usps sucks

The United States Postal Service should fuck a freaking goat. I'm quite pissed at them. The book I sold on half.com was delivered to Ohio instead to California. How the fuck can you screw that up? Ohio is EAST of us, California is WEST of us. Motherfuckers. Now I've lost money on the transaction. Good thing I got delivery confirmation or else I would have ripped the person off.

My advice: use Priority mail or UPS. Parcel mail is horrible service. This is the second time I ever had this happen to me. I did notice that when I sent stuff Priority mail......nothing ever went wrong. Motherfuckers want you to pay more.

what am I doing

Change. Growing up. It's these terms that I have not come to yet. My friend who is a huge role player decided that after all these years, he is going to quit all gaming both pen and paper rpgs and gaming. He wanted to become focused. That is what I should be doing. Focusing on my future. But what is my future? Getting embarassed and beaten at that Chicago Tribune internship interview? Becoming a bum? Getting only minimum wage? It's all my decision and I'm constantly destroying myself. Ever since the beginning of middle school, I never rose above normal to the height of excellence. Sure I went to a class where only the brightest and smartest went. But did it all matter? I had so many opportunities to exceed my peers. In high school there were two. I could have gone on a trip to Hawaii swimming with manatees and studying aquatic life. I could have went to an AP Geometry class. What was my excuse? "My family cannot afford it sir." "I can't take AP Geometry since it conflicts with Band". What am I going to do with band now? If only the conductors here knew what they were doing, then I would still be in band. But I am not. I could have gotten scholarships and gotten into a better school, but I didn't. I was too focused on beating Facility in 007: Goldeneye in record time.

My biggest problem which came to my attention from a mock interview is that I never gave myself credit. I was always modest. I'm making you guys too depressed. It's just my thoughts after all.

When Daniel told me about the interview, I kind of freaked out even though I expected there to be one. I'm totally going to blank out if it ever happens.

kiss me goodbye

Isn't Angela Aki pretty? Damn. I love women with hair like that.

gattaca

Suprised that there is a new post? You should be. I have been totally a bum since I came back from spring break. I've just been going to classes, taking the notes, but not doing the homework beforehand. So, it leads to procrastination. I really dislike my database teacher because I have no idea what the hell he is saying. I was about to laugh one time because he would be talking then out of the blue, he would just pause and look down like he passed out or something. Then about 30 seconds later, he would just resume where he left out. Odd.

Instead of homework, I watched the exciting 24 (that broker chick is extremely attractive especially with that accent), Lost, and mainly videogames. I was playing Killzone and Metal Gear Subsistence online as well as play Mark Ecko's Getting Up and Godfather offline. Godfather is a bit unpolished and it could have used probably half a year to clean those rough edges, but its a very fun game. It copies GTA a bit, but there are some interesting side missions. One of them is acting as a hitman which I love doing. The only thing I dislike about this game is that the shooting sucks. It tries to be like Everything or Nothing/From Russia with Love, but its just so pointless to try to get a headshot when it takes so long to get a precise shot. As for Subsistence online, its a very fun game. There are some crazy fun modes. There is this one mode where one player acts as Snake, then the other players have to hunt him down. It's sort of like tag. The player who kills Snake becomes Snake. Great game.

I just finished watching Gattaca which is a great movie. I recommend that you watch it if you haven't already. It's about Vincent who was born out of love. He is always looked down upon compared to gene perfect people. But what puts him above the others is his determination to make his goal of going into space. His brother Anton has perfect genes, but in this one instance, Vincent beats him. Anton can't figure out how his imperfect brother succeeded. Anyways, I don't want to delve into the story any deeper. Just watch it. There was this pretty cool scene where they took a drop of a newborn baby's blood right after he was conceived. They already new when he was going to die, what diseases he will have, etc. But Vicent proves to them all that not everything can't be decided or predicted.

anything new mr.mumbles?

Well not really. I'm quite enjoying my spring break, but without my ps2, its a bit boring. Watching movies is great but only up to a point. I need to play some games.
So whoever has spring break now, enjoy. Sorry about the short post. I'll probably beef up my next one in a week when I go back to school.

Tagged by Felice
Four Jobs I've Had In My Life
1. Deli clerk
2. Deli clerk who wants to kill manager's son
3. Deli clerk who wants to smash in customer's head due to incompetence
4. Did I mention deli clerk?

