keyk: (heehee)
ToI is a lot of fun! It sure moves really fast though, and I keep messing up the friendship stuff, but OH WELL. I'm still not used to playing one player Tales, but it hasn't been TOO horrible yet. I do miss having a much more expansive list for helping keep the AIs in check. I'm shocked by how loaded I am so early in the game though! Fifteen life bottles already? Jeepers! I really like the characters so far~! What's also exciting is Layton 3 is coming out soon! Ahhh, I can't wait! I'm also planning on waking up early to watch Pokemon again tomorrow. And for some reason Fire Emblem really likes coughing out remakes. I...kinda want a new one. :(

Oh, and before my computer crashed on me last night in the middle of a doodle, I'd doodled more things beforehand! I tried to do something fancier but it just wasn't coming, so just have a couple of character shots. I lost one quickie to a crash--no biggie! It's not as tragic as some...other times have...been.

LUCY! I'M HOOOOMMMEEEE!!! )
keyk: (smile)
TALES OF INNOCENCE PATCH IS OOOUUTT!
I'm gonna play it! I've really missed Inomata's games. I really wanna play ToR, but no English. :'(
I'm so exciiitteeed.

And yes I'm distracting myself form work.
And pain.
Owwies.
keyk: (smile)
SHIIIKII IS OOOUUTTTTT!!!
Watch on Funimation here!
I have no idea what it'll be like, but I am going to click it. NOW.

My stomach is still jacked and it's getting worse. Oof.
Oh gosh. PLUS CRAMPS. Dang it body, ONE THING AT A TIME PLZ.


Well, whoever's directing this certainly did a pretty good job with it! It's better than the directing on Umineko and Houshin Engi at least. *cough* Again the manga was never really something I thought super amazing (until chapter 18), but my horrible Fujiryu bias beckons me to continue watching! And I will. Because the directing was really good for something with so much talk. Some of the storyboarding was a bit odd (weird montages), but overall it was good! But I bet people are going to get turned off by the episode since it's all about Megumi, but she serves her proper role. ^^;

I have also been rereading more Gertrude to help alleviate the pain. Yay more monsters and demons what is wrong with me today. I am multitasking by taking practice driving written exams too. Those don't help so much. I think I'll just take it tomorrow instead. Owwwww.
keyk: (Baah.)
I did something to my stomach, but I'm still not sure what. Whatever it is, it's annoying. :I

So I have two volumes of Yokaiden I plowed through (I really want the rest!!!) by Nina Matsumoto, aka spacecoyote, aka the person who did the popular webcomic Saturnalia. I wasn't hooked by the first volume, but it was charming and good enough for me to continue, but, haha, the second ended in a cliffhanger and I'm totally pumped for the next!

I also have the third volume of tactics done by the much better translators at Tokyopop (as opposed to ADV, who couldn't even edit it well), and...well, it's nothing spectacular; I preferred the last two volumes in spite of the bad translation. Even still, I plan on continuing the series because Kantarou is just that cool. I seem to have a thing for the lazy tactician type characters. And after reading them and rereading chunks of Houshin Engi, I've realized that I tend to like series with youkai in it. Strange, considering I've never been a huge monster or horror fan, but...OH WELL.

And so I was inspired to pick up RO again (the free server since I'm a cheap-butt) because I am being mostly unproductive again and I feel semi-accomplished when I do something there. And I really like their monsters. AndsupersecretlyreallywantahumanoidpetthereeventhoughtamingisreallyhardAHEM. The cutesy and dark stuff there and the humongo world really gets to me in a good way, but argh, too much grinding and gold digging. I am not made for MMOs. orz;;;;

My life post-exciting things that happened to me. :S As much as I'd like to promise that CF starts this summer, no guarantees from me. But I'll do my best! And I'll get my fall semester down once I get my AP score to see if I'm going to retake a semester of calc. Wheee.

AX!

Jul. 5th, 2010 12:44 am
keyk: (lovey lovey)
AX is officially over. It's too bad I missed a lot of you, but I drew art for [livejournal.com profile] charmwitch and [livejournal.com profile] narugami just in case they came by anyway (um, if I may, would it be a bother to send it by mail..?).

