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| I went shopping and bought new A/V cables for my PS2. I had to clean it off because my older brother somehow managed to get dirt all over the fucking thing. (I don't even see how that's possible.)
Getting back into FF12, hoping to finish it quickly. Also bought Persona 3, which is awesome for a JRPG. Dating sim + roleplayan seems good to me.
Also, Lost Odyssey's storyline is fucking stupid. Will eventually finish, but hell. | comments: Leave a comment   |
| | Current Music: | Nobodyknows+ - Heroes Come Back | | Subject: | INTERNETS | | Time: | 04:34 pm |
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| | Oh God, KCAL9 News actually said "interwebs". | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Fate/stay Night - This Illusion | | Subject: | Rush Hour 3 | | Time: | 08:58 pm |
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| Rush Hour 3 is annoying, racist, stupid, jingoistic, and utterly predictable. And it's also funny at points, but only if you do not think about how incredibly bad the script is.
One particular part of the weak humor is when a gorgeous woman removes her wig and reveals herself to be bald, which Carter responds with homophobic backlash when assuming she's a man. Even though that even when bald, still looks gorgeous as hell. Right. I mean, it's not like there haven't been bald women ever.
And don't get me started with the awful side characters. A French cab driver is initially hesitant to take Carter because he's an American, and ergo violent. And Carter responds by whipping out a gun and threatening him. I don't care how many lives he's saved, unless he's Jack Bauer, he can't just threaten people willy nilly. At least Jack threatens perceived terrorists and not dumbass Frenchmen.
But otherwise, it had hilarious bits to it. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| So, I spent the last couple of days playing (more like reading, I guess) the Fate/Stay Night visual novel and watching the anime. I never got into it until I tried it just now, and I have to say that both the novel and the anime were pretty overhyped.
The game's fine and all, but the romance I wanted to follow (with Rin, of course), hasn't been translated yet. The translated Fate scenario is pretty good, but honestly, we don't need to be reminded that Shirou's city was burnt to cinders every time he sleeps. God. I didn't expect to actually get into the mood of things, given that there are very few pictures when there's this much fighting, but it actually gets exciting.
As for the anime... It's incredibly average. Unfunny jokes coupled with a lame hero, mostly recycled animation (not as bad as Evangelion, at least), and a lack of the best character the show has to offer: Rin.
roflcopter
Shame she has to just be a side-character in the scheme of things.
Well, the last episode actually had decent animation, so it makes up somewhat for the average quality of the rest of the show.
Oh well, back to Oblivion. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Jeremy Soule - Reign of the Septims | | Subject: | 24 Season Finale | | Time: | 10:44 pm |
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| So, the seasons go like this:
5 > 1 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 6
Weakest season, but one of the best season premieres ever. (LA was nuked, for god's sake!) It's disappointing to see a season that began with so much awesome fall midway. I hope next season will be awesome. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| After years of research, I have developed a new fact of life, which I will add onto Murphy's Law:
Probability of Shirt being stained = sum from k=1 to n of i/n
i = 1 for a light colored part of the shirt, 0 for else part.
In other words, it means that the lighter your shirt color is, the more likely it is for some staining agent (coffee, grass, blood of your enemies, etc.) to get on it. How careful you are doesn't factor into the equation, the stain WILL happen. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | MINMI - Shiki no uta | | Subject: | Pronunciation | | Time: | 03:10 am | | Current Mood: | roflcopter |
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| I heard one of the best things my roommate Shayan ever said. It'll need some backstory.
The news was on or something, and someone said "nucular", the way President Bush does. This annoys me, because nuclear is derived from nucleus, not "nuculus". My other roommate Eric argues with me that it is correct by busting out science. He tries to compromise, but I am a boolean thinker when it comes to pronunciation. So, Shayan makes the best one liner ever:
"You say 'tomato', I say 'fuck you'."
That's all. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| On a weekend I should be studying, I instead find myself to have bought the Godfather trilogy, Munich, and Shindler's List, all while having a Guild Wars account and still in need of watching Spinal Tap. Oh, I'm also on the last couple of levels of Splinter Cell: Chaos Theory and on the Tribunal expansion of Morrowind.
Looks like I won't be studying.
In the spirit of not studying, here are my thoughts on life, the universe, and everything, with an evaluation of my life:
Godfather (2nd viewing): 10/10. I can't believe the first time we saw it in film class, I missed the totally obvious plot points (i.e. that Apollonia's car was going to be hit). God DAMN, that was so obvious, I must have not been paying attention.
