So tomorrow there's a rather large bio exam, the last thing I want to be doing is posting a random post in my blog.
...
So anyway, I just learned that my sister has a xanga, which kinda surprised me, but then again it should have been fairly obvious. Ah well, The anime Girl's Bravo is extremely perverted in a pg-13 sort of way, but quite hilarious. I should play less pokemon, it's taking up most of my study time and I could be doing other work... In fact, I should goto sleep right now. O well. Recap on stuff I have to do!
Biology- Exam tomorrow
Chemistry- Practice homework problems, Web Quiz
Writ- Essay. AGAIN!! -_-
Environmental studies- ESSAY AS WELL!! Well, at least it's only the topic sentence for now.
Koi.
~~No! It's Plasmodium! Which has two different meanings! One's malaria and another is a large coenocytic blob of Myxogastrida cells! AAARRGGHHH!!
23.9.04
11.9.04
ASBW: Breaking News from BTDN (Bored To Death Network)
Box: *pats the microphone a few times* This thing is working now right? Come on the signal can't be THAT bad here... we're only in the middle of outer space... wait, we're on? All right! This is reporter Box from BTDN bringing you live coverage of the latest war going on in the ASBW realm. No, it's not Sal2 blowing up Earth once more or a dimensional rift to a never-before-seen dimension *comments to some sideperson offscreen* that ALWAYS seems to happen in every war, doesn't it? How a new dimension never discovered before suddenly possesses extreme power to rule all dimensional universes...*returns to the screen* Anyway! We're here at Sal2's Space Station in preparation for the greatest (because it's the only) trial ever to have occurred here in our lovely universe. The prosecutor Pokemaster Ash and the defendant Prof. Jb Wolf seemed to have arrived already, as well as the jury, we are now only waiting on the judge... Hey, I think I know some of these people on the Jury! Look! There's RiOrius... Pokemaniacbill... Misagi! Hey Misagi!! Ah, if isn't Ditto Maste... Ah, our Judge Arrives!!
*the doors fling wide open*
Sal2: CHAOS IN THE COURTROOM! *widespread mania from Sal2's warriors begins wrecking the room with PMA and PJBW and everyone else trying to fight them off, when one of Sal2's warriors whispers something into Sal2's ear* whoops! sorry... I meant, order in the court!
PMA: WTF, this guy is our judge? Who the heck chose him as our judge, he should be the last person I'm consulting for this...
PJBW: He did... *points to Box*
Sal2: I SAID ORDER!! OR ELSE!! Now... proceed with the trial. Pokemaster Ash, you declare the defendant, Prof. Jb Wolf, guilty of disregarding previous prominent affairs dealing with the history of this here ASB Universe which I intend to conquer, and therefore providing inappropriate and insufficient information on the history of Destiney's powers, correct?
Box: *in a whispering tone* please note that the spelling and grammer errors were all corrected by BTDN to the convenience of the onwatchers.
Sal2: What's that?!? Guards! Blast him! *guards fire a beam of energy, charcoaling Box a temporary black color* Anyway, proceed with the trial.
Pokemaster Ash: First, I would like to state how utterly apalled at how Prof. Jb Wolf can misinterpret such a significant event! Most of the entire ASB War has been affected by these events and you don't even have a log of them in that huge database of yours?!?
Prof. Jb Wolf: Excuse me, but I DO have a log of these things, I just don't happen to memorize the entire history and every single insiginificant event that occurred. Remember that during your birth I was in another dimension, so it would make perfect sense if I had just happened to leave that out in the origins of my wife.
Pokemaster Ash: Not the origins of my own life, but the origins of this entire universe! The mere fact that you misplaced the exact location of the birth of TPM is extraordinary! Can you imagine what would have happened if one or the other did not happen?
Sal2: *snaps his fingers* if only "the other" didn't happen... say... when WAS the birth of PMA?
Jenna (in an attorney's suit with a pair of spectacles, holding some important evidence): According to PMA's birth certificate, it was at the approximately around the same time as the birth of TPM universe, your honor.
Sal2: That's not very informative. Is there anything else on PMA's records?
Jenna: None, your honor.
Box: *side comment* PMA has a birth ceritificate? o_O
PJBW: I think we'll see how important this birth is in a proper manner.
PMA: I agree. I call forth PJBW's wife and my own mother, Destiney, to the stand.
*murmurs go around in the crowd as Destiney approaches the witness stand, puts her hand over a weird staff like thing*
Jenna: Do you swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, lest the gods drain all of your godly powers and banish you as a mortal for the rest of your remaining years?
Destiney: I do.
PMA: Destiney. Do you remember when I was born?
Destiney: I do.
PMA: Is it not a significant event in history?
Destiney: Yes it is.
PMA: Does it not coincide with the creation of TPM, which in turn has allowed for all of us to exist? NOT, I state, after the arrival of Eiolia to this dimension.
Destiney: Yes.
PMA: I am done.
*PMA sits back down, PJBW stands up and begins pacing in front of Destiney*
PJBW: Destiney, do you remember the exact time and date and place of PMA's birth?
Destiney: Yes I do.
*murmurs go through the courtroom*
Sal2: Order! Order! Wow this is fun.
PJBW: However, do you think it is required for every other person in this room-- in this entire universe-- to remember your son's birth?
Destiney: No. I believe PMA's existence is important, but I will not force others to recognize his birth as if he were a god or some significant religious figure.
PJBW: I am through, you may sit down.
PMA: I object!--
Sal2: Objection overruled.
PMA: Wait why?!?
Sal2: Because you didn't address me properly
PMA: THIS COURT IS BIASED!!!
PJBW: PMA, you only need to say "your honor" -_-...
PMA: Ugh... I object... your honor... *hacks and coughs as if he was dying, then recovers* I never said that my birth should be remembered down to the exact time and date, though it would certainly be appreciated. However, the important facts involved with my birth, as well as connect to it, such as the creation of TPM must be taken into account by everyone. PJBW had believed that TPM came after the current dimension we know as Eiolia existed.
Sal2: Objection substained.
PJBW: Very well... I call forth Sabrina PMA's own wife, to the stand.
*Destiney sits down, Sabrina does the whole vow thing and goes to the witness stand*
PJBW: Sabrina, do you think that people who happened to be ignorant or forgetful of events should be punished?
Sabrina: No, I don't think that's right.
PJBW: In fact, I would like to ask you a few questions about... myself, if you would please. Would you happen to know the birth date of myself? How about Salvester2? I'm sure he has been contributing to this dimension for quite a while, whether for good or for evil. Or even Box, who if I'm not mistaken in my ignorant and forgetful mind, started the whole blimey thing by attempting to blow up a tower in ASB Central?
Sabrina: No, I do not remember or know any of these dates.
PJBW: *turns towards Sal2* Then how can PMA expect every one of us to know his birthdate, or even anything remotely close to it? I think PMA should appreciate that I even acknowledged his daughter's 18th birthday by arriving at her party--
PMA: Excuse me, your honor! *coughs and hacks again* But this has nothing to do with the trial at all. I told you it was not about my birthday, it involves it's coincidence with the creation of TPM--
PJBW: I'm getting to that.
Sal2: Objection overruled.
PJBW: So PMA accuses me of mistaking the creation of TPM with the arrival of Eiolia when in actuality is his birthday. How, then, do we know if Eiolia did not arrive at the same time as PMA's birthday? I believe it is uncertain even for you, PMA, to know when Eiolia came to be. How can you directly claim that I am wrong and you are right? Sabrina, how do you know the arrival of Eiolia did not coincide with the arrival of TPM, like I said?
Sabrina: I do not know.
PJBW: I rest my case. *sits down*
Box: *whispers to the camera* Ouch! PJBW's smmokin!
PMA: PJBW, not bad, not bad. Sabrina, you can sit down too, I got this thing covered. *Sabrina gets out of the witness stand* However, your own statement will turn against you. You yourself said that Eiolia is a vague issue that not much, other than the Eiolians, can tell you about. What makes you so sure that Eiolia didn't come into this dimension till much later, after TPM was born? Or that it was in this dimensional space before TPM came to being, only waiting for TPM to arrive?
RiOrius: Hey um... I wanna ask something...
Sal2: Has the jury made their decision? Can I cut off someone's head yet?
pokemaniacbill: Eer... no. We only wanted to know why that, if Eiolia is such a vague planet in history, that there are no Eiolians that know of the history of Eiolia.
Sal2: ... *looks at PJBW*
PJBW: ... *looks at PMA*
PMA: ... *looks at Sabrina*
Sabrina: ... *looks at Destiney*
Destiney: ... *looks at Box*
Box: ...what?
Sal2: Very well, jury, make your decisions, and I apologize for this inconvenience and lack of evidence that we have at the court today. Arrive at your conclusion and I shall arrive at the appropriate... punishment. Hohohohohohoho...
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Making a mountain out of a digletthill... my specialty. XD Maybe I'll make a conclusion after a bunch of interviews with the "jury" :P.
*the doors fling wide open*
Sal2: CHAOS IN THE COURTROOM! *widespread mania from Sal2's warriors begins wrecking the room with PMA and PJBW and everyone else trying to fight them off, when one of Sal2's warriors whispers something into Sal2's ear* whoops! sorry... I meant, order in the court!
PMA: WTF, this guy is our judge? Who the heck chose him as our judge, he should be the last person I'm consulting for this...
PJBW: He did... *points to Box*
Sal2: I SAID ORDER!! OR ELSE!! Now... proceed with the trial. Pokemaster Ash, you declare the defendant, Prof. Jb Wolf, guilty of disregarding previous prominent affairs dealing with the history of this here ASB Universe which I intend to conquer, and therefore providing inappropriate and insufficient information on the history of Destiney's powers, correct?
Box: *in a whispering tone* please note that the spelling and grammer errors were all corrected by BTDN to the convenience of the onwatchers.
Sal2: What's that?!? Guards! Blast him! *guards fire a beam of energy, charcoaling Box a temporary black color* Anyway, proceed with the trial.
Pokemaster Ash: First, I would like to state how utterly apalled at how Prof. Jb Wolf can misinterpret such a significant event! Most of the entire ASB War has been affected by these events and you don't even have a log of them in that huge database of yours?!?
Prof. Jb Wolf: Excuse me, but I DO have a log of these things, I just don't happen to memorize the entire history and every single insiginificant event that occurred. Remember that during your birth I was in another dimension, so it would make perfect sense if I had just happened to leave that out in the origins of my wife.
Pokemaster Ash: Not the origins of my own life, but the origins of this entire universe! The mere fact that you misplaced the exact location of the birth of TPM is extraordinary! Can you imagine what would have happened if one or the other did not happen?
Sal2: *snaps his fingers* if only "the other" didn't happen... say... when WAS the birth of PMA?
Jenna (in an attorney's suit with a pair of spectacles, holding some important evidence): According to PMA's birth certificate, it was at the approximately around the same time as the birth of TPM universe, your honor.
Sal2: That's not very informative. Is there anything else on PMA's records?
Jenna: None, your honor.
Box: *side comment* PMA has a birth ceritificate? o_O
PJBW: I think we'll see how important this birth is in a proper manner.
PMA: I agree. I call forth PJBW's wife and my own mother, Destiney, to the stand.
*murmurs go around in the crowd as Destiney approaches the witness stand, puts her hand over a weird staff like thing*
Jenna: Do you swear to tell the truth and nothing but the truth, lest the gods drain all of your godly powers and banish you as a mortal for the rest of your remaining years?
Destiney: I do.
PMA: Destiney. Do you remember when I was born?
Destiney: I do.
PMA: Is it not a significant event in history?
Destiney: Yes it is.
PMA: Does it not coincide with the creation of TPM, which in turn has allowed for all of us to exist? NOT, I state, after the arrival of Eiolia to this dimension.
Destiney: Yes.
PMA: I am done.
*PMA sits back down, PJBW stands up and begins pacing in front of Destiney*
PJBW: Destiney, do you remember the exact time and date and place of PMA's birth?
Destiney: Yes I do.
*murmurs go through the courtroom*
Sal2: Order! Order! Wow this is fun.
PJBW: However, do you think it is required for every other person in this room-- in this entire universe-- to remember your son's birth?
