Today I stayed indoors the whole time. There was absolutely no reason for me to go outdoors which was good. Although prepare for a short and most likely boring entry.
Anyways yes. Not leaving the house means not spending any money which is good. Speaking of money, my mother tells me to open up a bank account. She tells me to use ANZ but I'm not really knowledgable in banks. I'll get around to doing that... eventually.
A new episode of Adventure Time. Yes! Something to keep me busy during the day. I also played more KH. I'm starting to get used to Terra now. Now that he has more abilities he seems more faster and actually usable. Speaking of abilities, the command system is so weird. To get abilities I need to mix commands and mix in an item. I miss the days where they just give me abilities without being so strategic about it. So many abilities, so little time.
I also had my go at mixing the songs for audition so we could get the overall idea. I made the first version at like 5AM haha. The more I listened to It's War the more I believed that it was good. It's like the Before U Go to Why. And just like Before U Go it needs to have feeling and emotion for it to shine. I get the feeling this is going to be the new 'TVXQ' performance. In retrospect, the TVXQ mix was actually good. Weren't really any other mixes that were better. I think Only Maximum came close but War could maybe do it. Speaking of It's War, I learnt the 'canon' part. It wasn't hard at all. But yeah I need 4 people to do it for funsies.
Here's something for your boredom. I found the new YGO Abridged episode to be really good.
Got up at like 2pm today, I forgot what time I actually went to bed. I was playing BBS last night and I got stuck at one of the bosses. The giant wheel thing kept jumping around and every time he landed a hit I took massive damage. By the way I'm playing on Proud mode so that's probably why.
I decided to head out to Parramatta. I ended up at the library cause I felt like getting my literature on and start reading all of the Sherlock Holmes stories. Unfortunately all the books were already on loan. No surprise, given the recent movies of course people would develop the interest in reading them. So I made the decision to go to Dymocks and find the first novel. When I got there they mostly had compilations and stuff. I was going to buy the first novel (A Study in Scarlet) and get the rest later when I saw The Complete Sherlock Holmes A Luxury Edition. I pretty much fanboyed. It was then I knew this book would be the start of my collection of awesome looking books. I may have one or two already but this was super cool.
Shiny cause it's wrapped in plastic
After that I decided to go home and play more Kingdom Hearts. I realised that if I'm going to win in an RPG then I'm going to have to grind. Insert montage music! After a few minutes of fighting in the same room I proceeded to engage the boss. My hard work paid off. The boss did less damage to me so I hardly had to use any healing items. And easily enough I defeated him. Using Terra is difficult for me cause he's so slow compared to Sora and it's really hard to avoid getting hit. Usually with Sora my defence would be to land a hit before the enemy makes a move. But yeah Terra moves too slow and they attack me first. Guess I'm going to have to grind so I can take more hits.
No codes today, no one has solved my older ones so I might just stop.
Got up and took the train to city for some lunch at the Japanese place next to Capitol Square. I arrived there early and saw Jesslyn already there. Soon Huy arrived and I stood point waiting for others. I tried out this new walkie talkie app with Rebecca and yeah it was okay, I think the free "calls" is what makes it good. Soon everyone arrived and we had lunch.
We found out to our absolute dismay that the free ice cream only applied during dinner time. Regardless we still ended up eating. I ordered a bento box, the other guys on my table had ramen. Maybe I should've had ramen. Judging by the name of the place ramen would be their specialty. Next time then. The salad was really nice though. Then me Jibbie and Huy left first. Huy shouted us drinks at Starbucks.
We then arrived to Crossover where everyone was already there. David lent me his PSP with Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep. Thank you so much David! Meetings were had and we decided to make the switch to Warrior. I personally like Warrior because it's so strong and hardcore. I remember Dan writing in his blog that this song wouldn't suit IJGK. I'll have to agree on that one. If I may give an honest opinion (without sounding mean (yeah this is going to sound mean won't it? Damnit.)) I have low confidence that most of IJGK will be able to pull it off. We're clearly not the hardcore and power moves type of people. Not everyone has the physical abilities to give that same effect. Maybe I'm wrong though, no one will know until we all try. But remember when people said Cry Cry lacked energy? Yeah that's kinda what I mean.
Afterwards we all played Mario Kart cause we're so cool like that. Then afterwards we just chilled and danced a little at studio 3. Opportunities were also missed. Next time guys.
