Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic – Smooth Criminal

Two guys Stjepan Hauser and Luka Sulic play amazing cello duet rendition of Michael Jackson’s smooth criminal (as seen on tv.gawker.com)

Best Videos of the Week

Hey all, I’m a little sick which prevents me from engaging in some basic activities like… going outside, it does not, however prevent me from doing other stuff like posting the best videos of the week for you guys. Enjoy =D

Confessions of a Disney employee (its 11 minutes long, but its soooo funny)

The Scroll Wheel (one that I can totally relate to haha)

Flood clears parking lot (totally nuts

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3minute Portrait of New York

Germans are Confused by Circle

Pokemon, but with real animals, and swearing

Girl reads “Fox in Socks” a little too fast.

Depressing Stuff…or Whatever

I guess I’ve kind of been on break for a while, but I will now officially be going on break, from everything (I don’t know if this means I’ll be blogging more or less but I guess we’ll find out.) For those of you who know me you probably know that I don’t talk much about my personal life, and I definitely don’t blog much about it (or maybe I do, who knows?) But then there occasionally comes a time when everyone needs an outlet. A place to say whats on their mind, a time to just get it all out there. And for me, this is that place and so away I go.

Before I go on, however be forewarned. You remember in high school where you had that guest speaker come in and talk about rape, or whatever. Speeches like that usually start of kind of funny, there’s a couple jokes to break the ice or whatever and everyone laughs, no one really knows whats going on, or whatever. Remember those speeches. I do, I remember because they always ended the same way, terrible. This is going to be one of those peaces. So stop reading now if you like or keep reading on if you like, you already know what the ending is going to be like, terrible.

.:~*~:.

As I look back on all the things I’ve done over the last 21 years, I’ve thought about a lot of stupid trivial things. A LOT of stupid trivial things. Just yesterday for instance I was wondering when I should do laundry. Wondering  if the time I decide to do laundry would conveniently coincide with me wearing my last black undershirt. That way on the day where I wear my last black undershirt I would have fresh clean black undershirts the following day therefore postponing me having to wear a gray undershirt. I worry about a lot of things like this, because I’m weird, like that.

But why do I worry about that stuff, black undershirts, and gray undershirts. If I also got some white undershirts my entire life may become a whirlwind of undershirt indecision and we all know that would be no good, at least for me. But now things are a little different for me, they aren’t quite the same. Now if I had one undershirt of each color in the Crayola 242 pack of crayons I would not be paralyzed by undershirt indecision.

You know those stories you hear on tv. Car swerves into Baskin Robbins and kills xyz person or whatever. To me those are the type of stories that are reserved for the 9 o’clock news. The type of story where you go “well that sucks” and then kind of move on, or whatever. These stories appear on the news frequently but not once have I thought, “wow it’s gota suck to be that person’s family.” But now I know exactly how terribad it is to be “that person’s” family.

Just this break, my roommate from freshman year (I used to call him my ex-roommate but my current roommates are all like dude he sounds like your boyfriend/girlfriend or whatever so now I just call him “my roommate from freshman year” lost his grandfather.) He posted his status about it on facebook, or whatever. I was going to like his status, or whatever, but I noticed that would be a douche move. My grandfather died, “like.” That, clearly would have the opposite effect of what I intended. What could I say? “I’m sorry to hear that.” Yeah helpful, no not really. It’s like whatever man I haven’t the slightest clue how to let you know I’m here for you, if you need someone to talk to, or whatever. I looked at that facebook status, and had no idea what I should say, what I should do. That’s one of the reasons I’m writing this.

Here’s the other.

Probably not many of you know that my father was here for Christmas. He lives in Phoenix, Arizona where he works and occasionally visits his older sister (my aunt.) Well my dad went back to Arizona, today, at three in the morning. I know because I sent him to the airport. It was early.

