JOURNAL: Anime Jedi

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  • The un-weekened... 2004-07-19 21:16:59 Sounds like some kind of horror film. lol Anyways, I was just trying to think of something that would be describe a weekend where I did more work than the regular week. Ok, nothing too surprising there, but it felt strange waking up this morning where I was more tired coming out of the weekend than going into it.

    Well, here's what has happened so far. On Friday, my parents and brother went to Montréal to visit my grandfather who's just come out of the hospital after having surgery done. He had double kidney failure. It's pretty rough. I was told he weighs about as much as I do, and definitely looks it. That's the problem, anyone who weighs as much as I do, and isn't me, usually isn't very healthy. Hopefully he'll make a sppedy recovery.

    Why didn't I go? Two things. One, I have a job now, and that takes priority over many things. Unless it was fatal, I feel like I couldn't take the time off. The other was that I had to take care of my dog. It's hard for us to find a shelter/hospital or even friends to watch her, because she's getting old. At the shelter, she wines, barks and rubs her nose against the bars until it bleeds. Many places won't accept her anymore. And none of my friends have the time to look after her. I guess my parents were actually glad I wasn't coming, since I could look after her.

    So they left around 8:00am. I left for work in the afternoon (3:00pm) and got back round 10:30pm. I called my friend who had gone downtown to ask her how it went, only to find out she went with another guy. I can't blame her, since she would have been alone. But still... [jealous] Looks like I better keept my schedule clear next time. ~_^ We talked for about an hour, and then it was time for my work out. After that, I took a shower and had dinner. Yes, dinner was served at 1:00am.

    Saturday was a rough day. I wasn't feeling well, probably because I was eating so little. I has two pieces of toast for breakfast, and that ended up lasting me until 2:00am this time. Anyways, I went to work early to try and find Tales of Symphonia. I tried EB and they said there were none in Canada except for those who'd pre-ordered it. I really dislike that store. They act so superior, and don't have a very nice presentation of their products. Not to mention that they're prices are usually awful, especially their used equipment. Come on, used video games for $10 less than brand new?!?! That is simply an insult. Anyways, I went to Toys 'R' Us, and guess what I found? Yup, Tales of Symphonia was now mine.

    I finished up work, and headed home around 7:00pm, since the mall closes earlier on weekends. Once home, I was starting dinner (since I was starved and all), only to get a call that my friends were meeting to watch movies, and I was invited. I turned off the oven, and darted to his house. Once there, the plan was changed to include bowling, so we piled in two cars and were off. 4 girls against 4 guys. Guys won of course, but only because of myself and this one other guy. After a few games, we headed back to the house to watch the old version of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which was good for a few laughs. Once that was over, we all went home, and it was time for me to prepare dinner. It took about 45 minutes to prepare, so that's why I ate around 2:00am. No problem though, since my parents were coming home around 3:00am anyways. This way I could meet them as they walked in. I spent the next hour finally opening up Tales of Symphonia, and taking it for a test run.

    Hard game at first. I played around 2 hours of it, and had died already twice. This real-time battling technique is a bit more hectic than they let you believe. Anyways, once I figured out that you could defend yourself, and actually dodge attacks, I didn't die nearly as much. Perhaps if I had that much patience with FF: CC, I wouldn't have given up so easily and packed it up. When I'm done with ToS, I'll give it another try. Anyways, it's a great game. The voice acting is pretty cool, and there are tons of humour, romance and drama. Imagine having your hometown burned to the ground and your friends killed because of your actions... That definitely mad me feel bad inside. Not to mention that there are many, many secrets. Seems like people are always trying to tell me something, but end up stopping mid-sentence... Hmmm...

    Sunday was slow. I had things to pick up, and stuff to get. It was pretty much an errand day. But the end was no fun. My dad had a migraine (sp?) so he was heaving and puking for many hours in the evening. I was going to do my workout, but my dog had an accident too, so I wasn't too keen in working out in the area where she had just made a mess.

    Today, I got up early, and headed to work. Definitely a slow day at work. We only had a few customers when I was there, but my shift ended before the busiest time of the day. I picked up some pictures I had sent to get developped, and did a little window shopping. Once home, I played ToS some more, but later had to drive my brother to work. Yup, he got a job, plus I got to drive him! With my dad still sick , I got to test drive his new car for the first time. Pretty nice. ^_^

    Anyways, that was about it. It must have been a while since I was last online for a lenghty period of time, because I find it so easy to type all this, and pretty quickly too. ^_^ Better enjoy it while I can.

