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zomg - man utd - ftw

2008-05-22T19:52:00.002+08:00

hey there.

second day of 2nd year college ends tonight, and it's been a pretty good run, 'cept for a mildly PHAIL non-session of HARTDS1 earlier haha. Kino Eye is ambitious, and we aim to pierce the heavens with our Kino Drill Breaker, blast that probational status to hell.

it sucks that I'm not with Aya everytime, but hey, that's life, and every minute I've been with her so far for the past few days have been great, I couldn't ask for more. haha, well, I can't have everything right now, because there won't be anything left for the future!

all in all though, today was made of some KICK ASS FUCKING EPIC WIN!!!

last year I could've just went my way and slept as Liverpool battled AC Milan for the Champions League trophy, but hey I had some company to watch with, so yeah.

today, I sat it out in the comfort of my room, 2AM in the morning, with a pulled calf muscle to boot as I prepared for the maddest 3 hours of the year so far.

for those lost, it was the Champions League final, the first all English final, my team Manchester United against arch-rivals Chelsea in Moscow's Luzhinki Stadium.

fuck yeah.

I have classes, but screw that. I still ain't sleeping.

the minute I got home, it was dinner and all that, online for a while to chat with Aya, then off to bed. I was already about to fall asleep, my alarm set for 2AM, but dad arrived with some burgers from McDo, and how could I resist? I ate and had to let it go down, eating an hour of my sleep as I watched AOTS to pass time by.

I was asleep by 11pm, but in between that and 2am I remember waking up and silently cringe in pain due to a cramp on my left calf. it's those weird spells when you wake up a split second, feel some pain and then fall back asleep in another split second.

anyway, I did wake up, but slightly late at 2:30AM, but gladly the match hadn't started yet, it was still opening ceremonies and the teams were just about to walk out on to the pitch. well, my left calf is still cramped, a muscle pulled and I struggled limping to my seat, I stretched it out trying to get rid of some of the pain

the buildup to the game was tense, nerve racking. Man United won the Premier League, and everyone's eyes were set for Moscow. the FA Cup final between Portsmouth and Cardiff passed by without much fanfare if any, but I think things would've been louder if Man U, Chelsea, Arsenal or Liverpool were playing in it as usual. Portsmouth won, blah, as I'd have sided with Cardiff since, that'll be some epic history.

Luzinkhi Stadium. It's familiar territory for United center-back Nemanja Vidic, but the media put on the spotlight some problems with the pitch. no matter that the game will be played within two days due to the time zone differences between UK's designated kickoff time and Moscow, the final started on the 21st, ended on the 22nd, weird if I may, but more attention was paid to the pitch quality. the pitch was comprised of artificial turf, which drew some complaints after a match between England and Russia, well who wouldn't complain, as the English teams aren't used to playing in artificial turf. The stadium tried to import fresh natural turf, but that didn't go their way and they ended up playing in the artificial turf anyway.

that turf will prove to be one of the most crucial elements in the match.

it was a typical ManU-Chelsea match, quick breaks, the ball going nowhere in midfield. typical runs on the side from Ronaldo, typical advances by Drogba. first blood fell to Scholes, who had his nose bleeding after a clash with Makelele, seeing both players booked with a yellow.

I wasn't expecting much goals in it, but to my surprise Ronaldo scored in the 26th minute, soaring above everyone to head in a cross from Wes Brown after some terrific passing play between him and Scholes. tired eyes shot wide open and I managed to leap to my feet, but I was immediately brought down by the pain on my left calf, although jumping did manage to stretch it out and reduce the pain, haha.

United looked to take the lead at the break and also had a bunch of clear chances that would've kept the game to them more, but the pitch would cause an error sooner or later to cause the tides to turn. Essien cannoned a shot to goal that deflected off Ferdinand and Vidic, and Lampard was there to turn the ball in, and that's where the pitch came in. Van Der Sar lost his footing and slipped, leaving Chelsea to score and make the game more interesting now.

my heart was fucked up at this point, optimistic at the start even if pundits were leaning on Chelsea (home advantage, Chelski after all is powered by Russian Oil XD), and after having some heavy nerves lifted with an early goal, I got deflated by the late equalizer.

game on I say. GAME ON.

my eyes want to sleep, but my body presses on, and I only allow myself to lie on my bed for the 15 minute break, and back promptly in front of the TV for the 2nd half.

If the first half belonged to United, this one belonged to Chelsea. It was terrifying seeing United being pushed back and threatened, the biggest scare came from a Drogba shot that beat Van Der Sar, but was hit wide after hitting the left post.

more chances came, and even a shot that was supposed to be a definite goal by Ryan Giggs was miraculously headed away by an instinctive John Terry.

nothing came out of the 2nd half, and soon enough we were in extra time, where the action stayed fairly the same, only with a bit more desperation. at this point though, Rooney was already off and on was Nani and Giggs, who took the wings so that Ronaldo can act in the center with Tevez, still a fairly deadly combination from United.

by the end of extra time's 2nd half though, there was a big spat between Chelsea and ManU in a confrontation between Tevez and Ballack, tensions high, heads hot as usual. all the players were in a big clash and the referees had to peel each other away from each other.

Drogba made a stupid ass move though in this one. thought he was hidden away from referees' eyes by bodies, he provoked a hot headed Vidic with a slap on the jaw, but replays clearly showed that the linesman had a dead-on view of this scenario. United players held back Vidic, knowing that Drogba will surely get what's coming and they don't need any wrong moves. Tevez and Ballack were showed yellow for starting the thing, but Drogba got sent off righteously. Bye bye stupid dog.

I thought there'd surely be a twist with Chelsea now down to 10, but no, we arrive in penalties.

heart racing like crazy now.

who knew that the sending off of Drogba could affect this one, as well as the pitch which caused Van Der Sar to slip, gifting Chelsea their lifeline.

Clinical penalties as each player sent the goalies the wrong way, but the BIG twist was from, of all people, Cristiano Ronaldo. His effort was saved by Cech (and after seeing the replay, it wasn't with his hands, but with his FACE)...my heart sunk at the moment as I seriously thought it was game over.

Iunno, I couldn't watch the TV anymore, I had my head down, already bracing for defeat, and hoping for a miracle.

lo and behold, it came.

Chelsea's penalty hitters had been spent, and if Drogba was here to take one, it would HAVE been game over...but they needed someone to step up for the 5th penalty, the one which could win them the trophy. Who would step up other than Captain Terry, who will attempt to win Chelsea their first CL trophy in their first CL final. is history to be made?

but fate is cruel, and artificial pitch is cruel. as Terry strode to hit the ball, his trailing foot slipped on the pitch, sending his shot away awkwardly and well wide of the post.

my heart kicked back up and I could practically die from a heart attack at this point. it's now a sudden death shootout, the first miss, or the first save, could decide it.

after a few more kicks, the gamebreaker came. after Giggs coolly slotted his shot in, Anelka marched on to the spot.

JOY. FUCKING JOY.

Anelka hit his shot to the left, and Edwin was there, palming his shot away with both hands, and as that happened, you could see his face burst out into an expression of joy, the whole stadium rocking, as Van Der Sar became the hero that won United only their 3rd European Cup.

I was jumping like a madman, crazy! Football, bloody hell!!!

all that was left was to enjoy the celebration!

Chelsea fans were crestfallen, as was I before John Terry made that CRUCIAL miss. John Terry though, as the commentators put it, was inconsolable. Everyone in the team tried to cheer him up to no avail.

United though, ecstasy. The double! EPL Champions, and Champions League victors!!!

the celebration was mad!!! in that moment, I was jumping like mad, my left calf wasn't hurting anymore, and all drowsiness disappeared! hell yeah!!!

I don't know if this blog will do any justice much to the atmosphere felt by United fans everywhere...haha, I don't know how you'll write a report clearly after all that.

Ronaldo's miss, spared by Terry's. Cruel luck for Chelsea, big break for United.

alas, I can draw this season's football to a close with a big smile. I absolutely cannot wait for next season, like Alex Ferguson said, this is probably his best team yet, and I'd have to agree, given the wealth of options to play, especially in midfield.

after the game I tried to sleep, it was around 6:30AM already, and I tried to catch some sleep for at least an hour...I did, and woke up probably on instinct at 7:30...immediately off to breakfast and bath, leaving for the commute to school, proudly wearing my Manchester United shirt.

EPIC DAMN W0000000T!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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lol. proper blog about other life stuff soon. haha.

Creative Directorness and a broken MRT

2008-05-13T22:00:00.003+08:00

lol

so yeah, I'm in it.

I've had no sleep, decent ones anyway this week so far. I compiled the organizations' videos for the FOP presentation, and went with Aya early to school to stay in the cubes and do stuff.

like, decorate the cubes with KinoEye posters, flyers, make references in Korean, expose DBSK to the public, etc. and sometimes I'd try to catch sleep on the bench XD today I brought the laptop along so I'd have some entertainment.

well, today also was the first brainstorming of the KE team, mostly for the StAR Week booth and presentation. freaking deadline as everything (or at least most) has to get done before school starts on the 21st.

w00t. well they did most of the work conceptualizing the booth and the promotional materials, I've helped in tossing some ideas around as well.

sad thing is there's a complete team of officers but no real active members. XD

gonna be back at the cubes on friday! and summer ends earlier since we'll have to make ready our StAR Week booths before the 21st, meaning there's work to be done on the 19th and 20th!

I like the work anyway haha!

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what's up the commute today, everyone's freaking packing the places. if it's not devilishly traffic on the road, the MRT's pretty much packed to death.

what sucks mostly today is that the commute to school got derailed since the MRT had a big problem this morning and had some massive delay.

on the flipside though, this opened the door to me gaining a backup plan in such situations XD

the station announced it's acceptance of ticket refunds, and I cashed in mine. aya and dad told me to take a bus, the LRT-Ayala-Leveriza route, and which I did.

loooool...first long-distance bus commute evar.

was in an aircon bus at least, but the benches had almost NO legroom. to get comfortable I had to occupy the whole of the 2 seater on the right side...at least there weren't much people in the bus. big wtf right after though, as if it wasn't already traffic much, the bus was stopped by MMDA pigs, the reason, I don't know.

the bus eventually got moving, and before people started contemplating leaving and riding another bus. I decided to fall asleep and catch up on a few Z's, and I did fairly easy. I woke up near Buendia, and at that point people started coming in the bus. I had to give up the space I occupied and make do with the killer legroom.

anyway...traffic-ey crawl through Ayala avenue where almost 90% of the passengers eventually left. In minutes I was already in Buendia, just below the LRT station. I took the jeep to Vito Cruz haha.

all in all, it's a level up for me. now I have an easier and cheaper alternative for getting to school, and at least I can fall asleep in an aircon bus. downside is, it's a lot more time consuming so I'd have to cater my schedule to one that can accommodate regularly taking the bus.

looooool

i'm so proud of myself. freakingly.

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Champions 07/08

2008-05-13T21:40:00.002+08:00

they've done it again!

Manchester United were crowned the Premier League champions again, retaining their title from last season! haha, the gold badge again for next season's kit!

well, it's kinda a bit lacking since they got crowned away from Old Trafford, with only a stand of visiting ManU fans sharing the moment at the JJB. what sucks more for me is that none of the sports channels on local cable showed the ManU game! I probably bet that in the rest of SE Asia they showed quite massive coverage to such an important event, with not just the trophy up for grabs but tournament positions, survivals, etc, but NO, the Philippines only gets Chelsea vs Bolton.

fuck basketball.

but anyway, I did watch the Chelsea/Bolton game in it's entirety, and at least the ticker at the bottom of the screen updated us on goalscorers for the games happening simultaneously, and also a small video clip of the important goals. I can't say that I wasn't nervous, heck I was nervous the whole week. after all, ManU and Chelsea were tied, with only a solid goal difference gap to keep them apart, and all the pressure's on ManU.

the match started, and I kept a keen eye on the game. I also had the PC on the ManU website giving me live text updates, but they arrived way too late as it happened, the site reported Ronaldo's penalty scorer almost 10 minutes after it was actually scored.

I didn't get to celebrate the goal, but there was something more worth celebrating, and that was the sight of Stamford Bridge, worrying their asses off to hell and being toned down after they learned of United's goal...heck Bolton was holding them off quite well at 0-0. the crowd on their phones, radios, even Roman Abramovich all got word of the goal.

Chelsea eventually scored and put them back into a chance after halftime, but still Bolton was determined to hold off. Magic though, as in the ManU match, record-setting Ryan Giggs netted the second goal of the game, almost sealing the trophy in ManU's grasp. again, Chelsea fans stunned at the news.

I was already celebrating my ass off, and it was killing me that I couldn't see the game live, couldn't see the celebration...but again, there was another reason to have a smug smile watching the Chelsea game. In almost the last kick of the game, Bolton put one in Petr Cech's net, and settled the game to a draw...and in this one, all the Chelsea fans clearly don't like what they just saw. Hearts surely dropped.

haha...all is well!

anyway, this moment of joy expired the day after the game...since Chelsea have a chance at revenge and history as they face off again with the Reds at Moscow, in the first ever all-English UEFA Champions League final. ironically, "Chelski" is listed as the home side XD

w00t! nervous again!

and what's gonna suck more is that I have classes by then! should I stay up and watch the game and take the day off? (HECK IT'S ONLY GONNA BE THE SECOND DAY OF CLASS XD)

or do what some friends did last year. watch the game...go to school right after lol

haha. and what sucks more is that I'm in dire need of a PS3 and MGS4. >.<

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the summer update

2008-04-29T20:04:00.002+08:00

w00t

haha, well, I doubt I'll have any beach time this summer but I'm loving being in the city. I am heading off to Subic this weekend, we're gonna stay at the YC and well, I may swim, but I'd rather chill in the bathroom hot tub lol. In the morning I'd probably head off to the nearby football field and work on my crosses. no details yet on that supposed summer job at an ad agency, but I am onboard some commissions for the resto.

KinoEye, well, it's being pushed to the back of my thoughts for the moment, the past few weeks have been all-out football.

I've started playing MMOs again, thanks to Aya. We picked up the copies of Granado Espada which we got at the 2007 Toycon and endured a hellish long update process, we were using the open beta kits after all, there'd definitely be hell to update.

I had two short special effect snippets planned for myself this summer, and I haven't done any lol. One was to blow up somebody's head using either a punch or a gun, I'd rather go with the punch for a more wtf effect, and the other snippet is that I'll blow up something using a kamehameha.

stupid, but cool.

so anyway it's been a hellish season of football for Manchester United. you come back from a poor start to the season to contest Arsenal's grasp at the top. after finally knocking out the gunners out of the race, here comes Chelski (yeahp, that's no typo. I call em CHELSKI) to again threaten the title. fuck them. and when United had the chance to win the league last saturday at Stamford Bridge, you lose 2-1, and by a penalty. fuck them. now you're tied with the fucking blues, only sitting at number one because of goal difference, and you absolutely must win your next two games, home against West Ham and away against Wigan. fuck them.

oh, and tonight is a difficult Champions League 2nd leg semifinal at home against Barcelona. the 1st leg was 0-0, but now United can't win on away goals. they have to beat Barca outright. well, that'd be one way to shut up critics after having a recent shaky run in the league.

*sigh*

oh, and summer football.

well I don't go to Sunken Garden and play along, my two brothers are attending Union FC's summer camp in Corinthians. turns out my dad enlisted me too, but I'm not doing most of the drills since...hey I'm a big guy, most of the other peeps there are small kids, so I'm just playing along once or twice, keeping my eye on the two and trying to give Trik some tips. learned a better technique for curling the ball and dipping the ball from a cool Egyptian dude, who's also an incoming sophomore in college, but in Ateneo. he can pull of some nice tricks with the ball too, and has a killer shot. I can't kick really hard since I'm not that fit, but I can place the ball well, and thanks to the technique he taught me, I can curl it more often than usual. I'm not playing in any of the summer tournaments since I'm way past the age limit, but I do want my own Union FC kit though, it looks sweet, and that'd be way better than wearing someone else's kit most of the time. The kits are made by Mizuno, and for some reason, they look hella better than the Philippine team's kits.

w00t. and I've been out constantly last week, haha, to Corinthians for football, three days in Greenhills, a weekend over at our relatives' place, and a business meeting in Megamall. haha, haven't shopped for new wardrobe yet tho, but I did finally get me and Aya replacements for our Keroro phone charms. and ironically, we both will have Kagami like we both had Tamama. it's fate Jet says, as I got the phone charms from the gashapon machine on the 28th, our monthsary lol. I would've preferred Konata though, but Kagami's Aya's favorite character.

and weird, I jetted off to greenhills yesterday, still in my clothes from the day before lol. I didn't have time to bathe haha. just a spray of axe, and off I go.

*tsun tsun*

I got a 160GB external drive that's all slim and shiny thanks to my dad, I'll use it when I work or bring the laptop in school. the laptop's not much, it's a generic Dell Inspiron, no widescreen, no shiny screen finish, no Vista, but it's gonna work pretty well for me.

I still need at least a new 160GB HDD for my PC though.

and did I mention how I would kill right now for a PS3? all the games I want are getting released left and right

haha. lots of ambitions.

but I need $$$

*sigh*

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now onto un-football topics

2008-04-23T11:24:00.002+08:00

2 hit combo!

anyway, notice the change of blog layout, haha, while the old one with the script navigation thingy was cool, I found it too hard to play around with or tweak (aside from the colors), anyway I'm only a n00b at this sort of thing, I never got around to learning anything aside from basic html, Aya could practically pwn the shit out of me in WEBDEV.

the new layout, I really like a lot, it's a tad SDA-ish according to Aya, but I'd think that as just a coincidence. it's simple and it works, again, just a modification of an existing layout, but blah, I just found out that I don't have FrontPage after all (doesn't come with Office 2003) so I can't learn how all these fancy codes work for myself. Aya uses FrontPage, and I'm stuck with Notepad.

also I changed the layout of my Multiply to a similar style on the same day, haha, I finally learned how to create those twisting ribbons in Illustrator using mesh, although I do find it a bit complicated at times, I am gonna play with it. not really a major change in layout though, I just changed up the pictures used for the headers/sides and changed the color scheme.

note the Random Art section of the blog, well, I've always planned on making a consolidated portfolio for all my work, but I don't have the skills yet to create my vision, so I'm still keeping them on the YouTubes for video and deviantArt for stills, but I did create that section so I could embed random works I feel like showcasing.

I might not be able to go to Aya-senpai's birthday, since I think we're heading up to Subic during that weekend. We're staying at the Yacht Club again, but this time I'll bring my boots and ball and practice my free kicks at that field in Subic. lol.

but I am gonna hang out in school during Aya's stint in the FOP, see her "orient" batch 108.

no details yet on the summer job my dad got for me. did submit the resume this week though. if that pushes through I'll be a Makati person for 2 weeks, and will likely be hanging around at Glorietta, much to Aya's delight. I should treat her daw lol...sure then, Boni High tayo or Little Tokyo lol.

nothing to download...bah, no new music, Macross F interests me but I won't be really following it, it has some nice animation though, Code Geass R2, nevermind. as far as games go, nothing new. EURO 2008 on the PC doesn't use the next-gen engine, I don't know why EA won't give PC gamers the new engine, Konami gave PC gamers a port of the Xbox360 version, I don't know why EA still continues to give us the last-gen engine.

my PS2 has been running up again, haha, it's still alive, I'm playing D1 Grand Prix, aside from Gundam Seed Destiny: Rengou vs ZAFT II PLUS, and Mobile Suit Gundam: Federation vs ZEON DX.

my PSP is empty, so I'm stocking it for the while with mp3s and videos. on the DS, I'm playing The World Ends With You. The battle system is indeed hard for casual gamers, but hey, it's growing on me so far.

*sigh*

haven't done any major work in Illustrator and Photoshop lately. that's why my dA has been fairly un-updated. my attention got a shift to digital video, as I've been training myself on Premiere and AfterEffects, and soon on Encore DVD. My NLE skills are still basic, but I am focusing more on videography and special effects using AE. I've finished two of my Kawaii Killer intro videos. Poch uses blahblah films on his work, I've decided to use Kawaii Killer on my videos and other work. talk about branding. Aya and Bea will also use the name on our "planned" picture book/fashion photography photobook, watch out for that hehe.

working with basic 3d effects in AE is fun and all. rendering isn't haha.

I'm gonna be learning Encore DVD now, I plan to publish my two major works this term, "The Heartless King" and "Monogatari no Zetsubou" in one DVD for my own personal collection.

yeah, I'm really in deep with film now. I "joined" Kino Eye thanks to Bea, the org's new president hehe and is now helping out to plan the great STAR Week recruitment plan. I have lots of plans and hopefully they all carry out. well, that's gonna be the first big project of the org, a killer recruitment video, application form, and "interview". the interview is only gonna be for the potential people we can tap into for the org's bigger project, which for now, is to produce a one-hour long video. it's gonna be two 30-minute short films back to back ala-grindhouse, and we plan to showcase it in school as an ORDEV-accredited event. haha, puro drama naman kasi pinapakita na plays sa school! Time for some action! lol. no solid plans for genre yet though, although I am pushing for my part to be surrealist, viral and full of meme. Me and Poch will prettify the movies using coloring in AfterEffects and some minor special effects. oh yeah.

I don't mind if we can't use the school's cameras, we don't need them. I'm fine working with our DV cameras. although being able to use the school's Mac Pros for rendering the scenes we'll do with AfterEffects and the final output of the movie will be great. That'll save our PC's the strain. hehe, and we need an office in the SDA building. S304 is too small! wtf! haha

w00t.

our summer just started, and I already have plans in my mind for next term!

and yeah, I'm ready for a life in the SDA building. goodbye taft campus! (if not for the S304 cubicle).

schedule still pretty sketchy IMO though.

still perked up! I do need to catch up on sleep though.

xoxo

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The Battle at Camp Nou

2008-04-23T11:10:00.002+08:00

remember the old Captain Tsubasa games on the NES, them "soccer RPGs", wherein you do control your player as you move up the field, but then come into turn-based battle scenes against defenders and ultimately the goalie.

for some reason, I'd pay to see a version of that on current consoles lol, and done in an RoTK presentation, so much as to hype each major fixture as "The Battle at...".

why the stupid thought anyway, well there's three big "battles" coming up.

first is the Battle at Camp Nou, which airs at 2:30am tomorrow. it's the first leg of Manchester United's UEFA CL semifinal against Barcelona. it's gonna prove to be an exciting match at Nou Camp, with United driving a campaign for fans to really liven up the atmosphere, not just in the Nou Camp but also in during the return leg at Old Trafford. nothing creates more tension in a match than the roar of a goal-hungry crowd. it'll be injustice should we get a goalless draw, or even a 1-1 result like the earlier match between Liverpool and Chelsea. this match should be a goal thriller.

the second big battle is The Battle at Stamford Bridge. this fixture between Chelsea and Manchester United could potentially decide the Premier League's 07/08 winner. United failed to take the chance to really seal their victory after being held 1-1 at Ewood Park last Sunday. Chelsea are now only three points adrift of United. if Chelsea win this one, they'll level points with United, but United still have the lead due to a huge gap in their goal difference, although that leaves much tension for the last two fixtures. if United draw, they keep their 3-point lead and only have to win their last two games. the best result obviously for United is to win, therefore extending their lead to 6, and they would have won the Premier League at Stamford Bridge, since bringing their lead to six would make it mathematically impossible for Chelsea to overtake, as even if United lose their last two games and Chelsea win theirs, it would only bring Chelsea level points, and United still win by goal difference. FUCK ESPN PHILIPPINES FOR NOT SHOWING THIS FIXTURE ON THE LOCAL ESPN AND STAR SPORTS. FUCK THE DAMN SHIT OUT OF YOU.

the third big battle is the second leg of the UEFA CL semifinals, The Battle at Old Trafford. United have a good record at home, and the atmosphere here should be just as killer as in the first leg. mind you that both Barcelona and United are yet to lose in this tournament, neither would want to lose that statistic.

thoughts on the Liverpool-Chelsea match earlier today though, Liverpool was really unlucky. Chelsea have the chance to reach their first Champions League final though. Liverpool have had a shaky season, and their owners aren't helping.

w00t, this season's last stage is more tense than last year's.

SUMMER! LOLOLOL

2008-04-21T10:39:00.000+08:00

w000t.

summer.

first year of college passes by without a hitch. oh yeah.

well, I've only a month of "summer" to call a vacation.
and it's not really a straight vacation since there are plans ahead
like, planning Kino Eye's next activities (LOL), hanging out during FROSH orientation, enrolling, etc.

lots to do.

and I think I has two weeks of a summer job at some ad agency. not expecting much, but hey, as long as it's worth the experience and seeing how professional productions go, I can use that to build up Kawaii Killer.

what to do...what to do.

OH YEAH! GIJI NATSU YASUMI, IKEMAAAAAAAAAAAAASU!!!!!!!!

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endgame

2008-04-17T17:30:00.000+08:00

finally, my first year in college ends. (well not yet).

but finals is done at least. we celebrated with bowling and burger king at MoA, and served as a little despedida for Ken, who's leaving for Japan. says he's coming back for a visit in August tho *wink*.

well, I passed business math with a 2.0, something I didn't think I'd get at the start of the term, but I still have three more subjects to worry about, namely RECONSE, PHILOMA and FILIP13. I put some work into those yeah, but I don't really expect straight 2.0's and 2.5's. I think I let go of those subjects too much by focusing on BMAT. The rest of the subjects though, I don't think I'm in much trouble. WORLITE, COMSK2X, PETWODA. The course card distribution for PHILOMA is actually on Friday, but Bea offered to get our cards for us and give them to us on Saturday. Haha, thanks Bea!!!

still, I'm always nervy right before course card distribution.

I'll be singing my summer song right after. for now, summer isn't until saturday for me.

I wanna watch the Jackie Chan/Jet Li movie and eat Ramen at Bubble Tea to commemorate.

Anyway...school isn't the only thing that's coming to a close.

The Premier League is in it's final stretch, ManU has knocked Arsenal out of the title race last week after winning at Old Trafford. It's a really sad season turnaround for Arsenal who practically spent most of the season on top. And Chelsea has managed to be the latest threat to ManU's seat at the top. 4 games to go for both teams.

Chelsea had a chance to inch closer last Sunday but the were foiled by a draw against Wigan. Chelsea has a fixture today against Everton, they had the chance to draw level against ManU had they won against Wigan and win today but, if they win at Everton today, they'll only be within two points of ManU. Big boost for ManU if they draw or lose, we all know Everton is a fairly competitive side. They almost dented ManU's title charge last season around this time too, but their 2-0 lead against ManU was turned around to 2-4 in a dramatic turn of events, and ManU practically sealed their title then.

ManU can practically seal their lead again if they win against Blackburn this Saturday, and win next week against Chelsea, their final hurdle.

The UEFA Champions League is also coming to a close with only four teams remaining, the 1st leg of the Semi-finals starting next week. Liverpool will square off against Chelsea, Liverpool again trying to show their European dominance. I'd be rooting for Liverpool here naturally given the opposition. ManU will face off in a mouthwatering bout against Barcelona, and I'm all excited for this one. My dream final for the tournament would be Manchester United against Liverpool. I have strong faith in ManU's midfield with all Sir Alex's choices to slot, Rooney is a big threat to any opposition defense, and Ronaldo is having the season of his life.

ManU crashed out of a Treble, but they still do have what it takes to complete a Double. It was sad last year to see ManU struggling with injuries in this vital last stretch.

lolol.

summer...summer.

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kpoppified

2008-04-05T19:10:00.000+08:00

well, just a bit anyway.

haha, thanks to Aya, Bea and Paula I'm being slowly introduced to Kpop. it's not like the Jpop and Jrock I'm quite used to for all these years. haha, well, the first korean experience was going with them to noraebang, eating those rice cakes that I thought were pasta, drinking Soju, but still I sang Jpop/rock. the real catalyst to why I've suddenly been into a bit of Kpop is...Gundam00.

that doesn't make sense right? Gundam OO? WTF

well, yeah, believe it or not. menclave, whom I've been leeching my subs from back then always had Kpop videos after the break (they call em Korn pops), and they weren't youtube embeds. they were xvid streams they hosted, and like stage6, these were HQ vids you could save and playback anytime easily. initially I downloaded some so Aya'd have a good time with my PSP, and to just have lots of HQ vids on my PSP showcasing the nice lcd.

and then I got addicted to SNSD (or So Nyuh Shi Dae, or Girls' Generation). they're a cute girl band like Berryz Kobo. haha, I got addicted to their self-titled song.

then recently I got addicted to their song, Kissing You. even have all the remixes.

and now that the time comes that I got bored of my hair and wanna change hairstyles, I turn to the Kissing You PV for inspiration. but wait, they're all girls, so wtf again.

the answer is the lone Super Junior (Kpop boyband) member featured in the vid, Donghae. yep, hehe, I've collected pics for reference and I'll get the cut on tuesday. lol, it's a nice clean hairstyle with a good look...as much as I'd want something ala Gackt or even Hyde, they're too, styled. I'm not gonna be able to spend 30 minutes after a bath to style my hair like theirs with my schedule, so the Donghae hair fits. Aya, Paula, Bea approves.

lol. Aya and Bea are quitting their bloggers for a chinese blog. and me and jet might migrate to a japanese blog.

just for kicks.

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bah, I'm bored.

I've spent a good 95% of this day on the PC since I can't go to Ozine and Gino's birthday later tonight since the parents are out of town, and I'm charged with looking over the house.

and Aya's in Zambales, so all I can do is text her. wah.

boring weekend ahead of me, so I really just can't wait for tuesday.

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(for some reason this post does not make sense XD ...I'm just plain bored)

epic win today

2008-04-02T20:26:00.000+08:00

epic win! finally I got the scarf that I wanted so badly. it's that kind of scarf as shown above. and it's epic win since it's only for 200 bucks, and it's a color combo you don't see everyday, everyday you see black/white, white/red, white/blue, or sometimes black/grey...but not really black/red! my favorite colors! GYAAAAA!!! now I'm ready for the photoshoot with Bea's new DSLR on friday!

anyway...overdue blog about Bright Lights!!!

haha, it's a small event. meh, if MediaMax were like MooMedia, it'd probably be so much cooler and well executed. but still, it was cool, if not for the weaboo J-Pop kuno theme, but the thing I looked forward to were CSB's resident cosplayers. there was Aya-san who was in a CLAMP School Detectives outfit...which noone recognized, Cheska in a Meryl cosplay, and a girl in a cool Kakashi and Tessa-san in bunny girl Haruhi which was epic win.

yep. me, aya, jet, and camwhore ensued.

lol.

scarf!!! love!!!

I'm still thinking if I'm going to Ozine even without Aya. meh, I'm bored. I have a football game on saturday so I might be too tired to make the trip to Megamall. plus I don't even have tix yet.

blah blah.

scarf!!!

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produktiv day

2008-03-26T19:46:00.000+08:00

well, this day I got a glance at what my life would be starting next term. SDA full time.

after ol' BMAT, COMSK2, WORLITE, blah...the day was over. we headed to the SDA to chill, and Jet had a clinic with Ms. Dolly so I went, Aya came with us. We eventually ate at the cafeteria, I had the usual frankfurter, Aya had a breaded porkchop.

blah. wala lang, bonding, talk, chismis :))

Aya left for her FOP General Assembly around 1, me and Jet went around down to the 11th floor to chill, lurk, be excited for Bright Lights, and wait for Ms. Dolly.

They eventually got started around 230pm, and I was already gonna go down to pick up Aya, but when he pulled out the paper, my drawing hand couldn't resist.

I joined anyway to furnish some color rendering skills with colored pencils, get my current performance appraised. Ms. Dolly was impressed (or at least said our works were good) with our pencilling, and that we had sufficient skills enough, and just advised us to work on further developing our colors with more blending and detail. after that, she asked us to draw some more stuff, and gave us pointers on workspace management, posture, warmups and practices, it was a pretty cool 2 and a half hours we practically spent in that room.

yeah, I'm so excited for life after 5th term. although from what I've heard around the conversations in 1105, I am getting a bit intimidated, but hey, I've expected that the minute I penned AB-MMA into my course application form. I'm not one to complain and bawl over stuff like that, I'm stoked. It's my dream course. no joke.

fuck yeah!!! kung tinamad kumain sa caf, ede magpadeliver sa caf!!!

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squeeky bum time

2008-03-25T20:54:00.000+08:00

...as Sir Alex Ferguson once said.

anyway, it's the moment I've been waiting for the whole season!

Manchester United finally take the Premier League's top seat, and by 5 points instead of a goal difference! shit shit shit! and they took the top position after a 3-0 beating of Liverpool.

and now, they could potentially win the league and retain the trophy and golden badges in 5 games out of the 7 remaining league fixtures. how? well, first they have to win their next 4 EPL games, and then beat Chelsea on the 5th game at Stamford Bridge. sweet revenge for a season back, where Chelsea took the trophy in the same stadium at the same stage of the league.

