Monday, May 31, 2016
Week: 42
Songs to Remember: All In - Monsta X
As I'm sitting here with my sore throat, I got a couple things already decided. I got many things still undecided.
So, my sleeping habits really showed today, especially this morning where I my mom woke me up for school and I dismissed it as nothing, ending up almost getting to school late. Which, I guess to my mom is something but, currently it doesn't matter. I don't think any teachers care right now, especially the 2nd to last day of school. And umm, yeah, I don't think I have perfect attendance. So, no use going for that stupid sash.
For Bio, I wanted to spend it relaxing with a person I care about, who is sadly leaving the series by the end. It's Ct, if you didn't know. The teacher played "Hotel Transylvania" for us to watch, I spent most of the time either taking looks at the movie, or working on math. In actuality I didn't finish, but, my grade for math is essentially solidified so no use trying too, too hard. I learned my lesson the hard way, well, in a hard, unconventional way.
The teacher passed back our AP Delight project things, where she still decides to grade them harshly. Like, I still somehow got a 35/40. I mean I did what the prompts said to do, but somehow I guess the teacher didn't want to give me a 40/40, either because she has a bit too high of expectations for the perfect "responses" even though it is all opinionated (the prompt was to describe my note-taking style. Like, what? She grades us on that or something?), or, because she's traumatized by the amount of people who got 100%'s in that cheating incident.
That incident caused her a lot of stress, judging by the emails she sent to us regarding the incident. I think that's a key point in why she's not gonna be teaching next year, or, however long her "break" she is taking, is. I mean, what'd she expect? She took the questions directly online, an open, public source. It ain't our fault they were easily found. And what'd she expect from doing a "college-style" form of teaching. The 2nd semester was essentially self-study, she gave out like, a little bit of lecture if you wanted, but, all she did was pass out worksheets and we were left on our own.
The point I'm trying to make her is: I didn't pass AP Biology. I ended up with a 69.82% from the AP Delight. Maybe I could've gotten a 70% if I had gotten a 40/40, but we'll never know. I did ask the teacher if she could round me up. She asked what percentage and I said "0.8%." Her ruling was apparently only 0.96% or 0.97% only. She said it pretty sternly, it didn't look like she felt sorry for my or anything, I, I couldn't really do nothing about it. If I had begged or something, she'd probably tell me that I take it as a lesson that she's flunking me.
It sucks definitely, to be that close to less stress. Sadly, close doesn't cut it. Some , if not all, classes are determined by how you play according to the teacher's rules. Unfortunately I didn't play my cards right and ended up, like this. I was depressed, yeah. Even with Ct's comfort, I tried to shake it off, but it prolonged in my head. During break, I ran into DrewN and he was going to go meet up with this girl from our English class, who bought this baseball mitt (like the one in Catcher in the Rye) for everybody in the class to sign as a present for our English teacher.
I did it out of, being nice, although I do not take well anymore to the sight of my Honors English teacher, heh. Umm, so yeah, we signed it, the bell rang, we ran into Ag while we were there. I haven't seen her in like a week, because, you know who. The cast and I are still planning how and when our game night will be. Currently our schedules are booked, for me, the KDT social after school tomorrow.
Anyways, I did not care for math, at all. I did organize my binder, that's because it's easy and it's free points, but uh, that was about it. No studying, I very cheaply just copied down the answers onto the review sheets we had to do. I was just ready to lock in my "C" grade once and for all. Or hoped to. Fortunately, DrewN and I ran into a mutual friend of ours, that one dude who was in my table group last year for math. He said the final was easy, and it was. The free-response was a literal "match the equation with the answer," something that is prevalent in my History class tests. The actual free-free-response was short, simple, straight-forward, and recent to what we learned the past month.
The multiple choice was fortunately only 41 questions. I wouldn't say they were easy, but I they weren't that difficult either, only because they're multiple choice and most had the "which one is not true?" question. During the test, after I had finished but didn't turn in my test yet, I sat there thinking about what just happened in the earlier period. It was like "Jesus, a year of a class, down the drain, wasted." If only I had known what I gotten myself into when I signed up for AP Biology. I just had to have this teacher for this year, ya know.
One that attempted to teach it in a conventional "college" way but ended up being a horrible experience for everybody, and then choosing to bail out of teaching afterwards after seeing the true forms of people at this school, ones that would to like to pass, or, have a future, ya know. She's majored in Biology in college. She's taught Biology for 10+ years, she wasn't able to get a 100% or at least a 99% for a test that she co-created, based upon elementary AP Biology stuff, even after having learned a shit ton from college. I mean, for fuck's sake, she teaches us this information! Well, maybe teach isn't the right word because she didn't really teach, this semester.
She's used to teaching regular Biology, freshman kids, and she chooses to this year to teach AP Biology. I wouldn't say it's entirely my fault that I failed. Hell, if I turned in those 2 notes then I might've ended up with a 70%. But I will say, part of the fault is attributed to the teacher, and I'm sure many of her students feel the same way as well. So that;s my excuse for if colleges ask me about that one D+ I ended up with in AP Bio. I'll tell 'em my teacher just started teaching AP Bio, and that one test example. I didn't think I would have to make excuses, but for my future, I gotta do what it takes.
And speaking of colleges asking about grades, this one girl in KDT, I'll say, uh, Mi, she asked the group chat today if colleges ask about D's in classes and stuff. Only if colleges ask about it do you have to worry, is what most people replied. She went on about how she ended up with a D+ in AP Government and she's afraid her acceptance in SF State will be revoked because of it. Jb asked if it was hard since she considered taking it next year. Mi replied that it is, that she had really bad emotional problems, especially due to the dude who sits next to her in class. Apparently he used her for sexual pleasures, all the while knowing that she had liked him and not having the same feelings back. It's sad to hear that these events have occurred to people I know and care about. I didn't think I'd hear these things, but considering hard emotions at points like senior year and thinking about college and graduation and not seeing your friends ever again, letting something out like this isn't uncommon.
And worst of all, today is her birthday too. Fortunately, she's receiving care and comfort from her friends, and tomorrow's the KDT social celebration so, even more friends to surround her. So, getting back to my track, when I finished with my thoughts during the math final, I turned my test in, talked with DrewN for a bit. We all went to return our textbooks and then, we left. It wasn't the last time I'll ever see Vb or DrewN, so I didn't worry about good-byes. And I do know that a long summer break changes things. I might not be able to see the same people again for reasons, but, hey, at least I know I can still say some "Hellos" every time I see them. Like I what I plan to do with Yn tomorrow after the History final.
