Hiruandan

From what I’m led to believe, this means a “a lamp at noon”, a metaphor for someone who doesn’t stick out. Hi, me! Beyond that, it’s also a song from Guilty Gear 2 Overture OST. And even further beyond that, today walking home from BART, the lamps were all on. All of the lamp posts in the parking lot, the ones on the street, all turned on. Of course, it took me a while to notice, after all, that metaphor doesn’t exist for no reason. I’m not even sure if it’s unnatural for the lights to be on, it might just be the first day I’ve noticed. I was wondering why they were on, since I hadn’t heard news of any incoming eclipses or end of the world type deals from anywhere. Of course, I’m terrible at keeping abreast of news, I only figured out last night that the Bay Bridge is closed again.  But the eclipse hasn’t happened yet! So maybe I am not too off on the news on that count.

I’m thinking about being a dentist. I figure, it makes good money, good hours, and I don’t have to write a book or something like you would for being a doctor. And, if I end up hating my job, I might actually have the funds to go back to school to find something I actually like. Terrible plan, I know. Furthermore, my job description is “I am the man who rips the teeth from your mouth with EXTREME PREJUDICE. Your mouth is my domain.” Something about that REALLY appeals to me. Also, the irony of me having terrible teeth. I love the image of me revving up a power drill and turning around with a deranged rictus on my face. That’s right, I’m aiming to become the scariest dentist of all time! The kids’ll hate me. >>;

I beat Battle Moon Wars recently, yay! That last mission sucked balls. Fuck you, defence support. Fuck you, cross-screen field attack. Fuck you, status-inducing moves. And now I’ve started New Game +. I know, isn’t that just great, I’m at it again >>;.

So, for now, I’m off…to pick classes. Ah, fuck.

Listening to: Owl City – Vanilla Twilight.

“force into their flesh the natural laws of when they were human for a new baptism to destroy them”

Late Night Television

I’ve been lazy, if you haven’t noticed. Of course you haven’t.

I should write about the past couple of months, but I don’t feel like it. Maybe later.

Instead, I’ll talk about tonight. My parents are staying at the other house to save gas and fix it up and crap. So, I took advantage of the opportunity. That’s right, I watched LATE NIGHT TELEVISION *fanfare and crap*. It’s really not that impressive, I know, but it’s got some crazy ass crap going on during the late night.

There are still kids shows running on PBS Kids. Granted, it is PBS KIDS, they’ve nothing more to show, but really, what kid would be up at this time watching? What kid should be up at this time watching? >>;

Pee Wee Herman was on MTV, or so it seemed. Personally, this is my first exposure to actually seeing Pee Wee Herman. I was flipping through channels and I saw him, and breakfast was being prepared by preposterous contraptions to the tune of “Breakfast Machine”, which I know from hearing it on the Internet. Appropriately titled, no? I figured this was MTV, this must be some surreal music video, albeit to a song that I doubt would be attracting of MTV’s target audience, until I saw the license plate on his bike “Pee Wee Herman”. And then it all clicked together that there was a plot, it was a show of some sort, and now I am left with “why the fuck would MTV be showing Pee Wee Herman?” Granted, 3:00 isn’t exactly a time most people would be watching, but still…

Superjail is really really really surreal and shit. What the fuck.

Reno 911! How crude. Exactly in my taste. Which reminds me, I’ve yet to watch Bruno, apparently it offended the bulk of the people I know that have watched it. Seeing as I’m a terrible person that doesn’t get particularly offended by most things, I’ll have to see just how offensive it is in the future…

Infomercials, their products are somehow made to look SO DAMN ATTRACTIVE. That is their purpose, yes, but still, no way in hell would they look so good if they didn’t have at least a semblance of working so well as shown in the infomercial. *sigh* Reminds me of this Achewood strip. OH, I also saw Slap Chop, on the TV, in the main! Vince Offer going “you’ll love my nuts”, lovingly rendered by an HDTV whose specs I know absolutely nothing about except it’s way huger and crisper than Youtube videos have ever shown up before (can’t say for the future though).

