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:: about me ::
homepage: THEIR destiny is fordained...
email: dth2rbthATuclaDOTedu
aim: dth 2 rbrth
age: 22 (june 24, 1981)
siblings: fraternal twin sister...that's it
school: UCLA
major: math of computation
minor: Japanese (EALC)
born: Edmonton, Alberta, CANADA
home: Bay Area!! norcal always
layout:
what was i thinking?? i really don't know...
quick sketch for the summer...ran out of ideas....no time to color, and i really
am tied up at the moment w/too many things to do...and not enough time
to really work out a layout...sorry to go half baked on you guys, but i'm
sure nobody cares =p
oh yeah, it's actually ver 3.5 =p i wrote it wrong..too lazy to change it...
:: tagboard ::
:: links ::
oekaki board
deviantART account
shiriai
tokki and mochi
invincible sword
coworker craig
shiritai
alison
gokumew2
jen
kix
ko
kurot
mako-chan
mbp's LiveJournal
phi
pikun
xandrabelle
sites
:: work ::
internship:
DreamWorks
Animation Training Dept
our dept trains the current 2-D/traditional animators to use the 3-D software, Maya. We also train them how to navigate the DreamWorks file system in LINUX etc....
i specifically just sit in the training sessions and learn maya =p....also on the side i'm supposed to revamp their website with all the training manuals =p
graphic design
(but not really =p):
UCLA Daily Bruin
ad production, student supervisor
i'm on hiatus right now for the summer...i'll resume when the school year starts up again....nice to work for the school paper cuz you're guaranteed a job every school year! income SWEET!
freelance:
Brocolli/AnimeGamers
retouch/layout
currently working on: DiGi Charat Anthology
TokyoPop
retouch/layout
currently working on: NOTHING! YAY!
past projects:
Wish 1-4
CardCaptors: Master of the Clow 1-3(3reprint), 5-6
Angelic Layer 3
Chobits 3
Peach Girl: Change of Heart 1
Brigadoon v.2
Marc Handler
my old resume
archives
original archive on site
pitas archive
:: sundry ::
Thanks!
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hunyaannn~~
Wednesday, August 6, 2003 :: 04:03 p.m.
title doesn't mean anything....or at least i don't think so...i'm just got stumped on a title for this entry...
anyway, last night was irresponsibly fun...played tennis from 8:30pm to 11:00...my backhand sucks so bad...and i think it's cuz, and i don't mean to be gross and "Oh my goD!", but i figure i'm gonna die someday, might as well tell you what i think is true...anyway, i think it's cuz certain "things" get in the way....and these "things" are annoying to GIRLS like me...cuz i don't like them...and i wish i had none like a BOY...get it?? anyway, cuz i use a 2-handed backhand, i need to turn sideways, but for some reason, i couldn't react fast enough and "things" got in the way when i tried to quickly prepare...ugh...anyway, tells me i should lose weight...
anyway, after that, came home about 11:30, read blogs and found out fan moved?? some sis i am, had to read mochi's blog to find out =p...well, it's not that i try to be good cuz doesn't matter either way...anyway i knew beforehand, just not the exact day...so called and got specs of what happened what was moved...i get the room to myself now! teehee..have fun at mochi's...
yeah, so, i SHOULD have gone to bed then but NOPE! at about 12:15 i decided i like stressing myself out being sleep deprived...why don't i doodle to achieve that goal!...and yeah, i drew Firenze for my blog...and i still didn't get to doodle the rest of the gifties for devart...i only did 2 so far....anyway, i did it only cuz roommate went to bed so i wanted to do it quickly before i lose another chance at solitude...anyway it'll suck again...this summer's layout TOTALLY sucked, but whatever...i think i'll just not do the whole layout change once month dealy anymore...too much hassle...also, there's only so much of my crap i can stand...i don't even know why i put myself out there like that...tell my why fan...TELL ME!! *drops to floor and bawls while DW staff stares and says..."interns these days..."*...anyway, new layout tonight or tomorrow night maybe...decided it'll be roughly the same style as now...
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*konk*
Tuesday, August 5, 2003 :: 07:41 p.m.
someone hit me....i don't seem to be making the right choices these days....i'm dead tired and yet i agreed to go play tennis at 8:30pm tonight....i nearly overslept today too....
oh, here's that deery lou sanrio cup i told you guys about....kinda ditsy looking....i guess like me...*duh uh huh huh*...
also, today! one of my co-workers was cleaning his office cuz another person is going to share the office with him, so he was getting rid of a LOAD of stuff....and he let me have THIS!! it's a character style book thing for the Sinbad movie....i don't know if i'm allowed but he said i could have it =p...he also gave me a book about how to program in a unix shell! neat! better than free crap fridays =p
omg, you read my blog? i didn't even know i gave it to you before =p...probably when i asked to link you...well, now i'm ashamed cuz i complain so much....
anyway, i'm in serious need of socks....must go do laundry...
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blogging in bulk...
Tuesday, August 5, 2003 :: 10:32 a.m.
i forgot to do a lot of stuff last night after work cuz i got completely and utterly distracted....old roommate asked if i wanted to go to TARGET!! of course!! target is so far (well, not so far, but not so easily accessible) so any offer to go, i take =p ....i bought some philip stark tupperware that was on sale =p....VERY tempted to get the slytherin lego set =p...we're so bad cuz he always says "get it! get it!" to everything i eye and i usu give in =p, and i do the same to him though =p but i've learned to control myself now =p...after that, we got dinner at arby's for the usu 4roast beef sandwiches for $5...so i have dinner for the rest of the week! this is when i bow down to the inventor of the refridgerator (sp?).
yesterday was daddy's b-day and post office made perfect timing cuz my gift arrived on that day too =p so i applaud USPS for that...but only that =p
tonight i might play tennis on campus cuz it has lights =p...but i have much to do, i'm not sure yet...
oh yeah, yesterday as i was going to the brocolli/animegamers (which one is it??) office, i passed by the small mitsuwa i used to go to, and there's a new BOOK STORE!! japanese bookstore! since asahiya closed, i didn't know what they did with the space...i'm gonna go sat to see what kind of books they have...used, new, lots/little comics to choose...*drool* new honya =p
yeah so, being the whore i am, i picked up another freelance job, this time for Brocolli/animegamers...i'm going the Digi Charat anthology thingy...i had to get InDesign for it, but my mac is sooo old and uses OS9 that i needed to install it on my PC, but my PC is so frickin slow and not enough ram so i'm kinda pissed...i'll retouch on my mac but paginate on my PC...oi...so lame...they said next they might give me juvenile orion cuz they "heard i liked X"...umm...where do people get this? i don't go yelling it out, but people always know...like when i started at TP, i was excited cuz they were going to buve me initial D (i love it! cuz it's so cheesy!) but then they shuffled me to the CLAMP guy cuz they "heard i liked X and CLAMP"...i have a stigma now, darn it...
i need a new layout...i think it'll be of firenze the centaur in HP...oh yeah, i finished HP1 yesterday so i'm back to reading celtic myths...i'm learning a lot in the introduction...now i know more about the background of RG Veda too...i think they meant Rig Veda..but apparently Celtic and Hindu myths are of the same indo-european origin! they have way too many similarities, it's uncanny...
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i knew it...
