The Wallflower - 100% of randomness

I'm surprised Excel didn't crash several times o_O

I've been working non-stop for the past three days. First there's work at the office really early in the morning until evening and from there I'm up until past midnight working on final papers and projects for school, then I'm working out doors on the weekend (and it's cold!), then back to the homework and for the past 72 hours I crave nothing except to sleep in on Monday morning. And I did. A lot of sleep. Too much sleep. My head's killing me (like the time my cousin and I finished a whole bottle of Jack Daniels in one night in high school and having to go to class the next day) and I crawl out of bed to hunt down some aspirin...

Only to find out the entire bottle (which is half full) has been expired for the past couple of months.

Screw it. I'm taking it anyway.

Had such a hard time encoding this without Premiere's ugly black borders, but I'm satisfied with how it turned out with just 2 night's work. Please comment - thank you :)

youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9CrBfjBt8Q

The Unexpected Surprise: I purchased the first volume in a manga lot I won on Ebay, based on the cover, I thought the art work looked a little kiddy and didn't think too much of it as I placed it in a pile of extra books I'll be donating. However, the back of the book caught my attention, a creepy little red demon, that was sitting and staring right back at me. The rating also informed me that this was not a kiddy American manga-styled graphic novel. I started reading, intrigued.

Synopsis: Hana Davis - whom I'm guessing is a pre-teen attending middle school, is a total introvert. She's rather depressed with the way her life is going, she has no friends and her parents are always fighting. Online, she assumes many alter egos and manages to fool her teacher and classmates. The only person who is her anchor, Avril Lavigne, is her imaginary best friend. One day, Hana discovers a website MAKE5WISHES.COM (a real site btw) that promises to change her life forever.

My Thoughts: Ever heard of the 'Monkey Paw' tale? Or the phrase, "Be careful what you wish for, it just might come true"? Naturally Hana's five wishes - carried out by an adorable yet creepy red demon with several horns - are guaranteed to backfire. It's a train wreck and you can't close your eyes.

To be honest, I have no idea who the singer Avril Lavignes was, but I'm pretty sure I probably heard her on the radio a couple times. Nevertheless I thought she was incorporated nicely into the story without taking the focus off of Hana. Connected through music, Avril is Hana's idol, and naturally the image of her imaginary best friend. Avril most likely represents Hana's common sense as she keeps telling Hana that she needs to go out and find her own happiness and leave her shell behind (and most important: to get rid of the freaky demon doll).

I won't spoil the whole store, because it's worth reading. You can story split into 3-5 minute flash slide show episodes (with Avril's music playing in the background... which I end up muting because it gets distracting).

MAKE5WISHES.COM Volume 1 (Episodes 1-11)
YOUTUBE.COM Volume 2 (Episodes 1-15) User Beini89 has them in English and Italian.

It was raining today, so I ended up staying home and passing out candy to trick-or-treaters. I think most horror movies start out. Anyway, I was planning to pass out the candy around 7PM and end at 9PM or until all the candy was gone. All of the lights were off, and I was watching television around 6PM. Then I heard the high pitched "HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!" screamed in unison coming from the foyer.

Again, the lights were off and according to the unofficial Halloween rules: no lights, no candy, go away! So at first, I thought they were at my neighbor's house, but then again another: "HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!" ... this time, much louder! I was in shock, thinking, "Oh my god, they're in the house!"

I walked over to foyer and much to my relief, no one had broken in and it was quiet; no knocking, no excessive ringing of the doorbell. Was it just my imagination? Some delusion brought on by (possibly) expired Halloween candy? I took a deep breath, turned on the lights and nearly died at the sight of many children with their scary-child faces pressed up against the glass door! (very much like in the Japanese version of the Grudge, where one girl sees her dead class mates after pulling away newspaper from the windows).

It was not one, or five trick-or-treaters, it was a swarm! In fear that they would break in and wreak havoc over bite-size kit-kats, I opened the door and began to distribute the sweets. They came in all sizes and costumes: transformers, witches, mask-less batmans, angels, cats, and those masked murderers from the SCREAM movies. Three bags of candy was gone at the end up twenty minutes. Gone.

From across the street I saw another parade of children and I quickly turned off the lights, bolted the door, and went upstairs in my room to hide.... or try and beat Kane's bowling score on Facebook.

Happy Halloween! (For the next three minutes anyway.)

ok, starting to hate public transportation today ... got into a fight with some random idiot. was waiting for my bus to take me to another light rail station downtown - and was underneath one of those bus stop bench and shelters, and this couple gets off a bus to wait next to me. well the boyfriend is acting like a moron and his girlfriend tells him to punch the shelter's support post... and he does, and then does it again, and again until the shelter is shaking, and small pieces of the ceiling starts to fall (and i'm under it).