In any case about 12 hours after the fact we got a call from my dear dad. As soon as my mom answered the phone he said “I have some very bad news.” Then he said something about checks and I thought “oh he can’t cash his paychecks still” the company he works for is dying slowly so he’s been asked not to cash his paychecks until later notice. Then my dad said something about work or whatever and I thought “oh his company is going out of business and so he doesn’t have a job, or whatever.” Then he said something about a detective and I thought “oh no’s he’s being framed for some sort of ridiculous company scam, or whatever.” And then he said the detective couldn’t reach him or whatever and I thought “wow my dad’s totally on the lam which is kind of hardcore.” And then he said something about family members and the detective, or whatever. And then he said that the detective told him that on December 23rd my aunt had been hit by a car and passed away and I thought ”                                      ” or whatever.

I’m not really a stranger to loss, I guess. I lost a grandma to lung cancer, a grandfather to pancreatic cancer, and a close friend to leukemia. But in all those instances (well sort of) I could kind of see it coming. When my grandparents passed away I’d be lying if I said I was surprised. As for my friend… well that’s sort of a different story all together. Seeing it coming means that you have time to prepare, to be ready when bad news hits. What happened to me today was a little different. It’s more like a sledge hammer just fell from the sky and hit me in the chest. Just out of the blue.

My aunt used to take me to the zoo when I was a kid, you know, to look at the animals or whatever. I’d be lying if I said I remember those trips, but I did love them, that much I know. I wish now that I could go to the zoo one more time with my aunt, and tell her what a great aunt she is and how I’m so blessed to have had her in my life. But unfortunately that is impossible. So I can only write this and hope that somehow it reaches her in Heaven (assuming Heaven isn’t reserved only for the people who believe in Jesus.) And so there it is 大姑姑, thank you for everything, I miss you.

.:~*~:.

As I totally lost it today after dinner my other aunt told me that this is probably the way my aunt wanted to go. Quickly and relatively painlessly. Compared to the deaths that my grandparents and friend suffered her’s seems almost like a blessing. I have also told myself that several times but I can’t be sure that I really believe it. While death by cancer is surely stupidly painful I can’t really be satisfied with just this and so I’m kind of at a loss right now.

And so, what I have left to write is coming to an end. but there’s a couple of final things I want to say before calling it a wrap. The first is should ANY of my family members be reading this, please PLEASE do not tell my grandfather, or anyone else in the family for that matter. My father will contact his father when he is good and ready. The other thing is that right now my mom and dad are sort of leaning (and I really mean sort of in the most sort of-e way) on me to get through this crisis, which means I have to at least put up a strong front for them. I however also need someone to lean on so dear friends, I ask that you let me burden you and be there for me. Also on the flip side of things (this really is the last thing I promise) should any of you ever need support for ANYTHING in the future, or even now, please, PLEASE let me know. No one knows this (just like no one knows what color undershirt I’m wearing) but I pray for all you guys every single night and I hope that all of you are well. I guess that that’s all I have for now and so yeah… or whatever.

Oh and yeah, I’m not really in the mood to proof read or whatever so this thing is probably run-ons galore.

I Hate Finals

Once again I have found that the time for final exams has descended upon me like white on rice. And seeing as how I’m failing all my classes this semester it hasn’t left me with much time to blog. However irrespective of that fact I am just here to take a quick break from studying as well as taking this opportunity to tell everyone what there is to look forward to as we move towards 2011.

First and foremost lately I have been (re-) learning how to draw (doing it the way I did way back in High School so possibly expect some pictures of Busujima Saeko and Senjogahara Hitagi in the near future.)

2ndly over break I play on finishing the 3rd (?) chapter of Jade Emperor’s Quartet as well as HOPEFULLY wrapping up True Human and Rainy Barmaid.

I guess that’s about all I have for now, good luck with your studying everyone.

Best Web Videos of the Week

I was supposed to go snowboarding today, unfortunately my cousin is so sick today that she can’t even really stand up and so she’s just been watching tv/sleeping all day =( The product of my intense boredom is that I have found some of the best web videos to have hit the net this week (courtesy of Kotaku.)