Destiney: No. I believe PMA's existence is important, but I will not force others to recognize his birth as if he were a god or some significant religious figure.
PJBW: I am through, you may sit down.
PMA: I object!--
Sal2: Objection overruled.
PMA: Wait why?!?
Sal2: Because you didn't address me properly
PMA: THIS COURT IS BIASED!!!
PJBW: PMA, you only need to say "your honor" -_-...
PMA: Ugh... I object... your honor... *hacks and coughs as if he was dying, then recovers* I never said that my birth should be remembered down to the exact time and date, though it would certainly be appreciated. However, the important facts involved with my birth, as well as connect to it, such as the creation of TPM must be taken into account by everyone. PJBW had believed that TPM came after the current dimension we know as Eiolia existed.
Sal2: Objection substained.
PJBW: Very well... I call forth Sabrina PMA's own wife, to the stand.
*Destiney sits down, Sabrina does the whole vow thing and goes to the witness stand*
PJBW: Sabrina, do you think that people who happened to be ignorant or forgetful of events should be punished?
Sabrina: No, I don't think that's right.
PJBW: In fact, I would like to ask you a few questions about... myself, if you would please. Would you happen to know the birth date of myself? How about Salvester2? I'm sure he has been contributing to this dimension for quite a while, whether for good or for evil. Or even Box, who if I'm not mistaken in my ignorant and forgetful mind, started the whole blimey thing by attempting to blow up a tower in ASB Central?
Sabrina: No, I do not remember or know any of these dates.
PJBW: *turns towards Sal2* Then how can PMA expect every one of us to know his birthdate, or even anything remotely close to it? I think PMA should appreciate that I even acknowledged his daughter's 18th birthday by arriving at her party--
PMA: Excuse me, your honor! *coughs and hacks again* But this has nothing to do with the trial at all. I told you it was not about my birthday, it involves it's coincidence with the creation of TPM--
PJBW: I'm getting to that.
Sal2: Objection overruled.
PJBW: So PMA accuses me of mistaking the creation of TPM with the arrival of Eiolia when in actuality is his birthday. How, then, do we know if Eiolia did not arrive at the same time as PMA's birthday? I believe it is uncertain even for you, PMA, to know when Eiolia came to be. How can you directly claim that I am wrong and you are right? Sabrina, how do you know the arrival of Eiolia did not coincide with the arrival of TPM, like I said?
Sabrina: I do not know.
PJBW: I rest my case. *sits down*
Box: *whispers to the camera* Ouch! PJBW's smmokin!
PMA: PJBW, not bad, not bad. Sabrina, you can sit down too, I got this thing covered. *Sabrina gets out of the witness stand* However, your own statement will turn against you. You yourself said that Eiolia is a vague issue that not much, other than the Eiolians, can tell you about. What makes you so sure that Eiolia didn't come into this dimension till much later, after TPM was born? Or that it was in this dimensional space before TPM came to being, only waiting for TPM to arrive?
RiOrius: Hey um... I wanna ask something...
Sal2: Has the jury made their decision? Can I cut off someone's head yet?
pokemaniacbill: Eer... no. We only wanted to know why that, if Eiolia is such a vague planet in history, that there are no Eiolians that know of the history of Eiolia.
Sal2: ... *looks at PJBW*
PJBW: ... *looks at PMA*
PMA: ... *looks at Sabrina*
Sabrina: ... *looks at Destiney*
Destiney: ... *looks at Box*
Box: ...what?
Sal2: Very well, jury, make your decisions, and I apologize for this inconvenience and lack of evidence that we have at the court today. Arrive at your conclusion and I shall arrive at the appropriate... punishment. Hohohohohohoho...
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Making a mountain out of a digletthill... my specialty. XD Maybe I'll make a conclusion after a bunch of interviews with the "jury" :P.
23.8.04
First day of College!! :O
Most of you guys probably don't know that I moved into university dorms last week and started school today. Well, now you guys know. :P I suppose since it's fresh in my mind, I should give a brief account of what happened today, partly for you college-bound high schoolers (I know there are several, come to USC! We'll all be one happy ASB Vets Family!! XD) to show how life is eer... sorta like, and partly just for my own records and since I've learned to BS so much that I need to BS on my first day of school. So anyway! My classes include:
General Organismal Biology: This was my first class, and, in comparison with the other classes I'm taking, perhaps the most "expected" out of my classes. What I mean by expected is that all the rules and syllabus that they went over seemed pretty expected. I knew college was a bit different from high school and raised my expectations, and in general, general bio showed it. (haha, pun :P ) One thing that was kind of surprising, though, was the grading curve they presented. Now, at first it seemed optimistic, except that our lab instructor is a pretty pessemistic person and put it in a more negative view. Generally, its like this: the top 10% of the class, no matter WHAT their score is, gets an A. The rest gets below an A, no matter what their score is. In essence, its a huge promoter of competition in our class, which already pretty huge. This means even if I get 900 points out of 915 poinnts (total amount of points in the class), if 10% of the class has 905 to 915 points, I get a B... or worse, possibly. Period, no questions asked. O.O This is going to be tough.... ;_;
General Chemistry: The first 15 minutes flew over my head, and it took me a while to gather what they said. In general, they told me to get a list of items and this is what we're supposed to do for homework and this is how tests are examed in this form of sentence that I just presented to you really really quickly without me having enough time to process everything in my mind before they went on to the next section.
SO!
But after that, it was... very very surprising. I have a hunch that, besides the hard work and the harder tests, I'm going to like this class. The first day of class we poured liquid nitrogen on carpet floors, broke brittle flowers, and blew up balloons filled with Hydrogen and Oxygen. Wow, much different from my own chem class at High School. It was fun.
Writing: Arg, I STILL have to take writing after all my torture in High School IB English??? AAAAAAAARRRGGGGGG... To make things worse, this class comes at 12 - 12:50, a very inconvenient time, because that's usually lunch time. Plus, from 11 to 12 I have no class, and from 1 to 2 I have no class, so its smack right in the middle of lunchtime. Not only that, this class is FAR from my residential suites (yes, I live in suites :P) so I have to go ALL the way there, and if I want to get something, ALL the way back. Which is bad, especially since today I went to the right building on time, but forgot my registration schedule and had no idea what room to go into. My gosh this was was bad, I had to go ALL the way back to my dorm and get it... luckily, I had a bike so I wouldn't have been as late as I might have been if I didn't, but still... 15 minutes late. I BLAME THIS ALL ON ENGLISH!!! >.<
And the scary thing about it is... I think I might like this class. T_T It seems mostly revolved around debates and opinions and it coincides with my next class I'll talk about, so the essay topics I'm going to be writing about might actually be... interesting. o.o You know what's also weird? The teacher doesn't penalize for late papers. Although after a paper is late for a week you have to talk with him, but still! No Penalties! For late papers!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT??? AND I'M IN COLLEGE!!!
*ahem* ok next class, and last "countable" class on my list.
Environmental Studies! Social Impacts based on the environment! And something like that: The teacher of this class is pretty crude and unconventional, and also highly sarcastic and humorous. That's a plus :P However this class requires me to read the newspaper everyday. -_-;; This is an annoyance. But overall the class seems to talk about very interesting issues, and holds debates every week. Though, this lecture class was a lot more huge than I thought it would be... Whatever. I'll see what comes of it.
Now, the last thing I want to be doing is dropping classes. >.< I never had that experience, and I hope I never will. Yes, if you ask my number 1 college fear, its not being able to follow a class. Right now it seems okay, and I feel kinda humbled because I'm not taking any "honors" courses (yes, there are a few honors courses that are said to be better etc.) but, as one of the advisors told me, to take a regular class and get an A is a lot better than to take an honors and get a B. So, right now I'm not asking too much and making much sarcastic comments... I'm just going to try and work hard, balance my time, and hopefully do well in college.
Balance my time, meaning, of course... work and RO.
>.<
RO...so...fun... must control playtime...
But I have no work for today and a whole day off tomorrow, so.... PLAYTIME!!! XP
General Organismal Biology: This was my first class, and, in comparison with the other classes I'm taking, perhaps the most "expected" out of my classes. What I mean by expected is that all the rules and syllabus that they went over seemed pretty expected. I knew college was a bit different from high school and raised my expectations, and in general, general bio showed it. (haha, pun :P ) One thing that was kind of surprising, though, was the grading curve they presented. Now, at first it seemed optimistic, except that our lab instructor is a pretty pessemistic person and put it in a more negative view. Generally, its like this: the top 10% of the class, no matter WHAT their score is, gets an A. The rest gets below an A, no matter what their score is. In essence, its a huge promoter of competition in our class, which already pretty huge. This means even if I get 900 points out of 915 poinnts (total amount of points in the class), if 10% of the class has 905 to 915 points, I get a B... or worse, possibly. Period, no questions asked. O.O This is going to be tough.... ;_;
General Chemistry: The first 15 minutes flew over my head, and it took me a while to gather what they said. In general, they told me to get a list of items and this is what we're supposed to do for homework and this is how tests are examed in this form of sentence that I just presented to you really really quickly without me having enough time to process everything in my mind before they went on to the next section.
SO!
But after that, it was... very very surprising. I have a hunch that, besides the hard work and the harder tests, I'm going to like this class. The first day of class we poured liquid nitrogen on carpet floors, broke brittle flowers, and blew up balloons filled with Hydrogen and Oxygen. Wow, much different from my own chem class at High School. It was fun.
Writing: Arg, I STILL have to take writing after all my torture in High School IB English??? AAAAAAAARRRGGGGGG... To make things worse, this class comes at 12 - 12:50, a very inconvenient time, because that's usually lunch time. Plus, from 11 to 12 I have no class, and from 1 to 2 I have no class, so its smack right in the middle of lunchtime. Not only that, this class is FAR from my residential suites (yes, I live in suites :P) so I have to go ALL the way there, and if I want to get something, ALL the way back. Which is bad, especially since today I went to the right building on time, but forgot my registration schedule and had no idea what room to go into. My gosh this was was bad, I had to go ALL the way back to my dorm and get it... luckily, I had a bike so I wouldn't have been as late as I might have been if I didn't, but still... 15 minutes late. I BLAME THIS ALL ON ENGLISH!!! >.<
And the scary thing about it is... I think I might like this class. T_T It seems mostly revolved around debates and opinions and it coincides with my next class I'll talk about, so the essay topics I'm going to be writing about might actually be... interesting. o.o You know what's also weird? The teacher doesn't penalize for late papers. Although after a paper is late for a week you have to talk with him, but still! No Penalties! For late papers!! CAN YOU BELIEVE THAT??? AND I'M IN COLLEGE!!!
*ahem* ok next class, and last "countable" class on my list.
Environmental Studies! Social Impacts based on the environment! And something like that: The teacher of this class is pretty crude and unconventional, and also highly sarcastic and humorous. That's a plus :P However this class requires me to read the newspaper everyday. -_-;; This is an annoyance. But overall the class seems to talk about very interesting issues, and holds debates every week. Though, this lecture class was a lot more huge than I thought it would be... Whatever. I'll see what comes of it.
Now, the last thing I want to be doing is dropping classes. >.< I never had that experience, and I hope I never will. Yes, if you ask my number 1 college fear, its not being able to follow a class. Right now it seems okay, and I feel kinda humbled because I'm not taking any "honors" courses (yes, there are a few honors courses that are said to be better etc.) but, as one of the advisors told me, to take a regular class and get an A is a lot better than to take an honors and get a B. So, right now I'm not asking too much and making much sarcastic comments... I'm just going to try and work hard, balance my time, and hopefully do well in college.
Balance my time, meaning, of course... work and RO.
>.<
RO...so...fun... must control playtime...
But I have no work for today and a whole day off tomorrow, so.... PLAYTIME!!! XP
12.7.04
HI everyone!!! (whoever still reads, probably no one)
ok, lets make this short and simple.
For the past month, where have I been? Well... Ragnarok Online says it all, I suppose. YOu don't see me on the Pokemasters boards anymore, not in mirc chatrooms, nor out "hanging out" (wait... I never did that in the first place). Nope, that's because Ragnarok Online is so... so... animeish that it makes a simple MMORPG game like it so fun. I mean... YOU CAN DO SWEATDROPS!!! HOW MANY GAMES (much less, MMORPGs) CAN YOU BE SO ANIMEISH!!! IT CANNOT BE BEATEN!!!
