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Didn't blog last night because I was mindlessly playing Kingdom Hearts till 1AM.


Today I got up at 7:45AM because I was going to help Huy out with moving houses. I was about to get ready to take the train to Cabramatta when my dad said that I could take the car. It was very awkward but doesn't matter. I now had an efficient way to get to and from Huy's. This was also my first time driving long distance on my own. No pressure at all.


I arrived at Huy's old house in one piece and unexpectedly Huy wasn't there. I helped out by carrying heavy furniture into the truck. While doing so one of the edges of wood dug into my arm and left a small cut that bled a bit. What is with me and bleeding?! How lame. After filling the truck we travelled to Huy's new house to unload. David showed up and helped out. While we were unpacking the stuff into the new house, we noticed something of great significance, but I'll get to that later. 


After unpacking we went for a second round back to the old house and packed some more. Coming back to the new house Huy was there. We then proceeded to unpack even more and etc etc. We were surprised on the amount of stuff Huy had. Eventually we finished and it turns out that was only about 1PM. That's crazy cause it felt like forever! 


Huy was going to treat me and David to pub steak at ______. Saving fuel, we played rock paper scissors to see who was designated driver. Of all people, I was the one to do it. Thanks to Huy's back seat driving we arrived at the pub. And it turns out that I've been to this place many times, yet I never remember the name. Also the weather was really bipolar. First it's raining, then it's sunny and hot, then it rains again.

Driving mission results

Collisions: 0

Fatalities: 0

Success!

Bonus parking stage

time taken: forever.

Reverse parking was so much easier when I was in Ls. That doesn't even make sense. The food was really good. Afterwards I drove back to Huy's and dropped him off and dropped David to his car. I then proceeded to go home in time for dinner. Once I got home I found my brother playing Resident Evil. I then went on my bed and fell asleep until we had to go for dinner. 

Dinner was at Star City. I had steak again. Surprisingly I was able to eat the whole thing. My appetite must be improving. After that we walked around the place and then went back home.

Practice on tomorrow. Time to work hard. Apparently we only have this Sunday to the next for us to finish our audition tape. Going to go through the routine again thoroughly before I head to bed.

HUY'S ROOM IS PINK. PINK! IT'S LITERALLY THE ONLY ROOM IN THE ENTIRE HOUSE THAT'S PINK AND IT BELONGS TO HUY. DID I MENTION HIS ROOM WHERE HE SLEEPS IS THE COLOUR PINK?

Flaming garbage. What could possibly go wrong?

Dreams. People say dreams represent your innermost thoughts. Based on last night's dream, I certainly hope not.

Today was another one of those days where I stay home and do whatever. I decided to start the day doing exercise. By the end I made my back go sore, still not sure how that happened. Oh well, it'll probably go away by tomorrow.

When my mother came home after picking up my brother, she asked me to get some milk from the corner shop. I asked if I could drive and she said that I could. So exciting, I get to drive my mother's car which is the first time I get to drive a 4WD. Oh how technology has evolved. The handbrake is a switch! Also note to self, get magnetic plates. Reason so is that you don't end up covering one of the crash sensors with your plate. Every time I drove slowly the car would beep and warn me that I'm going to hit the area that my plate was placed. Anyways I got the milk and returned home.

Results

Number of crashes: 0

Number of deaths: 0

Mission Success!

I played more KH at home. I managed to finish 3 worlds in one play through. Now I'm about to go to Never Land.

Holy crap two new episodes of Naruto Shippuden today. I know what I'll be doing tonight. Speaking of nights. Nights are quite interesting. Looking up old TV show opening themes and such. It was agreed that Digimon Frontier had a good theme song. A rarity in english dubs.

I also looked up my favourite live action TV show, Power Rangers. Their early theme songs were incredibly laughable. Power Rangers In Space was by far the most ridiculous.

We get it. They're in SPACE.

Lightspeed Rescue was actually one of the first themes that I liked from the franchise.

Power Rangers Time Force was the most trippy one. The theme song was really trippy. Also everyone on that show felt really out of place. Reminds me of those old movies that are so bad that it's funny.

WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?

