Lord of Hamon

Happy Belated Chinese New Years!

2012-01-26T21:40:00.001-08:00

Yup 2012 is perhaps the most special year so far for not only the Chinese but the Taiwanese in terms of a certain anniversary.

Hope you all enjoyed it as much as I did!

My Trip to Taiwan Week 2 (copied/pasted from facebook)

2012-01-26T20:55:00.001-08:00

Again... covering the latter week of my whole trip:

January 20 at 10:55am

Hey guys, today, i went to the Disney exhibition in a remote side of the city of Taipei, Taiwan with my father and i saw many displays of classic feature Disney films such as Snow White and Cinderella and they even show the original source of inspiration on display, aka the Charles Perrault display books, and even what appears to be the replicas of the original story/drawing board desks and a few Mickey Mouse shorts... and all the way up to the latest Disney animated films, The Princess and the Frog and Tangled! It's too bad I couldn't take too much pictures of it, since they don't allow cameras and i had to stop taking shots after the very first part of the exhibit... same goes for an ancient Chinese exhibit I later went to as well... I did take a few good pictures of the marsh... afterwards, we went to look for lunch, I had Subway for lunch (Italian BMT, 1 Macadamian Nut Cookie, and 1 Small Cup of Soda) and then I went to 7 Eleven with my dad to get a Mr. Brown's Coffee and Calbee's Bag Of BBQ Potato Chips and then we headed for the block where Chang Kai-Shek's Memorial Hall was located... I took several pictures and I originally went to try and get a chang kai-shek coin souvenir but turns out all the machines in the vicinity were out of electricity for the moment, so we just moved on and headed towards an Animation Exhibit called "Watch Me Move - The Animation Show". From the start, I see many of the earliest examples of modern animation, especially from guys like Disney, Fleischer, and Windsor McCay and then we see various animation from Cel Animation to Anime (primarily Hayao Miayzaki/Osamu Tezuka) to CGI-films. i played this nice FPS-like game called SwanQuake you just sit in a dark wood-like room playing the game by using a trackball and two buttons (one for moving forward and one for jumping) and you just walk around some subway and occasionally you see some women doing some excerise and you pass by them... nothing much. Also dark train station-like areas too.i think the game was designed by some taiwanese guys in 2007it kinda reminded me a bit of Lara Croft on PC where you get the great feeling of controlling a sexy female protagonist alone with apparently no else in the area and you just explore the area on your own non-linearly. And we also briefly saw a Polish animation form 1980 called Tango by Zbigniew Rybcyznski... pretty weird... and then somewhere in the middle I had to take a bathroom break and then return to the exhibit and saw Duck Amuck (one of the most famous and well-awarded/nominated Looney Tunes shorts) and then I passed by several other animation displays and one live-action film display of Jurassic Park after seeing a bit of Corpse Bride (by Tim Burton)! We left the exhibit and then we went to a ceremonial guard exchange at the top of the Chang Kai-Shek Memorial Hall (with a giant statue of the guy) and took a few pictures of the guards (whom were cool)... then we left the hall going downstairs outside for the subway station to the Old Taipei City to go to Tom's World's Arcade... and on the way... I visited a Chinese/Taoist temple where they praise a certain and well-known Chinese god/deity/entity, Mazu (I think), along with several other major and minor gods/deities/entities on the side. Pretty beautiful and colorful (though deep down I try to imagine it as more awesome, beautiful, and colorful and more abstract/cosmic/divine/mystical/spiritual and Godly like the indian/hindu and tantric religions)... took several snapshots of it. Then we finally got to Tom's World's Arcade to just play for around 30 minutes, I played Super Boxer/Sonic Blast Man, this light gun rail-shooter with 4-to-5 chinese characters (and no english title shown) about the first level fighting mummies and stuff, and then Let's Go Jungle! We left back for the home with my dad and on the way I got some Flan Pudding Milk Tea and I almost lost my brochure book of the Animation Exhibit on the streets, but lost my hat in the subway station back to my grandma's house and here I am updating my facebook.

Still no, big prize from Tom's World's Arcade yet though. :'(

January 20 at 10:56am

Also guys in the next day and a half, i won't be on the internet, since i'm going to be travelling to another city in Taiwan with my cousins (mom's side) and my mom suggested me not to bring my laptop since the trip was going to be kinda short and i'm about to go to bed right now. So see ya guys!

I just hope my cousin can bring me that big prize from Tom's World's Arcade by the time I return. Just hope to God for success!

January 22 at 4:12am

Hey guys i'm back in my grandma's house with my parents from my 1 and 1/2 day trip to Tao-Yin (which is the roughest translation I can make of the name of the place my dad told me) and boy let me tell you guys something... it was kinda one hell of a trip to go from the city to the more remote country side of Taiwan. Now I'm going to write my long update in just a moment...

January 22 at 4:33am

Well guys here's the update on my trip: Me and my parents went to my maternal grandmother's house in an alley apartment of Jong-San (the city where it's located and it possibly means "Middle Mountain" in Chinese) and I went up the stairs and stayed in for about half an hour watching various stuff on TV such as a documentary on US Marines on the Discovery Channel, a bit of Crayon Shin-Chan, Amazing World of Gumball on Cartoon Network, and others while waiting for my other cousins to come up and then we got downstairs to meet up with one of my pairs of female cousins (E-Ting and E-Fun as I can try to pronounce) and saw their pet cat in what looks like a pink duffle bag (her name is Gu-ei Gu-ei, which kinda means "good behavior" or "well-behaved" in Chinese) and I played with her a lot in the car.

We drove all the way from Yong-Huh (which is the hometown of my paternal grandma's house) to Gu-Chian where we visited a Ceramics Museum for hours and saw many stuff such as ceramic art, pottery, paintings, carvings, and sculpture in primarily China/Taiwan (And to a lesser extent, Japan and Korea) as well as many digital technology using Ceramics. We had a bit of Oolong Tea, some peanuts, and peanut butter cookies before leaving for a Hakka restaurant located next to another big Chinese/Taoist temple in another town.

I'll update the rest later... since I have to go have a big Chinese New Year's dinner with my parents and relatives in a nearby department store. So see ya!

January 22 at 7:35am

Hey guys, I'm back from my Chinese New Year's Dinner at the department store located right next to the Museum of World Religions (which was closed for the most part in the latter time of which is spent) with my parents, relatives (grandma and grandpa especially), and my seemingly only male cousin from my dad's side. We had a great time and I feel kinda great that the surprise that my cousin has in store for me (so far I only know that even though the original prize was swapped, he did succeed in getting the ticket points redeemed for a very similar prize and i feel satisfied, but i still want to keep this a secret or a surprise for now).

Now Back To Writing My Updates On The Trip...

January 22 at 9:48am

Updates (continued): After finished eating at the restaurant, we all drove to a Hakka neighborhood where we passed by another Chinese/Taoist temple (where I see a yellow/golden furnace pillar with the money paper being burnt for religious or spiritual reasons) and then we walked around the neighborhood a bit and I went into yet another Chinese/Taoist temple to take snapshots of the notable and amazing gods/beings/entities being worshipped and after walking in and out i passed by what appears to be the largest paintbrush ever hanging on the pillar of a roof of a small street town.

My cousin then saw and suggested that I buy an green Angry Bird toy in the form of a gooey-rubbery ball when thrown onto a hard surface, would literally splatter like a puddle of puke BUT would almost immediately pop right back up to shape as if practically nothing happened and I did and it was a pretty fun toy to grab and throw. We continued walking a bit and had some sweet warm tofu dessert soup with my cousins and then we went to the other part of the Hakka neighborhood where we saw another Chinese/Taoist temple and before I entered and took some more snapshots of the statues/idols of the amazing Sinic divine, cosmic, or mystical gods/beings/entities... I saw a small beijing dog perform some tricks like balancing on a basketball, pushing a green mini-cart, and jumping through a series of hoops. Before we left the neighborhood, one of aunts bought me a small, yet special firecracker box.

We then drove with our cousins and relatives (I got to ride with all four of my female cousins that were present on this trip and I got to hold the cat too) to a private hotel (my dad calls it Ming-Soo in Chinese and the name is Pu-Lah-Duo, almost pronounced like Prado in English) to stay for the night. When we got out of the car and carried our luggage, we saw a stray dog walking around us and he seems to like us and I kinda expected it to have an owner (which it didn't). We checked into the private hotel and we put our stuff down and stuff and we went out into the yard (with another small table-dining house and an outdoor sink) to see some good sights such as a sculpture fountain, a pen of goats, and a platform bridge. The stray dog kept following us around for some reason. I also saw a bee's nest lodged on a small leaf-less tree a bit far away from the bridge I was on (i wanted to see it up close, but there was no nearby way to get down anyways. :P).

We then head back to our rooms above and I took a nice shower before getting out to play some more with the family and the stray dog of course. Then we had went to have dinner... (I have lambchop as the main course, though my dad's steak was much better-tasting!) and while my cousins/relatives/parents were still inside, I sneaked out and screwed with my cousins a bit.... we went outside in the yard for the night and had played with firecrackers for celebration of Chinese New Year and danced a lot and the stray dog followed us a bit... I then got back into my home and watched some TV while I was called downstairs for a prize raffle among other cousins and relatives and I got several prizes included a beyblade toy and several trading card packs (one of them being Shaman King) and several small Ultraman transformer toys. For the rest of the night, we got back up and then before going to bed, I saw a bit of the I, Robot movie (on the AXN channel IIRC) and a bit of Lara Croft (when my mom saw Daniel Craig with Angelina Jolie) and we went to bed.

That concludes the first day... The other half of the day will continue on the next post.

January 22 at 10:30am

Updates (continued): The morning when we got up, I had some breakfast (croissant with ham and cheese and veggie, scrambled eggs, and a few grapes and apple slice) and then I headed to one of my cousin's room to watch the cat and while i was originally meant to go back to my own room, i happened to turn on the TV and saw a Crayon Shin-Chan movie (Super-Dimension! The Storm Called My Bride!) and in the middle of the movie, my cousin's cat was near the window and as I immediately faced my attention to the side, the cat's body was halfway outside the window and I quickly chased her back under the bed just in a nick of time (and I got to tell my cousin all about it and i kept taking snapshots of the cat and i liked her especially when she's exploring in the shower tub). Then as we got out of the room, I played with my Angry Bird goo-ball on the windows, glass table, and door walls. We then took some group photos and packed up our stuff and we left the private hotel in Si-Han's (my female cousin) car and we briefly stopped by a flower garden shop and then we went back to another Hakka neighborhood street where we shopped and walked around for what would seem to be the last time we see each other (too bad I didn't get to say good-bye to Gu-i Gu-i the cat when I left) and I had sticky rice in bamboo for lunch and we bought back lots of stuff and my uncle Paul (or Dah-Joe as they say in Chinese) ordered for us a tour bus to get back to Yong-Huh to my grandma's house where I started packing back down and where I got my stuff and type on this notebook updating my facebook before I got interrupted and had to go to Chinese New Year's Dinner!

January 22 at 10:36am

On more update for the night: Me and my parents/relatives played a board game which was on a newspaper and we rolled four dices to see how far we can advance on the "Dragon Path" in this Chinese New Years-themed game of fortune and surprisingly I got a total of 108 points and turned out to be #1 winner! Boy was I glad, even though I didn't care much for playing the game in the beginning and right my parents/relatives (including grandma) are now singing on the karoake while my cousin and my ucnle are playing a card game and my cousin got me that big prize I wanted (although he told me that the original was swapped on the prize counter of Tom's World's Arcade with a different prize, it was pretty much from the same collectible series and I was consoled and satisfied by that alone. Well done, bro, for redeeming the points and giving me the souvenir I needed! Now my trip in not only Tom's World Arcade, after i go again for a third time, but in Taiwan feels kinda complete).

That's all for now guys.

January 22 at 11:37am

Also there's tons of fireworks here in Taipei, Taiwan tonight due to Chinese New Year (And plus 2012 is a very special year since it's the 100th anniversary of the formation of Taiwan otherwise known as the Republic of China back then). Awesome huh?

January 22 at 10:32pm

Man it's only a matter of several days before I leave ol' glorious Taiwan back to my native United States of America and a day after immediately, it's effing back to school again for me (I'm currently about to be in Upper Junior as we speak).

Monday at 11:24am

Hey today, i didn't really do much except go on my notebook all morning surfing and posting on stuff and then having japanese hot pot lunch with my parents and relatives in my grandma's home and also I saw an episode of Ghost Sweeper Mikami online and then I went to Tom's World's Arcade once again in Old Taipei City in the afternoon for the third and last time in this trip where I went up and walked around and waited for my dad to get me all the good tokens and then I first played the Rambo light gun rail-shooter game and then I moved onto other games and I passed by several Project Diva arcades and then I played this light gun game with chinese letters (but fuck I can't figure out the English name, but going by my snapshot of the game's poster next to the arcade cabinet, it's by Taito and it has a blonde girl and a seemingly asian man as a gun-totting duo) and then I moved onto to see what other arcade games I could play and I played this table-top touch-screen'ish game where I have to catch fish for tickets and one ticket game where I have to aim my token towards one of the numbers on a fast-moving ramp and then after browsing through other light gun shooter games to play, I had to check the amount of tokens I had left, although I was tempted to play the Operation G.H.O.S.T. game with my last four tokens as soon as the guy playing it dies for me to continue where he left, I decided I wanted to play something I haven't during my last two visits in the arcade and I made my last game to play, Time Crisis 4. Afterwards, I took all the tickets I had left (51 total) and I redeemed all of them and after wading through a few minor prizes to take home, I chose a pen with Tom's World's Arcade Logo on it and I did.

We left the arcade and went into a giant hotel/mall hybrid and then we went to a restaurant to meet more of my relatives and the three kids of one of my uncles and after we finsiehd eating... we went back to Dingxi, Yong-Huh (the exact location of my paternal grandma's apartment home) and did a bit of shopping and then we got back to the house and here I am typing (and with a headache).

Well good night!

Tuesday at 9:10am

Update: This morning, I went to a restaurant (next to a McDonald's from downstairs) with my mom's side of the family and I had apple salad, mushroom slices (it was surprisingly delicious!), two fairly small pieces of steak, soup, and cheese pie! Then we went to a block and saw two statues and then headed to the Sun Yat-Sen Memorial Hall where we watched yet another Honor Guard Exchange and as usual I took so many damn shots at every chance I got!

On the way back to the car, we saw a man blew really big and long bubbles and then we drove all the way to the city of San-Chong where one of my maternal uncles lived as an extra home... we got into the apartment home, relaxed, and watched some TV (i even watched a bit of Doraemon on a channel and a bit of the Hakka TV Channel as well). We went out to a Family Mart convenient store and then we brought various food back for dinner, I had packaged beef-flavored noodle with actual small chunks of beef (yum!). I also met and played with Gu-i Gu-i the same cat from the other day A LOT and take many pictures of her... then we left the apartment and went back to Yong-Huh to my grandma's home.

Boy tomorrow is going to be the last day of our trip before we leave for the airport back to the United States (and then school again...)! Man do i feel sad. :'(

Yesterday at 1:52am

Update: Hey guys.... this morning I woke up and went to Mos Burger for breakfast where I ordered a nice Egg & Cheese w/ Lettuce Burger with a side order of wedged fries (and also an amazing cheeseburger with a sunny-side egg in it which I saved for originally lunch and then now dinner) and I must say it's a pretty wonderful and delicious burger restaurant for me to eat in (if I wanted to eat breakfast at a fast food chain other than McDonald's, Dunkin Donuts, and even Burger King for a change) even though I did have to wait roughly 20 minutes or so for the burger to come upstairs to the third floor where our table was lol... I took a few snapshots of the place and then my aunt's camera's battery ran out sadly and my dad scanned the Yong-Huh for one of the last times with my Zi8 Kodak...

Then we walked all the way to the Laundromat with my dad to wait for my mom and along the way I saw a big dead rat across the the street and I was like "woah that's a damn big-ass rat!" and then I got into the laundromat room to wait and hold my remaining Mos Burger packed pag with the Cheeseburger I saved and then I saw a big dead cockroach as well (okay i know... TMI)... and I gotta say it was the best waiting I ever had and I thought about soooooo much things attentively and in hte middle my dad went to Family Mart to buy various food and then we went back to Grandma's house for a big farewell lunch and then right now I'm here showing my two male cousins Deadliest Warrior and a few other vids.

Yesterday at 3:41am

Also this is the first and last time i've used my aunt's room to use the notebook (and her computer for internet) instead of the dinner table in the main room like I usually did for the whole entire trip. Man what a way to blow out the last day eh?

Yesterday at 8:17am

Just had dinner (and my last Mos Burger cheeseburger for dinner after eating two small bowls of rice) and im trying to show my cousins more Deadliest Warrior.

Yesterday at 11:01am

I just finished showing my favorite cousin all the vids I wanted to show on youtube (especially deadliest warrior and cyriak's animation mix) and I feel a bit sad and depressed yet glad and satisfied that this is my last night here in my grandm'as house (and taiwan for that matter) and all night I worked halfway on my new prize japanese toy car (or Go For Speed as I have found out) and my cousin is watching me as I update this with a smile! And I still hear spontaneous firecrackers outside (man Chinese New Years must still be hotter here in taiwan than Christmas in America/the West).

Well this is my farewell update for the trip. This will be the last time I'm updating my facebook (or being online) before I leave early tomorrow morning for the airport to go to Hong Kong for transfer and then back to my very home in New York City, U S of Mothereffing A! It's been a fun and wonderful trip. I'm going to truly miss it! The next time I come back to post will be Thursday night (the day before school begins... goddamnedit :'().

Thank you all and have a good evening!

21 hours ago

Well right now i'm in the hong kong airport as transferred from taiwan's airport and i had said my final farewells to my relatives as I leave their glorious apartment home all the downstairs and to the taxi car. I feel like I miss Taiwan (even moreso the parts I wish I could revisit from childhood, but didn't or couldn't) already... and Hong Kong (and Macau) as well. :'(

I had just had a salmon on cream-cheese bagel from Paloni's (or something) and McDonald's with my parents upstairs in the airport. My zi8 Kodak just ran out of batteries, so yeah that's the last picture I took here (And my digital casio camera is still broken while the other one I used to take was returned to my aunts).

Man, do I feel a bit bittersweet and sad/depressed just thinking about going back to New York, USA, and preparing for friday (And zomg saturday) classes. Just hope I can get used to the jet lag and when I get home I hope I can just take a few pictures of the stuff I bought home (Especially the Go For Speed car).

Well guys see ya when I get back home in NY! This will be the last time i'm logging on overseas before getting on the plane.

about an hour ago

Hey guys i'm finally back home from Hong Kong and Taiwan (man it's been a bloody 3-weeks trip)... yeah I feel really sad that there were places in Taiwan that I wanted to visit or (re-visit) just to know what my greatest childhood in my parent's home country was like (even though 2012 was so far the biggest improvement in my behavior and expectations on this trip with of course good ol' 2009 following closely behind, I felt that the 90's and 2000 were the REAL spirit of Taiwan to me in terms of everything i dreamed and loved about this place at its innermost core of my happiness and childhood), but didn't get the chance to. Woe is me! And I felt like I really got used to Taiwan after the first two or three days and I did, but it's a real shame that in the final day before leaving it all had to end in somewhat unexpected disappointment (i can't be screwed to explain what the disappoint was in detail, but it had to do with dad trying to get me to watch a show that i wanted to show him back at home, but had to do it while I was in the middle of posting something big on an internet forum). Though showing my favorite cousin a final vid on youtube in my aunt's computer room and then saying all my final farewell's to him before getting to sleep in my grandma's house for one last time this month was sure as hell, bittersweet. Other than that, I think my trip in Taiwan was pretty satisfying for the most part.

And on the Hong Kong airplane back to New York, I watched like five frickin' movies straight in like one sitting (Trespass, Attack the Block, Colombiana, Spiderman, and Batman Returns - boy did I sleep halfway through the last one trying to watch the whole movie as quick as possible) with resting breaks in between and a few documentaries (such as Kalmya's Chess Tournaments, Skin Deep, and briefly Prison Restaurant or something like that). And we also had some good food as well such as chicken/pork AND our last meal for the night, an omelete egg, sausage, hashbrown, mushrooms, tomato, etc. And as we got off our plane into the JFK airport, I felt like I was already right back at home and then as soon as we got our luggage we drove back with this Chinese driver (from Fujian) and we had some conversation here and there about places to go to and then here I am back home, with my mom busy trying to clean up the place as much while I update my facebook and do a lot of other updates and stuff.

about an hour ago

Also I wanted to take some pictures of some of the nice souvenir and stuff I got back from Taiwan, but too bad my damn Digital Casio Camera is fucking broken (damn it) and my Zi8 Kodak is out of batteries and my dad apparently lost the charger (double damn it).

Anyways I got school tomorrow (and saturday too, crap...) and it's going to be the start of a new semester. And boy if staying at home relaxing and then going to a three-weeks long Hong Kong/Taiwan trip is how 2012 started out for me, i'm both nervous and hopeful to see how this new year would turn out for me, but I feel like I got tons and tons of unfinished business to settle and a bunch of loose ends to tie up.