Monday, August 4, 2003 :: 01:56 p.m.
i knew i forgot something....
still high on my new england prepatory school boys phase from "a separate peace" and "peace breaks out" and now HP (which isn't NEW england, but the mothership herself =p) i bought the Dead Poets Society DVD when i swung by BestBuy cuz it was cheap...i watched that last night...but i couldn't remember when it was i first saw it....was it middle school or high school? Fan, do you remember? anyway, still a good movie...and i didn't know that the father in "That 70's Show", Red, was in it =p he was the mean father in DPS. also completely forgot Ethan Hawke was in it too...
uniforms are too spiffy...i wanna wear one just cuz of the cool crest-like insignia...and everyone looks so clean cut =p...everything so steeped in tradition it's crazy =p
ok quiz taken from Ko's LJ:
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quick before lunch
Monday, August 4, 2003 :: 12:34 p.m.
hmm...i think maybe i could wait on the entry till after lunch, but i'll do it now =p
first, quizzes taken from cute gokumew2:
 You're an INDIFFERENT AIM-ER. Meh. What kind of AIM-er are you? brought to you by Quizilla
i don't agree so much with the content....i don't block EVER...i actually have accumulated a lot of people through classes and such, but yeah, i hardly talk...i am on quite often, though i walk away and forget it's on just as often =p...but if someone IMs me, i try my best to be all eyes so...i dunno...50/50 correct =p
Which main-ish Get Backers character are you? brought to you by Quizilla
ahahaha cool...
 Like Hakkai, you will rip out your own eyeball in a misguided attempt to atone for your heinous crimes of passion. Freak.
How Will You Lose YOUR Eye? brought to you by Quizilla
had to take it cuz of my obsession with sight and my fear that i WILL go blind if i continue with this lifestyle of 18hours in front of a comp =p
i thought there were things i wanted to say....maybe the whole firenze thing...i was tempted to doodle firenze, the centaur that rescues harry in book 1, cuz he's so cool =p...need to fig out how to do horsies though...
OH!!! MANSKIRT!! dirk the jerk that likes asian girls with bodies of skinny 14yr boys apparently bought a manskirt??! paul told me yesterday when i went to his girlfriend's housewarming party...what the %^#&* is a manskirt?? they said he bought it in NY, and he might've pulled it off there, but this in CA...anyway....stupid product of the day...
also, went to 99cent store for the first time (we wanted to get away from the party cuz a certain someone came, plus someone was in need of cheap alcohol)...bought a SLEW of candy and got paul into charleston chews...3 for 99cents baby!...
anyway, friend liz, who's also a roommate of the housewarming, gave me a deery-lou (the new sanrio character) cup cuz she said it reminded her of me =p fan! i got a "deery-lou, a cheerful fawn" product!....those who know my real name and personality would catch the irony...cheerful my butt =p i'll take a pict so you guys can see...it's actually quite cute =p
ok off to lunch..i think for some reason i'll be posting again soon...
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forgot to mention...
Sunday, August 3, 2003 :: 02:04 p.m.
i saw bob saget (sp?) (Full House dad) at the Border Grill last night....not as tall as i thought...quite old...
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wah! miki emailed!
Sunday, August 3, 2003 :: 11:29 a.m.
finally! miki is alright! yokatta! i guess she's been really busy, but she seems to be having fun....right now her project is Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicle for the GameCube....she said her name might be in the credits!! wow, must be fun to have a cool job like that....*envies*
speaking of jobs, i might do some freelance retouch for Broccoli/animegamers....i have fig out if i have enough time though cuz they wanted me to do part one of the DiGiCharat manga, but it's due 8/10....tight squeeze, but it gives me the saturday....and only 100pgs...should be no problem i guess...
i'm watchin Fievel (sp?) an american tail right now!! REMEMBER fan?? somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight....someone's thinking of me somethingsomething i don't remember =p....but THIS is certiain, i KNOW i never remembered how jewish it is! is it jewish? i dunno....i think it's cool =p ah, memories..
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tennis and bars
Sunday, August 3, 2003 :: 12:34 a.m.
ok, roommate ok with the washing dishes thing...*phew* no hard feelings....
so angsted by leaving the note that i stayed out of the apt all day....
generally:
left at 9am to go to bank then post office then bestbuy....arrived back at home at 1:20ish and walked to big 5 for tennis balls that were on sale....then walked home to change and then walked to the tennis courts at Stoner Park...played tennis from 2:30 to 5:30 with paul and anne....went to anne's apt in westhollywood so she can change....proceded at 6:30 to pick up their friend georgia so we could go the Westwood Brew Co's happy hour which lied to us on the phone saying they ended at 7pm when they really ended at 6! grrr....decided then to drive to paul's apt in culver city so HE could change and we could lounge around until 9:30 so we could go to the Border Grill in Santa Monica for THEIR happy hour at 10pm....went the the grill with 8 people total..stayed till 12am....and here i am...
specifics:
i only went to happy hour for the cheap appetizers...in the end, all day i only ate to carnitas tacos at 10:45pm.....oh, i had a buttload of water from tennis too...
anne picked up dirk, the irksome closet anime fan from the johnny english movie a couple days ago, to go to the border grill...well, the whole film school and then some knows about his asian fetish...likes japanese things and skinny asian girls....today i learned that he describes his desirable body type as "skinny 14 year old boys".......*cough*....er....i can see the nosebleeds from fangirls...to put in yaoi-ish terms, dirk is very seme-ish in attitude and height, but he looks so uke....he's VERY slim and wears indy typish clothes...we always make fun of him for being effeminate and even his relatives think he's gay....if he weren't so tall i could totally beat him up....but man what a BUTT he is! totally annoying and snerky....so i feel sorry for the asian girl with a body of a skinny 14yr old boy that would attract him =p...anyway, paul was totally busting his chops about how dirk once found this skinny woman (which paul described as "manish"), in a movie, attractive and he had asked all the other guys if they agreed, but he was on his own =p
it was nice see the film students again....all having graduated, they are mostly looking for jobs and moving around to cheaper areas of the city....
ok, so today i had no time to doodle my gifties for devart people, but tomorrow i'll try to start/finish all the sketches....colouring will prob take place during the following week =p
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a note
Saturday, August 2, 2003 :: 12:14 p.m.
i wrote her a note...and i semi-carried out the plan i discussed with tokki which was to DO the dishes early in the morning loudly and leave a note saying i did her dishes this time cuz i know she's been busy, but in the future we should do our own, and that to tell me what she thought of this new arrangement....
semi-carried cuz i don't think i did it loudly enough cuz it's not like i wanted to break my stuff...and she is sleeping afterall...
thanks so much tokki for listening/reading to me gripe over AIM...i really wanted to get it out of my system, but obvioiusly i can't tell my roommate cuz...well....i'm just so passive....it's nice to know that someone else experienced the same horrors too =p....i'll update you on the situation =p...like i said, i prob won't see her again until 9pm tonight...*scared*
no i didn't catch leno, fan... *sniff* i never watch late night anymore cuz i have to go to bed early so i can wake up early....
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omg i wanna cry...
Friday, August 1, 2003 :: 09:18 p.m.
i wanna so cry right now out of frustration for my own passiveness...in real life, i hate confrontation...right now i'm angsting whether to confront my roomate about her 2week old dishes...i wanna ask her if she actually EXPECTS me to do HER dishes cuz i've only used 3 forks and 2 cups the last 2 weeks, all of which i washed immediately after using...the sink is full, the grinder still broken...she's always never here when i get this frustrated and my drive is always fizzles by the time she comes back...i'm so godd#%^@*& frustrated...
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hmm...interesting
Friday, August 1, 2003 :: 04:05 p.m.
anime&manga symposium series
first one is free...i'll go just cuz its@ucla...but $525...no.
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a little curious...
Friday, August 1, 2003 :: 03:11 p.m.
fan, why'd you call me at work? not that i mind really, cuz i don't...but i thought you were most likely NOT to call when i'm working...i usu call people at lunch time...but anyway, curious tis all...i hope you got whatever was broken fixed...
free crap friday report:
another shrek2 hat, an old school hat and a preview dvd to sharkslayer and shrek2
they kicked us out of our usual meeting place for a "Jeffrey Meeting"...which i assume is what they term any meeting involving Jeffrey Katzensomethingican'tspell...and THEN they got made at out internship coordinator cuz we had to book another room, but THAT room had a pitch meeting around 1:30 and i heard it was with jerry seinfeld?...so we had to shuffle out fast....you'd think there'd be better meeting rooms all around campus...why bully us around?....i felt sorry for our coordinator...
got paid yesterday, so nice check to deposit tomorrow...
tennis tomorrow too hopefully and daddy's b-day present to ship and package to pick up tomorrow...lots to do on the weekend...
