I am able to see a little more of my window now. Not that it's much anyways. The mountain of boxes in front of one of my bookshelves is starting to thin out as I go through it and decide what I want to keep and what I don't want anymore. There's a few things that I'm definitely donating to Goodwill or somewhere. Also going through magazines, ripping out the pages I want, and then tossing the rest in the recycle pile.

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Actually feeling sleepy right now, I guess due to that weird but interrupted sleep I got this morning. Maybe I'll actually have it back and working properly for Saturday. I'd better have it working for Saturday. ^^;

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Was going to go to the post office today, but didn't make it out of the house. Will do so tomorrow. Mom even asked me if I went out, and when I said, "No," she commented that I probably should so that I wouldn't feel cooped up in the house all day...

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Next drama that I've been catching up on is Hana Yori Dango (JP version). =) I'll watch ep.4 before sleeping.

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EDIT: jaidesu posted about the American remake of ハチ公物語. Huh... interesting. =O

Chrissy -- I just saw Gina's email now... I should check my junk mail folder my often. *headdesk*
Will go reply after this. OTL

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The mangaka who did きららプリンセス is now working on another manga. The first volume just came out in Japan today; it's called Disney's マジカルダンス!!.. I forgot what the summary was supposed to be, though. I think it was that the main character wanted to join the dance team or something.

Dragon-con 2008 report is up!

Photoshoots coming up soon in two batches so everyone's sets get equal eyeball time.

It's time to get sexy.

Opportunity cost in terms of romance.

So I've been pretty good about not showing my full hand when dealing with people lately. It's gotten me alot more respect as well as keeps a few aces hidden when I really need them.

Funny thing yet, I think my roommate is hitting on me. Or maybe she's just being overly friendly. Yes she is friendly, but yeah it's kinda funny to hear have a nice day at work as i'm leaving my room. Then I'm washing dishes before going to work (I let them soak overnight) and she comes down and tells me she's socially awkward. Now this is the tough part. My roommate is an awesome girl and in any other circumstance I would totally date her. She's blunt, likes to work out, loves the sun, makes better cupcakes than me, and is driven to better herself. Did I mention that she watches anime and snowboards, I guess that's part of my requirements since those two subjects take a huge portion of my life.

But it's kinda wierd because we live together. This is pretty much like the doomed relationship of dating your co-workers. Never done it, probably never will. There's just some places I'm not prepared to go. Co-workers and roomies are amongst the few. Then she could probably be looking for a rebound because her ex left her 3 weeks ago which was 1 week before her b-day. Yeah August happens to be national douchebag month. Don't ask me.

so opportunity cost.
in business this is the risk and cost of risking. for example if i were to persue my roomie, it would cost putting the rest of our roomates in an awkward position not to mention she was there before me and i do like where i live. definitely not willing to take that risk since expecting the worse, things will head south before I know it. It's alot easier to know what to do when you've got a bird's eye view or when looking hindsight, but when you're in the thick of it, it's just tunnel vision.

the rest of the people I've been seeing don't interest me enough for a second date. Nothing wrong with them, they'd make great friends, but i think I have enough friends as it is. I don't need to spread myself thin.

having too many friends gives me less time to have in dating since everyone demands time as some form of maintenance.

Yes friends require maintenance just like a gf or bf. don't spend any time with them and disappear for 3 years and see if they're still your friend.

so what am i willing to risk?
not much really. I'm pretty happy with my life so it allows me to be one picky bastard.

Unless Sophie Boutella comes knocking on my door, I don't think I'll be having a serious relationship in a while. Some say it's because of my standards.

I mean i'm not asking for that much

driven, have goals
responsible especially financially
doesn't mind i need my work out time and anime time
snowboards
physically active in some way
likes the outdoors
can cause damage in a fight if need be

yeah i kinda like physically tough girls. It's kinda funny, but I guess I'm looking for a classy educated thug. Hahahaha

Maybe I'm doomed to be single alot longer than I thought. hahahhaa
oh well, more food for me.