She's planning to go to SJSU to pursue an art career, like my cousin. I'm both fortunately and unfortunately going to as well as of right now. More specifically, graphic design instead of hand-drawn art with physical mediums. For one, it's more practical in my opinion. With new apps coming out everyday, websites updating, digital advertisements, everybody would need some nice looking GUI's or fonts or, whatever. Secondly, I've been doing graphic design since I learned my way on how to use a computer. Since like, 10. 11 years old. Designing YouTube backgrounds, heh, avatars, things like that. I like the creativity behind it all because I get to personalize it, make it my own and how I like it. It explains a bit on how I'm a bit indecisive about 50% of the time, and how I enjoy customization options in video games and stuff.
I ain't gonna write amazing articles for the newspaper, I ain't gonna be a therapist, I ain't much of a translator, I ain't gonna be a professional dancer, I definitely ain't gonna be a Biologist, that's for sure. My oldest cousin does acting as background characters in shows, and seeks job opportunities when he can. My 2nd oldest cousin majors in Drawing at SJSU, about to graduate this year I think after 4 years. My cousin, the one I talk to on Skype, is gonna be majoring in computer science, I think, at SFSU. My cousins from my dad's side is going to Brown University, while her brother is doing great in acting in his school plays. Art and technology is in my blood. Out of all the things, the fads, graphic design has probably been the thing that has kept with me since i was little.
So although I won't be going to a world-renowned college, it's one that hopefully fits me and what I like to do. Alright, so, uhh, what else do I need to talk about. Uhhh, still on that anime hype. I started watching Deadman Wonderland a couple days ago, I'm on episode 4 currently. Really nice. Also another thing I'd like to mention: I like achievements. I like motivation and progress. If there ain't a way to show my progress, I don't like it. That's why leveling systems in games appeal to me, that's a reason why, I do all these posts, I got something to show for it. Here, documentation of my High school life, each day.
Back to what i was saying, I got History final tomorrow which is gonna be a real bore, but, at least I don't gotta worry, like at all. Chinese, I heard the teacher makes you watch "Mulan" but dubbed in Chinese, aaand doesn't allow the use of phones this time. I also need to remind myself to remove my lock from my locker I never use. I also need to get off my lazy ass on Thursday in order to explore around the graduation place, at the football field of the school. It happens at like, 10:00 AM, so, kinda sucks, but hey, it's once a year, once a lifetime really, and I might not see these... I just remembered that there's a lot of seniors that I know that are graduating, more specifically, people that I've known for a while like Ad and Jt (the one who suffered in Yearbook class with my in 7th grade). Yeah, some of them are just gonna be residing in SJSU, I'll probably see them eventually, but, ya never know.
And fuck, this sore throat is not fairing well for me. Just had to hit me with it during this time of the year, huh, heh. Well, anyways, I gotta prep for a couple of dances for the KDT showcase tomorrow. It's 12:15 AM right now, I should really get some sleep before this sore throat fucks me over even harder. I'll practice for a few minutes, I got these down anyways, nothing to go TOO hard on. Tomorrow is the premier of the series finale for "The Days," starting at 7:30 AM PST. See ya.
Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Tuesday, May 31, 2016
Monday, May 30, 2016 "Enough Anime."
Monday, May 30, 2016
Week: 42
Songs to Remember: For Real - Tokuyama Hidenori
Ah, this thing again. I haven't put much thought into these because instead of living in the real world or this world, I've been living in the anime world for about, 4 days now.
And yeah, it does consume you. I basically forgot everything, umm, good thing there's only 2 more days of school, heh, 'cause this is not good. What's good is that Fanime is now over so, everybody can get back to their lives now. In my opinion, for something as small as Fanime, 2 days is good enough to absorb everything, three days at most. By the end of the 3rd day, you've seene everything, you're tired of walking, aaand you just wanna go home, heh.
Because of all this hype, my sleeping schedule has been shit. Literal, shit. I've slept at around 3:00 AM the past few days, waking up at 11:00 AM or something. Today I slept through 3 alarms, in which I set my phone to max volume for them. Yeah, not good. Ek and the others did manage to sneak Lw in, DrewN didn't go unfortunately, I don't blame him, there wasn't much to see anyways. Today you can visually see that there was like, only 1/3 of the people usually here.
We mostly roamed the artist alley place, the dealer's hall was just, full of shit. I managed to get 2 prints before they closed it down, one of Taokaka from Blazblue and one of the protagonists from Persona 3, 4, and 5. I was new to buying prints, I didn't know I wanted them until after I got one. Luckily though, I only spent $25 on them. In total. If I had the experience, I could've palnned better and got 3, by buying 2 from one artist since most offer a BOGO (buy one get one free).
But still, not bad. I also looked at size, as well. I actually want to admire my prints from regular viewing distance, rather than using a microscope to appreciate them, heh. Also, business cards.They're essentially free prints, and if you get enough of them, you could make a portrait of anime business card prints.
So, yeah. I'd say Fanime was much, much more than I expected. I got caught up in the hype, everybody did, ummm, the turning point that made it what it was was probably forming our group, with Jk, Cc, and DrewH. Only because Cc stayed after the KDT performance. It might've turned out different, might've not, but I definitely liked what it turned out.
And no, I didn't really cosplay today, and neither did most people. Uhhh, so I have math work, right. It's 60 problems, but, I got 2 hours tomorrow in class to work on 'em. So, that's fine. Plus, I just need a C to maintain my grade in math, which is sitting around a C right now. Also, uh, I gotta practice both my dances (by COOL and Taemin) for the showcase on Wednesday.
And apparently my cousin graduates next week, and right now, I have a sore throat. Also what the hell do I do with these prints, like, I don't wanna use tape, I don't have adhesive, i don't wanna pin it. Do, do people hang 'em on their walls then? I guess "prints" are a better word than posters, just sounds more fancy. Anyways, it's 12:39 AM, I actually wanna be able to get up tomorrow, so. Yeah, see ya. Oh and sorry I can't elaborate more of put more inflection and emotion in the writing, I'm still trying to recover from being in an anime world for 4 days. It really does affect you. Going back to school after all this, hooooo. I'ma have trouble functioning, not gonna lie. So, see ya.
