Today's Wish: To get stuffs done x_X
Current Music on the Head:

Food in thought: Chicken and Corn Eggdrop soup :D
What did you do?: Work? its 3am in the morning on a saturday, let me have my way.

Okies long time no update but I’ve been busy, so I thought of a nifty way to not forget what to write here. I started typing topics down whenever I think its worth sharing with you all ^^

Rytmik

I downloaded this DSiWare for my 3DS over December or was that early Jan, I don’t remember. But this small app lets you make music, which I find cool! I’m no master but I do enjoy creating things! It takes a while to get used to but you also have to have a good ear for music too because some of the tracks I combined together sure are horrible x_x I just need to get better at it when I tinker with them again!

Artist Alley

I was about to write of thinking to joining Fanime Artist Alley, but the opportunity presented itself in the form of drifjunky13 suggesting we share a table. What fun! I struggled with AA registration last January and took a while in the waitlist, as well as taking time to run over to BoE to get myself a temporary seller’s permit. Now I’m registered for fanime, and I just the go ahead that I just got the table, preparation time ahoy! Someone teach me about comissions, I’m not super familiar with it. Aside from that I’m preparing a sketchbook to sell at my table ^_^ and perhaps other things too.

Wanting More Markers

With the recent events, I got more motivated to experiment more with what I have, and by luck I even got a wonderful guide in the form of a book called Shojo Wonder Manga Art School from Michael’s. Although copics still are a little ways expensive, my hand Deleter Neopiko-2 does not fail to do their job. Sadly with the past few years that I have mishandled some of them, there are some that are not in good condition, things like I forgot to close the cap, I pressed too hard now the brush tip’s threatening to fall off whenever I want to use them (thank god for double sided tips), broken tips because I was being in a hurry to recap them, and destroyed them in the process. I was able to do some nice works which was nice :D although quite time consuming, since I usually think what colors I want to use which takes minutes to hours haha xD So yeah I do want more. I’ve recently purchased some from Etoyhobbies.com and they were quick to send, I got it in 3 days business time ^^ maybe I should buy more.

Ragnarok Online : Mora

The latest update has descended upon the Rune Midgard kingdom and a pathway that supplies the Splendide Fairy Army with armaments and necessities have been cut off. It is up to us Adventurers to brave the dangerous Hazy Forest to bring word of news and transport supplies to and from the Trade City of Mora in Jotunheim, a hub filled with other merchants such as Talking dogs, elephants and plants.

It took me a while to finish the required quests to be able to get to Mora, and there were nice Adventurers that helped me get through the scary Hazy Forest Maze, which if you don’t have a huge printed map with you could spell you to be doomed to wander there for all of eternity..or simply die from the creatures that inhabit the place. They are the latest monsters in the game, and they sure pack quite some damage, so gear up, don’t forget your potions and yggdrasil leaves and get going! Great rewards await you at the end, like the most talked about White Wing Set, which enhances Ranger’s Arrow Storm skill damage by 50% with the complete set, and more bonuses with each refine level of the armor, not to mention the special enchantments that can bestow several effects to deal more damage or help, if you’re patient enough to reset them with Mora Coins to get what bonuses you want. That part, I don’t like x_x but oh well, I gotta go thru with it.

Needing More Sleep

Haha, I’ve nott been sleeping properly…I just have this feeling I need to finish a lot of things, they keep me up most of the time. That or just video games. My sleep clock’s way off nowadays :(

Vacation Time

I didn’t do much, but I took my vacation on February, and I was able to vegetate, ingest a ton of anime, and played a lot of RO. I created an alchemist for Ragnarok Online because they had a promo about the update on the Homunculus ‘S’ class, but oh well, I’ll keep my filir the way she is. She’s soo cute!

Tri-City Meets

I’ve recently been actively participating in the local Tri-City sketch jams when I’m free on weekends, which just enables me to hang, draw, chat about things, and gossip about fun stories about other BAAU members :D haha plain late night chatting and drawing sessions galore.

Life Drawing in Mountain View

The week before my Feb Vacation, I checked out the Life Drawing Classes in Mountain View. I have been wanting to do it for 2 years now, but since I just passed my driving exam last year, and now I’ve been a little more adventurous into venturing out a little farther from where I live. Ahaha I’m not so prepared to draw a nude dude but oh wells I got some doodles down ^^ it was quite ..an experience. Maybe I’ll do it another time.