I’ve begun playing Battle Moon Wars again, goddammit. I see Melty Blood Actress Again videos, want to play that game, but it’s not out for PC anytime soon, so I settle for getting Melty Blood Act Cadenza up and running again. That being unsatisfying because I suck camel balls at fighting games, I went to Battle Moon Wars. *sigh* Not to mention, I’ve been getting into Platinum. Deep into Platinum. I beat the Elite 4 last morning before I went to bed. >< And with all this, my school work gets screwed over, terrible terrible me, yes?

The seasonal cough is back again! Fuck you, chronic bronchitis (which I assume is what’s afflicting me, thank Elvin for suggesting it).

Mmkay, I’m tired now, I’m off to bed. Maybe tomorrow I might blog about school. Maybe I won’t. Tune in tomorrow to find out! Same fail-time, same fail-channel!

Listening to: Akitaka Tohyama-Sacred Mushroom, from Nanosweep 5. I do say, Nanosweep is not bad, not  bad at all. Sometimes, you just have to revisit the material to gain an appreciation for it.

philosophy: are you really going to love his nuts

Equivalent Exchange

“The primary rule of Thaumaturgy is Equivalent Exchange. In order to create something, another object must be given as a price. It may also involve modification to an existing object. The base of all Thaumaturgy is the use of prana to produce something that either already exists or can exist. That which falls into the phantasm category, something made out entirely of images and might even not exist naturally anymore, will be eventually wiped out by the world for being in conflict with this rule.”

A principle behind magic in Type-Moon works. The world is one of give and take; phantasms pulled out of the magus’s imagination will shatter within moments, as the world is like a living organism – self preservation above all. Illusions cannot be reality, reality will move swiftly to restore balance.

I’ve been playing a lot of Fate/Stay Night, yeah, the laws behind the world are complicated >>;. And yet, so cool…

And my driving test is today, I REALLY should be asleep by now…I feel failure coming on…

Listening to: Daisuke Ishiwatari-Bullet Dance. The soundtrack for Blazblue came out, and the game being a spiritual successor to Guilty Gear…DO WANT. The music is similarly awesome as well.

awake…to a new world…hello world

So Fucked

So, the night before last religion class, I was up at 3 AM trying to finish off that large paper I had for the class. I didn’t of course >>;. The internet connection was on the fritz as well; my router claimed there was no internet while my modem claimed there was, then when my router said there was a connection the modem said there wasn’t. So, I gave up on the internet and slept three hours before waking up to work on the paper. I’m going to get a C in the class, I think. Yay >>;. The class was really interesting though, I just fail at participation, what can you expect, eh?

The final English essay sucked as well. It was on community college. I only have one semester’s worth of community college experience as a college student, so that was rather out of my league…but, Laney is almost over, 2 more days worth of finals, and I’ll be clear.

So, I found an English translation for Battle Moon Wars, some tactical RPG with Type-Moon characters, and I decided to play it. My time has been raped by it >>;.

And lastly: Mighty Soy. I’d say the reason why it’s 99 cents is because of the poorly thought out mascot >>;. That, or it really does have extra stuff fortifying it >>;.

Listening to: Some remix of the background music for some shitty ass game Cheetahmen II for the NES. That game was apparently legendarily bad because of lack of debugging and was considered impossible to complete. Excepting the music, apparently it was top notch, and multiple remixes of the song were made because of a movie file of the game posted on some Japanese video site. How amusing.

aching nutbladders

It Was Pretty Vivid

So the first part of my dream was like playing Four Swords Adventures, except with Phantom Hourglass graphics…and me as a Link. So the other two Links were being douches (don’t know where the fourth one went) so they told me to go into the dungeon and they’d wait outside. Douches. So the mission was to find these eight…fluffy things? I don’t remember, they were supposed to be friendly though. Then I had to help them resolve a conflict between then because they couldn’t easily divide what they had among them…it was odd. The dungeon was filled with red pots, so I broke all of them while looking for them. Then I got knocked out cold for some reason (maybe because I may have semi-woken up at that point?), right at realizing that I was supposed to hit a switch for the furry things to pop up. So yeah…