...
Too bad you have to pay for it. T_T
In any case, I'm going off to China this saturday, so expect another 4 weeks of inactivity. Unless I get bored and type something up in the middle of china with a 56 k modem.
Random information: there are a total of 3 Internet Service Providers in all of China. China has 1/5th the world population. Compare this to like 5000 ISPs in America, which a much smaller population than China. Fun Stuff eh? :D
Ok, random thingy time!
(parantheses include cynical remarks by yours truly :P)
BOLD THOSE THAT PERTAIN TO YOU:
01. I have a cell phone.
02. I have a computer.
03. I'm the youngest child
04. I am a chocoholic.
05. I love earrings.
06. I love black eyeliner.
07. I love summer.
08. I love the weekends.
09. I can't live without lipgloss.
10. I can't live without music.
11. I lived in Tahoe.
12. I spend money I have.
13. I'd like to visit Africa.
14. I love my designer handbag(s)
15. I get annoyed easily.
16. I want kids. later in life, of course.
17. I loved the Backstreet Boys. (Love is a bad word for it... "respected their music" is more like it)
18. I have more than a couple horrible memories.
19. I'm addicted to Degrassi.
20. I am a person. (No matter how much you deny it, you're always a person.)
21. I wear make-up.
22. I start school on Jan 4th or 5th
23. I love taking pictures.
24. I hate girls who are fake. (<<< I don't know what this really means, but ok.)
25. I can be mean when I want to.
26. My dreams are bizarre. (Yes, they are.)
27. I am bisexual
28. I have over ten pairs shoes.
29. I've seen Shes All That at least 50 times.
30. I dress how I feel that day.
31. I love Charmed.
32. Sometimes I cry for almost no reason.
33. I hate when people are ridiculously late.
34. I procrastinate. (Random: I hate procrastinators too :P)
35. Winter is my favorite season.
36. Summer is my favorite season.
37. I love to sleep.
38. I can be dumb.
39. I watch Bachelorette.
40. I live for William hung
41. No one knows my full story of my life.
42. Sometimes, I love my hair.
43. I sometimes fight with my parents. (It's kind of hard not to fight at least once. o.o)
44. I love the beach.
45. I have had the chicken pox.
46. I'm excited for the future.
47. I can't control my emotions.
48. I can't wait till New Year's.
49. I love the show 'Rich Girls'
50. I LOVE my friends. (o_O Uh huh... unappropriate acronym usage.)
51. Christmas is my favorite holiday.
52. I can be very insecure.
53. I have had a broken bone.
54. I hate ignorant people.(Note: Ignorance defined as someone who thinks they know something when they really don't)
55. I love Justin Timberlake
56. I love guys that play the guitar.
57. I state the obvious. (This is number 57 on this list.)
58. I'm a happy person sometimes.
59. I love to dance.
60. I love to sing in private. (>.> <.<)
61. I hate cleaning my room.
62. I tend to get jealous very easily.
63. I like to play video games
64. I love John Mayer
65. I hate when I see animals/people getting hurt/abused.
66. I'm a vegetarian/vegan/don't eat beef.
67. I don't like to study for tests. (But I do so anyway)
68. I love playdoh.
69. I am too forgiving.
70. I have a good sense of direction.
71. I love high school. (Hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa that's a joke.)
72. I have a talent of sweet-talking my way out of things. (Learned from High School!! I call it BSing!! It got me a 6 on my IB History exam!! :D)
73. I don't drink enough to get drunk. (Erm... I don't drink. period. o.o)
74. I hate Jessica Simpson.
75. I love the color blue. (second to green)
76. I don't sew.
77. I am not addicted to drugs.
78. I love the Olsen twins.
79. I'm going to try out for the football team.
80. I become stressed easily.
81. I hate liars.
82. I like comfy sweatpants.
83. I hate cheerleaders. (Again, hate is really such a bad word o.o, Annoyed occasionally, yes)
84. I love the smell of fresh laundry (Love is a bad word too... o.o)
For the past month, where have I been? Well... Ragnarok Online says it all, I suppose. YOu don't see me on the Pokemasters boards anymore, not in mirc chatrooms, nor out "hanging out" (wait... I never did that in the first place). Nope, that's because Ragnarok Online is so... so... animeish that it makes a simple MMORPG game like it so fun. I mean... YOU CAN DO SWEATDROPS!!! HOW MANY GAMES (much less, MMORPGs) CAN YOU BE SO ANIMEISH!!! IT CANNOT BE BEATEN!!!
...
Too bad you have to pay for it. T_T
In any case, I'm going off to China this saturday, so expect another 4 weeks of inactivity. Unless I get bored and type something up in the middle of china with a 56 k modem.
Random information: there are a total of 3 Internet Service Providers in all of China. China has 1/5th the world population. Compare this to like 5000 ISPs in America, which a much smaller population than China. Fun Stuff eh? :D
Ok, random thingy time!
(parantheses include cynical remarks by yours truly :P)
BOLD THOSE THAT PERTAIN TO YOU:
01. I have a cell phone.
02. I have a computer.
03. I'm the youngest child
04. I am a chocoholic.
05. I love earrings.
06. I love black eyeliner.
07. I love summer.
08. I love the weekends.
09. I can't live without lipgloss.
10. I can't live without music.
11. I lived in Tahoe.
12. I spend money I have.
13. I'd like to visit Africa.
14. I love my designer handbag(s)
15. I get annoyed easily.
16. I want kids. later in life, of course.
17. I loved the Backstreet Boys. (Love is a bad word for it... "respected their music" is more like it)
18. I have more than a couple horrible memories.
19. I'm addicted to Degrassi.
20. I am a person. (No matter how much you deny it, you're always a person.)
21. I wear make-up.
22. I start school on Jan 4th or 5th
23. I love taking pictures.
24. I hate girls who are fake. (<<< I don't know what this really means, but ok.)
25. I can be mean when I want to.
26. My dreams are bizarre. (Yes, they are.)
27. I am bisexual
28. I have over ten pairs shoes.
29. I've seen Shes All That at least 50 times.
30. I dress how I feel that day.
31. I love Charmed.
32. Sometimes I cry for almost no reason.
33. I hate when people are ridiculously late.
34. I procrastinate. (Random: I hate procrastinators too :P)
35. Winter is my favorite season.
36. Summer is my favorite season.
37. I love to sleep.
38. I can be dumb.
39. I watch Bachelorette.
40. I live for William hung
41. No one knows my full story of my life.
42. Sometimes, I love my hair.
43. I sometimes fight with my parents. (It's kind of hard not to fight at least once. o.o)
44. I love the beach.
45. I have had the chicken pox.
46. I'm excited for the future.
47. I can't control my emotions.
48. I can't wait till New Year's.
49. I love the show 'Rich Girls'
50. I LOVE my friends. (o_O Uh huh... unappropriate acronym usage.)
51. Christmas is my favorite holiday.
52. I can be very insecure.
53. I have had a broken bone.
54. I hate ignorant people.(Note: Ignorance defined as someone who thinks they know something when they really don't)
55. I love Justin Timberlake
56. I love guys that play the guitar.
57. I state the obvious. (This is number 57 on this list.)
58. I'm a happy person sometimes.
59. I love to dance.
60. I love to sing in private. (>.> <.<)
61. I hate cleaning my room.
62. I tend to get jealous very easily.
63. I like to play video games
64. I love John Mayer
65. I hate when I see animals/people getting hurt/abused.
66. I'm a vegetarian/vegan/don't eat beef.
67. I don't like to study for tests. (But I do so anyway)
68. I love playdoh.
69. I am too forgiving.
70. I have a good sense of direction.
71. I love high school. (Hahahahahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa that's a joke.)
72. I have a talent of sweet-talking my way out of things. (Learned from High School!! I call it BSing!! It got me a 6 on my IB History exam!! :D)
73. I don't drink enough to get drunk. (Erm... I don't drink. period. o.o)
74. I hate Jessica Simpson.
75. I love the color blue. (second to green)
76. I don't sew.
77. I am not addicted to drugs.
78. I love the Olsen twins.
79. I'm going to try out for the football team.
80. I become stressed easily.
81. I hate liars.
82. I like comfy sweatpants.
83. I hate cheerleaders. (Again, hate is really such a bad word o.o, Annoyed occasionally, yes)
84. I love the smell of fresh laundry (Love is a bad word too... o.o)
9.6.04
Kimi Ga Nozomu Eien (Anime)
I have come to the conclusion that every main character in this anime is stupid in some shape or form.
Takayuki: A plain idiot before the accident. If he says he's going to do something, he should darn will do it instead of slacking off and making Hakura wait 30 minutes and get involved in an accident. Completely irritated me for the first 2 episodes. After that, he got better; more organized, more reliable. Reliablity is everything. I can understand now (as I just watched the 5th episode) why he went to Mitsuki and kinda "forgot" about Hakura; I would understand 3 years passing by as being hard to move on in life as well.
Hakura: Waaaaay too forgiving. Takayuki hurts her sooo much and she's still like "It's ok, it's my fault". If she knew the truth, she'd probably go "it's ok, it's my fault, you two can be together" as well. -_- Other than that, she's one of the best characters along with her sister.
Akane: She seems to always be the one that's missing information and goes beserk because of it. Apparently she didn't know that her mother and father didn't want Takayuki anymore (this is the Mom and Dad's idiocy) but she also didn't take the hint that Mitsuki was hitting on Takayuki. She should also be more understanding on the issue of moving on in life; 3 years is a long time, and not moving on may very well mean not surviving in life. I agree, they could have done what she did and moved on while occasionally visiting Hakura, but again, the parents. Of course, it was Takayuki's insanity and regret that got him into the position of not being able to see Hakura again in the first place, so... it could be said that in the end it was all Takayuki's fault. >.>
Mitsuki: I kind of agree with Akane on her issue, while Akane doesn't understand moving on very much, Mitsuki seems to be very easy on forgetting her friend and moving onto Takayuki. If I were her I'd stop seeing Takayuki, but I'm not, and never planning to be :P. After all, she was part of the reason why Takayuki was late again, though Takayuki could have stopped stalling earlier and never had met Mitsuki. Mitsuki is evil. But she does look better with short hair. :o Most girls do. :o
~o~ yea, I was kinda bored, and I did the forbidden "commentary on anime" thinking again.
Takayuki: A plain idiot before the accident. If he says he's going to do something, he should darn will do it instead of slacking off and making Hakura wait 30 minutes and get involved in an accident. Completely irritated me for the first 2 episodes. After that, he got better; more organized, more reliable. Reliablity is everything. I can understand now (as I just watched the 5th episode) why he went to Mitsuki and kinda "forgot" about Hakura; I would understand 3 years passing by as being hard to move on in life as well.
Hakura: Waaaaay too forgiving. Takayuki hurts her sooo much and she's still like "It's ok, it's my fault". If she knew the truth, she'd probably go "it's ok, it's my fault, you two can be together" as well. -_- Other than that, she's one of the best characters along with her sister.
Akane: She seems to always be the one that's missing information and goes beserk because of it. Apparently she didn't know that her mother and father didn't want Takayuki anymore (this is the Mom and Dad's idiocy) but she also didn't take the hint that Mitsuki was hitting on Takayuki. She should also be more understanding on the issue of moving on in life; 3 years is a long time, and not moving on may very well mean not surviving in life. I agree, they could have done what she did and moved on while occasionally visiting Hakura, but again, the parents. Of course, it was Takayuki's insanity and regret that got him into the position of not being able to see Hakura again in the first place, so... it could be said that in the end it was all Takayuki's fault. >.>
Mitsuki: I kind of agree with Akane on her issue, while Akane doesn't understand moving on very much, Mitsuki seems to be very easy on forgetting her friend and moving onto Takayuki. If I were her I'd stop seeing Takayuki, but I'm not, and never planning to be :P. After all, she was part of the reason why Takayuki was late again, though Takayuki could have stopped stalling earlier and never had met Mitsuki. Mitsuki is evil. But she does look better with short hair. :o Most girls do. :o
~o~ yea, I was kinda bored, and I did the forbidden "commentary on anime" thinking again.
6.6.04
Hmm...