My trip to Taiwan part week 1 (copied/pasted from facebook)

2012-01-26T20:39:00.000-08:00

Just archiving from facebook as usual:

January 13 at 8:39am

Well guys here i am in Taipei, Taiwan right now! Just got off the plane from Hong Kong (it was quite a fast and short ride) and my uncle picked us up and drove all the way to the main city (passing by the same hotel I stayed in back in summer 2009) and right now I am at my grandma's house typing on my new notebook (my dad had to keep making sure the internet works and apparently there's not much room for wired connection here, but now that it's working fine, it's safe to say it'll be better than I was in Hong Kong's Royal Plaza hotel)... and I was watching various shows including a bit of Sailor Moon, what seems to be Dr. Slump, the Dragonball Janemba, Magician’s Secrets Revealed, and so much more in Mandarin language.

Man staying in Taiwan is pretty fun and relaxing (especially in winter time)...

and yeah Taiwan here has Cartoon Network too... but it’s all in Mandarin Chinese language obviously... and I saw one mandarin promo for Adventures of Gumball.

From this point on until I get back to America, I'm going to be relaxing in my grandma's/relative's house for the most part and my mom's going to be visiting my other grandma daily.

Well that's all I have to say for the moment! Good day!

January 15 at 8:32am

hey sorry i was out... I went out to a park in Taiwan in today, got a few snacks from the market stands (i had several fried chicken nuggets and hash brown pieces) on our way back then we passed by the Museum of World Religions and went into a Department Store and in one of the sections, i was in the gaming section and i saw skyward sword, super mario galaxy 2, and new super mario bros. wii on tv and then out of the way we came back out and i picked up two brochures fro the Museum of World Religions and I got myself a nice flan pudding milk tea drink and it was nice.

January 15 at 8:33am

Also My Casio Digital Camera is also apparently broken btw (>:[) and I feel like we need a camera, but here in Taiwan, it's kinda expensive to buy and even more to fix it.

And as of right now, I kinda have a little cold and a headache and I have at least 6 mosquito bites on my face.

and the internet's signal strength in my grandma's house is kinda slow and sucks.

January 16 at 4:59am

ok in the past hours...i was eating pizza hut i had a few chinese/taiwanese equivalents to buffalo wingsi ate some italian sausage pizza slices (both small and medium)and right now i just finished my second bottle of coca-cola zero

January 16 at 5:02am

and then after finished eating my pizza, i just dashed to my grandma's television and watched the remaining half of Delta Force 2: Colombian Connection and I was glad to see Chuck Norris in action. And then I just saw The Terminal with my dad and in the middle of the movie... me and my dad went downstairs to burn some money paper as ritual for the ancestors's spirits (originally i thought it was to honor mainly the absolute supreme God, Shang-Di/Tien, Heaven, and other Chinese/Taoist gods and beings as well as the Buddha). I was throwing all the gold paperey stuff in the furnace like I was a ninja..talking about what I did in the past hours outside the internet. I was throwing all the small papers and stuff into the furnace entrance like they were shurikens! After finished watching The Terminal, here I am, typing once again on my dad's new notebook in Taipei, Taiwan! And I'm about to wait for dinner!

January 17 at 10:49am

Hey guys, today, it was a pretty great morning until I got dragged out of my confines and went out of town to the subway stations in the afternoon to a familiar neighborhood I stepped foot in last July 2009 for the hospital with my parents where I sat down, stood, and walked around all day long to wait for my dad to complete his check-up and i read a crazy magazine too while I was it and then we left the hospital on a shuttlebus all the way to a mall and then we headed to a restaurant near the city block of the famous 101 Tower (Taipei City) to have dinner with the cousins of my mother's side (I also acted pretty damn cool and witty back there) and plus I bought one of my relative's camera to use (since my digital casio camera has already been broken) for taking pictures... took pictures of some nice sights... and after dinner the eldest male cousin (And the perhaps the only one besides myself) and his wife and child drove me back home and we had some good brief discussions on history and military warriors from both ancient/medieval and modern times... I called myself the King of Cool and him Cool Guy Second Only To Me and his child The New Coolie! Good times!

Now here I am back at night settling unfinished business back on the internet and i just uploaded all of my pics to the notebook! Good night (from here in Taiwan!)

January 18 at 8:17am

Well today guys I added an uncle of mine to my facebook page and then I went to the hospital with my dad to visit my grandfather and then we dropped off to the subway station with my mother to have lunch with my maternal grandmother (or as we say ah-mah in my parent's language) and the relatives on my mother's side in a hotel and then we drove off to the subway once again to travel to a Palace Museum in the province of Tai-Bay-Shi (as I pronounce it) and we saw lots of interesting things in there (my only major disappointment was that it wasn't until much much later near the end that i have seen anything related to true ancient Chinese religions, Shang-Di/Tien, Confucianism, Taoism, or any religious non-Buddhism, such as in the Jade section, wer'e in a Palace Museum and they don't represent the ancient Chinese gods/religions enough outside buddhism). Then after seeing all the jade, ivory, tablets, art, calligraphy, etc. we all just had some snack (blueberry cheescake for me) and some hot drink (caramel milk tea for me) and when we went outside, I started to figure out that this was pretty much the same museum i entered and visited in April 2000 when I was still like 8 yrs old. Wow 12 years! Can't believe it. Then we got out of the building and got back up to the same palace again and then left the Tai-Bay-Shi province on the subway and then I came back with a bit of Sushi as well as McDonald's (two mccrispy chicken, a double cheeseburger, medium fries, and medium cup of coke!) for dinner and here I am on my laptop typing!

And on TAiwan TV, just watched a bit of Sailor Moon, this chinese-japanese program about helping exterminating pests, and currently the Teen Titans in Tokyo (or was that what it was called?) movie!

January 18 at 9:50pm

Hey guys i'm about to leave for the History Museum which in a nearby block of my granny's house and then soon after I'm going to be going to an Arcade with my cousin to have fun and excitement! YEAH!

January 19 at 11:59am

Update on my trip: Turns out that we did not go to the History Museum today and instead me and my cousin (Samuel Woo or Jiao-Shun as i try to pronounce it) went with me to the Old Taipei City province of Taiwan via the subway to get to the block where the Arcade (aka Tom's World) is located (kinda like a narrow city street), when i decided to take a few pictures, my camera didn't seem to be working due to the un-readability of the memory card i swiped from my own original digital casio camera to my autn's camera so me and my cousin had to march towards the electronics consumer shop to buy a new memory card that could fit my aunt's camera and with success, we walked out of the store taking some pictures and as we got back to the center of the bustling block, we decided to stop by KFC for lunch, so we went upstairs and we ordered 6 pieces of Fried Chicken Wings/Thighs, 3 Honey Biscuits, 1 Small Corn On a Cob, 1 Meat-Sauced Mashed Potato, 1 Small Bag of French Fries With Meat Sauce, and 2 Cups of Ice Tea (or was it Cola?). After finishing our glorious meal, we decided to leave and head out... just fun that I met two girls that I told am from America but whose parents are Taiwanese-born and only come back to Taiwan for vacation or visiting. We headed straight into the department store (where much of my overseas childhood is at in my mind AND Tom's World Arcade is located somewhere at the top) and we passed by many clothing stores, video game retailer stores, capsule vendors, anime/manga figurines, various anime posters (especially what appears to be hayao miyazaki's latest work, From Up On Poppy Hill) and after snapping several more pics, we finally reached the mecca of our destination, which is Tom's World's Arcade and even the entrance practically felt like both the gateway to one of my greatest childhoods of all time AND quite practically the Second Coming! The moment we stepped in, so much awesome and fun was to be witnessed and had! I walked around casually and finding this arcade game called "Star Ball 2" where i physically gave myself some excercise by throwing pit balls at the screen and afterwards, i shot a few hoops at the Electronic Basketball Game and then we moved onto various more fun and cooler games, primarily rail-shooters and ticket-games, like this wonderful game with only chinese/japanese letters and no english ones in its title display (would have been good if I knew what the game was called in english but i do know it's made by Konami and this guy named Shigenobu Matsuyama as I have took the liberty to take a snapshot of the arcade cabinet's title display), Operation G.H.O.S.T, Deadstorm Pirates (which I beat with my cousin after picking up where the other guys playing it left off near the end), and Silent Hill: The Arcade. Me and my cousin also briefly played a King of Fighters and Street Fighter IV: Arcade Edition and my cousin played a racing game. Along the way, I noticed many DDR's, Project Diva Dancers, many fighting game/beat-em-up cabinets of your SF's, KoF's, BlazBlue/Guilty Gear, Arcana Hearts, and Melty Blood, and A Mario Kart 2. Right in the middle, I was at the prize counter booth to see what prizes I could get (I amassed 32 tickets from the machines alone) and since my cousin was here and told me that one of his yellow card was worth at least 250 pts. of tickets, I eagerly chose an extreme japanese racing toy-car and as for the more minor prizes, i was picking between the pencils and the pens. There are just various other great arcade games/cabinets that I can mention, but can't be fucked to list them all. After finishing the apparent last of our tokens and looking forward to claiming my prizes before leaving, but little did I know was that much to my shock my cousin's yellow card was lost and I felt just devastated and disappointed that such an awesome prize was almost in my grasp, but was unable to get it today and boy was I sad and furious. It's a shame since I wanted that big prize as a souvenir to remind me of how fun and awesome Tom's World was when I left the place and went back to America! But alas, I felt like God or the gods trolled me hard from above. Though my cousin promised me that tomorrow that I will get a second chance to return and to reclaim my well-deserved prize after long discussions in the subway about the yellow card and how to redeem the amount of points necessary to possess it! I can only hope God will allow me to succeed!

Later that night, I met with my mother and the aunts of my mother's side as well as one female cousin (Xiao-Shuen as I can try to pronounce it in pinyin) at a Japanese seafood restaurant after getting off the subway and temporarily departing with my beloved cousin. I met my new york relatives at the dinner table and my uncle's brother-in-law and his baby daughter. I had some raw sashimi and some tempura at the most and some oranges for dessert, so that's all I can say. We returned home and discussed some more with my cousin about how to reclaim that big prize tomorrow after I visit the History Museum in the morning.

Good night now!

January 19 at 9:25pm

Well guys i'm off to the History Museum in Taiwan now and this afternoon, we're going to try and return to Tom's World's Arcade to retrieve the big prize that I so deserved! God wish me luck!

week 2 continued in the next post.

My whole trip to Hong Kong (as copy/pasted from my facebook)

2012-01-26T20:33:00.000-08:00

Just stuff I copied from facebook in bold and italic:

January 10 at 7:19am

Hey guys sorry if i did not appear to be on the internet yesterday monday, since flying all the way from new york to hong kong here makes a day pass by. Well here I am in Hong Kong now!

Boy, just got off the airport, checked into the hotel (and briefly watched a bit of TV), had dinner (which was kinda disappointing, since the korea food's beef mushroom rice tasted apparently too oily and crappy, should have went with the ramen noodle soup instead...), walked around the hong kong night market streets, and here i am at McCafe typing on my notebook.

Hong Kong seems like a pretty charming and vibrant place so far, but as usual, walking around aimlessly without knowing where to go is just tiresome!

Take care guys!

January 11 at 10:10am

hey i'm in hong kong now and plus i'm typing on my new notebook from a hotel (and the internet here sucks since i have to pay $40 HK dollars for just one hour of internet).

also i went to Lantau Island in the day and saw the big Buddha statue and the Avenue of Stars at night and boy today we walked around a lot and saw a bit of neon light/laser shows and a symphony. Boy i'm tired from walking around for so long almost aimlessly in Harbour City to explore various stores (which i'm bored of quickly). That's all i have to say at this moment.

January 12 at 11:39am

Hey guys, it's been a long fucking day today... this morning I went to Macau via a boat ride (and there are plenty of portuguese signs there, but oddly not many people actually speak portuguese) and my parents were at a Casino (a bit fun and vibrant and the hotel looks pretty beautiful and expensive, but too much damn smoke in the gambling area... i mean would it kill these guys to put up proper air ventilation when their city's infrastructure is like almost as modern as 21st century America here?)... we rode a boat back (and kinda got seasick a little) and then we went on another boat ride to Hong Kong Island (when it just turned from afternoon to night) where we walked almost aimlessly for so long, I felt fucking tired, but it was pretty nice of us to walk up the world's longest city escalator (and let me tell ya this part of the neighborhood was pretty damn slope) and ride a tram and the escalators all the way up to the Hong Kong Tower's observatory deck (the view of the city was just spectacular) and I even took a picture of myself with Bruce Lee's museum wax figure. We rode the tram back and took a few more subway rides and walked some more and here I am!

Also, the internet here in my hotel sucks since i have to pay $40HK just for one fucking hour of internet access (well i'm glad i'm leaving hong kong tomorrow)... so yeah that's the reason i haven't been actively online much in the past few days... hopefully that's all about to change once I go to bed right now and leave for the airport to Taipei, Taiwan and then perhaps when I get to my grandma's house and establish internet connection for my notebook there, then that will be the next time I get on the internet.

Well, take care guys! Hong Kong (and Macau) has been kinda fun and exciting to see... and now tomorrow i'm off to Taiwan to meet with my grandparents and various relatives! Good night!

Well guys i'm back from my trip to Hong Kong and Taiwan...

2012-01-26T20:31:00.000-08:00

well i've got TONS and TONS of things to say about my trip, but just to make it quicky, i'll copy/paste from facebook:

Hey guys i'm finally back home from Hong Kong and Taiwan (man it's been a bloody 3-weeks trip)... yeah I feel really sad that there were places in Taiwan that I wanted to visit or (re-visit) just to know what my greatest childhood in my parent's home country was like (even though 2012 was so far the biggest improvement in my behavior and expectations on this trip with of course good ol' 2009 following closely behind, I felt that the 90's and 2000 were the REAL spirit of Taiwan to me in terms of everything i dreamed and loved about this place at its innermost core of my happiness and childhood), but didn't get the chance to. Woe is me! And I felt like I really got used to Taiwan after the first two or three days and I did, but it's a real shame that in the final day before leaving it all had to end in somewhat unexpected disappointment (i can't be screwed to explain what the disappoint was in detail, but it had to do with dad trying to get me to watch a show that i wanted to show him back at home, but had to do it while I was in the middle of posting something big on an internet forum). Though showing my favorite cousin a final vid on youtube in my aunt's computer room and then saying all my final farewell's to him before getting to sleep in my grandma's house for one last time this month was sure as hell, bittersweet. Other than that, I think my trip in Taiwan was pretty satisfying for the most part.

And on the Hong Kong airplane back to New York, I watched like five frickin' movies straight in like one sitting (Trespass, Attack the Block, Colombiana, Spiderman, and Batman Returns - boy did I sleep halfway through the last one trying to watch the whole movie as quick as possible) with resting breaks in between and a few documentaries (such as Kalmya's Chess Tournaments, Skin Deep, and briefly Prison Restaurant or something like that). And we also had some good food as well such as chicken/pork AND our last meal for the night, an omelete egg, sausage, hashbrown, mushrooms, tomato, etc. And as we got off our plane into the JFK airport, I felt like I was already right back at home and then as soon as we got our luggage we drove back with this Chinese driver (from Fujian) and we had some conversation here and there about places to go to and then here I am back home, with my mom busy trying to clean up the place as much while I update my facebook and do a lot of other updates and stuff.

Also I wanted to take some pictures of some of the nice souvenir and stuff I got back from Taiwan, but too bad my damn Digital Casio Camera is fucking broken (damn it) and my Zi8 Kodak is out of batteries and my dad apparently lost the charger (double damn it).

Anyways I got school tomorrow (and saturday too, crap...) and it's going to be the start of a new semester. And boy if staying at home relaxing and then going to a three-weeks long Hong Kong/Taiwan trip is how 2012 started out for me, i'm both nervous and hopeful to see how this new year would turn out for me, but I feel like I got tons and tons of unfinished business to settle and a bunch of loose ends to tie up.

If you want the full details on my trip, look on the next blog post I guess.

R.I.P. Deadliest Warrior 2009-2011?

2012-01-15T06:23:00.000-08:00

Well guys i'm in Taiwan (and in the past several days of the past week, Hong Kong and Macau) now typing on my new notebook and only during my first few days on the internet in my gran's house did I find out one of the most shocking truths ever that the show many of us know and love, Deadliest Warrior, of all things has been fucking cancelled just after the third season as apparently confirmed by Geoff Dessmoulin on Twitter... And i'll just say what I have said on other forums already:

Of all the tv shows they had to cancel or finish prematurely, it had to be the epicness that is Deadliest Warrior! Sure there are still tons of bullshit from this show that I disagree with to the point that such things should not even have dared to enter the thoughts of man, but the fact that they cancelled this show when there are still SOOOOOOO much other warriors to use in any era and so much other things to show, I feel like I just lost half my hope (along maybe a few upcoming disappointments) for the whole world!

It would have been fun and exciting to see a Season 4, 5, 6, and maybe even 7 and possibly beyond with my father and with suggestions for Alternate Endings (i even sadly told him that the show ended)... if the show has to end like this, that means the Romans and other awesome Western warriors from the ancient times will apparently never get their comeback at all (NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!)... and all I can say now is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMTE8qnJ7h8

This show's bullcrap and inaccuracy was matched only by the potential and possibilities it had and it brought us history nerds much fun and joy to see warriors that have never met in history fight each other in the most exciting and climactic way possible! WHY DID YOU HAVE TO ALLOW THIS SHOW TO END SO EARLY, GOD? WHY?! WHY GOD WHY?!

Now I don't know what else can help fill in the void left by Deadliest Warrior... will we ever see a show (especially a history-documentary or versus-thingy) as epic as this ever again?!

Though I did hear a bit long ago that Deadliest Warrior might make a return depending on how great its ratings go (if it's high enough, it may return for new stuff)... I just really hope the end of this show is not completely certain... otherwise, my dream for a Roman comeback as well as Alternate Endings have just been shattered! Oh the humanity! We need a petition to have this show make a Season 4, 5, and beyond! Show them that they are not out of ideas just yet!

Looks like the only thing we have left is the unreleased episodes as bonus content of the games and a possible movie in the works.

I guess, I'll go look up Warrior Showdown, Fight Science, Celebrity Deathmatch, Gangland, and perhaps any documentary or movie related to ancient history or the military in general.

Man a year without Deadliest Warrior just doesn't feel the same anymore.

Can life get any sadder at this point?

Rest in Peace, Deadliest Warrior: Either we hope that you get revived for a Season 4 and beyond in the distant future or that you rest in peace and continue living in our hearts!

Good night! It's off to Hong Kong and Taiwan Tomorrow!

2012-01-08T22:21:00.000-08:00

Just a combination of stuff I wrote on other sites for this subject:

Good night now! my parents are about to finish packing up and i gotta go to bed before I have to leave at 6 in the morning for the airport to Hong Kong and Taiwan! It's been fun talking with ya guys! Wish me a safe trip!

Well today is the last day I get to be at home during break before I leave for the airport tomorrow to Hong Kong (4 Days) and Taiwan (13 days) and then when I come back it's going to be a new semester of school for me (upper junior)... oh boy... do I feel pretty bittersweet now.

And last night, I was in Manhattan for so long... typed on my new notebook at McDonald's and when I came back home, me and my dad finished watching US navy seals vs. israeli commandoes of deadliest warrior online and boy am I glad to finish re-watching all but three of season 1/2's episodes (i'm going to miss watching it with my dad though). Today I plan to watch my new "Tales From Earthsea" DVD and play a little bit of Kirby's Epic Yarn and Epic MIckey on my Wii (i haven't played my wii in frickin' ages)... and some other stuff.

Take care, my friends!

good night folks... my parents are about to finish packing up and i gotta go to bed before I have to leave at 6 in the morning for the airport to Hong Kong and Taiwan! It's been fun talking with ya guys! Wish me a safe trip!

Nighty night!

My Review on Tales From Earthsea

2012-01-08T18:21:00.001-08:00

Well right before I started packing off to the airport tomorrow for Hong Kong and Taiwan, I decided to watch the latest movie from renown Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli I got on DVD, Tales From Earthsea... I swear... when I started watching this, my expectations were average... but as I saw the plot and characters developed, boy was I really in for a treat! I must say the character designs are really beautiful and detailed (as should be expected from a miyazaki/ghibli film) and I must say while the fight/action scenes are sparse, they were pretty cool (but not quite the best you've ever seen). Now I never read the original novels myself, but I have to say, it was wonderful to see a more mature and relatively darker Miyazaki film with my parents for a change. And as a bonus, this film had several great voice actors as well, including Cheech (the comedian that i only first knew of on the Simpsons), Jeff Bennett, Tress MacNeille, Kevin Michael Richardson, and others.

I give this film a 3 1/2 or 4 out of 5 stars.

It's one movie that all miyazaki fans shouldn't pass up if it were available in their nearest stores.

My Review On The Adventures Of TinTin

2012-01-03T18:19:00.001-08:00

I'm not going to say much... but I just came back from seeing TinTin at theatres with my dad and I must say it's a really thrilling and wonderful movie... with a bit of wit and drama... and tons of adventerous excitement (and being based off a famous Franco-Belgian comic says A LOT). It's one movie not to be missed. AT ALL.

