According to Aeris Cloud likes wearing dresses, the Kanji for Woman, and PUNCHING PEOPLE.

0711.10

It's been a frustrating, yet eventful day.

First off, I felt like an idiot waiting for a video I need to render. It must have been a 2 hour wait,
then I finally said "that's is. This can't be working." and stopped the rendition. As I suspected, the computer had been doing nothing, although it had claimed "rendering video" for 2 hours. So I restarted, put the file together again, and continued. It's been about an hour, and it's still going, but at least this time it's going, for sure. Don't get me wrong, I love my HD camera, but the resolution is a total butt to deal with.
-sigh-
But summer means no rush, right?

SO THEN I PLAYED FF7! (actually, I was playing while my computer was fake-rendering..)
And I got to the famous part where Cloud has to wear a dress.
I'm actually really surprised that SquareEnix did something like this.. but I guess, this was 13 years ago, when game systems juuust started, and only older people played the games.

Basically, there's this guy called Don Corneo, and you need to get in his house because Tifa has been dragged off there. The master of the estate claims to only like women, so, although Aeris would be allowed inside, Cloud wouldn't be.... If I was a man I'd beg to differ though. I mean, heck... is there a person who /doesn't/ think Cloud Strife is attractive? (Yes. I am going to be expressing my severe love of Cloud in this blog... a lot.)
Anyways, this guy Don Corneo is like... how do I put this... a perverted old man? Guess why he forced Tifa into his command. Guess.
Every night he chooses one of three girls to ... spend it with. Aha.. ha.

Aeris is actually the one who suggests Cloud wear a dress. (WHO IS THIS GIRL? First she's like, "hehehe... BE BY BOYFRIEND." and then seconds later.. "OH YOU'D BE CUTE IN A DRESS. -I TOTALLY LIKE GUYS IN DRESSES-" ... NO.) In order to get a guy to make a dress for Cloud she lies and says, "He's always wanted to wear a dress, you know?" I laughed, but cried at the same time.
So Cloud goes along with Aeris into Corneo's mansion and they find Tifa. They decide they'll act as the 3 "girls" who Corneo has to choose between. I seriously thought Corneo would choose Cloud. I would have loved SquareEnix for this. But no - it was Tifa. Instead, Cloud gets with one of Corneo's men, who then takes him to all his friends, and they chase after Cloud like... well, woman-starved zombies? Seriously. They have their arms reaching out and everything.
Entertaining. Entertaining.

It made me sad though today, to realize that I can't re-play FF10 or Kingdom Hearts over the summer... My brother has our PS2 in his apartment.. because for some reason he just reeeally wanted one, when he could have stayed at home - free of charge. I'm going to have to make him buy the slim PS2 soon.

I also decided to try my hand at Eternal Sonata again, today. I've been stuck at the same place for about a year now... (pathetic, I know. Reminds me of the time I was stuck fighting Riku in KH1. ANNOYING.) COUNT WALTZ IS AMAZINGLY CUTE, BUT DEAR GOD -
He has his stupid dragon and then gets 2 turns right after one another.
I use Allegretto, Beat, and Frederick (HEALZ PLZ), but it's not working. I can't use Polka cause she DIIIEEES. But.. maybe if I spend 3 hours leveling, it will help? I just think Waltz is over-powered. He can take a character down in just one turn, then I have to scramble to revive, and heal. I reeeally wish there was an item that revived and healed to max hp.... like Max Revive. Oh Pokemon... hack into Eternal Sonata and bless it.



So other than that....
I have a sweet tooth right now...?


5 Kanji Corner ------------------------------------------------------
***DISCLAIMER:: I AM NOT AN EXPERT.
I AM 3 & 1/2 YEARS BOOK TAUGHT.
THIS IS FOR MY OWN REVIEW, BUT I JUST THOUGHT I'D SHARE.

((( 　言　 )))　
To say, speech, word
ゲン・い（う）
Language:　げんご（言語）
Prediction, promise：　よげん（予言）
Silence:　むごん（無言）

(((　調　))) 　
Investigate
チョウ・しら（べる）・ととの（う）・ととの（える）
Tune, tone:　ちょうし（調子）
Harmony:　ちょうわ(調和）
　
(((　派　)))　
Group, sect　
パ・ハ
Belonging to no faction:　むは(無派）
Gaudy:　はで（派手）
Splendid, grand:　りっぱ（立派）

(((　達　)))　
To reach, arrive, attain
タチ・ダチ・タツ
Expert:　たつじん（達人）
Friend:　ともだち（友達）

((( 　女　)))
Woman, female
ジョ・おんな・め
Woman:　おんなのひと（女の人）
Girl: じょし（女子）
Young lady:　おとめ（乙女）　(Also the kanji used for "Otome Games," WHICH I LOVE!)

