The other night after anime, we all went off to Open Late. Which was good, hadn't been there in a while and was fun to talk to people. One funny thing happened though, halfway through the time there I suddenly..er....woke up...?
I don't know really how to put it. It was like I had myself set on automatic and it clicked back onto manual. I was like 'huuhhhhh?? where am I?? What are poeple talking about?' It felt so incredibly weird. I must have gone into dreamworld and then just phased back in.
Also, when I got home I felt very fedup with socialising and gladly welcomed the silence of my room. I like being relatively happy, positive and enthusiastic....but it takes a lot of energy (of course) and I'm clearly no Nathan O_o;
Hmm, I guess I wasn't fedup with socialising, but maybe just fedup of maintaining the positive mindset. It definitely isn't an act or face I put on in front of others, but when I'm at home there is no need to be as energetic........though thinking about it....I am all of the above at home as well.....*confused*
Huh? LOL ^_^

I would still like the presence of friends, but I would like to be ....calmer? Relaxed, heheh. I'm reminded of the Tylor marathon that Zeb had, I think that was one of the nicest days I've had in ages. Soooooo relaxing. A group of us just sitting there, not really saying much, just being lazy and relaxing to the music. Felt kind of like a group nap time, LOL.

Wow....this is like.....really strange...I've forgotten the point and I'm bored.
I sleep now, haha.

I saw my brother off at the airport yesterday, he's gone to America for 4 weeks as his little holiday.
My dad took Roderick, me and my mum to the airport and we mostly sat around drinking hot chocolate. I learnt that I most likely inherited my lame sense of humour from my father and grandfather (the kind of humour you know is rather stupid and lame, but can't help laughing or chuckling at).
Also got reminded of perhaps my earliest memory as a child. When I was 2 and the family went up in one of those small planes somewhere in Taupo (I think), I was scared to death (obviously) as you could see and feel the movement of such a small plane quite easily.
I wouldn't be surprised if that's why I have a fear of heights, kind of nice to know why, lol.
Rather funny that I can remember something that long ago though, must have been the most scared I've ever been ^_^;;

We felt like a proper family for once, but.....I don't think I really want that anymore....if I ever did. Everyone I know has been to another country, it's so annoying. I want to fly off in a plane to some completely different country, I'm still young, I know.
But that doesn't seem to matter with most of my friends *sigh*. You just wait, I'll get mine someday! >_<

Said goodbye to my excited brother at the departure gate, though avoided getting hugged (I seem to have a problem with giving/recieving hugs O_o;;) and intsead did the pinky shake thing, LOL, oh whatever.
We didn't stay to see the plane take off, would've had to wait an hour or so.

Things will be a bit odd eith just me and my mum in the house for a month. But also means I can maybe have some people over. So, neat ^_^

Well, just got back from seeing Spider-man. Interesting movie, lol.
***No Spoilers, don't worry***
I quite liked it, definitely better than I expected it to be, but still there was huge amounts of corn-factor running throughout it.
Which is to be expected of course, especially when the main character is a red and blue costumed, web slinging super-hero geek in love with the girl next door. heheh.
Tobey Maguire was great as Peter Parker though, perhaps more quiet and geeky than he should have been, but still, he was easily the main reason why I liked the movie. The SFX were also HEAPS better than I originally thought, in fact I hardly noticed it (besides the fact that anyone would know that the swinging scenes are sfx, I mean...you just know, lol).
My main problem with the movie was........the villain!
I know the Green Goblin is crazy, but the way he was portrayed was ...just....over-the-top. But he was fairly menacing, and the fights with Spidey were very, very cool.

It always takes a little while for my proper opinion of a movie to set in after seeing it, so I'm not quite able to say more than I have. I'll just say that it's a good movie, especially the fact that it actually kinda pulled the whole thing off ^_^ But it wasn't amazing either, it was just...good, heheh.

Saw the trailer to three movies,
1) The Incredible Hulk : OH MY GOD!! Why???? Why must they make a movie of the Hulk??? You can't! Just because X-men and Spider-man have done well is no reason to say 'well, let's make a movie of our most strange and uninteresting characters that will most certainly test the limit of the SFX' *gasp* It's wrong! Damn you Marvel!! DAMN YOUUUUUU!!!
2) er....some Adam Sandler movie : Looks funny, though I'm sure the trailer probably features the best bits. But it has Winona Ryder in it! *sparkly eyes* she's sooooooo pretty *_*
3) Men in Black 2 : Looks good, maybe a little heavy on the sfx (something I always have issues with) but it looks like a lot of fun, so I'm looking forward to it.

Decided to walk back from West City, and on the way a car full of girls honked and banged the windows at me and Justin as they went by. Sure, maybe they'd have done that to any guys they saw walking along, but we both agreed that our ego's enlarged anyway ^_^
LOL

Just watched Titanic. Ho-hum, ho-hum indeed.
I am vastly surprised, throughout the entire movie I not once wanted to wring Leonardo Dicaprio's neck, nor keel over and be sick at the movie's mushy stuff. Which I'm guessing is mainly because it seemed more like a disaster movie than a romantic love story.
I shall have to not bash the movie anymore though, as I sat through it all and couldn't really find many faults with it. Except maybe it was too long. The sinking of the Titanic seemed awfully drawn out with lots of useless little scenes, but maybe that's just me..?

Yet after watching it all, I wonder why it did so well at the box office, and why everyone finds it so romantic. Whatever, guess I'm obviously not as romantic a person as I thought or something. I think it'll be a long time before I watch it again though. Maybe in 10 years or something *shrug*, LOL

Also watched The Shawshank Redemption, which I quite liked. It's one of those movies with a setting that doesn't come along often, and I don't think i've ever seen it portrayed that well before. Despite the harshness of most of the movie, the ending I found was really uplifting ^_^
Tim Robbins and Morgan Freeman were soooooo good too. Good movie, though again I don't think I'll be watching it again anytime soon.

And enough of movies! I have been having so much fun swinging around the Shinai that I got off Finn.
*swings around* HYAH!! It's so cool!
I wanna bash people with it! (can't you see that I'd make an excellent addition to any group of swordsmen? "C'mon guys! I wanna cut people up!")
I love everything about it, the weight, the length, the handle feels exactly right for my hands as I wave it around leaving a path of destruction! AHAHAHAHAA
*ahem* yes...anyway.

I'll end it here on a quote that I found hilarious. *me and bryn watching DBZ, and Bryn referring to Saiyans getting stronger*
Bryn : "If I were him I'd just get someone, like Krillen, to blow me really hard, then have a senzu"
Me : *stares in great amusement as Bryn realises what he just said* "Little men do that for you?"
Bryn : "Oh shit! I didn't mean that!"

