Chicago Musical!

The first musical I've ever gone to go watch, apart from "Annie" for some field trip in elementary school and a few musicals at my high school. It was at the Pantages theatre
, which was nothing short of absolutely beautiful. It was so pretty inside, they didn't let us take pictures :)

I went with about 6 or so other people on my floor on Sunday night, with the thought of three essays due Tuesday packed away neatly in the back of my head. Well, it was a waste of time to pack them away so neatly-- they were aaaaaaaaaallllllllllll blown away anyway along with the rest of me! :) :) :) :)

Chicago, the movie, is one of my favorite films, along with another musical Moulin Rouge, but watching the musical live was something completely different! The songs were the same as those in the movie (with a lot of them arranged differently), but they had a few more songs that the movie left out.

As big as an ass as I feel saying this, I did like the movie more. Well I mean it was Renée Zellweger-- not many people can play the part of Roxie Hart and not be infuriating at one point, so thank god Renée Zellweger isn't many people, not to mention Catherine Zeta-Jones is far from many people too. :)


All in all, totally worth $40

+/- Songs from the Film

I was only gonna embed one or two songs when I realized I couldn't pick.

Monorail Cat

lololololol

Happy 2010

I know we're a month and a week in already, but Happy 2010 everybody! :)

By the way, the correct way of pronouncing "2010" is "twenty ten", according to the "Weekly Poo-in" in my dormitory bathroom.

Winter quarter is going to be busy as shit for me, mostly due to the fact that I hate pushing myself combined with the fact that I decided to do just that. 17 units for Winter 2010-- I'm not quite sure if I can pull off anything over 14 units...!

Right now (Sunday) we're on our 6th week and I'm drowning in homework. Actually, I've pretty much been gasping for air since the 2nd week, hence the 0 posts for January. I don't even know why I'm writing this now I should be doing my homework. Lololololollllllllllllll

Synonyms

"I'm about to blow your mind," sneered Shouhei, "are you ready?"

Ralph's macaroni salad looks absolutely amazing at midnight. I wonder if you can still buy it, there's nobody behind the counter... Maybe they're on break?

"I'm ready Shouhei, splatter my brain all over this glass counter."

He gives a satisfied giggle and carefully repeats the line in his head so he doesn't mess it up.

"Okay, so, apparently Mountain Dew and Sierra Mist are produced by the same company."

"Okay..."

"Do you see the connection?

Mountain Dew
Sierra Mist

They're synonyms! They both mean the SAME THING...!"

Blew. My. Fucking. Mind.




I still think Mountain Dew tastes better.

Too Much Brunch

Brunch today.
My friend was in the omelet line and taking forever; meanwhile I got a shit ton of food.

Speaking of shit ton, I have exactly that much in homework right now...! :) Can't wait till Thanksgiving yaaaaaaaaay

+/- Salad Face

What... the FUCK?

Raise your hand if you knew "whatchamacallit" was a word. Firefox doesn't put a red line under it when I type it either, am I the only one more surprised about this word than I am about "Google" becoming a read word?

Proof

+/- Definition

n.
a name for a person or thing whose real name has been forgotten or is being avoided. : I lost my—you know—my whatchamacallit—my watch!

Birthdays are quite nice

My birthday was a little while ago, but I must say it was one of the best I've ever had. I spent the whole day watching movies and hanging out with Asuka, Ayumi, Kiye, and Michelle, and even got a gift mailed all the way from Rhode Island!

+/- Some Gifts

The "Oh Shit!" button, that serves no purpose other than making you feel like things will be better if you pushed it. Even though it won't be.


Someone help me pick a name for this guy.


Guys? Shouhei just made me do a scavenger hunt around the house (and the internet) for around 20 minutes (due to cleverly hidden clues in the form of riddles) to find a 19" LCD monitor waiting for me. I'VE BEEN LIVING WITH A FLATSCREEN FOR YEARS.

I know it's impossible, but somehow my computer feels faster...