Then came dinner, we decided to eat Mappen. I found out that they were now selling Japanese sweets. I was very pleased. When we got to the train station me, Dan and David were having a cross platform chat with Bec. It was highly amusing, for us that is.
Now at home I think I'll be proceeding to play KH:BBS until I get tired. Oh crap I'm never going to sleep.
Not thinking about charity concert, I can't wait to do Warrior in class on Wednesday.
This morning I got up and had a decent breakfast cause you know, it was game day. After getting changed I proceeded to do something which I hardly ever do when I start the day which was stretching and warm ups. It was a really good way to get out of a sleepy state as well as decrease likelihood of muscle fatigue from sitting in the car too long (it happened to me quite a lot). Then just to be sure, I brewed myself some tea for that extra alertness.
My instructor arrived and I had a last minute practice before my test at 1:45pm. While waiting at the RTA I did a few more stretches after being in the car for that while because yeah, anything to help my cause I'll take. Then came the test. These days I never really get nervous or frightened. I kept telling myself that this was going to be easy and to smile and be cheery, cause it makes the tester think you're confident and hey it even convinces yourself of your confidence. When the tester got in the car I couldn't help but think of plan B (hahahah) Then our test had begun.
My instructor said the test usually lasts about half an hour, though I didn't check afterwards. Point was that it felt like forever. But all I had to do is just remember my practice runs of the course. Afterwards to my relief I was told that I passed. It felt really awesome. Then afterwards I had to wait for my license to be printed and unfortunately they messed it up two times which made me wait longer, but hey, the edge was off and I was feeling good.
Aww Yeah
Afterwards I came home and me and my family went to Star City to eat at that Japanese place I'm not that fond of because it's so not Asian and everything feels overpriced. (Doesn't matter, not my loss). I was actually going to give it a second chance because my dad booked for bar seats with the sushi chefs. Too bad when we got there they said there wasn't any free seats so they moved us to a regular table in a more secluded room. After ordering came the period where we just wait, talk and do whatever, I looked around and accidentally exchanged glances with another man at the table next to us. (how awkward haha) But then I realised, "hey that guy looks like Spiderman" and laughed. I told my brother and he thought so too. Then he told my dad and my dad was actually certain it was him. That's when we realised that we were sitting near Tobey Maguire himself.
I know you readers are going to say pics or it didn't happen. But yeah no pics. Sorry guys. I knew that if I went up to him it for a photo or anything it would cause a scene and things would probably end up most undesirable for him. And I didn't want to take a stalker photo either cause that would be paparazzi like and creepy.
After we finished eating my dad went and asked one of the workers if that guy was actually Tobey Maguire. They confirmed it but also told him to be quiet about it. They said that no one was able to recognise him hence him being able to eat in the public and the lack in security (there was one guard outside but was hardly noticeable). I totally feel proud about myself right now.
After that we went home and tomorrow is the start of IJGK's next project. Going to be working real hard. It's going to be strenuous I bet, but hopefully the end product will be worth that effort and we'll have some more good times along the way.
Never theorize before you have data. Invariably, you end up twisting facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts.
Another driving lesson today. I sort of did okay minus a few mistakes which I'm trying to prioritise in my head during the actual test, which is tomorrow. Speaking of which, my mother is actually telling me to fail my exam. Why? Because it means I finish my lessons and pay the final instalment. Apparently she dislikes the fact that I'm finishing so early with him, and wants to make the money last longer(?) Yeah that makes total sense. It doesn't matter really, I just want my Ps and get this over with. If I pass it probably means I don't need that extra time anyway. She told me this over the phone, and I could hear my brother being pissed off at her logic haha.
After I finished I was home alone and decided to get ready to go city so I could show Jibbie my Kpop albums and photo books for reference for a project. I also wanted to see who was free for lunch, only Elena was free, everyone else either had lunch already or were most likely busy. I felt like ramen at Menya cause it was cold so we went there.
Soon after we decided to hit Jibbie's place. I lent him some of my albums, one of them being Teen Top of course, then we proceeded to crash his place for a few hours. Jibbie was watching Korean dramas, Elena was sleeping and I was preparing for my drivers test. We all decided not to go to Crossover for class because we were lazy and thought no one would be there. Also I was still working on my book. We decided the three of us would have dinner at Pancakes. Then came the argument of whether eating at The Rocks or Darling Harbour. I totally voted for Darling Harbour cause you'd have to be insane to go all the way to The Rocks. Then I remembered that I left my umbrella at Crossover so it would be highly convenient of me to go pick it up on the way.
