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Gyahahahaha~
I just finished my MMW final ('twas an 8am final...pity me). That final should be KICK-ASS, dammit, I knew my stuff and my essay was actually rather coherent. Of course, it helped that I was able to add in stuff that I learned in USP2 last quarter to my essay. =P
Basically, that means that I have done two finals. It's Thursday of Finals Week and guess what? I have TWO MORE finals tomorrow. I'm only halfway done. Ahehehe... @_@ woo. *points to the title of the previous blog* Now I just need to write up a six-page essay about somethingorotherthatIshouldknowbynowbutIdon'tcauseIneverdothereadings (not to mention the prof doesn't make sense overall) and study for my USP final (I'm officially a USP major now, btw), turn the history final in and take my USP final then turn that in... and I'll be set to pack up my room, move stuff to my new apartment, then go homehome.
Oh, caffeine in its various forms, I love you so. *_*
By the way Krinki, I watched SeaQuest DSV too, even the last season. I was still in the Philippines when I watched all that, it was on every Thursday night at 9pm on RPN 9, iirc. ^_^; Ted (or was it Sam?) Raimi was Mr.I-Can-Speak-Any-Language on the SeaQuest, so it was a bit (hah) of a shock seeing him as... Joxer on Xena. @_@ I'll read that SeaQuest/Xena crossover fic link you sent me later when I get back to my apartment. (Came to work to use the computers right after my final. Work was closer to where the final was, and I don't trust myself to go home right now, otherwise I'd probably go *SPLAT* in a bloody puddle on the road.) I have to say, my favorite character on SeaQuest was... Darwin. Yes, Darwin the Dolphin. Hah. =P A close second would have been Mark Hamill in his role as that blind turns-out-to-be-alien scientist d00d. =P Kekekekeke. As for that column idea you had, I'll be glad to edit, at least during summer when I have nothing to do (theoretically).
Mnekov, all of a sudden I'm not sure if I can go to YaoiCon. In fact, going to YaoiCon looks pretty unlikely to me.I haven't prereged yet, but I remembered that I was intending to come back to San Diego in August, because by then the subletters in our apartment would have left, my cousin would be there taking summer school, and, well, she'd be the only one in the apartment. ^_^; If I go back in August, I won't be going to summer school (nothing they are offering would be of any use for my majors, since I have nothing left but major-related classes), but I could at least work and earn money. I'm pretty sure I won't be able to find a summer job back home, but eh... In addition, I'm already pretty broke for AX. =(
Damn, I need to get my hands on a copy of Ah! Megami-sama! to rewatch over the summer so I can continue this one fic... Can anybody in the Bay Area help me out? ^_^;
Xioxio, please don't freak out so much about college. I'm just a spaz in general, that's why I have all these outbursts about my college life in here. =P Actually, if I were not in college... I would have NO life. ^_^; Saaaad, I know. Just make sure to do your work (well, preferably) and do try to get some sleep.
Must see/read more Yami no Matsuei over the summer as well. Help, anyone? ^_^;
AteMichichimichichimichichimi! Damn j00 for throwing all this fun Harry Potter junk links on your blog! J00 are distracting me! O_O; Thank you, though. ^_^; I feel a little muggle-y... I'm wearing my black Slytherin t-shirt at the moment and I also realized I still haven't moved my Golden Snitch keychain to some place other than on my backpack's main compartment zip. ^_^;
On the other hand, it's pretty interesting, what AteMichi wrote about how her plans for 'higher learning' were. I guess I can relate, I mostly feel like I'm stumbling forward blindly in college and that I get so caught up trying to get good grades that I forget to learn... And now that I've actually declared a major, I still question if this is the path that I really want to take (even though at least USP is very liberal-artsy). What's even a little more naggy is that I want to go to grad school (I guess that's my only incentive for myself to keep trying to hike up my gpa), but my dad wants me to hit the workforce after I get my B.A... eh, we'll see what happens...
My boss (who's been on maternity leave for the past month or so) is supposed to come by to show us the baby... she's not here yet. In the meantime, I'll try to get cracking on my history essay's outline. Riiiiight.
- - - blogged by honnou / Thursday, June 14, 2001 / 09:36 a.m.
If what doesn't kill you makes you stronger... then I should pretty damn well be immortal by now.
