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Happy New Year all! Or should I say Happy Chinese New Year! This year is the Year of the Rat. You thought this would be a short entry? No. I wouldn't do that. What Chinese year were you born in? Using that link you can discover what year you were born in and your element! Using the signs page you can learn about the other Zodiac Signs! Me? I'm an Earth Snake. Earth Snake: Earth Snakes always seem to be calm and content. They’re friendly and approachable and believe that they’ll reap great rewards by working hard and relying on common sense. What it says about the Snake does actually fit for the most part. Of course there is more to the Snake than what I said, but If I told you you couldn't have fun exploring the website. Happy Chinese New Year everyone! Kohaku
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I didn't talk about it yesterday so I will today. Yesterday I was stuck in Jewelry for part of the day. And it wasn't doing easy things, like watch batteries. It was crazy things that I knew nothing about. Management had to help. It sucked. Kohaku
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For anyone who has been wondering about me (I doubt there's many of you...), yes, I am alive. I'm just losing interest in Bionicle and haven't had any of my IM programs on. If you wanna get in touch with me, your best bet is e-mail. And if you do wanna get in touch with me, I suggest you do it while you still can. My health has been rapidly deteriorating since November, and it's currently to the point where my doctors say I'm at extremely high risk for a heart attack and could die from one any day now. The heart problems are actually believed to be symptoms of an intestinal disease I've come down with (KIE: turns out it's not UC, it's far worse), and the only drug that is guaranteed to help that disease has the nasty little side effect of cancer. And with an extensive family history of both cancer and heart attacks, I'm really stuck between a rock and a hard place here. I'd have more to say on the subject, but I think I've been too morbid as it is... On a happier note, Mardi Gras is tomorrow! Time to go get your King Cakes before they disappear until next year! Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go play video games for a while.
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Everything in my general area is closed today due to the insane amount of snow we are getting. It'll be like a foot of snow. What is more interesting is we are now facing salt shortages, in Wisconsin... in the winter. So yeah we are getting more snow than I want. Of course Wal-Mart is open. I just hope people don't drive in this non-stop snow. Kohaku
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Yesterday, I was in foods, which sucked more than usual. Why? Stuff had to be moved or taken off the sales floor for new Hannah Montana stuff. Including a ton of soda. Yeah the pallet wasn't the best for it... when lifted the soda wanted fall to the left or right. The pallet they were on was plastic and relatively weak. However we got it to the back room. I never want to move a pallet of soda again... Curse you Pepsi! Then I got to zone foods. How fun. Then my night was over... or so I thought. One of the other associates was extremely rude. Grr... So I worked things out in my head... I wanted to avoid posting an entry which showed my anger. Expect a Lego related rant later in the day. And not a good one either. Kohaku
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You know whats funny, when there is a road sign that says dip or bump. So instead of fixing the dip or bump they put a sign up. My mom laughed when I pointed that out, she never thought of it that way. Kohaku
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Guess what it is: Yeah, it's the first draft of the middle stage for a logo I am making in Graphic design. You all got it wrong. It's not done. (As you can see by the horrifically badly inked quality) I will also fix it up in some form of picture editing software. Illustrator, was it? Ahh, I can't remember. And I did a bear one as well. I liked that one better but it is currently stuck to the class room's ugly blue-gray wall with two and a half tacks. How the last one was cut in two, I will never know...
