Tuesday, July 29, 2003

Subject | "Awake-A-Thon"

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"Tragically.. as she was sipping coffee last night at Starbucks, Janice was machine gunned down..."

Yeah, yeah, I know you all wish :P that was Mr. Thomson describing how I was murdered during the game of Mafia that we were playing. AHAHAHA ^^ it was Molly that killed me that time, that bad bad girl. Anyway, I think Mr. Thomson will be a lot of fun to have as a history teacher.. somehow I think certain friends of mine will agree, if just because of the above statement from him there :P

Yesterday, all of Key Club executive board at BHS (of which I am a member of) was told to come to the fundraiser Awake-a-Thon ^^ it was fun, lol. We were basically supposed to stay awake from 7 pm to 7 am, and raise money for our KC. It's not hard to stay up, but we were getting REALLY tired because we were playing a lot of games that took a lot of energy.

Anyway :) we played a name game to start off with (I think I have everyone's name memorized now), and then we moved on to some other various contests. We were split up into groups (named after McDonalds - I was part of the Big n' Tasty group), and we competed all night long, except when we were all working together. Ha, one of the contests was an "Iron Chef" contest - I kid you not. We each randomly picked a recipe and tried to cook the best food (the chief taster being Mr. Thomson).

My group, very unfairly :P got SPAGHETTI, and might I add that there was no sauce? we had to make it out of tomato paste and canned tomatos. *ewwww* actually, it came out pretty good despite all things, but Mr. Thomson said we overdid it on some of the herbs.. oregano or something. It was very strong sauce :P but it was good! everyone else said it was good, and they would've told me if it sucked...

... As Katie's group's brownies did :P how do you mess up brownies? Mr. Thomson gave them a two out of five for taste. Said something about "too much flour".

None of us were willing to try it, so we'll just take his word for it.

Anyway, we had to cook all of this in an hour. -.- It was a very stressful hour, especially as Lucy (whose house we were at) has a stove that has its oven right underneath it, so the brownie people and the pizza people (Tanya) and the TACO people (Kristyn's group had to bake the hard shells) were ALL using the oven and there we were, trying to simmer sauce and boil spaghetti all at the same time.

I think the winning group got too easy :P they got mud pie. Unjust!! You just slap together a lot of confectionary. It was really good though :O and so was the pizza, although that was gone really fast.

The guys in my group (Eric & Jason) didn't help much during the cooking (Ashley C. and I did all the work). Eric wouldn't taste anything, and Jason stood there, soup ladle in hand, and he stirred the spaghetti... mm, yeah :P that's what he did. (We had very little equipment, hence the soup ladle.) Oh, well - Jason is a very good ham (he's the ASB senior class president? we saw his face on millions of backpacks?) and he presented the spaghetti to Mr. Thomson, complete with Jason presenting him a bottle of wine and some grapes XD he talked like some snooty waiter. It was very amusing ^^

Oh, and I chopped two cloves of garlic for the spaghetti, and my HANDS STINK. Not that I mind eating garlic, but I certainly mind having the stench of it stuck in my hands.. I've washed them with four different soaps twelve different times since then, and still, nothing works -.-

I was fine $1.25 for saying the word "sleep" five different times during the night -.- very bad!! I paid .75 cents right there, but I didn't want to break my twenty so I didn't do the rest. But I was very annoyed -.- oh, well, Jason got fined nearly five dollars for saying it over, and over, and over, and over again :P so I got off lucky. (Oh, and Jason nearly fell asleep.. $1 fine right there.)

I'm TIRED. BLAH. Been up for awhile now, and awake-a-thon is really exhausting (especially the cooking thing). I was really awake doing those scenes, but afterwards everyone just wanted to sleep. During pictionary later, everyone was lying down. A very WARPED version of pictionary.. I was supposed to describe whatever topic I had to my partner, who would draw what I described not knowing what it actually was herself. Um, the first time I got it I did a dog, which was easy enough for everyone to figure out (you wanted people to figure out what it was or you wouldn't get any points), but the second time, we got a TOILET. How the hell was I supposed to describe a toilet? I started off with "uh, a rectangle here", and blah blah blah. We ended up throwing the first one away and then starting over before someone finally figured it out. :x I didn't guess any right except the last picture (someone else's), when Katie told her partner to "draw a right triangle". :P

Sailboat! It's obvious.. more obvious than when Andrew (not the one we all are so very .. uh, "fond" of) told Shelly to draw "two circles" and Yung yelled, "GLASSES!" -.-

God, I'm too exhausted to really blog much right now :x I just wanted to get this all done so I wouldn't forget it later. Anyway, Andrew and Augusto have really weird conversations on my blog :P

Posted by Kylara @ 09:39 AM PST

Sunday, July 27, 2003

Subject | "Heh"

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Threat rating: Medium. Your total lack of decent
family values makes you dangerous, but we can
count on some right wing nutter blowing you up
if you become too high profile.


