JOURNAL: Anime Jedi

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  • Uooo... my birthday is drawing ever nearer... 2003-08-01 23:28:40 Today was a nice day. But let's start off at last night. I was just about to start burning some CDs, and I get a phone call. It's a bunch of my friends asking if I wanted to go play cards. It was 9:00pm at this time. I love playing cards with them, so I went out with them and we had a great time. 3 hours flew by like nothing. Next thing you know, it's midnight and I head home because I still had to get my mark today.

    I got up a little late, but that was expected. lol I went to school, and was one of the only people. It was myself, and two other of my classmates who were the only students to show up from my class. I got an 81%! I'm happy, with the mark, but the two other people from my class were nto as fortunate. In regular day school, no one really cares if they fail or not, but in an accelerated summer class, people are there to get a credit. So if you don't, it's very disappointing. Well, with that in mind, the two girls in my class both cried when they saw their marks. They both failed. Actually, our teacher told us a lot of students failed this class. It was a hard course, but I feel guilty because they worked very hard, and still didn't pass. I barely tried, and did well. I didn't know what to say, so I kinda stood by quietly. -_-'

    After that, I biked to the mall, and fell in love... with a CD player! It's the Panasonic SL-CT700. I've always liked it, but saw it on sale and decided to actually buy it. The second I opened at home, I was hugging it and using it non stop! It has these cool bubble gum type batteries for power, or you can use a seperate power pack that uses 2 AA batteries. The entire time I used it, it didn't skip once! It's so sleek and thin it's amazing! And I just love the little remote that comes with it. ^_^

    Animé-Nia is tomorrow on YTV. You probably have no idea what I'm talking about, unless you're Canadian. Oh well, 12 hours of animé for me. ^_^

    Maybe I'll get a good amount of sleep tonight. We're supposed to have guests tomorrow, and then we're out the next night. I guess I should go. Goodnight and pleasant dreams. ~_^

    Kevin (Anime Jedi) 
  • Summer school is over! 2003-07-31 13:58:20 It's all finally over. I'm very glad about that. But I don't think I got a good enough mark, so I'm a little worried now. I hate to say it, but if my mark is lower than 80%, I have a feeling I'm going to regret missing the last two Friday that I just septn away. They were great, but as usual, came with a price. -_-

    I just watched the third DVD of .hack//SIGN, and for some reason, it makes me feel like I need to do something very drastic. I have no idea what, but I have this urge to do it...

    My brother had gone to the concert in Toronto yesterday. He said he had a great time. I have no idea what's the official name, but many people had dubbed it "SARStock". lol About 450 000 people attended the concert. It sounded really cool. Ok, maybe a better word would be "hot" considering it was a scorcher, with not a cloud in sight the entire day! He left at 7:00am, and got back by 1:45am. Now that's a full day. lol

    I've had a few people ask where I've been and why I'm not online as much anymore. Please don't take it personaly if I don't reply to your e-mails right away, like I used to, it's just that this world just isn't the same anymore. It's probably just me, but lately I've been easily depressed. So the last thing I want to do is take it out on anyone online, or real life for that matter. It might actually be just my room. My room is actually quite depressing if you stay in it too long, because of the lack of natural light. It's relatively dark, with no windows. I don't know how to fix it up though. Anyways, that's enough from me. See ya.

    Kevin (Anime Jedi) 
  • I decided to come by and visit... 2003-07-29 20:06:23 LOL! Just kidding, but I'm not here just to visit. But it has been a long time. Well, five days for me is a very long time to go without checking my e-mails or even going online. 0_0

    The golf trip was a blast. I had a great time, played lots of golf, half of which was in the rain, and have been keeping busy. This has got to be the most eventful summer I've ever had. Visiting Montréal twice, summer school, late nights with friends... totally awesome. And I still have driving lessons, painting, remodelling (these two are for the house), volunteer work and maybe a bit of time to relax. lol

    If there's one thing I can say about being busy, it's this... It helps to keep your mind from straying. When I had nothing to do, I always thought about things that didn't need any worrying about. Topics like, who I am, what's my purpose, and why do I do the things I do... Sure it's good to look deep within yourself, but only once in awhile. If you do it too often, it's terribly easy to become depressed, and begin to hate yourself. Trust me, I know first hand.

