Monday, November 30, 2009

My mom stuffed the Thanksgiving Turkey with noodles.

One whole week of not blogging, shame on me =P. Nothing really exciting happened anyway to be honest. Again and again I'm being bombarded by loads of schoolwork. Same business I've had the past 2 months BUT it's almost over xD. The big business presentation is coming up on Friday, Math exam on Wednesday, Japanese exam next Monday, English papers due tomorrow (which I skillfully completed a week early =D), and then finally Final exams in mid December. I seriously can't wait til winter Break. So much free time to do whatever I want yessss... but chances are I'll probably sit at home and chill and then go out like only 2 or 3 times a week lol.



Now that I think about it, I haven't really planned anything at all for Winter Break... There was a Christmas Get-Together-Party I was going to plan with Mich but other than that I haven't really thought about my other old friends. As people get older and older you'll have different groups of friends, they can hang with eachother if you yourself act as a bridge between groups but other than that they're like a separate culture. That's the case I've got here, and I don't want to leave my other groups of friends in the dark. When I went to visit them, they said "Herro, I miss you Thanh!" and all but I didn't really talk back to them as much. And I feel bad for it =(. I've gotta plan some get-together with them too... better than sitting home and playing games all day lol.


 
Hehe, I like the pictures I find..

=P Don't want to get too ahead of myself though... I've never worked so hard in school in my life. On Sunday I actually commuted to Boston, not to have fun, but to work together with my team for the upcoming Business Presentation. Sometimes I would try to tell myself, "Pfft, its just a presentation, play WoW for now and wing it on the day it's due", but it's a grade that pretty much determines whether or not I pass or fail the course, plus the CEOs that come are nasty... So in the end I met up with my team in a bagel shop Sunday, and we researched and came up with strategies to present... FOR 6 HOURS! DJKSLJDKLALJDOSADKSLADKLMADA. My precious Sunday was spent on working..
  on my commute home I had a big sad face the entire ride lol. Rather than hopping onto my laptop for some recreation I spent another hour doing Japanese and Math Homework. By the time I finally got to the game I was miserable and just sat in Ventrilo without saying a word to my friends. And now I'm sitting in the library blogging my brains out before I hit the books again lol.

On another note, my Thanksgiving break was nice and relaxing. I turned down a party a friends house, don't know why, but I just didn't want to go =P. The day after that was Thanksgiving, and man was it good. Nice juicy, succulent tuuuurkey YES xD. And since it was an asian turkey of course there were some asian cuisine put into the meal. I was a little disappointed that we couldn't go spend the Holiday at a relatives place but just eating and then relaxing is good enough for me too. Like after the turkey fest I literally walked over my bed and passed out for 2 hours lol.

Other than eating turkeys, the short break was pretty damn uneventful, I met up at a friends house for a few poker games but that was it. The only thought provoking thing I've had so far before typing this post is something I saw in my Japanese class. Tokyo ni Sashin ga desuyoo =D Our sensei showed us pictures from a class in 2007 that spend a week in Tokyo, Kyoto, Ginza, and Harakuji. Japan definitely has a totally different feel from America just from looking at those pictures.




The pictures sensei showed us are a lot different from the pictures you would see on google. For one the pictures were taken by an amateur photographer so theres a personal feel to it. It gives the picture a very real feeling. Japan gives off that Asian atmosphere you would find in any Asian country, and then mixes it up with it's own taste to stand out from the other nations. There were pictures of sumo wrestling, kabuki theatres, high-end japanese restaurants/inns, and fish markets lol. Then there were the sakura trees. For some reason professional photography and anime references for sakura trees don't do em justice. They're so pretty when its photographed casually. The first semester is going to be over so soon... and then the 2nd semester will fly by just as quick, then BAM onto the plane to Japan. I just can't help thinking about it even though in reality it's still going to be months before I have to go. But there's also one thing I want to mention....