Week: 42
Songs to Remember: For Real - Tokuyama Hidenori
Ah, this thing again. I haven't put much thought into these because instead of living in the real world or this world, I've been living in the anime world for about, 4 days now.
And yeah, it does consume you. I basically forgot everything, umm, good thing there's only 2 more days of school, heh, 'cause this is not good. What's good is that Fanime is now over so, everybody can get back to their lives now. In my opinion, for something as small as Fanime, 2 days is good enough to absorb everything, three days at most. By the end of the 3rd day, you've seene everything, you're tired of walking, aaand you just wanna go home, heh.
Because of all this hype, my sleeping schedule has been shit. Literal, shit. I've slept at around 3:00 AM the past few days, waking up at 11:00 AM or something. Today I slept through 3 alarms, in which I set my phone to max volume for them. Yeah, not good. Ek and the others did manage to sneak Lw in, DrewN didn't go unfortunately, I don't blame him, there wasn't much to see anyways. Today you can visually see that there was like, only 1/3 of the people usually here.
We mostly roamed the artist alley place, the dealer's hall was just, full of shit. I managed to get 2 prints before they closed it down, one of Taokaka from Blazblue and one of the protagonists from Persona 3, 4, and 5. I was new to buying prints, I didn't know I wanted them until after I got one. Luckily though, I only spent $25 on them. In total. If I had the experience, I could've palnned better and got 3, by buying 2 from one artist since most offer a BOGO (buy one get one free).
But still, not bad. I also looked at size, as well. I actually want to admire my prints from regular viewing distance, rather than using a microscope to appreciate them, heh. Also, business cards.They're essentially free prints, and if you get enough of them, you could make a portrait of anime business card prints.
So, yeah. I'd say Fanime was much, much more than I expected. I got caught up in the hype, everybody did, ummm, the turning point that made it what it was was probably forming our group, with Jk, Cc, and DrewH. Only because Cc stayed after the KDT performance. It might've turned out different, might've not, but I definitely liked what it turned out.
And no, I didn't really cosplay today, and neither did most people. Uhhh, so I have math work, right. It's 60 problems, but, I got 2 hours tomorrow in class to work on 'em. So, that's fine. Plus, I just need a C to maintain my grade in math, which is sitting around a C right now. Also, uh, I gotta practice both my dances (by COOL and Taemin) for the showcase on Wednesday.
And apparently my cousin graduates next week, and right now, I have a sore throat. Also what the hell do I do with these prints, like, I don't wanna use tape, I don't have adhesive, i don't wanna pin it. Do, do people hang 'em on their walls then? I guess "prints" are a better word than posters, just sounds more fancy. Anyways, it's 12:39 AM, I actually wanna be able to get up tomorrow, so. Yeah, see ya. Oh and sorry I can't elaborate more of put more inflection and emotion in the writing, I'm still trying to recover from being in an anime world for 4 days. It really does affect you. Going back to school after all this, hooooo. I'ma have trouble functioning, not gonna lie. So, see ya.
Monday, May 30, 2016
Sunday, May 29, 2016 "Definitely Tired."
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Week: 41
Songs to Remember: One Reason - Fade, Stop it - BAP
I'll make this post brief because without a doubt, I'm tired as fuck.
I got home at 8:00 PM. It all started from 11:00 AM where I struggled to finish my cosplay in time, which turned out to be alright to be honest. I had on a black t-shirt, tucked into olive green pants with an olive green jacket tied around my waist. For the collar, I used my Soul Eater headband (because it was gray and flexible) and used gray cardstock to cover the patches and for me to draw the machine lines.
I was cosplaying as Ganta from Deadman Wonderland, whose cosplay gathering was apparently today at 11:00 AM, of which I missed because it was too fucking early. We essentially (we as in me, Jk, Cc, and DrewH) walked around, did the same thing as yesterday. Nothing much new really. By the 2nd day of Fanime, since it's so small, you see everything. Like, literally, besides shitty panels (of which we attended this sword fighting/ training panel where people asked about stupid myths like "Can you catch a sword with your hands?" "Can you cut a bullet in half?" Seriously), we went everywhere we could've went.
Going up the stairs to the place, going down the stairs back outside the place. 20 times maybe. Oh and uh, the others still had their same cosplay besides Cc, who transitioned to a Sasori cosplay, by just the hair, heh. Umm, probably my highlights of the day was seeing a bit of the more cooler cosplays or the rarer ones, ones that I wanted pictures with, including seeing a Reaper cosplay (from Overwatch), seeing a Dat Boi cosplay (oh my), taking a picture with an Judas cosplay (not the religious figure, but from the Binding of Isaac), and probably the best, I actually saw two people doing a Shiro and Ganta cosplay while Jk and I were eating at this burrito place for lunch.
He saw from out the window, the two people walking down. He pointed with excitement, I looked and was like "Oh shit." We rushed outside and asked for a picture, and, damn, that was fucking nice. Another nice one was when this dude and his buddy did a "sad moments" cosplay where he had a board of pictures of sad moments in films and shows while his buddy had a box of tissues. And yeah, Jk got a tissue for his runny nose heh. Miracles do happen.
Another bootleg moment was when we were walking back to the con from somewhere, and uh, I said "I'm so tired I can't even think. I've thought of every single thought you could think of." It was funnier the first time and rendition I said it, but boy, Jk and I fucking busted a nut laughing from it. We then made "nut" jokes and comments along the way up until we left at around 7:30 PM. Mostly it was due to me posting that one "nut button" meme picture in our group chat.
Oh yeah, we also saw a bunch of people that we knew. We saw Ek (unfortunately, and who doesn't seem to be as, like, stone cold to Jk), her friends, a senior from KDT, a mutual friend who's really into cosplaying, uhh, Mn from KDT once, Jb, Jv, Jv's bf, and yeah. Lots of people, lots of Snapchats, just, yeah.
I'm so tired, I can't even think right now. I've thought of every single thought you could think of, heh. I'm so tired, I went home and drank a lot of water because I was probably dehydrated from all the sweating, and uh, threw up afterwards. It was good though, 'cause I felt really better after. Oh and uh, apparently Cc didn't need to use the fake pass thing, she upgraded it which didn't really cost much at all, same with DrewH.