Chelsea took 2nd place with 1 point over Arsenal after beating them last Sunday. Arsenal is still a threat, but I guess it'll be another ManU-Chelsea struggle like last season. I remember very well what happened last year, ManU had a potential trophy winning fixture against Everton. Chelsea was winning on their fixture then, and ManU was down by a goal or two. Fast forward, and we find ManU AHEAD of Everton, and Chelsea losing their game. Magic. ESPN even had a dramatic montage of the events. And after that, ManU sealed their Premier League victory with only a few games left. Heck, their next match would be against Chelsea, and they were given an applause outside of the tunnel by the blues.

it's not gonna be an easy 4 matches though, unfortunately. Aston Villa, Middlesbrough, Arsenal and then Blackburn before they can potentially win it at Chelsea.

the last games between ManU and the 5 teams went like this:

MNU 4 - 1 AST
MNU 4 - 1 MID
MNU 2 - 2 ARS
MNU 2 - 0 BLA
MNU 2 - 0 CHE

they've beaten them all except Arsenal in their last EPL games against each other. while I'm not being too complacent against Villa, M'brough and Blackburn even if United's wins seemed comfortable. they may be on a run, and anything may happen. The Chelsea the Reds beat then was the shell-shocked Chelsea after Mourinho left, different from the Chelsea now. Arsenal, well, they drew against each other, but remember the 4-0 FA Cup victory at Old Trafford, and this last dance against Arsenal is at Old Trafford again.

anything can happen. I have my fingers crossed. it's time for United to focus!

gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

if this dream scenario doesn't go as planned, then they'll probably go until the final game to settle it. either by points, or goal difference.

oh, they have the Champions League pa pala. QF 1st leg against Roma. we all know what happened with last year's QF against Roma very well. right now I'm not too focused on their Champions League campaign although they have a very good record, it's the Premier League I'm all focused on.

gyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Monogatari no Zetsubou/The Heartless King

2008-03-21T17:27:00.000+08:00

haro. me gots a double feature for you today.

I present my photo-essay/slideshow double feature, both films were projects/presentations for our WORLITE and PHILOMA class. Monogatari no Zetsubou for WORLITE, The Heartless King for PHILOMA.

They're rush works so you can't help but feel much room for development. Heck, I'd do it over again with more planning, develop the photo-essay style, or even do live-action adaptations (lol, maybe for VIDPROD). Both movies were shot and done within 5 days each.

music and inspirations primarily from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei

MnZ was already submitted last week, and it was liked by the prof and friends. I hope THK gets a good reception as well.

dozo~

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Monogatari no Zetsubou (A Tale of Despair)

Toyota O-kama (Paolo Tolentino) wages a climactic battle with Mitsubishi Kuruma (Mark Reyes) for the hand of the Hime no Momo-jiri, Otoko Onna (Ken Ortilla).

What does fate have in store when our three heroes reach the climax of their entangled tale?

run time: 05:47 mins
encode: XViD+LameMP3
size: 38.0MB
shoot venue: 11th floor, DLS-CSB School of Design and Arts Building
subject: WORLITE
total work days: 4 (1 for the shoot, 1 for the photomanip, 1 for the editing, 1 for encoding)
actors: Ken Ortilla, Mark Reyes, Paolo Tolentino
photographyby: Dino Dizon
editing by: Dino Dizon
written by: Mark Reyes
directed by: Dino Dizon
tools: Canon PowerShot S5 IS, Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0, VirtualDub 1.7.6
total project size: 1.20GB
times: render (40mins), compression (3mins)

the raw render before the encode was done with Cinepak+uncompressed audio, which gave me 321MB before the recompression encode.

this movie is supposed to be a creative adaptation of Kabuki. haha, hence the samurai action and all the styling.

soundtrack:
Momoiro Gabriel - Hasegawa Tomoki (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei OST)
Power - Kawai Kenji (Kidou Senshi Gundam OO OST)
Hyakume Housoku to Katashiro Ningyou - Hasegawa Tomoki (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei OST)
Haru, Mankai no Sakura no Shita de - Hasegawa Tomoki (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei OST)
Don't Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin (Don't Worry, Be Happy)

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The Heartless King

Once there was a kingdom, ruled upon by a King (Ken Ortilla) who had everything. One day, he is troubled and seeks his adviser (Dianne Madamba) for advice. While he ponders about in melancholy, a Demon Kidnapper (Dino Dizon) ravages the kingdom, and threatens to kidnap the kingdom's princess (Angel Yu).

Inspired by Jun Kudou's story from Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei.

run time: 07:58 mins
encode: XViD+LameMP3
size: 52.1MB
shoot venue: One Esplanade, beside SM Mall of Asia, Pasay City
subject: PHILOMA
total work days: 3 (1 for the shoot, 1 for the photomanip, 1 for the editing and encoding)
actors: Dino Dizon, Ken Ortilla, Angel Yu, Dianne Madamba
photography/costume design by: Aya Villa-Real
editing by: Dino Dizon
written by: Aya Villa-Real
directed by: Dino Dizon
tools: Canon PowerShot S5 IS, Adobe Premiere Pro 2.0, VirtualDub 1.7.6
times: render (1hr10mins), compression (5mins)

the raw render before the encode was done with Cinepak+uncompressed audio, which gave me 835MB before the recompression encode.

this movie is supposed to be a philosophical tale. i was supposed do to a film noir tale in live action, but i guess elements were really just against it at this time, so this is my plan B, which fell into place more easily and with enthusiasm than the first idea.

is it just me, or is the film sorta melancholic? heck the music fits, even the credits song

soundtrack:
Main Title - Hasegawa Tomoki (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei OST)
Yotsuyu ni Magirete Gosunkugi - Hasegawa Tomoki (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei OST)
Shukumeiteki Hikagemono - Hasegawa Tomoki (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei OST)
Boukyou no Guitar - Hasegawa Tomoki (Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei OST)
Qing Fei De Yi - Harlem Yu

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enjoy the movies. I promise to deliver better thought out and executed films in the future. hehe, expect more films when I start getting VIDPROD. Go MMA! lolz. If I had a video camera right now I'd probably be churning out random, senseless films when I feel like it though.

need to work on my AfterEffects too.

my weekend work is not over anyway. I may have gotten The Heartless King done ahead of schedule, there's still the matter of "Unlucky Channel" to be done for RECONSE.

it's not really a film though, it's more of a presentation for class, so don't expect it online.

*now ponders whether to do a double-feature pack that includes both movies on DVD just for my own personal amusement/portfolio/incessant laughter since they have the same styles, mood, background music, etc.*

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i scream w00t

2008-03-20T13:12:00.000+08:00

well yesterday was a bit effish.

the philippines continued to be killingly hot, traffic went crazy since everyone's going back to the countryside, we beat the heat to finish the photography for our PHILOMA project.

to top that off, I still didn't have any interwebs since it took so long to reconnect.

so my PC was rendered useless. or maybe it's just me being lazy. anyway, the day was spent watching TV, playing the Wii, or more games on my PC and my still surviving first-gen PS2.

I woke up earlier today, heat was still blistering, and it'd really make you sick.

anyway, the whole fucked up epic lulz excuse for an issue in the YG is done, haha, but it left an unchecked dent of 140+ messages in my inbox. oh well.

great news for me though, I missed the ManU clash with Bolton live earlier today (how would I have known the game sched anyway, I had no nets), but the replay is being shown later at 3pm. Sir Alex fielded a team without Rio, Giggs or Rooney, and for the first time Ronaldo takes captaincy. It was a great match, they won 2-0 by Ronaldo's shots, and he broke George Best's record for goals scored by a midfielder and is now this season's top scorer ahead of Fernando Torres, and with all the Premier League teams having played 30 games, ManU is now THREE points CLEAR ahead of Arsenal. Arsenal has been in a slump, only managing to scalvage draws from games they've almost lost, and Chelsea drew 4-4 against Tottenham. Finally, for the first time this season, ManU gets breathing room at the top. They don't have much injury problems and they have a pretty fresh squad they can rotate, and Ben Foster showed he can deliver for the first team, although his entrance was a bit premature.

Only 8 games left in the Premier League, and on this weekend, United clash for the second time against Liverpool at Old Trafford, the last time was an away game at Anfield where United won 1-0. And in another great chance for United, Chelsea will be hosting Arsenal. Chelsea have been goalscorers in their latest game, but Arsenal has had a habit for quick draws. ManU will stay ahead on goal difference despite a point tie if in case they lost to Liverpool and Arsenal wins, but it'd be more great if they won against Liverpool again and have Arsenal lose, or even draw again. Heck, United can even afford a draw, but they should fully attack and seal the gap with a win, and hope Arsenal gets held. It will be a decisive weekend. United should work hard against their Premier League rivals, and not forget to just fight with as much fervor against the lower table teams. And they even have a Champions League draw against Roma, and coincidentally, in a quarter-final again. The double is still as good as a Treble, and if they can do it, who says they can't get all three next season?

lol.

and now...back to doing projects.

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#100

2008-03-17T22:08:00.000+08:00

w00t, so this would be my 100th post.

*yay*

so anyway, quick blog. nothing spectacular. the whole nation is in summer vacation while we tri-sem studes are stuck with school until April 20. yep. everyone gets three months, we get barely one. no regrets though.

submitted the first completed project for this term today, it's a creative adaptation of Kabuki for our WORLITE class. nothing special, it's just a photo essay/video slideshow, we took pics at the SDA one day and I photoshopped it for effect, and it worked magnificently. I love the timings and atmosphere of the thing. I would love to develop the idea and concept further, after a few suggestions from some people. I'm not gonna be able to explore the ideas fully but I have an opportunity to at least test the waters on wednesday. on that day, we're filming for a PHILOMA video, and while I wanted to do a noir film, again, lack of time, resource and people (and generally it's too early and impromptu to pull off the concept I drew up), I chose to switch to plan B.

Plan B is to do a children's story style video, but since again, I lack time, we're gonna do it like how I did our WORLITE slideshow. I'm just gonna present a montage of photoshopped pictures. I'm not promising myself that I'll follow the suggestions of one friend completely, but I'll take some of the ideas in mind. After all, this is rushed work. Haha, buhay MMA. Wag na magreklamo, magtrabaho at diskarte nalang. The photoshoot will take the whole wednesday, and I can start photoshopping pictures on thursday, and compile the video friday. I could also encode avi files by then.

As for the third and last project in queue for this term, the RECONSE report on Homosexuality & Prostitution, we changed the presentation style, but our concept and script will largely stay the same. Instead of taping our "newscast", we're doing it live, and I'll try to come up with a believable news set using the overhead projector, and playing our taped report segments on the class TV with a DVD player. Hopefully, I'll have the three pieces of footage I'll need to arrange. We'll need work and rehearsal on our "timings" though. haha, it's not just content I'm worried about, it's "carrying" the presentation through. It's a great concept and idea though, and I'd love for all the pieces to come together.

weeeee. oh yeah, rant here. so many people are having enlistment problems. well basically they don't attend general assemblies, use common sense, rant like 'tards on the yahoogroup, don't even bother to use a search for a while and feel they have a right to complaint. well right now there's three topics that keep popping up. one, enlistment problems where their non-flowchart sequence subjects were disapproved, two, froshies not being able to borrow mma equips, and three, the whole hassle of meeting advisers.

let's answer number one. well, afaik, an adviser told me that the flowchart is there to be followed. if you're not gonna follow it, what's the use? but then you'd ask why they'd allow you to enlist in the first place? and what's the my plan for? well, according to that adviser, think over the my plan paper well before you ink it. it's not gonna be a solid guide for the advisers to approve your choices, but, she said that if you're not gonna follow the flow, it's best to talk it over to your adviser first BEFORE complaining on the last day of checking enlisted subjects. I mean, that's good logic right there. plus it's convenient. I mean, what's 5 minutes with an adviser. Like one sempai said on the YG, may oras mag yosi, gimik, pero requirements wala? kahit mga sumasakit ulo sa thesis nakakapagsumbit ng reqs, eh mga wala pa dun hinde?. and another rant answering to a message was wala naman siguro tayo sa UP Diliman na kelangan mag-jeep para lang makapunta sa ibang department. Iunno. the batch is looking pretty irresponsible right now. plus, ambastos pa makapagreklamo ng iba...mag reklamo na nga, barok pa.

number two. well, it doesn't require much straining of your common sense (given you have one) and logic (that too) to figure a reasonable answer out. one, you're labelled a FROSH for a reason. sige na kung 10 years old ka palang marunong ka na gumamit ng mga expensive, high-tech, blah blah equips ng school. pero habang FROSH ka, wag ka na magreklamo. sure the professors for minor subjects keep throwing MMA-related projects at you saying that it's your field of expertise, and believe me, I myself would prefer a written project over a video right now. Syempre di ka naman sa technical aspect tinitignan, content parin yan. one of the advisers even said na pinagbawalan na magbigay ng MMA-ish projects like videos and stuff ang mga general subjects, pero sige parin. tama nga naman na unfair yun sa mga pumasok ng MMA na hinde ganon ka-bihasa sa paghawak ng kagamitan pero, wala eh.

diba mas OK at mas nakakabilib kung magawan mo ng paraan tong projects na to na hinde na kelangan humawak ng high-tech equips, ek ek, at karereklamo? Siguro naman mas astig ka non'. Tutal, kung makakapaglabas ka ng magandang presentasyon gamit ang mga normal equips mo kahit hiram lang sa barkada, pano pa kaya kung majors ka na? ede diba mas may dating ka?

mayaman na kung mayaman, mayabang kung mayabang. frosh ka, pero MMA parin pinasok mo. magpaka-MMA ka. diba nasa TAO naman yan? wala sa GAMIT? ano un...magpicture ako ng tae ko gamit ang Canon EOS527598D, mabebenta ko na sa museo? mabibigyan na ko ng kwatro? grabe, kung sa gamit ka lagi nakasalalay, naku. tapos isa pa daw, la ka panamang binabayarang lab fee dyan eh. isipin mo nalang, majors ka na...hihiram ka ng camera mo tapos malalaman mo ubos na lahat kasi nirenta ng isang frosh para sa kanyang minors project. diba mas lalong badtrip yun?

and number three, well...ADVISER sila eh. you talk to them. not they talk to you. the way some people look at it they look like secretaries being asked to press the OK button every enlistment. well, they're PROFESSIONALS in their field. they should know what you're up against, syempre sila rin naman magtuturo. if you don't wanna follow the flowchart, then tell them before enlistment so they could take note. kesa last day ka magreklamo. it's not guaranteeing what you want, but at least you made your case in a civil and polite manner. Plus, like I said earlier, it's not like you have to take a jeep to get to the SDA building. Eh ano kung may projects ka. Diskarte pare. Lakarin mo nalang yung mas importante kesa mag yosi break. Maawa ka sa baga mo.

weeee. ewan. di sa nagyayabang dahil enlisted ng maayos, flowchart ako eh. diskarte ko kasi sundin un eh, di bale nang patong patong ang major subjects, basta ba kaya mo. sunod kasi, asikasuhin naman ang mga bagay kolehiyo mo. COLLEGE ka na. di na highschool.

*sigh*

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL

yep. yappari.

buhay MMA. well, killer lang siya kung tamad ka.

and right about now, I should be sleeping.

I better catch some DECENT sleep during term break.
but yeah. it feels like a waste to do AV projects for minor subjects, but hey, it's a chance to flex some muscles and earn first-hand experience. by the time I get to third year I'd have shitloads of ammo.

happy 100th post. F.T.W.

ZA WARUDO!

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streeesed. but i'm glad she's there to save me

2008-03-11T18:07:00.000+08:00

though it feels kinda weird that lately, she's the one who pulls me out of my stress-induced moments. back then it was the opposite. but, I'm extremely happy anyway, knowing there's that someone I can turn to. plus, who can't help but smile when she attacks you with cuteness?

haha, thanks baby.

so anyway, not much news. only a ManU rant (to come later) and some usual school rants. I think I've learned quite a lot during the first year of College, most importantly regarding schedules, what schedule to pick/assemble, and the effects of these schedules on your day-to-day finances. Especially this term, going to school at 8am seems fine, since I go home around noon, but I'd be damn hungry by then. Either I eat a late late lunch at home around past 2pm, or spend around 150 bucks on a good filling meal at TriNoma. or McDo. blah, Jollibee is for emergencies nalang, di ko na kaya mag Burger Steak araw araw lol

next term we're attempting a 4-day school week, it seems plausible, at the cost of some heavy load, but who gives a shit since it's still a shorter day than the GS/HS days.

and I still think that our flowchart is alright. people say that it's hard to take on all the minor subjects since we won't have anything to balance the majors, and yeah it's gonna be hard to take the majors all together with all the projects. but I'm not that kind of person. IMO anyway, that thinking seems too pessimistic and un-MMA. who says I can't interrelate those projects? that's what I'm here to do, and I'd rather push myself to the limit than lurk around in ease. The 08/09 flowchart caters to that spread-out attitude I disapprove of. I don't want to be worrying about general subjects and running back and forth from the Taft campus to the SDA building. I don't want any non-MMA bullshit breaking my work flow. That's just the way I work, I like the prospect of taking all the art major subjects all together since, my mind is focused on the art subjects alone, maximizing my creative flow.

best example for me would be this first year of college. I was excited for NATSCA-1 since, right off the bat it was an MMA subject, although not a minor or even a design foundation subject, but still. for the first half of that term, I had some killer works. by the second half, the general subjects killed my creative streak and I just bummed around. I had the subject in the palm of my hand anyway, and all of my works covered up for anything I didn't submit. I even ended up a point shy of a 4.0

plus, trying to do major-ish projects for general subjects like videos (which btw, is SO WRONG according to the MMA advisers) was a bit of a tedious task since, they were like high school projects. complete blah. I had no creative flow. I wasn't worrying about my output, I was worrying about the deadline and what the teacher wants. blah. it seemed totally pointless. except for a bit of a kick-in of juice during INSOCIO.

blah. anyway, I learned some tricks, and have what I want to do in track for now.

now to the ManU rant.

WHAT THE FUCKING HELL WAS UP WITH THAT GAME?!

while it is commendable, Portsmouth's defense, ManU basically botched that game. what the commentators were saying was right, ManU had a mountain of chances and didn't make good of any, while Portsmouth took their only one, and took it well.

I won't say that the game was decided on the decision not to award a penalty to Ronaldo after being knocked down, but I'd say the referee was a bit biased. maybe not even a bit.

It was evident, Portsmouth had a solid defense, but sometimes too solid. During the start of the game Ronaldo was blatantly knocked down and out of the pitch, and not even a card was shown. Not awarding the penalty against him too showed some damn bias. Even the goalkeeper incident, the penalty was deserved yes since Kusczak made contact with the striker but, Rooney and Anderson were right behind to cover so there was no reason to show a red card, maybe a yellow, but the red was too harsh.

and now United ends up in a dilemma. they're still assessing if Van Der Sar can play keeper on saturday, but Ben Foster is all fit and at the ready. There's no reason they can't rest Edwin to be safe and let Foster in on his starting debut for United in the Premier League.

Good news after that though. Chelsea got knocked out of the FA Cup too, which means there'll be new holders this year, but the great part is that it was at the hands of Barnsley, who also took out Liverpool out of the Cup. That's worse than losing to Portsmouth. Also, Arsenal had a draw yet again in the League, leaving United with another golden chance to sit atop the table.

and they have an easy chance to do that. the game on saturday is against Derby. it's easy since, Derby is only in the last place in the table...with only TEN points to their name. c'mon United, this is a GOLDEN opportunity, and maybe the last one, you had two chances before which you took, but lost, and I believe third time's the charm.

w00t. I heartz the ManU training kit I got, which was bought at the ManU Experience in Macau (which I MUST visit). I also got my England away kit from the UK, but it's an XXL...too big for me, but it's a collector's item nalang. It's still some great eyecandy though.

haha.

I miss your lap already na baby, I need some more rest!

<3

lalo na't todo work on projects na!

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audiosurf owns me

2008-03-04T20:15:00.000+08:00

audiosurf almost owned my whole day...I mean, I killed half of the day's time playing this game. it's just so crazy, and for an independent project at that, i admit, it's admirable.

btw, YES, that bar at the bottom says what it says.

It's a new game for the PC that's all the rage right now, it's basically a hybrid between a crazy rhythm game an a puzzle...oh with WipeOut thrown into the mix for good measure. It's a game that runs off your PC's audio files. your music. it transforms your beloved music into a crazy rollercoaster ride.

the fact that it's AI-generated off your tracks, depends on your audio's quality, and other same applications in the past generated results that are basically hit-and-miss...I feared when I first spotted the game. I was wrong...heck, I've been playing stuff from different genres for good measure and every track felt fit to the song. calm songs have calm levels that breeze smoothly with light and vibrant colors, heavy songs feature dark levels with bright hot colors and feature high-speed rollercoaster tracks.

turn up the graphics too and you're in for a sweet ride.

the basic gameplay is, collect blocks of same color, avoid grey blocks, each stack of three or more colored blocks will disappear and turn into points...repeat. a bit like playing tetris while playing wipeout.

pick out any review from the net and all they have is praise.

i'm too lazy to write a long-ass review just because I wanna get back playing :))

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w00t...2nd leg of UEFA CL first knockout stage tomorrow, and at 3am is ManU vs Lyon, the home leg. remember that United is taking an away goal advantage after levelling late 1-1 in Lyon, and they're pretty strong at Old Trafford, and they're yet to be beaten in the tournament, but that doesn't mean Lyon is going to be easy, heck, just look at the last match.

and uh...playing football again will take a while. I forgot that the shoes for the grass ain't as cheap as indoor court shoes.

lol...

audiosurf...*drools*

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saturdazed

2008-03-02T10:53:00.000+08:00

lol.

I'd rather be an otaku.
It's more fun.

well, yesterday I shot off to Gateway to visit Tagcom with Jet and Aya. first toycon of the year I think, but it's not as big as Toycon toycon. Heck we were surprised by the event location, you had to pass the bathroom hallway and enter a cramped lobby where the event took place, and from it's size, it's better as an art exhibit or something, and the pathway too it is too claustrophobic and not really inviting. Me and Aya got in early, got our tickets and made one round around the place which was already packed to death to scope out shops, but afterwards we headed out first so we can have brunch.

taco bell was the order of the day, and we had the usual. haha, Hard Gay was already inside, but while we were ordering we spotted him coming over to Taco Bell. "sei sei sei" he says and made his way to the counter, but suddenly turning to his friend and saying "wait...I have to pay", demanding for his money lol. and yeah, while we were eating he was just there, watching the taco bell ads on their tv while waiting for his food, and people were staring at him all O_O and stuff. after his order was called tho, he gave a quick "ya-fooooo!!!!!" haha

so anyway, Jet eventually arrived, but didn't eat, and unleashed his camera. after that, we went back inside. went to the daMeat booth to sign the attendance sheet and stuff, and then made rounds. I couldn't buy HG or MG gundams since I was short and really didn't wanna stretch my funds, and the Den-O belt was really unattainable at this time. There was this cool booth selling shinai (though I didn't trust the quality and authenticity), but what they had that were good were gashapon toys, sold one by one, and for hella cheap. I wanted to buy some cool UC Gundams, but meh. There were these heavy, 1/200 Gundam W toys that were really poseable, detailed with panel lining and had complete weapons, and looked like MSiA toys, but meh. Shenlong and Sandrock lang eh, but it is interesting to note that a Shenlong Gundam kit was my first ever Gunpla.

I got from them a Kamen Rider Ichi-go figure which looked great, but it needs a stand tho. They had some Den-O toys, but some were warped (like weapons), they had this Kamen Rider Black figure that was big (but had a missing antennae), and a small Kamen Rider Nii-go figure that rode on something that barely resembled his motorcycle. Oh, and Kamen Rider Ichi-go riding on Battle Hopper...weird. Speaking of riders tho, the Toku Heroes Philippines booth had some cool displays, especially the guy that had a good Den-O collection, and that guy with the massive Rider Black collection.

Aya looked really different today haha, she was in a short black pleated skirt, her trademark boots and a white collared shirt with a black necktie. She looked good enough that a guy who was photographing cosplayers (who had a really cool camera) wanted to snap one of her, she told him she wasn't cosplaying anything, but hey, she looked good enough for that dude.

she bought a Japanese fashion magazine which was hella heavy, and (finally) her Kitty Ears, which was a complete impulse buy. She was already taking money out of her wallet before asking for price, and to top it off, it was a set of Marie kitty ears! (her favorite kitty).

Jet found a good 1/100 or 1/60 scale Musha Gundam, though it was with a pile of old toys, and the box was already softening and was pretty beat up, but it was still a steal for the price.

I couldn't find the guy selling PVC tires for my RC, so I could drift it. The whole PRCD team had a display tho. My spoils were the Kamen Rider Ichi-go figure and a Keroro stuffie. Haha, and the Keroro stuffie wasn't a fake one to boot. Keroro's position is laying on his belly though, so you could use him as a pillow, yeahp, gonna be my school pillow.

we were supposed to have Sizzling Pepper Steak, but meh. McDo nalang! haha.

Aya decided she wanted to cosplay na talaga and was researching sites, she'd cosplay Rozen Maiden. I was just gonna make a HAMASHO mask, but if I grow my hair long enough, I'd consider Allelujah from Gundam 00.

yeahp, around the end of the day though, we just hanged out at the dAmeat booth, since, it was getting too crowded to shop anymore, and cosplayers were piling up since it was time for their competition. me and aya left around 3pm, but we forgot to look for Hard Gay again, since, we wanted to include him in our RECONSE video. haha, sayang! ...and we couldn't figure out a good Hard Gay style line for him to say.

lol...wasn't the best event, but yeahp. More to come! the next is the Ozine fest, and there's actually gonna be an event at the SDA building. yay, feel na feel ko na pagiging Otaku. Speaking of CSB, we met senpai and Cheska sa daMeat booth. lol, go Benilde!

I was drained, but later that night we went to my mom's friend's place for dinner, it was a very cool house, but not really my style. Played with their Wii though and some basketball/football in the backyard.

Strange though, I was doing kickups then, but I kept picking up the basketball and shooting (pumapasok naman lahat), and for one rare moment, feel na feel ko yung laro. Although ironically, as I was playing basketball, I really got the urge to buy football shoes so I can play football again. I'd go to sunken garden a bit and play. yeah. they don't have to be Mercurial or T90, as long as I can use them and they'd fit my style.

night had good football too, I caught the ManU match away against Fulham where they won 3-0, goals from Park, Hargreaves and an own goal by Fulham. ManU almost took the Premier League's top spot yet again by goal difference, since after the match, Arsenal was deep into injury time against West Ham and were trailing 1-0, but in the last kick of the game, they were able to equalize. But, that still closes that gap between the two teams to 1 point.

yeahp...I wanna play.

speaking of matches, more matches to come this week. there's the second leg of the first knockout stage of the Champions League where Lyon travels to Old Trafford to face Manchester United, who will take an away goal advantage after rescuing the first leg 1-1 away. Arsenal will try to knock out Milan at the San Siro and be the first English team to beat them in European competition at that stadium, while Chelsea will try to crack Olympiakos at Stamford Bridge.

and there's the FA Cup tie on saturday, where ManU will face Portsmouth at home. Should be an easy game, and on that day, Chelsea faces Barnsley, who in an upset, ended Liverpool's FA Cup campaign. Do we hope for another upset? why not? Tottenham DID make an upset in that Carling Cup final.

w00t. I'm gonna save for my footy shoes starting this week. I have 1.2k to start with, and I plan on buying a T90 Shoot or a Predator. Those fit my style of play more, as I'm not really a Mercurial person, though I want an indoor court version of the Mercurial, the only one they have sa Trinoma is the Talaria.

I'm gonna be serious na. Time to get fit! bawasan taba sa paa! kahit mangitim sa araw kasi summer na T_T

w00t. good luck to me then.

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pictaps

2008-02-28T18:24:00.000+08:00

lol. meme get. got this from jet.

wah. still haven't got my england jersey with a surprise package daw. bawwww

w00t for motivation

2008-02-26T18:17:00.000+08:00

Aya's hair amuses me. Think of all the possibilities of color layering! haha, bitin pa color ngayon! but it's sooooo damn gold!!! hahaha

got home early today and ate the usual late but filling lunch, after which I headed to my comfy car chair and stretched out a bit.

minutes later I decided to play some PES2008 on the PC, and is fairly happy and pumped up from what transpired haha. the first game I played was ManU against Portsmouth to simulate the upcoming FA Cup tie, and it's the first time in a while I've been excited playing. Most of my players were in normal condition, although Ronaldo was a bit below-par but I kept him anyway. I lost two goals to Pompy in the first half, the first one being a fluke off a defensive blunder, and the next a goal from a setpiece.

I recovered about midway into the second half, with Hargreaves driving a corner home with his head haha, I didn't even see him coming then. The equalizer came from Rooney following a through-ball from Nani (subbed for Ronaldo in this half), who swept it low past James just inside the left post. The winning goal was won near the 90th minute, after Tevez made a break through defense. I spotted Rooney running parallel, and crossed a low one leaving him to tap it in goal.

haha, that performance got me smiling. I had time for one more, so I put up the next EPL fixture for ManU against Fulham. I already expected an easy game, but didn't expect to go 6-0. Unselfish plays with my front passing the ball around, Tevez scored a hat-trick, Ronaldo got a double (fave goal of the match is a ball from just beyond the penalty area, rebounding in from the far post), and one from Rooney who was feeding Tevez most of his goals.

yaaaaaaaaay.

afterwards I went online and sent Aya a copy of the story draft for our PHILOMA film. she's my main writing cohort, and I'm really gonna need her inputs throughout the whole thing. the plot is slowly shelling itself out, but it's still in an early phase. she's gonna try her hand out at constructing a basic outline and story flow.

as for the RECONSE film though, Jet's gonna be my writing cohort. I lurve our topic because it's so out there unlike the others (Homosexuality and Prostitution for the win), and our main draw is that it's gonna be a mix of Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei and Lucky Star's Lucky Channel. I think I'll take the Itoshiki-sensei/Shiraishi hybrid role, Aya's gonna take the Kafuka Fuura/Kagamin/Kogami Akira hybrid character role. Jet's gonna take the all-purpose rednosed Otaku role, while I'm trying to get them to invite Kennie to be a yaoi research for the topic lol.

I'm wondering why I'm not taking an advance for major subjects next term, but blah; I'd rather take out every minor subject as they come.

People say that I can use the minors I'm not gonna take early to balance out the majors, but nah. That's not how I roll. IMO, I'd rather have all the art subjects at the same time. Sure it's gonna be a daunting task and people will think that I'm suicidal, but I took MMA and was all serious. Plus, I find my own work flow/momentum to be better when I have no distractions like minor subjects. I can find ways to meld all the subjects into singular dynamic works. lol.

Think of it this way, when I had NATSCA-1 during the first term, I had a bit of a creative flow since, I was fresh into school and was given a cool design subject. I lost that flow on the 2nd and current term since, puro minors na eh. And no matter how many MMA-ish projects the professors throw at me, I can't find myself productive in anyway, even with personal works due to well...the fact that it's for minors, really just puts me off. Unlike NATSCA where I really pushed myself to create good shit...didn't expect the reactions from the blockmates though. *evil grin* damn, the highlights of that oughta be the iSLVR LX advertisement, and the first homework. talk about 300dpi res.

I failed to get a 4.0 in that subject by a hair, since, well, the minors distracting me eventually took a toll on my momentum, boring me to death and killing my streak. got complacent and stopped submitting works, I knew I had a ton of buffer from the first half of the term naman eh. ended up with a 3.5.

anyway, enlistment's done on my end. flowchart follower. and lol, the SIS states that we're sophomores already. omg, I feel so un-frosh.

yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

Appy got to spend the whole day being hugged by Aya (appy's mom!) haha. ish happy, that appy.

:D

well, that's it for now.
next blog, after toycon. (este tagcom) I'll get Hard Gay to take a pic with Aya hehe...hopefully he doesn't hip thrust too much.

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philippines blows up tomorrow

2008-02-24T23:33:00.000+08:00

meh.

I'm done opinionating on this whole thing. it's gonna be pointless.

it's a pretty calm day today, perhaps everyone's gonna wait to let loose tomorrow?

I don't care. I want pizza. Brooklyn Pizza. meron na pala sa Timog amf! sheeeet!
Yellow Cab sucks now because they jacked up the price (way up) and didn't even jack up the pizza. damn.

and uh...I want my hair to grow longer. now. so I can get my roxx0rz japanese/korean haircut. it feels megas shorter and thinner after getting the layering fixed since, I never really got it fixed after I had it straightened so yeah.

either I go to FiX, or that Korean place...T&J.

oh yeah...ManU beat Newcastle 5-1, haha. well, Newcastle still sucked...actually they suck a lot right now.

Arsenal dropped points after drawing against Birmingham, and they lost Eduardo to a really bad injury. United close the gap to 3 points...let's hope they draw more (or better, lose) the next fixture so that United can move up! Hopefully for good that time. The big four still has some matches against each other, so hopefully ManU will be up to the task those times, as those matches will be decisive.

And there's still the matter of the FA Cup and the UEFA CL. Portsmouth it their next FA Cup draw, but, judging by their last game against em, it shouldn't be too hard. Also, they're taking an away goal advantage to Old Trafford next leg against Lyon, so they should be a bit confident, but not complacent. Heck, drawing that match wins it for them because of the away goal rule.

and I'm actually rooting for Arsenal to defeat AC Milan at San Siro to end that undefeated streak. haha, and it'll be easier for the rest if Milan bows out.

lol. rantsy blog.