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august already...
Friday, August 1, 2003 :: 08:56 a.m.
seems like no new layout this month...can't really think of what i wanted to do...maybe i should just not draw something this time...we'll see...
i get to play tennis saturday! i'm gonna suck but oh well....would have rather gone to GM2's gathering but LA life doesn't afford much fun...even though it's summer =(
need to get a new book this weekend...i think i'll finish this by monday at the latest....*scurries off the amazon.com*
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dilemna
Thursday, July 31, 2003 :: 11:07 p.m.
just when i ragged on them, they contact me...i got an email and a phone call (when i was in a meeting w/ my supervisor of all times! =( )from DMI about an interview to see my work....probably cuz isaac told the guy after he met me in the cafeteria yesterday....then i got another email from animegamers asking if i wasn't too busy with DW, if i could do small easy graphic stuffs....NOW i need a new comp...
so the problem is, should i go through with the DMI interview? i mean they already know my stuff...i worked for them for a year, they can see the 13 tokyopop books i did at a bookstore...carson is too far for me to bus...i don't think i'm gonna go...but i wanted to ask about translating jobs for my friend...so i dunno what to do...
animegamers is more responsible i think...but it requires a better computer, which i don't really know if i necessarily have the $$ for...
and first and foremost, i need to finish my fifth and final yr...crap....why can't i find jobs AFTER i graduate...at this rate i'll have used up my job points (cuz life is a video game) and will run out of opportunities by the time i graduate...
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FUUUHHHHHHHH#$!^%!!!
Thursday, July 31, 2003 :: 02:04 p.m.
i don't swear aloud, but my mind is dirtydirty, but my first reaction was exactly that word that i distorted in my title...
why such a rxn? cuz i found my name under the people section in anime news network's encyclopedia!! what the heck??!
i was bored so for the heck of it i looked for weird friend egan loo's name, which wasn't listed despite writing articles for viz, translating for bandai, tokyopop and what else? tokki would know better maybe...maybe overall rich otaku sums it up? anyway, they stuck me in for the angelic layer manga of all things...ah well...this was my shock for the day =p
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tch...too late
Thursday, July 31, 2003 :: 12:14 p.m.
Millenium Actress (released by DreamWorks and Digital Manga) is screening sept12 and i'm not gonna be at DreamWorks anymore by then...sucks...i never got to go to any screenings...wasted chances =(
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tired...
Wednesday, July 30, 2003 :: 11:09 p.m.
did gokumew2's sukisho pict, soraxsunao....sorry, it's not all that....i think i've lost my touch if i had any at all...it's the whole change of lifestyle thing...i read more than watch anime so i don't exercise my eyes in the right medium....i don't know if that makes sense =p
so i signed the lease thingy to get my security deposit back from my 1444 apt....hopefully not too much is cut....also saw craig in all his shaved head glory....he was eager to show me for some reason...
esther is moving out of the 1444 apt, so i might be w/o a bed soon...for those who forgot, i borrowed her mattress and frame....
other than that, tomorrow means the start of HP for me!
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OMGOMGOMG!
Wednesday, July 30, 2003 :: 01:07 p.m.
OMG!! i just ran into isaac and hikaru (prez of digital manga!!) at...get this, the dreamworks cafeteria?!!! WAHHH!!! the nightmares!! why are they here invading my little solace from anything japanese??? WAHHH!!!!
as usu, i faked my greeting and acted happy to see isaac...which i was, cuz he was decent, if not a little pervy...but then when hikaru came, i wanted to say...well, i don't swear but you get the idea...those who have suffered w/me through the rise and fall of DMI...
anyways...they're here doing things for millenium actress, but i was irked they were eating OUR FOOD!...and hikaru acted like he remembered me...tch...he's all like "i loved your designs...blahblahblah..." like he remembered! he never formally MET me until 8 months later when i finished my part of the Newtype thing...he NEVER shook hands with me, spoke to me, anything that was obvious for a prez of a small 15 ppl company to do for his employees, he didn't do!
he asked me if interning here was a demotion or promotion from DMI...i said they were totally different jobs so i can't compare them... but obviously a PROmotion you pucktard (my new word cuz nothing else describes it)....several times the PRO!..
*pantpant* ok, so ends my rant...i guess i was caught off guard...i think i'm more angry that he ended up in a fairly good place through shoddy management that i don't agree with...personally....until i see his side of the story maybe, i don't think he deserves it...
PS...i might be freelancing for DMI again... *DUCKS from rotten tomatoes*...most unlikely though cuz they're pucktards! and animegamers too cuz they never called, even though they solicited me...remember at fanime, fan? but i don't care...i wanna start over...doff aside this web of anime and industry i'm in...
oh, someone told me once, i think my roommate or something...that it seems like i'm pretty solid for my future plans...ie, i know what i wanna do etc...I DON'T!! i wanna die is all i wanna do...i don't want to work any more, i don't want to worry about money anymore...i don't want to SCHOOL anymore...i simply don't want to live anymore, if living means i must do all those three things...so no, i'm not in the clear, i am still very much in the dark...
EDIT: coworker cancer craig shaved his head since his hairloss was getting noticable...there's a pict of it on his journal (see links)...almost makes me feel sorry for him...but then i remember all the things he's done/said, or lack thereof...just one more yr, i can do it for one more yr...
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getting worse...
Wednesday, July 30, 2003 :: 12:04 p.m.
i'm getting worse....i was late to class....but you know, i don't care, cuz this is only for MY benefit, the only thing they want out of ME is a website and that's completely done already...
so...i slack....i slack off into oblivion... =p
i finished Peace Breaks Out on the first bus...so when i transferred, it took so much for me to just stay awake...luckily i didn't miss my stop =p
it was a good book, though not as heart wrenching (imo)...but still a lot of ideas and things to say that i thought were...compelling??? really not into humanities so i don't know how to describe my impression well =p...anyway, i think i'm a sucker for crossovers (hence my CLAMP obssession) cuz there were a few things events from A Separate Peace that was mentioned in this one...me likes =)
a lot of down time at work now...which is why i'm blogging =p i have to practice animating the crab bouncer (a crab that is a bouncer at a club) from the sharkslayer movie...the mouth on mine is screwed up but i'm too lazy to ask what's wrong....meh...later i guess...
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movie and tennis??
Wednesday, July 30, 2003 :: 12:17 a.m.
did something slightly irresponsible and went out to a movie cuz paul called and i didn't see these recent graduates in SOOOO long that i couldn't let a silly thing like sleep get in the way...
we watched Johnny English...which i don;t particularly recommened...unless you really want simple predictable humour...i thinkPirates of the Caribbean was much more worth it =p
one of the other people was someone who goes to AX a lot (but hides it from others)...and apparently he had a free pass and slightly rubbed it in my face after i said it was the biggest angst of my summer, 2nd was ComicCon.....also he wore my ultraman shirt AGAIN! i got it 3 years before he did and I'M known for wearing it!!! now he stole my iconic shirt, bastard....i'm bitter....
so, Paul's girlfriend has a racquet and balls!!! we're SOO gonna play tennis! once we find a night court =p i totally think going up to campus is fine....start of the art courts and all! except not this week cuz mercedes benz cup is going on =p
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worst intern ever...
