hikaranko

bwahahaha, haunting Chapman was much fun. XD

well... firstly, i got there much earlier than i had originally planned, so that was cool. ^_^ i thought my last class was going to end at 4, but the teacher actually set us free at around... 2:30-ish...  so i took advantage of that and left. had to wait for the train, though... bloody hell. got to the Orange station at around 4:30, and started trekking to Chapman, just because i could already see it and it honestly wasn't that far. but Chelsea called and insisted that she and Candace come and get me in a car, so they did.

Candace: So how often do you think you'd be able to visit us?
Me: Monthly, maybe... I'll be like a period. Just... not hanging around for like, seven days.

yeah, random things i said in the car. XP

so anyways, hung out with Chelsea, Jessy and Jane in their rooms, talking about random things and wearing this crazy green bowler hat that was in someone's room. we made a plan to be super geeky after anime club and watch the Muppets Wizard of Oz, maybe play Kingdom Hearts (since Jessy is a recent convert, bwahaha). then went down to the cafeteria for dinner. i got to eat grilled cheese sandwiches again!! i honestly hadn't eaten a grilled cheese sandwich since i left Chapman. i guess i had a sort of... craving for the stuff. sucked that i couldn't finish it... >_<

but dinner was fun! got to see everyone again, and it's comforting to see that the madness at the Anime Club table never really changes. only really got to talk to a few people, though, but that's all right. i guess that's what happens when i hide myself (under the table [which is a very frightening place so i escaped it after about 5 seconds])... but still! just being around everybody again made me feel... hmm, i dunno if i should say that i felt "good" or "happy" or what, but either way, it was a very positive emotion. XD

and then, of course, there was anime club. Irresponsible Captain Tylor and Escaflowne. to be honest, i quite liked Captain Tylor! he was just a strange, funny little dork guy and i took a quick liking to him! so i voted to watch it again, but i guess any vote i make is... pointless because my presence at the next meeting is questionable. and Escaflowne reminded me again why Dilandau is crazy. XD though i did confuse myself when i thought that he'd already gone back into Celes mode when he was about to eat the snail. but i loved everyone's reaction when Celes suddenly changed into Dilandau right in front of everyone's eyes! oh, the yells of confused "WHAT?!"s was so much fun. XD and then, as a wonderful bonus, that was the first time i ever got to see Escaflowne in original japanese!! bloody dubs getting broadcast all over Manila... i can't stress enough how much the Animax dubbing crew irritates me... i guess i wouldn't mind if they would just hire a few more people... oh, i'm digressing. japanese Escaflowne! HUZZAH!

and Merle is Konohamaru is Pikachu!! drove me crazy, i kept adding on "kore" to the end of everything Merle said, it just tripped me out... and i swear, Toshihiko Seki's voice pops up in the most random places. he was somebody there in Captain Tylor, one of the enemy guys, had the long blue hair, usually kept his face to the ground and subtly insulted the fat old guy with the bowl of space chicken sticks... i thought he was Allen in Escaflowne, too, but i was wrong about that. :P

so after anime club, i put a bunch of weird little question marks around my name when i signed up for the Anime Club Halloween Party next week (damn you, señor president! i wanna go, too! T_T) and then retreated for the baby geek party with Chelsea, Jessy, and Jane. i also got to meet a new friend (hooray for new friends!) and we all ate Domino's pizza while watching the Muppets Wizard of Oz. which, ignoring the part where Ashanti is not the greatest actress in the world, was great! simply because Muppets are awesome. and Kermit's head is very expressive with the stretching and the squishing. it was also very interesting to see that the Muppet version is more accurate than the Judy Garland version, though i guess that'd be because controversy wasn't cool with the masses back in the day.

and their blooper reel was simply awesome because Muppets never break character. "your body coughed."

