Sunday, August 13, 2006

   This girl has a strong desire to do well here. . . this is good . . .
And now we come to the "challenge" post which, ironically, is basically my third "challenge" post. This one's a little different, though, being that I've a powerful feeling that I'm gonna be getting pretty close to this person within the next little while . . . so yes, Miss Jess', you can tell everybody that this is your song . . . . .

As with all newer members to the site, I immediately scared the hell out of her by never returning her greetings despite what others had told her about me. I'm bad, I know. In any case, she came to me under very high recommendation from both Shadowlight and her master Shanny . . . so really, there's no way I can say no to that, now can I?

So she already had the Shad'Shan' connection' goin' for her - and yes, I AM going to keep using "The Shad'Shan' Connection" here on out for all things related to them - and then I finally got to her page . . .

Brilliant layout.
IB student.
Anthropology interest.
Star Wars.
Xbox.

Greatest. First impression. Ever.


Then all the other bits fell into place. Fun personality, clearly protective of her friends (I'm meeting a lot of people like this, I'm finding), has a frighteningly better hold of HTML than anyone else I know of her age - she even offered to help gussy up my own boring ol' page earlier this week. We're still getting to know each other, but I think we're definitly on the right track.

I'm noticing her around a lot more here and there, and from that I can only deduce that she's really striving to make a name for herself here at theO. I think that's very commendable, and I truly hope to see many wonderful things become of this girl . . . . . heh, 'cause it's fun to see people e-grow up.


. . . I hope you don't mind, I hope you don't mind, that I put down in words . . . . . how wonderful life is, now you're in the world . . .
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Saturday, August 12, 2006

   Maritimes . . . I bet she talks funny . . . . .
I feel as though a lot of different emotions stir up when I think about today's honoured member. From the land of fish people, weighing in at one hundred and eighty-five staplers, the undisputed New Brunswicker of the siiiiiiiite . . . Beyblader!

She's another one of those people who've been around myO since the very beginning, and was more or less one of the first people I ever met around these parts. Actually, it's kinda funny when I think back to it all . . . as expected in those days, I liked to blow out of proportion the fact that she was another Canadian on the site. It was somethin' to go by, being that the site was still in the early stages of developing the unwritten format of "hi cool site ill add u as a friend come visit me bye" . . . heh, we had to think harder back then.

'Blader - alias Cody - is . . . a very passionate sort of girl. Of most things I see her do, she commits herself into the effort strong and fast, be it web/page design, AMV creation, or even just getting around to pages and commenting. Even as an anime otaku, she's holding her own quite well; she has a very broad sense of what's current in anime, and keeps up with all the latest shows that all otaku should have seen at least a bit of by this point (for the record, I shall state that I still have yet to see "Fruits Basket", though it is fairly high up on the list).

Now, I know by now I'm probably losing at least a few of you by now, and I could understand why. I gotta say, as your group of online friends grows, inevitably some pretty messed up things start happening - I'm talking conflict on interests big time! It's tough when you have a confrontation between "the X-Men" on one side and "The Avengers" on the other while you yourself get to be Hank "Beast" McCoy. And sure, though Beast may ultimately lean towards the X-Men more than the Avengers due to history and the like, he still hates being in that position nonetheless. This is a little tricky to even bring up, being that this doesn't make any of us seem all too cool (especially for me, who's using comic book analogies no one probably gets save Red who isn't here).

Throughout all those conflicts, though, I'll say this: Cody's heart has always been in the right place. The outcome may not have always turned out the way everyone wanted, but her intentions have never been bad in the traditional sense. That's my thoughts on her, and you'll all just hafta live with it somehow, yo.


Now it's true that Miss 'Blader does live off in the land of funny-talking people . . . . . but meh, what can ya do? I suppose . . . at least she isn't in Toronto?
(Badum-ch!)

And now I get booed off the stage . . . anyways, kudos, 'Blader!
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Friday, August 11, 2006

   Her name starts with E, but we have to fill in the rest . . .
Miss Sweetestkuma . . . . . we all know the drill by this point . . . let's find out why you're cool!