A Dose of Boy Love ------------------------------------------------------

Double Cast, by Mamahara Ellie!
It's a different art style,
but I love the mangaka. <333>

Gif TIEM! ------------------------------------------------------

After I watched People Getting Punched Before they Eat,
I admit -
I was afraid of eating.

DARN YOU ANDY SAMBERG.

(Feel free to save them to your computer :D
No hot-linking please!
It will crash my photobucket account.)
((Yes, I made these myself by recording video and then using an animation program to convert them to gifs.
I do not own the people, characters, or shows. Rights go to SNL and Tracy Morgan))

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-ハムウ

Cloud's Eyes, The Kanji for "Evening" & Jonas lawlz

0710.10

Hello again, everyone. :]
I've decided I'm going to make this an all-encompassing blog.
So that means it's just going to be about everything - not just TM.
I think it would be cool if I could keep up with this blog in college just so I have a place to put my thoughts. I've had a paper diary for awhile, but it's hard to write in sometimes, because I can think a heck of a lot faster than I can write,
but typing is a little more up to speed.

I downloaded FF7 on my PS3 two days ago. So far it's interesting,
but I feel like I'm going backwards (... maybe because I am).
I've heard so much about FF7 over the years (after all it's been 13...)
and I've seen Advent Children (which is definitely making more sense to me now).
Only now am I piecing it all together.
& I finally found out why Cloud has such spectacular eyes -
Mako.
I didn't know what that was until now. But I get it.
Although it's kind of bad Cloud was exposed to Mako,
if it makes his eyes pretty, then HECK YEAH.
It actually kind of reminds me of lithium in Dragon Age Origins - on first impression -
Of course, I still don't know much about the story.
I'm only at the part right after Cloud meets Aeris in the church and Reno shows up with the turks (I finally know who the turks are too. I gain a knowledge level for that).
((By the way, everytime I play FF7 on the TV it feels like I'm playing it on my DS instead. The graphics are at a DS level anyways. Actually.. a little below that. Oh dear.))

The default controls really messed me up though. "X" was used to run, and was the "back button" while"O" was the affirmative button, like how "X" is normally.
I was a little irritated at the game for being set up that way, but I figured out how to change the settings today and switched the two buttons back to normal. Or... what I consider to be normal.

Which.. back to Aeris.
She seems like she might be a sort of an okay character, but I still don't like her. Seconds after Cloud introduced himself she was already trying to get a date with him. I don't think she deserves Cloud. Because I'm possessive. After all I do have 5 figurines of him and a wallscroll of his face in my room (they are wonderful things...)... But maybe it's also because I just can't see Cloud belonging to /anyone/.

As for my impressions of the characters...
Barret is really too angry and defensive...
although Square Enix does crack me up with its use of "@!*#$!" whenever Barret is going to drop the f-bomb. I haven't seen that move since comic books.
Tifa is just... no change in how I view her. Still hate her. She's all "OMG CLOUD.. OMG HOW ARE YOU? WHAT'S WRONG?" Seriously, I'm voting that Cloud have zero love interests, because I'm not seeing any good ones.

Now on to other things...
I finally got my AP scores in the mail today.
I managed to get 1 point above what I wanted & needed on both my exams -
A 4 on both AP Japanese and AP Calculus AB!!! (Yes, this deserves 3 exclamations. It's srs bsns.)
I was very pleased, since now I don't have to take math in college,
and I can official start from Intermediate Japanese, instead of Beginner.

I also have to apologize for not having many gifs today...
I was trying to find a file I had downloaded with Noctis and Stella talking - and their voices.
I can find the /video/ everywhere, but I can't find the video where they actually have their Japanese voices. I miss that file so much. I probably deleted it when I was hastily organizing files. Ahhh...

Onward.

5 Kanji Corner ------------------------------------------------------
***DISCLAIMER:: I AM NOT AN EXPERT.
I AM 3 & 1/2 YEARS BOOK TAUGHT.
THIS IS FOR MY OWN REVIEW, BUT I JUST THOUGHT I'D SHARE.