hehehe... anyways, i'd been planning on leaving sometime in the morning... or possibly around lunch. but my sister called and asked if i'd be willing to hang around until around 4, so i thought... why not? sure! so i kinda followed Chelsea around wearing a shirt that hasn't hit the rest of the world's market yet. not that anyone would know what it was of, since it's kinda advertising for the next Disney-Pixar movie "Meet the Robinsons." which i really wanna watch, because time travel has always fascinated me. and the image of that little boy all bruised up, holding a cold slab of beef and saying "Mr. Steak, you're my only friend" makes me giggle. XD i guess you could say that i'm kinda... plugging that movie at the moment... i don't even know when it's scheduled to be out in theaters, but keep a lookout for it! should be fun! because John Lassetter is ruling the studio! :D

oh, i digressed again. back on topic, i got to mess around with Chelsea's tablet and have once again decided that i want one. i actually drew some really nice stuff! one of Ed and another of Roxas and Sora, which i will likely put up on my DeviantArt some time soon. tonight, maybe. :P and ooh! i showed Chelsea the first few episodes of "The Law of Ueki", or as she calls it, "the tree show." she likes the random, too! yaaaay! so it's not just my own weirdness! okay, it could still be in part to my weirdness, but i'm not alone!

i also wanted to track down the ninja floor before i left campus, but alas... i know not where it's been relocated. and also... i got distracted when i went to see Jessy again and we ended up putting in Goblet of Fire just to see Ralph Fiennes being Voldemort because he's awesome. we also discussed some Harry Potter stuffs because... well, just because. :P

oh, oh, before i forget!! there's a group shot with scruffyrebel as Iruka-sensei included in Narutobuzz's scanlation of Naruto chapter 328!! and if no one believes me, i will prove it!!  that's her, right?! right?! i don't remember if this has happened before, but i was quite excited to see it. and Naruto manga is indeed going nuts! so should anyone feel the need to ramble about it, i'm completely up to date on it and am willing to ramble with you. XD

back on topic... it was so great being back in Chapman with everyone again. :D i really hope i get to come for the Halloween Party! though i don't really have anything to wear... i may still have pseudo-Ranma stowed away somewhere... hmm... -_-;;

anyways! heehee, i had so much fun! i'm hoping i get to go again. :D

i like going places. i like visiting different countries. i like being in LA, and i like being in Manila, and i like being at the beach or wherever the heck i'm going. i like being at my destination.

it's the actual process of traveling that i dislike.

mostly just because it takes absolutely forever. i know i'm not the only person in the world who could stand to go without an 18 hour trip from Manila to LA. i mean really. i'm eagerly awaiting the day people will be able to teleport to their destination. without screwups, thanks very much Mr. Dane Cook. i'm positive that i'd hate to find my arm coming out of my forehead or my butt. yikes...

so let's see... because i'm a serious procrastinator, i went out on one last outing with some friends, one of whom i had no idea was in Manila until i bumped into her on the way to a birthday dinner for my aunt. we watched the Devil Wears Prada because i read the book before and therefore wanted to see the movie. it also just came out today (curse the Philippines and it's uber delayed movie releases! why the hell did Kinsey come out the same day as Superman?!), so that's another reason for procrastination.

oh yeah, what did i think of the Devil Wears Prada... well.. it was good! i liked it. it ended up swaying quite a ways away from the book, but it still worked out. not a bad transition, really. pret-ty good. enjoyable movie. though i think Christian should've been hotter. the guy they cast for him was a little disappointing to me, looks-wise.

anyways, my cousins were also lookin' to see me before i leave, but... they're too lazy to leave their apartment, and i'm kinda too lazy to leave my house, so... that went nowhere. :P but... it's okay, i guess. i'll see them again! and besides, i already got to squeeze a lot o' manga out of my cousin. bwahaha. i now have loads of manga to read!! among the new ones (as in, have not finished readin' through 'em) are Hajime no Ippo (oi, don't ask...), 666 Satan (done by Naruto's creator's younger twin brother!), Fables (well, okay, it's not a manga, but it's a readable!), and the oh-so-popular Death Note!!

