Last Thursday, we went to Trader’s Hotel to use the one night stay-in courtesy of sis’s bf. I go there for the bathtub. Hehehe Ya, it’s pathetic but it is a boast when we were children that when we have our own house, we would have a bathtub. So far, not yet but my sister might have one next time. I think that hotel had mostly Japanese clients since the signs are mostly in English and Japanese only. That night, we closed the lights at the room to look out to the city lights. ^-^ The other room had a nicer view but it is smoking room so even if no one is smoking, it smelled like a cigarette.
The next day, we hangout at sis’s bf’s house and watched ‘The Object of My Affection’ I think I have watched it before but sis haven’t. In the end, the family set-up was really weird. The girl had three men in her lives. One was the father of her child. The other was the babysitter who was gay and had a lover. Lastly, one is her lover. We went home and brother with sis-in-law dropped by for a visit.
Anime updates: Rave – A filler on some really minor goons who have very huge bottoms. Then, the new arc is about meeting of Gail, Haru’s father who seemed to be an enemy after a piece of Rave from this girl who is the lord of an underground town. I have to content that when Musica shows up I will be watching some descent scenes especially that love story episode of his with Melodia. Nice.
Now for Scryed. The two main guys are going in as they kept cursing each other as to why they are going to team up but they have a common goal so they cannot do anything about it. Hehehe If I’m a yaoi fangirl I would have slashed these two already. Well, maybe some people already did. I would name the characters based on what I heard. Cougar, the red haired guy, brought the doctor and Celes, short haired Holy girl to the tower since they want to help Ryuhou. In the tower, Ryuhou fought with his former boss and powered-up by merging his android to himself. The boss later told him about wanting him to power up blah blah so he can defeat blah blah. I have no idea basically, defeat the void guy and white haired guy. Meanwhile, Kazuma fought with his ex-rebel buddy but the band which controls him was broken so the ex-rebel committed suicide as he told Kazuma his name. I think it is for effect like remember me. Nice.
Seles was running into the tower to help Ryuhou as she remembers the time when he saved her from some prison and told her that she has her own free will. Cougar was faced off by white haired guy who absorbed his powers as doctor escaped. White haired guy then send off some mecha against Kazuma and the void guy against Ryuhou. The doctor found watermelon guy and the ‘oberserve’ kid as they try to find the system to cut the power. Ryuhou was no match for the void guy and got killed in front of Celes. The doctor and the others found the system and destroyed it. Then, the doctor noticed the pendant which Ryuhou gave her when they were still kids had disappeared. She cried.
Nice scene = Celes went to Ryuhou saying that she cannot let him die since he had still things to do and she cannot live without him. She uses her power. Angel wings came out of her back then this droid thing which is like an angel stood up as feathers are floating around. It reminded me of the ‘angels or holy’ forgot what they are called of the Iron Maiden. She used her powers to revive him at the cost of her life. I think it is more of like letting him absorb her life force then she kissed him on the lips, as she said, I love you. ^-^ The doctor was relieved to see the pendant whole again. Ryuhou woke up and stood up. Celes’s hairpin fell down. Ryuhou was shocked then saw her clothes which was what was left. Ryuhou kept on saying why did she used her powers on him, etc. Then, Kazuma came by since the mecha disappeared when the system was destroyed. He went to Ryuhou and told him to cry if he want, not to hold it in. Memories of Celes flashes by, especially the part when she said that she wanted to be with him. Then, Ryuhou cried his heart out. Then, Kazuma became teary eyed as he remembered his friends who had already died.
Well, they went into the center where Canamy, the little girl, was. Kazuma fought with white hair guy as Ryuhou fought with the void guy. Both powered up. Kazuma looked a bit funny though somewhat like a lion type mecha. Well, they defeated their respective enemies and sent them to the ‘world’ they belong. Cougar took everyone away to safety. Okay, that’s the end of episode 24. I just read in a review that what happened after that was, what the --- and it should have ended at 24.
I had finished reading ‘Red Lion’ or what was scanlated. It was good and funny as the bully who was annoying her started to declare that he likes her and a boy whom he saved started to chase her, too. Hehehe Obviously, she would end up with the model. ^-^ In ‘East Coast’, the younger sister of the main reminded me of the younger sister of the bf of younger twin in Women in Love. ^^;; Annoying, spoiled and bratty. The main committed murder as payoff for the bail of his friend. I think he is just fulfilling his dream to be a gangster. There was a bit on gangs there which are quite interesting. ^-^ I have saw on tv about the yakuza are actually from the samurai clans before. They went underground since the government banned them. Very interesting.
Wednesday, April 16, 2003 @ 05:43 p.m.
I was asked to make a picture to be in the size of 2x2. I did it and printed it. It was then, they told me that the head was too big and should have this measurement for the size. I asked the guy whom they hired who will handle the Photoshop for the pictures if I should scan the slide with the measurement or it can be done without the slide as a layer. He said it could be done without. I let him do it since I admit that I do not know much in Photoshop but he did it too fast and wasn’t teaching me much. Basically, the trick was what I already did. It is to make the image smaller then c&p it to another pic with the new file with the size of 2x2. I thought there was an easier way. Then, he told me it would be easier if I just scanned the slide. ^^;;; Anyway, I did learn a bit basically how to lighten an image – opacity, flatten the image which I think is just that when c&p, the right ones will be c&p, not a layer and ctrl-T to cut an image to resize – don’t know what it was called. That’s it.
Then, I scanned some negatives which took too long that my cousin complained to the one who told me to scan them that I was scanning all of the negatives – so it was taking too long. It turned out that they only needed 3 pictures. I tried scanning to slides with the measurements but it won’t work. Always cropped or it would say that there is no slide in it. My brilliant cousin said that I should cover the light on top of the scanner so that it can be scanned. I told him that it won’t work but then, I did as I was told since I don’t want to argue. Well, it did turn out blank. I left it as it is since it is going home time for me. I’m already tired and getting stressed out already. Maybe as Asher said, using brain cells can make one tired.
Robin: You are just making an excuse.
Maybe...So, aside from the usual, grouping and saving the pictures from the cd, I’m the one who must learn something that cousin wanted to do then I would teach it to him. Hehehe On to the more fun stuff, in FFU, everyone was hypnotize by a sound tower [Gomen, I forgot what it was called] to live through their past. We got a glimpse of Kaze’s past about having a lover called Aura who must have been killed during a fight with the white guy. With the help of Mugen – cat version of Kaze, they were able to destroy the tower. The ending was they went back to the ship and Lisa was surprised to see Mugen with Kaze as Mugen said, we would never separate now. I shivered, is there a hidden meaning to that?
Luffy: Don’t think too deep!
Hehehe...In Scryed, the little girl was kidnapped so the two wanted the save her but was prevented by red haired guy so they punched each other out. ^^;; It was a funny scene. Female doctor bonded a bit with Ryuhou as she realized that he haven’t changed and gave him his old Holy uniform since what he is wearing now is tacky. Hehehe Using the satellite, white haired guy sent a rocket with a video camera to gloat over them that he had the little girl and irked Ryuhou by showing him that he [white haired guy] was at Ryuhou’s house and his father is dead. So, the two opened the gate to wreck the satellite that was going to shoot them. White haired guy was happy since he was waiting for this moment so he got himself teleported inside where he met with void guy and merged with him. He was able to attain the void guy’s power and changing everything in the city to create this weird tower based on the HQ of Holy. He was using the little girl to maintain the power, I think. Then, the two went back to Earth near the tower. The two debated about who will save the little girl. Hehehe It was fun like Kazuma asking why Ryuhou wanted to save her. Ryuhou answered that he wanted to taste her dishes again. Kazuma irked and was surprise about it and told him to pay. Ryuhou said that it was given to him freely and maybe he was jealous. Kazuma denied it and gets irriated that Ryuhou was saying the little girl’s name as if they are really close. The end scene was they are going into the tower. It is now going to the climax. Scryed will end soon and will be replaced by X.
