Earning My Title

"You'd rather look retarded than mexican?!" --quote of the day from a comedian on comedy central. That was pretty damn funny when I heard it. It still is...just not as funny out of context here.


So this picture is pretty cool. That's why it's here. It came from deviantart somewhere, incase you want to comment for the artist or whatever. It's called Sannin Lords. So yeah...check it out.


But onward to things that are recent...yeah? I've been such a slacker lately. Not last week...last week I worked my ass off writing this original research paper for English class. It sucked ass. But this week I've been doing absolutely nothing. No work...just playing Disgaea because I like the game, I just couldn't handle it at the time. I'm doing better now. But I think my laziness is setting in again, so I gotta get going.

Sometime today I hope to go get the beer for Okita's farewell drink. I'm so excited for that! I can't believe she said yes. It's just so amazing.

Catching up...

This weekened seemed long. That was definately a good thing, but I didn't get any work done at all. I can't believe it. I had so much to do, and nothing got done. ;_; Well, it started off on Friday night.

It seemed like everyone wanted something to do, but no one could decide on what to do. Watch the HUB movie or go to Kevin's. So, we went to Kevin's and watched Versus, which Beth brought. We were all expecting some cool j-rock zombies in a kick-ass action movie. It was definately none of that. The movie was absolutely horrible and probably the worst thing I'd ever seen. If you ever get the chance to watch this...don't. It's noth worth wasting almost 2 hours of your life for. Luckily we were together, so we got to make fun of the movie, that was definately the only good part about it. Okay, I'll be done ranting about the movie. Since it wasn't the first thing that happened anyways.


I think it was sometime last week, we had heard about some new place that sell boba drinks. Naturally, we are interested in going, but we have no idea where this place is at. Beth thought it would be a good idea to try that out Friday night, and of course Courtney was all for it. So we decided to find it. After seeing Beth in the quad, Courtney and I wandered around downtown to try and find this Rheemix boba place. We walked all along the little alley-way between College and Beaver and didn't see anything. We were about to quit, but I thought I'd try one more street, the street where Smokin Joe's was that Stine always used to get his cloves from. We saw nothing there. But we ran into Sung Hee (sp? ;_;) and talked to her for a little. I thought I'd ask her if she knew anything about it. I was like, "We're looking for this new boba place...it's supposed to be around the Seoul Garden. Do you know anything about it?" And it worked! woot! The place was practically right in front of us. Of course we didn't see any boba place, just Seoul Garden. So we continued walking. At almost 9, Courtney calls Beth again and works up the nerve to go into the grocery store and ask if anyone knows about the boba place. And the girl that was selling them sells them out of the back of the grocery store. That's pretty silly, but I guess it works. They cost a little bit more, but they were definately worth it. Then after this came the movie. *bleh*

Saturday, I had to take the bus to work because I didn't get my insurance card yet. I checked the bus schedule online and planned accordingly. Apparently, the bus schedule online is not correct, because I ended up waiting 40 minutes for the bus that was supposed to come half an hour earlier. And then I was late for work, but no one really cares. Yay! Work wasn't bad, and seem to be over quickly. Jim was there, so that was cool. Jim always makes working at Target better. I ran into Kevin there too. He came to have his glasses fixed.

After work was....party at Kevin's again. Beth, Kevin, and I sat around and drank and then Ryan and, his roomate, Andrew came over and we went out for ninja training. We had wooden weapons and a kunai. We were trying to get the kunai to stick into the trees on campus, but we pretty sucked at it. We started in front of Burrowes. Me and Ryan climbed the tree there, it was cool. And Beth was trying to teach me some kendo, but I pretty sucked. But it's okay, it was only my first time...and it was drunken learning. XD We ended up moving around a bit, but at one point we went to the parking deck where Ryan jumped off the 4th floor onto the roof. Then went back in on the 3rd floor. Ryan is the true ninja among us. After that we went to the Forest of No Return, where we tried to knock over a tree, ....but it didn't work. ;_; After that was the forum, which we were surprised to find was open. I think I would have tried to climb it, but it felt really flimsy. >.<; I think the highlight of the night is when Beth decided to wade in the Fountain of Doom! It was awesome. Beth was trying to get into the recycling bin in the forum, and then one of us suggested that we put her into one of the plastic bags and have her wade around. So we put her in it and she walked around in the Fountain of Doom. It was awesome!! I soooo wish I had a camera... ;_; Oh, I forgot to mention peeing in bushes and behind trees...even Beth did it! She definately gets + ninja training for that. I hope there weren't any cameras around those areas. >.<;;