I haven't said much lately, partly because I'm busy with so much things I CAN do now that I have free time, partly because I don't feel I have that great "BSing" capability I did when I was still in IB English, and partly because I don't like the new way the blogs are designed. But for your interest (or not), I've decided to update with a small comment on how I feel about goals and commitments.
I was re-reading one of my chinese manga, and in the Full Moon manga there was a mini-manga that involved a story about a boy and his dream to be a pianist, and a girl who sits in a tree. Uh huh. Anyway, it had a lot to do with commitment and expressing why this boy wanted to be a pianist and how he is like today: just like one of those hard-working people who are really committed to their work.
First off, he makes a comment on how other people in his school do not seem to take their situation seriously enough. There are several students competing in this competition, and many have just given up as they believe there is only two possiblities for a winner, and each student knows that they won't be that winner. Its interesting that they think this way, as they themselves are enrolled in a music conservatory. I would go as far as to call this strange and hypocritical if this same exact thing did not occur at my own school.
Here we have students (well, had, I'm out of school now, yay) who take these IB courses, and doesn't do any of it seriously. I always wanted to ask them, "WHY are you taking these classes if ALL you guys do is just complain about the work??" Some may say college. But what exactly does going to college DO for these kids? Its to achieve what they want to be, what their goal is. But many of them don't have a goal. They don't want to do IB, and even say its worthless. Yet they're still in the class. Why is an English major taking AP Biology, if he doesn't enjoy the tests or the work? Everyone is here for a reason, and if they don't like it, they shouldn't be in the class.
Now, I am not going to be a complete hypocrite and admit my own few classes that I've hated to take, but have taken anyway. So why do I take English and History? On one level, its because I do not enjoy the company of the typical CP class. Many are immature and rowdy, and I figured being in a honors class would be a better suited environment. (Frankly, it is better, but still needs improvement). Another thing is... that I have learned to (somewhat) enjoy English. You see, it is because of English that I am able to write a blog and type up all this "BS" in my rants, and this is mainly because of what I learned in English and History: BSing helps you in life. And what do you know, I kind of like rambling on and on, even though in real life I try to make my statements short or else I start stuttering. So, in a way, I learned to appreciate the classes I took, despite the 20 page review sheets that our teacher forced us to do. -_- agonizing...
Now, referring back to the manga. In this one part, the boy pianist refuses to play music to the girl in the tree. Later on, the girl in the tree tells him a funny statement. "You don't want to play for me, yet you want to be a pianist." Or somethign like that. Then is goes into flashback mode where there's chibi pianist kid and his excitement at first being able to play the piano, but then dying down as he gets older and seeing how he has to "follow these rules" and "be serious on this"... you know, that kind of material. I thought about this, first with my own piano playing and second with school again, and thought that, you know what, this is true. In order to keep interest in something, one has to have curiosity and ambition, and if everything begins to become to monotonous, it looses its interest. So why do people continue to go on? If one is interested in science, and loves science, then whatever the case, the science should continue to be interesting no matter how tricky or tedious it is becoming. Same with piano playing. Enjoy the piece, whether its a simple sonata or a gigantic concerto; either way, its only when the piece is being enjoyed that it becomes played the best. Techniques and skills all help, but most of all, a person needs heart in order to accomplish what his goals are in life. Remember this.
I was re-reading one of my chinese manga, and in the Full Moon manga there was a mini-manga that involved a story about a boy and his dream to be a pianist, and a girl who sits in a tree. Uh huh. Anyway, it had a lot to do with commitment and expressing why this boy wanted to be a pianist and how he is like today: just like one of those hard-working people who are really committed to their work.
First off, he makes a comment on how other people in his school do not seem to take their situation seriously enough. There are several students competing in this competition, and many have just given up as they believe there is only two possiblities for a winner, and each student knows that they won't be that winner. Its interesting that they think this way, as they themselves are enrolled in a music conservatory. I would go as far as to call this strange and hypocritical if this same exact thing did not occur at my own school.
Here we have students (well, had, I'm out of school now, yay) who take these IB courses, and doesn't do any of it seriously. I always wanted to ask them, "WHY are you taking these classes if ALL you guys do is just complain about the work??" Some may say college. But what exactly does going to college DO for these kids? Its to achieve what they want to be, what their goal is. But many of them don't have a goal. They don't want to do IB, and even say its worthless. Yet they're still in the class. Why is an English major taking AP Biology, if he doesn't enjoy the tests or the work? Everyone is here for a reason, and if they don't like it, they shouldn't be in the class.
Now, I am not going to be a complete hypocrite and admit my own few classes that I've hated to take, but have taken anyway. So why do I take English and History? On one level, its because I do not enjoy the company of the typical CP class. Many are immature and rowdy, and I figured being in a honors class would be a better suited environment. (Frankly, it is better, but still needs improvement). Another thing is... that I have learned to (somewhat) enjoy English. You see, it is because of English that I am able to write a blog and type up all this "BS" in my rants, and this is mainly because of what I learned in English and History: BSing helps you in life. And what do you know, I kind of like rambling on and on, even though in real life I try to make my statements short or else I start stuttering. So, in a way, I learned to appreciate the classes I took, despite the 20 page review sheets that our teacher forced us to do. -_- agonizing...
Now, referring back to the manga. In this one part, the boy pianist refuses to play music to the girl in the tree. Later on, the girl in the tree tells him a funny statement. "You don't want to play for me, yet you want to be a pianist." Or somethign like that. Then is goes into flashback mode where there's chibi pianist kid and his excitement at first being able to play the piano, but then dying down as he gets older and seeing how he has to "follow these rules" and "be serious on this"... you know, that kind of material. I thought about this, first with my own piano playing and second with school again, and thought that, you know what, this is true. In order to keep interest in something, one has to have curiosity and ambition, and if everything begins to become to monotonous, it looses its interest. So why do people continue to go on? If one is interested in science, and loves science, then whatever the case, the science should continue to be interesting no matter how tricky or tedious it is becoming. Same with piano playing. Enjoy the piece, whether its a simple sonata or a gigantic concerto; either way, its only when the piece is being enjoyed that it becomes played the best. Techniques and skills all help, but most of all, a person needs heart in order to accomplish what his goals are in life. Remember this.
29.5.04
Disorder Test!
Sorry for the lack of updates. With Ragnarok, Anime, and Manga all around me, there's never a lack of things I don't want to do, and since writing fics and battle stuff isn't exactly on the top of my list, so goes blog entries. However, I do post because I found a cool disorder test! I'm so disordered!!! :D
| Disorder | Rating |
| Paranoid: | High |
| Schizoid: | High |
| Schizotypal: | High |
| Antisocial: | Moderate |
| Borderline: | Low |
| Histrionic: | Low |
| Narcissistic: | Moderate |
| Avoidant: | Moderate |
| Dependent: | Low |
| Obsessive-Compulsive: | Moderate |
-- Personality Disorder Test - Take It! -- | |
12.5.04
A Chemistry Lab
xxPastel STARxx: wanna read my write up?
TheMysteriousBox: eer
xxPastel STARxx: this is the research part of my lab
TheMysteriousBox: *shrug*
xxPastel STARxx: Once upon a time, there lived an evil Queen who suffered from really bad stomach pains. One day, his stomach pains were especially painful. So he called forth the evil black mage and his apprentice that were studying Alchemy.
“Why have you called me, O great queen?” asked the mage.
“I am suffering greatly because of these pains in my stomach. Why is that so?” asked the queen.
“I believe you have too much HCl in your system,” replied the mage.
“Whatever that is, give me the best cure, or else I shall behead you! And I want this in less than an hour because you neglected to do this research earlier,” said the queen
“Yes, your majesty,” bowed the mage and his apprentice.
While leaving the Royal Hall, the apprentice asked,” How do you plan to reduce the HCl in her majesty’s body?”
“HCl is an acid, and all we need to do is find the right combination of bases in order to neutralize it,” replied the mage,” As the ancient alchemy book says, ‘a neutralization reaction is a reaction in which an acid and a base react in an aqueous solution to produce a salt and water’.”
The evil mage and his apprentice went deep, deep, down, down, to the deepest, downest part of the evil castle where the evil laboratory was.
xxPastel STARxx: it's a picture book
TheMysteriousBox: ...
xxPastel STARxx: so i'm sending it to you page by page without the pictures :p
TheMysteriousBox: ..................
xxPastel STARxx: Inside the evil dungeon laboratory, the mage took out two evil poisons called Tums and Gaviscan. The mage explained to the apprentice his reasoning.
“Tums contains CaCO3 and Gaviscan contains Al(OH)3 and MgCO3. Since they are both bases, theoretically, they should neutralize her majesty’s excessive HCl. Also note that these bases are called antacids. Why is that you ask? Well, first of all although they are indeed bases, their sole purpose is to reduce EXCESS acids in the stomach. It is essential that the stomach has HCl and gastric acids or else food would not be able to digest. Now, go get me two 100 mL beakers, a 25 mL graduated cylinder, a buret, as well as a mortar and pestle. I shall get the 1.6 mL of 6.0M of HCl and the phenolphthalein. Oh yes, while you’re over there, get me a ring stand, a butterfly clamp, a bottle of distilled water, and a stirring rod,” commanded the mage.
The apprentice did as she was told. After gathering the necessary materials, the mage quickly set the lab up. He handed the mortar and pestle to the apprentice and said,” Take one tablet of Tums and crush it in to find powder and put the powder into a beaker. When you have finished, clean the mortar and pestle thoroughly and do the same to the Gaviscan.”
xxPastel STARxx: After both tablets have been crushed and placed into different test tubes. The mage took the graduated cylinder and measured out 50 mL of distilled water and poured it into one beaker. As soon as the water was poured, the apprentice used the stirring rod to make a Tums solution. Then the mage measured out 50 mL of distilled water again and poured it in to the other beaker.
The apprentice cleaned the stirring rod and began to stir the other beaker with the Glaviscan solution.
“Sir, there is something wrong with this. Perhaps I did not crush the powder finely enough for there are big clumps of Glaviscan that float to the top and do not wish to be dissolved,” said the apprentice.
“Hmm…that is odd,” the mage stroked his chin, “Empty that out and re-crush the Glaviscan tablet. We shall try this solution again.”
And so they did. The apprentice made a super effort in order to make the tablet extra powdery. Even with that effort, the same result appeared again. The mage glanced at the clock, “We must continue with what we have. Time is running out.”
The mage brought the phenolphthalein to the lab table and put in four drops into both beakers. As he put in the four drops into the Tums solution, the apprentice noticed that the solution had turned pink.
xxPastel STARxx: She looked in her ancient alchemy book by Wilbraham, Staley, Simpson, and Matta.On page 446, figure 18-16, it stated that phenolphthalein would turn pink when the pH became 8 and above. The mage took the buret and handed it to his apprentice. She took the buret and listened to her mentor speak.
“Watch the solutions change color as you put in the HCl. Remember to put it in DROP by DROP,” said the mage. The apprentice hesitated to do so. The lab said to fill the HCl up to the zero line, but on the order form, it said that the quantity needed was 1.6 mL. Being the stupid apprentice that she was, she assumed that meant: put in 1.6 mL of HCl and used distilled water to fill the buret up to the zero line. Then, she put in the messed up HCl solution drop by drop. The evil black mage found out about his apprentice’s blunder and was ready to kill. But they still had to present their findings to the evil queen.
When the evil queen heard of the blunder, she let out a roar of rage! She ordered that both the mage and apprentice be beheaded with a blunt ax. The mage ran away but the apprentice was caught and met a slow and cruel death. The mage was caught soon after and met his end in the exact same manner.
Moral of the story: DON’T PROCRASTINATE >:o
TheMysteriousBox: .................................................................
xxPastel STARxx: you finished reading?
