HAPPY (Theoretical) NEW YEAR!!!

Yes you heard right. Today at midnight, it isn't really a new year. Heck how could we have a new year in China while we still have an old year? It seems purposeless to base the whole year system off a rather irregular 365 and 1/4 days in the middle of a very cold and bland winter. Why not at the start of Spring, or a new Lunar year like Chinese New Year? How the heck did the new year get stuck int eh middle of a cold and annoying winter?
It MUST be the Europeans again.
Heck they get months named off of them. And it follows right after Christmas, a holiday started probably by the Europeans (Though Israel is located in the Middle East...). Furthermore, year 2004? Of what, some girl or something. Again, its based off of the Europeans. WHY DO THE EUROPEANS TAKE OVER THE WORLD?!?! WHY AM I SPEAKING ENGLISH???? WHY COULDN'T THE WORLD SPEAK CHINESE!!!
Wait, but then most of the ppl in the world do speak Chinese... >.> <.< But they all live in China of course. :P
Resolutions. Who ever made that up? And why do we have to come up with new ones every year? don't we just say the same resolutions over again every year? Bah. My resolutions this year are to finish these assignments for Christmas Break:

Internal Assessment
ToK Presentation
ToK Notecard?
ToK Philosophy Essay!!!
Review Sheet- (at least Plot before Winter Break Ends)


Community Service... I'm doomed, I'm going to drop out of NHS. Not like anyone cares.

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE :P

Irony at its Best

TheMysteriousBox: it'll never get finished, your RP :P
pokemasterrj: Des is a major part of things in general, so that's why I need her. Naoki's there for fun, but one of the PokéGirls loves her (and admits it at Thanksgiving). As for Mathias...well, he's got a major role in what happens next in the RPs (after the holiday season).
pokemasterrj: Anyway, it's nice to get the answers from the guy who made the characters himself. He knows what they should be thinking
pokemasterrj: Also the real-time interaction can lead to some rather interesting things said
pokemasterrj: I think I'm going to hit the sack. I'm dead tired...
TheMysteriousBox: wait!
TheMysteriousBox: santa!!!!
pokemasterrj: ...?
pokemasterrj: Deluded little cube, aren't you?

And he calls ME deluded. XD Anyway, you'd have to understand PMA to understand this. But those who do understand him.... what do you think? :D

Now, when an Arcadia High School Student tells you to watch TV, that's... that's...

TheMysteriousBox: I'm looking at random school's websites
TheMysteriousBox: http://www.apl-park.k12.ia.us/aphspage.php
TheMysteriousBox: this school has a total enrollment of 216 kids. :-)
scTRojanmICKeY: you're really bored
scTRojanmICKeY: go watch smallville

Meet our Future Band. :o

SongstressLenne9: let's start a band!
TheMysteriousBox: eer ok...
SongstressLenne9: yeah
SongstressLenne9: you can play piano
SongstressLenne9: and uh...
SongstressLenne9: i need to steal my flute back
SongstressLenne9: and hmm
SongstressLenne9: and we can do instrumentals of anime music?
TheMysteriousBox: someone needs to be a violinist
TheMysteriousBox: Violins are essential. :P
SongstressLenne9: fei
TheMysteriousBox: Eternal Snow is such a great Christmas song. :P
SongstressLenne9: fei or catherine
SongstressLenne9: who else can we kidnap?
TheMysteriousBox: fei would be better. :P
TheMysteriousBox: drums drums
TheMysteriousBox: of course we need drums
SongstressLenne9: we'll improvise
SongstressLenne9: i have a keyboard
TheMysteriousBox: ...
SongstressLenne9: any drum sounds, you can make w/ that
TheMysteriousBox: but I only have 2 hands
TheMysteriousBox: lets ask Ate
TheMysteriousBox: ah well.
TheMysteriousBox: so you can come tomorrow?
SongstressLenne9: make a beat
SongstressLenne9: then
SongstressLenne9: save i
SongstressLenne9: it*
SongstressLenne9: ok
SongstressLenne9: ate can play drums
SongstressLenne9: does he have a drumset?
TheMysteriousBox: yea he has a drumset
TheMysteriousBox: at lesat, the last time I went to his house he did
SongstressLenne9: fun!
SongstressLenne9: :p
SongstressLenne9: so what will adam do?
TheMysteriousBox: eer
SongstressLenne9: he can just be an annoying fan
SongstressLenne9: or he can play the sitar!
TheMysteriousBox: OUR MASCOT!
SongstressLenne9: that would scare people away
TheMysteriousBox: hmm.

