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more grrrr-age
Thursday, September 4, 2003 :: 04:04 p.m.
PCs suck.....i'm TRYING to get working but my PC crashed on my FOUR times just trying to get the frikkin files to open....if this continues, i don't think i can sanely finish this project....grrr....
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grrrr....
Thursday, September 4, 2003 :: 12:06 p.m.
i'm so frustrated by my shame sometimes that i get so pissed.... a long time ago up until 2ndyr of college, when i doodled, i just put them on scrap paper or napkins and stuffed them in drawers or bags....now, when i remember some the the stuff i did, i can't find them!! it's so annoying....there were a lot of things i lost dagnabbit.....and it's not that they were good, i just want to remember what my style was like back then.....grrr.....
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OMfrikkinG
Wednesday, September 3, 2003 :: 03:15 p.m.
oh my frikkin god, my math counselor was so frikkin nice! why didn't i go frikkin sooner??? then i wouldn't have had to take this frikkin god forsaken fifth frikkin year!!! gahgahgah!!
yeah, so off the vent/rant....yeah, so looks like i'll graduate in spring and the schedule i plotted out myself seems she agrees with AND the KICKER!!!!!! I'm not the worst math student!!!!! WHOHOO!!!!! ANDANDAND!!!! she totally said everything i ever wanted to hear like, "oh, and if you decided you don't want to be a math of computation major, the easiest one for you to switch to is applied math..." she was giving me an OPTION!! to runaway yes....but AN OPTION!!!! and i was totally pending that too!!!! i love her so much!!! i so frikkin love her!!!!!
anyway....i'm at the library....i just finished the session 10min ago so this rant is fresh and very heated probably =p....
ok...off to go home....yay for 3miles in 30min bus rides....
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@^*&(!%#(%^&(!@!!!!!!???!?!?!??!?!
Tuesday, September 2, 2003 :: 12:50 a.m.
it's late nights like these...when i'm surfing the net...that i wish:
1) my roommmate is a fangirl
2) there's an 24hr fangirl hotline!!
why??? because unconfirmed reports say TP licensed Tokyo Babylon AND RG VEDA!!!??!??!?! WHAT!!?!?!?!?!??! *fangirls around apt*
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what's this??
Monday, September 1, 2003 :: 10:13 p.m.
OooOOh! i finally have the long anticipated (yeah right) apartment VIDEO tour! upped it at my new domain so you can get it here. it's fairly large (21.3MB) so how bad do you wanna see it =p I narrated it personally....you can't really hear it sometimes....now you know what i sound like! ahhh! dost i see your ears bleed? well...most of you know what i sound like anyway....it's a surprise you're not deaf yet hahah!
oh, how i chose my URL:
i chose my 2 fav words and dashed it = my domain name. creative no?? no....
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happy labour day....etc...
Monday, September 1, 2003 :: 06:09 p.m.
so fan, first public school holiday ne? how you like? cheap...er i mean PUBLIC schools are fun hahaha....
went to little tokyo today....i bought that cool drink that came with a free cell phone strap before =p....the first time i drank it was when Tim and Miki took me karaoke for the first time! and that's where i met mbp...who sang the only american song that night (good charlotte =p)....god i remember lame stuff...anyway...that soda rocked, but i could never find it again...until today!!! but it came in a smaller bottle BOO!...still great nonetheless!
picked up xxxholic...asahiya just got the shipment i think....WHOLE SLEW of them...but no SE tsubasa...oh well...i knew i was too late for that...*sigh*....picked up a "gothic lolita" book for reference material....i didn't know what volume to get cuz they're MUCHO expensive...but i just wanted furniture ideas so i the vol. i chose had an interior section....but there was another volume which had better clothes...but i didn't want to shell out twice for reference....meh...i dunno if i wanna draw it anyway....
so, like i already told tokki....and i made her laugh! success!...i'm quite slashed out...i dunno if anyone visits my devart account...but i did 3 gifties all of who requested something shounen-ai-ish...like i said in my devart journal...i'm out of "safe" poses short of a bed...the last one actually did include a bed hahaha
anyway...i think i'm done with that...my hand super hurts....cging 3 picts in 3 days with a MOUSE....i didn't een bother to ink the ast one...kills the untrained hand...
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*chokechoke*
Sunday, August 31, 2003 :: 02:56 p.m.
what the ??!?#$ tablet's are SOOOO frikkin expensive!!!!!!!!
DUDE! i was playing with a 0+ piece of flimsy machinery everyday at DW thinking it was probably 0 something....god...i'm so ignorant....they wired ALL their comps with those 9x12 tablets though....sheesh....
alright, all tablet hopes are out the door now =p....i stick with my mouse...i dunno if i wanna shell out 0 something for a small peanut one....
well, it's not like i'm an artist nor a digiartist at that so, unless i can find a mathematical use for it, i guess it's not worth it anyway....ah...good old reason and practicality...never fails =p
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swear...last post on HGJ
Saturday, August 30, 2003 :: 05:27 p.m.
alright...ep 3 cool! i'll definitely get the rest! go nobuteru yuuki!
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heat guy J 2
Saturday, August 30, 2003 :: 05:03 p.m.
episode 2.....still lovin it! =)
BTW, forgot to mention...spent 2 hrs cleaning bathroom...hitori de ....grrr, but shouganai....roommate gone...maybe discuss later..../end complaint...
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whoops....already sept soon
Saturday, August 30, 2003 :: 04:26 p.m.
well, i didn't know sept was comin up so fast so i didn't make a layout =p oh well...don't think i'll do it anytime soon though (no ideas)
Heat Guy J.....started watching it....really like it! great VFX =)...daisuke's cool =) J is cool =) yeah....this is why i don't do reviews =p
thanks to tokki for getting 49er Jack for me!!!!YAAYAY!!!!!!!!you KNOW how much i appreciate it right????? thanksthanksthanks!!
this is what i cooked last night....
didn't get to layouting my new site yet....no ideas really...man, my brain's been mushing up since i've been veggying all week....blahhhh*squish*
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all by my lonesome...
