So even though I went on the last day of AX, I'm still pretty happy that I went with sorcererhuntres (as Hibari from Reborn!) and kiya_kiya_chan (as Goku from Saiyuki) today. I didn't take any pictures since my mom said "no" (technically it's her camera, but I use it the most ^_^;). I got Imaishi's and Nakashima's autograph, and I kept Nakashima's autograph (Imaishi's autograph went to Ka-chan). Hugged random countries around the con and took a few pics with them. I even saw a Korea and he didn't grope me like normal Korea would 8D;;; (which is sort of nice because I was sort of afraid that it would seem like sexual harassment in front of everyone in the exhibition hall, even if it's a girl. Personally if it was somewhere like in the main area in front of exhibit hall or somewhere else I probably wouldn't have cared, but exhibit hall for me is like "uhh...no groping zone please? :D;;;" I don't know why, but it's like that for me). Still, my wish to take a picture with a Korea was fulfilled. |D I bought 3 mangas (Train☆Train Vol.2, LIFE Vol.9, Mushishi Vol.4), 2 little badges (a "Hetalia Fan" & Maes "World's Best Daddy"), and one video game (Jake Hunter Detective Story: Memories of the Past for the DS) for the trip to New Zealand. Saw a few people from the Anime Club and SoCal Cosplay (Snake and his box was there!! 8D). Though I don't why, but I didn't buy a lot of stuff like I did last year. There was so much mainstream anime products that I was sort of "...meh. I don't really want to buy anything here. .__.;;" But poor Kiya-chan, XD the MasaruxTouma doujin she wanted had the red dots on them (white = for everyone; red = 18+). I'll never get over that...

There was a guy dressed up as an awesome Gurren Lagann mecha with a spinning drill. There were also a few other good cosplayers, but my mind's a little tired right now. I had to leave early since I had to go to my grandma's house for celebrating 4th of July (in China cosplay again... X__x;;) I thank god that my mom brought an extra shirt for me so I quickly changed once I got inside the house. I slept once I hit the couch until my cousins came.

To basically sum up what happened the whole day, go to Ka-chan's entry:  Click this link! (I'm too lazy to explain everything that happened ^_^;)

Don't forget to send the photos to me Kiya-chan! ^_^;;;

 So I'm done with my summer course today! |D I think I did well on my final, and today has been a good day.

The only thing weird that has happened to me today was before the final. I'm usually the first person in the classroom before class starts, and when the next person came in he went up to me and asked me to help him on reviewing for the final. I thought, "Sure why not?" and helped him. When he gave them back to me, he asked me "Do you like manga and anime?" I replied yes and mentioned I was going to AX, and then he said "I'm going on Sunday also! We should hang out together! Just you and me. Here's my phone number, and call me when you're there." I know he's trying to be nice and friendly. I probably guess he is going alone or with a buddy (or two), but: 1) I never even talked to him at all out of all class times we had (we sit on the opposite sides of the classroom), 2) He barely shows up to class, only for test days, and 3) I feel stupid and embarrassed because out of courtesy I gave him my cell phone number in return. I think I shouldn't call him at AX because I really don't know him except for his name and his favorite anime.

 Billy Mays died?! That's another person I wasn't expecting to kick the bucket (First one was Michael Jackson). I'm going to miss him since I love watching the show "Pitchmen."

Is it just me or is June going to be dubbed "Everyone kicks the bucket month"?

One more week of my Anthropology class then I'm done. I can't wait for this class to be over. I do like the class, but my mind's on "summer mode" which equals to "video game mode"/"time to laze about mode" like almost everyone else in the room. Once I'm done with that class, I can finally relax.

Oh yeah, I will be going to AX on Sunday. The manga, like I said in an earlier post, is not completed. So it'll probably be there at next year's AX. We'll see...we'll see. But if ya' guys want to find me at AX, just look for a military China/Wang Yao walking around with glasses on. 8D

 The termite guys are coming over tomorrow with the orange oil stuff (or whatever it is) so we had to move my accordions, the piano, all of the crap under the piano, and everything else around it.

Dynasty Warriors 6 Empires is being released tomorrow, and I'm heading over to Best Buy or Gamestop to buy it. 8D Despite the fact that it's a hack-and-slash game, I'm such a sucker for this game series. It's the first PS2 game I ever bought (Dynasty Warriors 3 Musou), so it has a soft spot in my heart. It's time to take over China again!! >D Only the graphics looking a lot more prettier and the gameplay still hacky-and-slashy!!

Today for lunch I had ramen at a new ramen restaurant near my house. I'm so happy that there's a ramen shop close by to my house, which is down the hill for me, because I usually had to go out to Anaheim  (which has really good curry ramen I do have to say). But this new ramen restaurant has pretty good Shoyu Ramen so I'm happy.

 I think it's sort of confirmed that I won't be able to finish up this manga before AX starts. Seeing how I procrastinated way too much because toning is very time consuming (along with fixing up all of the lines on the computer). I also had a feeling that orchestra rehearsal along with studying almost every week for the summer class was going to force/barge themselves up to the front of "the most important" on my priority list. I only toned six pages out of the fourteen pages inked. I also need to start sketching out the last fix/six pages. Looking at my progress, I don't think it'll be done in time. So I'll have to wait until next year to give it to Freddie (if he is going next year). But hey, at least AX comes every year so it also gives me more time to finish it. I'll probably finish it before AX '10 comes around, so I'll probably give ya' guys a preview of the first few pages or whatnot of what it looks like.