Christmas Cheer

So. Christmas time rolls along, and everyone is happy giving out gifts. Though I wonder ("NOOOO") why should we celebrate Christmas? I for one am not religious. Neither is my family. So why does everyone go around handing out gifts to this holiday they don't really celebrate? This brings me to the topic of seriousness in religion. My stand upon religion shall go upon as "No comment", however, I do respect those who are ardently religious, yet not so fanatical that they'll go around killing the rest that aren't part of their religion. In particular, though, I don't respect those who are partially religious, ie those who say "All you need to do is believe in God to goto heaven!" Those type of ppl usually frustrate me the most.
Anyway, now to make myself look like a complete hypocrite, our family still celebrates Christmas. And friends still give us presents. And gosh darnit, you really do feel bad if someone gives you a gift and you don't give one back, even if it is only part of their tradition.
-_-
So how should I say this? I don't wanna celebrate Christmas, but everyone else does, so I suppose I have to. :/ In times like these it can calm your mind down a lot if you really do have a set religion like Christianity.

Or if you have Bhuddism and still celebrate Christmas, things can really be confusing. @.@
In any case. At least its only Christmas. I pretty much forget about Easter and any other religious holiday is completely not with me. However, I feel highly hypocritical for celebrating Christmas, even if it is just putting up Christmas lights and exchanging gifts. -_-

My statement? If you want to do something, please do it with your heart all into it; half-hearted people are quite... irritating.

Guai- Oh shut up and just go play Gunbound.
Engi- Yes, you think too much about it. Think of Christmas more of a family gathering type holiday rather a religious one.
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Merry Christmas. :P

RE: HARVEY MUDD

DAMMIT THIS COLLEGE IS SO FRUSTRATING!!!! I REALLY WANT TO APPLY TO THIS COLLEGE BUT DAMN I HATE THEIR COLLEGE APPLICATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!

Alright Alright. Today a letter arrived in the mail and it for some reason says that I already sent in my application, only I don't have my Essays, SATs, Recommendations, etc. OF COURSE I DON'T HAVE THEM YET THE APPLICATION DUE DATE IS JANUARY 15TH!!!! I ONLY SENT IN THE FIRST PORTION WITH THE 50 BUCKS BECAUSE THE SITE WON'T LET ME ACCESS THE REST OF THE SITE IF I DIDN'T!!!!
Alright, Alright. Hopefully, I can call the Admissions office on Monday and ask what the heck is going on. and HOPEFULLY it won't be too late by then.
Argh. I hate College Applications. Beautiful way of starting off my Winter Vacation. Ah, some Gunbound...

Winter Break

Tis really a break... or tis really a break? From my schedule, it doesn't seem like it. For future reference and to show what a real break (in the neck) it'll be, here's a list of things I must do:
College Essays for Harvey Mudd (x2) and Georgia Tech
College Applications to Fill Out... oh what a pain
Hamlet.... I would choose "not to be"... reading it
Internal Assessment for Global. (I HATE GLOBAL. BTW Everything above I hope to finish by the first weekend of Winter Break. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA XD)
ToK Presentation (To make our school look bad... appropriately enough)
ToK: Chinese Philosophy and Mad Teachers (Yea yea yea read read read)
Math Portfolio (Looks intimidating.)
Community Service for NHS (GAH!!!! DIIIIIIIIIIEEEE)
Science Bowl meetings (Meh.)
Aight Aight. That means tons of work to do and no time to rest. I must get to it! ...Bah! Humbug!
-Thomas

Don't worry, I'll probably end up procrastinating anyway. :P -Guai

Gunbound

Over here: www.gunbound.net
Well Well. Its a rather simple game for over the internet playing, but very funny. Graphics are great, way better than the actual gameplay, but hey with the ability to become little chibi characters, what's there to lose? Not much fun to play alone, but really fun to play with friends. ~_^ So join! That way we can shoot more people!!
-Guai
Yea I know, I should be doing the excessive amount of college applications I need to do. Along with some random schoolwork.

Hmm.

Eeh. Today is the last day that I can take SATs for colleges. I'm quite disappointed though. I did incredibly horrendous on my SAT Math IIC... now THIS is bad, considering how much of a math person I am and how this portrays me quite in the wrong light in the whole scheme of things. In complete honesty, I am completely crushed and I truly feel I can no longer get to the main college I was aiming for (Harvey Mudd). Since half the app is done anyway, and I already paid 50 bucks, I'll turn in an app, even do an interview. But no physics, a extremely lousy SAT II Math IIC score...
My best hope is to transfer while I'm at another college next year, perhaps USC. I probably deserved it anyway, since I think I was being overconfident by not studying.

Three posts in a day. Is this insane or what?

Meh, I have a random thought to bring out.
Love is very... interesting thing. No, I did not fall in love, I was just reading my friend's melo thingy and his overemotional statements. One thing I keenly observed was that he constantly told of how love ruined him, yet now he apparently has a new girlfriend or something. This is very curious for me. How can something so painful and affecting of him (I know his grades, they aren't so great) be something he continues to yearn for? Perhaps it is something like drugs. I suppose so.
Though, one thing I fear is what if this happens to me. And furthermore, if "love" does not go through, will I be able to live on? Alas, the best thing to do is hope I never have to deal with this, or at the very most, deal with it only with my family. >.> You can't really break up with a sister though, can you? ^-^
Emotion seems to express very negative side effects. I wonder... how much better can humanity be without emotion? At the very least, to strip down emotion... without side effects, of course. Not like modern day anti-depressents. Hmm. I feel sorry for people like my friend, though I wonder if I should.

