Luis's Graduation Party (91)

Yesterday, I went to my cousin Luis's Graduation Party. Actually, that's the whole reason I came back to Elkhart for a weekend. So that I could congratulate the dude who is going to graduate in June 6th. Congratulations, Luis Stephen Pineda!

Uh. Oh yeah, onto the party.... I imagined it would be a lot more... uh... lively. But whatever. There were tacos! Fuck yeah! For some reason, there aren't any good places in Muncie that serve good tacos, so I'm always sad. But then again, there's always the better subway alternative, The Pita Pit. At the party, I some familiar folks as well as my family once again. It was weird being back. I felt alienated from everyone else. It was that weird feeling of "hey, long time no see." But then again, there were little to no activities at the party which was unfitting considering that most of the people there were gamers and taggers so what was there to do besides converse? 

I spent most of my time hanging around Jacob who probably also felt unfitting because he's been away in college for almost a year now. We both talked about our college experiences which were very different. He goes to a business college in Fort Wayne while I go to a university in Muncie. His classes are like high school while mine vary. After the party, he showed me two of his swords (one of them was almost as tall as me O_O).

The real party started when Luis finally decided to bring his Xbox so that us minions could kill each other in FPS games. Board games!? Who needs those, lol. 

After a couple of "pew pews" later, it somehow turned late really fast and the party was over. Time to go home. Blah. I talked to Luis for a while in the car about a video game I'm playing as a beta tester, one character in particular (because I found him to be very hilarious). I was kind of shocked that Luis has never played a Dating Sim before. Actually, now that I think about it, I'm probably the only guy in my family as well as my circle of guy friends from college who have ever played a dating sim. Damnit.

P.S. Click on those links for inside jokes.

All out of bubble gum (90/90)

This post marks the last post of the "90 posts in 90 days writer's challenge." The title of this post is "All out of bubble gum" because this post is supposed to represent the "becoming of a whole" of this entire blog. I do plan on continuing this blog as a means of writing about personal matters since I have become aware of its importance. These past three months have been a very interesting experience.

I used my first post to reflect on how my writing has changed since the first day of the writer's challenge. Unlike my previous posts, my first post was really long. Probably because I had so much to talk about at the time. I was so much more personal back then. I described almost everything that happened during the day. But then after I started becoming aware as to who was reading my blog, I started leaving things out. Stuff that I didn't want the public to know to a full extent. I think that was one of my first weaknesses as a transitioned from a semi private based blogger to a I'm going to share this with my followers on Facebook and Twitter.

Before I go anywhere else with this post, I'd like to thank my fellow bloggers especially Sam and Kyle who inspired me to start this challenge. To be honest, a big part of what kept me going was knowing that you guys were there sharing the same obligations as I did. I think our writing styles influenced each other as well. I could sort of see that with the length of our entries at one point, but then we started going off different tangents, it seems. I think a big part of that had to do with the fact that we just didn't have time hang out quite as often toward the end of the schoolyear and the fact that our summers are completely different from each other's. A question for Sam and Kyle. How do you think our blogs compare and contrast? A question for the people. How would you go about writing your personal blog?

Above, I mentioned how I have become aware of this blog's importance in my life. The importance of this blog comes from giving me a chance to reflect and write about my experiences every day. To know that there was at least a little meaning behind every day has allowed me to have a more optimistic outlook on life. There were a few instances where I wanted to write something dreadful, something I would regret later on, but I didn't. I remember initially starting the blog saying to myself that I would not regret anything I posted. And I'm glad it stayed that way.

Now without further ado, I'd like to end the 90 in 90 saying, "I've came to kick ass and chew bubble gum... and now I'm all out of bubble gum."

Gamer Day :D (89/90)

Lou and Ricky finally moved in to White Mesa today. They were supposed to move in yesterday (Friday), but I don't know what happened. Oh well, yFriday was horrible. After my parents left, I went back to sleep and ended up waking up at 10pm. Then we decided to play Crystal Chronicles again. This time, we played until 5am. Let the weekend begin!

Saturday started out with me waking up, walking into the living room and looked through my email. Okashi studios replied to my questionnaire saying they were interested in holding a one on one conversation with me to clear up any questions I may have. I'm scheduled sometime this week so I'm pretty nervous. Oh, and during the time I was spending checking my email, Ricky and Lou came busting in through our back door carrying their luggage. Finally. Now we have a full house.

After about 5 o'clock, I went to the library to meet up with Tyler so that he could come over to the house to hang out with us. It turned out to be really fun since my friends decided to huddle around as I attempted to get through the last part of Metal Gear Solid 2. I started playing at the part where Raiden had to get past these ninjas without being seen while being completely naked. The Colonel kept constantly calling saying really random things like making references to previous Metal Gear games. Then, after Solid Snake gave Raiden his clothes back, he explains that the Colonel is a figment of Raiden's imagination. Oh, and for whatever reason, Snake gives Raiden infinite ammo so that they could take down the army of ninjas. I would have gunned them down with Snake, but Raiden got this really cool sword made of science. So I had Raiden kick the ninjas asses with the sword...... made of science. Then Raiden took down some mecha using a rocket launcher and defeated a pirate/clone/cyborg/ninja/ex president/terrorist/tentacle weilding super soldier using the freaking awesome SCIENCE SWORD. Or at least that's what I'm calling it. Then, Snake told us (the players) how to live our life. What. The. Hell....

By the end of the day, we found ourselves playing Crystal Chronicles again (damn, I'm probably going to get sick of that game by the end of the summer). I'm not going to get into details about this game like I did with Metal Gear Solid 2, but I will say that my dad (in Crystal Chronicles) is pretty much the most hated person in his village right now. He's supposed to be the blacksmith of the village, but sucks really hard at being one. Also, we've caught him casually hanging around other places not doing anything useful. Damnit pops.