I give this movie at least 3 and a half stars in my personal opinion, but i'm glad to have made this my first movie of 2012.

Happy New Year! Good-Bye 2011! Hello 2012!

2012-01-01T14:11:00.001-08:00

Last night, it was pretty exciting to see the Ball Drop occur! And I must say... it's been a heck of a night to see it all happen on TV from Time Square. Well 2011 is gone and now we're a few steps into the entrance of 2012! And I must say... concerning the past year, my only regret was that during the last whole month of December, there was absolutely NO snow whatsoever in my area (NYC) for some ironic reason. I really hope this year does not turn out shitty as 2011! And sometime this month, I'm thinking about quitting the main OBD and even battledomeology in general and only stick to the VM's and PM's with limited yet still regular discussions over battledomology and fictions in relations to it and other stuff.

And this month, i'm going back to Hong Kong and Taiwan for couple of weeks and I'm going to bring my notebook there. And then after I come back, it's going to be school again...

Man things are getting tough...

Well take care, my fellow blog-readers!

Well it's New Year's Eve now!

2011-12-30T22:10:00.000-08:00

Right at the midnight, i'm typing this shortly to prepare for New Year's eve..

Update - Well the whole day i've been cleaning up the house and vaccuuming the living room, the hallway, my bedroom, and the study room. And I've been posting on the OBD a lot about all the things I want to say and I've been watching a bit of Ghost Sweeper Mikami... And originally I felt like I wanted to go out to Manhattan with my parents to see the Ball Drop, but at the behest of my mother's words about how inconveniently crowded it would be, I calmy followed and decided to stay home and watch the New Years Ball Drop in Times Square from TV.

Boy it's sure been years since I had watched the Ball Drop right from home... the past two years I've been at Cindy's house watching it...

so I guess... I might as well... review all the stuff and moments I have had in both real-life and the internet this whole year of 2011:

January
-I went to Rockefeller Center on the first day of this year and took a lot of good turns in that place.
-I had Drama & Theatre Class and boy were they fun as hell...
-I had worries and grudges against this guy named "Asassin" (aka my OBD name i based off of) about how he kept hating on Mario back on the Pokemonsux.com guestbook in mid-2004.
-Suicide Mouse!!! Creepypasta!!! TvTropes!!!
-Toonforce debates on MvC
-Mad Murder Stomp and my pm's with him on MVC begin.
-CounterSwarmer joined the DFW team!
-I joined Animeforums to meet up with Shikiyakumo and Solidfalcon.
-Escape from Sobibor!
-Bob's Burgers!

February
-Upper Sophomore Semester just started!
-I joined the OBD as Asassin and ended about two years of lurking in the forums!
-Mario vs. Sonic debates ensue...
-Rosuto and Meshi...
-100th Chinese New Year!
-Baader-Meinhoff Complex!
-Rupert the Bear! My Friend Rabbit! Qubo!-
-Charlie Sheen!

March
-Toonforce debates with solidfalcon
-Japan got flooded.
-Dark Messiah Verdandi!
-Downloaded A SNES Emulator Onto My Computer For the First Time!
-Seeing debates over seeing Judaism being the world's first monotheistic religion or not.
-Super MArio Bros. Stop Motion Film gets uploaded onto Youtube!
-My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic!

April
-April 1911 on Youtube!
-Nintendo 3DS
-Spring Break
-Histeria!
-Battle: Los Angeles!
-ZillaLord's pm returns to its good state!
-Museum of Moving Images trip
-Worry over toonforce
-Pikmin Guru!
-Digimon worries me again!

May
-Wedding in Great Britain between Prince Williams and Princess Kate!
-The Long-Awaited Death of Osama Bin Laden!
-More Mario vs. Sonic Debates in the OBD!
-Epic Rap Battles of History! (Chuck Norris vs. Abraham Lincoln was the first vid I was introduced to on the OBD)
-Funny vs. Serious worries!
-Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides! (And Astrid-Berges Frisbey).
-Taiwanese Festival!
-Michael Collins film!
-End of Semester
-IcySaya and Disaresta!
-Return of Toonforce!

June
-Digital Photography Class!
-Got A New Samsung Cellphone!
-X-Men First Class!
-IcySaya got banned. :(
-Worry about kiddy vs. mature!
-Magic School Bus!
-Started swimming in the YMCA!
-Super 8!
-Went to Astoria for Fireworks!
-Joined Deadliest Warrior's Facebook Discussion Page And Talked A Lot!

July
-Transformers 3 Movie... (it was meh)
-Started E-Commerce Class!
-Dandy Elegance.
-Pikmin Guru leaves the forum for almost three months! :(
-Mexican Drug Cartels vs. Chinese Triad thread on the OBD (which devolved into a funny Asians vs. Hispanics discussion lol)
-Mario vs. Sonic on Deathbattle causes grief and shitstorms!
-20th Birthday!
-Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2 film!
-A Bittersweet conclusion to the Harry Potter film series!
-Deadliest Warrior Season 3 starts off with George Washington vs. Napoleon Bonaparte!
-Depression over Mario vs. Sonic debates!
-Pac-Man cartoon on Youtube!
-Condolences to the people of Norway under the attack of Brevik!

August
-Genghis Khan vs. Hannibal Barca episode worries me (thank god genghis won)!
-Final E-Commerce Exam!
-More depression over Mario vs. Sonic!
-Chicago Trip!
-Rise of the Planet of the Apes film!
-The Smurfs!
-Last Day of Vacation!
-Lower Junior Semester started!
-Hurricane Irene is coming!

September
-Medieval Times in Lyndhurst, New Jersey!
-The Official 10th Anniversary of 9/11!
-Religion debates between me and Dandy in the VM's (that rotten punk had the nerve to insult God! But that's okay, I feel sorry for him since he's going to hell unless he repents).
-Baseball Game.
-MY OBD wiki page comes into formation thanks to Dandy.
-End of Deadliest Warrior Season 3 With Gurkhas vs. French Foreign Legion and Zombies vs. Vampires!
-More worries over Digimon stomping in the OBD!
-The near end of Mario vs. Sonic debates!
-Searching for a new car in Brooklyn!

October
-New Toyota Avalon (or Accord) car! Bye Bye old Lincoln Continental!
-Terra Nova!
-Dandy is section-banned for a while.
-Pikmin Guru returns and leaves after 11 days!
-The Death of Moammar Ghadafi!
-Pecola!
-My various pm's with ShikiYakumo!
-Religion/mythical debates start to heat up in climax and seep for the rest of the year! "Western gods vs. Eastern gods" Debate Frustrates! It's a long story.
-Beavis and Butthead returns!
-My Final PM's With ShikiYakumo starts!
-Dandy returns!
-My Deadliest Warrior Meets Escape From Sobibor vid gets uploaded onto youtube!

November
-My Deadliest Warrior Meets Escape From Sobibor vid gets updated and extended!
-November 11, 2011! 11/11/11! Triple 11!
-Dandy and I starts to become enemies.
-CounterSwarmer gets booted from DFW wiki!
-Deadliest Warrior's Facebook Discussion Board Gets The Axe!
-Happy Thanksgiving! Spent time at Alex Wu's house!
-Black Friday Shopping in Dougaleston!
-Dandy edits my page once again.
-Hugo (film)!
-Big Bang Theory!

December
-Dandy gets a full forum ban in the OBD, returns, and gets monthly-banned a day later (originally permed)...
-My FireWire gets busted after completing the Bridge Project for Final Cut Pro...
-Car broken down for a night...
-My Mac Computer gets repeatedly infected with Fake Anti-Virus's!
-ComboFix and RKill gets installed!
-Youtube changes into newer and shittier hompage and channel layouts (ugh)!
-Pippi Longstocking!
-The "God, Omnipotence/Nigh-Omnipotence, Uni/Multi/Mega/Omniversal And Abstract/Super-Abstract Cosmic-Tier" Debates and Headaches rise to climax and more!
-Lower Junior Semester Ends!
-Death of Kim Jong-Il!
-Final Accounting Exam!
-Sherlock Holmes!
-The Muppets!
-Zetta gets unbanned (shortly)!
-Pikmin Guru returns again!
-Bought "Tales From Earthsea" on DVD!
-Christmas Party At Alex's House!
-The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo!
-Worries over Pikmin Guru leaving!
-Toonforce discussion!
-Ghost Sweeper Mikami!
-New Year's Eve!

That's all I have to say! 2011, Thank God You're Ending! Now Get Ready for 2012!

I'm about to prepare for the Ball Drop now! While finish re-watching Medellin Cartel vs. Somali Pirates of Deadliest Warrior online! And then finish some other stuff! Bye now!

My Review on the Muppets movie of 2011

2011-12-30T22:09:00.000-08:00

((I was going to post this several days ago, but turns out I did this on the OBD much earlier, so I'm just going to copy and paste instead for convenience))

This is perhaps the best movie I've ever seen on any day of Christmas... and what makes it even more epic is that it is the futher-mocking (my euphemism for MF'ing) Muppets and the fact that they're back (and according to my research on wikipedia, after 12 damn years!)!

I tell you, the Muppets are still one of America's biggest childhood franchises of all time, often considered by myself to be third or second only to the bigger awesome incarnates that are Disney, Warner Bros, MGM, Fleischer, and other classic cartoon companies! Whenever you think of puppets and musical humor, these guys are the first things that come to your frickin' mind!

I'll first say that this is the first movie in my whole life (20 years+) that I have ever seen alone without my parents and outside of the typical theatre that I have always been going to since the turn of this century (College Point Multiplex). And before I saw this movie, I got to have a good treat seeing a few promo's for nice upcoming animated films (Brave!, Secret World of Arrietty, and Pirates: Band of Misfits) and a funny Toy Story short (the toys there were pretty cool too) and then I wasn't really expecting too much when the actual movie started and after seeing the Muppets just re-unite in the movie brings me happiness and joy on a cosmic-level!

The story is pretty well-done and the musicals and visuals were just absolutely stunning and the humor is just off-the-charts! And as a nice bonus, I got to see tons of guest stars including Jim Parsons (the guy who plays "Sheldon Cooper" from Big Bang Theory and having him in the film was epic win!), Neil Patrick Harris, and Whoopi Goldberg.

I'm only a bit disappointed that the antagonist (played by Chris Cooper) didn't get a bigger ass-smacking in the end for trying to end the Muppets studio and even their very brand-name.

Overall, I give this movie about 5 stars! The Muppets are just awesome on a multiversal if not megaversal level (and at least abstract-tier) and it's classic toonforce meets broadway meets puppetry! It's a movie that no one should miss and it made my Christmas feel complete tonight!

If Jim Henson was still alive now, he'd be orgasm'ing at the epicness of this film!

Merry Christmas

2011-12-25T10:52:00.000-08:00

Well today is Christmas Eve and boy... have I been through quite a lot of things as far as the OBD and battledomeology is concerned among many things in this month... and lots of crazy shit has happened too... well my Lower Junior semester is done, so I'm happy.

and last night, we shopped like hell at Targets and Macy's and had a bit of dinner at Burger King... and I just bought "Tales From Earthsea" on DVD. And i'm going to spend some time at my friend's house tonight.

I could write more, but I'm in a hurry, so...

And now it's Christmas Day, And I'm about to go to the theatres alone to watch the Muppets while my parents watch the "New Year's Eve" (or something like that) movie.

Merry Christmas everyone!

Well my Semester is almost ending... and a few other things...

2011-12-12T13:11:00.002-08:00

After saying a mildly bittersweet farewell to Professor Kuhn in my English/Business Writing Class, I feel like the semester was already drawing dead near to an end... and I just finished my Animation Class with Professor Eaton after we screened our collaborative animated project with all our characters sending gifts to each other (and boy was it fun.)... after posting on the OBD (or Naruto Fan Forums) for a bit to deal with some business... And boy tomorrow is my last day of classes (it's a shame I didn't get to say good-bye to Professor Ackermann of Illustrator Class and Professor Howard of Final Cut Pro.. :'( )

Btw, I just got a good hair-cut from my local chinese barber saloon and I gotta say I look like an american drill sargeant or a marine with glasses.

And The Year 2012 is only about less than a month away from showing up and I'm going to spend a nice Christmas break hopefully (but probably no skiing this year). And my pm with ZillaLord back on Penultimate Battles has yet to be active and booming again and I still haven't showed him the rest of the pics of my Chicago trip. Man he and I really need to get back again. It's been getting boring and worrisome without him (outside of my few messages on Facebook of course).

And I have an upcoming final exam for Accounting Class coming right up and boy it's going to be one hell of a study.

Well Merry Christmas everyone!

The New Youtube Channel Layouts = A Load Of Ass-Faggotry!

2011-12-12T13:11:00.001-08:00

Yes, I'm pretty sure most if not all of us here on the OBD have our own Youtube accounts and most of us tends to treat Youtube like our personal space and the internet version of our own comfty home and civilization. And we can tolerate or accept changes, but this is one of the changes that kinda just raises my shackles and makes me want to kick down a house wall.

What pisses me off most is that we have to see radical and unexpected changes for stuff or things that are perfect or just fine the way they are and don't need changes. Why the fuck can't people just get the goddamn mantra that "If It Ain't Broken, Don't Fix It!"?

I know we've been through several youtube layout changes in the past years and we've all got USED to some of them, but this is really just crossing the line and going much beyond what's reasonable and necessary... (even just as a bad if not worse than a no-limits-fallacy being called on in the OBD, I know i exagerrated a bit much, so sue me.). But seriously... a big list of vids being emphasized on our channels with all our comments being overeclipsed aside? I mean for Christ's sake, can anyone please explain to me who in their right mind would barf up this faggotry other than the "We just want vids to be more of you!" bullshit?

Well I'm glad I chose to switch my Youtube channel to the older version and have it stay that way and I pray to God Almighty from all Seven Heavens from above the Universe/Omniverse and Absolutely All of Reality/Existence In One Sum Totality that all other youtube friends and users with a sane and rational mind would do the same and switch back for the sake of old goodness.

That's all I have to say for now.

What a shit-ass week this has been...

2011-12-09T08:27:00.000-08:00

I was going to post this here, but I did in the OBD and on my other mac computer, it's harder to publish my post here, so i edited a few thins out... and here it is:

In the past several days, I have encountered much events of misfortune and frustration.

First off, my FireWire drive got busted the moment I went into my last Final Cut class and tried to send my professor the Bridge Project, but after trying so much times to get the damn thing started... it just got broke... and most of the data in there was pretty much gone. But at least that assignment wasn't as fun as the found footage project I ahd to do and now I got to finish my Final Found Footage Project without it. *sigh* looks like i'm going to have shed off another dough to repair it or buy a new one in the future.

Second, my car just got broke down a bit after i took it for one more ride after my father momentarily re-booted it with a jumper. And since then, I couldn't go to Church today (Sunday) and I had to go to a nearby masala dosa restaurant in my ethnic Indian/South Asian neighborhood for lunch instead of the usual Boston Market a bit away from my own town. And starting now, I have to take the bus to go to college every morning.

Third, ohohohohoho... my bigger mac computer (window 7 pc and mac dual mode) was going fucking haywire... i mean lately, as mentioned before in my previous blog post, the pc part of my computer keeps getting invaded and attacked by various viruses (mainly trojan) and malware infections (and fake anti-virus software) day by day no matter how many fucking times i have to arm myself with some of the best anti-virus/anti-spyware programs along with my firewall (which has more often than not greatly deteroriated recently and for days/weeks, me and my dad have been hounding to try and fix it). And last saturday night, while my tabs on the OBD and Youtube were still active, another fake anti-virus (spyware 2012) had to come in and wreck everything and also had the fucking cheek to come into safe mode and cause quite a shit there too. When you feel like something dangerous and annoying has to come seeping into even a place you have felt safe in for months/years until now, you know that you just want to cringe and weep for the entire human race. I felt like I was shit out of luck there, until I had to use system restore and boy I was lucky to have Rkill + ComboFix to back me up with a restore point. And I just had a new firewall installed from download (Comodo) and hopefully it works, but now that my computer has two active anti-virus programs now, my internet has been slowing the hell down a bit and it sucks total ass.

I won't go into the rest of the details, but there you have it... three unlucky events in a single few days of a week. What is the world coming to?

Good night now. Take care to all my blog readers.

F#ck my stupid mac computer... Ugh...

2011-11-30T10:20:00.001-08:00

just copying and pasting this from my blog post on the OBD i wrote last night.

Yes I use a dual Mac/PC (windows 7) computer with the hardware being Apple itself... and the one thing that grates on my very nerves right now is that my fucking computer is getting invaded by fake anti-viruses and other malicious crap very frequently if not EVERDAY lately... and everytime I use my Mal-Ware and a few other softwares to clean up the damn shit, I have to put up with them again and again, especially when I'm peacefully surfing, posting, reading, and watching stuff and when I least expect it. And more often than not, my tabs on the internet sometimes get screwed up.

What makes me annoyed and distressed is that this computer is currently almost everything I have stored for all my stuff up til now and all thsee stupid viruses keep on coming and coming... despite the fact that my dad even fixed the firewall (which has been teared a hole in the recent past) and that I keep sweeping, scanning, and blocking everytime... and are constantly putting my computer in potential danger...

Of all the convenient technologies of combating computer viruses, this has got to be the most lamest and most irritating.

yeah and today is the last day of November and we're only about a full month away from entering into 2012. Go Figure.

This is fucking retarded....

2011-11-25T19:41:00.000-08:00

Honestly, I have to use my laptop to try and publish my blog posts... on my bigger mac computer and even the new computer my mom brings, I can't publish my damn posts no matter how many times I try to press the "Publish Post" button... I mean what the fuck... are my main computer and my mom's computer (or at least their respective internets) really THIS fucking dense in the head?

With all techonlogical advancements conveniently at our finger tips, how screwed up can computers be these days? -__-

Happy Be-lated Thanksgiving!

2011-11-25T11:42:00.001-08:00

Well i posted this on a blog of my own account on another forum, so i'll just try and copy and paste...

What I'm thankful for this year is nintendo, video gaming, God, food, family, friends, the OBD, Negative-Zero, and other things...

Happy Holidays!

Note: I posted this while I was in a rush before leaving to my friend's house for thanksgiving.

Update - I just had great a thanksgiving turkey (i just took the pieces with skins and added tons of the gravy to the white meat), mashed potato, my mom's stir fried noodle (it was my right decision to pick this one at my local supermarket), szechuan-style spareribs, and a bit more and I had finished a big sprite bottle with all the ice. I also had fun watching some TV (first mall cops of america, then jeff dunham's act with achmed the terrorist and peanut + jose jalapeno on comedy central, briefly following the roast of charlie sheen, and two episodes of the teen titans on boomerang. Then we went to Macy's for Black Friday Shopping where I waited so long and then we got back home at like 3 AM (Eastern).

What a thanksgiving... as always! Happy Holidays!

Today is a very special day today...

2011-11-11T15:40:00.000-08:00

Yup, IT's November 11th, 2011! Which means 11/11/11... boy we only get to see dates with all of the three same numbers in the first to second decade of any century in the gregorian calendar. from 2001 to 2012, I've had to witness triple number dates in my lifetime and I feel very glad to do so. Although I have to say 6/6/6 was the most epic triple date we've had in this century since it was an obvious numeric symbol of the Devil or anything that's evil in general, this date is very special since it's like over 5 years since that date. But to be honest, I would have to say that 9/9/09 was the saddest triple date i've had to witness since it was the death of a certain friend's west tyland terrier, Misha.

I guess the last great triple date we'll ever have is 12/12/12 next year and boy that's going to be 9 days before the alleged end of the world according to the Mayan Calendar.

Also, happy belated halloween everyone (boy i haven't updated my blog for that in the past 11 days already).

The Death of Moammar Ghadafi

2011-10-21T08:35:00.000-07:00

Well I must say... the Libyan dictator has really done himself in this time. Being captured and killed from a hole. Kinda sounds like the Saddam Hussein of 2011. We've sure come a long way in the past decade and even the past century when it comes to all the worst men in history we have fought and defeated: Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, Benito Mussolini, Pol Pot, Idi Amin, Osama Bin Laden, and more...

This year, we've seen the fall of Osama Bin Laden, and now months later, is the fall of Mommar Ghadafi.

It seems like Mahmoud Ahmedinejad is one of the few left that have to perish.

This is my two cents.

edit - i was going to publish this yesterday, but my stupid bigger mac computer couldn't for some reason.

Happy Columbus Day!

2011-10-10T17:14:00.000-07:00

I apologize for not updating the blog in over two weeks... i've been busy with a fuckton of things... and for one, i've got surprisingly many day-off's here and there. It's just funny, you know. And I've been really busy with the OBD and lots of things... but today is Colombus Day... the day that over 5 centuries ago in 1492 when a Spaniard of Italian descent named Christopher Colombus set sailed to the Americas and ordered the genocide of many natives for the sake of trade. I know it's just sad and brutal... I can only wish the natives a well and speedy recovery (and I don't mean that with sarcasm at all). XD

Well that's all for now.