Dammnit! I wanna sleep! Have been trying for nearly two hours to no avail.
Need to get up at 7:30am, so if I managed to get to sleep right now, I could get 3 hours sleep only >_<
And I still don't feel that tired, annoying!

They evicted Alex from the Big Brother house!! Nooooo! He's so cool, but those loser australians had to be dumb and get rid of him! *sigh*
The whole show will be pretty boring without him and his sarcastic ways, as well as Nathan (even if he is annoying sometimes).
Poot, oh well.

I'm kinda getting used to my hair now. I'm not as confused when I see myself in the mirror. Still needs a few touch-ups though. But I'm too lazy to do much about it yet, ahah.

...damn, want to sleep!

Why 'o why must I decide to write a journal entry just as I'm about to turn off the light and sleep??
And I really want to sleep! O_o
Whatever is commanding me to write must be pretty powerful, ah whatever.

Got these...blondish..highlights in my hair today.... O_o;
I was pretty sure that it would turn out looking bad, but figured I should give it a shot anyway. Had to wait a bit while it was being done, but I became engrossed in the February 2001 issue of the Readers Digest. Amazing little thing it is, I'm hooked, I want to read more of those strange little articles, those funny jokes and experiances people have had! More! I want more! And you can't deny me!! I shall force my mother to reveal the location of all those Readers Digests that she has somewhere!

....er..anyway, eventually my hair was finished..and it looked kinda normal...or I just didn't have much of a reaction then. Can't remember.
When I got home though, everytime I passed myself in the mirror, I was like 'oh my god! That's so odd! Is that me??'. And that is still kind of my reaction. But after my shower I whipped out the gel (*sigh* I have to rely on gel again, that's rather sad) and sort of spiked my hair up a bit, which got rid of the main strangness factor.
So, now I look passable to be a human being (haha), but look fairly more punk-ish, or just teenage-ish than I ever have been. Though according to my mum and brother my hair looks really nice. Which is so strange coming from my mum, I thought she would be all negative and wanting to know why I wanted it done.
Whatever, I'm sure they're just trying to trick me so when I next go out I won't be suspecting the hordes of people laughing at my truely embarassing hair. Or maybe that's just being stupid ^_^

Haha, well nevermind, this person is a big fan of sleeping.....so....ja!

Wow, anyone watch Dragonball Z today? Okay, okay, so that's incredibly doubtful, but (and you may think it mad) there was some incredible voice acting on Sean Schemel's part (he voices Goku).
Majin Vegeta and Goku were fighting and Goku suddenly halts their fight and tells Vegeta of the horrible power he can sense from the newly awakened Buu. Vegeta could care less though, even after Goku states that Buu could kill everyone on the planet, including Bulma and Trunks, all the while the two of them have this petty fight.
Vegeta says he let himself be taken over so he wouldn't have those pathetic emotions anymore, and that he doesn't care for Trunks or Bulma. (now this is the bit I'm writing the whole scene description for) Goku hits Vegeta to the ground while angrily shouting "Liar!!"

The feeling that was put into that one word line was incredible. It honestly felt like you could hear all of Goku's thoughts and emotions. In fact, even though it's just a show, it made him seem completely real. It wasn't just Sean's voice, it was Goku's.
Now I know that must sound rather strange coming from any living being (LOL), but I am rather passionate about voice acting and voice actors, and that truely was amazing voice acting. Kudos to Sean, now I deeply regret not getting to talk to him at last years Armageddon.
Poot, oh well. I'm sure there will be another chance ^_^

Here's a little line from Speaker for the Dead : "..the language they used to speak to their totem trees"

Now....when I first read that line, this is how I read it : "..the language they used to spank their totem trees"
I was pretty confused and surprised, and even after reading the line 3 or 4 more times I didn't see it the proper way.
...My mind is that dodgy??

Ugh. I can't believe it, I think I'm getting another cold. You think that me only having a cold about two weeks ago would make me resistant to having one again too soon. At least this is slightly different from my last cold. My throat is croaky rather than sore, which I much prefer. I just hope it gets better soon.

Had my hair cut today, thank goodness. Even though it was already pretty short, but it was at that annoying wavey length, and I don't like that ^_^
I'm going back on friday to have some highlights in my hair. Could look absolutely horrible, but I won't know unless I try. Besides, I'm feeling a need for a bit of a change. So it should be interesting, and if it isn't great, then I can just hide it with my beanie, hahah. I don't expect it to be that bad though.

I've gotten myself hooked on Harry Potter again, not surprising really. But I'm probably going to re-read the books soon, after I finish Speaker for the Dead......but.....the piggies......they scare me..!
I'm so stupid for putting off reading the following books in the Ender series just because so many years had past >_<
I'm like that with things I like, I'm hesitant toward change, but I often find the change is also really good.
Silly me.

I went out to West City just a little bit ago, got myself the Harry Potter video (well, it was only $20. Talk about bargain ^_^), a new pad (I don't have many spare pages in my old one), a mechanical and 2B pencil (Finally I have proper pencils instead of using the HB school pencils. I also found a 3B pencil in my room just today, more pencils for me!), annnnd The Smashing Pumpkins Greatest Hits (..I like them ^_^)
Admittedly I haven't been paid yet from work. But I had $100 from previous months still in my wallet, so I thought I'd treat myself.
But it's also better this way anyway, 'cause I've bought most of the things I planned on buying and it hasn't cut into my work money.
So yeah, I'm feeling pretty content. Sitting here listening to music, typing this and testing my new pencils, and sending a few looks over to the Harry Potter video which I plan to watch soon.
yep yep yep.

What miserably wonderful weather we're having. It's the kind of weather I love laying in bed and just thinking to. However it's pretty rubbish weather if you want to go out and do things. And it's not good for me, since I'm becoming very pale again and I'd like to catch a bit of sun ^_^;;
No chance of that happening for a while.

While I was waiting in the queue in Whitcouls, an old lady just came and cut in front of me. Now, me being the nice guy I am I let her, but I noticed she kept giving me these ...evil..glances. Why??
What did I do?? Did she think I was some kind of nasty punker?
Fine! Whatever! Have your way, old woman! But I got the last laugh! Yeah, I did! While you waited in that queue, I saw an opening elsewhere and was served by a nice young lady who must have truely appreciated me for being the nice person I am! HAHAHAHAHA, shame!! Shame on you, old one!

*ahem* .....yep.....

I'm feeling nice and back to normal now, thanks mainly to another dose of One Piece.
Such a terrific series, so inspirational that I feel almost tempted to carry around a volume of the manga where ever I go as a semi-bible to the way we should live ^_^
Also it made me cry, and I say that with great pride!
It's great!

