23.5.06

What I need to improve in EFZ

1. Less A jamming. I have a lot of potential combos if I just didn't press that A button one too many times.
2. more precise button pressing. Man, so many potential corner combos missed just because I did the EX version of the wing attack rather than the A version and instant cancel D: suckkkk.... midscreen sucks too, when I do the stupid book instead of the wing attack.
3. More accurate recoil guarding. I probaly need to down-block more while they're on the ground, I always get underhit. Or just recoil guarding the first hit, in general. First hit is a pain, the next couple hits are always easier though.
4. Followup after recoil guarding. It sucks though because 90% of all of Misuzu's moves can't follow up after you recoil guard a person, especially when they A-jam... I think, Wing Attack while in the Air (assuming you're above them) or when they're low hitting on the ground works, and Yukito's punch while I"m on the ground and they're in the air works, but I don't always have yukito and wing after recoil is hard :(
5. Potato combo owns, but I shouldn't make it so obvious that they know what I"m doing, dammit. >:(

1.5.06

Studying

So, I'm not studying because I'm writing about studying in my blog. How ironic. I'm sure everyone already knows how much I love irony already.

But in any case. Studying is kind a "difficult" task. I'm pretty sure its different for everyone, and everyone has their different ways of studying effectively. But I find it a problem how some people can "study" so easily in the fact that they can just study for 10 hours straight, whereas I can hardly study for longer than 30 minutes before getting back up, musing about random ideas in my head before forcing myself to sit back down again. Funny thing is everyone seems to say I'm the one that loves to study. There's that irony again...

(Hmm... I hope this isn't considered an "emo" rant or post or anything... To think I try my best to avoid those kinds of posts :P)

In any case! The workings of the human mind is a puzzle. You don't need a neuroscientist nor a philosopher to tell you that. Just the capability of a person to stay online doing nothing at all (or rather, doing nothing by hoping something will happen if he refreshes that message board page over and over again in hopes someone posted something) can waste hours and hours of their time, but then try to focus on one study subject for longer than an hour and he loses focus. Well, that's my case anyway. It's really frustrating because I know I want to do well in class, but then I also know I don't always find it the most exciting thing to do. Obviously one of the main questions then arises: "So do you really like what you're doing, then?" Well, first off, I'm not hating it. If I were hating it, I'd be doing something like business. Second, things I REALLY am addicted (use addicted because its more proper than something like "like" or something) to things like anime, I can't see myself with a future in it. Sure, I can get involved with business, international relations, or entertainment, but aside from watching anime, I don't think I can make anything else out of it. Critiquing anime? Well, I can do that but eventually I think I'll run out of things to write. And not that that makes a lot of money, anyway.
In general, I like the subjects I learn about though. I think what really pisses me off is the competition associated with these classes, which is why I seem to "have to" do well. But then, without competition, I probably wouldn't find some subjects as interesting as I do now, like mechanisms in Organic chemistry... again, the irony. Some things you need to know in organic chemistry are just stupid, plain memorization, but the mechanisms for some reactions are actually quite interesting IMO. I think the mechanisms would be cooler though if they were in some 3D animation or something. Or maybe turn all atoms into chibi anime characters. "Oh no!! Bromo-tan attacked Carbo-tan from the back and caused Alcohol-tan to fall off!! :O!!!" Yes, I actually did think of it that way in ochem for a while... >.> If only I could draw... then some day when I teach ochem, I'll make little chibi character versions of atoms... Wow am I a geek or what? :D