JOURNAL: Anime Jedi

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  • Year No. 2 wraps up... 2006-04-20 04:42:32 I only have one more exam, and then I've finalyl completed my second year of University studying Architecture. Let the craziness subside for the following four months! lol

    Today and yesterday's exams though were very tough. I was actually (still am) pretty worried about failing those courses. Even as far as asking my girlfriend not to call me for the two days that I needed to study for them. I hope she's not mad though, because I seriously missed her during that time. It's just that we argue a lot on the phone, and once the conversation's over, it's hard to get any work done right away. And I couldn't afford losing that much time. Regardless though, I had a very tough time studying. I kept falling asleep whenever I started looking through my notes, no matter what time of day it was. Oh well, let's not dwell on the past. Those exams are over, and I have one more to go. My last one on Friday iasn't actually that tough, and I'm already doing well in that course, but I still need to do well just to get my GPA to something respectable.

    [sigh] Enough about exams. What a boring subject. Hmmm... Anime North is coming up soon. I guess I should start getting ready for the con. Some of my friends want to book a hotel for one of the nights. I'm not too sure about it, just because I'm not sure how many days I plan on attending. But it'll be fun to drop by. I think this will be my fourth year attending.

    I've been trying to keep up to date with all the recent video gaming news, preferbly about Nintendo, but there hasn't been much lately. Things are a bit quiet, I suppose because E3 is just around the corner. I'm excited to see what kind of news will appear this year.

    Anyways, for some reason everything I write about today sound totally and completely boring. So I'm just going to stop trying, and go to bed. Why am I not in bed now? Well, I fell asleep after my exam this evening at 8:00pm, and slept until midnight. So I'm not all that tired. But an hour of Fire Emblem will fix that. Speaking of Fire Emblem, I've finally beaten that game on Normal again, after having the entire thing erased like some kind of bad dream. Hope fully it won't take me that much longer to get right back to where I was.

    Kevin (Anime Jedi) 
  • Spoke too soon... 2006-04-06 23:56:58 The other day I was feeling so great. Especially when it came to my attitude and general way I've been dealing with stress. Well, no sooner than the next day, did I fall apart. Project after project was blowing up in my face. Exam after exam was looking "Greek" to me. This past week has been one for the record books.

    I wrote my last entry on Friday, and that's when it all started. That night I went to school to finish my project, only to find out that I had no real grasp on what we had to do. I thought I fine when walking in, but once I started working, it seemed that everyone else's project were totally different. -_-

    The next day I had to go home for a bit to pick up some stuff. When I got home, I realized that the main thing I needed to pick up (my suit), was actually in Toronto. I just had the pants, shirt and jacket all seperated, so I didn't realize that the three together was my suit. Also, while at home, I fell asleep on the couch just before having to come back downtown, making myself late for my friend's concert.

    Sunday I was to tired from all my all-nighters that I basically slept all day. This was my only real day to study for the two exams this week, and it went down the drain.

    Monday I found out that the group project that I had carried all by myself the week earlier had sunk. I failed it. Now my whole group was asking questions on why did we fail. -_- Though luckily my prof said we coudl redo it while taking a penalty. Yesterday we redid it, and now have a 60%. Monday night I tried pulling another all nighter to study for my Management exam the next day, and was in and out of sleep, helping me remember nothing.

    Tuesday night I spent working on my project due on Wednesday. This was something I had hoped I could finish in no time, but then again it took the whole night. At one point I was feeling good, since our project looked great, and I had done most of the work. We actually finished a few hours before the deadline. But since we were feeling confident, we took our time before getting to class. And just our luck, we found out there was something we were still missing. So in the middle of class I had to run out to the computer and finish it up. This is bad because I really hate missing class.

    Now with this stuff out of the way, I was feeling a little better, ready to study for my second exam, classical music. But I screwed that one up too. I slept in and out all nigth again. Though I did get through all my notes, and the songs before the exam, it didn't help much since I didn't study them in detail. And worse yet, there was a song on our listening test I hadn't ever heard before!!! I mean, not remembering it is one thing. But being totally confused like being asked about Country music when all I had done was study Opera. So I actually put as my answer "I don't know, since I've never even listened to this song before". After the exam I wasn't feeling happy, so I needed some GBA time, only to find out that I had forgotten it at my apartment, for the first time in weeks. There was no way I was going to try and pull through the rest of the day without it. So I raced home, got it, and made it through my classes. Once back here, I was so happy to relax. But nope, time to play clean up. Turns out that my room mate had plugged the toilet. It plugs after one successful flush, so nothign happened after he used it, but when all I did was flush some toilet paper I had used for my nose, it over flowed. Talk about fun.