Well, I'm feeling absolutely rotten right now.
Been grumpy all day and have felt like destroying something to releave the frustration of not knowing why I'm feeling like this. Bad karma catching up with me? Or simply a male version of PMS? Who knows? Not me.
Also, not sure if it's because of my grumpiness (I'm sure it is partly), but I'm losing more and more faith in the general populace of the planet. It's a very unfair view with very little to back it up, I admit. But right now, I don't care.
Like that Cadbury ad says, it would be nice if the world was chocolate, then I would go and eat all the people that annoy me. Then I'd finally get to use a line that has been stuck in my head for the last few weeks "I'm gonna eat you!"
They'd go "WTF?" and I'd start biting their leg. OR I would knock someone out, tie them up and when they regain consciousness...light a flame and hold it near their feet and slowly move it along as their body melts and they're left screaming in pain. I'd collect all the melted chocolate into a bowl, freeze it, then sell it to some unsuspecting kid. Yeah, it WOULD be nice if the world was chocolate.

Man, people talking to me are pissing me off. So pathetic and boring, god! Shoo! I hate fake people and people that don't have any real substance to them. There are too many people out there like that. And while I consider myself to be a fairly sociable person, I don't think I really feel like socialising with anyone, bar a select few.
Scratch that, I don't mind socialising with people, but I don't feel like making the effort with most of them. I've grown weary of a lot of things lately, I can't be bothered having an opinion on a lot of matters. 'Yep, whatever' is a far too common train of thought running through my head.
It's all in part due to me choosing what is important to myself, and deciding to focus on them instead of trying to experiance a bit of everything. Everything else just gets shoved aside, or more in my case, gently redirected, heheh.

I'm feeling less grumpy now, perhaps because I'm sleepy....? Whatever, as long as I get out of this mood, it's all good.

Justin came over this evening, I hadn't been able to see him for the last few weeks because of work and things. There's something relaxing about talking with my old school friends. They've known me since I was a widdle boy, they grew up with me and were there during my crap school days. My other friends may know more bits and bobs about me, but these guys know the real me, my personality and what made it that way....namely them and events which they all were around to see.
It's pretty cool to be able to say to someone "you've changed". Just think, 7 years ago Justin picked me to be his next bullying victim! ^_^
I remember clearly him clinging to my back while I repeatedly smashed him into the wall. great fun, LOL. Those are the kind of friends you need to keep in touch with........no...I don't mean people that bully you O_o
I mean the friends that you have history with, or made a significant mark on your life. *mind wanders* Yeah.

Justin said that he and Bryn have taken up Karate just recently........like.....do the devils really need to be more violent??? Hehehe.
But it's all good, I was wanting Bryn to take up something along these lines anyway. Hopefully he can stick to it.

Seems me and Justin will propbably be going to go see The Count of Monte Cristo sometime too. Should be good fun, despite the fact I know nothing about the movie ^_^
And after hearing about Yoda's *cough* performance in Episode II, I think I shall have to take myself off to see that too, heheh.

Anyway, I go off to sleep now (and thankfully in a better mood). Goodnight!

damn, I'm feeling grumpy. That early morning kind of grumpiness. Things are just getting to me and I feel like giving up on today and just going back to sleep.

Finished work now, was all good. Said goodbye to mostly everyone, which is rather sad. I was getting on quite well with some of them and me and Pete had only really started talking a lot on my last day. Oh well. Roberta said they might need me again sometime, so maybe ^_^
Now I can just sit back and wait for my paycheck to come, not that I intend to spend much of it. But I do think it's high time I get myself some proper drawing pencils (and a new pad, I'm writing out of pages! O_o).
Wouldn't mind paying a visit to the cheap (cheap! as in cheap costing, not cheap products) clothing store across the road. Might find some very nice things there, ah-hmm. Having cash is good, even if you don't intend to spend it. It makes you feel more secure from any possible problems that arise in life......and even if that is the biggest load of trash ever, I can't help but somewhat get that feeling, hmm. ^_^;

I went to the hospital on thursday to get checked up to see if I'm all healthy to be cut up in the operation and so on. I was super okay, so no problems there. But the doctor was telling me lots of off-putting things about the whole operation. How I would be in quite a bit of pain for 6 days and spend my time in a hospital bed being given a mixture of panadol and small amounts of morphine (.........) and that I would feel very sore for two weeks and not be able to do anything very active for 6 weeks.

..so...um....yeah......like, no way! I'm not THAT bothered by my rib, even if the x-rays did make it look pretty screwed up (it did look very wrong). There's a chance that it could get worse if I grow anymore, but there's also a chance that even after the operation this whole problem could repeat itself (and considering how many times I've had my toes operated on, I'm not to hopeful that the procedure will work).
Anyway, it's not like I'm some stripper that's going to be showing my body a lot (oh dear, filling your head with nasty thoughts, aren't I? And if I didn't, then by saying that, I'm sure I did ^_^)
So I don't think I'll be having it done. Will ring the hospital tomorrow and cancel it, yep yep.

But not letting any of that get to me, last night I was a typical kiwi bloke and sat down to watch the rugby final and also the Warriors take on the Melbourne Storm. (we won both, hurrah!)
Rugby, well, any sport really can be irritating if we lose, but suddenly when we start winning.....it's like it never mattered and we all go celebrate, LOL.
Funny, funny, funny. I like being a New Zealander.

Weeelllllll, another day of work today. I prolonged the work I had by not copying and pasting the infomation into the website admin forms, but by typing it all out.....with nice day dream gaps in between ^_^
Though that is still quite boring, I want huge mountains of work to get through, that way my brain doesn't have time to be bored, hehe.

It was 'M' day today at work. Which means you can bring in CD's that begin with M (I wish I was working next week on the S day), so I had to listen to some Meatloaf (noooooo!) and a few other crappy things. But oh my! Something so terrific was among those CD's brought in to work! Yes! Madonna!!!

I think it was a collection CD of her earlier 80's stuff, but they were all soooooo good! I mean....like....in an 80's way of course. I'm so hooked on her now, have the songs running through my head constantly. And listening to her songs made me start listening to Pat Benastar and Roxette. 80's music galore! ^_^
Great fun, need to hear more.

It's really funny, at work there is a woman who I swear to god could be a real life Mimi (from the Drew Carrey show). they look so similar, both wear the same type of clothes and their hair is also pretty much the same. Though this lady is larger O_o;;;
I have no idea what she does though. She just woddles around the office.....kinda doing nothing @_@

We all use Macintosh's at work, my first proper experiance using one. And hmm.... not completely bad. It has some neat bits, but generally I find it a bit of a fiddle to do even the most simple of things. I shall stick to my PC ^_^ It really takes ages to load the operating system too, they aren't old computers either. Strange.