 THE FASHION LOL

I don't know if its just Harakuju that has this kind of fashion trend, but damn it's like... o.o lol. I'm not saying the fashion is bad, it's just so unique I don't know how to react to it. This isn't a very good picture to represent Japanese fashion by the way... The pictures that sensei took of people in Harakuju had people in flamboyant warm colored clothing too. The guy in sensei's picture had his pants unzipped and literally flapping around. Apparently he had on "fashionable" boxers with pockets to stick his hands in lol. His girlfriend was pretty much the same as the girls in the picture above but with warmer colors. She also had a random bow in her hair which really didn't fit in place... I've had friends that put bows in their hair and they do a lot better then the Japanese girl...



Maybe it's just people living in Harakuju or Shibuya that have this fashion. The pictures of people Kyoto and students at their Universities look really really normal - like the typical 20 yr-olds in America. I haven't looked at the way people dress in Hong Kong or other asian countries beside Vietnam and Korea, but from what I've seen they have a few people who have that kind of fashion. I remember in Vietnam I saw a couple with the same fashion sense as those Harakuju pictures (to do that in Vietnam u gotta be SUPER rich) and then in Korea... actually in Korea I don't think I saw anyone with that sort of fashion. Most people were usually wearing the kind of "mature" businessy/stylish look of clothing. Like you could tell what they wore was high-end and at the same time they all had a reserved look. It really gives the message of "I'm cool" instead "I'm hip".

I'm not into fashion and all but its damn interesting seeing how differently people dress in other countries. T-shirt n jeans is all I need anywayz =D. Alright enough procrastinating back to work... I should try to post more often, if I got back to read my blogs it'd be lame to look at a week-long gap between posts.

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Another Weekend, boring too.

Another boring weekend =P. I was going to go out and chill with a friend but I ended up going home after and passing out on the bed. I wish we all didn't have to sleep so often. Even right now I feel like taking a nap but then i know I'll wake up at 12 or something and not go to sleep until 5 in the morning. So now I'm sitting here, burned out from hours of Call Of Duty...

To kill boredom I took a look at my old posts, and noticed some obvious differences in writing styles. I don't know why I prefer to type in good grammar now. b4 it waz jus leik talkin in sum online game wit all dat game-slang. n then it was jus regular aim writing where i would spell sum things rite but its not all rite. And now finally I just write as if I was writing some kind of paper. Some of the stuff that comes out is pretty awkward sounding when I read it, but it's a hell lot better than the blogs I've had before on Xanga. The reason I wanted to blog in the beginning was to see I change over time. Usually you'd think that you're relatively the same person throughout your life, but there's always small changes. I don't know how to describe my blogs from 2003 or 2004. "It was definitely written by a little kid, a bit over-energetic, and the blogs were a chore to read." - is probably what anyone would think of it as if they read it. But yeah... blogging is really showing its usefulness once I started reading back.


I could be making music too, but I just don't feel like it. It could be the busy week... it probably is... I barely have like an hour to play games and relax, the rest of the time is usually for sleeping which I already cut up to watch anime. AHHH I wish this semester could end sooner. But in my boredem I found some real funny youtube videos. They used autotuning to edit newscasts into songs.



It's pretty entertaining too lol. It also made me think about the ways synths are used in music. Like you can also make your own unique sounds by playing around with oscillators and all those knobs with it. By using pre-recorded clips of japanese phonetics (Ka,Shi,Hi, etc.) and plugging them into a DAWS (Digital Audio Workstation) Hatsune Miku was born.



No one sung it, it's all completely done by computer. She's practically a virtual idol in Japan. Kinda like a story of the future when you look at it.

Well that's all for today, today's just one of those "laziness" days.

Friday, November 20, 2009

Slice of Life

Instead of droning about the long week of group presentation work, I decided to keep my lid shut and get used to it lol. As much as I hate not having that free time to relax and watch anime during my "waking" hours, just knowing that I'm getting the right grades for all the effort is good enough. My english professor gave us our mid-term presentation grades yesterday: 24/25 = "A" =D God it's been raining A's all semester long it's like getting WoW epics over n over lol.