The End of Deadliest Warrior Season 3

2011-09-24T13:46:00.000-07:00

I'm kinda lazy to write, so i just copy and pasted and slightly edited my own comments from a private message i sent to another friend on another forum and I know it was bit late of me to write this since it's a week past due:

Well now that I've finished two final episodes of Season 3 Deadliest Warriors in a single week (Gurkhas vs. French Foreign Legion and Vampire vs. Zombie), I can only say that I'm happy about the way the season concluded. And I had fun watching the entire season online with my father for the past couple of months. So I guess you could say that ends an era of my year, that is the "Season 3 Deadliest Warrior" era for 2011 for me, which went from last June (when i first started post on the Deadliest Warrior facebook discussion page) to today around mid-September which is when the season just ended... and thus opens up a new chapter of my life... Before the final two episodes aired, I was thinking about quitting Deadliest Warrior FOR GOOD and just moving on after it, but after seeing a Gurkha victory, I decided I will either possibly go for a Season 4 OR just stop it for good and don't take any more chances.

Either way, it seems my experience of the conclusion of this season's Deadliest warrior was a bittersweet one. And I have to say: It's been nice knowin' ya, Deadliest Warrior! I'm going to miss ya! Though my departure from Deadliest Warrior isn't as bittersweet as my departure from the Harry Potter film series right on my very 20th Birthday! Boy, such recent big memories! And at this moment, i begin to think about I've been and gone through in the whole past year from this month back in 2010... it's been a whole year already...

First off, when Season 2 just ended and when I just came back from an awesome fun place like Coney Island last night, i was watching a vid of Deadliest Warrior's "Mack Reveals Season 3 Details" where the vid discusses things that are going to be in Season 3 and one of the first warriors Mack mentioned to mind was "Hannibal Barca"... and I was like "WTF is he?"... and then during September, they started filming for Season 3 and I remember first saw a short preview of Crazy Horse testing out one of his pistols on multiple ceramic targets.

All the way from august 2010 to august 2011, I have been pushing for the Asians to win and get revenge for Sun Tzu, the Ming, and the Mongols... and finally it looks like my dream came true after a year has passed. And right before the season started, I remember seeing the trailers for Season 3's warriors, Washington, Joan, and Genghis... and boy it was one thing that psyched me out greatly...

And now that Season 3 of Deadliest Warrior has ended, I feel like I can move on with better things already and go back to the normal stuff I've always been doing before any season of Deadliest Warrior broadcasted... but at the same time I feel like I need to fill in the gap left by Deadliest Warrior...

That's all I can say now.

A Baseball Game...

2011-09-13T15:37:00.001-07:00

Last night, we went there... to the Citifield Stadium... to watch the Mets vs. Yankees... although to be frank, we only went through for the Taiwan Heritage Night and that's about it. I was sitting over on the bleachers just looking at the whole thing... it was alright... and then we just left. We still took a lot of pictures though.

The Official 10th Anniversary of 9/11

2011-09-11T11:47:00.000-07:00

Well this is the day... 10 years... right after the September 11 attacks perpetrated by the Al-Qaeda guided by their mastermind Osama Bin Laden in which one of America's greatest landmarks, the World Trade Centers, have been reduced to rubble. I can only imagine the horrors that belied us during that day. And I have to say, it really wasn't pleasant to say the least. During that Tuesday, I was in my classroom with my old classmates (whom also went to high school with me), David and Daniel, and the rest of the class was down in gym. Having nothing much to do, we were either reading books or prancing around, but as soon as the radio got up, we had news that two towers was destroyed. At first, I didn't want to believe it, but as soon as my old teacher Mrs. St. Juste had the whole class gather 'round, I started picturing it in my mind as to how the World Trade Center was destroyed exactly. As soon as I turned on my telly when I got home after being picked up my dad at Boon Church Afterschool, I was scared and horrified as to how the towers were destroyed... two planes crashing into it. Oh boy, I have to say I was glad I visited the World Trade Center for the last time a month before the 9/11 attacks. We Americans lost the tallest towers we ever had. :'(

Now fast-forward 10 years later to this day, when we remember that as Americans are still as one even after the 9/11 attacks... and not to mention... this is the day... where we get to celebrate the downfall of Osama Bin Laden which finally occurred 4 months and 10 days ago as I type this... now that justice has been done to Osama Bin Laden and there, we can all celebrate but in bittersweetness. The War on Terror is still sadly going on... This is the day that I see what used to be of the World Trade Center... for the past ten years, it's been nothing much more than a wreck of a hole... but it seems out of the ashes will rise a new building... One World Trade Center and also the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. And hopefully the issue of Mosque at Ground Zero is finally ending.

I can only pray to God for all the victims of 9/11 and hope that they can carry on with their devastating losses and move on for a better future and a salvation into a positive here-after. If anyone wants to pray with me, they are welcome/

Well that's all for now. And my life's been kind going into a downspiral on and off.

Labor Day Holiday!

2011-09-05T14:29:00.001-07:00

Message bodywell not much to say here, except this is the second monday where I don't get to go to school and i might as well as enjoy this very last one while i can... cause next monday is when my Toon Boom or Animation class starts. And I just finished watching "Gangs of New York" with my parents last night on Netflix. Cool movie, Bill Cuttings is one badass villain!

Happy Labor Day everyone!

Medieval Times - Lyndhurst, New Jersey - September 3rd, 2011

2011-09-03T18:50:00.000-07:00

I just came back from the Medieval Times in NJ... Fun Place... :D

I had oven-roasted chicken, garlic bread, spare rib, herb-basted potato, two tall cups of pepsi, and pastry.

During the show, I was rooting for the Blue Knight (even though he lost D:) and I accidentally spilled Pepsi on my pants when I was about to drink it in the dark.

It was a pretty great day to spend the Labor Day Weekend and seeing 11th Century Spanish Knights fight each other on foot and horseback was cool. The souvenirs were pretty great... especially the figurines of knights, fairies, and dragons. They were splendid and dashing from an fantasy standpoint as far as its art and element goes. The first time I ever been there was June 2003 with my elementary class around the week of graduation (I was in 6th Grade that time before the system changed) and the second time is today, over 8 years from then.

And on my way back home, I was in the car watching the scenery of Manhattan from New Jersey across the shore, then into the Lincoln Tunnel, then across Time Square, and back into my home street in Queens!

My first full week of school...

2011-09-01T14:42:00.000-07:00

well now that hurricane irene has officially passed, i can only say that this is going to be a very bumpy ride... as the first full week of school was pretty busy for me, even though Monday's class was cancelled (and no school on monday again). Well I'm in junior semester and i've been introduced to Accounting, BALA writing, and several ARTS classes already. :P

See ya!

Edit - Also it's been the 5th Anniversary of this blog! YAY!

Hurricane Irene... Is Coming...

2011-08-25T16:04:00.000-07:00

For those of you who live in New York City (especially me and Nevermind), I'd like to make this special blog post just to say that I fear a hurricane is coming our way and people say we're one of the safest cities in the America for a long time (which I still like to think so). The efforts of preparing for evacuation is making me feel really uneasy and boy do I have another thing to worry. I might not even see my mother or father again after several days.

The only thing I can do now is pray to God/Yahweh:

Dear God,

If you are there, I want you to know that I am worried about the hurricance that is about to reach my area. I am very glad that you took my other in as a newborn Christian which is partially in thanks to my efforts. Lord, you are Almighty and Merciful... you are everything I have left in my life times infinity plus one. If you can hear me now, please spare my mother and father. Without them, I would have never gone through all the tough times in my life ever.

Lord, I sincerely repent for all the sins I have committed and if you can please forgive me and my parents and my friends at church, I would be thankful.

Thank you, Lord Jesus.

Amen.

My Last Day of Summer Vacation

2011-08-25T10:42:00.000-07:00

Well this is it... the last day of summer vacation and boy does it feel as tough as hell... and I must say... it was a bittersweet one. Last year was an absolute hell-hole of a summer, but this year it proved to be A LOT better than the last one and I have to say... yeah! :) Even though this year's summer vacation seemed to be a lot shorter than the last one, but at least it was better since my dad promised me no work until school starts. We went to Chicago this year and it was pretty nice.

Though to be frank, I have been consistently sad and depressed over Mario vs. Sonic debates and in general Mario himself as well as the whole of Nintendo in the console wars. But aside from that, I've had pretty fun times on my own, especially with father, when we watch Deadliest Warrior episodes online together and went to see the Smurfs movie the day before yesterday. Speaking of which, I was going to make a brief review of the Smurfs in this blog post, but just to save time and spend the rest of my summer vacation well...

I'll just say that the Smurfs movie was a real treat for families out there who love classic comic/cartoon characters and I have to say it's fun and hilarious. Loads of slapstick comedy and magical fantasy-themed adventure blended in for all to enjoy and Gargamel is played by Hank Azaria himself and also George Lopez plays one of the Smurfs too. Plus Neil Patrick Harris plays the human, Winslow, who keeps all of the Smurfs in his house until they find a way back home to their own world. The special effects were not very bad. Though me and my dad were late for the movie after an appointment from the disability center and missed the first 5-10 minutes of the movie, the latter half of the movie's greatness and fun made up for all of that. I'll give it 4 out of 5 stars (man that's the third movie I've been giving 4 stars to after Harry Potter Deathly Hallows Part 2 and Rise of the Planet of the Apes).

Movies aside, well i've been watching some television when I was eating fruit such as Sammy's Story Shop and more.

That's all I have to say for now. I guess junior semester is starting for me tomorrow lol.

My Brief Review on Rise of the Planet of the Apes

2011-08-20T11:38:00.000-07:00

Okay this morning, I went to see Rise of the Planet of the Apes with my father and mother and I have to say sitting down, this is easily a very enjoyable movie (especially before going got see the Smurfs sometime this week). As usual without trying to give spoilers, this movie is about the apes/monkeys being captured and tested and it also centers around the supposedly newfound "cure" for alzheimer, which in turn led to much disaster and chaos. The main ape of the film, Caesar, is the one who led his army. The way that both sides feel so much pain in a struggle for controlling chaos for the humans as well as fighting for freedom for the apes is just very thrilling and deep. The action scenes aren't half-bad themselves. It's also pretty interesting to see a former Harry Potter actor (Tom Felton aka "Draco Malfoy") star in this movie as a haughty and arrogant care-taker at the animal control center. There are so many themes dealing with science and ethics here that it's kinda rich and satisfying.

Overall, I will give this movie 4 out of 5 stars.

That is all. And I can't wait to see the Smurfs.

PS - Today is the day from exactly a year ago when I went to Coney Island (which was one of the best days of my life there).

My Trip To Chicago...

2011-08-19T09:35:00.000-07:00

Well in the past three days, I've been in Chicago, Illinois for a summer trip right after the end of my final exam for e-commerce course (that and Genghis won and though I'm glad and satisfied he did, I felt sad and depressed for days that such a great general like Hannibal lost, since it should have been drastically closer).

After flying a plane for 2 hours from new york to chicago, we went to a hotel in the big city and here is the brief summaries of my trip:

Day 1:

the whole day we went to the navy pier, ate at mcdonald's for lunch, the chicago institute of art museum (where we saw lots of stuff from classic greco-roman art to medieval european art to knights armor to world war II propaganda art), ate potatoes with chili, shredded cheese, and sour cream and a bit of salad for dinner at the hotel, and then the chicago museum of contemporary art and here I am.

Day 2:

we went to the john hancock center, then rode a boat ride around the chicago river, then the adler planetarium, then the field museum (we saw lots of stuff like ants underground to animals to dinosaurs - basically imagine the museum of natural history in manhattan, only a little bigger), had dinner, and then went to the navy pier to see the stained class exhibit and rode on the ferris wheel and went through an indoor garden (with fountains spraying water like arches) and finally we saw the fireworks from the dock at night.

Day 3:

first thing in the morning, we went to the Willis Tower (also known formerly as the Sears Tower to everyone) and saw the whole city from up there as well as possibly three other states neighboring it across the borders: Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan and saw many interesting facts about the tower as well as other stuff back in the past two centuries of the city itself such as Al Capone, Oprah Winfrey, etc. and then we left the building and went to the Aquarium and saw many wonderful fishes and sea creatures there and i saw a sea lion in a separate cage downstairs and as it made its utterance of cries, it almost spat on me and i felt a bit disgusted and then we saw an indoor show on the Dolphins (which almost reminds me of the time I was in the Coney Island Aquarium a year ago on the 20th of August). Then we had lunch downstairs and went to the Field Museum to see a 3D movie known as "Waking the T.Rex" and then some other exhibits like Tahiti. And then we took a bus tour all around the suburban area of Chicago and we happened to drive by President Obama's childhood neighbor and after a long bus ride looking through the town's history, we went to have dinner and then we went to Water Tower Place to shop a little and we first stopped by the Lego Store. Then we went back to the hotel for one last night.

This Morning:

And then after we woke up at 5 AM, we had a taxi to drive us to the airport and i had a large mcdonald's breakfast before we left for the plane and then took a taxi to drive all the way back from the airport to flushing and here we are at home, back in New York city, and me typing on my computer and looking through other stuff on the internet.

I had a great trip and I hope to enjoy the rest of my summer vacation before my Junior Semester of College starts.

Good Day!

Oh God... why did I even agree to this crap?

2011-08-12T22:17:00.000-07:00

Well it's been almost 3 weeks since I ever last updated anything on this blog... and granted I had a very nervous week over genghis khan's possible loss against hannibal (glad that was averted, but i feel very sorry for hannibal when he lost, he should have won 49.5% to 50.5%), I had a (comparatively) much better summer compared to last year when it came to quality, hopes, and expectations (barring a few certain things that have been on my skin forever, such as mario vs. sonic and whatnot), at least as far as July and August goes. But if there's anything my father failed to do is give a full month (at bare minimum) of joy and relaxation of a summer vacation with no work and study for me and guess what? I only get barely a week at most to myself, though that's excluding my four-day trip to Chicago after the final exam is done.

*sigh* I guess it's just too much to ask God or any amazing and benevolent higher entity out there for one summer vacation that is one full month long or even over a week long. >_<

But before I go on complaining some more... I might as well go through my final exam and then enjoy my trip to chicago and try my best to enjoy the final week of summer vacation before the friday of my first day of school start to see if my summer REALLY improved over the other.

You Think Your Life Is Hard and Your Favorite Character Is Underestimated/Downplayed? Try Being a Mario/Nintendo Fan!

2011-07-29T14:08:00.000-07:00

((Copied and posted from my own blog entry on the OBD of course from July 25th with the ending edited with my usernames))

Over the course of my years, I've been through many many ups and downs in my life. And I have been through many debates on the OBD and various other sites in my whole life... but never have I ever ever been through anything as headaching and nauseating as Mario vs. Sonic debates OR all these Nintendo vs. Sony/Sega/Microsoft (character) debates. I tell ya, it's like the fucking internet equivalent to World War II out there (no offense to all the great veterans out there, you guys did a wonderful job defending our country and you guys deserve a good lunch and i apologize if this comparison was a bit distasteful). Writing this rant makes me feel like I'm toobis or maddox or any other gloomy internet rant columnist.

But seriously... as someone who's grew up with mario and nintendo and enjoyed his games and all others with my friends and being the greatest childhood I ever had right behind disney, warner bros, mgm, fleischer, and other major classic animation studios/characters and perhaps a few children's books or literature or whatnot (kinda hard for me to think up of many other childhoods that surpass/match nintendo in my book), I have to say I feel in perpetual frustration that I feel mario is being underestimated and looked down upon everywhere I go (especially in the context of mario vs. sonic and mario vs. whatever else).

It just seems after going through a certain trauma last year, it just seems everywhere I go, mario seems to "lose" to most people, mainly because of ignorance of mario's capabilities and boy do I have to say that that really angers me. Now, I figure after writing this rant, some of you are going to call me a mario/nintendo fanboy, however this is a rant to express how much i am simply sick and tired to goddamned death of idiots everywhere downplaying/ignoring and outright insulting mario like fucking dicks. Everywhere I see, people just claim that mario is a fat plumber who only shoots fireballs and jumps on little creatures. I mean seriously... WTF is wrong with this world?

I know you think that being a fan of the originals and the ones who helped shaped an entire genre and industry like Superman, Batman, He-Man, Bugs Bunny, or perhaps even Mickey Mouse and still endures and pervades our minds to this very day and still largely proves to everyone just how truly awesome they can be compared to their competitors would be a boon, but sadly on the contrary, it just seems to be a far cry from that. Mario saved the entire video game industry from certain doom and he proved to kick way more ass than sonic and master chief could hope to with innovative games/series and doing all sorts of amazing things that the latter could only imagine of doing in their dreams. But to my experience and knowledge, relatively few people give him the credit and praise he deserves. I know back in junior high school before the Wii came out, the anti-nintendo sentiment was basically the gaming equivalent to the anti-french sentiment.

But seeing the growing amounts of moronicness and ignorance everywhere from sonic and sony/microsoft fanboys, my life feels like I'm in UTTER HELL! Everything I see is hate against mario... especially in that mario vs. spartan vid on youtube *facepalm* and a couple of those sonic killing mario pics that I see on image search whenever I type up "mario owns sonic" or "mario kills sonic". Many vids I see on youtube involving "Mario vs. X" always seems to result in mario getting a bloody gory death. And not only are a lot of people not appalled at this (but ironically other nintendo characters get more respect), but they literally laugh at it like an arsonist laughs at a burning orphanage or when a nazi-ss officer laughs at a burning synagogue. Now i can't expect all the time for people to depict mario the winner in any vid, but I feel like this is a situation that just smells of being the opposite of Superman/Batman winning the majority of his crossovers. I mean it's just a shameful mark of cold-blooded irony and shock to see an original like Mario not only lose horribly, but get depicted like a weakling in the process.

Compared to all the popular and well-loved characters in the OBD or other debate forums, I can't help but not pretend that Mario doesn't get underestimated out of proportion. It's even sadder that I don't know what it's like to see your childhood characters actually get a daily amount of love and respect and actually recognition for his capabilities, powers, and achievements he deserves, but too bad, being more "kiddy" or "cartoonish" just makes you about as marginalized as a jewish immigrant to the united states from the german and russian empire.

And even though I have noticed many people in the OBD know at least half-way what mario is truly capable of and know that a composite Mario would definitely solo Saint-Seiya-verse, but i feel that kinda isn't enough and that we need to do more than that! It doesn't help that I actually suffered for defending Mario in debates and everything, but blind idiots like the sonic, master chief, and sony/microsoft fanboys can't see past their clouded judgment and admit it. all they give is more mean-spirited comments and other unnecessary piece of shit that I find worse than any other. When a mario fan speaks his mind to defend his character's glory, every brain-dead sony/microsoft and sonic fanboys with a computer feels like to assault him on every front and sometimes have the desire to post useless pics or vids of sonic/master chief/whoever beating up or killing mario and then fapping to it just to get a rise out of us. Aggravating...

Now I know how Lisa Simpson or any exceptionally intelligent character in those animated sitcoms or tv shows feel when they have to put up with all this fucking shit with unintelligent low-lives like most of springfield, whom she is usually its only real voice of reason. And anytime she has to defend her beliefs and try to make the town a better place, most of the town treats her like an outcast and a piece of trash. I am to sonic and sony/microsoft fanboys (the ones who disrespect mario and nintendo at least) as Lisa Simpson to her family (especially bart and homer) and the town of springfield. I mean Dr. Hibbert is right about what he said "Why must the whole town be run by idiots?" All these cockbaggery just brings out the giant cynic in me.

Well I'm not giving up... there is still at least a small shred of hope for Mario and Nintendo out there. As long as I am here, i will not cease defending Mario and Nintendo with my very life against all the idiots, morons, fantards, trolls, noobs, and jackasses.

From here on now, I am going to crusade for Mario and Nintendo's glory, rights, honor, dignity, and power and spread truth and justice and combat all negative stereotypes, lies, and myths propagated against Mario and Nintendo by exposing the morons like sonic/sony/microsoft fanboys for the unrivaled frauds they are, one forum at a time.

And there will be more from my rant next time.

This is HamonLord signing out.

My Condolences to the People of Norway

2011-07-23T08:12:00.001-07:00

Previously, I was writing this blog and it was a long response, but stupid server made it unable to go, so my short answer is: the victims and their families will be in my prayer and hope that this killer will be caught. God bless Them.

The Season 3 Premiere of Deadliest Warrior!

2011-07-21T11:23:00.000-07:00

Boy, just what I've been waiting for... a third season... and starting off with george washington vs. napoleon bonaparte. man i can't wait to see how it turns on spike's website. ta ta now.

