Category: Anime

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Earthquake in Monterey Park

*drum rolls* @ 9/3 12:09am, both sueon and crabyaple im me and tell me about this earthquake that just ran through monterey park. they said it wasn’t too bad but these always come so unexpected, they’re so scary. i mean this one wasn’t so bad, but who knows how strong the next one will be when it strikes. *shivers*

well, our 3 day weekend is over. lorie and dan invited us cunndogg and i over for a bbq tonite. it was fun and sure brought back a lotta memories chatting about old times. the funniest part was we were lost for an hour trying to find their place. silly us thought we would remember how to get there. all we needed to do was walk up euclid and turn right on eunice. hehe.

if you haven’t noticed, i added my class schedule to the menu. before u come asking me why i’m taking german, it’s an comp/lit class to fulfill one of my humanities. it was the only thing still open that fitted my schedule. stupid english classes are so FILLED this semester. i also redid the menu pix to shrink their size. i hope you guys liked the doodles i put up yesterday. ^_^x

just an update on ninjai. the 7th episode has come out so if you haven’t seen it yet. it’s pretty cool. ^_^x

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Slicktran’s Visit

it’s the beginning of a new month and guess what! NO SCHOOL TOMORROW! hehe. anyway, slicktran came up to North Cal today and ohfuee sorta gave him a tour of berkeley. slicktran’s appearance was quite unexpected for no one knew he was coming till he popped up yesterday.

christine: so you slept with sam last nite
slicktran: yah
bobybear: you know, that’s politically incorrect

i’ve been mass downloading anime for the past 2 days since i got my cable connection. the atnt connection here is a lot better than what i had to go through last year. well, that was before i made my network of intranet friends where speeds went up to 5megs/sec. musta put a lotta stress on my harddrive. it’s worse this year for incoming freshmen because the new limit is only 5gb. YUCK YUCK YUCK!

the current dreambook links don’t seem to be working on this new server. i’ll try to resolve that asap, but no one usually talks in there anyway. my new service comes with a forum utility which i might be checking out later. hehe.

and as promised, my sketches are up. so check out the doodle section. ^_^x (after a bit tweaking, i also implemented cunndogg’s special ps7 trick and made the file even SMALLER! wow!

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Who is Dione?

oh sweet so sweet CABLE!!! *big tears rolling down krunk’s face like in those animes* hehe ^_^x. finally got it installed today and I’m a happy camper. already started my downloading process. in the process of getting Hikaru no Go – 45 and Prince of Tennis – 36. this is going to be so sweet!

welp, today sueon came up to visit us Berkeleyians with his family. it was very nice to see him again and because of this reunion, I’ve gotten to see SO many people I’ve been meaning to see. kalekkos, yan-ray, evin-kay, istine-chray, boby bear, cari, avid-day, ick-vay, ason-jay, ohfuee, and of course mechy! (note: people who’s SN/nick I didn’t have has been substituted with pig latin). sueon had to ditch us and meet with his love-boat friends. yeah it’s exactly what it sounds like. hehe. after dinner we went to chill @ sam’s place and we played with swords and fire. nice, eh?

btw, i just realized dione is not dione. i mean dione really exists, but I’ve been associating her with the wrong person. wow, I’ve known this girl for at least half a year and I’ve been calling her dione! wow, how embarrassing. today she tells me her name is otherwise. now I’m back to square one where i know dione exists cause people know her, but i still DON’T!!! hehe. oh well, when the time comes, i know I’ll meet her. i mean this happening is weird enough, but deja vu. ason-jay lost his wallet and we were frantically searching sam’s and my apartment, but no luck. then i checked my IM messages and my friend snakescott tells me that if my friend dropped his wallet, he has it. ason-jay was one lucky boy! he comes in and we say hello (note: I’ve been calling him scott for the past year or so). he locked himself out so he asked if i had our apartment manager’s #. i gave it to him and he gave her a call. he said he was jacob and asked if she was around to open the door for him. after the phone call, i asked what his name was and he said, yeah his name was jacob. i mean how should I’ve known that! i mean someone with the SN snakescott implies his real name is scott, no? it was just one hilarious day.

ooooh, my new scanner is installed and I’ll show you the magic that my cuz showed me with 1-bit tiffs and of course I’ll show you my recent sketches. once again i lost my precious piece of paper which had important info which i jotted down from the first few days of school. sigh….