Anyway, thanks to everyone that made my birthday the best I've had in 18 years! :) :) :) :)

Facebook

I've been running from it for a while, for no apparent reason really. I just didn't want to get one, much like how I never got a Xanga or a Myspace.

What changed? I'm out of high school and terrible at keeping in touch.

So, uhh I guess there it is that widget right there->
I guess also the link's broken

lol

Am I an idiot?

I have been using Windows Media Player for some time now, mostly because everything just seems more convenient (to me). All my videos and certain music file types I play on VLC Player though, but the standard .mp3, .wmv, all that I play on WMP.

I like it. You rate songs and shit, fun stuff. Obviously, the 5-star rating thing does not hold any significance for me half the time, because I give lots of 5's. Yes, I happen to love Evanescence. It looks nice though, doesn't it? All those pretty stars...


Oh yes, anyway, the point that I was trying to get to. Am I an idiot? Has everybody been using this feature without me knowing? No, not that sync shit. The fast forward button? You hold next button and you fly through the song? I didn't know about it until I accidentally did it today. It doesn't rewind or anything when you hold previous though, weird.

Department of Motor Vehicles

So finally, being 17.87 years old, I got my permit. Not quite at the license part yet, but I'm getting there.

I waited around a good hour at the DMV. Fun, fun. I got a -6 on my test but I passed. Did you know you had to listen to the stop-sign-holding-old-volunteer-workers-around-public-schools at all times, even when no more kids are even around? They can be sitting in the middle of the intersection sticking that stop sign in their butts, and you'd still have to listen to them!


Oh yeah, I chose that picture because that sign has always looked very awkward to me. Like someone just decided to make his head unproportionally big all of the sudden...

Seagate External DOWN

Our family has 4 computers, 3 laptops, and 1 internet connection. We also have a 500GB Seagate External hard drive, that serves as a "shared storage" for us. All the photos we take or anything we want to share with each other we simply drag&drop into it. We've been using it for a while now, almost every single picture we took since maybe 2004 is in there.

What happens when the Seagate stops working?

I'm about to shoot myself.

7 Eleven

In case you forgot or didn't realize, it's July 11th (7/11) today!
Free 7.11oz slurpees at 711, get them while you still can and hop around to all nearby 711s! :)

Fourth of July

Wilson Park fireworks were so cool!
My little brother thinks this can be an album cover, so all we need is the CD.

+/- This is my sister

She's a duck.

Taking Apart the PS2

I have a PS2 now! Bought a used one for $50! :)
It's Japanese also! Why? Because believe it or not, that's what I am!

I have a story to tell about it, click the collapse for the entire thing

+/- So,

The other day I dug out the old television that's been sitting in our garage because I got a PS2, and as sad as it is, it's the only other real game console in my house is the N64 (actually, I have a NDS). I wanted to play in my room so that I can spend even more time by myself. Lol, just kidding, I don't like playing video games late at night in the living room by myself because we have this fucking creepy doll that our grandpa gave us. Ohh yeah, those Japanese little girl kimono girl dolls that always look like they're watching you. Fuck it scares me so much... I would post a picture, but then what if I look back at the photo and the dolls making a different face? I would piss in my pants man.

Anyway, so I set up the TV so that I can play video games from my bed, hence saving the energy I would otherwise have to use to get up and using the energy to move my thumbs that extra minute or so. I always need something to eat or drink by the way when I play games or watch movies and stuff. That day I had apple juice. Apple juice. How can I be so stupid, it foreshadows a motherfucking disaster waiting to happen. What happened was, when I set the apple juice cup in front of the PS2, the cup pressed the eject button, the thing pops out, tips the apple juice over, and, well, I have myself an artificially flavored PS2.

Ayumi couldn't have described my situation better when she responded to my story, "You're like a little kid." I'm going to college this year, and I spilled apple juice playing video games. Jesus, christ.

In my defense though, would a little kid do THIS?