After I got back up I was in some really fancy, triangular shaped building with a lot of glass walls. With me were (out of nowhere) Roger and Josh. And for some reason, we were trapped in the building, and someone had taken all the stuff out of my pockets-money, wallet, pens, nail clippers, etc. And we were trapped in the building-it was big, but apparently a prison. It was an odd prison though…the floor we were on seemed like the dining area for a corporate headquarters, filled with a lot of suits and expensive places to buy food. And I looked outside the building…and outside were those nice houses that line the hilly streets of San Francisco. And then there were these large, slimy snakes with heads that looked like Flamers from Kirby games except their bodies were made of goo, and they appeared in a variety of bright colors. And in the distance, a large, towering, green cyclops was headed for the building, shooting out of its eye silver cannonballs the size of a human at the building. Josh was peering at the outside world rather nonchalantly when a cannonball broke the glass immediately to his right, but instead of losing his calm, he just kept his cool. And I said “well fuck, that was epic”. So while more cannonballs rained on the building, Roger apparently had the keys to the building in his pocket (yeah, I know, deus ex machina) so we rushed to the doors, opened them, and then yelled out to everyone “HEY WE GOT THE DOORS OPEN”. Most of the people didn’t even respond and went about normally. So we left, and the cyclops was getting closer, and I lamented at the fact that I didn’t have any bow and arrows to kill the cyclops with (attack its weak point for massive damage, duh). For some reason, either Josh had left and Michael Duncan had joined us, or he just transformed. I’m going to go with transform. Michael had a long, sharp metal splinter with him he thought he could throw at the cyclop’s eye to kill him. For some reason, a pair of tweezers appeared in my pockets, and it had a sharp tip…except the whole tip part was curved, like this. So, it’d be useless as a throwing weapon. This being a dream, Michael was able to throw the metal splinter with an underhand throw and have it fly straight, like an arrow in fiction…only to have it miss the cyclops by, oh, i dunno, a mile or something? It DID however hit a passing truck, and manage to lodge itself into the truck’s container. That was pretty epic as well…didn’t do crap to stop the cyclops from coming…so it did come, and apparently, it gets smaller the closer you get to it, so by the time it was a block a away, it was human sized. And looking more and more human rather than some green hulking monstrosity. I prepared to use the tweezers to shank its eye, when the cyclops took off the mask and said she was helping promote iPods. By the bye, all those snakes outside the building….they weren’t even there when we left the building >>;. So all the supernatural shit resolved, the three of us headed for Chinatown (so it IS San Francisco now…) for some reason. I still didn’t have my wallet or money with me, so while the others went into some candy store to browse, I waited.

Somehow, I then ended up in some place where a classmate of mine from Laney in a dream that I had earlier  that I don’t remember lived half the time, and he said he was packing because he was about go help some one move/build a house/something manly involving houses. Then I found the car that I usually drive for driving practice (ancient Camry) completely trashed up in a parking lot. It still ran though, but the steering wheel was very unrepsonsive, one of the dials was broken (I think it was the one that talked about if the car was overheating?), and the radio (a hell of a lot more advanced than the one in the car in RL) didn’t work, but one of the LED panels said “Gang Leader”, might have had something to do with his preset channels. Somehow, keys popped up, and I was able to start the car up. Then I immediately stopped it and jumped out of the car to check if was overheating, because for some reason, the dial read it was overheating. And THEN I remembered “OH yeah, right, it’s BROKEN.” So I drove recklessly back home (not like I could much help it, the steering wheel was rather fucked, and I was trying to hurry), without my permit or an adult in the car, and somehow, made it home in one piece without any cops after my ass. Then I remembered I didn’t have my wallet, and I needed to find some sort of weapon to raid the glass building to see if I could find my wallet again. But, I woke up at that moment, and so now I’ll never know where my wallet is.

In other news, I’m playing MOTHER 3, since the English translation patch came out. And if you’re not playing it…you should play it. Because it’s MOTHER. That is all.

WIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII

MUDAMUDAMUDAMUDA WRYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!