What threat to the Bush administration are you?
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'Nuff said.

I took it again:

Threat rating: High. The Bush administration is
concerned that it may not get a second term.
Therefore, we are going to change the rules so
that each Democrat vote only counts as 0.2
votes because Democrat is a shorter word than
Republican


What threat to the Bush administration are you?
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I love being me. And yes, my republican friends are free to tell me what they got :P it's all in fun, lovies.

Posted by Kylara @ 02:13 AM PST

Wednesday, July 23, 2003

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What on earth does Augusto mean by "the blogging freak broke out"? :P Was I imprisoning some mad blogging fanatic inside my head? Or did I go outside?

I like to think that's it's neither.. I've just been schmoozing lately. ^_^

My sisters came back from Europe, yay, and they had a great time ^^ they brought me back some REALLY neat souveniors ::cackles:: One is this little wooden puppet they bought from a street vendor in Vienna [Austria].. I think it's a cross between a Chinese dragon, a dog, and horse. It's so funny!! I'm not very good with it, but I can make it laugh hysterically (I provide the voice), pick up paper, walk around, and nuzzle up to people. :P I made it stalk Stacy across the carpet (you should've seen her scooch away).. haha ^^ next time I have a party, I'm bringing it out to show people. I'd take it to school, but I'm afraid it'd get broken.

The other one they got me is this absolutely exquisite little mask from Venice ^^ It's a mardi gras porcelain mask that's beautifully handpainted.. so lovely :O I was kinda afraid to touch it. But it's beautiful :) They bought themselves some really lovely things. They bought our parents two Venesian (Venecian? from Venice, bah) wine (or is it champagne?) glasses. They're decorated in gold leaf and a very lovely, vibrant scarlet color. O.O Our mother almost broke them within five minutes of opening them, giving all three of us a heart attack. They got our dad a german beer cup :P it's really funny. (He collects cups and mugs.) Joan is a big fan of miniatures, so she got a miniature elephant and hippo made of glass (from Venice again - Venice is famous for gondolas and glass). They're SO CUTE - they're each small enough to both sit on the same key on a keyboard. They could both quite literally fit on the letter Y. I'm afraid the elephant will break - its trunk is incredibly thin.

She also bought a miniature violin, a miniature glass dolphin (again from Venice), and some other stuff. Sohyun splurged and bought herself a pearl-and-diamond necklace that's really gorgeous :O and a stuff Saint Bernard with a beer tank around its neck :P it's soo cute. I had a lot of fun looking at their souveniors.

I picked up a non-fiction book to do a report on.. it's about geisha. ^_^ Should be interesting.

Went to a key club project on monday.. we made the packets that people will have to pick up in order to register at BHS. Bleh :x we basically walked around in some odd U formation like the one below.

*Someone* I know cheated on me and didn't always give the packets that this someone created to me. :P Adulterer!
*edit*
Also at the project were all these little Korean ninth graders (now tenth) that I went to Korean school with, horrors of horrors. Earl, Kristyn, and Jessica were there too, and some other key club people ^^ maybe fifteen to begin with, but a lot of people left by hour two.

My dad was breaking up concrete in one corner of the yard the other day, and we were clearing it out to a dump truck sort of thing for maybe five hours :x the hunks of stone were really heavy (you could carry only two of the small ones at one time, and one of the large ones), it was really hot (afternoon) and very dusty (that part of the yard doesn't have any grass). Two spiders tried to kill me, but I smashed them with rocks... ^_^; it didn't help that my silly dog got out and decided to have an adventure in the alley. I thought she was gonna get hit by a car -.-; she ran all the way down the block before deciding to go back up, and I was running after her.. and it was maybe four o'clock in the afternoon and so incredibly hot ;_;

I sincerely hope no one heard me screaming at my dog that I didn't want to be arrested for butchering her. I know some people did (oops!), and the driver in the red sports car that nearly killed me did, but oh well.

