Outings + Emergency Dance Time

Yesterday was fun.

We learned the beginning of Maximum which was kinda hard, but alright. Then we all went to eat dinner at a Korean restaurant. Still couldn't believe Kelvin's table were playing silent library, in a restaurant. Well actually that's not really that surprising. Afterwards we debated where to go next. Someone suggested to go to the Secret Room and though I've been once before, it was only to check it out. We got the sauna looking room which was actually big enough to hold all of us. To our luck they had a dancing game on the Wii. It was guys vs girls in a series of dance offs. The guys dominated. Afterwards some of us had to leave early and such.

The rest of us went to go to Meet Fresh and get some dessert. I got the taro balls. Once we got our food, some of us had to go home. The rest of us went to the playground near Darling Harbour. There was a giant slide there, and instead of doing the normal thing which would be going down the slide, we tried to see who could climb up the slide. It wasn't easy especially at the start. People did run ups only to fall straight away. Eventually me and Huy were the first to do it. Then I think everyone else did, but we relied mostly on our hands to climb. Jaye and I succeeded in climbing up the slide with no hands. Afterwards Ellyn saw no one was playing on the giant web thing that went really high. So we raced to the top. Ellyn who cheated with her experience in rock climbing was first. I made it up as well. Everyone else stayed at the middle of the web. I just remembered, earlier that day after finishing a phone call, I accidentally dropped my phone hard on the floor. Luckily it survived, it had the silicone case from SBS PopAsia, even though it was a face down collision. So imagine my surprise again, when I take out my phone while hanging on the top of the web, and drop it AGAIN. Cue epic yelling in despair. Luckily it survived without a scratch, well any noticeable ones at least.

Then there was the circle swing. It was a swing that swung in any direction and spin. It was incredibly dizzy going on that thing. I felt sick. Then more fun as we played on the flying fox. It was getting real late so I decided to leave. And as soon as I left it started to rain. Fortunately I had an umbrella.

Today was eventful.

Last night Jaye asked for people who were available to do an emergency performance for someone named Candy Lo's press conference. It sounded important so I agreed to go in the afternoon. I was also supposed to meet up with Tina and her friends for lunch. So I had to meet them up in formal attire, because since the other guys were going to the formal we might as well wear suits. But more excitingly,

SKYWARD SWORD IS FINALLY OUT

I picked it up from the store and couldn't wait to start playing. However emergency performance had to be put first so I then took the train to the City. Jaye was looking for Chinese or English covers of Kpop songs that we've done since Candy Lo was not Korean. And to our dismay pretty much every cover was terrible. I also saw a poster of this Candy Lo. Apparently she's Hong Kong's #1 pop artist and songwriter. Pressure much? Also I thought the girls were coming, but apparently they couldn't cause of the formal. So that left me, Jibbie, David and Kelvin. Just FOUR of us. We decided to go with Maximum and Before U Go. However less than an hour was not enough time to get Maximum performance worthy. So we just went with Before U Go. 

Unfortunateness struck when we arrived. The people there were still getting ready and everyone going to the formal was going to be late. We tried rushing them or we wouldn't dance at all. It kinda worked... Then Kelvin remembered that he was supposed to pick up flowers which he totally forgot so he had to leave pronto. So we cancelled on those guys. And I went all the way to the city for nothing. On the way home it was also peak hour, so the train was crazy packed. And when I got off my station, more unfortunateness struck. I left my keys at CO. Luckily I asked Jibbie and Jaye to find them for me so I wouldn't be so worried. The only problem now was if my mother notices that it's gone. 

However, none of that unfortunateness mattered. I got to play Skyward Sword and so far it's awesome. It came with a soundtrack done by a symphony orchestra and it's also awesome.

Too much writing, tomorrow I have a driving lesson at seven-freaking-thirty. Goodnight people.

Driving Time

Been a while since I last blogged even though there were some blogworthy stuff, which I now forgot most of. Let's see if I can remember.