And yeah, they're all going tomorrow, so that means I'm going as well. Thankfully, and I really do mean it, tomorrow the con's only open from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM, because it's memorial day, and people gotta go to work tomorrow, they gotta go to their flights tomorrow, so. Yeah. The question now is: should I cosplay tomorrow? It's ehhh. I have to wake up at like, 9:00 AM tomorrow so Lw and DrewN can sneak in using my pass or whatever, or Ek's pass.
And, I also gotta work on a dance, and, do math. A lot of math. Umm, probably either go for a really easy one tomorrow, one that requires literally no effort or, or not cosplay at all. Now with all this hype, I'm excited to go to Anime Expo. Hoping to go, anyways. If I should dedicate a lot of time into cosplay, ehhh, that's sorta iffy. It's kinda like when I made my lightsaber. Was it fun? Yeah. Am I ever gonna use it? Probably not until December of 2017 when episode VIII comes out, in which, I'm not sure if I'll even keep it for that long.
But as long as my cosplay is cheap (in price), and doesn't consume my life for a large portion of my young years, sure, I love DIY, I loving making stuff and personalizing it. One of the easiest in my opinion is cosplay surrounding an iconic weapon, such as the saw cleaver from Bloodborne, and I'm aiming for that to be my first one. Just gonna need some cardboard and paint, of which I already have a lot of cardboard since I ordered a lot of clothes from Amazon.
But yeah, really tired, I think 2 days of Fanime was really all I need, I'm just making the most the end of the year shit before everything changes, aaand my money, heh, which fortunately, I only spent $27 on merch, which was the wig. So yeah, see ya.
Sunday, May 29, 2016
Saturday, May 28, 2016 "Walkathon."
Saturday, May 28, 2016
Week: 41
Songs to Remember: Mass Destruction - Persona 3 OST
Guess what time I slept last night. That's right, 3. 3:00 AM. Yeah, not very good for my health, heh.
But anyways, today was the 2nd day of Fanime. I ended up cosplaying as Yu Narukami from Persona 4. I was going to use my tuxedo jacket, but then I looked closer at the details of the character and saw that he had buttons on his jacket. I then remembered that my jean jacket I wore for "Hello Bitches" was black, not blue, heh. And so I used that, which turned out 10 times better than the tuxedo jacket would've been. Plus, it had the buttons too, with the lines.
That, and I wore a white dress shirt and black jeans. And don't forget my bootleg Tarot card. My hair, that got taken cared of once I got to the place. I met up with Cc, Jk, and DrewH (yep) as they were watching these performances on stage zero, which apparently another group of KDT members (Th, Cw, St, and some alumni) had a performance today (not when we met but later on). They weren't going as KDT, but they had members of 'em.
Cc had on this fucking amazing Konan (from Naruto) cosplay. Jk still had his Luffy one, and DrewH was a Pikachu. We watched the performances for a bit 'till we went to the dealer's hall to get me a fucking, wig, heh. For my cosplay. We also met up with this one dude, a mutual friend of ours. Umm, yeah so I now own a silver wig, which is actually useful for a plentiful number of cosplays, especially ones in which the character has white hair, which is actually a lot.
So went around, we walked a lot. Umm, we saw Jb and her group when we went to get drinks (soda, okay). I also saw Dn there as well. Not in, in, but, near the side of the place. There was actually a Persona cosplay meetup, but that was from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, and unfortunately, I arrived at like, 2:10 PM, and did not know about it 'till much later.
There was a point where we took pictures with "normal" people. As in, those who weren't cosplaying. Some did not really like it, uhh, at all. Some were surprised and took it nicely. One dude, 'cause he wasn't expecting it, took our pics afterwards in return, which was such a nice and fun gesture, heh.
Lots of cosplay, of course, aaand, lots of walking. Especially, walking, this is probably the most I've walked in a day, than any other day for the past, I have no idea. That's how long ago it was. Anyways, we essentially went everywhere which was relevant. All the good events were pretty much over. Still, lots of people. Oh umm, we ran into people from our school, I pretty much knew them but never talk to them. Like at all. My favorite was when we saw this one girl and her friends, of whom were waiting in line for this J-Pop concert (which was a really big line).
She had a Teddie doll from Persona, and when we were leaving, she was like "I like your Yu Narukami cosplay!" That was nice. And so, it was like around 7:30 PM we all left. Cc was sorta bummed 'cause she didn't want it to end. Her pass was only for Saturday, and the only indication of that was the word "Saturday" on it. I told her I could just make a fake pass and she could just paste over it and nobody would be able to tell.
And so that's what I did. I spent around 35 minutes or so, doing some trial and error with GIMP, measuring, and scaling. I got it down though, and luckily the background for the pass is white, so that makes my job a whole lot easier. I got it, sent the pics to Cc and the group chat and they said it was pretty fucking good. She also told me she was gonna go tomorrow too, so, uh, hopefully the 4 of us (including me) can make it tomorrow for another day.
Also I'll be looking to cosplay someone else for tomorrow. I'm browsing right now as we speak. Just gotta find someone with black hair, and, really simple clothing. Yeah. Anyways, uhhhhh it's 12:33 AM, see ya.
Week: 41
Songs to Remember: Mass Destruction - Persona 3 OST
Guess what time I slept last night. That's right, 3. 3:00 AM. Yeah, not very good for my health, heh.
But anyways, today was the 2nd day of Fanime. I ended up cosplaying as Yu Narukami from Persona 4. I was going to use my tuxedo jacket, but then I looked closer at the details of the character and saw that he had buttons on his jacket. I then remembered that my jean jacket I wore for "Hello Bitches" was black, not blue, heh. And so I used that, which turned out 10 times better than the tuxedo jacket would've been. Plus, it had the buttons too, with the lines.
That, and I wore a white dress shirt and black jeans. And don't forget my bootleg Tarot card. My hair, that got taken cared of once I got to the place. I met up with Cc, Jk, and DrewH (yep) as they were watching these performances on stage zero, which apparently another group of KDT members (Th, Cw, St, and some alumni) had a performance today (not when we met but later on). They weren't going as KDT, but they had members of 'em.
Cc had on this fucking amazing Konan (from Naruto) cosplay. Jk still had his Luffy one, and DrewH was a Pikachu. We watched the performances for a bit 'till we went to the dealer's hall to get me a fucking, wig, heh. For my cosplay. We also met up with this one dude, a mutual friend of ours. Umm, yeah so I now own a silver wig, which is actually useful for a plentiful number of cosplays, especially ones in which the character has white hair, which is actually a lot.