Sunday, not much happened. I went to the HUB to watch Fun with Dick and Jane. It wasn't as great as the previews had led me to believe, but it had some funny parts. It was just a weekend of let-down movies. -_-;; But one cool thing was, since it was a personal, private viewing for me and this other guy in the theater, the projectionist said our names in the annoucement before playing the movie. ... ......Added perk, I guess. It was just querky and cool.

Ah! And the pictures from the Sakura Festival and Atomic wings are here. I will put them up somewhere whenever I get a chance to scan them.

OMG--Naked Girls!!

I don't remember where I found this picture, but I thought it was funny that someone could sumarize your typical harem anime in a very accurate and funny pictoral manner. Maybe it's not as amazing as I think, but I just like this picture because it's funny.


On another note, I went to the bathroom earlier and I noticed the urinals have those rubber things in them that say "You hold the power to stop rape in your hands" or something like that. Why are those rubber things there? Is it for stopping stupid people from clogging it with paper towels, like they often try to do for some dumbass, unknown reason? Who knows...

It seems like it's time for me to head out about now. Guess this is a short one for now. It's okay, talking about urinals is kind of strange. So I guess I should stop anyways >.<;; I like being able to put pictures in my posts. I think I'll try to find something to put in them from now on. Even if it's something totally random...it'll be for fun!

Update: Damn,...I think I forgot what I had to say. That really sucks. hmm... Well,...let me think about it for a minute.
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Oh! I'm excited because today I saw that there is an anime starting that is based on Disgaea! That's so great. I watched the promo tonight and it looks pretty good. I'm glad they kept the same music from the game. I'll post a screen shot or two later. It looks like it'll be good and funny. If you haven't played the game...you really should. As for me, I never beat it. The battle system is pretty innovative and having 10 characters on screen at the same time is cool. In the game you can turn enemies onto your team, level your weapons, and throw prinnies (penguin-like minions that are explosive). All that and it's funny. What more could you want?? I just didn't have the patience for it. I wish I did though, it was just so damn hard for me for some reason. I remember I was all psyched about it because you could practically play forever. But I followed it with La Pucelle: Tactics and I managed to get further in that one. Both are good, but I never finished either. I really wish I had, at least La Pucelle. Maybe I'll try to do that this summer.

Last Update for this one: I couldn't decide on just one or two screencaps, so I put them up on flickr.com. Enjoy! Makai Senki Disgaea

Sakura Festival 桜祭

For some reason I was so dead on Friday. I feel asleep at 12 and woke up at around 6:15, when Kunaka called me. Friday was Kevin's birthday and we had to party for it! We started off by going to The Corner Room for dinner. It was surprisingly good. I've never been there before, but for some reason I never really thought I would want to...apparently, I was wrong.


After that we ventured to Target, so I could pick up my check, and Wal☺Mart for mixers. Beth, Kevin, Kunaka, and Ryan were smooshed in my backseat. It started raining while we were driving, but I liked the rain, then. For some odd reason, Beth took her knife (she brought to dinner for cutting the ice cream cake) to Target and Wal☺Mart. Later Beth said it made her think of the time Steve took us to Target for Halloween stuff and she was chasing everyone around with a cleaver. I found a picture, but she doesn't have the knife in this one. ;_;


After we came back, we went to Kevin's room to drink a little to play drunk pool. We played some Gamecube Naruto and drank. Everybody freaked out a bit about drinking in front of the window when a bunch of cops were outside. We headed out to the Corner Pocket to play some pool, and Ryan is a good pool player. >.<;; Everybody started having chalk wars, but I didn't want to be blue...so I stayed away. Beth kept crawling under the table, so Kevin decided that we should poke her from all sides the next time she went under. And we did >.<; Then it was time for Sbarro pizza, since it was only a dollar. But I was sooo full, from dinner and awesome ice cream cake, that I didn't want to eat any. ;_; By this time I was starting to feel tired again for some reason (probably all the food from dinner) even though I slept for 6 hours earlier... I thought I could make it all night, but I think I fell asleep sometime around 2. Courtney woke me up at 3:30 am and we got ready to go.