Morrowind: 5/10. This game is only good when you devote a lot of time into developing your character. Otherwise, it's an exercise in left clicking every time your dumbass character can't hit a rat half his size standing right in front of him.
Guild Wars: 8/10. I never liked MMORPGs because I hate people so damn much. But in an MMO where you can play it entirely single-player, it's not half bad. Sure, the AI henchmen are unforgivingly stupid, but there's never been an RPG otherwise.
Work: 7/10. It was a comparatively fantastic day at work today. There were hardly any people around, and two people (on separate accounts) I hardly ever see that much of decided to randomly eat at my place of business on the same day.
Class: 4/10. I slept through my differential equations class and instead just went to my discrete mathematics class, and all they had was teaching crap I learned in CS last year. Pass. My most interesting class this quarter is a class about programming with actual wires and chips. NEEERRRRD.
The Asian restaurant we have on campus, Rendezvous: 5/10. Awful tasting asian food, but I don't know why the hell I'm willing to shorten my life by eating it.
My Art: 5/10. Stagnant and going without practice. I said last year I'd start my manga, but somehow just never got around to doing it. Goddamn, I should get on that right away. I've been mulling over changes and storylines for a while now.
Anna Nicole Smith: 4/10. Seriously, millions of people die every day, some to very horrible and unfortunate circumstances, and Anna Nicole Smith gets hours and hours of CNN coverage? Come on, can anyone honestly say that he never saw her death coming? It's not as if she was hit by a bus, blown up by a suitcase nuke detonated in Valencia, or leapt off a building. But if this grinds Rosie O' Donnell's gears, every channel should just pay tribute to Anna Nicole Smith just to spite her.
Life: 5/10. Dull, unchanging. It's just the same routine over and over, without anything new happening. It's the weekend, for god's sake, and my biggest plan for the weekend is drafting Magic. Well, let's get to fixing that one of these days. I think I'll start reading The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, and actually finish it.
And an inspirational quote:
"If Chinese kids in a sweatshop make anti-perspirant, is it still a sweatshop?"
- Shayan, my roommate | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | "Onegai! Senorita!" | | Time: | 12:07 am |
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| Taken from tang.
1. You can press a button that will make any one person explode. Who would you blow up?
Any one of these no-talent hacks: Ryan Seacrest, Ashton Kutcher, Paris Hilton
2. You can flip a switch that will wipe any band or musical artist out of existence. Which one will it be?
All the gangsta rappers, R&B artists, and shit like that.
3. Who would you really like to just punch in the face?
Whoever leads the Church of Scientology
4. What is your favorite cheese?
Swiss
5. You can only have one kind of sandwich. Every sandwich ingredient known to humankind is at your immediate disposal. What does your dream sandwich consist of, and does it contain the aforementioned cheese?
Footlong wheatbread, lightly toasted, honey mustard, turkey, swiss cheese, lettuce, tomatoes, onions, pickles, olives, pepperoncini, ownage
6. You have the opportunity to sleep with the movie (porn counts) celebrity of your choice. We are talking no-strings-attached sex and it can only happen once.
I agree with tang. (Jessica Alba. Angelina Jolie.) Well, except for George Clooney.
7. You have the opportunity to sleep with the music celebrity of your choice.
Tomiko Van of Do As Infinity.
8. Now that you've slept with two different people in a row, you seem to be having an excellent day because you just came across a hundred-dollar bill on the sidewalk. Holy shit, a hundred bucks! How are you gonna spend it?
Knowing me, I'd save it for the next nVidia GeForce card. Possible the 8 series when it comes out.
9. You just got a free plane ticket to anywhere. You have to depart right now. Where are you gonna go?
Japan would be nice to visit.
10. Upon arrival to the aforementioned location, you get off the plane and discover another hundred-dollar bill. Shit! Now that you are in the new location, what are you gonna do?
Akihabara
11. An angel appears out of Heaven and offers you a lifetime supply of the alcoholic beverage of your choice. What would it be?
As I don't drink alcohol, I'd imagine some kind of fine wine so I can be pretentious and condescending to everyone.
12. Rufus appears out of nowhere with a time-traveling phone booth. You can go anytime in the PAST. What time are you traveling to and what are you going to do when you get there?
I'd go back to 199x and erase MTV.
13. You discover a beautiful island upon which you may build your own society. You make the rules. What is the first rule you put into place?
Idiots are banned.