Friday, August 29, 2003 :: 12:23 a.m.
roommate left for home for the labour day weekend...so i have the apt all to myself...
actually COOKED today!!! i went to the nearby Mitsuwa, cuz i had to pick up some stuff from Broccoli again...and bought 3min curry and "beef for curry" beef! yeah! i bought raw MEAT!!! go me! =p
anyway, remember how i was saying that a new bookstore opened in that mitsuwa plaza?? WELL, it's a used manga and CDs store!!!!! WHOA!!!!!!!! all for like a buck! 2 bucks for the newer titles but CHEAP!!! i think it has MORE than book off!!! yay! now it's not so hard w/o mandarake...except mandarake was harder cuz it had toys and cels...which are harder on me that used manga =p...wow, i guess i do live close to a lot of things....
made my counseling appt for wednesday 3pm...*scared* hope i don't find out i can't graduate in june =( WOULD SUCK!
yeah, VMAs opening....yowzas....can we GET anymore fanboy action?? i think britney slipped the tongue =p hahahah.....yeah, so i had to go fangirl and doodle something to counteract that =p
so, tokki....how come you said i have to blog again? i've been doing it everyday....are they not showing up? i think fan said once that it seemed like i didn't blog, but then one day 3 entries showed up at once....interesting...
anyway, got a new domain name to house my images and supposed resume-type site....150MB!!yay! i'll probably split the space, 1/2 personal 1/2 employer....it'll have split in the front so you can choose...still keeping this blog though....no sense getting ride of this cuz it's cool =)...once i have it up i'll link it...
still wasting my time on devart...i swear it's my new obsession....i'm doodling a lot more and actually finishing them up by colouring...i NEVER used to colour my picts so completely before...i would just give up at the sketch =p...i still don't like CG-ing....takes too long...though i do admit that it's cleaner....but still...i can marker colour it 10x faster with my accuracy...but then if i mess up, it's easier to fix on a comp...and BOY do i mess up =p
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BRAVO!!!
Wednesday, August 27, 2003 :: 07:46 p.m.
omg, we SOOOOO have Bravo!! I'm SOOOOOO watching queer eye for the straight guy and boy meets boy and that reality TV special they's going to have!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!YAY FOR CABLE!!!!!
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stolen quizzes
Wednesday, August 27, 2003 :: 12:45 p.m.
lazy wednesday so i decided to steal from GokuMew2:
candy...meat...yeah baby.
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tuesday...
Wednesday, August 27, 2003 :: 02:18 a.m.
yeah so i started the day off by going to Best Buy and getting THE TWO TOWERS!!!! yay!! i also bought Bowling for Columbine....just wanted to see marulyn manson =p....was contemplating whether to get the Simpsons 3rd season and Futurama 2nd season which just came out....but didn't feel like shelling out bucks in 20min =p
unfortunately, i had to wait until my roommate (we're ok now i think...) came home (at 10pm!!) so we could watch it together....so i went Ralphs next door to BestBuy and bought popcorn for the occasion....
too anxious to watch TT, i checked out the DVD extras at least....then i coloured some crap picture of lupin (up at devart) but gave up in the middle cuz i was too annoyed with the pict to begin with....so i watched about an hr of Bowling for Columbine......but...
then old roommate called if i wanted to go grocery shopping....even though i DID just get popcorn and milk from ralphs...i was still angsty for waiting, so i decided to go for more groceries....but first we ate dinner at ramenya....then at ralphs (again) i realized it was his last weekend at the old apt, so he didn't really need groceries...so i felt bad we were just going cuz i'm automobileless....so i said i would help him pack the last of his stuff...
the old apt looks SOOOOOO much better!!!! i would TOTALLY live there now!!! the loving room actually has COUCHES!!! not a futon mattress sprawled on the floor!!...so yeah, help old roommate pack and load his car until 10pm...then got caught into the latest queer eye for the straight guy...the best show ever!!!...i think the straight guy was flirting with the fab 5 =p...the fab 5 are SOOOO CUTE!! i like the cook the best!!...yeah, so i watched that with coworker cancer craig....he couldn't stop raving about the guy's new hairstyle =p...anyway, yeah....i wanna see boy meets boy....looks like angsty fun....one of them is STRAIGHT! dumdum DUM (dramatic music)!!....*sigh* too bad i don't get bravo =p
anyway finally got to watch TT at 11 since my roommate came at 10:30ish while i was at the old apt....made popcorn....discussed fav parts, odd parts....man, i love the movie!!! SOO can't wait till return of the king! ALSO can't wait for the extended version!!!! i saw a preview of the extended and there are a lot of scenes i wanna see!!! WAH!!!
oh, finally got tix to go home....sept 14 flying into SJC and leaving sept 24.....remind me what to bring tokki and fan...anything you guys wanna see? i know what some of what tokki wants, but i might have forgotten a lot....OH! must remind self to bring gdawg's stuff....anything DVDs i was supposed to bring you fan? i feel like there was something you wanted to see....
yeah so, prickledge tails is slowly fading....slowly trying to make the most of my summer....i guess =p....must to the math dept counselor though....make sure i'm set to graduate...
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bad tails!!