    Speaking of busy, I'm almost done summer school! Two more days! I just can't believe it. ^_^ I have a test tomorrow, and then my exam on Thursday. This is going to be awesome. Hopefully I'll do well. ~_^

    I just have to say one thing... whenever you travel, there just seem to always be more beautiful girls than usual! It's mind bogelling, and tirering for the eyes. ~_^ Let me just say I'm envious of those lucky guys who even just plain know them! lol

    I'd love to stick around and go into everything into detail, but like I said, I have a test tomorrow. I've been falling asleep in class (past two weeks!), so I really should get a ahead start on studying and resting. But not before I make a few rounds around the net. ~_^

    Kevin (Anime Jedi) 
  • Another weekend gone... golfing! 2003-07-24 20:05:49 What's this?! A swarm of new banners have just attacked me! lol There was none a second ago, ,now a whole bunch! I have to admit, a few of them this time are pretty good. My only problem is that it's hard to vote for something that has only a pic, and the logo. It's actually good quality, but if I had voted for everything like that, we'd have a lot more banners floating around the org. lol

    That's right, I'm going golfing this weekend. Where? Mont Tremblant, in Québec! Yes, another 3 day weekend spent in Québec, pretty weird huh. Aren't I missing school again? Yup, and this time I'm worried because I have a quiz on Monday on what I would have learned on Friday (tomorrow). Guess I'll have to wing it again. ~_^

    Things have been busy lately. I haven't had time to come online for a bit, not even just to log onto AnimeMusicVideos.org. I have tapes and tapes of shows to watch, some even dated back to May 2003. I don't want to miss anything, but I don't have enough time to catch up. I finally got some viewing done yesterday and today. But not enough. And I'm just going to have to tape some more this weekend. -_-

    I only made the official decision to go tonight. My dad arranged this golf trip to Tremblant, and was looking for people to go. He found two more people, but no fourth. He already had bought the ticket, so it was just money going to waste. He asked my brother, but he has a soccer tournament, and then asked me, but I thought that I shouldn't miss another Friday of school. Anyways, after much debate, and discussion with my teacher, I decided to go for it. Might as well have a little fun and keep busy this summer. ~_^

    I should go pack now. See you all later. Maybe I'll go to some boards tonight before leaving, and check on everyone. lol

    Kevin (Anime Jedi) 
  • We can only hope that death is not the end... 2003-07-21 22:00:50 I won't type up the whole story about this past weekend (I'll put the full version on a forum where I have a Journal), but I'll give you all an idea what happened.

    First, I left home at 9:15am, with my mother and my grandmother. We traveled for long periods of time, and stopped for gas once. After about 5 hours, we arrived in Kirkland (just inside the Québec border), and my mom got a message on her cell phone. The message was about her uncle, the one who this whole trip was based around. Well, he had died at 9:00am that morning. We couldn't believe it. This created complications because Chinese traditions dictate that you cannot visit friends when there is a death in the family, it brings bad luck (yes, I am half Chinese, but do not look it). This meant that we couldn't not stay where we had planned to. We called up my grandparents (my father's side), and arranged to stay there.

    With that sorted out, we hit the road again, and visited our friends who we had planned to stay. We had to talk in their backyard, because we couldn't even go into their house. With that done, we went to downtown China town in Montréal to meet my great uncle's daughter (now 15) and wife (now widowed). Yes, she was 15, he's 80 and his wife is 55, don't ask how that works. We then had dinner together, and they both seemed quite cool considering one of the closest people to them past away that very morning. We discussed what was going to now happen, and then my mother and I headed to my grandparents house. Yes, we cannot stay at friend's but we can stay at family. My guess is because you can't exactly bring anymore bad luck than a death. My aunt (who's 15 like I said( isn't even allowed to go to friends houses to play for about 49 days. We then got to their house, caught up a bit, and enjoyed a night's rest.