It's rather sad to see how many people smoke there though. I hear "screw this! I'm going out for a ciggy" way too often. I really hate smoking, I can't ever see myself doing it (well, I can picture myself smoking, but I would never do it). It's part of the 3 rule combo that has been in my head since.......I can't remember when......a very long time no doubt.
No drinking - No smoking - No drugs
It's something I value strongly, again, I'm not sure if I can remember why. And while I dislike the fact that people do some of those things, it generally doesn't effect my opinion of them much. I'm disappointed, of course. But It's something that I find easy to overlook if I know the person (and if they're not annoying. If I disliked them I would use it as fuel to add to why I dislike them, lol.)
Andrew is a guy at work and he is so cool. He's really nice and is always making everyone laugh. I think he's in charge of the area I'm in too *shrug*. But yeah, it's a shame he smokes, but I could never think less of him because he does that.
Thinking about it now, it's all rather strange.....oh well.

Surprising who smokes as well, some of the most unlikely people. And I seem to be seeing more women smoking than men nowadays, ugh.

I think I've decided on a semi-plan for my next few weeks. Learn to play the Bass guitar in my brothers room, re-go over my Japanese course booklets and exercise. I'll keep it nice and simple, and switch every few weeks to something else. Like getting my drivers license and so on. I may even try and do that next week. hmm, whatever ^_^

I'm feeling a lot more cheery about things now, I've kind of gotten used to how things are and a lot has clicked in my head. Haha, stick me in any situation and I will find my footing soon enough ^_^

Hmm, I'm not working tomorrow, I'm off to the hospital to get a few tests done and get the results of the CT scan and things I had done a month or so ago. Don't really want to have to bother, it's a long drive to get there (45-50 minutes).
Am reconsidering having the whole operation thing done, I kind of don't care anymore. But I'll at least go see the doctor next thursday and see what he thinks would be best, then decide.

Heh, was gonna write more, but I've been distracted by the Big Brother website ......^_^;;
Sad but true. Alex is cool though! yeah! Go Alex! With all your sarcastic ways!!
Seriously, he's the only reason I watch it, LOL. Anyway, um, I'll write more tomorrow probably.
bye!

Damn, wish I had more time to write this. I should really be asleep now, but .....I wanna write O_o;;;

This morning on the train to work there were three idiot skinhead, rapper wannabes (about my age or a bit younger). They were unfortunately sitting right next to me and my brother so we had to listen to their costant swearing and mindless dribble about D12, Eminem and dissing people on the train. I was already annoyed at them enough to punch their faces in, but then a older lady got on board and the ticket taker guy asked one of them to give her his seat. Which he did, but afterwards he was bitching about it to his friends and saying the woman was stupid if she can't find her own seat (she was right behind him as well) and said that it was completely racist that woman be treated better than him. .....his friend then told him that he meant to say sexist, to which he replied "...uh....whatever!" hehehehehhe, idiot. Then after more macho rapper talk, one of them asked in a whisper to another if they had brought the Roswell tape (last episode the other night) and the other said he would bring it tomorrow. ROTFL
I thought that was one of the funniest things I've heard in a long time. These wannabe cool, rapper guys secretly like Roswell...? *cracks up*

But damn, I really hated their guts. Those kind of people just make me sick of people in general. Which really isn't fair of me to think that way. But whatever.

They finally ran out of things for me to do at work ^_^
I knew it would happen. I was given some incredibly boring, very insanely lame work to do by checking out their website to see if I could spot anything wrong *sigh* At least by the end of the day they had found something for me to do, though I imagine I'll finish it all too quickly tomorrow. I guess I'll just have to do it reeaaaaalllyyyy slowly or something O_o;
Maybe let myself daydream.

I decided to go to the anime night, despite not going to watch Escaflowne (which I DO want to see >_<;), and ended up having quite a neat time with Kunfei out in the city. Was a shock to see that Kunfei's car had been towed away at the end of the anime night though >_<;;;
Ack! Hope you've gotten it back now, kunfei! ~_~

Anyway, I sleep now! bye bye!
(just two days left of work, hurrah!)

Feeling so frustrated! >_<
I feel so calm and peaceful at work, yet when I get home, I feel irritated and things.
I'm trying to decide if it's because I'd rather be out doing things now, but I know that if I were doing that, I would just feel like coming back home and relaxing. I think I'm feeling a need to be more productive with my spare time....
..But what do I consider productive?? >_<;;

Wah! I'm confused. Guess I had better make a list of things I want to learn and do, then try and sort things out ~_~

Maybe write later with what I decide *sigh*
(I haven't been very positive and happy lately, have I? O_o;)

Damn, the weekend really went by too fast. >_<
That's life, eh?
Oh well, no matter. As Jordan just said to me, if it's a good job that pays good money, then enjoy it. So very true, besides only four more days till I'm finished there. And I'm probably going to be seeing Jordan on Wednesday as he catches the same train as me on most days ^_^
If I had more small things to look forward to each day, then I'm sure I would like it all much more. But I don't do an awful lot really (besides reading manga, watching anime, reading and so on. But I don't do a lot of that either lately)
I've thought about taking some kind of club up. Would probably be Kendo or something. Though if I ever actually do it remains to be seen. More phsyical stuff would be good, I'm such a lazy bum that I stopped exercising. As anyone could tell with my huge weight gain! an amazing amount of 1kg!!! arrgghhh! note the sarcasm ^_^
Though it's been a while since I last weighed myself, I wouldn't be surprised if I've actually lost more weight than gained with my rather unhealthy eating habits (i.e not really eating a whole lot)

Hmm, well, I should sleep now. Early start, of course *sigh*.
There is a bug in my room, but it's small. So I shall leave it be. I hate bugs, but this one looks kinda pathetic. I'm sure for saying that, the damn thing will crawl up my noise and control my brain or something freaky.
Whatever, night night.

And finally the weekend rolls by. I'm sooooooo looking forward to sleeping in ^_^
Shall be great fun with these super comfortable new PJ's I'm wearing, hehehehehe. Sleeping would definitely come close to the top of the list of things I like to do. Ya-huh.

My overall opinion of work (now that it's been a week) is that it is good. I mean, my job is good, it's so simple that it's fun, y'know? ^_^
And I've been enjoying talking to the people in my area, all are great. My only complaint is the early morning start, it's so hard to get myself out of bed at 6:30am >_<
It's horrible!! I mean it seriously too! @_@
If it was closer to home (walking distance) it would be a fantastic job, but since this is only for another week, it doesn't matter.