Picked up a copy of MW3 last week. Before you start criticising my gaming taste, I got it by trading in one selected game at JB Hi Fi, in this case it was Batman Arkham City which I just finished and purchased for $70. Now the retail price for MW3 was $80 so I just made $10 PROFIT! It seemed like an awesome idea at the time. I've already finished the campaign. It was alright, not as bad as I thought. Multiplayer however... I'm an alright player, I'm very competent in supporting the team and such. However I am not the best so don't expect me to be able to summon any helicopters. Gladly it's there whenever I'm bored or want to play with friends. That is, until...

SKYWARD SWORD COMES OUT IN 3 DAYS!

stoked.

Sunday was fun, met up with fellow IJGK'd people, skipped out on lunch, took a last minute class of Infinite's Be Mine, went out to get ice cream, instead of a proper lunch, checked out the Heart2Heart workshop only to watch various videos of Rebecca Black and other viral videos instead. Also earlier Whitney didn't know what the word apocalypse meant. We all found it amusing hehe. Also Bec was being an alcoholic all day. Afterwards me and Huy went searching for suitable places to have dinner Wednesday night. I'd say it was a success. We also found various karaoke places. One place looked really cool. It had various posters of recent kpop idols and a poster advertising classes on kpop dance and singing. WHUT. Didn't look at the fine details, mainly cause they were in korean, but I feel like checking it out again.

Today was random. Yesterday I agreed to go help out at work with my parents. Then in the morning I'm told I have a driving lesson in the afternoon. Okay. So it's been a very long time since I've been behind a wheel. I kept messing up the hand over hand steering technique. Not only that the instructor physically forced my hands to do it right, while I was driving. It was very disorienting. My mum said that this person guarantees his students pass their exams, so guess I'll just stick with it till it happens. Least I'm making progress to my P's after all this time.

Speaking of Rebecca Black and the Apocalypse...

Kpop Time

So yesterday was one of the most eventful days of the year. At the start the weather was okay until the sun came out. It was so hot that day, not extremely bad but wearing dark jeans didn't help at all. I do agree with what Dan said about our performances feeling like a chore. Perhaps doing so many performances this year has taken its toll on us. There was definitely more excitement in some events such as the SM Town and the Crossover events than the others. Or maybe it had to do with the standard. For SM Town Gathering, we worked very hard cause we assumed that the other performers would be just as good. Yeah... and for the Crossover we knew that the audience would be comparing us to non kpop groups who were obviously good. Guess what I'm trying to say is we were up against young teens who weren't really that serious about entertaining people. No wonder it felt like a chore. Makes me wonder how we'll deal with the next event. It wouldn't be so bad if they made a dance contest out of it. At least then everyone would try step up their game and things won't be so dull.

Anyways enough rambling, performances were performed and we had some downtime before the concert. Or so I thought. We had a "special" visit from John Luc aka mychonny. I admit his videos are entertaining even if he acts stupidly annoying. But he's just doing what he enjoys which is making people laugh which I respect. If there's anyone to hate, it's the ridiculous hordes of fans who were beating each other up just to meet and take pictures of him. I found that really annoying and selfish to go that far to take a picture with him just to show off to their friends. I honestly don't think he does what he does for that kind of attention. I remember he even made a video about such fandom. To me he's an okay person, better than a certain dance coverer at least.

Later it was concert time and it was so awesome, there weren't really any dull moments. Well there were but they were completely overshadowed by the awesome ones. I was happy that TVXQ was last. Felt so much meaningful when Keep Your Head Down was the finale haha. Also B2ST was awesome like always, especially their intro dance. We should do something like that too one day.

Even though it ended pretty much on time, there was so much people we ended up waiting longer for it to die down. Overall the day was a great one. Looking forward to more adventures!

thanks Gracie for fancamming :)

I am vengeance. I am the night.