i feel so bad for Kishimoto Masashi (creator of Naruto)... i mean, imagine. you make this series that pretty much explodes with popularity and gets animated, and it's super popular for a good long time and everyone loves it. and then, all of a sudden, the anime studio runs out of material, so they make fillers. loads and loads and bitter loads of filler episodes. horrible filler episodes. it must suck so much to watch your magnificent series go straight down the pooper. i mean, the manga for it's still goin' strong, but damn it's gotta suck to watch its anime fall from grace.
and then to top it all off, your younger twin's manga series starts to take off with popularity as well. even though the storyline is sorta similar to yours.
i mean... that must suck.

poor Kishimoto Masashi-sensei... T_T

anyways, moving right along.

i bought new contacts!! my eyes are gonna be a really funky color from now on. it's like, gray on the outside and kinda honey-colored on the inside. quite fascinating, really! haven't gotten to wearin 'em yet, since i only just got 'em, so i'll get to wear 'em for the very first time once i'm already back in LA. XD

i have such mixed feelings about going back. for one thing, i'm gonna be jet-lagging something awful. for another thing, i'll miss being here. but i'm still really excited 'cause there's so many things waiting to be done! for instance, i'm hopeful for a chance to visit Chapman and storm the very first anime club meeting of the year. BWAHAHA! though the chances of that are, sadly, quite slim... well, i'll have other chances. >:D

and i'm also eager to attack my sister at her workplace. random drawings of Sora will decorate her chalkboard!! wheeeee!!! XD

*rereads entry* damn, i think i should be tested for ADD or something. :P

...OMG, I'M LEAVING IN THE MORNING!!! >_<

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second:
watched Pirates of the Caribbean 2 the other day! i'll keep this brief: i loved it, that ending drove me nuts, and i really really really really really wanna fight the kracken. my brain is very KH oriented as of late... i couldn't stop myself from thinking about how much easier it would have been for everyone in the movie if Sora suddenly appeared out of nowhere. XD

okay that's all for now. i really just wanted to wish Caitlin a happy birthday. :D hope you're having a good one!

i swear i'm either bipolar or have ADD, because i am both extremely happy and majorly frustrated right now.

this has nothing to do with school, so yay!

i'm frustrated because something very strange is going on in this house. last night i pulled out a plate from the cabinet so i could have my dinner, and, strangely enough, it was wet. my cousin and i inspected the cabinet and found that most of the plates were wet. water had somehow leaked into the cabinet and got to the plates. we pulled 'em all out, dried 'em, and then put 'em back.

this morning, when i pulled out a plate for breakfast from the same cabinet, it was wet again. actually, it was wetter than last night. i pulled out all the plates and discovered that they were ALL wet, and what's worse, the water seemed to be pretty dirty. i decided i'd wash 'em again, because... ugh, it's just gross. so i washed every single plate that we have in the house this morning.

what's frustrating is the fact that i have no flippin' idea where all the dirty water is coming from. there is no way that so much water could have gotten into the cabinet! unless some pipe broke in the wall and seeped into the cabinet. but there's no evidence ANYWHERE of water breaking/soaking through the wall. the only plausible place that water could have come through is the crack at the BOTTOM of the cabinet. this doesn't explain why the TOP plate was the most wet.

anyways. until i know what the bloody hell happened right there, i'm not putting any plates in that cabinet. it's just too risky.

on the other hand, i am extremely happy because i still love the fanfics that i'm writing and my buddy who has been helping me out with it is gonna come up here for a few days! it'll be 3 days of madness with her around. and not the kind of madness where you... i dunno... do crazy stupid shit that no sane or sober person should ever consider doing... acting like a frat boy... whatever those types of people do. but it'll just be... i suppose "weirdness" is a more appropriate word. :P we're both rather nuts and it should be a lot of fun.

i'm excited for that. XD i'm gonna stuff so much FMA into her mind. bwahaha.

and OH!! look at this! YouTube has an endless supply of entertainment. :P as my sister put it: Gollum as a Dog.
and OH OH THIS REKINDLES MY EXCITEMENT FOR KH2. i have been suppressing it... trying not to think about so that i don't get too impatient... but man, oh man, i just can't resist the call of this game!! XD if it gets delayed one more time though, i swear..

heads will roll.