Nonetheless, it was a very enjoyable con! Selling more obscure series is really a lot of fun. I hardly sold a thing (I let my sister take care of that ;;), but there were people who recognized Ape Escape and Odin Sphere and FFT (we had the gamer art table), so it was definitely a lot of fun. Also, people commented on Dusk (///) and my art or at least my tastes, so generally I got a good feeling I'm pretty content with it, embarrassing mistakes aside. I got complimented for my sales-talk once, lulz! Paying taxes'll be a pain though. :/

For those I got to see again, you know I love you dearly and enjoyed every interaction we had! And for those of you who didn't, I hope you had fun this con! I'm very happy I got to attend this year. :)

The things I sold THANKGODYOUCAN'TSEETHEMUPCLOSE )

Tru fax: I lost my glasses--it fell off my face AND I DIDN'T NOTICE--but luckily the lost-and-found had them because prescription glasses aren't exactly steal-able. But, man, I had to dig through a large pile of prescription glasses--just how many people lose these anyway?! D:
keyk: (smile)
Er. So I'm back, and since I'm a terrible person, I still haven't gotten to all of my messages. But. Holy shizzynits, AX is TOMORROW. And I'd love to meet those of you who're coming!

So if you'd liike, [livejournal.com profile] pompi, [livejournal.com profile] r4inbowvomit, and I (along with [livejournal.com profile] psychofish's prints--we're doing it legally!) will be tabling at A57. Using [livejournal.com profile] r4inbowvomit's map, we'll be over here. So please drop by and get ready for some awkward convos. 8Db! We're also pinched between two super insane artists (make that five for me :D;;;) who are super scary if but only for being talented, so ANY ATTENTION IS GOOD ATTENTION. Disclaimer: we are not attention whores. Really.

Since only two people can sit at the table at a time, you might find me in a corner drawing or playing Pokeymans or something silly like that if I'm not there. I tend only to go to some voice actor panels aaaand that's it. My sis (who'd be sitting there instead in that case) should know where I am, so you can ask her if need be.

Capish? (Hahahaha, it looks like Ca-FISH, ohhh my)

...Erm. As a bit of incentive, you can ask me to draw something for you and I'll do it for free provided I know you somehow. I go to AX only for the people, so. SO. Ahahahaha. Yeeeaah. Oh, oh, dinner too. :|b

You are all amazing people and I would love to bask in your brilliant awesomeness. (Why is "awful" worse than "awesome"? Well you're FULL of AWE so. I will be awed by you. Da-hyerp.)
keyk: (omg)
So I'm heading off to a plane ride to Europe tomorrow!

Weeell. Me and planes. It goes along the lines of something liiike...I love BEING on the plane, but the THOUGHT of being on a plane frightens the living crap outta me.

So yeah. Go figure. If you can.

I'll be gone for two weeks and should luck and good fortune be on our side, I'll be giving you guys some extremely late replies to your lovely comments as soon as I get back! BECAUSE I'VE BEEN IGNORING EVERYTHING EVER TO GET THINGS DONE AND REGAIN MY SANITY. OTL; A million apologies.

Godspeed to me, and We hope happy things thwack you on your paths!

HUZZAH!!

Jun. 9th, 2010 10:17 pm
keyk: (not happy)
URRRGH. I SAID I'D GET AT LEAST ONE DONE RIGHT?!
So here it is without my being horrendously picky-picky (that is, staring at it for several hours and making minute changes)!
HAHA TAKE THAT ARTIST'S ALLEY! )
It looks disgusting when zoomed in at 100%. ;___;''''
Look at me be lazy and NOT DRAW HANDS HAHAHAHAHA. HAHAHA. HA.

I would be proud of myself for pulling this off in a day (I'm super super slow), but...I did and still do want to make more. :\ I mean, just one thing is kinda lame, and I'm not sure I have the guts to do commissions. Well. There's always keychains and bookmarks to print cheaply and the like!

I have a million thank you cards to write, I'm still not done packing for our trip to Europe on Friday, and I still have college things to figure out. UY.

Oh, and despite how meh Angel Beats! is, I have started to like it. It's charming. The occasional sobby moments do get to me (ahahahahaha ;;;). My keyboard is dying.