Chihayafuru

I started watching this new anime called Chihayafuru, I think since December, and I do love watching it. It just finished its first season a few weeks ago, I’m a little disappointed at the ending. There should be another season. Too bad karuta’s kinda hard to know how to play especially if you have to memories 100 poems and recognize which other half of the poem/card in the reader reading before the opponent gets it.

I rate this anime : out of 5 ^^

Also they made a parody comic about it in Anime News Nina! Check it out!

Knight in the Area

I’ve started watching a few of its episode, but I fell back and never watched it again after 4 episodes into this anime. I’m not too into Soccer, but it looks badass on how they present it. Overshadowed younger brother afraid of his own power from injuring a playmate during an elementary match. His elder brother dies saving him from a rogue construction truck when the siblings were talking to each other on the way to school. The younger brother wakes up from the accident a month later, not knowing that it was his brother’s heart that was transplanted into his due to a huge puncture in his chest during the accident. Months later after rehabilitation he returns to school, and exhibited some of his brothers traits without him knowing so, to the fear of people who recognized it tho.

I rate this anime : out of 5 ^^

Natsume Yuujinchou

I’ve recently started catching up to Natsume’s Book of friends anime, and I definitely love it! However as the third season comes to a close, the anime becomes darker and darker, as Natsume gets more involved with a renowned excorcist clan, which powerful Head of House doesn’t care about youkai, but rather places them in the category of useful, or just trash to be exorcised. Things are heating up and I want to know what happens on season four, Natsume Yuujinchou Shi

I rate this anime : out of 5 ^^

Black Death

It’s a really dark movie o_o scary and bloody. It tests your faith to the limit. A very bitter twist in the end.

Kid Icarus: Uprising

I LOVE THIS GAME! I got it a few weeks ago and I really really really like it! Er…well except for Reapers and Ornes, but everything else’s okay, especially the Weapon Fusion feature and Together Mode: Light Vs Dark. Have a 3Ds? Get the game already, nuff said!

The Legend of Zelda Symphony of the Goddesses SF

01 The Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary Medley by Zelda Philharmonic

04 Gerudo Valley by Zelda Philharmonic

06 Twlight Princess Symphonic Movement by Zelda Philharmonic

Man I loved it! I went with my dad on the 28th of March 2012 at the Davies Symphony Hall. I loved how it wasn’t too loud. I got a ton of streetpasses. I had fun chatting with friends and I was able to take some err very few pictures. I wish they’d play again T^T I got a T-Shirt and Poster for 35$
It was very memorable <3 Can’t help but cry at beautiful parts, gawk at the fights, entranced by melodies and clap a lot, as in a LOT. They gave us one more extra arrangement, and that was the Majora’s Mask Arrangement. Encore indeed. I’m gonna miss it T^T MOAR MOAR MOAR CHOUDAI CHOUDAI

Fairy Tail Episode 124, the 7 Year Gap

I can’t help but feel sad about Lucy’s Dad passing away, and the sorry state that the Fairy Tail Guild is in. I hope it looks up better in the next few chapters!

Superman/Shazam!: the Return of Black Adam

I just finished watching this last night and it was cool! Although it was a little disheartening to know it was a short animation only :( Nontheless the DVD’s packed with a lot of Special Features :D

The return of the Crimson Army

Ah Sad Star Soldiers have returned. This small collaborative project was fun to do years back, creating our own characters, superpowers, storylines that revolve around the planet Astralis. We’ve been redesigning our own characters as of late, adjusting timelines, having fun at sharing ideas and motivating each other to complete the timelines of our characters on our facebook page.
For more info, check out our new wikia page!

Do you have what it takes to handle the Formless Darkness?
Can you answer the call of the Unseen?
Who can you trust?
We are Sad Star Soldiers, the Crimson Army. Children chosen by circumstance.

Well That’s it for now. Keep on going!

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Today's Wish: Good Sleep, Good Day at work
Current Music on the Head: Basement Jaxx - Good Luck (feat. Lisa Kekaula) from Appleseed Movie

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Labels: convention, iro, life, movie, ragnarok online, time

What did you do?: Played RO, watched some sort of Jackie Chan movie on local television, Did some grocery, cooked some sweet rice cake <3

Well well well, its been a while since I posted. Once again, A Belated Happy New Year to all. I have been pretty busy with work at the office during the holiday season, and I can finally breath a sigh of relief that it is over and done with and no longer in need of ranting about.