Tuesday, July 29, 2003 :: 12:44 p.m.
i fell asleep...
i fell asleep in class...and 2 animators noticed...i think they found it amusing, but nevertheless, they probably think i'm a slacker...
it reminds me of when i dozed off in lectures...but this was slightly different...instead of a 100ppl lecture room in which 1/2 the students are probably sleeping...this was a dark, over-airconditioned room with large comfy office chairs....and i was staring at 2 lovely 21in monitors emitting the only warming glow that existed in that room...one screen was the trainer animating, the other was my blank scene...i don't know if the trainer knew if i dozed off cuz i was always aware...only half asleep...once i was discovered by the 2, i totally stayed alert...no one said anything...but i still feel bad...CRAP!
i need to start getting regular sleep...
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BASTARDS! suck on THIS! UNGH!
Monday, July 28, 2003 :: 08:12 p.m.
yeah, i'm bitterer than usu....cuz it involves money...tokyopop late yet again....they're not keeping their end of the contract....there must be something in there for the lawyers....
other than that, started Peace Breaks Out and i like it so far...it's different from A Separate Peace....takes the view of the teacher this time and not so much in the first person...i dunno if this is in all books, cuz lordy knows i read not unless forced for a grade, but knowles seems very socially insightful....do most books/novels make such a strong, almost political view? reading LOTR wasn't like that....but all those books in HS never felt so political....but actually PBO isn't TOO political, though the characters DO take some views that i consider interesting despite my INTENSE hatred for politics and society...anyway, end book rant ....NOW...
i think i'll stop myself from complaining about certain people here....but you can kinda guess who it WAS gonna be about =p
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for tokki
Sunday, July 27, 2003 :: 06:31 p.m.
for tokki cuz i was bored and i remember her asking me a looong time ago...check here....don't blame me if your eyes bleed from bad art overload...
i'll get to yours soon hopefully =p
watched the fleshy absurdity of getbackers26...wants more...
now i'm gonna watch Samurai deeper kyo 1-5...lazy weekends are lazily fun...
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mukatsukuuuuu
Sunday, July 27, 2003 :: 01:58 p.m.
went back to santa monica cuz i didn't buy any books yesterday cuz..long story that boils down to laziness...anyway, went to barnes&noble and found the "sequel" to A Separate Peace, Peace Breaks Out...it's still about Devon School, but different students and takes place after the war...anyway the irritating part was at the register...some boy came and asked the clerks where to find anime, and i was just looking at it a few minutes ago at the teen section so i said i think it's in the kid's/teen section....but they were directing him to the Sci-fi section...i totally wanted to correct them, but i just left....but i was so annoyed! i dunno why i'm so bitter =(
anyway, i'll be reading Peace Breaks Out now before HP =p...it's shorter so i'll probably finish it earlier again...i dunno though...seems like knowles is using the same formula...the jacket summary of PBO is:
PETE is a sensitive,
handsome, young war hero.
WEXFORD is a defiant,
schemimg troublemaker.
Their lives collide in the uneasy days of peace after World War II as senior year at the Devon School changes from a time of friendships into a stunning drama or tragic betrayal.
sounds awfully like ASP...except that in ASP, "tragic betrayal" is not exactly how i would describe what happened in it...so i dunno what PBO holds...
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productivity...
Sunday, July 27, 2003 :: 12:24 a.m.
watched eps 20-25 of getbackers, 24-25 of wolfs rain, 1-4 of mirage of blaze.....very productive evening topped off with the best of will ferrell on SNL...which is on still now...you gotta love the blue oyster cult sketch...and "the luvahs" sketch....nubile body...HAHAH! will touched jimmy's booty!....will i ever get to visit the welshley arms hotel?
taken from Ko's:
You're Ancy Himemiya, the multi-faceted Rose Bride.
Through terrible situations, the outcomes of
which were out of your hands, you've acquired
learned helplessness, and thus appear to the
world as a reserved, sweet girl without a will
of her own. The face you show to the world
masks resentment at your situation and
maliciousness toward the world.
The In-depth, Psychological Utena Female Character Quiz
brought to you by Quizilla
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stuffs
Saturday, July 26, 2003 :: 03:07 p.m.
i was gonna take pictures from, what i dub, my free crap fridays....got a lot of DW movie merchandise....but too lazy now, and maybe too self conscious(sp?) of what ppl might perceive my purpose for putting said pictures up....i don't want to seem like i'm showing off and all, i just want you to laugh at the crap with me....internship ends Aug 22....i wish it could last longer...*sniff*
anyway...just feelin blue....ever feel like it's getting harder to talk to someone who used to be so mind-reading easy to talk to? i dunno...i guess this is called drifting apart...i've probably changed too much toward the more chaotic that I'M the one who's hard to talk to....anyway...
now i go to get some books to read...
taken from jen...
You're Loki, the intelligent trickster god.
You do
things mostly for your own good, but you're not too selfish.
You
usually think before you act, which can help you solve problems quite
simply.
Just remember to help people when they're in need, and you'll become
a fine person.
Which Matantei Loki character are you most alike?
EDIT: while i was walking in little tokyo today, i was wearing my UCLA shirt for lack of a decent (ie clean) shirt, some kid sitting on the side said "do you really go to UCLA?" and i said "yeah" with a half smiling, half confused face...and he's all "coOOl"....i wonder what he thought of the school that made it cool to him =p....he's like 15 or something, maybe it's a school he wants to go to =p anyway. thought it was funny...
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wannatalkwannatalk!
Thursday, July 24, 2003 :: 08:14 p.m.
i can't stand it! i must rant about A Separate Peace, but i don't wanna bother people who haven't read it....so i'll leave it in the comments =p Knowles is no where near Tolkien in terms of visual writing, but i dunno...i feel more plot ranty about this than LOTR....
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i thought...
Thursday, July 24, 2003 :: 12:15 p.m.
i finished re-reading "A Separate Peace" this morning, and it was all i could do to keep from tearing up...i could feel the blood rush warm against my eyes and i just kept thinking, "your on the bus for goodness sakes AND your late!!"....seriously man, that some angsty stuff...and i knew what i was waking up into this morning though....except i thought i would finish it on my ride home...
dang i ripped through that book! i'm shocked...i guess i do like stories, as long as i don't have to write an essay analyzing it =p....i read it in 2days...well, essentially 7hrs since i read it only on the bus...aren't you proud fan?...i'm glad i had you dig it out for me...
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Go KO!
Wednesday, July 23, 2003 :: 09:54 p.m.
go to Ko's blog NOW!!! gogogo! there's a way too cute for words comiccy thing!!!!!!!! i love it so much to death that i wish she had a tagboard or comment system so i can squeal!!!!
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done...
Wednesday, July 23, 2003 :: 12:35 a.m.
i finished that request(warning!shounen ai-ish =p) for gukimon...it was a nice break from a dreary life...
re-reading "A Separate Peace" since i finished Return of the King...it's so sad now, when i re-read it, cuz i know what happens in the end...*sniff*....stupid gene!gah!
weird thought the other day...i was passing by those big highrises in downtown and the first thought that came to mind was...i wonder which one has the least amount of corruption...i mean, delloit and touche (sp?), KPMG, Wells Fargo...each 30+stories at least...say 100ppl a floor...there's gotta be a lot of corrupt people...shredding impt documents...doing underhanded dealings, having office affairs...then i smacked myself for thinking such useless things...
i didn't finish that starfish animation...it was taking too long...i hope i don't get into trouble =p...
apparently i was supposed to get paid last week, but i didn't...wonder what happened....also the Tokyopop check is due soon....they better get their butts on it or else i'm gonna start charging interest...no...i'm not...cuz i'm weak and they know it...
wierd thing happened....apparently Digital Manga (my old workplace) and DreamWorks(new workplace) are doing some dealings...or at least Hikaru (DMI's prez) is buddybuddy with one of the respected in DW (Frank Gladstone)...will i never rid myself of this DMI stench? when i'm introduced, i'm always "this is our intern...did you know she used to work for Digital Manga?"...is that my only quality?? the whore from DMI!?....*sigh*....i remember i worked my butt off for that Newtype mock up and in the end ADV took it...all that effort for nothing!! but i dwell on old, though not forgotten, times...MUST MOVE ON!
whoa, that was a surge of unexpected optimism =p
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pissed! and not in my pants...