TheMysteriousBox: I once thought you had potential to be a chemistry major
xxPastel STARxx: shut up
xxPastel STARxx: i'm too stupid
TheMysteriousBox: this is going in my blog :P
xxPastel STARxx: Epilogue/results and conclusions/really unsuccessful attempt:
So that’s what happened to my lab. The ultimatum from the Queen symbolized my need to rush. The Evil Mage represented my logical side and his apprentice represented my stupid side which was rushing and was nearly dying of a heart attack. And the beheading in the end is probably going to be the one legged A that I will receive. However, I DO know what I did wrong, and if I had prepared EARLIER and if my head wasn’t clouded with panic, I wouldn’t have made such stupid mistakes. It’s too late to redo the lab, however, if in some parallel universe I am given the chance to redo the lab, I would know exactly what to do, and I wouldn’t have rushed myself into stupidity. It’s my fault for procrastinating and I’ll never ever do it again unless I’m forced to do so by gunpoint.
xxPastel STARxx: don't forget tot add the epilogue!
TheMysteriousBox: eer
xxPastel STARxx: this is the research part of my lab
TheMysteriousBox: *shrug*
xxPastel STARxx: Once upon a time, there lived an evil Queen who suffered from really bad stomach pains. One day, his stomach pains were especially painful. So he called forth the evil black mage and his apprentice that were studying Alchemy.
“Why have you called me, O great queen?” asked the mage.
“I am suffering greatly because of these pains in my stomach. Why is that so?” asked the queen.
“I believe you have too much HCl in your system,” replied the mage.
“Whatever that is, give me the best cure, or else I shall behead you! And I want this in less than an hour because you neglected to do this research earlier,” said the queen
“Yes, your majesty,” bowed the mage and his apprentice.
While leaving the Royal Hall, the apprentice asked,” How do you plan to reduce the HCl in her majesty’s body?”
“HCl is an acid, and all we need to do is find the right combination of bases in order to neutralize it,” replied the mage,” As the ancient alchemy book says, ‘a neutralization reaction is a reaction in which an acid and a base react in an aqueous solution to produce a salt and water’.”
The evil mage and his apprentice went deep, deep, down, down, to the deepest, downest part of the evil castle where the evil laboratory was.
xxPastel STARxx: it's a picture book
TheMysteriousBox: ...
xxPastel STARxx: so i'm sending it to you page by page without the pictures :p
TheMysteriousBox: ..................
xxPastel STARxx: Inside the evil dungeon laboratory, the mage took out two evil poisons called Tums and Gaviscan. The mage explained to the apprentice his reasoning.
“Tums contains CaCO3 and Gaviscan contains Al(OH)3 and MgCO3. Since they are both bases, theoretically, they should neutralize her majesty’s excessive HCl. Also note that these bases are called antacids. Why is that you ask? Well, first of all although they are indeed bases, their sole purpose is to reduce EXCESS acids in the stomach. It is essential that the stomach has HCl and gastric acids or else food would not be able to digest. Now, go get me two 100 mL beakers, a 25 mL graduated cylinder, a buret, as well as a mortar and pestle. I shall get the 1.6 mL of 6.0M of HCl and the phenolphthalein. Oh yes, while you’re over there, get me a ring stand, a butterfly clamp, a bottle of distilled water, and a stirring rod,” commanded the mage.
The apprentice did as she was told. After gathering the necessary materials, the mage quickly set the lab up. He handed the mortar and pestle to the apprentice and said,” Take one tablet of Tums and crush it in to find powder and put the powder into a beaker. When you have finished, clean the mortar and pestle thoroughly and do the same to the Gaviscan.”
xxPastel STARxx: After both tablets have been crushed and placed into different test tubes. The mage took the graduated cylinder and measured out 50 mL of distilled water and poured it into one beaker. As soon as the water was poured, the apprentice used the stirring rod to make a Tums solution. Then the mage measured out 50 mL of distilled water again and poured it in to the other beaker.
The apprentice cleaned the stirring rod and began to stir the other beaker with the Glaviscan solution.
“Sir, there is something wrong with this. Perhaps I did not crush the powder finely enough for there are big clumps of Glaviscan that float to the top and do not wish to be dissolved,” said the apprentice.
“Hmm…that is odd,” the mage stroked his chin, “Empty that out and re-crush the Glaviscan tablet. We shall try this solution again.”
And so they did. The apprentice made a super effort in order to make the tablet extra powdery. Even with that effort, the same result appeared again. The mage glanced at the clock, “We must continue with what we have. Time is running out.”
The mage brought the phenolphthalein to the lab table and put in four drops into both beakers. As he put in the four drops into the Tums solution, the apprentice noticed that the solution had turned pink.
xxPastel STARxx: She looked in her ancient alchemy book by Wilbraham, Staley, Simpson, and Matta.On page 446, figure 18-16, it stated that phenolphthalein would turn pink when the pH became 8 and above. The mage took the buret and handed it to his apprentice. She took the buret and listened to her mentor speak.
“Watch the solutions change color as you put in the HCl. Remember to put it in DROP by DROP,” said the mage. The apprentice hesitated to do so. The lab said to fill the HCl up to the zero line, but on the order form, it said that the quantity needed was 1.6 mL. Being the stupid apprentice that she was, she assumed that meant: put in 1.6 mL of HCl and used distilled water to fill the buret up to the zero line. Then, she put in the messed up HCl solution drop by drop. The evil black mage found out about his apprentice’s blunder and was ready to kill. But they still had to present their findings to the evil queen.
When the evil queen heard of the blunder, she let out a roar of rage! She ordered that both the mage and apprentice be beheaded with a blunt ax. The mage ran away but the apprentice was caught and met a slow and cruel death. The mage was caught soon after and met his end in the exact same manner.
Moral of the story: DON’T PROCRASTINATE >:o
TheMysteriousBox: .................................................................
xxPastel STARxx: you finished reading?
TheMysteriousBox: I once thought you had potential to be a chemistry major
xxPastel STARxx: shut up
xxPastel STARxx: i'm too stupid
TheMysteriousBox: this is going in my blog :P
xxPastel STARxx: Epilogue/results and conclusions/really unsuccessful attempt:
So that’s what happened to my lab. The ultimatum from the Queen symbolized my need to rush. The Evil Mage represented my logical side and his apprentice represented my stupid side which was rushing and was nearly dying of a heart attack. And the beheading in the end is probably going to be the one legged A that I will receive. However, I DO know what I did wrong, and if I had prepared EARLIER and if my head wasn’t clouded with panic, I wouldn’t have made such stupid mistakes. It’s too late to redo the lab, however, if in some parallel universe I am given the chance to redo the lab, I would know exactly what to do, and I wouldn’t have rushed myself into stupidity. It’s my fault for procrastinating and I’ll never ever do it again unless I’m forced to do so by gunpoint.
xxPastel STARxx: don't forget tot add the epilogue!
28.4.04
Anger
Is an interesting emotional response. How did it come to being? Well, probably when humans were still on the verge of survival, anger helped spark a sense of intimidation and retaliation against predators that would attack the individual. Nowadays it's a cause of many absurd and illogical actions that would otherwise make a world quite ideal. If there was no anger in teh world... think of how much problems that would solve. What a hindering emotional response. The best defense against this would be to try and suppress it as much as possible, just as any emotion I suppose. No matter how illogical the reasoning is. Reason with calmness and assurance, not with fire and passion. And look at the whole picture; try seeing how the opponent sees the situation, if you have an opponent.
24.4.04
Commentary on Episode 8 of Noir: Intoccible Act 2
At this point you can conclude two things.
1. I really really REALLY love Noir.
2. English has taken over my mind. Someone please save me from this menace.
Without further ado, here are some interesting aspects of the 8th episode of Noir which I found just... beautiful. Yes, duh, this will be spoilers. So if you're gonna watch Noir anytime soon, don't read. If you aren't, it's not gonna hurt you, It's only gonna make you see how much I REALLY like Noir.
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Now, there are three events of interest in this show that make this one of the best episodes I've seen so far. First, the entire scene where Mirielle assassinates the Intoccible (sp?). That is one of the most beautful scenes in the history of anime, I tell you. Then there is the issue of why Kirika's hand shakes when she was being pursued by two other mafia assassins; this is a rather mysterious case that even I cannot figure out yet. Third is Kirika eating ice cream. Yes, I'll be talking about that later.
Now, in the scene where Mirielle was too petrified to fire the gun, anyone could have guessed that the Intoccible must of truamatized por Mirielle when she was young. This is interesting, as the expert assassin Mirielle shows to have a weakness, a fear, that is presented to the audience. What's most interesting about this scene is how she overcomes this fear and reverses it in the Intoccible. This leads to the symbolism in the gun and dagger. One recognizes that you must be calm and focused when using a gun to aim and kill. In contrast, a blade can be used in complete rage and kill off the opponent aggressively. This is why Mirielle couldn't fire the gun; her composure was not calm and focused because of the way the Intoccible intimidated her. Now, why does she go for the blade, while the Intoccible went for the gun? The surface explanation would be that Intoccible thought Mirielle would go for the gun so she went for it, and Mirielle, in seeing this, went for the blade. However, there is meaning in this. By passing on the gun to the Intoccible and instead picking up the blade, Mirielle was able to transfer her fear into rage. While holding the gun, she felt petrified and could not do anything. But with the blade in her hand, there was a sense of power; even when the gun could kill her faster, the dagger was the enzyme that transformed her fear into rage. This, in turn, surprised the Intoccible, and for once, in her whole life when she lived by the words " I know no fear", she felt fear. It is BECAUSE she felt fear that she died, because she failed in her own aspect by picking up the gun instead of the blade, and instead of using the anger that would be expressed through the blade, she picked up a gun, which cannot be used in blind rage OR fear. And to see someone who was once below and once afraid of her suddenly turn and lunge for her... that was all the fear and surprise she needed to go down. This is why she wants to crown Mirielle as she was dying, because Mirielle was the one to defeat Intoccible not physically, but mentally and emotionally. She made the Intoccible feel fear, and by that she defeated her. But Mirielle does not accept. On one hand, one person can say this is the case because she is mourning over what she has done, to a supposed childhood friend. On the other, this unacceptance from the hands of the Intoccible could be seen as the Intoccible's loss of power, how the once great and commanding woman can now longer hold any power over anyone, until she finally dies, and Kirika takes the paper.
Kirika is an interesting character in herself in that show. First off, why does her hand shake when she was fighting off those two assassins? She has faced off many skilled assassins and been in much worse situations, yet she shakes. My theory is that this could be her synchronization with Mirielle's fear, showing an inner connection between the two. It is further supported when she shoots and breaks the blade that the Intoccible was holding and about to kill Mirielle with. Her instinct to not kill the Intoccible but break the blade was because of her connection with Mirielle; had she killed the Intoccible, she would have just been another assassin helping her partner. But by shooting the blade, Kirika demonstrates that she has another connection with Mirielle, she, somehow, feels what Mirielle feels, and for all the lack of emotion that she seems to show, she has some deep within that are intertwined with Mirielle's emotions.
Last but not least, Kirika eating ice cream in episode 7. Strange. Very strange, as this is supposed to be a very serious anime, but some reason her utter cuteness is shone through her eating down the cone and all of ice cream. Why is this there? Why not just show her in her typical monotonous and meloncholy expression? It is probably to elaborate the irony, just as a typical 14 year old girl should not be such a brutal assassin. And so, they top it off with her eating ice cream to the most utter kawaiiness possible in the whole snow. Awwwwwwww.... Kawaiiiiiiiiiii.... *gets killed with a fork X.x*
1. I really really REALLY love Noir.
2. English has taken over my mind. Someone please save me from this menace.
Without further ado, here are some interesting aspects of the 8th episode of Noir which I found just... beautiful. Yes, duh, this will be spoilers. So if you're gonna watch Noir anytime soon, don't read. If you aren't, it's not gonna hurt you, It's only gonna make you see how much I REALLY like Noir.
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Now, there are three events of interest in this show that make this one of the best episodes I've seen so far. First, the entire scene where Mirielle assassinates the Intoccible (sp?). That is one of the most beautful scenes in the history of anime, I tell you. Then there is the issue of why Kirika's hand shakes when she was being pursued by two other mafia assassins; this is a rather mysterious case that even I cannot figure out yet. Third is Kirika eating ice cream. Yes, I'll be talking about that later.