I told myself not to blog until finals week was over, but eh, here I am.
Tanzy-musume brought up an interesting point in her blog about one's tendencies to think about how 'life as we know it' would go on after one dies (and how those thoughts, without any suicide attempts, does not constitute the term suicidal). I have often thought of that too, although sometimes I don't even go as far as 'after death' and just think of how life would go on if I were to just disappear from certain people's lives. I now actually have a fairly good idea of how this sort of thing would be... A buddy of mine that I met online and have hung out with on certain occasions in real life (in addition to lengthy e-mails and phone conversations here and there) has basically just disappeared from my life. First, the e-mails, chats online and other forms of communication became rarer and rarer. After that person spent a year studying abroad, things went downhill even more despite a Christmas card that I got around Valentine's Day. And now, that person has graduated, and the e-mail address I have is the school-prov e-mail. I guess that's dead. I tried sporadically (I am many things, but an attention-starved puppy I am not) to establish contact again. I didn't get much correspondence back. Therefore, I guess I can consider that dead. This person did not die, as far as I know, but thinking back about it now, I can only allow myself a passing glance at whatever memories about that person are still stagnant in the back of my mind. I move on. I would rather not dwell on it, some things just cannot be missed. With my stand about that old buddy of mine, I just wonder if the same applied to me for most of this academic year when, at times, I just couldn't be bothered to go online or answer e-mails.
With disappearances, you don't bother to turn back. Would that be the same in cases of death? We can only wonder.
In any case, yep, it's finals week. I did nothing this past weekend other than goof off and just relax. Tenth week was pretty damn tense for what was supposed to be 'dead week'. I think I recovered, at least enough to dive into hell for another week (thus the title for this blog). My classes this quarter weren't that bad, except for the history class. The lecturer isn't even a real professor. Fuck him. The stupid reader's 524 pages thick. That's 24 more pages than your usual ream of paper, from what I remember. On top of that, we had four more 'required texts' for the class. Correct me if I'm wrong, but for a class on 20th Century Japan, what the hell are we doing spending five of ten weeks reading on/discussing 19th Century Japan (two or three weeks I can understand, but five?!) and how children in France were customarily molested by the people raising them in order to encourage healthy sexual growth (yeah right)? On the massive (and often pointless and irrelevant) readings, we had almost-weekly (pointless and irrelevant as well) quizzes. We even have out-of-class films to watch for the class, but they are nowhere near the readings' relevance levels (and that's damn sad). Yes, I would have dropped this class, but for some bizaare whacked out reason I got a good grade on the midterm. So now I'm hoping the same feeling I had for the midterm will carry along: I dislike the class, I dislike the essay, and somehow the strong dislike ends up as a good grade. Or so I hope.
Okay, that's it for now, I'm gonna try to get some sleep before the sun comes up. It's not quite a healthy habit when you see the sunrise outside your window when you're trying to go to sleep, and for some odd reason the sunrise makes you nauseous...
- - - blogged by honnou / Wednesday, June 13, 2001 / 04:01a.m.
*splat*
I'm back from my oral exam.
I got nervous.
I don't get nervous often. I mean, I was cool as a cucumber back when I did radio while my broadcast partner was shaking in his boots.
Arrrrrrgh.
I'm gonna go drop dead now or something, then come back for the Rex show.
*splat*
- - - blogged by honnou / Friday, June 8, 2001 / 03:21 p.m.
Kyoushitsu ga hitsuyou wa nai.
This week has been busy. Puupuu, glad to hear you had fun in HI, even though you didn't see any cute, scantily clad men. T_T Krinki, I hope you get genkier. Musume... *gnaw*
I have my Japanese oral exam about 45 minutes and I'm still cramming at work. Man, I should stop my cramming habit, it's progressing into more and more last-minute activity. It doesn't help either that I feel like I'm not learning Japanese anymore, like my brain's saturated, at least in terms of Japanese in the classroom. It's gonna suck next year when I take upper-div Japanese if this keeps up, so I have to do something... but what?
Rex Navarette show here at school tonight. Gonna go with some buddies. Then I'm off to sacrifice myself to the Finals.
- - - blogged by honnou / Friday, June 8, 2001 / 01:48 p.m.
Karaoke Staffing will be FUN.