Gotta know RPGs to understand...

TheMysteriousBox: hey hey join another RPG with me so I won't feel alone
ProfJbWolf: The Devided?
TheMysteriousBox: ya
TheMysteriousBox: did you see my signup? :D
ProfJbWolf: Future seeing Chicken
TheMysteriousBox: yea I wouldn't have joined it if I hadn't thought, "wow wouldn't it be cool if I were a chicken"
TheMysteriousBox: YOU CAN BE A DUCK!!!
TheMysteriousBox: LEGENDARY DUCK WARRIOR
ProfJbWolf: Umm...I'll be normal...

Sal2 reveals that he's just human like us

TheMysteriousBox: have you ever contemplated on your own stupidity?
TheMysteriousBox: oh yea yes you have
Numberonemole: No
TheMysteriousBox: with girls :P
Numberonemole: No no no
Numberonemole: That not stupid..that just...
Numberonemole: Male..ness..
TheMysteriousBox: you must acknowledge, that's one sign of stupidity in your field. :P
TheMysteriousBox: male = human
TheMysteriousBox: human = stupid
Numberonemole: Teenage male=non-human
TheMysteriousBox: but teenage male=stupid still
Numberonemole: I just never contemplate my own stupidity
TheMysteriousBox: the whole process of reproduction, phermones and attraction to the opposite gender is humanity
TheMysteriousBox: and its primitiveness
TheMysteriousBox: alright perhaps you never contemplated. just acknowledge then? :P
Numberonemole: Primitive, but enjoyable, or so I've been told by others.
TheMysteriousBox: others who are stupid. :P
Numberonemole: Acknowledge..no...accept I can improve, yes.
TheMysteriousBox: you're in denial. :P
Numberonemole: I never said I wasn't stupid sometimes, I just don't contemplate it.
TheMysteriousBox: then acknowledge that you have stupid times just as other humans do. :P
Numberonemole: I accept I can improve on myself.
TheMysteriousBox: I will take that as "yes I'm stupid sometimees"

Fillers to Tears: Commentary on Full Moon Wo Sagashite (Part I)

I'm neglecting to do my English review sheet to do an analysis of FMWS and how the plotline with its fillers is indeed effective towards the watcher. Oh dear, look what English has done to me. There are most likely spoilers, so those who are in the process of watching FMWS or have not yet and intend to do so should not read.
FMWS has been said to have a rather lousy and cliche plotline, particularily because of all the fillers it has in between its main plotline. Yet it is because of these 40 episodes of interchange between somewhat related to the plotline and a completely pointless filler that episodes 42 to 46 (around? somewhere around there) are so effective. In essence, it is because we already watched 20 hours of Mitsuki saying "I love you Eichi" that it comes to us as an emotional shock once we get to episode 40 that we find out Eichi is dead. Indeed, it certainly could have been predicted, yet still it provides a great shock of emotion and remorse to see this 12 year old girl so hopefully singing through her way of troubles only to discover that the one thing she aims for most... is not there. Even though many have been through about 25 episodes of filler that has nothing to do with the plot but only about Mitsuki's life: some that are interesting and fun to watch, others that are not as great but expected as this is a child's TV show, and others which are just plain stupid and pointless (Shinigami Rock?!?!?). All these fillers of seemingly happy times where Mitsuki is able to triumph through tragedy... shattered in one blow, Episode 42, when all that hope of trying to see her one true love has proven to be a disaster. Thus, fillers play a crucial role in providing to the watcher "eye candy" (pardon the phrase if it has any secret meaning) and nice music to go along with it until the shocking truth behind Eichi is revealed. Because if anyone really thinks about it, if they only had about 5 episodes where she becomes a star and goes to visit Eichi and finds out he's dead, its emotional, but not really to extent to someone feeling emotionally unstable for a whole weekend. However, because there was so much buildup from filler episodes and episodes in relation to the plotline alike, that it can cause so much emotion to stir up within the watcher. There is foreshadowing to this event in around episode 17 where Mitsuki seems as if she was about to die; already we have had so much experience Mitsuki and her happy life, and for her to just die right there would be quite tragic... of course, we could never see how much of an emotional impact the Eichi dilemma would have been back then.
Furthermore, the note that Eichi writes further adds pathos to the mood of the watcher; I just think of that letter and am immediately moved. Additionally, Eichi's deathleads to Mitsuki directing her childish attention to Takuto, which in turn leads to the effect of the major Theme in FMWS: Hope. This will be discussed later when I'm in the middle of writing my english Review Sheet again and am overtaken by a chance to BS some commentary on an anime that never should have deserved any. 'Tis sad really... Its as if English has forever corrupted the way I view entertainment these days...

Hmmm Problem

I think I fixed it.