Tuesday, August 26, 2003 :: 02:06 a.m.
forgot that it was pauls birthday!!!!!! he called around 9pm to see if was busy and then invited me to BJs for his BIRTHDAY!!! WHA??? it completely slipped my mind!! i feel so bad.....but jose, who came to pick me up (we were all co-workers) also forgot and didn't find out until paul called him too, so i didn't feel AS bad....but still!!!....so we ended up hanging around westwood till 1am....i had a clam chowder in a sourdough breadbowl and i'm STILL full.....*groan*
also, completely and totally offended my roommate....we were watching a show on the discovery channel about tatooes....and she kinda annoyed me at how she wanted a tatoo (she ranted this off before too) and then when i told her how my old roommate felt when she got hers (like they were constantly cutting at an already open/exposed wound with a hot knife), she looked at me and said she didn't know it hurt that much!!!! what the f??? how can you flippantly say you want a tatoo and not know how much it hurts depending on where you get it??!!! GAH! anyway, then she goes and says she won't get one now, and that the other reason was she was afraid of what her parents would do....for one wanting to be so much of a goth (and believe me she tries, but doesn't quite get there...), how can she care about what her parents think? anyway, so i said casually, "oh, just wait until they die...oh sorry that was a bad thing to say"....and yeah, she said "yeah it was...don't say that again." and later, "yeah, you may want your parents to die, but i don't....(couldn't hear the rest)" so yeah....i KNEW it was a bad thing to say, esp to her cuz i know how she values family....but then, a long time ago (HS about?), i said, "aww, you KNOW you love your sister.." and she totally got all flustered and said stuff like "no i don't" and i said something along, "well you love your family? and your sister is your family right?"...i dunno, she confuses me....so yet again , i still don't have a friend i can be totally abrasive and offhand with but still understands that i don't mean 1/2 the things i say....*sigh* it's like 1/2 my friends are one wya and 1/2 my friends are the other way....but i can never find a combo of both.....
so yeah....i'm still being a prick..
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49er JACK!!
Monday, August 25, 2003 :: 02:05 p.m.
OMGOMGOMG!!! someone get me 49er jack at jack in the box!!!!49erJACK49erJACK!!!
i would ask fan but i think she's busy w/school and hates me =p well, all you guys have school and hates me =p...meh...
i'm probably going to ask my parents to get it =p....i'm NOT going to miss this one!!!! i missed the Giants baseball Jack head *sniffsniff*....i was so pissed at that cuz i thought i'd be home in time to still get it but it was all GONE!! so i'm not waiting till i go home in sept...no siree!! wah for not being in norcal!!! *runs around apt throwing things*
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first day of freedom
Monday, August 25, 2003 :: 12:25 a.m.
well, day officially marks my start of summer...of sorts...
no more work, no obligations....just relaxing time...
i know all you guys start school tomorrow and stuffs so good luck!!
finally completed all my thank you gifties...all specified ones that is...one girl is still away so she didn;t tell me what she wanted...the last one was kind odd....it was supposed to be a slutty seme who was a contortionist....it was really hard...i told the requester to take that meme quiz and i'd draw what she got =p....ALSO!! i was so stupid...despite english being my only REAL language and despite me being a math major....i still screwed up and permanently typed in 1002th....*groan*....i blame japanese...turned my english into engrish...
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being annoying...
Sunday, August 24, 2003 :: 12:23 a.m.
man i've been really annoying to people today...cuz i'm always using 2 comps....i've left 2 people hanging in mid and pre conversation and they disappeared before i can apologize....one of which was an artist on devart that i would drop dead for one of her picts who, i think, randomly IMed me...i was so shocked but by the time i got the message she was gone!!! *pulls hair out*
also never called fan back (already noted below)....
was being a prick to tokki over AIM, and knowing it....
kinda had mean thoughts about a bum in santa monica who said "spare any change" to EVERYONE....even if a group of people passed by, he'd say it as many times as there are people all at once like a store sensor that beeps as customers come and go....i was thinking, "i'll spare YOU" and daydreamed i had a gun to shoot him....then i wondered at why i was so pissed...
i think the whole internship leaving deal is doing this....and the whole "i don't want to go to school anymore cuz it's not worth studying math cuz i know it's not what i want and i can't even make myself just graduate" thing is getting to me....
so sorry in advance....i think i'm unintentionally going to be kinda intolerable these coming weeks...until it wears off =p
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good boredom
Saturday, August 23, 2003 :: 10:15 p.m.
well, today was slow...and i tried to start the freelance project, but got lazy since i still have tomorrow...
so i went to see Pirate of the Caribbean(sp?) again...note to self, NEVER go to Santa Monica 3rd street on a Saturday!! at night, ESP at around 9pm-ish it's SUPER crowded!!! it was so full of people on dates =p...theater was too except i didn't have to look at them =p
i went by myself, as usual...i spent .50 on the ticket (no student prices BOO!) and splurged on an ICEE and red vines for .12...SHEESH! but oh well...i'm still skulking about leaving DW so i i totally didn't care....just give me sugar wah!
oh yeah, before i left DW friday, i took a complete directory list of all the phone#s of the DW employed and it included John Williams'(star wars and ET and tons more) #...apparently he has a DW extension....and also Hans Zimmer's (lots but most recently PotC) phone#...i guess it's his office # cuz it's not an extension...I was on it too, and the other interns *sniff*
CalArts application came today...I look over it....I don't want to apply cuz it reminds me of the fact that it's school...i really don't think i can go back to school anymore...also i have to submit portfolio type stuff and i don't want to cuz i still hate showing my work to real people...i can barely get myself to get on devart cuz at least there i'm anon...ah well...i'll see what happens....maybe someone will be selling confidence this summer...
oh, lots of DVDs came today...i regret buying a lot of them too....maybe i'll sell it off ebay...or i think i can return them...for some reason i bough the eX-Driver complete set cuz it was ...but it's not like i'd really like it i think....oh well...*skulkskulk*
i think the next few days i'm gonna be really out of it...
oh, sorry i left you slightly hanging on IRC.....i don't get sound on my mirc, and i was on my mac so i didn't hear you leave *sniff* i'll be home all weekend and the coming week so i hope i see you again to resume!
roommate talking during TV show...wonders if she's saying stuff to get me to watch??
i won't text message you anymore fan...just the one time to test...i don't have to "restrain" myself cuz i don't do it often, much less to you...but yeah, sorry i didn't call back but i didn't bring my phone when i went out cuz a) i forgot b)battery was low c)wanted to skulk by myself....
