| Conflict, and Epics |
[Apr. 21st, 2007|03:38 pm] |
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| |  mischievous | ] |
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| | "Awakening" - Switchfoot | ] |
So it's been forever since my last update.. and there likely isn't much that has happened that would interest most people, but I'll talk about it anyway >:)
Phew.. more later, but I've gotta do some homework now.
Jaa mata, minna!
--Maiku |
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[Feb. 11th, 2007|04:44 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Ying's Apt. | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  energetic | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Sweet Guitar - Ragnarok 2 | ] |
First entry in a long while, therefore it will be a long-ish entry. :p
( Updates... *cough, ramblings* )
And so now, I shall work. Or play WoW.
Jaa mata, minna!
--Maiku |
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| A wonderful year.... |
[Jan. 22nd, 2007|08:34 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  Happy to be alive | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | "Just the Girl" - The Click Five | ] |
You know the Bible 98%! Wow! You are awesome! You are a true Biblical scholar, not just a hearer but a personal reader! The books, the characters, the events, the verses - you know it all! You are fantastic!
Ultimate Bible Quiz
Create MySpace Quizzes
I did better in that than I expected.. I haven't read in a long time either.. which is prolly not great.
Haven't updated in a while, been pretty busy with school, and gaming... but I still live.
Ying and I had our 1 year anniversary a few days ago.. we went to Blowfish and had a fun dinner (my first full meal of sashimi! Ying kept asking if I was okay... made me laugh a bit) We strolled around Santana Row a bit after, and talked for about an hour. It was a nice evening.. and it's been a wonderful year in my life, hopefully just the first of many spent with that amazing woman.
My sculpture class finally began actual "dirty work"- i.e., the fun stuff. I'm making a bronze magic staff, which will be chained to a coffin. I'm thinking of making this piece a religious commentary on the "mainstream" church (specifically the Roman Catholic church), which has a somewhat seedy past. But that's mostly only if I need to have some deeper meaning to share with class.
I haven't been drawing as much as I should.. but in the past few weeks I have done a few collabs with Ying... my first collabs, Ying was pretty patient with me haha. I think I'm slowly warming up to it.
I've been thinking about drawing for a while today, so I think I'll go do that now.
Jaa mata, minna!
--Maiku |
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| Annoying Puppy and Record Breaking Winds... |
[Dec. 14th, 2006|02:01 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Oregon | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  restless | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Some classical music on TV | ] |
SO... Oregon.
It's been somewhat cold lately (54 degrees average), and I have therefore consigned myself to becoming a hermit, staying in the shelter that is this crampy apartment (crampy for 5 people at least). I've stocked up on games today (Valk Profile 2, Katamari Damashii and Klonoa 2), so I should be set until I get Zelda haha (a matter of less than I week I would guess)
Spent a huge waste of an hour trying to lvl with a crusader... I must not have the gear for it... so I just scrapped it.
I tried drawing earlier, but I couldn't come up with anything.... hopefully tomorrow I can get something out on paper... or screen, as the case is here. It's really annoying to have artist's block... especially when you really WANT to draw, but you can't seem to get any good ideas or lines. *sigh*
The puppy is REALLLY starting to annoy me =__= He's barking more frequently, waking me up every morning at 6-7, and barking every 5 minutes or so until I finally get up around 9:30 (which feels absolutely horrible, because half-sleeping and getting disturbed always makes me feel like crap when I do stop attempting to sleep anymore) He started barking at me again today, when I stood up to walk across the room.... guh. And he's not winning any points in my book by eating his own crap either. =_= Disgusting.
Needless to say, I'm pretty tired now. But I feel somewhat dissatisfied for the day's events... I don't know what can remedy this.
Mom and Erin fly to Southern California tomorrow to meet with my mom's Aunt Grace... who lost her daughter recently (I don't recall the cause of death, I think it was cancer). This flight happens to be on the same day as what was forecast to be "The strongest winds in Portland since 1995" These winds are expected to reach 80-100 mph along the coast, and then around 60-70 mph by the time they reach Portland itself.... the good news is that mom and Erin should be in California by the time the winds hit anywhere near the airport.. all the same, it's pretty creepy o-o
I'll end my entry with this question I was pondering earlier: why did anyone think button-up flys were a good idea for jeans? This was brought to my attention when I was shopping for pants today... it really makes little to no sense to me. I mean, what if there was an emergency and you really had to go? 5 buttons would be a pain and a half, and very hazardous O__O... anyway, maybe the inventor was just sadistic.
