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• 1983-08-05
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• Vancouver, BC
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• 2003-08-02
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• Writer; Part-Time Hero
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• James
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• Visiting eight different myO friends in person thus far
Anime Fan Since
• Winter 2001
Favorite Anime
• Neon Genesis Evangelion, .hack//SIGN, Naruto, Bleach, Beck, Peacemaker Kurogane, Ranma 1/2 (the guilty pleasure)
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• Visit the myO friends I've missed thus far; complete a cosplay from 300
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• Writing, Gaming, Kung Fu, Movies, Acting somewhat strange in general
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• Can recognise most quotes from almost any movie/show on first listen; Can recite the entire 12 days of Christmas by memory
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Monday, July 3, 2006
Who makes asians play softball for charity?!
Heh . . . Superstore played softball for children's charity yesterday. Four different stores playing against each other . . . . . Richmond got killed. I see several factors contributing to our store's death. First off, we were like, the absolute youngest team out there with an average age of about 21 to 22 - normally youth would be an asset in athletics, but sadly it just wasn't the case here. Second, I have a feeling the people playing from other teams actually in fact enjoy and play baseball somewhat more regularly than we do, or had played it more regularly at some point earlier in life - I'll put it this way: we barely had enough mitts, one baseball bat, and one teeball bat(?!?!) while another team had an entire roll-out bat rack thing. Yeah, we got tarred. And my shoulders and neck and probably nose are probably sunburnt now.
The things we do for the children, eh? Maybe the next fundraisers'll be a bit better . . . but that's for another day.
So let's see, more fun news, more fun news . . . . . I saw "Superman Returns" on Wednesday. 17 person outing. With everyone paying me back for buying the tickets earlier in the day, I'm not going to have to use a bank machine for maybe a month. Oh, and the Housewares Supervisor from work is apparently having wet dreams about Brandon Routh now . . . it's kinda weird to have her talk about how in love she is with Superman, but what can ya do?
But yeah, anyways, the movie rocks. Like, remember how I said that 'X3' was "good, but it should have been bloody brilliant"? 'Superman Returns' is bloody brilliant. If you're in the know, you also catch a lot of cute little references to comics, to earlier movies, and stuff like that. But yeah, it delivered big time in just about every way. Kevin Spacey's Lex? Insanely cool. Brandon Routh's Superman? He just looks good flying around and using heat vision in just . . . very, very hardcore ways. Cyclops as Lois' Fiance? He's . . . . . very likable. I thought he was really interesting because it'd be so easy to make him this petty, jealous asshole and stuff . . . but he's so damn cool! Makes that whole dynamic really interesting. And yeah, Superman gets to do "super" things. It's like, people say that he can do anything so he's no fun - buuuut, he's still only one man, and has a LOT of people to save in very little time. They do that well in this movie.
So yeah, go watch it. Now.
Anyways, for Canada Day we did a lion dance in Chinatown for the Chinese-Canadian something-rather. There were some Chinese-Canadian veterans, a bunch of politicians and stuff, some scouts to raise the flag . . . it was alright. One TV camera filmed us - the drummer and cymbal people - for a while, so that was exciting . . . . . in the evening it was a kung-fu performance at the Chinatown Night Market (which is not quite as elaborate as the Richmond Night Market, but it has nice scenery, being in the middle of a blocked-off street instead of near the river on the edge of town). I only did one thing, but it was also alright. My feet were tired that day, in any case.
Oh yeah, if anyone new to the site reads this, there's a website for ya to check out:
http://otakucreche.bravehost.com/main.htm
Basically, it's a group of myO old-timers willing to give a guiding hand to whatever, should anyone want it. It's kinda neat, it follows a Star Wars model that I think they use at theforce.net's messageboards . . . and yeah, it should be pretty fun. So yeah, if you're new to the site, do consider lookin' for a myO master to get you settled a little quicker, be it general questions about the community, prettying up your blog page, or anything else. Give 'er a shot, if ya'd like.
Short news of the day . . . I'm somewhat working on a couple articles (one topic of which SOAP recently did themselves, the clever people they are), chopping away at "Ouran High School Host Club", bought the first volumes to "FMA", "Dragon Head", and "Remote" (and am enjoying them all quite a bit) . . . and now I miss my bed. Have a good Monday, everyone!
Random SomeGuy Trivia: I have notoriously bad hand-eye coordination. Toss me something to catch, the result could land either way; give me a stick or bat of some sort and THEN proceed to throw/pass me something to hit? Even worse.
Footballs and hockey sticks are slightly grey areas, though, I'm not completely useless with those . . .
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