I've been doing a lot of stuffs lately, and I've almost forgotten that Fanime 2009 is almost here. I really really can't wait. I will have to do a lot of arrangements because of it. That means the BAUU Down 08 is almost on its due and deadline date for participating members. I'm afraid, this time I will not be submitting anything, so I would most likely be just helping out selling out comic books.

On to more news, I'm a year older and wiser now, and hopefully I've learned a lot of things form the year 2008. It was a very very memorable year. As for Christmas Gifts, I got one off my wishlist, I got a lightbox to work on! Now I can practice not only animation, but also make my linearts far more clean then they were before.

Ragnarok Online

As usually, my addiction to this amazing PC game never ends, as I finally Transcended my Hunter and turner her into a Sniper last Thursday. I am very happy with it, but It would have been more awesome if the color dye for Sniper remained the color Green. Oh well, you can't have everything ne?

Here's 2008 Screenshot Gallery


Dragon Ball: Origins

I've purchased a DS game from GameStop called Dragon Ball: Origins, and frankly for $19.99 its much more worth then it was priced at. The gameplay and story-menu-mode is set so you can always play the chapters you've passed thru again and again to acquire money, figures or special orbs that permit you to advance Son Goku's skills. The only thing I find annoying is that Bulma always gets ahead of you and often into trouble. You'll have to be up to your toes to keep up with her. The Graphics is well-rounded, and the comedy will crack you up so hard.
If you have a DS and you are a Dragon Ball series Fan, this is a must-buy for you.

My Rating:

Elite Beat Agents

I was browsing around GameStop when I found a used game of Elite Beat Agents. I knew it was a must-buy, so I bought it at around $16.99 and tried it out. True to what people rated it with, it is a fun, crazy and challenging game. It was very very different from other rhythm and music games like the Ontamarama I had. So yeah, believe what others say, that it's a rare game, I was lucky to have found it.

My Rating:

DeviantART News

I gave Karu and Pie Arashi a month's worth of DA subscription for them doing a request for me, which is a pretty cute illustration.


PIE VS KARU 2009 by =karuishikawa on deviantART

Enjoy your subscription you two :3

Style School 3

Aiya! I finally got my hands of the continuation of the Style School Series. This one had a very very gorgeous cover. And as usual it had good tips and tricks for any aspiring manga/anime illustrator out there like me, from photoshop, to copics, to toning and inking, and it includes a lot of different illustrations from all over japan, which might be considered to be a good reference material, if ever you're searchin for a particular style to acquire influence from.
A must buy if you can afford 16$+TAX

So there you go, I really had a busy month. Until we meet again, keep smiling ^__^

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What did you do?: hungry, but inspired by good music

Well well well, its another installment of my blog. There hasn't been much eventful things in my life currently, aside from hanging out in my new friends place and party hangouts.

Harvest Moon: Island of Happiness

I bought myself a new game from Gamestop and I know very well this game will be worth it. This game also commemorates Natsume's 10th Anniversary for the Harvest Moon Series.

Seriously, this game is far more challenging then the other HM games I've encounters in the GBA. The time passes faster then usual, some requirements should be met, its easy to earn money, but not the lumber to upgrades :( but In just 6 days i've been playing, the game indicates that I've already achieved 45% of the game.

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And in addition not finishing this entry my Harvest Moon IoH is currently at 70% in completion :)

Ragnarok Online

Nothing much has occured in the game except that they added a new feature in testing. Clothing Dye, each job class only has one color clothing dye. But honestly some were not so tasteful shall we say. Here are some pics




Seriously, they gave me a nice clothing dye for hunters :) we'd almost completely camouflaged ourselves with the color.

The Tech Museum

So like two weeks ago, I checked out the Tech Museum, and it wasnt that expensive for an Adult Pass, but yeah there were a lot of things that one hour can't do. However, I did have fun with the earthquake simulator, and it also turns out your ticket is interactive! so hold onto it and view your experience later online at their website.

In with the old Out with the new

I got myself a new phone, since my old one's really, and i'm serious using this word, disintegrating. I don't know but, but I bet its just a few years too old. 4-5 years to be exact. So yeah I purchased a Nokia 5320 unlocked, so I can go around the world and not have network problems :D
This new phone's awesome, good audio, the buttons are slippery, and it looks a little more fragile then my old one, so I really need to be careful with this one.