I killed another spider yesterday. IT CRAWELED UP MY LEG. It gave me a heart attack while I was doing the dishes to see a spider just dancing up my left leg... I screamed, grabbed a paper towel, and snatched up the spider, and my dad told me I was being too noisy.

I am so unloved.

I've been playing Smash Bros. Melee still :x I think there are a total of 300 trophies in this game, but I only have maybe 247? I've gotten all the character trophies, but I'm still missing a lot.. where on earth do I get them now? ?_? Speaking of which, I want a new GameCube game ^^ I'm approaching a time where I might actually be bored, which I don't think I've been for years now. Pikmin!! ::cackles:: Yes, slaves, I must have slaves.... [for those who don't know, the premise of Pikmin is that you are a spaceman that crashlands on a foreign planet who has 30 days to rebuild the spaceship and get out before your oxygen runs out. ^^ To help you, you plant these Pikmin, and when you pull them out of the soil, you can command them to your bidding. Literally. You can make them carry you on their shoulders. It's really, really funny :P]

Pirates of the Caribbean apparently had the lowest percentage drop from weekend one to weekend two of all movies this year ^^ my sister said that's doing "insanely well", which I guess she would know since she's been tracking box office trends since she's been watching movies. I'm glad :) I liked Pirates a lot. I just hope this doesn't inspire Disney to also make movies out of Splash Mountain, Space Mountain, Matterhorn, etc.. Haunted Mansion looks relatively plastic and cheesy, so maybe they're already running out of steam. Pirates worked well, IMO, because it was a rather original, fun action-adventure movie with some really popular stars (ORLANDO BLOOM! KYAA!!) that wasn't a sequel, which is also IMO one of the reasons why Finding Nemo has only dropped to number 6 after being out for nearly two months ^.~ I hope it wins best animated feature at the Academy Awards this year :) It would be nice. (It would also be the third year that the award has been given to a non-Disney movie, making it ironic that the company that really started movie-animation has yet to win it. Oh, well, "Brother Bear" doesn't look like it's going to win it.)

I've been downloading more manga, as it makes the world go round. A few weeks ago I only had 16 gigs of manga, but now I have 17.3. When did this happen? ?_?

Shinjo Mayu impresses me with her stupidity again. I read a new series of hers where a girl lives with her two older brothers, as their parents and other family members are dead. But shock! Ever since she found out that one of her older brothers was actually adopted (and thus not blood related), she can't control her feelings! *drumroll* Yes, she's burning in love for him. Poor girl, boo hoo hoo. :is drowning in sarcasm:

I also downloaded chapter two of "Chain of Pearls", which is by the same author of Ren-Ai Shijo Shugi. The art is nice, but occasionally the author can really get into writing somewhat odd sexual situations. ?_? In chapter 15 of Ren-Ai, the couple had sex together - which is not unusual, but they had sex in a KARAOKE ROOM. Um, I wonder if the author knows that the typical karaoke house has video camcorders in every single room? Well, Chain is starting off not quite so sexually (then again, neither did Ren-Ai), and it's cute so far ^^ the guy is funny in his sarcasm.. and he's good looking. Then again, he looks EXACTLY THE SAME as the main guy in Ren-Ai. -.-; Some manga artists just can't draw different looking main characters.. you can switch the hair and eye color, and they'd all look the same.

But, I've done karaoke too ^^ it's fun! I wish there was one (a karaoke house) in Burbank so I could go there with my friends and watch everyone make a fool of themself. Alas, it's a very Asian thing so they're really only in downtown LA (Koreatown) and other super-Asian concentrated areas.

Watase Yuu's new series, Zettai Kareshi, is SO STUPID. A girl, desperate for a boyfriend, buys an artificial one online (I kid you not). Um, it sounds like she was buying a sex toy in some online porn shop. Anyway, it comes to her house that night, and it's a fully-grown, young (naked) male android. Blah blah blah. She has to activate it by kissing the guy on the lips, which of course she does, whereupon he wakes up and says, "Hello, girlfriend!"

Me: ..................

First, this sounds like a rip off of Chobits (rather than the "female version" that Shoujomagic said it was), and it's also reallly stereotypical (the guy comes to her rescue, blah blah). And the girl is also pretty annoying. I really can't stand Watase's stuff :x Although I do really like Alice 19th right now.. the guy is great ^^ and the girl isn't so very .. typical.