*glare*

that makes three people who've said that to me this morning. which basically covers everyone who lives in this house (and then some). XD

i have arrived at Walnut. i shall now carry out the remainder of my vacation in this little pinoy town. :P i don't know why people think i'm going all the way back to the philippines (though i would most certainly like to... i had plans for if i went back to manila), but i'm just in Walnut with my relatives. my parents are flying in on sunday, so that's exciting. i really hope my mom got my cousin's copy of Narutimate for me... i'm gonna be sad if she didn't get it.

anyways... i left chapman at about 9:15, even though my sister arrived at around 7:30. i basically let my sister KO herself on my bed while i continued to gather my things. then took a shower and grabbed books, walked over to Argyros and sold my textbooks. i got $42. yay! cash! now i don't have to find an ATM to withdraw! it is always good to have cash. although i am a little bit annoyed that the huge Odyssey book only went for $1.50. i expected at least a round $2, but no. didn't sell Don Quixote because i like it. :D and since i stayed up until about 3 AM finishing off the Japanese language lab paper thing, i dropped it off at the language office.

i'm a little hyped up right now. had 3 sugar donuts and a cup of milk a little while ago. 8D (i hope that smilie looks as crazed as i want it to)

so today is the OFFICIAL "school over. vacation=very yes" post. but since that title is already used, i settled for somethin' else. :D

last night was funny. we partied in Caitlin and Phaedra (waaah, i don't know how to spell names! T_T)'s room. me, TK, Caitlin, Vinnie, Phaedra, Jared, and Alison at first. we all left once to grab beverages at Starbucks, and on the way back i visited Aaron. showed him the new KH2 goodness and we both had excited freakouts over all things Kingdom Hearts. we love Mickey's newfound badass-ness. also reconfirmed my want of a DS. oh my oh my. really. that little handheld never ceases to amaze me.
we then went back to Phae and Caitlin's room and continued our party. Amy-chan joined us and we watched Iron Chef. the instant we found out what the secret ingredient was, Victoria exploded from the door, pointing at Amy and laughing.
"SQUID!!!!!"
the whole time, though, we were playing this game. name a pop-culture/nerdy/geeky/anything that starts with the last letter of the word said by the person before you. it was oodles of fun. :D we played it from Starbucks all the way until midnight-ish, when Caitlin had to boot us out of the room so she could sleep. understandable. 8 o'clock exams are horrible. but yeah, it was soooo much fun.

so... life is good. :) and i shall celebrate my victory over all odds, and my slight gain in riches. 'course... i had to spend for gas and donuts. but hey, the gas at the Shell station in anaheim, right off the 57, was only $2.11!!! LIFE IS GOOD! and donuts are delish.

um... yes ... i just said "delish." XD

i spent actual Thanksgiving with my family... meals, and whatnot. my best friend Krissy arrived from San Diego on Wednesday afternoon, so she got to spend Thanksgiving with my crazy family. XD the turkey was nummy. it made us all reeeeeeeeally sleepy. so Krissy totally slept half the afternoon away. it was also a joint celebration for my niece's 7th birthday, so there was a pinata full of candy... and money. i was once again reduced to fighting off small children for dollar bills. but this time, i wasn't alone. my sisters joined me. in fact, Katherine snatched a quarter from a five year old. ...she gave it back, but still. it was funny. :D

anyways... after all that celebrating and eating and family bonding, off we went. i had to repack all of my things in preparation to head back to the Chapman dorms. and then we went to LAX to pick up two of my guy friends from high school. from there, we stopped by my sister's boyfriend's house for yet another bite to eat and then finally made way for Chapman.

plans for tomorrow are somewhat sketchy. we're basically going to just hang around until Lesley gets here. she'll have a car! wheeee!!! then we'll be able to come and go as we please. :P there's discussion of going to Hollywood and watching Harry Potter at the Mann Theater, or something along those lines. then on Saturday, we're going to spend the whole day at Disneyland.  Opening to closing.  ALL DAY.  it's a blockout for me, but if i'm going to be there all day long with my friends, the $30 will be totally worth it.

so... i'm really excited! XD