Tuesday, July 22, 2003 :: 02:18 p.m.
ucla started enrollment uncharacteristically early this summer for the fall quarter...and apparently cuz of that, they also moved up the deadline for tuition costs...yeah, so not knowing that....my registration was put on hold (ie dropped out of my classes from first pass) and restricted from enrolling further...stressed at this, i missed my lunch, meaning i missed my only meal of the day, to deal with getting BARacct paid and re-enrolling in my classes that took me so long to coordinate...
yeah so now i have 2 japansese, a math and a CS...not how i wanted to schedule it really, but i can't be picky now...just 1more yr...one more yr...
now i have to work on my stupid starfish...geh...
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request
Tuesday, July 22, 2003 :: 12:10 a.m.
FINISHED RETURN OF THE KING!!! *sniff* such a wonderful story! omg! i was so angsting near the end with the shire! i was so mad at some of the things! GRR!
anyway
a devart member gukimon requested i fanart her original characters =) *squish* i feel special =p...i know tokki, you asked me to do some stuff...but an unfortunate side effect of being my friend in real life, is that you have seen my hideous face =p...at least in "cyber" requests i get that anonymity =p
anyway, she's such a cutie (by the way she writes) and her characters are so freakin awesome...her vampire guy is so cute =)... while i was at work, i messaged her a couple more questions to get a better idea of the characters so i ended up sketching it out rather quickly when i got home........too bad i don't get home till late, so i can't finish CGing it until tomorrow night, hopefully...but here's a peek. yes, they're both guys, but that was the request! they look older than they're supposed to though...gomen!
stressing at work cuz Mozilla on Linux sucks butt....the webpage i'm doing won't print out properly...nor does any webpage for that matter...but mine got the worse end of it....i don't know if i have to redesign it or what cuz the whole point of the page is for it to be print friendly....*sigh* ....that's why the world should run on macs! geh...
i'm basically going to work purely so i can eat....i find myself pulling myself out of bed at 6am on the thought that i get food once i arrive....and i dread going home at 5pm because i have no dinner awaiting my arrival....then i try to go to bed at 10:30pm happily so i can forget my hunger...but sorta angsted by the fact that i'm such a night owl that i don't end up sleeping till 12am...fooooood....
BTW, seems like a lot of people are stil MIA in the blog world =p things seemed to have halted in July =p
still trying to figure out how to get home....
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system outage
Sunday, July 20, 2003 :: 09:32 p.m.
well, it's been boiling up for a couple of days...this urge to draw arwen and galadriel...REALLY slacked off on it, esp w/the coloring and lines...i just wanted to get it out of my system before the new week started...and it's out! hopefully...i had a couple of frodo scenes in my head too, but gave those up easily =p...lets see what the end of the book brings!
there's a free employee screening of Seabiscuit(sp?) that i'm unfortunately going to miss once again to lack of car...roommate is at work..don't really want to ask ex-roommate...alice is rehearsing for friday's gig...well, plus it's @8pm so i'll get home at 11ish? and then have to wake up early the next day for work...nuh uh..no way...but still...i heard for the sinbad one they had a party and stuff...free food! dinner!
speaking of food, or lack thereof...i wasjust doing fine and dandy about not having dinner or much of a lunch today, and even told fan i feel like i could wait until i get to work tomorrow to eat...but then i think my neighbors had a bbq or sorts and the smells of meats came wafting in....*drool*....that got me SOOO freakin HUNGRY!! hara hetta!...it smelled like those hillshire farms sausages! those lil'smokies!! *grumble*....my insides are eating themselves...gah!....i'm crawling on the floor here for MEAT!...gah...gah...*slobbers over hardwood floors*
well, at least i have my gogo no kocha...but it's no meat...
roommate is off at happy family, a vegetarian restaurant with KILLER FOOD!...she went with her friend..she always goes with her...perhaps i'm jealous cuz THEY GET TO EAT?!!....*sigh* i guess i'm not sophisticated enough for her company....
speaking of sophisticated...looking through my closet today (putting away my laundry) and realized all i have are t-shirts!....looks like the t-shirt rack at pac sun or something....i really need to diversify my wardrobe...
wow....my weekends are really eventless...oh..i found out that free anime con in little tokyo is AUG 17...it wasn't this weekend...so all day sunday i spent vegetating in the apt....
wah...so hungry...i didn't want to resort to this, but i think i have some stale taco shells that's edible...i always have stale shells cuz i never have enough ground beef to eat all the shells =p...stale meaning i havent cooked tacos in about 4 months?....it's something though...ANYTHING!!...mommy...
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dang Yun!!
Saturday, July 19, 2003 :: 07:21 p.m.
i went to little tokyo today (i'm going again tomorrow for the free anime con, but i wanted to check out what's going on for the nisei week events on sat)....and i picked up Yun Kouga's latest title "Loveless" and CRAP! she's changed A LOT! since earthian!! and me likes it!
 <- here are scans of the postcards that came with vol.3....i need to get vol 1and2 =p...yun kouga is my 4th fav shoujo artist (CLAMP, yukiru sugisaki, Mineko Ohkami, YK)...but she might edge out mineko...if only for cleanliness of lines =p...so i got it only cuz it was her =p...yikes for spontaneous shopping...
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FRIDAY!
Friday, July 18, 2003 :: 01:41 p.m.
omg, this week went by pretty quickly
so, went to my second intern lunch and concluded that they ARE very sorority/fraternity and business people....totally not my crowd...i bond more with amy, the tech director intern, and the older interns...most of the interns are from USC! and also, they all dress so biz...dress shirts, trendy skirts, slacks type deal...all chattering away like networking biz people, fake and enthusiastically....i dunno...that's why i hate the biz world....i'll stick to the animators...they're so much more fun!
so, dreamworks records exec was the speaker today...got powerman 5000, catch me if you can and cooler kids CDs...also had to take an intern picture at the lagoon but it was sprinkling!...i hate pictures =(
i'm thinking about putting up a separate blog for talking about my internships/jobs because i hate to bore people with complaints about DW or TP or DB if they didn't want to know...
anyway, i wanted to watch a movie this sat at Santa Monica, but i'm afraid that since that farmer's market accident, it'll be blocked off...it happened really close to the theater i would see it at...i guess 10 ppl died...
other than that, i'll prob go to the little tokyo nisei week and the free anime con on sun =p...just to see how it is =p
today my roommate is off to work, so maybe i can squeeze in a doodle or two while she's away...i'm so secretive, but why?...i think it's cuz if they see me doing it, it's embarrassing....also, she nitpicks a lot like she's an artistic expert....but then, my stuff IS probably that bad...but she doesn't have to say it! *sniff* HECK! she complains about CLAMP though...i just think she doesn't know how to appreciate styles and evolution...she likes RGVeda though.
anyway...happy thoughts happy thoughts...will go to fanime cuz getting group discount! (thanks!)...possibility of AX next year if i take a ride with mbp...if she still remembers her offer a year from now =p
i wanna go somewhere for some reason...like a trip? and not have anything to worry about for a change...i think my brain is starting to tumorize =p
almost done with Return of the King! must find replacement read once it's done lest i fall asleep on the bus and miss my stop...*goes to amazon.com*
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remembered!
Thursday, July 17, 2003 :: 08:02 p.m.
i remembered what i wanted to say...
i saw my ex-roommate on the bus going to work today! it's his second day of training at KPMG's main office in downtown (HUGO highrise building all to themselves)...this is his JOBjob now, $60grand a year high end job....lucky bastard...we were comparing our resepctive company badges and i dawned on me that we're adults! this generation i'm in has now inherited society....and it's scary.....for the world to look to this new generation is creepy, and because it's mine, i fear i've jinxed it to failure...hopefully with people like him at big companies like that, we'll succeed...