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*Head implodes* Well, this term seems to be quite a bit more physically draining of classes than I would like, but heck, it's better than doing overflowing amounts of brain work! =D Well, I have Team Sports class, which is rather easy. Other than the fact that we are currently playing Basketball. I really do not like basketball. I find it to be a rather silly sport. That, and the fact that I couldn't play basketball to save my life. I mean, I can steal and pass quite well, but everything else either has too many rules or I just am no good at it. (Like shooting) And then there's choir class. And, for being an advanced class, the people in it really are not that great at singing/reading music/so on. I guess most of the competent singers graduated last year. Plus they can't stop talking. Whenever we stop singing for more than two measure rests, there are at least three conversations starting. And once we are stopped for talking too much, they talk even more. Seriously, teenagers don't have that much to talk about, do they? Nothing interesting, at least... In other news, I think I'm getting soft. I normally have little to no emotion coursing through me (Learning to contain emotion can be quite useful), but currently, I feel quite different... Almost as if I care about something. Or someone. *Shudders* Now to write an essay about Michel-Guillaume Jean Crevecoeur and his "Letters from an American Farmer" *Head implodes*
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Ok. Last night it snowed, a lot. It started well before I went to work at 4:30 PM, yet when I was done at 10:00 PM, there were still NO plows out and no salters. Let's just say the roads were dangerous, and not a thing was done to prepare. There were plenty of accidents due to the dangerous conditions. (I wasn't a part of any, but I did see a few.) We had at least 10" of snow near me. Where were the plows? Why was no one ready? Know not, do I. And if you think they don't usually prepare, I'll say they do prepare. Last week they prepared. They prepared a lot, and we only got at the most 1". My dad said that even the City of Milwaukee had nothing done last night. The news said that they had to but snowplows on garbage trucks. Normally that wouldn't be done. Normally once it starts snowing plows are out. Not last night. The lack of preparation is frustrating, as I can only imagine the amount of accidents. Of course I'm not going to blame the accidents on the lack of preparation, that is a factor, but it isn't the main reason. Seriously, drive safe in the snow. DON'T SPEED! Drive carefully. People didn't do that, and they had accidents. A few of the accidents I saw, you could tell they were speeding and lost control. Seriously, drive safe. Even in perfect conditions, drive safe. Why people don't drive carefully, I have no idea. Do it, and you are less likely to get in an accident. Everyone is happy! Kohaku
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Tonight the New York Giants defeated the Green Bay Packers and won the NFC Championship. They'll move on in two weeks to face the New England Patriots in Superbowl XLII. It was a very close game score-wise and a real nail-biter in the end. But if you watched, the Giants played the better game (in my opinion). Our defense played extremely well and won the game for us (especially considering Webster's interception in overtime to get us the ball back). Our offense had a decent night, with a few miscues. Dropped passes hurt us in the beginning, thanks to a cold ball, and had Tynes not missed the two earlier field goals it would have been a different game. There were also a couple penalties, one that called back a touchdown. But still, we won, and didn't turn the ball over, so I'll take what I can get. Next week the Gmen face the Pats again, hopefully with better results than last time. Go Giants!
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Except for the fact that that is it's name... But still... Why must my choir teacher not like my class? We are going to sing more High School Musical songs. Just saying that puts a nasty taste in my mouth... How much I despise that movie and it's popularity, but mostly the movie. And, not only do we have to sing it, but we have to dance to it. >_< Now I am off to see if I can work to learn how to bridge the gap between my chest voice and head voice so I can try out for a solo later in the term. The main part for 'Yesterday' by the Beatles. I can reach most of it, but there are around two parts I can't reach... yet. Why couldn't I have been born a tenor instead of a bass-baritone? It would have been much easier. In other, quite random news, I found my Xbox live headset again! ... It was hidden in my brother's sock drawer for no real reason... >< Why must he always take my stuffs?
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The past week I had trouble with internet. So I vanished off the face of the Earth... or Bionicle Planet... or wherever we are now. Either way I am here once again, and so I have to catch up on blog work. Cuz it's hard to work without internet. However, I have a special entry I'll put up tonight, and it will relate to an ongoing series of Blog Entries I will have in the future. It starts tonight at... whenever I get it posted. This message brought to you by the Space Pirate Lottery, "We steal your money and build spaceships for evil because we care... about your money." Kohaku
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Quoting one of my new teachers: "I want to burn you and your family when you do stuff like that..." O_o My classes seem quite a bit easier than last term and I am really glad about that. I have A graphic design class, a P.E. team sports "class", Concert Choir (The advanced choir class at my school =D), and English 11. The only class that even pretends to act like a threat to my grade is the last of those. But since our school has two separate lunch times, I can't talk to one of my best friends all day. ;_; And for P.E. the boy's locker room has gotten rid of their lockers (Then why is it called a locker room still? ) and are gtting newer ones. In the mean time, we have minimal work to do. And that's about it. Oh, randomly; if you search 'Kopaka' on Google Images, one of my old Kopaka drawings is on the first page. Which reminds me, I really should get back to work on actually drawing...