I realize that I have to salvage Philoma and Reconse no matter how fucked up these subjects are. I have another half a term and video projects to do that.

add filip13 to that list.

wah.

shleefy.

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:)

2008-02-24T00:40:00.000+08:00

thanks.

i feel much better now.

i always love hearing your voice.
makes the times i'm not with you just a little less crappy.

^____________^

i love you

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calm

2008-02-23T23:09:00.000+08:00

iunno.

I have lots of things I could be distracting myself right now as usual.

after a few minutes ago though, I felt taken aback.

for some reason.

Everything is just silent, quiet, plain, blank, empty, void.
I'd gain interest in a distraction for 10 seconds.

and then that's it.

It's not the usual boredness of waiting for the 1AM football match. I don't know.

somehow.

I miss...I need...

...so much...

...

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Koiji Romanesque

2008-02-19T22:50:00.001+08:00

finally, a work of art I can be proud of.

I'm far from my creative flow, but this is a good start.

the full deviation + more detail @ deviantART

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4-0

2008-02-18T21:32:00.000+08:00

w00t fuckin' a.

I decided to catch the FA Cup draw between Manchester United and Arsenal Live last Sunday. Meaning I stayed awake to catch the game at 1:10am. I was already expecting kind of a slow match, evenly paced between the two teams with a nail-biting finish with maybe only one goal to separate them...heck I even was bracing for a defeat.

well, I'm proud to say that the precious hours of sleep and a derailed body clock were worth it.

4-0 is the final score.

and the first three goals were all almost one after each other in the first half. the commentators made a quip about pitch conditions and Jens Lehmann's bad form, but hey that's why he isn't Wenger's first pick. The first one was a header by Rooney, after a deflected corner made it's way to Anderson where he used his head to pick Rooney out, with him scoring a rare header past the keeper. Just a few minutes later Fletcher made another head into goal after a beautiful run towards the goal line by Nani followed by some quick feet, and a calculated loft. Nani scored the third goal, the only kicked goal of the game following a breach of Arsenal's offside trap leaving him one on one with Lehmann, whipping the ball low into the bottom corner. my favorite moment of the match however was a chance at goal, Fletcher ran towards goal on the right wing, where he swiped a quick cross to Rooney who only managed to lift the ball too high above the crossbar. The speed of the run, the quickness of the cross and the accuracy to Rooney's position was incredible, and the cameras clearly showed how Rooney's face lit up after that piece.

at this point, all sleepiness washed away and I was almost singing with the crowd.

the second half was more subdued, with only a goal to be added. it was almost an exact copy of Fletcher's earlier goal, Nani running in on the left wing towards goal, picking out again Fletcher on the far side of the goalpost who slot it past Lehmann again.

no goals yet, but clearly ManU had Arsenal on it's belly. Arsenal was reduced to 10 when Eboue got sent off following a harsh, but probably unintentional tackle against Evra. Adding insult to injury was a little act by Nani which drew the ire of the opposition and Wenger. Nani recieved a cross, and managed to juggle it for quite a while under pressure. Pure class, and how he got tackled after, sure showed some harsh play. An insult to Arsenal? nah...it's just pure class.

Amazing win. And again, it's ManU and Chelsea left among the top-tier teams in the Cup (well, Portsmouth is still alive), when Liverpool ducked out in an upset by Barnsley.

Well, next draw Chelsea would probably move up as they were drawn against the Liverpool killer Barnsley. ManU however, AGAIN got drawn against Premier League opposition, Portsmouth. I'm crossing my fingers Barnsley work magic again, and ManU does have some good records against Pompy.

but for now, I'm looking forward to the start of their Champions League knockout campaign, and the first leg on wednesday is at Olympique Lyonnaise. ManU have been exceptional so far in the group stages, so I'm hoping for the best. They might not win, but an away game is a good chance to steal some away goals so they can exploit the away goals rule as a last resort.

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notice the new blog layout haha. well, while I'm waiting for Aya to conjure up some layout magic for me when she has time, I poked around the internets and found this script heavy theme. It's not perfect, but I like it.

one inconvenience though is how I resorted to only allowing one blog post to be published, since, with this layout, you'd have to scroll up when selecting the blog menu, and it's a bit inconvenient given how long my posts are. the only way to read past entries is to select one via the archives.

it's a cute and simple layout made of win though.

10PM. done doing my Filip13 project (crammed as usual), done downloading the english/european version of Patapon (sucks to have to start over, my game on the japanese version is pretty forward), and done downloading TV-n's latest Kamen Rider Kiva release. also done watching ep19 subbed, and yeah, my amazement at the development just got bigger.

I still want HG kits though. Primarily the Kyrios and Graham's Custom Flag (or should I wait for the OverFlag version?). Coming soon though is a 1/100 scale Virtue, apparently transformable into Nadleeh. the HCMPro version of the Virtue can also transform into Nadleeh.

oh well, save up money and hope they have lots of 00 kits at Toycon.

speaking of money, hehe, monthsary on the 28th. Aya wants to eat at this Korean place at TheBlock. I have 1k in my ATM. planning to add more. heck I'll keep building that up.

and I plan to finish Myogi in Initial D Arcade Stage 4 hopefully this week. and grab a game of Tekken 6 at Timezone Arena Trinoma. Haha, it's actually convenient, the main timezone is always stuffed to death (kahit puro pa ba tambay mga tao), but the secluded Arena in the garden area has few people, and they have a lot of good games like Ghost Squad Evo, Guitar Freaks, ID4, WMMT3 and Tekken 6.

Haha. lots of new cola out. Coke Zero, Pepsi Deluxe Caramel Creme/Strawberry. Coke Zero is a bit plain, too unspecial aside from the zero calorie thing but still tasting like regular coke (a bit). I do like the Deluxe Pepsi tho. Caramel Creme tastes quite a bit like Vanilla Coke (which I loved) with a hint of caramel of course, and Strawberry Creme is waaaay better than Cherry Coke.

sigh.

it's 10PM. I should be asleep by now.

anyway...lots more to talk about, but meh.

I NEED SLEEP.

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conspiracy business

2008-02-16T20:23:00.000+08:00

Gundam 00 is continuing to blow my mind.
lol.

watching the just released raws for ep.19, it's still fucking amazing. the first half consists of Virtue and Exia basically pwning the Thrones.

Exia does some quick slashes against Throne Zwei, until Tieria comes as backup. The two do some awesome formation work, Exia gives Zwei a hell of a time as all of the latter's GN Fangs were blown to bits by Exia and Virtue, and Tieria manages to do a good job with the Eins and Drei. Right before Eins and Drei think they've caught Virtue, Tieria purges the armor to reveal Nadleeh (which presumably happens in a split-second, even if the scene took a while) and uses a newly revealed weapon. From what I could understand he activated a "Trial System" and the Nadleeh emitted a bigass electromagnetic field, disabling Eins and Drei and driving them to the ground. A little monologue here and he takes a beam saber and heads for the kill.

Fucking twist. In a few frames, we see Alejandro Corner, mysterious CB observer smile just as the "Trial System" gets disabled and the two Thrones suddenly gain power. While Tieria is shocked by the sudden twist, the two escape along with Zwei, chased away by Dynames' rifle work.

ooh. so Corner and Libbons are the enemy now. makes sense.

The Thrones run off "Tau" type GN Drives. They're not as perfect as the four Gundams' GN Drives, leading the team to theorize that they run off stolen Celestial Being technology. Which also makes sense, as in the intro to episode 17, it shows a flashback to a scene near Jupiter, as an unknown team opens up the ruins of a ship hoping to salvage anything. They find the purple Haro now being used by Nena in the Drei. The purple Haro presumably has blueprints for GN Drives, and was probably memory wiped after (clued in by Lockon's Haro responding to it as "brother" and getting something in about it's memories).

w00t. and who else could hack into Veda to disable data about the Thrones, disable Tieria's access to Nadleeh's advanced weapons (I'll assume that since his eyes glow with that same effect as he is in Veda's data terminal when he uses Nadleeh, he needs access to Veda to use Nadleeh), and plant the Thrones as a Celestial Being team? none other than Corner and Libbons. mysterious from the start.

and in the same episode, there's a scene showing 30 Tau type GN Drives. I think Corner will be distributing the Drives to the 3 Earth factions fueling more war and giving the Gundams some competition. it's likely, since Graham swore to defeat Gundams in a Flag, and if the Union decides to use the Tau Drives they'll be getting, he'll relent and use Flags to fulfill his oath to fallen comrade Howard Mason.

It's gonna be a killer final 6 episodes for the first season then. I hope it doesn't end with a cliffhanger though and continue the storyline in the second season in October. I'd rather the second season have a timeskip or something.

holy shit then. I want my HG OverFlag tho.

in other news, I bumped into Aya and her friends as they celebrated a birthday at Fish and Co. and Redbox in trinoma. I was with my lil' bro Trik, going around the usual shops and getting Gashapon, wasting money at Timezone.

first off, a rant. Nike suddenly gets the Mercurial Steam II FG. Why can't they fucking have a Steam II IC??!?!?! And also, they release the 07/08 away kit of ManU as a brand new release. Fuckin a, the home kit just reached the sale rack last week, and now they decide to release the away kit full price? daymn. What's ironic is that the tags of the kit even have a cover that reads "Release Date: August 2007". what the hell.

and haha, Timezone in TriNoma is cool now. They have EA Sports machines, NASCAR and NFSU, the Fast and Furious machine is upgraded to the Tokyo Drift variant, Ghost Squad Evolution is released, and...

Tekken 6. Well everyone can pile up and hog the machine like they do in WMMT3.

I'm sticking to the underappreciated Initial D 4. I finally learned how to "drift" lol. It's nice that this and Battle Gear 4 aren't frequented since, they're more technical than WMMT. haha.

my RX-7 will surely rise whenever I get the chance. I just don't like the tuning system where you can only tune your car after every 2 plays, and even if you're given lots of time to pick a part to buy in the Tuning Mode, you can only buy one. Which sucks balls.

and I gots new gashapon. Trik did the cranking and he was fairly lucky.

I got a charm for my other phone, that ANIZO thing. I got a black one.
I got an SD Kamen Rider Kiva figure. Heck we even got the cover one.
and I got another Ultimate Action Gundam, this time it's the Union Flag. hehe, this should stave me off while I haven't picked up an HG OverFlag. I got my UAG Exia some competition lol.

ah. a wallet draining day. I deposited what's left of the past week's savings in my Express Cash card, and will deposit what I don't need from this week's allowance. I don't know if I'll be able to save up for March 1's toycon, but I will be going. I'm saving up for new shoes mainly. and maybe more football kits. depends.

*sigh*

midterm week this week. I have to pickup some notes. fuck.

that's all for now haha.

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valentineded.

2008-02-15T15:48:00.000+08:00

lol. hurrah.

my first valentines. well the first serious one anyway.

or was it even serious?

hehe.
iunno, I've never really seen valentines as a legit day, maybe it's because I believe you can make your special someone happy any day, the whole feb.14 thing is just a setup or a marketing ploy by capitalists.

if you need to wait for feb.14 to make your baby happy or something...then you're either oozing with cheeze, or a cheapskate.

you don't have to be bitter too on valentines day just because you're single. single-appreciation/awareness day is just a light-hearted joke to cheer up those without a partner, heck they should be as much as happy too. valentines is all about sharing the love with those you care about.

last year I learned to love more than I knew I could.

and yesterday, I gave her some cheesyness haha, but I'd do that everyday.

I didn't feel the valentines mood since, malls were crowded and prices were up. It's just like christmas or something.

but it was happy as heck, and the only thing I don't like is how short the time we spent together was.

well here's how the day went (aya's version @ here)

I reserved the long stemmed white rose I'm giving her the day before, so all I had on me that morning was the receipt for the thing which I'd claim later. I knew she liked white roses since well, she told me as a subtle clue around her 17th birthday.

The whole day she was pressing me for clues on what I'd be giving her, and I wasn't giving her any, but I almost blew part of it doing a last-minute gift "survey". I just told her to wait haha, the fact that I had been telling her not to eat muna and just head straight to TriNoma and me saying "ako bahala sayo" felt like a clue enough.

fast forward to around 1pm, she heads off to the SDA Building for her WORLITE class, as I head to Jollibee to grab lunch before leaving. actually I stayed at Jollibee for a while to pass time, heck, I didn't wanna wait ages in the mall. The place was in the Valentines mood too I noticed, with couples and girls with flowers. I wasted about 40 minutes playing Bust-A-Groove 2, before I headed to the LRT station to head to Trinoma.

I got to north, headed straight across to SM North Edsa from Trinoma to pick up the long-stemmed white rose for her. The other part of the gift just fell in place right after, I was thinking whether to get her Sushi or Chocolates, but I opted for the sushi since, it's a rather unique valentines gift. Plus she was craving Ootoro like hell. I went to Bubble Tea since she liked their sushi very much and bought an order of Mixed Sushi containing Tuna, Salmon and Tamago. It didn't feel like enough, but they did have a cute valentines-only chocolate cake. Heck I went for it too lol. I asked it to be served in around 30 minutes since, Aya just got out of class. I wanted to hang around Bubble Tea to rest muna while I wait for her. When she was around Cubao Station na, I asked for my order na to be made.

I made my way to TriNoma, cake, sushi and rose in hand. My dad called up and said he and my mom were dating in the mall too. I was suddenly nervous, ayokong makita ako hehe, nahihiya ba lol. I told Aya to meet me up behind Jack's Loft at the balcony near the garden.

A few minutes later, she arrives...

hehe. In a completely cheeseballs moment, as the wind blew my hair, tie and clothes to the side, I handed her the rose.

Super Corny daw XD and she was smiling like a kid

and then I hand her, the box with the small cake, and another box. hehe. she'd open it later, but for now, I gave her a hug and a kiss and headed to Krispy Kreme for those doughnuts we've been craving.

another O_O moment as I saw Owa Fe in line at KK. and so she meets Aya :))

hehe, small talk a bit while Aya was ordering. she was happy her Express Cash card got accepted. w00t for Mastercard Electronic.

mmmm...donuts were good.
I ate half the box...or maybe even more than half.
I just kept chewing.

Aya opens the two boxes I gave her haha. Her face lit up as she saw the cute heart-shaped cake complete with some nice chocolate ribbons, awww...she almost didn't wanna eat it.

but she totally lit up with the Sushi :))
MISSION SUCCESSFUL LOL XD

haha...we went around the usual places before heading home around 530pm. got my mom a caramel apple from SanFo, an illustration board for my brother.

I wish I could've spent a whole day with her, but I'm still happy I did.

next time di kami sasabay sa valentines :)) masyado maraming tao lol

ah.

my feet were almost dead killing me then.

hehe. so that's how valentines felt and went.

looooool......missing you na.

and tomorrow I go to Trinoma to run errands, mainly deposit some money into my Express Cash card (which I got today) so I can start saving up for new shoes and also see if I can avail of a Flash Pass. If not, then I'll buy a stored value ticket nalang so I won't have to endure the monday queue.

but mainly the reason I'm heading to Trinoma is, Aya's going with her HS Friends to celebrate on of their birthdays.

and the plan is I "randomly" bump into them and say "oh hi! fancy meeting you guys here haha"

lol. aya's gonna text me their whereabouts as I time my coincidental meeting.

and oh...FA Cup fixtures tomorrow! It's Manchester United vs Arsenal at Old Trafford
the reds have been shaky a bit, and I'mma watch this match live at 1am Sunday instead of the replay. Hope staying up is worth it, not like last season when I stayed up around the same time to watch the ManU vs Chelsea final, only to get disappointed and pissed for staying up only to lose 1-0 at extra time.

w00t.

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kawaii killer

2008-02-14T21:45:00.000+08:00

w00t.

meet Kawaii Killer.

up.north/down.south has been "dropped" since, they're too region discriminating. blah. which, we don't like.

me and Aya decided to start small and just start with the two of us, our graphic design "team/pair" so far called:

KawaiiKiller

that's from Aya.

and here's a design to kick things off with KK. It's cool, and it's not really like those big message tees of the fashion-groupie style tees, but it's in the category.

it's inspired by the "jerseys" the So Nyeo Si Dae/Girls Generation wore in their Girls' Generation PV.

haha, we like these very much, and really wanna get them printed out. hopefully in a similar, neon-bright rubberized print (or silkscreen) or even foil if possible.

they're good as shirts, but if we can, we'll have them printed on hoodies as an added kick.

She plans to start up a minisite for KawaiiKiller, a portfolio of sorts where we build up our graphic designs, not just for tees but on anything under the sun, and hopefully it'll be a little background or springboard to when we go commercial (w00t money).

btw, kanji on my face means "Zetsubou (Despair)" and on Aya is "Kawaisa (Cuteness)". that's inspired by Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei's first OP lol.

GO KAWAII KILLER!!!

haha. we definitely have to get these printed ASAP

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W00T.

Happy Valentines Baby! haha

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Shamlet

2008-02-09T23:00:00.000+08:00

blah.

well today I made a rare trek to Ayala to "watch" Hamlet at onStage.

rare that, I don't even frequent Glorietta so I'm like always afraid of turning the wrong corner and getting lost haha. It's a bit weird that I'm not with Aya in Ayala (lol rhyme) since, Ayala is to her what Greenhills is to me.

walked at a quick pace to Greenbelt 1 since, I was running late. Rebel Gear didn't have any stuff at the time that made me really stop and think about buying this time, or maybe I was just that in a hurry...hmm. Greenbelt 1 is freakin far. anyway.

plopped 250 bucks for a ticket after seeing Poch with his girl. They went in first, then came Emma and Simon, and I went in with them. Blah, sat in the back area, and the seat isn't that comfy and I had a hard time sleeping. Hamlet kept me interested for 10 minutes, but it was pretty bland. Nothing too special, meh. The costumes and settings were tweaked a bit, they looked a little oriental-ish, kinda like rehashes of Rounin costumes.

almost one hour into the thing and I'm getting restless. I wanna ditch since I know what's coming anyway, wiki's always there to be sure and shit. Aya's texting me saying that I should ditch na and stuff so we could meet sa Trinoma. haha, if I wasn't interested in the play at all I would've left before 30 minutes.

so around after the "to be or not to be" part I went out for the bathroom since I was already holding in piss at the time, and whaddy'a know, after I left the comfort room everyone was getting out for the intermission. hehe, perfect cover for my "escape". Aya's already getting ready to leave for TriNoma at the time so I went back to the MRT Station at an almost running pace, taking a different route from how I went to GB, this route was shorter lol. I think.

I made it to the station and just went in a train, no more roundtrip to TAft. The train wasn't a can of sardines yet anyway. By the time I arrived at North Ave., she's already in the area too, her mom drove her to TriNoma so that she could deposit money on her new XpressCash account. hehe.

and so we finally meet up, and lo and behold, a sight for sore eyes. Aya in flipflops and short shorts. I couldn't help but smile :)

biiig hug and a kiss.

I was at adidas looking for shoes since, I don't want the Mercurial Talaria IC from Nike anymore. It's a variant of the Mercurial IV Cristiano Ronaldo wears, but it doesn't have the lace covers and without it, looks pretty plain for the price. I don't wanna wait for Nike to make an indoor court version of the Steam II variant of the Mercurial IV, which unlike Talaria, looks more like the Mercurial IV. Plus, I'd be too conscious of the bright orange color.

adidas was on sale and I had the choice of two prospects.

one, an indoor court version of the F50, which I really like. Looks better than the Steam II if ever, but the color is taking a while to grow on me. It's jet black with white lines, pretty sleek...but I'd have loved it if it were red lines on white. I don't really dig black shoes, well, lately anyway. The other is an indoor court version of the Predator Absolute...and well...it just looks too rubber-shoey...like something a badminton player would wear. blah. The third choice is a Samba, but it's too plain and generic too. haha, the only line I like from adidas is the F50.

Aya says go for the F50. and so I will.

in two weeks time.

Unless Nike sprouts a Steam II IC. but still...it'd be hard not to notice the orange color. and it's shiny too.

ah. me and shiny shoes.

so yeah...buy shoes instead of a henshin belt.

seems more practical and stuff.

and I already penned a really rough plot concept for our Philoma movie, which is supposed to be one of our final projects. lots of ideas that warrant a separate blog post for detail, but I'll post em up once it's been through enough working, tumbling, etc.

I just hope that we can pull it off...especially the actors. the two main actors. It's a really character-driven plot.

and it's philosophical too. in a sense. it's the kind of movie you'll reflect upon, but due to the teacher's and people's nature, I'll try to underestimate it and make it more easier and obvious to understand. Not really dumb it down.

I go to Jopy for plot and writing advice. hehe.

I wonder what'll Poch and Jet come up with on their movies. It's always exciting working with them.

Hm.

anyway.

that's it for tonight.

pretty pissed that Star Sports ain't showing tomorrow's Manchester Derby, especially since the Munich disaster was paid tribute to this week, and for tomorrow's match it'll be special since both teams will be wearing one of a kind retro inspired kits, stuff that won't be for sale. They'll wear plain kits that look plucked from the past, free of branding, with only numbers. Heck they won't even use the players' numbers and assign them 1-16 traditionally.

awww. well, hoping for match torrent and youtubes nalang. hope it's a great match with plenty of goals as usual. ManU lost 1-0 to City earlier in the season, but they're pretty confident at home.

WHERE ARE MY ZOKU SUBS!?!?!
GUNDAM OO EP18 LOLOL OUT

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noraebang!

2008-02-08T20:07:00.000+08:00

"uwawaaaaaaaaah..."

w00t mega fun.

well, lots of first. first korean alcohol consumed, first korean food consumed, and first time in a korean karaoke room, ironically singing japanese songs. but it was TONS of fun and I'd do it again in an instant

we sang like crazy to our favorite Korean, Japanese and Chinese songs...and heck spared some room for english and cheezy OPM.

we went to a Dontellmama, a korean karaoke place or "noraebang" as we call it. Aya's a regular, and it's her first time to drag us to there. she ordered some spicy rice cake something pasta(?) that tasted great and the spice just made you chug down more liquor. we would've had beer, but we were just too engrossed in singing and looking for our songs in the thick lists. alcohol of the day was Soju though, big hit without smell, and it's like a mixture of Gin and Vodka, although it takes like literal Alcohol. we should've bought one bottle for each of us as it was only 80 bucks a pop on normal price, and one bottle is enough to make you flip out due to the content.

save the wastedness for next time.

kickass.

and I must brush up on reading kana instead of just memorizing those of which I know na lol. navigating that songbook can be challenging haha. and the only song I could sing today without the help of lyrics (karaoke wasn't romaji) was Climax Jump by AAA Den-O Form.

lol.

must go back again!

but oh well, I need to rest since, I'll be back in Ayala again tomorrow to watch stupid boring Hamlet for stupid boring WORLITE.

as we said kanina sa noraebang,
Kanpai!!!

pics @ the multiply

"Corned Gyu"

2008-02-06T20:51:00.000+08:00

well...er...may japanese ba ang corned beef? corned gyu nalang :))

made my lunch today after arriving home.

and yeah, it's supposed to be an omlette with rice inside, hence omurice. I didn't use ketchup on the rice for some reason since, I doubt it'd have been good with corned beef. the inside is really packed with rice and beef, and I made slice pockets at the edge to show some overflow, kinda like Aya's Fujiwara Omurice from Bubble Tea.

but still I used ketchup to add "eyes". Iunno. I guess since I'm watching Kamen Rider Kiva the way the thing looks reminded me of Kivat, hence I name my dish Kiba Corned Gyu Omurice.

In other news:
- I gots a perfect score on teh 2nd BMAT quiz. ZOMFGNOWAI
- I gots a perfect score on WORLITE quiz. (uh...)
- Yoshinoya bukas
- I want RAMEN
- BIG BOWL RAMEN
- or soba
- LOTS OF SOBA
- Noraebang on Friday! Yeah! And I meet Soju and accepts it's challenge!
- Will sing like crazy. Incomprehensibly comprehensible type crazy.
- And shit. Manonood pako ng stupid phail boring HAMLET sa Friday. w@#$&%#%*@!!! *A*
- Will now follow Kamen Rider Kiva
- needs to do Zetsubou Sensei style Deviant ID
- soon.
- why can't I fast forward Gundam 00?
- needs money.
- expressCash?
- needs to lose leg weight
- and gain body weight
- yep.
- must plan PHILOMA movie
- and make it zetsubou inducing
- whilst remaining kafuka fuura philosophical
- ok
- I'm getting tired

well that's it.

San nin faai lok, Kung Hei Fat Choi...and whatever else. Happy Chinese New Year people!!!

the phenomenology of gundam

2008-02-03T20:39:00.000+08:00

well, this is the paper I'm submitting on thursday.

wrote it up this afternoon, based on what I've read on the internet about phenomenologies and writing phenomenologies, and reading some phenomenologies by others. it's actually helpful when you read students' works instead of professionals'. we are students after all.

whether I hit the nail is a gamble I'll take. after all, the prof gave us barely a scrap.

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The Phenomenology of Gundam

Gundam. To the uninitiated, the Gundam is a hallmark, an essential piece of modern Japanese pop culture, a symbol for many things. To anyone, it’s just another popular anime. It’s influence stretches only not just to revolutionizing the “giant robot” trend of it’s era, creating a market for accurate representations of the titular machines, but even so much as to being the codename of an advanced personal combat equipment currently under development by the Japanese military. What makes it so endearing, why is a work of fiction so powerful? Of all things to write a phenomenological paper about, why the Gundam? I’m not going to tackle why it’s so popular or influential to other people. I’ll look at it in a smaller scope, from the fan’s point of view. Why do I like Gundam? I shall look into my personal experience with the Gundam, and why up to now, I am a fan of Gundam.

The first step of a phenomenology is the epoche, where I leave down my biases. I am no longer the Gundam fan. I am just another ordinary person. What is that essential factor that made millions of ordinary people admirers of the Gundam?

So, what is Gundam? It’s just another show broadcasted in the 90’s, that people either liked, or disliked. It’s a show that showcased the Japanese anime, the genre that was slowly ensnaring the Philippines. The typical reaction of people to Gundam at the time was generally positive. They admired the intricacy of it’s design, these were far from the comical giant robots we have seen before like Voltes V or Daimos. But these things still packed as much punch. These were called “real robots”, who had a sense of realism to their design, things that the creators thought would be possible in a few years time as opposed to the earlier “super robots” who had more than realistically possible powers and dimensions. The essence of the Gundam is that itself, it is a robot that strikes you not just visually, but also technically. While the super robots will forever be a dream, people saw the realistic merit of these machines. The creators of the series eventually released model kits, where even the internal organs of the robots could be revealed and studied, fuelling the fans’ dreams to see their Gundam as reality. The Gundam can be made possible; it’s not just a comical superhero. That is it’s essence. You could actually imagine the Gundam being a reality in the future, it’s the realism in the design. Although the situations presented in the show are indeed far-fetched, there is just that design and presentation factor that makes it just so believable.

Now, why am I so ensnared by the Gundam? Indeed I was already an admirer of anime before I saw my first Gundam show, but why does it outlast the others so much. When I watched shows such as Voltes V, there’s just this layer you can’t touch. Voltes V is a mechanical superhero, whatever vulnerability it gets, whatever pinch it’s in will eventually get saved by something or itself, a deus ex machina. And, the concept is really just unrealistic. However, what I liked about Gundam is that it made us believe that in the future, these things will be part of life. The designs are so amazing that if I wasn’t an admirer of the show itself, I would definitely be a fan of the robots. These things were far from the super robots, these things sounded real, and unlike the super robots, these guys can actually get destroyed. The feeling as your favorite robot gets torn apart, it’s mechanical workings tear and reveal, and you’re only helpless watching the screen. I admired the realism. I wanted to believe that I’ll live to see the day us humans create these. Heck, a few weeks ago, an article on the internet sprung up wherein one electronics group calculated how much it would cost to produce a giant robot that would be as close to the Gundam as we could get with our present technology. Even Japanese companies conduct seminars on the Gundam concept to captivate engineers, to show off technical prowess, and even simulation machines being decorated or even being built like the Gundams.

But for now, I shall continue being a fan of the enduring series. Ogling at the designs, trying to purchase the expensive model kits so I can see the inner workings, further convincing myself of the probability of these machines.

phenomenologisticisms

2008-02-03T18:19:00.000+08:00

well, haven't blogged in a long while.

3rd term isn't turning out to be that bad. not stand-out subjects so far except for maybe when we get to modern dance for PE. turdloads of boring subjects so far like worlite and philoma (both of which I never expected to be). blah.

currently set in a work mood though, there's a group report due for worlite that I wanna set right but I don't know how, and there's a presentation due for philoma too. prof said to show a play, but my group, jet's and poch's are bound to do videos. haha, it's 2nd term all over again. this time, I'm armed. let's just hope I do things right. I thought that maybe it's just us doing videos, but who knows, maybe we'll get blown away by a few classmates haha.

oh, and I did a paper for philoma, it's due on thursday but I had nothing to do the whole day so I decided to write it. I have ZERO info on what a phenomenology is, and wiki's not helping. From what I've been able to dig up though for 10 minutes before I started writing is this. It's a personal experience you'll analyze without your personal bias, you will look at the thing from a new point of view, and strip it down to it's essentials, so that you can reflect more on it, and finally apply what you've reflected on to your own personal experiences, possibly to explain it more.

either I hit close to the mark or shot way off.

it's a gamble I'll take. the prof left us to write our papers without any prior introduction to it, leaving us to use our own resources.

my topic?

Gundam.

yep. off all the topics to phenomenologize about, I know. basically I strip it down to it's essentials, and try to find out why I, and lots of other people like it so much. not the series, not the characters, but the Gundam itself. The mobile suit. Because take away the story and background, leave the Gundam, and it's still captivating. Why? Why are people so obsessed with it that we're not content with the already realistic Master Grade and Perfect Grade kits, that people have been coming up with human-sized ones and even 1:1 scale versions?

and I try to answer using the phenomenological method.

do I post it here? haha.

there's the 2nd BMAT quiz tomorrow. I passed the first one, but the score is pretty average. But how the hell am I supposed to pass this one without my scientific calculator? I found out that the terminal wire for the 2nd battery broke off it's solder while changing batteries, and I left it to Anton, asking him to solder it for me. that's better than spending 500 bucks. Hope he fixes it!

ooh, and I also wanna dance the hiphops after seeing the dance thingo at the CCP yesterday. and maybe the Tango. the TANGO DE LA MUERTE!

aya leads the group to noraebang/dontellamama in makati on friday for some good old KTV fun. drinks, and japanese/korean/chinese karaoke!!! MOEAGARE!!!

and there's the matter of Valentines. haha, my first un-single Valentine. and I have it all planned out.

hehe, have you had any close guesses to the gift I have for you? I know you'll love them hehe.

and also, I need moolah for the upcoming TAGCOM toycon at Gateway. lol, either I get a Den-O henshin belt, or a Zeronos henshin belt, or a 1/60 Exia. if not, I'll blow it on full Gashapon sets.

and I'm cosplaying. I'll wear a HAMASHO mask.

*sigh*

so many wants.

where are my subs??? gundam 00 ep17, and zoku sayonara zetsubou sensei ep4 and 5!

got addicted to Daft Punk again last friday. but ooh, Music Station is back up on Animax.

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ore sanjou

2008-01-25T21:12:00.000+08:00

it's been a rocky week for some. me included.

today's a nice sigh of relief, to take another weekend's rest. if only for me anyway.

gundam00 introduces thrones tomorrow, and I just saw Den-O's finally. (naiyak! haha! Deneb+Yuto!)

so now I'm gonna watch Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei alongside 00.

*sigh*

well...wallet's been strained due to past and upcoming activities. gah, I need shopping therapy.

and japanese food.

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wants.

2008-01-20T00:38:00.000+08:00

above: a box of Keroro stuffies...WHICH I ABSOLUTELY WANT!!! *A*

and there's also one with individual stuffies, and bigger than the ones in the back, but given how the individual ones cost about 2.9k each, how much would this pack cost?

haha...I'm starting to be a toy addict.

there's these Kamen Rider the Next dolls I want (Ichigo and Niigo) for 1k a piece, then a couple of gashapon sets (Kamen Rider Den-O) which are way cheaper than buying from the machine, even if you get all in a row, then some henshin hero series figures of past Riders, and even Revoltech models.

*sigh* ...lots of wants...

but the two toys that absolutely caught my eye are the 1/60 scale NG Exia and the DX Kamen Rider Den-O henshin belt (but I wish they had Zeronos instead). I'd lean more to the belt since, I could wear it (ftw!), and the 1/60 Exia would just be another big display unit that I'd pose once in a while...if I'm getting gunpla, getting 1/100 kits or HG kits would be better.

still, I'm gonna save up money for them, hopefully by the next toycon @ march 1.

haha.

in other news for today anyway, hm...tipid mode for next week! seriously na! must have at least over 500 bucks in my wallet, and over 1000 bucks the next week.

and right now I'm tracking ManU's match against Reading, and they just went 1 up courtesy or Rooney with less than 15 minutes to play. It's a pretty nervous match compared to Newcastle, lots of breakthroughs with denied chances. I was a bit nervous after half time since, while they were at 0 - 0, Arsenal was 2 up against Fulham.

still need camera batteries to photoshoot my new gashapon. bah.

oh, and my PSP went up to 3.80 today, w00t, finally gonna be able to play new games. the downside though is that I'm back to the default XMB theme, and I'm currently looking to the XMB mod scene's deliveries for the firmware. you know I can't stand the default.

plus, raws for Gundam 00 episode 15 were out quick today, with menclave already at work despite not having ep 14 out yet. Shinsen, I'm counting on to release the first, hopefully tomorrow. I'm not gonna spoil myself with 2ch and 4chan or watching raws, I'll watch this as soon as subs get out, because it looks like a pretty kickass episode.