She is surrounded by dirt and mountains, considers Cowboy Bebop her favourite anime, enjoys reading David Eddings, knows how to breathe and live at the same time, has cute nieces, had her birthday this year on 06.6.6 making her seem more evil than she really needs to, has been to New Zealand and possibly Hawaii, did the "12 Days Dance", got sick but then got all better in March, has Dual Citizenship meaning she'll never be called for jury duty, possibly feels that camels are way too tall, is still alive, became an RA, was happy in March of last year, is a poet and didn't even know it, has her sister on myO, has definitely been to Hawaii, has all three seasons of Kenshin, gave blood, passed another test, and was sleepy so sleepy the first time she ever spoke to us here at myO.

Here's where we all go "huzzah", now. Go!
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Thursday, August 10, 2006

   You may be my second kiddo, but you'll always be my first little one . . .
. . . . . hot damn that sounds bad if you have a dirty mind . . . not important, though. What's really important is that we rant about the original baby of the group, Miss Color Me Evil (who opted to inexplicably go with the American spelling of the first part of her name instead of her native, Canadian . . . I still wonder about that sometimes . . .). Now, I haven't rhymed any of these ego-strokes yet, and - being that she's my little writing student in a lot of ways - I figure she can get the rhyming stroke (that sounds dirty too)!

Ahem . . .


There are strange things said in the flattened bed
of the province of cows and oil;
And you know they start in blatant part
from one whose feelings boil;
She'll freak you out with but a shout
of curses as only she can;
but despite the burn we all still return
to my little Ochibi-chan.


Now Color Me, age thirteen plus three,
is a child of powerful charm.
You must understand that in the wrong hand
all this power could cause massive harm.
Her style of speech can dare to teach
that youths are not all bad.
Her "purity" and maturity
Make all the rest seem sad.

There's little doubt I have to shout
praise for her home, I know.
There's constant flux in finding canucks
online, here at myO.
And lo, behold, a girl so bold
in Edmonton, at last!
I've family there who said beware,
but she and I had such a blast!

I had been in town, she said "come on down,
and find me inside this place!
We need to deceive but I still can't believe
that'll we'll fin'lly meet face to face!"
So off and away we spent the midday,
running around the mall.
Optometrist, lunch, photobooth (and scrunch!),
we certainly had a ball.

The time after that we had many a chat
about work and film and school.
Her vibrant persona and shining corona
remain ever dripping with cool.
She'll make you a friend, one whom she'll defend
with ferocity not unlike sharks.
It's easy to see how young Color Me
has touched us with her flames and sparks.

Closer by much to my schooling and such,
she tried out her hand with words.
And with but two tries she's conquered the prize
from the slightly less talented nerds.
I'm not one to hide all of my great pride
in this girl whom I've helped in this field.
To now see her drive to write and contrive
some more, well, my eyes are peeled.


It's true you're not the kind to trot
away from bitter pasts.
And in your blood there is a flood
of anger, oft', alas.
You sometimes whine, Ochibi' mine,
and ruin a peaceful day.
Your language is dung, you're still very young . . .
. . . and I'd have you no other way.


Damn, kiddo. You ain't half-bad for an angry, angsty teenager.
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Wednesday, August 9, 2006

   My brother said to call you 'Florida-Girl', so . . .
. . . he saw the subject header, smiled and went "sweet."


Ah, Miss Rebecky, ojou-chan, my little lady, charter member of THAT and part of its PRIMA PVELLARVM TRIVM . . . . . you started all this insanity. Now it's your turn.

Everyone else has already talked about how brilliantly sweet you are, and how supportive and protective of your friends you are - between us, I still recall that you once stated that I had a hero complex and you were a mother hen. It's very easy to resort to these parts to talk about why 'Beck is so gosh darn cool . . . . . I've got some other reasons, though . . .

Now, I don't know HOW she does this . . . but she practically has the carbon copy duplicate of all my tastes! I can't count how many times I or someone else has made some powerfully obscure reference to something and she'd get it! Anything from "The Princess Bride" to "The Seven Samurai" to "Gendou.com" to "the 4th Peacemaker Kurogane DVD" to "The Aeneid" to "Firefly" to "The Subtle Knife" to "Neil Gaiman", to "Excel Saga" to "bokken vibrators" (don't ask). Sometimes I'll just say something out of thin air and she'll just go "Oh! I love that song!" It's like magic.

