Life's short and boring...

Ahhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!
I missed everyone!!! I can't believe an entire semester has gone by already.
School has kept me away, but I am now done with classes for the time being. That means I can continue updating AAAttackers, YAY! I got a whole bunch of new ideas during the hiatus and I can't wait to put them into use.

Oh yeah, I promised to share the cosplay I was working on.
So I built a large robot suit from my favorite mecha series "Zoids." This specific model is called "Liger Zero Schneider," it is Liger Zero's close-combat form. I also put these pictures up on deviantart. My account name on DA is epiknoodles cuz they didn't let me use spaces.
But yeah, I built this entire robot out of carboard. I am so happy and proud of myself for being able to build something so magnificent on such a large scale. I'm sad to say that I ended up not taking my awesome cosplay to the anime convention. This was because my parents disapproved of the entire thing, mainly saying that it was over-sized, hard to walk in, and it's a walking hazard.

I was super sad during the entire convention because I couldn't cosplay. They tried to get me to wear one of my old cosplays (like my Bleach shinigami outfit). I refused because I didn't want to go through the trouble of digging it up from storage.

Also, there weren't very many cosplayers that I was interested in taking pictures of this year. I got Neku from "the world ends with you" in the first picture. I've really gotten into the "Persona" fandom, so I took a picture of a group cosplaying as some of the girls from "Persona 4" in the second picture.
When I looked over the pictures I took... I busted out laughing because of the second picture. I'm talking about Naoto (second pic, wearing the blue cap, standing in the middle). The look on Naoto's face in the picture... priceless... She's got a derp face in the picture I took. Derpy Naoto, lol. Enlarge the picture, you'll see what I mean. But I know the character this person is cosplaying as is rather callow and serious, that derp face killed the imagery I had for Naoto Shirogane for a short moment and it made me giggle. The next day, I ran into different Naoto (this one has her gun, awesome!) and she was with another fellow P4 cosplayer dressed as Yosuke in the third picture. Little did I know that they were the panel hosts of the Persona Panel I was about to attend...

I had fun at the convention this year, even though the programming sucked since their schedules were messed up and apparently there weren't very many panel suggestions this year which in turn created a mess of random panels (most of them being DIYs). I'm upset about not being able to cosplay this year. It's okay, I'll cosplay as Narukami Yu from Persona 4 next year, I really wanna carry a golf club and tarot card.

It's been several days since returning from Japan. I wish I could've stayed longer. Blasted school schedule!

I miss Arata's sillness, I miss Hiro's interesting attempts at English and his otakuness, I miss Toshi's humor, I miss Chizu's cooking and the delicious okayu she always made me, and most of all I miss Toshiko. Toshiko couldn't speak English so I had to use my limited Japanese and some invalid sign language. Toshiko was able to understand me, even if it made me look silly. She shared her umeboshi with me every morning, she was very impressed that I could even eat it. I wish I had a grandmother like Toshiko.

The greatest memory of Japan that I left with was the day we went to explore and shop in Akihabara. I felt bad for making Hiro carry all of our shopping bags. I asked if he was alright and I even offered to help. But Hiro gave a big smile and bellowed, "ME OKAY!!! GOOD! STRONG!" Hiro refused to let us carry anything after that. Seriously, he was hanging on to a lot of bags, we really wanted to help. I drew a little picture of our shopping spree.
I'm going to make another tribute picture to those who I miss in Japan.
I just want to thank them one last time.

I already miss the excitement of ACen.
I wanna go back! I only feel this way because this anime convention is once a year! I still need to upload pictures to my album so people can see the cosplay pictures. I'll do that when I have time to steal them off of Miki's camera. Yet again, the cosplay wasn't as interesting as three years ago. There was a lack of creativity this year and fewer people were cosplaying.