At the studio I reacquired my umbrella (thanks Kwan) but I also found that Kelvin, Bec and Huy were there too. Turns out they took that MBLAQ class. They were playing Mario Kart and we managed to catch up with them. Ellyn arrived too and we increased our party for the quest for dinner at Pancakes on the Rocks.
Dinner was had. I totally forgot to bring my DS's. I was certain I wouldn't need it today so I left them in my usual bag. Truly I have failed in preparing for all contingencies. It will never happen again. Had steak and tea. The steak didn't have any sauce. That kind of sucked.
Afterwards we hit the park and hung out for a bit. Dances were done and leaps of faith attempted. We decided to leave relatively early. I knew I had to since I have my test tomorrow.
I predict a 70% success rate on my exam. I hope I pass then I can finally start driving on my own. Though I technically don't have anywhere to drive to. I pretty much take the train for my travels. And I easily walk to the station. And if I fail guess it's back to square one. Best of luck to me. Speaking of trains...
So guys I've got an early start tomorrow and I've got some work to do so I'm going to make this entry as short as I can.
Though I was supposed to have my driver's class at 11am, I got a (wake-up) call from my instructor saying that he's coming over early. How early? He was going to be there in ten minutes. So I quickly rushed to get ready and had the smallest breakfast I could get, a banana and glass of water then I got picked up for class. However the instructor apparently came back from another lesson and he was driving a manual, so he drove us back to his place to change cars. At least I got some time to rest and get ready.
I got home at 2pm and I'm pretty sure I'm going to fail that exam. Hopefully my last lesson I can turn things around. I spent the rest of the day reading. After dinner I decided to go late night shopping in Parramatta. It was a while since I went to the shops and I really needed a replacement hoodie since these days were so cold and wet. There's this place that sells blank hoodies which are supposed to have custom prints on them, but I just buy them blank cause it's cheaper and it's hard to find nice looking hoodies. I also dropped by Game Traders where I saw they were having a Yu Gi Oh tournament. Classy.
Another driving lesson this morning. It was the longest time I drove at once I think. Three whole hours of driving, drilling common actions and whatnot. Apparently my Ps test is Saturday and I have to get as much preparation I can before then. So expect another training session on Thursday and Friday.
After I finished I hit the city to meet up with lunch buddies at Takeru. Elena got me a present, cake and caramellos, hooray for inside jokes! I totally did not see it coming, especially the distracting packaging. Then a surprise visitor came - Ellyn! Catch ups were had and food came. Kaisen don is like my most favourite dish they have. And the ramen is nice too. Afterwards we went to the studio and we checked out the new speakers. They were so cool. We tested it out with a song, you guessed it, Crazy.
In the end only crew people came for Bec and Whitney's class. There were other people who came and were thinking about doing class but I could tell that they probably wanted Jaye to be teaching, Bec and Whitney totally scared them away. Change was learnt and it turns out that it wasn't as easy as we thought it would be. And we didn't even do the whole thing. Makes me wonder when the next opportunity arises for learning the rest, cause you know... It's supposed to be a cover.
Afterwards was a meeting. We decided to do BEG's Sixth Sense. When I heard that Jaye wanted gender role switches, this came to mind.
The thumbnail pic says it all...
But then we decided to do normal roles. Well for now... just saying, I'm pretty sure we could make it that hilarious.
After we finished discussing, we all went to dinner. Dan and Huy figured out the secret. Which was too bad. I had clues and stuff I wanted to use. The secret wasn't that hard. Anyone could simply guess it. But yeah proving it is so much more fun. There were a bunch of people next to us. Apparently David Quach knew one of them so we tried our hardest to make them notice us. Wasn't that right David Quach? One of them was playing Pokemon and we were totally considering battling him but they left. Speaking of Pokemon, Whitney was asking Dan and only Dan about Pokemon. But yeah Whitney, to actually progress through the game, you have to actually beat people with the Pokemon you catch. I really hope we get to start soon, I don't even care if I have to play nuzlocke. I also wish there would be a common Pokemon game that all of us could play and we didn't have to worry about handicaps. It could be a learning process on how to be better.
Then we all went home and stuff. One of my favourite webcomics made the next part of their story in prose. Not only that, it has nine chapters. So I'll be spending part of my night doing that. Then I probably have to sleep early for my next lesson at 11am I believe.
Thanks again for the gift it was really thoughtful. The chocolates are delicious and not too sweet at all. Hope you get better soon. You too Jibbie!