Wanna know what else is magic? Her writings. She's actually finished her suspense novel, I believe. Before the novel, though, there was fanfiction and other such things. And she's good at it. In fact, there was this one time when she was quite young that she both wrote well AND wrote ironically . . .

. . . now, I think it drives her nuts that I keep bringing this up as allegedly it embarasses her that she did in fact write it back in ninth grade, but . . . . .

"A New Xman", starring Helena Gray continues to be a source of absolute joy in my heart. It was her anti-Mary Sue story. It was so cute and funny, I loved it to pieces even though she'd rather wish it was gone forever, I bet. But it shall NEVER be forgotten! Never!

And, while I'm already on the subject of embarassing my adorable little lady, here's a snippet of messenger chat that'll just make ya smile . . . she's the one in bold:

"I am the purest. I win. By default."
"You have sex in your screen name. -_-;"
"I don't know, I might be purer."
"Ohhhhhhhhh yeah."
"Nevermind that I write gay love."
"haha. YOU LOSE. DEFAULT."
"That doesn't necessarily mean dirtier."
"Haha 'Secret loooooovaers'."
"Refinement question: do you write penetration?"
"woah there nellie"
"*sweeping bow* Of the anal variety. *throws self from cliff*"
"Mm . . . there goes that theory, then."

If that doesn't do it, she's been to Japan already. And she took Latin in high school. Thus, she wins. By DEFAULT.


And thus, my ultra-sweet ojou-chan is quite cool. Savvy?
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Tuesday, August 8, 2006

   Yeah, P-chan's alright . . . but that's just because I loved Shampoo
So yet again, we're in one of these situations where we have a person whom I don't really know quite as well as I should by now. So again, let's pick out some choice words from her last couple posts on her myOtaku page and find out exactly what it is that makes Miss P-chansacutie cool . . . and we'll even use HTML!

• 02/08/84
  
• Ranma 1/2
  
• Eating ramen and talking
  
• Giant Squid special on the Discovery Channel
  
• Transamerica
  
• Blasted itch/rash/hives
  
• Resident Evil
  
• 1:20 in the morning
  
  
  • have to be at work at 5:30 in the afternoon
  
  
• anime dvd to help get to sleep
  

Works for me. Oh yeah, bonus points for constantly referring to a friend getting whooped at Xbox playing Star Wars online. That made my day. As for the unforseen events which you would rather not talk about . . . hey, it's all good. If it was a good reason to be up like that, then there's no reason for us to wonder - you know yourself better than any of us, and you know what's best for yourself. You know who can talk to, and whether you really need to talk about it with them.


This is the feeling I'm getting from ya, Miss Cathy (with a "C"). I've a strong sense that you know what's goin' on with yourself. That's about the coolest anyone can be about anything.
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Monday, August 7, 2006

   Hmm . . . Miss Vicky might be at the con right now and miss this . . .
. . . then again, maybe she will get this. Something to wonder about, I suppose . . .

So let's take a look at Miss BurningDeamon. She hooked up with all the other cool people before I knew about her, and like all the new kids on the block . . . . . I neglected her. I really do need to fix this some day, it's a horrible habit . . .

So let's see, we found out she lived in that same little area once described to me as "DC's Backyard" or something to that degree. I already knew two people living around there, and now I knew a third. Never say location is not key, hers has sprouted some amazing otaku in its time . . . . . but even if that wasn't the case, she'd still be a total cutie, an absolute sweetie who's a joy to play with.

Recently she got a webcam. Rock on. Before that, we had Skype . . . I'm still jealous that she got to chat with Shanny over Skype first, by the way . . . . . sure, I got to talk to her on a phone (not the first to do so but I have) but clearly that didn't work out in the end for us. So yeah, Vicky's special in that way too.

So what amuses me about her? For one thing, I don't know what it is, but I find it very easy to make the girl laugh. I know generally these sorts of posts go the other way around, talking about how someone can always make you laugh . . . but seriously! There've been a lot of times where she's told me to stop making her laugh or else she'd wake someone up . . . I dunno, it makes me happy to know she's happy. So yeah, she laughs easy. Not a bad thing at all.