SAL2's HAS A LOW POINT IN HIS EVILNESS

TheMysteriousBox: your skill, thirst for violence and powerhungryness really suits the politican
Numberonemole: Lets say you have 2 groups...The Dancers and The Runners
TheMysteriousBox: becomes a revolutionary
TheMysteriousBox: start the next wave of... Salism
TheMysteriousBox: because for you to be in science... :/ I think you're a little to concerned about taking over the world than to concentrate on your work
Numberonemole: I perfer not polotics, but trying to use peoples stupidy against them
TheMysteriousBox: hello lawyers
TheMysteriousBox: "I SUE YOU BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T SAY I'LL GET FAT AT MCDONALDS
Numberonemole: That is to low of an evil, even for me
TheMysteriousBox: EVEN THOUGH IT SAYS ON THE LABEL 100 G OF FAT"
TheMysteriousBox: :o Sal2 has a low?
Numberonemole: Yes..lawyars

A case of severe immunal response to a uninvited pathogen

I was sick this weekend.

Apparently, I get sick at social events. Literally. First time, in some counterstike online gaming place, I got sick and nearly vomited. This weekend I was sick... Homecoming weekend. not that it really mattered, wasn't going anyway, but...-Guai
Gosh DARNIT did a lot of time go down the drain for my recovery. I could have finished a great deal of work if I wasn't sick. College Applications, english work, bio studying... all the things which I planned this weekend, all unfinished. What a real problem. -Thomas
However, I'm not all too disappointed at the inopportune timing of my sickness. In fact, being sick right now... actually isn't that bad compared to being sick at a test day or a regular school day for that matter. Sure, now I have to make up a bunch of work, but nevertheless, I can still do it without having severe "dang I should drop IB Diploma now" problems. Also, by being sick I am once again reminded that I should not be too technical and reasoning at all things by actually experiencing sickness again... the pain and agony of being sick, its only part of being human, thus I need it to be less... desensitized. Speaking of agony, I realize after being burning and dried up inside my bed while it was raining outside that dying by fire would be really quite painful. Not like drowning would be much better. My #1 preference is still Carbon Monoxide; From what I've heard, you die by falling asleep! Of course, no one actually came back from the dead and said that, but hey, the scientists said that. >.> <.< -Engi
Should start on math now... Ya know, you didn't get any piano done over this weekend. -Thomas
I know... -_-.... -Engi

For Better or Worse

"I once complained about not having shoes until I saw a man that had no feet." -Arab Proverb. (Or something similar to that)

Its interesting how I view life all the time: I always look at how Arcadia High School is better than here, how that chess player is better than me, how they can play the piano better than I can... I never look at material items, but nevertheless, the same point can still be made. I never really contemplated that I could have been stuck at a gang sort of school or with no education at all; that I may have been stuck farming in the Cultural Revolution rather than sitting at home playing chess; that I even know what a Piano is. I am in fact very grateful that I can know all this.
Then again, to get to where I am, my parents had to look at a situation better than theirs and do stuff about it. Same goes for here I guess: I have to look at who's playing better than me, and learn from him.
So... be happy with what you have, but look at other people happier than you so you can humble yourself and try to be like them. ok then. -???

Work Overload

College Applications, School Homework, Science Bowl, and Panel Testing for Piano... I have quite a bunch of things to do. In fact, I should be doing these thigns right now!!! GO GO GO!!! -Thomas.
....
...
No. I'm busy playing chess. :P -Guai
-_-;;- Thomas.

Alright enough with the inner voices. I'm finished with my 4000 word lab! YIPEE!!! Well, kind of. First, I still need references and an abstract. -_- then, I still have over the word limit, EVEN THOUGH I already reduced it by like, a bunch. -__- ah well. Lets handle stress one at a time right?
Thomas: You still have your college applications.
SHUT UP ALREADY!! ONTO CHESS!!!!
Engi: Hey you're not done with Piano lessons yet!
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Guai: Argh.

*goes to... do something, depends on which of the three win the fight in my head*

I like this author

My sister was browsing an author of her book's website and then had to goto sleep. She left this on my computer; I read some if it.

...Nice. ~_^

check out the part about geeks. :D
-???

I should be doing work...

Lalala. So much work these days, its like, I finish something and they immediately give me something twice that amount to do for the next day. :/ So needless to say, this rather unviewed blog had been unupdated. So what's going on? Well... I lost 4 chess games in the last two days. -_- Haven't been too lucky these days eh?
Gonna go on an Anime hiatus... not quitting, just waiting until there's time to watch them all at one time.
Oh! Mathology and Mathophysics! These are awesome subjects! Well, actually, just Mathology. Lets just say this. I see myself as a Mathologist, while I see practically everyone else in my class as Mathophysists. AND BEST OF ALL, IT EXPLAINS THE ENIGMA OF WHY I DON'T LIKE PHYSICS BUT LOVE MATH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! HURRAY MATHOLOGY!!!!!!!!!!!!
i'll comment more when I find time to write and think. :P -Thomas

Ramblings.