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unexpected sadness, but for a ray of light
Friday, August 22, 2003 :: 07:02 p.m.
i'm surprisingly taking this pretty bad...i'm gonna really miss my co-workers...i mean, DreamWorks schmeamworks...i don't care about the company....i just wanna keep working for those cool people....they were so nice and treated me with unquestionable respect....when i introduce myself "just the intern" to others, they always say "not JUST"....
so i stupidly forgot to bring my camera today to take the last staff photo....i was so pissed that i didn't have it when they brought a cake for me!! and gave me a cool scented candle w/the moonboy logo!!! *sniff* they said it was tar scented to remind me of the building =p hahaha....
darn it....this is like the worser of sadnesses cuz it's generated from happiness....i was really happy there with them....usually when i'm sad it's because of something bad, like bad grades for no money or anything else generally negative to begin with....darnit darnit...i don't even know if i conveyed how much it meant to me....i didn't want to say things like "it was the best time i had" cuz it's been said so often it's almost insincere....i hope they know...
oh! but the ray of light is SLEEP!!! i get to sleep in from now on!!!!!!
so anyway, about the collapse!!! here are the picts...
the tar smell continued today so i left a little early, as did everyone else....
oh! i burned my self trying to fix the color printer/copier cuz the paper jammed and you know how they warn you it's really hot? well, i accidently touched the really hot area....and not there's a small translucent bubble on my thumb..i'm so lame i wanna keep it so i can remember my time there =p...nice little clear bump...*strokestroke*
bought a slew of stuff from the studio store to remember DW by...a sweatshirt, 2 shirts and a keychain flashlight....
well, now i'll have ALOT of time to pass....i can finally finish up drawing the gifties i have for people on devart...just 2 more...one of them i sketched monday but never got to colouring....haven't posted for a week....
i also still have brocolli freelance stuff...now i'm doing a flier for their juvenile orion books...they mailed it to me and put in a pencil board...but i dunno what to do with it??! did they want me to scan it?? cuz, they probably have a better scanner....or are they giving it to me cuz they think i'll like it? i dunno...
here's the summary they sent me for the flier...PLUGPLUG!!:
Sixteen year old Mana returns to her hometown to unite with her childhood sweetheart after 7 years. But Kaname seems to have changed during their years apart.
Mana's presence sets off a chain of events that changes the lives of Kaname and his best friend Naoya forever. Their classmates Isshin and Tsukasa, and their teacher Tomonori find themselves drawn to her as well--all for different reasons. They soon discover that they are all part of the Aquarian Age--a secret war raging for thousands of years. Now the fate of the world hangs in the balance as one girl meets her destiny.
Volumes 1 - 5 Coming from Broccoli Books in 2004
problem is.....who's the girl??? All i ever see are 5 guys....but isn't she the main chara?? anyway....
yeah so, still looking for cheap tix to go home....nya~~~
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falling lights and tar
Thursday, August 21, 2003 :: 07:43 p.m.
had to go to an emergency clinic cuz building fixtures nearly collapsed on me...supervisor, trainer and me went to make sure we didn't breathe anything dangerous....building evacuated...might continue to be off limits tomorrow not so much for the roof nearly collapsing but for the tar fumes that are wafting into the building via the broken AC vents...but it's my last day tomorrow!! wah!!....took pictures while waiting around...will post them with BIG update at the end of the week...right now i'm a little tired and must make thanks card....
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what's in a word?
Wednesday, August 20, 2003 :: 07:56 p.m.
WARNING! this might become a very boring entry, but there are some cool quizzes on the bottom so scroll down if you want =)
so, i was talking to my roommate last night and we got to the subject of obscenities...i tend to use "bastard" for all sorts of things, people, computers, countries...anything really....i consider it a word like "scoundrel" or "ruffian"...something not so derogatory, but still connotes badness....however, my roommate equivocates "bastard" to the B-word that rhymes with witch....she was surprised that I, someone who can count the number of times I cussed on one hand, all of which were on accident, one of which was not vocal but actually a mistake in finger-play...would use a word like "bastard"....i pondered this and concluded that, growing up w/alot of US TV, i don't say words that were beeped in the early 90's...only until the late 90s do i think the b-word was acceptable.... but then i don't even say the H-word that rhymes with well or even the word that euphimizes itself to darn....i can't even say "Hoover Dam" w/o feeling weird =p....but you know, i don't swear just because i think it's bad, i actually like when people swear, i wish i COULD swear cuz i really have a lot of anger....heck, my parents swear, and i don't recall them ever saying i couldn't....i think though it boils down to control...i don't have a lot of self control, so being able to at least refrain from swearing aloud is something i need or else i'd be just a dumb person w/no control....i guess it's like anorexic people who pride themselves on being able to stop eating....anyway, i still will use the word cuz they even have an anime called "Bastard!"...just as a note, just cuz i don't use swear words, doesn't mean i don't know how to use it =p...i actually have high respect for anyone who uses the F-word in all it's different ways....i like it as a verb the most =p
ok, the promised quizzes i took from GokuMew2
OMG!!!! school??????? ugh....i AM consumed by it
NICE! maybe i'll doodle this bishie of mine =p i too am not fond of body hair HAHAHA...and red hair!? yeah man!
tried my other sn....OOH! a hometown boy! crossdresses eh? no wonder, it IS san francisco =p
HAHAHAHAHA! oh that's so what i wish =p....you know, these quizzes are surprisingly in tune to my life in a way...
