03/28/09 pretty fun day I guess.

Yeah, it was pretty fun today actually.

I woke up today at about 9:50AM and checked my myspace and stuff. I ate breakfast of Life cereal and took a shower. When I was done I got ready to go to Ashley's bowling thing. I called Arvin to check where he was at and was told that he would pick me up at about 11AM. I then played Street Fighter IV till Arvin came by. I got somewhat better, hopefully good enough for the tournament. Anyways he picked me up and we went on our way to Central lanes. When we got there, Carlo wasn't there nor anyone else LOL! We called Carlo and he said he is on the way and will need about 30 more minutes. We then went to McDonald's for some lunch. I got two McDoubles and sm fries. Arvin got the double filet fish. When we were done we went back to the Bowling alley and tried out that Picture Hunt game but it didn't sense our touches so it made us lose quickly and effectively. Afterwards Carlo was there and so was Argy. We then bought those fundraising tickets for Ashley and started to bowl. I swear we were the only people who supported GW, there was also this local band that played there too. It was pretty funny cause it was called Rock'n Bowl, and there was practically no one there besides us four LOL! Anyways, during our bowling I went to get my pizza and a drink, I saw my Nutrition professor there too which was surprising! LOLOL! Afterwards, I got second place with 93 points but Carlo won with like over 100 points! We played another game but I got hecka low!!!! Anyways it was fun altogether. Afterwards we said our goodbyes and took our separate ways. Next, me and Arvin went to Toys and Joys to look around. I saw this really neat Fate/Stay Night toy and it was $30 but I really wanted it for $20! So he asked around and I got it for $20! Score! It was awesome. Anyways, after we went to my house and played Street Fighter IV for a good while! Arvin himself got better too with my tips and tricks!!! After he left, I updated my PS3 and now I can online battle! Since my internet connection is weak, it was very laggy and hard to fight. I took a nap and then I tried out MGS4 for a while and it was...AWESOME!!! Amazing game as always! Cutscenes are LONG! LOL! My parents then went to Hilton to eat dinner and me and my sister went to the mall to look around!!! We went practically everywhere there LOL! We then went to K-Mart to look around also. Lots of people there today!!! Our parents came later and then we looked around some more. I then went home and then here I am now.

03/23/09 Such a HAPPY filled day sorta!

Lately has been very interesting, today was no exception. One question I want to ask before I begin is this, do sad times follow happy times? or do happy times follow sad time? It's quite interesting cause I really do believe that something like that exists, well in our universe anyways. So let's begin shall we?

Today I woke up at about 6:55AM and was still tired because I haven't been getting enough sleep lately. When I woke up I took a shower and then got ready for school and ate cereal. When I was done I had to put my PS3 back into my room unless I play it I put it back to the living room. So much hassle now! Especially since I don't have much time to play games nowadays. Anyways, me and my sister headed towards school. Nothing interesting happened on the way untill we got to school. When we got there I headed straight to the library where I took a nap and actually had a dream! It was a wierd dream actually. I was in a pretty massive library in mid-day and there were people there I knew or atleast sorta knew, can't quite remember. I think my sister's friend "Aubrey" was there cause I heard someone in there mention her name. And I think Arvin was too! Weird. Anyways I woke up with my cell vibrating cause my sister wants me to check out the bake sale in the Science building. I took a couple minutes to cope with still being tired before I up and went there. I got there and they had pretty interesting stuff on sale today. There was the usual sandwich and aroz caldo on sale but was something new. I don't know what club it was but they had some Persian food there. I got a hotdog, and this one yellow stuff that I don't quite remember, something like caldo gazar or something like that. It was the most curios thing I have ever eaten in the past 18 years of my life. It tasted very spice filled and my tongue was confused if it was good or bad. It took me a while to actually enjoy it. When I did I really liked it! A couple people passed by like my sister's friend and I think Summer too. Well after a while my sister sent me to do packmule work which I later enjoyed. She sent me to make copies of her experiment in Chemistry. I went to the library to make them copies. When I was done, on the way out I bumped into Cheerful which was awesome. We talked for who knows how long about stuff. We saw Albert and Austin too! It was the most rad way to start my day ever! On my way there a friend from church said that I looked super sleepy which I was at that point. After I returned to give my sister her stuff. This time I actually bought some more stuff at that bake sale, in particularly a Rose water turnover and that yellow gazar stuff and arroz caldo. My friend James was there too! It was pretty awesome with catching up on old times. We talked untill gravity took my arroz caldo from my hands. I felt sort of embarrassed but this girl helped my out by getting some napkins, then I felt obligated to help out too. I was about to run away too! I got some paper towels from the bathroom and she was cool about it and got mad at James for not helping .__. LOL! Anyways yeah, after the clean up I thanked her and we all separated ways. Me and my sister then went to the rotunda I believe to see if Will was there but he wasn't. Me and my sister then headed to the Nursing building since I had to start on my project already about Global Warming. Which I should publish some day. I worked hard on it in the computer lab. I watched a documentary on Global Warming and other videos on both sides of the story. I got about three pages done there. I then realized what time it was cause it was 12:56PM at that point so I ran to the library because my study group with Cheerful and Joe was at 1PM! When I got there it was 1:01PM! I looked around at the conference rooms cause I thought they would have started already. I looked everywhere! LOL I then found Cheerful near the entrance. LOL. We then met up with Joe and went to our conference room. We studied about Psychology and talked about other unrelated subjects. It was pretty cool even if it was just us three. I had to leave at 3PM just because I had to. I said my goodbyes and left. I saw RJ and Arvin on my way out. It was cool LOL! We then went home cause it was Aramaine's birthday today, RAD! When we got home we basically left to Chili's as soon as we arrived. I was so tired and still is. When we got there. Today Silvia was our server! Rad!!! LOL! It was pretty cool to have her as the server since I knew her from highschool! LOL anyways I ordered a bacon burger and it was pretty good since I didn't use ketchup or mustard. I also had this blueberry tea which they had infinite refills of which was awesome! I drank like 4 mugs full of it. Awesome stuff! We also got this appetizer thing which was pretty good. I liked the eggroll the best! They sang Happy Birthday to Aramaine so that was funny and interesting. Afterwards we went home and I played some Resident Evil 5 which was cool! Afterwards I put some finishing touches on my rough draft for EN111 and then here I am now blogging this. And dead tired, I'm pretty sure I skipped out on some other details too. Sorry future self.

