Birthday, what birthday?

Birthday? What birthday?

That is the very exact embodiment of my supposed 21st birthday yesterday. It happened so fast the I didn't even feel any significance of it. The whole day I was busy with lectures and projects, or was sleepy that the day passed by so quickly you couldn't believe it. Well, of course I didn't plan to make a big deal out of it, but it was too ordinary. I went home, and I fell asleep until past midnight, which means, birthday over =(

No present count yet, unless I count the handphone my mother gave me which doesn't work. At all. At least not up to my standard. Music player doesn't work, video doesn't work either, even though it should at least play wmv, no pdf reader so I can't use it as a portable e-book reader, games sucks and I don't know yet how to install new ones, and I doubt I'll play it since I have so many other portable handheld games, typing sms is difficult as hell, the phonebook sucks. I really sound like an ingrate, but whatever. I knew it wouldn't be like the original, but this is way useless. It looks pretty, that's it. So pardon me if I do not even consider it a present. At all. Haih.

Well I bought that Waterman pen last month, I guess I can count that as present since I haven't used the pen hahaha. I'm so pathetique.

Last week I swear I was so zonked out. There's this assignment that force me to collaborate with a group member at 4am, which means I barely got any sleep last week although that's not the only reason haha. So tired until I totally skipped Friday's classes. Haih. Which meant that I had a really long weekend, from Thursday to Monday. Nice! Come to think of it, I went to Alliance Francaise on Thursday for the special lesson thing, I would say it was really fun. The people there are so relaxed, probably because they do not have grades at stake haha. But yeah, the place was pretty cool, the teacher was really funny, the people was nice, so I really enjoyed it. I'm glad I went =) I love French!!!

I am now 21 years old. I am still pretty much lost in life. Unsure what to do next. Age is just a number. I have no achievements whatsoever. I fear for my future. Yep, that about sums up my life =)

Disappointment at its extreme

Ok, even though I vowed not to look at spoilers before I watch the episode, being myself, of course I couldn't resist the curiosity. And it turned out to be an extreme disappointment, at least the first of the two episodes. Haih. I hate Pokemon writers. Why can't they give what the viewers want? And what is with the deliberate title that points to Satoshi actually getting the Fukamaru?! They really should hire marketers. What's with the no-dragon type rule? And he lost it to that rookie nerd. ARGHH!!! I'm so mad! The writers should really figure out that we viewers don't like Kazunari at the very least. Not even a bit. And after his bitchy/jerk sabotage during the episode, who would anyway?

Well at least the Suiren Convention seemed to be very entertaining with Kojirou and Nyarth ended up winning Musashi's thirs ribbon.

Still... so... disappointed...

死んじまえよ、カズナリ！

Recess Week~

It's recess week~~ 休みですぅぅぅぅ！

Regardless of the amount of work that I have to do during the recess week, holiday is holiday. 宿題はいくらあっても、休みは休みです！And I am perfectly in a holiday mood, if not for the mountain of work of course T.T そして私はまったく休みムード中です、あの仕事の山がなければねぇ。。。

1 day until the Fukamaru episode... あのフカマルのエピソードまではあと一日。。。perhaps 3 days until I watch the episode, tops 見るまでは三日かも. I vow not to go to the forums until I watch the episode with my own eyes so as to not be exposed to any spoilers 何があっても私はあのフォーラムに行かないようにと誓ったんです。SPOILERSはごめんですから。. OMG!!!! I can't wait~ キャア～たのしみぃぃ～

Apart from that, my recess week has been pretty bland. それ以上、正直、この休みはいままではまあまあだけです。Either I'm somewhere doing group project, or I'm at home laptop-ing or NDS-ing. Tried Wii-ing, but it wasn't as exciting as I wished it was. Tried PS2-ing, but I couldn't bring myself to choose a game, partly because all my games are high involvement, long, RPG games LOL, and I'm too lazy to be involved in such games for now. Even wii, the only games I play is like, Pokemon Battle Revolution. Hahaha. I can only play the party games if there are other people =( Wii sports... well, I'm just lazy, aren't I? But NDS has been a godsend. Notice my fickle-ness. There are just soooo many games that I really enjoy (even not counting Pokemon). Cooking Mama is always so enjoyable. Then there is the fashion designer thing. Then there is Animal Crossing, which is sooo cute. Even Digimon is surprisingly enjoyable, although it has a weird system, so it's nothing compared to Pokemon. Although I do like the 3 Digimon-at-once battle system. Then Rune Factory, the farming cum RPG battle game, which is really really enjoyable, at least for me.