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Hong Kong’s SinoCenter

wow, it’s been awhile huh? well, the cable guy is suppose to be coming in tomorrow. so hopefully my internet will be set up by tomorrow. meanwhile, school has started and life as a college student resumes. ^_^x anyway, I’ve moved into my apartments and everything is going smoothly. we’re still waiting for our bookcases to arrive. hopefully soon cause we’ve got a ton of stuff to put on it. meanwhile, I’m not ready to show you my 1/2 complete apartment yet, but when the time comes, you can expect a tour. ^_^x

welp, I’ll continue my journey for now then. there’s a place in Hong Kong called SinoCenter where it’s cd/dvd galore. thee entire top floor is filled with just porn. i mean we were led up there by a friend. innocent me and my cuz had no idea. i went to visit mechy yesterday and even he knew about the top floor. hehe. anyway, the 2nd floor was anime floor. it was really cool there. we had a friend from my grandpa’s company take us around from city (are those cities in hong kong? or should they be considered districts?) to city showing us the best places to buy anime and copied software, etc. Of course me and my cuz didn’t buy any illegal stuff (disclaimer just there in case the FBI has their eyes on me). We were browsing through anime when suddenly a guy with a walkie talkie comes running buy yelling, “COPS! COPS! COPS!” Suddenly about 50% of the stores ran out and slam down their gates. it was so fast that i almost missed it. thankfully the store that we were buying stuff from was selling legal anime dvds, so we continue our purchase. after acquiring the animes that we wanted (worth HK$1150), we moved downstairs. we saw on the first floor that there were actually several stores that were caught and they were throwing in the copied cds/dvds into a cardboard box for the police. mechy says that i got a bonus tour and even he himself who claims to goto Hong Kong every year (my belief is that it’s an excuse so he can hide his girlfriend away from us) only have seen that once. hehe.

anyway, i was going to continue my story, but class time and I’ll continue when my cable connection is back up. for those that know carii, she’s been hiding a secret. well, it’s sorta been disclosed already, but i was pretty surprised when i found out. ^_^x

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Beyblade

welp, i just scheduled my cable service to be installed on 8/30 which means i’ll need to live on 56k for a week. sigh… should’ve done this earlier.

here i’ll continue my stories of my travels. my first destination was japan. my cuz and i arrived at Narita Airport (Tokyo’s International Airport). My cuz tells me that this is the sinking airport and the government is rapidly seeking solutions since this airport is relatively new. i later find out from my dad that the whole japan is sinking. but then again, these sources aren’t exactly reliable. hehe.

of course as an anime otaku (fan/geek/freak), being in japan means ANIME! too bad none of the animes broadcasted on TV TOKYO had subtitles. 2 animes I saw being broadcasted was Inu Yasha and Beyblade. Inu Yasha’s pretty popular in USA already, but I was laughing when I saw Beyblade. Remember that old game Crossfire. Well, it was very similar to that. Here’s an intro to Beyblade. It was like 2 opponents spin the top-like thingy and then call upon power moves for it to attack the opponents top-like thingy. What was worse was when I went to the AXN convention in Hong Kong, kids were actually playing this spinning game. I mean you can’t call upon special moves like the anime, and there was like a tournament or something. If you goto the homepage of the intro-link i posted above, i think it has info on Beyblade tournaments. I mean, isn’t this just a game of luck? or is it not… okay, okay i agree any type of game, there’s always a skill/luck ratio, just like poker, but i mean besides being able to spin it the hardest to make it last longer, what else can you possibly do?

well, after reading about MAGLEV (magnetic levitation trains), i have always been curious about them. one thing i missed doing in japan and hopefully would be able to do it the next time i go is ride on all it’s bullet trains. japan is one of the nations with the most efficient means of transportation. as we were going toward mt. fuji, we passed by a MAGLEV rail. construction is complete and i was told that usage of the MAGLEV will begin in about a month. the MAGLEV was originally an idea of an American (quoted from my cuz), however, his models were very unstable and therefore received no sponsors. the Japanese took this idea and began research. one of their main worries was the results of human interaction, since human bodies contain iron and they wanted to know if it would cause any harmful effects toward us. after many years of research, they actually found out it was the opposite. magnetic effects actually help the body circulate the blood better. that’s why you see those asian magnetic bracelets which claim to be a medicinal miracle. i believe Germany has already began using MAGLEV technology while Shanghai has begun it’s construction to bridge it’s 2 main cities, creating an 8-minute ride to it’s new airport.