So all should be well, except for the flood of depressing thoughts filling my head lately ~_~
I should know better than to let them get me down, but...*sigh* I don't know. It's routine that this must happen I guess, I'll snap out of it soon enough. But it's hard when I seem to get so many people talking to me about their problems. I willingly offer to listen and to try and offer help and advice, I really want to help. But it brings me down and gets me thinking similar depressing things *Sigh*. I'm supposed to be positive and happy! Not like this! >_<
My mum said to me recently that I care too much and am too considerate about most things......is that true? O_o I never thought I was like that, I always thought I was rather stupid and selfish @_@

Whatever,
Sleep can cure anything, and thus I turn to it now..

ahhhhhhh, work was much better today, I got moved to a new computer in a different area of the office, so no more women talking about Coronation St for me! ^_^
The area I'm in is much more enjoayble, nicer, funnier, younger people, and i'm right next to the stereo, hehe. The work kept me busy, so I never really got bored, though I nearly did fall asleep at lunchtime O_o;;;
I have a pile of work I've yet to finish though, so I'm sure I'll have plenty of things for me to do tomorrow. The train this morning was depressing, as expected, but the train ride back this afternoon was great. Had lots of jokes with my brother...and.....lo and behold....the most beautiful girl I've ever seen *_*

(the following section might make you laugh at me, and I don't blame you. you've been warned O_o)

Wow! Um......wow....yeah...like....wow.....wow. I seriously have never seen someone that I've found so attractive before, maybe a lot has to do with personal taste (short hair and so on), but she just radiated this very natual beauty. I couldn't take my eyes off her, though thankfully I looked at her in the reflection of the window and not just straight out staring (that would be creepy). I wanted to go over and tell her what I thought, but I'm sure her mum would have hit me with her daughters badminton/tennis racket while shouting "keep away from her you creep!!". But y'see, the cool thing is she obviously had just come from a club or something, so she's a sporty girl! I like sporty girls! I like sporty girls with short hair! I like Tomboys! I'm kinda weird!!!
*ahem*
Seriously though, prettiest girl I've ever seen without a doubt. And she didn't even have a happy look on her face, in fact she looked kinda glum...! So imagine how pretty she must be when she smiles! hahahahahaha!!!!
*gets shot by my embarassed friends*
Damn, I must sound lame >_<

I may sound weird and you may never fully understand the extent of my feelings towards this whole thing, but I have seen true beauty today, and for that I am very happy. ^_^

Argh, work is annoying >_<
Okay, let me rephrase that.......the working LIFE is annoying >_<
My job is fine, it's easy and isn't really boring. In fact It's pretty good since I'm not dreading any moment I'm there. But damn, it leaves me with so little time to do other things, it's really quite depressing. I guess I don't have a lot to do at home anyway, but in order for me to do things at home (that make me feel happy and productive) I need time, clearly more than I have currently >_<
Plus getting up at the ungodly time of 6am is really wasting me. I'm not a morning person, and that's not because I usually get to sleep too late. I've never been a morning person, that's why I opt to sleep through it if I can. Annnddddddd (yes, there's more for me to complain about) taking the train while the sky's still grey sets an incredibly depressing atmospehere for my day. Ugh, I don't know. Complaining was the last thing I wanted to do when I got a job, I thought I would just stick it out and not let it bother me....but.....it's so annoying >_<

At least it's only till the end of next week. I just need to change my mindset on it all, think positive! I'd like to be able to go somewhere after work or something, I mean, while I'm in New Market and all. But what? New Market seems kinda crappy, and I think I'd be branded a pervert if I went and checked out Dio (it's just at the end of the road that my workplace is on, that's the only reason it crossed my mind! I swear! @_@)
blah blah blah.

This is depressing, I'm gonna do something else.

First day of work was okay ^_^
Didn't dislike it, but didn't overly like it either. I feel very apathetic to it all. I mean, I could do the work very easily enough, I generally wasn't bored as I always had a bit more to do, and I didn't feel like I could be having a better day at home anyway.
So I guess looking at it that way it was pretty good....but...well...yeah. Don't know, just doesn't feel right, not like a proper job O_o
Oh well, whatever, will see how the rest of the week goes.

The worst part of the day was having to take the trains. Annoying, drains my money *sigh* >_<
But I did bump into Wybo on the way to work this morning. Was quite a surprise, but nice to see him and catch up.

Now I must wander off and make the most of my evening ^_^

Just finished reading all of the Rurouni Kenshin manga, so good!! >_<
Such a happy ending, brought a tear to my eye O_o
The ending to the Dragonball manga did the same.....erm....*cough* yeah anyway, I'm just like that, okay? @_@

But now I really want to watch the new Kenshin OAV's. Must see grown up Yahiko in all his kick-ass glory! XD

NP: Hikaru no Go (opening) - Get Over

WAH! SUGAR HIGH!
*rolls around on ground* I'm hyper! *jumps up and down* Dammit! Why do I always have to feel so energetic and active when it's bedtime?? >_<
I could be using these energy bursts for good use! Ah poot! Who cares? I'm too hyper to be bothered by it, hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha, hahahahahahahahaha!
*falls asleep*

Well, I've got myself a 2 week job doing database entry at my brothers workplace. Even though it's only 2 weeks, it's a job...and my first ^_^
And the pay is very nice, $15 an hour, so I'll end up with a bit over $1000 after tax, still good, lol. I'm looking forward to it, though I'm sure it'll get pretty boring fairly quickly. I'm sure I'll manage to keep myself entertained.

I'm glad I'm now over this cold, as I start the job on monday. It's in New Market though, so I'm having to catch the train with my brother, there and back (his car remains unfixed since he went into the back of a tow truck >_<). No matter, it's all good. I can add this job to my CV and look like I'm not completely crap ^_^

HAHAHAHA *stands proud* I rock! XD

Still a little bit sick, though the worst has past and I should be all well again by the weekend. Woke up at 5am this morning with a completely sweat drenched vest and bed @_@ That's rather annoying.
What I find strange though, is the fact that I've only had about 2 or 3 hours sleep and yet I'm not in the slightest tired.
If I was always like that, I would be happy. my life would end up being more productive ^_^

Ugh. So I didn't go to the anime night, was feeling too wasted still, plus I didn't want to give this cold to anyone else. Feeling slightly better in the fact that I no longer have a headache, though my throat is just as bad. *sigh*
This is fairly obvious, but I hate being sick!! >_<
All my energy is gone and I just sit on my bed feeling helpless and like an old man. Oh well, I'm dosing my self up, so hopefully I'll be better soon. I should probably try and sleep now too, even though is is 3 hours or so before my usual bedtime O_o
Goodnight all!

I can't sleep and i'm still feeling very sick. Also instead of being cold I'm burning up. joy to the world! ~_~

I think I'm sick ~_~
I have a bad headache, my throat hurts, and I'm very cold even though I'm wrapped up nicely. I have had very little energy today too, so little in fact that I found it hard to stand up for long. ugh, god I'm wasted. It's hard to maintain my hyper positivity in such a condition as well.