GIRLFRIEND: harder! harder oh harder!

BOYFRIEND: ::PUNCH:: argh! ::PUNCH::

SHELTER: ::BANG.BANG.BANG::

i'm not making this up, if you had your eyes closed it would probably sound like porn!

i'm already in a bad mood (my timesheet wasn't picked up and i won't get paid on time, reports kept being pushed around back and forth, and i have a bunch of demo programs i have to review) so i turn around and glare at him, snapping "oh my god, what the fuck is your problem?"

- and he gets offended and starts cussing at me. i wanted to swing my laptop bag at his face but had to retrain myself ... his empty head could have hurt my laptop. so i waited for the bus to come and told the driver and the a-hole follows and starts saying that i'm hitting on him! WTF? though the bus driver wasn't buying it and told the guy to get the fuck off and then some nobody from outside overhears and starts shouting at the driver.

ATTENTION ALL IDIOTS: for the sake of world peace, please stand in FRONT of the bus when you feel the need to share your lack of common sense.

A remake of one of my all time favorite sci-fi anime movies ever:

http://www.crunchyroll.com/media-462162/Casshern-SINS-Episode-1.html

and... how does his Go-Nagi-like hair style fit under his helm? Oh wait it's sci-fi, oh wait, anime doesn't need any logic.

Well I'm going back to work on Tueday and the manga I ordered from DADvd finally came in! So Leizel is very pleased with everything, except dinner:



High in calories, but I didn't eat much today except for a couple bottles of water and toast. The chicken and potatoes were okay but it was kind of sick how the corn was embedded in the brownie portion... I guess you really have to be a HUNGRY MAN to still eat it.

Bought the boxset for like $15 at FRYs - and wow, it's 1994 all over again!!! Also, Teknoman = Techno music, because there's a lot of it and it really cuts down all the angsty scenes (Though I'm surprised that that they almost didn't edit anything - even Miyuki's execution but it was too violent for her to punch Aki in the gut?) but ah well, what would truly make me relive the 90s over again is if I had to post this on dial-up.

Almost a month ago I took advantage of Discountanimedvd.com's manga sale (as I often do because it's cheap new manga even with sales tax and shipping compared to retail book stores). One of the books was a pre-order and would be in stock at the end of the month. So I waited a couple weeks, and then waited some more since the arrival was delayed. After more waiting, I gave up (Amazon was already selling USED copies of this book) and purchased the book at Borders since they send me coupons via email - and asked DADvd to exchange the book with another title. The replacement was back-ordered but it was added on anyway - and because DADvd won't ship partial orders - my whole order was delayed again.

I emailed DADvd again to find out when they would be in... and their automated response was : "we don't know, you can exchange it or get a refund. It MIGHT come in within two weeks..." so I asked them to change it, and yeap more back--order problems.

What's a pain in the @$$ is that they know I want to replace a back-order item for one that is in stock, but if the replacement is out of stock - they'll just add it on. So I had to fill out another ticket to get it off so I could find a replacement and get my order. Another backorder. Another ticket filed. Another backorder.... and again... and again. I was about to give up and demand a refund, but another sale came around and so I was able to get more for my money and hey what do you know, the replacements were in stock ...  until I saw that they removed the books I originally purchased (and PAID for) that have been in stock the entire time from my order  without my consent. Ummm WTF?! 

Finally got around to see it - and well...

( DDR spoilers )

watch it here: http://media.imeem.com/pl/7_Ewty052a/aus=false/pv=2/

celebrity: Kate Beckinsale
the fug: oh god a dress made of intestines

Source: Go Fug Yourself

For those of you who love crack and boob-jokes in your anime: KUKUKUKUKU >P

( It's like magic! )

http://www.onemanga.com/Bleach/322/08/

yay, it's over?

( Happy Birthday to youuuuu )

Job hunting sucks! And so does the endless EDD unemployment paper work that comes with it.

Also...


JEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN!

^_^;

http://www.floatinghandsstudios.com/xmen4.html

I need to take another PHP class ... my memory is all fuzzy since I haven't updated coding my site. It took three days to figure out why my code wasn't working. So, look old content on a new page:

http://surreal-indulgence.net/avatars.php

Took my mom to go see it today since we're both huge fans of the original trilogy (The Last Crusade was my favorite), so did the new movie meet my expectations?

( Warning: Spoilers )

( It's anime, but not )

Is coming to the USA - saw the trailer for it when I went to see Iron Man