So went around, we walked a lot. Umm, we saw Jb and her group when we went to get drinks (soda, okay). I also saw Dn there as well. Not in, in, but, near the side of the place. There was actually a Persona cosplay meetup, but that was from 2:00 PM to 3:00 PM, and unfortunately, I arrived at like, 2:10 PM, and did not know about it 'till much later.
There was a point where we took pictures with "normal" people. As in, those who weren't cosplaying. Some did not really like it, uhh, at all. Some were surprised and took it nicely. One dude, 'cause he wasn't expecting it, took our pics afterwards in return, which was such a nice and fun gesture, heh.
Lots of cosplay, of course, aaand, lots of walking. Especially, walking, this is probably the most I've walked in a day, than any other day for the past, I have no idea. That's how long ago it was. Anyways, we essentially went everywhere which was relevant. All the good events were pretty much over. Still, lots of people. Oh umm, we ran into people from our school, I pretty much knew them but never talk to them. Like at all. My favorite was when we saw this one girl and her friends, of whom were waiting in line for this J-Pop concert (which was a really big line).
She had a Teddie doll from Persona, and when we were leaving, she was like "I like your Yu Narukami cosplay!" That was nice. And so, it was like around 7:30 PM we all left. Cc was sorta bummed 'cause she didn't want it to end. Her pass was only for Saturday, and the only indication of that was the word "Saturday" on it. I told her I could just make a fake pass and she could just paste over it and nobody would be able to tell.
And so that's what I did. I spent around 35 minutes or so, doing some trial and error with GIMP, measuring, and scaling. I got it down though, and luckily the background for the pass is white, so that makes my job a whole lot easier. I got it, sent the pics to Cc and the group chat and they said it was pretty fucking good. She also told me she was gonna go tomorrow too, so, uh, hopefully the 4 of us (including me) can make it tomorrow for another day.
Also I'll be looking to cosplay someone else for tomorrow. I'm browsing right now as we speak. Just gotta find someone with black hair, and, really simple clothing. Yeah. Anyways, uhhhhh it's 12:33 AM, see ya.
Friday, May 27, 2016
Friday, May 27, 2016 "I Don't Fanimind."
Friday, May 27, 2016
Week: 41
Songs to Remember: When the Moon's Reaching Out Stars - Persona 3 OST, Drip Drop - Taemin (RapheM Instrumental)
I'm thankful for two things today. One for the Fanime experience, the other, I am 90% sure that I passed Honors English.
So let's start from the beginning shall we. Alrighty, well, first things first, I slept at 3;50 AM last night. I would'e slept at like 3:10 AM, but, I played a round of Isaac. Not one of my best decisions, but I had to get that Isaac addiction settled. Fortunately, it didn't affect me too much in the morning because 1st period was Psych.
And that was basically just me attempting to get some last-minute studying in. There was loud music, due to somebody's speakers, there was food in the middle, I didn't really pay too much attention. Others were signing yearbooks, etc, etc. I just studied, which was fine by me because I had a very good reason too. Uhh, yeah, a whole 2 hours of studying. Then, it was break time. I do what I usually do and go to that one spot again.
Just stood there for a while, the usual, and finally the bell rang, it was go time. The seats were changed around so that the teacher could see all our screens. We first went to the bookroom to return our books, then uhhh, testing time. The teacher one final remark to tease us, saying "Don't worry guys, it's only 15% of your final grade." Bitch, get the fuck outta here. So, the test boots up, I see that it's 62 questions, only 2 free-response, okay.
I started going through each, I went with a method of if I don't know the exact answer, I skip it so I can total up the estimated amount I'm gonna get wrong. It just builds insurance confidence. Anyways, there were a lot of fluctuation in the test. There were questions that were repeated, some didn't have the right answer, some the teacher put in the wrong answer as the right answer. Soo, I don't know my exact, exact score.
Also the free-response was, not that difficult, rather straight-forward. Umm, both fortunately and unfortunately, the teacher let us see our multiple choice score (before any changes such as fixes for the bad questions and shit). I was scared, but I looked anyways. "73%." "Ohhhhh, shit." Now that, was cutting it closer than I would've liked. I actually thought I did better, around an 80 maybe. I went on this site to calculate how much I needed to score on the final exam to pass.
So to pass with a 68% bare minimum, I calculated it and got: "66.7%" WOOOOO. I was like "I fucking paaaassed." We also had to add an extra 2% freelo to our score so, in total I got an estimated 75%, give or take 2. With my 1% grade wiggle room (a 69.01% right now), and how I only need at least a 66.7%, plus with some of the assignments I turned in late, aka today, the teacher still needs to grade our quotation explications, and he said he might not have time to grade the constructed responses and/or might not put them in since it was more of a district thing than what we focused on.
I'm crossing my fingers. It's pretty messy, cutting it very, very close, heh, but I think I did it. I escaped. The teacher probably won't announce the results until like, the final, final day of finals. Until then, I'm praying. And that there was the climb. Now, the rewards. I went home, talked to my buddies on Discord. got ready, headed on over to Fanime con.
Now I've been to Anime Expo in Los Angelese twice now. I have never been to Fanime, uhh, mostly because it ain't the same level as Anime Expo. Umm, I'd still say it definitely ain't, but it still has its pros. For one, it's much more quiet than Anime Expo. Second, less crowded, which is nice. However, in my opinion, the line was much worse. I arrived at 2:40 PM. I'd expect more people to be in line during the morning, but apparently not. When I got there, I knew exactly where the line was because there was what seemed to be a huge line of fucking people, and it was outside the thing, heh.
It stretched like, around the corner of the hotel, which is right next to the place. I was like "Holy, fuck, IT'S LAYERED." This one dude said that the line actually stretched into the place, up some stairs to the 2nd floor, then there was another line there. Yeah, he wasn't kidding. It did actually go up to the 2nd floor. It took about an hour, I'd say an hour and 15 minutes, because by the time I got my pass, it was already around 4:00 PM.
Ek was at the con, but I didn't know where she was. Jk was apparently there too, but I didn't know where he was. My phone, poor fella, I was not able to charge him back up to 100% when I got home. It was at 40%, then died down to 10%. I charged it back up to 15% with my tablet, thank the lord for my tablet. I use it as like a portable battery, heh. Anyways, I had nothing in line except the occasional "go on messenger and see what people are typing." That and the dude in front of me who said some things occasionally.