And then there's her hispaniprocity. That's not a real word, but I hope the meaning comes out. The girl gave me a reason to look into Spanish. Up until this point I had the Chineses (another fake word), the Japanese, the Tagalog, the Dutch, Swedish and Portuguese to pretend to know. Now I have Spanish! I mean sure, Red sometimes said things in Spanish . . . heh, but now I care!
(Just kidding, Red, when you read this, but you guys know what I mean, right?). I dunno, I have this obsessive thing about me where I wanna learn as many things in as many languages as I can . . . I definitely loved getting another one to play with. That said, when I finally translated "osito", I was thoroughly amused.


You're a charm to ward off evil for us all, Miss Vicky. If happy-bringing could be measured in gas consumption, yours would be the Hummer of us all . . . but prettier and we wouldn't hate you just for being you. Just sayin'.
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Sunday, August 6, 2006

   Schni Schna Schnappi, Schnappi Schnappi Schnapp!
Alright, so the subject title is actually German and not Dutch. It's an inside joke, live with it.


I've a question to ask you all: how many of you know some words in Japanese? Alright, next question: how many of you took Japanese in high school? Not bad, not bad . . . . . last question: how many of you are currently studying or intend to study Japanese as a university major, more or less?

Themaris is. She was even told to memorize hiragana before the first class. This, friends, is the epitome of hardcore.

Themaris - formerly Shinigami, originally Mariska - may very well put us all to shame. Though I cannot verify right this very minute exactly how much Japanese she knows, or how many anime she's seen, or how many boxes of Pocky she has eaten in a lifetime, I do know that she is in perhaps the most productive place possible to really otaku it up. Case in point: y'know how we all kinda know otaku here and there, online or maybe a few at school and stuff? She goes to school where her ENTIRE FACULTY are otaku!

Exaggeration? Probably . . . not important, though . . .

While on the subject of her education . . . her university is a freakin' castle! Like, seriously, a castle-turned-school . . . kinda like Hogwarts, but more Dutch people. If the castle wasn't cool enough, from what I understand the Asian Studies department's primary building is called "The Armoury" . . . . . again, the place used to be a freakin' castle! Jealous much? You'd better be.

But who cares about school? Let's talk about this girl herself a bit more. Maris' is damn smart for one. Remember that article I wrote where I basically stated that you can't learn a language from just television and subtitles? Apparently this girl learned English from just television and subtitles . . . and y'know, being me, I sometimes scan her messages when we chat - heh, ya just can't find anything wrong with her English. Like, at all. She's just too good . . .

She has a kitten named Odin. That in itself deserves props, being that I often hear about all the capers that guy gets into during the days and nights, jumping across keyboards and stuff. And come on, naming a cat after the one-eyed king of the gods is just cool.

She got me hooked on "Corpse Bride". That movie rules. Heh, funny enough, I was chatting with her right before I saw it for the first time ever - she was raving about it, I quickly checked an online TV schedule, and found out the last showing for a long time was gonna happen at about 3:15am or something . . . . . granted, I had to leave the conversation once that hit, but she was quite supportive of it. And now I have a new movie I need to buy.

As a child, when she and her brother played "A-Team", she would be Lt. Templeton "Faceman" Peck - the good looking conman. Playing "A-Team" as a child period instantly makes for coolness.

She's good at slyly skirting around bedroom talk. We've had too many conversations that just sorta drift into that direction . . . hehe, can't help it, she brings it out in me . . . . . I think it's something about Europeans in general . . .

She often feels that I think too highly of her or some other stupid thing like that. But it's all true; she's intelligent, endearing, a very serious gamer, taller than me, my most favourite Dutch girl in the entire world, and well . . . kind of addictive. A lotta people don't really know her too well these days, but y'know, there's just something about her . . . whenever I see her online, I have to chat with her, know how she and her cat are doing . . . . . she's very special to me, I'll just say.


Got that, beautiful? If so, this is where you go "dawwwwww".
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Saturday, August 5, 2006

   I'm a full decade older than this Gundam Seed fan . . . . .
Sweet Kisses, we don't really know each other as well as we could right now. I haven't really started visiting your page and all I really know is what you've said over on my end of the site. But from an analysis of your myO, let's see how cool we can deduce you to be . . . . . hehe, this should be fun, I think:


1. Location: Canada. Instant brownie points. Technically you've been quoted as being in Toronto which slightly skews the problem, but not enough to really wreck anything. Really, could you expect anything less from a guy on the western half of the country? 'Tis all in fun . . . ish . . . . .