    Surprising news. Try the odds on this one. To not only have given birth to twins. To not only have given birth to a second pair of twins. But to haven given birth to both sets of twins on the same day of the year. I was reading the newspaper, and didn't catch the name, but a couple had a set of twins born on July 17 a few years past, and just gave birth to another set of twins this past July 17th. Looks like July 17th will forever be the most hectic day in that family household.

    I think I'm pretty much done here for the night. I'll do my workout tonight, and might actually get around to choosing my electives for University once I'm done. I still have to plan for a day where I can get together with these 3 other girls and watch the whole series of Evangelion in one sitting, including the movies. Watch is that? 12 hours worth? Something like that, Should be fun.

    Kevin (Anime Jedi) 
  • Two days, two movies... 2004-07-16 00:26:49 So yesterday I said I wasn't going to do anything since my face was half numb, but it actually ended up being pretty eventful. o_0

    Right after I finished that Journal entry, my dad asked me if I wanted to join him at picking up our new car. I actually accepted his offer. We went down by bus, and it took us about 45 minutes to reach the car dealership with our new car. It's the 2004 model of the Acura TL. It was funny, neither of us take the bus very often, so it was a fun experience. I thought the funniest thing was that at one point my dad looked at me and said "You know Kevin, I really didn't expect you to say yes". And I looked back at him and said "I know". You see, he's always asking my brother and I if we want to tag along with him, even if it's something that has no importance to us at all. And what ends up happening is that we always so no. I guess the few times I accept, catch him by surprise. lol

    So on the way back, he's making the most of all the new features in his new car, like the navigation system. I have to admit, it's a pretty nice car considering it's only the upgraded version of his last car. But he seems to enjoy it. It's black, with a camel like interior. Pretty spiffy. Though I admit I probably won't be able to drive it for quite some time now. Even though it is automatic. -_-

    That was the afternoon. At this point, I rushed some dinner down my throat and was ready for soccer. But then I get a call wondering if I want to go see a movie. I decline since I know I have soccer, but she says the movie doesn't start until 9:40pm. Perfect! That meant I had enough time to get home and shower before heading out. "By the way, what movie is it that we plan on seeing?" I ask. "Oh, um... The Notebook" she says. In reality, I didn't care one bit, but I did think it was funny that she felt awkward about admitting I was just roped into seeing a romantic and sappy film. After the movie we stopped in at Tim Hortons for a doughnut before heading home for the night

    Today was going to be boring. And in reality, it kinda was. I got up fairly late, and watched some television. I realized around 1:00pm, that my library books were due back today. So I grabbed my books, and biked over, only to end up sticking around for a few hours reading DragonBall manga, Nausicaa manga and WIRED magazines just for the video game and anime reviews. Eventually I came home, since I was noticing how dark and gloomy it was looking outside.

    Once I got home, around 5:30pm, I was checking out some AMVs, and got a phone call to go see another movie. This time, I was told it was Farenheit 9/11. I got picked up an hour later, and we were on our way to witness this great documentary. I admit, it was pretty good. Definitely a biased movie against President Bush, but still very good. After the movie, we wanted to get some dinner, but since we could not agree where to eat, we ended up eating at Tim Hortons again. lol Doughnuts two days in a row like this can't be healthy, especially after tonight's 4½ doughnuts I ate.

    Tomorrow will be work. Which in a very sad way is unfortunate, because I was just invited to go downtown with a girl I like, but had to decline because I wouldn't have been able to get back in time for work. It may be just me, but I totally feel like something is trying to keep us apart. Everytime I try to call her, or talk to her, or see her, something either comes up on her side, or my side. What a crazy world.