00 >>>>> Seed

oh, and afk just released episode 2 of Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei haha. it's the series that's gonna replace Kamen Rider Den-O after it wraps up. Raws for the final episode surprisingly haven't popped up on the net yet. TVn hasn't subbed the episode before it yet though.

hopefully after they sub the whole series, they can sub the movie.

wah. 1am. getting shleefy.

and I want to cook omurice tomorrow!

ooh! ManU match ends at this point! it ends at 2-0 with Ronaldo scoring a late goal in stoppage time. nice!

haha. turning in na, gonna call Aya muna tho.

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up north.ink - couture by /a/

2008-01-18T20:30:00.000+08:00

lol, so I've talked about the plan me, aya and anton conceptualized to start up a t-shirt biz.
haha, well, I had some ideas, simple ones, I had to get out.

up north.ink

well, that's the name I came up with during COMSK2X, where by coincidence we were tasked to create a letterhead for our own business haha. the southern counterpart of the thing is down south.ink

up north - because the three of us that thought about the plan are from the north of manila
.ink - because we use digital media to create our prints, and reading it sounds like "up north inc."
/a/ - well, barkada name hehe

the shirts are on my multiply, click on the names or the logo above to see

my main line hehe, the "in-demand job fad satire" series:

DOCTOR'S BITCH - haha, the Nursing fad which is way blah. plan to have real buttons on the shirt, and maybe a real shirt pocket haha. I can't wait to wear this while passing by the nursing school on the way home

EXCELLENT CUSTOMER CARE - I've seen those shirts with stuff like cameras and whatnot are printed so they look like they're hanging from your shoulder. well now be proud and have your headset dangling from your body everyday, knowing you provide excellent customer care haha

other prints, otaku inspired:

HAMASHO - from Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei. Religious Order Hamasho! it's an abbreviation of Hamaben = beach and Shoben = piss, because they worship on the beach while covered in piss

LARUKU - it's from a laruku something...which, right now, I can't remember

ZAKU - be in Zaku colors! show your Zeonic pride! flaunt that mono-eye!

CHAR ZAKU - not an ordinary drone? be a CHAR!!!

YOTSUBA ROBO - Yotsuba Robo! the shirt comes in the color of a cardboard box

hope I get some of these printed soon

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bubbles in my tea~ bubbly bubbly

2008-01-18T18:54:00.000+08:00

me and my baby finally fulfilled our long-time craving to have lunch at Bubble Tea @ The Block - SM North Edsa

yaaaaaaaaay!!!

and it was great too, I'd rather go back here than Tokyo Cafe haha. Sizzling Pepper Steak sounds better with friends, but if it's just the two of us, it's Bubble Tea :)

the concept is one of those modern toyko cafes that serve mostly the un-traditional dishes like ramen and stuff (but they still do), and it has a pretty cute setup which fits smack right into the SDA building. only thing missing is maids :))

aya had a round of Tuna Maki (which she loved and chewed thoroughly), a plate (a big one) of Fujiwara Omurice and a Strawberry Milk Tea. I think her total was a little less than 350 bucks. The Omurice was aplenty, and I want to start making these at home! I can't believe how thin they spread the egg.

moi had a little dish called Hashi-something (I forgot!) beef doria, which is basically a baked rice casserole. Comparing the size of the plate to Aya's, I was a bit underwhelmed at first, but was well proven wrong after halving the plate. Aya was done with hers and I wasn't even half through! I wasn't short on the beef strips, and the cheese was really melted well and tasted great. It's like uh...a baked gyudon. I had a large Lemon Black Tea for a drink.

I was supposed to get either a Gyudon or Ramen, or even maybe pasta but Aya convinced me that I could have those types of Japanese food at any other restaurant, and I should go for the modern dishes instead. and so I did. and I was happy :) stomach was happy

what I like about the place are their drinks, which is of course their main draw. the tea is brewed fresh instead of just using packs, and they make the tapioca bubbles fresh too. the bubbles aren't like the deep black, gooey, sticky and often gummy ones typically found in pearl shake stands, They're varied in size which is really good, you get a lot of bubbles and they don't really bang on your throat, something I don't like with the big black pearls. One of their bubbles would look like a normal semi-transparent ball, with the black core inside, it isn't sticky and is really chewy like candy.

I ain't a sushi fan, but Aya seemed to like the Maki she ordered. Haha, amoy palang daw. She looked like Haruhi from Ouran mouthwatering at Ootoro. So she decreed that we also must try Genji at greenhills, the conveyor belt sushi place so she can satisfy her raw fish craving.

haha yep, one place we can have lunch at every other week without really hurting our wallets

aside from that tapahan sa Project 7 lol

and yeah, we can stay away from Tokyo Cafe and Teriyaki Boy muna in favor of Bubble Tea and Sizzling Pepper Steak :)

moar pics at the multiply

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endweek

2008-01-18T17:01:00.000+08:00

above: a short shot with my K320i, pieced together in Premiere, sound effects from Kamen Rider 1

well, saving up was screwed.
aya's worlite group is going to glorietta on saturday pala instead of friday to watch the required play for their class, so both of us are gonna be in tipid mode (seriously now!) for the next week. we have like 150 and 200 each in our wallets, and she needs to save up for that event, I just need to save up and create a stable wallet buffer.

so that means I Jollibee on monday, go straight home for lunch on tuesday and thursday (maybe), and probably likewise on wednesday and friday too.

well, we both had 500 bucks kanina, until we decided to have lunch since, we can't go out next week because of their glorietta play. plus I was in the mood for some new japanese food.

more on today's lunch later :)

anyway, the t-shirt line plan seems alright, everyone's interested, so I have to get some graphics printed by Feb so I can test the waters. I have two satirical graphics I have in mind which I will draft in Photoshop later (a bit anti-nursing/call center fad), and a few otaku shirts (yotsubox, laruku X_X box, and a Zaku). also we were made to do a letterhead for a business in COMSK2X class this morning, and it was a good chance to create a draft logo for the shirt "company". unbelievable, I broke my creative slump if not for a bit during the activity, as I was able to flex a little bit of pseudo-drafting techniques to create the logo. it's a simple logo, plain text with the font face resembling Gossip Girl's.

up north.ink - couture by /a/

up north, well because the three of us who started the idea (me, aya, anton) come from Northern Manila unlike the rest of the gang who come from the Southern end, the .ink is a reference to how we use digital graphics, and because reading the name sounds like "up north inc.". couture by /a/ is a subtitle, and /a/ is the name of our group.

haha, nice plan.

amazingly, I was able to get some creative juices flowing for in only a bit today because of that, and I guess my juices are triggered by inspired obsessions with the task.

the juices flowed enough in that I was able to sketch up a nice character during WORLITE class that I'm proud enough to scan and probably color. (I'll scan and post the sketch here ASAP)

the character I drew up is like, a mashup of Gackt from Returner ~yami no shuen~ and Momotaros from Kamen Rider Den-O.

haha, well, aside from Gundam 00, I'm waiting for Den-O to wrap up, which will be I guess on this weekend. TV-n has subbed up to the 47th episode, waiting for them to sub the 48th, and the one that'll air on Sunday is the 49th which I guess will be the last. maybe I'll spoil myself with the raw haha. the Den-O movie's raw popped up on the interwebs this week, and here's hoping they sub that too before starting with the upcoming Kamen Rider Kiva.

Den-O is definitely my first favorite new-gen Rider, none of the new Riders really struck me, and up to now I'd only been satisfied with Ichigo, Niigo, and Black.

so yeah, related to that I got myself a new gashapon from the Kamen Rider Den-O Action Pose vol.2 line, which is a pretty good line IMO. The detail compared to HGCORE isn't that obvious, and sometimes it is better than the HGCORE line, but the Action Pose line has some articulation to some characters.

the batch includes Den-O's Climax Form in two versions (with the attack configuration set to the Rider Kick or Punch), Plat Form and Liner Form with the DenKamen sword in two poses, and also includes Zeronos' Altair form and Zero form with their respective weapons. I've read on the interwebs that the vol.1 of the Den-O action pose line had a secret character unprinted on the advertisement sheet, and it was Momotaros, which you could also get in the "Imagin ash" form.

the favorites I want to get are obviously Liner Form, and the Zeronos forms haha, since the DenKamen sword on the Liner form is just huge that it's sick, and Zeronos has to be another fave Rider (how I wish they included Deneb or even Vega form).

I got the Rider Punch Climax Form haha, which is pretty ironic since I got two Climax Form Den-Os from the HGCORE set (one still untouched in capsule), and just before leaving today I was watching ep.29, where Ryotaro was able to use Climax Form for the second time and first used it's punch attack. hope to get more soon!

On Gundam 00 though, two groups have released episode 14, and I'm still waiting for menclave who I've been watching the series from so far. But at this point, I'd rather wait for episode 15, airing this weekend again, since ep14 is just a build up to the new story arc wherein a massive battle to corner Celestial Being takes place, setting up the entrance of the Throne Gundams which look to be the antagonists for the rest of the season. hm, I hope season 2 of 00 doesn't end up like Seed Destiny...blah.

still nothing playing on my PSP.

*sniff*

ooh, and I commemorated ManU's 6-0 win over Newcastle this week by wearing a ManU shirt the whole week. I hope they can retain this killer form even against other teams who weren't as fit as Newcastle, they don't even have a points lead, just results, but their position as number 1 in the table although tied against Arsenal is something they should protect and fight for, and avoid slipping back like they did the first time they took the lead when they lost to West Ham. Their Champions League form also is good, as they didn't lose during the group stage.

ManU week shirts were:
Monday - 07/08 away kit
Tuesday - 07/08 comet red travel polo
Wednesday - 07/08 home kit
Thursday - 06/07 training kit
Friday - 06/07 Rooney t-shirt

haha. this weekend's fixture is against Reading, who drew with them at Old Trafford during the first game of the season. ManU today is nothing like the stuttering start of the season, and although the game won't be broadcast over the weekend on espnstar, I'm still hoping for great results.

w00t.

oh yeah, and WORLITE class is fucking emo. well, I just LOL inside a lot when people reflect, especially that one dude. f'n a. I can reflect on the verses too and be satirical about it, but I might be too satirical. the only thing the group is gonna take seriously is the upcoming report on scholarly criticism (ftw).

"...yes a metaphor is one of the figure of speeches..."
- quote from a group report earlier today

more barok quotes from thursday's FILIP13 class as the activities we were assigned were printed on scratch papers from an ORALCOM class, one of the papers had answers which were just too rib cracking.

and we saw the movie Very Bad Things on RECONSE class. it was dumb, but hella gory. reminded me of japanese shock cinema. blah.

anyway, I've posted some pictures taken with the cool panorama feature of the K320i phone I got out of a Sun Cellular deal. the phone is great for a simple one, although it could've been perfect with a better screen and expandable memory. the panorama is my favorite feature, as it allows you to take three pictures and it helps you set them up so it can stitch those three together into one. results range from great to good, depending on your subject and aim.

posted up on the multiply

w00t blog update!

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prospects

2008-01-17T21:05:00.000+08:00

nothing blog-worthy about school lately.

except maybe another case where the lab is better than the lecture in COMSKI2, how BMAT isn't turning out to be bad although the prof is a bit eccentric, how I get massive lulz in WORLITE because of the emo answers and "reflections" of some classmates and how the prof is...well, no problem. since, it's slow enough that the period is over before you know it. the only thing that's gonna bug me is the report due for our group...and the only thing between me and that is massive laziness.

oh well.

anyway, on the MRT earlier, me, aya, and anton discussed the probability of a viral tshirt store.

well, it's a good prospect, we each have connections, each have talent. and having good ojt points early on and some extra income will help. rather than scraping freelance work and such.

the plan is to "test" the waters by printing a few graphics, and then depending on results, start around 2nd year, 1st term.

hmm...interesting.

plus I get to stir my non-video creative juices while I work on my video creative juices.

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6-0

2008-01-13T19:16:00.000+08:00

haha, I deeply regret ducking out of last night's match after halftime.

I stayed up for the 1:10am kickoff of the ManU-Newcastle game at Star Sports, because, unless it's a really badass game like last year's 7-1 win against Roma, I don't usually anticipate the replays. I was already quite a bit sleepy, so I had my mind set at hitting the bed after the first half if no one scores. Aya kept me company through the phone.

Last fixture, Sir Alex complained about the "funeral" like atmosphere from the crowd at Old Trafford. There's no doubting the crowd now as it was frantic from kickoff, with the crowd singing their hearts away even before the match. hm, a good sign I thought. No one scored in the first half, but United kept peppering the Newcastle goal like crazy, so my interest wasn't completely waned.

I stuck a while for the second half, now giving myself until the hour mark before really hitting the bed. The wait was rewarded however when Ronaldo was awarded a free kick from outside the box (Rob Styles denied him a penalty in the first half, but it seems someone got a few words with the referee during the break, leading to this haha). The ball went under the wall and was deflected low by a Newcastle player, and all the goalkeeper could do was parry it and it still ended up in the back of the net.

With that, it was goodnight to Aya and I turned the tv off and hit the bed. I was a bit nervous about a surprise comeback.

This morning when I woke up, the immediate thought on my mind was the match's results. I even actually dreamed of waking up and accessing the site, and reading how the match ended up as a draw. Haha, I shook that off though, knowing well it was a dream and headed down for breakfast.

After I finally got online, upon checking the match report, I deeply regretted not sticking around for the match.

6-0.

fuck.

why.

off I was to my sources to download a recording of the game (hahaha)

and it was crazy. the goals weren't as great as the 7-1 win against Roma (Carrick's shots from outside the box into the top corner were full of win), but still, it was a great match. And I was surprised to find out that in this game was Ronaldo's first hat-trick for United. lol, I didn't know that.

They now shot off again to the #1 spot in the Premier League, although they are at level with Arsenal who drew against Birmingham in the surprise of the weekend, which led to this opportunity for United. This is the second time they've taken the lead, after their first spell on top was quickly drenched by West Ham. Second chances don't come often, and I hope the team can keep it. Their next match is against Reading, whom they drew with in their first game of the season. The team's form and bite now is far from the display they had during their poor start, and this 6-0 trashing of Newcastle is testament to that.

Alan Smith, who left United for Newcastle before the start of the season must be pissed haha. He was sent off after United's 6th goal after venting frustrations at the referee. The 6th goal, scored by Tevez was debatable as the ball struck the crossbar and landed just past the goal line and it even spun out of goal.

haha.

anyway...lol

was at greenhills this morning. didn't get games, had no money for toys.
the tiangge was completely rearranged, and I don't like the layout now. It's a bit harder to search for the things you want, and it feels a bit more cramped.

The kit shops didn't have any knockoffs or replicas of the 08/09 kits yet, and my favorite shop didn't have any either. Still no away shirt for united, the only ones they have are the home kits, and this weird kit. It's white with the stripe red...it's like they made the kit up. I didn't feel the England kit really, especially since they lost qualifying for Euro 08. I'd rather wait for their next kit when they're fully functioning under new promising manager Fabio Capello rears them in.

blah.

classes again tomorrow.

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Gundam 00 season 1, arc 2

2008-01-13T00:10:00.000+08:00

and so it begins.

raw is out on the interwebs, and I wait for Menclave's subs to make their appearance. I'm lightly tempted to download the raw and download their subtitle file, and just download their PSP convert afterwards, but I'd rather wait it out. I'd rather get the h264 encode rather than the mkv pack this time too.

the image above is a collection of screencaps from the new OP (which kinda reminds me of Pride from Gundam Seed Destiny). the animation quality looks better, and it seems that the new arc will be a new direction from the series' start...and I kinda figured that these happenings would've taken place from the start.

for one, the four meisters and the ptolemy crew aren't that battle experienced, as evidenced by the crew's comment of having their "debut as Celestial Being" on episode 1, how Graham can easily match them, and how they narrowly escaped catastrophe in episode 10. Even Tieria, despite being a Veda kissass got a big blow after prematurely revealing Nadleeh, breaking his oh-so religious plan-sticking.

they're human afterall, and they certainly won't live up to the expectations of Veda. Wang Liumei said it herself after the ep10 chaos "The gundams are perfect, but why are the meisters so imperfect" or something. Veda would've probably had something up it's sleeve knowing this would happen.

According to some posts in /m/, the new arc for this latter half of the first season will revolve around the fall of the meisters and the rise of the Thrones. The HRL, Union and AEU stage a war exercise, and Celestial Being, despite the exercise being an obvious trap, has to intervene according to their end-all-warfare declaration (Heck the ep13 preview for 14 said it for itself, they're walking to their deaths). And if the OP scenes are hints of the battle, looks like it'll be Soma against Allelujah/Hallelujah, Graham against Lockon (haha, against Setsuna would be a mismatch) and Ali against Setsuna. Of course there'd be tons of grunts around the field, with Sergei leading the HRL forces, Graham's wingmen as backup, and PATRICK CHRYSLER!!! haha. the demo king.

*SPOILERS!*

if a couple of postings on /m/ are to believed, within the course of the next episodes will be centered upon this battle, and eventually the four meisters will be running out of steam and will be driven to a corner.

and tada, the three Throne Gundams, complete to their red GN particles and sensors arrive and bring hell, blasting everyone out of the way and "rescuing" the four meisters. none of the four know about the thrones, and neither do the Ptolemy crew and some other CB people even know about their existence.

haha.

well, in my opinion, these Throne gundams are definitely more or less, the new antagonists of the series. heck, the girl throne meister has an evil Haro! the three Earth factions weren't really much of antagonists. Veda, seeing how the four meisters really aren't up to par with it's expectations, was probably cooking up a plan, or already had a plan. it let loose the Thrones, something the characters didn't even expect to save their ass, and of course, the Thrones would immediately relieve them of their duties or reduce it, and I don't think that'll sit well with them. The three Throne meisters would probably be more intense and violent in their "interventions" and the four meisters would oppose to that.

so the scenario would be, Ptolemy crew + Meisters rebel against Celestial Being, pitting themselves against the new trio, turning the whole game into a triple threat battle. earth factions vs them vs thrones.

and now I don't know how they'll end all war right now.

the series is finally starting to get more interesting, really, 13 episodes were enough of an "introductory arc".

I still hope that the PSP also gets a Gundam 00 game, or at least they consider adding Exia to the PS2 release of Gundam Musou. Heck, Exia fits right in to the gameplay! One guy with swords taking out massive armies Dynasty Warriors style, how could they resist?

haha, so here I am, waiting for the ManU match against Newcastle.

Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, is the new show I'll be watching after Den-O wraps up. afk is still subbing the series, and the first episode is as great as fucking ever!!! Heinel from Voltes V made a cameo in a pretty fucked up "flashback" which comprised the first part of the episode, which also had a killer Kamen Rider parody.

ZETSUBOSHITA!!!

...

lol

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it's raining and all cold-like

2008-01-12T18:14:00.000+08:00

doodle of the week!
well I had planned on posting doodles and sketches here instead of in my dA's scraps. maybe not everytime, but when I have some to scan anyway haha. maybe even 4-komas like Jet's.

this doodle includes Shikaidaa (Minoru Shiraishi ftw), Haros, Keroro, Kururu, Shaider, Dream, me, my pen, Genesis, Sephiroth, Kamen Rider Den-O Climax form, Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider Black, Grey Fox, Solid Snake, and a couple of the random sketches is a guy holding his sword like Shaider does with the laser blade, something supposedly the Exia, a black cat, a random character, and another which is supposed to be an EVA.

well, the blog that looked back on the past week was posted up already, so what now...

I woke up at 11:30 today, and found out that I was alone in the house, everyone's at Trinoma, it's dark, it's cold, it's raining, and lunch is up. went down for lunch, and then booted up the PC.

and that's it so far. had siomai and chicharon for lunch.

no plans on going out for a while until after me and my baby's next date.

hmm, I want to watch the Manchester United-Newcastle United match, and it's live at Star Sports with kick-off at 1:10am tomorrow according to the site.

they've been scarce on ManU fixtures lately, and as much as possible I wanna see their EPL matches since you can't find any recaps or such in Youtube. Maybe for FA Cup or UEFA CL matches, but not the EPL. Hargreaves, Saha and Neville both have some training injuries that put them in doubt for the game, but as long has their lineup has Rooney, Ronaldo, Ferdinand, Van der Sar, Nani and Giggs, they're solid. they aren't as consistent as Arsenal, but they're still pretty strong and that's why they're on top, just a couple of points behind. Newcastle hasn't delivered as much, and right now they're managerless. Haha, that's the second time a team lost it's manager before a match at Old Trafford this season, the last one was Chelsea, when Jose Mourinho infamously left the team prior to their game against the Reds.

I could just sleep and watch the replay at 6pm tomorrow, but I just don't feel the excitement as much, and I would've already checked who won and how on the site.

anyway, if I get too sleepy, I'll just wait out the first half. if ManU still hasn't picked up a pace and ends up something like the Birmingham game last time, I'll hit the bed after the first half.

hm...sana umulan at malamig parin next week. haha, a good excuse to hit Bubble Tea again with Aya and drink some hot tea instead of coffee.

I miss you na! hehe.

3rd term, gashapon and sun

2008-01-11T23:30:00.000+08:00

well.

first week of third term just ended. haha. new classmates, same old friends.
and a practically easy schedule. so far I've been waking up to my alarm at 4am, and without that irresistible temptation to snooze a couple more minutes. luckily for me, I set my alarms at 4am and 4:30am, so if ever I do give in to a few minutes of snoozage and it ends up longer than I should, I have an alarm to back me up.

class starts at 8am everyday, so why the hell am I waking up so early for?
well...yeah, after waking up it's usually off to the bathroom. where upwards from 15-30 minutes are spent in the bath. if I haven't thought of what to wear prior to the day, that's maybe another 10-15 minutes of wardrobe debating. then I eat. then watch tv or something. hit the bathroom again to let loose some number two. to get to the MRT station though, is easy. I hitch a ride with the kids who are being ferried off to school and drop myself off at the Q.ave station.

on my sched, every day ends at 12:30pm. except mondays where there is PE from 2-4pm. and that part where everyone didn't get in to the same WORLITE class. Everyone else (including Aya) got locked out of the class during pre-enrollment, and had to take another schedule. Instead of taking the originally planned worlite time, they took a worlite class in the SDA building from 1am to 2:30pm on tuesdays and thursdays. sometimes I'll wait for her so we can ride the trains and walk on our way home together, sometimes I'd go home, eat, and catch some rest.

compared to second term, it's been almost zero stressing so far.

but hey, what am I talking about, it's only been a week.
the first big "work" so far IMO is some presentation due for our group in our worlite class. a presentation on Scholarly Criticism, or what I'd like to call, classy bitchin'. the class was given practically the whole period to discuss within their groups and ask questions.

what did our group do?

nothing.

oh yeah.

anyway, 3rd term should be a notch lighter on the head than 2nd term, BMAT is turning out to be pretty easy so far. and that's the only subject I was ph33ring. uh...PHILOMA...well, it hit a bad note on me. prof kasi.

haha...and I'll scan a sketch I made, a doodle of the day that stands out from other doodles of the day if I may. post it up here in the future and on my dA scraps.

I gots myself new gashapon. haha, well I completed Celestial Being as posted last time with a G-FLEX Kyrios to accompany the rest of the units (albeit in HGCORE versions), and those two SD Gundam Seed mechs. Photoshoots waaay overdue (I post each in dA...well, was supposed to post them up here too, I'll get to that in the future). Two more models joined the queue this week.

surprisingly, Toys R Us TriNoma has the Bandai Ultimate Action Gundam line. It's even the newest in the series, with Gundam Exia leading the pack. It's a bit pricey at 4 tokens (200 pesos), but quite worth the price (although Ken says gashapon here is way overpriced). The capsules are spherical and screw into each other, rather than the usual egg shape which you just pop open and back, but it's just as large, only wider. The models are a bit bigger than HGCORE models, but the reason I like this line a lot is because of their poseability and detail. They all have movable joints and can be posed to your liking, so they'll be more than just another static display in my growing collection.

Aya took the tokens and collected my first gashapon from the line, and luckily we got the Exia. It's not the cover model which has the GN Shield and Sword, but it's practically the same model, only it comes with the GN Twin Swords like the FG kit.

The detail on the toy is great, and on some points is better than the HGCORE toys, but I'm still half and half on which one is better, but definitely massive points go to the UAG models because of their moveability for such a small toy, even the torso and waist plates are moveable. Balance isn't really an issue because the joints are tight enough and the thing isn't really heavy for weight distribution to be an issue. I don't even have to take apart the toy so I can put it back in the capsule. My Exia is sitting in the capsule in an indian sit position, waiting for it's next piece of action.

I didn't even care which one I got, the only peeve on the machine is if you get the one you already have. There's no "bad" toy or the one you usually don't want to get. There's only a few models in the line, namely the two Exias with different weapons, a Union Flag (which is still badass, more badass if it was Graham's, but it's transformable so it's still badass), the Katoki redesigned RX-78-2, and the Strike Freedom Gundam.

sana lang di maubusan lol.

anyway, I was supposed to try my luck earlier again in hopes of getting either the Flag, or Strike Freedom, but I couldn't blow 200 bucks, but I could go for only a hundred. I did go for the HGCORE Kamen Rider machine in hopes of finally getting the theFirst or theNext version KR Ichigo that has evaded me for such a long time. There was only three capsules left in the machine, me and Aya tried to get an angle on the one due to drop down on the next turn. We had such a strong feeling it was Ichigo's theNext version...but no. The character did come from theNext, but it's Chainsaw Lizard. bah. Kaijin. But at least she looks badass, unlike, Ganikomoru.

There was this other machine I figured I should have just tried, it has the Kamen Rider Den-O action pose vol.2 line, which includes all of Den-O and Zeronos' forms. Any of these would be a good addition to my slowly growing collection, but meh. I decided to rather try my luck on the aforementioned HGCORE KR set. But, the Den-O models looked shoddy, from the pictures alone, the models looked cheaply sculpted, with a lot of rough edges and lines, and the paint isn't that good compared to HGCORE.

blah. well, photoshoots due when I get batteries for the camera.

ooh, and I got a new phone from the 3-in-1 subscription deal from Sun. It's a SE K320i, and I like it so far. The screen resolution isn't pretty, and it's sub-par frankly, but I like the OS' quick response time, the amount of features and the easy to useness of the thing. It has room for a charm, but only one since the hole is small...hmm...I got no more Keroro charms. blah. maybe I'll leave it plain muna. gonna make ringtones and stuff tomorrow, although I already changed the wallpaper and set a few of my own ringtones. hehe.

anyway, I'm looking forward to me and my baby's date on the 25th...since we can't go out on the 28th because it's a monday. friday nalang since we go home at 12:30 anyways, and it's easier than going on the weekend...walang tao!

hehe, and for that date is why we pinky swore on a tipid plan. yep, at least 1.5k in our wallets by that day.

although the temptation of gashapon will kill me, and Aya is being drawn in by the sale in TriNoma, specifically the Gossip Girl books in PowerBooks. hehe. GG adik lately. oh, and she's also lured by Debenhams, Dilly Bars and Marks and Spencer underwear.

hm. I'm sleepy. I'll just play PES tomorrow.

I need rest.

lol...and I got a gash on my left knee after tripping on the street earlier playing football with my bros. haha.

hm.

and yeah baby, he should die. asap. I hate him too.

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peculiarity

2008-01-05T13:47:00.001+08:00

last night well, my internet was fucked.

kept disconnecting, until it wouldn't connect at all.

this morning I tried to get down to the root of the problem and found out it was just a case of tripped wiring. a quick rearranging and reconnecting and the internet is back, and fine so far. Hope it sticks, coz, not having internets suck.

anyway, here was a blog post I was typing last night on notepad, which I was supposed to post as soon as I was able to reconnect last night, but to no avail. it's a rather long one true to the blog's title of killer text walls. killed 30 minutes for me. after failing to post it I just gave up, ate some crackers and then hit the bed.

here it is now.

"Notepad, Goals, Gashapon, Aya, 3rd term, and more randomosity."
01/04/08 - 10:30 PM

above:
"me" scoring the first goal in a 5-0 win in the Master League D2 division after a quick steal of possession away from the home side minutes after the home side's kickoff, beating the goalie one on one

above:
"me" again scoring a blistering shot that bounced off into goal from the post.

well, the circumstances of this post are quite unusual.
note that I typed this thing on Notepad, for one. Why? Well, starting at around 4-5pm this afternoon, my interwebs decided to fuck up, and basically kept disconnecting like piss. If I was able to connect, it was likely to get broken again after 5 or so minutes, while being remarkably slow. Philippine DSL service...stinks like freshly burnt poo.

So here I am typing this entry on Notepad, to quickly serve Blogger up a fresh batch of delicious copypasta during the small time I'll squeeze out of my ailing connection.

what happened today anyway...nothing to note much. I woke up at the usual 11am to lunch, then proceded to boot up the PC and spend some time lurking. Then around the time before the net went neurotic I went webcamming with Aya. She showed me her dog Poochi, and I showed her my hair. And then I started to just fool around like crazy with the camera, and decided to broadcast myself to her cooking 3 packs of pancit canton whilst eating a bag of nachos. matakaw yes, but am I significantly gaining a measure of fat like other people would when they consume large amounts of junk food? Touché.

It's a gift. or a curse.

er...whatever. Nevermind that line. I thought it might sound cool.

and you'd probably guess that I'd just be gaming while unconnected to the internets. Yeah, I'm trying to finish my first Master League season on PES2008, and so far I've been sufficiently shuffling my starting eleven, even using reserves since the D2 league isn't that big of a challenge so far. Note that I opted to use the default team lineups for Master League instead of the original team or squad you'll create yourself. Well, I might start another Master League run using that makeshift squad you'll create, heck even design the kit. It'll be a real climb up the tables.

and if I'm not playing PES2008, I'm playing Guitar Hero 3. I'm still sucky at it, but I'm getting better. Fave songs are still Welcome to the Jungle, Can't Be Saved and Prayer of the Refugee. Through the Fire and Flames on Medium still kills me.

lol, I haven't even touched FIFA 08 again since I got PES, not even for the Be A Pro mode. Exactly the same as when I got PEs2007, I dropped FIFA 07. The only thing that got me playing FIFA then was the atmosphere, but I can say that the presentation and atmosphere on PES2008 has gotten better. And the last-gen (PS2, Xbox, PC, etc) versions are pretty buggy and stale compared to the current-gen versions.

I need a new console. Somehow I would still prefer PS3 over Xbox 360...but blah, I'd have to pay for that myself. I'd only probably be getting "useful and relevant" gifts like cameras, moar clothes, laptops or whatever. We're getting a Wii, but it's still not next-gen enough for me. I still won't get the most out of our HDTV.

*yawn*

I've completed Celestial Being na pala. Somehow anyway. I have the HGCORE Gundam 00 gashapon models of Exia, Dynames and Virtue, but I have Kyrios from the Candy Toy G-FLEX 00 line, all because it transforms from normal to flight mode and vice-versa. The HGCORE version doesn't, and it was either you'd get it in flight mode or normal. It's around the same size at the HGCORE figures anyway.

I want HG Gundam 00 models, but they're currently impractical at 1k a pop (I'd rather spend than on more football kits or get shirts), but they're pretty decent. I could also get HCM Pro sets at the same price, and it's not just the Kyrios that transforms, the HCM Pro Virtue's armor can be removed to reveal Nadleeh underneath. The 1/100 and 1/60 scale Exias are out tho, but they do feel rather lacking. You'd think that they'd release the guy on at least MG in that scale, but no. It's just an enlarged model, and as hollow as the rest.

And if I'm to pop 1k on a toy right now, it'd rather be that Kamen Rider the Next version dolls of Kamen Rider Ichi-go or Nii-go.

btw, the G-FLEX line is basically gashapon in a box. It was 250 a piece, but you didn't know which toy out of 5 you'll get. They're more detailed than the HGCORE gashapon, and come with more poseability. Available is the Exia in a trademark action pose (you can adjust the joints I think), the Dynames wearing it's full armor kit and comes with it's signature GN Rifle, figure also poseable. The Kyrios is the one I got which you can transform from flight mode to normal, and the transformation actually isn't that grand or Transformers-ish. It's just rotating and moving a few parts about. The Virtue in the line, I think only the arms are poseable, but it does come with it's GN Bazooka, and the shoulder mount cannons are moveable too. The last in the line, or what I'd like to call the bullshit-prize (meaning the one that you wouldn't want to get) is a Ground-type Tieren. Yeah, the ugly, boxy version of the Zaku from the HRL.

