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la_belle_laideWelp! My little hibernation time is at an end it seems! I'm just popping in to tell you guys that I am getting ready for school tomorrow. I promised myself that I would call it "uni" because I like the way my British friends call it that, but I can't seem to bring myself to. :D I just can't British it up. ;D
Anyway, I've got my backpack and all my huge-ass medical books and some pens, and shoot, I even have an assignment book that my wonderful friend Kim gave to me. It's black with red dragons. ^_^ (She also gave me a gift certificate to the school book store. O_o )
My first class is chemistry and I'm really freaking out.
What if I get lost? What if I go into the wrong room? What if I'm the only one in the class? What if everyone stares at me, or what if I make a bunch of mistakes? What if I forget to put my clothes on and show up naked?
All that stuff.
In the meantime, I owe myself a huge update.
New years was pretty nice. Jo-chan was over, and we were at my parents', where we watched Kung Fu Panda (it was kinda cute,) and some X Files episodes. I showed everyone Bad Blood which they all thought was pretty cool. The next day, SB and his girlfriend came by for dinner. Then we all went over to Chris and Tim's and SB played with Boychild (who just about worships him,) for about an hour or so.
Before new years, Jo-chan and I had a marathon FFVII game. We are up to the end of the game where you go into the crater but we keep putting it off. We also played tons of RE4, and taped the gruesome deaths off the TV so we could make this video:
RE4 SPOILERS! And violence and gore and other fun stuff.
"
EWWW!
Also, the night before NYE we watched Resident Evil Degeneration. The story wasn't bad and the zombie action is pretty good. The animation was not stellar though. In fact, the cut scenes of the game were better. They were animated better, written better, were scarier, had more depth and more characterization and everything. Leon was a weird, quirky, dorky hero in the game, with facial expressions and douchey one-liners, and he got scared and spazzy and he also laughed at himself and was really kind to Ashley, and he was just tons of fun. In the movie, however, they used a different face model and they took away all of his quirks. He didn't have the douchey one-liners or the humor. What I like in games is that sly, self-referential jokiness, and the movie only had a bit of that and none of it came from my favorite character. They drew him pretty, but not as pretty as he was, and he didn't have a facial expression through the whole thing.
The animation was weird. The hair constantly looked like it was underwater, and they drew the shoulders in a really, really odd way. The shoulders kept distracting me throughout the movie.
I am not one of those people who think that building on something I loved, or adding to it, "ruins" the original. You can't ruin the original because it still exists in its first form. I'm so glad they made the movie and we had so much fun watching it and MSTing it throughout the whole thing. There were so many moments where you could throw in your own lines such as "That's my gun, I promise; Unless you don't want it to be. Then we're cool." Or, "that's not your gaydar going off, I assure you." Or, "Leon S. Kennedy. The 'S' is for (endless combination of things to say.)" Or as Jo-chan told me my uncle said, "He shot him in the Curtis!"
As much as the movie bugged me out and was nowhere near being as awesome as the game, I would watch it again. Advent Children it was not, but hey. What is? :)
Let's see, let's see, what else. Oh, of course! And then Saturday we had a little Kung Fu holiday party at the restaurant next to where we train. It was me, the Lady Chrysanthemum, Snarklit, the Gold Dragon, Matt Damon, Sifu, and a young woman who used to train with us but hasn't since she left for school, we'll call her Saucy Tart. It was so weird at first. Saucy Tart, Chrysanthemum and Gold Dragon and I were the first ones to show up, while Sifu went to show MD our new school. Then they came back and Snarklit showed up and we all put some tables together and for the first half hour it was really quiet. I don't know why, but we kind of sat there like we didn't know who each other was for a few minutes; as if we hadn't spent years choking each other or throwing each other to the ground or something. I couldn't figure it out. Then as soon as dinner came everyone loosened up and started gabbing. Eventually Sifu's wife--let's be traditional and call her Simu--showed up with their really cute baby and had dinner with us, before she had to take the baby home to feed her.
I love it when we're all out together. ^_^
Chrysanthemum had to leave first, but the rest of us stayed on until well aftef closing time, much to the consternation of the poor workers who wanted to go home. I felt bad about that. Saucy Tart and Snarklit left, and then Sifu, MD and Gold Dragon and I walked over to the school to look at our new excersize pullup equipment thingie that Sifu bought for the school. I tried it out and it is lots of fun. Then we all bailed--most of us for home, Gold Dragon for another party--and I got home around midnight.
With few exceptions, it was a really fun night. Also my hair was crazy and I wore a really cool blouse from that Chinese clothing store. ^_^
That's my week in review!