Beyond that, I had a wonderful day today, for the most part. While getting diplomas took forever, and in the end I just left before I actually got mines seeing as the line was fuck long, and wasn’t moving at all. So Elvin, Serene, and I went to get lunch at Tsuru Sushi. Before going in, we went to Gamestop to see if they had Wiis…and then messed around on the PS3 playing skate. Yay for purposely crashing the dude >>;

I’ve never eaten at Tsuru Sushi before. I didn’t know Chinese people ran it. The food was good though, yes…tendon donburi (deep friend shrimp and veggies over rice) and California rolls. The salad was pretty good too. For some reason though, even without eating breakfast, I was having a rough time finishing it…@_@.

During eating, we found out Elvin’s ancient Cadillac blew up into flames. He got a call from his mum…and I was going “wtf, I did not just hear ‘The Cadillac caught on fire’” >>;. We went back to his home later, and his car looked fine from the back, which faced us. Of course, going up to look at the front, it was rather…damaged >>;. The hood had completely popped off the top, and there was debris from the blown front all around. The windshield looked fine though, if not dirty from the explosion >>;. And Elvin’s insurance got jacked up by that poor luck >>;.

Afterwards we went to Target…and they had Wiis. Case was stocked full of them, they said they even had some in the back @_@. So finally, after months or so of waiting, I now am the proud owner of a Wii! Of course, that pretty much cleaned out my coffers, so >>;. I had to sneak it in…I’m surprised I actually was able to, wrapped around it with my jacket (still looked boxy as hell though >>;) I quickly got to my room before my parents, who were watching TV, saw me, and hid the box under my quilt >>;. And now, I aim for a TV-monitor thingy for my computer so I can have stealth Wii in my room >>;.

After that, we went to Angel’s pool party. I stayed out of the pool since I didn’t feel like getting into the water and having the hassle of cleaning up >>;. I took many pictures of Elvin to try and get him in compromising positions >>; There was lots of talk of Elvin wanting more body hair and a happy trail, which I think is a stupid idea. It’s disgusting…>>;.

Listening to: Nightwish-Romanticide.

wololo

Over

Today is the last I’ll have to ever suffer of those damn AP testings! Bio hopefully went over well, I felt pretty ok on everything besides free response question 2 on productivity and ecology >>;. Kuruc proctored, and was quite the ever so amusing. He’s easily the best proctor I’ve had this year.

After testing, Richard and I ate at Jack in the Box and went to Charles’s house to play Brawl. I likes Wolf, Ike, and Ganondorf. It’s been quite a while…after playing we took a look through Charles’s trophy collection in Brawl. I promptly attempted to look up the skirts/loincloths/whatever the fuck was down there of nearly every trophy. >>;

So, my parents wanted me to go and do some summer school, at Laney. Some English class, I’m not sure. But I’m tired. Tired of academics, of school, of grades, of essays, of books, of homework ><. No way in hell am I spending my last summer before college trying to shove another book up my ass and analyse that. I’ve been pretty much going nonstop with school since 8th grade? Not a single unoccupied summer >>;. Screw that this year.

And tomorrow is back to school. Another school day…*sigh*. I really want to stay home…

Listening to: Raymond Wong-The Blade of Gu Qin, from Kung Fu Hustle.

Coughing

So, I’m feeling a lot better now, aside from the ubiquitous coughing that I suffer every damn time after I get sore throats and fevers ><. I don’t seem to stop coughing any time…I swear, I was coughing it up a while ago, stopped for a couple of days, if I remember correctly, then that fever hit me and now I’m back at square 1: coughing ><.

At least, I don’t have to deal with a fever, which is MUCH worse, it went down around last night to this morning, but I couldn’t get any work done besides some scholarship essay that I had to plow through >>;. I spent the day at home unproductive and coughing. I should really get to work now…>>;.

Brilliant thing, you know, I often misplace the CDs that I use the most at a certain period of time, i.e. game discs >>;. Right now, I’m looking for my Lord of Destruction disc, since I’m in that sort of mood, but can’t seem to find it ><. On the other hand, apparently I have some 14 day free trial disc for WoW in my Diablo II box. Lovely. I’ll chance on it that when I’m looking for that, it will disappear too >>;.