 Tomorrow I have accordion orchestra rehearsal at 7am morning. I don't mind since I get up around 6am now these days, but on weekends I tend to sleep in until 8am (8:30am is my limit before I start freakin' out about sleeping in late). So I guess I have to treat Saturdays like Tuesdays and Thursdays. I don't really mind about Saturday morning rehearsals since I've been doing this for over five years. It'll be a while for the Sat. rehearsals to finally end since we're going to New Zealand this August.

So my parents brought the termite guys over yesterday because they found little brown dropping-like stuff around the house. So after the inspection, we found out we had a lot of termites. They were shocked that we never had a termite guy check our house because, I don't know why, no one in our neighborhood ever had termites. No tent ever went up in our culvasac, so my parents thought that there's no reason to call in a termite guy. I'm not going to say that they're stupid for not calling one in the previous years because I would be assuming the same thing as my parents. I don't know if we're going to fumigate or do the orange oil procedure, but we'll see. I think my parents are leaning towards towards the orange oil.

It was also weird because one of the termite guys kept watching me play "No More Heroes," and it was the part where Bad Girl is constantly dropping the F-bombs. So I'm going: "....heheh...I'll...play some Sonic now. ^__^;;;" Other than that, he complimented on how the game sort-of looked cool.

 So I had my second test today and I think I did okay. But I feel asleep before class started, during parts of class, and during the test. I know it's not due to staying up all night studying. I swear I divided up my studying so I wouldn't have to cram, and I forced myself to sleep around 11:30 (which is early for me because I usually sleep around 12:45 - 1:30 am-ish since I'm such a night owl). It makes me wonder if accidently falling asleep during the test is going to horribly affect my test score...

 Well I finished playing my solo...and it sort of crashed and burned in the middle of the song. I was able to barely save myself and what was left of my dignity by playing the ending well. I guess I need to practice a little bit more...*sighs* The one I played was a 11 page song along, and I have to memorize another song that is 13 pages. Dear lord I don't know if I can cram that many pages into my brain.

Wish me luck tonight. I have to play my accordion solo in front of everyone in the orchestra memorized, and I'm nervous because I just memorized the last three and a half pages last night. I hope I do well.

Yesterday I went to Joanne's and bought some material for making a sweatshirt vest. It's sort of based off of this picture (The girl playing the gameboy on the far left), but I decided to take some stuff out (aka: Pikachu's face on the hood and tail), but I'm keeping the ears. I also decided to make a FMA vest even though I'm not as fanatic for the show as I was back then. But hey, I think Ed's insignia on the back of his coat is cool. :D;;; I don't even know if I have enough time to make one or two of those vests, but I'll give it my best shot. God I'm such a nerd...

Since I'm sort-of on the topic of crafts, I've wanting to cosplay Ginko from Mushishi. Yes I love doing the most simplistic and "Cop out" cosplays (as my mom likes to put it) because it saves me time and money, which I don't have a lot of these days. The only thing I need to buy is a wig and probably contacts. If not...maybe Koya from Loveless might work. If I had a Yamato with me it would be cool, and maybe I could get some cat ears...she wore fake ones in the manga. Hmmm...

 So today I was dragged off by my mom with her friend to a motivational speech program in Pasadena. Man, it feels like high school all over again with those assemblies about "finding our goal" videos and all of that. I've never been into those nor will I probably ever like them. I sat there for over three hours and we had to share our "Goals", "Purpose", etc. with another person we never met. When I tried telling this person my "Passion" for drawing and how I use muses/my characters for inspiration, she kept thinking I said "Music" even when I said, "I make up characters and sometimes they inspire me to draw..." "...So you use music and connect it with your drawings right?" "*mental facepalm* ....Sure. That's right..."

The thing is, I already know what I want to do and how I'm going to get there ever since Junior year of high school. I want to finish college at CSUF, go out get my masters, try to get an internship somewhere, I'll most likely have to get a medical degree once I get my masters, and try working at a hospital's psyche ward or a private psyche ward.

I got this from quandtuniverse  ^_^

( Friends List Questionnaire )

 I don't have to go into work tomorrow since my boss's daughter is graduating that day. Yay~!!

I have an eye doctor's appointment today later so that means new glasses for me. I'm actually glad I'm getting new ones because the ones I have right now are sort of crappy. The stuff that is supposed to be cushions on the legs of the glasses (the ones that goes around the ears) basically committed suicide by tearing itself apart. I don't know how, but it did. :| I don't know if I want contacts...I just look weird without glasses.

 I got a 28 out of 30 on my quiz!! I feel very happy because I thought I was surely going to ride fail whale since the quiz consisted of 3 essays. I'm sort of bad at writin' essays. XD;;

I think I also did well on my test, but alas I have to study/prepare for another essay quiz on Thursday. *le gasp!* But I just hope that I'll do well on that one also.