AOL has this thing on right now that says "Five ways to fake a tan". Why the hell would I want to fake a tan? :P I go outside for five minutes and I get one. Blah.

I'm gonna go read a new manga now ^^ so bye now!

Posted by Kylara @ 07:01 PM PST

Saturday, July 19, 2003

Subject | "Whee"

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:> Well, I've finished my six hours of driving with a licensed instructor.. isn't that fascinating?

Milestone of the day: Victor commented on my blog. I'm guessing it's Earl who gave the addy to him, unless Victor typed "Janice blog" into google and got this or something. I always wonder what my friends who aren't into anime & manga think when they see my blog.. I mean, look at it :P

Out of sheer boredom, I really did type in "Janice blog" into google just right now, and like, three Janice's with my last name came up and not a single one is me. What is the point in my existence? If I ever should have children (the poor condemned things), I'm giving them really obscure names that I make up myself and marrying a guy with a 35-letter last name that no one else shares so that they'll never type it into a search engine and find anyone but themselves.

...

Okay, maybe not, but it's kinda fun to say so. I am definitely not going to marry another Korean (what, and become Kim? Chang? Choi? I think not), and will never name my kids anything like Daniel (in my life time, I've known over twenty and am first cousins with two - on the SAME SIDE OF THE FAMILY) or Paul (three) or Mary (four) or Jennifer (five). Really :x Oh, and the real reason so many Korean boys are named "Daniel" or "Paul" or "Peter"? It's the Bible, I tell you, the Bible.

Actually, the first half of the above paragraph is a moot point because I plan on keeping my name (for professional purposes). What's the point? :P My husband can change *his* name if it's so bad for a married couple to have different surnames. My cousin just got married (um, maybe not "just", they're going to have a baby any day now) - she was a Kim, now she's a Kang. -_-; Does anyone see my point?

I just re-watched the Pokemon movie (the first one). Don't ask, I was really, really bored, and I do own it after all ^^ I wanted to see how the pokemon looked compared to Smash Bros., especially because Mew popped out of a pokeball the other day. (How cuuuute! <3) Most of it's very similar.

Anyway, it's been really hot here these last few days :x well, at least it's a comfort to know that my sisters were melting in Venice sometime last week.. they went to ROME. The colliseum (I know I'm spelling that wrong). *jumps up and down* I would kill to go on a two week vacation to Europe... I think I'll go when I'm in Uni. :> I'd like to go to Ireland, England, Italy, France (to take a look at that disgustingly opulent palace), Germany, Switzerland, Austria (it'd be kinda neat to see the conference center in Vienna used after Napoleon's defeat), Spain... all the big European countries. :O

:>

^ Does that face resemble a bird to you? I think not.

Today's spindly count: 3
1) murdered by me slapping a piece of paper against it
2) murdered by me standing on top of the second floor banister and squishing it with kleenex
3) murdered by me luring it on a piece of paper and then folding it

For the uninitiated, spindly = spider, as Andrew calls it.

I slept a solid fourteen hours last night :) It was really very nice, although one should've seen the look my mother gave me when I came down to eat breakfast at five o'clock in the afternoon. (I WAS TIRED, I didn't get much sleep the night before doing my stupid english project.) ^_^ I wasn't allowed to eat as we were going to have dinner soon.. blah. My mother made me chop stuff up - ended up cutting a lot of green onion - but I flat out ran away when she pulled out the raw squid - whole, I tell you, whole - and held the knife up at me. BLECK. (This is funny because I didn't really have that much trouble dissecting stuff in Haynes.. I think the frog and cat were the worse. Frog because of the bits of squishy yellow fat, and the cat because of the matted fur.. eww.. ^^ Does anyone remember Katie gagging repeatedly until people thought she'd throw up? ^.^ Good thing MY table didn't have that problem, eh-hem. [for those who weren't in my lab table, there were several moments with my head out the window trying to breathe])

I kinda miss doing Chemistry labs, just because it was kinda fun boiling stuff, blowing stuff up (um, the time we took the glass cover off of one of the beakers, there was this huge popping noise and the glass flew by me and Stacy's face and we thought we were gonna die :P), splashing water everywhere as I cleaned the glassware, Earl coming over to harass us (and criticize my dishwashing abilities -.-), and occasionally hearing explosions from the side of the room Nick was on. (I can't believe Thompson didn't notice him melting chewed gum and coins. Really.) And every single bit of glassware I ever washed was PERFECTLY CLEAN by the time I was done, even in a sink that measure two by four inches. (And I apologized to Matt for soaking his backpack. I did!)