TheMysteriousBox: you should dress up as a chibi anime character for halloween
SongstressLenne9: really weird o.O
TheMysteriousBox: everyone would be so convinced.
SongstressLenne9: nah
SongstressLenne9: going as sadako
TheMysteriousBox: >.> who's dat
SongstressLenne9: cuz i'm pissed off and i wanna kill everyone
SongstressLenne9: her name is "samara" in the american remake
TheMysteriousBox: ...
TheMysteriousBox: that doesn't help
SongstressLenne9: sadako is my role model!
TheMysteriousBox: oh is that in the ring movie thingy?
SongstressLenne9: sigh sigh
SongstressLenne9: i shall find a site for you
SongstressLenne9: correcto!
TheMysteriousBox: YOU'D BE A CHIBI RING GIRL!!!
TheMysteriousBox: we'd all see you as scary, but... a miniature scary
SongstressLenne9: heck yeah
SongstressLenne9: nah
SongstressLenne9: i can really scare people
TheMysteriousBox: so instead of us running for our lives, we're like... "Ah! oh wait, its too small."
SongstressLenne9: like
SongstressLenne9: on the first football game
SongstressLenne9: i went w/ the ban
SongstressLenne9: band*
SongstressLenne9: and in the band room
SongstressLenne9: i showed my friend my "ring crawl"
SongstressLenne9: and she got scared
SongstressLenne9: and my other friend nearly tripped over me
SongstressLenne9: while screaming
SongstressLenne9: XD
TheMysteriousBox: *is unaffected because he has never watched the ring* :P
SongstressLenne9: =-O
SongstressLenne9: i must let you borrow it!
TheMysteriousBox: but boy you can scare adam out of it
SongstressLenne9: chinese subs
SongstressLenne9: do you mind?
TheMysteriousBox: just crawl out of his computer screen
TheMysteriousBox: man that would be so funny
SongstressLenne9: why?
SongstressLenne9: LOL
SongstressLenne9: ah hahahaha
TheMysteriousBox: he hates things coming out of computers and stuff
SongstressLenne9: you should see the fan art at this one site
SongstressLenne9: it has sadako coming out of a gameboy color
TheMysteriousBox: like circuits and taking over his brain or something
SongstressLenne9: http://ringworld.somrux.com/index.htm
SongstressLenne9: best ring site in the world!
TheMysteriousBox: -_-
TheMysteriousBox: horrors aren't really my thing anyway.
SongstressLenne9: he should read this one book by dean koontz then
SongstressLenne9: forgot what it was called
SongstressLenne9: oh yeah
TheMysteriousBox: He's afraid of chii. -_-
SongstressLenne9: i think it's called midnight
SongstressLenne9: really scary
TheMysteriousBox: I'm going to try and go into a profession in neurology and the study of a "smart" computer
TheMysteriousBox: then I can REALLy scare him >=)
SongstressLenne9: ah hahahah
SongstressLenne9: go for it!
SongstressLenne9: cool cool!
SongstressLenne9: i can even be a scary lab assistant!
TheMysteriousBox: Reunion >> "Hey Adam wanna see my latest experiement?" *takes out a mouse with a whole bunch of wires connected to his brain along with a monitor screen right on top of him*
SongstressLenne9: LOL
SongstressLenne9: i can SO see that happening
TheMysteriousBox: "I think I'll test on humans next! But I need a specimen.... hmmm..." *stares at Adam*
SongstressLenne9: adam: *gone!*
TheMysteriousBox: that would be so much fun!
SongstressLenne9: iiiiiiiiiiii know
SongstressLenne9: and then while he's running away, he'll trip on me on accident
SongstressLenne9: cuz i'm so small
TheMysteriousBox: ooo nono
SongstressLenne9: and then
SongstressLenne9: camera zooms in on his terrified face
SongstressLenne9: while he screams
SongstressLenne9: adam: NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
TheMysteriousBox: by then there would be holograms
TheMysteriousBox: and you'll have yourself pop out of the little mouse monitor
SongstressLenne9: LOL
SongstressLenne9: dang...making fun of adam is fun
SongstressLenne9: that's so mean though...
TheMysteriousBox: you can be like "Adam... coooommmmeee wiiiiith meeeee"
SongstressLenne9: but it's just so fun
SongstressLenne9: j0i|\| 7|-|3 1337 4|2|\/|-/ 0f c0|\/|pu73|25!
TheMysteriousBox: "Isn't that neat? I programed Helga's brain into this computer!"
SongstressLenne9: LMAO
TheMysteriousBox: "The real helga? Um... well... you know... somewhere on the lab... she kinda failed on our first experiment, so we're looking for new specimens..."
SongstressLenne9: hahahahahah

Music & Math

"May not Music be described as the Mathematics of sense, and Mathematics as the Music of reason?"
- J. J. Sylvester

Wow. This is an incredible quote, and you have no idea how much I think this quote applies to me. First off, on surface areas, I can see how Math and Music relate. When looking at notes, they are divided into fractions, even using fractional terms. I often make errors in math, and I do that in music while playing also. (Ok, that's not exactly good but...) Indeed, if it weren't for the difference in emotion and reason, Math and Music might as well be the same thing.
However, They're not, but they still can fall into the same category only with different ways of knowing. Amazing isn't it, how they can be so similar but different from this "way of knowing"? When I play the piano, I must feel emotionally into it in order to play it correctly. When I do math, I must think logically in order to work it out correctly. Its amazing, I don't know why I didn't think of the two relating to each other more other than a superficial view.
>.> Music is becoming a really big part in life, isn't it? What's next? Music and Science? Music and History?

