Monday, March 8, 2004

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Well, some of you may have noticed that I haven't been online much lately, and you know what that means. Lots of interesting things to write about on my myOtaku!

I had quite a weekend this past.. weekend. Other than on Sunday night, I didn't sleep in my own bed at all, and have been spending more time with some of my offline friends. Friday afternoon, after careful arranging, I picked up a friend that's in my History class at his house at around 4. He's been on my soccer team once or twice in the past, and over this year we've become pretty good friends in 7th period, since he sits like right in front of me, and we share similar.. interests in women. ;p So he came over, and we spent the night in the basement playing video games, watching TV, watching movies, throwing stuff at my brother, looking at yearbooks, and going online. So he stayed the night, and I drove him back home at around noon. Fun fun.

After he left, I got online for a while only to be IMed by a friend of mine who's actually in my more distinguished group of friends, and he invited me to a small party at his house with some other friends of ours -- the self-proclaimed anime club of our school. :p So at around 5:15, I drove over to his house, and was actually the first one there, so I practiced on DDR Max 2 while we waited for other people. Two more people were to show up at my friend Joe's house; Rob, Joe's best friend and the person that usually sets up the equipment at anime club, and Art, president of anime club and undoubtedly the coolest person in school for his obnoxious humor and his ability to converse with just about anyone. So we started off the night by playing some DDR, and then played a little N64. For dinner, his mom made a ton of french fries, this spicey chicken stuff, and really good, but not quite perfect, mozzarella sticks. I had a Dr. Pepper to wash it all down, which easily added up to at least 6 by the end of the night. After that, we played some GameCube games like Ultimate Muscle and Double Dash, and then we played all of these NES and SNES games off a burned disk on Art's modded PlayStation, which was totally awesome. When two people were playing a game, we played a little pool while we waited, and when we just got too tired to do anything else, we watched Berserk until we fell asleep. The next morning we woke up and ate pancakes and bacon, and then spent half the time looking for Rob's memory card, which turned out to be on the couch that he had checked first. lol

When I got home on Sunday, I realized how much fun I had had playing DDR, and started pricing out the game and pads online. In the end, however, I just called up Walmart (the closest store that sells video games) and they had DDR Max 2 with one pad, so I drove down and bought it. I would have liked to get DDR Max 1, since my friends had described the difference between 1 and 2 being Japanese songs and Eurpean songs, but I'm an impacient bastard. When I got home, however, the pad worked fine, but the disk kept reading "Disk Error". So I tried Need For Speed: Underground, and that worked fine, so I ended up going back and getting a new game. But low and behold.. I got an error for that too! By then I was extremely pissed off, and in an effort to prove that the disk was fine, I tried some of my older games, and got the same error. So I opened up my PlayStation 2 (I had already had to do this once before because of an error with DVDs), and cleaned out the dust and shifted a few parts noted on a past episode of.. X-Play, I think, until the disk finally worked. And then I was in DDR heaven for the rest of the night. ~_^

Then today, although I got done with my graded homework at around 3:35, I had an architectural drawing due tommorrow in art that I was working on until around 9, factoring in dinner, a nap, and some TV, of course. Still.. that thing is taking me forever. I wasn't able to play any DDR tonight. :/

Maybe this will explain where I've been hiding lately, heh.
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Wednesday, March 3, 2004

>:O
Okay, originally I was only planning on discussing a few movies that I've seen lately in this post, but another topic has been raised to my attention that I am thuroughly upset about. I still will tell you about the movies, though, since I really have nothing better to do. But.. damn.

Anyway, I've been seeing quite a few movies these past couple days. They're all pretty good movies, too, ranging from action to comedy, and a thin line inbetween.

The first movie that I saw lately was 'Phone Booth', on Monday night using On Demand with Comcast (On Demand basically lets you choose what you want to watch, when you want, free of charge, and you can pause and rewind and stuff). I had heard a lot of mixed reactions about this film, but it seemed intruiging to me, and I hadn't gotten a chance to see it in theaters when it came out. Overall, I think I liked the film a decent amount. It had some good actors, and well played parts, and it was interesting to see how an entire thriller movie would be played out inside of this telephone booth. Without giving too much away, it's about this guy named Stu who has been cheating on his wife, and a sniper who literally accounts for every situation in order to "teach him a lesson". Sounds kind of strange, I know, but it's one of those things that you have to see for yourself.

The next movie that I saw, I rented from Blockbuster, called 'Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels'. It's this awesome British gangster film (yes, there are gangsters in England) with literally over 20 main characters to keep track of. So many main characters really gave the film a lot of depth in story line once you are able to keep track of them (which usually entails you to watch the film more than once), and if you liked 'Snatch', you'll love this film, basically because it's the same producers, some of the same actors, and almost acts like a prequal to it. Highly recommended, and I think I'm going to buy the movie when I bring it back.

The final movie that I saw over the past couple days was.. um.. *cough* Half Baked. Despite being filled to the brim with marijuana and actually having kids in the movie appear to actually be smoking it, it's a hilarious classic. Trust me, when you do get past your drug morals, it is pretty funny to watch, though I would recommend not to watch it around your parents. :p

Okay, now to discuss the issue that I mentioned earlier. Well, my mom just got back from attending a meeting at my new school, which is opening up next year. As it turns out, the schedule will not be exactly like what I have now in my current school. Sure, the starting and ending time will aparently be the same, but during classes.. there are no longer 8 periods in a day. This is because lunch becomes seperate, and goes from 45 minutes (what we have now) down to 30 minutes, and the classes go up from 45 minutes to 50 minutes each. And that's not all. We're running on a block schedule for period 4 and 5, which is going to switch off everyday with 90 MINUTE PERIODS. First off all, how the hell do they plan to scedule that? Would only specific classes be block? Only English and Math, for example? What if you get out early, or aren't taking a Math? Or both? lol God, and I though 45 minutes in each class was tough. I'm in trouble, next year, but at least I'll be leaving with a new experience where I have to deal with a problem that has been presented. :/

One last thing before I go.. please lend Shin your support and love.