Warning: Don't buy from Overseas Electronics

So yeah, I went to this website to purchase my phone. And in the shipping out section, I had a choice of paying 25$ more to have my item delivered in 2 days flat. It sounded good, so I paid. My new phone came a week after, the gits. They said I only paid for ground shipping...right...whatever. Anyways I went on the web and check this company's reputation, and it seems it has a fair deal of problems, shipping wrong items, no returns, no exchange, communication problems, shipping prices not specified and so on and so forth, you can check the list of reported problems when dealing with this companty at the better business bureau online and see their 3-4 page list of stuffs.

Tropic Thunder

I watched Tropic Thunder the other week with friends and it was serioiusly hilarious and action-packed. Its a must-see recommendation, with lots of side-jokes about other movies and awesome cameos of certain stars.
My Rating:

Style School 2

I've treated myself in buying myself another manga/anime making related book. And This is the one I'm going to review. It's slightly more expensive then the first one I bought from borders. It has 20% tutorials and the remaining galleries and galleries of different artists, I find it pretty nice. This volume discusses about drawing the human anatomy anime-style, also needs to be slightly correct so it has some drawing references of anime-style anatomy. How to make awesome background by Emperialboy, how a certain artist use Copic Markers, Color Inks, and Photoshop. Very useful and pretty inspiring. You should check it out.



An old friend

I had a chance to chat with an old friend named Naomi. And we talked about stuffs. So yeah I'm plugging for her for this post :D

Her DeviantArt Account
her Multiply Account

Oh and yeah my desk's a cluttered mess. I really should fix it :P

...

but I don't care

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What did you do?:Work, and watched Change

Well well well, I missed last Sunday's post ne? I'm trying very hard to post it every sunday to at least make it weekly. But honestly, I'm very very tired. Work's been keeping me that way sadly :( I really need to plan some sort of vacation.

Well, in-between, I try my best to amuse myself, and listen to my favorite podcast.
Anime fans unite, please try to listen and enjoy to Ichigo and Battou's antics at Anime-Pulse

Change

From this podcast I was able to look-up this awesome JDrama, called Change from their Episode #144 at anime pulse. Its pretty inspiring, and so far I've only finished episode 5.
Ganbare! Change cast!

Its kinda awesome to see someone really try hard to convert hard-minded politicians, not to mention, getting under their skin. I wonder what will happen next?

Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Meh, I watched it with friends, and honestly in my opinion, its not that much. I expected it to be like, the entire story of the clone wars. But I kinda discovered, that it was just an intro. Those with Cable TV rejoice, you'll be able to watch the continuation after this movie. Sucks that I don't have Cable TV, but its okay, I'm a picky person anyways. Music however, is pretty upbeat. As for the 3-D they look like 3-D meshes just added painted-style skin to :( not much, really looks flat in my opinion, but that's how they want it done, so be it.
My Critic:

Shameless Plugs and Linkness:

Mysoju: Change

"Can You Handle the Formless Darkness?"

Sketchie

Awareness Plugging

Favorite Anime Radio Station

Until then. keep on living and loving life. It'll always be bitter or sweet, just get it over and we won't have any more problems :) Good Night

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Eri Kawai

May You Rest in Peace

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Ragnarok Online

It seems that they have a new quest this week, and I find it very educational to discover more of Rune-Midgard's History. I've started the Stonecutter's Quest, where I will visit cities that contain an age-old statue cut out of stone in honor of gods/goddesses. Currently, I'm attempting to finsh the fourth part of the quest, the Veins statue of the Goddess Freyja situated in the Temple.

Also, it made me gain a little base exp while enjoying the hunt for the offerings for the Gods/Goddesses. Pretty convenient, and I don't need to worry much :)


Swing Vote

Wooh! this movie was awesome. I watched it with dad on a Thursday night, and it was very very comical. But yeah, it had a lot of lessons for all the participants in the story.
I give this, a 4 stars :D


GolfLand Again

Meh, Friday night me and some friends visited another friends place, and then we left as well. Nothing much productive, so we agreed to go to golfland again and have fun. That's it. It was very tiring though afterward.

