Sunday, January 11, 2004

Well now..
What do you all think of my improvements to the site?
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Remembering the holidays (part 3): New Years
When comparing New Years Eve with previous years, I can honestly say...this years sucked. O_o Every other time, at the very least, we'd go to someone's house to participate in the countdown, and in my old neighborhood there would be a party with a combination of video games, fooseball, and food. This year? I came out of my room and watched over the cat walk the final countdown. o_o No one was there except my mom, dad, and brother. lol

On New Years Eve, we went over to my grandparent's house to have dinner and sit around, and got back around 7:30, so that can't be counted as a whole night. I'm actually surprised that my family stayed up until midnight, since they always go to bed no later than 9:30. It was easy for me, and they ended up making it too, heh.

The next day I sept in until around 1 oclock, and then we went to this New Years party at some family friends of ours. Every year there is always tons of people and my brother and I get shoved into the shadows, so we really didn't bring anything gaming-wise. When we got there, though, it was just us and lots of little kids, in the way of younger people. O.o I find that I can really just relax and let down my hair when I'm over there, since the kids (two boys, a year younger than my brother and a year older than myself) are nice, but they cuss all the time and their house is sort of a mess. So I don't have to pretend to be nice around them, lol, and they are the best movie critics. They've introduced me to 3 of my favorite movies: Snatch, Fight Club, and The Boondock Saints, and they are currently recommending more, heh. The disturbing part is that these guys still have fun playing hide and go seek, and playing with toy guns and stuff; they've been like that their whole lives, lol. The older brother actually introduced me to dance clubs in Ocean City, and for that, he has my respect.

They had some pretty good food at the party. I covered my plate with tiny peices of fried chicken, hot wings, and rolls with ham, then played Vice City for practically the whole time. I swear to God, they will never, ever, ever tire of that game. O_o
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Christmas!
Christmas just seemed to sneak up on me this year. The spirit didn't slowly sink in like earlier years, but in the end it wasn't a bad Christmas. I got everything on my list and more, so that has to account for something. ^_^

Every year, my brother always wakes up at around 3 am in the morning to sort presents and wait to open them until my parents wake up, and he always wakes me up as well. X_x Full day ahead, I guess it's good not to waste it, heh. This year was no different, but after we finished opening the gifts, I went to bed for a few hours.

Since my brother is always so excited in his blind sense of the meaning of Christmas, I let him open all of his presents first so he could get that out of the way, and I ended up opening all of my presents last. I got a 2004 Calendar of California landscape, a GameBoy Advance SP carrying case, Viewtiful Joe (GC), Animal Crossing (GC), a seat warmer thing, a new microphone for the computer, F-Zero GX (GC), a car model, an electric toothbrush, promised cargo pants at the store, and $120. Plus, my brother got Tony Hawk's Underground, Two Towers Extended edition, and Eye Toy (in a ddition to other stuff I don't care about), and my mom got a digital camera for the family (ask if you want pictures :-*).

My grandparents came over pretty early in the day, as did my grandmother's sister's (who has passed ._.) husband's (also passed ._.) son, and we ate an early dinner like we usually do during holidays. :X It was a very full day. ^_^
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Christmas Eve..catching up on old happenings
*rewinds video* Here we are. <_<

On Christmas Eve I spent most of the day sleeping in, as I recall. I got on the internet for a little while, took a shower, and got ready to go to a Christmas Eve party that evening. This party is usually held every year, but I don't remember them having it last year. They live in my old neighborhood, so it's interesting to come back and see people that you havn't seen for years, heh.

Of course, it's also embarassing when you can't remember for the life of you who someone was, especially when they know you. o.o About 10 minutes after I got there, this girl comes through the door and the very first thing that she does is say hi to me and start talking, lol. Her name was Miley and we aparently went to elementary school together, but after she found out that I didn't remember her at all, she kind of lost interest in talking. I don't blame her though; I make any awkard situation 10 times more awkward, haha.

I didn't plan to stay at the party very long, so I spent my time pigging out on the food and standing around. :X My friend finally got the the party, and after his family had hung out for a little while, I went back to his house and we played a little Halo. I wasn't there for very long, because my parents wanted to get back to our house by 10 (45 minutes away), and I obviously couldn't spend the night on Christmas Eve, lol.
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Friday, January 9, 2004

12:39 am at night?! u MuSt b CR4-z!!11
That's right, on a school night. But eh, I stay up like this every night, at least I got some sleep this afternoon.