On the way there, I just slept the whole way pretty much. We had a really cool bus driver, named Bob. We got there and it was raining. When we got to where we had to be for the parade, we were just like o.O;; <---that. The Target supplied uniforms were pretty ridiculous. When I get a picture, I'll post it. At first, we weren't going to do it. But then we ended up doing it. It was complicated, but whatever. Kevin made sure all of us had bag-ponchos, but Beth didn't want one. We didn't want to change in the port-a-potties, so we made a human wall so people could change behind it without being seen naked. I felt bad for Beth not having a bag, so I sacrificed my bag to put some of our stuff in that wasn't wet to keep it dry. I carried that bag over with Kunaka, Kevin, Dave, and Jeremy to where the taiko tent was. When we got it there, we had about 5 minutes to get back to the parade. We ran like hell for a while until we got to this area with bleacher-style seating, and ending up crawling on the fence to get through there quickly. We ran back all that way, only to be told we were being pushed back an hour because we weren't ready (not our fault, it was Target's crappy banners).

The parade consisted of us walking 10-14 blocks through DC, ocassionally running with our banners to catch up to the drummers because they decided to run ahead for some reason. As we were walking, the rain would get harder and then let up and then a sudden downpour. It was pretty harsh...and hell-ish. The ocassional strong wind made it hard to hold the banners and the crappy telescoping poles didn't help either. Courtney stalked us through the parade, and encouraged us. I'm glad she did, her excitement kept me going, without her waving and looking excited I would've had a death stare the whole time during the parade. I was shivering and freezing--it was sooooooo damn cold. When it was finally over, we got on this bus that was supossed to take us back to the taiko tent. It did, eventually. When we changed we were supposed to give back everything, except for the shitty Target shirt. I'm so sad I didn't keep the pants. T.T I've been regretting it since then, but I should stop. I couldn't though because I wanted to write about regretting it here; so now that I did, I can stop regretting it.

After we ate in this little spot under a building or something, so we could eat out of the rain, we spent most of the day inside museums...and then Barnes & Noble. I was planning on getting some Japanese beer, but it was $6 a cup! F-ing ridiculous, so I didn't get any. In Barnes & Noble, I hung out with Courtney, Beth, her friend Mimi, and some guy named Ruben. We got hot tea and coffee and warmed up. Eventually, many other people came in there too. I read some manga. Eventually, we needed to get out again, so we went to check out the shops. When we got out there, most of them were already closed. ;_; No super cheap stuff for us. Quickly, we got cold again and wanted to go inside. We head to a museum that was close to where the bus would pick us up. Unfortunately, the museums were closing at 5:30, so we were just turned away.

We went to this place in the post office, that was kind of like a mall...a really, really crappy mall. But it was warm and inside... ...... and had an ARCADE! woo! However, it took a lot of effort for me to get inside, because it was inside of the post office. I had to go through the security check point (I went through so much, I forgot my umbrella there >.<;;) thinger. Put my bag on the conveyor(sp?) belt and walk through the metal detector. I had to walk through the metal detector 4 times! and then they still had to search me. They didn't find anything either... WTF? >:o *angry face* Who wants to bomb a post office anyways? Whatever happened to mailbombs for that? XP Me and Kunaka played Time Crisis 3 there. A fun shoot-y game. He was much better than me at it. But playing it reminded me of playing House of the Dead 3 with Courtney. She won't play shoot-y games with me anymore. TT.TT

It rained all day, until we left. Then it cleared up and the sun came out. -_-;; I think I'm done trying to write about the trip, as it is...this is really long. Oh, yeah...I forgot to mention that in the Natural History museum there was some lady picking her nose. I don't know if it's okay to do that somewhere, but it was just so blatantly obvious that it was bizarre. Ahhh! No more writing!!! Any more I can think of, I will post tomorrow. >.<;;


--sorry there's not much color towards the end >.<;

Chained Up

Wooooo! There's a scrollbar now, how exciting. Wow. It's hard to believe the semester is almost over already. Only a few more weeks to go and then we're out of here. The work feels like it's piling up now, but I should have more free time to do it,...maybe. >.<;; My original research paper for english 202B doesn't seem to be going too well. But how can I really know what I'm going to write about before I write the paper? Papers usually shape themselves as I write them. I suck at planning for papers. It just has to happen for me.