    Anyways, all that's over, and it's Friday again... Wait a minute, it's not Friday, it's only Thursday. Shit. This is what happens when it's been weeks since you purposely fell asleep. All I've been doing is working until I eventually fall asleep at whatever I'm doing. These weeks sure take forever to get over with.

    Kevin (Anime Jedi) 
  • Tough weeks ahead... 2006-03-31 15:26:31 Night after night of lousy rest. Barely finishing the minimum for project after project. This is just getting so tiring. And now exams are coming up, with no time to rest before their arrival. Some Universities give their students a week after classes are done to prepare. I get Good Friday off. My first exam is Easter Monday! [sigh] There's just no end in sight.

    I will admit one thing though, I'm not falling as far behind as I would have imagined. I mean, sure I'm settling with my old job from last summer. But I am doing well on the front of trying to find someone to rent my apartment from me for the summer. And I've been pretty good at organizing the days to come when it comes to projects and what not. Sometimes I don't finish them exactly, but it's not like the deadline comes and goes without my having known about it. In the end, I'm just not as stressed as I would have thought. I'll give myself that much credit. lol

    Yikes... It looks like it's going to rain. Now that I think about it, we were supposed to get some thunderstorms today. Looks like those plans on still on the verge of becoming reality.

    Last night, my friend and I went into Studio at 2:30am. To do the project due today, we needed to use the school's computers for a specific 3D modelling program. We figured with so many people working on it earlier in the day, and there being a limited amount of computers, we'd have to go in really late to get anything done. So we popped by at 2:30am and saw no one there. We figured our luck had finally turned around. Wrong. The serve which the program was on had crashed. That's when we figured out why no one else was there. Why stay when you can't even work. So that just ruined our night. I mean, nothing worse than wanting to work on a project, and not being able to.

    One perk did come out of last night though, seems my friend has really taken a liking to Inital D. Last year I tried getting him into a few anime, which was not going well. He's not an anime fan really, but he seemed to like Inital D. Last night we watched volmes 2 and 3, and he loved them. Enough that when he realized that a main car race hadn't ended by the end of volume 3, he said we had to go out and buy the next volume right away (though it was past midnight). [sigh] Well, I'm happy that non-anime fans can still appreciate it once in awhile. ^_^

    Kevin (Anime Jedi) 
  • That time of the year again... 2006-03-24 16:16:14 I seem to format my computer on a yearly basis now. It can be pretty annoying when you have as many large files as I do. But there is a perk to working so indepth with my computer. It's that I can do the whole thing within a few hours now. The other day I was able to format my drive, and reload Windows and my key files all within 5 hours. Not bad at all considering I've spent my share of 12 hour day weekends fixing computers.

    Why format it? Bugs. Ya. I don't usually have problems with them, but the other day I had a big one. I had gotten a anti-virus software, and it was doing an average job. After a week, I thought it was safe to uninstall it, since I don't like to be reliant on something like that. Big mistake! And of course I had to do this the last night I had to work on and essay. After 8 hours, I finally got it to a bare minimum operational level. Just enough to finish my essay. After a week, I finally got my Operating System from home, and then got around to fixing everything up. Thigns run smoothly again, and I can finally log onto this site too (that was one of the problems, I couldn't get onto several sites).

    Year's almost up. Talk about scary. In a month I'll be moving back home, and working in a factory again. Though the real scary part is how much I'm going to have to get done within that month. -_-

    My friend made her fist AMV! It's a Gundam Seed video, and she's hosted it on YouTube.com. She goes by Yukinosama. I'm so proud of her. She says she has a few more in the works. lol

    Kevin (Anime Jedi) 
  • AMV Opinions... 2006-03-15 03:40:17 Not too bad. I'm finally getting into the whole groove of things. Sure, there's always something else I should be doing, but I haven't written any in a long time, so I'm starting off with about one a day.

    New Logo. Cool. Wish I has gotten around to voting though. Oh well, I guess that means I can't complain if I don't like it. lol

    Should I go to bed? Well, lately I've really been abusing myself when it comes to sleep, so maybe. Even when I do fall asleep late in the morning, my body's been generous enough to wake itself up (without an alarm) in time to get to class. now that's kindness.

    Exams. I just found out all my exams are squished into a one week period. I guess it's not that bad, since there aren't any multiples on one day. Basically one a day for a week. Sucks that it's right after Easter though.

    My computer is so bugged. Funny thing is, I probably wouldn't even notice if it wasn't for this anti-virus software. It's already "healed" the same system file 3 times today. I think that's proof that it's not working. Or even that it's not targetting the right file to heal. [sigh] I bet if I uninstalled the program, I wouldn't even notice the bug. lol

    Kevin (Anime Jedi) 
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