Monday, December 15, 2008

Deferment: A Tingly Feeling

M o o d : Meh.
R e a d i n g : Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
L i s t e n i n g T o : Holiday music
Rainy :D
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Let's see if everything is present and accounted for now...
Letter from Caltech saying that my application was deferred...check.
MIT deferring my online application...check.

No, it's not the end of the world. That's supposedly going to happen in 2012.
I'll get my revenge yet have other attempts to apply to those two schools in the future.

Y'know, I'm probably not going to bother with Yale. I'm content to just go to UCI.
Then again, might as well take a shot, no?

In other news, winter break is approaching. And of course, with that comes the cousins. Whoopdeedo.

Friday, November 28, 2008

Is This THE END?


Taken sometime at 05:eesh at Best Buy

Thursday, November 27, 2008

Stuff I'm Thankful For

M o o d : Grateful :3
R e a d i n g : 1984
L i s t e n i n g T o : Stuff
Cloudy and sprinkly
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So, I've got a lot of stuff I'm thankful for. Which is seen here, and here, since yeah. I probably hardly updated in 2007.

And you know what? They probably haven't changed that much.
I mean, I'm still thankful for having friends, family, and a place to live in (:
I'm still thankful for being able to attend school.
I'm still thankful for being given second chances, and failing at some stuff that I've failed at.

And of course, I'm thankful for free software. I mean, without OpenOffice, I probably would kill myself because of Clippy. Without Ubuntu, I'd probably would've thrown several computers out of the window because of those stupid confirmation messages. Without Firefox, I'd probably be attempting to gouge out my eyes because of IE.
Thanks awesome softwared developers.

Yeah. It's not my fault I believe Microsoft's going to take over the world one day. I'm fully justified.

So, thanks, world.

Now, I'm off to bed, since I know my mum will make me wake up at 03:00 tomorrow and shuffle me off to Metro Pointe because she wants to go shopping.
("Mum, must I change out of my penguin slippers?")

As much as I hate Black Friday, I realize that I don't want to spend as much on Final Fantasy Tactics: The War of the Lions and some other games (GameStop is doing some promo on used games, methinks). And I'm still looking around for a Bluetooth keyboard-mouse set anyway.

Darn you, consumerism. Why do you end up filling my room with useless stuff?

So do expect some random pictures of random people standing in line tomorrow. I'll probably be that bored by mid-morning.
Without my tea. I'm going to be a mess. So if Karma (whom I hardly have any belief in, but my cousin will insist that it's Lady Karma's fault) sends a mob of people my way and I get violently trampled in the process, yeah.

Oh, right, disclaimer.
The post you have just read was written under the influence of a nice hearty cup of Silk Nog. Which is uber-awesome.

Happy Thanksgiving to you all!

Sunday, November 23, 2008

"Weeeeee. I Win."

M o o d : Hey look, Thanksgiving weekend is coming! Oh look. Homework.
R e a d i n g : 1984, by George Orwell
L i s t e n i n g T o : Click the link, and you shall hear.
Cloudy and cooler. Now, if only SoCal could have snow at lower elevations.
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Note: Clicketh not on the link if you are an overly sensitive person.

Ha, I'd be that last kid doing the happy dance at the end there, under the influence of video games...
Well, any type, not just first-person shooters.

Excuse me for living under a rock, but I'm just shocked to see how young the subjects for the piece were. I mean, a large chunk of them seemed to be in late-elementary to middle school children.

And there they sat, exposed to the lovely sound of guns shooting, and well...there was that one scene that sounded highly inapropriate. (And creepy.)

Perhaps it's because I wasn't exposed to FPS until I was....I dunno, 15-eesh or so (Which is an age where I could tell fiction from reality, and handle more mature themes, even though I do act like a ten-year-old today)...but, aren't some of these kids a tad too young for this?

At their age, I was fighting over the PS2 to play games like Final Fantasy or Spyro or Rachet and Clank, not shooting up stuff.
And today?