"Shinku" Asian Movie Review

This ain't no Street Fighter movie review, rather, a japanese psychological drama. The plot is basically this girl was on a summer school far from her family and one day her family gets killed by a murderer and the plot of the rest of the movie is set 8 years in the future and her interactions with the murderer's daughter. This is a pretty slow paced movie with all the good stuff happening near the end. The story is basically about revenge and stuff like that. Really interesting how things unfold. Some parts will be present day interactions and then it would go to reminiscence in dreams and then it would also recount the murder and the murderer's intention The murder scene itself wasn't too violent, it blanked out the murder of the kids of course, and the whole scene was in black and white. This show kinda pulls off a "School Day" like ending, where it would start out as a semi-normal drama and then it would unfold into the murders and attempted murder. The movie is lengthy! Which is good on my account. They really go into detail when explaining the murderer's intentions and the interaction between the two girls. After seeing the reasons why the murderer killed, you start to wonder if he was sane and if murder was really necessary. A good chunk of the movie is the interactions of the two girls. The girl who got her family murdered knows that it's the murderer's daughter when they talk but not vice versa if you catch my drift. The massacred family girl eventually tempts the murderer's daughter to murder her abusive husband. I won't spoil what happens after, but it's a shocker. The soundtrack involved was very powerful and fitting with each moment. Only j-pop you will find is in the ending credits LOL. I wished their were more character interaction with other people, it felt as if the movie centered around the 3 characters. There were some other character interaction between friends and other people, just to let you know they exist but it wasn't strong enough for you to feel attached to them also, like in some other movies. The storyline as a whole was solid, however, it ended with a asian wtfbbq? type ending, in this case heck, I'll spoil the wtfbbqness, it's a lesbian kiss, I mean on the lips. I was like, lolwut? I kinda had a hint it would happen, but it felt pretty unnecessary, was it supposed to mean something deep? I dunno.


Bottomline: very good story line, very long but kind of slow at some parts. It has a pretty wtfbbq? type ending. This would interest people who are into asian dramas and such. Is it worth the watch? pretty hard to tell, man, I'll leave it up to you. It's a 3.
9/5

The #12 Looks Like You "Worse Than Alone" Review!!!

This maybe their best album to date! Heck this is even one of the best albums out so far this year! I don't know how to explain such awesomeness that I am listening to right now! Extremely spastic and the dual vocals are incredibly pummeling. It's easy to notice the jazz influences they have cause of the awesomeness. It's way more mature than their previous effort "Mongrel" by a long shot. Everyone in the band are at the top of their game on this album. Time signature shifts galore! Ranging from extremely spasmodic to spoken words to full on haunting jazz ballads. Definitely The #12's most experimental album also, making this a truly unique album. This is definitely worth the buy! For fans of "Fear Before", "The Fall Of Troy, and "As The Sun Sets". 4.
7/5

The One Am Radio "A Name Writ In Water" Review!