On the anime I recorded, Yugioh is a flashback on this guy who found a table with the three god ‘cards’ and because of the Egyptian curse, the two assistants were killed. I think, the guy got scared so he gave them to a woman who gave them to their respective owners. The guy who was telling the story must be a ghost since he kept on moving from one room to another. In the end, Yugi became teen again and they are going to the next battle as he promised the ghost to get all the three again to prevent some world destruction. Okay, everything is based on what I think since I cannot quite understand everything. In Crush Gear, a little lover’s quarrel between Corea and Kaoru. Kaoru really knows hot to pull Corea’s strings hehehe
In Rave, a minor fight with Reina and a bit of Ellie’s I-don’t-want-you-to-suffer act on Haru who won’t back out. Every time she acts that way, I cannot help comparing her to Nami of One Piece. They have about the same haircut and type of outfit but obviously, unlike Ellie, Nami knows how to kick butt. Another guy from Demon card interrupted the fight and they went to re-group with the king. Sieghart is still alive to talk more about the Demon card, where the next part of Rave is and to muse if having met each other is fate. I thought he would join them. Then, to end this uneventful episode, a beach party which was Ellie’s dying wish. Honestly, I find that a bit corny.
Zoro: You are making this blog into an anime summary blog.
Hehehe...Can’t I? At least, it is something to read than my boring life. ^-^
Tuesday, April 15, 2003 @ 02:59 p.m.
I don’t have work today since the computer I’m using will be used for a demo. While looking at the fishes this morning, I realized that the three older discus are sick. Sigh...I quickly changed the water, increase the temperature and put in some salt. If it doesn’t get better, I would put in malachite green though mine didn’t have formalin as the sources from the net says. I’m still hoping that I can save them. That was exactly the way how my deceased discus before had died. I’m getting all depressed over this since I was thinking that because of work, I wasn’t able to pay attention to them but they did looked fine until today. The rams are still not getting much better and the new discus that I bought must have hexamite. Now, the one which was given by my cousin looked sick.
Chopper: Unfortunately, we have no fish doctor around.
Ya, I think vets here tend to look after furry animals than fishes. In case of fishes, it is the people who sold fishes. I might as well ask and I don’t want to get the ‘sorry, cannot do anything about it anymore’ cure.
In the Korean drama, ‘Women in Love’, the older twin just married the guy who was pretending to be rich. The boyfriend of the younger twin was ‘tried to be bought’ by the mother thrice but he won’t accept until his own mom collapse over seeing her son being slapped in front of her by the younger twin’s mom. So, he broke up with the younger twin and he was about to return the money [they kept forcing him to keep the money ^^;;] his greedy sister took half of the money and took off. So, he had to explain to his parents where he got the money. Of course, they were furious about it for they were looked down. The father went to the older twin’s wedding to return the money and told off the mother. Sis and I was discussing as to whether he should have gone there right away and make a scene at the wedding or just wait the next day. I was pointing out that the father’s emotions was too intense to put it off the next day as sis said that if he did that, they would be more look down upon since he should have the courtesy to not make a scene. What do you think?
I searched about Yoshiki of X-Japan since I got curious over him ever since watching that documentary in NHK. It seemed that when he was a child, he discovered the body of his father who committed suicide by hanging himself. Then, his friend, Hide also committed suicide. I guess that must have been such a blow to him. I read that he quit playing the drums because of it. His mother supported him all the way in his career even though his teachers didn’t wanted him to pursue a rock band. She even gave him the money to start his career. Anyway, I read a comment about a song they did before, Art of Life and it was supposedly a 30 minute song. Wow, interesting. I wonder if there is a best of X-Japan or Yoshiki out in the market. Hehehe I have read that he had worked with Globe. I wonder what type of songs they have made. I have to research more and maybe find some mp3. ^-^
Monday, April 14, 2003 @ 08:46 p.m.
After work, I accompanied mom and sis in buying a bed for sis’ use after marriage since the stores are near where I work. We just pick and her boyfriend has to see it first since it will be his side, who will be buying it. We or rather, they found one which is 1/4 the price of what we have seen before and it even have a huge dresser table cabinet. They do not know what type of wood it was but it is of the same quality of mahogany, the saleslady said. It is also of Spanish style.
I’m so happy to see an advertisement of Crush Gear in ch. 2 [local channel] since I can retract what I said before and say, just as I thought, it will be shown here and maybe those toy cars of destruction will appear soon. I think like Beyblade that they have a tendency to be easily destroyed since both toys are meant to hit each other until outside the ring or wrecked. There is also another ad on F4 [Taiwanese teen guy singers] about being the hit in Asia being here. I’m not quite sure as to if it is a cross-over Filipino-Taiwanese drama or a dubbed Taiwanese drama. I was guessing that it will be Hana Yori Dango [Chinese version] since the other drama they are also in, Come to My House [supposedly based on a Japanese manga. I translated the title from Chinese.] doesn’t have the same scenes.
In Scryed, little girl wanted to go where Kazuma was so Ryuhou went with her as short haired girl stays to take care of the town. Meanwhile, red haired guy found Kazuma and gave him some pep talk. I’m amused with red haired guy’s power, the guy talks fast and loves to put people’s names to pun – sounds like but ain’t the same. He tipped female doctor and orb ex-Holy guy where Ryuhou might be but they were attacked by another brainwashed ex-rebel who was with Kazuma before. Just when they were about to be crush to a pulp, Ryuhou comes to save them. As they were going to where Kazuma was, they saw some green lights from the town so they have to return.
Next, illusionist Holy guy was attacking the town to bring out Ryuhou who wasn’t there and teased short haired girl that Ryuhou won’t come for her. She cannot use her powers much since she gets too tired easily. Well, Ryuhou to the rescue again but illusionist used his 3 girls to trap them since the townspeople are hostages so all of them weren’t able to do anything and so, it is Kazuma to the rescue. In each rescue, they must have a very cool pose for extra coolness pose. ^0^ Anyway, Kazuma finally defeated them but maniac escaped. Kazuma and Ryuhou started sermoning each other and punching each other ^^; until the little girl shouted for them to stop. Green orb guy with his cool bow/arrow hit the guy who was trying to get the little girl. Kazuma recognized him as one of his ex-comrades. The female doctor said that someone [white hair] was brainwashing people with powers to obey him. Kazuma learns that the one he fought with before was the real boss. Meanwhile, white hair was chuckling over getting Kazuma and Ryuhou to open the gate to the new world.
Ah Rave, how can a man being stabbed be so talkative? If I assume right, where he was stabbed was right about where his heart was. Last episode’s title was about a sword which can seal then, now, it is about the awakening of the Ethelion in Ellie. There was also that supposedly stabbing thing. Put two and two together and obviously as the dying Sieghart kept on ranting about having to kill Ellie and Haru still went near her. My mind is telling me this will be way corny...he is just going to seal it and yes, that is what he did. Poor Seighart...all that electricity and spells he used was of no use and he turned out to be quite talkative. I was almost relieved that he finally collapsed. He won’t destroy what was left of what I hope he would be – a cool villain. ^^;; The episode ended with Reina, green haired woman in red dress [ I remember like a Christmas tree theme] challenging them to a fight.
I just saw a tip on DMC2 about how to defeat an infested chopper. It was advised that Dante go up to the roof of the building and destroy the chopper while keeping to not to fall down. Then, after defeating it, there was a mini-movie of him jumping down the whole building and making poses while at it. I was thinking I would be trying my best to climb up a building then after it, he would just jump from it. ^^;; Ah, it reminded me of Parasite Eve’s building. That evil maze and those stupid roaches that won’t die. I wasn’t able to see the second ending because of it. Ah yes, I’m still stuck in Wild Arms 2. ^^;
Sunday, April 13, 2003 @ 10:21 p.m.
I just went home from my hyper aunt’s bon voyage party from rich aunt. Well, that was this afternoon. We went there with my nephew and niece. Good thing though that my cousin’s children are there so my nephew and niece got to play with them. The house has two playrooms and in the garden, is a mini playground. The kids played and bonded a bit. A bit of interesting things are: 1.) my nephew and one of the boy cousin [ child of cousin, I don’t know how they could be called in one word.] was talking in garbled English but somehow they understood one another. ^^;; 2.) my nephew bought a set of toy cars and would guard it until it is paid since I think he had a phobia that it might be returned. He slept at the car and when he woke up, the first thing he tried to find was the cars. Hehehe 3.) the other boy cousin was so attach to his father that he always look for him and goes with him. He is also very shy towards other people. 4.) the other boy cousin whom my nephew was with in no. 1, was so independent that at 3 years old he can roam around with no maids nor any guardian. 5.) All kids like Yakult [ a digestive-bacteria milk] Honestly, when I was kid, I like it, too. ^-^ It is delicious and addictive.