I ran into Hong, one of the karaoke crew chiefs (I already know Hank, have yet to meet Luke). I brought up the issue of my halisen wielding. This is what happened.
[16:13] [Kourin] I used the halisen on Dom and Ed a lot at Fanime... and some guys from #fansubs that got in the way. (oops)
[16:13] [hokuhoku] you can abuse dom, but you can't humiliate the singers
[16:13] [Kourin] Gotcha.
[16:13] [hokuhoku] Just a customer service kinda thing, u know
[16:13] [Kourin] Yes.
[16:14] [Kourin] Can I quote you on that?
[16:14] [Kourin] The "you can abuse..." one >D
[16:14] [hokuhoku] the 'you can abuse dom' party?
[16:14] [hokuhoku] part
[16:14] [hokuhoku] i should watch what i say these days
[16:14] [Kourin] abuse by harmless halisen only
[16:14] [Kourin] he already knkows he has fangirls after him holding sparkles, dresses and wings
- - - blogged by honnou / Friday, June 1, 2001 / 04:36 p.m.
War culture, stereotypes, conflicting stereotypes, Dragon Lady, Lotus Blossom Baby, Model Minority.... Ammonite!
Hehehe, I can string together some key terms from my MMW paper, add "Ammonite!" at the end and make my tired little mind think it's a crazy ripoff of an Utena dueling song.
Yes, I turned in my last MMW paper, at the price of a night's worth of sleep spent writing the paper instead. I'm glad that's over. Ugh. I could have done better but... I just didn't want to. I was even ready to just chuck this whole thing down the drain, but I got two other papers yesterday, and I got way better grades than I expected (yeah, I pretty much pulled allnighters for those too). The USP term paper grade was a pleasant surprise. The upper-div History class midterm that I got back, if it was not a good score, I was ready to drop the class and take a "W" (withdrawn) grade for it. But I actually got a good grade for the random shit I came up with to answer the lecturer's friggin randomass questions. So hey, I guess I can write.
On top of that paper (turned out to be ten pages total), I had to do my Japanese show & tell presentation. I think that's my last one too. I hope I did okay, I kinda did it on the fly, talking about my autographed Youko Kanno cds and I kinda semi broke down in the middle of it saying that "I'm a dweeb."
I'm tired. I'll crash soon. In food coma right now. Bleh...
Escamovie at the on-campus theater on Monday. Yay.
- - - blogged by honnou / Friday, June 1, 2001 / 02:34 p.m.
Shout at the devil!!!
I'm so going to hell.
I'm not getting any sleep, nor am I doing my work.
Heeheehee...
- - - blogged by honnou / Wednesday, May 30, 2001 / 02:37 a.m.
I found myself dancing through life as if it was the most natural thing in the world. Nothing more.
(Blog entry title taken from Banana Yoshimoto's novel Amrita.)
Jin-Roh was a pretty good movie. Granted, we didn't think it would be a dub, but apparently it was (duh, North American premiere and all). The dub was bearable, and since I didn't have anything to read on the screen, I was able to concentrate on the animation. The animation, much in the style of Ghost in the Shell and Perfect Blue, was on the realistic edge of anime. Yet, the way it was rendered, the way they incorporated digital elements, and the way they used the 'camera' made the sometimes outright ugly scenes (due to its realism) components of an overall stunning movie. It wasn't as much of a mind-trip as Perfect Blue, but it still has more than enough substance in it.
I was at the Jin-Roh viewing with some friends from the anime club here. 4 of us rode with 'Ci' (in her car, a convertible). So Ci's car had me, 'Ca' and 'Le' (sounds like a bunch of chemicals, eh, Stephen?). There were other club people at the showing, but I mainly hung around the Ci bunch. I met up with Egan (Bandai series-specific web page maintainer) at the venue and got to meet Stephanie, one of the first Esca web page maintainers (and the one that had great translations too). I think the main thing I will remember about Stephanie is her super shiny hair, brown and shiny like a caramel cube still in its wrapper. (On a random note: there was a building next to the theater that looked like the freekin Geofront from Evangelion. My gawd, it was the Geofront!!!)