14. You have been given the opportunity to create the half-hour TV show of your own design. What is it called and what's the premise?
It'll be called "The Colbert Report" and will consist of Stephen Colbert making hilarious parody out of right-wing TV show hosts while being totally awesome.
15. What is your favorite curse word?
Fuckity fuck.
16. One night you wake up because you heard a noise. You turn on the light to find that you are surrounded by MUMMIES. The mummies aren't really doing anything, they're just standing around your bed. What do you do?
Tell them the guy next door who's always blaring annoying music was the one who stole from their tomb.
17. Your house is on fire, holy shit! You have just enough time to run in there and grab ONE inanimate object. Don't worry, your loved ones and pets have already made it out safely. So what's the one thing you're going to save from that blazing inferno?
The Death Star (my super awesome computer of doom). Alternatively, my senior yearbook with all of tang's wonderful signatury goodness.
18. The Angel Of Death has descended upon you. Fortunately, the Angel Of Death is pretty cool and in a good mood, and it offers you a half-hour to do whatever you want before you bite it. Whatcha gonna do in that half-hour?
He's not that cool if he's still gonna kill me. But I'd probably end up swearing like in #15 for half an hour.
19. You accidentally eat some radioactive vegetables. They were good, and what's even cooler is that they endow you with the super-power of your choice! What's it gonna be?
Super-super intelligence. I want to have an IQ of like 5,000.
20. You can re-live any point of time in your life. The time-span can only be a half-hour, though. What half-hour of your past would you like to experience again?
Hmm... Hanging out with the nerd crew in middle school.
21. You can erase any horrible experience from your past. What will it be? (the answer "nothing" doesn't count).
Every time I lose in Magic due to mana screw/flood.
22. You got kicked out of the country for being a time-traveling heathen who sleeps with celebrities and has super-powers. But check out this cool shit... you can move to anywhere else in the world! Bitchin'! What country are you going to live in now?
Pffft. With super intelligence, I'd be able to find a loophole and get back in.
23. This question still counts, even for those of you who are under age. Check it out. You have been eternally banned from every single bar in the world except for ONE. Which one is it gonna be?
Seeing as I don't go to bars, which one doesn't really matter.
24. Hopefully you didn't mention this in the super-powers question.... If you did, then we'll just expand on that. Check it out... Suddenly, you have gained the ability to FLOAT!!! Whose house are you going to float to first, and be like "Dude, check it out... I can FLOAT!"
Since I don't know where Tang is so I can show off to her, it'll have to be to Cin's.
25. The constant absorption of magical moonbeams mixed with the radioactive vegetables you consumed earlier have given you the ability to resurrect the dead famous-person of your choice. So which celebrity will you bring back to life?
With my super intelligence, I'd revive whoever was the greatest Go player and have the game of the century.
26. The Celestial Gates Of Beyond have opened, much to your surprise because you didn't think such a thing existed. Death appears. As it turns out, Death is actually a pretty cool entity, and happens to be in a fantastic mood. Death offers to return the friend/family-member/person/etc. of your choice to the living world. Who will you bring back?
I'd tell it to wait until one of my loved ones happen to bite it in a terrible way.
27. What's your theme song?
"Onegai! Senorita!" by ORANGE RANGE | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Calculus, you are dead to me.
Physics, you're on notice. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| Yesterday was fucking awesome. I watched A History of Violence for $2. $2. $2. An asian knows a good value when he sees it. On the surface, it was Viggo Mortenson being a fucking bad ass and killing people who try to bring him back to the mob.
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Today was HOPE Day, where a bunch of high school students go to UCLA and we at the VSU show them around the school and introduce them to college life. I made the most awesome mascot ever: A pirate skull wearing a rice hat. Fucking asian pirates, bitch. My partner, Cindy Nguyen, even made eyepatches. Rock.
I was lucky, and a bunch of the people who were supposed to be in my group abandoned me and joined some other group, so we were left with an 8-man group while others dealt with 14. Got to get to know a bunch of them, and as it turns out, they were a cool bunch. The youngest of them, a freshmen, was quite... wacky. Let's just say we got a picture of him doing ungodly things with a statue of a woman from our Sculpture Garden.
Overall, it was a good day. Not a bad way to spend a Saturday, eh?
My life rules at this point. Now, I gotta get to my History paper. | | comments: 4 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | The Killers - All These Things That I've Done | | Subject: | VICTOLY! | | Time: | 10:26 pm |
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| Not a "no"!