2. Chibi Gundam SEED background. This piece of evidence corroborates the already stated bit that Gundam SEED is her favourite anime. Now granted, she then goes on to more or less state that anything anime is her favourite anime, but given the specific name, I think we can go with that somewhat and somehow.

2A. Canada-Gundam connection. I'm assuming a lot here, but I have a feeling you probably watch a lot of anime on YTV on Fridays, ne? I could be wrong, of course, but going by your age I'm guessing you probably don't download quite as much anime as some of us here, and thus my theory is that your presentation to Gundam SEED must have come from either television or DVD rentals . . . of course, renting anime is a bit tricky even today, so I stand by my YTV on Fridays theory. In any case, to watch those shows on that night just shows how serious you are about your Canadian anime, and for that I can do nothing but applaud you.

3. Your recent post. You have a sense of how messed up life and the world are. And yes, chain letters are evil. And yes, Michael Jackson is rather odd, though he was found not guilty, so what can you do, right? In any case, you're at least trying to think about these things. Believe me, thinking is an invaluable power that must never be misused. Savvy?

4. The clubs. Everything from Ramen to Protecting friends to not swatting flies. I will not go into the need to be in these clubs or what have you (been watching too many "Penn & Teller: Bullshit" clips online lately), but I will say that you're very active in the community. I have a feeling we'll need a lot of that in the time to come as some of us head off to greener pastures or what have you.

5. You adopted Sloth. That's just cool all by itself. Not many people would dare to adopt Sloth, y'know.


I think I need to swing by that place more often, there's tons of stuff to look out for over there! So yes, Miss Sweet Kisses, consider yourself very cool. 'Cause I said so. And I can only speak the truth. Just like the Magical Sitar in "Spectacular, Spectacular". Yeah, that's right, you're so cool I threw in a "Moulin Rouge!" reference. So yeah, crack a smile or two, you've earned it.


Zero. Now the picture's different.
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Friday, August 4, 2006

   Her English isn't perfect, but she's cute so bugger off!
Now, being that I feel it would be impossibly impossible to remember exactly which post in someone else's blog it was when I posted a rather amusing little cheer for said-person, I shall have to paraphrase and improvise. But yes, once again, a round of applause for myO's way cute Portuguese butterfly . . .

Ready? Okay!
S-H-A! D-O-double YOU can say! Hooray!
Shadowlight! Lookin' fine!
Shadowlight... One more time!

S-H-A! D-O-double YOU da bomb! C'mon!
Shadowlight! Rules like Rome!
Shadowlight... Bring it home!

Shadowlight is gonna fight with all her might, ya dig? Alright!

Shadowlight! Heeeey!
Shadowlight! Hooooo!
Shadowlight! Heeeey!
Shadowlight! Hooooo...
(fade out)


Ahem . . . . . so yes, Miss Catarina, the sparkling ruby of the Azores . . . this is why you're cool.

Even though I didn't visit you for like, half a year, you practically commented at my page every day. I do believe I still owe this to you, and I shall continue to work to fix that.

Any time ANY of us are feeling down whatsover, you'll go to lengths . . . great lengths . . . extreme lengths . . . . . maybe even obsessive lengths, even, to see that we might cheer up at least a little. I've seen you when you worry about others, and you put a lot of effort towards making it happen. For that, you shall forever be truly amazing.

She lives on an island. I don't think it gets much cooler than that. I mean, maybe if she lived on an island with dinosaurs then maybe . . . but nevertheless, I've seen the pictures, and they're pretty . . . . I mean, the scenery around her was alright too . . .

. . . . . on that note, she blushes easily too . . . . . while some might not consider it technically cool, I find it adorable so hah.


There's probably more I could say, but gushing now would be unfair to the others I need to gush about. So yeah, if you haven't gotten the hint yet, Shadowlight is sweet like candy and three times less fattening. She already likes you, so you should hurry up and like her.

Thanks for being around, borboleta. We wouldn't be the same without ya.


One.
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