Driscoll Middle School’s Trick Play. Man the Dallas cowboys should have started this kid.

What Fast Food Really Looks Like

Ark Hotel Time-lapse: 15 Floors two days (or in other words China has so many people that it can do anything! Remarkably nobody was hurt)

Most Amazing Wheel of Fortune solve in History

Lemme break down her thought process for you. Well I know there’s no R… and there’s one ‘L’ I’ve got a pretty good feeling about this…. yeah ‘I’ve Got a Good Feeling about this’

Hope you enjoy. If I miss out on boarding again next week you may see more fun videos from me =(

Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt (Not 100% SFW)

Since my computer monitor broke, I had to basically turn my laptop into a desktop; And as such my computer is to remain at school during the weekends and so I am made to use my mom’s computer. An interesting implication of this result is that the normal anime that comes home with me on my laptop drive during the weekend is now also made to stay at school during the weekend. This fact combined with endless boredom from me has resulted in me seeking some stranger less popular anime that is streamed on the internet. And so now presenting another show for this season, Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt.

Here’s the main gist of the show. Take Power Puff Girls (my cousin used to love this show) remove the annoying green one and replace it with an even more annoying yappity dog named chuck. Change the red girl’s name to panty, and maker her think about sex all the time. Change the blue girl to a emo-goth who is obsessed with sweets, and change professor whats-its to a black afro priest. The Roudy-Rough Boys are replaced with Panty and Stocking’s arch nemesis Scanty and Kneesocks, who also have an annoying dog named Fastener. Add a  lot of really bad sex puns and innuendo and you get Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt. The animation quality is awesomely terrible, though they do occasionally have a scene or two in which the animation quality is actually watchable. More or less the quality of the anime fluctuates like the Dow Jones Industrial Average over these last couple years.

Here’s a short sample so you see what I mean, notice how the animation quality changes constantly….

So what’s the conclusion, I miss being able to bring my computer home on the weekends =(

Love is War Cover by Fye

I need a break from studying/my life so here this is. I previously wasn’t really a big fan of this song. I wasn’t a big fan of the melody or anything but I found this cover and it is pretty amazing, I definitely like this song now lol.

The song is ‘Love is War’ by Miku. The vocals are by someone named Fye and all I can say is that she is INCROYABLE. Such a nice voice.

So just taking a quick break to share this all with you guys. By the way I may be giving up on writing ‘True Human’ I’m kind of stuck and I’m tired of it being un-finished. But after my test on Thursday I’m planning to start another series of short stores titled ‘Rainy Barmaid,’ please look forward to it >=)

Double Agent Headphones

Are you considering getting new headphones. I kind of was and I think I found some nice ones. My cousin recently got the wireless Double Agent Headphones by SkullCandy and she let me test them out today.



I must say I never thought much of SkullCandy products, but these headphones were actually pretty nice.  I’ll try my best to break it down.

Hardware: The headphones are powered by lithium batteries. They are ‘wireless’  but it also comes with a cord which you can use to connect the headphones to your iPod or whatever. I didn’t use the cord so all of my review is based of the ‘wireless’ method. What that method of music playing entails is basically a 1GB SD card which goes into the headphones and the music plays right off the SD card which I thought was a very handy feature.

Sound Quality: When my cousin handed them to me she said, ‘they work really good’ but I didn’t really expect much. However when I actually put them on I was pleasantly surprised. It had a nice bass (though pretty standard for stereo headphones,) but what stood out was that the sound quality was also extremely good for the high tones. However there were a few things that set me off. Your MP3 rips or whatever you are using MUST be of very high quality (320 kbps bit rate or higher.) When I tested these headphones I listened to a variety of songs which were ripped with varying bit rates ranging from as low as 190 kbps to 320+ kbps. The difference was rather astounding. These headphones pick up a lot of the distortions and static that you get with the lower bit rates. The other thing is that sometimes the distribution of sound between the left and right ear seemed a little strange to me. I don’t know if it is because of the way the mp3′s were made or something but sometimes it was just a little weird(though dully noted most of the tracks where I felt a little strange were Japanese.)