72 days? oh well, a valid reason for breaking up i suppose =p
so, mom calls me saying there's not deals going from LA to hawaii during x-mas, so i won't be going with them....i didn't REALLY want to go cuz i dont' know how i can live w/o a comp....but i was semi-looking forward to the isolation....i mean, when i go home up north, i'm still extremely busy, driving around, meeting friends...errands....i was actually thinking it might be nice to just sit on the beach and watch the nice clear waters...i don't think i'll ge another chance to go to hawaii cuz i'm too cheap to take vacations....*sigh*...mixed feelings, but then this means i don't have to go up until new years...but it also means i'm spending x-mas alone in this wretched town...BUT it also means i at least get DSL and cable usage and i can catch up on my video games....so it's all a give and take really....
gonna go play some night tennis tonight again! yay for exercise!
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2 facets
Tuesday, August 19, 2003 :: 01:29 p.m.
i'm totally the quiet kid in the back of the class fingering the trigger of the gun in my pocket....
something stupid happened...tokki knows...thanks for laughing with me!
on a separate note, i saw someone that TOTALLY looked like halle berry in the bathroom...*so pretty* now i know the meaning of "bright eyes"....i doubt it was her cuz this is mainly an animation place, not live action/acting...
anyway, someone kill me...i'm too stupid it exist...*crawls in circles*
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oddly fine...
Tuesday, August 19, 2003 :: 10:35 a.m.
well, was up 42hrs straight about (Sunday 6:30am until Tuesday 1am), but felt fine...actually woke up at 7 w/o an alarm...(i forgot to turn it on!)...only woke up though cuz roommate was getting up too...or else who knows how long i would have slept....
i went to Brocolli's office last night to turn in vol2 and they had to give me some pages to redo in vol1 again cuz they translated some names incorrectly and decided later what they wanted...mu~...oh well...so anyway, redid those pages last night and it took me about 1.5hrs just trying to email them the pages....they really need to get an FTP...
so i emailed luis too, about who was working on DNAngel...he nor jake are, but he said maybe julie or this other guy i didn't know...i just wanted to know who was translating =p...he said i could ask tony if i wanted to retouch....but i don't think so...i remember there were a lot of text-over-tones dealies in it *shudder*....i just hope they do it well....
you know, i don't think anyone wants to know what i did sunday, so i'm not gonna update that...i guess i'm too lazy to rethink the past and all i really wanted to show were the cool furoku (fukuro? always forget) gifty things i got in the Asuka and Blade mags....they were a DNangel shitajiki and MaLoRa clear file...
oh, linked Patty cuz she studies a whole slew of languages and maybe she can help me keep up w/my japanese which is separating itself from my brain as...well, i dunno...like oil separates from water? i dunno how to end that sentence but i think you all know what i mean...
yeah so, i know i shouldn't be blogging at work, but the trainer had to go to a meeting, so i guess i'll work on that manual dealie now....good luck to all those who start school!
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yes, it's that late...
Monday, August 18, 2003 :: 06:03 a.m.
or early, however you want to consider it...i say late cuz i haven't slept....working all night through, no nap at all.....quite happy to say that i pulled it off....i was afraid that once i turned 21 i couldn't do the all nighter thing anymore...when i hit that age last year, i just couldn't stay up all night to study, where as before, i think i went for 4 days w/o sleeping cuz i had back2back finals and i had to pack to leave for home....a lot of my friends said that happened to them too...either it's an age/body thing or i just don't care enough to deprive myself of sleep anymore =p....
but this allnighter wasn't free of worries for my health....my eye kept twitching, i felt jittery all over....like i couldn't control my shoulders shaking....i felt like, and not that i ever did any drugs, that i was severely deprived of some addictive substance....yeah...needless to say, i don't like these "shakes"....quite annoying....
well, so why am i blogging and not sleeping? i have to leave for work in about an hour anyway so i didn't want to sleep lest i never wake until 4pm or something like that....oh yeah, i only had 4 hours sleep saturday night too cuz i was, well, working still =p
SOO!! what did i do this l sunday?? i went to the Nisei Week festival where they promoted a free anime convention....but it was not so much an anime convention but a cosplay event amongst many events at Nisei Week....so there was a Cosplay contest, the car show always brings the crowds, taiko drumming caught my attention the longest, OH! and karate demonstration...i had planned on going to this festival so i alloted myself a total of 4hrs max, incl the bus trip because i couldn't allow anymore than that if i wanted to finish this book by6am...i calculated it to the second....it had taken me from 6:30am to 12:00pm sun to do about 40 pages retouch, so i gave myself from 12pm-4pm at little tokyo to "relax" so that gave me 4pm-11pm to finish the 2nd half of retouch and then since last time it took me 10hrs to do pagination, my first time on indesign, i roughly adjusted my usual adaptation skills to give me 5hours pagination so that i could finish my 6-ish....i factored in 2 free hours for bathroom breaks, snacking and general meandering around when butt starts hurting from sitting too long =p....
omg how did i get back to talking about work?....anyway, i guess i'll do a real update about what went on sunday and what i bought, cuz man, i bought a lot...
tis a sad week this week...school starts for most of you i assume, and my internship ends....i think i can conclude that this was a most unexpected summer =p
more later!
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obesession..
Saturday, August 16, 2003 :: 01:23 p.m.