Now, in the scene where Mirielle was too petrified to fire the gun, anyone could have guessed that the Intoccible must of truamatized por Mirielle when she was young. This is interesting, as the expert assassin Mirielle shows to have a weakness, a fear, that is presented to the audience. What's most interesting about this scene is how she overcomes this fear and reverses it in the Intoccible. This leads to the symbolism in the gun and dagger. One recognizes that you must be calm and focused when using a gun to aim and kill. In contrast, a blade can be used in complete rage and kill off the opponent aggressively. This is why Mirielle couldn't fire the gun; her composure was not calm and focused because of the way the Intoccible intimidated her. Now, why does she go for the blade, while the Intoccible went for the gun? The surface explanation would be that Intoccible thought Mirielle would go for the gun so she went for it, and Mirielle, in seeing this, went for the blade. However, there is meaning in this. By passing on the gun to the Intoccible and instead picking up the blade, Mirielle was able to transfer her fear into rage. While holding the gun, she felt petrified and could not do anything. But with the blade in her hand, there was a sense of power; even when the gun could kill her faster, the dagger was the enzyme that transformed her fear into rage. This, in turn, surprised the Intoccible, and for once, in her whole life when she lived by the words " I know no fear", she felt fear. It is BECAUSE she felt fear that she died, because she failed in her own aspect by picking up the gun instead of the blade, and instead of using the anger that would be expressed through the blade, she picked up a gun, which cannot be used in blind rage OR fear. And to see someone who was once below and once afraid of her suddenly turn and lunge for her... that was all the fear and surprise she needed to go down. This is why she wants to crown Mirielle as she was dying, because Mirielle was the one to defeat Intoccible not physically, but mentally and emotionally. She made the Intoccible feel fear, and by that she defeated her. But Mirielle does not accept. On one hand, one person can say this is the case because she is mourning over what she has done, to a supposed childhood friend. On the other, this unacceptance from the hands of the Intoccible could be seen as the Intoccible's loss of power, how the once great and commanding woman can now longer hold any power over anyone, until she finally dies, and Kirika takes the paper.
Kirika is an interesting character in herself in that show. First off, why does her hand shake when she was fighting off those two assassins? She has faced off many skilled assassins and been in much worse situations, yet she shakes. My theory is that this could be her synchronization with Mirielle's fear, showing an inner connection between the two. It is further supported when she shoots and breaks the blade that the Intoccible was holding and about to kill Mirielle with. Her instinct to not kill the Intoccible but break the blade was because of her connection with Mirielle; had she killed the Intoccible, she would have just been another assassin helping her partner. But by shooting the blade, Kirika demonstrates that she has another connection with Mirielle, she, somehow, feels what Mirielle feels, and for all the lack of emotion that she seems to show, she has some deep within that are intertwined with Mirielle's emotions.
Last but not least, Kirika eating ice cream in episode 7. Strange. Very strange, as this is supposed to be a very serious anime, but some reason her utter cuteness is shone through her eating down the cone and all of ice cream. Why is this there? Why not just show her in her typical monotonous and meloncholy expression? It is probably to elaborate the irony, just as a typical 14 year old girl should not be such a brutal assassin. And so, they top it off with her eating ice cream to the most utter kawaiiness possible in the whole snow. Awwwwwwww.... Kawaiiiiiiiiiii.... *gets killed with a fork X.x*
19.4.04
NOIR (or black, or hei, or...)
Yesh! I finally got what I always wanted to watch for like, 6 months!! The anime Noir!! And it doesn't disappoint me either (not yet, anyway). Different from my usual line of anime, but none the less great. Superb animation. (they could have done something for the intermission though). Beautiful music. And... so far, the plot doesn't seem all that... "obvious", for a lack of a better word. And most of all, it's quite believable. Most of the aspects in this anime seems realistic enough to have it all happen in real life, except for a few things:
1. French people do not all know Japanese.
2. Somehow, in the anime, a CIA agent, or of that sort and training, cannot shoot a woman who was unguarded and unaware that the person was there. What kind of agent is that?!?
3. Mireille has hair either made of water or fire. Whatever it is, its not how normal hair moves. It like... flickers. o_O
Some things that are highly improbable, but not impossible in the anime:
1. Perfect Aim shots by a 14 year old (around that age) girl.
2. And she knows incredible gymnastics too.
3. And she has no emotions. Reminds of Rei. Hmm.
But that last one is kinda what makes the girl cool. :P Mystery still needs to unfold. I must look into it more.
NOIR!!!!!!!!!! (Black. :P)
1. French people do not all know Japanese.
2. Somehow, in the anime, a CIA agent, or of that sort and training, cannot shoot a woman who was unguarded and unaware that the person was there. What kind of agent is that?!?
3. Mireille has hair either made of water or fire. Whatever it is, its not how normal hair moves. It like... flickers. o_O
Some things that are highly improbable, but not impossible in the anime:
1. Perfect Aim shots by a 14 year old (around that age) girl.
2. And she knows incredible gymnastics too.
3. And she has no emotions. Reminds of Rei. Hmm.
But that last one is kinda what makes the girl cool. :P Mystery still needs to unfold. I must look into it more.
NOIR!!!!!!!!!! (Black. :P)
18.4.04
Cast REVIVE on ANIME SPIRIT!!
Yes, that's right! I've revived (kind of) my anime spirit! Prematurely, actually, as I should have gotten back into Anime AFTER testing. Ah... well... I'm giving out some of my reviews for recent "first looks" on a few episodes of Anime, ranking from worst to best (I think so far):
Melody of Oblivion: Cool title. The only thing really cool about it. As far as I can see, this thing is the most illogical and poor quality anime I've seen out of the four. Its animation isn't that bad, and that's one of the reasons I went and watched it (the other reason is because of the title, as I stated earlier), but the plotline is like one of those Sailor Moon type anime, only its not as girly (probably would have been better if it was). Music isn't that super, either. The characters are rather... pointless. At least, the main character, who just has that "I want to be a warrior" attitude that doesn't care much of anything else (Hey! a PMA char!). And the main bad guy is some monster-transforming-humans-into-monsters sorta guy, lame-o. And Motorcycles. What the heck? This is just a taste thing, but no motorcycles for me. The arrow idea was kinda cool, but not enough to keep me going. I'm scrapping this.
Monster: Ok, first off, I don't like its animation. If not for the intriguing plot of a neurosurgeon, I would not have gotten into it. And even so, I found out that all they're gonna talk about is a guy doing surgery, not research, though he does give information on some research he's been doing. But other than that, it seems decent enough. Most of the problems presented in here are much like real life problems, assuming a murderer shoots two parents dead and delivers a bullet through a brother's head while the sister stands tramatized is normal. However, the story seems rather expected, and I have a good prediction on what's gonna happen next. If it's predictable, I probably might drop it a few episodes in. It's not a favorite, especially no because of its animation and music, but it works for something. Key component in this anime here is logic; everything is very logical in their terms and descriptions, and that's what I like about this.
Ragnarok The Animation: I'm a Ragnarok Fan, so obviously I like it. :P I mean, unless it's REALLY badly made, I'm still gonna download and watch it no matter what. Sure, it isn't the greatest, but its nice in how much it follows gameplay rules, descriptions, words, phrases, and monsters. For some reason, I like that. :) GO THEIF BUGS!!!! Ahem. Anyway, If I didn't know so much about Ragnarok, I would have thought that this might not have been as great as I do now, but because it IS so gamelike and reminds of the game, I love it. Remember, this a fanboy talking, so you might not agree. :P Then again, you might not agree with anything I say. :P
Doki Doki School Hours, or Sensei no Ojikan: SOOOOOOO KAWAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!! Basically, an Azumanga Clone, only more cute. Most people probably would look down on it because it IS a clone of Azumanga, but its so CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE!!!!!!!!!!! Basically, its the absurd adventures of a teacher that had a lack of growth hormones during adolesence (in simple anime-ish terms, SHE'S CHIBI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and the strange students in her class. Nice for comedy relief. I'm definately sticking with this one, both for the cuteness and the comedy.
Melody of Oblivion: Cool title. The only thing really cool about it. As far as I can see, this thing is the most illogical and poor quality anime I've seen out of the four. Its animation isn't that bad, and that's one of the reasons I went and watched it (the other reason is because of the title, as I stated earlier), but the plotline is like one of those Sailor Moon type anime, only its not as girly (probably would have been better if it was). Music isn't that super, either. The characters are rather... pointless. At least, the main character, who just has that "I want to be a warrior" attitude that doesn't care much of anything else (Hey! a PMA char!). And the main bad guy is some monster-transforming-humans-into-monsters sorta guy, lame-o. And Motorcycles. What the heck? This is just a taste thing, but no motorcycles for me. The arrow idea was kinda cool, but not enough to keep me going. I'm scrapping this.
Monster: Ok, first off, I don't like its animation. If not for the intriguing plot of a neurosurgeon, I would not have gotten into it. And even so, I found out that all they're gonna talk about is a guy doing surgery, not research, though he does give information on some research he's been doing. But other than that, it seems decent enough. Most of the problems presented in here are much like real life problems, assuming a murderer shoots two parents dead and delivers a bullet through a brother's head while the sister stands tramatized is normal. However, the story seems rather expected, and I have a good prediction on what's gonna happen next. If it's predictable, I probably might drop it a few episodes in. It's not a favorite, especially no because of its animation and music, but it works for something. Key component in this anime here is logic; everything is very logical in their terms and descriptions, and that's what I like about this.
Ragnarok The Animation: I'm a Ragnarok Fan, so obviously I like it. :P I mean, unless it's REALLY badly made, I'm still gonna download and watch it no matter what. Sure, it isn't the greatest, but its nice in how much it follows gameplay rules, descriptions, words, phrases, and monsters. For some reason, I like that. :) GO THEIF BUGS!!!! Ahem. Anyway, If I didn't know so much about Ragnarok, I would have thought that this might not have been as great as I do now, but because it IS so gamelike and reminds of the game, I love it. Remember, this a fanboy talking, so you might not agree. :P Then again, you might not agree with anything I say. :P
Doki Doki School Hours, or Sensei no Ojikan: SOOOOOOO KAWAIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII!!!! Basically, an Azumanga Clone, only more cute. Most people probably would look down on it because it IS a clone of Azumanga, but its so CUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTE!!!!!!!!!!! Basically, its the absurd adventures of a teacher that had a lack of growth hormones during adolesence (in simple anime-ish terms, SHE'S CHIBI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) and the strange students in her class. Nice for comedy relief. I'm definately sticking with this one, both for the cuteness and the comedy.
6.4.04
ASBW Chronicles Box Logs #3: The Legend of the Arrogant Loner
And now, since PMA came back, we have the chapter where... PMA comes back!
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Now, usually you would expect a warm-hearted hug or even just a simple greeting when you finally get to see an old buddy of yours after so many years. But this wasn't the case, nope not at all. I thought that certainly he would experience the same joy of meeting an old friend as I do, finally being able to meet PMA again after all these years, but what do I get? A rather quick paced game of "shoot the Box" where I jumped from wall to wall dodging PMA's Mega Energy Blast attacks, until frankly I had no more walls to jump to.
"Well, it was nice meeting with you again, bully, but I'm afraid if you keep on shooting me I'm gonna have to leave this part of area, for the sake of safety!" I told him and bid goodbye.
"You aren't getting away that easily, demon!!" And again he began charging his blaster, cock and aim towards me. I stood and waved, and upon his firing I prepared to leave and never see him again.
However, a psychic gripped my leg and I tripped. Luckily, the blast went right over me, but of course the tripping came as a surprise to me, as I didn't expect PMA to be able (or be smart enough) to do that.
And I found out it was in fact another blue haired lady that walked up and must have executed the attack.
"Oh PMA," The blue haired lady said. "Didn't I tell you not to shoot everything that moves around here? It's obvious he's not one of the minions of Darkmaster Ash."
"Sabrina?? What are you doing here?? I told you, it's too dangerous for you to be around and I'll be fine by myself."
"Yea," Sabrina remarked sarcastically, "fine shooting your old time buddies instead of actually chasing DMA." PMA took a closer look at me. "Oh... It's you." I stood up and brushed myself.
"I'm glad you came to your senses, my good fellow. Here's to a reunion greeting!" I stuck out my hand, expecting a shake back. PMA just turned around. "I have more important things to do. I cannot be bothered with this..."
"Person who blew up the ASB Tower many years ago??" PMA got one of those little cross thingies on his forehead. "O yea, I need a place to stay for the night... As you can see, I'm kinda stuck, mind if I..."