However that aside the headphones are pretty good at canceling ambient noise which may be a good thing if you’re just sitting at home relaxing or whatever, but it makes it kind of hard to talk to people without having them repeat themselves multiple times.

Comfort/Wear-ability: I liked the shape of the double agents better than the traditional round SkullCandy headphones. I wear glasses and I often find that the round ones press against the top of my ears and as a result my ear is pressed against my glasses which becomes uncomfortable after a while. However the oblong shape of the ear covers on the double agents fit my ears perfectly. I wore them for two hours without really any pain to my ears at all. However I had a difficult time adjusting the headphones to the ideal length and it took longer than with most stereo headphones I used. Also I found the buttons on the side to be kind of unresponsive. My cousin turned them off once and I had trouble getting them back on for some reason. Also when I changed the song it took 2 or 3 seconds for it to fully change which I found kind of annoying. Also sometimes when you want to carry a conversation with someone you can’t really just remove one ear and put it off to the side like you can with some headphones. It seem’s that these headphones only have two modes on your ears or not on your ears. There is no half on your ears mode so you can listen and talk at the same time.

Summary: They are pretty nice headphones, admittedly they aren’t nice like dr.Dre’s but on the flip side, they’re like a tenth of the price. There’s a lot of bang for your buck for 30 dollar headphones. So, worth it in my opinion but there are some obvious drawbacks so it depends on what you’re looking for in headphones.

Amagami SS OP 2 Kimi no Mamam de

I know I said no more blogging till the week after next, but I figure that since I’ve been gone for so long I should post something when I have time. (Also my computer died and so I have to use my roommates computer so I can’t engage in some collection activities which I normally engage in (i.e. collecting wallpapers/anime and what have you) and so I decided to fill the void by blogging haha.)

Speaking of my roommate’s computer (I’m starting to notice that his space bar doesn’t work quite properly) this is a song I found on his computer while I was perusing his collection. It’s the second OP for Amagami SS. It’s catchy and the girl who sings it has a pretty attractive voice. It’s quite nice check it out lol.

Super Duper Busy

Hello my two regular readers (or actually I believe its back down to one now.) Anyways this post (like half the posts on here,) is just here for the sake of
a) having something on here that’s new, and,
b) To say sorry this semester is murdering me. In any case I shall hopefull be returning to close to my original posting capacity the week after next (so the end of midterms weeks/start of Fall break.)

Though I may have been on break, the anime/manga world certainly has not been on break so here are some things for you guys to check out (spread them out so hopefully that way it’ll last you two weeks and then next time you check back here there will be something new fun for you to take a look at.)

The fall season kicked off with out me but I did manage to occasionally catch one show which I found funny and amusing.  It’s called Invasion!Squid Girl. It may sound like the title of a porn-o or something but its actually about a girl (who you might have guessed is a squid version of a girl) who is invading the human world because they are trashing the ocean. Unfortunately for Squid Girl (that’s her name in the anime lol) she soon discovers through various trials and tribulation that invading the earth will be a little more difficult than she anticipated. Here are the links to the first episode.

Part 1

Part 2

The other thing of interest that appeared recently is the one shot by Hideaki Sorachi (the author of Gintama) called Bankara.
This manga is the story which follows a girl (I forget the name) who is head of the disciplinary committee at her school. She is also charged with the duty of guarding the ‘original’ buchou. Chaos and hilarity ensue when she accidentally unleashes the buchou from his prison in order to explain that she likes ‘croquette bread not yakisoba bread.’ The story ends in an interesting faceoff between the original buchou and ‘always on the verge buchou.’
It’s been a long time since I read a manga that actually made me laugh out loud so I highly recommend this if you’re into gang manga. You can read it online here.
I particularly loved the line ‘Oh shit its white base.’
For those of you who don’t know White Base is the home base in Gundam 0089 they may have a couple of other old school manga references which I missed but this one was my favorite haha.