What I have been able to do is read manga. It's a lot more convenient than sitting through an entire episode of anime, plus you get more out of the story.




My Girl

Despite how many guys would interpret the title it's actually not what you might think it to be. The story revolves around your typical college graduate working an average businessman's job in Japan. Well there's a nice prequel of a love story for this guy but much of it is undisclosed in the manga. It focuses around the present where the guy ends up taking care of his daughter that he was never aware of until the mother had died over seas in America. Of course there's a lot more too this, but that's the basic beginning of the story.

It's a legit Slice of Life/Seinen story. Since I'm not in high school anymore I predict that the Seinen genre will attract me a lot more than the usual Shounen. The combination of Slice of Life and Seinen is like, the most comforting cup of tea you can think of. It's just really relaxing and relieves stress. Plus it's also really thought provoking in a positive way. Only 3 or 4 years from now I'll be out completely living on my own and I'll be alone most likely. This manga really captures one way life could be like, for typical average salaryman in Japan.

I'm pretty sure a lot of people will first read the manga and put it off as a really boring and unexciting series. Shounen and Shoujo drama lovers alike absolutely love the hardcore twists and turns that drama plotlines tend to take. My Girl on the other hand is very mellow. It's a lot more real and reasonable than the crazy hard-hitting twists you would see in other dramas. Drama is still drama of course. Seinen as a genre needs that "reality check" sort of drama from time to time to keep manga plotlines in check. Otherwise we'd be having a large host of manga series where people are having sex every chapter, betraying, cheating, killing, and then occasionally committing a psychotic suicide *shrug*. I've read so many Seinen books with those themes and frankly I'm pretty tired of it. My Girl, like Seitokai no Ichizon, is a good break from it all. A break that we otakus particularly enjoy.
But of course Anime will always be on the border of the line of reality and fantasy. That's what has made it so popular as opposed to cartoons that are too realistic and comics that way too fictional to our tastes. So far the story of My Girl is very smooth, with the few occasional bumps in our protagonist's life. It's at its 15th chapter at the moment so I predict that the 20th or 25th chapter the story will take a turn, and give us some hard dilemmas to read through. I'll be really interested in how intense the dilemmas will be. Since the series is very real and close to the lives of people at the "Seinen" age, the author will have to come up with some just as real and play it off appropriately. After all there's a sweet little girl in the manga, putting in any rough drama is just sick and unnecessary =P. I'd go into more detail of what I predict will happen but there would be some spoilers...
All in all, it's been a really good read while I've been busy putting together my research on business stuff... I really wish my group could have done a case study on a more interesting business =P. If I ever had the chance to work on a case that involved Anime I'd be friggin bouncing off the walls with excitement, but that might also make me a little biased towards some things. Not everyone likes anime the way I do =(.

Another thing...



While reading My Girl I just remembered that I won't be in America for a long time, starting my next fall semester. I was always unsatisfied with the life I have in Massachusetts. I love my friends and all but I feel trapped in this one state and country =(. I haven't dormed yet so I also have my parents dragging me around. But next year I'll be free, FROM EVERYTHING. Dorming will get me away from family, yes, but I'm still breathing the same air as them and anyone else.

I remember one conversation I had with an old friend. It was like in our junior year or something. We were like just chatting about how college life is going to be a huge boost in freedom and how we can get away from old acquaintances that we just don't want to meet anymore. I went out and said bluntly "I want to move far away and start completely from scratch, even away from good friends like you." I probably worded it a lot differently but I remember saying that, it probably was a little cold but that's how I really felt (usually I just keep it to myself =P). I know I have really good friends in MA but I seriously want to get the fuck out. There's too many people who think the world revolves around them, when the truth is that they're just like anyone else living in the same city and state. So once I move to Japan, and live there for a semester and then move to my next study abroad program, I'll be more able and more open-minded to listen and take-in the things people have problems with. Whenever I find myself getting mixed up in other people's drama, I feel bitter and very annoyed. Going to another country will probably help me to accept the fact that it's a waste of time, and to just walk away even if it's a real close friend. But of course it depends on how real and impacting the drama is, if you just lost your job and you're in debt, and you're my friend, I'll do everything I can to help you. If you're depressed for weeks over a boyfriend or girlfriend, my reaction will be */facepalm*, only until the person seriously tries to commit suicide I'll actually say something. Doing something could also get me in trouble, cold yes, but it's the survival of the fittest.