This weekend:  FPAC vs. Pinoyfest

This is just really dumb.  Honestly, why on earth would you put together a ripoff version of FPAC and put it on the same weekend unless you wanted to be a total jerk?

FPAC is a huge events.  This is it's 17th year.  It gets over 25,000 in attendance.  It's put together by a non-profit group that does a lot of good for the community and to support Fil-Am artists.  You can just look at the Pinoyfest website and tell that it's an FPAC ripoff.  They even tried to give their festival areas the similar names to the areas at FPAC.  Pinoyfest got some pretty good performers, but look at their joke of a schedule.  It's so vague it's not even funny.

On a local TV show, I saw an interview with some of the people involved with Pinoyfest.  They said stuff like there was no other weekend available and they're not trying to compete and gas is too expensive and people in the SF Valley don't want to go down to San Pedro.  I don't like organizations that give all sorts of lame excuses and expect people to buy into it.  I wasn't born yesterday and I know spin when I hear it.

FPAC might not be perfect.  I remember when it was free.  Then it went to $5 for the weekend and then $5 per day and this year we get $7 per day.  I've been going for so long that it's getting repetitive.  There's nothing on the headliners list that I haven't seen several times and none of them particularly excite me.  Honestly, $7 is approaching the limit of what I think I'd pay to see these performers.  Even so, I'm not going up to Panorama City to go to a free festival with a few acts that I'm interested in because I think the Pinoyfest is run by a bunch of shady people who are trying to divide the community.

The only reason to hold a similar festival on the same weekend is to try and take away some business.  These two festivals have to compete for sponsors, vendors, and performers.  That doesn't benefit anybody.  If the people at Pinoyfest didn't want to compete with FPAC, they would not have put their festival on the same weekend.  They're full of BS and their festival deserves to fail because they're evil people.

hey everyone, this is the recipe i'm using for shiya's cake if you want to recreate it at home. Only difference is the assembly which I use ganache as a filler and then I'll be decorating it with even more chocolate.

flourless chocolate cake

4 ounces fine-quality bittersweet chocolate (not unsweetened)
1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter
3/4 cup sugar
3 large eggs
1/2 cup unsweetened cocoa powder plus additional for sprinkling

McCain, you fail at speaking, period. And yeah, Palin, shit talking, I don't know. Maybe your kids might know, and your potential grandchild.

Lately I've been feeling the politcal angst thanks to Kade's constant newstreaming, and just me not really liking the style of the current admin and McCain. Seriously, I know peeps on my live journal are from a diverse spread of party, so I have to say one thing: Can that ticket lead us to American prosperity? A senile old man who was a POW (and I honor him for it and respect him) and talked about his story in his speech, the horrors of war, can lead us to peace with foreign nations, let alone our own nation? Sure Obama is asking alot of the American people, but he knows it's gonna be hard to come back to our feets. Would you rather continue falling, or finally say it's enough and finally stand up and continue doing so.

If this is a campaign of looks, sure Palin was a former beauty queen, but look at McCain, it's a balance. On Obama's side, there's much charisma and beauty, I nosebleed XD.

So yes, this is probably my only post about this issue, come Nov. So for 2 months, really do your research about our candidates, and their histories, because we the people can shape the direction of the land we hold dear.

Wilson aka Asuma'sFire XD

Um...Yes. I've decided to try my hand at fanfiction for TWEWY/IAWW....Only the idea that popped into my head is...odd. Basically, the story is of a different Game, with a different Composer, but some familiar faces as well as some new ones. I've typed out a sorta rough draft/idea of the story...I was wondering if anyone would care to read what I have so far, and comment.

Any sort of comment would be nice, but generally, I'm looking for "should I continue?" and some creative critisism...and if you could point out anything that (generally) doesn't correspond with the game's story, that would be great, as I've played through it once and it's still a little...foggy to me.

Thanks... Click Here For The Story (Yet Unnamed)

crossposted to my journal.

Title: Promises
Rating: T at most
Pairing: None really
Summary: Promises are meant to be kept. A lone knight watches his friend leave him a second time, and their parting ushers in a new keyblade hero. The battle of the Enigmatic Warrior.