Okay that’s all I have for now I hopefully see you all back here in two weeks.

玉将の四重奏 第三章

玉将の四重奏　第三章:

Keiji lay there in his bed listening to the sound of the raindrops on the roof. Keiji had been a police officer for almost 4  years, however even after he joined the police force he still led a pretty simple, drama-free life. But that all that had been changing slowly in the last 5 or so months…

~Roughly 5 Months Ago~

Usually the the school days started pretty calmly, however today the room was buzzing with excitement. Keiji was sitting at his desk next to the window staring blankly outside. Holding his head up with one hand he twirled his pen in the other. It was snowing even though it was only September, the northern hemisphere was freezing nearly all the time. The reason there was so much commotion this morning was because there were rumors that a new student would be joining their class. Transfers mid semester were rare now-a-days, but Keiji wasn’t feeling too interested, rumors were just rumors after all and they rarely found their way into reality. Keiji’s mind was occupied with more important things.

Japan was filled with crime in this day and age. If it was a crime, then it had happened in Japan at one point or another. For the last decade there had also been an unusual criminal group stealing from banks all over the country. Bank robberies were not uncommon, but this group was unique. They had been robbing banks for quite some time, yet no one has ever come close to catching them. They did everything by hand, the way it was done in the olden days, no machines were used in the safe opening, no weaponry used in disabling guards, and no special devices used to disarm locks. Truly an incredible feat. But perhaps most interesting of all was that no matter where they struck, there was always a substantial amount of money that was left behind. It was almost as if they only took what they needed leaving the rest behind for another day.

However yesterday for the first time in this groups history, they had been caught in the act. At this thought Keiji shook his head maybe  caught in the act was a little too generous of a description for what had happened late last night; unwittingly stumbled upon the strange group of thieves might be a more accurate description. Apparently yesterday they had broken into a high security vault in a bank in Tokyo so their safe breaker could get some “practice.”  When the authorities came to inspect the scene of the crime, nearly every safe in the building had been opened, but the best part was nothing inside the safes had been touched.

Keiji, who was patrolling the nearby area happened to be driving by as the group was walking out the front door of the bank. The group had been impressively small given the type of work they managed to accomplish, just two males and two females. When the group saw Keiji’s patrol car one girl stood on her tiptoes to whisper something into the ear of the tallest male ,who appeared to be the leader of the group,he nodded and made a signal to the other two members. Then before Keiji could blink twice the 4 of them converged onto the police car like vultures on a freshly abandoned kill. Before he knew it the youngest looking girl was sitting on the hood of his patrol car. One of the males had apparently gotten onto the roof and the other was leaning his back against the passenger side door of the patrol car. The other girl was standing outside the driver side door. She knocked on the window. Absolutely petrified Keiji obediently rolled down the window, without a word the girl dropped an envelope onto his lap and the four of them vanished into the darkness.

Inside the envelope was a letter of challenge made with letters cut out of magazines. It was very cliché, Keiji thought setting down his pen and holding up the letter to read for the hundredth time since his encounter last night. It read:

Dear Officer,

You have been cordially invited to participate in this months special challenge which will take place September 31st at 11:45Pm. On said date and time our humble group will be targeting Bank of Japan on 125th St. and Shinjuku Ave. You will be allowed to bring a team of 4 officers (including yourself.) If you abide by our rules then we can guarantee the safety of any officers involved. This is a unique opportunity for you to capture our group and become famous. We hope you will partake in this special event. Thanks for keeping our streets safe!

Yours Truly,

Mysterious Group

P.s. if you feel so inclined to bring weapons, for the safety of our members we ask that they be non-lethal stun weapons, thank you for your cooperation.

Apparently the group had a sense of humor, Keiji thought staring at the letter. As Keiji was pondering this, the homeroom teacher entered the room and everyone in the class scurried to their seats. Truth be told classes now a days could have easily been taught by robots, but occasionally some of the nicer schools still used the human touch.