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what the ^*&@%^??
Thursday, July 17, 2003 :: 07:08 p.m.
What the heck??
i like ai yazawa though....well, if anything, i'll get it for pretty picts??
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SD comic con
Thursday, July 17, 2003 :: 12:01 p.m.
gah...another year and still unable to go to comic con....but since i've never been, i'm not as angsty about not going than for say something like AX...also San Diego is a ton lot farther so it's less possible for me to make it there anyway...
but i was looking at the SD comic con website and i was saddened by all the goodies i will miss yet again this year...
some of panels will be showing exclusives of Return of the King!! neil gaiman is going to be in a lot of panels....also they're showing a short film someone did on the Marval Bullpen comic bits!!i LOVE Bullpen...
also there's a panel about Jim LEE! just about him, but i don't think he's appearing??...also one on one of the Kuberts...i forget, ANdy? or Adam...
yeah and also Matt Groening is going...and in the LOTR panel, they said "special guests"??!!! i'm guessing eWood or aAstin will go since it's soCal and all...also, since they'll being discussing sAstin's short doc that's included as an extra in the DVD, i think even more so that he might show up....also other celebs appearing are Halle Berry and Angelina Jolie?
anwyay, enough loathing about not having a car...shouganai yo ne! next year for sure!
i think that's all i wanted to complain about for today =p for some reason i thought i had other news besides complaining...hmmm...maybe i'll remember later...
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before i bed..
Wednesday, July 16, 2003 :: 10:31 p.m.
i seriously think one of the neighbors got a new boyfriend or girlfriend cuz they're gettin' it on like a mofo way too often recently...*eeEEEwww*...i hate LA
in other LA news...little tokyo is having a free anime con apparently, for Nisei week...so if anyone is going...i'll go just cuz i have nothing to do and i need to get the next Asuka...
Jen has a cool new layout up AND an IRC channel where she distros old radio shows! it doesn't work for me by unlucky chances...but it was fun just talking to them!
Ko also has a CUTE new layout up featuring TB! i love the TB!....her layouts are always so genki =)
watched MaLoRa14...cute and ODD! loki's oldest son we meet...ok, that was Yoda grammar...
just past 1/2 way through Return of the king...sweet book! maybe i'll try my way through the Silmarillion (sp?) next...or just go to HP...i still didn't read OoTP yet...
all day i animated a ping pong match....my eyes twitch like there's no tomorrow...the phrase of the day "maya is the most powerful 3D software on the planet"....why does it sound like an infomercial?
wanna go home, wanna get out of this heat...did i already say i hate LA? it was so hot in glendale that i couldn't tell if i was breathing air or bus exhaust...usu bus exhaust is hotter....then i got sniffly in the office cuz it was too cold...
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chocolate!
Wednesday, July 16, 2003 :: 08:53 a.m.
chocolate bread for breakfast!! *goes to get fat*
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oddities of maleness...
Tuesday, July 15, 2003 :: 12:11 p.m.
first, wanna wail on losing an auction cuz i forgot!! i wanted to get issues 01/2001 and 02/2001 of Asuka, and i found it on eBay...but i missed it by a minute cuz i was in the middle of training! WAH!...i was so mad..
anyway, while fuming at my own stupidity, i was pondering on how odd it is for guys to go to the bathroom...how weird it must be, if you're a new male employee, and say you meet a supervisor in the "john"....and there you are...er...doing your business and exposed...and there's your boss...equally exposed...i mean how embarrasing an existence is that? basically you're publically peeing...i feel fortunate to have stalls...i know guys do too...but it's generally for #2 right?...anyway, thought it was weird that in a men's room, there are guys holding themselves unashamed and possibly chatting around...who made this social tradition anyway? same person who created the classic greek symposium i guess...
do i think too much? YES! expecially when i lose an auction i REALLY wanted...i wish i set my alarm on my phone...how dumb was that?? ARGH!! *sniff*
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whoa, 3rd entry
Monday, July 14, 2003 :: 07:36 p.m.
 wow, i'm talkative today....but all i wanted to do was post this drink i bought yesterday....it's called natchan's secret...and the secret is pulp =p...i thought it was gonna be carbonated! like orange soda...but pulp is ok too i guess =p
alice took me to this COOL! chicken place just on westwood! man it was good! like el pollo locco but modernized and a little better =p....although, when she went back in line to get her boyfriend some to go, i was finishing up my mashed potatoes and licking the bowl cuz i love mah po-ta-toes....and when i looked up i saw her across the room smiling/smirking in my direction (at me?)...i think she thought i was stupid....i felt like such a dork but oh well...such is the fate of me and my potatoes...
it was nice to eat a good dinner for a change....i'll prob suggest it to my roommate since we're chicken fiends...
EDIT: didn't want to post again for this bit of news....last ep of Nightwalker, Midnight Detective SUCKED! i hates it!....
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some more comments...
Monday, July 14, 2003 :: 04:32 p.m.
why are there little to no sites w/AX picts yet? cosplay.com barely has anything...fansview doesn't have there's up either....are there any other sites out there?? i'm itchin to see how it was....*twitch*
also, alice is picking me up from work! whoohoo! AND she's going to take me somewhere for dinner...even though i only have $5....she got mad at me for not buying groceries or eating dinner since i've been working...but that's cuz i switched my one meal to lunch! so, it's all the same where before i skipped lunch but only had dinner, now it's only lunch and no dinner....same diff..wait...she also got mad at me for the no lunch dealie...ah well...i guess she's my surrogate (sp?) mom while i'm here =p
also, i said i would forward her demo CD to the DW music department via and records intern...so we're going to go to an art store to pick up materials and such to put her portfolio dealie together...but i didn't guarantee anything cuz i'm in the wrong division...i only see the records intern once a week cuz he comes from bevhills...all the interns meet every friday only...i don't know what i can do, but i'll try my best...
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my middle ground...
Monday, July 14, 2003 :: 12:52 p.m.
remember i was complaining how i was so cold in the building but it's so hot when i go outside?....and how i wanted some middle ground? well, this is it:
i have discovered the ICEE machine...
in the cafeteria of the main DreamWorks campus, there swirls quietly my middle ground....now i can walk in semi-comfort from the cafeteria back to my building with a nice ICEE to counter the heat...yuUm!
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my sunday
Sunday, July 13, 2003 :: 07:46 p.m.
today ended a nice productive weekend...
i went to little tokyo and bought milk tea and also the new DNAngel artbook...first impression was that it was very nnicely designed, but as i looked on, some of the images were hidden behind their over-design...example, they overlaid a cross over an image of Dark, revealing the image of Dark only through the cross...when you see it you'll know what i mean...oh well...still a nice artbook...
also got vol20 of mineko ohkami's Dragon Knights...
after i went to see Pirates of the Caribbean...it's a good action movie! i recommend it to anyone who's not looking for an insightful movie...i liked it cuz it was simple and i just wanted to relax and not think....simple fun and who thought guys in mascara would be so cool =p...J Depp was funny as Capt Jack Sparrow and Orli Bloom was pretty much just eye candy =p....the girl is cool too, except sometimes i was distracted by her odd mouth, but overall she was cool =p but this is my opin, and i tend to like movies and have little neg opins about them...
i rediscovered the fun of going to movies alone....back home i would always go to movies alone, but since college, because i could only go to a movie if someone else was going (rides), i became dependant on others....but now, the last 3 movies i went by myself and it was fun cuz i didn't have to try to find 2 seats and i could go at whatever time i wanted! hehehe
i guess that's it...