My Brief Review on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

2011-07-19T18:51:00.001-07:00

Well I just came back home from watching the whole movie at College Point Multiplex with my parents and eating at the Outback Steakhouse (which made me feel stuffed... shouldn't have ordered the blooming onions) and I have to say it was an awesome movie and quite possibly my most favorite film of 2011 with Pirates of Carribean: On Stranger Tides and Super 8 coming in behind second and third respectively so far. Now i'm not going to spoil anything for anyone, but I have to say, it was the shortest harry potter film (surprisingly, though not so much, since they did split a REALLY long film roughly the length of an LotR movie in half) and the best one ever. I have to say I really liked the way the movie series started off fairly bright and lighthearted like one of those typical 90's adventure/fantasy-themed films and ended off on a somewhat darker and edgier tone (minus the aftermath ending). The amount of climax and suspense behind the action/fight scenes as well as deeply emotional events and situations (with the typical flashback scenes to harry's parents being murdered by a dark lord that has longed to destroy the young wizard) both went hand-in-hand with each other to make this one amazingly satisfying film and an epic conclusion to the whole series at that. The whole ending was great and heartwarming, but the end to those film series was a bittersweet one and thus concludes the era of cinema that encompassed the much later periods of my childhood from 2001 to 2011 (between 9/11 and its 10th "anniversary" ironically). Just like my teacher said, it looks like I'll have to find something else to enjoy and Chronicles of Narnia would be the first thing to come to my mind to fill up the vacuum left by the greatness that is Harry Potter.

It's quite a shame that I didn't see this final film with my old elementary school teacher, Mrs. St. Juste, and my old elementary classmates. It would have been a fitting ending, though not a very possible and convenient one, since I doubt my teacher and some of her former students would have had the energy and time to invest another reunion after the last one we had in November 2010 for Deathly Hallows Part 1and November 2005 for Goblet of Fire. When I had watched the first movie in 2001 (possibly November), I enjoyed it very much, but didn't care much for the series as a whole and it wasn't until very near the end of the previous decade that I started to truly appreciate Harry Potter for being a contemporary literary masterpiece (even though I've never really been a bookworm for anything except mostly culture/history/religion/etc. myself).

As for the rating of the film, I think I'll give it 4 or 5 stars. Yes it's the conclusion to a long-runned film series, so I'm giving it my best rating yet.

Well Good Night Everyone!

TODAY IS MY TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY!

2011-07-19T10:31:00.000-07:00

You're wondering why it's such a big deal that I'm updating this... not because it's just any birthday, but the 20th... since this marks the end of the second decade of my life and the beginning of a third new one. Writing this blog makes me think about that episode in Family Guy about New Year's Eve 1999 where Quahog news anchors Tom Tucker and Diane Simmons (now deceased) look back into the 1000's millenium and see the things that happened there and now I want to look back into the second decade of my life from age 10 to age 19. I've had gone to so many places in and outside the continent (except for 2008) and have for several times met my relatives and cousins from afar. I guess this is a bittersweet end to all those years. Boy do I feel kinda old... as a young adult or borderline, if you prefer. I predict by the time I make my next birthday blog post next year in 2012, I think the 21st is going to be one of, if not THE, most special birthday of my life.

Two things to look forward from the start of this day... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2 (the final movie - boy am I going to miss the harry potter film series, they made up my childhood from 2001-2011) and also the third Season premire of Deadliest Warrior this coming wednesday. Also, I just ordered Kirby's Epic Yarn and Epic Mickey off amazon for my next birthday gifts (which these days are typically just new games) and that's Double Epic for me!

Well bye bye for now! HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY TO ME!

Bloop Boop De Doop...

2011-07-17T11:48:00.000-07:00

It's been 13 days since i have last updated this blog and my birthday is only a stone's throw away and i just lost most of my recently typed url's on internet explorer and now I type them again. Aigh... the frustration. Should have told my pops not to type so many urls in when using the laptop otherwise, *cue Big NO! and Heroic BSOD*... Also my friend on Penultimate Battles still hasn't replied for more than half a week yet as i'm typing this and again my 20th birthday is only but a block away. Also I cannot wait to see the finale to the Harry Potter series in theatres as well as the third season premiere of Deadliest Warrior this coming Wednesday at 10 PM (boy I sure hope Netflix will instantly upload the episodes immediately after its broadcast). And yesterday and last friday there was no tutor. And that mario vs. sonic debate on Deathbattles I had to go through and put up with (though I am slightly pleasantly surprised that it went a bit better than I expected).

Boy lots of things have been happening this week.

Ciao!

The 4th Of July! (and brief review of Transformers 3 film)

2011-07-04T14:18:00.000-07:00

Well it's the fourth of july, the day of American independence, and I gotta say it's alright. It's the day right before my first day of another summer class (oh joy...), computer science. And this new month is just getting started. Yesterday, I just went to the Botanical Garden and both of my mother's indian friend's hindu temples in my neighborhood before eating at the Vegetarian Buddha restaurant for dinner.

on a related note: Anyways i just went to see the Transformers movie today out of compulsion by my mother and I have to say after sneaking in my last other half piece of my sausage, egg, and cheese (everything - it's a bagel topping) bagel sandwich into the theater, I sat down on my ass in the front seat, since we were out of seats anyways and I just finished the last of my sandwich seeing the beginning parts of the movie. I have to be honest, this is the first live-action transformers film I've seen and i have to say it was overall mediocre, despite having a few dubiously comical moments and dramatic scenes over marital or family issues that rival the ones from prime-time tv sitcoms in an otherwise-serious action-packed film. I just sat there with all the action and talking going on and my mother seemed to just enjoy this film very much, even though she's obviously never seen the original cartoons (which is way better than the live-action movies). I'm also quite surprised that there are two characters in the transformer films that basically amount to nothing more than mildly funny, yet annoying obviously smaller-sized gag or comic relief characters (Wheelie and Brain) in the same vein as Jar Jar Binks from Star Wars.

In short, I give this movie like 2 and a half out of 5 stars. :P

Happy Fourth of July Everyone! May America Be Our Home Forever!

The last day of Digital Photography Class

2011-06-29T14:17:00.001-07:00

That's all i have to say... it was an interesting class and it made me feel a little sad that the class is over and normally at this time, elementary-schoolers, middle-schoolers, and high-schoolers would have finished their year by now and are now outside playing like there's no tomorrow. Gee, I miss those damn days a lot.

right now, i'm still feeling tense over A LOT of things as you can see.

see ya!

PS - I'm about to add Ryan Yang onto my facebook, but am still having trouble seeing if it it was really the one I want!

Super 8 - My Brief Review

2011-06-21T19:03:00.000-07:00

Well I just came back from the theaters and I gotta say I watched a wonderful movie that gave me a rather satisfying night coming home. My mother wanted me and my dad to see this movie and at first I was a bit unsure as to how this movie would turn out for me. My mother also noticed that JJ Abrams directed this film (as well as 2009's Star Trek) and she heard that this movie was a cross between ET and The Goonies.

Now i'm not going to spoil the movie for those who are reading this, but I can tell ya there is a lot of thrills in it going on and it's going to be breath-taking once you put yourselves into the shoes of these six children protagonists going through events mixed with mystery, horror, and a little sci-fi to it. But one thing's for sure, this movie ain't going to end like Battle: Los Angeles.

The post-credits scene was full of lulz and the credit music is just great ("My Sharona" by the Knack was a good choice).

I give this movie like 4 stars.

Good night now!

so many things have been going on...

2011-06-21T08:10:00.000-07:00

well today is the first day of summer and i have to say in the past month i've been taking Digital Photography Class and my pm with ZillaLord is surpisingly going average at best. That and I've been mighty sick and depressed over the past few weeks over how gamers nowadays think any game under T-rating "sucks" and how any video game character that isn't "mature" is weak. And I'm all about animal imagery and cartoons/toonforcers nowadays. you know, kids stuff are actually awesome and strong if you look past things, whereas a lot of adult is too boring and serious as well. So much to do... so much to see... so much wro... ah forget the lyrics of Smashmouth's "Only Shooting Stars Break the Mold".

That's all for now.

My brief review on X-Men: First Class!

2011-06-10T21:37:00.000-07:00

Well I have to say the movie was pretty satisfying and it was great to see the origin of the X-Men heroes and villians starting from a historical viewpoint (namely Occupied Poland in 1944 for Magneto). Even though Wolverine only briefly appeared in the movie at a scene in the pub, it was still an extraordinarily satisfying movie. The way they both get their revenge at each other and protecting Mutants from humankinds, be it Americans or Soviets.

The movie has it all and boy I couldn't be more thrilled after watching all of it. I never knew Emma Frost was this smokin' hot until now. :D

I give it 4 out of 5 stars.

PS - On two OFF-TOPIC notes:

Today's the first time I've worn my sandals outside in 2011 and also the first time I went to YMCA to go swimming, which has been a long while since like 2001 or something like that. Talk about years dude!

I also knew I forgot to say this, but on June 7th, it was the first day of Digital Photography (my summer course for this month) and I've been taking quite a few pictures for my assignments.

It's June....

2011-06-02T13:09:00.001-07:00

well it looks like i'm almost reaching the middle of the year 2011 and i have to say I got a shot on the arm with three vaccines in one (one of them is to protect you from being cut from metal), which was actually a bit long over-due, and I also got a new Samsung cellphone, this time with a keypad and since I don't follow up too much on handheld technology, i am not too sure what the model is called... but it's Samsung and Verizon. I could try and get used to the new ringtone and i probably woduln't make too much of the new features that my previous phone (which I still have) didn't have. Boy i'm kinda a few years behind when it comes to keeping up with possession of advanced consumer technology. It's like I'm a man living in the early 21st century who's stuck in the late 19th century to mid-2th century. xD

Happy Memorial's Day!

2011-05-30T17:40:00.001-07:00

I'd like to wish everyone here a happy memorial day weekend! As the month is about to draw to a close, I'd like to say that I just saw Pirates of the Carribean: On Stranger Tides at theatres. Despite being the only movie I could pick without being really bored with no other choice, i have to say the movie was satisfyingly great and it kinda went above my expectations a bit. The mermaid in the movie was a bit cute and beautiful and it was touching that in the end she... okay not going to spoil the movie for you guys. Though seeing a lot of swashbuckling pirates fight was enough to make my day at the theatre. Well that's all I can say for now!

Bye!

The Taiwanese Festival!

2011-05-29T14:50:00.000-07:00

Well it's been four years since I have last been to the Taiwanese festival in Manhattan on a spring-summer season. Instead of going with my mother, I've gone today with my father and I have to say it was a great experience. I've went in there and witnessed lots of great stuff in there, such as shaved ice and milk tea drink as well as many ornaments, antiques, and merchandise from Taiwan. For lunch, i've eaten pork on rice and some molasses honey sandwiched by two square crackers and of course an angus bacon and cheese third pounder (if that's what it's called) with fries at McDonalds. I also played a relatively easy hoop game for a dollar and had ten rings and with all three rings successfully thrown in, I got myself three drinks (3 apple ciders in that case, which is a popular apple-flavored soda or cider among Taiwanese and parts of China/Asia) as a prize.

I also briefly witnessed a pretty great concert with Taiwansese rappers and musicians playing their songs and musics to celebrate their Taiwanese pride and heritage with this white American/Western girl with brown hair as a hostess of the concert and she speaks very great Mandarin with the crowd (if only I wondered what her ancestry was) and I also found out that one of the musicians in the concert rapped very well and that he was born in Switzerland and was of Swiss and Taiwanese ancestry and became a popular singer in Beijing and there was also another DJ who was Taiwanese.

I also looked at some of the signs which marks the coming 100th anniversary of the Taiwan Republic. And I also met members of the Tzu Chi Buddhist Foundation somewhere in the corner of the festival and on my way out I have carried two brochures of Golfing in Taiwan and also the native peoples of Taiwan.

After leaving Manhattan back to Flushing, I stumbled upon another festival (though I don't exactly know what it was celebrating, but one woman told me it was a festival to commemorate the honorary death of the Jews across all time periods) and I had quite a nice conversation with her knowing an interesting fact that she was born in Taiwan to parents of Polish and German ancestry during the Second World War and how she married a husband of Taiwanese descent and I also bought an Empanada from one of the food stands to save for home on the way back.

And boy was I sweating like a frickin' pig already with my shirt being wet and sticky, so I took a good shower to wash myself nice and clean and here I am uploading all the films I took on my Kodak zi8 and then typing all of this on the blog through my laptop about my entire day so far.

Ciao! Have a great summer people!

Yes... The End of the Semester!

2011-05-26T14:09:00.000-07:00

Well as usual just a brief, yet supposedly exciting announcement that after taking that final Art History III exam (God, studying that was a pain in the ass!), I have to say I'm glad that I'm done with the semester and ready for summer vacation!

Also I just saw the movie "Thor" (based on the Marvel superhero, not the original Norse god if you don't know what I'm talking about) and it was good I guess.

Two things to say...

2011-05-21T14:21:00.000-07:00

1. I just finished my last day at Digital Moviemaking class. Boy it was such a fun class and I showed them my final vid and whatnot. I'm going to miss that class.

2. I keep hearing some rumors about the end of the world (or as we christians call it, the rapture) this coming midnight. If it's really true, i feel like my life may be coming to a close and I might feel like repenting a lot tonight. God Bless.

I've got nothing more to say, except that this semester is almost ending.

Happy Belated Mother's Day

2011-05-10T21:08:00.001-07:00

damn i'm probably two days late to say this, but happy mother's day to everyone!

The Death of Osama Bin Laden?

2011-05-01T21:28:00.000-07:00

Well spring break's been over for almost a week now and here I am typing... right on my laptop on an internet forum where comic/fictional characters are being discussed and right away I've bumped into "OT: Osama is Dead!". Having browsed through the topic, I have initially thought it was just a rumor, but after seeing the news, I have to say that I'm very surprised that after for so long, we've managed to finally catch him. This news is to me, kinda like Michael Jackson's death in 2009 (which I didn't expect so soon), but only difference is that this is something for all Americans to rejoice over! No offense to islam and the good-hearted muslims/arabs out there, but we finally killed the shithead mastermind behind all of these gruesome and saddening attacks. First Adolf Hitler, then Joseph Stalin, then Pablo Escobar, then Saddam Hussein, and finally Osama Bin Laden is down! Although I strangely did not jump up all excited over this, I sure eventually will feel proud that America has apparently won the "War on Terror". Though I suspect it will not be quite over yet and even then... who's going to be the next enemy of America?

God Bless America!

Easter Sunday!

2011-04-24T19:53:00.001-07:00

Towards the end of my Spring Break is Easter Sunday! And I have to say that this is a very special day! Since it's Easter! Though it's a bit ironic to some of you christians that my church does not celebrate easter, christmas, and other holidays they would, if modestly, deem a "pagan tradition".

Just here to say, thank you to all! Bye now!

Btw, I just watched Ponyo: Off the Cliff of the Sea on DVD yesterday! Such a magical movie and man during the last decade I have watched a hayao miyazaki film three times (and owned three of them on DVD)... Spirited Away in 2003... Howl's Moving castle in 2006... Ponyo: Off the Cliff of the Sea in 2009. I wonder what's the next hayao miyazaki for 2012? Perhaps fourth will be a charm. Miyazaki never disappoints (at least so far).

Spring Break!

2011-04-21T20:22:00.000-07:00

Well okay maybe I'm nearly a week late to be announcing this, but I figure after patching up the state of my pm convo's with ZillaLord (about time!) and getting my spring break! I have to say it's one hell of a blast! Though I had to be swamped by 2-3 days of work concerning my Critique paper from Art History III about chinoiserie in 18th-Century Great Britain, it was worth the torture to see my Zilla back in action. For Friday, I guess I'm going to be heading to the Cloisters in Manhattan and then Rockefeller Center (Nintendo World, since I couldn't visit it on this past New Year's Day) and finally Museum of Modern Art to find exotic paintings for my Looking Paper! My goodness, What A Great 11 Days, eh? See ya!

Holy crap... It's Jackie Chan's 57th Birthday!

2011-04-07T19:26:00.001-07:00

Well okay I'm not truly a big fan of Jackie Chan (though I did enjoy his movies and his animated series years ago), but when I was doing my Drivers License assignment for tomorrow's typography course, I happened to be doing Jackie Chan for my first spread and it just so happened that today was his birthday! It's a coincidence that it's his birthday AND that is the fake issue date (month and day anyway) that I happen to be assigning him. What a great honor, i think i'll be doing bruce lee for my next spread. See ya!

Nintendo 3DS...

2011-04-05T09:44:00.000-07:00

I've been an avid fan of Nintendo for long time and what makes me feel uneasy or worried is that their 3DS is kinda receiving some negative reception from some reviewers and I have to say I hope this doesn't deter Nintendo's position as market leader in both the console market and handheld market. Sadness is me.

I can only hope that time is on Nintendo's side.

Hey guys I have a confession to make...

2011-04-01T17:41:00.000-07:00

I'm really a girl from a foreign country that is disabled and has a very very ugly face and I want to hug you all! And also I hope my herpes and other nasty diseases doesn't affect you past your skin at all. And also the most shocking truth is...

YOU JUST GOT APRIL FOOL'D! xD xD xD

okay okay yeah my april fool's joke was a little corny and last-minute, but it's the best I could come up with on the spot for an annual tradition like this.

Well March passed and boy was it a rough month with two tests and whatnot and my friend Zilla, still hasn't pm'd me back yet. What a bummer. :(

Edit - Oh and Youtube had a 1911 button for every youtube vid for a day as an easter egg and now they have to take it away from us just like they did the vuvuzela button! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! Why must fate give us something cool and then immediately take it away from us just to mock us and watch us squirm?! WHY GOD?! WHY?!

See ya!

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

2011-03-17T18:51:00.000-07:00

Yeah nothing much to say except it's been four years since I have gotten the Wii and you know what. Irish Pride to everyone out there!

Two horrible things...

2011-03-16T13:52:00.000-07:00

For one, I had never imagined the tsunami to come and damage much of northern Japan. One of my favorite countries in the world shattered by a time like this, even though I've always knew they had a reptutation for going through so many natural disasters. It's no surprise that those bastards at Westboro Baptist Church are writing a picket and protest against Japan for being a "filthy fag nation". The bastards...

For two, my maternal grandmother is currently suffering from Alzheimer and my mom doesn't know how much time she has left and while we were eating cereal for breakfast as usual on weekday mornings, my mother cried silently as she talked on the phone. Poor her and poor me... I really pray that my maternal grandmother will get better and live for at least 10 more years.

For three, err... I got a BALA test tomorrow and boy the whole world is just getting really fvcked up at this point. Oh the humanity...

sigh A Screwed-Up Night To Thee...

2011-03-10T10:12:00.000-08:00

Sorry for not having updated in quite a while, i had so many busy things going on in the past month. Anyways, just last night I was about to have fun watching an old classic animated movie "Animal Farm" on youtube, my parents just happened to find out about a strike I got from my Graphic Design professor on my college email for surfing online for my own entertainment (three strikes = tardiness = lower grade), despite the fact that my dad warned me about it strictly and being the laid-back person I am, I didn't took it too seriously, since I felt a bit overconfident about evading punishment for trangressions that I believe to be otherwise-bloodless or even extremely minor. But as always, I had to learn stuff like these the hard and upsetting way as my dad let loose an angry tirade with me for the rest of the night. And not expecting such an offline equivalent to a shitstorm to happen, I was a bit disappointed and even overwhelmed that I got grounded from surfing the internet for the duration of the night and while I know what I did was a bit reckless and crazy, I felt the sting of bitter shock and the poison of cruel irony as if I have almost been fated to revisit a calibre of punishment and trouble like this since the elementary school years (where my mom used to bar me from playing my SNES and computer on weekends if I didn't get all the good stickers in class and behaved, while my other peers seemed to get off much more lightly like the US did from World War II, boy it sucked.) It's not that I didn't want to discipline myself and produce more effort to stay out of trouble, but it's the old bondage and imprisonment of harsh standards of conduct and penalty that I used to feel as a kid had come back to haunt me. In the recent past years, I thought just about everything's softened up for me and that as long as I didn't do bad things like falsely setting the fire alarm, breaking windows, doing graffiti, and pissing in my professor's cup of milk and calling it orange juice, that I'm in the blue. But that doesn't seem to be the case anymore, sadly.

A screwed-up night that was. It almost changes my life in a way. I could go into more detail, but I'm a bit too depressed and anticipated for other things right now. See ya.

Happy Valentine's Day along with a few other things...

2011-02-14T15:43:00.000-08:00

Well today is Valentine's Day (which I was only aware of when I got into my Graphic Design Class at 1:40 PM with my professor handing out Herschey Kisses), but there's nothing much I can really say about this special day other than it's the day where couples or boyfriends/girlfriends fall in love with each other like no tomorrow.

Also i might have been several days late on this, but last Thursday was the day that I finally joined the OBD (for those of you who don't know, it's a forum on a board called Naruto Fan Forums called Outskirts Battledome) under the name "Asassin" under the request of two guys from there (and animeforums, which I how contacted the following peoople) Solidfalcon and ShikiYakumo.

For over two and a half years, I've been doing nothing more than just lurking and lurking in the OBD without anyone's notice to see different (and perhaps more correct/accurate/favorable) opinions and stances on my favorite fictional universes/characters and I did notice quite a few major differences there from the CBR (where I have been posting since Feb. 2009). Over the course of that time, i've witnessed just about every major event take place and the rise and fall of many notorious posters (like Raigen) in the OBD. When I first joined there, I thought 2.5 years of lurking would finally pay off, but it didn't as I was too stammeringly obsessed and nervous with Mario/Nintendo's stance in the forums and I got my first neg by none other than the famous EndlessMike for questioning his motives of making a spite thread against certain fictions (usually ones that are, to degrees, reviled or rejected by the majority) like Touhou and supposedly for "sucking up to him" and that he doesn't need another "pitlord-koon" in his forums. But at least I've made a few good friends, though it will be a while before I get fully customed to being a member in the OBD just like I did in CBR and MvC.