“Hello everyone, starting from today this is your new classmate,” the homeroom teacher said, her arm on the new students shoulder “I hope you will all help to take good care of her.”

Keiji, staring out the window again, heard the heads of his classmates turning to look at the new arival. So the rumors were true, but Keiji was still too pre-occupied with his lucky encounter with the strange band of theives to pay much attention.

“Would you like to introduce yourself to the class?” the homeroom teacher asked gently nudging the girl forward slightly.

“Um, hello…” the student said. Her voice caught Keiji’s attention, though she only spoke a single word her voice had a musical quality. She sounded pretty, out of the corner of his eye Keiji noticed that even some of the more delinquent students were suddenly sitting up a little straighter than usual. For the first time Keiji turned his head to look at the new comer. She was indeed a beautiful girl, slender yet muscular and well developed too. Her eyes were large and innocent and she met the gaze of everyone who looked her way. However when Keiji took a more careful look at her emotionless face he suspected that this girl had suffered many hardships.

“Sorry I’m not very good in social settings,” the girl said, though her voice might have implied that she was feeling a little pressured it didn’t show on her face, in fact in all the time Keiji was watching her, her expression had hardly changed at all.”Er… please take good care of me!” she concluded.

“Your name!” the homeroom teacher whispered to her nudging her again.

“Oh! Um…” the girl sounded like she was at a loss for words but again if she was confused or lost it didn’t show on her face, “I’m number 2500274135.”

At this a great commotion sweapt the room, even the teacher seemed a little taken aback for a moment though in all fairness to her she recovered relatively quickly from the shock. If #2500274135 found the reaction of her new classmates strange it didn’t show, her expression remained almost completely static. Keiji nodded to himself, the number explained a lot about this girl, why she was so strange, so alien, so expressionless. She was an orphan. When put into an orphanage, each individual had a number and corresponding bar-code tattooed onto their skin, this made it easier for the orphanage to keep track of the orphans and file paperwork when one died, which was not an uncommon occurance.

There were a lot of orphans out in Japan. The Japanese government, in order to try to preserve a “more Asian population” offered large subsidies on children if both parents were at least half “Asian.” In all honesty they probably would have preferred it if both parents were half Japanese but over the last several hundred years there had been so much cultural mixing that it was almost impossible to find a person who was genetically half any nationality. Under these government subsidies the first child was practically payed for, and the second child was more than payed for. However as a result many families had two children and then ended up abandoning one or both of them living the rest of their lives off of government money. Given the effort required to change current laws the government tried to combat this problem by using “Baby Certificates” which were documents distributed at birth that allowed a person to have a child. This meant that each family could have up to two children and if they wanted more they would have to buy another certificate from someone who didn’t want children, and these were generally expensive since the number of baby certificates were limited and heavily controlled by the government. And the trading of these certificates obviously required a long legal process in order to prevent parents from just taking these certificates from their own children. This however turned out to have little effect on the number of children being orphaned. Now there were as many orphans as ever and the orphanages were all filled to the brim with children. Lack of resources combined with the high stress of running an orphanage made these places miserable for everyone who lived there. Especially the orphans. It was no secret that orphans were treated poorly, they were often abused, and beaten. Drug companies frequently used them to test new medical products. The average orphan lived to be 7 or 8, the strong willed ones might live to be 11 or 12, and the unlucky ones lived for as long as 15 years. The lucky ones, like this girl here, were the ones who manage to run away from the orphanage. But even the ones that got away led fairly difficult lives. Many of the female escapees ended up selling their bodies just to get by.

Considering this Keiji scrutinized the girl carefully for the first time. She was a very stunning girl, however her general lack of emotion suggested that her trade might lay elsewhere. There was also a sort of physical hardness about her. Even from afar Keiji could tell that her arms and legs were extremely toned. The girl could probably pass as a statue in an art museum somewhere if she wanted to, Keiji thought to himself. Though her limbs weren’t thick or bulky they appeared to be very strong, her skin was also very smooth it was almost as if she was sculpted as marble or some other very hard stone.