And Arcadia, too. Can't forget her.
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Sunday, February 29, 2004

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I seem to be the only person not updating often. Why? Because I'm lazy, that's why. It's this lazyness that keeps me from doing more productive things in my life, like getting a job and.. making money from a job. Why do I need to make money? To buy stuff, you pinko commie bastards! >:O But also to save up for a trip to California this summer (yes Desbbreko, Southern Cali) to go to Anime Expo and hopefully meet a few people. This plan originally called for something more extreme, even along the lines of an OtakuBoards road trip, but in the end we realized that the idea might be a little extravagent, and would require a lot more money than we could probably afford. We? Yeah, we, but I'm not sure if he'd want me telling his name, or even about this trip in the first place.

The first plan, with the road trip, would have first required me to have a drivers license, which I have now already anyway, and have used to my advantage twice thus far. I haven't gotten much bothering about it from more of my distinguished friends, but this one Sophmore in 7th period wants me to drive him places now, lol. I doubt he's really serious, and in any case I don't really like people who just hang around you for a ride. In 7th period, there is also this one girl.. erm.. yeah. Sen knows who I'm talking about, lol. My friend and I both agree that she's one of the, if not the most attractive girl in the school, and aparently single. Am I going to do anything? I doubt it, I'm much too shy to approach a girl out of no where, so I am waiting for an act from God. :p

Elsewhere in school, my friend has once again started his campaign for me to.. spend some time with him, if you know what I mean. He makes some pretty good points on the "why not" side, actually, but is kind of weak on "why". He has a comeback for just about every excuse, and wants a good answer, so I'm simply sticking with "I don't know my limitations, and am afraid of finding them out." Give me strength.

So what was the point of this post? Nothing much, just a bunch of rambling with me asking questions and answering myself. I hope my update somehow brought you to my site. >:O
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Sunday, February 15, 2004

^_^
Teehee, I finally got my driver's license! Watch out, Maryland! >:D

The test was actually a lot shorter and easier than I thought. I went up to the MVA yesterday (Valentine's Day) at around 8:45 in the morning, at which point I took a test out back in a secluded area that included parallel parking, the 3-point-turn, and going forwards and backwards, in addition to a lot of common sense things like turning using your turn signal and such. I passed, but I almost failed because when I started to go backwards, I failed to look behind me at first, because I was looking straight ahead at the lines to make sure I was going straight. I eventually started using the mirrors and such, and my instructor tells me I would have failed otherwise. In total, I had about 6 points in terms of mistakes, which comes from 3 areas of 2 points each, so it really wasn't any major stuff. The important thing is that I got my license, even though it's technically a provisional license that Maryland requires drivers to have for 18 months without a moving violation (in other words, getting pulled over by a cop).

From there, I went over to my mom's friend's house, where I got $20 for helping her out with her website. It was simple, common sense things like resizing pictures and adding pages, and the money was very generous of her. =)

"Nothing's happening.. nothing's happening.. it's over. People in the audience look pissed."

If you know where that's from, you sir, or ma'am, have my respect. ^_^

So yeah, I didn't really do anything after I got home until about 7, when, after settling things with the insurance company (whereas I'm aparently being charged in $600 worth of stock from my dad =_=), I drove myself over to my friend Jimmy's house. My other friend, Art, was there too, as was Jimmy's girlfriend, and we had a good time watching a movie (Paulie.. yes, the one about the parrot), playing a board game, and just hanging out. After Jimmy's girlfriend left, we played DDR and watched another movie (The History of the World.. old comedy movie, I had never heard of it). It was my first time playing DDR, and needless to say, I sucked. So Art and Jimmy played that for a while as I sat on the bed and watched. Art.. he's the kind of person who can get along with just about anyone. I'd probably regard him as the most popular kid in school; not the preppy, drug kind, but the down-to-earth, obnoxious, funny kind of popular. His wardrobe is also very diverse, and you can find him wearing just about anything, lol. Jimmy, however, is one of those people who does nothing but plays video games. He owns me, you, or anyone at just about any game, because he plays so many hundreds of hours at each one. Anywho, I was originally going to go home before my mom's 11:30 curfew, but I decided to stay the night, and I left the next morning.

As soon as I got home from Jimmy's, my brother had decided to see a movie, and I went with my family to see 50 First Dates, the Adam Sandler movie. I thought it was pretty good, but due to the story line, it was really difficult for the movie to develope. The movie is about this guy named Henry (played by Sandler) who lives in Hawaii and dates all of these tourists because he doesn't want to make a commitment. One day, however, he starts falling for a local girl, but soon finds out that she is very different from other girls. You see, ever since an accident that occured about a year ago, Lucy has lost her short term memory, and wakes up every day thinking that it's the day after the crash. In other words, Sandler finds that he can flirt as much as he wants with this girl one day, but the next day she won't even know who he is. Perfect for a guy who doesn't want a commitment, right? Eh, not exactly, but I don't want to spoil the movie for you all. :p

That's about it, I suppose. My guess is that the boards will be back as early as Tuesday.
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