Probably not as farfetched as it may sound. :P
O yea. Chess interviews. Haha, I'll get to that.
- Engi & Thomas, the line which borders and connects the two sides.

Pleasure, Money, and Family

Here is a very problematic dilemma that I face with anime and music... perhaps the only materialistic "wants" in my life. (Ok, so internet counts too, but that comes along with references, communication, and a whole lot of other things) What I'm talking about is the legitimacy of downloading music and anime. And this is exactly my point of view from it. -Guai
First off, I do not want to cause any company any "harm" by deliberately downloading anime and not buying their material. I believe that people have a right to earn money from the things they made, and to just take them for free is rather not nice. However, this is a hypocritical statement; if I believe its that wrong, why do I still download anime and music? Granted, they're from a foriegn country, but hey, there are places like yesasia.com where I can buy them legit. I could use the "I don't have the money" excuse, but in reality, I could just ask my parents like everyone else does. In fact, my parents consider me as too conservative, not wanting to spend or squander any money if its not worth it. -Thomas
But it is exactly my family that is on the other balance against morality of supporting the businesses. Either its supporting my family buy respecting and not spending any money, or giving business an honest deal. I am extremely against spending my parent's money because they already spend so much money just raising me, without the extra "wants". I really want to support them as much as I can to show my gratitude. -Engi
If it is possible, I would adjust the chemical makeup in my brain to forget about these materialistic pleasures If I could. It would save so much trouble. But alas, these three sides continue to fight because of this, and I feel like I'm in a mess.
Thank you for listening to my boring rant. If you didn't read it at all, :P.

Sal2 and Horses.

*chess game*
TMB: Stupid Horse?
Sal2: No.
Sal2: Considering options.
...
TMB: Stupid horse?
Sal2: I hate knights.

Ok, so it wasn't that funny. But I thought it was. XD

Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien

Hmmm... another lovey dovey anime, only this one's actually serious. :/ Well I have to tell you, the animation does look very nice. I think the characters are nicely drawn... but well... I guess Love stories aren't my type. It could be tha because I never experienced anything like that kinda stuff before so I wouldn't know, but then again this is very cliche, predictable, and boring.
...
I'm probably going to drop it. :o.
-??? (I'll get him a name soon! I promise!)

Gunslinger Girls

Ah, this is a pretty good anime. Violent, but anime violence somehow is much milder than realistic movie violence, so it seems fine with me. A Mafia anime, which is something new (they're actually using Italian!), but what's more intriguing is the concept of their brainwashing, which, strangely enough, coincides nearly directly with my recent theory on whether the human mind is simple enough to be (sometime in the future) controlled my machines. Already I've been thinking it through, and apparently in Biopsychology, there are sections of the brain which control different functions... if it is possible to figure out how these sections work, it just may be possible to create an artificial device to control involantary junctions, like nerve recepting (pain), hormone distribution (emotion), and muscle control around places such as lungs and stomach. If that were possible... what would the possiblities be?
...Some people would see a character I've made: Ruby.
In any case, its been lingering in my mind. If I get it developed enough, I might post a little story on this blog based off this theory, and its side effects (emotional overcontrol and discrimination, mainly).
Ah yea, I adjusted the font so that PMA's mini-font can view it.
-Thomas

"Hiroshima" by John Hersey

An extremely emotional and beautiful book.
This book alone beats Scarlet Letter and any other previous book I've read in English. This is the true portrayal of humanity, people. Warring against each other, gruesome details, emotional ties between family, between country and people... The way Hersey writes this book and portrays the Japanese is the essence of humanity. Weak yet strong, pathetic yet enduring, ignorant yet intelligent.
You look at what America did about their Pearl Harbor: They publicized it and made it into a movie. I bet a couple days from now September 11th will be a love story too.
Its also interesting to know how Americans acted on Sept. 11th: panicked, like ants when their colony becomes disturbed, running all over the place, just trying to get away. Compare this to how the Japanese are portrayed in Hiroshima: calm, those without serious injuries aiding those with more serious wounds, and heck, their situation is a great deal more dire. I'm not trying to offend anyone at New York during the crash; I'm just stating how different the experience at Hiroshima was to our culture. May it be up to you to determine which is better.
I added some info on personalities: basically, all their specialties combined will form the blog writeups you see here. In this case Emotion impact was greatest, following into Percieving the differences of America and Japan and creating an opinion on it, supported by Reasonable facts. And of course, ol' mr. Communications is the one typing it out to you and making the argument look good. In reality, these characters are always one, always me. However, for more simplistic purposes, I will usually from now on associate a blog with one of my characters. And yes, the facets stem from philosophy and Theory of Knowledge. :P
-Engi