“I don’t think a number will work very well for a name,” the teacher said smiling nervously towards the class, “its kind of impersonal, er…”

A girl named Yume raised her hand and the teacher nodded at her. She was the class representative and most everyone loved her because of her helpful personality, however there were times when she made suggestions that were socially a little awkward. As her name implied she was also very beautiful. This new girl, however, in Keiji’s opinion this new girl could give Yume a run for her money.

“Maybe we can name her?” Yume suggested enthusiastically.

“Yume, darling,” the teacher said sighing a little bit “this is a girl we’re talking about here, not a class pet……”

“Um… actually….. I think I would like that” #2500274135 said earnestly.

“Oh this girl is absolutely adorable,” Yume exclaimed, practically skipping up to the front of the room “does anyone have any suggestions?”

“How about Asuka?” one guy towards the back of the room said. Yume wrote the suggestion up on the board.

“How about Fuji,” suggested a tall girl in the front row.

“We already have two Fuji’s in this class, both a male and a female one,” Keiji said looking around the room, “apparently they’re both playing hookie today. But in any case we don’t want to make things unnecessarily complicated.”

“You come up with a name then,” the tall girl said looking offended.

A couple more names were thrown around the room. Finally the names Asuka, Akiko, Yukiko, Haruka, and Kaiyo were listed on the board.#2500274135  didn’t seem to especially prefer any one over another and so the name discussion had reached an end and an awkward silence had settled into the room.

“How about putting it up to a vote then” #2500274135  suggested brightly, “that’s what we do at work when we can’t decide on something.”

Ah, Keiji thought, this girl definitely wasn’t a prostitute then, he highly doubted that anything in that craft was ever put up to a vote. Keiji looked at the list of names wondering which one he should vote for. He wasn’t too fond of Asuka. Akiko and Yukiko seemed like okay names but they seemed kind of situational. Haruka would have been a cute enough name for the new girl, and Kaiyo wasn’t too bad either….

He looked at the girls face and imagined calling her by each name, but they didn’t seem to quite fit. He tried it again, Haruka, Kaiyo, Haruka again. It seemed the rest of the class was having an equally hard time deciding. Apparently Yume had opted to pass on voting and chose instead to play with #2500274135 ‘s hair. #2500274135 didn’t seem to especially mind.

“Hey Prez, 2500…753 whatever it was…” Keiji said raising his hand. Yume had finished putting #2500274135 ‘s hair into a ponytail, and the two girls turned to look at him.

“Yes?” Yume said raising an eyebrow.

“Does Chizuko sound like an okay name?” He asked.

For the first time since the #2500274135  entered the room she smiled.

1:59PM

So sOrrY been really really busy lately so I haven’t had really any time to blog at all getting back to it though.
Anywho recently 2PM (sweet Korean band) released their first album 1:59PM I’m listening to it now its pretty cool stuff. Anyways here’s the album art and link to a “sample” of the album (not hosted by me but…)

Link to Sample

As one blogger stated ‘ALL THE CAPS LOCK IN THE WORLD COULD NOT EXPRESS HOW EXCITED I AM RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!11!!!!!!1!!!’

For All My Friends

To all my friends who were left behind, you will not be forgotten.

To all my friends who have left me behind, you will not be forgotten.

To all my friends, from before and now, I will remember you all.

Korean Music

Recently I went to Korea (see previous two posts, there are more but I’m too lazy to write them at the moment.) But anyways, while I was there I kind of went through a Korean music phase (actually I guess I’m still kind of music.) Their beats are just too catchy. Here are a couple of my favorite songs that I discovered recently.

(No Super Junior here though, sorry I don’t really like their music much. I won’t really mention Girl’s Generation either though I do like their music and their shorts XD… their a little too popular so most everyone knows them already anyways (though I do recommend you guys check out Run Devil Run,) here are some Korean bands that you may, or may not have heard of before!)