    Here's the other problem. I also like one of the girls whom I went to go see the movie with tonight. That's two girls. Two girls who are very good friends. What is gosh darn wrong with me? I'm too nice, and end up making more trouble than I need. I would really like to start a relationship with either one of them, but that's just it, I need to make a commitment to one of them. This adds two more problems. One is that, if something does start, we all still hang out as a group. Won't that be just a little awkward for the three of us? The other is that I care about the two of them so much, that I don't think I'd be able to handle it if either of them settled for some guy not worthy of them. When I think about it, I think I care more about them being happy, than actually being with either of them. And this is where I come to believe that the most likely outcome will be that I won't date either of them, but will end up being a good friend, who supports and protects the two of them. ...that kinda bites. LMAO

    Kevin (Anime Jedi) 
  • That was a fun night... 2004-07-14 12:08:30 Last night I was considering if I should even go to bed. I was up late writing an e-mail to my cousin, when I realized that I had to get up anyways for an early dentist appointment. It was probably 2:30am, and my appointment was 8:30am. I ended up chatting with my friend on MSN, and creating an Quiz to send to all my friends. By the time my friend went to bed, it was 3:30am. Since I was alone, I watched some AMVs, and settled in by playing some GBA SP. At this point, it was pouring rain outside with lots of thunder and lightning. Really cool. Around 5:00am I figured that I was way too bored to try and last 2 and a half hours until I would have to wake up, so I curled up on the floor in a blanket and fell asleep for two hours. A small nap. The thing I don't like about sleeping that little, is that it becomes impossible to wake up, but the rest of the time I'm fine. It's when I get a lot of sleep during the night that I find it hard to stay awake during the day. -_-

    Anyways, right now my face is half numb. It's funny to try and listen to my speak, because many of my words are all jumbled up. lol

    The rest of my day should be boring. I didn't schedule any work, and I don't plan on seeing any friends looking like this. The only real event is my soccer practice later tonight...

    Kevin (Anime Jedi) 
  • Summer, one day at a time... 2004-07-14 00:46:36 You know, one thing I always judge an AMV banner on, is how well a user tried to blend the AMV logo into the picture. No offense, but when the logo is always kept that "greyish" colour, and looks awkwardly shaped because it's form hasn't changed from the original picture, the whole banner simply suffers. And it doesn't exactly help if you try to re-type the text at the bottom of the logo because it was too hard to see the first time. -_-

    Tales of Symphonia is out today! Should be a pretty good game. There aren't very many RPG games for GameCube, so this one is bound to make me happy. ^_^

    It's unfortunate, but I barely eat dinner anymore. Not because I'm not hungry, or that I don't want to, I just don't have the time believe it or not. I either have soccer at night, or I'm working. Sometimes I get lucky on the weekend, and can finally sit down to eat. Because of this, I almost never get to see my family. I guess in some way, this is a small taste of what next year is going to feel like... Seems like fun.

    One of the things I like about my new job is all the people I get to see passing by. In fact, lots of them are my friends whom I probably wouldn't have ever seen throughout the rest of my life, it had not been for that little frozen yogurt shop. We never talk too long, but at least it's nice ot see them one last time. ^_^

    Kevin (Anime Jedi) 
  • Learning to drive all over again... 2004-07-09 15:57:01 +8000 views ^_^

    The recent amount of banners being sent in has been disgusting. What's worse is the amount of banners that have actually gotten over the necessary total of 90 votes. Seriously, 399 worthy banners? It makes me sad to see people spend so much time on creating many, many poor banners, when they could spend their time creating significantly less banners, but with much better quality.

    My dad just sold the first and only car I've ever really learned how to drive with. But that shouldn't be a big deal. Most cars drive quite the same. Where's the problem you ask? The only cars my family now owns are standard (manual), and not automatic. There's quite a big difference when it's your first time. I tried driving for a few minutes, and down a few roads, but gave it a rest pretty quickly. This is something that cannot be rushed, just like my training at my job. Hopefully I'll be able to pick this up rather quickly, because I'm not sure how long I can go without being able to drive myself freely anymore. Either that, or I'll hope that my dad can get this older car he has, but it's still in for repairs.

    I've started playing Eternal Darkness for my GameCube lately. That's actually a pretty scary game. I heard it was amazing, but psycological thrillers like that are normally not my kind of games. I prefer action/adventure/RPGs type games, like Zelda. It's definitely a big difference, but the graphics are awesome, and the gameplay is pretty cool too. I heard that the game only gets better as the story progresses, so I can't wait until I get to the end to find out what happens next!

    Kevin (Anime Jedi) 
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