The score:
0 wins
1 tie
10 losses
VICTOLY! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Orange Range - Onegai! Senorita | | Subject: | Oh hey. | | Time: | 12:27 am | | Current Mood: | awesome |
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| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom rocks. The throwbacks to the first movie completely make up for the weaker unbelievable, yet serious parts. The leader of the cult can do surgery on a guy with his bare hand, pull out the guy's heart, and he still lives! ...Though, for a movie with three stones that can glow and light on fire, I realize I should suspend more of my disbelief.
Anyway, I'm working at the Cooperage at UCLA. One step closer to me l33t PC. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Metal Gear Solid 3 - Star Sailor - Way to Fall | | Subject: | WHHHHHHYYYYYY?! | | Time: | 04:39 pm | | Current Mood: | KILL! DESTROY! |
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| CrazyHeeroAC195: WHAT A WAY TO LOSE
Silveroth: ?
CrazyHeeroAC195: my mother's let off from work at 2:00, it takes 10 minutes to get home
CrazyHeeroAC195: Jeopardy auditions start at 2:30
Silveroth: hahaha
CrazyHeeroAC195: and her job normally ends at 12
Silveroth: you got there too late
CrazyHeeroAC195: WHY TODAY?!
CrazyHeeroAC195: WHY FUCKING TODAY?!
CrazyHeeroAC195: WHY?!
CrazyHeeroAC195: WHHHHYYYYYYY?! </lotax>
Silveroth: where was it? if it was close enough you coulda took a bus
CrazyHeeroAC195: Culver City
CrazyHeeroAC195: 40 miles away
Silveroth: ok
Silveroth: nevermind
CrazyHeeroAC195: yeah
CrazyHeeroAC195: exactly
CrazyHeeroAC195: GODDAMN IT
CrazyHeeroAC195: THOSE BASTARDS RUINED MY CHANCE
CrazyHeeroAC195: Now some unqualified bitch is taking my spot.
CrazyHeeroAC195: I HOPE YOU END UP IN THE RED, BITCH.
CrazyHeeroAC195: LIKE 10,000 IN THE RED.
CrazyHeeroAC195: THAT'LL TEACH YOU TO MESS WITH ME
Goddamn it, I'm so mad I'll shoot some Nazi bastards in Call of Duty. | | comments: 2 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - Star Sailor - Way to Fall | | Subject: | Jessica's Party | | Time: | 09:28 pm | | Current Mood: | heh |
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| Went to a fun end-of-summer/early-birthday party at Jessica's (Ngan) yesterday. Let's see, Jenni, Dorothy, Vince, Joe, Janice, Michelle, David, Yoon and company, Johnny Ngo, Jessie, Khristina, etc. came. We spent a while hanging out in two distinct girl and guy groups. Then Joe and Vince tossed Jessica into her own pool. Nice. We played asian BS (well, I learned how to play) and other card stuff.
After a while, we had lasagna and pizza for dinner, and we went inside, where we attempted (and failed) to play Mafia. So we busted out the N64 and played Super Smash Brothers (which I sucked at), Mario Kart 64 (which I owned at for the most part), and Mario Party 2 (which I owned so badly everyone else was annoyed). And after that, stuff. And I went home.
Eventful evening for an otherwise boring summer. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| "Congratulations! You have been selected for an appointment in our upcoming Jeopardy! contestant search for the Los Angeles area. We have reserved the following appointment for you:
When: Thursday September 8th Time: 2:30pm
Where: Culver City, CA"
I win. College tuition and fame in one fell swoop! | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Penpals (Berserk) - Tell Me Why | | Subject: | UCLA Orientation! | | Time: | 08:54 pm | | Current Mood: | A Bruin lasts forever. |
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| Went to Orientation at UCLA from Monday to today. It was simply awesome.
We began Monday with introduction to Orientation and UCLA, along with meeting with our Orientation Counselors. Mine was a guy named Henri, who is pretty cool in that he plays Magic and all. He also has an extensive DVD library, including Samurai Champloo. Nice.
My gang was a bunch of Comp Sci majors, and surprisingly, there were two girls, one of which was really nice looking. Anyway, from there, the next memorable thing was CabaretLive, a hilarious take on Saturday Night Live. It even had its own SNL-ish opening with some nice editting. Most of it, unsurprisingly, were jabs at USC. For example, one act was a parody of "Part of Your World" from The Little Mermaid, only instead of Ariel wanting to be part of the human world, USC students wanted to be part of the Bruin world. ("I want to be where the Bruins are. I want to see all the people flipping through... Uh, what do you call it... Oh yeah. Book.") After that, it was free arcade games for hours. I met this gal from Ada's orientation group named Nanci, and her friend Gina. We hung out throughout the arcade event thing. We played Jenga, Connect 4, air hockey, and pool. Oh yeah, my best shot in pool involved me getting two balls in with the same stroke. It was mostly accident though, because if I was good enough to have hit the cue ball properly, I would have only got one ball in. Heh.