Again & Again by 2pm

Some of their choreo are utterly retarded but its executed with such ridiculous precision that I don’t think anyone actually notices how bad it really looks XD And they way they shift their formations is pure dance poetry, its pretty awesome! (Though to be perfectly honest I don’t think I’d like them as much if they weren’t such awesome dancers. Though if you want to listen to Don’t Stop Can’t Stop thats an excellent song!)

Because of You by After School

Okay so originally I never really thought much of them, or would have even thought to listen to their music even if I knew they existed. But one day when I turned to MTV in Taiwan there was a commercial for Music Bank and they were introducing them. At this point I was (more or less like) ‘Hey look hot Asian girl’s band dancing! (Yeah…. I know, I’m shallow like that’) and so I decided to see what their music was like. As it turned out it was to my liking! (Another good song by them is When I Fall. Their other mini-album BANG! was a little bit of a disappointing to me, I didn’t like it that much.)

My Man by Davichi

Okay so maybe this isn’t my favorite song by them, but its still pretty good. This is another band that I’d never heard of but one day when I was walking out of a book store in Korea I saw a poster and decided to give them a listen, their music also turned out to suit my tastes.

Bababa by 4Minute

Along with Davichi and Wonder Girl’s  this was another song I picked up through the same book store X) they had a poster for it in the front door and i was (once again) like, ‘Hey look cute Asian chicks! (If you can’t tell I’m already totally over the fact that I’m shallow’) And so I found their album too… who knew a song comprised mainly of Ba-ba-ba’s could sound this good? Though this is really the only song of theirs that I actually like….

2 Different Tears by Wonder Girls

This song I liked a lot (as stated above also discovered through said bookstore) there’s an English and Chinese version too. On the CD I’d say that the Korean one is the ugliest sounding one of the three which is kind of ironic since they’re a Korean band…

Just as a side not I’ve never watched this MV before until now, it super reminds me of that ultra-old-school disco stuff, its kind of  like a really hilarious mix of Charlie’s Angels, Austin Powers, Mission Impossible, and James Bond…

Seoul, Korea: Out and About

So today I went out and actually looked around a little =.= What I said earlier about Korea’s weather still stands, it is fantastic. Not to mention that last night I actually was able to sleep in long pants!!! And comfortably too, barely got to finish my bedtime prayer before I was knocked out for good…

Quick note, if your into the night life and that kind of stuff you probably won’t see too many pictures of that kind of stuff on here since I’m here with my mom’s friends so obviously they’re not going to take me clubbing or anything like that =.=;;; (I don’t know what the drinking age is here but I don’t really do that anyways so…)

Anyways today I wen’t to my mom’s friends old University, and some palace type deal-y so here are some interesting pictures of that, hope you guys enjoy. And by the way if there’s anything in particular that you want to see leave me a comment and I’ll do my best to get a picture of it though there aren’t really any guarantees so….. my regular readers probably will note that I’m usually pretty flaky about this kind of stuff anyways here are some pictures.

Starting with the University… This picture here is the study rooms that the students used to use they’re really tiny, barely two people can fit inside. The door is probably just over 4 feet tall…

and here’s what they look like from the inside XDIn the middle there are these big trees, when the students had class outside it used to be under this big tree, its sectioned off now though.

and by big trees I mean that they’re like 4 or 5 stories tall…

The other place I went today was an old Korean Palace, like the type you see in dramas about the olden days i.e. 大长金 I think for these next few photos I’ll add mouse over captions, there’s a lot of stuff here and so it’ll be quicker that way. Hope its cool with you peoples.

I have a better picture of the "throne" if anyone wants to see it XD

Some time after I leave I plan on making a rar file for all my Korea adventures. If anyone wants to see them all I will e-mail you them. I’m not going to include all of them on here because just today alone I took over 100 pictures x.X uploading them would take forever and I’d probably max out my 3gb limit on wordpress.