I first spotted the G-FLEX line at Toys r us in Trinoma, and given it's random nature, I woulnd't know what I'd get, lest I'd hide, pop open the box from the side and peek in. I held myself off until I found the same toys at the Toy Kingdom where I bought mine. Why? Well, the staff cleverly highlighted with a marker the toy contained inside on the back of the box. Presumably after removing the "candy" inside the box. Iunno why'd they do that, it is a "Candy Toy". And I remember buying an Ultraman Dyna candy toy (I completed the GUTS ships) with the candy intact. Maybe they don't want you to eat it lol, but hey, you bought it for the toy anyway right? And they'd probably be likely to sell more of that stuff if the buyer knew that he or she would get the one they want instead of having to take a chance and possibly waste money.

One gashapon line I can afford to get every other day or so is the new SD Gundam Full Color Custom line at Toy Kingdom in The Block. It's only 1 token, and the SD Gundams are pretty decent and cute. A feature in each series of these toys is that you can exchange and mish-mash parts from one figure with another. Meaning you can put a Zaku head on let's say, Strike Freedom. The line they carry is the latest line in the series (already at 14 I think), and the current line features the 4 Anno Domini gundams (yay, 00 is getting much love! hope it doesn't get licensed soon, at least let me finish the first season) in their cute SD forms. Surprisingly, the Kyrios in the set CAN transform. Along with the four, are more models from other series. I got a rather Zaku variant from Seed on my first try.

The second try was a peculiar one though. The capsule had the Zeon emblem on it (cool), and it wasn't from the line advertised on the machine. It was from an older set, and it's not even part of the "custom" line where you can mish-mash parts. Big wtf...how did this get in the mix? Apparently, you get a plastic coin with the silhouette of the one you get and it's name with it. Mine read XXXG-00W0 Wing Gundam Zero Custom. I was happy enough since it was from the series that introduced me to Gundam, and forever a personal favorite. But another weird pecularity came up. The toy in the capsule is the ZGMF-X10A Freedom Gundam, complete with an SD METEOR. Wtf again, but hey, it looks badass.

according to Ken though, that gashapon here is ridiculously overpriced. and the amount you spend in Japan is pretty small compared to the hundred bucks you spent here. With a hundred bucks daw, you could get a lot.

meh.

fail.

Gundam 00 episode 13 airs tomorrow, expecting subs the following day. It promises to be a good one based on the build-up from episode 12 and the preview, and it's also the start of the "second half" of the first season. They changed the OP and ED songs I think.

I forgot when the last episode of Kamen Rider Den-O airs, but I'm still waiting for the subs to catch up. They're a little behind for some reason.

Nothing to watch in the meantime then.

And oh, more EPL fixtures tomorrow. I forgot who ManU will face, but I'm still hoping for Arsenal to slip-up again (although unlikely) so United can move up to the top again with a win. What I've heard though is that Liverpool's challenge is getting more bleak after Manchester City clenched number 4 of the table. Quite a poor reflection on the Anfield reds, but a good reflection on Sven-Goran Erikson's impact on the club. City ain't such a joke now.

haha. I'll try to reconnect after this so I can post this one up, and hopefully grab a look at a couple more sites I wanna check before inevitably losing connection again.

And Aya says she's posted up pics of herself with the new bright orange Hello Kitty glasses she got yesterday (well, bought and made the downpayment. They paid the balance and got them today). IMO, she looks pretty cute with them compared to the old black frames. She looks more pop, bright and quirky. Red, black, white or pink frames are getting a little worn down nowadays.

Forgot to mention that I finally got on a skateboard again yesterday when I went to rendezvous with Aya after she couldn't wait anymore in the empty FX yesterday, which led to her crashing at my place for a few hours waiting. Which in turn, led to a pretty great day because of that. If that wasn't obvious enough based on my last post *blushes*

Likewise, I can't wait to kick start the 3rd term off. w00t.
more Mercredi Alliance-type pwnage opportunities plz.
I wanna just chillax, have fun and not stress for the remainder my 1st year in College, but I won't turn down any chance to flex my pwn muscles, especially if I can work with the group again, but definitely it'd only work if I "feel" the work and would have some megas nyoro~n fun.

w00t. and I need allowance na so I can start saving up money na and make up for the Xmas Shopping splurge. And we have that next date coming up too. Plan is to eat at Bubble Tea, since eating at Sizzling Pepper Steak would be better as an experience with the group.

yay.

This post killed 30 minutes.

xoxo

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miss you, missing you

2008-01-03T22:18:00.000+08:00

It's amazing how life has changed.
I thought everything would go through as how my then pessimistic demeanor depicted, but no.
Looking back, I say to myself that life hasn't changed much. That I haven't changed much.
You tell me that I've changed so much about you since I stepped in.
Now I realize that, maybe I too, changed quite a lot.
The reason I probably never thought about why, how and what changed, is all because it's been tremendously great.
I feel as though life just got a bit more color, shackles shattered. Cheesy clichés aside, I just can't put it any other way.
Life has never been better, happier.

Bittersweet maybe sometimes, not all relationships are without bumps and rocks on the road, but I tell you, the sweet happy moments we shared far outnumber whatever arguments we have. I'm not even scared of an occasional scrap, because, I know nothing will get in the way of my feelings, and I will only love you more, hold your hand through it all.

This past Christmas Break...I felt a bit of the old side. The days when I just drowned myself in whatever task I could find, lest' I spend the hours of a day in idleness. It was boring.

I missed you. Every night, the regular calls, or texts weren't enough. Saying goodnight, I love you or I miss you indirectly through text or call, whatever, just wasn't' enough. Hugging Appy every night wasn't enough. I know it must've been the same for you.

I just couldn't take it anymore the past nights.

But, today, made me feel as good as when we first started out. Amazing.

I should thank your eye doctor then for having you follow me to The Block, and that you got stranded in the terminal, lest' you spend countless hours in the FX waiting.

haha. God this day was great.
All those uneasy nights of missing you, swept away.
I didn't wanna let go actually, I'm sure you know. Heck why can't everyday be like today?
I hugged you as if I haven't seen you for a year. Your lips...oh so sweet.

I got to tell you, even if again, how much I love you, how much you mean to me. And how much more I intend to let that grow, and let nothing stand in it's way.

Kahit pa ba isang subject na magkahiwalay tayo. Tatambay ako sa harap ng classroom niyo o kaya makikisit-in. Nothing's gonna change. Only me loving you more. Prince Shin won't ever leave. We'll watch fireworks. So don't be scared.

And I'm glad we even agree on almost everything. It's a great relationship haha. Why wouldn't we last until even after graduation on this rate? (But I know I'll do everything to make things last until forever!)

I know I'm never gonna be perfect, but that's why we have each other right? We work things out. We know when to give each other some space. It's that trust we have with each other that I appreciate tremendously.

I love you.

And I can't say that enough. Shall we say, just more hugs and kisses? Hehe.

oh, and thank you as well.

game get ftw!!!

2007-12-30T23:20:00.000+08:00

well, I'm enjoying my copy of PES2008 tremendously. see pic above for why.

the reviews made the game sound a little disappointing, but with what I've played so far, I'm disagreeing. I don't have a copy of next-gen FIFA 08 to compare against, and only FIFA08 for the PC, but seeing as how PES2008 on the PC has graphics that can come close to the PS3 and X360 versions, now I don't really understand why EA decided to leave PC gamers with a last-gen engine.
the only thing FIFA08 has me hooked on is Be A Pro mode.

but, PES2008 allows you to take a picture of yourself and slap it on to your custom player's face. it's not perfect, but it works. I'm looking for a way to map your own face to a vacant in-game model, so it'd really look awesome. the preset for the face import only moves the mouth, no facial and eye expressions, so being able to map your face to a real in-game model using a tool of some sort to attain the kind of look other in-game models have would really be great.

right now, all I've done to enhance the PES2008 experience is to import new boots, balls, and a patch that fixes all the leagues and kits.

scoring the 3rd goal in a 4-1 away win against WestHam (revenge!!!)

a look back at an old look

2007-12-30T00:08:00.000+08:00

lol.
while I'm enjoying my current new look, I was able to look back at my older pics.

but finding this one was a real surprise...heck it was a print, had to scan it.

yep. that's me. circa October two thousand-something, but I think this was around during 6th grade.

rockin' a fauxhawk before FiX mass-produced em' for every variant of Pinoy to wear out years later \m/

killertextwalls; football edition

2007-12-28T15:18:00.000+08:00

first off...I still can't get enough of my new look. moar pics+appy the apply @ my multiply.

and we're off. I'm in a football mood again.

well, the week has been pretty busy for the Premier League. They had their usual weekend fixtures, then had mid-week games last Tuesday and then it's fixtures again tomorrow. The great news for me though is that Manchester United overtook Arsenal for the table top spot last Tuesday with 1 point. Yes, during that last set of games, United beat Sunderland away with 4 goals to nil, and Arsenal got held to a draw by Portsmouth. Finally haha, it's been tense. During last weekend's games, Everton almost drew against ManU, but a late penalty saw them through. The buzz is, during the Sunderland game, United's form was better than ever. They might have had a rocky Premier League start, but they made up well for it lately, and seeing their undefeated Champions League group stage campaign, it looks like we may see more trophies this year compared to last.

The 1 point lead is important, because they can't win the Premier League with their head-to-head stats in case they tie with Arsenal in 6 months, so winning every game is important. And the real big point-decisive matches are between the big four, ManU, Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea. The big four had a clash against each other last last week where ManU won against Liverpool, and it was a great chance for them to overtake Arsenal, but they won against Chelsea. I wasn't able to see the Gunners' match against Portsmouth, and I'd expect them to shake that off quickly in time for Saturday, where United face WestHam and Arsenal against Everton. Now, United, if they keep top shape should quickly make quick work of the Hammers. Hopefully. But Everton, given how they almost held United last Sunday, well, I have a bit of hope that they can contain Arsenal, giving United a big chance to go further ahead in the table.

What sucks tho is that ESPN/StarSports has been really stingy when it comes to big matches. We get bottom-tier matches from the EPL table, and while ESPN does advertise big matches, we don't get them here in the Philippines. We get fucking Snooker, Rugby, or whatever. Blah. I appreciate their good Champions League presentations, but still, more United matches please. I just wait for the results the next day or track the match online live...blah...I wanna see the real action.

and oh...I finally got a copy of FIFA 08 for the PC.
my 7600GT handles the game at max settings well, but for some reason, my XFX dual analog controller's right stick doesn't work in the game...it's weird, because the controller worked fine the whole game, it's only the right stick that's the problem.

and I'm looking for patches/updates which strangely, I can't find on the official site. plus I'm looking for graphical mods that'll improve the game's visual quality.

the game is great, and despite it being graphically lacking behind PES2008 (which I might get too, but I'm too lazy, since I'd have to apply all those mods in order to fix all the missing teams/kits) I'm liking it so far.

The best bit for me has to be the Be A Pro mode. I didn't get the cool camera angle that the mode uses on the X360 or PS3 version, but what I'm happy about is that the mode actually works. I've been using Cristiano Ronaldo since the first try, and I'm pretty stoked about the whole thing. Calling for passes seems to work enough, provided that you are in good receiving space, I haven't gotten used to the new crossing and through-ball control, but what makes the experience so good is that aside from participating as if you're playing with the team, staying on your position but occasionally making runs towards the middle of the field, connecting those one-two passes with teammates, just participating good enough is great. Connecting those crosses, through balls that lead to assists are just as great as scoring goals.

I've had some nice runs with Rooney and Tevez, the passing was great and all, but the best moment yet happened this morning. I was playing against Liverpool, and one of our runs was stopped by the defenders, and they sent the ball back to our half. Gary Neville got possession, but what I didn't notice was that I was hanging out on the right wing, just on the edge of the offside trap. I didn't notice because mainly I was out of frame, and I wasn't looking at the radar, but what I found great was how the AI (I think) saw that, and without me requesting a pass or a cross, sent the ball airborne to my position...well not really, but the run was great, as I broke through the defense and took the keeper one on one. I was going in at an awkward angle from the right wing, but as the defenders were catching up, I decided to just blast it. The keeper parried it, but the ball landed back on my feet, and it was just a simple matter of tapping it back towards goal. That, was sick. It had been my second goal of the game, my first was a dipping free kick just outside the box. I eventually scored a hat-trick with my third goal coming late in the second half. We won the game 6-0, with Rooney scoring a double and Tevez scoring one, and those three goals came from my assists.

hehe. it's more tense than a regular game since, you're relying on AI teammates, but the experience is just sometimes better.

plus I don't even get to play football so this is as close as I get.

weeee.
I'mma play more in a while. maybe research a bit on graphical tweaks for the game (similar to what they do with PES) and how to get the trick stick to work.

good luck for ManU with tomorrow's fixtures! don't waste that slender 1 point lead!

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straight hair form...kanseidaze!!!

2007-12-27T23:28:00.000+08:00

w00t.

this day, I got to shop for some new stuff in Greenhills, meet Aya again (shet, parang ang haba ng 4 na araw lol) and get my hair straightened.

well, I'm happy with my self-Xmas-treats. over the years I've spent my monetary loot on random stuff and food, and this year I finally got stuff that works. Like, clothes.

blah, I didn't buy shirts tho. heck I'd rather design my own graphics and print em out. I have 3 designs I'm targeting to get printed by the end of January. instead, I finally got my hands on a decent Manchester United jersey, with a Premier League 06/07 champions badge and name and number printing (Cristiano Ronaldo, #7 of course). lol, I've been waiting for that buy, finally my eager soul is silenced. so I have the away jersey (no name+number), but the red home shirt has the number. yep yep. finally. actually, I had my eyes on Rooney's England home kit, but I don't like white much so I asked if they had the away kit. That's when I saw the shirt. Nice.

and I gots myself a Quiksilver zip-up top jacket. hoodies don't suit me for some reason. I like zip-ups more. for some reason.

ooh, and I finally got my hands on a game for my PC. FIFA 08 lol, I couldn't find a PES2008, and I figured that if I got that game, it'll look better (FIFA08 on the PC is a last-gen port, while PES2008 on the PC is a current-gen port), but I'd have to tinker around it for quite a while in order to maximize the game. Apply kit patches, whatnot. I turned the settings all on high from playing on medium, and my 7600GT wasn't even flinching. Heck, the framerate is as smooth as hell. I'm loving it. good thing I got a nice joystick for Xmas.

and....finally...I got my hair straightened. yep yep. after a four-hour session, I walk out with straight and smooth hair. I'm pretty surprised myself. I thought the four hours consisted of me sitting idly in my chair while chemicals were applied, but nah, the process actually seemed shorter than it sounds. well, I had my PSP with me. and I ate dinner on my chair na hehe, I got two Whopper Jr's before the session which became tonight's dinner.

and so, as posted on my Multiply blog...the two good pics I got from my phone (wah...can't pic right now, lighting in room is poor...maybe tomorrow, or on sunday when I can play around with it na, y'know, there's that 2-day waiting period where you can't mess around or wet your hair)

kansei!!!

lol. long day...I need rest coz I kinda feel like I'm gonna get sick because of the weather...
and baka bumalik pa ko ng GH bukas. lol.

weee ^__________^

I <3 appy the apple

moar new hair pics @ link

*lol addition:
more w00t reasons for today!!!

turns out, that during the last fixtures for the Premier League last tuesday/wednesday, ManU beat Sunderland away with 4-0, and Arsenal drew against Portsmouth! That means ManU take pole position on the Premier League table with just one slender point! OMG! Tense!

and on saturday it's another set of games, Arsenal playing Everton and United playing West Ham. United, with their current form should make it through against West Ham and take three points, but as for Arsenal, I might say that the draw was a fluke, but given how Everton performed against United last sunday, I have a speck of hope, that Arsenal gets held, and ManU shoot further into the top. 6 more months to go!

w00t, three fixtures in one week. busy busy for the Premier League. and I think UEFA CL Last 16 matches start next week, with United against Lyon. United are unbeaten in the Champions League, save for the last minute draw against Roma in their last group stage game.

yay Man Utd!

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weeeeeeeeee ^__^

2007-12-25T11:31:00.000+08:00

Merry Christmas everybody. :D

2007 was good, hope it was the same for everyone as well.

MeriKuri!!! XD

...now what do I blow up on New Year's day...

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DO WANT!!!

2007-12-22T21:46:00.000+08:00

OMFG DO WANT!!!
NAO!!!
EVEN BB VERSION!!!
GET!!!
BADASS +157895

AND I'M NOTHING BUT FUCKING SERIOUS.

3 days to go before Christmas everybody.

C'mon! Hurry Xmas!!!

Hyde english ftw.

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a picture

2007-12-16T00:40:00.000+08:00

well, so this day's productivity can be simply summed up in one picture.

there.

I like it.

and pics of my gasha and one gunpla on dA. I was supposed to post snippets of em here like an otaku blog (yep, otaku blog. jet's idea)...but they ended up there, but, pwede rin.

another sunday tomorrow. I'll try to get a flash pass for the trains early tomorrow, because the way this week is gonna go, a flash pass will easily save me 50 or more bucks on fares compared to buying tix regularly.

finals week. the last breath of this term. I can't believe it lol.
I've no real crap looming over me grade-wise IMO, but still. A little insurance through a little review will help.

so me and aya go out to Bubble Tea this week, and after Xmas before the next term starts. yay lol. and I brought home the planner today, the plan was I bring it home on weekends and she takes it on weekdays. Problem though is during the Christmas break and the Summer break.

I miss you na! ;)

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rider kick!

2007-12-12T21:02:00.000+08:00

w00t.

I'm done with the FILIP12 essays required for tomorrow.
Bag is all arranged, ORDEV-B requirements folder done.

and all before 9pm. good.

so here I am with something completely random.

"Let's Go! Rider Kick!"

Semaruu~ Shokkaa~, Jigoku no gundan
Warera wo nerau kuroi kage
Sekai no heiwa o mamoru tame
Go! Go! Let 's Go! Kagayaku Mashin
Raidaa Jump! Raidaa Kick!
Kamen Raidaa, Kamen Raidaa
Raidaa, Raidaa

Semaruu~ Shokkaa, Akuma no gundan
Warera wo nerau kuroi kage
Sekai no heiwa o mamoru tame
Go! Go! Let 's Go! Shinku no Mafuraa
Raidaa Jump! Raidaa Kick!
Kamen Raidaa, Kamen Raidaa
Raidaa, Raidaa

Semaruu~ Shokkaa, Kyofu no gundan
Waga Machi wo nerau kuroi kage
Sekai no heiwa o mamoru tame
Go! Go! Let 's Go! Midori no Kamen
Raidaa Jump! Raidaa Kick!
Kamen Raidaa, Kamen Raidaa
Raidaa, Raidaa

congratulations ^_^

2007-12-11T22:11:00.000+08:00

as I tackle the tasks of writing essays for a FILIP12 project, downloading HQ PVs from various Japanese artists to show off on my PSP's screen, watching TV, chatting with friends, and listening to music, I took these few minutes to write about today.

well, in short, CONGRATULATIONS TO BANGKOCK 1000% FOR TEH WIN!!!

very proud of you guise, especially Jet :p
swerte kayo kasi nandun pic ko hehe

it was a good sweep for the Mercredi Alliance :)

Sa Likod ng mga Tawa got the 89 for the win
Buhay Teenage Smoker got a close 88
The College Course Conundrum got an 86
Limos got an 82 (lol, but you guys would've gotten higher if umabot dvd niyo on time)

yep. insocio was epic lulz. I wonder how intecom will go?

term almost done!

*back to writing*

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planner get!

2007-12-10T21:36:00.000+08:00

yay!

me and aya completed our planner plan today!
thanks in part to Starbucks' 10th anniversary promo of giving 2 stickers per drink

funny story actually, last night we talked about the remaining stickers on the card. there was 3 to go on the Xmas drinks, and 5 left on the regular drinks. the original plan we talked about sunday night over YM was to get a regular drink each today, adding 4 stickers to the regular slots to leave 1 more...share 1 regular drink on non-promo hours on tuesday to seal that 1 left regular slot...and have a christmas drink each on wednesday to cap off the whole card, and get our planner!

so, it was time for the four stickers we get today earlier, we met at the second-level Starbucks at TriNoma. We ended up getting christmas drinks instead of regular ones, both Praline Mochas. So that's 4 stickers kaagad, the remaining 3 slots on the christmas drink side got finished, and the extra sticker of the four got added to the regular drink slots, which reduced the remaining number of stickers to go on the regular drink side to 4. yay! We decided to finish the remaining drinks tomorrow, but in a spur of the moment realization as both our coffees were almost done, we decided to get them now! Sayang eh! We could almost touch the planner! It's just two regular drinks for four stickers which will cap off the card! We ran up to the rooftop garden Starbucks which had better staff than the one inside, and got two short caffe mochas, 95 each! and just like that, the planner plan has come to fruition. Aya was so happy hehe, tuwang tuwa mga Barista.

yay! ^_^

I got to take home the planner for today, but it goes home with her tomorrow until I'd need it again.

in other news tho, we're just Christmas shopping for the rest nalang, I'm done na, we did some shopping last sunday at (again) Trinoma.

plus it's finals week na next week, so medyo cramming and seryoso mode na.

karir na to the max for intecom, insocio and algeb-x. I'm not really in tight spots for those subjects, but still. as for comsk1x, you guys know naman what happened sa midterms :), and dynarel, meh, but for filip12, I just need to get the final project done by thursday.

next term, I'm looking forward to a good schedule. classes at 8-12 on WF, 9-12 on TTH, but I go home at 4 on Mondays because of PE. With that schedule wala nang dahilan para magpuyat, lots of time in the afternoon, pwede pa gumimik, dumaan sa bahay ni Jet, magtrip sa LRT/MRT, hehe.

can't wait to get the second term done and over with.

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the planner plan is nigh

2007-12-09T21:21:00.000+08:00

I wouldn't usually indulge myself with say, Starbucks, without any reason. I mean, in an ordinary situation where I want coffee and don't care about the taste, there's lots of options. If I have a few hundred bucks and wants something a little bit special, then okie, Starbucks it is then.

Then again, it's the season of Starbucks planners again. As much as I would want one, I wouldn't even probably get past 3 stickers. Heck, they're boosting peoples' stickers collection with a 10th anniversary promo, 2 stickers per drink within an allotted time only.

nice.

well, I had a plan. me and my kitty share a planner. haha, she wants one, and I'd probably be wasting one on doodles. I'm not really a planner person. So it's a good plan, hehe, our own joint diary. for stuff we wouldn't post on our blogs. haha.

and as of today, we're 3 days away from our planner (that's 5 more drinks), and if all goes according to plan, on wednesday we get it. yaaay. ^___^

oh, and today was love, just because I got to spend it with you my kitty. :)

yay for the planner plan.

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spawn'd

2007-12-09T01:11:00.000+08:00

yep yep.

new blog layout. pic by moi.

don't mind the old posts. blah, like I'd change the font size of each just so you could read em. who'd read old posts anyway?

I miss my baby. ^^

plans to add random stuff I see on the interwebs and everyday sketches. like those artist blogs. suggestion from Jet-kun.

lol.

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faith in the hands of frailty

2007-11-22T22:56:00.000+08:00

The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and goodwill shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy My brothers. And you will know My name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.

and as much as vengeance, murder, retribution, all that stuff is sweet, coz everyone knows revenge is a dish best served cold.

it's a way to solve things really, unless Detective Conan comes in and plants a can in your face at ridiculous velocities.

but if the expectedly abhorrent rantfest manifests tomorrow,
I'd have really lost faith in the possibilities of any capacity for diplomacy.
even the spartans were civil.
keep your word.
solve the problem. don't fuel the flame. don't feed the troll.

or rather, don't let the troll in.

2 HIT BLOG COMBO!!! Friday Night Lights @ MoA

2007-10-27T21:22:00.000+08:00

first off, a Happy Birthday to Gio and Dianne (sayang you weren't with us!), and a Happy Bursuday/Tanjoubi Omedetou to Jet. My stomach was happy until the morning.

Typical friday, Intecom and Comsk1X midterms, and a new lesson for algeb-x (which...I don't get.)

Aya was happy since she can camwhore again! Her bluetooth dongle worked on her laptop, so she can now free space on her phone!

But the main event for the day was Jet and Gio's treat sa MoA.
haha.

Laughtrip amf.

first the LRT trip. ang ingay namin amf! lol. then the shuttle from Gil Puyat to MoA, which he cramped in one of the shuttles. Laughtrip din!

We ate at MoA, Guilly's Island to be specific. Tuwang tuwa yung side namin sa table haha. Daming food, unlimited rice, unlimited iced tea. San ka pa? Oh yeah. Louie was grabbing random food from our plates na in the end.

Lakad lakad, di nakapag-Karaoke, Jet was being restrained from a balloon castle full of kids, and a science museum full of kids. After the lakad lakad, we met Kim's family. lol. Oh yeah, laughtrip reaction ni Angel after Kim and Ken gave her Tinkerbell balloons. ROFL. Lakad lakad.

I GOT TO PLAY INITIAL D 4!!! HOLY PAK SHET!!! GOT MY CARD!!! TAPOS NA MAXIMUM TUNE DAYS KO!!!

I loved the machine. So clean and sleek. Graphics are no joke too. I loved the seat and steering wheel. Shifter, sana 6-gear like WMMT, the placement was perfect na. 150 got me an IC card and one game. T_T

I hope may Initial D 4 na in TriNoma (GH MERON!). So I can fuel my addiction as much as possible.

as usual, a competition yellow mica '92 Efini RX-7 Type R FD3S model. my name is D-NO.

biglang nasa crepes place pala sila.

yep yep. great friday.

thanks to carlo for the ride home! di na kami umabot ni Aya sa trains...but since Aya lives near Carlo's area, and they're passing by Project 7 pala, we hitched a ride.
laughtrip din, Aya was the only girl in the car. Hilarity ensued.

great day!

BUT TODAY WAS MUCH MUCH MUCH GREATER THANKS TO AYA! :3

:D

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whoopsies. i nidz fanz

2007-10-27T21:07:00.000+08:00

do I finally have my work PC?

this tale starts a few weeks ago, when we get a RedFox PC from PLDT.
so sure, it stayed in the box for a good few more weeks.
I was surprised when I opened it anyway, the mark of an AMD Athlon 64 X2 greeted my eyes. Holy crap. Dual core. I quickly assembled the kit, and ooh...my table is configured so that my monitor is under the glass desk. Well, I don't have a monitor that fits, so for now, I'm using the RedFox LCD monitor that came with the package. It's not the best monitor, it has a maximum resolution of 1024x768, and I don't really like the quality. Anyway, my excitement got fucked up one when I encountered the OS that came with the PC. Edubuntu. Fuck the what.

on that same day, I headed off to GH for an HDD reformat and Windows XP. but then some settings must've got fucked, since my wireless adapted can detect my router, but I can't connect. So earlier today, I hung out at GH again for a repair and upgrades. yeahp. after another reformat and OS installation, the cool techie gave me some useful apps, and slapped on a gig of RAM and a 256mb ATI Radeon 9550 card. sweet.

battlefield 2 kaagad!

but uh-oh. after a few hours of PC pwnage, life stopped for a bit as my screen went blank and the PC lifeless.

HOLY CRAP PUTANGINANG SHET PAK.

calmly, I restarted. and again my pc becomes unresponsive after the picture blacks out.
I'm like, what the hell. My PC isn't that hot, so it's not overheating issues. I opened up the case, put a fan near the PC and turned it on again. After a few minutes, boom. Again. I quickly inspected the contents of the PC and concluded a few reasons to why my PC is doing this.

1. my fucking card doesn't have it's own fan. HEATSINK LANG? my GeForce FX5500 had it's own fan.
2. my case doesn't even have a fucking fan.
3. only the processor has it's own fan.
4. I'm screwed. If my other workhorse PC needs like, 3 fans, eto pa kaya?

given that this PC started out as a humble PC, it wasn't surprising that it lacked amenities that you'd find on more heavy-work PCs. Jeebus Christ.

so now my PC is resting, and tomorrow, I will swiftly ship it back to the shop for a few fans. maybe two? my case has three slots for fans. I'll ask them to observe if the PC still shuts off after a few hours, and minutes.

and I'm gonna try to use a CRT monitor instead of the LCD.

I can't stand 1024x768. I'll try if I can manage with the LG CRT @ 1080X1024

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hai democrazy

2007-10-25T18:39:00.000+08:00

so Erap did get a pardon. or...executive clemency.

well that sucks.
you try to impeach the guy, stir up general public disdain for the person, organize a show of constitutional anarchy to oust him, then proceed to try the guy for plunder, and finally render him guilty of the charges.

and then you just free him?

what the hell?
yeah he doesn't get the penalties and the seized assets back, yeah he promises not to run for public office, but it's bullcrap. it's just wow. don't think the guy won't rear his ugly head against you because of you granting him a favor. that's a big slap to due process. be it GMA is trying to salvage pogi points with the masses, or really just claims to be really generous, that's bullshit.

were they that scared of another rally? EDSA "3" failed, how the hell would another one gain foot?

the hell.

and to think the guy refuses to admit his verdict even if he was already found guilty. even throwing words like say, decisions being guided by the holy spirit (crap), saying that he'll accept the trial decision but in the end ranting like hell, and wanted a pardon on his own terms initially.

well what the hell.

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commuting rocks. anarchy! henshin! blue flash!

2007-10-20T00:33:00.000+08:00

you know what's cool about the philippines?

we complain about the traffic, but don't about the commute. heck I blow a gasket at saturday afternoon rush-hour but I laugh my ass off on the MRT.

basically since, well, you can't do anything about traffic, and music makes it easier anyway. commutes are more hardcore tho. well, buses, shuttles and whatnot are more mellow, but the trains. the goddamn trains are hardcore. imagine, you'd think a pickpocket would get his way in the tight confines of the mrt, but hell he'd have to prod everyone's crotch looking for a nice pick, probably get squished by a fat guy or a typical type-b jolog (feeling metrosexual according to aya) or probably even be the victim of B.O. Of course, one of the biggest laughs are the horde charge, in which a train arrives at a station, usually magallanes and ayala in my observations, and the train immediately gets swamped by mad commuters who block the whole door area. the middle is practically free, yet they choose to subject themselves to uncomfortable and awkward positions. afraid you're not gonna get down at your stop? all of you are freaking going down at the same stop anyway, and you can throw some verbal abuse around if you're still not getting through. some people laugh it off, some cry, some go aggro. it's a bitching laughtrip.

so like earlier I was to go down at ortigas. I got through, but not before moaning like a bitch during sex (the usual "aaah" "uuuhhhh" "ang sakiiiit"). aya got a laugh, I was laughing like a moron. anyway, one dude remarked that getting out and in is like giving birth. people just squeeze themselves through. I do hope they're wearing protection in the middle of the train.

some people go all "lalabas muna" "puno na" whatever...that doesn't help. heck people force themselves. the door won't even close. someone's head got pwned by the door kanina. when it opens again, it's not asking for more retards to squish everyone else. the idea is to get out so the train will go. the godly words of the driver won't do anything, heck the security guards won't do anything.

haven't had the same situations at both lrt lines. it's something i only observe at the mrt. heck even sa pila. which is why i'm using this societal conundrum of lackluster security and disciplinary enforcement, people taking advantage of the lackluster disciplinary enforcement, the lack of common sense, consideration and discipline among the people that make each train trip harder for themselves and everyone else as our insocio project. why do people continously force themselves knowing that it's a hassle for themselves and everyone, why don't they make efforts to avoid the such situations, and why isn't anyone doing anything about it? in a sociological participatory/field observation, we shall explore the mrt conundrum. the question? why do you do it? why do people continously subject themselves to this obvious discomfort? if the middle of the train is free, then why pack at the door?

hm. i had a roll there.

the plan is to buy a stored value ticket each, arm ourselves with notepads and videocams, and document the turmoil of a rush-hour mrt experience. maybe interview a few of these people, the people who aren't affected (last station go-downers, roundtrippers, naka-upo-ers) and possible security and admin. heck, I dream of a full blown dokyu.

well, that's one plan.

zaido (surprisingly) rekindled my love for tokusatsu. I actually find the costume design to be good, but like their effects and ideas, are just poorly executed. especially the helmet. it looks freakin cheap. the original shaider suit was kickass, even if it did have minimal coverage on the arms and legs, but it really looked metal. zaido looks like a styro hero more than a metal hero. they really need to work on it.

plus, they freaking TAKE AGES TO GET TO THE ACTION. it's going nowhere, sidestory after sidestory, what happened to BATTLING THE ENEMY? and on that note, WHAT THE HELL ARE THE ENEMIES DOING? sleeping? bullshit. the mahal-lookalike excuse for "le-ar" is stupid, but at least the ida and drigo characters look ok.

captain barbell and darna didn't take this long to get to the action. zaido is dragging it's styrofoam ass.

but, I'm more addicted again to Kamen Rider Black. aside from drawing the zaido and shaider suits, I've been watching a lot of Kamen Rider, Kamen Rider the first, and Kamen Rider Black (somehow RX doesn't tick with me anymore). well basically the multiple-form-rider shows didn't click with me. iunno. Tetsuo Kurata is badass.

And the other master plan is for me to make a 25-minute toku, complete with the same style of camera work and special effects used in the old shows, camera work should be easy and challenging to work with, but the rotoscoping and particle effects are easy with aftereffects. haha, might be my first serious work with aftereffects. but it's still a plan. heck, where do I get my own sentai suit and belt? the "minimum" plan is to film me in a henshin sequence, basically replicate the kamen rider black henshin sequence. I'll wear my old-school jeans, a jacket, gloves, etc. it works.

but yeah, still a plan. still a plan.