Because the economy is so horrible, the number of vendors decreased by nearly half the amount from two years ago. There's this one vendor, a young Japanese man and his mother, they run a J-rock booth, but since "Man in the Dress" owns the original J-rock booth, I've always called this guy's booth the CD shop(it's the only place that sold J-rock CDs). The guy and his mother are really nice, I especially like his shirts, he always wears these punk black lace-up shirts, so cool... Anyways, besides being in love with the shirts he wears, for the past few years, his booth has roughly been the size of about two and a half stalls. But this year, his CD shop has been reduced to HALF a stall. Talk about a downgrade!!! It costs quite a bit to rent out space to sell merchandise. I always remember his shop being really big and filled with a lot of stuff. Aww.. this year he only had a handful of CDs and a few Gundams. From over the counter I can see his poor mother trying to make herself comfortable in the tiny cramped area that hardly has any walking space(there were boxes back there too). They couldn't fit a chair back there, so I could see her struggling while trying to sit on the floor. I felt bad and it was strange to see their shop be so small. I bought a Gundam from their place, but the Gundam I wanted was up really high on a shelf and my short self couldn't reach it. The shelf with the Gundams is facing outwards from the booth and counter, meaning he can't reach anything on that shelf while behind the counter. So, the poor guy(GAH! Now I feel really bad for making him do this) had to walk through curtains(separates his place from neighboring booths), through other people's booths/shops and all the way around the entire row of shops, all because his shop is tiny and enclosed. The guy had to stumble through other people's shops just to get out of his own shop. I am so sorry!!!!!! If I had been taller, then I wouldn't have put him through so much trouble over an unreachable Gundam. I feel so bad!!! I'm sorry dude!

Anyways, that same Gundam from his shop...
I just finished building it today! I love building models and I've made buying Gundams from ACen a new tradition. I love my new Gundam, but I still feel really bad about what happened when I was buying it...

The Gundam turned out great!

It looks really cool, but I think the orange is a bit too bright.

This is a record building time for me. I've never built a Gundam this fast before. The Gundam I bought last year took a week to build. This one is a "master grade" like my previous one, but I built it in one day. What fascinates me most about this Gundam is it's versatile weapon. It's primarily a giant sword, but you can transform it into FIVE different weapons!!! I was too lazy to fold and transform it, so I just left it as a giant sword.


Besides building my Gundam, I played "Little Big Planet" with Miki for a while. But that was it. I mainly just worked on my Gundam the whole day... No school and temporarily... no work!!!!!!!!! Other than that... I want ACen 2011 to hurry up!!!!!!!! I can't wait for the next convention and I'm always curious about who the guest performer is... In 2009, M.O.V.E. had the best concert!!!!!! Speaking of concerts, I have another one coming up in June? June 8 I believe, Wonder Girls and 2pm, this is going to be fun! I get to meet Wonder Girls!!!

Wahhhhhhh!!!!!!
I feel so accomplished!!!
It took me 9 hours trying to figure out how to put that post under a cut!
I finally figured it out!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now I can finally relax a little...

Oh yeah... here's the screencaps:





It took a lot of energy just to write everything down, details and such. I can see why updates are no joke... and how frustrating the computer is when it refuses to let you post all of your content. Thank you MS Word! IT TOOK ALL DAY TO UPLOAD THESE!!! Well... at least everything worked out!

By the way, I was only able to accomplish all of this because I weaseled my way out of working today, so I've been in Chicago all day. Okay, I'm going to go play "Super Smash Bros. Brawl," come get me when the world ends(oblivious to everything when playing video games).

Until next time, bye for now.

YES!!!!
I'm finally finished with my skates today. I've been painting and customizing my ice skates all weekend. I am tired and my hands are paint covered because I can't wash the paint off. Also, I've been spending many hours breathing through a bandanna to prevent myself from inhaling toxic fumes from the paint. But in the end it was worth it, although it isn't a top quality paint job. Why would it be a good quality... I am partially blind after all.

I couldn't get rid of the white specks because they clung on during the drying period, but I covered most of it...

I only made one decal at the moment... the AAA logo... I need to plan further if I want to attach more designs. Miki was impressed with the logo I attached onto my skates, she said it was very cool. I'm glad that Miki is proud of my work, at first she doubted my idea and said the skates would turn out messy and discolored. Well, I proved her wrong. I spent so many hours taping and covering areas that the paint isn't supposed to cover.

Here's the before and afters of my ice skates:
BEFORE

It was so boring and plain like this.
AFTER

Impulse to customize... I did all of this in my garage.
Hahaha... my blade is so shiny!!!