 <--- this is why i love kazusa takashima so much....she does the Asuka serialized title "ハーレムビートは夜明けまで - mad love chase"....the title to me makes no sense =p what's this "harlem beat" that goes til dawn? oh well...anyway, it was a title my roommate found when she was reading my asukas...i usu just buy them for X and dnangel, but my roommate found this and some plant prince one =p
anyway, she draws hands so freakishly well, so i had to share it =p...she draws really well in general =p
oh, next door neighbor has a notice of late payment on rent on his door!!! could it possibly be they're moving?? those loud bastards have been unusually quite these last few weeks we noticed...oh, and his name is dagan potter! cool name, but bad ettiquette...even our other neighbors think he's loud =p...
ok...that was my little post before i work nonstop! i'm so behind on work cuz i HAVEN'T STARTED!
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X-Games
Friday, August 15, 2003 :: 02:31 p.m.
CRAP! X-games started yesterday at the Staples center! i have to work this weekend for DGC so i can't go!!! anyway, it's always super crowded...and i like the SF crowd better than LA....but they're going to hold it again in LA next year so maybe i'll catch it then...darn it! right there...everything is always right there but i can never go...
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about juvenile orion....
Friday, August 15, 2003 :: 11:35 a.m.
i found out more about juvi ori on brocolli's site, but it doesn't mention anything about it's shounen-ai undertones...i wonder if they're going to translate it out somehow...
but here's a good look at the DiGiCharat anthology/theater books... so it's gonna be basically...
found out egan will be translating GetBackers for TP! now i can trust the translation quality...he always says though that he puts a lot of culture notes and extra translations that they never use, and he gets a little pissed...i mean i would too cuz you're shutting out a whole other level of understanding...oh...and TPs so stupid cuz somehow his name got into the escaflowne credits when he didn't do it...well, since he did the movie trans for bandai, i think they totally gyped him by giving the book to someone else cuz he was doing akira at the time...poor egan and his esca obsession =p
oh yeah, ask egan for help with your comp fan, if you're still having probs...but it looks like you should be fine now...good luck starting school hahaha...hey, is jon still in school? or did he graduate? maybe you guys should hang out on campus or something =p doesn't it feel good to be home...*envies*...i should have tried to transfer to berkeley 2nd year...*homesick...or lack-of-car-sick*...meh...if i did, i might not have gotten the jobs i have....but then, i wouldn't have suffered the horror of LA, the horror of icecream and canada dry for dinner for a week (not fun! despite the sound of it), the horror of odd roommates, the horror of echhi hispanic guys on the bus (yesterday some guy was totally checking out all the girls on the street and bus and actually hooted to a woman..guhuhuh)...the horror the horror!!!*wilts*
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stolen quizzes
Friday, August 15, 2003 :: 12:40 a.m.
past my bedtime but ripped these from gokumew2:
You're an untouchable. People like you make people
like me sad. You're gorgeous, inside and out,
but you're just a bit chilly and don't take
well to being touched. I'll get you someday!
^_^
How Glompable Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla
true...but not that i don't like the occasional hug...just not used to it i guess =p
Gold! You have golden eyes. You tend to be quite
distant, and may come off as depressed. In
truth, you are, but once people get to know
you, a smile or a laugh breaks through your
emotion barrier every now and then!
What Color Are Your Anime Eyes?
brought to you by Quizilla
actually i smile alot...though there's no truth behind it most times =p
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Siggraph Electronic Theater
Thursday, August 14, 2003 :: 04:09 p.m.
i forgot to mention that yesterday was the start of a 4 day lunch-time screening of CG animation shorts that were presented at Siggraph...there were a lot of cool ones...one esp. CLAMP-ish was a french one called "Gaz de France" i think...it combined live action and CG...it was like a commercial and ran to just music...it had 3 scenes...1) a young casually dressed blonde guy goes into a room and in the middle is a bunch of clustered bubbles just floating in air and he goes and sits on the floating cluster and rolls around and stuff and then a cute,but topless, little boy comes running in and sits in his lap as they laugh and look at the bubbles....2) is a young asian woman dressed in either a very flowy dress or is just wrapped in a big piece of white cloth...she's surrounded by SOOOO many white feathers (VERY pretty!) floating around her and she's walking to go down a flight or stairs but instead lifts off and the feathers fly around (VERY CLAMP!) carrying her down gently and she lands in a shallow pool below where the feathers furiously dissipate and she's naked...but we don't see much the camera is lost in the feathers...3) is a young dark haired guy naked in a water drop that's floating around and he's moving around, sometimes looks like he's stuggling, other times just like he's curled up (kinda like the Kamui on my site's left top corner except naked)...you can't see much like the girl, but the don't hide much either...
i also saw a cute boxing toy one made by korean animators...there are 4 but i only saw 2....
today i saw a COOL! one looked totally like final fantasy inspired...it's was called "spinning lore" or "shining lore"....couldn't quite read the first fancily typed word...the pandas that were chasing the characters looked like genma from ranma and were so cute! the main characters were so cute and superbly designed and animated...it too was made by koreans...
there were lot of vgame looking ones...and some that didn't look all that....but it's fun and free =)
so today i got paid...so i'll be depositing it sat...but i think i already spent it on the the rightstuf pioneer sale...preordered X7 but forgot that sometiems they don't get the one with the slip case so i might have to cancel that one...usu get it at amazon...what else..preordered sakura wars and haibane renmei...and got the lain boxset cuz it was "cheap" but not that cheap actually...i needed to watch it, since everyone keeps telling me to even though i boycotted it all the way 6 yrs ago since i thought they were copying eva...if i don't like it i'll ebay it...omg rightstuf is my bane of the summer
found out i don't have to check for the blaster virus cuz it doesn't affect win98 hahah! yay for old OSs...and macs as usu =p
oh yeah, poor NY...gets all the disasters hahaha....yeah, i laugh but i still feel sympathetic =p i mean Canada is hit too *sniff*
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quickie
Wednesday, August 13, 2003 :: 10:32 p.m.
did a quick Sirius for another thank you giftie thing....doesn't look like him AT ALL but whatever...
soon i'll have 1000 hits...crazy, never thought that would happen....i wonder who'll be the poor sap to go blind that day =p the horror the horror! =p
forgot to say that they were filming something at the LA city call...city hall looks pretty darn cool actually....
hmm what else...oh yeah, bus knicked the side of a car so i had to wait in the bus while the driver went to resolve things....i just think the driver of the car was stupid cuz she was on a cell and didn't pull up all the way....anyway...