"NO!!" PMA yelled, and flew away.
"Guess he doesn't want me in his residence." I shrugged and began to walk away.
"Wait, I know a place that you might be able to stay," Sabrina pipped up.
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"KINLAP OL' BUDDY!! How have you been??" The two old friends hugged.
"Fine Fine, running a nice park business, developing some cool bracelets for me and PMA to wear, fighting some crime and evil with PMA... though he seems to find me more of a nuicance lately these days..." Kinlap pondered.
"What IS up with that guy anyway? Some welcome he gave me." I pouted.
"He..." Sabrina sighed. "He's really a very nice fellow. As far as what I've gathered from his history, he came this planet when he was a child, alone and no one to take care of him. He wandered the streets for a while, until he was saved one day by this man in blue armor. Something like the armor he wears around now... well anyway, then you came along and tried to blow up the tower. Ash was apparently affected by this hero that he himself wanted to become one, and so that's why he went after you to try and stop you. Its something like child idolness..."
"I think it's still in him," I commented.
"Yea, it is." Kinlap continued Sabrina's story. "Well anyway, shortly after the four of us met, of course, you and the popcorn selling kid left. Since PMA was pretty much an orphan at that time, my family took him up and raised him. From then on until recently, we did many things together: developed cool bracelets, fight crime alongside, and that sort of stuff. Only, he always seemed to want to get the attention and fame of 'defeating the bad guy' and 'being the hero', which was perfectly fine with me, until recently. Now, he's working alone; he no longer wants anyone to help him. Consequently, something else came out of him... While the times were quiet and no crime was going around, a shadowy figure began to appear and begin causing trouble, and when PMA confronted him, he saw..."
"Himself," Sabrina finished. "I'm not sure, but I think it must have been some psychological effect, like PMA's desire to beat up things coupled with his sense of honor and loyalty... somewhere there must have been a split, and now he's like this. But that's only my guess."
"Enough about him, I'm sure you're tired. Let me bring you up to your room." Kinlap walked me to the nice bedroom in his mansion.
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I wasn't exactly as tired as Kinlap had thought I was. After all, there was a huge time difference travelling between dimensions, and days in my training dimension were almost twice as long as these days. So, needless to say, I got up and begn roaming around without waking Kinlap and the others. I took out a sheet of paper that had "Fei" (fly) inscribed on it and attached it to my wrist, then flew to the area I sat the time just before I blew up the ASB Tower, and gazed at the moons. They were similar to those in the former dimension, as all moons are: mysterious, illuminating, enchanting. Nevertheless, each moon was different, and it was a pleasure finally seeing a different moon in a different world...
"What are you up to?" I looked to my side and saw PMA, arms crossed. "Are you planning to demolish the building again? If you are, I'm not letting you."
I smirked. "Could you catch me if I was?" I started to fly towards the tower, but PMA immediately blocked my path. I flew above him and continued, then went around the tower and me and PMA played tag as we did in the early days, only now we flew. It was quite some fun, until some shadow stalkers and dark minions interrupted and attacked us.
"Get Away!! These are Dangerous!!" PMA told me in a heroic manner, though I frankly was willing to listen to him. After all, who wants to get their hands tangled with a bunch of freakish nightmares like them?
"PMA transform into Fightmaster Ash!!"
And PMA began fending off some of the minions, but apparently the creatures didn't see PMA as their only target. Some of them began coming after me, and soon after I had shadow stalkers coming from above (remember, I was right beside the ASB Tower) and minions coming from below and in front (some can fly!!).
"Hey guys, let me through!! I'm not your target!!" But I knew they wouldn't listen, so I quickly slipped through into my hands a leafletc, holding my hands in a upside-down cup like form to guise the spell. One of the the shadow stalkers grabbed the hand.
"So, you wanna see what's inside? WUDIN GUAN GONGJI!!" A bright spiralatic trail of five blasts of light hit and attacked the shadow stalkers above me, immediately dissipating them to nothingness.
"Sorry, love to play, but I'd much rather watch." I took out the inscription "Xiao" and attached it to my shoulder and disappeared from the view of my attackers. I immediately flew up (as the shadow stalkers that were above me have perished) and sat on the side of the ASB Tower, watching the battle go on below.
It was quite fun, much like a Jackie Chan movie, watching PMA toss the bad guys like they do when 500 bad guy flunkies take on one hero. One thing I thought he'd have trouble on is the shadow stalkers, but that didnt' seem to faze him.
"Heh, think you can be immune to me with your shadow bodies?" PMA stated arrogantly as he was grabbed by one of the shadows at the arm. "Sesmic Toss!!" He, in a startling manner, pulled the shadow from the walls and flung it across the street. "Low Kick!" he executed as another tried to grab him on the leg, and he quickly tossed that one aside as well.
However, dispite his nice antics, he soon enough was captured by the shadow stalkers and was held in a rather tight situation.
"Haw haw haw haw haw." Some guy's laugh sounded a lot like he needed a cough drop.
"Who's there?" PMA asked bravely (or foolishly, pick your choice of adverbs).
What emerged from the shadows was... a large shadow. It was amorphous, figureless, all but two sinister looking yellow glowing eyes. "My name... is Evil Master, and you have fallen straight into my trap." Evil Master laughed his sickly (as in, he sounded as if he was ill) laugh again.
"You work for Darkmaster Ash, don't you?? Don't get too cocky," PMA said ironically. "I may just have to bust out and use..."
"But you won't." Said a voice that sounded a lot like PMA (twice the egoness!!). It was, of course, DMA, with Sabrina in his clutches. Sabrina, try as she might, could not get away. "Actually, I've been working for this fellow shadow here, not the other way around. And if you try anything, your little wife gets it. Why can't she teleport away? Why, because I gave her the Mean Look, of course." DMA smirked.
At this point, I could tell PMA was in real trouble. Despite all his egotism and wanting to deal damage, he at least had enough honor left in him to protect the one that he loved... and with that, he stopped struggling and just glared at the Evil Master.
"That's a good fellow..."
SSSssss. "YEEOOOCCHHH!!!" A slip with the incantation of Guang (Light) had somehow struck the arm of DMA that was holding onto Sabrina. Then, in a blink of an eye, Sabrina disappeared from sight.
"What the--?!? But she couldn't have!! I trapped her with my spell, she couldn't have teleported away!!"
"But she did." PMA smirked. "PMA transform into ANGEMASTER ASH!!" The bright flash of light was enough to destroy all of the minions and shadows holding PMA down, and make Evil Master cringe.
"Arg... you escaped this time, but next time will not be so easy." Evil Master tried slipping into the shadows, but then suddenly a shine went through and he hit a wall. "What the?!?"
"You're blocked out," PMA stated obviously, "With no where to go. HYPER BEAM(ish attack)!!" With a bright flash of light, the Evil Master with a sore through cackled his last cackle and fell into oblivion, for now.
Meanwhile, up on another tower (ASB Tower #2 was destroyed with Evil Master blew up), Sabrina wanted to go back down and help her lover, but I pulled her back.
"You were ruining the show before, and I don't want you to go ruin it again. Let's see what PMA does now..."
"Let go of me!! I need to go help him!!" And so, the annoying Sabrina who I saved went back down to ruin the whole cool fighting scene that was supposed to happen with PMA and DMA. O well.
"Wait!!" Sabrina lunged onto PMA like a cheap soap opera show, quickly stopping PMA from delivering the last blow to DMA.
"I thought you teleported to safety," PMA said coldly.
"If you destroy DMA, you'll destroy yourself!!"
"What?"
"The reason he exists," Sabrina continued with her philosophical ideas, "is that he's a part of you... and even though he's your darker side, he's still you. A light cannot live without a dark. Bring him back into you. Please. Just keep closer watch over him and make sure he doesn't go on a rampage as he did to you... I think maybe we can do that by calling over... a couple of friends."
Sabrina was probably referring to me, but, as the battle was already over, I had begun to leave already.
"Oh well, let's get ready for the next adventure..." I snapped my fingers.
Immediately a huge spaceship flew straight over my head and landed a few feet in front of PMA.
"Woah, that was cool."
-----
Now, usually you would expect a warm-hearted hug or even just a simple greeting when you finally get to see an old buddy of yours after so many years. But this wasn't the case, nope not at all. I thought that certainly he would experience the same joy of meeting an old friend as I do, finally being able to meet PMA again after all these years, but what do I get? A rather quick paced game of "shoot the Box" where I jumped from wall to wall dodging PMA's Mega Energy Blast attacks, until frankly I had no more walls to jump to.
"Well, it was nice meeting with you again, bully, but I'm afraid if you keep on shooting me I'm gonna have to leave this part of area, for the sake of safety!" I told him and bid goodbye.
"You aren't getting away that easily, demon!!" And again he began charging his blaster, cock and aim towards me. I stood and waved, and upon his firing I prepared to leave and never see him again.
However, a psychic gripped my leg and I tripped. Luckily, the blast went right over me, but of course the tripping came as a surprise to me, as I didn't expect PMA to be able (or be smart enough) to do that.
And I found out it was in fact another blue haired lady that walked up and must have executed the attack.
"Oh PMA," The blue haired lady said. "Didn't I tell you not to shoot everything that moves around here? It's obvious he's not one of the minions of Darkmaster Ash."
"Sabrina?? What are you doing here?? I told you, it's too dangerous for you to be around and I'll be fine by myself."
"Yea," Sabrina remarked sarcastically, "fine shooting your old time buddies instead of actually chasing DMA." PMA took a closer look at me. "Oh... It's you." I stood up and brushed myself.
"I'm glad you came to your senses, my good fellow. Here's to a reunion greeting!" I stuck out my hand, expecting a shake back. PMA just turned around. "I have more important things to do. I cannot be bothered with this..."
"Person who blew up the ASB Tower many years ago??" PMA got one of those little cross thingies on his forehead. "O yea, I need a place to stay for the night... As you can see, I'm kinda stuck, mind if I..."
"NO!!" PMA yelled, and flew away.
"Guess he doesn't want me in his residence." I shrugged and began to walk away.
"Wait, I know a place that you might be able to stay," Sabrina pipped up.
-----
"KINLAP OL' BUDDY!! How have you been??" The two old friends hugged.
"Fine Fine, running a nice park business, developing some cool bracelets for me and PMA to wear, fighting some crime and evil with PMA... though he seems to find me more of a nuicance lately these days..." Kinlap pondered.
"What IS up with that guy anyway? Some welcome he gave me." I pouted.
"He..." Sabrina sighed. "He's really a very nice fellow. As far as what I've gathered from his history, he came this planet when he was a child, alone and no one to take care of him. He wandered the streets for a while, until he was saved one day by this man in blue armor. Something like the armor he wears around now... well anyway, then you came along and tried to blow up the tower. Ash was apparently affected by this hero that he himself wanted to become one, and so that's why he went after you to try and stop you. Its something like child idolness..."
"I think it's still in him," I commented.
"Yea, it is." Kinlap continued Sabrina's story. "Well anyway, shortly after the four of us met, of course, you and the popcorn selling kid left. Since PMA was pretty much an orphan at that time, my family took him up and raised him. From then on until recently, we did many things together: developed cool bracelets, fight crime alongside, and that sort of stuff. Only, he always seemed to want to get the attention and fame of 'defeating the bad guy' and 'being the hero', which was perfectly fine with me, until recently. Now, he's working alone; he no longer wants anyone to help him. Consequently, something else came out of him... While the times were quiet and no crime was going around, a shadowy figure began to appear and begin causing trouble, and when PMA confronted him, he saw..."
"Himself," Sabrina finished. "I'm not sure, but I think it must have been some psychological effect, like PMA's desire to beat up things coupled with his sense of honor and loyalty... somewhere there must have been a split, and now he's like this. But that's only my guess."
"Enough about him, I'm sure you're tired. Let me bring you up to your room." Kinlap walked me to the nice bedroom in his mansion.
-----
I wasn't exactly as tired as Kinlap had thought I was. After all, there was a huge time difference travelling between dimensions, and days in my training dimension were almost twice as long as these days. So, needless to say, I got up and begn roaming around without waking Kinlap and the others. I took out a sheet of paper that had "Fei" (fly) inscribed on it and attached it to my wrist, then flew to the area I sat the time just before I blew up the ASB Tower, and gazed at the moons. They were similar to those in the former dimension, as all moons are: mysterious, illuminating, enchanting. Nevertheless, each moon was different, and it was a pleasure finally seeing a different moon in a different world...