K, thanks bye! (88/90)

I can't believe I pulled my first all-nighter on my first week of Summer school. Here's to a good night's sleep tonight!

So my parents came over unexpectedly today. Normally, I wouldn't mind. No wait. I take that back. I totally mind. Being a college student and all, I consider myself to be a very busy individual. The very fact that someone would call me up and tell me to take some of my personal time away to hang out or do something kind of annoys me. Especially if I happen to be asleep at the time. I don't mean to hate on people. I do like hanging out and doing stuff, but I need my own personal time as well. Today, for example, my parents called me while I was trying to nap because of the all-nighter I pulled last night. If this was any normal situation, I would have ignored them or told them to stop bothering me, but seeing as they live three hours away and that they just went to the hospital to have little David get a check-up, I had to make an exception. 

I had a lot of fun with my parents. Not something I'd brag about though, considering it's just time spent with my parents so all we did was mostly talk about family issues and other personal stuff. I have to admit that my functionality around them was a little... uh... slow because I was very tired. But all in all, we had a good talk. I showed my little brother David my Yui Hirasawa plush toy. He really liked her a lot for some reason. I guess he has good tastes. David's such a silly kid.

My parents took me to Marsh because I told them I was low on food. That was convenient for me. I was going to go tomorrow, but I guess I got that out of the way. They also bought me pizza from Little Caesars. If you go there, definitely go for the deep dish. It's better.

Nobody likes an angry Angelina (87/90)

Title not important XD

I can't believe I only have 3 more blog entries to go. It seems like this week is going by so fast. This is my first time ever in my history of being a student taking summer classes. I had no idea how rushed summer classes are. I sort of regret signing up for these three summer session 1 classes. Over the past three days, I have had little time to relax. All of this schoolwork is coming right at me at supersonic speeds. And even with all of this schoolwork taking up most of my time, I still have to write on this blog everyday. I'm almost there. There's no point in giving up now.

I guess this is just another one of those "This is what happened today" posts since I have no time to search for stuff relevant to my personal interests. I still need to catch up on the Nostalgia critic's new videos, the Team Fortress 2 blog, Durarara!, play through Mother 3, read A Clockwork Orange, read the stack of manga I bought at Acen (around $100 worth), maybe even start Disgaea again. Hell, I still need to do my laundry! You see? I have so much other stuff I'd rather be doing than homework. But all in all, I still like my classes.

The only super interesting thing that happened today was that I got an email from Okashi studios asking me to fill out a questionnaire so that they can decide who gets to play the beta version of a Dating Sim game called Shira-Oka (I'm sure Evie got hers too). I'm super excited to play this game. I don't play dating simulators often, but I do like them and being able to contribute to a (hopefully) good one is a blessing. I've never beta tested before, but I'm sure they'll give me some instructions on what needs to be done. Here's hoping that they'll accept me :)

P.S. This isn't really important, but James asked me to practice some techniques in Brawl today. Being a Wolf player, he said he wanted to perfect Wolf's B forward cancel. Apparently, from what he read, when you cancel any of the Fox characters' B forward moves, they get to keep their momentum after the move is over which allows you to get a farther distance if you do it right. Also, by cancelling the B forward move, you get less lag when you land. I'm not sure if I've mentioned this, but I guess some of my friends aim to be tournament players in Super Smash Bros. Brawl. I guess I could join them considering the fact that I'm just as good at the game as they are XD

Self Conscious? (86/90)

(FYI, we didn't pay the internet bill so we have no internet at home anymore so I went to the MT cup to do write some responses for my Social Media class before getting to work on the blog. I ended up getting kicked out of the MT cup because they had to close. Unfortunately, I did not have time to post the blog before getting kicked out and I didn't want to go to the library so late at night. Hence, I was unable to post yesterday.)

Laundry and video games (85/90)

Today was pretty much meaningless. Immediately after I came home from my classes, I took a 3 hour nap. After the nap, I was about to do my laundry considering that I only have a couple of clean clothes left in my closet. When I went to the basement with my clothes to insert them into the washer, I looked in and sure enough, Eric's clothes were in the washer. He also had wet clothes laying in the dryer. I took the liberty of setting up the dryer for him in hopes that he would come get his clothes later. But he didn't. So now I have to start nagging him. I'm kind of annoyed at Eric now. Also, I saw his clothes lying around in the living room yesterday which didn't piss me off, but the fact that he would leave his dirty laundry in the middle of the living room on the floor for no apparent reason makes me think that he's not applying himself to taking much responsibility in taking care of the house. I'm afraid that he's going to be a bad example when Ricky and Lou move in in a couple of days.

The only thing that I would call an accomplishment today was that James and Eric made me play Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles on the gamecube. As I write right now, the only one left playing is James. Single player this game looks horrible and repetitive, but the multi player aspect of this game is really fun if you are playing with close friends. Cooperation isn't really necessary to my disbelief, however, it helps a lot. Especially when you want to pull off some pretty powerful spells and combos. I think we put in 4 hours into Crystal Chronicles today which got us pretty far. There was a part where both Eric and James got their characters killed and my character was the only one remaining. In order to get through the dungeon, I had to be very careful and attack enemies while dodging as many hits as possible. I only had 5 hearts so it was pretty easy to die when you had to face multiple enemies at once. It was a very suspenseful dungeon until I got the stone of life which let me revive my fallen comrades. Then we proceeded to rape the boss.

:D