I want to make use of the kamen rider black henshin, shaider laser blade, and rider kick tho.

hmm...puro plano amf.

anyway, currently loving my new studded cuff (been a long while since I had one) and my black razorblade pendant...which conveniently has an inverted latin cross on it.

and for argument's sake, I shall refer to it as St. Peter's Cross. It's not antichrist or satanic because I do not consider it to be such, and the only reason it has such a connotation is because of the hypocritical conservatice catholic sects who labelled it such, and the black metal scene that has jumped on it and adopted the connotation.

sayang, it had such a good meaning pa naman.

excerpt from wiki.

The Cross of St. Peter is an inverted Latin cross. The origin of this symbol comes from the Catholic tradition that St. Peter was crucified upside down, as he felt he was unworthy to be crucified in the same manner that Christ died (upright). It is often used with two keys, symbolizing the keys of heaven.

The Alexandrian scholar Origen is the first fk. report that St. Peter was crucified head downward, for he had asked that he might suffer in this way'. Some Catholics use this cross as a symbol of humility and unworthiness in comparison to Christ.

lol, and since St. Peter is regarded as the predecessor of the Pope in Catholic tradition, this cross is only a logical symbol for him.

how's that? lol. so don't you go hysterical you darned conservative weaboos. the black razorblade is cool tho...emo. haha, the dude who does my hair has a silver version...but I like mine. anodized black with a silver inverted cross.

oh yeah...and about the "bombing", or allegedly an LPG tank blowing. thing is, the tanks afaik are outside the building and are just piped in, unless it's the pipes that blew. and, even if it wasn't a bomb, and explosion of a series of linked pipes could still prove to be powerful. I'd like to doubt the angle of terrorism, because a mishap is better than attack, and it was a personal observation that the areas other than G4 looked generally unkempt and well, prone.

and this caused the people to well, go home, causing packed MRT, long jeep/fx/shuttle lines and whatnot. who knows, baka bukas normal na. megamall didn't look to packed kanina, and given the presence of the 3-day sale.

I do hope they really clean up the whole glorietta area. Iunno, I really didn't feel all the other places aside from G4, which is why I wasn't really an Ayala person like Aya.

There's always Trinoma lol. well, I guess it'll help that people will be more paranoid and security gets tired for the following days.

haha. been a while since a considerably long blog.

is it long?

iunno. compare it to the older posts on killertextwalls.

did I answer the question posed in the beginning anyway? haha...roflmaobbqftw.

oh, and Krispy Kreme in TriNoma is open. well, just feels like a teaser anyway. me and aya were walking towards the exit facing The Block, when my eyes saw this Krispy Kreme flyer on the floor. aya picked it up, and I asked a guard if it was open. After a reassuring yes from the kind guard, Aya was excited and we ran (and walked) as fast as we can to the store. Even sang the "glazed donuts song". Demmit, nakakahawa cuteness ni Aya.

it's a small store, they don't even have a donut machine. they source their donuts from GH. the main KK store is still underconstruction and opens in November, and that'll have the machine.

so far I've eaten in all the Krispy Kremes in the Philippines. lol.

oh, and the dude from KK Greenhills is in Megamall. Aww, no more birthday donuts for us in GH, we have to go to megamall now. he remembers me lol. so I've been told that the Boni High store shuffled people, and the Megamall people were sent to cover Boni High, and the Greenhills people were sent to Megamall, while the new people who will be sent to Boni High will get their training at Greenhills from what I understand. The GH people return to GH in about, 3, 4 months. bah.

donuts are still love tho.

and coffeebuns.

and kitty. :)
with cheese floss and strawberry.

yay for mah hair. hats off to the dude that does it, haha. finally, FiX doesn't fail me like it did the first three times. now, once it gets longer...around Kadaj-ish, I'll consider treatments and maybe color. haha.

my PSP has been all GoW demo, Wangan Midnight Portable, Diner Dash (guess who's playing) and Juiced 2. I'm liking the drifting in Juiced, since I got tired of FIFA08 (bugs just made a hassle of the game some times). I don't know if I'll get Syphon Filter-Logan's Shadow and SWAT: Target Liberty tho.

maybe wait for Castlevania and Portable Ops+?

ending. for now.

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southern journey.

2007-09-23T13:23:00.000+08:00

yesterday, me and Aya ventured into the South.

I was excited, haha, first time to commute to the South, since, usually I'd be in a private car.

the plan was MRT station to Ayala and shuttle to McDo Sucat, then picked up by Angel to Bea's house. While in Ayala, Aya was teased by the sight of G4, and I was teased by the prospect of Initial D Arcade Stage 4 and the sound of roaring RC engines in PS1. but, we denied ourselves.

luckily there was a shuttle about to depart to Sucat, 45 bucks, not bad. 4 people in the thing. lol. now, I looked up the distance in Google Earth, and it seemed far, but the actual drive didn't seem that long. Well, walang traffic eh.

So yun, breakfast muna sa McDo while waiting. Once in Bea's place we waited for everyone, then started work. I outlined the city and researched different construction and architectural approaches and inspirations. Lunch was chicken adobo and the good sardine pesto Aya cooked up. yummy ^_^

then pudding for dessert. hehe.

After a few more hours of building making and painting, (I made a Junon Sister Ray Cannon for our country) we cleaned up and headed for their isaw place in Ruins.

Admittedly, na-shock ako dun sa dami ng DVDs and games. Reminded me of a mini version of old-school Virra Mall. But, kahit cheap lang ang differences, I'd rather go to Metrowalk or Greenhills. aawww.

They gorged on isaw, I air guitared/drummed to some AM radio, and finally me and Aya took a tricycle back to McDo to grab another 45 peso shuttle to the Landmark station where we took the first shuttle coming here.

Haha, before coming home, we looked around Glorietta, Aya took in the sights of her former tambayan, checked out shops, I got disappointed by ill-fitting hats and tool-ish accessories.

She got pretzels, I got breadtalk.

Riding a northbound train from the station was hard, so instead, take southbound train to Taft to roundtrip back to the northbound line. hehe, nice one.

very, very fun day. South nalang natin tuloy project! lol

pics
moar pics

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wait. wait. what the hell is a Zaido?

2007-09-23T13:04:00.000+08:00

around summer, I think, rumors of GMA doing a revival of Uchuu Keiji Shaider sprung up.

it turned out to be true, and indeed, there was even stuff of a draft sent to Toei in Japan for their approval.

now, this approval was denied, for sure, we don't really have a track record to brag about, and I'm sure they'd like to protect the spirit of their tokusatsu.

instead, GMA decides to push on and make it a "sequel" (more of a spinoff IMO), and according to them, takes place 20 years after Sawamura Dai defeats Kubilai. as such, the characters here are "descendants" of the original characters of Shaider.

so now, they take most of the Philippine dub names and use them as the character names.

wow.

and instead of having a singular metal hero, they have a VR-Troopers combo of three color coded heroes, collectively known as "Zaido".

wow.

the blue Zaido, is supposed to be the leader and shares Shaider's color scheme of blue and chrome. He is known as Gallian and is a descendant of Dai. wow. and now the Galactic Union Police wants Gallian to form the Zaido group, by finding the Red and Green Zaido. which, are apparently just color swaps of the Zaido costume. I'd like to take this as a reference to how Shaider has counterparts in Sharivan and Gavan, but only Sharivan makes sense because he's in red, Gavan is in gray and black.

wow.

oh, and the Fuuma become the Kuuma, and Kubilai becomes Le-ar. Note that they lifted every name except Shaider from the Philippine dub names, and now refer to the original series characters by their original names. I think. Makes sense because Dai Sawamura isn't referred to as Alexis Del Mundo. (f.t.w)

"Le-ar" still has his two counterparts like the old days, Drigo and Ida (God Officer Poe was referred to as Ida in the original dub). Drigo is still a hard ass dude and Ida is still Le-ar's crossdressing grandson. Complete with falsetto.

And the "Kuuma" still has dancing grunts and the team of kunoichi, but referred to like in the original dub as Amazonas and with their respective color code.

I'd forgive the costumes. It's still reveals more spandex than any "metal hero"-ish qualities, but it's nice. The helmet looks stupid tho. It's like they got tired after making the costume and rushed the helmets. Talk about cheap.

But, the thing that ticks me off, they still HAD to include a few characters that will infuse to the story the kind of cheesy, done since the dawn of Philippine TV character backstories that involve forbidden love, humble beginnings, whatnot. Jesus Christ. I was expecting the kind of Saturday morning buttkicking action, but knowing that there'll be more cheesy storylines than villain decimating, it's shit. Heck, we're accustomed to one cool fight per episode. Expect a stupid pace like they had with Darna and Captain Barbell.

Blah.

even so, papanoorin ko parin. lol. it's gonna be an after-effects lesson.

good luck to them anyway.

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priceless

2007-09-18T21:33:00.000+08:00

strawberry: 200 bucks

her smile: worth every single cent

^__^

at the core of the crisis

2007-09-14T09:59:00.000+08:00

no points for guessing why the title is such. :p

I recently got my hands on a couple of new PSP games. Namely, FFVII: Crisis Core and Coded Arms Contagion. Crisis Core was the JP release, and as far as I know, an NA release is still TBA. But still, my FFVII appetite must be appeased, so even if it's Japanese, I'll try and skim through the game.

It's a great game actually.
The graphics are amazing, FMVs and in-game cutscenes mesh smoothly without any blank loading screens in between. There isn't any voice acting for most dialogue but, for the FMVs and important in-game scenes, there is. The music provides good atmosphere though, and the composition and sounds remind you of Advent Children, with usually guitar-driven remixes of past tracks and new ones. Even the in-game models and environments give off an Advent Children vibe. I've gotten a bit in deep in the game so far, and while I do not understand any of the dialogue and text, the game is actually easy to guess and pick up. The battle system reminds me of Kingdom Hearts and is effective, and the Digital Mind Wave system doesn't bother at all. Scoring a killer character-driven "limit break" from it is satisfying.

I doubt I'll be able to finish it in it's Japanese-only form, as most likely I'll get stuck at some point because I don't know what the game is instructing me to do. At which point I'll be probably waiting for a spoiler-free FAQ. This isn't spoiling me at all for the NA release, playing a game where you barely understand what's going on isn't exactly spoiling, as when you've played the English version, there are a lot of details and stuff that you've definitely missed, and for me, just enriches the second playthrough. This one, for me is like an, er, Preview.

Coded Arms Contagion tho, the game I counted on to play after I get tired of guessing my way through CC fails tho. It has a number of improvements from the original, but there are a few gameplay and presentation gripes I have. I haven't tested Infrastructure play though.

Hm, I'm on an arcade game tirade again. I started playing Wangan Midnight Maximum Tune 3, and I appreciated it for once. If you remember my previous posts, I had a pronounced under-appreciation for the first two versions. The game so far is doing well in satisfying me, since I don't really wanna go to further malls just to play Initial D Arcade Stage 4...which looks...deliciously purdy.

My favorite classic car suddenly became an S30. And I stopped drifting in GT4 in favor of tuning cars over 600BHP trying to go for 300+km/h runs on the Test Course and Sarthe.

And last night I was reading through my first blog posts. Yeah, I missed my killer text wall rants, but I'm completely different now from what I've read. Wow. I was laughing at my older posts.

well, time for lunch, and I'll head off to the MRT station at noon.

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smile for me

2007-09-13T22:21:00.000+08:00

yesterday really kicked in a few realizations.

the fact that I was able to do that crap yesterday still hurts inside even if I try to bury and forget it.
I'm sorry, you're sorry. We're working it out.
But, I truly know, I wouldn't have reacted, felt, or even went that far down my emotions if I didn't hold true feelings.

It was a painful memory, but I'd like to think we gained more. Closer? All I needed was your reassuring smile.

It's scary. I was really scared of separation, or even space. Like I wouldn't last a minute. I'd probably break down.

But, now that we're past it, I'll just do everything to make sure we stay happy. That you be happy.
Because I don't want to see you sad...and crying. It hurts.

honestly, yesterday will still bother me. Right now, it is. It was really just wrong.
I'm doing everything to really put it behind me, because I know you won't be happy if I'm not. You said it yourself. How can I make you happy if even I can't make myself happy?

Smile for me eh?

^_^

bleak and in deep

2007-09-12T19:48:00.000+08:00

I have no idea why I did that.

Can't even believe that I'm going through this.

I ruined a good day, well. Yeah.
The day started out perfect, but, why did I have to let it come to such.

Maybe it wouldn't have mattered much, or even let it bug me this much if it were something cheap, laughable, or whatever. But, I really was a big fucktard that time. Why, where did I grab the nerve to do that? It was killing me inside, I know, but yet I kept cold.

I'm really, really sorry.

I know you did, but, I'm still trying to tell myself to get over it, and I even think that I don't deserve what you said.

But, I know space hurts so bad. It's all because of how crappy I was, and it hurts, I was hurting when I was doing it, now even more.

fsck.

so this is how it feels.

so much regret.

If only...if only.

I'm sorry. I hope this doesn't change anything for the worst.

...

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divided we stand. united we crawl.

2007-07-14T21:35:00.000+08:00

in a trivially pathetic moment, out came a spark of unity, yet I'm left a bit disgusted at all sides of the tussle.

I'll try to keep this rant as simple as possible. Hit the points.

Let's start with what led up to the events today.

I woke up reasonably early after sleeping considerably late after a Friday night with friends. I was out of the house and on a bus to the North Ave. MRT station before 7am. A good start. It was hectic, but it's no Monday crowd, and I had 35 bucks loaded onto my Globe account since my Addict line is dead. The station actually had piped-in music, some upbeat Sinatra, and while it was out of place considering the area, I liked it. Boarded the first train that stopped while I was in the line, again in my favorite spot. Just in the middle of the last set of cars. Sat down, took out the PSP and played a few friendlies on FIFA 07. Thanks to that, I missed calls from Aya. She thought I didn't wake up or something. Hehe, concern. Anyway, when I arrived at Taft Station, I pulled out 7 bucks worth of coins to make a payphone call to Aya, to ask where the hell are they hanging out. It wouldn't accept coins for some reason, so the notion of me going all lone wolf to AKIC stuck. Amazingly, after I put the phone down, my phone rung out loud. Turns out they did hang out at McDo due to someone's invite. Haha. A good start? Met Natz at the LRT station at EDSA though, waiting for trains to Vito Cruz.

So the stage is set for the questionably indifferent DV4. A few spared the change to take a Pedicab to AKIC (guilty) while a reasonable lot set out on foot. We weren't early, but I won't say we were late.

I was expecting an LSGH-ish recollection, CSB being a Lasallian school and all.

"Kuya", who took charge of registration and materials was cool, but the lady that handled the retreat immediately didn't rub off a good aura on me. I was on a blasphemic hyper streak, but that's to be expected. Why in a small chapel though? Did the Angelo King International CONVENTION CENTER lose CONVENTION/FUNCTION ROOMS?

Anyway, she kept plugging her ocular deficiency, and unlike the handlers of my past recollections, she didn't really have a background in the field. She's an accountant (shades of BIBSTUD) and, by the end of the day, turned out to be a fanatical zealot.

Irritating. She didn't even try to be cool with the block, she kept rubbing off a tone of disrespect, arrogance, whatnot. She wasn't, considerably, nice.

The programs of the day weren't even that intensive, or interesting. I was too preoccupied in drawing at the notes page at the back of the Recollection Manual and that one activity that included drawing. I don't think she liked how I used a "Xerxes from 300"-ish voice in reading one of the verses. I don't know what's wrong with that. As far as I'm concerned, it's better than reading in a monotone 1st grade voice.

Most of the guys were feeling the cold of the aircon. Aya felt the heat of the projector's ventilator, so I "redirected" the heat away. Hehe. But then she felt cold, so I offered my jacket. Turned out she'd be keeping that for the whole day, Iunno, I'm the one who's supposed to be sick, but I'm the one perfectly fine with the weather. No colds...just some coughing. Not bad.

I didn't eat on the first break, and thus, had a good lunchbreak. A good sized portion of Pork Sinigang, Sola Iced Tea, two cookies and an Oreo Cheesecake. Honestly, I'd hang out at the SDA cafeteria anytime. But the food at AKIC pwnz. Bussing our tables and doing the division of the plates/trash reminded me of my summer stint at Jollibee.

Anyway, another long stretch of recollection, and it was time for the mass.

This is when tensions started to rise.

First off, the noise is to be expected, but we know much enough to keep it down when it's time to move on. But the thing that sparked a little, frustrating episode was the communion. The priest clearly expressed that the communion is for Roman Catholics, but he hopes that one-day, the whole Catholic/Christian community will be able to commune as one. It's a nice notion to say the least.

I, for one, believes that understanding is one of the ways to achieve unity. Sadly, dogma, rules, and whatever zealots throw at you keep us from there. Let's say that "E", not really eligible for communion according to religious dictate, wants to experience the sacrament. After all, we all live under one basic God and belief. She couldn't swallow the host, but her move to the comfort room to expel the piece sparked tension from the aforementioned religious zealot we called our facilitator.

She went pms-ing about what happened, and it's right since it was wrong too, but she didn't have to go and blow up the issue that far.

To generalize the block as an unreligious, desecrating, and hardheaded? To even proclaim "HER GOD", and to ask us who is "our GOD?". Not only did she gravely offend us Catholics, but the others as well. And I don't really think keeping "God" as your own is a bit right in his eyes either. She went on with her rant streak, threatened with notions of grave punishments. Kept us waiting for the LMO head.

So yeah. The previously indifferent blockmates fused together in one hard-hitting attempt at saving our asses.

The LMO head (forgot the name) was a LOT calmer than that zealot, and even asked for anyone's opinions regarding the matter.

Everyone stated clearly valid points, even when it turned to attacking the facilitator and questioning the purpose and effectiveness of the occasion. In my mind, it's not wrong to state your mind, but to keep reiterating our own points and reactions for the nth time in a row, steering ourselves in circles...blah.

In all my honesty, as the class bantered, and sir was communicating his thoughts...there was one moment of genuine deja-vu. I know I dreamt of that one moment.

"I hate religion..."
"...I hate people"

Seriously, the place, the positions, the movement, the words...all of it. I could remember that split second of the dream only. But I knew that it happened in my mind long ago.

Anyway.
We know what happened, we see what was wrong.

Now how do we get over it so everyone can leave happy?

Everyone keeps giving reasons to save our asses (nothing wrong with that), but everyone gets the point already after n times. Time to start thinking of a solution, a compromise, whatever.

Gee, DV4. United again.

"divided we stand, united we fall, united as we crawl ourselves out of death's maw"

Maybe I'm being to exaggerated, but still. Hehe.

So eventually, we got out. 6pm. Just like our regular days.
We walked to Taft with the group, and me, aya, louie, tin, pat, pau, poch, rey (forgot any?) boarded the LRT to EDSA. Me, Aya and Louie had cards already so we jumped the line there. We went ahead of the others who had to wait in line. The train was packed. To death. Still though, I got out at Santolan and walked Annapolis to meet the folks at GH.

The walk was calming. Cars weren't noisy, no shouting, no horns, just the wind.
Tense, for the fact that you might get held-up, but still. It was calm, and the wind was good.
Even arriving at GH it was like that, but the moment you step up to Promenade, the mood changes. Ingay na ulit.

Blah, what a waste of a Saturday.
Everyone ranted, but all I want for us, is to leave this issue behind. It's so trivial, that even this blog is overkill. By monday, that topic is dead and done, and should be relegated to casual laughs.

Unless there'll be some repercussions at least. But still.

On repercussions though,
We did nothing wrong. I see no reason to put the whole block at fault. Suspension? Blasphemy.
Repeat the recollection?

That's completely retarded. If their goal is to at least, inject building blocks of reform and wisdom to an angsty generation, to have us repeat that torrid moment is one big mistake. They're not doing anything. They're just extorting us of our time, and money (if ever again). And ultimately it will be pointless. They'll just add high-grade fuel to a blazing fire.

That's the problem. We crave unity, yet our walls prevent us from achieving the goal.

Religous Zealots who discriminate and push away those that wish to understand and bond do nothing to help.

And to segue the problem, let it pass as everyone steps aside is not a progressive step. Nothing is reformed. Only forgotten, and for sure it will happen again. This event should have been a big lesson not to just us, but them. Ultimately, they fail in being effective. This recollection does NOT match up to my past recollections. It was, just wrong. Mad.

If people keep this cycle moving, then screw peace and unity.

Crazy. I lost the will to add a few more words.

Blah.

As of now, it's behind me.

It's a laughing matter, the trivialness of what happened.
If something comes up on Monday, so be it.
What's done is done. Who can change it?

Move on DV4(?). Move on.

Tomodachi?
Should I rant about why I keep a parentheses'd question mark after the DV4?
Haha. That's for me and Aya. and, whoever else.

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back. finally.

2007-04-27T10:24:00.000+08:00

so I thought I went and killed this blog na after the whole Multiply shiznezz.

bah. it was me being lazy. blogging in Multiply isn't well, like blogging here. besides, the part where it cross-posts the entries I make there seems to be a bitch and it won't work. well, 2/10 times anyway. no idea why it had no problem copying these entries to that site tho.

I'm actually glad that the sun isn't trying to kill you anymore. heck it just hid out behind some clouds just now. great. ok, it's back. blah, anyway the news said it's rain season again. I don't feel it. I break a sweat trying to eat hot chili pancit canton. classes start on may 28, blah, tri-sem college for you. so while everyone's still bitching how short their summer is I have one up against their whining.

I need to finish FF1 tho before classes. I just need a couple more levels before I try and attempt the Chaos shrine, fight the four fiends again and finally go into that horrendously famous bossfight with Chaos. What the hell kind of a boss has HP off the charts and casts Curaja? Well, the four fiends weren't too much to handle the first times. I'm actually surprised I got up to this far without trying to bash the controller in. Usually back on FF7,8 and X, I got stuck two or three times on some major boss because I went gung-ho and refused to grind. Finished them all anyway, but still. Freaking level grind. FF12, heck I'm not even halfway and I gave up. Maybe it's the MMO-ish battle system, meh. I actually like the turn-based battles from the earlier Final Fantasies and FFX, rather than the Active Time Battle system. Blah, I like taking time on my battles. It's how I play RPGs. bleh. I'm glad they remade Final Fantasy for the PSP. They're releasing Final Fantasy II in a couple of months, but I doubt if I'll try. Based on most people on forums, they hated it. Iunno.

My eyes are still red. Sore eyes. blah. The red is subsiding, but the doc says it's still one or two weeks in the house.

due to that condition, all I've been doing is playing with my PSP. I don't have a next-gen console yet (it's not that big of a deal for me, haha, I'm surprised), and my PS2 is doing fine. but really, the PSP is taking all of my gaming sweet time. even my phone has a ton of games. so far the last games I got were Final Fantasy, 300, Gundam SeeD and SOCOM. But the only thing I'm playing right now is FF and UEFA CL (I can't find the UEFA CL on the PS2). I'm waiting for The Fast and the Furious on the PSP. Despite it's shortcomings on the PS2, I still liked that game. The only games I'm looking for on the PS2 are UEFA CL (just so I can export modes like FIFA) and Tokyo Xtreme Racer DRIFT2. The first TXRD was crap, but I'm willing to overlook that. TXRD2 isn't a port of Kaido Battle 2, but the best and latest one in the series, Kaido Battle: Touge no Densetsu. Shitloads of cars and mountain passes. I hope they fix the controls tho.

I don't care about Xbox360s, PS3s and Wiis. The next two pieces of tech I want are a MacBook pro, and an EOS400D.

that's it.

...

I'm off anyway to level up my characters. blah. RPG.
I'm shocked at myself. really.

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holy week. ok, ftw.

2007-04-07T18:21:00.000+08:00

yep. i can say i've been mellow this holy week.
oh yeah, and because Bisita Iglesia sounds too old school, I started referring to it as Churchhopping. Coz, that's what you do. Instead of filling yourself with alcohol, you go all taking shots of the holy spirit at each church. lol. *priest goes "this is blasphemy, this is madness!!!"*

right. onwards. there's not much to talk about this week. nothing happened. bleh, it was a boring week. food, games, whatever I can do to make the minutes go by.

well, there's the issue of my new battle scar. I had a little allergic reaction to mehndi. crappy yeah, and I'm hating it. while the itching and levelling subsided, it's still there. a nice little spartan mark of a rash. while I, wait of the days waiting for it to disappear, apply cream, etc. battle scars. blah.

oh yeah, and I just saw TMNT earlier. it was well, dark. unlike the whole kiddyfied tv series during the 90's and the earlier movies. felt like a little throwback to the seriousness of the old original comic material. anyway, the movie was good. 300 spartans still kick ass tho.

marathoned Deathnote and Deathnote: The Last Name earlier. I even had my little personal Deathnote by my side. sad, I know. shoot me.

Roma defeated ManUtd! fuckin'a. BUT, it was in Italy, and Rooney managed to give United and important away goal. It's 2-1. Either United out-goal them at Old Trafford, or just score 1 goal and hold a clean sheet. They've lost quite a couple of players, but hey. This is United. Treble hopefuls at the top of the League, a spot in FA Cup semis, and a chance to advance in the Champions League. GLORY MAN UTD!

lol Arsenal.

ok so this post is done. blah. jeez.

the next ManUtd league match is on in a couple of hours, so I guess I ain't sleeping.

right.

going.

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bye bye iPod, hello Yokomo

2007-01-21T14:42:00.000+08:00

remember I "was" supposed to save up for an iPod Nano?

meh. besides a couple of UMDs maybe, most of my remaining spending space would go to my TT-01 drift project. I started building the kit the moment I got home friday. Spent 4pm-8pm doing it. faster than I expected following the manual to the dot. christ it feels great seeing your creation whiz around the street in it's first burst of life. the thing kicked around asphalt, slipped around bends, made it's tires squeal and pull off some good switchback drifts. that motor was sparking around and hot. the ABS did it's job, I still remember the days when you could pull on the reverse to fuck up the transmission and kick the car into a lock. it's better now, i've had close calls, pero I can say "nabinyagan" na rin siya. I slid in and out front of my lil' bro's 1/10 truck tho. he smashed into me once. if that wasn't enough he upstaged me with a clean switchback when i let him try the thing out.

a Tamiya TT-01 kit with a 2005 SuperGT ESSO Ultraflo Supra shell. most of it is bone stock except for the included Tamiya TEU-101BK E.S.C, and a complete set of ball bearings. I used a Futaba Megatech R/C unit. The stock motor works great, and with PVC tires, it'll work pretty well. If I wanted to use Tamiya/Yokomo drift compound tires tho I'd need a stronger one. I'm scoping for a Tamiya GT-Tuned 15T motor for that part. Among that, I'm looking to upgrade to an aluminum driveshaft, adjustable turnbuckle arms for camber, heat sinks, racing pack batteries, and oil damper shocks. and just so I don't smash my Supra shell (it's for display and flat race purposes, lol haha), I'm getting a new stock shell, I'll look for an FD3S shell, if not an AE86. Add a new set of rims, I want Yokomo replica rims that look like it to the dot, even has studs. w00t.

aah. 1/10 scale drifting.

on a virtual side tho, I was finally playing Gran Turismo 4 again (just to appease envy over Gran Turismo HD's drift attack mode), and I got my drift reins set again. I was struggling with understeer with the Sileighty, and the Trueno is really only good on Deep Forest, so I picked up one of my other cars and tweaked a bit. and finally I hit it. took a while to get used to it, but the '91 Efini RX-7 Type R (FD3S) works great. You can throw it around with some killer angle and hold it, tho it needs some special touch, it's not that hard and works great. kansei, powerover, e-brake and braking drifts. if you want maniacal angle go for a feint. and it makes hairpins easy. best tracks for it are Tsukuba, Deep Forest, Trial Mountain, and Autumn Ring. I'll more tracks next weekend. Took pics with photomode. great stuff.

geez. all the more I wish I had a real yellow efini FD. (the only dude in the philippines i know that has one...iunno, i always see it covered in dust. if that's asphalt kicked dust due to drifting, it's all cool, but if it ain't, meh. let him stick to his Mk.III Supra and his Evos and Civics.

this is me charging batteries.

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pinkXblack? emoXpunx? ftw.

2007-01-16T14:49:00.000+08:00

yeah (yes?). I want that pink iPod nano. as much as it is, it's "emo" on black. then again, pink on black is punx. just ask the scene people. lol. just like how kalawang-colored fauxhawk excuse donning crowd look the part everyday just by looking at MCR. (admittedly, the Black Parade's jackets are cool. I want Mikey Way's. wtf)

iunno. without any musical aid to hinder the emotive musical tendencies of my inner thought capabilities I can't really help but suddenly scream to Alesana, ponder to Spitalfield or heck, try to figure out another meaning that fits the lyrics of Famous Last Words. or trip to Kill All Your Friends (that's one happy song. like Blood. yeah, those songs are trippy). and I can't help drawing that generic emo smiley with the devil lock in jet black and pink. just, no. just like how I suddenly began to screamo-ify a song they were playing in the recently concluded retreat, I realized that it sounded a lot like This Conversation Is Over, a song which suddenly got stuck to my head afterwards (and to my fingers, I've been playing it ever since). help me, please.

there's that National Career Test tomorrow right? don't see the need for a bag then. just a pencil and food. Where's the need to take it seriously? it is non-bearing for us anyway so...iunno. let a piece of The Man's institutionalized control system dictate my life decisions? hell no.

what else...I'mma get started on 1/18 scale RC kits again. the last time was my RTR Kyosho kit back in the day (way back. the Subaru GC8 22-B was just new back then, so must be circa late 90s). Ever since then I've been toying with small scale RC cars, namely the Bit-CharG series, XMODS, and Mini-Z. This time it's a Tamiya TL-01 chassis kit that requires assembly (omg), but thankfully the body shell comes finished (it's a 2001 GDB Impreza, meh, but I can't complain), and the kit comes with a full set of ball bearings. I'll alternate between drift racing (PVC TIRES!!!) and grip, and I'll consider a drift shell once I decide to really take the sideways path. expect photos and video.

Viz Media took a step against fansubs. It was a likely expected decision given the popularity of the media in question. Yeah, even with no DVD releases, and without the series even halfway yet, they licensed DeathNote. What's admirably unique about this move is the system tho, instead of waiting for the series to end before they start working, they'll release the episodes over the internet, subbed by them, weekly like the anime in Japan itself. rates apply according to terms. meh. I'll just stick to Irohanihoheto then.

then there's that talk about the class' plans to ship out to Bora during the summer. given we attain that estimated best-case scenario profit from the Schoolture Shock event, given that the talks and deals with capital and sponsors go swimmingly as well too. that'll be the second Bora visit for this year, and best of all, it's gonna be free. flight lang nga, kanya kanyang room booking na. beach camping!!! so meh, best not to hold your breath and count chickens this early. there'll only be one way to describe that visit if ever. Pure Inebriation.

Typing spree. And with that comes the lack of sleep, fatigue, migraine. lol. I'm starting to hate myself.

Starbucks planners. what's with that anyway. not that I don't like it, but meh. The plan is to start saving up for the 2008 planner now, and cash all of the stickers in on the first day of the promo. game!

where's my bronze medal?!?! c'mon!!!!1one

meh. losing steam. best to fade out than burn out like they day.

this is me not here.

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4J Retreat - Aftermath

2007-01-11T19:18:00.000+08:00

i missed this keyboard. and iTunes.

then again, who cares, you guys made the retreat a blast. I wasn't expecting it to be that fun and memorable, truly this makes for one hell of a new-year kick off. mahal ko kayong lahat! I seriously wished I brought a camera. sayang.

ghost stories (logic over superstition parin!), sex stories, strip games, molestation attempts, pent-up angst, clean slates and new beginnings. even the retreat house wasn't as bad as it was told, but that added to the excitement, but the bathroom was still creepy tho. real-life gore stories are better than hearsay ghost stories tho. talagang nakapag-open up at bond yung class, pero since the start naman medyo ok na class, parang talagang the final knot na to to tie the class together. sayang lang sa tatlong ewan na di nakapunta, di ninyo alam kung ano na-miss niyo. at least we all got to talk to each other and say what we wanted, kahit di man sa harap ng buong klase, at least talking on a personal level. kala ko puro pa-emo, haha, saya din pala.

hope we don't lose steam tho. everyone keep it up hanggang pag-tapak natin sa stage on March. heck, di lang dapat hanggang dito, heck lakasan pa natin! FINALS pa bukas!!! (hoy! may medal kapatid ko sa intrams nila, dapat meron din!!!) KAYA YAN! taas ang morale kahit paano, kahit walang mangyari, kailangan di parin mawala mga binuo natin nung retreat. eto ang tunay na klase mga pare.

props sa lahat. love and peac3 \m/

teh intarwebs is d0wn!!!one

2006-12-29T12:37:00.000+08:00

i'm suprised Multiply is running smoothly while every other site is loading like a slug the size of Jabba the hutt. my connection is still feeling the after effects of that earthquake. it's an on-off affair, and so far this is the first day where pages have been loading slow or not at all. i was lucky that it was stable for the past few days. what's great is the MGO servers for Portable Ops are accessible and stable even through this turmoil. And with no lag too, my headshots have been accurate and counted. too bad it wasn't RC >_<

my MPO Tech Level 99 quest is done thanks to a rank-S techie I got from an AP scan in Promenade, and an rank-A Elite Engineer I picked up from the plant. Woo hoo for Stealth Camo, and boo-hoo for it's fast draining battery. :p currently thinking of getting another game, choices are Vice City Stories, Gitaroo Man Lives!, and WorkTimeFun.