Oh but if there is something significant that happened, it would be today's supposedly FYP meeting at Adrian's house. All of us were such in holiday mood, that by the third hour we were talking about mouse hunt, and me and youwei were coaxing Adrian to try out MouseHunt LOL. And by the fourth hour, I was being taught how to play Mahjong by the guys. And soon after, we played, although with no stakes. I lost every time, but I would be lying if I say I didn't enjoy it. It was so much fun. And I really appreciate the guys for explaining me almost all the rules of Mahjong, and those who play it would know just how much things there are to learn @_@. Even Adrian's mom came and bugged us playing Mahjong, because she is an addict herself, and I bet a pro one at that. It was so fun. And then Adrian's mom cooked us an amazing dinner. Ahh~ blissful day. *Loves*

Now I'm supposed to do up the slides for my GMS presentation. My part is, for some reason, the calculation of demand, sales, projections, etc. How on earth did I get myself doing that? Oh wait, I didn't. Grace did. LOL, ah well, at least it should be better than doing risk analysis, which I have no idea how to even begin. At least I've done all my calculations, so I just need to integrate it into the PPT.

Another meeting tomorrow. Arghh! Lucky it's not in the morning. And FYI, my definition of morning meeting is anything that will force me to wake up before 10 (or 11 if I'm really tired). I demand to sleep in at least during holidays!

Pokemon DP 145-146 Speculation

I have SO got to blog about the coming two episodes, because there are just like so much that's going to happen. The first part is about Satoshi wanting a Fukamaru (Read: the pre-pre-evolution of the amazing GABRIAS!), but Kazunari, the guest character from Johto (read: Whiny, nerdy, annoying, cowardice breeder) also wants it because he wants to evolve it into a Gabrias, stupid idiot. Obviously, I am very much for Satoshi getting Fukamaru, because well, it IS Fukamaru, and this particular Fukamaru seems to be really powerful - I'm pretty sure from the previews that it can use Suna Arashi and Iwa Kudaku (Sand Storm and Rock Smash), and it is strong enough to lift a huge huge boulder. Now while the preview didn't really confirm as to who will get Fukamaru, one can't help but speculate, be annoyed, blah blah, because Fukamaru is such an important Pokemon. Especially there are rumours pointing towards Satoshi capturing it but releasing it for the other guy's sake or something. That is just plain unacceptable. I understand that Satoshi's chance are slim (he already has a full team, the releasing rumour, etc), but I can't help but be hopeful about it anyway.

Firstly, the title is actually Satoshi's tagline when he catches a Pokemon, a badge, a trophy/prize, or whatever, so that could be a very big hint (the writers are quite consistent about this like in Naetle's capture, Pachirisu's capture, strangely, Yanyanma's, going further, Subame's, Hinoarashi's, and I'm too lazy to look for more, but you get what I mean). Secondly, according to past statistics, when Satoshi REALLY wants a Pokemon (like , shown in the preview), he usually gets it, for example, Kimori, Hinoarashi, Waninoko, Chikorita, Yorunozuku, Kingler, Buizel (hahaha which is pretty weird, but shows that he will get it eventually), Aipom, Fushigidane, well, again, you know what I mean. On the other hand, when Satoshi doesn't really want a Pokemon, he will tend to release them sooner or later or at least neglect them at Oak - eg. the stupid Beedril from the Bug Catching Competition, Primeape, Betobeton, Heracross, Kentaros, technically, Gomazou, until Gomazou decides to come along for BF, that's about all I can think of really. So again, I'm crossing my fingers for Fukamaru =) And also, I think there's a reason why the writers have delayed Fukamaru's debut in the anime for a reason, and introduce the amazing evolution line first. I think it's really going to be an epic capture (it can be a normal capture, but the Pokemon itself is epic, hence an epic capture).