"What are you up to?" I looked to my side and saw PMA, arms crossed. "Are you planning to demolish the building again? If you are, I'm not letting you."
I smirked. "Could you catch me if I was?" I started to fly towards the tower, but PMA immediately blocked my path. I flew above him and continued, then went around the tower and me and PMA played tag as we did in the early days, only now we flew. It was quite some fun, until some shadow stalkers and dark minions interrupted and attacked us.
"Get Away!! These are Dangerous!!" PMA told me in a heroic manner, though I frankly was willing to listen to him. After all, who wants to get their hands tangled with a bunch of freakish nightmares like them?
"PMA transform into Fightmaster Ash!!"
And PMA began fending off some of the minions, but apparently the creatures didn't see PMA as their only target. Some of them began coming after me, and soon after I had shadow stalkers coming from above (remember, I was right beside the ASB Tower) and minions coming from below and in front (some can fly!!).
"Hey guys, let me through!! I'm not your target!!" But I knew they wouldn't listen, so I quickly slipped through into my hands a leafletc, holding my hands in a upside-down cup like form to guise the spell. One of the the shadow stalkers grabbed the hand.
"So, you wanna see what's inside? WUDIN GUAN GONGJI!!" A bright spiralatic trail of five blasts of light hit and attacked the shadow stalkers above me, immediately dissipating them to nothingness.
"Sorry, love to play, but I'd much rather watch." I took out the inscription "Xiao" and attached it to my shoulder and disappeared from the view of my attackers. I immediately flew up (as the shadow stalkers that were above me have perished) and sat on the side of the ASB Tower, watching the battle go on below.
It was quite fun, much like a Jackie Chan movie, watching PMA toss the bad guys like they do when 500 bad guy flunkies take on one hero. One thing I thought he'd have trouble on is the shadow stalkers, but that didnt' seem to faze him.
"Heh, think you can be immune to me with your shadow bodies?" PMA stated arrogantly as he was grabbed by one of the shadows at the arm. "Sesmic Toss!!" He, in a startling manner, pulled the shadow from the walls and flung it across the street. "Low Kick!" he executed as another tried to grab him on the leg, and he quickly tossed that one aside as well.
However, dispite his nice antics, he soon enough was captured by the shadow stalkers and was held in a rather tight situation.
"Haw haw haw haw haw." Some guy's laugh sounded a lot like he needed a cough drop.
"Who's there?" PMA asked bravely (or foolishly, pick your choice of adverbs).
What emerged from the shadows was... a large shadow. It was amorphous, figureless, all but two sinister looking yellow glowing eyes. "My name... is Evil Master, and you have fallen straight into my trap." Evil Master laughed his sickly (as in, he sounded as if he was ill) laugh again.
"You work for Darkmaster Ash, don't you?? Don't get too cocky," PMA said ironically. "I may just have to bust out and use..."
"But you won't." Said a voice that sounded a lot like PMA (twice the egoness!!). It was, of course, DMA, with Sabrina in his clutches. Sabrina, try as she might, could not get away. "Actually, I've been working for this fellow shadow here, not the other way around. And if you try anything, your little wife gets it. Why can't she teleport away? Why, because I gave her the Mean Look, of course." DMA smirked.
At this point, I could tell PMA was in real trouble. Despite all his egotism and wanting to deal damage, he at least had enough honor left in him to protect the one that he loved... and with that, he stopped struggling and just glared at the Evil Master.
"That's a good fellow..."
SSSssss. "YEEOOOCCHHH!!!" A slip with the incantation of Guang (Light) had somehow struck the arm of DMA that was holding onto Sabrina. Then, in a blink of an eye, Sabrina disappeared from sight.
"What the--?!? But she couldn't have!! I trapped her with my spell, she couldn't have teleported away!!"
"But she did." PMA smirked. "PMA transform into ANGEMASTER ASH!!" The bright flash of light was enough to destroy all of the minions and shadows holding PMA down, and make Evil Master cringe.
"Arg... you escaped this time, but next time will not be so easy." Evil Master tried slipping into the shadows, but then suddenly a shine went through and he hit a wall. "What the?!?"
"You're blocked out," PMA stated obviously, "With no where to go. HYPER BEAM(ish attack)!!" With a bright flash of light, the Evil Master with a sore through cackled his last cackle and fell into oblivion, for now.
Meanwhile, up on another tower (ASB Tower #2 was destroyed with Evil Master blew up), Sabrina wanted to go back down and help her lover, but I pulled her back.
"You were ruining the show before, and I don't want you to go ruin it again. Let's see what PMA does now..."
"Let go of me!! I need to go help him!!" And so, the annoying Sabrina who I saved went back down to ruin the whole cool fighting scene that was supposed to happen with PMA and DMA. O well.
"Wait!!" Sabrina lunged onto PMA like a cheap soap opera show, quickly stopping PMA from delivering the last blow to DMA.
"I thought you teleported to safety," PMA said coldly.
"If you destroy DMA, you'll destroy yourself!!"
"What?"
"The reason he exists," Sabrina continued with her philosophical ideas, "is that he's a part of you... and even though he's your darker side, he's still you. A light cannot live without a dark. Bring him back into you. Please. Just keep closer watch over him and make sure he doesn't go on a rampage as he did to you... I think maybe we can do that by calling over... a couple of friends."
Sabrina was probably referring to me, but, as the battle was already over, I had begun to leave already.
"Oh well, let's get ready for the next adventure..." I snapped my fingers.
Immediately a huge spaceship flew straight over my head and landed a few feet in front of PMA.
"Woah, that was cool."
4.4.04
UPDATE ON THE WHERABOUTS ON PMA!!!
Note recieved by PM on TPM:
In case you guys are wondering where I disappeared to, I'm having some problems with my internet connection. I haven't been able to get to TPM or on AIM since Thursday afternoon. As for this message, I'm using someone else's comp so this is more or less all you'll hear from me until this is all sorted out. Please tell the others.
Later.
That has been a note from PMA. PMA, we're glad you're out there and fine! Now post in the ASB War RPG. :P
In case you guys are wondering where I disappeared to, I'm having some problems with my internet connection. I haven't been able to get to TPM or on AIM since Thursday afternoon. As for this message, I'm using someone else's comp so this is more or less all you'll hear from me until this is all sorted out. Please tell the others.
Later.
That has been a note from PMA. PMA, we're glad you're out there and fine! Now post in the ASB War RPG. :P
And the Investigation into the missing PMA Commences!!
As many of you know, the one known as Pokemaster Ash seems to have been eluding the internet these days. For those who know him, this is a very strange occurance; the screenname pokemasterrj has almost never been seen offline except in late night circumstances (or if you're on the west coast, not so late night circumstances). Where is PMA? Has something happened to him? his computer? his family? OR! Is there something... else behind this?? We look into the streets for more answers.
TheMysteriousBox: RO!
RiOrius: Aye?
TheMysteriousBox: has PMA been around lately
RiOrius: Haven't noticed either way.
TheMysteriousBox: hmmm
TheMysteriousBox: it seems that PMA has been... not online lately
TheMysteriousBox: highly suspicious
TheMysteriousBox: both me and Sal2 have noticed
TheMysteriousBox: it could be that he just blocked us because we were annoying
TheMysteriousBox: or it could be that....
TheMysteriousBox: that...
TheMysteriousBox: :O he got a life?
TheMysteriousBox: I will ask PJBW, he has more info on him
RiOrius: Don't jump to conclusions now :-P
TheMysteriousBox: that's what Sal2 said too :P
Apparently RO isn't worried. Nice to see he has confidence in the little egotist.
TheMysteriousBox: PJBW!
ProfJbWolf: Boxo
TheMysteriousBox: As a good friend of PMA, me and Sal2 would like to inquiry you
TheMysteriousBox: PMA has not been on our buddy lists for a while
ProfJbWolf: I have no idea where he is
TheMysteriousBox: has he blocked us, or has he truly... got a life? :O
ProfJbWolf: And I've noticed that he's been gone for awhile
ProfJbWolf: I think he may have gotten a life or...
ProfJbWolf: in the worst case scenario
ProfJbWolf: He's lost it
TheMysteriousBox: ....
ProfJbWolf: Of course
TheMysteriousBox: :O
ProfJbWolf: Its no good to dwell on such thoughts
TheMysteriousBox: a mystery indeed
TheMysteriousBox: yesh
ProfJbWolf: Actually
TheMysteriousBox: we must start an investigation
ProfJbWolf: He mentioned that his computer was going on the fritz
TheMysteriousBox: the PMA investigation crew MUST find out!
ProfJbWolf: Maybe it finally shut downa ll together
TheMysteriousBox: Is it that he has job problems?
TheMysteriousBox: is it that he has computer problems?
TheMysteriousBox: Is it that he has family problems?
TheMysteriousBox: or.... worse...
ProfJbWolf: He's been attacked by fluffy bunnies of Easter?
TheMysteriousBox: :O
TheMysteriousBox: but he'd survive that
TheMysteriousBox: and live to tell the tale
TheMysteriousBox: Oh would he tell
TheMysteriousBox: yes I know him too well
Again, no answers. However, we have learned that it is indeed PMA being absent rather than him blocking me and Sal2, for PMA would NEVER block out his friend PJBW even in the most annoying of circumstances (PJBW? Annoying? That's a funny thing in itself). Where in the world is Pokemaster Ash? We await your answer, PMA. We all miss you. :P
TheMysteriousBox: RO!
RiOrius: Aye?
TheMysteriousBox: has PMA been around lately
RiOrius: Haven't noticed either way.
TheMysteriousBox: hmmm
TheMysteriousBox: it seems that PMA has been... not online lately
TheMysteriousBox: highly suspicious
TheMysteriousBox: both me and Sal2 have noticed
TheMysteriousBox: it could be that he just blocked us because we were annoying
TheMysteriousBox: or it could be that....
TheMysteriousBox: that...
TheMysteriousBox: :O he got a life?
TheMysteriousBox: I will ask PJBW, he has more info on him
RiOrius: Don't jump to conclusions now :-P
TheMysteriousBox: that's what Sal2 said too :P
Apparently RO isn't worried. Nice to see he has confidence in the little egotist.
TheMysteriousBox: PJBW!
ProfJbWolf: Boxo
TheMysteriousBox: As a good friend of PMA, me and Sal2 would like to inquiry you
TheMysteriousBox: PMA has not been on our buddy lists for a while
ProfJbWolf: I have no idea where he is
TheMysteriousBox: has he blocked us, or has he truly... got a life? :O
ProfJbWolf: And I've noticed that he's been gone for awhile
ProfJbWolf: I think he may have gotten a life or...
ProfJbWolf: in the worst case scenario
ProfJbWolf: He's lost it
TheMysteriousBox: ....
ProfJbWolf: Of course
TheMysteriousBox: :O
ProfJbWolf: Its no good to dwell on such thoughts
TheMysteriousBox: a mystery indeed
TheMysteriousBox: yesh
ProfJbWolf: Actually
TheMysteriousBox: we must start an investigation
ProfJbWolf: He mentioned that his computer was going on the fritz
TheMysteriousBox: the PMA investigation crew MUST find out!
ProfJbWolf: Maybe it finally shut downa ll together
TheMysteriousBox: Is it that he has job problems?
TheMysteriousBox: is it that he has computer problems?
TheMysteriousBox: Is it that he has family problems?
TheMysteriousBox: or.... worse...
ProfJbWolf: He's been attacked by fluffy bunnies of Easter?
TheMysteriousBox: :O
TheMysteriousBox: but he'd survive that
TheMysteriousBox: and live to tell the tale
TheMysteriousBox: Oh would he tell
TheMysteriousBox: yes I know him too well
Again, no answers. However, we have learned that it is indeed PMA being absent rather than him blocking me and Sal2, for PMA would NEVER block out his friend PJBW even in the most annoying of circumstances (PJBW? Annoying? That's a funny thing in itself). Where in the world is Pokemaster Ash? We await your answer, PMA. We all miss you. :P
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