Sophia University, man I wonder what kind of people I'll meet there.



 

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

"Good Job"

Man, I haven't blogged in a while. I blame Call Of duty: MW2, the single player campaign is ridiculously fun. Over the past few days a few bad things happened and then a few a good things =P.

Have you ever had that feeling where you just feel unattached to life? Like as if you suddenly took a step back from whatever you might be raving over. For me it was music. I got into it, making it was A LOT of fun. And then all of the sudden during the weekend I completely lost interest in that, and anything else with it. Like I literally just laid back and watched some anime without much excitement. Then my mind would drift off and think about what I'm going to do with myself in the future. Like how will my life change when I'm older and have more freedom? Will I still be watching anime and playing games? YES I most likely will lol but aside from that how will I represent myself when I walk through Boston... I doubt I'll be one of those guys who wear nice lavish casual clothing constantly. T-Shirt and jeans is enough for me, and... I like to wear suits too haha. Plus the friends I have now are growing farther and farther away from me. My best friends who were my sempais in high school are practically nonexistent. To stay in touch with them, I would really have to make an effort to clear my schedule and hang out, but it's just not as easy as it sounds.

These feelings could probably came from the random outburst I saw from my father, who must have some control issues seeing how he freaked out over the fact that I snuck in half an hour of COD on a weekday. =P I have been a best little azn boy I've ever been since elementary school yet he still scolds me, WTF man. It's unfair how much power he has over me, yes I can easily leave the house and live on my own, but what people don't understand is: I am not willing to compromise my education nor my financial security.

If I leave home now, I won't be able to pay off the student loans without starving myself and leaving myself to freeze on the streets. If I were able to get a decent job to support a part-time college education, I'd still be extremely tight on money just from trying to pay-off rent and any other necessary expenses. I actually went out to get some serious advice about this too. I was told that it is possible to support myself and goto college part-time, but I would be living on $10,000 - $13,000 a year income. So it's feasible to live out some really hard and lonely years in my early twenties and still get the opportunity to succeed. Awesome, but things in my home aren't to the point where "I NEED TO MOVE OUT". I'm not going to let a deranged man ruin my life in early adulthood because of his control issues, if he threatens to hurt me then that's the time to get out. So until then I'll have to tolerate it the best I can.

With that all said, now I'm just sitting here daydreaming about what my life will be when I'm 23,24, or 25. By that time I will most definitely be free from any control. I'm pretty sure the bastard isn't going to let me have my way until I leave the house, *sigh* I'll spit on his corpse when he dies, that's how bitter I feel about him. But just thinking about how freedom will feel by then, it's like a dream come true. Sure I'll have tons of bills to pay, but there won't be anyone governing my life. I seriously envy people who have lenient parents, they'll never understand what it's like to have a very controlling power-abusive parent. I just did some quick research with from good sources that really support my emotional problems with my parents controlling nature. *shrug* It's another thing that I'll have to tolerate and wait out...

So what good has happened early this week? Not much but it's enough to keep myself going...




"GOOD JOB" says my Management 101 Professor =D =D =D xD

God I was getting pretty nervous when I found out that there was business presentation to do today. I had no idea what the case study was about and no idea what the problems were. Thankfully one of my team members is a really responsible person (I really admire her) and she made printouts for us to read before the presentation. The other guys on the team didn't read into it too much so they read off the paper a little bit during the presentation... which is very bad lol. I managed to memorize and act out my part like a pro to carry my weight for the group.

