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ThePoeticDragon
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Name: J
Location: California, United States
Birthday: 6/19/1989
Gender: Male
Interests: Video games; J-Pop music; Computers; Poetry; Creative Writing
Expertise: Overall computer handling; video editing via codecs and virtualdub-type stuff; giving advice on all life's problems; being a friend to a multitude of people
Occupation: Student
Industry: Computers (Software)
Message: message me
Member Since:
1/5/2004
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| my god, i wish i had been more prompt with my updating my journal.
quite a bit has happened lately, and it will be rather difficult to put
it in one post. in that case, i'll touch on most of the stuff just a
little.
Any new news?
it's
just a few more days until my inay's(my grandma, for my non-filipino
friends ^^ ) 80th. well, aside from all the little dramas here and there
that have been happening, i suppose it will pretty much go down without
a hitch. let's hope, at least. i just wish things didn't go so sour in
this past week or so. well, i guess it's really out of my power.
on
a happy note, i've finally gotten the slideshow done. although many a
change had been done because my mom wanted it, it finally got finished.
joy to the lord! (jay would know what i mean)
UTADA fever on the way!
i've
downloaded UTADA's first leaked(i'm sure more will come soon) single
"Easy Breezy", and am quite happy, yet rather disappointed about it.
it's really a mix, actually. although the lyrics are drastically odd,
with its pun about an old phrase "easy peasy japanesey", or something
like that, i find it pretty catchy. i understand why some people don't
like it. anyway, i have been listening to it for a while now. still,
i'm not going to pass and big judgement... it's only the first single..
and "Devil Inside" should be coming out in due time. i'll wait for
that, and then preorder my own copy of the album(coming out october 5,
people!).
Bad Sleeping Habits
i really need to get
into a better habit with my sleeping. i've been up most nights lately
up until about 3(hence, the time i'm posting this). some days, i'm
lucky enough to get up around 9 or 10, but other days i can wake up as
late as 2. i hate waking up late. it means i don't have as much time to
get stuff done. hopefully in august i'll get my act together.
Sheet Music Gripes
it's
amazing just how hard it is sometimes to find really good japanese
sheet musics. you have no idea just how much i've wanted to play "Deep
River", "Traveling", and above all "Final Distance". everytime i get a
new link for these sheets, i get the guitar and vocal versions. think
guitar tabs. is that good enough for piano? nope.
there was
quite a bit more to talk about, but i'm not gunna post it up.
hopefully, also, i'll update on a much better basis. no more 3 to 4
week gaps.
Maybe there's a devil! There's something like it inside!
Devil! Inside!---------------------------------------  Life's like writing a book. Write carefully.
- yours truly, thepoeticdragon | | |
| before i begin, i'd like to wish everyone a great 4th of july. i hope everyone's having a good time today.
Any new news?
my friend Matt came over this past friday. it was really fun. he let me borrow his game Samurai Warriors.
speaking
of which, Samurai Warriors is a very addicting game. i've been having a
lot of fun playing it. the best way to describe the game is just a full
on, one-against-a-million brawl. one samurai against all those who
oppose it. fun stuff.
i'm also thinking about coming back into
RO. since Jay showed me all of the stuff that's been renovated on the
server, i'll probably come back and play.
i downloaded a couple
movies from the jpop.com forums in the past few days. one was Princess
Blade, which turned out to be a very enjoyable, but
could-have-been-better, futuristic samurai flick. the movies at those
forums are actually pretty cool. all i've been doing lately has been
watching them. they've kept me busy.
The Returner
the
other movie i downloaded from the forums is called The Returner. at its
heart, this movie is best described as ' a live action anime episode'.
you have your ace gunman, named Miyamoto, who sports the usual black
trenchcoat and takes out enemies with great style. then, the sci-fi
anime attributes come in when the lead female character from the future
enters. she, apparently, is here because she's supposed to kill the
first sighted alien, dated october 2002. in killing this creature,
she's preventing a great war between humans and Daggra(the name for the
aliens) which has left the earth a barren wasteland. (live action anime
episode... get it?) so yeah, they team up, doing all the stuff heroes
in animes do. good movie so far, i'm watching it right now.
i
guess that's really all i have right now... tomorrow i'll come back
with some other things to talk about. now, back to the movie
If each religion is supposed to be so great, how come they're always in conflict?--------------------------------------- Life's like writing a book. Write carefully.
- yours truly, thepoeticdragon | | |
| ok, i'm gunna try something a little different for this post. since i
have a few topics to discuss, i'll break everything up into sections.