I am currently trying not to think about tomorrow while also thinking about it constantly and hoping that it's going to rock my entire world in the best possible way. :)
Anyway, I've got my backpack and all my huge-ass medical books and some pens, and shoot, I even have an assignment book that my wonderful friend Kim gave to me. It's black with red dragons. ^_^ (She also gave me a gift certificate to the school book store. O_o )
My first class is chemistry and I'm really freaking out.
What if I get lost? What if I go into the wrong room? What if I'm the only one in the class? What if everyone stares at me, or what if I make a bunch of mistakes? What if I forget to put my clothes on and show up naked?
All that stuff.
In the meantime, I owe myself a huge update.
New years was pretty nice. Jo-chan was over, and we were at my parents', where we watched Kung Fu Panda (it was kinda cute,) and some X Files episodes. I showed everyone Bad Blood which they all thought was pretty cool. The next day, SB and his girlfriend came by for dinner. Then we all went over to Chris and Tim's and SB played with Boychild (who just about worships him,) for about an hour or so.
Before new years, Jo-chan and I had a marathon FFVII game. We are up to the end of the game where you go into the crater but we keep putting it off. We also played tons of RE4, and taped the gruesome deaths off the TV so we could make this video:
RE4 SPOILERS! And violence and gore and other fun stuff.
"
EWWW!
Also, the night before NYE we watched Resident Evil Degeneration. The story wasn't bad and the zombie action is pretty good. The animation was not stellar though. In fact, the cut scenes of the game were better. They were animated better, written better, were scarier, had more depth and more characterization and everything. Leon was a weird, quirky, dorky hero in the game, with facial expressions and douchey one-liners, and he got scared and spazzy and he also laughed at himself and was really kind to Ashley, and he was just tons of fun. In the movie, however, they used a different face model and they took away all of his quirks. He didn't have the douchey one-liners or the humor. What I like in games is that sly, self-referential jokiness, and the movie only had a bit of that and none of it came from my favorite character. They drew him pretty, but not as pretty as he was, and he didn't have a facial expression through the whole thing.
The animation was weird. The hair constantly looked like it was underwater, and they drew the shoulders in a really, really odd way. The shoulders kept distracting me throughout the movie.
I am not one of those people who think that building on something I loved, or adding to it, "ruins" the original. You can't ruin the original because it still exists in its first form. I'm so glad they made the movie and we had so much fun watching it and MSTing it throughout the whole thing. There were so many moments where you could throw in your own lines such as "That's my gun, I promise; Unless you don't want it to be. Then we're cool." Or, "that's not your gaydar going off, I assure you." Or, "Leon S. Kennedy. The 'S' is for (endless combination of things to say.)" Or as Jo-chan told me my uncle said, "He shot him in the Curtis!"
As much as the movie bugged me out and was nowhere near being as awesome as the game, I would watch it again. Advent Children it was not, but hey. What is? :)
Let's see, let's see, what else. Oh, of course! And then Saturday we had a little Kung Fu holiday party at the restaurant next to where we train. It was me, the Lady Chrysanthemum, Snarklit, the Gold Dragon, Matt Damon, Sifu, and a young woman who used to train with us but hasn't since she left for school, we'll call her Saucy Tart. It was so weird at first. Saucy Tart, Chrysanthemum and Gold Dragon and I were the first ones to show up, while Sifu went to show MD our new school. Then they came back and Snarklit showed up and we all put some tables together and for the first half hour it was really quiet. I don't know why, but we kind of sat there like we didn't know who each other was for a few minutes; as if we hadn't spent years choking each other or throwing each other to the ground or something. I couldn't figure it out. Then as soon as dinner came everyone loosened up and started gabbing. Eventually Sifu's wife--let's be traditional and call her Simu--showed up with their really cute baby and had dinner with us, before she had to take the baby home to feed her.
I love it when we're all out together. ^_^
Chrysanthemum had to leave first, but the rest of us stayed on until well aftef closing time, much to the consternation of the poor workers who wanted to go home. I felt bad about that. Saucy Tart and Snarklit left, and then Sifu, MD and Gold Dragon and I walked over to the school to look at our new excersize pullup equipment thingie that Sifu bought for the school. I tried it out and it is lots of fun. Then we all bailed--most of us for home, Gold Dragon for another party--and I got home around midnight.
With few exceptions, it was a really fun night. Also my hair was crazy and I wore a really cool blouse from that Chinese clothing store. ^_^
That's my week in review!
I am currently trying not to think about tomorrow while also thinking about it constantly and hoping that it's going to rock my entire world in the best possible way. :)