Listening to: The Quest-C Sharp.

the penis mightier

Exotic Weeds (hehe pot)

Yesterday was a field trip to the SF Botanical Gardens. While the “out of school” thing was nice, plant scavenger hunts are not my cup of tea, especially when the ground was wet a lot (mud isn’t really my thing). So, as expected, BART was crowded, as it was the morning rush to work, and we crowded it even more than it needed to be >>;. We had a lovely ride to Glen Park (I wonder how it was named), and we missed the bus that we needed to catch since we were on the wrong side of the road. So we waited. And waited. And waited. And guess what? Not waited, but had the first half of the kids board the already crowded bus and waited for the next one for the other half. And waited. And waited. And waited. And then had a really lousy, shaky, bumpy ride to the botanical gardens. Standing up on a moving bus without and support is a real feat.

The garden itself was beautiful, but a tad wet for my liking. I fretted over the scavenger hunt assignment, I still think I did a poor job…some things are just so hard to find though, like a fern gametophyte >>;. There were lots of squirrels in the park, and they were quite brazen; one was in front of the bathroom, and completely unafraid of all the people there, watching it, even after one guy tried to grab it multiple times. Hell, it even went up to the tip of my umbrella when I pointed it at the squirrel. Side note, I brought my large Ikea umbrella because it looked like it was going to rain. It didn’t. So I just stood out >>;.

We finished looking, at lunch, went home a different route involving the MUNI Metro (a much smoother ride, with MUCH more space in it too) and riding it all the way to Montgomery station. So, our red tickets still have 25 cents on them…I wonder if they have reduced fare or some shit? Or is it just a different colour for design? >>;.

Afterwards, I went back to school to see if Elvin would let me and Richard play Brawl at his house, but since he’s sick and doesn’t want to contaminate his brother we didn’t. Not to worry though, since we went to Bayfair after walking Richard home and the Gamestop close by had BRAWL! So I got my first taste of it…and it was awesome, simply awesome. It is a pity that I didn’t get to use a Gamecube controller, I think I may have done better with that >>;. Nunchuk is a tad foreign to me to use. I experienced the awesomeness though…and goddamn is Charizard slow >>;.

After walking around Target, with Elvin buying clothes, we went to Jamba Juice, then went home by BART (my normal ticket had some left in it). So that was a pretty good day. Lacking a bit though, in something…

Today, recycling was…abysmal. Never again are we going to postpone recycling…shit idea. We had 6 people there total…back to legacy times when we were really hard up for volunteers >>;. It is done though, that is good.

Starcraft is rather discouraging…why is the enemy somehow always one step ahead of me, and I’m always forced into a defensive situation where I can’t strike back while the enemy is all over the map? >>; I suck at this…

I’m tired now, so night.

Listening to: Joe Hisaishi-A Summer’s Day.

toys that aren’t toys

Hehe, CP

So, Serene, you tried to censor my lovely comment? As I said, I’d have a much better way of communicating it…here it is: “hehe lol cp=child porn XD” or something along those lines. So HA. Note image is NOT shopped, here is the source.

So, Saturday was a mixed bag. Well, not really, more like two solid subdivisions: quiz bowl and crab feed.  Quiz bowl was utter crap, we lost every single one of our games, though we came close that last one against Menlo Atherton…but we still cannot measure up to the other teams, lacking in knowledge and speed we are ><. It was in general a poor experience…

Then we rushed off to crab feed, my first and last, which brought spirits back up muches. Kids messed around with pool and foosball in the back room and waited for 7, when we sprung into action.  Overall, it felt much less chaotic than the lobster feed; no people screaming out for lobster obviously, but no one clamouring for crab either, which was much better. The group I was in was well run and things ran smoothly, unlike last time where I really didn’t know what to do. Then again, the added experience from last time most likely helped as well.

I just spent my whole night watching Subspace Emissary clips (my god WANT) and have not gotten a single bit of work done. It is 1:30. This senioritis is really raping my ass ><. But I will sleep by 2, dammit.

Listening to: Dedede’s Theme, from Super Smash Bros. Brawl, off of Youtube. Downloading a gamerip of the music now…

[20:12 22] GTEW234: water conservation system: after 10 minutes, showers start spraying HCl