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DNAngel
Wednesday, August 13, 2003 :: 04:22 p.m.
finally they announced it....TokyoPop finally announced they picked up DNAngel...remember we were talking about it at fanime fan?...i wish brocolli books had won it...not like they didn't try really hard though!!...now when are they going to announce sukidakarasuki and are they ever going to confirmconfirm Gouhou Drug?....they're so skittish it's annoying...
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KYAAAA!!
Wednesday, August 13, 2003 :: 02:55 p.m.
whoa, i love erika! she drew me THIS!!!
i feel so lucky...i wanna take him home! or i want him to fly me home cuz he has super cool wing things!
*stares*
yeah, blows my half of the trade out of the water and into to the stratosphere never to return....
*stares*
wow...THANKS!!!
now funny form:
heh, this thing swears more than me =p....but thinks just like me...how odd....
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slave all day
Tuesday, August 12, 2003 :: 11:37 p.m.
all day working....did the usual diddy at DW from 9-5 but today instead of heading home after 5, i had to got to AnimeGamers/Brocolli to change the font for the layout i did....they were really funny this time =) more like chatting while i worked so it wasn't stressful...but i DID have to stay till 9:30....so didn't get home till 10ish...
i got free stuff from AG too =p mostly DiGi Charat stuffs and a Juvenile Orion shitajiki....i finally found out what the Juvi Ori manga was about....i don't know exactly EXACTLY the plot to some of the stories....but i think it'd pretty blatant shounen ai bordering yaoi.....i don't know how fake or gravi or even demon diaries are, but i think of those titles as somewhat plot based....mysteries and music careers.....juvi ori is about a priest and some boys? i don't know we'll see what happens....i think i'm doing it after DGC vol2...i think they were having too much fun reading and thinking about what to do with the manga =p one of them is going to yaoi-con and she wants to take a survey of who is their fav character...the main graphics guy thinks they all look the same except with differ hair =p....i wonder what it's like for him all day with those girls =p....
i wanted to draw kix a b-day pict, but roommate came home and well, i'm just not all that good =p....but HAPPY BIRTHDAY! nonetheless! =)
i still have to get priscilla a b-day gift....when does she leave for cornell, fan? geh...i might have to send it to her....
well....internship slowly coming to a close....maybe i'll be doodling more...get some of that useless energy our before school and math starts up again...*groan*
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*collapses*
Monday, August 11, 2003 :: 08:42 p.m.
*crawls along dirty, but hardwood YUM! floors*...
done...too late to turn in today...will turn in tomorrow...didn't have right font...don't really care if they're mad....still have vol2 to do...if they still want me to do it...now i know what NOT to do....InDesign crashed on me...but info was recoverable *bows down to Adobe programmers*....makes obscene gestures to whoever is involved with Windows....lower lip spontaneously quivers, esp when i'm trying to drink...very annoying...left eye corner pulsates....awkward yet disturbingly fun to watch it throb in mirror...
EDIT:
OHOHOH! thanks fan and mom!! i got the unexpected "hello" package!! i didn't know it was for me...roommate just brought it in and i was clicking away....*sniff* i really needed it esp today =)
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*grrrrr*
Monday, August 11, 2003 :: 08:50 a.m.
ugh, i didn't finish it last night...i have to leave work early now, so i can home and finish it before i turn it in at around 7pm...i slept from 5:23am-6:50am...InDesign was given my buttloads for problems...Quark is so much better...or i'm just biased cuz i work tons faster on Quark...
it was so much just trying to keep my eyes open on the bus....i didn't want to blink cuz i thought my lids won't come up and i'd doze off...which DID happen several times...i SWEAR it was so annoying...i'd wake up and get pissed that i just wanted to blink and all of a sudden i fell asleep? grrr....
anyway, hopefully i'll get back home around 8pm, clean my dishes and desk area (pig sty as you can tell) and hit the sack by 10pm...HOPEFULLY....
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GAHH! i hate work!
Sunday, August 10, 2003 :: 08:50 p.m.
why do i procrastinate? or rather, why do i accept jobs when i KNOW i don't have time....ARGH!!
anyway, needed a break so i took a pict of my desk....you can see how messy it is here.....it's so messy....
well, i took a simpsons break too....i think i seriously work so much better at night....i'm so much more productive after 11pm....right now i'm only on pg33 out of 88 and i started at 10:30am today!!...i hope i can get it done....ganbare!
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night tennis
Sunday, August 10, 2003 :: 12:16 a.m.
just came back from more night tennis...i needed a break from DGC cuz it was really getting to my eyes (and nerves)...but now back to work....looks like i'll be staying up...i need to hit little tokyo tomorrow, that's why i'm rushing now a little....
anyway, i hope you're having fun in berkeley...did you eve get those white stripes tickets? still didn't quite get the tix back home yet...still waiting for cheaper deals...
anne and i were talking about people we knew and remember how ranted about dirk's stupidity? well, i said he was an insult to my existence cuz he treats anime like it's for dorks even though he secretly loves it....and now she's trying to tell me that he's a nice guy ever since he "broke up" with my old roommate (they had a lot of drama)...but i will still not be convinced because it's too selective....a lot of people i know are only nice to certain types....and i'm just not the type dirk or georgia or a lot of anne's friends are nice too....i feel like they think i'm not trendy or "cool" enough just cuz they're film artsy "look at me i'm original and indy"....gah!