I think that being here makes me forget how old I really am. Most of the time, I don't really think about it. The majority of the people here seem to be under 21. Whenever I hear people talking about their age--like today I heard some girl say she looks younger with long hair, but she's actually older...20, she said. Yeah, that's older -_-;; --I have to think about how old I am. And then it's like, "Oh, yeah. I'm ...23. ugh." ;_; "I'm old." Just like that. I don't know what to make of this. If it's bad or not, because it doesn't really seem to be a good thing.

On a side note, I have to begin wondering what is up with the chainning off of areas on the Pennstate campus. It's starting to bother me. When I go to class, I want to take the shortest possible way, even if that means cutting a corner through some grass. Apparently when I wasn't looking, someone went and made grass a sacred object. What's so special about the damn grass?? People walk on it, it grows freely everywhere and you don't have to try, it's not a rare commodity or something...what's the deal? Why are they chaining it off? I remember one time when I was in middle school on a really windy day, I was playing with paper airplanes on top of hill. They would fly down the hill, over a field, and across the street. The airplanes ended up in this guy's yard a couple times, so I had to go get them. Then one time he comes out a spazzes about me walking on his grass. I remember the one comment so clearly though, because it was so stupid: "How would you like it if I walked on your grass?" he said. Well, I wouldn't give a shit, because it's just grass. -_-;; Who the hell cares about grass...it's everywhere!

Wasted Day or Not?

Well, today has been one really short, but long day. I came back to my room and have been working on a new layout for this damn blog all day. Then I went to class and it was really boring. Then I came back and wasted my life away more on this blog. Then I went to dinner. The anime meeting and then have been working on this thing until now (12:35 am). -_-;; All of it works pretty well, except for the title that is supposed to be over the new picture I put in for the header. So, I don't know what I'll do about that. Maybe I'll just make it part of that image too, so I don't have to worry about issues with the damn overlay problem. >:o But for some reason it was really weird. I wrote all the code in GoLive first, so I can see the page layout to make sure it was positioned how I wanted it and the text was aligned properly. But when I went to paste all the code I had written into editor built into this blog, it was all f-ed up. Strangely enough, when I just retyped all the changes I had made into the on-line page editor, it worked fine.

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WTF?!?! What a nuissance that was! But it's good that it works now. I guess I'll do that image edit soon, although I shouldn't have to, so my blog has its title on it again.

Update: Apparently this web server and my computer have different time keeping abilities. Anyways, I fixed the image and now the title is on the blog again. Yay! I should do some work now. Maybe, but I don't want to... Now I'm watching That 70s Show, and Eric and Donna are trying to see who will cave for sex first. It's funny.

Sexiest Voice of All?

The weekend was... ...working again. Not fun. Saturday = poo, Sunday was not bad. I ended up being put on register and forgotten about for 4 hours or so on Saturday. No food and no breaks = dead Chris. But the good thing about it was that time went bye really fast. But I was pretty much a zombie after that. After dinner, I finally watched that disc of The Fuccons. It was, um...eh? I guess. Really strange, but I now know the following:

Between Japanese women (or voice actors) and American women (or voice actors), Japanese women definately make a better sexy voice. There's something about the tone and voice fluctuation that makes it so much better. Then again, it could just be Japanese voice actors are far superior. But American women make sexual moans better than Japanese women--at least from the episode of The Fuccons that had Mikey's tutor in it. I've never heard Japanese women's sexual moans in real life context. o.O;;

Anyways,... after that I just kinda passed out and woke up sometime around 12 or 1. Then I'm like, damnit. Because of Daylight Savings Time it's already like 2, and I should be going to bed around now because I have to wake up to go to work again. So I did. But it was hard because I had slept for so long before that. Today, I woke up very tired, despite the fact that I got a lot of sleep. I'm really glad it was so nice outside today. I'm sad I only got to enjoy it for 10-15 minutes though. ;_; On the bright side, today was the first time I could drive around with my windows down this year! Okay, time to get down to work and study some kanji. T.T