I was hoping to find KDT after I got my badge/pass. I was like "I gotta get back to the front of the whole place." Ended up in like, the main hall I guess, and uh, I walked for a bit to see where I could get back to the front. Instead, I kept walking and eventually found what looked to be the stage that performers perform at, "Stage Zero." There, I was greeted by hugs from the members of KDT, heh. Man, I can hardly remember what it looked like because the height of moment. That was nice.
Apparently I got there just in time for them to perform next. I sat down, umm, in the front, front row since those were like, the only seats left. I hear my name being called and I turn around to see Jk and Jv and Jb's boyfriend sitting near the back. There was already a different performance going on, a couple doing a sort of ballet dance, I don't know, I don't know dances very well, heh. Suddenly St (ya'll know St, she's a KDT alumni, sister of the president of KDT, met her at that one dance back in March of 2015) appeared with her friends and we sat in the front row together. I was ready to get really hyphy for KDT's performance, which was actually pretty long. I was like "Oh, there's even another song."
It was good, I liked it. I actually cheered for once in my life, heh. What I wanted to say was "KDT, Number one fan!" And I did. Twice. Their performance was 6 minutes long apparently, and uh, they actually left after the performance. Around 97% of them did not have the actual Fanime passes, they were just there to perform. It wasn't what I expected. However. what happens next was really unexpected. So, Jk's cosplaying, he was cosplaying as Luffy apparently. He came over after watching KDT, Jv, everybody was all in one big gathering.
Jk was like "Woah, I didn't know you were going to Fanime" and takes a closer look at my pass, for which he saw that for my "fan name," I put "i_identify_as_nigerian." He got a good laugh outta that. Everybody left, they couldn't stay, had to be escorted outside. Fortunately (really fortunately), Cc and El stayed. You might be saying "Uh, Drew? Do you realize what you just said?" Yeah, I do. It was fortunate, because without El, all the shit that happened next wouldn't have happened.
Mn (I think that's my name for her), Es (vice-president of KDT), and Jb were the only ones in KDT with an actual Fanime weekend pass. We all decided to go together, including Cc and El who did not have passes, but didn't matter anyways because there was no security, or, nobody cared, heh. So it was just me, Jk, El, Cc, Es, Jb, Jv, and Jb's boyfriend. Jv was cosplaying as uh, I'm not sure what but it showed a bit too much skin, more than what more parents would approve of of course. And uh, Jb's boyfriend was cosplaying as Guy-Manuel from Daft Punk.
We went into the buyer's hall, exhibit, whatever. Marketplace. It went pretty well. It wasn't until we separated, with just me, Jk, El, and Cc, that shit started to get real. Real connected. We went to the art gallery, back to the hall, and then to the gaming hall where we played "Settlers of Catan" (crazy bootleg by the way, and apparently a lot of people requested to play it, I guess due to the rarity of it or whatever, popularity, I don't know). That lasted for a while, I'm not even sure. My phone was on its dying breath, it kept alive for phone calls, but I could not take pictures of it, or even check the time.
I thought it had become night-time at around 7:00 PM. We went to the art gallery after playing (Jk won, of course, heh) and whadya know, it was still fucking bright outside, heh. We were basically in a time warp, where time apparently freezes while at Fanime. We all thought it got dark outside for some reason. It's just like the movie theaters, how you go into the light after being in the dark for so long. Except, it wasn't dark in the gaming hall, it was, *sigh*, "lit." Also people were playing giant Jenga, which resulted in a heart-attack every time it falls.
It all went well, the 4 of us together. We even decided that we'd all cosplay tomorrow, we'd meet up again and even include in some more people. And you know what was the most convincing thing for which I knew we got really connected? El replied back. She conversed with my comments the whole way. With El coming along, I was just whatever with it. I'm not sure if she's over it yet or whatever, but after today, sure seemed like it. She didn't mind. And guess what? I didn't mind either.
And goddamn was it a good... 4 hours. 5 if you count the time I had to wait in line, which apparently people refer to as "Linecon." In line I was like "Minecon?" No, it's, it's Linecon. That's what people say nowadays. Anyways, we finished off the day with some Takoyaki, very expensive Takoyaki to be exact. 8 American dollar shillings, to be exact, and that was for 6 balls. Still, I couldn't resist, like, it's still one of my lifelong dreams to eat an authentic Japanese Takoyaki, in Japan, straight from the source. This compensated in the mean time, and goddammit, it was one of the best eight dollars I ever spent to be honest, heh.
And yeah, that was the whole day. Got back home at 8:30 PM unfortunately. Also unfortunately, was that my parents had to witness people in furry cosplays, scantily-clad cosplays, half-naked dude cosplays, all of the above, and cosplayers in general. Luckilly though, I passed it off as a cultural festival event thing, and uh, my class went here today for a celebration thing for the end of the year. And also luckily my dad thought everybody was dressed as Pokemon.
And yes it did feel weird to be there, standing in line. That was, uh, you find out how normal you actually are, compared to others who like to express their hobbies and interests either publicly, or more extreme than you or others. And no, I won't be saying the cosplays I saw, there's literally any and every cosplay of anything, so no need to describe that shit. My phone was limping the whole time so no pictures or Snapchats either.
So, plan for tomorrow. Well, with all this newly acquired hype, I'll hopefully be cosplaying as Yu Narukami from Persona 4. It's pretty simple, except for the silver hair. I'll just be wearing my tuxedo jacket, along with a dress shirt and black jeans. I'll also be printing out and making a little Tarot card, to make my shit be more identifiable. Otherwise I'll just be "guy in tuxedo jacket with dress shirt and black jeans. And glasses."
Oh and one last thing I wanted to share: my buddies and I experienced this dude who bought a perfect-grade gundam (difficult/tedious to assemble, time-consuming, also very high quality and expensive model). Not sure how we got him to start a conversation with us, but, he went on about how the perfect-grade he bought had an LED for the beam sabre instead of just a clear plastic thingy. He also went on about how it'll take him a couple days to build, might even stream on Twitch with a bootleg camera.
Ah yes, people expressing a bit too much to those who, in my opinion, do not have much knowledge as them in a certain field of interests. An anime convention wouldn't be the same without it. You could tell Cc didn't really know what the hell he was talking about. Luckily I assembled a gundam model before with the help of my cousin, and learned quite a bit about the process and rankings. The dude's model was like, a Unicorn, perfect-grade Gundam Unicorn. Cc replies "Hey, I like Unicorns."