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My break is unfortunately coming to an end and soon it will be time to go back to classes. It's been a fun few weeks though, I've been able to hang out with my friends a lot and catch up from the past semester. But now it's come to saying goodbyes again. Only a few of us are left, and I go back this coming weekend. It will be a change, getting used to a semi-rigid schedule again, we'll see how it goes. While I'm not enjoying the company of my compadres I've been enjoying a bunch of other things. I purchased Rock Band with the help of some gift cards and though I got just the game it's still been lots of fun. I already have two guitar controllers, and you can use a normal headset as a microphone, so I'm only missing out on the drums. I did get to use a friend's set, and they're a lot of fun, but nothing I could justify $180 for. I also received and read Metal Swarm, the sixth book in the Saga of Seven Suns series by Kevin J. Anderson. It's definitely only for mature audiences as it contains some very graphic content, but if you're into sci-fi or just a darn good story I highly suggest it. It basically looks at the Milky Way a few hundred years from now from dozens of different perspectives as we go through one of the most trying conflicts in mankind's history. Very good stuff. I've also been watching From the Earth to the Moon a twelve hour HBO miniseries from the mid or late nineties that chronicles our voyage to land on our neighbor in the cosmos. It's a very deep, emotional, and well-done project that I remember enjoying when I was younger, and enjoyed just as much, if not more, now. I wish our culture could have that same kind of bond or cohesion again, with everyone working toward a common goal, something so amazing, it seems out of reach, but that we pull off in the end. Finally there's been a lot of music listening going on. I got a bunch of albums over the past few weeks, with things like Paranoid by Black Sabbath, The Platinum Collection by Queen, Sticky Fingers by The Rolling Stones, and of course The Halo 3 Official Soundtrack by Marty O'Donnell and Mike Salvatori. I'm surprised my iPod hasn't burst yet, but there are still a few GBs of free space left. So that's a fun, non-BZP related entry from me. I hope everyone else either enjoyed their break or is still enjoying it, and if you live in the Northeast I hope you got outside today and enjoyed the amazingly unseasonal and nice weather we've been having. Until next time!
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Ack! School starts tomorrow and I am still not ready to go back! D= *Runs in circles until I run into a wall* Ack! O~O
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I am in the middle of a relatively large storm (for the area) and I am so happy! ^^ I love anything cold weather/storm stuffs. I don't really know why, but I am immune to the cold and I love it! =D Once again with the question thing: Do you like or dislike cold weather/storm stuffs? And why?
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Guess what? I actually looked at my school calendar and I found out that I don't have to go to school until Wednesday! ^^ I was almost nervous that I wasn't ready to give up my Christmas vacation yet. But, odds are, I will not be ready by then, either. Today I was going to play Halo 3, but at the last second, it slipped out from under my feet and the chance eluded me. ;_; But after that my parents and I went to the store (Vague, no?) and we got some Prismacolor colored pencils! =D A set of 48 pencils for $48.50. Each pencil cost one dollar... On sale. Slightly expensive. That last sentence was an understatement. But now I actually feel like drawing! It's a miracle! =P And I also did a little *Shudders* research on other art supplies. Like inking pens and coloring markers. Great Googly Moogly, 005 Nib size is tiny. O_o Oh, and I bought Kirop. He's quite fat. I am thinking of drawing something to the extent of "Your Kirop has evolved into a Chirox" Pokemon thing. I don't know, it sounded rather hilarious to me when I thought it up... Late some night a few weeks back. I just hope it hasn’t been done yet.
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Just about everyone in my family seems to enjoy living in clutter and filth. >< Seriously, no one around here except my mother and I clean up after ourselves... Ever. The room I am currently in has about 5 square feet of carpet visible under the mess. And when I try organize other people's things, I get yelled at. What fun. But enough complaining. I went to a Halo 2 party last night and did rather well. Won most of the time. I am going to go to a Super Smash Bros. party tomorrow. Odds are I'll win most of the time there, too. I love being good at video games. ^^ But I really should start cleaning up soon. My sister is "eating" popcorn. But first, Randomness: I am actually keeping up with my journal that I got for Christmas and I actually feel good about getting my thoughts down on paper both so I can remember what I did on what day and to actually relieve whatever. I got my drawing folder organized again! =D It actually looks presentable... Not including the drawings in it, though. My parents actually have promised to get me some good coloring pencils for a late Christmas present. =D Although, I am currently wondering which to get. Probably some Prisma-color something... I am trying to learn to have a more optimistic view on life. That and I am trying to become more social. I have always been one to stay away from talking to anyone at all times, but I can only go so far with that. I sure hope that the set designers don't mess up Tahu Nuva for the next half of the year. Also, I wonder what they will be doing with the "swamp" setting for the sets. A quote that worries me about this is: "Chirox lives to do experiments, and is always tinkering with the flying and swimming beasts of Karda Nui" "Swimming"? O_o Oh, and the BIONICLE 4-Minute Retrospective on Bionicle.com is slightly awesome.