Scrapped Princess

A darn decent show, I must say. Doesn't have enough to make it on "one my favs" list, but good show nonetheless. "Worthy of wasting your time on", as some would say.
The plot twists were incredible, and truly for the first half, maybe over a little, of the series you canNOT tell what's going on, or what's gonna happen in the next episode. I give it good points in that sense. But when you figure out the theme, its rather cliched. The emotional aspect of the show wasn't as strong as, say, FMwS or Stellvia in my opinion, but its enough to well... feel sorry for them.
And of course, humanity in this show in its overall clichedness is viewed a stupid worthless selfish beings (and no, I'm not a peacemaker). Ah, but I must admit that the battle scenes are one of the best I've seen yet! (That's not saying much; I don't watch a lot of fighting anime) The characters were also pretty cool, especially the Silencer and BUG tricks... THOSE ARE AWESOME!!! Beware of Engi's knotes, or keyboard knives; they shall now have some skills based off of those BUGs. :P

note: Cstudnicka is Sal2, but not always Sal2.

CSTUDNICKA: move 36 for white, pa coulda won
TheMysteriousBox: PA coulda won a lot of times.
TheMysteriousBox: now you see how disgraceful it is to lose to PMA.
CSTUDNICKA: *glares at Box*

Music & English

Scary! I can do commentary on music!
It seems to be a lot like how people can interpret poetry. I can listen to music (that's melodic/harmonic, not those rock type music) and I can interpret emotional feeling and interpretation not just from the overall music but from different instruments. Its usually just a difference between melody and harmony, but still. For example, in this one piece of music, I can tell the harmonic background is gloomy and melancholy while the main violin melody hints at the strength of endurance, to be isolated from the rest of the crowd from its bright and significantly louder playing, though the tone of the melody is still quite depressing. However, there is this sense of hope within this piece of music.

Coffee!!!

...is not what it appears.
You know what's strange? ADHD medication is a stimulant. This means that if a non-ADHD person takes the medication, he'll act like an ADHD person. And vice versa. Guess what Coffee does to me. Yup. It paralyzes me. Well, not literally but, I feel like I can't move after I drank coffee for a while. It doesn't feel good. I am naturally caffinated. But some how if I drink something like Coke, I get rather sluggish. At least, compared to my usual self. Caffine seems to have an inverse effect on me. Its like my other rather hyperactive friend: if he doesn't have sugar, boy does his hyperactive state go up.
PMA ran into some font problems with my site. My site runs in percentage-wise fonts, meaning its based off the original h1, h2, etc. fonts only with x% the size of the original. In other words, read my blog in medium sized text under the view menu, dangit!
Thomas- I have two orals next week! (presentations)
Box (later to be known as Guai)- I also have to finish Scrapped Princess
Engi- Who knows when I have my Piano performance!

Eer... more explanations on these characters on the side tables... coming soon... eventually..

Music

Music.
Music is blissful. So is sleep. But that will be for another speech. Playing on the Piano can be relaxing... when you're playing it right. Otherwise it can be frustrating. Listening to music is always a great way to relax. However, despite me being a extremely musical person, I cannot think when music is on. Its like Music kills brain cells or something. I become so... dumb when I'm listening to music. Not dumb as in retarded, I'm typing this and listening to music. More like, I can't concentrate and my mind wanders... (another speech in the future). In any case, music is sort of like drugs. You take it to feel relaxed, but you can't do ANYTHING while playing music. Withdrawals include songs stuck in your head and thus continue not being able to do anything. And Insomnia. Occurs frequently, especially since I listen at nighttime before bed. I'll be awake in my bed for a while today...

Look at the pwetty tables! I can do SO MUCH WITH THIS I FEEL SO HAPPY... Ok More will come...eventually.

EDIT: COOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL TITLES!!!!!!!!!!!

www.lovecalculator.com

Pokemaster Ash & Salvester2 - 77 % chance

:O I never knew... it was.... THAT kind of relationship!!!

themysteriousbox & Pokemaster Ash - 29 %

Alright I admit... he's a good friend. Ah well. I'll leave him to Sal2. XD

Salvester2 & Prof. Jb Wolf - 88 %

:O PMA has competition...

Pokemaster Ash & Prof. Jb Wolf - 65 %

LOVE TRIANGLE!!!!!

I had to post this. XD

English is vile.
Its not truly English. They call it English, but in reality its Literature Analysis. Why can't they just be direct and call it Literature Analysis? Hey, Math does that: There's Calculus, Algebra, Geometry, etc. Science has Biology, Chemistry, Physics, and so on. Even History has World, European, and US History. But English is just English. Not only that, but it's not even real English; its a bunch of works that happen to be in English or otherwise translated into English that we have to read and such. Symbolism isn't just in the English language, dangit; other countries use symbolism too. Heck, a person I know who just came from China a couple days ago doesn't know English very well enough to read long stories and poems, but I'm sure if she had a translation of the novel and the questions, she would be able to do them just as well as a high honors class student.
English is misnamed and useless. I learned the language English already. I really have no use at all for Literature Analysis, I'm sorry.
Tables a vile too. But I'm too tired to deal with them really for today. I'm leaving it in this funny state until I feel like working on HTML again.