Finally finished the main story of Batman Arkham City. I must say how awesome it was especially up to the end. I didn't see that coming. Anyway now that that's done I'm pretty sure I won't be playing any more of it. Side quests are so lame.

Not sure if I should get Battlefield 3 or MW3, both seem like blockbuster movies and nothing more. I definitely want to play the latest Assassin's Creed game and see how the series ends. Above all else is probably Zelda: Skyward Sword. Adventure awaits in that game.

I know I said before Kingdom Hearts 2 was my most favourite game but the game that almost ties with it was Zelda: Twilight Princess. That game was the most epic thing I have ever played in my life. Not only did it look realistic, one of the bosses was a freaking dragon, which you fought in the sky. Enough said.

Almost finished watching all of season 2 of Adventure Time. I'm going to feel sad when I catch up to the latest episode. Speaking of catching up to latest episodes, the latest Naruto Shippuden episode is online in a few minutes. Yay more time to waste!

I watched some video on youtube called asdfmovie4, and the humour was awesome. After looking at more of the creators work, I found these. I'm adding him to the list of my favourite youtubers.

I want to go to this university now.

Rehearsal Time

So rehearsal was supposedly on at 3 today. I got to the city a bit before that so I could get something to eat and stuff. Apparently today was going to rain so I thought I'd get myself a new umbrella to replace my old one. Because it broke.

Then by chance I ran into some of the crew and we had a look at that shop that sells Asian media especially Kpop. And the name of the store always escapes me. Though today they were selling heaps of Kpop related stuff. Probably due to the concert coming up. But yeah there was so much stuff on display, like bags and light thing (though those were almost all gone) and other bootleg stuff. That B2ST slap band looked pretty cool. And to my thrill they also had legit merchandise though it wasn't awesome enough for me to want.

Went to CO, we practiced during class, getting most of the formations down. Blah blah. No spoilers thank you very much. Afterwards we went for food. I got ramen from the Japanese place we always go to. I sometimes wonder why they give a huge serving of bean sprouts. Do they expect me to eat it all? Last time I did I felt like I OD'd on some chemical. It didn't rain at all today, so I was disappointed that I didn't use my umbrella.

Anyways...

"I am going to rescue the babies from the fire. ONLY THE BABIES."

"I have pants! Spun by spiderwebs... by pixies."

Now to watch more Adventure Time.

Facebook Workshop Time

Trackworks again. I really don't like the huge inconvenience but then again who does? To those who say they do I am sending you to the closest mental asylum. Was late to practice today but it wasn't too bad. Jaye, after watching our attempt at doing Shock, immediately changed the kpop class to do Shock. Yep. Anyway I was sad that we didn't get to do Soom but that's okay, this was more important. I'd say progress was made.

Next was the Facebook Official workshop. I went and took it to make sure I wasn't missing out on something awesome. Don't be hating unless you try it. Surprisingly the routine was fairly difficult even if the whole thing is hilarious. I don't think I want to do it anymore, I just want to be the one making the MV as close to the original as possible. I find that much more fun. That includes close ups of them singing haha.

After that was a little bit more practice and we all went home. Due to mentioned trackworks I guess everyone was more inclined to head home early.

As you probably know, my new favourite show is Adventure Time. It reminds me of Spongebob Squarepants but much more random and exciting. And on a related note, I want a sword. But those are dangerous and illegal in public so I want a foam sword. Not those flimsy pirate swords, but one of these

It's hard and heavy like the real thing but doesn't have the ability to stab people. Unfortunately I have yet to come across these in a store in Australia but I did see Hobbyco selling a smaller version. So at least I know they're not totally banned here. All I can do is wait. Adventures are waiting. Adventures with monsters with vulnerability to foam weaponry.

The latest live action trailer of Modern Warfare 3 has Sam Worthington in it. As a fan of Sam Worthington and his awesomeness, I automatically like this.

Paper Craft Time

That is all.