And perhaps that is why I'm sensing such negative karma coming from some people. Sure, I would sense it anyway, but it seemed like a good way to link the two topics together @_@
But honestly, some people really are strange in the way they think. Something I've learnt is to think before you speak, I occasionally forget, but thankfully what I say is rather measely. But some people really need to learn this, as things tjey say don't make a good impression on anybody.

I can't really go on any more about it as I'm feeling too damn sick X_x
I hope everyone feels better than I do now. uggghhhh, help!

*dies*

So I watched American Pie for the first time last night. Hmm ^_^;
Wasn't as laugh out loud as I thought it'd be, but was generally pretty funny, I mean as far as a comedy about a bunch of guys out for sex goes. Though these movies should really, really start casting people who actually look like they're in High School. Ah well.
Wouldn't mind seeing the sequel now, as well as a whole bunch of other movies I've neglected over the years. I keep saying to myself that soon I will go to the video store and rent them, but
i never do. Soon, I promise O_o;;;

Hmm, saw the music video to Sum 41's 'what we're all about'. It has clips from the Spiderman movie in it....and....um...
The SFX in Spiderman suck...badly. Whoever they got to play Peter Parker looks cool and fitting, but...ugh....will probably be a crap movie. Though I did say the same about the X-men movie and I actually really liked that *shrug* oh well whatever.

My mum's video machine packed up the other night, so after trying one of our spare vcr's (yes, we have four vcr's or so) with it, and it failing to work with the old TV, we decided to get a new VCR. Guess our reaction when that didn't work either ^_^
So now we have a new TV as well. We'll probably take the old TV to the salvation army as it still works fine. No point keeping it round here. At least I got to set everything up, hehe. I love technology, such fun playing with ^_^
Lots more fun when you don't use the instruction manuals either, not that it was that hard anyway. I guess it's not just technological things though, as I really enjoy setting up tables and shelves, anything really O_o

I'll end this entry with something I don't think anyone could, or at least should disagree upon : David Bowie is great!

Here's some gripes I have with things on TV nowadays :

---British shows are generally depressing because of the atmosphere and gloomy skies of the country. Very few shows like Father Ted are around, but even Father Ted I found kind of depressing. Britain just looks really run down and..well....crappy.

---American shows are all too fake and colourful. Every family has a two story house and is well off. They're too full of pathetic humour or stupid morals spread about among plotlines that have been done to death. By watching them I feel my mind is slowly (and at a boring rate, I might add) frying. (There are a few exceptions to these that I do enjoy : Frasier, Friends, Malcolm in the Middle, Scrubs, 24. Though I think Friends is really getting rather lame now, I used to laugh so hard at the previous seasons, but now I struggle to even chuckle O_o)

---Aussie TV is just..........well.......do I even need to say? It's just lame.

---NZ TV shows are pretty bad, and even the kids shows have gotten worse. Can you believe that?? What Now! has actually become even worse than last year! I found Sticky TV on 3 soooo lame and disappointing, I remembered the kids show TV3 had quite a few years back, it showed Captain Power and a few other things. Now THAT was quality kids programming. But no, Sticky TV is just as bad as What Now! was last year, if not worse. But the What Now! of this year has gotten so unbelievably bad that even Sticky TV looks good O_o
I read or saw somewhere a report that said about 2% of the NZ programming was for kids, well, I'm certainly glad that that 2% is so packed with mind fulfilling goodness! I'm tempted to say that plonking a kid down in front of Dragonball Z is one of the wisest choices a parent could make, as it contains more morals than you're likely to find anywhere else on kids programming. Sure it's simply super strong good guys fighting to save the planet against a stereo-typical bad guy who wants to destroy the universe or something. But at least it is simple and you know what's right and what's wrong. All other kids shows are showing you that it's okay to make fun of people, make fart sounds and generally be childish.
And Shortland St has gotten so bad that even my mum (a loyal viewer since it first started) has abandoned the show.

What has happened to TV??
It's so...so.....so bad! >_<
It's so bad that I can't even believe I decided I'd write about it, geez.

Why can't we have shows like S.O.S on TV, besides the fact that it's in japanese and that no one would probably end up watching it, huh? @_@

I wanna bitch some more, but I need to save some bitching for any surprise event/topic/person that happens to cross paths with me! Death comes to he who crosses me! (or she for that matter!) I am a lion, hear me roar!

I'm over using the exclaimation marks!!!!!


HAHAHAHAHA, I'm so funny sometimes, *Sigh*....yeah *wanders off*

Whoa, I just wrote a fairly big thing on my opinions on different matters. I did it merely so I could look over it all afterwards, but maybe sometime I might put it up here. I really make myself laugh though, I sound so funny when I re-read over it, hehehe.
Actually, I feel like a nice big laugh right now, HA HA HA HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA!

(can you tell I'm happy? huh? huh? can you? can you?)

NP: Grinspoon - Chemical Heart

Wow, this song really reminds me of Live. Actually it reminds me of a lot. O_o;;
Anyway, hello dears.
I'm quite amazed at how little I manage to do each day. It's relaxing, but very bad. I should try and do more, doesn't have to be interesting things, but as long as I'm doing more. I'll finish off Grandia for the PSX and then either read some books or learn to play my brothers Bass guitar. Need to do more drawings too, but I've already said how uncreative I am lately *sigh*

I was cooking earlier and some fat from the chicken I was frying must have kinda ...popped...
It spat lots of amazingly hot ...thingees..(for lack of a better word) on my left arm. ouch. I was surprised and stepped backwards, exactly where the cat thought it would be a clever place to sit. She made a loud sound and ran off, not surprisingly. That damn cat. She's cute, but god she can be annoying. I mean, sure she looks at me with these adorable eyes, but they just don't seem that adorable when her claws have just made several 6 inch long, bleeding marks on my leg. I seriously think the cat has no idea how sharp her claws are. dumb thing.
Syndy was too timid, and Sally is too friendly. Why can't we just have a normal cat? *sigh* I miss Syndy, she may have been a scaredy cat, but she was really nice and friendly to me, moreso than anyone else. And she was the cutest cat, all fluffy and stuff ^_^
Oh well, everything comes to an end. My family has had so many pets over the years. Only really one dog and one cat (two if you count Sally), but we've had mice, fish (a lot), birds of all kinds (doves, pigeons, chickens, budgies, parrots, a rooster (his name was Hector and he was the coolest ^_^), about 20-30+ birds probably.
*sigh* I miss my childhood surroundings, was so nice. Ah well, where I'm now is good. May not be all fantastic like some of the places I've been, but it's still pretty damn good.