Now i'm not going to get into any more detail here, but on another note, I got my first Mac laptop as well as my Kodak Zi8 for my Digital Moviemaking class last Saturday and no earlier than last Monday, respectively. My my technology certainly is changing faster than my mind and heart can adapt. :P

That is all for now. See ya later!

Happy 100th Chinese New Year!

2011-02-02T15:46:00.000-08:00

Well folks I gotta say this day (though otherwise a bit depressing) is one of the most special days I've ever witnessed in my life. Not only is this just another Chinese New Year's Eve, but this is the 100th anniversary of one. What's special is that a hundred years ago from this day, it was both the formation of Taiwan (though technically that wouldn't be until October or next January 1st, so it's the Wuchang uprisings) and disestablishment of the Qing Dynasty and the line of all long-running ancient dynasties of China.

My my, over the past hundred years, my ancestors had to put up with Western powers imposing their language and cultural influence on us, the Cultural Revolution and the damn Red army, the bastard Japanese colonialists both pre-WWII and WWII, and the start of a Communist regime where a lot of our precious artifacts and other parts of our culture had been burned down by the evil degenerate shithead Mao Zedong.

For the night, we went to Apple Bee's for dinner and nothing else special. To all the Chinese and Chinese diaspora out there, shin nian qui lu (if my pinyin is correct)!

My First Day of Class (Upper Sophomore)

2011-01-28T16:20:00.000-08:00

Well i wake up one morning and bam what do you know it feels like a half-day, but wait, that's the sound of an afternoon class coming up. i've been at my laptop reading up threads on forums and then eating my left-over fried rice with left-over popeye chicken (the fried rice my mother makes is sadly not same as the awesome and zesty kind you eat at your local chinese take-outs, so I had to put much ketchup and butter on it) and then without taking my ritalin for the first day, I get on my way to the bus and when it stopped at a highway near a gas station, i had to immediately get off there and run myself over across the street and into the hall of Kiely in order to find my classroom "107", but I had to scale the floor for the room over and over until I found out it wasn't Kiely, it was Klapper that I had run to, so then I dashed into the building and into the classroom which happened to be the same one I took for Graphic Design in the Fall 2010 Semester. And there I was on my computer registering for the class blog and then I was assigned by the teacher to work on my paper/homework on human markings from 2500-1500 B.C. in history. After a long day from class, I was thirsty and thought I had money for the vending machine for drinks, i looked for any $1 or $2 dollar bills in my bookbag, but turned out I had only a $20 bill and I couldn't afford to using that much of my savings for just a soda from the vending machine, so I held it in and found more pictures for my project (while surfing on the internet casually) and then after class, I took a great drink of from the water fountain and then headed home for the night where I would expect to have a nice halal food for dinner after my long day at class. My class seemed to be okay for now, but the saturday class is another to come.

see ya later.

What a depressing last day...

2011-01-27T17:23:00.000-08:00

the night before my new semester starts and here I am... my pm friend still hasn't responded and i'm both anticipated and un-anticipated for the pm response... I'm only on my second-to-last chapter of InDesign... my faith in religious Gods omnipotence is now on a turbulent road... my fun in the past few days turning into a horrid combination of boredom and worry... and my head is starting to hurt a little...

My goodness. I just hope when I get past the first day, everything is going to be alright.

The end of Drama & Theatre Class...

2011-01-24T20:56:00.000-08:00

The end of a wonderful winter course... boy I learned a lot of things during my stay there and saw many wonderful vids of plays and such. I tell ya, it was the greatest interrum I had between Fall 2010 Semester and the upcoming Spring 2011 Semester.

I just took my final quiz which covered Theatre in the late 19th to early 20th Century and I hope I really did well.

And as bittersweet as it felt to be coming home after my last day at a great winter course, I felt like I could look forward to the next three days of vacation all to myself and also worried that afterwards it's the start of my next formal semester (Upper Sophomore) this coming Friday and boy do I feel tense.

And as if the tenseness wasn't great enough, my worry over "Tales of" has slightly resurfaced at the moment after a year and a half when someone posted an argument of how "Tales of" would win against the Touhou in Tales of vs. Touhou (which really saddens me since I really like the touhouverse and it's quite sad that it gets underestimated and hated frequently by some people). Not that I necessarily have anything against the Tales of series in itself (though I used to hate it A LOT and with vitrolic rage back in late 2008 and early 2009, but much of it has gradually decreased since June/July 2009), but from my former bittersweet-turned-sour experiences with rekku and that hatred of the "Tales" series that directly connected to it and that "Nintendoverse vs. Tales ofverse" back in moviecodec (a versus board I used to fear with my whole life) was worse and boy I dare not re-open up that can of worms. I really want/think Touhou should stomp tales onto the ground. Yukari Yakumon's reality warping FTW!

And then there's that issue of Mario again where I was surfing on Tvtropes finding out that Mario is the only platform hero left who's prime specialty of killing enemies is jumping on them. I believe there's also punch, kick, and spin attack as his other basic means of attack as per Super Mario 64. Gosh, I wish the Mario series would bring back the punch/kick button for the future platforming games or perhaps any action-rpg game if they make one. And not to mention Mario vs. Sonic, which while not very hot or big at the current moment, is still a horror to behold.

I also had trouble sleeping in my own bedroom last week due to the creepy horrors of that Suicide Mouse.avi vid I saw on youtube, which gave me effing nightmares and I had to stay away from it for a few days in order to finally sleep normally on my own again. And I've been reading up a lot on TvTrope's High Octane Nightmare Fuel section and tvtropes in general (i haven't been surfing on tvtropes this enthusiastically since early-to-mid 2009).

and last, but not least, the issue of religious Gods (which i absolutely love, especially Yahweh, the christian/judeo God) being omnipotent/invincible or not compared to fiction and sadly more recently toonforcers being the strongest characters in fiction have been bugging me quite A LOT in the past two weeks.

oh yeah and my best pm friend, ZillaLord, has school tomorrow and isn't going to be on the comp as much to talk with me on the pm, which sounds like January 2010 when the power in his apartment struggled. i find this all to be so sad.

Typing all of this, this song (Arabesque #1 by Claude Debussy): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWpV7L4YHuU keeps playing in my head and I feel nothing but sadness and loneliness after emotions spilling out tears after tears. my mother was right about certain sadnesses never getting old as time goes on and that song connects to my feelings very well.

And Chinese New Year is coming up and it's been a century since China has ended its last ancient dynasty in 1911 due to European imperialism and the nation of Taiwan has just formed in separation to the Mainland.

Well that's all I have to say for now. See ya! Good night.

Happy belated Martin Luther King Day

2011-01-18T21:13:00.001-08:00

Yeah I was about a day or two late for posting this, but it's all I can do and it's obvious what Martin Luther King Day is all about. Hail racial equality and rights and a good holiday! This Has Been "Black History Month", y'all! :)

PS - Class was cancelled today and it looks like tomorrow will be the quiz for me.

You Know What Pisses Me Off? 3

2011-01-06T14:24:00.000-08:00

Welcome to yet another series of "You Know What Pisses Me Off?" right here in this blog. Today's topic is "Derailing Topics or Purposes of Any Discussion Relating To Favorites or What Is The Best?" or to put it simply "Trolling Respect Threads".

The one thing that annoys or enrages me to absolutely no ends is whenever I say "someting is the best" in a topic that is meant to appreciate that very thing, someone else has to butt in and disagree and formulate an opposing opinion thus ruining the whole thing. For example, back on my haven of wiidom forum, I created a "Chinese mythology appreciation thread" and I simply said that "Chinese is the best mythology ever" in my own thread and some dude, hamboy (or M. Bison) had the galls to come in and say "no it isn't... anglo-saxon, viking, or celtic is teh best" and then he goes on to say how only "Journey to the West is epic" and nothing else, but I regret not silencing him with "This is supposed to be a respect thread for Chinese mythology, which means no getting into threads and then saying something else is better!". I mean seriously, shouldn't he have saved his opinion for another topic like "which mythology do you think is the best?". It's kinda really bloody frustrating and annoying to put up with. I mean, that's just borderline trolling there and even though I'm not shy to admit that I've had some trollish history of my own, I would never ever, in my sane mind, do something like that to any respect thread or fanclub. It's just baffling I tell ya.

The same goes for anything else... if I were to make a Superman respect/appreciation thread or fan club on any board and someone goes in says "Zomg Goku can fry his ass!" or "Silver Surfer is way better than him!" and all that shit, I would just punch that person's face in real life if I ever saw him. *sigh*

And not to mention when I ask for "[insert company-brand here] characters only" in threads like "strongest Nintendo character", you know what they frickin' give me? Other irrelevant characters from other companies that have nothing to do with what my opening post requests. -__- I MEAN COME ON, HOW FUCKING HARD IS TO FOR YOU TO READ THE OP AND THINK OF NINTENDO CHARACTERS ONLY FOR AT LEAST ONE POST?!

And this is like me going into an ethnic neighborhood or a gay bar and shouting "How dare you all be [insert ethnicity here] or homosexual!" when it's clearly meant for something else and for some certain absolute things, people have to go out of their way to simply derail its original and intended purpose just to dick around and be the total infuriating idiots they are.

This is Supera, signing out.

My first day in Drama/Theatre course

2011-01-05T19:56:00.000-08:00

Well it's not only the first day of a new class, but a whole new year and it's past my third day of class already. And unlike political science class last year, the first day started off completely different and cynical for me. And without getting into details, I learn some nice stuff about drama & theatre such as its terminology, how myth relates to a broadway show, and we watched documentaries each day (Spiderman on Broadway and Art Of Outrage for Monday, ancient Greece for Tuesday, and Medea for Wednesday). I have to say it's nice so far.

that's all i can say for now.

Happy New Year's Day! (2011 Edition)

2011-01-01T14:20:00.000-08:00

Well I just crossed over to the next year right in Cindy's/Alex's house (Cindy is my mom's friend and mother of my friend Alex) seeing the ball drop. Then I had headed back home in slight disappointment and boredom, seeing as last year's new year's eve had more flare to it and all that was on my mind was Spice Girls (man I sure wished I had gone to their concerts in the past several years).

And then the next morning, I flip out of bed at 9 AM (despite still feeling tired) and went to the bathroom to urinate, brush my teeth, and wash my face before heading to my living room to see what's on TV (or Saturday morning blocks nowadays since I last left due to the Saturday schedules of comparative literature course) and almost everything was regular as usual other than the fact that the kid's cartoon blocks (ABC Kids, CW4kids/Toonzai, and Cookie Jar TV) have been pushed about an hour or two later after broadcasts of the news programs. And to my surprise, no HoneyMooners on yet. And then we shortly had breakfast while I watched a little of bit of the "King Arthur" episode for "Search For Myths and Heroes" on World (another PBS channel) and headed to Manhattan to see some sights.

i originally wanted to go to Nintendo World, except they closed due to my immediately acquired knowledge of their closure on Holidays (ie new years day) and so I went around the block to see other stuff such as the skating rink and the NBC studio place and afterwards I had lunch at Manchu Wok and a desert from Ben & Jerry's (i ordered something similar to a milkshake with strawberries, mixed berries, and sprinkles blended inside) and then we all drove back home and here I am! Feeling all tired and slammed, I felt like taking a shower and coming back typing this.

What a way to spend the new year's day, eh?

That's all for now. Smell ya later. Wow this is the 222nd post! Triple 2!

Happy New Year's Eve... (2010-2011)

2010-12-31T16:33:00.000-08:00

Here I was typing on my laptop reminscing everything that has happened this past year. I know i could have done my year in review the same fashion as last year's, but this time I was busy compiling a song/poem version of it for my internet friend, ZillaLord/BS Digital Q and I was in a rush, so I have no time to make something like that, but this will be close enough, though it's mostly personal stuff for myself and what happened on my internet life, so stuff like the Haiti Earthquake, the pollution of the Gulf of Mexico, David Cameron being Britain's new prime minister, etc. won't be mentioned, unless they were popular as an internet meme...

Well here's my 2010 Year in Review Just Like I Promised You and it'll be to the tune of a mix of "The Entertainer" by Scott Joplin and "We Didn't Start the Fire" By Billy Joel:

Of the years that have passed in time for men...
Oh there has never been one like two-thousand-and-ten...

I was strolling at Queen's mall!
Just thinking about the decade 'was all!
I was a large enthusiast of classic anime like Slayers, Ah! My Goddess, and Tenchi Muyo...
I really knew those three series were surely the way to... GO!
Megaversal Amalgam Brothers...
My fear and hatred of Kratos, Ratchet & Clank, and all of Sony's others...
I was thinking about classic series that should go on...
Such as Mega man, Mario, and Pokemon...
How they should all continue to prosper and thrive...
Until the Earth ends and loses all of its jive...

I didn't start the flame war, the oil was already burning... for soviet's driven cars... (reference to the overused "In Soviet Union..." meme)

I expressed my love for Lord of Nightmares...
But it seemed like you didn't want to care...
so you took every opportunity to downplay her...
by saying that her omniscience and power are all blur...
It seemed like this year I was so fascinated...
with true omnipotents like Kami-Tenchi and LoN, though they're sometimes much debated...
The Chousin and the tenci crew were all so exceedingly beautiful and cute...
If they were in my room, I'd rock and roll just for them and play a nice flute...

I didn't start the flame war, the oil was already burning... for soviet's driven cars...

And I also became worried about Nintendo and their characters like Mario...
About how significantly their power and feats at his rate would grow...
And not to mention the announcement of XenoBlade...
The fact that Nintendo owns Monolith Soft is just so damn great!
Is this finally the year where they get to have a slice...
Of the Xeno- pie just like Square and Namco, wouldn't that be nice?
Would the nintendo-verse finally gets its own Wave Existence's or U-DO's?
That would be awesome, but really, who knows?
And also the Last Story and FlingSmash...
Would they be useful powers for Nintendo or just simply trash?

I didn't start the flame war, the oil was already burning... for soviet's driven cars...

Also, I watched a lot of Tin-Tin and SuperBook...
The latter is just a great Christian anime for all to watch and look...
Eukaria's Paraphernalia Wagon was just pretty weird and creepy...
It makes the childhood in you go all crazy and weepy...
Oh noes the Grinch is going to get me!
Better hope he doesn't put me in his wagon thee...
On another note, my anger and frustration for Mario being underestimated has just risen and raged...
I thought that all of the Mario vs. Sonic debates have really aged...
But I was wrong and boy did it get a lot worse...
It's all as if my whole fandom and life was itself huge of curse...
I felt it was time to combat the threats of Mario's stance in any versus board...
To prove to all that among video game characters, Mario is the top overlord...
But without getting into much detail for now, it was sadly all too real...
Btw, I loved listening to Josh Groban's "Per Te" and "Si Volverias A Mi"...
Josh Groban songs in Italian and Spanish made feel so joyful and happy...

I didn't start the flame war, the oil was already burning... for soviet's driven cars...

Surfing on Moviecodec, I see a topic about the Disney...
Getting underestimated and bashed, such comforting baloney...
It makes me feel that my favorites aren't alone...
Cause up against msot universes, both Disney and Nintendo would greatly pwn!
But are sadly underrated by many...
I just wish Mario and all of Nintendo were regularly defended by any...
Just to let you know, Mario knows a martial art called Plumb-Fu.
And he's definitely not afraid to use it on YOU!!!!

I didn't start the flame war, the oil was already burning... for soviet's driven cars...

Meanwhile, the overrated spartan, Kratos finally bit the dust...
After months of threatening the Nintendo-verse and giving me grief or bust...
And it's all thanks to a powerful half-demon named Dante...
Whom which guys like Arceus and the Dragon Trio could easily own for daily pay...
I felt much happier than all the returned soldiers after World War II...
Where all the kissing nurses in Time Square were there for you...
But sadly nintendoverse's triumph was celebrated all too short and little...
When the Nameless from Everquest II, Ratchet & Clank, and LittleBigPlanet all showed up and gave me the grittles...
Nintendo vs. Sony just can't seem to stop raging...
This could go on forever, but the powers on both sides keep changing...
A greater can of worms there has never been...
It seemed like a massive ongoing war that I couldn't (easily) win...
And my troubles didn't stop there...
and the following thing is one thing I unthinkably couldn't bear...
That is Slayers vs. Digimon, when I saw Lord of Nightmares lose againt ZeedMilleniummon in the OBD, i was like "What the Fu-"
I mean come on, seriously, that's total bullsh!t, how the hell can a true omnipotent in a sexy black dress and blonde hair lose to that lame multiverse-busting lizard...
She would have used her shovel to rape the hell out of Zeed and turn the Digi-verse into piles of raw digital meat and gizard!
So much skirmish between members on the OBD!
It's so sad that we have to see the fall of MFG!

I didn't start the flame war, the oil was already burning... for soviet's driven cars...

And the OBD made a tier-list, with Slayers below Xenogears/Xenosaga and Digimon, seriously now that's just more bullshit...
This is just more crap and garbage than my stomach and brain can pit...
Lord of Nightmare's apparent descension from "true omnipotent" status in the OBD really took a devastating quake on my perception of truth and reality...
And things didn't exactly go much better for Kami-Tenchi, the Chousin, and the Light Hawk Wings...
And seriously the overpowered-as-shit mech Demonbane, where do all the insane writers smoking pot come up with all these things?
And now that thing is destroying comic gods like Galactus, Eternity, Mad Jim Jaspers, and even Lucifer Morningstar!
I mean come on, you might as well as make the TTGL's damn overpowered cousin become a true omnipotent!
Shin Megami Tensei... Xenogears and Xenosaga...
And all that anime vs. video games crap and blah blah blah...
In the mean time, I went to Martha Vineyards, Cape Cod, and Plymouth for summer vacation!
I mean all those fantastic historical sites were just worth all my adoration!

I didn't start the flame war, the oil was already burning... for soviet's driven cars...

Deadliest Warrior Season 2 just premiered as i anticipate...
Watching Spetsnaz vs. IRA was just too epic and great!
So was spartan vs. samurai, but to a lesser extent...
Swat vs. GSG-9 was good, but the same amount of epic it did not lent...
Alexander the Great vs. Attila the Hun was okay...
But when Deadliest Warriors took off all the full episode vids on their site, that was really GAY!
I have been watching the whole season from the end of my second semester... to my June art class!
And I couldn't wait to see all the new warriors such as my favorite "CIA vs. KGB" for the CIA to avenge the Green Berets against the Spetsnaz and kick some more ass...
So I had to wait 2 weeks after each episode's broadcast for the rest of the summer...
And the loss of Sun Tzu, the Ming, and the Mongol was all a huge bogus and bummer!

I didn't start the flame war, the oil was already burning... for soviet's driven cars...

I went to visit my childhood place, Coney Island at the end of June...
I felt like going there enriched my childhood while it was as dry as a prune...
After the Fourth of July, I was stuck in the hell-hole that was my Western Art History II Class...
I had to go through a gruelling series of studies for my hot sweating ass...
And all the memorization of dates, subject matters, and artists made my head hurt...
But at least I had fun watching episodes of Tenga Toppen Gurren Lagann kicking enemy mechas into the dirt...
And then came my nineteenth Birthday! which turned out to be the worst one of my whole life...
Since it took place in the last week of class where I had to study for the final exam. So much pain and strife...
My whole pm with you, ZillaLord, has took a tremendous nose-dive into the brinks of hell...
It was that very particular moment that made my internet life of much of the rest of this year not so swell...
For me, it became a period of great chaos and imbalance...
Like the internet pm version of the Great Depression, only with more personal disturbance...
it also didn't help that I learned from you about the future Islamization of Europe that I hear...
It was the most horrifying and dejecting truth i had known about the past year...
And i could go on, but I'd be wasting precious time...
I tell you it was all part of really feeling the opposite of sublime...
My whole perception of reality fell apart even worse...
Was there any panacea for this deadly seeping curse?
But hey at least I had fun mocking Vuvuzelas from the South African World Cup...
They were noisy annoying instruments worth verbally screwing up!

I didn't start the flame war, the oil was already burning... for soviet's driven cars...