For the 7 Pokemon thing, I think it's easy enough to settle - Satoshi just have to send one of his current Pokemon to Ookido Hakase's lab. I'm hoping for it to be Pikachu because I like all his current team member, but that's never going to happen LOL. Type-wise, he might dump Glion (because Fukamaru can cover the Ground type, and Mukuhawk can cover the Flying type). Likewise, he can dump Mukuhawk, because Glion can cover the flying type, though definitely not as reliable as Mukuhawk, and not to add that Mukuhawk is already really powerful (Moveset: Aerial Ace, Wing Attack, Gust, I think, Brave Bird, Close Combat). And even the moveselt points to Muku being a bit redundant. It has 4 flying type moves and one Fighting. Fighting can be covered by Moukazaru. Flying-wise, not really though, but there's always a chance that Fukamaru and its evolution can learn Aerial Ace :P But in contrast, Glion has Steel Wing, Scissor Cross, Fire Fang, Screech, Sand Attack. That is Steel-type, Bug-type, Fire-type, Normal and Rock types. Quite an array of moves. Most of which, again, can be learned by Fukamaru (and its evolutions) anyway. He'ss never dump Mouka because it's too important, also Hayashigame because it's really quite powerful. Buizel is ok, I think, but he normally needs water pokemon - and the others can't learn water moves, except Gabrias' Aqua Tail, maybe?

For the next episode, it seems that Kojirou is going to enter the Competition dressed as Mussalina in place of Musashi who is sick. Which means: CROSS-DRESSING!! Yayyy!!! I am so looking forward to this Suiren Convention. I think Nyarth is going to appeal, and Maskippa is going to go for the battle round. And rumours has it that Nyarth is going to do the Ramen thing for the appeals. I can't waitt!! Hikari will be using Pochama and Mammoo, in that sequence, I believe. However, I really think that Kojirou is going to win this, although it would really be a hit to Mammoo, who's debuting in this contest. Still, I want Kojirou to win =) I think it's really going to be a fun episode.

As for the previous episode, I was really taken aback by Hikari winning the egg and getting the Hinoarashi. Talk about super random (plus the fact that they're advertising the new HGSS games LOL). Well, it is kind of obvious though if you think about it that Hikari would be getting Hinoarashi out of the 3 Johto starters, because Chikorita is too emotionally related to Satoshi, so people like me can't accept another main character getting a Chikorita. And Waninoko is just plain ugly (well, not really, but its evolutions are). So it seems that there is potential for Hikari to continue to the next seasons as well. Yay! I like Hikari.

Come to think of it, there were rumours that if the group goes back to Johto, Satoshi will bring back and evolve his Waninoko. Eww, please don't. I'm still hoping that Satoshi captures that Fukamaru, and the Johto(?) season will be the time that Fukamaru and hopefully Gabrias, will shine - which again, points to my dream plot of Satoshi winning the Sinnoh league, and going around Johto to challenge the elite 4 or something, while Hikari takes part in Johto contests, which, frankly, all of us have yet to see =)

Ok, enough Pokemon for now. I really need to get back to work. I just have to be SUPER patient until October 1st, or a few days later, when I can finally watch the two episodes. PLEASE PLEASE don't let that annoying guy get Fukamaru. Satoshi for the win! Obviously I am really a big fan of the Gabrias line. Come to think of it, I have just finished EV-ing my Platinum team, yayyy, so I can finally do the actual story. I think I have a pretty decent team now, with the usual Lucario, Gabite (as of now), Milokaross, and Erlade. The two new additions are Togekiss and Miniryuu (as of now). I wonder why Togekiss is not a hype. It's an AMAZING Pokemon. It has high Special Attack and decent Defenses, and it can learn all types of Attacks, like Flamethrower and Shock Wave and ho, Aura Sphere! It's pure awesomeness. As usual I do not carry a fire type, and surprisingly this time, no electric types as well - Rotom just can't cut it against Togekiss - Lentra has annoyingly high attack and not special attack. I kind of cheated with the capturing part (which explains Miniryuu), but hey, the horrible searching for Hinbass, the painful breeding and the ev-ing were done honestly, so who can complain anyway? I'm just battling the gym leaders for now, and by the time I go to competitive battling, I would already have met Miniryuu anyway. I think some of the Pokemon has poorer IVs than mu previous team which was sadly deleted, but oh well. Ok ok, really enough Pokemon. My goodness, I can't stop.

Photo-Shoot + Karaoke =)

As mentioned previously, today (Sunday, 20 September 2009) was going to be a horribly tiring and long day. And I couldn't be more right.

