to hang around locally. I also got to see MINI for the second time in my life and the three of us roamed Daiso, had Posh and e-spot arcaded. During, we met our destined bff - Ben Posh. Oh, Ben~

The next day was visit all the stores you think you used to know but apparently does not exist anymore. It was a rather depressing. My further research has revealed me to me that indeed the import games and figure stores are dying and everything has probably moved to the internet.

Hm it seems Sty was sick when I met her. I didn't touch her but... my throat hurts now. Hm, I worry. I thought I'm H1N1 immune already. :(

Here's something to finish this off, the 20min rushedly edited video for shits and giggles.. and for marks:

Tales of Veperia trailer fun

I always wanted to make my own videos but due to insane laziness I never get around to them. So for some reason yesterday I decided to take a shot at making a Tales of Vesperia fan trailer for the Tales Brigade community video-making challenge. I aimed for something fast paced and destructive, so I ended up making a battle-centered video accompanied by Anubis ZOE's theme, Beyond the Bounds. The criteria was that it'd be around 1min, which was way too short to make anything too interesting but at the same time, it lessens the amount of work. I took a few hours of my evening and slapped things together to make the following:



If I was really dedicated, I'd tweak it to perfection but no thanks. Since the sources were from youtube (I call it youtubs), they were given as mp4s, and were a biotch to reencode into another format, so I left it as it is. However, this prevented me from using it in Premiere Pro, so I resorted to Windows Movie Maker. The customization is pretty crappy but I had to make do. At the same time, because it was so simple, I didn't need to spend an insane amount of time on it. Unlike my friend's FFXI wedding video I've yet to find the right encode for. I also have my sources ready for a Besieged video I wanted make a year or so ago. Slowly.. maybe I'll get to those sometime.