6.) The girl whom my niece played with, likes to sing and was more outgoing that when it was time to go home, she kissed every adult on the cheeks. 7.) I talked with her brother with what else but PS2. Unfortunately, he doesn’t have it there at her grandmother’s house. He actually let his neighbor borrow his PS2. Ah, let me borrow it. Hehehe Anyway, he lived far way so it would be embarrassing to borrow it long. He had FFX and Kingdom Hearts. He kept talking about what part he was in and the big boss has this much hp. I cannot relate but I told him I had finished FF7-9 which he haven’t finished. It seemed that he played with multiple games at the same time. I just watched him play Pokemon in the PC using a emulator for Gameboy Advance. 8.) I don’t know what it is with my legs but my nephew and niece loves clinging on me. I have to tell them, on the other one since my right shin is a bit weak because of the infection before. Well, as usual, I cannot handle kids. I tend to let them do what they want and if I ever had kids, I could have spoiled them rotten. It is my brother and sister, who are good with kids and my theory is that they got all the genes and didn’t left any for me. ^^;
After the gathering, we went to a grocery that is where nephew about his toy then to sis’s bf other house which is a habit already for they like to go there to feed the koi and go to the playground. After that, they went home. We ate a Chinese restaurant then went home.
Last Friday’s work was light since I was able to catch up with all the photos recorded. My teen cousins were there so they help lighten the mood since they kept on joking around. I went home early today for I had finished everything already. Then, on Saturday, I was told to go there just to see my sensitive but egoistic uncle since he is the real boss. I just made up an excuse since I’m in no mood to go there and honestly, I do not like him very much. He wanted me to go full time and told me to sacrifice. I just kept my mouth shut, as I was thinking, sacrifice what? My health? Then, he goes off to compare me with my deceased grandmother who worked long hours even though she is old already. Anyway, I might have to go a Saturday there just to meet him though I had emphasized that I wanted to work part time only and I already told that if the classes start, I would have to quit. I think they wanted a regular but what I did was a bit simple so I think any of the secretaries there can do it even miss I-have-go-to-the-bathroom.
Now, I was thinking if I made a big deal about it but then, I was thinking that maybe it is because of my perception of my uncle that agitated me that I felt threatened or something. My uncle tends to look down on people who aren’t rich and those who don’t do as he said. It is hard to explain but there is really something about him that I felt uncomfortable with.
What happened in LLR totally confuses me. Yousuke’s group jumped over the cliff and went inside a cave to hide from the poisonous clouds. In the cave, they saw writings on the wall that the ‘monsters’ are actually human evolved. It is like a spider-human creature with a red sphere on the back, which I think is its eye. Since the earth became a desert, it is the way, which humans can survive. Also, there is a volcano, which could help make earth become what it used to be. They managed to go back to the school but Takako was dying since her encounter with the ‘monster’ had broken her ribs so she is bleeding internally. The nerd cannot do anything so she said her goodbyes to Yousuke. He went out to be with her and the ‘monsters’ surrounded him. He shouted his anger about what happened and they, using telepathy, told him about they also have a heart and blah..blah which I don’t understand.
The crazy female teacher tried to kill them all by burning them but suddenly the nail of the bully girl who was at the present time managed to be attached to her and she strangled the female teacher. She learned what happened to them as she shouted at the news that they are still alive. Back to the school, Yousuke told them that they could only send a small canister with their letters to the present/past to say their goodbyes. The boy in the red jacket cannot bring himself to say goodbye to his girlfriend so he never wrote. They sent it when an electric bolt hit it. Then, Yousuke flashes back as if he had returned to the past then as he went in the classroom, he saw Takako smiling at him. He apologized as he told her that he couldn’t join her yet for they decided that they want to live. She slightly hit him on the head with her head as if to say, it is okay then hugs him.
He returns back as he saw the canister vanishes. By the way, he put in the notebook which was the notes of Takako. Off it went but near the worm hole, it exploded. Back to the first time where they met then Yousuke was sitting on the bench. Wondering if he would text her or not then, he saw pieces of paper floating down. It wrote, do what you should do now or else, there might be no next time. Okay, something like that. So, he texted her and they went out for a date. The end. Now, I’m confused that because of this, would their future have been avoided or would that mean that they got to be together longer? What about the others, would they have gotten the pieces of paper or not? Just thinking of the possibilities give me a headache As my mother was saying, it is bad as in that’s it, they are stuck there forever. ^^;;
In FFU, the little girl got lost and befriended a little boy who turned out to be Omega. I think each episode would focus on one character. The ones left, I think, are Kaze and the little boy unless, the purple haired girl would have one. In Rave, Sieghart and Haru are fighting and fighting until Sieghart just sealed Haru in a void. Sieghart would even ask the question, who would you want to save, a girl or the world? And just like in X, the main character would want to save the one human since a life is more important than all the other humans. I was thinking, if the world gets destroyed, won’t that one human be killed, too? Would that mean, they want all of them to die together? Hehehe But as Kamui answered with the question, what would be the world be if the special one isn’t there. Anyway, it is a highly debatable thing but it roots down to if you are ‘selfish’ or not. With the supposed future about Haru killing Ellie, I was thinking that maybe she will be saving her and just when he slashes out of the void. It was actually from Tomoe-Kenshin scene. Hehehe Musica is still lost. He must be competing with ‘you’ for the number of episodes and is still lost.
Zoro: Stop looking at me or I’ll slash you!
Hehehe...in Scryed, Kazuma fought with a girl who used to fight with him against Holy. She wanted to help save her brother that she had his heart beat pulse on her wrist as a watch. Her powers were enhanced by the white haired guy and she was ordered to make Kazuma release his power to create the ‘gate’ that they wanted. Meanwhile, Ryuhou with short haired girl lived outside the town since they feared him for being part of Holy before. Just when the two are about to bond, the little girl arrived with some food for them. In the end, the girl was crushed when she saw her brother’s heartbeat died so Kazuma didn’t punch her anymore. Another dead scene of apologizing for all the trouble she had gave Kazuma. White hair guy provoke Kazuma to show the gate to make something of the girl’s death and he did then he saw the void guy again. Everyone saw the beam of light. Little girl as what it was and Ryuhou said that it was Kazuma’s so she wanted to find him. The end. In Crush Gear, nothing much happened but they joined a tournament to earn points. There are some cute scenes wherein their opponents wanted a kiss from one of their group which made one furious she was his crush. It also insulted the younger girl for they don’t like her. Hehehe I like the younger girl, she is really spunky especially when Jin was commenting on the competitor’s gear that she shouted for him to stop and help think of a way to defeat it. Hehehe
Thursday, April 10, 2003 @ 08:01 p.m.
The work stress today is higher because of many factors including hot weather, confusing boss, co-workers are hot-headed and my hormones are going crazy this time of the month. In the morning, I installed a new scanner. I had to asked help from the girl in matchmaking who knew but it won’t work and she has to leave. Unfortunately for her, she was told to do some errands up and down the stairs and her salary wasn’t given to her because her boss was not there. Of course, she blew her top and threatens to not come to work. I learned from her that she might quit on May. She cannot handle it anymore since she is doing everything.
I manage to figure it out how to scan negatives. My cousin boss who was the photographer from past entries, wanted to check the differences of resolution and such and at the same time, wanted me to download the files from the memory card of the digital camera. I have to tell him that there is only one USB port so I cannot do it at the same time. He asked me why there are dirt-like on the picture after scanning. I told him I don’t know since it never happened to me when I scan. Then, he kept telling me about teaching me how to crop a picture but what he was showing was re-size. He asked how to put pictures side by side in one file. I told him how and he was actually surprised that I know and told me that I know cropping. ^^;;; I told him that is re-sizing and not cropping. It is what I learned from playing with photoshop. It turned out that he doesn’t know how to do it. He did gave an impression that he knows a lot since he even suggested that he would teach me and I ended up teaching him!
Okay, he shouldn’t told me that doing that is actually the printer shop [place where the scans are printed] job and not mine. He just wanted me to do their job to make it print faster. Anyway, I used infranview to resize then c&p on to Photoshop since it is much faster than doing all of it on Photoshop. After doing that, I saved them [all are 8 pics with 1 which is larger] but the co-worker asked if I should put the larger pic to a different disc. So, she asked, and boss said, how many times should I tell you, 8 and above in separate disc with 8 and below. Now, after hearing that, I was thinking how about 8? So, I just saved it in again on another disc. I was packing up since I should go home already and I’m getting tired then I heard some shouting about it should be in one disc. I no longer care, they do it if they want to. I kept on packing then, boss asked how many files are there. Note: He was downstairs while I was at the mezzanine. I shouted 8 then he asked why there are 8.