Four Movies I Can Watch Over and Over
1. Battle Royale
2. Real Genius
3. Jurassic Park
4. My Sassy Girl

Four Places I Have Lived
1. 148 Circle Ave. Apt#504
2. 114 Belvidere Ave.
3. 631 North Columbine Ave.
4. 5th Floor Hamilton Hall
8th Floor Wright Hall
16th Floor Manchester Hall
Illinois State University

Four TV Programs I Love to Watch
1. Family Guy
2. American Dad
3. South Park
4. 24
5. Lost
6. Seinfeld

Four Places I Would Have Visited If I Had the Money
1. Go to the Philippines and go to the strip clubs and spend huge amounts of money
2. Go to the Philippines and buy every seat in the theatre to watch Exodus
3. Go to the Philippines to drink my ass off
4. Japan and maybe to their naked women spas, bars, and to laugh at the people at the Xbox360 lounge

Four Websites I Visit Daily
1. Gamespot.com
2. IGN.com
3. gap.us.playstation.com
4. blogs of Pam, Felice, and Daniel

Four of my Favorite Foods
1. Pizza
2. Quiznos Chicken Mesquite
3. Carbonara
4. Burger King & McDonalds

Four Places I Would Rather Be
1. A room full of beautiful women (topless would be nice!)
2. The Philippines where American dollars = happiness.
3. On my bed sleeping
4. I would want to be in a place where money just sprouts out of my pockets

Four bloggers I'm Tagging
1. No one else left......I'm a loner :-(

plastered

Whew, I was so exhausted yesterday, and I still am. I have to study for my World Film class and the study guide looks like it is going to be tough. I haven't played video games at all this starting this week because I'm so crammed. And I still have to do my E3 entry. I know I probably won't win, but there is always a chance I might. Plus, its one of my dreams to go to E3. Wouldn't it be sweet to be there when they unveil actual gameplay footage of PS3 games? Fuck yeah.

sweet

I finally got the NTSC version of The Promise and goddamn, it looks great (compared to the crappy PAL transfer). Just look at the bitrate!!!



I have finally beaten Dawn of Dreams. Freaking awesome game. The last boss was a bit cheesy to defeat and too long, 30-45 minutes just because his health goes down slowly, but it was still great to beat his ass down.

Eh, back to studying.

worst movie of 2006.....

...is, definitely and without a doubt, Ultraviolet. The action scenes were dull, the acting horrendous, the CG is atrocious, and it vomits on itself. I came in the theatre with low expectations of the film as a whole, but at least I thought the action would be serviceable. I was wrong. The action is just cut and paste. Okay, we have an action scene here and here with no connection.....oh yeah, lets have one here just for the heck of it. I hated those scenes where there are tons of guys rushing her then Violet would just wipe them out in one swipe. There are huge gaps in the story, canyon huge. For example, for an ex-mother, how the fuck did she learn to fight like that? Eh, movie sucked. The pacing was off too. They would bombard the first third of the movie with action, slow down to a crawl in the second half, then slowly (very slowly) go back to action. Horrible shit pacing. Don't even get me started on the CG. Let us just say Final Fantasy IX CG looked better and that is on the Playstation. What I hated the most about this film is that soft filter they used.....it fucking irritated me. I don't want to go on with this review. Basically, don't watch this film. It'll rot your brain to a peanut.

I was browsing the web only to find that Funimation is going to bring DBZ Movie 12, The Rebirth of Fusion, to the big screen along with Movie 6, The Return of Cooler. It's actually pretty cool. I never cared for the series, but I do actually enjoy the movies. The series had horrible pacing issues, hernia induced characters, and awful storylines. But the movies, they are fast paced which, in my opinion, is what DBZ is more suited for. The US title absolutely sucks major ass and balls. Fusion Reborn? What the fuck is that? It's like they were thinking of something that needed to be shortened. What's cooler than Dragonball Z Movie 12: The Rebirth of Fusion? Nothing. The new title sucks and so will the English dub. I'll be looking forward to rip the DVD with the japanese dub w/ english subtitles. It does suck that the japanese dub is only in MONO fucking sound. Eh, when will American audiences learn to read subtitles, goddamn motherfuckers. This is why foreign films are not showcased here across the nation only in arthouses. Learn to read you pieces of shit. Subtitles are made short so that you would only have to glance at them. That's why it is not a literal translation most of the time. If you cannot even read shortened versions of the text, you can go fuck yourselves.

two face

For every up, there is a down. Boredom is my up, studying and homework is my down. So now I'm stuck studying for midterms and working on assignments now. No more boring days for me.

Just to keep you guys updated. I'm currently trying to get the DVD9 NTSC version of the Promise. The quality better be awesome or I'm going to get pissed. The PAL version was horrible. It had tons of ads and logo popups throughout the entire film. I hope this is better.

Well cya later.