At the end of the whole ordeal it was only me and that one girl who weren't scrutinized with anything wrong. The scrutiny is pretty broad too. Like say if your hands were in the wrong place, or if you were maintaining eye contact in the wrong way, or there wasn't any flow in your speaking. If you did any little thing of those things wrong the professor would pick us out for it >.< It wasn't that big of a deal, the real presentation with actual business CEOs come December. But just being praised like that made me feel really good about myself. Maybe it's the kind of thing I really needed once in a while. I can go and tell myself "Alright I did a pretty good job with this project" but listening to it being told to you by someone else is different. Even my parents haven't had anything good to say about me despite my good grades, I've gotta keep reminding myself that I have a good future ahead as long as I tough it out and work hard to get that awesome job.

Thursday, November 12, 2009

Business is Business

Well I just got home from a long day... Traffic in the morning, delays on the train, and a late presentation >.< At least that's one presentation taken care of, I've got two on the way, and they need to get worked on soon. But... When I came home I realized something.







So I was like hang on a second... this tie looks really nice with my shirt =D And these vest and pants too. I don't know if it's a bad thing, but shit I really like wearing a suit. It's a lot more of a hassle than throwing on a pair of jeans and a t-shirt, but when you walk down the state house all fresh and well-dressed, there's a good feeling in it. I'm a guy, but damn, dressing up is pretty nice lol.

Two of my presentations don't require me to wear a suit but I wore it anyway for the day since a close friend of mine, Michelle, and I wanted to go out and try this restaurant called Ma Soba.



FANCY AS HELL!

We walked in and we were just so blown away by how nice and fancy it all was. The service was great too, they operated just like a 4-star restaurant with the way they handled our finished courses. Of course we weren't used to eating at a high-end restaurant so when we gave into temptation and started eating our sashimi, they took away our main entrees with food still on it =( My bowl of miso soup.. damn. Even though the service was top-notch; the prices really didn't match them. Our meals were ONLY $17.00 each, and our stomachs were satisfied. It was pretty amazing. I could go to Kagawa and order a plate of unagi on rice for $15 and I'd still be hungry =P.

The sushi is simply first-class. They look as good as the picture as they are on the actual plate.


Hmm other than the restaurant and finishing my presentation nothing else really happened. But while Michelle and I were chatting about how people blog or use facebook, I realized how important and really self-rewarding it is to blog. My grandfather up until his death kept entrees in his journal daily. It was all for himself to read. I'm pretty sure at first it must've been a little lame, but when those entrees build up year after year, it's just so nice to look back on it. I'll probably keep updating this blog several times a week, and then when the year ends I'm gonna go through each and every posts xD just like my grandfather with his journal.

But I just wish more Americans would try blogging, in a positive manner of course. I've seen some pretty damn negative Blog entrees from Americans. But now a days when I go browsing through other people's blogs, I only occasionally come across a US blog. It's pretty easy to see why though. Facebook is just so huge in America, there's a UK version but I don't think as many people use it as Americans do. Sure it's easy and it's a powerful tool to network with friends, but you don't get as much as you would from keeping a blogging network. Personal blogging is dying in the US... I remember when Xanga and LiveJournal was super popular, now no one touches it. It's all about facebook =P. I have a facebook too, but I only find it useful for networking. All the fun is in blogging out your thoughts and experiences throughout the week, and it becomes a lot more valuable when you look back and reflect on it.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Busy week, blogging helps relieve stress.

I've been coming home pretty late the past few days this week, and it's for hanging out or stuff like that. Presentations for my classes are coming up in a few weeks so my schedule is actually pretty tight for the first time in a while. Usually I've always got flexible hours to work with but now if I don't actually buckle down and do work I'm going to fall behind and get into some trouble.