And one more thing, shit there was a bunch of shit. As I was waiting for KDT to go on to perform, I was reading the book they give you which includes a map of the place, the list of panels, etc. There was apparently one that was 18+, which consisted of 2 amateur voice actors attempting to dub over a live video of Bible Black. Yeah, I'm not even kidding this time, that's actually in there. Unique? Or what? And how are they gonna do the moaning noises? No shame? I give props to them, because that shit requires a lot of shit in order to not sound, weird. Well it's already fucking weird, so, can't get any worse.
Alrighty, enough for today. Gonna head on over at 1:00 PM tomorrow. Right now, I gotta print me a Tarot card to flip around in my hands tomorrow. Also play a round of Isaac. Oh and uh, it's 11:47 PM. See ya. Oh, almost, almost forgot to mention, my old partner who I played table tennis with, I saw him there, dude. He was with St's group and uh, yeah. He did remember me, heh, after I remembered him. Still the same cool dude. Anyways, fun cameo.
Week: 41
Songs to Remember: When the Moon's Reaching Out Stars - Persona 3 OST, Drip Drop - Taemin (RapheM Instrumental)
I'm thankful for two things today. One for the Fanime experience, the other, I am 90% sure that I passed Honors English.
So let's start from the beginning shall we. Alrighty, well, first things first, I slept at 3;50 AM last night. I would'e slept at like 3:10 AM, but, I played a round of Isaac. Not one of my best decisions, but I had to get that Isaac addiction settled. Fortunately, it didn't affect me too much in the morning because 1st period was Psych.
And that was basically just me attempting to get some last-minute studying in. There was loud music, due to somebody's speakers, there was food in the middle, I didn't really pay too much attention. Others were signing yearbooks, etc, etc. I just studied, which was fine by me because I had a very good reason too. Uhh, yeah, a whole 2 hours of studying. Then, it was break time. I do what I usually do and go to that one spot again.
Just stood there for a while, the usual, and finally the bell rang, it was go time. The seats were changed around so that the teacher could see all our screens. We first went to the bookroom to return our books, then uhhh, testing time. The teacher one final remark to tease us, saying "Don't worry guys, it's only 15% of your final grade." Bitch, get the fuck outta here. So, the test boots up, I see that it's 62 questions, only 2 free-response, okay.
I started going through each, I went with a method of if I don't know the exact answer, I skip it so I can total up the estimated amount I'm gonna get wrong. It just builds insurance confidence. Anyways, there were a lot of fluctuation in the test. There were questions that were repeated, some didn't have the right answer, some the teacher put in the wrong answer as the right answer. Soo, I don't know my exact, exact score.
Also the free-response was, not that difficult, rather straight-forward. Umm, both fortunately and unfortunately, the teacher let us see our multiple choice score (before any changes such as fixes for the bad questions and shit). I was scared, but I looked anyways. "73%." "Ohhhhh, shit." Now that, was cutting it closer than I would've liked. I actually thought I did better, around an 80 maybe. I went on this site to calculate how much I needed to score on the final exam to pass.
So to pass with a 68% bare minimum, I calculated it and got: "66.7%" WOOOOO. I was like "I fucking paaaassed." We also had to add an extra 2% freelo to our score so, in total I got an estimated 75%, give or take 2. With my 1% grade wiggle room (a 69.01% right now), and how I only need at least a 66.7%, plus with some of the assignments I turned in late, aka today, the teacher still needs to grade our quotation explications, and he said he might not have time to grade the constructed responses and/or might not put them in since it was more of a district thing than what we focused on.
I'm crossing my fingers. It's pretty messy, cutting it very, very close, heh, but I think I did it. I escaped. The teacher probably won't announce the results until like, the final, final day of finals. Until then, I'm praying. And that there was the climb. Now, the rewards. I went home, talked to my buddies on Discord. got ready, headed on over to Fanime con.
Now I've been to Anime Expo in Los Angelese twice now. I have never been to Fanime, uhh, mostly because it ain't the same level as Anime Expo. Umm, I'd still say it definitely ain't, but it still has its pros. For one, it's much more quiet than Anime Expo. Second, less crowded, which is nice. However, in my opinion, the line was much worse. I arrived at 2:40 PM. I'd expect more people to be in line during the morning, but apparently not. When I got there, I knew exactly where the line was because there was what seemed to be a huge line of fucking people, and it was outside the thing, heh.
It stretched like, around the corner of the hotel, which is right next to the place. I was like "Holy, fuck, IT'S LAYERED." This one dude said that the line actually stretched into the place, up some stairs to the 2nd floor, then there was another line there. Yeah, he wasn't kidding. It did actually go up to the 2nd floor. It took about an hour, I'd say an hour and 15 minutes, because by the time I got my pass, it was already around 4:00 PM.
Ek was at the con, but I didn't know where she was. Jk was apparently there too, but I didn't know where he was. My phone, poor fella, I was not able to charge him back up to 100% when I got home. It was at 40%, then died down to 10%. I charged it back up to 15% with my tablet, thank the lord for my tablet. I use it as like a portable battery, heh. Anyways, I had nothing in line except the occasional "go on messenger and see what people are typing." That and the dude in front of me who said some things occasionally.
I was hoping to find KDT after I got my badge/pass. I was like "I gotta get back to the front of the whole place." Ended up in like, the main hall I guess, and uh, I walked for a bit to see where I could get back to the front. Instead, I kept walking and eventually found what looked to be the stage that performers perform at, "Stage Zero." There, I was greeted by hugs from the members of KDT, heh. Man, I can hardly remember what it looked like because the height of moment. That was nice.
Apparently I got there just in time for them to perform next. I sat down, umm, in the front, front row since those were like, the only seats left. I hear my name being called and I turn around to see Jk and Jv and Jb's boyfriend sitting near the back. There was already a different performance going on, a couple doing a sort of ballet dance, I don't know, I don't know dances very well, heh. Suddenly St (ya'll know St, she's a KDT alumni, sister of the president of KDT, met her at that one dance back in March of 2015) appeared with her friends and we sat in the front row together. I was ready to get really hyphy for KDT's performance, which was actually pretty long. I was like "Oh, there's even another song."
