芸術は爆発だ

( In before "baww" but post-college life kinda sucks )

( Papers, sentai and...fish sticks and custard? )

Saturday was a damn good day.

Got me a new scarf and two necklaces from American Eagle and had lunch at Todai's. Pretty much an all day trip with the Video Games Live concert to top it all off.

My throat will be raw when I wake up, without a doubt. The Oregon Symphony was so fucking amazing along with the Pacific Youth choir. There homages to so many games: Halo, Warcraft, Super Mario Brothers, Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy, Kingdom Hearts, all the 8-bit games, Guitar Hero, Castlevania, Civilization, and more. It felt more like a rock concert than a symphonic concert with everyone screaming, fangirling/fanboying and maybe jizz in their pants. Over all, song after song, the concert made me shiver in delight.

They did a segment for "Space Invaders". The volunteer from the audience had to wear a shirt with the player's ship design on the back. In order to move the ship around, he basically had to run back and forth on the stage as they played. Though he failed to clear the stage, it was incredibly fun.

For the Guitar Hero part, they made the winner of the preshow's GH competition play a song from Aerosmith. If he could score past 100,000, he wins and he did. (Though I still think they should have done "Through the Fire and the Flames" though that would be hard to arrange for an orchestra.)

There was even an appearance  via skype of the man who invented Pong, the first video game. It's hard to believe it's been 40 years since video games were born. They even showed the first video clip of Pong being played from the 1960s.

They even brought in the pianist who could play the Super Mario Brothers theme blindfolded. He did a medley of Final Fantasy songs, the SMB theme obviously, and joined in the Castlevania homage. 

Good news is that I got my new Bamboo tablet on Friday. I still need to get used to it since it's really different from my old graphire tablet. But it never felt better to hold that pen in my hand. *__*

College is going by too fucking fast. It's around midterms time, so everyone's stressing out. It doesn't help that since our college switched to a 4 credit system, there's even more stress. I was originally going for an art minor, but it's impossible now since all the art classes now happen at the same time. WHY?!

Also, class registration for Winter III and Spring semester are coming up. I might take the First Aid class for Winter III since that could be a useful skill to learn. Besides, most of those classes are either travel courses, which I can't afford, or lab classes for the science majors. And no, I do NOT want to any of the art classes being held at home. Sure, it would be nice to stay home, but I don't like staying at my own home. It just doesn't feel like a home, like I can't get comfortable in the very place where I've lived for so long.

Saturday was the World Hetalia meet up in Portland. It was cool meeting up with different people in the area. Didn't cosplay, but I just wore my "FOB outfit" as my roommate Telleh calls it. The funny thing is, it happened around the same time the Portland Zombie Walk happened. Zombies + Personified Countries = Win. Later that night, it was Casino Night at the college. Around this time, parents are invited to see the campus and this is an event they goes on. I suck at blackjack or any card games in general, so I stuck to my favorite: roulette. I mostly had good luck,  but I ended up getting cocky in the end, and only gained $100. OTL I'm glad this wasn't actual gambling involved.

Meh, still having the same fall out with MM.  Or maybe it's just roleplaying in general. I feel like I somehow lost it. Like, it's no longer enjoyable like before. Maybe it's because I put the most of my rp self into Xanxus that when I dropped him, everything fell apart. But let's face it, I (unintentionally) made him OOC, didn't make any progress about that,  and people were getting sick of it. I'm sure I made some people happy by doing them a favor by dropping him.

I don't even feel like putting Keroro back on, even though I'm updating myself with the canon. Hell, I managed to grab my hands on all the opening and ending themes of the anime that were available. (That's 22 songs right there. Seriously, it's been 5 years since the anime started? Amazing!)

Dissidia: Final Fantasy's coming to the states soon. *_* Yes, yes, I played a bit while I was in Japan, but I really do want this game. I love what they did to the characters of FF I to FF VI. Especially Firion (FF II) and Cecil (FFIV). Makes me wanna rp them, but I'm not confident enough to play them.

Working the weekend again. Last weekend was hell to the extreme, especially Friday. That weekend, there was a local concert known as KCCN's Birthday Bash, which happens every summer at Waikiki. We're fairly close to Waikiki (along with the Kahala and Kapahulu Zippy's), so we got a large portion of people returning from the concert. And this was just after 10pm, when the normal swing shift people end their shift. I ended up staying there until midnight as the register and that was not fun at all. All three Zippy's were packed. But at least that's over. D| Sunday, thankfully, was a nice decent shift.

Saturday, I went up to the North Shore/Old Haleiwa to help out our sister temple's bon dance. I'll have the photos up later. Mostly worked in the vendor's area, getting out the drink overs. My hands were completely numb from getting out the water bottles and canned drinks from the coolers lined with ice. At the end of the night, we sold out of a lot of things. The lanturn floating went very well since the weather was good, and the ocean wasn't too rough. (Seriously, the temple's right next to the beach. Talk about convinient.)

One more month until I go back to Oregon for school. Crap, I still need to more studying and stuff. orz

Today, I had to go to my mom's highschool and help out with stuff before they start classes. She's got tendonitis in her right shoulder, so she can't lift heavy stuff. (Luckily, she's getting therapy for that.) So I had to move some of the computers in the library and also changed their wallpapers. Seriously, DOE, fuck you for blocking places like DA, LJ and domains where people put most of their pics up. :| But hey, there's K-On, KHR, Keroro Gunso, and even Chi's Sweet Home wallpapers on those comps. XD

Your result for Roleplayer Test!...

The Shipper

Random, Character-Oriented, Sexual

As a Shipper, your focus in roleplay is romantic and sexual tension. It could be a certain ship or a variety of ships, but character relationships (and not the friendship kind) are what make roleplay fun for you. However, it's not necessarily sex: unlike the Smutfic, you're more interested in how and why and how your characters change and develop before they "get anywhere" rather than whether or not they actually do. You like to develop characters as much as possible, but often forget that any unrelated outside plot exists; you also tend to empathize with your characters a little too much: when things start going badly IC, it tends to mess with your OOC emotions.

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 ...Damnit I hate it when quizzes are right about yourself. I'm actually torn between laughing and crying about this.

Birthday went well, I suppose. Could've been better, but I think I had worse before. A bit of family drama flared up and ruined that night. Well, at least I get to have dinner and a drink with my friend Rae tomorrow since she invited me. Huzzah for Dave and Buster's.

Been going to t-mobile lately about upgrading my phone. Sadly, we found out my Japanese phone could only work in Japan, so we can't do the whole 'insert sim card and no problem'. My mom's contract with t-mobile expired before I left for Japan, but we're thinking about doing a one year contract and getting a better phone (plus a texting plan for once).

Got some info about applying for the JET program from a friend of Mom who still works at the Japan Consulate here. Honestly, I'd rather go for my masters first before doing JET, but everyone is like "why are you waiting, just app for it and go right after you graduate'. I'm going to be very busy this fall. Oh joy.