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And as the clock struck 12:00 in New York City three hours after it had earlier, I sat back in the couch that I was seated in and, for a split second, I felt something I hadn't felt for what seems like years. Hope. Hope that the coming year will be better than the ones passed. Then I drank half a bottle of Sparkling cider. Mmmm... Carbonated Apple Juice... Happy New Year, everyone! ^ ^
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With Christmas being over and my having time, I figured I would post about some of the stuff I got. (Whether as gifts or via money.) I'll start with the LEGO. Bionicle: -Karzahni -Kirop -Solek -Tanma -Barraki Deepsea Patrol -Toa Undersea Attack -Toa Terrain Crawler -More Squid Ammo than you can shake a Toa Nuva at... Wii Stuff: -Wii remote -Nunchuck -Wii Zapper -Classic Controller -Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles Plus, my favorite, my new cell phone. An LG UX380 through U.S. Cellular. I figured I would get this up before the year ended. Kohaku
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I think about all that has happened this year, both good and bad as I enjoy the last few hours of 2007. Let's see, I sat on the computer. And played DS. And Wii. Seriously, I can't wait for '08! GOODBYE, '07! But still, I think of the events (Not computer and video games, I was joking, though I did do a lot) that have occured -- it overwhelms me. -Canama
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With Christmas now done and now that I can actually get on here, I will soon post a list of things I got and or bought with Christmas money. But first an intermission. I got a joke gift this year, The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 The Complete Series, it is quite funny. Plus I gave my own joke gift this year. You see, I'm trying to get my dad into the DS so I got him a game, True Swing Golf, that isn't the joke. I put it in an old Bionicle box, and sealed it... with duct tape. I even added a handle, also made of duct tape. Then I wrapped that in normal wrapping paper. I wanted to get some pictures but he stared ripping it off before I could. Nonetheless it was hilarious. So I ask you, any of you give/receive any joke gifts this year? Kohaku
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So me and my family went to some Target and to *Shudder* Wal-Mart, yet we can't find the midget-toran anywhere. (Midget-toran is basically used to call matoran short. Term used for all matoran but in this case referring to the Av-Matoran) There was no hope to be found... But then we went to Borders book store and I had $35 worth of gift cards. So I got Halo 3 Soundtrack (AWESOME!!! X3) and a book called Contact Harvest (Also Halo related). They are both awesome and, from what I have read so far, Joseph Staten is a pretty good author. And I don't care if you don't respond to this! I am going to keep posting about the things I get. It makes me somewhat happy... and sound selfish... Shell fish?
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For what, you ask? Why all sorts of things. Lots of videogames, for one. Mass Effect has been sucking up my free time, and when I'm not playing that it's either Guitar Hero III or Halo 3. I haven't even been able to touch Hellgate: London for more than a few hours, which is ok, because I hear it needs some patches. Aside from that, my school recently subscribed to Ruckus, which gives me access to a whole lot of music for essentially free. It's covered with DRM, but hey, music is music, and you can't beat the price. Then of course there's the holiday shopping. I did 95% of my shopping online this year, and all that's left is a quick trip to pick up some cards and other miscellaneous gifts. The Internet is amazing. I'll hopefully be going to the Giants-Redskins game this weekend, unless the weather is bad. The company my dad works for got an entire luxury box and they had extra tickets, so I get to go too. I'd say look for me, but you really wouldn't be able to see me in the box. But if they win they should clinch a wildcard playoff spot, which is better than last year where the last game of the season decided if they got in or not, plus a bunch of other teams losing. Finally, I'm almost done with my internship with the Army. Next Thursday is my last day, then I have a few weeks off before I go back to school. It will be a nice break. Oh and if anyone has seen the video of the house with Christmas light synchronized to a Trans-Siberian Orchestra song, I'll be seeing the display live this year in a couple weeks, which should rock. I don't know what music they're doing this year, but it's all an impressive programming feat. I'm looking forward to it. That's all for now!
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Our furnace went out. I am freaking cold right now. It is now 16°F or -8°C for you other people that is outside. It is much warmer inside, but I'd like some heat tomorrow, otherwise I'll go insane. Anyway, I must go fetch blankets. So yeah... Gimme your fire! Kohaku