Oh, and the breaking of glassware. I broke a graduated cylinder (just turned out and went *bam*), Taleen broke a beaker, someone else broke another graduated cylinder.. I think Tanya never broke anything, but she was the only one at our lab table to survive :P I think Stacy broke a beaker once.

Nick broke a beaker and no one ever knew how (even him, and I think he usually kept track of that sort of thing). It was probably just that it was an old beaker and he was heating a hot-water bath.. The bottom just came out like it was cut or something, and water went all over the bunsen burner :P that was.. weird.

I need to start working on my AP US history project.. I think Andrew called my english project the homework from hell, but that was only because I didn't know about it soon enough. This one is truly the Homework From Hell. It has two or three essays, a magazine article, a magazine COVER, and two sets of questions to fill out based on a couple of articles - all due by exactly 10:00 a.m. on the 6th. Eww :x Blah. The magazine cover will be fun since I'm actually allowed to use the computer and I don't have to draw.. my photoshop skills are only about average, but I can make something look rather presentable with average :>

I'm downloading chapter one of Skip Beat! right now from channel #grandline on irc.mircx.com.. ::grins:: I've never read this manga before, but I have read the translations, and it's realllly funny ^.^ a rather domestic and simple girl named Kyoko runs away from home with the guy she likes in order to support him in his career in being an idol (a super-star actor). Some time later, the hardworking, earnest and basically being stepped-on Kyoko finds out that he's just using her as a convenient maid, cook, and slave all rolled up in one.. :P instead of falling apart into tears, she turns into Demon-Kyoko, dyes her hair a very shocking shade of orange-blonde, and decides to become a better idol than him and crush his career forever ^^

Kyoko's a great character, her ex-boyfriend is an absolute bastard, and her new love interest (I think that's what he is.. kinda hard to tell especially since he's older than her by a lot) is really hot. Daisuki yo, Ren-sama! <3_<3 (those are supposed to be hearts for eyes if you can't tell ^^;) Anyway, it's by the same artist as Tokyo Crazy Paradise, so I'm in love ^^ Ren is even better looking than Ryuji, probably because he's (Ryuji is a blonde), older (Ryuji was 14, Ren is in his twenties), and just .. mm :) Looks like the author of the manga can't get away from the main male characters being mostly serious, sorta-evil dark guys (Ryuji was the leader of the Japanese equivalent of the mafia) that only occasionally goof off.. ^^ Oh well.

Btw, I was playing Smash earlier: I HATE playing as the Mario Bros. characters, but at least they have half-way decent Smash attacks (Marth and Zelda have very good ones IMO). There's someone I hate more but I forget who :x and no, it's not Pichu, Earl, because Pichu's cuteness makes up for his lack of battling skills. (And besides, if you do down-B and it doesn't hit him, he doesn't get hurt!)

The last thing I just ate: Tyson's popcorn chicken dipped in a combination of tapatio & tabasco sauce. Actually, this is really good ^_^ although don't drink any water because you won't be able to take any more. Oh well. :)

Andrew, I asked you this before but you DID NOT ANSWER: do you use greymatter?

Posted by Kylara @ 03:11 AM PST

Thursday, July 17, 2003

Subject | "BLAH"

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Thank god, Stacy and I got extensions on our summer assignments ;_; I'm so happy I could die. Just wanted to say that *phew* so I don't have to turn in part 1 for english until August 15th. *thank you* SO happy.

Posted by Kylara @ 04:19 PM PST

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Oh my god. I have to turn this stuff in by two.

My honors english summer assignment.

I have not even one dialectical journal entry done.

AHHHHHHHHHHH.

:::working:::

Posted by Kylara @ 06:31 AM PST

Wednesday, July 16, 2003

Subject | "Book Report"

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Oh my god.

I have four hundred more pages of a biography on Eleanor Roosevelt to read.

;_;

I don't want to dooooo this!!!!! -_-;

I have to do four dialectical journal entries & a two page essay tomorrow on this book, hence why I'm reading this now. >.>;

It's good, but it's not .. that.. interesting..

...