3.02 OE-A's promise of total PSX emulation and UMD Movie region lock cracking may lure me into jumping in, but no. I've went this far with a straight-edge PSP. Now, should I get a 360 or a Wii...a PS3 is only in question around a year or two, or when MGS4 comes out.

I wonder how much smoke I'll be churning out into mother nature's skies this new year, hmm. I love hypocrisy and the filipino "fuck it" attitude. Even though Boga cannons have been declared illegal (due mostly to the stupidity of a number of people), we'll still be igniting ethyl alcohol. Heck, I plan on setting loose a couple of Diet Coke rockets to make the event a little more wet than burning.

Year's ending...the rest of school is coming. And I still need to pull off that Community Service BS one way or another. ph33r. barangay hall must need a techie or two, lol.

I want teh intarwebs back. -_-

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revenge of the shomin

2006-12-16T15:31:00.000+08:00

and it ain't that good noise, no.

I know christmas carols are a worldwide tradition but unless you're in a gated community, it's just another shomin excuse for extortion :p

Of course, if they put enough effortt into it anyway, trying to really sing a song than blabber about the usual "saming bahay", you could give them a break and hand these kids over a coin or two, but when they just scream it, irritating your already stressed out ears, and even making the jump to irritate+4 by banging on an empty milk can and abusing a tambourine, you'd have half the mind to give em a verbal thrashing. Some try to "pimp" their extortion methods up with some kiddy instrument like the marching band xylophone, but banging on three notes doesn't do shit if you still sound like crap. Don't expect a coin for an almost non-existent attempt at effort.

Some even just go to your house, shout, extort you with "namamasko po!!!" and bang on your doorbell it's just horrible. Sila pa magagalit minsan eh pucha, sino ginagago nila. You go to a stranger's house, "sing" a song and expect a sum for it. You know how kuripot noypis are these days. This one kid was just shouting out the lines and was clearly cutting corners and singing it fast just so he can make it to the extortion bit. Heck, siya pa nga nagalit nung dinedma. None of them even deserved a "patawad". Geez. Where's Pobla when you need him to scare the crap out of kids.

The most desperate attempt yet? Singing "Boom Tarat". no...that's just...wrong in many ways.

it's not christmas spirit. it's shomin harassment. it's punishment. bleh.

and it's over.

2006-12-16T03:44:00.000+08:00

w00t w00t for it then.

exams, gone. classes for 2006, gone. hah.
finally. and I achieved a softdrink to water ratio of 10:3 yesterday. yeah. and after that I downed pizza and donuts late in the night.

you know what's killing me though? waiting for my copy of MGS: PO to arrive. f'n a...I got my taste yesterday through a gameshared deathmatch game, which I won :p lalo lang akong nangangati para sa laro na un.

the rest of my UMD wishlist is FIFA 07, GTA: VCS, ACX:SoD, and WTF. If I was ripping ISOs off, it'd be no sweat, but hey, I decided not to.

I'll be stuck on youtube and photoshop now.

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routers, donuts, and an ultraman @_@

2006-12-09T03:19:00.000+08:00

i finally have a reason to break my habit of waking up at noon on saturdays. i don't care if it's dubbed tagalog, they're showing Ultraman Nexus on ch.7!!! wawaweewa~! and just in time, today was just the first episode. it's the continuation of the 2004 ULTRAMAN movie, and Nexus is supposed to be the continuation of that movie. hey, at least it's not as dark as that movie. But I do miss Dyna and Tiga tho. I still have Dyna's reflasher somewhere in the house, but what sucks is I can't find the three G.U.T.S airships I had back then. Alpha, Beta and Gamma, man those even connected together.

and about donuts, my krispy kreme deprivation was ended. i swear, gonuts will never appease me again. i wasn't there personally, but the two dozen of donuts is well very enough. crowd daw was a couple of artists and "pa-artists". plus you get a free glazed donut daw on entry. longer lines than gonuts on their first days, but the service daw was quick.

what else do I miss around here...ooh, I wish I still had adidas power soccer for the ps1. my first real football game. it was basically one big adidas ad/game (just like pepsiman was a big pepsi ad/game). I'm not sure, but they said team RP was in the World Cup 98 game (or maybe RTWC98), and that makes me heavily curious. I know the chances of finding those are less than one percent (yeah), but the closest I could find right now is my copy of UEFA Dream Soccer for the dreamcast. It's not the Champions League or EURO2k games, but it's still UEFA, and they had a big number of club teams. I doubt the teams were licensed, but it's most likely gonna be Winning Eleven-ish.

did I mention I can now rip off videos from youtube? :p

and about the router, my D-link wireless router is pretty cool, sucks that it's crap on torrents though. it was a common problem among many routers and modems, but this specific line of D-link routers sucked. the problem was the router crashes when you try to start a heavily populated torrent (like 4 digits on seeds and leeches), and you'd have to restart the router. on lesser populated torrents, it's fine. the only remedy I have is to plug the modem direct to my ethernet port. that means living without the wifi signal for a couple of hours when i'm downloading something, but it's better than nothing I guess.

meh, exam week. tommorow's gonna be studying for music and computer. (what the hell are we supposed to take up in music? barely did anything except for those recording sessions).

need to study up a lot of math, physics and economics. a crapload of formulas and calculations. *shivers*

that's it for now. after the exams it's the break, so w00t w00t.

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nasan' na yung bagyo?!?!

2006-11-30T11:16:00.000+08:00

and I missed f'n school for this?

long weekend, but meh. I wanted to take math today. yes, Reming WAS a supertyphoon and I understand the bigwigs can't help but be paranoid when "Manila" and "Direct Hit" are used in a sentence after what happened with Milenyo. I was expecting at least a strong wind and downpour, but no, all I got was cold weather, and a sun that hid around 2pm. Thanks to high pressure around the South China Sea, the supertyphoon made a change in direction and will only hit south of Manila.

I want some Krispy Kreme. Right now. Or at least some GoNuts.

meh. made a couple of new Schoolture Shock posters. tech/vector-ish. looks cool to me anyway. dunno whether to put them here or in DA. I'm kinda (read: very) lazy right now. munching on chips.

slow day. meh.

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too much of death this week. er...o_0

2006-11-09T21:32:00.000+08:00

no really, I've recently picked up drawing Death from the Sandman series, having made a successful first attempt and following up with numerous variations. (scanned one at my DA) I'm hunting for Death goodies now. Whoopee

then I also made a Ryuk mask, the sidekick Shinigami of Light from DeathNote. and I've been drawing Ryuk, Light and L as well. not as much as Death, but still.

then there's the two deaths in school. there's that one grade school kid who died, and that brother who died. and I have never seen so many big-ass wreaths in one funeral. rich punks.

and to cap up the death-ful week, we were made to design our own tombstones with an epitaphs, write a eulogy in the third person, estimate our DOD, write our own obituary, lol.

and then I learn that they've picked up numerous "ghost" sightings in the retreat house. well that does the nerves good. at least I've til' January to look for an antique japanese camera that kills ghosts. >_<

seriously. ftw.

anyway, if you're not downloading Death Note, then go watch Bakumatsu Kikansetsu Irohaniheto if you're into the whole Bakumatsu Samurai stuff. BKI is pretty nice.

I need KillzoneLiberation and ViceCityStories now. wah.

off I go learning to spell hors d' oeuvres, and repondez si'l vous plait and other words that strike ph33r in the common man (who would only textspeak, or taglish anyway). spelling contest FTW. but at least I get pulled out of the last subject.

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(yay, took time to sync the blog with multiply. trying to do it more often)

scolionophobia

2006-11-03T08:51:00.000+08:00

it's friday. which means, not counting weekends, sembreak is over. *racks brain trying to remember what needs to be done*. crap.

I'm trying to mash things together to get shit done, I have to finish the EPL season on FIFA 07, then I have to level the whole gang up at least 5 levels (10 for the ladies) in FFXII just so I can make a scamper of progress (talk about underlevelling), and believe me, just levelling up one level in FFXII takes a herculean gut. geez, the grind wasn't this bad in the past.

oh, why do people hang out at the baywalk? manila bay reeks. people go for the view not minding the rotten combination of oil, dead fish, piss, fecal matter, restaurant trash and garbage from the local slums (and people still try and fish, heck even swim). If you were in some other bay, you wouldn't mind the mist when the waves crash on the bay, but here you'd be running and end up smelling bay fresh. so many people hang out there at night. there was this cool all-girl band playing a stage along the bay, I caught up to their version of Bohemian Rhapsody. I didn't like the mid-song vocals (the opera part) but the instrumentation was pretty spot on.

I would have liked to have had my camera last night though. Sick night shots of the port area and lights, with a nice opportunity for time-lapse shots.

I really need something better to do right now. lulz.

_1!!1nowai

an end to an impromptu long weekend.

2006-10-01T16:14:00.000+08:00

so, the aftermath of xangsane is officially over. everyone's back to the daily grind tomorrow. (though some areas still lack power).

I personally wanna get back to class (ftw). It's getting boring here. Drifting is cool, but hey, not 24/7.

I was in Megamall (again) for the final round of the C! Nurburgring Challenge. Turns out force feedback was on. It just wasn't kicking in like it should 90% of the time. And for this run, TCS was turned off. So, no TCS, full DFP support...that ruined my momentum. I kept spinning out. Ack, never had such a bad run. The best time was 9:06'xx, and I pulled a 9:57'xx. FAR, FAR from what I can do. Heck, I tried a test run at home and I pulled off a lap in under 8 minutes. What threw me off was the lack of TCS coupled with the sensitive DFP, sobra akong nanibago.

I got the text that I was in the top 10 anyway, that I at least won a dubshop cap, but as of that text, I was already home. meh. sayang. More opportunities in the future. Drift competition nalang!

I'm waiting for my Tiger Woods 07 and NBA Live 07 UMDs to arrive (or so my dad says anyway). I don't see FIFA 07 on shelves yet. TFTF isn't enough for me to get the portable version, and I'd rather play NBA Live on the PSP than on the PS2. I dunno, it just fits there better. I'm playing NBA 2K7 on the PS2.

And as far as my straight-edged dedication to racing sims and biased hate towards NFS goes, I picked up a "casual" racing game. The Fast and the Furious. Can't blame myself, I loved Tokyo Drift. I like it better than NFSU or MW, but it does have it's bitch points. I'll upload my review later.

*yawn*

I give this weekend a 10/10. I can sleep satiated.

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nordschleife blitz

2006-10-01T03:24:00.000+08:00

so this is the first post in the stable aftermath of milenyo. the last post was while everything was still flickering around and I had to use 56k.

my milenyo pics are uploaded, in the album entitled "xangsane no yuutsu". oh, and pics of my hotworks scale model. I've another model aside from the GDB, that's for later.

oh, and I got the text asking me to come back later to the sport custom truck and car show in megamall for the final round of the C! Magazine Nurburgring challenge. So my half-assed time on Trial Mountain DID hold up. wow. at least I get a cap just for coming, but hey, I can hope to jump for first place. I doubt most of them have bucketseat/frame/logitech wheel combos at home. I've been using my rig and playing those two tracks ever since GT4 got released.

wish me luck. and hope that they finally plug those wheels in and turn force feedback on. because nurburgring would be pretty much bullshit if they didn't.

need to get FIFA 07, the Tokyo Drift game, a T90aerow EPL ball, the Teamgeist+10 MB, and still have enough moolah for Ace Combat X and VCS UMDs. wow. Never wished for 10000 bucks my whole life.

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W3ird.

2006-09-22T14:18:00.000+08:00

what a day.

well, not much compared to other days. wtf am I talking about.

for one, it rained harder today than any other day lately, and it's refreshing really when the sun pelts you with UV everyday.

and this morning, I saw a cat crawl across EDSA. thing is, this cat's midsection down to it's hind was...flat. and it's still effing alive. I didn't know whether to laugh, be disgusted or be emo and weep in a soliloquy. still, a half-flat cat crawling through a packed EDSA morning just begs to be roadkill.

DL'ed some TGS material. A bunch of DMC4 screenshots (apparently, Dante is aged and is a supporting character, giving way to a younger, and similarly l337 silver haired demon, Nero. not to be confused with Nelo Angelo, the demented Vergil of DMC1). I got my hands on the 6-minute MGS4 trailer, and even if it wasn't as blowing as the E32006 or GC2006 trailer, it does give a good impression of gameplay. I got gameplay footy and shots of MPO for the PSP, and Virtua Fighter 5 looks as sick as hell. RR7's detail owns, though there wasn't much smoke on drift shots, it was still pretty purdy. I was reading a bit on FFXIII and FF Versus XIII, and I still don't get any of the present details. I don't need any more footy or previews of VCS to feed an already set mindset of getting the game.

Well, that's what's I've been browsing through the last 10 minutes. I'll have more as the weeks go by.

Went and got a barbed wire necklace (ala HYDE). I don't have much of a choice for chokers. It's rubber, so I don't pierce my own jugular, but it's still pretty pointy. Ed knows where to get a spiked cuff, heh, I'm interested. Though spiked cuffs are more PUNX than EMO. lol. still looking for a decent sticker to break the monotony of my PSP's case. the metallic black finish is nice, but a good sticker will make that better.

*yawn* I really need something to rant about. Ranting about DOTA, my age group's scene, and the batch is really getting tired. I can just bitch about that IRL.

I can't believe my camera is a battery whore. It eats em up. I always need to have an extra pair. It uses AA NiMH batteries, though I'd like it better if it used those small battery packs. The panasonic Oxyride battery held up well though. But when it lost juice, it loses juice. crap.

ph33r teh p0w3r c0nsump710n.

Been into this band from the UK, heard them from the Emo Rangers EP. They're called colonopenbracket, or : ( for short. yeah, emo. It's the kind of sound I like, but instead of a regular guitar, bass and drum set, they use 8-bit. Not "nintendocore", but think of the kind of BGM you hear on the original NES. I tell you, it sounds mindfuckingly sick. w00t. listen at purevolume.com/colonopenbracket

Oh, and I think today, I just might have perfected for the first time, a math quiz in HS. and that's also the first perfect score in a math quiz since...I've no idea. Kinder? Grade 1? lmfao

I still want that new nano.

*yawn*

posting again later. man this sucks.

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from "idiot" to "drifting god".

2006-09-09T10:35:00.000+08:00

above: Yasuyuki Kazama leaving an understeered Rhys Millen in his smoke.

If you checked my review of the localized D1 Grand Prix for the PS2, there's not a lot to be liked. First off, not everyone can play a drifting game, aside from games that glorify cheap excuses for a drift as drifting (such as the rice-fest NFSU series), that ironically spawned a drifting series in the states. Aside from D1GP being alien turf for most people out there, who'd be asking why the hell the 350Z is referred to as the Z33, the tutorial doesn't really help much at all, add that to be needing some good throttle play, balance and concept of drifting to be able to get a grasp of this game. Luckily, I had that.

I miss the Battle Gear 3 machine, that was the closest I could get to a realistic arcade game that focuses on touge race, and still allows for much drifting whether or not you choose to. The pedals were placed in a manner, and mounted too, like a real car's pedal set would be, with the brake feeling as pressured as it is, and the gas being a little looser allowing for good throttle control. The steering wheel was placed very nicely, and the shifter and e-brake lever were there too where they would have been.

Due to it's realism tho, it was neglected. And it was tough as hell. I timed out halfway through Akina. I should know when to grip and when to drift, lol. Initial D Arcade Stage 4 promises a more realistic driving engine they say, finally requiring countersteer if you drift, and a more realistic sense of speed. I still want Battle Gear 4 though.

Back to the D1GP game.

So, choosing a pro-car is really a random draw situation. You can't just choose that FC that looks cool, or the FD that was in the opening sequence. I needed something that fit my style, and you can't be stubborn about that, since each car was set up uniquely. Kazama's green S15 felt a little too heavy for my style, NOB's SXE felt too underpowered for me at least, Miki's Z33 felt too powerful and too slippery. I hit a good spot with Youichi Imamura's a'pex FD, as the counter steering was pretty tight, and it had the proper weight balance and power to slip for my style (consisting of excessive clutch kicking and feints, e-brake sustaining, and heavy throttle, which makes for some sick angle, speed and distance. downside to that is that tracks like SUGO Kart give me hell). I was able to finish my custom series with the FD, with sudden death battles and only just barely winning the judges on my side. Think scores of 88.6 against an enemy's 88.3. That close, and lucky.

Since in the original japanese version, you just had to do good to win over judges. The localization team decided to screw it over, putting a drift point tug-of-war system in, and that heavily decides the judges' mind for em. Though in some rare cases, it plays very heavily into your favor, 90% of the time, it doesn't. And, that sucks.

Last night though I hit a high point, I tried playing Survival mode. In this mode, I can't use the a'pex FD anymore, I have to use a car that I'll set up myself. I took an FD, again, set it up white with red vinyl like the a'pex FD, some white rims ala the FD from ID: First Stage. I set it up, with what little drift tuning knowhow I have. And lo and behold, I was drifting like Drikin. I couldn't believe it, it'd willingly power drift on second to third gear, and clutch kicks at that point just add some sick angle. You could take wide hairpins and counter steer for some long and fast drifts. You could own courses like Autopolis, Irwindale, Daiba, Fuji and Nikko. That was a sick experience. I got 15 wins on survival, ironically losing to Mana-P in his RB1 (that's a Honda Odyssey for you), like I did in the original version. I don't know why you get nervous going against the big name drivers. ftw. I'm gonna play that mode the whole day today.

Also, for some contrast, before I used that FD I set-up, the judges were calling me anything from a messed up idiot who can't drift for his life. And now they're calling me a drifting god who should be worship. ftw. this voice acting is messed up. Their negative comments will do wonders on your stress levels tempting you to smash your controller into pieces. Their positive comments inflate your ego to catastrophic proportions.

Oh, and for some contrast as to what scores I'm getting since I used that setup, I got this score against Zaku (a boss in an old school B310, the Datsun Sunny, the last RWD make for the line. Nissan Sentras were badged under the name Datsun Sunny before the late 80's.), we were setup at Nikko, in the rain, and I had it owned, the radar was on fire the whole time as following him only inches away. And that was me mashing the throttle and occassionally kicking the clutch. I won the battle 100 to 3.06. Saved that replay.
Even though I lost, a good couple of videos got unlocked in D1 theatre though. Good enough for me.

I want my RWD car IRL now.

among other things, the intrams is coming up this monday. I'll be there, tagging along is my W-1 and a bunch of energizers, and my boredom deterrent kit. (ftw!) go team! expect pics.

excessive amounts of gluttony and siomai is bad for your health.

oh yeah, blueberry cruisers and jack daniel own your beer.

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dota = whale poop.

2006-08-21T11:30:00.000+08:00

[flame shields=on]

I notice I rant alot about dota(omg) IRL, but I don't even have a single post about it.

...if you still play that god-forsaken map up to now, chances are, that's the only thing you know to play, or you suck at everything else.

that quote of mine has been proven to be true. 99.8% at the most.

let's have two recent quotes, this time from the GMF.

DoTA needs skills? LMFAO - hexagram

There's a game called Warcraft 3 that some DotA players may not be aware of. The "game" DotA is actually only a modded map of said game.

DotA is all about being the fastest to get the best items and destroying your opponents. Pabilisan. That's it.

Warcraft on the other hand requires actual skill. Unit management, resource management, plans of attack and defense. -silverD

ok, so I think the point has been given. and now for my personal ire.

one of my favorite descriptions for Dota, I'd say is calling it a "dumbed down Ragnarok Online that lasts 40 minutes". that's harsh. but think about it, back during the time of RoC and FT, few of the players now even thought of the game. now, with this sudden bang, people bought pirated discs and even original copies just so they could play over battlenet. how f'n retarded is that. and pirated discs aren't labelled WCIII: RoC or WCIII: FT anymore. I see discs labelled "DOTA", with only the original games as "featured", and the map is only a puny download worth 3mb. It's a map. It's not even a damn mod. Jeebus, what is up with you people. and to think and say that Dota is hardcore? C'mon, the only reason you don't play BF2 is because you don't even bother to try, it's too "complicated", or you haven't seen a big scale battle with airstrikes coming left and right. This was the same case with counterstrike, people are simpleminded. Most didn't defuse bombs, most never rescued any hostages. It was gun and run. And again, only two maps were ever used. cs_assault and de_dust.

the first time shops got CounterStrike: Source, the same players nagged that it got harder. please, don't whine just because hitboxes are better.

I wrote the words "pwned", on my class shirt last year. to my surprise, those addicts, to think with that small exposure to gaming slang, didn't even know what pwned means. nor what "owned" means. gimme a gun already.

I'm not telling people to stop playing Warcraft. PLAY WARCRAFT. the next time you people go over to a net cafe and decide to boot Frozen Throne up, bear in mind, there are a shitload more of maps available. To say that Dota has all those elements of an RTS in it, is an insult. No strategies. The map team puts a new character from the WC set, rename, rename the attacks, and add numbers to their stats. And you, the players, rush for the next level and click away at the enemy.

Please people. You were the same people that used to play Starcraft and Command and Conquer. Don't go all pussy on real RTS. Play RTS. This DOTA fad is retarded.

or even better, gather all the DOTA players you know, fill up EGG and try a three sided game of BF2.
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ワクワクドリ~!!!

2006-08-17T21:35:00.000+08:00

ョシャ!!!

just had to let that out, lol.

recently had a drift spree in a long while.
I still can't get enough torque from the Sileighty to hold long ones and overpower for angle, and the S15 I set up is still too stiff, it's hard to throw around, but the powerband is nice.

Still trying to nail a perfect out-in-out on the Autumn Ring loop. Must do it uphill ala Tokyo Drift Parking Lot!!!

But then again, for some easy drifting (though a little frustrating), the US (raped) version of Yuke's D1GP 2005 is fulfilling my appetite but fueling the D1 fanboy in me. D1 Theatre appeases it though.

And it's easier to use the GT Force this time around, the wheel actually has more pressure, unlike the D1GP 2004 game where it felt weightless. Plus, throttle control and clutch kicking is easier with the setup rather than shoulder buttons. Beats my crappy controller, but I still do play it safe on tsuiso battles by using the DS2. I'm using Y. Kazama's S15. Everyone's right, Taniguchi's Altezza isn't as good as his old Silvias from HKS.

I'm starting to collect 1/64 and 1/24 scale models from HotWorks, comes from Japan. And why? Oh, well for starters, they have the license for making scale models of well known D1GP cars, like Ryuji Miki's 2005 ORC Z33, Kei Office S15, 2004 HKS Genki Silvia RS-2, Imamura's 2005 apex FD, the SIFT AE86 Ueo won the championship with. The 1/24 models and above have interchangeable parts and have some extreme detail, even to the pedals and the tachometers. Not to mention the non-D1GP models coming with JDM parts ala-Modifiers. I got a 2004 Impreza WRX-STi GDB model, in the traditional blue, and boy was the detail sick. I spent over two hours changing the bucketseats, seatbelts, putting the tach/temp/boost gauge panels, bodykit, muffler, exhaust pipes, disc brakes, steering wheel, new engine block. And I got a 1983 Toyota Sprinter Trueno GT-APEX AE86, the last one on the shelf, a red/black two tone (I wanted the panda), but it did come with the parts that'll make it look like the Initial D hachi, sans the CF headlight covers and sticker. But what was a nice detail is that it came with a cup holder and a cup you could mount into the dashboard. Now that's reference. Hotworks does have an official Initial D model though, based on the MazdaSpeed-tuned FD and the AE86. I don't see the Project.D RE-Amemiya tuned FD model anywhere.

then I go outside and see my car, a 2002 Honda Civic. RS. boohoo.
I wept at the sight of a red, beastly 2006 Honda Civic Si this morning. As if the regular 06 Civics weren't enough.

ending the post. my eyes and body lack so much rest already.

belated happy birthday to me btw. (8-15)

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makedamnsure

2006-08-06T17:04:00.000+08:00

above: how I'd like to print this on cards and throw a whole ream off somewhere and spread the message. *evil laugh* take that pope! take that prayer rallies!

I could make an AMV with footage of the bullshit I've been getting from playing Dark Resurrection. geez, I know it's supposed to be hard, but when AI can block any attack you give, pull off a 9323890-hit combo in lightspeed whilst pinning you to the wall, even makedamnsure wouldn't be complimenting the crap you'll be getting from the likes of Lili, Paul, Lei, Lee, Baek, Bruce and Anna. I could manage a win over the idiotic AI of the others but those eight are just unspeakably 3v1l.

Speaking of 3vil, I took the UPCAT yesterday, I had to wait for my sked for one and a half hours, in the middle of light rain, and as the gates opened the blessing of the heavens stopped and the sun went all sadist on us. rain kicked in again after the test btw. I give a meh for the upcat.

And if that's not enough, the first quarterly exams are this week! yay! And this time I'd kill the dude who'd proclaim the suspension of classes if Inday suddenly becomes bitchy. Don't let our friday free day get flushed down.

I seriously, really need, something else to rant about except Tekken, Initial D, Israel-Hezbollah, UPCAT, the coñotic scene, the crap that is the social inclinings of our batch, etc.

But on the whole Israel thing anyway, everyone's all blaming Israel. What about the Lebanese? I doubt they're all into the war, after all, the Hezzies just dragged them into the fray.

I'm gonna brush up on the music test now. Who reviews for a PE test and I'll ace Automotive.

All while ranking up on Tekken :D

ftw!

2006-07-29T20:29:00.000+08:00

Just got Tekken: Dark Resurrection for the PSP.
Holy crap!
That would sum up any review I'd make for the game.

Now that we got that behind us, there was one freaky moment last thursday.
Around 11pm then, some woman was screaming "aaah! saklolo wah tulungan niyo kameeeeeh!"
While some people would be freaked out, Supernatural just finished on the tube then and I gave a blank woah. Was there a fire? But the absence of smoke told otherwise, and I inferred stabbing, streetfight, rape, etc. The wailing went away in less than 30 seconds. Barangay tanods must have grabbed her by then. LMFAO.

I picked up Racing Battle after quite a couple of months, well, I haven't lost my touch yet, but I still had a struggle with slip and sensitivity. I had a crapload of CP to use up, since well, the S15 had been my car for the whole game so far, and I've only had to upgrade once in a while. So I parked it and got an RX-7 Spirit R Type-A, and I was bothered since my fanboyishness wanted an Efini badged model. BUT, that was blown away when the RE Amemiya widebody kit, as seen on the Project.D FD3S ver.2 satisfied me, and the taillights were replacable with rectangular ones seen on the Efini RX-7s instead of the circular ones on the Mazda fitted FDs.

Plus I had quite some fun in the arcade yesterday, I battled a level 19 BNR34 with an aura, I had a little slipping up for the first battles, but eventually redeemed myself and evened the scores up. Then a couple of dudes stopped by to watch, and the "leader" person went all Ryosuke on the sidelines talking like some touge pro. ftw. Well, turns out the R34 dude knew him and eventually stepped off so the dude that accompanied "ryosuke" could battle me in an Evo IV, complete with the Option A set. I was like "whoa, these dudes must be team emperor". Well, so he took me to Iroha downhill. Got the lead on the straight, nailed that first hairpin right, and nailed every turn pretty close to the apex without wall rapeage and kept a cool lead. Evo IVs dominate on the afterstraights tho, and a good guy with a manual transmission will always catch up to any AT car. I went over every shortcut, and eventually he raped the wall on the sixth to the last hairpin, so no matter how much he nails his shifts catching up to me was impossible. Ok, still no battle level up. Boo.
Then our "Ryosuke" in the background stepped up, using the same car and brought me to Akina. While the game was loading, the R34 gave me some sarcastic advice. "Good luck". Heh. I can catch up on a rollercoasting course given the AT transmission, that's why I prefer battles on Iro, Tsuchi, and Shomaru, but Akina, well, the straights are pretty critical. By the third hairpin he led by 250.xxm. Ouch, and I thought the lv.15 Bunta on Akina was satanic with it's speed. Guess I'm wrong. Well, there weren't enough credits on my powercard to fight back, so we just gave each other a hand and parted ways, I said I'll get my revenge, with a sarcastic laugh knowing that I wouldn't stand a chance. Meh. Now, when he sat on the wheel and battled me then, he was just showing off. Bastard.

Speaking of cars, the '02 Civic VT-i I'm supposed to get as my college transpo MIGHT get traded in for the '06 Civic. Which would be totally sick, but I wouldn't be holding it's steering wheel. Boo again. However, father is all game for getting a KP61 Toyota Starlet, which would be outfitted with bodykits, a 2S-G engine, volk rims, a cold air intake and the usual tie bar. No body kits. It's a sleeper. And I'm gonna be drifting. Woot. And that's if fate's hand decides to bestow upon me that outcome. There's a reason the local slalom scene uses KP61s. Screw an AE86. Oh yeah, and I'm gonna put V-Power on that Kp61. *evil laugh*

Ants decided to attempt a settlement in one of our walls. Now, pounding them to oblivion with a dust pan might not help that much, so I had their dust swept and their paths lined with that Ant and Cockroach killing chalk. While effects don't happen immediately, as I just saw a crapload of dead ants scrunched up a couple of hours later. That was yesterday. But a couple of hours ago, I chanced upon one of the few remaining ants experiencing the wrath of my chalk. It was scrunched up, flailing like a mad ant in it's death rattle. ph3ar the ch4lk. r0ar.

Plus, did I mention that Twister is such a sadistic game? Instead of having the players spin the wheel themselves, I decided to have someone sit by and spin the wheel for the players, and that position would definitely bring out some sadist tendencies in the spinner, seeing the contestants twist and turn in pain at your whim. The perfect game when you invite some friends over, anyway, I'll bring Twister on the next soiree. There's gonna be some good clean fun there.

meh.

bored to death. (oh wait, I forgot I had Tekken, ok, not bored.)

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yuutsu.

2006-07-24T12:33:00.000+08:00

I wouldn't had gone to classes today anyway.
A cancellation of our classes today due to SONA would have been unlikely, but thanks to the hanging habagat, and typhoons passing-by, storm signals need not be present for the government to call off classes. Look outside during peak showers and you might see rain misting and the wind carrying it into an almost horizontal angle. Now, that's sick. Beats the oven-toaster heat of the past months. It's now finally a bit cold outside, add that to our formerly toasty classroom now fixed up chilling.

Spending the day working on the second physics IV project, the 10-second timer that uses a regular marble as it's main feature. We're given dimensions confined to a 1-foot cube, but my version works within those confines. Pachinko was my main inspiration. If you were wondering, the first project was a "smart car" which is in no way, anything like a smart car. Make a car that will go down a ramp and stop at two meters. I think 9/10 people used Tamiya mini4wd chassis' as their base. While my mini4wd collection ain't as good now as it was almost half a decade ago, I still managed to be able to salvage some of my better worked cars, stripped them of the driveshaft, retained the differential wheels for maximum running distance. I knew my initial idea would have not worked, but a slipup in the middle of experimentation led to the final version. Hah.

I'm finished downloading all episodes of Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu, and luckily, thanks to the fansubbers' usual unwritten rules, all 14 30-minute episodes fit in a 2.7GB blank DVD+R disc. With space for a couple of albums to boot. Maximize your audio-visual experience they say. My next series on the list is REC, nine episodes in all for the first season but the most interesting thing is that each only consists of 12 minutes per episode. I'll check out the basic story first before downloading the whole thing. That's about 83mb per episode. I hope it doesn't overly rely on the socially-frowned upon relationships storyline too much. FLCL, Beck and GTO Live torrents have less than 10 or no seeds at all. :p

*grumble*

I've been pretty mellow these past days. Haven't had anything to make a charged rant about. ftw!

Oh yeah, and my PS2 died yesterday. No, it ain't just a dirty lens, it was a horrifying death rattle that I answered with a smile and a chuckle. It after all, lasted more than any of my previous consoles in terms of active service (with the shortest being my N64, lasting barely five months). It's in the shop now, trying to get fixed. If it ain't fixable, I'll debate between an X360 or another PS2. Here's a swig and a salute to my PS2, who showed some of the effects of aging during the latter part of last year, and finally gave up yesterday, hanging in the middle of a game, with the lens motor clicking. That's six years of service. A new lens might revitalize it though, and it's hopefully gonna get some much much needed cleaning.

Two more days before the NA release of Tekken: Dark Resurrection on the PSP (I can't stand the envy for those who bought the JP release), and probably a couple more weeks before Datablitz and the grey market can get their hands on copies. Wow, with my birthday upcoming to boot.

meh. I need to rant. bad.

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バンドワゴン? ...

2006-07-20T20:34:00.000+08:00

above: more signs of japanophilia taking over my life.