Coloorz

Jun. 8th, 2010 01:55 am
keyk: (smile)
Because I am still drawing too many quickies and nothing full blown and cool--I'LL GET TO IT.

OYAM tentative title )
keyk: (really?)
My reply failing continues. The complaining too.

My agenda has been growing by the day and drawing has been pushed far down my list of priorities. Also, I find it hard to return to the fanart phase when I'm still on my originals phase. BlazBlue is not helping. I want to work on Counterpoint (1936au) THAT MUCH MORE. I also really like Jin's laugh. How the sprites will happen, I don't know, but we will make them! And I have programming skills to work on. Y-axes and X-axes and AIs and woohoos.

So you can assume this: I have lots on my agenda, but I am disgustingly distracted and not helping myself any. :| My sis is watching Angel Beats, but while it's still meh to me, it really bothers me because...because...IT'S ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME AS EARLIER VERSIONS OF IMAGINATION FALL. Afterlife. School. ANGELS. Then I trashed it. >>; Mirror had purple hair and was essentially a YURI CLONE except Mirror was an angel, a far cry from what she is now. Doodz. I swear, if I was born elsewhere I'd be writing H-game plots (except it's not an H-game. But I do have a lot of H-game parallels from before. It just works out that way. S-s-somehow).

Anyway, it's not really that horrible since I do find it amusing, but ahahaha, life story spewing. Laugh at it as I might, my stories also fall victim to this writer-trap. The most I can do is make it seem at least more natural seeming. Oh, oh, but chapter 18 of Shiki was awesoome. Fujiryu had fun with that, I'll bet what with the medical explanations and such. If Shiki continues on this note, I might actually grow to like it a lot more! This badly constructed chunk of writing is all to say, why the heck am I so distracted.

Not motivated, working on Vanessa's story too much (so un-pro of me to have so many stories at once but WHATEVARRR), itching to get Counterpoint's direction established, the only fanart I feel like drawing is Houshin Engi but no cool compositions are coming to mind, I should draw Pokemon, I'm not in the CF groove anymore (I just don't feel like iiit), IF is still as barely established as it tends to be, daifuku-usagi I want to make that story happen and I am so sorry for not establishing Sonya yeet, SoG got stuck in a rut and since I'm not watching people play RPGs or playing one myself or on a Zektbach spree I am uninspired--in short I am being a lamewad.

I am hoping to shed my lamewaddedness by tomorrow. :S
keyk: (W-well...)
To kick this off, sorry for being the worst replier in the history of ever. :S

Today I am complaining: I am SPENT.

Graduation, parties, Grad Nite, stressing myself out over things instead of being productive, etc. I would love to be productive right now, but I am much too tired. I've discovered my inking pen has magically refilled itself (or something) so I've been practicing that to prep for drawing things for AX. I cleaned up the clutter on the floor of my room and spent some time on the surfaces, but I have no fan and it's getting hot, so I didn't vacuum or actively clean even though *my* family party is tomorrow...today, to be accurate. No, I didn't ask for one, nor did I arrange it, but it has to be celebrated because we're Filipinos who like food and family parties.

I slept past 4:00 AM for two days straight, too, so staying up late isn't difficult. Also, late night-early morning is my alone time, so I abuse it for myself. And I'd BE more productive right now (such as actually drawing for AX instead of measly practice stuff) if I had energy.

My predicted schedule has either remained unchanged or has worsened. I don't know which, and it's probably better that I not expend my energy figuring it out. I have bags under my eyes now (leaky capillariiiieesss), and I'm probably expected to look sharp for the party, and that's probably not going to happen. Oh well. Computer engineering training, go! I do not care if this does not make sense.
keyk: (lovey lovey)
SoG character designs for Counterpoint )

I've never been to a Jewish funeral before. I hope I can go though.

And I have no idea what everyone is talking about. Marlon Brando is not that attractive. 8| Whatever Stella's diggin', I certainly ain't.
keyk: (lovey lovey)
There is so much to panic about. But I'm not panicked. It's nice not to be panicked, but this complacency feels so off. I guess I can be an example of a person whose senioritis actually did some good. I'm kind of on some weird high which either arose from hormones' finally doing it right or from my body's going "I give up!" and letting tiredness take its toll on my system. Well, it certainly beats breaking apart like a bottle with too much internal pressure!