Now, I'm going to have to stray from my IRL-only content to be able to write this, and I know people are doing this all the time, but it was deffinitly worth it. And I deffinitly need to learn how to spell. Do you know who I think is cool?

I'll give you a clue. He's thirteen years old, Japanese, and is a smurf. Okay, fine, he's not a smurf. And I don't think he's Japanese. O_o But I'm pretty sure he's thirteen. Could be wrong, though.

ANYWAY, I think OtakuSennen is one of the coolest members on OtakuBoards by far. Easily the most intelligent of his age group that I know, it's very easily to mistaken him for being 17 years old when you are chatting, which of course, on the internet, doesn't pose as much importance anyway. His halarious, witty comments, as well as his knack for starting up a relaxing conversation easily have made him one of my best friends on the internet, and the chats that he participates in never seem to die. Somehow or another, he has found a way to avoid the n00b grammar of his stereotypical age, and manages to get straight A's on his report card his entire life.

On OtakuBoards, when you see that he has posted in a topic you can be assured of two things:

1) That his comments are anything but short and spammish; that he takes his time with each and every post to make them as clear as possible.

and 2) He will bring up new discussion into the topic and present points that had not been thought of earlier. My choice for Most Likely to Become a Mod, easily.

We are all lucky to have our Sen in the Otaku community, and take the good time we spend with him on AIM for granted! We all care about him and think of him as a very friendly person. ^_^

Vote OtakuSennen for Otaku Awards 2004!

Why do you think Sennen is cool?
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Friday, January 2, 2004

Muahaha!

You are...OtakuBoards!

You're a little of everything, and them some.
You're definitely a dynamic site--you've gone
through six version changes in less than
three years, and are eagerly awaiting version
7. You offer discussion on an
incredible range of topics and
interaction with some of the most
intelligent anime and gaming fans
around. You're a friendly site, full of
community spirit. Some may not agree
with your rules, but everyone appreciated the
atmosphere you provide.


Which theOtaku site are you?
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I must say, that is freakin' smurf.
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Wednesday, December 24, 2003

A Quiz!

Your The Strong type girl...
you do what you feel is right for you, and you dont
let anyone stop you from enjoying things..
your my type of girl.. just make sure that your
able to handle the good and the bad...


What Type of girl are you? (For girls only!) (Updated)
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=) Good stuff.
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Tuesday, December 23, 2003

Woah..tired already?
Oh man, it's 9:30 pm and I'm ready to go to bed, heh. Of course, I was sleeping earlier, and just woke up from a nap, so..yeah. My body wants me to go down, and I suppose I will right after I post this.

The internet is a considerably different place than real life, and for some, it's becoming sort of an..alternate reality, if you will. Someone living out their life in the real world can come home and throw themselves into the world of the internet, altering their day for the better or worse. Message boards all over the internet are helping to create communities of people who share similar opinions, likes, and dislikes, but no one can argue that things could not have gone as far as they have if it had not been for AIM.

Taking instant messaging to it's peek, AIM lets you talk with people from all over the world..instantly. Instead of using long distance to call them up on the phone, you can do it online with no extra cost to the internet service that you already pay for. It allows you to chat with multiple people at once, either on multiple IMs or in a chat room, and you can talk despite whether you are eating or are sick or there is something else to affect how you may talk in real life.

I honestly feel that the greatest thing about instant messaging is the ability to talk to and make friends with people all over the world, based on your own personal interests. You don't have to depend on people where you live liking what you like, and you can choose your friends based on what you like and not base yourself around what other people like. When you instant message someone, you aren't (usually) talking to them based on their physical looks, but rather judging them on the person inside. I think that's a very important distinction to make.

Of course, not everyone is truthfull on the internet. They may lie to keep their personal life a secret, or in the case of the sick individuals with intent on hurting others, they will tell you only what you want to hear. It may take a while talking to someone to find out if someone truely is who they say they are, but it's deffinitly worth finding out if it means making a good friend. Who knows, I could be lying to you right now. ~_^ Eh, don't count on it. =p

Still, despite how truthful someone could be, they still very well may be an entirely different person offline. Believe it or not, I'm actually fairly quiet in real life. While on the internet I can be extremely talkative and say, or rather, type, things with ease, I'm that kid in class who just sits at his desk and does his work, not talking to anyone except those who may talk to him first. Even in the case of friends, I don't talk that often and stay out of a few choice discussions, known as "Quiet Boy" even around them. It's all good, though, heh. I know they mean nothing against me.