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hot and picts but not hot picts
Saturday, August 9, 2003 :: 07:16 p.m.
geh...so hot today and i've been hopelessly semi-slaving on the DGC anthology...looks like no sleep tonight....
ok...so here's the pict of the internship pict and frame....
here are 2/5 of the gifties i finished for the people who watch me on devart....still have 3 to go but DGC anthol is sucking my weekend...grrr....i should have never agreed
went to souplantation last night....missed a call to go play tennis at night grrr....shouldn't have gone to souplantation for dinner cuz it's for way not what i would pay for...i hate buffet things cuz i never eat enough to fulfill what i pay for it....sheesh....rip...
devart still messed up....grrr...
too hot and saying "grrr" too much....grrr
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devart and stuff
Friday, August 8, 2003 :: 03:20 p.m.
last night devart was down so i was kinda bored...i didn't realize how much i'm addicted to it...they revamped the site apparently...
absolutely HAVE to start the DGC anthology today or else i might have to pull some all nighters this weekend...
old roommate from 1444 apt is moving, and she's gonna take the light table with her...i still refuse to sell it to her cuz i want it....but i feel bad cuz she really seems to want one too...i'll see what i can do about asking my boss at the Daily Bruin once school starts up again...the thing is that they (the Daily Bruin higher ups) wants to keep SOME lighttables JUST in case...so we sold 2 and kept 2...just like the ancient wax machine we have....i think i'm the last remnant of the old days....me and co-worker craig are the last staff members to have ever used the wax machine in production...*sniff* times have changed =p...anyway, they want to keep it just in case...anyway, cuz she's moving, i'm gonna buy her PC for ?....it was kinda buggy but i don't care...if nothing goes right, i might just gut it and take the HD and V-card..it used to be 00 so i know it's a pretty good deal...
also, i might get to keep the bedframe i borrowed from her, who borrowed it from her ex-boyfriend pat...i'll pay him for it though, it's a really nice futon frame that fits perfectly w/the mattress...i need to see what lies before me after i graduate...if i stay in yucky LA or move back to lovely bay area...unfortunately, looks like i might be stuck in LA...
today we got our intern picture in a nifty frame...i'll take a pict of it when i get home...it was so nice of them! i look like a dork as usu though =p..they also had chocolate cake for us that said "thank you! you rock!"....aw, i feel so appreciated =)
cuz today was family day, we only had one speaker and we got to leave early...YAY!...obviously, i had no one come cuz i didn't tell them...well, i know they were all busy anyway, and where would they stay? would have liked to have brought a friend, but only immediate family...no cousins i think...
well, i'll try to fig out devart when i get home...some things changed...i was trying to post one of the thanks gift piccies i finished quickly last night...i think i liked how it turned out...oh my god! did i not bash my work??! ok...i bash it now *bashbash* his left elbow looked weird after i coloured it =( boo!
last note...i have to make a habit of running my hands through my hair abt every 30min cuz if not, it goes all wildy and i look like a mad girl...whenever i go to the bathroom and catch myself in the mirror i'm all "was i like this the entire time? and i was in a meeting?!!" seriously...i looks insane...well, unkept...
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launched!
Thursday, August 7, 2003 :: 11:01 p.m.
i finally launched the internal site i've been working on...my supervisor seemed so excited when he was looking through it for any changes or whatever....he's all "cool" "neat" "it's so clean" "i like that" under his breath...all smiley and stuff....i felt bad, like i should have made it amazing, cuz to be honest i didn't try nearly as hard as i might have...
i saw him eating in the "commisary" by himself earlier this week and i just glanced....felt really sorry for him chewing on his sandwich...and never looked that way again that day....i feel sorry too much =p....i'm just glad he's married....he's a nice guy and is so hyperly busy....i hope he never has any misfortunes...
i have an annoying habit of being gut wrenchingly sorrowful when i look at people alone....cuz i always wonder what troubles have they encountered...did they cry....how will they die? peaceful i hope, but what about their loved ones? when someone close to them dies, how will they handle it? will they cry? be strong and accepting....i'm just too curious and i get so depressed that i lose my appetite...
anyway, only 2 more weeks =( i wish i could stay longer....i'm gonna make a big thank you card and tell them all how much i appreciate them!...as the 22nd nears, i feel sadder....i feel like i'll never have this great an experience again....it's the first place i feel respected....and they never ask too much of me....GAH! i'm spoiled here maybe =p
trying to book a flight home but no southwest deals yet....will wait till later, or else book next week...
nest digi charat book is due 8/18....busybusy....but that's 00 in 2 weeks booyeah =p...ok....too much simpsons and duffman =p
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wah! early!
Thursday, August 7, 2003 :: 06:20 a.m.
woke up at 5:30am to take a shower...cuz i forgot to last night cuz i was doing my laundry =p...
anyway, Tim sent an email with his pop-ish style website, "Tim in Japan"!! yay! i get to see miki..somewhat...well, at least i know they're not dead =p they look like they're having a blast in japan...
well, i'ma gonna link it on the side to, until he leaves in sept....
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why??
Wednesday, August 6, 2003 :: 11:27 p.m.
why aren't i in bed?? SOOn i will..
yeah so, archived and stuck new layout up....don't like the drawing now that i look at it...but since i coloured it, i have to use it or else i wasted my efforts, and i hate wasting my efforts when i could be sleeping...there's a devart version too, but that sucks even more cuz i can't do backgrounds...
i'm taking a fancy to the "impact" font...dare i say i'm losing interest in "futura"??? no..never...no font can replace the versatility of futura =p...
ok..i sleep...
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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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