I did some more personality research again. I keep saying I'm an INFJ, right? Well, I also can see why I keep getting INTP. Because I fit the bill for that too. Too. Before anyone thinks I get too caught up in this psychoanalysis stuff and too deeply believe in silly tests and acronyms, let me explain: I look into this stuff to establish a basis from which I can derive more information about myself through contemplation and fastidiousness. It's not like what I get from tests is totally false, yeah? So it's a good, perhaps not terribly stable, ground to work off of. I can stabilize the ground on my own if need be with my self-obtained data.

I like figures and systems and theories but I'm very emotional and sensitive and totally hang with my inner world too often for my own good and have designed it to weird extremes. Regarding how I work and what I like to create, I'm totally INTP-ish, but regarding how I deal with feelings and people and arguably also what I like to create, I'm extremely INFJ-ish. In retrospect, my T and P scores are often low on said tests, so I guess this should come as no surprise. It fascinates me though! I fit nicely between the two. Fancy fancy, nancy dancy, shmancy pantsy!

So, anyway, if some test-obsessive guy (because obviously this will happen) comes up and asks me what MBTI type thinger I am, then I will say, "I'm a good chunk INTP and a good chunk INFJ, sir!" (And yes, that would still be "sir" if said guy was a woman only because I always forget to say "ma'am.") And all will be well in the world for that very minute interval of time.

I am entirely screwed for this calc final, but I am convinced that I will not get an F and a D (or the cruel, teetering D-) will not drag me down from an A to a C.
...If I really cared and was in my usual paranoid state of mind, I'd be hitting the sack by now.
keyk: (Baah.)
I got over a nasty cold approximately two weeks ago.
Now I'm getting one again.

I have a chorus final this week.
I have choir practice for the Baccalaureate Mass this week.

I have a sore throat. Experience dictates that I will progressively lose my voice.

There are four altos (versus about eight sopranos) in the Mass choir, myself included.
The Cs of my chorus openly admit that they rely on me to keep them on the right pitch so much so that they often shift my position during practices to "share" me with the group.

Oh, I just came from a trip to Catalina, which had its ups and downs, but more on that when I'm less busy. It's also probably why I got sick.

For unfortunate reasons, my calculus final will most likely be pushed back, which is good for me, but I feel bad for my math teacher. This sickness is still ruining my work schedule.
keyk: (Baah.)
And quickies are the answer to everything. Except the things that require a lot of time. Meaning I'm not trying to sound philosophic but just needed to write something psuedo-profound before the art cut.

DadadaDAAAAAANNNN. )

I tried to do some gesture drawings yesterday but nerves and paranoia got the better of me. One day I-I will prevail! The 39 Steps was so much fun to watch though. Yeah, postmodernism in plays!

Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers!

I'm going to miss a Pokemon episode with Barry in it next week for a field trip. :'( Pity, but I'm not going to die.
keyk: (Default)
Finished reading A Streetcar Named Desire before the bad acting in class--not that I can do better, but my brain sure can--ruined it was amazing. Naturally, I laughed at the STELLAAAAAAAAAHHHHH part for, well, obvious reasons. I'll analyze it while my classmates read it aloud in class and hopefully rereading it'll prove certain conclusions I drew from it. I can't read to save my life and I always seem to be totally off analyzing, so, er, baby steps? This is the first book I liked from this class!

I've been too tired to do much of anything after school, so lately I've become a library regular flippin' through tales by H.C. Andersen! Hans's namesake canonically. I don't like all of them, but I'm trying delve into Hans's mindset since he adores children's literature. God keeps invading and preaching and making miracles, which is why Dusk doesn't like Andersen, but Hans enjoys the simplicity and appreciates all the gaps left for the children to fill. I did enjoy "The Shadow" a ton, which sounded so different compared to the others I read.