Oyasumi, peeps!
--Maiku |
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| WIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!!!!!!!! |
[Dec. 4th, 2006|12:10 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Darkside | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | Sleepy, but pumped (odd combo) | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Nick's humming laptop | ] |
So yesterday was a fun night. Started going to Seniore's Pizza, which I'd rate at maybe a 6 or 7 on the scale of pizza places around here. They did have good crust though, and they were really cheap- $4 a person ^.^(which reminds me I never collected on that.... ).
After dinner, we swung by Autumn's to pick up her Wii, then our party split ways as Nick and Autumn went back to the room to set up the Wii, and Adam, Lindsay and I accompanied Yuko back to Nobilie (spelling?). After we finished escorting Yuko, we headed back to Alameda North, where we fooled around making our Mii (an avatar used in Wii games, such as Wii Sports). Nick made a Mii that looked very much like himself, then I made one that was... really hideous. o__o But still made me lmao everytime it turned to face the camera XDDD Lindsay made another disturbing character, and we couldn't get Adam to try it =___=
We played a few sports training games (baseball is sooooo not like real baseball, which made me sad), then Autumn popped in Zelda: Twilight Princess to give us all a look at the game we've been waiting 3+ years for (actually, if you think about it, fans have been waiting for something like this since the Gamecube came out. But I digress).
All I can say is, it looks damn beautiful. The lighting and scenery are awesome, the fighting is fun, albeit hard for an old-school Zelda fan like me to get used to (you swing the controller to swing the sword...? Yep.) It was a little odd for me, and I have to say I'm still looking forward to the GC version, playing with a normal controller. But the game is still so cool...
And Link's wolf form... ah the wolf form... everytime I saw it I kept thinking "Oh man, Ying would love this.".. he basically looks like a husky (well, a wolf really, but huskies look like wolves pretty much). And I could just imagine Ying's voice- "It's so kyuuute!~" - when he was just running around panting, or howling a song (he howls songs XDD)
After a bit, we returned to Wii Sports, and played till about 4:20... then everyone packed up and left.
Today, drawing. Drawing like a beast. And maybe, if I get enough done (as in, the whole pic) I'll be able to play (and hopefully finish) Tales tonight with Ying ying, Mog and didi. Time to destroy this!
Jaa mata, minna!
--Maiku |
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| T___T |
[Dec. 2nd, 2006|04:05 am] |
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| | Darkside | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  depressed | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Hamster Dance did nothing to brighten my mood -__- | ] |
I've been feeling really down lately, and a bit confused as well.... Most of my confusion lies in not knowing why I feel so gloomy, so at least part of it somewhat makes sense, but it's still beginning to piss me off.
I really want to talk to someone about it all, but I honestly don't know what I'd talk about in the first place... and everyone is busy with their own burdens, what with finals upcoming and the worries of day-to-day life.. I don't need to be adding more to anyone's list. If I did get a chance to talk it over, I'd likely just piss off whoever I tried talking to, because I'm so unclear as to what is bothering me in the first place, and I don't know what I'd even talk about!
This situation seems to compound its problems on itself, making it that much harder to figure out...
I think part of it is coming from my constant failure to please the people I want to please most. I try to cover all the bases, and try to think things out as fully as possible, but somehow I always manage to overlook some detail, and end up making things worse than if I'd left them alone. Or at minimum, make some people satisfied, while leaving others out. I know it's impossible to please everyone; I'm not so naive as to think I can truely please all. But I'd like to at least once do something that makes all those closest to me happy... right now my track record feels pretty weak.
I'm not going to give up trying.. even if I keep screwing up. Hopefully I'll get the hang of it eventually.
Oyasumi,
--Maiku |
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| Bad dreams |
[Nov. 26th, 2006|01:04 pm] |
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| | Darkside | ] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | uncomfortable | ] |
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| | Teen Titans in the background | ] |
This morning I woke up to a rather disturbing dream... I was watching some show on TV, then it seemed I was in the show.. and in the show (or maybe it was a movie) there were these 4 dolls, that sorta looked like variations of Glade (not as cool though), and three of them got up in the middle of the night and went into "my kids" room (the character in the movie's children, but at this point I was sorta the main chara...)