::gazes up at ceiling:: Oh, a spider.

I have another driving lesson tomorrow.. I get to go on the freeway. Joy.

::kills spider::

Eew.

::tired::

I DON'T WANT TO READ THIS.

Maybe I'll just read a chapter here and there.

BLAH.

I hope Taleen and Tanya have fun on vacation. I forgot to call Taleen about the Key Club bulletin. Oops.

I read a new manga today that I haven't read before.. the title was in Japanese and I didn't understand all of it. It was called "Tsumi Ni Nureta Futari" (futari means of "two" people) and the description on the site was rather vague, so I decided to download it.

It started out fairly normally, if rather cliched. Girl goes on a trip to Italy that she SHOULD have gone on with her boyfriend, but the bastard dumped her, so she decided to go alone. She accidentally irritates a guy, he's attracted anyway, she's attracted, and he saves her from some street thieves.

They're standing arguing next to a fountain (you know the really large ones that you can sit around while the water sprays up in the middle), and I guess it's a combination of repayal and lust that drives them to, er, have sex in the fountain.

Well, it looked uncomfortable, but they seemed happy. Blah, blah, this is nothing unusual (actually this is pretty tame compared to some stuff that's been released these days >.>; hang around in #shoujomagic and #nekohana). She goes back to Japan, thinking she'll never see him again. Anyway, her mother tells her that her father, who she hasn't seen in years, has just died. Her mom shows her a picture of her and her younger sister, who she also hasn't seen in years and who lived with their father, is going to come live with them.

Blah. She goes to the funeral.. and who should she see but Mr. "Take-me-in-a-fountain" boy! He's shocked, she's shocked, and they stare at each other for a bit.

And here's the punchline: her mother comes and says, "Oh, good, you've met! He was so cute when he was a little boy that we dressed him as a girl. He's your younger brother!"

And they stare at each other.

And I stare at the screen.

The title means, as I found out later, "The two who are drenched in sin".

The scanlators added a little message at the end that says "Moral of the chapter: Don't do it with complete strangers!"

How.. thoughtful of them. Right, at least in Angel Sanctuary the incest played a genuine dramatic role; I'm not in the mood for incestual smut. Bleck.

On another note, I did download some decent manga today (Full Moon wo Sagashite & Ichigo no Houseki, which are done by mangaka I like - Tanemura Arina and Mizusawa Megumi respectively), so it's not a complete loss. I also downloaded Doll (ch. 2), which is by the artist of Mars [Soryo Fuyumi] along with Mars Gaiden (prequel to Mars), both of which were fine. Mars Gaiden was amusing ^^;

I desperately want a new chapter of: Kare First Love, anything Mizuto Aqua, Full Moon wo Sagashite, Basara, Ingénuo, Eden no Hana, DN Angel, Tokyo Crazy Paradise and a lot of other stuff.

Man, I spent ALL DAY in IRC getting manga.. so tired. I'm still in there, serving Hime-chan no Ribon to the poor people who actually are desperate enough to queue from me :P I've only successfully completed one file, oops. I feel like I don't deserve the +v status I get. *edit* Just read Full Moon chapter 11.. uh, Takuto-kun, doshita no?

[Anyway, rest of the entry is about Smash Bros - sorry you have to endure this, but I really like my video games ^^;]

I'm very proud of myself. I got all the secret characters in Smash Bros. (so I have everyone now, yay - even the incredibly odd Mr. Game & Watch) now - I got Mewtwo a few days ago and Mr. Game & Watch about fifteen minutes later. (I beat Mewtwo in 13.5 seconds :P Marth just went *whoosh whoosh* and Mewtwo went *whoosh whoosh*. Mewtwo threw off Mr. Gay & Watch in 17 ^^) I also now have all the secret worlds except the weird Pokemon one (um, I heard that you need 200 versus matches for this and I only have about 160), but what I am proudest of is that I beat EVERY SINGLE EVENT MATCH. ALL 51. ::bows::

Thank you very much. It took me three hours to finally beat Event Match 50 (I told Earl once when he mocked me [if he doesn't remember, he said I could never beat this] that I'm very patient with video games), and I finally did it with Pikachu! I usually use Marth these days for versus and stuff, but I didn't think he was very suitable for this (o.@ do you think counter would work on the master hand?), and while Mewtwo was handy enough, I couldn't do enough damage before getting smacked off (it was always the hand-smack and drill that did me in). :P Who did I beat it with? Pikachu! Down-B sometimes took off more than 30%, which was always very cool.