( I promise )

First things first, I almost missed my bus home. While walking down the street, I see a bus pass me. I look at the number, its the 8 bus back to San fernando Valley. Fuck... I break into a mad dash to the bus stop and manage to drop my cellphone and my mp3 player, INTO THE STREET WHERE I CAN BARELY SEE THEM! I managed to scoop them up safely and miraculously catch the bus back home.

ANYWAY .

( Boring stuff about my life. Read if you're interested with what i do at college! )

Title: Lament for the Fallen
Author: takatohedgehog
Rating: PG-13 for now~
Warnings: will be a pairing eventually, swearing, violence, possible gore, horror, death, blood
Summary: In an alternate universe, Neku Sakuraba was taught an invaluable lesson on trust, friendship and lies...
Author's Notes at the end of the prologue


( It's like I'm paranoid looking over my back... )

Current Mood

Accomplished!

I swear by WoWwiki.com. It's the best place besides WoWhead to look up information about the game. I recently entered their contest called WoWlympics where you had to use clues to find the items an NPC gnome claimed to have lost. Using a clue and WoWwiki would lead you to the answer and another clue, until you found all the items. You then email your answers to the contest email. They then picked 25 winners at random of those who got the right answers. 5 were selected to receive 5 WotLK Beta Keys and 20 were selected to receive the WWI (World Wide Invitational) WotLK Beta Key + Tyrael vanity pet cards.

I won one of the WWI cards! They posted my name on the winner's list!

http://www.wowwiki.com/WoWWiki:WoWlympics

I can't wait to get my Tyrael because I am a big fan of Diablo. :D I'm so excited!

Check it out I even saved it, for posterity. :D

hey guys. when i first started to play twewy i started to sketch out a practice print before making a real one to be able to sell at cons.
(if this one turns out well i might sell it as well) it was a quick sketch done on impulse after starting the game and i feel that something isnt right with it. so guys i need you critique my sketch behind the cut for me. it would help a lot.

( help me guys... and no laughing plz )

Title: Accessories
Author: sasha_janre
Rating: G for Drabble / ficlet ... yeah.
Warnings: No Joshua (lulz)
Summary: When Beat's been avoiding everyone long enough to arouse suspicion, the scooby kids gang decides to corner him! THIS IS EPIC STUFF, Y'ALL.

( He's here. Who? The Bat-Man. )

I wanna give a big HAPPY BIRTHDAY! to luv_blindly

Have a pic of the worlds most freaking cute bats EVER.



and woo! Birthday party for Shiya tomorrow!

Can it be Friday yet?

I wanna do Purikura now!

and I've been sketching out the pattern for the back of Seth's hat.

Funky hat is funky, but I can see hints of Seth in it. :D

If you haven't seen Jo Ellen's (Lillyxandra's) new Etsy store, you don't know what you're missing. Seriously.  It's quite insane how talented she is.Quite.

Pretty decent fan-made Transformers Movie 2007 music video. Song by Globus, titled Europa. No doubt this is an EPIC VIDEO of LionBoogy-approved proportions.

Hi~!!! It’s Firey Chronicles again~! Lol. Title says all.

( Warning: may be critical )
Firey Chronicles

Making this guide did burn up a lot of my time but it was helpful for me also. I just signed up on the Deviant account because everyone seems to be using it. Well here’s my latest, made after this tutorial:

This one is the one I’m most proud of ^^. It still has my softer style but I guess it looks okay.
http://fireychronicles.deviantart.com/art/Sketching-in-Shibuya-97032380

HAI BANDWAGON, SORRY THAT I'M LATE so zetta slow. I need reasons to get back into drawing anyway.

'Quickie' (as it only took me one day/few hours to make) TWEWY!self drawing. I usually draw my art!self with dragon wings and such, so I had to do the next best thing instead(plus, as freakishly annoying as they can be at times, I've found out that Reaper wings can be lots of fun to draw X3)... Player/regular TWEWY!self would likely be, obviously, pretty much the same thing minus the wings.

( Piccy pic )