Saturday, January 1, 2005

Happy New Year!
That last entry was more of a spontaneous thing, in order to actually make a post before Shin popped one out like he always does. XD I was also a little hyper from the chat last night, and if you were in it, you’ll know why, hahaha. That was the best chat I’ve had in a while, I’d say. It’s always fun when there are a bunch of people online and you get them all together just to go crazy. :p Unless, of course, you’re going to stay in that chat for nine freaking days straight, which is one thing that I realized not a lot of people are mentioning as one of the big moments of ’04: Teh Silly Circus, which will always be remembered as the chat that scared everyone away from chats. O_o Yes, it took us quite a long time to get over that one..

Shin: Haha, that scene with the classes and government was pretty funny, almost as much as the scene with the bunny was bizarre. XD
Japan: Tan? o.o In the winter time? You’re crazy, Japan!
Arc: Yeah, thank god for mapquest.
Baron: You’re spoiled with your warm weather. :/
Annie: “You’re arm is laying on the ground!” “I’ve had worse.”

Karmi:
Shin: Your post was shameful enough. >:O
Manic: d00d, lik that 3ntry took 4-eva :(
Azure: This post is for you, Azure. :-*
Baron: And I’m too stupid to steal your ideas! So there!

Wow, it’s 2005 already.. I’ve got a lot ahead of me this year. Being my senior year of high school, I’ll be graduating, and going off to live at a 4 year college in the fall semester, assuming that I get those college applications filled out and sent out. I already have my two teacher recommendations (one from this year’s English teacher, and one from last year), my essays for both schools that I’m applying to, and a resume to sum up everything that I’ve done in high school so far, so all that’s really left is for me to tackle those applications.

As of now, I’m leaning towards the University of Maryland in Baltimore County in case I’m accepted to both schools. The one I’m looking at is easily the more difficult to get into, so you could call my second choice, Salisbury University, my safe school. I like to be challenged, though, and if I can get into UMBC, I feel that I’ll be motivated to go that extra step in my studies. Of course, there’s also the fact that the community is exactly what I’m looking for: a suburban place leaning towards urban in the sense that there’s a lot to keep me occupied and entertained. Case in point, there’s a really cool mall about 10 minutes away that opened only a few years ago, with a great Muvico theater that has a DDR machine in the arcade. ^.~ And then there’s the fact that the campus is so diverse in cultures, it would help me get away from this boring hick town that I live in right now, and apparently they have a strong appreciation for anime and DDR, as I’ve heard that they have clubs for both. I’m sure I’ve discussed this on myO in the past, though, so I’ll move on. lol

It’s kind of funny, in a way.. a year ago, as we moved into ’04 - looking back I have a lot of trouble remembering exactly how my thought-process went, if that makes any sense. O.o And in general, this applies to just about anything in the past; I can’t retain how I saw and understood things during past experiences, and it really bugs me. lol I don’t know if it’s just me, but I tend to just assume that I was an idiot a year, two years, five years back, since I’m always learning something new and changing, but I realize that back then, I said the exact same thing. What happens when you do that, however, is that you subconsciously associate everyone younger than you as idiots as well, even though this is far from fact. :/ I mean, you have to at least come to a point where you respect the person who you were in the past, right? Maybe that’s not so much waiting until a specific time as coming to terms with things in yourself, but I dunno. Just something that’s been on my mind lately.

I know a lot of people are probably making their new year’s resolutions, and I have a few of my own, though I doubt that they’ll last for very long. lol But eh, I’ll try to make them as realistic as possible.

1. Minimize procrastination. There’s no way that I’ll get rid of it completely, but it’s starting to get in the way of getting things done. >.o
2. Try to be a little more outgoing. I tend to keep to myself a lot, but I would like to open up a little more without actually changing myself.
3. No more crushes for the rest of the school year. :p I know you can’t help who you like and all that, but if I just tell myself that I have higher priorities, I think that they will have a tougher time sticking.
4. Complete to-do list by the end of the year. Listed below:
-Finish reviewing Love Hina series
-Finish reading ‘Enter the Net’
-Finish writing fan fiction
-Find a job
-Watch .hack//SIGN, Samurai Deeper Kyo, X, Tokyo Godfathers, and Angel Links
-Beat video games: FFVII, Viewtiful Joe, Animal Crossing, Metroid Prime, Tony Hawk’s Underground, Metroid Prime 2, Twin Snakes, Snake Eater, Mario Power Tennis, Red Faction
-Read Lord of the Ring books
-Finish college stuff

I would also like to take this time to put up some of my favorites in different categories as of the end of 2004. I guess we’ll have to wait and see how these change in the coming months/years.

Anime Series
1) Cowboy Bebop
2) Rurouni Kenshin
3) Neon Genesis Evangelion
4) Berserk
5) Trigun
6) Outlaw Star
7) RahXephon
8) Noir
9) Serial Experiments Lain
10) Love Hina

Anime Movies
1) Cowboy Bebop: Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door
2) Samurai X: Trust and Betrayal
3) Grave of the Fireflies
4) Ninja Scroll
5) Akira
6) Vampire Hunter D
7) Spirited Away
8) Princess Mononoke
9) Spriggan
10) Ghost in the Shell

Cartoons
1) Family Guy
2) South Park
3) Aqua Teen Hunger Force
4) Simpsons
5) The Critic
6) SpongeBob
7) Fairly Odd Parents
8) Sealab 2021
9) Scooby Doo
10) Futurama

Movies
1) The Boondock Saints
2) The Matrix
3) Seven Samurai
4) Star Wars Trilogy
5) Lord of the Rings Trilogy
6) Fight Club
7) Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
8) Harold and Kumar go to White Castle
9) Snatch
10) Kill Bill

Video Games
1) Metroid Prime
2) Super Smash Bros. Melee
3) Perfect Dark
4) GoldenEye
5) Metal Gear Solid 2
6) Wind Waker
7) DDR Max
8) DDR Extreme
9) Super Mario Bros. 3
10) Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas

If you want to fill this out as well, feel free to add as many categories as you like. :p

Isn’t it great how on New Years you tend to look to the future and see what your life has in store for you for the coming year? Well, maybe that’s just me. Nevermind.

I spent most of this week at the beach, from Monday to Thursday (explaining my absence in posts – imagine what Shin would do if he had my family XD). It was pretty fun, and I took most of the time playing video games (I bought Red Faction at an EB games down there) and watching movies, and not doing an ounce of homework. And that basically leaves just today and tomorrow to read this diary for English and make a chart about the person who wrote it, take a bunch of pictures dealing with “silence” and choosing four to do amazing drawings of, take a really long calculus test, and do a packet for Psychology. I think it’s safe to say that I’m fucked. :D New resolution: STOP PUTTING OFF HOMEWORK.

I think I’ll end my post praising both Mario Power Tennis and Metroid Prime 2. For one, Mario Tennis is just so beautiful on the ‘Cube and an excellent game like its predecessor. Metroid Prime 2 is also just as good as the first, and I’m about 8 hours into it with 18% complete, since I love to scan just about everything and go back to old rooms to see what I can now do. I should probably make a post on OB in their respective threads one of these days.

Syk3-out
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