Class was over, I got House of the Dead: Overkill and Super Mario Galaxy 2...
I tell you SMG2 was a great game and it didn't disappoint too...
Speaking of disappointment, the Comanche vs. Mongol episode really sucked and blew.
And i packed my bags for Canada for five days...
We went through upstate New York and from the Niagara Falls to Quebec and Montreal through all ways.
Though it's a shame i never got to try their "poutine", which was one of the things in canada waiting for me on my bag and trays.
And back from the Ausable Chasm, it was all a great trip, but upon return to home, more troubles brewed...
I had a short-lived flamewar with Francietangli over Ming vs. Musketeer with a fierce and unkind attitude...
I tell you francietangli was one of the biggest trolls and idiots i've seen on youtube...
Though I was glad to him in other debates on other Youtube vids getting verbally raped by more intelligent guys without lube...
Then the last episode of Us Navy Seals vs. Israeli Commando was uploaded onto Spike's website...
I watched through the whole episode, but the simulation in the end wasn't to my expectations as exciting or bright...
And thus ended Deadliest Warriors Season 2 in sheer anti-climactic disappointment and depression...
Seriously what were Max Geiger, Geoff Dessmoulin, Armand Dorian, and all the experts smoking?
All the weapons and other stuff that crippled Sun Tzu, the mongol, the ming... were they really joking?
But at least the Knight and Alexander the Great were also undeservedly gimped...
So it's all in good company for warriors who were to supposed to win on account of being so historically pimped...

I didn't start the flame war, the oil was already burning... for soviet's driven cars...

I went to Coney Island again, one Friday, to have all the fun...
It was great to have an excellent day in an otherwise shitty two months of studying in the sun...
For one day, i felt like I was not only reliving my childhood...
But I was on top of the whole world and that was so fricking good...
The Office tv show came on and it was lately on my mind all the time...
Dunder-Mifflin was an interesting fictional place for those see it every time they had a dime.
But as the summer closed... my sophomore year of college began...
And on the first night of the first day, I went to eat at King China Buffet for dinner, which was grand...
And my pm with you, ZillaLord, is starting to recover bit by bit...
And I had hoped that our pm in the next several months would return to being a glorious hit...
Battles between historical warriors really bothered me at that time.
And so much pain had to be healed...
Otherwise my optimism and hopefulness would have been repealed...

I didn't start the flame war, the oil was already burning... for soviets driven cars...

The "Triple Asian Losses" have been waned...
But that didn't necessarily end the pain...
I once again had to go through a few more months of seeing Mario underestimated...
I feel like the pride and strength of my childhood is unrightly violated...
and the Mario vs. Sonic debate still raged on...
and I wanted to make my argument about how Mario would own Sonic with the right brains and brawn...
And i enjoyed styling my argument off Banhammer's defense for Mickey Mouse against Bugs Bunny...
Which had striking similarities to Mario vs. Sonic, which is somewhat funny...
But I won't be getting into details, since I've explained it all...
Instead I could be talking about how I could have bought those christmas gifts at the shopping mall...
And Thanksgiving was pretty great and right before it, I joined the MovieCodec Vs Forums under Power Switch...
You'd think that joining that forum and debating with the friends in favor of Mario and Nintendo would be a bitch...

I didn't start the flame war, the oil was already burning... for soviet's driven cars...

For the rest of the year, i contemplated about how Mario could have been stronger and more loved/respected...
But it's a real shameful reality to know that originals don't always win against all younger rivals as expected...
And the fact that debates like this have been around since 2004 makes it all the more horrifying and worse...
It's as if that shitty year 2004 had been the origin and source of all my terrible curse...
And i wish I could have said that Mario would have murdered that prick "Assassin" from pokemonsux.com's guestbook with a mere jump on his head or a good punch to the face...
To not only show that Mario is better than him and reigns supreme, but to end all mario haters/trollers, they're an utter disgrace...
I went to Scranton, Pennyslvania for a skiing trip and it wasn't half-bad...
Though it's a shame to know that the latter half of this year was mostly depressing, frustrating, and sad...
But at least I had spectacular moments of the past year such as meeting Hideo Kojima, the man of Konami, on June 11th at Best Guy...
Game Designers like him make great games and they're just my kind of guy!
And Spice Girls and There Will Be Brawl were two things that were on my mind by the end of this year...
Overall, 2010 was a huge changing year filled with sweet moments and crappy ones that sheds fire and tears...

that's all.

Well I'm Home.

2010-12-26T23:05:00.001-08:00

It's been three days since I have left home for Scranton, Pennsylvania and I just watched through a movie of "The King's Speech" at Cinemark and had pizza for lunch and went clothes shopping with my mom and just took an 8-hour long ride back home all tired and haven't eaten any dinner yet. Were it not for the damn snowstorm (which I having waiting for so long otherwise), we would have gotten home by 7 PM.

Well looks like Christmas is kinda over, so there's the New Years to look forward to.

Bye now.

Happy Christmas Day!

2010-12-25T06:43:00.001-08:00

Well here I am in the morning just finished breakfast at my hotel and after turning up the TV a bit, I decided to update this blog shortly to tell everyone a happy christmas day indeed.

PS - I'm going to miss the christmas songs a few days later. :'(

Happy Christmas Eve To Everyone!

2010-12-24T19:33:00.000-08:00

well today was my first day at a skiing resort in Scranton, Pennsylvania. When I first hopped into the car, I wasn't expecting much out of my day, but as i got into Sno Mountain (the resort), I started having some fun skiing on the slopes, including the advanced ones, and along the way I had many many meditative and extensive thoughts about my personal stuff (the versus debates, etc.) and whatnot. You could say all that time for myself while skiing myself up and down was a time to sort through and clear my mind in a magical place far away from home. After skiing, I played a few arcades such as Silent Scope and later on, we on to check our hotel and flipping the TV on, I see what I would figure out a little later to be the recent Street Fighter movie from last year and then we went to a Chinese buffet, where I had stuffed the hell out of myself with 5-6 servings (including the desserts) and afterwards we to see one of three movies of the tourist's choice: Narnia, Tron, and Tangle. I chose Narnia out of my greater interest in one of the most influential modern fantasy-themed series of all time over a remake of an older movie about some digital warriors and another disney adaptation of a classic fairy tale from which you know as Rapunzel. :P Narnia was a pretty great and satisfying movie (the british accents from the kids were kinda cute to be quite honest) and became the second british-produced movie I've enjoyed this year after Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows part 1. Then we hopped back to our hotel and I saw about half of "Fantastic Mr. Fox" on TV only to be interrupted by my sunday school friends to listen to a chapter of the Bible (1 Corinthians) and finish the rest of the movie and here I am typing on my computer after waiting for my parents to finish using the bathroom, eh?

Well Merry Christmas Eve, everyone!

PS - In about a couple of days later, i'm going to be missing all the Christmas on 106.7 FM (NYC).

My First Uploaded Youtube Vid Ever!

2010-12-19T21:40:00.000-08:00

Yup... I never thought I would have actually created my own youtube video since my first time as a youtuber in 2006, but here it is: 10 REASONS WHY MARIO IS WAY BETTER THAN JUSTIN BIEBER! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9n0BVWd-GI

It took me the whole day to create the power point presenation, download windows movie maker 2.1, learn how to use windows movie maker, create the whole storyboard, finding the right music/audio clips, saving the movie file, and finally uploading it onto youtube. Whew!

Now this is something I thought I would have never accomplished. :)

Peace out.

PS - The 50th Blog Post of the Year! That pretty much surpasses the respective total numbers of blog posts I have made in the past years til now.

Merry Christmas!

2010-12-18T14:34:00.000-08:00

It's been almost a month since I had last updated my whole blog, folks, yeah I know I've been really stressed out with a lot of things lately and i've been busy patching the last remnants of my college work load.

well just to say a few things:

1) Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows part 1 was quite a great movie and I had fun watching it with a lot of my old classmates from elementary school and my former teacher, which we've had for six years, Mrs. St. Juste and her husband Brian! As we got into the diner, I met one of my old spunky classmates, mitchell soto, who's face changed a lot since the last I've seen him.

Anyways, Harry potter movies have turned from Sugar Bowl to Dark and Edgy over the course of the last decade. You just gotta like it dudes! I can't wait for part 2! Which will conclude the decade of the Harry Potter-era of films.

2) It's the 25th Annniversary of Super Mario Bros. The one game that not only saved the entire video game industry, but defined the modern platforming genre and came down as the greatest model of all of video gaming in general since Pong and other of Atari's key classics. All hail Mario!

3) Christmas time is almost here and I couldn't be any happier that my semester had just ended with my last day at Comparative Literature class handing in my final paper and a nice conversation with the professor. :D

4) I just got Metroid Other M and Sin & Punishment 2: Star Sucessor for the wii and I'm going skiing this christmas vacation.

Ciao.

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

2010-11-25T13:47:00.000-08:00

well happy thanksgiving everyone! I hope you all have a nice turkey, mashed potatoes, and stuffing. I am about to be off to Cindy's house (Cindy is my mom's friend btw) to have fun with my friends and stuff myself with great thanksgiving dinner (though i hear it will mostly be vegan) for the night. Bye.

You Know What Pisses Me Off? 2

2010-11-23T18:16:00.000-08:00

This is like a follow-up to my other post (sort of). I've just gotten into the Mario vs. Sonic debates again and god does it feel A LOT worse than last time. Everywhere i fucking go, I swear, everybody keeps underestimating Mario and keeps writing him off as an italian plumber who only jumps on mushrooms. No you morons, you guys have not played all of his mario games. He's done WAYYYYYYY more than that. I mean seriously I can't imagine anything in the world to be more ironic, shocking, reprehensible, disgusting, and unnoticed than having to be a fan of one of the world's greatest pop culture icons and see it get constantly and ignorantly grilled by fans of the rival characters/franchises. This is just injustice and cockbaggery to the highest possible level. Why is it that of all characters in the world, people have to have a massive go at the ones that started it all? People really take icons for granted these days and don't realize that without them, their precious characters of the same medium wouldn't exist. Then again I suppose that's why Mickey Mouse and Star Trek get constant flak and immature one-sided insults by Bugs Bunny and Star Wars fans. Dear God, if there is still just a respectable fraction of common sense and intelligence in this world's population, there will be more people who can appreciate each other's sides and stop resorting to immature bashing.

But I guess Mario, Mickey, and Star Trek are just like France, they all have a beautiful and rich history that only a few out there can rival, yet they get a lot of belittlement and revilement thrown at them. And for what...?

All I can say is that i'm sick of these mario vs. sonic debates, well not just that, the mario-hate in general. It has gotta stop. Though this is still not as bad as the Nintendo vs. Sony thing I mentioned back in May, it's starting to claw on my nerves to no ends. Seriously. I am not going to just stand here and let this all slide by like nothing has happened. Same goes for all influential fandoms out there that get flak from fans of the opposition.

anyways, happy thanksgiving and now I gotta go lie on the fucking bed after this rant.

My Rant: What do Anime/Manga and Islam have in common?

2010-11-08T15:38:00.000-08:00

It's been years since I have done any original ranting about culture and other stuff outside of my personal life and I decided to briefly make this one before I go eat dinner. Oh and guys, please do not get offended by this post if you actually plan to read it.

You know what both anime/manga and the muslim religion have in common in my opinion?
1. They are both the second largest after their respective competitive entities in the world (American comics/cartoons and Christianity).

2. They are both the fastest growing ethno-cultural entities in their respective fields (Both anime/manga and Islam keeps spreading rapidly throughout the world like flies to a load of sticky garbage)

3. They both originated in and are a part of the Eastern world (though technically Islam can sometimes be considered a Western religion in comparison to non-Abrahamic faiths like Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Chinese folk religion, Confucianism, Shintoism).

4. They are both seen as typically foreign and exotic to American tastes and minds.

5. They can be both awesome, beautiful, and just richly fulfilling if you look and appreciate them with the right mind.

6. They are often made fun of and seen as subjects of mockery and disrespect by haters (some of whom are people who grew up primarily in Western culture).

7. They are both sometimes feared and opposed by some Westerners who theorize a conspiracy of their growing popularity and dominance over parts of the world.

8. They both have conventions dedicated to them (Otakucon and uhhh.... whatever Islam has)

Well there you have it, folks. While Anime/Manga does not have legions of radical murderers and oppressors, whereas Islam does not have nice artwork of relatively unclothed women with pretty faces and expressions, they both have a few things in common and please note I do not have anything against Islam or Anime/Manga, cause I'm an American of Eastern/Oriental descent and I only made this, cause I was bored and felt like I wanted something original to write once in a while.

Ciao. I gotta have my chef boyardee ravioli w/ pasta, some chicken fingers, and miso soup for dinner now.

Happy Halloween!

2010-10-31T20:35:00.000-07:00

Yup this sunday night was halloween and no one's come to my door for candy (probably cause it's so damn late now) and here I am studying my ass off for the Computer Science Midterm Exam. Boy, it's tiresome. But at least I got my Pc back from uncle tony (not my real uncle, one of my church friend's father) with all the viruses cleand out. That's all i have to say.

Enjor your happy halloween and get ready for November in about half an hour!

You Know What Pisses Me Off?

2010-10-28T22:01:00.000-07:00

Well, everytime, I'm under the weather folks and have been feeling a lot of pressure/anger/disappointment/whatever, I'll be doing a series of a blog posts about "You Know What Pisses Me Off?", similar to how the angry video game nerd does the "You Know What's Bullshit?"...

Part 1 - "Mario vs. Sonic Debates"

Now I don't exactly feel comfortable about getting into details about this debate that just angered (and still angers) the hell out of me, but unlike all the other threads out there such as "Superman vs. Goku" and "Batman vs. Spiderman", Mario vs. Sonic just pisses me off the most. Seriously I've had to endure all the crap from this "mario vs. sonic" crap since 2003-2004. What i hate more is Sonic fanboys who are ignorant of Mario's influence on Sega's conception for Sonic and Mario's timeless prestige and achievements that far surpasses any other video game star ever. Moreso, I despise sonic fanboys who are ignorant of what Mario is truly capable of in fights and just underrates Mario without knowing anything much about him. What is the world coming to? I also keep hearing crap about retards saying that sonic appeals to a younger audience and that mario is just a kiddy's thing. The fact of the matter is that Mario isn't just for damn kids, but for everyone. I'm just damn sick to death of everyone confusing "appeal to all audiences" for "appeal to pre-adolescents" and always equating target audience with actual quality and goodness. I would be both surprised and not-so-surprised to find out that I'm one of the few sane people on this degenerate planet who doesn't blindly subscribe to the bullshit notion that is "Kiddy = Low Quality" or "Mature = Awesome".

And overall i have to say that anything having to do with "Mario vs. Sonic" is only an iota less worse than the utter cockbaggery that is "Nintendo vs. Sony" or the "console wars" which I have covered back, last May.

I could rant some more steam out on this matter, but it's past midnight and I gotta hit the effing sack or else my brain is going to get a bigger headache, nausea, and insanity than ever.

PS - Mario is superior to Sonic in every way possible. Yes, I've played and experienced most of both franchises to make my valid opinion.

Happy Columbus Day!

2010-10-11T19:02:00.000-07:00

That's all I have to say nothing more, except this year still sucks.

A Tornado Hits New York City

2010-09-16T17:36:00.001-07:00

That's right... the most shocking and frightening thing that's happened to me all day today was when I was about to leave my campus for home and waiting for dad to pick me up, i knew something was going to be up. At first, I looked up to the skies and it was dark and loud and I thought it was just going to be an unusually large rainstorm, until my dad came just in time and a few seconds after i hopped into the frickin' car, it rained heavily and there was strong winds and hailstorm everywhere and along the way home, I see fallen trees and cable lines everywhere and I kept praying to be safe with my dad and we got home safe. When I got home, I saw an upcoming news preview on TV that it was a tornado (or twister) that hit Brooklyn. Scary stuff, eh? This is the first time i've been near the outer rim of an actual tornado in my whole life and I'm glad I lived through my first one as i'm typing this.

Ciao.

PS - Nikita is hot and the show is good.

The 9th Anniversary of September 11th

2010-09-11T20:41:00.001-07:00

We all know this is a really sad anniversary for all Americans to remember, since during that very day right in the afternoon, we New Yorkers had lost one of the best landmarks we had. However this year's anniversary is a far sadder one than the last ones, seeing as we have a pastor from Florida who initially wanted to burn Korans and the proposal of the mosque built in its proximity to the location of where the twin towers remain. I know I can't believe I actually typed this on the midnight, which has become the 12th.

It's been a long day and rather exciting, yet hectic night. Bye now.

Aigh...

2010-09-07T16:07:00.000-07:00

so pushing. just can't stand it.

Happy Labor Day!

2010-09-06T10:08:00.001-07:00

And here's me still... feeling really busy about college and so many things to do and I'm still trying to be a fully independent person. Changes like these are always so hard to start, but that's just how mankind rolls, huh?

Well, september has a lot of holidays and that's pretty good, though what truly matters is how i spent them.

that's it for now. see ya!

My first day at college (sophomore semester)

2010-08-27T09:47:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the 2-weeks wait of update, folks. Well it seems like summer vacation has ended earlier than all the previous ones of the last decade and it doesn't help that towards the end it was the worst summer I ever had since 2005 and God as if August wasn't hell enough that my dad keeps shoving work down my throat when I was supposed to feel fun, happiness, joy, and peace. Although my trip to Canada and Coney Island were the most memorable moments of the month, which is the only thing I'll give to this year's summer.

Anyways, my first day of school was tiring and disorienting. I mean in my new BALA class, I'm sitting in my seat briefly conversing with classmates I've known from the BALA class of my previous semester. I also happen to feel a bit disheartened and discomforted that one of my classmates is from my old junior high school and you know how much I hated A LOT of the people there as well as the schedules and all the crap I had to face. And the fact that I have a classmate of romanian descent and the fact that he mentions Vlad the Impaler and that I mentioned "Art of War" and Sun Tzu much later than that makes me feel all the more disturbed (deadliest warrior reference lolz).

And typography was quite a doozy for the first day.

I also went to King China Buffet (now called La Guardia Seafood Restaurant) for dinner and stuffed the hell out of myself.

that's all I have to say. Bye for now.

My Summer Is Truly Turned Upside-Down

2010-08-11T15:19:00.000-07:00

Ever since the week of my birthday last July and all the stuff I said about July being my least favorite month, my summmer has for the most part (outside of my trip to Canada) gone downhill. Here I am directly in the month where I have been anticipating since the middle of my second part of the Freshman Semester. Feeling empty and disappointed. Ever since my 19th Birthday, at least half the happiness/pleasure/joy I knew with ZillaLord seems to have sinked down the drain pipes. It just doesn't feel quite the same anymore. It seems after all the disappointments and downturns that I have faced this year since January have taken a collective toll on my personal life and inner pysche like the killer bee's stings about to reach my main bloodstream before I die a death, simmering and undignified. Have I finally reached the point where I have felt almost everything there is to feel and where I feel that i have virtually nothing left to lose? Maybe.

PS - ZillaLord, how dare you not be fun and cool anymore? I'm so furious at you I just want to strangle ya for some reason.

My Trip To Canada

2010-08-06T20:41:00.000-07:00

Okay, I just returned from my trip to Canada and just to give you a short summary, here are the five days I went to Canada...

Day 1

I went to the Corning Museum of Glass which was in upstate New York. Wasn't much, but hey, I learned all about glass from all periods of time and many civilizations and saw a nice glass show. Afterwards, we set out on the bus to go to a chinese buffet and then into Canada and I have to say the night we had to go through was hell, since we had to get stuck at the border for 3 and a half hours. But anyways, it was nice to see my first glimpse of Canada passing by the Hard Rock Cafe along with other stuff and for a night we saw the last minutes of the Niagara Fall before going into our hotel.

Day 2

We went to an IMAX Theatre and saw a documentary on people who discovered and overcame the Niagara Falls and we went to the Falls later on a huge boat that carried over us near the Falls and boy did we really get wet. We then went up to the Skyton Tower to have lunch (which was a french style meal) and then we went to visit Toronto for a bit and had a boat ride there for a bit and went to a hotel. We also went into a Chinese mall in Toronto.

Day 3

We also went on the bus from Toronto to Ivy Lea village and we went on a boat cruise through the Thousand Islands for about a couple of hours and then we headed onto the city of Ottawa and saw a bit of the Parliament place and had lunch and we finally headed into the francophone province of Quebec starting with Montreal. Gotta say it was a unique and wonderful sight at first when we headed into the Montreal Stadium where we had a cool tour guide to teach us all about the 1976 Summer Olympics and the model of the whole building. We went up to the top of the tower and saw some great views before heading back onto the bus for Montreal's Chinatown for dinner and return to the hotel. I have to say being in Montreal's Chinatown gave me both a feeling of familiarity and freshness. Francophones in a Chinese ethnic enclave. Could it get any more interesting and eloquent?

Day 4

We had breakfast at McDonald's before going to the city of Quebec and visited its Citadel where we have seen a roughly hour-long ceremony with the Redcoat soldiers marching and turning positions with a nice cute goat walking around as well. Everyone, including the Infantres (canadian soldiers with camoflage uniform), were watching and I gotta say I loved how the leading redcoat was shouting orders in french to the redcoat guards. Once the ceremony ended, we all had a tour of the entire Citadel and we all headed out on the bus for the Old Quebec city, which I had walked around exploring the historical francophone place for hours in the hot sun. We then headed back to Chinatown once again for dinner and then went back to our hotel.

Day 5

We left the hotel and went into a store that was near the US-Canada Border and we had did some checking procedures, which afterwards we left Canada and went into the Ausable Chasms in upstate New York near the Adirondacks for one last trip before going home. I gotta say it was quite a tiring night and I'm going to miss Canada (especially Montreal/Quebec) and I think I've gained some weight on the trip.