The rest of the series was meh until Dino Thunder. I actually liked it cause it reminds me of the first Power Ranger series.

Theme song is nice too.

Woah wait. Dr Tommy Oliver? Tommy as in the green/white ranger in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ends up getting a PhD in Palaeontology? Not bad for someone who had to fight monsters all the time while studying. Not only is he a doctor in the show...

awesome moment when your childhood comes back

That's enough for today. Time to watch Naruto.

What's your A?

We look to the past, as we head for the future to reclaim the digital world. With faith in ourselves and trust in each other, we live by the lessons we've learned.

Today was a good day. Woke up to find messages from Kelvin on my phone. Clearly bored at the museum (haha). Today we were supposed to do a photo-shoot mainly for profile purposes. So I had to pack my camera into my bag. I also wanted to put the Warrior mp3 into my phone so I could listen on the way to city.

I got to city just in time for lunch with Huy, Elena, Jibbie (then later) Angeline at Cya Cafe. Hot metal pots were hot and I managed to spill some of my green tea on the table. Silly me. After food was had Huy and I wanted to check out the new Japanese and Korean restaurant next to the cafe. When we got there we saw Shock being played on the TV. I like this place already. There was an upstairs and we decided to check it out. Surprisingly I found a lady that I knew from the Market City Japanese place in the food court. I used to go there all the time in my UTS days. Apparently she now opened up this place and I'm guessing is going to work there from now on. She's really kind, like a typical Korean mother (haha). She told me that I can book the table at the top floor whenever I wanted, which was nice. Should totally go there one of these days.

So afterwards we headed to the studio where we started setting up for our photo-shoot. The only place we could find that was decorative and decently lighted was the graffiti wall in studio 3. Since our performance is gangsta related, it was a justified choice. The whole thing went smoothly. Now we need two more people and a group shot. But now that we got most of the individuals down already, there's less stress down the line.

The Warrior class was awesome. Luckily I had the mp3 on me cause Jaye didn't have it. By the end I was sweating a lot and out of breath but it was so worth it. It was fun working out the fight choreography with Huy.

Meeting was had afterwards. That's about it. Nothing too important was talked about.

Dinner Time. We decided to go to Eating World. On the way some wanted to get Chatime. While I was there I decided to go get a copy of B.A.P's first single. Mainly because I like the song and I wanted to support the rookie group and their hard work. A guy had their arm on fire. I can't help NOT buying their album. Then I got Chatime as well because the drink I normally buy at Eating World is never enough to satisfy my thirst after a hearty meal. However when we got there it was packed so we opted to go to Sussex Centre. I however really wanted the ramen at Gumshara so I got take away. Good thing too. I found out that the Japanese place at Sussex was closed, and perhaps closed for good. I was sad. Lucky I got ramen from Eating World because I would have literally no idea what to eat at Sussex. Talks about performance were had. Apparently I have a 'solo' where I do a handstand. That's not much of a solo though.

After dinner we headed home. On the way we saw a clothes store that totally fit the bill for our costumes. We had a look around. Then the guy at the counter started playing B.A.P's Warrior MV on the TV. We were like "woah such a coincidence". The bigger surprise is when he said that he was the brother of one of the members of B.A.P. That was really cool. I showed him the copy of Warrior that I bought earlier and he was impressed, given that the band is fairly recent. We talked about how we were going to be doing his brother's dance. We should probably plan to get something from that store. I'm already thinking about masks and maybe a jacket.

Everyone went home except me because I went to Jibbies place first so I could give him the photos. Good luck with them Jibbie! After that I went home.

Walking home, I got a phone call from my mother asking me to pick up my brother from school. My first time driving as a P plater! At night! On a road I'm not that familiar with! Naturally I asked my dad to accompany me this time so he could give me advice. I'm not used to driving with a purpose but I think I'll get the hang of it. They key is to remember the roads and where everything is.

Listening to the Warrior album. It's good though too bad that there's only four songs. My iTunes doesn't show the album cause it's too short

Firstworldproblems

In the safety of home

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.

Just another manic Monday

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.

Repeat if desired

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.

Laters.


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Level Up

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.

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