Having night class really doesn't help... Tonight I just got home at 8, ate dinner and now it's 9 and I still have work to do. Luckily I don't have class tomorrow, but if I did I'd be spending my night working on a paper that's due on Thursday and I need to come up with information on an upcoming debate that is also on that day =P. In the same week I've been calling, e-mailing, and talking to strangers to meet with them and work on the presentations. Now I've seen some suckers fabricate tight schedules to make themselves look "good", but when you're actually busy it's pretty friggin awful =P. I've hardly had free time so far this week and last week, and when I don't get my daily fix of anime things go bad =(. Every time I go a day without some time to myself I wake up next morning grumpy as hell. A tight schedule isn't a very good thing to use as a status symbol...



I'm going to a business school and all, so these kinds of bumpy and cluttered schedules are to be expected; especially when if I was working in a real business environment- so I've got to find a way to deal with it. Alcohol perhaps? My "daily fix" for things can really affect my mood, I can go through an awful day as long as I have that fix but if I don't it turns into a nightmare. I'll have to find substitutes... like blogging lol.


Music

Ugh, I haven't had the time to sit down and make a song. I think it was yesterday when I tried to figure out the basic beat for my next song. It ended up being a big experimentation with how drums can be used in a song. I listened to songs with pretty damn complex patterns and than other songs with more abstract patterns in drum beats. It was only then when it occurred to me how important the bass line of any song really was. The usual constant kick in a song may be all you need to hold that steady beat and guide a song. It's not necessary to have a large array of percussion to make a song sound upbeat, as I was aiming to do. Before learning from the experiment, I figured that the more complex the drums were the more upbeat the song would be. But that really isn't the case. Instead drums are just another sound you can use to either be the "voice" of the song or the bass or underlying tones of the song. What makes a song really upbeat is the actual notes you use in the song.

In "Stars in the Shade" I used chords that made very very familiar sounds. The piano songs I play are usually calm and peaceful sounding. I have no idea how a fun upbeat song is played. So the chords were long drawn and very mellow. Going into the main body of the song I added more underlying chords which were put in for the hell of it. What I didn't realize was that these chords were acting like a bass line, or the soothing synth sounds that go along with the main melody. Depending on how it is made with the melodies, you could have many different types of tones for songs. Looking closely at the loops in the "Stars in the Shade" I realized that all of them ended in a very mellow manner, so the song as a whole had a mellow calm tone. If I had used higher more energetic notes and chords at the ends of those loops then the song would feel more upbeat.

The hook of a song really helps to determine what kind of song it is. God there's so much to actually making a song I still need to learn. It's going to be pretty hard to finally make the kinds of songs that I really like to listen to.

Sunday, November 8, 2009

Boring Sundays

Now that I think about it nothing really meaningful has happened to me in a while. The occasional meet-up with old and new friends. It all feels really normal, but hey normal is good too. I'd rather have normal than crazy stupid drama. But damn, this is one boring weekend. I'm busy with homework and planning for group presentations so there's not much time to just relax. The time I had on Saturday was probably the most relaxing day of the week. I spent 6 hours of the night working on my first song =), and then an hour with Tunababy on War3.



I don't mind the change of being able to meet the same old people at school all the time, but I kinda miss it when I just sit here and do work. There was interaction between friends irl in school and then hours of WoW with the same funny group of guys all day long every single day. Now I'm spending each day like a robot. Commute to school, study hard, go home, do work, do homework, watch anime/read manga, and goto sleep. That is seriously the layout of my day each week. I've tried to play games at the end of the day but it's not as fun as it used to be when all of my friends would be on at the same time ready to play. *shrug* I guess the only bad thing about this lifestyle is the loneliness from time to time.

Well besides that I finally made my first song. It's plain as hell, no modulated cool sounds, and pretty lame drum beat. But the synths I used came out a lot better than I thought it would. It's not an upbeat song at all, it sounds more like a BGM because of the lack of a strong hook. Making a good hook takes some serious creativity, a good hook pretty much lays down everything to be made around it. The Hook and then the beats, and mix in other sounds to complete the skeleton of the song. Then after that you edit it, mix the sounds, make sounds twist and whirl etc. There's just so much that can be done with them.