Well, let's see, my middle school-aged cousins play pirated FPS games, which make me highly sad to see how they've given in to a world of violence and whatnot that just so happens to be set in a world similar to our own.
It's not like I'm suspecting that they'll one day become serial killers of some sort, it's more along the lines of how they couldn't waste their brain cells in a world that's...well, more creative.

Like, I wonder how the expressions of the subjects would've changed if they were exposed to say, Aeris' last scene, or a game of Portal--games that have more meaning than those games where you steal cars and...um, yeah.

Yeah, this post was purely intended to pass the time.

Oh, and THIS CLOCK is EPIC.
(Hey, my lack of a clock in my room is starting to annoy me*. Might as well save up for this, I suppose?)

* D-kun has lost a clock to time. The room will eventually be cleaned.

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Love Conquers


This made me happy today. Taken on the corner of South Coast Plaza
Synopsis of my day follows somewhere below...

Happy faces, Part Two


C:
Yeah, well, we did glitterfy Cotton Jenn's house, after all.
Note to self: In evil plan to take over Universe, make glitter cannons that blasts out...well, finely-chopped sparkles.
That'll show everyone not to mess with me. Muahahahahaha.

Imagine, a world where everyone's running in fear of the invasive glitter.
Oh, and upon securing the technology to make sophisticated human-killing nanobots, umm...

Do you want me to complete that thought now?

Happy faces


Random chaos ensued...
Sucrose's smiley face is rad C:
Cotton Jenn's face is priceless.

Apparantly, this was the by-product of working with glitter on our AP Biology project...
(Which was about cell membranes, but I don't think anyone cares.)
See, I toted my basket o' goodies, which happened to have finely-chopped glitter in a can...
And well, Sucrose had a field day with it as Cotton Jenn and I were trying to play around with her personal statement... :D
Now, about those glitterfied scars...

About>> [ICD]

In Complete Disorganization, formerlly known as Dr. Phyzzy's Domain is a blog from the viewpoint of a random student living in the middle of nowhere.
Okay, perhaps not. But the 'random' part still holds true, especially considering that the writer of this said blog was willing to splurge on a domain hack [x].And a very ambiguously (stupid) one at that...
So...
What is Incompletedis.org?
Or rather, In Complete is [dot] Org?
Incompleted is [dot] Org?
Incomplete DisOrg?
...no one knows, really. Not even the writer, which is quite saddening...
Especially considering that she went through these domain hacks way back when...
But due to the ambiguity of Incompletedis.org, she finally settled for it, claiming that it had "describe[d] life perfectly." Yes, how lame is that?

Layout>> ["Fine Day"]

This layout was made in Inkscape, an open-source vectoring program and coded in Gedit, an open-source text-editor. (Yay for open-source programs!) A Wacom tablet was used (but not abused) in the process. My references were my younger cousin (who sat in that position for awhile. Thanks.) and Professor Tearju Lunatique from Black Cat...kinda...not really...no...? (I just put random colours and outfits together, as you can tell...) It was inspired by the song "Fine Day" by Kristy Hawkshaw [x]

Writer>> [Many-named one]

I don't know much about myself, so I believe that filling in this box of text would just be wrong. But hey, feel free to drop by my Blogger profile [x] or just sift through my blog if you'd like to make yourself more knowledgeable about me than myself...


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Likes
[♥] Anime
[♥] Tea
[♥] Yuri and Shoujo-ai
[♥] Japanese stuff
[♥] Books
[♥] The Internet
[♥] Penguins
[♥] Cats
[♥] Foggy days
[♥] Getting mail
Despises
[♠] High-pitched noises
[♠] Heights
[♠] Homophobes
[♠] People
(...at times)
[♠] Crowds
[♠] Ignorance
Read the signs, people.
[♠] The Sun
(...at times)
[♠] "Anime Purists"
(who believe that all dubs suck)
[♠] High temperatures

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Currently watching...

[x] Code Geass R2
[x] Penguin Musume ♥
[x] Kamen no Maid Guy
[x] Koihime Musou
[x] Candy Boy
[x] EUReKA

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Other Miscellany

[x] Guild Wars: Renard Dreamlocke of Cantha
[x] Gaia: Thymine
[x] MapleStory: 4m37475u of Windia (Rare)