I’m getting really irritated but I don’t bother answering back. I just did what I was told to. I’m already considering not coming to work anymore as in I quit. Let them do all the computer stuff and I don’t care if they don’t know especially that girl who claim to know some computer stuff and went to the bathroom then, never returned. I still don’t know if how much I’m paid and I was thinking, why the heck I’m getting myself stressed over this. Getting paid is the only compensation for this job since I don’t consider it fun to resize, grouping pictures and saving them on cds. I would rather be at home even though I’m not earning anything.
Okay, later, he shouted that I’m correct but I didn’t bother being elated about it. My mind set is home. I went home and watched some anime to blow some steam off. I’m actually imagining myself to have a katana and chopping something. *chop-chop* Hahahaha!!
Robin: Calm down or I will call the mental!
Huff..okay now for the lighter side. FFU is a fight between white guy and his brother, a red guy. Little brat is happy because it is making the chaos greater. Red guy was defeated and end of story. I haven’t watched Scryed yet. In Rave, another similarity with X, Haru could change the destiny since the fortuneteller told Musica that because of Haru’s interference with Ellie’s death, future has changed. Okay, I think the fortuneteller is a bad one. Last episode, she just said the future couldn’t be changed. Anyway, Haru made drama with the dying Ellie about the moments they shared, blah, blah until she stopped talking. Haru panicked thinking she was dead. He didn’t even bother to feel a pulse. ^^; He attacked Sieghart, blue haired guy but he was no match for him as Sieghart said, a swordsman is of no match with a sorcerer. Then, Sieghart noticed that Ellie is still alive since reacting to Rave so he has to kill Haru, too.
Meanwhile, green haired woman was ordered by the king to kill Sieghart if he betrays them for the king already knows Sieghart’s motives which was to kill him. The king was just using Sieghart’s power to his advantage. Sieghart was about to give the final blow and the end. Ah yes, I was wrong about the stabbing as Sieghart said, he cannot stab her since Ethelion which was her power that he must kill might awaken. One thing that I’m close was that someone was indeed lost and it was Musica. Hehehehe
In LLR, a bad student who stole their food returned to school to tell them that he went to Heaven. This made everyone want to go so Yousuke have to go with them as the guardian. Takako decided to stay and along with her are the bully girls who don’t trust the bad student, a genius girl and the janitor. Yousuke and others went to ‘Heaven’ and it was just an amusement park which is so hi-tech that they cannot wreck the vending machine which had candies. They had no choice but to trek back to school which is their ‘home’ in this world. Bully girls found bad student eating their small veggies but then the ‘monster’ attacked him and one of the bully girls. Takako came but was also no match for it. There was an earthquake so I think the ‘monster’ left. Bad student and sigh, bully girl died. The other bully girl comforted Takako saying she lived the way she want so don’t cry for her.
On the way home, Yousuke noticed that a yellowish green cloud was following them and it can cause suffocation so they have to quickly run away from it. They saw Takako and bully girl who went out to meet them but Yousuke told them to wait there as they go to them then another earthquake. After it stopped, they were separated by a huge gap of earth, think cliff, and that’s the end. Ah yes, Takako’s father do not want to sign a contract to say her daughter is dead since he believes that she is still alive. Then, he saw pictures of the people who were vanished with the school. He noticed Yousuke who went to the store before and he said somewhat like it was because of him. I do not get this as in whether he meant that it all happened so that the two can be together. ^^;; Off to read the articles for the papers which is way delayed..
Wednesday, April 9, 2003 @ 09:38 p.m.
Another day at work on a hot summer day. I got bored so I played with Photoshop filters as to what effect it can do to a drawing of water lilies. After lunch, my mom and I went to the designer. I’m the one, more or less, who designed the outfit.
Robin: So, if it looked bad, it will be all your fault.
Hehehe...ya. I was thinking of making it twisted satin in front but the designer said that it would be too thick so just use chiffon. So, it is like three strapped gown with twisted chiffon in front and at the back, it would seem that I have a cape below the skirt. ^^;; Oh well, I hope it would look good. Then, we went back to Ongpin to ask about how much some ‘wedding things’ cost and what is needed. I saw a Chinese horoscope about me and it said, unrealistic, tend to live on fantasy. Hehehe Ah...ya. My dad tend to say that since he said I watched too many anime and read too many manga.
Zoro: You even think we are alive!
^-^;; Speaking of anime, I was able to catch up a bit with Scryed. After the huge explosion, white haired guy appeared who seemed to be the boss of Holy boss and they have an interest with Kazuma and Ryuhou. Ryuhou got amnesia since maybe his power tend to use a lot of mental power and he ended up with little girl who thought that he gave him a same feeling as Kazuma. Ryuhou here became very nice and smiles. Pink haired guy tried to write a script to take advantage of Ryuhou’s condition but he failed since the Holy girl who likes Ryuhou and watermelon guy helped him. Holy girl stayed with Ryuhou as watermelon guy went back to Holy. Meanwhile, Kazuma tend to go crazy when he imagines Ryuhou’s power during some ‘power’ attacks but he does it for the money. Green ball guy who used to be in Holy with girl doctor tried to help him escape but he didn’t want to and seemed to want to avoid little girl. It was when the child guard was being beaten up that he decided to leave the place and he met someone in the airport who seemed to know him.
In FFU, they got into a mysterious puzzle by the water enemy which seemed to be like a ray. They got tricked to a useless question and answer portion. A little about Lisa was explored here that she tend to smile when she panics because her mother wanted her to smile even though she [mother] was dying. Anyway, she uses her life energy to escape but somehow she survived and was helped by Kaze. Then, the pilot of the sub, Cid became a very cute frog. This was the most fun episode of FFU that I have watched. He got chased, tossed, flushed into the toilet, and almost eaten. Anyway, in the end, he got to kiss a girl to become human again and escape from plunging deeper into chaos. I thought he would kiss the captain who seemed to act gay. Hehehe
LLR would end on Thursday to be replaced by a Korean drama which I had watched already. It was the first Korean I had watched. It was a typical Cinderella story. A girl was the stepdaughter who was good at designing clothes. The designs were stolen by her stepsister and it made her win a contest. A singer fell for the girl while a design manager helped her since she looked like his ex-girlfriend. In the end, she ended up with the singer. The manager went back to his girlfriend as the stepmother and sister got what they deserve. The two guys here are bsho but I like the manager since he is less of a jerk in this story. He is the actor who was also in the movie where he is a doctor who can heal. Forgot the title. I think AXN used to show a action Korean tv series with him as the main but he was still young here since he was a punk there.
Back to LLR, it was just a recap episode with some glimpse of what is happening. I think it is just to extend the series. Anyway, the highligh was Yousuke finally told Takako that he wanted to be with her always and they kissed. ^-^ Also, there is something out there which kills people. On Rave, Ellie was about to be killed by thunder guy but he cannot seemed to kill her. In the end, he just poisoned her but she is still alive. ^^;; I wonder if he is also an immortal since he said he is the time keeper. Anyway, for someone who was killing her, Ellie seemed to have such a strong attraction with him since she just love clinging on him and he lets her! Hehehe Maybe deep down, he is her type and unfortunately for her, he is bent on killing her. In the whole episode, Haru kept on running and running. He got lost so he asked the fortuneteller where to find her and as an added joke, I think he is lost again. He should have just asked someone for shortcuts. I would laugh if Plue got there first and actually save Ellie. Now, that would be interesting. ^-^ Anyway, Ellie asked thunder guy to stab her. Ah, is she blind? The guy doesn’t have a sword to stab her with. Oh wait, Haru is coming so maybe he can just borrow it to stab Ellie with it.
Kamui: Stop implying our story to RAVE!!
Well, I’m letting my imagination run but it is a possibility, right?
Haru: You are more like making fun of our story.
Hehehe...^^;;;
Tuesday, April 8, 2003 @ 08:45 p.m.
Well, I decided to go study since I do not want to regret that I didn’t study this for there might be no opportunity again next time. I learned that I’m the one and only student so far. ^^;;
Robin: That means if the students didn’t reach the minimum of five, you would study.