Spending 6 hours on a song is really too little... There's tons of things that could've made it better, even if it wasn't an upbeat song. I only used the piano roll and a couple sound plugins to do the song. There were other things I could've done, but hell I've got no idea how to work the modulator knobs at all. There's so many little letters that stand for the things they do so it's all just confusing as hell. All-in-all I think it's a pretty good start. Now I actually have some starting experience in making music. It'll still be about a month or even longer before I actually come up with good hooks and use them properly.

Thursday, November 5, 2009

Time to reinvent?



Ok this week I bought an album. That's right I didn't pirate, I actually used up some cash to buy Lain Trzaska's aka SHE 's album "Orion". And damn, I thought I heard some good electronic/techno music but Lain's stuff is just really a new generation of the genre. Before learning the SHE is Lain Trzaska I was like dying to know who SHE really was. So I did some research and it turns out that, yeah, SHE was actually a he who made his first debut in Japan somewhere in 2009. So this guy really was new (well I think 1 year is new) and something about that, I don't know what- made me want to give music a try. I mean I've always got something to listen to, and listening to music is something I really like. Before whenever it came to things that had to do with "creativity" + recreation it was just drawing and painting. But I can't really do that as often anymore, so that makes me a saaaad panda. So why not try making music? AT LEAST try ya know, and see how it goes.

So I spent the whole night yesterday looking up guides and all, and found of list of things I needed. So I got pretty much all the software to make a song, but no hardware. Hardware isn't an absolute necessity, but it's pretty damn close... By hardware I mean like, strong speakers so you can really hear how the music works and a keyboard to make music along with computer software.

FL STUDIO!



I honestly had no idea of what to do in the beginning. Once I did start to get the hang of some things it was still complicated as hell lol. BUT the hardest part, is actually coming up with the music. My mind's all set and used to coming up with ideas in drawings and all but thinking up "music" is totally different. Same concept of creativity but completely different mediums. It can sound frustrating to try to learn something like this when you already know so much of something else, but to me its really refreshing. It's something new and different to me, and it's fun as hell.

This really reminds me of all the times I doodled in elementary school. When you're given a clean slate with hammer and chisel in hand you can think of ANYTHING you want to do without being tied down by any prior experience.


Good and innocent times back then. Even now it's like the best stress reliever ever to try something new and creative.

Hmm, well besides the stuff I've been doing on my spare time nothing much has really happened during this week besides getting AWESOME grades =D. Even though I goto Suffolk I don't really know my way around the city at all. On Tuesday I went around to eat and explore Borders with Michelle. God I'm so glad I have a close friend to show me around lol. I've been lost so many times driving so it pretty much traumatized from going anywhere new, even on foot. So thanks to Mich I discovered how close everything was around Boston lol.

Today I brought up some courage and walked around the streets around Suffolk. Beacon Hill is like one of the biggest hills I've ever seen. Plus it's all covered by the city so it's pretty cool to think about it as a whole. When I got to Cambridge Street I found a bunch of cool restaurants to try. The First one I really want to try is "Ma Soba". I honestly don't know exactly what kind of restaurant it is, besides Oriental. When I walked by it I saw lots of businessmen and women eating in fancy suits and stuff. The table, glass cups, forks, were reaaaal fancy lookin. At first I thought it was a Japanese restaurant because of the bento lookin trays they had but then when I looked at the menu I saw Thai, Indian, Chinese, and VIETNAMESE food =D. They only had one Vietnamese entree but still I gotta try it, it's affordable too; a bit expensive but still affordable.

Back to FL Studio, one of these days I'll make a complete song, and if I don't feel good from making it then that's it for music making and back to Drawing and designing =P I'll end this blog with some She for anyone reading...

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Networking... I guess it's kinda important.

Ok I went for like weeks, maybe a month, without really talking to ANYONE I knew from High School =P. I'm doing absolutely fine with everything; new school, new people, new life, etc. - but DAMN I really miss some people. After hanging out with movies and dinner, I just had to get my facebook back up so that I AT LEAST know how people are doing. To be honest, Facebook... I find it really boring, but it's helpful. For me at least, it seems impossible to keep in touch with people with just my text messages or "once in a while phone calls". I don't even use AIM, I don't know why I don't but... yeah I just don't lol.