I know this album came out quite some time ago, but I just have to name drop this. Anyways this was created by this one Indian lad named Hrishikesh Hirway which I have no idea how to pronounce. Anyways this album is so good that I don't think I have to say anything besides this is a "classic" right here. But for reviews sake I will say something. The soundscapes present in this album is downright jaw dropping, Hirway has single handedly created one of the most "beautiful" sounding records I have ever had the pleasure to listen to. One of the songs is literally made up of lots of wonderful samples and sweet guitaring and a bunch of 'hmmms' and 'ahhhhs', never did I think that hmmms and ahhhs can be so catchy and awesome! As for the actual sound, it's very dense landscapes with delicately played guitar parts and sweet electronic beats that arn't too heavy or poppy or annoying. This is most likely the best album of it's genre actually. The vocals are super sweet also and makes you sleepy in a good way, I really wished I could sing like the guy. It's a very sleepy album, which is good since I like good soft music from time to time. Buy it, download it, borrow it from a friend, you just have to hear this incredibly album.
This may well be an album for our generation! 5/5!

03/21/09 Longest Day

Today is the longest day for a reason. Anyways today I woke up at 5:30AM! Dang I then quickly got ready to run a 5K cause Arvin was already here. When we got there the race had already began for about 5 minutes! I wished we got there on time though! Anyways I started out ahead of Arvin cause I wanted to see what my potential was, it was quite crazy cause I ran passed a bunch of people and each person I passed by running made me feel genuinely good. Not to be self-centered or anything. I ran non stop untill about half way. Our goal on the 5K was to run from Chammorro village to the Governer's office and back. I did my best to run as much as I can. In the end My time was like 32 or so minutes but then again we were 5 minutes late. Afterwards me and Arvin met up again and looked at all the cool goodies. We later bumped into Von and then some other people and the girl that made us all go. Anyways I got more shwag in the form of Arizona Tea and Water. Arvin then dropped me off home. When I got home I took a shower and then ate breakfast! I then practiced the guitar and used the internet untill Arvin came again so we can pick up the "goods". We first tried to look for an ATM machine in particularly a Bank Of Hawaii ATM Machine. We went to Payless and found a pacific express one and kept making the wrong pins and then we called my sister and then found out that there was a Bank of Hawaii ATM in Payless and we were doing it all wrong. I then got the "goods" at a undisclosed location. The "goods" so you won't think it's drugs was a PS3 and MGS4!!! Anyways me and Arvin then went down to the Gate Theater. Heck I'll just post my review of the the whole thing.

"I only watched it cause two of my friends were in it as stand ins. This also gave me reason to watch it and actually give an unbiased review of it. Anyways I never watched the movie to tell you the truth cause I don't like Disney Propaganda so I'm not sure how similar the musical was to the movie. Anyways to start things off, I wasn't bothered that none of the characters looked like how they should but I was bothered by the fact that everything was pre-recorded. It was quite obvious that the songs were pre-recorded and songs were synced. I don't want to rate the performances and the band ensemble together since it would be unfair since the band ensemble were actually... good. Let's look at the negatives first. The basic storyline is very sparse and quickly falls apart after the first 15 minutes of the musical. The plot is basically a 1+1=3 which clearly doesn't add up. I don't know if it's because it's a musical adaptation but the story is this, a group of friends and I mean a quite large and unrealistic group of friends, all get jobs at a Hotel right? Then they play baseball and then have a Talent show in the end. But here's the catch, the main character is caught between two girls, one a mean prepy girl and the other a nicer prepy girl. It's incredibly obvious which the main character chooses. The stand ins actually did a better job than the actors at some points. During the talent show, no one was paying attention to the actors but to the stand ins performing on stage! Which is the only redeeming factor of the play. As for the songs, just super melodic pop sing alongs designed by disney to make you want to spend your money on useless memorabelia. Anyways with that being said, you are wondering what are some of the highlights. The best part was the band ensemble imo, they played very well even though they were a small band. Talented bunch of kids to tell you the truth. The stand ins were cool and one was this awkward white guy that actually kinda looked like how the main character should look like! And the black guy should have played the black guy too! They choose a pretty weak cast with mediocre singers who know show boat techniques. Anyways another problem with it is that the theater smelled like pee. They should have done it at the UOG theater. Should you watch it? ummm It was $10 which in my language is pretty expensive to see a public colaboration on a shody adaptation of a film, maybe if it was $5 I would might encourage fans of the movie to watch it but at $10 no thx. You have to be a die-hard fan to enjoy it, the cheesy acting just made it unbearable to watch at points. a 2.
4/5 just cause I'm a nice guy"

After that I got to say yo to CJ and George! It was quite cool actually. I went up on stage and stuff!!!!! Oh yeah Carlo was there too and my sister also! Afterwards we went our separate ways but then got Wendy's LOL! We got home and played some Street Fighter IV and Killzone 2! Quite interesting actually. We then got ready for devotional prayer and went! We got there and put our togas and shoes away also. After that we talked to some brethren and we all went our separate ways. Me and my sister went to Payless however, to get Aramaine's birthday candle and some plates. When we got home I ate dinner and played some RE5 and here I am now. Time to get ready for a pretty hectic day tommorow.