Ya, but that is out of my control. The advantage of a small group is that there would be less germs and at least, the teacher can really pay attention to us. hehehe Yesterday, I only worked half day because sis’s bf’s family invited us out for lunch at a Japanese restaurant. I ordered a set menu. I wasn’t able to finish eating the cold noodles which tasted like seaweed with the consistency of chewing gum. It was yummy though, maybe next time since I ate the other dishes, which were ordered. It came last.
We were suppose to go to SM Megamall to look for some towels and bed sheets for sis which she will bring after she marries. It was super traffic so we settled for Shangrila Plaza. We get to look at watches for the engagement. They wanted the metal type watches, which I don’t like so I’m of no use if they ask which one looked nice. We looked for gowns in case there is one ready made so we don’t have to have one made. Then, we looked at the prospective bed. It was wood and Spanish made. Of course, the price is also nice. ^-^;;
Today, I had already finished the things I have to do at work. I just need the names of the new photos so I’m basically staring at the computer and bored. I got lazy choosing which ones to put on display. After work, sis and I went to a Chinese doctor for some ‘strengthening’ herbal medicine. We just missed the designer and it is our fault, too since we didn’t call. Well, they didn’t call since I thought they did. Sis had a fitting of her engagement dress. I looked at the magazines there. I plan to have a dress, which had folds that would look elegant even without beads. I had in mind something like Nicole Kidman’s gown during the Oscars. Well, something like that.
I bought a orange discus and some fish food. Then, we went to Ongpin to canvass about the food, which will be brought for the engagement. Sigh, getting married really needs lots of preparations and money. I just record Scryed and I still haven’t watched it. I’ll just update what I have watched and that is LLR. They were able to deliver the medicine and wow, they even performed surgery. Is Japanese high school this advanced or well, the nerd just read too many medicine books? Then, the student who got blown by the tornado because he wanted to protect the plants died. They buried him and put a small sign reading, garden. Then, crazy teacher became dictator again, asking them to dig for water but the water can’t be drank. The bully girls just put the teacher back to her place. They are losing hope so one girl shouted for God to have rain. Then, Yousuke lead them to sing a song about hope. In this story, singing badly does bring rain. And so, they danced in the rain as they got buckets to fill the water. After the rain, they discovered a small plant growing where garden student was buried.
The Rave episode today reminded me of X. A fortuneteller told them that Ellie will die and the future cannot be changed. The clogs of time has moved. Now, if the blue-haired guy is related to Haru then he would be the ‘Fuuma’ of this story. Hehehe I wonder if Rave would be the type to become tragic. Ah yes, I just started to read Red Lion scanlation. It is a typical story. There was once a great girl fighter who can beat up lots of guys but disappeared. Then, she returned but had her hair dyed and cut. It used to be red. She met a model before school and their chemistry is good. In school, there were bullies and she helped out a girl who was being bullied by fighting back. The bullies then targeted her. Hehehe So, when she went home, she slipped when she said she threw someone’s else lunch box so her parents freaked out that she messed up again in her new school.
Sunday, April 6, 2003 @ 08:24 p.m.
This morning I had cleaned the aquariums. It was only now that I had time for them. Then, I noticed that another ram got sick. I have always keep that tank clean. I wonder if rams tend to get sick a lot since the ones I had died, too but of a different cause.
Chopper: Maybe you are just not a good fish keeper yet.
Hehehe ^^;; Then, I cleaned the computer a bit since it is becoming blackish because of the dirt. I surfed a little then watched some anime. One Piece in Taiwanese channel hasn’t caught up with where I had last watched but it is very near already. Only have to wait for Coby’s filler eps and Little Garden arc to finish. HnG is about Isumi being defeated by Hikaru and Ochi accusing him of being afraid of Hikaru. The last part was Ochi and Isumi’s game. I have no idea what’s happening there. [I have to cheat in scanlations for the names in HnG but in Yugioh, I don’t know the names.] In Yugioh, teen Yugi is playing with a white haired guy. It was a fierce fight since Yugi was forced to pull out his ultimate ‘god’ card. Then, there was a commotion about white haired guy being hurt and possessed by a necklace. Anyway, Yugi defeated him then, he and his gang helped put him to the clinic. Yugi became a kid again so that teen Yugi can rest. They went off to tell his archenemy who organized the game to drop white haired guy to a hospital since they are in a blimp balloon. He wondered where the necklace was. The girl he likes who was with white haired guy had the necklace and it seemed she was possessed.
I think the three main characters in Yugioh who are fighting for the title of whatever they are fighting for, are Yugi, his archenemy and this blond Egyptian guy who loves to possess people. In the new opening, each of them have a ‘god’ card and it seemed they are reincarnated from the time of Egypt. I have to research a bit to know what’s happening. In Crush Gear, Korudo learned a technique to fight. Jin was able to erase the data that was stolen from him with the help of Corea [ Okay, that is what I heard. ^^;;] and the girl with him. It was the girl’s idea actually since Jin was somewhat afraid but the girl told the two they must get it back. It was a funny scene also about Corea wanting to eat crabs in Hokkaido. He was actually dancing with a paper crab on his forehead. He reminded me of Tsuzuki [YnM] since they love food, tend to be clumsy, too trusting and had a dead sibling. At the airport, he cried because he wasn’t able to eat so Jin made it up to him by giving him some crabsticks that are put in sushi. ^-^
Saturday, April 5, 2003 @ 08:07 p.m.
I finally finished the paper for the week. I’m actually delayed. It should have been done last Thursday for sis’s bf to check or add something more. Good thing that only one is needed for now since the other would be a group report. The topic for this one is Japan Net Bank. It is the longest I have made so far. I fitted it in a two-page report by making the spacing into 1½ instead of 2.
CGT is interesting but still a bit kiddie. ^-^ It has become a bit philosophical as the blond kid, Korudo [not sure of the spelling] was contemplating on what it meant to lose since he always wins. Jin, glasses kid, just joined to help Takeshi’s team because of the lure of more hi-tech equipment for him to ‘play’ with but it seemed Takeshi was using him. Jin seemed to be like Prof in Beyblade. Okay, so my prediction is wrong. It wasn’t shown in here. ^^;;
I heard from Asher that Shaman King would be shown here. I’m not quite into it since I had seen the Taiwan version and I’m not quite happy with the story from the way it is going. I almost skipped the ending. Anyway, I hope I can bear the dubbing as I now would able to know what’s happening like who was Hao really and what is his relation with Yoh also what is the connection with the Iron Maiden and her cohorts. My favorite character here is Horo-Horo. I liked him when I read the manga scanlations which are available before it was licensed. It was at the part when he and Yoh first fought but I don’t recall seeing that scene in the anime. The characters which I used to think are okay but it didn’t turned out that way based on the anime are Lyserg who reminded me of Kurapika of Hunter X Hunter and Faust.
Saturday, April 5, 2003 @ 05:09 p.m.
This morning, I went to Intellect’s seminar which I thought was about the courses they offered. It turned out to be somewhat of a refresher course for C++. I was able to understand what is being taught since I had a bit of a background on Pascal during my computer science days. Ah, those sleepless nights, trying to figure out what’s wrong with the program I made. The seminar was fun as I can see the little programs I made with minor stupidity errors like missing semi-colon and stuff. When people started to leave since they have other things to do, we are only eight there, the last part was rushed. Then, the courses are just given as brochures.
The courses I picked are web design and graphic design courses. It is only half day but the last day of graphic design overlapped with the web design’s first day. So, I would have to be in school the whole day. I don’t know if my body could bear that. I would want to take basic web page development but then, it again overlapped with graphic design for two weeks so whole day for two weeks. @-@;; I was thinking that I do know a bit of background on html but I don’t know CSS. Also, if I take this courses, I would have to give up the part time job I had. Let’s just see since I was thinking that what I have been doing at the part time job is almost finished. Business is slow and for the past two days, the studio didn’t have any digital photos client.
I missed drawing. I noticed that I tend to miss drawing after a year of not drawing any major stuff as in not a doodle. Hehehe
Usopp: It also tends happen on summer.
Ya. Was it a coincidence that most art classes are held on summer? Anyway, in LLR, crazy female teacher is wrecking havoc again since the two adult teachers, Yousuke and Takako are not there well, in the case of Yousuke, he is sick. It amazes me that the nerd student knew how to make a blood transfusion. Was blood transfusion taught in school? I forgot to say before that the nerd student even had a lab coat on to look like a doctor while another girl had a handkerchief on her head as the nurse. Anyway, at times like this, it pays to have students who have a crush on you. One girl student knew Yousuke’s blood type and even horoscope. Hehehe It is believed that one’s personality can be determined by one’s blood type. Before when I was high in steroids, I was contemplating on making a research about it if it is true. ^^;;
Luffy: You are as crazy as us!