It was good, I liked it. I actually cheered for once in my life, heh. What I wanted to say was "KDT, Number one fan!" And I did. Twice. Their performance was 6 minutes long apparently, and uh, they actually left after the performance. Around 97% of them did not have the actual Fanime passes, they were just there to perform. It wasn't what I expected. However. what happens next was really unexpected. So, Jk's cosplaying, he was cosplaying as Luffy apparently. He came over after watching KDT, Jv, everybody was all in one big gathering.
Jk was like "Woah, I didn't know you were going to Fanime" and takes a closer look at my pass, for which he saw that for my "fan name," I put "i_identify_as_nigerian." He got a good laugh outta that. Everybody left, they couldn't stay, had to be escorted outside. Fortunately (really fortunately), Cc and El stayed. You might be saying "Uh, Drew? Do you realize what you just said?" Yeah, I do. It was fortunate, because without El, all the shit that happened next wouldn't have happened.
Mn (I think that's my name for her), Es (vice-president of KDT), and Jb were the only ones in KDT with an actual Fanime weekend pass. We all decided to go together, including Cc and El who did not have passes, but didn't matter anyways because there was no security, or, nobody cared, heh. So it was just me, Jk, El, Cc, Es, Jb, Jv, and Jb's boyfriend. Jv was cosplaying as uh, I'm not sure what but it showed a bit too much skin, more than what more parents would approve of of course. And uh, Jb's boyfriend was cosplaying as Guy-Manuel from Daft Punk.
We went into the buyer's hall, exhibit, whatever. Marketplace. It went pretty well. It wasn't until we separated, with just me, Jk, El, and Cc, that shit started to get real. Real connected. We went to the art gallery, back to the hall, and then to the gaming hall where we played "Settlers of Catan" (crazy bootleg by the way, and apparently a lot of people requested to play it, I guess due to the rarity of it or whatever, popularity, I don't know). That lasted for a while, I'm not even sure. My phone was on its dying breath, it kept alive for phone calls, but I could not take pictures of it, or even check the time.
I thought it had become night-time at around 7:00 PM. We went to the art gallery after playing (Jk won, of course, heh) and whadya know, it was still fucking bright outside, heh. We were basically in a time warp, where time apparently freezes while at Fanime. We all thought it got dark outside for some reason. It's just like the movie theaters, how you go into the light after being in the dark for so long. Except, it wasn't dark in the gaming hall, it was, *sigh*, "lit." Also people were playing giant Jenga, which resulted in a heart-attack every time it falls.
It all went well, the 4 of us together. We even decided that we'd all cosplay tomorrow, we'd meet up again and even include in some more people. And you know what was the most convincing thing for which I knew we got really connected? El replied back. She conversed with my comments the whole way. With El coming along, I was just whatever with it. I'm not sure if she's over it yet or whatever, but after today, sure seemed like it. She didn't mind. And guess what? I didn't mind either.
And goddamn was it a good... 4 hours. 5 if you count the time I had to wait in line, which apparently people refer to as "Linecon." In line I was like "Minecon?" No, it's, it's Linecon. That's what people say nowadays. Anyways, we finished off the day with some Takoyaki, very expensive Takoyaki to be exact. 8 American dollar shillings, to be exact, and that was for 6 balls. Still, I couldn't resist, like, it's still one of my lifelong dreams to eat an authentic Japanese Takoyaki, in Japan, straight from the source. This compensated in the mean time, and goddammit, it was one of the best eight dollars I ever spent to be honest, heh.
And yeah, that was the whole day. Got back home at 8:30 PM unfortunately. Also unfortunately, was that my parents had to witness people in furry cosplays, scantily-clad cosplays, half-naked dude cosplays, all of the above, and cosplayers in general. Luckilly though, I passed it off as a cultural festival event thing, and uh, my class went here today for a celebration thing for the end of the year. And also luckily my dad thought everybody was dressed as Pokemon.
And yes it did feel weird to be there, standing in line. That was, uh, you find out how normal you actually are, compared to others who like to express their hobbies and interests either publicly, or more extreme than you or others. And no, I won't be saying the cosplays I saw, there's literally any and every cosplay of anything, so no need to describe that shit. My phone was limping the whole time so no pictures or Snapchats either.
So, plan for tomorrow. Well, with all this newly acquired hype, I'll hopefully be cosplaying as Yu Narukami from Persona 4. It's pretty simple, except for the silver hair. I'll just be wearing my tuxedo jacket, along with a dress shirt and black jeans. I'll also be printing out and making a little Tarot card, to make my shit be more identifiable. Otherwise I'll just be "guy in tuxedo jacket with dress shirt and black jeans. And glasses."
Oh and one last thing I wanted to share: my buddies and I experienced this dude who bought a perfect-grade gundam (difficult/tedious to assemble, time-consuming, also very high quality and expensive model). Not sure how we got him to start a conversation with us, but, he went on about how the perfect-grade he bought had an LED for the beam sabre instead of just a clear plastic thingy. He also went on about how it'll take him a couple days to build, might even stream on Twitch with a bootleg camera.
Ah yes, people expressing a bit too much to those who, in my opinion, do not have much knowledge as them in a certain field of interests. An anime convention wouldn't be the same without it. You could tell Cc didn't really know what the hell he was talking about. Luckily I assembled a gundam model before with the help of my cousin, and learned quite a bit about the process and rankings. The dude's model was like, a Unicorn, perfect-grade Gundam Unicorn. Cc replies "Hey, I like Unicorns."
And one more thing, shit there was a bunch of shit. As I was waiting for KDT to go on to perform, I was reading the book they give you which includes a map of the place, the list of panels, etc. There was apparently one that was 18+, which consisted of 2 amateur voice actors attempting to dub over a live video of Bible Black. Yeah, I'm not even kidding this time, that's actually in there. Unique? Or what? And how are they gonna do the moaning noises? No shame? I give props to them, because that shit requires a lot of shit in order to not sound, weird. Well it's already fucking weird, so, can't get any worse.
Alrighty, enough for today. Gonna head on over at 1:00 PM tomorrow. Right now, I gotta print me a Tarot card to flip around in my hands tomorrow. Also play a round of Isaac. Oh and uh, it's 11:47 PM. See ya. Oh, almost, almost forgot to mention, my old partner who I played table tennis with, I saw him there, dude. He was with St's group and uh, yeah. He did remember me, heh, after I remembered him. Still the same cool dude. Anyways, fun cameo.
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