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the "K" in SKG
Friday, July 11, 2003 :: 10:59 p.m.
this morning jeffery Katzenberg (the K in DreamWorks SKG) held a meeting for all the animators....apparently Sinbad was a failure in the box office, but not in film-making...it was a semi-depressing meeting because he semi-dwelled on the subject, but he's a funny guy....but he's looking forward to all the other movies that are in production right now, so i guess all is good....i did hear some major wrongness on Disney's part regarding the release of the Incredibles vs the release of DW's Sharkslayer.....i'm starting to dislike the way disney works in business...quite dirty....but i will not speak of it here...catch me on AIM or call if you want to hear the details...
but they also announced that if you're a DW employee, they're going to offer sessions where you can pitch story ideas, and if it goes through, you get credits and rights and $100,000! whoa...too bad i don't have any ideas...
anyway, DW is having a family day in aug, and i was going to call my family, but i decided not to....it's too much of a hassle and lameness =p...don't want to deal with a family in LA, the inferno of all inferno-like dwellings....i'd only bite at them...i'm the worst me in LA...
yeah so i got my free intern bag that the interns got in ther first meeting that i missed since i was at fanime =p tackily cool i guess...
well, seems like i'm just ranting on work stuff cuz i spend 40hrs a week there...plus 20hrs a week getting there (2hrs oneway)....
will try to watch pirates of the caribbean tomorrow or sunday....maybe i'll doodle out some scenes that are stuck in my mind from reading Return of the King...
one scene i read in RotK that really struck me with Tolkien's morbid creativity, whether it came from his own war experience, or the dark recesses of his own mind, was the seige of Gondor...he describes the orcs using the heads of slain kinsmen to catapult over the walls of Minas Tirith...it was a very efficient cruelty that made me sad and slightly amused....recycling never seemed so wrong...
Then, among the greater casts, there fell another hail, less ruinous (than the fireballs) but more horrible....when the men ran to learn what it might be, they cried aloud or wept. For the enemy was flinging into the City all the heads of those who had fallen fighting....and it seemed that they had died in pain...
~ JRR Tolkien, Return of the King, pg804
ok some quizzes:
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 You represent... angst.
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 You represent... apathy.
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quick but semi-long update...
Thursday, July 10, 2003 :: 11:06 p.m.
i have to make this quick cuz i'm already late to bed (i calculates that i should go to sleep by 10:30 at the latest to get a good enough rest so i don't doze off @work)...but i really wanted to fangirl about some things...oh and forgive my grammar and spelling...
so tokki i got your letter and OMG it's so cute!....so you DID go to that korean doujin con thingy...i forgot to ask if you were able to considering...
also, FINALLY saw matantei loki ragnarok 12! for shota fans, there's a cute little scene with loki and heimdall, heimdall is acting like a housewife...except that loki finds it disgusting =p
semi productive today on the anime front...3eps of get backers and of course MaLoRa12...i do see the fascination with Kazuki and juubei now...kazuki still holds as my fave...though ginji is rpidly speeding up there...
so far for maya training, i made a solar system, stonehenge, windmill, flower in a pot, and robot...i think i'm missing one but oh well...
also, return of the king is exciting so far!
oh yeah, thouse James Baxter animation lectures i've been going to @work..i forgot to say that James is british or aussie or irish or a scottsman...one of those...so i just obsess over his accent =p....but he's really funny and has a lot of ideas...no wonder why he's the top animator in this country...though he be not from this country per se =p...
i'm beginning to want to go from undergrad to grad and doff the whole JET idea...i don't know if i could waste a year in Japan and lose an opportunity to connect with people at DW...anyway, i'll still think on it...i have to GRADUATE first...
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much w00teledge...
Tuesday, July 8, 2003 :: 09:59 p.m.
well, quite excited cuz:
got ATM card in mail finally
watched Wolf's Rain 22
currently d/l 3@once eps of anime thanks to irc-speed (bittorrent really kills bandwidth)
finished two towers...moving on to RotK (semi-cliffhanger!)
realized that when i get home, i have nothing to worry about (ie, not homework, unlike my roommate! HAH!)
went to a lecture, apparently given by one of the top animators, about character animation...quite funny...except i dozed off due to lack of sleep....
finished the design part of the website, so alls i need is content and i'm done!
sad part of this summer so far....while i was reading TT, i had so many fanarty moments, but i'm always on a bus or at work so i can't doodle...and then i forget over the weekend =p
will probably watch Pirates of the Caribbean(sp?) this weekend...
other than that, i too look forward to eveyone's return from AX =) also, looks like mako-chan had so much to fangirl about! i don't think i've ever met a celebrity and i'm in the heart of BevHills/Hollywood...i just never leave the apt =p....i will live my fangirl excitement through you =)
spending a lot of time on deviantART these days...i just keep clicking and clicking to more and more pictures....i have drool all over my keyboard probably =p great time killer if you ever need one...
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quizzie and more
Tuesday, July 8, 2003 :: 12:10 a.m.
let's start with a quiz i took from gokumew2 =):
YAY! i was SOOO happy to get kazuki...i TOTALLY thought i was going to get MAKUBEX cuz you know when you take some quizzes, you can generally tell which chara it's refering too? anyway, busybody=true, gender confused....uh no?...gossip=well, i'd like to call it informing people...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KO!! yay for cancerous roosters! i always hated being cancer cuz it's so doom foreboding...i personally wanted to be a dragon, but i guess i can't complain about roosters too much...i like chicken =p
 i've been testing my cging to no avail...so here's the failed result...i crapped out in the end and stuck a picture in for the background...i wonder if you'll recognize it fan =p....yeah so, figured i'd leave it to the dedicated, and hence worthy, artists...i'm just going to sit back and stick junk up whenever and maybe color some of it sometimes...these days i'm getting so lazy...it's the 5thyr coming round...i can feel zapping my strength from 3months away! =p
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samui!
Monday, July 7, 2003 :: 11:34 a.m.
i'm @ work and i just have to say it's too fricken COLD in here!! but it's too skin cancerous HOT outside! is there to middle ground? NO MIDDLE GROUND??! *shiver*
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O.O;;...
Saturday, July 5, 2003 :: 09:21 p.m.
ummm....i think my neighbors are....getting it on??...that, or she's orgasmically happy now....now...nownow......
"Mrs. Krabappel and Principal Skinner were in the closet and they were making babies and I saw one of the babies and then the baby looked at me." (Ralph Wiggum)
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AX news...
Friday, July 4, 2003 :: 06:20 p.m.
i check all my news on Anime On DVD...so you guys can go there to see more....but here's what i got to say:
1) ADV had DNAngel?? that'll take forever...not that the anime was very enthralling, but now there's another title i won't be seeing digisubbed :(
2) Wolf's Rain is confirmed at 30 eps?? so i prob have to wait a year to catch up since i'm only on ep21 :(
3) ADV is moving into manga?!! i guess it's the new trend...
4) i know what CLAMP titles are coming out next year, but i can't officially say...let's just say you'll "suki" them a lot...maybe =p...i don't know anything about tokyo babylon or RGVeda, i can say that at least =p...first time i talked to jake (forbes) though, he seemed to want to get RGVeda...but that was last April...
spent the 4th in santa monica...sugoku condeitta! i forgot that it was a holiday =p...i just wanted to see finding nemo =p....good movie, kinda sad and stuff =p...my co-workers were saying how finding nemo raised the bar on CG, so now they're going to have to work hard for sharkslayer since it's all in the same watery environment...
i plan on vegging for the rest of the weekend now =p
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WAH!
Thursday, July 3, 2003 :: 06:53 p.m.
wolf's rain got licensed and i didn't get the 22nd episode cuz i was at work! WAHHH!!! now it's pulled off the servers! *dies*
*revives*
i'm itching to go to AX....at one point today i said "screw it! i'm going!" i mean it's only $7 to go (2 hours 29 min on bus, train, bus)....but, had a lunch to simmer the thought down to: a) do i really want to sit that long in the sweltering heat? b) should i really be spending $50? c) is it wise to go to anaheim and not have a hotel or anywhere to stay? d) do i really want to spend 3 days in the same clothes, once again, in the sweltering heat, and surrounded by other smelly otaku? me being the smelliest of all after 3 days =p
so i reasoned it away....darn, it's so much easier to deal with it if i wasn't so close....
i guess, except for the wolf's rain being licensed, it was slightly looking up....i got my first DW paycheck, $89 (partially what made me think i could afford AX) for 2 days! not too shabby given i was gone for 10days...got free DW bag that was given out for some sorta summer motif thing....yay for free things =p
i'll use this weekend to catch up getbackers and maybe tenipuri...but i can only take so much tennis....WIMBLEDON FINALS! it's a williams sister final AGAIN!...and roddick's looking good to go for the finals....he was only broken 2 times of the last 65 games they said....impressive!