Woke up at 4+ (read: FOUR PLUS, GOSH, who wakes up that bloody early anyway?! It's sometimes the time I actually go to sleep...) and rushed to ET's house because the make up artistes arrived there. So we did our make up and hair, and finished around 8. Then we rushed some more to Raffles Place to catch the beautiful morning light for the photo shoot.

So when we got there, it was super HOT. And we were all wearing working clothes, so we started to sweat pretty much as soon as we got there LOL. Sweat is very, very bad for makeups, and for me in general. Then we spent about 2 hours there taking picture IN THE BLOODY SUN. It was so hot. But well, quite fun, because the poses were quite odd and funny, so it was quite interesting to attempt to show the thousand masks I have.

Anywhoo, at around 10 plus, we moved to our friend's house for the second part of the photo shoot, which supposedly was Korean-themed. But my costume wasn't remotely Korean-ish, and the guys' costumes weren't really either. So it was more of a casual themed shoot. But it was much better because the place was air-conned and there was no sun. So yep, that said a lot. The photo shoot was quite long here, because we experimented with many styles, some of which even incorporated storyline... *sweats* The sweetest thing was, each of us had to write some type of farewell message on a chalkboard and gets a picture taken with it. Oww... so touching. And we made our friend write a message for all of us (generic "Thank You" plus plus). But yeah, overall it was quite fun, and quite worth waking up so early for =) And I've seen a few of the raw pictures, and I must say, they weren't bad at all. The photographer's camera is like super amazing (Canon), and also Fish Eye Lens is a wonderful equipment to have. No wonder Kok Whei is so in love with it :P

After the shoot, all of us were so starving, we decided to go Central to eat at Waraku. I had the Kinoko Cream Udon, which wasn't bad, but was a bit too creamy for my taste (imagine eating a normal udon, but instead of the normal soup, you get cream soup). And I ate the larger size. Very very full. Then I went back home to put back my stuff and attempt to rest. But couldn't so I went to catch up with my friends for the "dinner" at Chinatown. Really really super tired at this point.

Then met another two people who are friends YW. The guy is supposedly the cousin of JJL. And it was decided (not sure by whom and when) that they were going to karaoke with us. Little did I know that they were going to be super remote-hoggers who had no consideration for people who were trying to select songs, and just requested blatantly for the remote while I was holding the bloody remote and looking for songs (which happened more than once, thank you very much). And the girl, OH THE GIRL, she sings like super loud (and kind of off-tune, but that's forgivable. Not the loudness though), so when I sang with her (which unfortunately happened a few times), I (and the 2As) really couldn't hear myself so after the first few lines I basically just gave up singing properly, and I had to resort to selecting songs that I knew for SURE she couldn't sing. And I usually don't do this type of thing, because I know what it feels to not understand what other people is singing, so I don't like to do that to other people (except Japanese songs, because they are my niche - come to think of it, I was so looking forward to singing Funa Uta. But it wasn't available there. Shucks! Imagine how much I can shock with my newly-discovered Enka-voice. LOLL!!). But the girl really drove me crazy, no offense. The way she sings... is like she hold the mic super close, AND she used her hand to basically cover her mouth and the mic, which means, she sang really really loud (and I bet unknowingly so). The guy is like, supposedly the cousin of LLJ, and I suppose musical talents aren't really spread evenly in that family, enough said. And both of them are remote hoggers, shamelessly so, and please somebody notify me if these two are coming for future sessions. I would not mind knowing them in a normal setting, they seem like fun people, and the girl is actually also interested in mangas, animes, etc. But never again on a karaoke session.

A funny highlight was True Love. It's a really beautiful song by Fumiya Fuji if I'm not mistaken. But ridiculously hard for me to sing because it is super low. Tried raising four keys, still too low. Tried lowering four keys... but I was so confused. In the end I just sang the original key one octave higher. Tiring. But I love the song!!!!

I think Adrian can sing some songs really well. He has a nice pop voice. But he sounds very nasally at times. Not sure how to get over that though. I think it's because he's a closeted singer or something => sings in lowered voice => turns nasally. Yeah, what logic I have, eh? But very very high (powerful-ish?) for a guy, so yeah! Ally is... Ally. Same old same old. Very hard to force to sing, but sang a few songs nonetheless. Shall not comment here because I know she's reading this post :P But there's nothing to complain anyway. She can sing. But louder pleaseee!! (Okay, so there WAS something to complain about LOL).

