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／／／


ではー

Happy New Years Eve!

On December 31st, 2006... Candace finally finished Wild ARMs 4.

Final verdict:
Story 2.5/5
Children and adults blahblahblah it wouldn't stop. Also the fact that [spoiler] everyone kept dying [/spoiler] didn't make it as sad as they wanted it to be. Maaaybe at the end when [spoiler]Jude had to kill his dad[/spoiler]. That hurt a bit.

Characters 1/5
AMG! The characters were ALL so annoying and UGLY, both good and bad guys. Somebody kill that character designer. The voices were horrible too. Lambda is, by far, the ugliest-haired character yet.

Music 4.5/5
I absolutely love the boss battle tracks. Not enough whistling though rofl.

Gameplay 3/5
I eventually got used to the new hex battle system. The map is too tiny and limited for my tastes. No millenium puzzles, that sucked. The puzzles weren't that challenging either. Neither were there that many sidesquests...

Overall 3/5
The game was short >_<; The cutscenes looked so much better than the still coloured pictures with the annoying comic book-style grids. Boring ending though XP... the last boss was so easy... gee, why bother. My game also glitched and froze a few times in the beginning too... Did I mention the animation quality was really bad for this one?

Ok, now that that's over... should I give FFX a try again? 3rd attempt? Maybe this time I'll get past the boring beginning for a change? I better get through that horrendous to-do list first before I start something new...

Post Merry Christmas!

The last week's been INSANE!

First I had 8 hour work shifts that took up all my day, then after work I'd have loads of stuff to do~

20th - Oakridge mall closed at 11pm every night and my mom had to work until closing that day. Unluckily, she also caught the flu and eventually lost her voice.. like literally gone. I only had to work till 8 that night, but Oakridge was DEAD so it didn't matter how late I worked!

21st - Worked till 6, then rushed to Queensborough for some SHOPPING (AHAHAHA~)... I got to use my postcard discount on Tommy and also checked out the other new stores (Mexx and Quiksilver). It seems the actual clothing outside the outlets are a lot nicer though... After some good ol' shopping that lead to closing @ 9, we ate at Alleluia (sp?) for some dinner. The waiter kept coming over to help us at our table even when he worked all the way on the other side of the restaurant.. lol, so cute XP

22nd - Until 6 again, rushed home to get ready for a giant family dinner at the "shack" restaurant. I call it the shack because the service sucks, the place is extremely shack-like (e.g. needs renovating), everything's dirty, at night there'd be shady, gangster-looking people that come in to eat and play MJ, and the food isn't all that great. But since it was the grandma's choice, we went anyways. -_- We waited 3 hours for food and they claimed they were "too busy".. Pfft... Like I said, the food wasn't spectacular so there were lots of leftovers. Though, I'll give credit for the good fish they made... that was it. And then we left smelling like the disgusting food we ate....

23rd - Last day at the Richmond branch. Business wasn't as busy as we all hoped. C'mon, it was 2 days before Christmas and the mall was DEAD. There was a wave of people that came in the afternoon but that was pretty much it.

24th - OMG CHRISTMAS EVE IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE BUSY.. you'd think. Worked at Oakridge that day and wow it was very beautifully dead there too... even moreso than Richmond. I didn't sell much unfortunately but had fun talking and slacking a bit lol. Last day -- who cares? :b Had dim sum with some of the cosmetic's people for lunch... Time flew pretty fast though since I ended up helping people find fragrances that weren't even my line (more fun that way anyways :b). I finished at 5 but the store closed at 6 so I hung around until my mom got off. Went home to be welcomed to a roast beef dinner <3

So! I'm a bit more knowledgable with fragrances now:

Men's Escada: smells like alcohol; vodka to be exact.
David Beckham stinks.
Phat Farm is just brand name, it stinks.
GUCCI is just brand name, it also stinks.
Faranheit stinks, I don't know why people like it.
Joop! smells like bubble gum.. gross.
Burberry Men's smells like old men.
They don't make Alfred Sung Pure anymore, sad.
J.Lo has like 5 perfumes.. why?
CHANEL Men's pretty disgusting.
Givenchy Men's is strong and gross.
Hugo Boss' Silver and Black ball-shaped fragrances are nice.
I saw Prada... probably stinks.
Women's Escada (the one with the girl on the cover) is really sweet..like crazy mangos..good at first, too much later.
White Diamonds is NASTY.
Sean Jean's is alright... never knew he had a fragrance line AND clothing line.
Nautica Voyage's is a nice, fresh scent.
Armani Code smells like detergent. Could be a good thing.
Issey Miyake Men's with the shiny silver top is nice.
Issey Miyake Men's with the non-shiny silver top is not that great.
DKNY's Be Delicious smells like weed.
DKNY's Be Delicious Red smells alright... too fruity.
Lacoste fragrances are all for brand name.. they aren't that great..at least they don't stink.
Never heard of Kenzo... it isn't that good.
B*Men isn't that great.
So isn't Angel.
Hilary Duff, your fragrance isn't that great.
So isn't yours, Britney Spears.
Sexual Men's and Women's smells like old people.
Vera Wang is alright. I like the limited edition with the shiny crystals inside.
CK's new euphoria's overrated I tell you.. but it isn't bad.