EDIT: god! i keep forgetting to link you!! gomen! *hugs* i guess i was wallowing selfishly in my own sorrow too much lately =p....hopefully i'll get to go to fanime2004! i wanna see getbackers cosplay!....i would offer myself except that i would ruin your play =p yoroshiku!
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worst week already...
Tuesday, July 1, 2003 :: 07:41 p.m.
already i can tell this week is going to be the worst:
a) AX is only 45min away and i'm not going...
b) roommate is leaving tonight for 7days and STILL didn't do her dishes...
c) the stupid $58 all LA transit EZ pass i bought APPARENTLY doesn't include the big blue bus line 10....one of the 2 busses i HAPPEN to need!!!!
d) replacement ATM card STILL! not here!!
points b) through d) combine for the kicker...no ATM card means no cash except for what i have in my wallet = $7...the blue bus #10 costs $1 w/ the EZ pass, therefore i need $2 a day to get to work...3 more days of work = $6...so by end july 3 i'll only have $1....can't go to the bank cuz i work 9-5 and there's no bank in site....no ATM card so can't get cash...roommate gone so no rides...WHAT IS THIS??...*sigh*
i know TONS more people are worse off than me, but i can't help being selfish...sorry for the rant...
hope all who's going to AX has fun...i really wanted to see the cosplay...*sigh*
UPDATE:
 kinda sad and icky feeling so i decided to watch more get backers and so i doodled this to distract me from the week =p
hmmm, a day before my 39th b-day...nice
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let's ponder...
Monday, June 30, 2003 :: 10:12 p.m.
ok, went to Pink's Famous Chili Dogs stand ( as seen on FoodTV's Best Of show)....2nd time this time...got the usual "Lord of the Rings Dog"....
now, my roommate of all people was the one who pointed this out....let's think about the name of this new hot dog for a moment *taps temple with forefinger*...
"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Sausage"
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seriously busy...so why?
Monday, June 30, 2003 :: 02:16 a.m.
staying up way too late, given i have to wake up at 6am....why??i guess i really wanted to put something new up...but this is kinda crappy so that's why it's only a temp summer layout...didn't even have the time to colour or anything...oh well...i really am tied up with all these things i HAVE to do but there are also so many things i WANT to do, that i'd RATHER do...argh
anyway, here's a little questionaire (sp?) i took from kix who i guess "stole" it from phi who apparently got it from their friendMirae =p....this is the only time you'll see my real name maybe =p
YOUR:
name: fawn
age: 22
birthdate: june 24
birthplace: alberta
sex: female
location: currently LA, but my heart's in norcal =p
blood type: A
zodiac: cancer (which i'll get too)
height: 4ft10in.....don't laugh
weight: i plead the 5th
hair color: dark brown
hair style: waist w/2 "tails" that are slowly disappearing
eye color: brown
nationality: chinese
language: english and japanese i guess
email: a lot but dth2rbrth@ucla.edu i guess
website: http://www.bol.ucla.edu/~dth2rbth ....it sucks butt
school: UCLA (geh)
disposition: apathetic and slightly annoyed these days...
hobbies: TVTVTV....maybe doodling...mostly TV
phobias: ummm....dunno yet
fetishes: hands
bad habits: everything i do is a bad habit
sleep patterns: erratic
work habits: just do it....shouganai
pet peeves: nothing really...irresonpsible people i guess
prize possession: CLAMP crap
personal quote: "life stinks so just hold your nose and run through it as fast as you can"
FAVORITES:
food: candy! (most any)
drink: SODA! (most any)
icecream: anything mint chocolate!!
candy: anything!
color: blue
sport: tennis
music: anything but country
tv show: simpsons
movie: lord of the rings for now (both!)
game: animal crossing
pastime: i have no time!!
hangout: apt
place in the house: where my comp is
place in someone else's house: where their comp is
season: winter
fish: ummm....it's all the same?
brand names: n/a
people names: anything from greek classics =p
FAMILY LIFE:
who do you live with?: roommate lydia now....at HOME home, mom, dad, and twin sister
how old?: 22...55,55,22...i think
what do you like about them?: lydia's bluntness, mom knows a lot about life, dad is super funny and creative....fan is smart
what pisses you off about them?: lydia's bluntness =p, mom sometimes pretends she knows what i'm talking about, dad is too much like me at time...the parts i hate about me....fan is smart
do you get along?: meh...
pets?: sadly no
what do you feed it?: air?
any family trips?: sometimes....hawaii this x-mas maybe?
dinner at the table or separate?: APT: separate, HOME: table
share your room?: always
share the bathroom?: always
which sink?: no choice
who spends the most time in the bathroom?: APT: roommate LYDIA! home: FAN!
who cooks?: APT: lydia, HOME: mom
who eats it?: APT: lyida, HOME: everyone
SOCIAL LIFE:
how did you meet your best friend?: don't know who to call my best friend....my good friends i met in school and work maybe?=p
what do you and your friends do as a group?: eat?
do you get together often?: tch, no....not in the same city!
how did you meet your friends?: a lot now from work
how many date back to childhood?: none cuz switched schools in the middle of childhood
do you chat online a lot?: occasionally
talk on the phone?: hardly
for how long?: about 5-10 maybe? depending...
do you have webcam conferences, too?: no
boy/girlfriend?: HAH! yeah right
do your parents know?: my mom wishes...
how did you get together?: n/a
have you had sex?: n/a....but if it was applicable...EWW!
are you always together?: n/a...you know, there should be a option to override these irrelevant questions...oh there is....delete
is there drama?: N/A!!
DO YOU:
smoke?: NO!
drink?: alchohol? no!
eat your vegetables?: if given some, yeah
exercise regularly?: nope
get buried when you go to the beach?: nope
like to dance?: NO WAY!
play pool?: given the chance i would
go hiking?: nope
sing in the shower?: nope
like being in pictures?: MY GOD NO!!!
snorkel in the pool?: never did but would try
make whirpools in the jacuzzi?: nope
harass animals?: NO!
like kids?: they're ok....i guess
like adults?: not particulary
actually laugh when you type "lol"?: actually i do
get hit on by people you just met 2 minutes ago?: never cuz me freak
stalk people?: mailman
THIS OR THAT:
sprite or 7up?: 7up
dark or light?: dark
sleep or food?: SLEEP!!
music or tv?: TV!
flowers. rose or dandelion?: rose
stuff. one or two?: TWO! one is lonely...
the glass. half empty or half full?: half empty
you. realistic or idealistic?: realistic
people. big group or small group?: small
surroundings. loud or quiet?: quiet
snack. sweet or salty?: sweet!!
music. classical or rock?: both
chocolate. with or without nuts?: w/o
cars. rice or no rice?: no rice please
rice. white or brown?: white i guess
CURRENT:
3 obsessions: harry potter, lord of the rings, CLAMP
2 cravings: candy, soda
3 thoughts: i'm going blind, i hate working no matter where, i absolutely hate school more than working
3 things on wish list: CAR!! CAR!!!! and new comp
2 big events: working, maybe AX, though i highly doubt it
3 good things: money, sleep, squishily happy endings
doing: typing
wearing: pjs
listening to: sound of me typing on my ibook and the whirring of my PC's HD
mood: empty
any last comments?: why do i do this to myself?
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