So then I heard them in the other room yelling and shouting in raspy creepy-as-hell voices, and they had these really sharp looking mouths and teeth. I knew they were going to attack the kids, but I didnt get up for some reason. I saw the fourth doll starting to get up, and I somehow talked it into jumping off the balcony (my room was on the second floor, and the dolls were all "sleeping" on the floor in the room.) So the fourth doll jumped out the window, to his "death", but the other three were still floating around the kids room (yes, by this time they were floating)
I kept wondering when Glade would come beat the crap out of them, but I woke up before that happened. |
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| ...Squish? o_O |
[Nov. 22nd, 2006|07:48 pm] |
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| | Dark Side | ] |
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| |  confused | ] |
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| | Sagat's theme (with obnoxious vocals) | ] |
Quiz jacked from Didi:
| You Are The Cranberry Sauce |  A little sweet, a little sour - you've got the flava! Though, you do tend to squish in people's mouths... |
What Part of Thanksgiving Are You?Works for me: I lurrv cranberry sauce <3 
You are The HierophantDivine Wisdom. Manifestation. Explanation. Teaching. All things relating to education, patience, help from superiors.The Hierophant is often considered to be a Guardian Angel. The Hierophant's purpose is to bring the spiritual down to Earth. Where the High Priestess between her two pillars deals with realms beyond this Earth, the Hierophant (or High Priest) deals with worldly problems. He is well suited to do this because he strives to create harmony and peace in the midst of a crisis. The Hierophant's only problem is that he can be stubborn and hidebound. At his best, he is wise and soothing, at his worst, he is an unbending traditionalist. What Tarot Card are You?
Take the Test to Find Out.
I dun believe in tarot or signs or anything like that.. do like quizzes though ^.^ Not sure if it's accurate or not. Been a while since I updated anything here... been an interesting first quarter on campus (officially >_>), and I have to say I love it. For the most part. This is a hit-and-run entry sadly - I'm stumped on what to say, and I need to go eat anyway. Jaa mata, minna! --Maiku |
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| Whoooo..... |
[Oct. 23rd, 2006|02:52 am] |
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| |  tired | ] |
| My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul |
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| dancing_blade goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Vincent the Turk. | | adoboman tricks you! You get a scratched CD. | | bombgnome gives you 6 pink lime-flavoured nuggets. | | ciaoprettymisao gives you 7 blue coconut-flavoured gummy bats. | | criticalhit tricks you! You lose 1 pieces of candy! | | evilsherbear gives you 2 green strawberry-flavoured pieces of taffy. | | iavasaenil tricks you! You get a clothespin. | | jookjook2000 gives you 9 light green licorice-flavoured pieces of bubblegum. | | kireinakodomo tricks you! You lose 11 pieces of candy! | | laguna_moomba tricks you! You lose 6 pieces of candy! | | moggy_kupo gives you 6 light yellow coconut-flavoured gummy bats. | | dancing_blade ends up with 12 pieces of candy, a scratched CD, and a clothespin. | | Another fun meme brought to you by rfreebern. |
So it's been a crazy long time since I updated, and it's nearly 3 AM, but I feel the need to update anyway.
There.
Heh, I'll try to write something more substantial later.. too tired.
Oyasumi peeps!
--Maiku |
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| Woot.... *eyes fall under desk* |
[Jul. 30th, 2006|10:57 am] |
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| |  Need more sleep.. *grumble* | ] |
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| | Gianna sawing some craft out of wood | ] |
Stayed up till 6:30 working on a pic... I did finish it finally! I'm not too happy with the background- will probably rework it. But I did like the coloring method I was testing out. So yeah.
Gonna go over to Grandpa Sargie's house today... Need to rearrange dorm boxes.
Jaa, minna!
--Maiku |
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| Inspiration flood |
[Jul. 25th, 2006|12:45 am] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| | Wheee... productivity ftw | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Cave of Glimmer Moss - Kaze no Klonoa II OST | ] |
For the past three days I've been staying up uber late (or early, depending on how you look at it), working furiously. I'm not sure what happened, and I'm afraid of jinxing it, but I've been on a roll lately. Working on a project with Rich (tenative title "Echoes of Eternity"), and I managed to finish three designs on my spree.
(Pics are up now)
Was up till 6:30 chatting on Skype and drawing... felt good, although going to bed when the sun's rising isn't so great.
Drew most of today, workin my character designs, then had a very brief, and somewhat disconnected convo with Ying on the phone (at this point I was quite zombified).
On this note actually, I think I'm going to sleep.
Oyasumi, minna!