Event match 51 only took me fifteen minutes because Jigglypuff is really, really useful and Giga Bowser really, really easy to hit. ^_^ Down B! Power to the pokemon ^.~ Although I haven't quite figured out Mewtwo's down-b yet (uh, it never works).

Event matches I hated the most: KO only Sheiks, the two master hands, the Ness one versus Samus-Kirby-Fox-Falcon-Falco, Majora's Mask trophy, Young Link Versus Link, You Versus Insane Pichus and Pikachus from hell, Mr Game & Watch versus 1000xMr Game & Watch, and the one where Peach walks around stupidly with a heart above her head while Bowser tries to EAT HER because Mario sucks.

I wish I had had Marth for some of those earlier battles.

Fun event matches: kill the tiny kirbys (their screams are so funny :P), kill the Kirbys with warp stars, kill the Jigglypuff more than the ships can, and some others.

I beat Captain Falcon on the <7 seconds on in .67 seconds :P thank you Jigglypuff.

I still have to beat Adventure in under - what, 18, 20 minutes? - on Hard so I can get the Giga Bowser trophy.. I'll do that tomorrow. I already beat Classic in under 20 on Hard (Marth, my luv <3), but Adventure is harder (I get killed about halfway through). Pfft. And I need to get all the All-Star trophies (I HATE the Mr. Game & Watch stage) as I only have about eight trophies from there right now.

:> I wanna buy Pikmin. But I heard there's a sequel coming out? So I might just wait.

Blah. I've successfully distracted myself from that biography for a full hour and a half. :P I'm really pissed about doing this assignment because I JUST FOUND OUT ABOUT IT, but nothing much I can do about it unless Grogan changes the due date. -.-; At least I'm not like a certain Dork Armenian Guy in my acquaintence who is going to pretend he didn't know about it.

Anyway, I'm gonna crash soon. It's early yet, but Stacy woke me up at some ungodly hour this morning (something like 10:30) and I'm exhausted.. and I need to be alert tomorrow so that I can peacefully kill myself on the freeway. So bye now :P

Posted by Kylara @ 02:30 AM PST

Sunday, July 13, 2003

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!! Sisters, read entry below the one below this. :D !!

Damn it, second time in a week that explorer crashed on me while I was writing an entry. -_- I had a really long one too.

At any rate. My mom had a party today, which involved me: cleaning, cooking, cleaning, cleaning, washing a lot of dishes, pots, and pans, and babysitting three kids, none of whom exceeds the age of 10. (One ten year old, one nine year old, one seven year old.)

What would you do? I sat them down in front of my Gamecube and said, "Would you like to play?"

http://ferryhalim.com/orisinal/ I set the girls in front of this (while I played Smash with James - um, he nearly massacred my control stick trying to kill the computer ;_; my poor controller). Anyone ever been here? I'm positive it's the location of the cutest games on earth. (The game designs - think "Morning Glory" characterish, very.. Asian?) The egg game requires the most mental concentration, in my opinion (it needs a really good sense of timing just to get to the top of the tree), but the pig game and the "it takes two" game are SO CUTE :> the puppy and the kitten and the little piglets ::cackles::

The rainmaker game reminds me of Haibane Renmei. I don't know why. And "snowbowling" is sadistic.

http://www.manga-sketchbook.org/ scanlates Tokyo Crazy Paradise, for which I am writing a new fanfic! Yippee ^^ I love TCP, it's one of my favorite manga. I LOVE the art (the color art doesn't always look so hot - but the black and white is great :>), and the storyline kicks butt. It's an Alternate Universe fanfic, so I doubt I'll get around to posting it (I generally hate AU's), but it's so much fun to write!

And I'm so glad that I don't have to babysit anymore. ;_; So tiring. I have to be a role model you see (for god's sake, all three of them were calling me "Ohn-nee" (Korean for 'older sister')) and I really didn't like it, but it's not like I had a choice. So I was very diligent and watched them very carefully and helped them in everything they needed.

Blah, blah. Well, at least they're nice kids ^^ although if James had pressed "Z" as Samus one more time and I had to hear that stupid SKEESH sound of that ray thingy, I think I might've strangled him.

Blah blah blah. I have no money.