They are still in denial phase that they are in effect a couple. Which is fine, given the past circumstances. I wonder what will happen if they moved out of the denial phase. Into acceptance phase obviously. Will it be weird and super awkward to be around the two of them? Well, I won't know until it happens. But hey, as long as they're happy.

Mid-September Blues

As the norm is during the middle of the semester (it is now about a week away from mid-term break), I am totally totally swamped with everything there is. First of all, I think I've outdone myself yet again by taking 6 subjects this semester, two of which are languages which get mixed up the more I study them. And I crammed everything in 3 days (and one subject one Monday), which means that school days are non-stop classes from morning until evening. The worst of which is Wednesdays, where my classes for the day start at bloody 8.30, and go right up to 7 pm, including an FYP meeting smack in the middle.

I'm seriously tired, and I need sleep, but I have a zillion things to do for school, not counting what I need to do on my own to refresh my strength. I can't remember who, but every time I meet this guy, all he says is how tired or zombie-ish I look. Hey, I really wonder who... Oh it's JT, from my marketing class haha. Well, yeah, I'm tired, and I can't wait for semester break, because even though I won't be enjoying it the way everyone hopes they would, at the very least I'll be able to get some proper sleep.

But that aside, I really love studying the languages. Spanish, is still nice, even though each time I go to the class it only shrinks my confidence even more T.T Everyone in that bloody class is sooo good! And I've totally forgotten everything from level one, and I lost my notes, which means I can't recover all the extensive note-taking I did last semester. French is fun, too. Although it is horribly hard to pronounce, it's really fun to just attempt to pronounce the damn words. I'm usually very content if I sound sexy enough =)

And putting school totally aside, I actually bought the original version of Pokemon Soul Silver. Yeah, I can't believe it myself. I mean, that day I resolved to take a look and see if I wanted to buy the game, I went to the shop, and it has Pokemon SS. And even though I actually wanted Pokemon Heart Gold more, I reckon they were really not that different anyway, and it was under my budgeted amount, so yeah, I went ahead and bought it. So yay, now I actually have a use for My NDSi LOL. Although I doubt I'll start playing it anytime soon, because I vow to finish Platinum first (and thereafter transfer the Pokemon from Platinum to SS). I've finished breeding all the Pokemon I need, although some are not as satisfactory as the one whose save file was corrupted for a mysterious reason. Sighs. Some are better, but ah well. It's good enough to finish the game, obviously, but I really want to try competitive battling.

Anywhoo, this Sunday should be a day to look forward to. In the morning, like really really morning, there will be a photo shoot with my friends, because one of us is leaving, and we want to sort of turn it into some memory thing. And then blah blah blah, at night, my extended FYP mates and I have actually planned a karaoke session. Amazing huh? I hope I have the energy to go through everything.

Anime Pokemon Gender (Updated)

Evidence from DP142. Although it's nothing very new, it's confirmed that Pikachu and Pochama are both Osu, or males. Also, Pochama fell in love with a female Marill in the previous episode. So there. Guregguru is also a male Pokemon.

Surprisingly, Megayanma is Mesu, or Female. I never would have guessed, seriously, and so did Musashi, based on her reaction. What with the very masculine voice that Megayanma has. I guess it's a direct replacement of the also-female Dokucayle. But I like Megayanma, too, I think it's really powerful =) And considering her other Pokemon are the powerful attacker Habunake, and the Pokemon that is considered an Uber, Soonansu, Musashi actually has a pretty decent team LOL.

Well, it's just nice to know for sure which gender Pikachu and Pochama is, although I've had my suspicion. I just need to squash what doubts I had. To be confirmed, Moukazaru, Glion, Mammoo, that's all mostly. I'm sure Mukuhawk is Osu based on evidence, Buizel is Osu based on attitude, Hayashigame also Osu based on vocal quality and attitude, Pachirisu, Mimiroll and Eteboss are females based on attitudes, Pinpuku can only be females.

I love Dp142! Although a filler, it's so much fun. And I've been reading about Pokemon HGSS. I think I'm going to get the original version if it's available here =) *prays* Hopefully it doesn't go over $75 bucks or I might change my mind.