well, i believe that’s enough for today. the stories of my travels shall continue tomorrow. g’nite ^_^x

toland ink stamp
one of the toys i bought in hong kong

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Back From Trip

GUESS WHAT! I’m back guys! The last 3 weeks have been a blast for me! I really had a great vacation and you know it’s always much much funner when you’re with peers instead of adults. I’m not saying families don’t have good vacations. I’m just saying that for us, vacations always seem a lot better if you’re going with peers. For those that didn’t know the reason of my sudden disappearance, I went on a trip to Japan, Hong Kong, and China with my cousin (4 years older than me). For those that goto UCI, he’s a computer science major (currently junior). well, in the next few days, i’ll try to tell you as much as i can remember from my travels. over 600 megs of pictures have been uploaded to my dotPhoto album. So enjoy ^_^x. Comments haven’t posted yet since we are talking about 499 pictures. hehe

i also got some awesome video clips which I’ll be posting soon. sigh… i can’t believe school starts in 1 week. =( my journey through Asia shall continue tomorrow. so stay tuned!

picture of the week has also been updated. enjoy ^_^x

mashimaro and pikachu stuffed animal
comparison: US$4.50 for mashimaro (CHINA); US$13 for pikachu (USA)

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Go Spreads

5 more days before I go. *sniff* I’ll miss you guys.

Anyway, #elite-fansubs found a very interesting article on MSNBC that i thought i’d like to share with you guys. It’s about my current favorite anime series: Hikaru no Go. And on top of that 2 new episodes are coming out! w00h00! ^_^x me = one happy boy. Unlike many animes where it’s hilarious or contains mechs and other cool things, Hikaru no Go is more of a very emotional anime where a lot of feelings are put into it. It’s like a soap opera but intended for little kids, and now they found out that this anime is moving children away from video games and into GO! This is SO COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL!

welp, going to update picture of the week one last time before i leave. i didn’t find anything special, so i put up something cute. hehe. hope you’ll enjoy it. ^_^x

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WarCraft III is OUT!

Happy 4thof July!!!

guess what was released today? WarCraft III: Reign of Chaos! The long awaited game has been released, although the warez version has been floating online for quite some time. when i went to fry’s on tuesday, the trailer for it was totally awesome, so i went and downloaded it. Here’s the link. it’s 28.7megs so for some it might take some time.

the following info has been stolen from slicktran:

anyway, anybody who reads this is welcome to come to the bbq thingy tommorow.. info below…i have lunch with family at 11 or 12 tommorow..so i’ll seeya guys afterwards!! lily…. heang said he’ll be there on time..heh heh…call him and make sure he’s awake though :-Phaha byebye!

july 4th…meet at lily’s house…10am…don’t be asian..10am…goin to almansor park for bbq… if your last name starts from A-M…bring food(chips..snacks..etc..)..if N-Z drinks…IM lily or heang for details…

for those that has watched Noir, you’ll know what a great soundtrack they have. apparently the new series .hack//SIGN is made by the same producers and is coming out with another incredible soundtrack. according to my sources (green), the soundtrack will be released on 07.24. grrrrr, no wonder i haven’t been able to find it’s music on the net. was only able to find 2 songs, the opening and ending. enjoy ^_^x

oh yeah, almost forgot to tell ya, my site may be up and down or even extremely slow for the next few days. cyberwings (my host) is moving their servers to a different office in a different state. so bare with it for awhile.

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USPS Priority Mail Online Postage

I miss my T3 connection ;(. Although it was slow to outside connections, it was amazingly fast between edu connections and movies within 15mins! Anime took me 4mins before. Now they take me half an hour. *sniff*.

Anyway, nothing much happened to me today. I just found out something great about USPS. They now allow you to buy postage for Priority Mail online! So all you need to do now, is print and drop off. NO MORE WAITING IN LINE @ the post office! Isn’t that awesomely cool!?!?!

I’ve fixed some problems with the links page. If there’s any more problems, please email me. Thanks!

Welp, back to watching Hikaru no Go. New episodes are coming out! ^_^x

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Ninjai

FINALLY! My site is ready. After spending a week learning php, implementing the menu system, and converting my my old logs into the new format. whew! I’m so sorry about delaying the update so much. Everything should be up and running. If you find any errors, please email me.

Thanks to my brother for providing an awesome flash series:
Ninjai 1 | Ninjai 2 | Ninjai 3 | Ninjai 4 | Ninjai 5

My summer’s starting to right layout before my eyes. My work is requiring a lot of my time. The company is moving to a new building and harrybons and I have to setup the network and make sure it’s running perfectly before they move over. It’s really not hard work and stuff we really know how to do well.

Home’s been fun so far. Haven’t seen any friends yet tho. Hope there’ll be a gathering soon. ^_^x