    The next day, we HAD planned to have a big lunch with all of our relatives, but unfortunately funeral arrangements had to be made, so my mother and I had the morning free. We went shopping a little bit. It's funny, I speak French, but I guess I have a very obvious English accent. Everytime I spoke French, I was replied back in English. It's kinda discouraging, because I'm trying very hard to fit into the culture, but am sort of being rejected. -_-

    Again, we HAD planned to do something this night (Saturday), which was visit my great uncle. But as you would have guessed, this wasn't exactly possible. Instead a very large dinner has set with all of the relatives, like the lunch that was earlier planned. There was one problem, the restaurant where we were eating, there was also a wedding dinner going on at the same time. But I suppose we were lucky to even get a table with such short notice. The dinner went well, and myself being one of the young adults, was continuously encouraged to continue eating. lol

    After dinner, we returned back to my grandparents house to enjoy another night's rest. We now woke up early Sunday morning because it has decided that we could have an advance viewing for the funeral. My great aunt had asked special permission because we had made such a long travel just to visit him, and were unable to stay long enough in Montréal to be present at the real funeral, which was Monday. So my aunt, uncle, cousins (all also visited form Toronto like myself), my grand father (his brother) and grand mother (both also came from Toronto), my great aunt and aunt (yes, who is 16), my mother and myself were all presnt. This was about 10 of us for an early viewing.

    It was so very hard for me to be near my aunt at this time. Since she's about my age, it should have been easier to talk, but I couldn't muster up anything to say. Not to mention all my relatives speak fluent Chinese, except for myself, so at least she could speak English pretty well. I never knew what to say, because most of the time she stayed cool, but you could see that once in awhile she would stare into space and you could tell that she was extremely sad. We sat often together without saying much.

    We all met at the funereal home at about 10:00am Sunday morning. Our original plan was to be on the road by this time, but just like all of our previous plans, this one was down the drain. Anyways, after a bit, it was finally time for us to face him. We entered the room, and there was soothing background music. He lay in a casket behind a table with candles and his picture. This was my second time ever meeting him. Most of everyone broke into tears right away at the sight. This was actually the first time the rest of his family had seen him since his death, so it was VERY hard on everyon. My cousins who are 6 and 8 years old were not too sure what was going on, but we decided we should bring them just to at least have some closure, considering they had visited him in the hospital the previous week. We all lined up and had a chance to stand in front of him. We bowed three times and gave our respects.

    When it was my great aunts turn to go, she said something to him in Chinese. I didn't know what it was, but my mother filled me in later. She was telling him that he knew that his sister in law and his niece (my mom) were coming to visit him. He was supposed to get a good night's rest to keep his energy up for when we saw him. But here's the kicker... he didn't know I was coming! I was supposed to be a surprise. He never knew that I (his great nephew) was actually going to come down as well to visit him. He knew I would have had to miss a full day of summer school, so it was said I had a reason not to come. But I REALLY wanted to meet him again. Now it feels like all my efforts were in vain. It doesn't help that now I'm suffering in school because missing that day has made it that I never learned some essential notes. But in all reality, even if I had known ahead of time, I still would have gone to pay my respects. So I don't know what I'm talking about my efforts being in vain because they weren't, so ignore all that.

    Anyways, I'm going off track. After the viewing, we then arranged to visit and pay our repects to his father, who was buried at Mt. Royal in Montréal. We all drove up there and visited his grave. I remember this place, because I had been there once before, many many years ago. We gave our sympathies to my aunt and my greant aunt, had to leave for home. On the way though, my mother nad I visited another of my aunts. She is my first aunt though, by blood, becaus eh is my father's sister. We stayed for a bit and enjoyed lunch. We left at about 1:00pm for home.

    We had a very long car ride in front of us. The beginning was pleasant, but we were both very tired for the whole weekend. We were forced to stop at a rest area to take a break and a nap. While my mother slept, I got her a coffee to keep her awake. At this time, I was feeling very gulty, because if I had gotten my licence at the very first I had, I would have had my full licence by now, so I could be doing some of the driving. But instead my mother was forced to do it all, what a horrible son I am. -_- Anyways, we started driving again, but now it started raining. Like torrencial downpours. It was really bad, and we had to continue very slowly. Next when that was gone, we had trouble with traffic. The closer and closer we got to Toronto, the traffic got heavier and heavier. So we chose to take some side roads when we got fed up with the traffic. This was fine, and hopefully much faster.

    Well, after a long 7 hour drive, we arrived home in one piece. This was good news, but I only returned to have to take a shower and study for a test on Monday (today). You could say that the both of us were a bit exhausted. We're glad we made the trip though, because there's nothing more important that showing your respect to someone, no long with us, or living.

    Kevin (Anime Jedi) 
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