I've never heard of Corduroy but it's good and I was selling it.

I've also never heard of John Varvatos but it smells like Italian men and I was selling it.

I've also never heard of ZIRH but it looks like a pretty good skincare line and I was selling it.

25th - Happy Birthday, Christ! Had our annual awsome dinner at my aunt's place. Turkey, ham, OYSTERS (!), mashed potatoes.. mmm~

26th - Boxing Day. Attempted to shop, I swear. But I left empty handed.

Just received news my Wild Arms 10th Anniversary Fanbook is on its way! Still working on Wild Arms 4... ooh it's brutal. Jude, Yulie, everyone.. just die please. FFXI is still strong :3 My latest chocobo is GREEN! Just thinking of what to name him... I was thinking of 'Fat Ace' [/inside joke for those who know what I'm talking about XP] but then he wouldn't sound very cool now would he. I also attempted an Astral Candy recovery mission... We lost Besieged on CHRISTMAS DAY with ~200 ppl only. We went as a 3 party alliance -- all first timers at recovering -- and we so underestimated the three NMs XP... We barely even phased one. Ah well, fun times... at least it's been recovered when I went on yesterday.

Maybe I'll work once or twice a week in the next semester. First semester was nice without work but money was deadly tight >_<;;

Regarding my to-do list though... with only a week and a few days left.. I've accomplished barely anything. First priority ish probably old computer, then cleaning my room, then vacuuming the house, then maybe... just maybe... revamp my domainS while squeezing in gaming time, surfing time, eating time, hanging out time... At least I washed my car? (but frick I wasn't able to vacuum it cuz I couldn't find the extension cable)

I suck at this time management thing.

Waho~

Don't you just love it when you're busy as hell during your only break from school?!

Anyways, life's a bit too eventful at the moment... as much as I like dynamism, it's beginning to be too much. Thank goodness (or maybe that should be 'Unfortunately'), I only have work until Christmas Eve. After that, it's dead for me. Maybe then I can actually catch up on the stuff I wanted to do for the past (uh..) half a year.

I recently broke the front usb ports of my tower. Go me. If I have the time (probably never) I'll see if I can replace it. So yeah, I messed up my current keyboard some more so I borrowed my bro's USB keyboard. As convenient (or inconvenient) as the front ports may be, I tripped over the damn cord and woosh, there flew the pieces of my usb plug. *head to desk/keyboard/tower* I am awsome.

At work the other day, I met some new sales associate in the fragrance department. Poor guy... Apparently, another fragrance demo girl invited him to join her for lunch. During lunch, she told him to meet her at the sushi store. He gets there and sees her sitting in the corner by herself at an obviously one-seater table. He notices that there isn't another seat for him to sit with her, so he shrugs and tells her he'll take a seat outside the store. She goes Okay and pretty much ditches him... in his face. Ouch. He comes back from lunch to tell me that D: and says he doesn't have many friends (cough) which is why he was really, really heartbroken when she did that to him. Aww!! That was mean though...

Boarding! I finally went boarding for the first time this season! And it was a horrible location at that! [/regrets buying Seymour pass] I purposely took a day off work (out of the few work days I have left) to go.. we end up getting there later than planned (from originally 10:30 to being 2:30ish =_=) because of other things that came up and things they decided to do on that day instead of another frickin' day. The runs were a bit icy and we ended up staying for night skiing so it was dark and creepy ~_~... There was only one run open at night too so it was kinda boring. The lifts were slow and tedious... the lift up took 10x longer than the run so most of the time went wasted, waiting to get up to the top. I got lost from the group after taking the wrong turn that brought me to a kiddy park and the entrance @#%%. The kiddy park rope (instead of a lift) was frickin' FAST! I had so much trouble just trying to get up the damn HILL! I don't know how the kids do it, but they're good XDD;; For the second half, I just went a few times by myself before I received an SMS and I suddenly remembered I received an SMS a bit before that. Apparently it was an SMS from the other group, telling me they were LEAVING. So I rushed down after that, after worrying them for a good half 'n hour, reported to the snow patrol even :X

I forgot I need new bindings.

Yesterday I hung out downtown with Simon. We originally wanted to [finally] try KINTARO but, we got screwed over again! We got there to find out [AGAIN] that they're closed on MONDAYS! Aahahahaha...ha.. We ate at Gyoza King instead. Ironically, everything there was really good EXCEPT THE GYOZA. We also visited an awsome art bookstore called Oscar on Broadway and Granville. If only we were able to spend more time there...! But parking is brutal and our plans were mainly Downtown so we left after a mere 45mins that only allowed me to go through TWO BOOKSHELVES (1/12 of the store?)... Not to mention the windy weather was insanely cold and painful to walk in. We did some good ol' window shopping after food... I DID find stuff I wanted (new stock, in fact), BUT they didn't have my sizes (go figure). Could be a good thing... I'm still quite financially unstable. The money I save will SOMEHOW have to be preserved until AX07. Insanely impossible. Not that I'm earning much to begin with (with the little hours I'm working..)... and I have my orders of manga goodness to fulfill and the occassional figurine here and there (*cough Wild Arms pinky:st*).

Agh why are we doing Dynamis-Windurst again.