Any new news?
well, today i woke up a 2. 2, you say? yes, that's right, 2. in the morning? no. the afternoon. lol.
i
really don't have much news to talk about, except that i've been
practicing my piano a lot more these days. thank god for that keyboard.
right now i'm learing brian mcknight's "back at one". classic song
right there. other than that, there's really not much else to say. oh,
my friend matt's coming over tomorrow, and as i've heard, my bro's
gunna come over for the weekend, as well.
by the way, how do you all like the signature? i'm sure it's not as good as my last one, but i still feel pretty good about it.
Antivirus gripes
bad,
norton antivirus, bad! it started to really give me problems these past
couple of days. well, in general, it always took up quite a bit of
resources, especially during scans. now, when i uninstalled the 2002
that came with the computer and prompted to install my download 2004,
it wouldn't go through! it just simply said "norton antivirus 2004
professional installation failed". damn you! well, i downloaded 'panda
titanium antivirus', and i'm much happier with that. much less
resources now, and since i've installed it, i got rid of 7 viruses
without even needing to do system scan! yay
Parents (just sort of a tiny rant)
my
parents can really iritate me sometimes. especially my dad, with his
whole "there should be water bottles in the fridge all the time!"
shtick. every time my dad looks into the fridge, wanting some cold
water, he complains if there's no water bottles in there. well.. here's
an idea: go get that pitcher full of water (which because of this whole
bottle crap it's just sitting there collecting dust) and fill up a cup
with it. then, go get the ice from the freezer, and put a few cubes in
the same cup. wait a few minutes, and bam! cold water. yet, of course,
he doesn't think about doing that for some really odd reason, he just
calls me and tells me to put six bottles in the freezer.
ever
notice how parents can get upset in just half a second with you for any
kind of reason, but when you get angry because of the opposite reason,
they look at you with a slightly angered(see?) and questioning face,
asking, "are you/why are you angry?" it's as if they've never seen you
angry, or you are very strictly forbidden to be angry at all while
around them. sometimes i really wish i could get just a little angry
towards my parents. i'm not even going to use an example, all you guys
probably know what i mean already.
If ever I believe my work is done... then I'll start back at one.--------------------------------------- Life's like writing a book. Write carefully.
-yours truly, the poetic dragon
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| not much new to report... just got done with the new icon and
signature/banner. it's really pretty fun playing piano IN my room
now... i don't have to go to the piano so much anymore.
n other news, i also just got done making my new AIM name. here:
The Kakusei Mind
originally,
i wanted it to be like "TheAwakenedMind", meaning that my mind has been
'opened to the truth' or 'spiritually enlightened'. however, after
talking to a good friend from LiveJournal,
i realized that in using 'awakened' in japanese... it would be too.
damn. long. so she gave me the adjective 'awakening'. thus, "The
Kakusei(Awakening) Mind" was made. it fits better, i think, because it
sounds nicer when you think that the mind never is fully 'opened to the
truth' or 'spiritually awakened'. i know it probably sounds really
corny, but hey, who cares?
so that's really it... now for my *new* signature
Awaken my mind... open my eyes to the truth... and open my heart to love.--------------------------------------- Life's like writing a book. Write carefully.
- yours truly, thepoeticdragon
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 small bench: $42 yamaha survival kit: $40 keyboard stand: $29.99
YAMAHA DGX-300 KEYBOARD: $399.99 the satisfaction of having ALL THIS in my room: PRICELESS, SUCKA!
yeah,
people, i got a yamaha keyboard now! i won't have to go to the piano
all the time just to practice anymore. lol, my "cave" is losing sooooo
much space now. oh well, it's still great to have this now. apparently,
it's for having 4.0 GPA all year in school, as well as for my birthday.
it
was awesome. we went to the guitar center to just check out all the
keyboards they had, and i started talking to one of the dudes there. he
gave all this information on every single keyboard there, and my dad
was listening in. we left for a while, went to best buy, and then
decided to come back to the store and look one more time. well, long
story short, we ended up buying one. lol, there's a lot more to that
story, though, but i'm sort of lazy to tell it all. maybe tomorrow.
anyway, since all of today was spent driving around and buying stuff, i still have stuff i need to do, in regards to this LINK. so check it out, and try to remind me about doing these tasks tomorrow.
thanks!
Whose Line: Baby names that will one day get your child's ass kicked.
"Aw, is Kickmyass hungry?"---------------------------------------  Life's like writing a book. Write carefully.
- yours truly, thepoeticdragon | | |
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