It would be a good idea to sleep now, yes it would. ^_^

Wow! I watched the Pink Floyd 'The Wall' movie earlier, and boy was it pretty screwed up ^_^
It was interesting in a kind of, druggie-like way, but overall it was quite boring. Definitely was directed well though. I just don't like depressing things, especially ones about a pathetic, dope using rock star who is too much of a loser to see that he's screwing himself over by not doing anything to try and help himself.
I really have no wish to associate myself with anything too depressing from now on, I think everyone would obviously want to do the same, but I mean...I reaaallllly don't want to deal with it. I'm very fedup with depressing stories, depressed people and so on. It's not that I don't care, it's more that I'm feeling the happiest I've been ..in.. a long time, and I don't want to come back down O_o

In the end I'll probably still end up watching/associating with many things to do with depression, but I imagine it probably won't effect me. I love my mindset, yes I do! ^_^

Yesterday I applied for a job at a Dick Smiths Electronics that has just opened up in New Lynn. It's unlikely I'll get it, but hey, you never know.
Would be nice to work there......would be nice to work anywhere actually (*ahem* excluding the Warehouse and silly places like that). A job would be good though, I feel very conscious about the money I have, even though it is a fair bit. I suppose a steady flow of income would loosen me up a bit on being able to spend. Though I really have not much of a clue what I'd spend it on, which I guess could be a good thing, then I could save it.
I could save to buy a PS2 or something like that, as I would like to play a few of the games for that. But really I feel it'd be too much of a waste to spend $600 on one. $200, yes. But since it'll probably never reach that price, ah well. I'm really not that much of a gamer.

Hmm, it's quite annoying, there are some topics I'd really like to talk about in my journal. But I know some of the people that such issues apply to may read this. So...ha. Yeah, maybe I'll just say "screw it" and talk about it anyway. But for now I must rush away and clean myself, very much unlike a cat!

You're Arisugawa Sorata!
You're the type who depends on humor to get you through all difficult situations, even when it seems as if the world will end (ha ha). People may roll their eyes at your antics, but deep inside, they cannot help but love you. You may be a joker, but you aren't flippant when it comes to the things you hold important in life. When you set your mind on something (or someone), no obstacle will hold you back from obtaining your goal.
Which Dragon of Heaven are you?
Quiz by Kerianne

*points* HA HAHAHAHAHA!
I thought as much! ^_^

god....sitting here listening to my brother and mum arguing makes me grit my teeth. It's becoming impossible to live with my brother, he's an asshole. There is no doubt about it in my and even my mum's minds. He just shouts and lashes out at us over the smallest things. If he's hungry and dinner is a bit late, he gets all angry and starts complaining and raising his voice. There isn't a day that goes by that me and him don't get into a heated argument.
It's unfortunate as sometimes, very rarely, he can be quite nice. It's because of him I have this computer and many other things. But I can't help it anymore, I really dislike him. The only reason we talk is because we are brothers. I imagine things between us would be better if he lived somewhere else and I didn't get to see him as much. But the likelihood of him moving out soon is slim.

Thank god that he's going to america for a month in June. Peace at last. Though I feel very ashamed to have to say all this. Like anyone, I guess I want to have a perfect family that gets on great, but no. Oh well.
At least I get on well with my mum. A lot of people I know don't get on well with anyone in their family. And it seems my funky mindset (which is working wonders I might add) doesn't really work too well at home with my brother.

heh. oh well, that's life ^_^

Argh! My art/creativity is really annoying me lately. I have a great urge to draw, but when I get out my pencil and pad, I can't think of anything to draw >_<
Another thing is I don't really have any particular style, I just keep waving between whatever manga/anime style I like at the time. Must get better at drawing the body too, I'm in no way bad, but I'm in no way good either ^_^;
Ah well, I'll just have to keep telling myself 'i'm just 17' and 'you'll get better in time'. Which is altogether true, but (and I know this sounds silly and brat-ish) I wanna be better now! O_o

Cest la vie, que sara sara

Drunk rugby fans are funny, heheh.
Rugby fans in general however are pretty silly.

Right now I can't bring myself to say really anything, but I want to. I want to scream out something incredibly insightful, something that would change your life. But I can't, I don't know anything like that ^_^
And that confuses me, I'm feeling very weird. Not 'unhappy' weird. Just weird.

My new mindset seems to be working really well. I'm not sure if I could say I'm happy, but I'm enjoying life.
Yeah, life's quite nice.

NP: Goo Goo Dolls - Black Balloon

Hmm, I don't nearly listen to the Goo Goo Dolls as much as I used to, which is a shame since they are actually pretty good and their music is quite uplifting (excluding 'Iris' of course, but even that is such a terrific song).
Though I don't think I don't listen to music if it's kind of sad or whatnot. As long as it's good, but does that mean that all 1000+ songs I have on my computer are good...? er...I guess, I wouldn't have them otherwise, but there must be some space wasters. God knows how come I've managed to get so many songs, it doesn't feel like much, but I could actually have my own radio station and be able to play music for nearly 5 days without having to repeat anything. That's fairly impressive, considering it doesn't include my japanese/anime songs too.

There are very few songs I have that sound similar, which quite amazing that these bands somehow manage to produce all this fairly original music despite the thousands upon thousands of songs in existance. You'd think that even one or two would have unwittingly produced something remarkably similar to someone else.

It's funny how much Music is part of our lives, even if we really don't notice it... Though I'm sure we do. I tend to not think about it though, or I decide not to. Not because I'm a silly sheep that does not ponder life and it's many subjects, just 'cause I can't be bothered. I have other things to think about, actually I tend not to think about them either ^_^;;;
Okay..so...yeah. Well I think people are actually happier being stupid and ignorant. There really isn't that much wrong with being that way, besides the fact that your're generally going to be a silly person (and not in a comical way! O_o)
Oh my god, what am I babbling about? @_@
I shall stop now.

NP: Stabbing Westward - On your way down

I finally recieved Stabbing Westward's 'Darkest Days' album!!!!! !!!
Alright, fine. So I actually got it last week and stuff, but for dramatic effect we'll just pretend I got it today, 'kay?
It's so good, and it was only $14!! ^_^
hurrah! I would contemplate getting their other albums, but I want to keep the money I have. Armageddon drained my wallet, and I didn't really buy anything O_o;;;

Also unfortunate how hard it is to find Stabbing Westward and Feeder albums here in NZ (Feeder being the first band I was ever really big on)

Oh yeah, anime night tonight. Hmm, I've being going out into the city a lot lately. Thankfully it's been for rather enjoyable occasions. Anyway I should be off doing other stuff.....I suppose ^_^

Oh yeah, just before I go to sleep I thought I'd mention that I bumped into Chefu and P-Money at Armageddon. Nothing much past between us but a "hey" sort of thing, but still was pretty funky ^_^

I thought I would put this by itself instead of including it in the last entry. I don't want to make a big deal of this, so i'll sum it up nice and simple.
I found out 5 or so minutes ago that my dad, while still with my mum, had a few affairs. Part of me is saying 'it's in the past, it doesn't matter anymore'. But I can't ignore this. I feel...kind of shocked..kind of.. maybe 'shocked' is too exagerated. 'surprised'? I guess, but it lacks the sadness I feel. I feel very...numb, if that makes any sense. Thinking about it now, I don't want him to be a part of my life. I don't hate him, but I no longer feel any need to spend time with him or do anything with him. All the stuff I said once before, about feeling sad that he hasn't been able to be with me as I grow up, I take that back.
My dad screwed up, and not just a few times over the years. He screwed up his many chances to be a father and this is the result, I've nothing to feel bad about.