After Jin-Roh, and much driving around, we had a 'midnight snack' (hahaha, more like a very late dinner) at Koraku in Torrance. We ordered Menchi Katsu. Yes, Menchi. Yes, we were thinking of Excel Saga when we saw it on the menu and ordered it. I also had takoyaki, and was able to do my Kero&Suppi impressions. Later, Ca spearheaded what Egan dubbed a very scary idea: AkazuJin-Roh. Jin-Roh had red riding hood components, Akazukin Cha-cha has... a red riding hood lead. ^^; We are still trying to get Egan to mention the idea to Mamory Oshii, who WAS in the next table at Koraku. Somehow he thinks he has some responsibility to contain the said idea and to keep it away from the rest of the world... too bad.
The ride home was pretty fun, most of it was to the music of one of my nonstop Eurobeat CDs... it played from Torrance to San Onofre (already within the San Diego county limit). The car's top was down for the whole drive home. Sure, it was a little bit chilly and my hair was one big snarl by the time I got home, but it was fun. I've had varying views on convertibles before, but I think it's safe to say that I like convertibles now. =) Of course, provided that the top is down when it's dark and the area isn't too polluted.... 9_9 I just wished the stars were out that night.
The rest of the weekend sucked, so that ain't worth blogging about. =P
- - - blogged by honnou / Tuesday, May 29, 2001 / 12:50 a.m.
o/~ Itsumo tsuyogari bakari o/~
It has been a long and tiring week. Next week will also be a long and tiring week. At the very least, I will have this 3-day weekend. Yay.
I shall be seeing the movie Jin-Roh at Long Beach tonight with a few buddies. It should be interesting. The music was supposedly done by Hajime Mizoguchi (iirc). According to a little blurb at ex.org, Jin-Roh is set in an alternate-reality post-WWII Japan where the government is a lot stricter, conspiracies abound, and the main (?) character is taken through a psychological maze. I guess I better rest up very well for the movie.
I almost have an apartment, we just need a cosigner... I will be living with my cousin in the fall. I won't be living with Wesley anymore, although the apartment he found was closer. My cousin was having problems with the group she was house-hunting with (already), so what more if they actually lived together? Family obligations and whatnot, I've had to leave Wesley's option. It could have been fun. At least I'll be sure that I'll get along with my cousin... and she's turning 21 in October. >D
Tonight was an 'appreciation banquet' for student organization leaders. Somehow I ended up going with another co-officer of mine (limit to 2 per org with the rsvps...). It was... interesting. The munchies were good. They had nice pastries. But the harmonica player... and the overextended Chinese folk dancing... that was NOT fun. The harmonica grated on my ears very much (too loud on a bad frequency). The Chinese folk dancing... took too much time. Blah. My co-officer and I had to restrain ourselves from making sarcastic comments, especially when a greek org (frat/sorority) was called upon. Blah. At least the keeki was good. Afterwards, as my co-officer and I walked home (well, she to the bus stop, while I was heading for my apartment), we had a quite interesting conversation as we paused at a corner to part ways. Heh, let me just say that we are now planning some new evil before the year ends. >D Hehehe.
If I tell you any more about it, I'll have to 'silence' you. =X
- - - blogged by honnou / Friday, May 25, 2001 / 12:56 a.m.
It's Monday. Get used to it.
I archived after realizing that I hadn't done so in almost a month. Jeez. Finally added links to Mona, Venkarel and RnM's blogs. I should organize my links, someday.
I often listen to music and think that lyrics to a certain song would make a great pagename or a blog layout in itself. Yet here I am, still staring blankly whenever I have to put something in the "pagename" field of the pitas update page, and I have yet to make a layout based on lyrics of a song (I didn't even put in any Honnou lyrics in this layout).
I did a lot of stuff this weekend, therefore I am tired. However, this does not necessarily mean that I accomplished a lot, considering that I still have that six page paper to research for and write for tomorrow, plus other stuff for Japanese class for this week. Hrrm.
I have a lot of stuff cluttering my brain, and it will all possibly culminate in another longass blog entry... *looks at the schedule for this week and the next* or maybe not.
It has been cloudy for the past 2 weeks (and still going). It was actually drizzling this morning. If it were a bit colder, you could easily convince me that this is actually Winter Quarter, the middle of February, and not May with Summer Vacation almost here.
- - - blogged by honnou / Monday, May 21, 2001 / 01:41 p.m.
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