Now there are multiple reasons for differing personalities on and offline. In my own case, I feel much more secure on AIM to say what I truely feel, and can use emoticons to express the feelings that I truely feel. In real life, however, I come off as a very serious person and while my voice is a little deep (ahem) I don't speak too loudly in fear of embarassing myself around other people whom I do not want to know my business. Another thing, too, is that AIM gives time to write and edit a response, respectively. In real life, try to imagine someone saying, "Hey what's up," and you just stare at them, take a tissue and blow your nose, walk out of the room, go to the bathroom, come back, shrug, and say "Eh, not a lot, yourself?" That's not how it works, lol. And it's not exactly very easy to erase things you being to say in real life, as apposed to the internet.

I hope this post has brought up some thought to the differing worlds of internet and real life, and created a more distinct picture of what I'm really like offline. It's not that I choose not to be outgoing, not at all; sometimes you just have to follow the path with what you were given.

-Syk3
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Monday, December 22, 2003

   Ahaha..it's been a while.
Yes, yes, it's been quite a quite indeed since my last update. I finally figured out how to make my myOtaku interesting not only for the people reading it, but for me. I can make it about my life OUTSIDE of OtakuBoards and the net, since I know you all pretty much can follow that pretty easily.

I saw Return of the King on Wednesday, yay! It was awesome, of course. My favorite of the three, and one of my favorite movies in general. Everything about it made it such an epis masterpiece, and it really makes me want to read the books, heh. If you havn't seen it, go. Now. As for me, I'm going to have to see it again soon.

Well, Holiday Break finally started officially on Friday, but we will see the effects of it on Monday on our first school day off. My friend Jimmy wanted me to come over on Friday and I said okay in school, but I still havn't contacted him about that. O_O My explanations: I was sick, I don't have his number, and I was on the phone with my friend Nate when he called Nate, so my Nate should have told Jimmy. D'oh, oh well, I'll come over later when I'm not coughing all the time.

This Wednesday I'm supposed to go over to an old Christmas Eve party that we used to go to every year, but my friend Alex wants me to come to his house instead. I don't really care; in fact, I'd rather go to Alex's house to play his new XBox (insurance money; his house was robbed again and his PS2 got stolen..again O_o) and maybe I can finally show his The Boondock Saints. If my mom drives me up there earlier in the day, we're also hoping to see The Return of the King again with some of his friends. Awesome.

As for the rest of the Holiday, Christmas should be here soon and I should get homework out of the way. I have to read a 300 page book over the break with questions and everything, as well as some History crap. For Christmas I asked for F-Zero GX, Animal Crossing, Viewtifull Joe, and Tony Hawk's Underground, so I should be glued to the gaming systems for a while. Then the day after Christmas we're going down to Virginia Beach for no reason in particular, so no internet for a few days. :(

My friend Art was trying to get me and another friend over to his house this break for a "drunken orgy". Lol, if I've known his for long enough, that's his silly title for "video games and anime with soda" party. Art is a really cool guy who I've known for a while through anime club. He's a senior now, and club president, and he's so funny and obnoxious that he can get along with everyone, heh. If he can't get a smile out of you, there's seriously something wrong. O_o;

So yeah..more real-life stories coming soon. I hope you like this new way of posting.

-Syk3
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Monday, November 24, 2003

Another day passes by..why does it feel so empty?
It feels like the weekend already. That rich feeling that you get when you know you don't have to do any work and can do whatever you want. On the contrary, I have about two or three quizes that I need to be studying for. Teachers love to quiz you on all of that work before you leave for Thanksgiving break. Perhaps that would be a good topic to discuss tommorrow: Thanksgiving break.

I don't even know why I'm posting this, lol. I suppose I'm updating for the sake of updating, to get myself on the ball of doing it everyday, or close together at the very least. I woke up, went to school, got home, played double dash, went on the internet...called Rachel...and now I'm here. But how did I get to this point in my life? What am I doing at OtakuBoards? Waiting for someone to give me a change in life? I wish I was more like James, Ken, Sennen, Shin.

Is this depression? No. It's more wondering about things than hating myself. How do I know if I'm going about this the right way? What can I say to you? Love has no barriers.

-Syk
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