Friday, June 10, 2005

Out of Internet

Well, I managed to bring down Tiscali's servers. Again. The wankers decided to cancel my account on the basis of a CHANGED CONTRACT that now limits the account to 30GB transfer... if they had before said that it was UNLIMITED ACCESS then IT SHOULD BE! Never, ever, use Tiscali.

Anyway, it's not likely that I'll do any new posts until the 21st of June from Mexico. So I'll just say that my stand up comedy ruled. ^_^

Note: hopefully the font size is back to normal.

Saturday, June 04, 2005

The Hawk, the Party, and the Massage Parlour

I should've made an earlier post, I admit. I just didn't have much time. Awake, that is, and then mostly from when I woke up to early morning the next day I would be out. And here's the story...

This last week everyone somehow synchronized to my normal day/night hours and ended up staying all night doing all sorts of things. From cheering Yukina from outside her building to finish her essay (which she did) to finding out there was a guy with a Harris Hawk walking about on Whitelands.

Nights were normally spent either watching movies or "Family Guy" and talking about nonsense and/or splitting bottles in half with a swift stroke of a knife! Finding a mystical stone of the Sith that decides the fates of universal quadrants was also kind of interesting. Trips to ASDA to keep us with healthy (ha!) food, lots of drinks (non-alcoholic) and even a massage parlor. I have to admit, Ripton's technique, as brief as I experienced it was extremely good. When I switched places with Yukina she was in extasy I could tell, but she needed it more than I did. So I ended up with Jenny doing me a massage and then we switched places. Cool.

Later we met with the Hawk guy and we went around Uni watching that extremely cool bird flying around and managed to get the glove on our hands to have it come over. Sadly, we didn't have a camera with us, or I would post pictures here, but next time we will! And with TWO hawks! How cool is that?

Now, yesterday (friday) was the International Graduation Party, and let me tell you, the ladies were dressed to kill! Yukina, Erin and Jenny, all three of them looked incredible! Free food, lots of champagne, red wine (cheap stuff, but not that bad really) and a delicious chocolate cake with strawberries! Ah! And the place! Templeton is a victorian house with a huge garden and it looked like what England should always look like. Cool and sophisticated. It's cool to be able to go to those parties, especially because a lot of my friends are going back home at the end of this year... I will miss you guys!

Oh, yeah... almost forgot the anime rant. Silly me. Ghost, pay attention.

Tsubasa Chronicle differed a bit from the manga in a little more noticeable way than in previous episodes. That in itself is not surprising, but it brought into context just how a little 3 to 5 minutes change can add a lot more about Sakura's personality and character.

Contrast with: Naruto: the Filler Episodes, which haven't showed ANYTHING remotely necesary for the character advancement of either Naruto OR Sakura. Two episodes into it and we can guess what will happen:
1; That new chick's brother was absorbed by Orochimaru. Predictable. (If they're smart, they will also kill the girl so no plotholes are left.)
2; Naruto fails at YET another promise (this one pretty useless)
3; They go back to Konoha, and the original plot resumes with Sakura staying and Naruto going to train with Ero-sennin and these episodes are NEVER mentioned again. Like the previous fillers.

THAT is a useless batch of fillers, further proving my point that the manga is better.

Bush quote:

"I'd rather have them sacrificing on behalf of our nation than, you know, endless hours of testimony on congressional hill." -George W. Bush, Fort Meade, Maryland, June 4, 2002