03/10/09 CHARTER DAY!!!!

It was a really memorable day today. It was really fun but I knew it could of been a little more better!!!

Okay today I woke up at 9:50AM to get ready to go to the Charter Day thing at UOG. LOL! Arvin came inside and we played some Guitar Hero for a little bit. We then left the house by around 10:30AM. We then went to stop by at A&A pawnshop which was Arvin's one to check out their wares LOL! Amazing stuff they got there! An 80 gig PS3 and an Fender Too!!!! Anyways, Arvin scored us a free pink DS!!! Rad! Now we headed to UOG! When we got there for the Charter Day thing it was pretty crowded! There were kids from all over and lots of things to do! We first looked around and then found the Japanese club table! It was an awesome find too because there was this Japanese Weight lifting club thing that was there!!! Me and Arvin tried it out. It was pretty neat talking to them since some of them knew some pretty good english. It was pretty rad, cause they let us do this dead lift thing where you basically just lift up a bar with weights on it. They did their weight by the kbs and it was confusing cause I told them 100 lbs and they gave me 100 kbs = 220 lbs! Anyways I did it and was pretty astonished! Then they gave me this little envelope filled with goodies like a newspaper, cellphone accessory, hand towel, and this thing! After that we walked around a little more and saw lots of people selling bar-b-q and stuff. There was a rock climbing both but we didn't have shoes, there was also a paint ball thing my sister tried for 2$ LOL! Anyways we then went to try out those fried oreos. It was pretty neat. While we were waiting in line Jerome, Von, Anne Marie, and Hector came by and said yo. We said yo back and went on seperate ways temporarily. Then we walked around some moar! and then came back together but with even moar people! There was Jiff, this other d00d, and some girls. It was pretty neat. Anyways we walked around some moar. Then we stopped by the japanese table for a little longer to play with their toys LOL. Then we met up with everyone at the business building in this one room I never went before. We just arm wrestled a little and then we went our separate ways. I tried to get Paul to go but he was already somewhere else. LOL, afterwards we went to Arvin's house to get something and then we went to the Mall. At the mall, we first ate and then went around. We looked inside Macy's for a little while and then Bench. Of yeah, we saw Gian and company there too! We met up twice at the mall. We then went to the arcade and played that jump rope game a couple times LOL, got the jack pot once though. We then went to Rush Gear to check stuff out! We even got to fire an airsoft, pretty neat too. We then went to Harmon chapel to help hand out invites to some kadiwa meeting. LOL! Then we went home LOL! My AC broke today which sucked. And now I am watching Negative Happy Chain Saw Edge. Pretty rad so far.

Sympathy For Lady Vengeance Review

Sympathy for Lady Vengeance: This movie is a korean comedy psychological film. It depicts the tale of a women who got out of prison and wants to take revenge on the person who sent her there. Don't let that innocent looking picture deceive you, this movie is the deffinition of bi-polar. Some parts can leave you laughing out loud and other parts can leave you utterly disgusted. Which fits well since the girl is nice in the prison but turns 180 degrees in her personality when she gets out. The settings were all really well chosen, from the wacky prison to the abandoned school. The acting gets pretty scary since it seems so realistic, especially the more darker scenes which I can't spoil. Anyways awesome movie, check it out. I really actually did learn something from watching this, which is that "screw not least ye be super screwed" and that korean women are scary. Anyways for fans of Korean Dramas but warning: this movie is not for the kiddies due to the graphic violence and stuff.
5/5

Slumdog Millionaire Review

Slumdog Millionaire: This is a sorta adventure drama movie. The gist of the plot is that a guy goes on a indian "Who Wants To Be A Millionaire" and he does so good that they arrest him and basically for the most of the movie it recaps on how he knows the answers to the questions. The memories and present issues blend very seamlessly. This movie is so fricken creative with their use of colors and lighting. After watching this movie it felt as if all the questions in the universe were answered. Seriously, very memorable story and makes you think about how important friends and family are. The setting itself was gritty as heck, in a good way. It captures the poverty and population in India incredibly well, well to me it was well since I never personally visited there. It did look like the Philippines though. It was sort of depressing at some points to watch due to the extreme poverty that was shown. The music was awesome which was kinda pointed out during the oscars and the characters are super memorable, even the host of the show was memorable even though he was a jerk. LOLOLOL. It was very cool on how they got three of the same character like a child of the character, an older child, and then the present being of the character. It felt like you actually watched the characters grow up. That is how much detail they went into this movie. I swear, this movie has the greatest post-movie song. I actually wished I knew the lyrics so I can sing a long and maybe even copy the dance! Anyways it's completely fresh, especially if you look at the other movies that are out which arn't as original as this. Original plot = good movie.
a 5/5