--Maiku |
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| Good god... |
[Jul. 23rd, 2006|02:02 am] |
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| |  awake | ] |
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| | Skype | ] |
Today it was 115º in Pleasanton, to which I can only say I'm glad I was safe in my house with the A/C going full-blast. First half of the day I was out in the sun though, helping jump start the BMW... grr I've watched that car get hoisted onto a flatbed too many times at this point... I guess no need to worry about it anymore, since it's going to Uncle Paul for good.
Had a lot of fun at Wai-chan's house yesterday.. going to the park and swinging on the swings at 10 pm is great... so is staying up til 3:30 killing and being killed in PSO PvP... found out that Grants is instant death, even if you manage to kill the caster first. Yarr... that fact made Glacier VERY scary.... it was still a blast though.
I started Baten Kaitos today.. I can't say I'm terribly impressed. I really want to like the game, and there are definitely likable qualities.. but, there are things that annoy me as well. Maybe I'll make a list sometime XD
Anyway, it's still 86º outside, at 2:15 am, and I'm melting. I think I need a drink.
Soda.. I don't know what you're thinking. :p
Oyasumi, minna!
--Maiku |
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| The man I once was... |
[Jul. 20th, 2006|07:24 pm] |
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| |  contemplative | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | Thought | ] |
Sometimes I think about how much I've changed in the last 3 years, and realize that most of it has been for the worse. I've grown a bit disrespectful of my parents, who have always tried their best to do what they thought was best for me. My mind has, more frequently than I'd care to comprehend, immediately dropped to the gutter when anything remotely suggestive was said (and sometimes things that were completely innocent). I've become selfish, pushing for my wants constantly. I've started cussing much more than I ever thought I would. I snap back at people when they nag me to do things, which often, I have put off doing.
I think I respect my high school self more than the self I've become.. I used to be helpful, thoughtful, humble, and sacrificing. Now, I'm shadows of those things, thinking all-too-often of myself, or my plans, and putting helping my family to the side.
I hate what I've become, but I don't know how to change back. On one hand though, I don't want to "change back", as this would not be progress. I guess I just want to change. I want to be thoughtful, and put others first. I want to be a honest, honerable, upright man. I just need to figure out how.
There have been positive changes in the last 3 years- don't get me wrong. I've begun to speak for myself more, gain confidence with others, even express feelings of affection that I would never have seen myself doing in high school. But the fact still remains that I have so much to work on, and a long way to being the mature person I want to be. As it stands right now, I don't know how people stand me sometimes. I guess all I can do is say this: Thanks for sticking with me. I know I've got work to do, but I do want to try to better myself.
I guess that's what's been on my mind lately. Gonna go eat
Jaa, minna.
--Maiku |
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| 4th of July and Beyond... |
[Jul. 6th, 2006|12:06 am] |
So today was another fun day spent with Ying and Moggeh. But it sort of started yesterday actually....
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(pretty long! D:)
I'm pretty tired, so I think I'll sign out.
Oyasumi, minna!
--Maiku |
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| Clearing new worlds.... |
[Jun. 26th, 2006|07:28 pm] |
| [ | Current Mood |
| |  New levels!!! | ] |
| [ | Current Music |
| | New World - PSO 1+2 | ] |
Today I played through the most beautiful level in PSO- period. It shocked me at how nice the graphics were, and the worlds were large and very natural.. a jungle, mountain area, and beach.... it removed my previous doubt as to the graphical abilities of PSO... ah man. And the music was great too. The boss was painful though- killed me once, though I luckly had a Scape Doll on hand (insta self-res) I definitely look forward to playing that area again.
Ah, excitement.
Working on a wallpaper currently.. I'll post it when it's finished.
Back to... drawing methinks.
Jaa, minna!
--Maiku |
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| Depression and anger at myself |
[Jun. 26th, 2006|03:33 pm] |
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| | depressed | ] |
I can't find my damn birth certificate, and it'll take 4 weeks to get a new one. I need it for my passport, even though you'd think a social security card would be proof enough of citizenship (you can't have one if you aren't a citizen after all!) But noooo..... god..
And the reason I'm mad at myself is that I should have done this weeks ago anyway, and I had my birth certificate in my hand not two months ago. I have no idea where it ended up, whether I misplaced it, or my mom moved it somewhere, but I can't believe how often stuff like this happens. Good god.
I'm getting more mad the more I think about it, and at the same time I'm getting really depressed... I've been looking forward to the trip to Singapore for so long, and now it'll be a miracle if I get my birth cert. in time to leave August 1st.
Damn.
--Maiku |
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