If everyone would like to know my supply list... please don't laugh at my paint logic (although it's hard to resist laughing):

SUPPLY LIST=
   -1 can gloss black spray paint
   -1 can gloss dark blue spray paint
   -1 can flat white spray paint(primer)
   -1 can flat clear lacquer
   -1 roll scotch tape
   -1 roll packing tape
   -1 roll duck tape
   -1 newspaper
   -1 jar of peanut butter(I knew it! You laughed!)
   -1 bandanna
   -1 case of toothpicks

Here's the explanation behind the "peanut butter"...
Do you see the "bright blue" areas in the after picture of the skates?
Those areas were actually(I kid you not) covered with PEANUT BUTTER!!! The peanut butter protects those areas from getting stained by the black paint I was spraying on. And of course, if those areas were covered in black... I would not be able to paint them blue. Then... this brings up the question of, "why didn't I just use tape like I did on the other places?" Well, there were super thin lines on the skates too, it's nearly impossible to make the tape "that thin" to cover up those small areas. Peanut butter is nice because I can mold it into any shape or size I want.
I'm so creative aren't I?
*laughing over the peanut butter*
Out of all the things, I have no idea how I came up with peanut butter?
Until next time, bye everyone!

Today was the first day of "Spring Semester", I only had one class today, MATH118 general math...
I went ice skating with everyone in the morning, so fun, but my legs hurt so much.
Later that day I went to my old babysitter's house, we went to go drop off some "Onitsuka Tigers"(awesome shoes) because she will be going to Thailand and I want them to be delivered to my cousin Gate, who actually lives in Australia.

While I was there, I drew on a dry erase board:

Isn't this a cute turtle?
My Kame is adorable!!!
That was my day, until next time, bye

Ah yes, the fun and joy of revisions.
I had started revising "Dance Corner", the AAA dance collection I finished "last year".
But now I want to add more stuff, because I feel as if it is "incomplete."
Here are the many painful steps in revising:

1.  Scouting-
        search for relevant videos to incorporate into the revision
2.  Seeking-
        watch whole videos in search of usable footage
3.  Clipping-
        trim and clip acquired footage into arrangeable pieces
4.  Resurrection-
        re-open the editing file of the original 'workspace'
5.  Edit-
        readjust clips, captions, and timeslots to work revisions in
6.  Check-
        very important, check ratios, audio, codecs, file size, and directories
7.  Produce-
        in other terms, export, create the new video, put it on desktop, etc..
8.  Wait-
        hour(s) of waiting will be rewarded, haste will make the video lag
9.  Check part 2-
        open the new video to see if it works properly, watch through
10.Compress-
        if video comes out to +3gb and it won't let you move it, compress
11.Wait (again)-
        yes, boring, but its worth not having the computer crash
12.Check part 3-
        watch it through one more time, check for lags, freezes, pixels...
13.Recreate-
        since Ulead refuses to save, remake the original dvd menu
14.Burn!
        the one word that makes old people think of fire...burn the dvd
15.Wait for it (no really)-
        staring at the progress bar is fun, ahh...green....
16.Final Check-
        finally! put the disc into a player and see what happens
17.Label-
        whip out that sharpie and label away
18.Share...(maybe)-
        "sharing is caring", showoff share videos with friends and LJ
19.Wisdom-
        realizing that you haven't eaten or slept for many hours

Besides the crazy editing, I added more footage from concerts I was missing. I was missing 2nd attack and 3rd anniversary. Plus I added some bloopers, well, I don't know about everyone else but they were funny to me (I have a different sense of humor). Of course the most infamous blooper of them all is included, you know which one I'm talking about, *cough*~4th *cough*~attack! The bloopers I put in also had some captions I created, most of them being extremely random. I amused myself adding captions, since most of the footage had no "talking".

If I do decide to upload it sometime, we may be looking at a 4gb monster, this means loads of compression and some serious splitting. Here's some sneak peeks:


Credit: nissyshinjilove I got the picture concept from them.






As you can see, just tons of my lame humor, lol (only person laughing)...
Okay, midnight is approaching, which means time for some long deserved sleep.
Until next time, bye again.