*grins* I think the drugs I’m taking for anti-rejection has affected my brain. It will be that or the seizure that I had before or the anesthesia during the kidney transplant operation. Back to the story, there was a tornado coming in the school. A student who wanted to protect the veggies he is growing might gotten himself blown away as Yousuke becomes worse. Meanwhile, Takako and others went to different places where the hospitals were suppose to be based on the map they have. Unfortunately, the medicine bottles became dust when touched. The bully girl fell down a hole and the others got inside, too as they were trying to pull her out. The mysterious people were there but all of them are badly hurt and has died. One is still alive and told them that it is because of how their ancestors lived before, using up Earth’s natural resources, that this had all happened. Before dying, he pointed out to them the medicine they needed. They found the cripple girl who mentioned about someone as the reason for the deaths. When they reached the school, they saw the tornado. Bully girl stayed behind with cripple girl as Takako and the boy hurried to the school.
Friday, April 4, 2003 @ 08:10 p.m.
Another hot day at work. My mother asked for the table to be outside the windowless room so by Monday, I would at least have a bit of air. I spend the whole day rotating pictures for viewing. So, by Monday, I would be burning cds. I got a bit hot-headed at work since it is hot but no, I didn’t go on shouting and throwing things at the table unlike the girl in the matchmaking office who was quite frustrated.
Onizuka: But you did wish to do what I did with, huh?
Ya, but I can only do that in my imagination and it might be worse than what she was doing. hehehe Anyway, the one who was helping me told me that she is just going to the comfort room and she never returned. ^^;; I was asked to move the pics from a diskette to a cd so I have to do the ole’old comp to zip disk to new computer. It is too hot to keep on moving. I was thinking it would save me the hassle if there was a disk drive in the new computer. The cd writer in the old computer won’t work for me and I think there is a virus there. There is about two folders which I haven’t rotated but my eyes are already straining so I said to myself, this is not worth wrecking my eyes.
This is a bit old news but the HK actor and singer, Leslie Chung had committed suicide over, what I heard, was a lover left him. I just read in the newspapers that he had revealed that he is gay after the filming of Happy Together with Tony Leung. They just have to show that clip of them about to do it. ^^;; I have read before when I was in college that there are already speculations about it since he was always ‘under’ when having sex scenes with women. Okay, it maybe obvious but sometimes, I tend to give people the benefit of the doubt until they say it. I haven’t watch his new movies but I have watched his old movies like Farewell My Concubine, The Rouge, and others whose title I forgot. Hehehe
I like Rouge though wherein a female courtesan [I think] ghost was always going to this place because of the number of the house. A couple helped her find her lover and the hint was that the number. They had committed suicide together since society won’t accept them. In the end, they did found him. He was still alive for he doesn’t have the guts to die for her. She returned the pendant he gave him and left as she told him, she is tired of waiting for him. He can only cry out and apologizing to her. Farewell My Concubine is very tragic and it is still a good film since it is already a classic. It is just too depressing.
The title of Rave’s episode today was a dead give away as to what happened in the episode. It was Shuda dies up in the Sky or something like that so I already know what will happen. Silver Musica’s weapon was cool though but his enemies sucks. ^^;; In Scryed, Kazuma’s friend died so he is out for revenge by charging into Holy’s camp. It turned out that Ryuhou went to Kazuma’s camp where the little girl was. Hehehe The Holy girl called Ryuhou and from there, they learned that they missed each other. ^^;; So, they met in between and tried to beat the crap of each other though there are no major injuries. Kazuma used his special technique which he got from void guy whom Ryuhou was looking for. Void guy killed his family and dog. Kazuma lost control and they got into some dimension. Kazuma was preparing to attack and so did Ryuhou since he saw Void guy at the back of Kazuma. There was a huge blast and wreck everything in that place including the headquarters of Holy in the city. That’s it.
Nothing much happened in LLS. The teacher from hell came back but he was trembling in fear of something out there. He asked for water and they gave it to him. After he drank, he had a seizure and died. Back in the real world, scientist assumed that the school got warp someplace and the girlfriend was being wooed by another guy since the guy she likes, had disappeared with the school. Yousuke was getting really sick and they don’t know what’s wrong. I thought the slash wound poisoned him. There was a nerd student who kept pestering the teacher to teach him something. He finally got his wish by researching what is the sickness of Yousuke. It turned out to be an infection so Takako, the boy who was suppose to be slashed and one of the bully girls went off to find a cure.
In FFU, I thought it would be a recap episode. I missed yesterday episode of how Kaze defeated Fungus. Anyway, it seemed boy tyrant wanted to rule the world by collecting the parts/crystals of Omega so that he can eat lots. ^^;; The train that the kids and girl was riding got wrecked by Omega so they got a power up with a new transportation after meeting with the rebels, I think they are rebels, group. I wonder where wolf girl is. When I saw her before, I began to think of RED13 in FF7 and I think FFU was loosely based on it. The somewhat similarities are different colored chocobos, something [Omega] is wrecking the world though that is also in FFX, Kaze was like Vincent being very mysterious and not talkative, two girls like Kaze as in two girls like Cloud, and I think that’s it. I saw an attack of a unicorn, I don’t recall it as a common attack in FF but the others are.
The other day, whiner called saying that next month is her birthday and once again, she doesn’t have a boyfriend. I told her about my cousin’s matchmaking and she said she wanted him to be the one on the first date. ^^; We are back to the old topic. Anyway, it is useless to tell her what I have already told her before. I haven’t told her my sister’s wedding yet since I’m dreading the whining especially since she brought out again about being jealous with my sister for being able to get a boyfriend easily.
Thursday, April 3, 2003 @ 09:11 p.m.
Boy, it is hot today so working at a windowless room is like hell. They won’t use the aircon since electricity is quite expensive. Like in my high school before, opens it only when there is a visitor. Anyway, I finished earlier than I had expected. Tomorrow, I would group the ones left, make a viewing folder for each customer, know who the unidentified customers and lastly, record it at the cds. I went with my sister to a gift shop with her friend to buy a birthday gift for sis’s future mother-in-law. She bought a brooch. I was also looking at keychains for Asher. Hehehe...that will be for her future car unfortunately, I didn’t find a good one.
I finally watched Scryed. The female doctor escaped with the help of red haired guy who seemed to know too much. It seemed that the boss of Holy was playing Kazuma and Ryuhou in making them enemies. When Kazuma returned to the village, he found it destroyed. He had to fought off with some clones of a masked Holy guy. His friend went to find Kazuma’s little girl friend. When she was safe, his friend went back to help him by finding the masked Holy guy so that Kazuma can attack him. When they returned, his friend died since he was shot. Little girl was crying. It was such a nice tearful scene.
Zoro: Hehehe...you got teary eyed.
Ya, it was nicely executed. Female doctor was trying to reach Ryuhou to tell them what is really with the Holy boss while Red-haired guy confronted Holy boss. I think Red-haired guy has a secret role here. I found a shrine about him but I didn’t read in the fear of being spoiled. In Rave, whose fight scenes are not as cool as Scryed, it was hinted that Haru’s father might be one of the enemies. Anyway, hopefully, Haru’s fight with Explosion guy would be good.
The three mysterious guys in LLS were after their food and well, girls. The two escaped after slashing Yousuke who saved a student and one was captured. They discussed about there the one they caught came from with lots of theories that I don’t understand. The guy escaped temporarily and tried to rape the bully girls. It was a wrong move for him since they kicked his butt. Girl Power! Anyway, he still got away because the cripple girl went with him. Before going, he said that it was all their [students + teacher] fault that all this had happened. Anyway, there are some really nice cute love scenes here from the main stars as Yousuke said that they are like the parents of the students. Hehehe He also kissed her on the cheek upon saying, ‘I’m back!’ after returning back to the school. They only date at night. Hehehe Also, Yousuke got a change of outfit because his black clothes got slashed. It looked nice on him so I wondered if Haru would get a change of outfit, too. ^-^
Wednesday, April 2, 2003 @ 06:12 p.m.