Oh, and chris - what the hell -_-

"^_^" is MY TRADEMARK FACE! ;_; I always use it in IM conversations! and everywhere! How could you ......

::deletes you::

Posted by Kylara @ 01:20 AM PST

Saturday, July 12, 2003

Subject | "Driving!"

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!!! I want my sisters to read the entry below this one, next time they're at a cafe.!!!

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::cackles::

I had my first driving lesson today! ::cackles::

Oh, god, it was so much fun :P I was so nervous! We started driving across from John Muir, and so I drove around Scott (Jefferson area) for like, an hour :P we made lots of circles. Left turn, straight, right turn, straight...

The entire lesson was punctuated with "BRAKE!" and "More gas, more gas, more gas... NO GAS!" from my poor driving instructor. By the second hour I was getting a lot more confident, which I'm sure scared him even more.

I got some Korean dude, btw.. he was nice, but I wouldn't reccommend him unless you're okay with somewhat broken English. ::grew up with broken English:: I have no problem there. He was perfectly nice though ^^ $50/2hrs. There are cheaper people, but my parents were okay with paying that price.

Anyway! I had such fun :> I passed by Stacy's house, and I'm going to hope that none of her family saw me because I made a very big boo-boo right outside there. (Um, their car is okay, right? :P JK.)

I'm very good with the brake pedal, which is not really hard... I can do very good rolling brakes now :) I just have crappy control over the gas pedal (it goes VOOM if I just lean on it a bit). Anyway, my next lesson is Monday morning.. and then another one on Friday and I'm done.

Btw, I hate five way intersections. He told me to make a left turn, and I had NO IDEA where he wanted me to turn, and there were cars on ALL sides and lights blinking everywhere and I was so frightened >.< so I was going at about 15mph in that area.. oops.

When I first started driving, we were just going straight along Kenneth for at least 10 blocks, and I was going at around 20mph, and there was this huge SUV stuck behind us for the entirety of the trip. ::laughs:: I felt kinda bad, but I had JUST started driving so I wasn't making any turns or anything. I think they were getting irritated.

On another note: My house happens to get a lot of visitors in the summer. Of the arachnid type, that is, plus junebugs and the narrow flat ones with the silver powder on their backs. At any rate, most of them show up in the computer room, and because I hate bugs, I've gotten to be really good at killing them. (I hate killing Junebugs, though, because they're so hard to squish and it's just really nasty.)

Yesterday, I got into the shower - my shower is one of those stand-up only things btw - and I turned on the water, and for some really bizarre reason, I happened to look up at the ceiling.

I kill a lot of bugs, so I know a large one when I see one. AND THAT WAS ONE ENORMOUS, DISGUSTING BLACK SPIDER SITTING ON THE CEILING.

I think I took it very well. I slowly opened the shower door, stepped out, and blinked at it for a moment. I hate it when spiders are on the ceiling ... yeah, I wasn't going to wait for it to drop down on my head. I picked up my shower head (it's one of those hand-held thingies), turned the water all the way to hot, and then sprayed the little bastard.

I hope he boiled. I doubt it, though - spiders survive at very high temperatures. He then washed down the drain, and then to make myself feel better - because I think spiders can survive in water for short amounts of time, and I didn't want this thing coming up the drain - I took a very old bottle of shampoo from under the sink and poured some of the contents down after the spider.

And some shaving cream.

And then I aimed the shower head at the drain and just let it pour scalding hot water down for five minutes.

I was slightly paranoid.

I really hope all the soap bubbles prevented that thing from ever rising again. How absolutely disgusting. I HATE SPIDERS. Unfortunately, I am the only one at home of my sisters, and my dad refuses to kill them for me ("They're your friends"), so I have to kill them.

BLECH.

My N64 is very dusty now, poor thing. It's sitting right next to my Gamecube, which is hard to tell when it's dusty because it's platinum (except when the black is dusty). ^_^ Hey, does anyone here own Pikmin? ?_?

Btw, Andrew, blogging is a very good thing :> besides, it gives us all something to do off our fat, lazy asses this summer.

Posted by Kylara @ 02:57 PM PST

Friday, July 11, 2003

Subject | "To My Sisters"

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This is another entry for my sisters! In the event that they catch another internet cafe while they have fun and get drunk in europe. Sooo :P read any one of my other entries, okie?

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Posted by Kylara @ 11:51 PM PST

Subject | "Ha."

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