So here's the little plan I came up with:
Start up Facebook to create a network, and use blogspot so I can keep in touch with reality in general.

The past month I pretty just spent my time going to school, taking my notes, doing homework, studying like a good boy, and then helping out at my dad's store. Not much time to even touch my games, which I couldn't even do if i wanted to since daddy still has his hands over it at night.

..STOP! - lol, yeah... sounds like a pretty lame life-style, but to be honest, I haven't been so happy in a long time. Sure people around me are having fun drinking and partying... but for me. Nah, I don't want any part of it. You be happy your way and I'll be happy my way. Let's keep that line of respect.

I get good grades. I mean like THE BEST EFFIN GRADES I'VE HAD SINCE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL =D! I got a 103 on my math exam this week. It's 103 because it was scaled since almost everyone in the class failed, which I just don't get. They seem to like not care about the $40,000+ a year they put into school. Might as well take that loan money just to burn it. Besides that the actual work is really basic and simple. Quadratic formula, and all the factoring; simple stuff man=P

Hmm, damn it feels nice to type out what I think. It's just like drawing or painting stuff when you're listening to good music or after a good experience. Like you got that good stuff all bottled up, and when you let it out it's even better. Plus this is a blog so I can look back on it like a journal, pretty friggin neat. When I first started this thing I just wanted to "share" my thoughts, but you know what I'm also fine with just sharing it with myself. What do they call that? reflection? Yeah I think so...

I've got a lot to talk about... but I'll leave it for tomorrow. A lot of good things happened this week. I think, this is the best year of my life yet.

Wednesday, February 11, 2009

Blogging; Writing a story

I always read those blogs I find on google about people just writing about what they did in a game or at work. Now my buddy Anh here decided to open up a blog too and advertise it in his AIM status msg (clever bitch). I don't like facebook, and I don't like myspace, buuut! what I did like was xanga and these blogs, because we can share our day with everyone. Hmm if I think about it Myspace and Facebook are both network sites anyway, =P.

I got this goddamn English project due on friday. I gotta make a title page, a paraphrased version of a story in The Canterbury tales, and an original story. So yeah, I've got tonight and tomorrow to do it, which is going to be a bitch. If ONLY I weren't so addicted to Team Fortress 2 and anime + manga. Like that stuff takes up 5+ hours of my day, usually during the evening and real late at night, and in between that all I do is take a nap, chill with mah broskis.

Right at this moment I got my original story minimized, and I'm procrasstinating by blogging (thanks to Anh). I don't even know if there's a friend system or anything, I just decided to distract myself with a blog. Nice. I hate my life =P

The story so far...

Alright so I wanted to make a ROMAAAANTIC and DrAmAtIc story right, so I decided to create a city setting with the main characters Jona and Hyung-Soo. Lawl, yeah white man with azn woman, i kno i kno... But I wanted to make a story that would really appeal to woman since one of my favorite authors/artists is a woman that makes good romance for the male audience, and she does it so well that I sometimes think that she meant to be a man.

Well anyway, yah. The guy is a tea shop owner, he brews tea he serves em, n sells sum. The girl is a korean student studyin here in america in a made up city called Valore. I want to blog about this right now because I'll probably get more ideas of what to right this way. I aint writing no piece of shizzle, I take some pride in some of the things I write. So one day the girl comes in and gets sum tea. She dont like tea much, but the tea at Jona's place waz mad gud rite, so she comes in regularly. n den lil by llil jona gets closer to her by explaining the magnificance of tea and all dat shiz. and he takes her out on a lil date to some pastry shops, mall, n movies, THEN to a nice spot in a park under a tree on a hill with a clear view at the moon. Yeah.. well I thought it was pretty good, but I don't know. Takes a lot of work to get to that point, I'll probably hate myself for laying it out like this.

anywayz back to work. blogzoid ftw