Lol
I had to take it apart because fucking apple juice everywhere right? I don't have a warranty or anything, I bought the thing used. I always imagined opening this thing up when I was gonna install a mod chip, or when a game got stuck in the drive; never in my dreams did I think I would have to open up my PS2 because I spilled sugary, delicious, Tree Top apple juice all over it.

One time I took apart my keyboard because it was dirty as hell. That keyboard was never to be seen ever again.

On with the PS2!

Many screws of all sizes, I totally forgot which went where and that served to be a huge problem afterward.

Chips look so cool. They look so futuristic, how do they work huh? So weird...

I cracked the PS2 open and cleaned out all the (now) syrupy apple juice that seeped into the core of my PS2. It was pure sugar, don't drink that delicious shit.

The entire process took a good 4 or 5 hours, because I'm an idiot. Haha, the first time, it didn't even fit back into the box, and then after it did and I tested it out, the game slot won't open, so I went back and took it all apart and I'm pretty sure a piece went flying when I forced the thing to fucking open, but it worked out in the end so I don't even know. I accidentally broke this other piece, but I superglued that back on.

Also, I have an extra screw left over. Oh well.

Anyway, how was your day?

Canon PowerShot SD780 IS

So I finally bought a digital camera all on my own. Yaay! It was unbelievably hard choosing a camera, mostly due to the fact that I don't know jack about cameras, so most of the specs I read meant nothing to me. 12.1 Megapixels? What the fuck does that even mean? My best guess is that there are 12,100,000 pixels on this 2in x 1.5in screen? IS? AiAF? Doesn't matter, I'm happy with it. The buttons are kind of hard to push, though.

Oh yes, so the first picture I took with my camera was a picture of my plants. The one on the right that looks kind of dead is Tim, and the one on the left is Pik. I'm thinking Pik is taking all the sunlight from Tim but I'm not sure so I'll just leave them like that.

I Just Woke Up...

...from an 11 hour night's sleep.







FUCK

Yearbooks

We got our yearbooks today! Yaay!

I usually have a problem with how the yearbook staff does the things they do the way they do. At the same time, however, I complain fully aware of the fact that I have absolutely no right to because I would not take the time to sign up for the class either. Nonetheless, I complain.

It bothers me when cropped images are cropped poorly, when small images are blown up into gigantic pixels, when photos are forced to stretch or squeeze according to the amount of space allowed to them, when there are typos and forgotten capitalization, when punctuation is inconsistent, when the photo they use of someone is obviously one that even that person wouldn't want, and when quotes duplicate and fonts collide.

It bothers me.
When, as common as it is, "the" is spelled "teh."

It bothers me.
When for some very sad reason, an ad in the yearbook reads, "Congratulations! We're so disappointed in you! Love, Mom and Dad"

It bothers me.
When under Donna's picture for Most Likely to Succeed it reads: "Most Likely to Suceed."

It bothers me.


+/- Well,

Okay, the last one is more funny than bothering.

Motherfucking idiots

Another productive day in AP Calculus BC. Sadly, that was our last seminar for one of the most attention-requiring books I have ever read (or not). Chaos is the book we're reading in that class.

Luckily, everybody in that classroom is either a nerd or a geek, so not a single soul looked at the piece of paper and said, "Wtf? A move?"

A Day in AP Calculus BC

We're reading a book called Chaos right now in Calculus. We were having this seminar and Donna starting passing around this piece of paper, in turn resulting in the most productive day in Calculus this year.

What's that you ask?
Why yes, I did draw that fine-looking piece of hotdog :)

Negi Cat

Negi Cat for everyone unfamiliar with japanese food, is raw cat on rice covered in soy sauce and green onion. Just kidding. It's what my family calls that clever piece of something my brother found at the mall and purchased for mother's day. Which, by the way, is tomorrow. Shit.

Anyway, the Negi Cat looks so cool and really comical (if you stare into its face long enough), that we put it in random places around the house so the next person can spot it, be surprised, have a good laugh, and go place it somewhere new. It gets a little creepy after a while because I swear that thing is watching me, but hey it gets a good few laughs in the beginning so.