The second day involved actual UCLA class stuff, including finding out what classes interest you and getting a tentative schedule. Unfortunately, I missed a mandatory presentation on debt management and stuff, so I can't get my financial aid until I return next week. I would have totally made it in time had I not been in the can.
Yeah.
I was only 10 minutes late, and if not for that, I would have returned from dinner early enough to read the schedule, remember it, and race off to it. Fuck my luck. Anyway, the next memorable event was a scavenger hunt called Carpe Noctem (Seize the Night). To be short, I have a blister on my right toe that hurts to poke. (But I do it anyway because I'm hardcore like that.) We went from the northmost Melnitz Hall to the southmost Jules Stien Eye Institute or whatever. That distance is fucking insane! We returned at 2:00 AM jaded and tired. Just two hours before, we were totally pumped. So much for Team Splenda.
On the third day, we finally enrolled in the classes and went to see a presentation about health on campus. We got a presentation about rape and sexual assault, which was quite enlightening. A lot of people stood up when they asked if they knew someone who was sexually assaulted. Also, they taught about drugs and alcohol. Note, it's not just "don't drink", but it's "go ahead and drink, but remember, ALCOHOL IS A MOTHER FUCKING POISON." Along those lines, yeah.
And afterwards, it gets fun with a presentation on safe sex! We learned how to use a condom and all that crap. But wait, Catholics don't believe in using condoms so that was a waste of time for me! Well, not really, since it was entertaining. After that, we got a tour of campus and learned of all the myths and superstitions. And after that I came home and updated my myspace with new pics of the people I met.
That was a fun three days. I think I'll love UCLA for the next four years. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| First off, my site's back up!
Because of that, you can read my extra spiffy AX2005 report!
Also, Samurai Champloo is awesome.
Oh yeah, in some news, my brother came home with the taiko game for PS2. He's all, "These are just bongos!" And I wanted to piledrive him. It says on the box, "TAIKO DRUM GAME" or whatever. And taiko drums are so fucking awesome, calling them "bongos" would be an insult! Just an anecdote for the day. | | comments: 3 comments or Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Do As Infinity - Shinjitsu no Uta | | Subject: | What now? | | Time: | 07:46 pm | | Current Mood: | bittersweet |
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| I just graduated, and I returned with a net gain of a cap, a tassel, a pin, a scarf thing, a diploma, and apparently a new digital camera. With more coming.
But now, I may not see a lot of these lovable friends of mine anymore.
Oh, yeah, David Shapiro did have the best speech ever. Ever.
T'is bittersweet. | | comments: Leave a comment |
| | Current Music: | Rurouni Kenshin OST - Starless | | Subject: | Fun² | | Time: | 12:46 am | | Current Mood: | awesome |
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| On Saturday, I went to Viv's place for her formal fancy birthday party... but never got the memo about the formal or fancy part. So I came in my casual clothes and everyone wailed on me for it. I was still let through the door because I was that special, I suppose. That and I had a present.
Long story short, played twister with Loc, lost, played DDR, won and lost, played Mafia, first one out (I was the Mafia, too, damn it!), played that PS2 tennis game with Catherine. I won because I'm a black belt in Virtua Tennis for Dreamcast, so a PS2 game is nothing on me.
Turns out my presents (Eternal Sunshine and Lost in Translation double DVD set for $20!) were DBDs she already had, but at least I gave the receipt. She said I had good taste, heh.
We played Hide and Seek in the dark, and people came up with creative places to hide. Wesley blended in perfectly in Viv's laundry room, and it was really hard finding him.
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Yesterday (though it feels like it's today because it's just 1:00), Joe, Jessica, Simon, and I, along with Johnny N., went off to UCLA for our research funfun project. We took 2 hours and a half finding everything, and would have spent an hour or so less had we knew how to work the system before hand, heh. But we still owned it, anyhow. We ate at a korean place (BCD) on our return, and it was pretty good.
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And today, I am awesome at 18 years old, bitch. Worship me. | | comments: Leave a comment |
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