"group" sites like friendster sucked, well, maybe mySpace was a little ok. coz, Friendster kinda died last year. Now I notice people have jumped on to a new bandwagon (!). Multiply. Ah, websites for the n00bish. And, as with their friendster profiles, 8/10 people who decorate their pages needlessly with crap they ripped off of somewhere, throwing basic considerations like aesthetics, navigability, readability, and friendliness right out the window into the woodchipper. Meh, what'd you expect. Cheesy teenybopper bandwagons. I feel like a 60 year old dude ranting in a wheelchair. F'n whippersnappers.

Now everyone's bringing their DSCs and camwhoring the heck out of themselves. Now, again, managing two "sites" I keep is kinda, crappy. I have my DA here for my more "serious" and pathetic excuses for art, and art related journals, and this. For politically incorrect, acne-charged rants and journals like this. I wouldn't get serious critique in Multiply, and my rants deserve front page on my site. ('sides, they use multiply for camwhoring, and blogger has albums). I'm considering signing up, to kind of merge killertextwalls and shin-yu together, whilst maintaining both, but that'd be totally pointless. Another bandwagon jump. A damn worthless bandwagon jump. I'll pass.

Taking entrance exams for UP, ADMU, DLSU, UST, and as a last resort, DLS-CSB :p. I want to go to DLSU though. And, don't you love it when they ask you to write long essays about yourself? It's always a matter of who can write the best bullshit.

+666exp points for guessing what the post title means. C'mon, it's basic katakana and sums up the point of the first two paragraphs. Google each symbol's sound. ^_^. do j00 und3rstand?

Oh yeah, if you want some brain-melting fun, download or youtube what episodes of "DEMASHITA! POWERPUFF GIRLS Z!" have been fansubbed. Don't mind the art, everything will melt your brain, one of the best things to do before an entrance exam. Oh, did I mention they have a seriously kickass OP theme and henshin sequence bgm? ;)

And, while you're at it, DL fansubs of FLCL, Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad and especially Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu. Haruhi-ism got to me. waaaaa. DL HARUHI NOW!

This post sucks for lack of hard language, political incorrectness, blashpemy, and my usual crap. BOO!

FTW. (no not that FTW).

wait, that should be on my jersey. no one would know what that means. *evil laugh*

here's me thinking of some issue to rant about. see? going.

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Autumn Ring makes me smile.

2006-07-08T11:00:00.000+08:00

here's a little pic that made me smile when I saw it. A flatbed, drifting...well, on snow but, hey, it looks sick anyway. Though there is a video on YouTube with a big ass semi drifting on asphalt. Now that's sick. And on that note, how did Takumi deliver tofu down Akina when he blew the hachiroku's engine? LOL, and after that, Bunta drove a flatbed to pick up the dead car, which made me think, OMG, Akina's downhill flatbed monster.

Jamming today for our chop-chop version of Tuwing Umuulan at Kapiling Ka. Usual flow as last week, get ID pics for entrance applications printed, go to TimeZone, own somebody at Irohazaka, go to friend's house to jam, get back to greenhills, eat, go to TimeZone, fish someone at Irohazaka (or make a car in WMMT2 just for drifting at Hakone).

And speaking of WMMT, I don't like the crowd. Well, they can at least be more technical with their car knowhow than during the Initial D buzz, and WMMT doesn't really rice a car, but I can't help groan at how a game of Maximum Tune ends up a boring 5 minute drag race. Seriously, the whole Wangan is open, they could have at least closed off or narrowed out the road like in C1GP, but no, people take turns at fifth gear and spend the whole race at sixth. And don't tell me about how the shifter is realistic, Rave Racer and F355 Challenge owns all locally available arcade machines in terms of placement. And, I barely see people racing at the one touge track available, Hakone, a very easy enough touge, has many straights and high speed turns, and tight hairpins and switchbacks are rare. People just don't know how to downshift like that on tight courses and play with their braking. All they know is, redline, floor. But, again, I'm generalizing 70% of the crowd. The rest at least who are decent, have my respect. I've no respect for those who spend 1000 bucks at a time on Timezone, and have their poor women go back to the counter for a reload once their credits hit low. FYI, there are people like that and I've seen quite few who needed a bullet between the eyes.

One more note, I can't help but notice how TimeZone Arena in the Promenade has become the overloaded cono hideout, and TimeZone Theatre Mall has become the saturday spoiled chinese kiddie day care center. Yayas let loose their monsters on arcade machines and they don't even have a card. They yank steering wheels and bash the lightguns to oblivion. No wonder we don't have the bigger arcade machines.

Have I implied my despise for that overrated Warcraft map in this blog yet? I don't think so. Whatever happened to REAL RTS? Whatever happened to playing the ORIGINAL game, aside from that map that was made for n00bs who can't manage two characters at once. Being "hardc0re" in that piece of crap is on the same level as being able to beat Itsuki in Myogi. Being "godlike" in that piece of crap is on the same level as being able to divide 100 by 5. While again, I generalize 90% of the crowd, I do give respect to the few who DO play, and are really great at the traditional warcraft, and in other RTS too. It's the n00bs who treat DOTA like oxygen who I want to feed to a woodchipper. Like I said, if you still play that lame map now, 9/10 times, you probably suck at every other game. If the thirty people at EGG that play that map switched to a good BF2 game, and I guarantee, that one hour will be more worthwhile than all your DOTA playing combined. Hell, calling in airstrikes, hiding in the bushes with a sniper rifle, driving a humvee raid to being able to rain hell in your own F18, now that's a game.

Heck, people ask "may DOTA ba kayo?" to pirate vendors. And I even see pirated copies with "DOTA" in big bold typeface on the front, and a couple of warcraft III and FT images in the back, with the titles usually blurry. Effing A. Plus, it's a proven fact that during the initial boom, 9/10 people didn't even know what DOTA stands for. Yes. How can I summarize the map's overall gameplay...hmm, to put it simply, a 40 minute version of Ragnarok. Seriously. Believe me. The next time you go to an internet cafe and load up a map, try noticing the many other maps. Maybe you'll grow one or two braincells in the process.

I think this shows how Filipinos tend to be one-track narrowminded fanboys. You'll see Nokia fanboys, Koreanovela addicts, SONY product fanboys, Basketball fanboys. It's not wrong being a fan, it's when the fanboyism starts. Take for example basketball fanboys, anything that involves dribbling a ball with your hands draws their attention. Heck, some even watch a movie for that 5 minute scene where the main characters play ball, and where basketball had no relevance to the main plot. The people who deny and blow off every other physical sport for that one. You know most masa kids would just stay, look for scrapped wood and make a "court" rather than make something worthwhile with their "lives". Onli in Da Pilipins.

Plus there was that statistic how the Philippines was always the most english literate country in Asia, but now slowly other countries are catching up? We can't deny the perfectly voiced call center agents, but what about the commercials and shows that promote "ispokening dollars" and balbal tagalog. Those that promote the murder of the english and tagalog language. No wonder our literacy and educational rates are dropping. Heck, people even write notes on paper in TXTSPEAK. Txtspeak is understandable in a cellphone. You have character limits. But when you have a ballpen and paper, or even a word processor, if you textspeak, you deserve to have your wrists amputated and your throat slit. Due punishment for crimes against literacy.

"Is you have no knowleydge or di tagalog words? Ken yu ispokening american?" You'd see that used as a gag in sitcoms or commercials nowadays. And you know what masa people will do, they'll copy it. Copy to no end.

And on copying, I read an editorial in the Philippine Daily Inquirer about how most OPM singers live off being copycats. It asked, "do we need more Elvises?" How some singers get acknowledgement for "renditions" (read: murder) of hit songs instead of writing original songs. You know Sam Milby (note: if any of you readers practice any form of witchcraft, as an act of service to mankind, please hex the dude)? The dude CAN'T SING. His voice will wake the dead, and the dead will groan and tear his body apart. And yet, most of the songs on his album (read: crap) are "covers" of alt rock songs. Grabe, basta pogi ka sikat ka na. Ang jologs at baduy talaga ng masa. Singers need to find that emotion and songwriting spirit that comes with your voice, don't let yourself be reduced to just another person that can sing someone else's songs. It's true, most local noontime singing contests as long as I can remember focused not on the song, but on how good the contestant can copy the song. It sucks. Period.

Cueshe should die. Their people can't play for shit, and they ripped a Silverchair song for their first big hit. Hale should die too because they're gay. Spongecola too should die for creating the whole "arrg rakistah akoh wakokok XD" craze. And you people should stop looking for the next eraserheads or whatever. Eraserheads IS Eraserheads. Don't look for a band that'll copy the sound. Look for something unique. Find a band that can be as great as the Eheads in their own right. I hate how people look for the "next _________" in anything. How people in the NBA are being labelled "the new MJ!" or something. Lately, with Dwayne Wade. MJ is MJ. I wouldn't like being compared to anybody. We're all unique. MJ is a legend, and he will be a legend, and MJ will be MJ, as Wade will be known as Wade. Not the next michael jordan or anything. Heck, people in Football would likely be seaching for the next Zinedine Zidane after Sunday's final. GO LES BLEUS!!!

Oh, lol, I forgot about Autumn Ring.

Well, in Gran Turismo, usually most of the tracks I drift on bore me with the high speed stretch. El Capitan was touge-ish but the straight was a long wait. Autumn Ring is great for drifting, close combos and tight corners, it's great for high powered drift cars, and the best cars I can use for it as of now is the Blitz ER34 D1GP Skyline and the Efini RX-7 Type R I set up myself. Both have the power to drag along the course in constant chains of drifts that'll set tires on fire. Both are easy to throw around the corners too, and the over-180 degree loop turn reminds me of the final turn in the Tokyo Drift parking lot race. Gave me a grin the first time I tried. Haven't tried the Shigeno AE86 on the track, the D1 HKS Hiper Silvia is too peaky, and slips the traction too much, my Sileighty doesn't reach the powerband enough to slide. I'm still working on an S15 Spec-R Aero for drifting, and the Nismo Fairlady Z Z-Tune. Both still have problems with gearing and getting into the powerband, I think I'll need to make more adjustments, both still feel too heavy and hard to throw around. Well, that's because lots of people are saying how GT4 has too much understeer and too little oversteer. You'd hit the wall more often than spin out in a race. Need an example? Try going to the Gymkhana in Gran Turismo mode and try doing a donut. Even without driving aids. It's impossible. And people also say that to drift in GT, you'd often find yourself setting cars opposite than they should be set up in real life to drift. Too much of an angle in the initial start of the drift automatically kills traction to all wheels and causes spin out, and if not that, you'll just understeer. That's currently my problem with the FairladyZ and the S15. I haven't taken care of the understeer yet.

This was quite a typing spree. I'll be taking my leave, gonna shower and leave for practice in an hour.

じゃ

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inconsistency?

2006-07-07T19:10:00.000+08:00

notice that lately, most of my post titles had no relation to the post itself.

I had considerably less power for gym today. I was already just struggling with by the second set of bench presses. Maybe it's because I did dips and chins first, that kinda fucked up most of my strength. Back workout exhausted me too, and on top of that, I've got bass playing to do, and my fingers are locking up every once and a while as I type (emphasis on ouch).

I was watching Tokyo Drift again, and while drifting was understandable for the parking lot setup, and the "touge" battle, I found it unnecessary (well, a bit) for the street chase. Only slowed them down. But hey, weaving through crowded streets sideways is pretty sick, even if it's pretty obvious that it's CG.

Child porn. You people are sick. I can understand teens in pron as long as the chick looks decent enough, but this fetish on children is disgustingly fucked. How can you people live? What kind of sick person are you? I don't go manyak over normal pr0n, but I can't just have people running around dreaming and even having child porn. Heck, a "friend" of mine even knew what age children in these pieces of shit range, and how it's done. Sick bastard. All of you should die. And you don't even deserve hell.

GT4 irritates me. Freak understeer. Hey, a GT4 fanboy bashed Forza (and Forza owns GT4 in some departments, and no not just because it has damage modelling silly fanboy), he said that "ano realistic sa Forza? Eh kapag nag-brake ka una bababa likod imbis na harap!". I don't know what the hell he smokes or if his eyes are inserted backwards. If that were true, don't you think reviews should be keen on noticing that detail? geez. Plus, the dude didn't even bother with the simulation mode, he played Arcade, all driving aids on and such. Nice going. And he says he gets his driving game experience from MAXIMUM TUNE. Stupidity defeats Sanity 2-0 in this one.

Holy shit, France-Italy-France-Italy...France has this late bloomer fire going for them, plus, Zidane should be really pumped since it's his last game, and it could be that spirit that would get Henry, Ribery and the rest of the Tricolores to make sure Zidane's final game will last generations. Italy currently has this underdog fire for them, ousting the hosts and such, we really don't know what will happen. If France wins, I'm gonna eat a shitload of baguettes, and if Italy wins, I'm gonna eat a shitload of pasta.

I need our DSL back on. I miss bathroom intarwebs. Since, without DSL, there wouldn't be any network for my wireless router to pick up, and my BT client would be dead, my PSP would miss the 802.11g, and intarwebs would be hell, and my iPod would starve. noooooooooooooo.

I need food. Hypetrophy extends my metabolism. And, that rocks when you have lots of food.

Eating.

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"peaceful" rants?

2006-07-06T20:39:00.000+08:00

btw, check out the MegaTokyo link. My only favorite webcomic, heck, once I free up my spending list the MT "tankoubons" are straight up next. And it's pretty obvious that the kanji and title were "inspired" by megatokyo. Piro 0wns j00.

My PSP's memory stick had hypertrophy. Well, not that much, I'm still not pushing for a gig of space, but the 128mb stick I have is just right for one episode of a show and about 10 mp3s, which is not bad for when I'm bored of the current UMD inside. 'sides, I have an iPod for entertainment on the road. PSP ain't really comfy in a pocket, and a bag is out of the question, the Logitech Playgear Pocket is enough, I'd feel akward with the Playgear Street. Everyone's buzzing on their PS2's, Xboxes and 360s, I'm on my PSP. I <3 it.

I noticed how my current morning hangout is kinda...nice. I'm not specifying, but it in the early hours before 6am, it's kinda calm and cool around there (ok, not so cool. farking heat). I noticed sitting earlier that to my right, was the canteen. Hot, packed and chaotic. While to my left, was the mezzanine and the back of the HS building, with a nice view of Ortigas Center, the weather, and a calm atmosphere (well, until 7am where everyone else camps the stairways). Kinda yin-yang-ish too, as the lightless canteen shades half of the hangout with shadows, and the sun on the other side equalizes. l337. Album Leaf was fuelling the "reflection".

This post is pretty calm. I've not much to rant about for now.

Finally we get to the good part of automotive. The car. Let's skip the formalities and start dismantling that poor surplus 16v SOHC. Revving it at the end of the semester is gonna be worth it, especially if the timing and placements are all clean. Music wasn't as bad as I thought it was, no more music history, and more of the technical and creative side. Band + Music App. I'm pushing for a 70's Punx version for our rendition of Tuwing Umuulan at Kapiling Ka. Complete with synchronized jumps. And a deep Ramones or Hotdog esque voice singing.

Ok, here's a rant. I hate today's party or "club" music. I hope my kids laugh at this music when they grow up. I like the Bee Gees better, heck, I want to disco. You actually had to dance. Nowadays, it's close-quarter pelvic thrusts with your arms out and nudging your head and shoulders upside down. And for this "club" music, it's wearing glowsticks and flapping your arms around like a freak, heck ParaPara dance >>>>>> Club dance.

Plus, the mainstream plug of reggae. You know why only the more, milder forms of reggae are well known? Ordinary people don't give a shit about the implications of the genre, the origins, the ideas, the lyrics itself. Most of Bob Marley's hits were reduced to beach, party or chill out music, and Redemption Song's lyrics ended up on bandannas. People even refer to reggae as "pare, yan ba yung Bob Marley?". Even rasta-colored accessories are referred to as "Bob Marleys". And our excuses for Rastafari are insults to the real rastafari.

Even today's OPM rock. It's far from alt or anything, it's commercialized boyband pop, with electric guitars and tons of poseurdom to replace they synth, lipsyncing, and creepy synchronized dance.

w00t music rant.

Drifting. If you're gonna talk to me about it, at least try to have some basic theory about how a car works. People think of the act as a series of buttons to be pressed like a videogame. Turn - Shift - Kick Clutch - Accel. And don't make me explain to you how to drift, you won't understand, you'd have to try it yourself. Even with just Gran Turismo. I don't know, but even with that minimal measure of experience, you'd at least have a grip on how it's done, and you could just apply it to the real deal. After Tokyo Drift, some saw the clutch in drifting as the drift button. *scoff*

I'm half asleep as I'm typing, so I'm not able to put up a decent text wall of rants and my usual crap.

More someday else. With pictures hopefully for the text-phobic.

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politically charged incorrectness

2006-07-04T20:31:00.000+08:00

no pic today. bite me.

I don't like Chewy Nougat Snickers. Heck it ain't even that chewy. Real Snickers > Chewy Snickers.

hmm, here's a politically charged rant. you might have seen it before, but not here.

now, the Church fails at making practical decisions in favor of what they deem moral and acceptable. one example, well, though it's socially correct anyway, was the issue with sex-themed notebooks sold to public schoolchildren. while that one was tackled, why do we have dance groups on noontime tv wearing strips of cloth to hide their taboo parts flaunting dance moves you'd see in the local "disco pub".

second, the issue of educating the morally-incorrect masses at sex. now, before we start, let's think this out not for philippine society as a whole, but for that big majority group that live in plywood and scrap tire-reinforced clusters in illegally occupied land. not us, who can actually think right, and still afford to have consentual sex with the next hot chick we meet. we're talking about the groups who already know they can't eat, but end up with 15 sons in a matter of years. we're talking about the groups who marry either straight out of high school or at least a year of college and couldn't even afford a proper wedding, who have "accidents" at young ages. those who can't even afford a condom. DepED says that proper and formal SexED should be taught in school to assumingly more mature levelled high school students. Religion says otherwise, that it's taboo and that it's a matter between parent and child. Now, we see that their parents don't really have too much time and control over their offspring. Heck, they probably teach them "basta di rape, ok lang". W we won't see 18-year old couples or 16 year old single moms if they were taught of proper SexED and the social, moral and economic consequences that would happen if they happen to bear a child because they wanted to "play". Most of the time, the biological father flees. And these poor "mothers" end up in the back of a rich executive's SUV for an hour of pleasure.

Church always goes with that "value of life", and that the sperm and fetus are already gifted with life before they even form anything resembling a baby. They're against condoms, if I remember correctly. Now, SexED would teach them the harsh truth that will happen after that night of passion and teen curiosity. This would prevent a number of problems rooted in our mass sectors. And it would all start if the church wouldn't be such pussies and allow the program to push through. We already can't afford much stuff. Why can't the CBCP let go of their beliefs for just one damn second in the interest of solving a couple of problems that'll really be great in the long run. Why must they fight economic and social decisions for their moral ones. That's the problem of being the only major-christian country in Asia. Our religious organization leaders feel the need of continental evangilezation, setting an example, or being too overzealous to please that dude with the big white cap living in the vatican.

remember the whole DaVinci Code fiasco? noticed how lots of people ph3ar teh church?

lately, there was the abolition of the Death Penalty. I think that was bullsh*t. Now criminals would have to fear less of the consequences. "ay, life sentence lang naman eh, maghahari nalang ako sa loob". And you know what PGMA will do with the signed contract? Present it as a "gift" to impress the POPE. BULLsh*t! I hope the pope answers with "what about that all-out war against communists eh?". Well, I'm all for battling communism. Go for it. How about an all out war against graft and corruption in our government too?

These people are so touchy. Our "democratic rights" fail to unite us for interests in getting our country on it's feet, because these interests are long-time, and usually involve us "working" or suffering for the future. Everyone wants instant gratification.

I wanna leave this country. I wanna live somewhere else. We live in a hellhole that wants to stay a hellhole. damn. Noticed how people are migrating?

lol, we can't even follow simple rules. we can't give way and keep distance in traffic. a yellow light means "faster!!!". When someone is backing out of a parking space into a road, instead of giving way, most drivers would speed up to get past. Drivers give negative comments to the MMDA because they impose rules and regulations. Gateway's parking lot has "park facing wall" painted on em, and 98% of the cars don't even follow. Buses go to the left most lane. Buses pick up passengers anywhere. The number of public transport available exceed the demand. If a person jaywalks, or doesn't walk on the sidewalk, and proceeds to get accidentally hit, it's the driver's fault. Now, that's just wrong in every sense. In other countries, if you're not in a designated pedestrian area, if you get hit, it's your damn retarded fault. we like to submit or even appeal for the deadline. we justify our reasons for openly accepting piracy with bullsh*t like "mahirap kasi tayo", and even to the point where people even tease you because you support original material (take PinoyPSX for example, they just love their hacks, ISOs, and sh*t. they're probably working on the PS3 hack and Blu-ray ISOs right now).

heck, rant. let's rant about how the church always becomes a thorn in most decisions. and about again, how our country is f*cked up.

ch-ch-changes???!?!?!?!?

2006-07-04T19:44:00.000+08:00

above: wayne rooney gives carvalho a good boot in the nether regions.
speaking of that incident, England fans and press are furious at Cristiano Ronaldo for "winking" at the Portugese bench after being shoved by rooney after complaining to the ref about the stomp. lol, you can find a C.Ronaldo dartboard on the net.

ok, another (hopefully final) change to the old blog. I didn't want an outright "teen angst rant" title, so I went with one of my favorite movie lines. "Do you unda-stannn???", to the ignorant, that's Hanzo Chiba's assistant explaining to Kill Bill's heroine Beatrix that he's not bald, he shaved. And just to emphasize, I added a little leeted j00. plus, the former "mou oshimaida" footer was removed with some unicode katakana, which, unless you run a 20th century OS, will show up. It's basic katakana syllables, c'mon, figure it out. Heck, I replaced the "shinyu" publishing pseudonym with my name in katakana. Man, japanophilia is strong today.

here's one thing that ticked my ranting complex. well, besides how most people I know IRL can't really properly make a politically incorrect rant besides how prices are steep in the cafeteria, how mr. medro is a bitch, how fucked their bball and DOTA game is, and usual cono kid shit like that. anyway, I found Friendster and that whole Fster fad to have been pointless, hack, it became a collect most "friends" contest more than a community site. Well, 4 years after the boom, people picked up Multiply. You know, the easy webpage for noobs who can't even manage with a WYSIWIG. Anyway, pictures, cheap excuses for a blog, and the usual cono kid shit again. Heck, Multiply is the new friendster. There's a reason I linked "attack of the text walls". It's a blog. It's meant to be read. I don't have to stuff it with pictures for your mind to be able to understand. Do j00 understand? I'll be nice and to at least "try" (read: muster enough galactic strength) to add pictures and crap. lmfao. content. text walls, technical terms. Expand your vocab with at least a few terms like "choku-dori".

I feel pains in my pectoralis major, abdomen, and quadriceps. (mental note: drink more free soda)

Oh yeah, I think my PSP will, or has turned 1 year old. I gave it a nice, shiny black Logitech Playgear pocket to shield my precious. No more rubbing off the dust now. Oh yeah, I'm trying to get rid of my Syphon Filter and Burnout Legends UMDs. Hit me up if you want. Buy original games people. Don't starve yourself waiting for the next FW's hack. I'll be playing the next GTA at least a year before you're able to do so like that. Don't pretend to "support the homebrew scene". You're just in it for the ISOs. Poverty is not an excuse. You live in a third world country, gaming is a luxury, an expensive investment. You don't jump in to this generation hoping for a leech on it's back. You'll just get a cigarette burned on you.

I noticed I have lots of stuff. I've 6 sets of earphones, and not just stock ones. At least 8 pairs of shoes. A ton of black shirts. hmm. nice.

I'll still end posts with an underscore. Yeah, "DOS" style. Now only if I can make that blink.

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second look for Tokyo Drift

2006-06-24T19:07:00.000+08:00

above: Universal bought the VeilSide Japan RX-7 Tokyo Autosalon car as is and gave it a bad paintjob. Well, not really bad but I don't like it. Liked the original Autosalon reds. 98% of the people I asked didn't even think the car was an RX-7. (I even got lamborghini as a response).

I can get over the rape-age of a scene. 'Tis only a movie after all. At least it was significantly less ricey than the last two pieces in the series. Can't help but feel like there's gonna be another movie from the ending

my post on the GMF to sum things up:

Wooden acting and cheesy lines.
Plus I hate Black's accent.

I give a w00t to Sonny Chiba and Keiichi Tsuchiya.
And I liked Han's character. Too bad he went off.

I liked how this was significantly less ricey than the rest. Almost no neons, definitely no lowriders, air suspensions, no hydraulics, no spinners, no cholos, no whores, no sluts, no SUVs, no bling. Most of the cars looked like JDM show cars, real imports and weren't really eyesores. Most showed emphasis on their engines instead of their stereos. ('cept for the ugliest vehicle in the movie, obvisouly BowWow's)

Best car has to be D.K.'s Fairlady Z. It really looks like a street-legal drift car inside and out, nothing flashy, which was kinda unexpected really from this movie. Also, Han's veilside tokyo autosalon Rx-7 was one eye-twinkler for me, that was beautiful, but I wish they hadn't replaced the original Tokyo AutoSalon paintjob. Most of my friends didn't even realize that was an RX-7 until I looked at it. (I'll buy the Fast and Furious PS2 and PSP games just to be able to "drive" these JDM beauties).

The Silvia was raped. I hated the Evo IX placement, the Rx-8 wasn't special.

Oh, besides having cheesy lines and stiff acting, the story was predictable, and was kinda a bit structured like Initial D and the first FNF movie. Han's teaching of Sean resembled Dominic/Brian and Bunta/Takumi. BowWow was like Itsuki. And the final race on that gravel touge reminded me of the HK Initial D movie's final battle, with the antagonist, in a desperate rage, found himself tumbling down the touge, and the hero narrowly avoiding the falling heap after the final switchback. Well, while I like the usual E-brake less, clutch kicking, high-speed, high-angle smoking drifts I've gotten accustomed to, I didn't mind their E-brake drifts. It was actually performed as as it would have been on a drift contest, and the drifting and driving overall owns the cheap action the HK Initial D movie had. Oh yeah, I didn't notice an AE86 much, only a word-of-mouth reference by a character.

The Sean character, typical problematic, yet "honorable" and respectful character. Han, meh, I just find him cool, eating pocky and all. Plus being the Mr. Miyagi of drifting (making a reference to waxing on and off too). Neela was hot, damn hot, one gem among the also damn hot swarm of japanese girls. I wouldn't mind having Neela, and the two "ready...zetto" girls. DK wasn't really much of a heavy "antagonist", just being another bad boy.

The Tsuchiya cameo was nuts. Respect the real "DK" yo. I hate the Silvia thrashing. Well, the paint deserved it but not the car.

Animax and the Initial D bullcrap

2006-06-19T10:46:00.000+08:00

wow, it took Animax half a year to present that last 4 episodes of Initial D 4th Stage.

now, I don't really care, but one line in the commercial pissed me off so bad.
"last chance to see Matteo Guidecelli as Takumi!"
I personally want to break both his legs to end his racing career then shoot him in the face. But I hope he doesn't die. I want him to live after I do so.

For one, dubbing was Animax's biggest bullshit towards it's better viewers. Second, how they fucked up their schedules. Gone are the genre divisions. But never mind that, it's the dubbing I really hate. AXN, they've been showing subs for a long time. Nice choice. But why Animax? A channel that I used to find great is now just retarded. That's what I hate about dubbing. Their singlish dubbers suck, and they only have 10 people dubbing everything. The original japanese seiyuu can bring different personalities with each dub, something that Animax's dubbers can't. They all sound the same. They even had to bring out the Funimation dub for FMA. Well, not bad, but geez, they said "experience the full quality of FMA with the US english dub!". If they want to give us the full FMA experience, they should have went with the subs.

Ok, now Initial D. TAGALOG?!? That is by far, the biggest piece of turd they've given us. Taglish. The kind of taglish you see from chinese ricer conyos. Plus, Matteo Guidecelli only has ONE emotion with his voice, and that is of a PMS-ing angsty 14 year old girl. Most of their voices are far from the sound and personality of the original audio.

Chobits was funny before it was subbed. GTO was better before they cut scenes. Onegai Teacher is better off in the original audio. C'mon, most of their previously subbed anime lots much of their personality when their dubbers raped them.

This is like, TokyoChop for us. Damn them. Download fansubs and show them who's boss. w00t.

philippine drifting?

2006-06-17T20:01:00.000+08:00

Countersteer was sad. Such a small group of performers. And all of them looked like Initial D fanboys. LOL, after the whole Initial D/Animax/drifting buzz the Takumi Tax went effective here and rich chinese kids scrambled to auto lots for restored S13 Silvias, AE86 Truenos and Levins, and white Savanna RX-7s.

Oh, and a 14 year old kid won it too with an AE86. One does not need much skeelz to detemine how the kid likes Initial D, has a rich daddy and doesn't even have a license.

The contest was small, it was a success, but still small scale. People didn't know shit about drifting at the time. I think most of the people who started the small drifting scene here were fans of Initial D too. I mean, Initial D is the only thing we have close to drifting here. Somehow, the contest didn't have that action you see in other drifting competitions in other shores. If they plan to take Countersteer mainstream, and even manage to grab a D1GP competition here like Malaysia has, they need more.

Problem is, most people won't go for the expense needed for drifting. A decent Japanese import FR car for starters. Most people have SiR Civics, and much much skill is needed to take our more standard FF drivetrain cars to go sideways. Most people wouldn't have heard of drifting until Tokyo Drift. Plus, most people would just buy custom-made bodykits and stereo systems for their cars instead of spending on deep engine and drivetrain modifications, not to mention the many sets of tires you'd be eating through. And, most auto lots would have gotten wind of the niche demand for these imports, and would have likely imposed the "Takumi Tax" for the sought after models.

Plus, the drifters don't have much ground to practice on. Unlike in other countries where they have safe, and well maintained mountain roads where they can drift at night, we have barrier-less, concrete roads. Instant death. Their last demo was in SM Mall of Asia during the premiere of Tokyo Drift. I felt sorry for those guys. They had 5, 6 cars, and only had a small portion of a parking lot and a couple of cones and boxes to work with. They just slowly looped around a cone placed in the center. Plus, the drifting wasn't too showy. It was repetitive. I saw it got documented for a news clip in 24 ORAS in GMA last thursday for their Chika Minute segment. Well, it is good exposure for them. (EEK! GMA GOT THEIR DRIFTING FACTS WRONG).

I've yet to try out a car that is specifically tuned for drifting. I don't know, all the experience I have is countless hours spent on Gran Turismo 4, D1GP, Kaido Battle, C1GP, and other games. And I can say, that I, do not use the handbrake to induce oversteer for initiating a drift. That's how you do it. So if any one of you has an S15 Silvia, call me up. :D

Well, we don't have much venues for drifting. Subic International Raceway is too far. We need a place where they can show off, and is accessible for most people. In a major city. Take the SM Mall of Asia parking lot for example. In the past, they were able to setup slalom competitions in parking lots. They should take a hint from the ODAIBA stage of the D1GP. They're in a big parking lot, with big space for them, set up tents and bleachers, and line a course with barriers, and we can have drifting fun. It's a dream. Dreams can come true. But right now, "libre mangarap". I'll just be here, sitting here, drifting GT4. And lining up for the drivers search if ever *gasp* we get a big drifting organization/competition series set up here. The D1GP is very supportive of drifting events. They can help.

ricer hate

2006-06-17T19:32:00.000+08:00

The Fast and The Furious: Tokyo Drift.
a movie where show cars are shown being slid on public roads.

Initial D.
a series that runs on the "underdog" story, with drifting as his initial style, and the hero progressed to more competitive, racing situations that don't necessarily need his drifting. yet, people only see drifting.

Tokyo Drift was inevitable.
Ricing will get another kick. Rarely do people make major mods under their hoods. A heavy bodykit, a battery of subwoofers, neon, LCD screens, 22 inch rims, and all that nonsense comes first for them. Sure, they want a show car. I get that rarely would we be able to floor the gas on a performance car. So I at the most, respect these guys. Their cars get bare mileage and stay in garages anyway.

What I despise are the other people, unfortunately without deep pockets, that worship Paul Walker and try and make their ratty hatchbacks and hand-me-downs look "fast". Cheap decals from the usual mall stores. Ill-fitting pre-made bodykits from cheap shops. Euro R steering wheels and interior accessories. Cut springs for more lowering. Mufflers (read: FARTcans). And cheap, wobbling aluminum spoilers from car accessory stores.

They're like the people who wear what this celebrity or trend on TV is on, even if it makes them look like pathetic kooks. Geez. Some people who at least "porma" their cars know what their doing. Minimal aero kits and a nice set of rims and a good reliable muffler. Not like the others who get eyesore paintjobs, dress-up mismatches and cars with an identity crisis. How many times have I seen a VTi Civic sporting "Type R" and "VTEC" badges all around. Taxis even get riced with the cheapest of excuses for accessories. Just yesterday, I saw a 91-94 Nissan Sentra sporting the disgustingly funniest badging around. "NISSAN TYPE R". Oh God, Nissan? And the Type R line? He could have at least gotten that GT-R badge and stayed within his manufacturer's lines.

Now, that's just part of the backlash of The Fast and The Furious.