That's all for now.

The 200th Post On the 1st of August, Twenty-Ten

2010-08-01T11:47:00.000-07:00

It's Sunday and it's the first day of August, which is the day before I leave for my trip to the Great White North. But I have to say that July was my least favorite month of this year. Why? Three things.

1) Deadliest Warriors made Sun Tzu, the ming, and the mongol all lose this month three times in a row (which I discussed in my last post). Thank you, deadliest warrior, you sure know to make an asian's month and lose half of his respect for your show in one sitting (or shitting), don't ya? Also, their online video policy pisses me off... they say they would upload the vids for the new episodes two weeks after the original broadcast on spike, but they didn't for sun tzu vs. vlad and ming vs. musketeer (though they uploaded mongol vs. comanche for a few days only and only then did they bring ming vs. musketeer after I was done watching the latter on another site >:O ). WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU, SPIKE?!

2) Fucking people at Google had to 69 themselves for their new beta format and take away the google image search option on the first page. G0ddamneth thee! How could you? HOW COULD YOU?! Way to lose half your visitors and consumers, dipshits.

3) And Most of All, in the final week of my summer classes, I had to study so damn hard and long that I was losing the fun and pleasure of privately conversing with my best friend on the internet at a forum i regularly visit for such purpose. Ever since some of his responses came off as a bit negative, unexpected, and boring, I now kinda lose half of the happiness, joy, and excitement I once had in talking with him (that is ZillaLord). It also doesn't help that the stress from my Western Art History II class took much of a toll on my psyche and expectations. I could get into detail all day and all night about this, but i do not have the energy or knowledge to know where to start. I swear the past couple of months felt like the month where the oldest remains of my innocence has taken a shattering, my expectations failing to reach even half the mountain scale, and all other things that I have believed in and put pride/glory/hope in is now nearly lost. It's as if virtually everything I had personally gave a damn about has come to an apparent end here. What will become of my future? Probably nothing.

The only good things of last month was that CIA vs. KGB episode on DW and my 19th Birthday on the day of the 19th (I miss that birthday cake). Thank God this hell-of-a-month has just passed and I could only hope for half the best to come.

And here I am on the first of August, currently experiencing one annoying problem. WHY THE FUCK CAN'T I VISIT PAGES WITH YOUTUBE VIDS ON THEM OR EVEN YOUTUBE AT ALL?! >:(

F#CK YOU DEADLIEST WARRIOR! (sticks middle finger)

2010-07-30T12:26:00.001-07:00

Now I have A LOT of steam to let out, but let me say it first. I still love the show Deadliest Warrior and let me say that I got hooked on this show since June 2009. For me, the whole 2nd season of Deadliest Warrior started off pretty exciting and bombastic, but I honestly have to say every match-up so far after CIA vs. KGB was a huge travesty. The main reason for this is because I am of Asian/Eastern descent and I strongly root for the best warriors hailing from my ancestral continent to win as much as possible and my biggest complaint is that I had to endure the searing psychological outrage of seeing them lose THREE G0DD4MN3D TIMES IN A FVCKING ROW! >:(Curses! Blogspot really needs built-in emoticons)

First, they had to make Sun Tzu stick it up the ass, then they had the Ming Warriors get gutted (which was still one thing), and now all of people, they had the frickin' mongols (the greatest warriors in the world of the ancient/medieval times) meet their end? I call absolute foul on that! >:O

I swear to any beloved religious deity out there, that there aren't that many things in the world that are as aggravating as seeing the warriors you take pride and strength in and see them face defeats they so do not deserve at all.

You sure know how to make my day, Deadliest Warriors! Now to reward you in kindness, I shall take any uber asian weapon you haven't tested and make you all test subjects in a show I like to call "Don't Mess With the Goddamn Asians Or You'll Get It Up The Ass So Bad You'll Wish It Was Mothereffing Vlad Whose Doing The Shoving!"

A Mosque in My Ground Zero?!

2010-07-25T16:17:00.000-07:00

Well here I was on a somewhat dank and depressed sunday afternoon (or night), listening to a vid about how they are going to build a mosque near Ground Zero. Upon hearing this, I feel extremely insulted and offended. First those g-ddamned al-qaeda destroyed one of the most precious landmarks in the world and now they're going to try a build a mosque near it? Oh christ that really fucking tears it! Talk about adding insult to fucking injury. This just makes me want to take a picture of osama bin laden and use the picture as a toilet paper and piss it down the toilet. ARGHGH!

Don't you islamic fundamentalist bastards have more than enough sites to bother building your shit on? Geez. Those bitches need to get a better life and know what a religion of peace truly is instead of foolishly trying to suck it up to Allah.

Happy Belated 19th Birthday to Me!

2010-07-20T20:54:00.000-07:00

Well all I can say is that it is (or was) my 19th Birthday right on the day of the 19th. Ah what a special day and it's sad I shall never see another birthday like this again unless someone invents time travel or de-aging technology. That day is the day that marks the final year of my 'teens and I hope I spend it really well.

Good night now folks. ^_^

My short review on The Last Airbender

2010-07-08T17:29:00.000-07:00

Yeah last Monday, I went to see The Last Airbender with my ma and pa and I thought it would be a really fun movie and turns out it was. The plot started off alright, but as the movie went on, it got pretty interesting and suspenseful. Though I do notice that the races of the casts were pretty inverse compared to the animated version of Avatar, but it was alright for me. This was a great movie for me to enjoy and while it may pale in comparison to the original animation, it still delivers for me. I don't know why critics gave this 0 stars and why people were so cruel as to even compare it to Dragonball: Evolution. In my opinion, this movie deserves at least 3 stars.

This is Supera. OUt.

Happy Belated 4th Of July!

2010-07-05T13:45:00.000-07:00

Sorry I didn't update this blog in time to celebrate he 4th of July. Last night, it was a great night, i went to my mom's friend's brother's house in Long Island and had a simple barbeque (even though me and my family were the latest to come). I had a cheeseburger, a hotdog, two cut chinese sausages, potato salad, a few fishcakes, a few pickles, and a few peppers. Boy was I satisfied and we sat around in the yard for a few more hours, but it's a shame we didn't see any fireworks in front of us... oh wait, on my way back home to Queens, I've seen quite a few of them and it was really nice!

Ciao.

The Death of Michael Jackson - One Year Later

2010-06-25T16:45:00.000-07:00

Well a year has passed from since this day on June the 25th that one of the world's most respected pop stars of all time, Michael Jackson, had met his untimely death. It is a very tragic event to witness indeed and we still miss a man like him. I am not going to get into details here, cause I'm sure most knows what happened with him and how much they have liked his songs and all (I went into a library in Jamaica Estates just this afternoon and heard a few of his songs being played in a library section). Like I said, in the past decade, he has been seen as a juvenile synonym for pedophilia and an object of ridicule like Pee Wee Herman, but now that he has released his film "This Is It!" and other recent small events, I think he's managed to clear half his name, but his career was still on the slope of decline nonetheless. That said, we all still miss him very much. Coincidentally, last year from this day was my high school graduation ceremony and a proud moment that was.

PS - I have just finished my first summer class (Color & Design) and I just saw Toy Story 3 today. I'm also going to Coney Island this Saturday (boy it's been about 8 since I last went there)

TTFN Ta-Ta For Now. (No I'm not tigger, so stfu)

A Little Rant...

2010-06-18T20:46:00.000-07:00

You know, I was cruising along a forum, a comic/naruto-oriented one to be exact and i see there are people, probably around my age group and my gender, that actually likes neopets. Ok seriously what the @#$%?! WHO THE @#%$ COULD LIKE SUCH A GIRLY PIECE OF SHIT POKECLONE AND THINK IT'S REMOTELY COOL?! I think my head is starting to spin here. Ughhh.... *pukes in disgust*

However the main point here is... WHY DOES EVERYONE KEEP IGNORANTLY ASSUMING THAT JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING IS KIDDY IT SUCKS?! There are lots of things out there that are kiddy, but awesome or great and there are at least several things in the world that are so-called "mature" and yet sucks all kinds of balls. Sure there are a lot of things that suck that are kiddy and things that rock that are mature, but let me make this clear: TO ALL THOSE WHO KEEP SAYING STUFF LIKE [insert great series here] SUCKS CAUSE IT'S KIDDY, SCREW YOU! You can be awesome without being mature and you can be full of crap without being kiddy, so shut the @#$% up!

*sigh* that is all for now, folks.

A Friday Like No Other... (lol Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker)

2010-06-11T19:53:00.001-07:00

You guys wouldn't believe what I just went through today... when I was on my way to MoMA (Museum of Modern Art mind you), I saw a long line of people near Best Buy and I was wondering what was all the commotion. I asked some of the people in line and they told me that they were in line to see...

HIDEO KOJIMA!

That's right, HIDEO KOJIMA, the man behind Metal Gear Solid and Konami's most famous game designer, had came all the way on a konami world tour to my New York City AT Best Buy to sign all the metal gear solid games in honor of the release of Peace Walkers. I was really psyched and pumped up to meet this guy in person. So I went to MoMA and decided to leave the museum at around 7:00 PM to meet this guy and boy was I happy and proud to actually meet a game designer in person for the first of my life. I had him sign my new bristol paper pad that I brought from Utretch(sp?) to use in Color & Design class and I got a free Metal Gear Solid T-Shirt. Though the sad part was that I didn't get any good pictures of him, but it's not like it mattered much because my camera's battery was dead not long after I had him finish signing my thing. :(

While I was on my way out, I had seen the last of him with his pals going into a white limousine when my parents signaled me of his fading presence. I had even blown Hideo Kojima and his japanese pals a kiss before he left. Shame I didn't get any good picture of him still, but it was one of the biggest and most exciting moments of my life and I think I will rarely ever see a day like this again.

Ciao.

PS - No I'm not a msg fan nor do I own a ps3/psp, I just happened to feel honored meeting a famous guy like him, one of Konami's finest men, in my own city. I wonder what's next? Shigeru Miyamoto? Gunpei Yokoi? Masahiro Sakurai? Tetsuya Takahashi? Satoshi Tajiri? Wait nvm the second's dead.

Summer Class of June

2010-06-08T18:59:00.000-07:00

Ah the month of June. It's the start of my summer class and i gotta say color & design stresses me out a bit, despite the first day being quite fun. I don't have much to say, just posting this now for the hell of it. Boy am I pooped from a long day.

My Trip To Massachusetts and Back...

2010-05-31T17:48:00.000-07:00

Well folks, Massachusetts was one place I had thought that i wouldn't have much interest in, but did. So I was in the tour bus just passing the states, Connecticut, and Rhode Island. So I spent three days and two nights and here are short summaries of what I did each day.

Day 1

-I went to Martha Vineyard and rode on a ferry ship.
-I got off the ferry and got onto the Martha Vineyard island itself.
-The town was nice and I had gone onto the grassfields and a few streets with so many traditional buildings and stores and saw some nice houses also.
-Me and mom rode on the bus all around Martha Vineyard.
-During the ride, I've seen many sites and views and listened to many things the bus driver told us, such as this part of the island where the movie Jaws was being filmed (wow!) and how there was once a 19" snow that fell on the island.
-We stopped once and went up to the top of island (sorta) where the lighthouse was standing and took two pictures before it started raining hard for an hour or two.
-We drove around the island once more and i was falling asleep.
-We got back into the ferry where I had hot dog, pretzel, and quahog chowder for dinner and had long bus ride to the hotel.

Day 2
-Now this day was even more interesting than the first. We went to the Plymouth Tower and then Provincetown, Massachusetts on aboard ship.
-At the Plymouth Tower, it was a very nice place, we climbed up many flights of stairs (ramps to be partial), which reminded me of our 2002 trip in Paris, France where we had to go up excruciating flights of stairs in the Arc De Triumph.
-When we got to the top, we saw a good view of what Provincetown was like from up here. I took lots of pics and filmed some skits.
-We also briefly visited a small museum right in the Plymouth tower area and took a few more pics of myself before rushing back to the bus.
-On the bus before we got to Provincetown, I saw the Mr. Bean's Holiday movie on the tv screens (yes tour buses have them in case of long rides). Great movie I must say.
-When we got to Provincetown, we went across a town which was pretty nice like the last one in Martha Vineyard, except a bit more exciting. Some of the girls there were pretty hot, especially the ones in bikini's, since we're only a few blocks away from a beach.
-We sat around for a bit until we went to the docks and rode on a ferry for whale-watching (for hours) and on the boat, we saw whales swimming around us and everytime they partially appear on the surface of the water, my father always has me take shots of them or record them (yeah my CASIO EXILIM camera has a record feature)
-We got off the ferry and explored some more of the dock. In fact, I visited a pirate museum where I saw all the artifacts and history about pirates and there was this guy who dressed up like a pirate to serve as a guide of some sorts and just for kicks, I told him "No love for ninjas?" and he was like "we'd kick their asses" in response to sparking an familiar internet meme known as pirates vs. ninjas and I even took a picture with him and afterwards jokishly quipping "You're lucky I'm not a ninja" and left. Boy was it fun.
-We then cruised down an exotic street of Provincetown. I had came across many bizarre stores such as that certain store where they sell you all this wacky spiritual/religious stuff (mostly the hippy-like stuff such as incense sticks) as well as adult-like gag merchandises such as mugs, bumper stickers, t-shirts, and more. The mural art on the store's front doesn't seem too shabby.
-We walked down the street until we stopped by the entrance of a restaurant and turned back to our direction where we went into a place where we saw a few more wacky stores and land ourselves on the part of the beach.
-We then had dinner at a seafood restaurant. Fish and Chips was a delightful course.
-When I was in the restaurant the whole time, I saw a woman dressed up as Supergirl.
-Then we explored one more store (a cat & dog one) before returning to the bus to our hotel for the last night.

Day 3
-We left the hotel with our stuff and on the bus headed for the Plymouth Plantation.
-When we got there, we saw a short film about the relationship between the English Pilgrims and the Wampoanog people in 1620 Massachusetts.
-We then headed to two 17th Century role-playing villages where in the first, we met the Wompanoag people in their tents and usual doings and in the second, we went to an English-settled village in Plymouth where we saw many pilgrims talked in a 17th Century english accent, which is a century and a half before the american accent started emerging after the American revolution (though their accents sounded a bit irish with the frequent use of "lad") and they were pretty decent actors. When one of them asked me where was I from, I said "New York City" and they were puzzled as to what that place was and after saying "It's south west of Massachusetts" I had to say "Manhattan" for them to ring a bell. I saw a few chickens and went across the top of a place where cannons are stored and I took a picture of myself riding on one. We went back to the Recreational Center to check stuff out before leaving for the Mayflower II. It was the most unique and fascinating part of the whole trip.
-The final part of the trip was when we went to explore the Mayflower II ship and saw everything in it and there was a parade with veterans (one of them are green berets and another are navy seals with national anthems playing (one of them is canadian) in celebration of Memorial Day. It was a great day.
-After the trip was done, we all went to a Chinese buffet in Rhode Island for lunch and I stuffed myself.

That was the whole trip and boy was it fun! However, there's still Canada for July/August, so hang tight, folks.

PS - I hope you all had a great Memorial Day. See ya!

Sheer Boredom Strikes Again (and two other things)

2010-05-28T09:41:00.000-07:00

Here I am... on my computer... just two days after the end of my semester. Ironically I'm supposed to feel pretty damn happy and excited, but for some reason, I just do not feel it. Either this must be due to the fact that ZillaLord hasn't pm'd me quick enough for my response to feel fulfilled and that anime/manga vs. video game thing (which I'll elaborate upon for another time) that's been hanging on my a bit for the past couple of months or it's that holidays/breaks just aren't what they used to be and they've just started to feel like weekdays, perhaps even less interesting. It's like the latter half of 2006 all over again. Expectations just start to grow weaker and weaker as you grow older. It just bites doesn't it? I feel whenever I have the most free-time, it just feels boring as hell. Where for art thou, joy? >_<

Now for two other announcements:
-I just saw Shrek The Final Chapter last wednesday and it was quite a fun conclusion to the main series.

-This Saturday, I'm going on a trip to Martha Vineyard, Massachusetts for 3 days and 2 nights. I was originally going to go to Canada this week, but instead due to change of plans by the travel agency, it's going to be delayed to July/August. In case you're wondering... where in Canada? Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec AFAIK.

Good-Bye Upper Freshman Semester, Hello Summer Vacation (and Classes sadly)

2010-05-25T20:33:00.000-07:00

And at around 11:30 PM Eastern on May 25th, 2010. Yup, as you can see it's the end of my semester as an Upper Freshman at college. Computer Science, Business, Art History, Biology Lab & Lecture, Desktop Publishing, and Philosophy... They're all done. After three and a half grueling months of these courses with a load of work and tests, I can say that I have completed the Freshman arc of college. You know, your years in school and college are like story arc's in an anime/manga series. Every year(s) is a different chapter in your life with all sorts of surprises and wonders to love, hate, or just not give a damn about. Back to my cheer, I don't have to take my Sunday classes anymore (at least for the rest of this whole year).

I gotta say though I'm going to miss Philosophy 101, it was the most fun and interesting class I've taken in the former half of this year and I have learned quite a bit by reading Plato's Republic and Dostoevesky's Brothers Karamazov.

Though I must say this is going to be the first time to experience a summer right after finishing a year in college and while I'm sure it won't be the same as in grade school, it'll still be a real blast to come by. The only physical problems that I currently have a potential sciatica, a rashy leg, a temporare cold/nasal congestion, and a canker sore, which the last three don't look very serious on the surface, but is still an annoyance to deal with. Because of this and change of plans, I will not be going to Canada for the next week, but to Martha Vineyard, Massachusetts and so my trip to Canada will delayed to July/August where I will btw be going to cities such as Toronto, Montreal, and Quebec.

PS - I cannot wait to get Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Sin & Punishment 2: Star Successor for the summer/my Birthday. Also new episodes of Deadliest Warrior in which the season will run until the middle of July and better hope for a Season 3.

Ciao!

Lord of Hamon

Happy Belated Chinese New Years!

My Trip to Taiwan Week 2 (copied/pasted from facebook)

My trip to Taiwan part week 1 (copied/pasted from facebook)

My whole trip to Hong Kong (as copy/pasted from my facebook)

Well guys i'm back from my trip to Hong Kong and Taiwan...

R.I.P. Deadliest Warrior 2009-2011?

Good night! It's off to Hong Kong and Taiwan Tomorrow!

My Review on Tales From Earthsea

My Review On The Adventures Of TinTin

Happy New Year! Good-Bye 2011! Hello 2012!

Well it's New Year's Eve now!

My Review on the Muppets movie of 2011

Merry Christmas

Well my Semester is almost ending... and a few other things...

The New Youtube Channel Layouts = A Load Of Ass-Faggotry!

What a shit-ass week this has been...

F#ck my stupid mac computer... Ugh...

This is fucking retarded....

Happy Be-lated Thanksgiving!

Today is a very special day today...

The Death of Moammar Ghadafi

Happy Columbus Day!

The End of Deadliest Warrior Season 3

A Baseball Game...

The Official 10th Anniversary of 9/11

Labor Day Holiday!

Medieval Times - Lyndhurst, New Jersey - September 3rd, 2011

My first full week of school...

Hurricane Irene... Is Coming...

My Last Day of Summer Vacation

My Brief Review on Rise of the Planet of the Apes

My Trip To Chicago...

Oh God... why did I even agree to this crap?

You Think Your Life Is Hard and Your Favorite Character Is Underestimated/Downplayed? Try Being a Mario/Nintendo Fan!

My Condolences to the People of Norway

The Season 3 Premiere of Deadliest Warrior!

My Brief Review on Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2

TODAY IS MY TWENTIETH BIRTHDAY!

Bloop Boop De Doop...

The 4th Of July! (and brief review of Transformers 3 film)

The last day of Digital Photography Class

Super 8 - My Brief Review

so many things have been going on...

My brief review on X-Men: First Class!

It's June....

Happy Memorial's Day!

The Taiwanese Festival!

Yes... The End of the Semester!

Two things to say...

Happy Belated Mother's Day

The Death of Osama Bin Laden?

Easter Sunday!

Spring Break!

Holy crap... It's Jackie Chan's 57th Birthday!

Nintendo 3DS...

Hey guys I have a confession to make...

Happy Saint Patrick's Day!

Two horrible things...

*sigh* A Screwed-Up Night To Thee...

Happy Valentine's Day along with a few other things...

Happy 100th Chinese New Year!

My First Day of Class (Upper Sophomore)

What a depressing last day...

The end of Drama & Theatre Class...

Happy belated Martin Luther King Day

You Know What Pisses Me Off? 3

My first day in Drama/Theatre course

Happy New Year's Day! (2011 Edition)

Happy New Year's Eve... (2010-2011)

Well I'm Home.

Happy Christmas Day!

Happy Christmas Eve To Everyone!

My First Uploaded Youtube Vid Ever!

Merry Christmas!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

You Know What Pisses Me Off? 2

My Rant: What do Anime/Manga and Islam have in common?

Happy Halloween!

You Know What Pisses Me Off?

sigh A Screwed-Up Night To Thee...