((( 　新　)))　
New
シン・あたらし（い）
New:　あたらしい（新しい）
Newspaper:　しんぶん（新聞）
An old, but unused thing:　しんこ（新古）
Reform, remodeling, complete change:　いっしん（一新）

(((　晩　))) 　
Evening
バン
Evening:　ばん（晩）
　
(((　道　)))　
Road, way　
ドウ・みち
Tea Ceremony:　さどう（茶道）
Honest, straightforward：　じみち（地道）
Reason, truth:　どうり（道理）

(((　行　)))　
To go
アン・ギョウ・コウ・い（き）・い（く）・おこな（う）
Bank:　ぎんこう（銀行）
Fashion, fad:　はやり（流行り）
Walk:　ほこう（歩行）
Descending:　かこう（下行）

(((　内　)))
（Oh wow, just yesterday Hamhamkun on TM told me this kanji was in his name,
And I happened to pull it from my huge stack! o-o)　
Amoung, between, within, home
ダイ・ナイ・うち
Shyness:　うちき（内気）
Wife：　かない（家内）

A Dose of Boy Love ------------------------------------------------------

Probably my most favorite guys of all time -
Kodaka and Yasaka.
Wonderful.
It completey makes sense how they become models.
I mean /look at them/.
It's like a party in my eyes.

Gif TIEM! ------------------------------------------------------

For you.

(Feel free to save them to your computer :D
No hot-linking please!
It will crash my photobucket account.)
((Yes, I made these myself by recording video and then using an animation program to convert them to gifs.
I do not own the people, characters, or shows. Rights go to SNL, Dwayne Johnson, The Jonas Brothers (who are actually surprisingly funny... Check out "Cherub Bootcamp from Night at the Museum 2), & Comedy Central's Adam Ferrara))

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Keyboard Cat Gif, The Kanji for Mountian, and HOLD UP. IMA PLAYIN FF7!

0709.10

I would just like to announce that,
#1 - Two days ago, I finally got my Drawing 1 class for college.
It might not sound like much,
but it was the one class I needed for everything to go smoothly my Freshman year.
And I got it, because I'm hax,
and stalked the class registration page for a week after my initial orientation.
#2 - I downloaded FF7 from the PS3 store.
The un-sexiness of Cloud's pixels kills my eyes,
BUT - at least I can finally play the game.


5 Kanji Corner -----------------------------------------------

***DISCLAIMER:: I AM NOT AN EXPERT.
I AM 3 & 1/2 YEARS BOOK TAUGHT.
THIS IS FOR MY OWN REVIEW, BUT I JUST THOUGHT I'D SHARE.

(((　頼　)))　
Request, trust
ライ・たの（む）・たの（もしい）・たよ（る）
Vain hope: そらたのみ（空頼み）
Favor:　たのみごと（頼み事）
Reliable, trustworthy: たのもしい（頼もしい）
To ask a favor of,entrust: たのむ（頼む）

(((　州　))) 　
Sandbank, state
シュウ・す
Sandbank:　す（州）
Out-of-State:　しゅうがい（州外）
State Law：　しゅうほう（州法）
Honshuu　(Largest of the main Japanese islands):　ほんしゅう（本州）
Kyuushuu　(Most southern of the Japanese islands)：　きゅうしゅう（九州）

(((　山　)))　
Mountain　
サン・やま
Festival Float:　だし（山車）
Volcano:　かざん（火山）
Hill:　こやま（小山）

(((　待　)))　
To wait
タイ・ま（つ）・ま（ち）
Meeting place: まちあい（待合）

(((　寝　)))　
To sleep, to lie down
シン・ね（る）・や（める）
Bedroom:　ねど（寝所）
Napping:　ごろねする（転寝する）

Daily Boy Love Moment ------------------------------------------------------

We've got the boys from Bukiyou na Silent today. Toono & Tamiya!
Give it up for the two awkward lovers. :]

Gif TIEM! ------------------------------------------------------

More Saturday Night Live, Lonely Island,
and the lovey Keyboard Cat, for the lawlz.
(Feel free to save them to your computer :D)
((Yes, I made these myself by recording video and then using an animation program to convert them to gifs.
I do not own the people, characters, or shows. Rights go to SNL, Andy Samberg, Bradley Cooper, Charlie Schmidt & Keyboard Cat

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