Just to make this blog look historic, my personal opinions on the candidates of Recall Day in California, October 7th, 2003.

Davis- The poor, victimized governor that is being recalled. Seriously, he only tried to help California; the teacher's weren't complaining when he increased pay and school budget a few years earlier yes?
Bustemente- It just may be me and I'm sorry if I offend anyone, but I dont' trust a short fat Mexican in the governor's office too much... again, sorry if I offended anyone. Also, The whole fact that he's running IN CASE the recall is done... backstabber...
McClintok- I heard he was like Bush. :/
Schwarzenegger- "Communism is bad. Marx is evil." You freakin' politically inept strong man. And he's winning too. We're gonna be terminated.
Pryce or Watts- COLLEGE PRIDE!!! CHEM INSTRUCTOR OR COLLEGE STUDENTS IN OFFICE NOW!!!!

Welcome to the first Outtadabox (c) sponsered ASBV Chess Interviews, including exclusive coverage and analysis on each and every known ASB Vet that still manages to have contact with the ASBV society! These Interviews, with each player having a post to themselves in the future, will give an in depth look into the style, tactics, stengths, weaknesses, and personalities of the player; it can give you a good overview of what type of opponent you may be playing the next time you challenge one to a chess game!
Disclaimer: All the synopsises and interviews are based off the perspective of one ASBer, unless indicated, and that is... moi. Obviously. Whether there was some unseen trick about a character that I had never known about, or whether that guy was smart enough to change his tactics, you can't blame me for not telling you.
For starters, let's have a basic overview of each person, giving their ASB Vet name, main strategic strength, a memorable quote (chosen from moi, unless you guys want to submit one) , their strength piece (In which a queen will not count :P That's cheating), and their weak piece. Starting off with... Me!

themysteriousbox- Works well in timed games.
"I CAN'T WIN WITH A BISHOP DANGIT" Situation: TMB with 2 bishops and a king; cannot manage to get opponent into checkmate
SP: Rook || WP: Bishop

Pokemaster Ash- Keeps opponent on the defensive by constantly checking king.
"Well, I had the upper hand" PMA had two queens and the opponent's king was squished in the middle of them. And, they were on the first three rows. Somehow, the opponent managed to achieve (or rather, PMA managed to fluke) a stalemate.
SP: Knight || WP: Rook

Sal2- Devours each piece individually.
"YOU WEREN'T SUPPOSED TO SEE THAT YOU FOOL" Opponent's pawn became a queen.
SP: Bishop || WP: Knight

RiOrius- Strong in evasion of check/checkmates.
"I don't think it's possible to check with just a rook and king." Seconds later, in one turn, became checkmated by King and Rook.
SP: King || WP: Bishop

Prof Jb. Wolf- Great Wall of Pawns.
"YARGH!!!" "..." Self-explanatory
SP: Pawn || WP: King (Note: he's really quite... even on every piece)

tygerofthenyte: Keeps kings where they are until the final blow.
"Either you're unusually cruel or incredibly stupid." Said after his opponent missed approximately 4 times in checkmating him
SP: Knight || WP: Pawn (Again, to my observation, he is mostly evened out, though there might be slight polarities on these pieces)

Rhydon4: Quick, stealthy checkmates.
"That Damn [pawn]!!" Pawn is said in Russian.
SP: Bishop || WP: Pawn

Misagi: ???
??? (More will be known as soon as I play him :P)

pokemaniacbill: High potential in acquiring future skills. (He's good at learning.)
"...you've got to be frickin kidding me." Opponent had potential to eliminate queen with queen. Vice versa happens, apparently.
SP: Bishop || WP: Knight
That's it for now. I'll post more after a few more random rants and when I'm done working on these tables... Lessee... *takes out hammer and nails out of toolbox*... Naa... *throws them away and takes out a pickaxe*... Nope... *throws it away and takes out a saw*... Mmmm... something else... *throws it away and takes out a chainsaw* There we go.

*BRRRRRRRRRRRRRMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM*

Hum hum. First thoughts.
Happy World, other than the unnecessary ecchi scenes, is a relaxing anime to watch. Its quite random and comical, which is usually too common in most anime, but for a stressful filled life it can be fun to watch anime like these. Its animation is very nice. The theme is much like any other theme, though the third episode theme I haven't seen much; plot is mediocre. However, It was fun to watch. Wee. ^-^
Colors. I'm still playing with them, and yes, I have poor choice is colors. Deal with it. :P
*plays with colors*

Interesting. I'm trying this thing out, See what I can do here. Voila!

EDIT: Alright fine. I'll try doing this. >.> Not what I was expecting, but i guess it could work for time being. This isn't gonna be anything personal; just random writings. So shoo! shoo! You're not getting much about ME from this blog.
Now. To learn more about this thingy...