I don't know if I'm right in thinking this way. I'm sure there is no real 'right' way, but...
How would you feel if you knew this about your father?

I need to lose myself in music to get rid of this horrible atmosphere.

Armageddon again today, and finally it's over for another year. It was good, I guess.
It was all kinda getting old by now, though the people checking out the animation room was a definite source of interest. Neat to see/hear their reactions to different things.

EB got his bag stolen by some toss-ass that needs to be beaten up. I'm sure that would be done very willingly by a fair few of us. It cast a bit of a shadow over the day for me, but I tried my best to enjoy it anyhow. I hope things work out, EB.

I gave Josh the Angel Sanctuary artbook I bought on Friday. I didn't know which AS artbook he already had, but apparently I made the right choice anyhow. He seemed pretty happy about it, so that made my day.

Bryn also came along to Armageddon. Though he quickly got bored, and I don't really blame him, there isn't a terrible lot to do there. He didn't stay too long, but it was neat to see him there anyway.

I went and saw Akira at the Civic with everyone else. It made so much more sense than the original dub, though I did prefer the voices in the original dub. Is still such a classic movie, if not a little weird.

Oh yeah, btw, I got to see the NZ band 'The WBC' play today at Armageddon. They were so good! Man, I really want to buy their CD if they've got one out. If they haven't got a contract with any record company yet, they deserve one.
They sound a bit like The Mighty Mighty Bosstones but without the bad singing ^_^
Must now find ways of getting their CD (if it exists)

...Like...wow.
Just saw Vampire Hunter D in the big Civic screen. wow. wow.

I haven't seen such a good movie in ages. And it was pretty! So.... so pretty!
And the voice acting was damn good too, the only people that wouldn't like it are those really nitpicky, over-the-top, manic anime fans that have no life, but like to complain ^_^

And Meier Link is just such a....*tries to think of the word*......cool dude ..guy! LOL
But wow. Go see it if you can.

Also I saw the entries in the art competition, *sigh*.
Why, o' why must everyone IGNORE the rules and enter COPIED drawings!?! I swear to god 80% - 90% must have been copied Dragonball Z artwork. Bastards.
I decided not to enter though, there's no point since I don't want the prize. Besides, I think I can already guess what piece will win. And deservedly too.
Anyway, I'm off to do things which involve sharp objects.

I cannot sleep. I cannot sleep. I want to sleep. I want to sleep. I need to sleep. I need to sleep.

Added three more songs to the right. They're all ..like...really cool, so like....check them out ^_^;;
(New Order is really good, me like muchly)

Well, I should have updated a few days ago. Several times in fact, but I ended up writing what I would have done here in e-mails to several people.....soo...
But not much been happening really, just the usual. And despite the rather negative and depressing anime night *stares at Kunfei* , I managed to bounce back fairly easily the next morning.

Anyway, today was the first day of Armageddon. And wow....the convention itself wasn't really amazing...
In fact I didn't really see much that entertained me, but I had a good day none the less.
I saw the Squirt host!!!! OH MY GOD!!!!
Okay, so you're thinking "so what?", but he's like, so cool! COOL COOL COOL COOL! That just made my day ^_^
Also when me, Kunfei, Nadea and etc were waiting outside in the queue (I might add that we all got there extra early, I even had to take the train at 7:50am, yikes!) there was a video camera crew pointing the camera in my direction. I'm not sure if it was M2 or Squirt or what, but I might briefly be on TV ^_^ Peace!

The voice actress' for Gohan and Ash were quite nice looking ladies, and seemed to be quite fun. With Gohan's voice actress taking the role as the judge in the KameHame Ha competition. It was pretty amusing. Some people were just lame, while others were rather impressive. And the cute 3 or 4 year old that whispered "ka me ha me, ha" to the "awwww"-ing crowed was just so CUTE!
The 50 year old guy was impressive too. Not only for the fact he was taking part, but man....could he yell it out, good job! ^_^
It ended up being won by a 7 or 8 year old asian boy. He did it incredibly well and even had a rather egotistical winning speach "I'll take you all on!" LOL
I bumped into him when he was checking out the animation room later and congradulated him, hehe, good fun.

So despite having spent more money than I would have liked, and having an aching back (ouch, it doesn't take much to make it sore these days), and feeling sick all day......it was a goody day ^_^
I guess I'll be back tomorrow. Though won't be there from opening to closing as I don't think there is enough to do there to keep me THAT entertained.

Anyway, I need a rest, bye bye!

Hey hey! See? I did change things slightly ^_^;
The focus is on One Piece, a series that has sky-rocketed to being one of my favourites. It's a special series to me in several ways, one being that the characters have great mindsets and personalities that equal my own state of mind currently. I'm increasingly becoming positive about life and generally fairly happy *gasp* (god forbid!), or should I say content..? I'm not sure. But I'm fairly happy with who I am at last. I spent so much time wondering about myself and how to be a better person, but I came to the realisation recently that I have a lot to be pleased with. Maybe also because it just didn't matter anymore...?
So with time I hope to be even better, no, I'm sure I will be actually ^_^

I really do feel pretty happy. Not bouncy-bounce happiness, but a kind of happiness and satisfaction I haven't had in a long time, if ever.
Also taking on new tasks is making me excited and rather happy. I was going to go with my dad to a car/race show on the weekend, but I backed out at the last minute. I felt bad, so I asked my dad if he wanted to come round sometime and I'd make dinner. I of course haven't done much with food before.....in fact probably nothing ^_^;;
But I really enjoyed making dinner, it's really exciting to learn to make all these different foods and cooking and frying, oh my!
So I've been doing it every night since then (5 days now), hopefully I can keep up the enthusiasm.

The MP3's have changed, I will add a few more tomorrow probably. But for now is the first japanese opening to One Piece ('We Are') and the Italian opening to One Piece (All'arrembaggio) which I think has become a favourite song of mine now ^_^
Make sure to download it! LOL

Anyway, I should sleep. Gotta babysit in the morning, so oyasumi!