I made Hans like "The Steadfast Tin Soldier," but unfortunately I didn't like it as much as he. Now that I've actually read it instead of reading summaries online (laaame), Hans totally would like this story. He's a lonely reclusive character that holes himself up with his books and manages to gain a crush (I caved and made it canonical--why yes, I can like romance) and gets a roommate forced on him to the dismay of both parties and adjusting to it all is just too difficult for him. Of course he'd love reading about a bunch of animate toys. Hans probably likes all the God-filled ones, too, but I don't plan on diving into that in CF. I made Violette like Pinocchio, so once I felt I had read enough Andersen for the day, I picked it up!

Right now (I only nicked the book), Pinocchio's hard to compare to Violette. I looked up certain similarities once upon a time, but I can't remember them. I'll keep reading, and maybe they'll hit me. It's such a painful book to read though! Pino's such a rascal and Gepetto's too easily persuaded. I was appalled by the Cricket's untimely demise. Is it sad that this horrified me more than anything I read of Andersen's? 'Cause it did. For now, I'll see if any situations can be drawn parallel to what Violette goes through or manage to find some strong enough tie somewhere.

I neglected reading the assigned Soldier's Heart in favor of fiction. Samet writes wonderfully, but I have yet to develop patience enough to read fifty pages of a sophisticated essay in one go. Children's lit has that emptiness to it that fascinates me. Usually I'm not in the mood for fairy tales and created Hans as an outlet for my fascination of them, but now I can say I do like the genre. Maybe it's just my moods, I don't know. I just need a break from all of this adult stuff. I'm not well adapted to the world of today. Just how much talent is necessary?

Oh, oh. I should add that I read all of the available scans of Pokemon Special in the span of a week. I'm so cool. :>;; It has the hottest characters ever shutup.
keyk: (really?)
Well.

That was.
Horrible.

The practice AP exam seemed easy as pie compared to this one (even though I got like a 50%-60% on the practice one, hahaha and came off with a 4). OH WELL. If I don't get to skip a calc class then it's just boo-hoo for me, eh? Sucks that it's $86 per test though, yuck.

Took a look at my class grades. They're certainly high enough to survive the last month of classes (although finals is a different story). One grade is dwindling down and is on the verge of hitting a B+, but, yeah, that's a reeaal tragedy right? Aha. ha. ha. Although that particular class doesn't offer much points so one wrong move could very well make the numbers dive. Shock, shock, it's not calculus. That's one of my higher grades, strangely enough. Not that it showed on the AP test, but, haha, I'll just hope for a generous helping of grade curving on that.

But grades mean nothing. I am not as smart as people think my grades say I am. Ask me something outside of what I learn in school, and I will be utterly unable to answer. I just need to keep them high enough to retain my college admittance. My classes seem like child's play to what my sis and bro do in college and I think I just might die in college since I'm going to the SAME ONE AS THEM (hoowwww). That's the only reason why I care at this point. :>

Next big things on the agenda: that big English group (haha) project aaand that two day calculus final!
keyk: (W-well...)
I do not know why I always have to worry about something. It's like I'll DIE if I'm not stressing out over SOMETHING. 8|a So about every second I'll worry about how annoying I was yesterday, how stupid or rude action/phrase A and B of mine was, if I'll die tomorrow, how the rest of life'll play out, if I did all my homework, if I managed to do well on some test or project, how I should try to limit my annoyingness in front of others, etc., etc., and I'm not even exaggerating. Ok, fine, maybe when I sleep, I won't be such a worrywart, unless my dreams have anything to say about it, but, anyway, point is, I'm constantly preoccupied.

Yeeeaaahhh. I just don't know why I feel like I HAVE to worry. I just do. I feel like I'll forget something important if I don't. I've been pretty ok about being overly paranoid this year in that I haven't cracked yet, but I have gotten sick pretty often, so maybe that's where all the stress is going? One consistent consequence, among others, of being paranoid is that I am perpetually tired. It is so not cool. And counterproductive. Paradoxical even!

I mean.
I'm tiring myself stressing out over something, and then I have no energy to do the work required to put said stress to rest.

Like.
This AP Calculus test tomorrow morning.
A scrumptious three hours and thirty minutes of puuure maaath.

Am I studying? Absolutely not.
Am I tired? Ohhh, you betcha.

Just plodding through this hell month until graduation. We'll see how it rolls. :|

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