I wasn't able to do much today at work since the things that I thought would work didn't. The only thing that I did was moving the pics from the cd to the harddisk. Tomorrow, I plan to move the pics from the harddisk to zip disks. Then, the next day after that, group them into folders. The interesting part today was about disagreements. The match making group are getting angry with the photo gallery since they are well, trying to gain ownership of the phones. It was really the photo gallery's but they have to share for the mean time since there is no new phones yet. I think the other store of my uncle, which is into printing, is also co-sharing. So, it would be three stores sharing only one phone. It is the recipe for chaos. Anyway, I try to stay out of it.
The unlimited internet was okay and it was a little slower than the one I had. I'll just use it for backup when I don't had used up the main internet.
I haven't watched the Scryed that I have recorded yet. In FFU, Kaze cannot kill of Fungus guy at his territory. LLS - Takako used the wrench on the teacher and Yousuke was able to help them. The two crazy teachers escape. They went back to the school to find that there is no more water. Takako found a swimming pool though after she called the others, she found crazy female teacher swimming in it with 3 of her student followers. She was the one who stole the food. Unfortunately for her, two bully girls confronted her and she seemed to be afraid of them. They locked her up in a locker. The bully girls realize that Takako was MASH, the legendary teacher who beat up 6 people. She actually just claims to be the one who beat them up with the wrench to cover up her former student who became sushi student. The amusing part was that the reason why she was called MASH before was because of her hairdo. Yousuke said that it must be MUSHROOM. ^-^ And I nicknamed him as hairy mushroom because of his hair. Hehehe Anyway, Yousuke with two students went out to investigate something while three mysterious guys hurried to the school.
Tuesday, April 1, 2003 @ 07:41 p.m.
I’m still feeling tired today. I worked at my uncle’s photo gallery which was ran by my cousin. It was actually my grandmother’s but she already passed away six years ago. Only now, they are doing digital to keep up with the times. I was called on Sunday to help in putting the pictures in a folder with the name of the customer since my cousin cannot keep up with it for he was already the one taking the pictures. Also, the customer can pick the pictures from the computer as I show them. I’m not quite good at the second one since my PR is really low. I’m a bit of in-demand lately.
I went there at 10am yesterday and things are shown to me how to do them. Since I have a computer background, it was quite easy and I can get what to do. Unfortunately, having a computer background can be dangerous since there is a high possibility of me tinkering around and wrecking the computer.
Robin: Your computer wrecking touch had struck again.
Ya. I was told to install a program but it wasn’t compatible with WinXP so I removed it and well, it removed something else, too so the computer hang and thus, I have to do everything on a low-tech computer. What a nice thing to add to my resume. Wreck a computer on the first day of work. ^-^ Also, I just re-did everything today since the zip harddisk is too small. I don’t want to save it on the zip then move it back to the other one and back again. There are some cds which are formatted to the old computer so it won’t open on the new one. I would do this tomorrow since I had finished the ones which can be opened on the new computer.
Anyway, after I went home, late yesterday 530pm, I felt so tired that I even had a slight fever. I cannot work full time yet so I decided to make it from 10am-330pm and only from Monday to Friday. They are open all week. I still don’t know how much I would be paid. ^^;;
Nami: Baka!
I know but I don’t want to want greedy or rather, seem greedy. hehe Well, working with relatives had its advantages, I can dictate the time I want to go and they know my condition. Anyway, my cousin connected to an unlimited net which was co-owned by his sister for the matchmaking webpage. The matchmaking office was moved to the photo gallery since the old place was to be sold. They got my number so that I can share. Hehehe I still doubt if it was a fast connection since it is unlimited and actually cheaper than the one I have now.
Zoro: You just cannot believe that it is true.
Ya, it was like impossible. It was from Tri-sys. Also, I had already played the Photoshop training cd. It turned out to be just showing the new features of Photoshop 7 and boy, it made me look stupid and dumb that I feel I’m a moron.
Luffy: In short, it was too technical for you.
Nami: Same goes to you!
Hehehe It talked about stuff like feathering and levels that I don’t know what they do in the first place. On to anime updates, I wasn’t able to record FFU yesterday because I set it on the wrong channel. The one today was still boring as usual. Choby [chocobo] just got a power-up. I think the main problem with this one is it is just like traveling to one place to another and defeating enemies on there. The mystery of Kaze wasn’t always explored every episode that I can be quite boring. In short, the plot is not good and not only that, it is way too slow.
Scryed was okay since the female doctor who knew Ryuhou before, learned that the Holy boss is up to something. It seemed that he is using the trauma of the members to make them stronger and make it easier for them to manipulate. The girly-type guy whom Kazuma fought had a fear of cliffs since people wanted to hurt him for some reason. He created his power from the mecha toy he loves to play when he was a kid for it was protect him. The Holy boss was actually just trying to provoke Kazuma to show his powers. He was spying on the fight. The female doctor wanted to tell the others about it but she was caught by Holy boss’s small army.
Rave is slowing moving as they are near a piece of Rave. I find the evil doctor Schreint-something a bit too ordinary. Ya, Musica Silver’s new look is much better. His hair reminded me of Shaman King’s Horo-Horo. I don’t like their shock look though complete with droopy nose effect. It was like they have a sweatdrop at the end of their nose.
In Long Love Story, it was good teachers against teachers from hell, well, not literary. Yousuke is trying his best to improvise with what they have and since he is a science teacher, he was able to invent some things like flares if someone is in danger or using bicycles for electricity. There is a crazy teacher who stole all the food and would even light a fire if anyone tries to get them. They just locked the crazy teacher in. One teacher had committed suicide. The other two teachers lured a student and Takako from the school in the pretence of searching for food. They found a cripple girl who was walking alone since she doesn’t want to be a burden to others.
Then, the two crazy teachers then, tried to run them over. They escape to a somewhat mountain which turned out to be a hotel in the past. They had traveled to the future. The crazy teachers tried to strangle them and Takako’s voice was heard by her father. Her father and the girlfriend of the student who was with them, left a wrench which Takako used before to help a former student, on the wall so she managed to use it against the teacher. It ended there.
There is a new Korean drama in Arirang, Women in Love. The parents divorced and so, each of them, took a twin with them. The father died so the other twin had to live with her mother and twin again. This is the major conflict with them since the other twin is more down-to-earth for the father was poor compared to the other one. Also, the mother’s favorite was the eldest twin and they got closer since they had lived together. The guy wooing the elder twin was pretending to be rich since he is after her money. The elder twin wasn’t easily deceived but the guy is clever by wooing the mother. The younger twin’s guy was poor but loved her for herself. Of course, it was the classic rich-poor story. I will get back on this story when it ends since there is nothing much to tell in every episode except complicating the conflicts that are already there.
Saturday, March 29, 2003 @ 09:59 p.m.
I finally finished the two papers. I remember doing something like this in my Economics subject. Well, in that case, I have something to base the article on. Anyway, since it is about the computers, I can more or less, extend the paper to two pages.
I wasn't able to start on it early this afternoon because I had a nap then mom is doing some re-arranging again in the computer room. I watched tv to pass the time and I stumbled upon a semi-documentary on a good looking guy. My first impression was that he must be some famous music guy in the line of Avex Trax with all the keyboards and cds around the room. He turned out to be Yoshiki of X-Japan - the drummer and keyboardist/pianist. The show was a bit about the way he works, his past with X-Japan and new project.
I kept on watching because they showed his pretty mansion. ^-^ It was very white which was accented by black furniture. I wonder how cleans his house. In the hall, there was a special place for his piano, which I think was specially made since it seemed to be made of fiberglass. The only cute thing in his house was his alarm clock. He had 3 beautiful cars. His bathroom even had a cd player to play classical music. I think he looked better without the make-up and he was actually the one behind the music of X-Japan. I actually got into X-Japan before because of X. ^-^;;
It also showed the more personal side of him when he hurt his shoulder while playing and the fans were crying when he had to left the concert. Right now, he had wrist supports, which he always wears when he is not playing. His latest project was an orchestra with a foreign singer, which I think did well. He also guests in some Korean tv shows. He still played some of the songs he made for X-Japan like Forever Love. He also made mistakes when playing as the conductor called it to his attention and as an artist, he is also strict with music on how it sounds. Anyway, it was fun watching it and since there are times when he talked in English with the producers, I can follow what's happening. ^-^ I really like his house. ^-^
Zoro: Stop dreaming...