Random Shameless Plug

Until next time, see you and keep smiling :D

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• Kung-Fu Panda - The animation was very smooth and comical. Storyline is very solid and the beginning starts in a slow crawl but nothing that came from there was left behind at the end.
• Wanted - Awesome effects, the storyline is light and can be related to other 'life stories' but very graphic when it comes to sex scenes as well as the violence scenes. Better watch this at matinée price and not good for kids.
  
• Hancock- Good Story, very humorous and heartwarming, and a happy ending :D

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• I saw old and new faces, really good to see people again, even though you don't personally know their names, where they're from, and what they're up to. It feels like an awesome method of uniting people of similar interests.
• Me and my bro cosplayed for the first time. I went as a Ragnarok Online Ninja while my bro went as Red-Haired Shanks from One-Piece. Quite and experience i'll never forget to remember to keep your props secure or you'll lose them as soon as you leave the elevator of your Hotel room.
• I discovered that the Swap Meet is the best place to get bargains. I was able to at least touch the Legendary Poring Mouse. I couldn't buy it because the owner was selling it for $100 TAT. One can also haggle prices, or it seems. I was able to haggle down Vol 1 and Vol 2 of Ragnarok Manhwa from 3$ each to 1$ each <3>
• Karaoke room is awesome as usual. I heard people's different voices, whether it be just seconds late of lyrics or totally out of tune, it just feels so right to vent out your feelings into the song and release all the pressures of the world one has been holding onto for a year with songs.
• I finally got to play with some people on my DS it was totally fun. Speaking of DS Games, the Dealers room had Japanese import games OMG I was sooooooooooooooooo happy, I didn't need to pay for the shipping fee <3<3>,<>
• The Gaming Rooom, Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee~~~~~!!! its the best!!! All the arcade games you can play all weekend nights looong!!! And the Console Gaming Center was more organized then last year, soo much better <3<3<3>
• I finally got to meet the rest of the BAAU gang!! (BAY AREA ARTISTS UNITE) quite an experience to discover people from different lifestyles and own personalities. I was a little shy, but it all went alright. I tried helping sell our BAAU Down 7 debut manga :D Someone please buy our manga ^^ we still have around 300 copies more and also more of the previous issues. We were able to sell more then a hundred issues at the Artists Alley. We also had dinner at this Indian Resto called Tandoori, and since we got short of tables inside, we ate outside in the view of how San Jose evening Nightlife looks like. We also went up to the BAAU hotel room and talk about stuffs and more sales strategies. Quite an enchanted evening I had.
• Anime Video Rooms, you gotta love them, was able to watch a couple of my fave animes, like Detective Conan, and Hellsing Ultimate, and glimpses of Dragon Ball Z, Rise of Broly, and Vampire Hunter D:Bloodlust.
• Panels are as encouraging as ever, amusing as well. I didn't imagine that Jonathan Osborne's "Who's Line Is It?" Panel could be so hilarious plus the fact that it had audience participation and with Ebner leading the crowd (Vote for Ebner for next con President!!)
• Photos Photos Photos!!! can't have enough of it but It can't be helped if we ran out batteries and memory, we knew such things would come, but it still came even if we were prepared *sigh*
• Best stay ever at the San Jose Hilton Hotel, they made sure they clean our rooms every time we leave <3<3<3>
• The cosplay gathering were sooo fun!!! but more fun was the appearance of Protestors. For some reason they just appeared in the front of the Convention Center with placards saying "Turn to Jesus or Burn in Hell" and other things. Either they mistook this Fanime Convention as some sort of Religious Congregations, or they just believe that Anime Fans are heretics to the Christian Religion. Either way, it is not something i'd like to force people to just change immediately and become instant Saints. They brought Evangelism to new heights, that they did, but it is sad to hear they think liking anime is a sin in itself. Anyways I heard the Jesus cosplayer came out during the incident due to the clamor of the anime crowd and went before these protestors and had fun taking pictures with them. Quite an amazing feat from what i've seen in the videos on Youtube.

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Today's Wish: More time
Current Music on the Head: MuShiShi Soundtrack
Food in thought: Pizza
What did you do?: Cleaned the Toilet, Cooked Rice, Watched Anime and J-Drama, Inked

Hello! Its been a while. I've been bored and busy, more emo then before. I can't believe i'm that lazy. I didn't want to walk to the supermarket so we could have dinner.
Well, that's me.

Recently, It has been a happy event for my Online Gaming life. My Guild was finally able to capture a castle ever since Dragon's Ire has been scarily defeating us every War On Emperium.

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