^-^ Well, FFU is still a bit of boring but the puzzles about Kaze, his relationship with the white haired guy and stuff is the one thing which made me want to watch it. Scryed is still keeping me interested even though the episode was just Kazuma powering up. From what I can understand that the lady scientist knew that Ryuhou was just a pawn and she was helped to tap into the computer by the red-haired guy. Everyone had his or her own little agenda. Nice. ^-^ I was thinking if the two might work together to defeat some common enemy like the one Ryuhou was looking for. Ryuhou faced it but wasn't able to finish it but able to get a part of it that caused him to power up. Maybe Ryuhou would get his power up through it, too.
Nothing happened much in Long Love Letter except that the students and teachers are shocked when they realized that they are all alone in some deserted place and the rest was how they cope with the shock by accepting that they are there. I'm beginning to think that this story is more about teachers since Takako would even risk her job just to set a boy to the right path. She was quite frustrated for not being able to go to the meeting place to tell the boy that she had forgiven him for what he did and that he must move on. I do like Yousuke's black outfit here. It looked good.
Robin: Just like Yoshiki, huh?
Ya. He dresses nicely and tend to wear sunglasses which I think have grades in them. I'm somewhat smitten by the guy. ^^;;
Friday, March 28, 2003 @ 02:19 p.m.
I got a proposal. It isn’t love related. Hehehe Sis’s bf asked for me to do his reaction papers or summarize some articles in exchange for half the price of a PS2 with 8 titles. I haven’t decided yet but he already sent me the articles. Well, the first two was easy read since it is about the history of the internet and google. I’m just wondering how to react to it since his course is commerce so what to say. Anyway, I might come up with something. At first, I was just kidding about the payment as a PS2. Let’s see what happens. ^_~
Scryed’s Kazuma is really funny and somewhat cute especially his expressions. Last night’s episode was he went into the Holy’s territory to rescue his friends but he got sidetracked over how fun it was to live in the city. Ryuhou’s reaction was funny when he learned that Kazuma wanted to join them also when Kazuma ate swallowed an appetizer at a 5-star hotel. I also noticed that Scryed opening tend to change a bit every time. First it was focus on Kazuma then next Ryuhou. The new one is a combination of the two. Nice. Sometimes, Kazuma’s moves is so smooth that I thought he is going to dance. ^-^;
There is a new Japanese drama, Long Love Story. I wasn’t quite sure about it at first since it flashed in such a short time. In the commercial, it was about a group of people in some deserted place as if it was the end of the world, and a guy jumping from one cliff to another. I wasn’t looking forward to this. Out of curiosity, I watched the first episode. I like the nice romantic and somewhat funny amusing scenes there. It ended with an earthquake and a big hole where the school was supposed to be. I like the couple here, Kubozuka Yousuke ^-^[bsho cute] and Tokiwa Takako.
Tuesday, March 25, 2003 @ 09:56 p.m.
I don’t know why people tend to think that I’m good at Japanese just because I’m reading manga which is actually written in Chinese. I can barely understand everything in Chinese either. ^^; I’m can understand conversations but when it is a narrative or explanation, I don’t know anymore. Maybe I also listen to Japanese songs and they thought that I understood it. ^^;
I found Scryed yesterday while flipping channel. It is a nice plus since it is in Japanese dub but since it is in Chinese dub, I do not understand the technical stuff. It looked nice. The main character, Kazuma is your typical go lucky guy who had special powers. He is with the others who are fighting against the military who are after people who had special powers like him. I still do not know what is the problem between Kazuma and the guy from the military, Ryuhou. Anyway, the fight scenes are cool. This anime is at the same time as Rave so I would just have to watch the rerun of Rave the next morning. I’m still hoping that maybe Rave become better in the next episodes. Unicorn told me that Final Fantasy Unlimited would have better episodes later on. I missed today’s episode though since I have to go to the office for sister went out to talk to people –designer, church and cake - about her wedding.
Well, whiner called today but with a different problem which is about a ‘spoiled’ secretary at their store. Anyway, I guess it is better than the same old thing.
Monday, March 24, 2003 @ 02:23 p.m.
Well, it seemed that the war in Iraq has already started. I knew it would happen sooner or later as the news said, that the coalition forces are already there and it would be a waste of money to send them there and not do anything. I am still neutral about this war since I cannot decide whether to be pro or anti. ^^;; So, if there might be a war here with some ambiguous reasons, I would probably those bystanders who would be blasted away and still not knowing whether to be pro or anti. Hehehe
Robin: Too indecisive...
It reminded me of a question from a manhwa I read, They, too, Love. It was 'would you rather be beaten up or murdered?' ^^; Here, it would be 'would you want to be kill innocent people for a cause or suffer probable hardships from a tyrant?' I guess these are the questions that when asked, I don't really want to answer since either way, it would end up to a long debate. On to the lighter stuff, I read two new scanlations of Korean manhwa from Janimes. The first one was Yaya. The plot is about this girl who had a phobia over dirt and disorderly stuff. She went to check out her new school. She met a white haired guy who loved teasing her and making faces. Also, she met a teacher whom she thought to be an upperclassman since he looked too young and doesn't act quite mature. The two guys have a tendency to play cat and mouse. ^^;; The art is pretty. It is like in Candy Candy. The guys are nice looking, too. ^-^
The other one was, They, too, Love which I mentioned above. It is somewhat like a cross of KareKano, if I remember right, about two famous students, and M to N no shouzou, since they are a bit weird. The boy looked like Matsuhiko.^-^ This one is really funny since it is from the same author of The Way This Boy Lives. I like this author ^-^ The boy is the 'prince' of the school and he is a great cook. That is because, he is doing the household chores at home. The girl is also famous and is good at fortunetelling. They met at a science club wherein they are the only two members. The organizer was missing for two months already. The guy cooked, using lab instruments, something for the girl. The girl thought it was delicious until she learned that the ingredient was from the frog tank. ^^;; Then, he asked if she can divine for him. What she said was accurate about just wanting to 'rest' because of all the work=chores, which kept on increasing. Just when she was about to say the solution to it all, she flipped the card and there is none. ^^;; She said that there will be a curse which will come. On cue, the organizer came. It ended there. Sigh. I'm beginning to wonder if there are Chinese translated Korean manhwa.
Nami: You just have to wait for the site to translate more since you don't have money to buy manga.
Ya, I guess so and no one is going to HK because they fear the SARS. Last Saturday, I finally finished the Sakura coloring project. I would like to play with it more but I have to move on like learn something from the tutorials that I bought which are gathering dust. ^^;; I manage to 'get' Home and watch two episodes of Rave. Ah, it wasn't fun as I thought it would be. Actually, it was a bit slow and can be boring at times. I can flip channels and return back without missing much. The opening and closing was very nice though. I wonder if the manga is the same since in Shaman King, they somewhat changed it. I didn't quite like the anime version. The manga version which I had read was a bit better though.
I have downloaded the teaser trailer of a Korean anime, 'Wonderful Days' It was really pretty. I love the flying and motorbike scenes as if I'm drawn to that world. The music was really sad that I think it might be a tragedy especially since some scenes, there were people getting killed right and left. The most intense scene was that when the girl drives by on her bike, the guy quickly took a piece of wood to hide himself and yet peaked into the hole to see her. From what I can gather, they are childhood friends and somewhat got separated. When they grown up, they found each other at the opposite sides = as enemies. I hope this will be shown here. This ought to be watched a nice theater with a good sound system.
I have also finished downloading a trailer of Final Fantasy X-2. It was really nice. I did saw a part of the video before at the top ten in Wowow. It was recommended. The real singer was singing then they showed clips from FFX-2. The song was Real Emotion. It was different from the last few songs which have a tendency to be slow. Here, it is a dance pop. The clip started with Yuna going out of the stage then had a change of clothes, which looked realistic as in the flow is like real clothes. Then, she started singing and dancing as the other girls tried to stop some goons from interfering. I guess she had a change of occupation from summoner? [forgot what she was called since I haven't played the game yet] to destroy Sin to jpop singer. There was when Rikku was being tapped by the goon/soldier and she smiled a bit then beat the crap out of him. The emotion was so real like of a playful high school girl being caught doing something. There are also clips of fighting scenes. It is a bit like FFV, wherein they change outfits based on the 'occupation' they are in. Nice though I had a hard time powering up in FFV because I cannot decide which 'occupation' is the best for a character. I wanted all and that will take time. ^^;; I did like Yuna's black mage costume and Rikku's. Anyway, it seemed that this game will be fun. ^-^
Zoro: Our game in GC is also fun, you know.
Ya, it looked fun, too but I don't plan to have GC. ^^;;
