Hey guys, this one will be short.
I'm pretty much swamped with work until the 24th (when my classes end) so I'll be about as active as a dead leaf. I'm planning to start the summer anime previews as soon as I'm done with classes on the 24th, so keep your eyes peeled for them.
On topic, I've got a Japanese project due on Tuesday, a paper due next Wednesday, and 3 Japanese finals next Friday, so I don't know how much I'll be able to blog next week. Thankfully for me, Natural came back, though he's using Zelos now (his actual name, like how mine is Kenn) so I don't have to worry too much about the blog being like a ghost town.
Working on my research paper right now. The hulk of a mess in the middle of the photo is more or all my references. =3=
That's about all for today. Stay tuned for the rest of the weekly features this week.
Image by Toi
Worry not readers, I'm still live and kicking, and not drugged up.
First of all, sorry mates. Couldn't find the time to put this up, and I let it sit longer and longer. The bigger it got, the less compelled I was to start it. <__<" It's up now, so I'll see you guys around this time next month or something.
Can't believe I didn't put these up yet. Waay back on Thanksgiving, we had quite the feast. Top three images are the feast foods, bottom left is Domo's soda overdose, bottom middle is what I had several plates of, and bottom right is sparkling Lingonberry juice.
:3 Rocky and Domo. <3
The obligatory left-overs sandwich. Complete with spicy sausage, turkey, and salad. Condiments include mustard, ketchup, margarine and mayonnaise.
More left-overs that wouldn't work in a sandwich. Mac 'n cheese. Really heavy stuff. You shouldn't eat stuff like this for breakfast.
And now heading in a new direction, this shot was taken at the top of the observation tower at Lonsdale Quay. The boat you see there is the Seabus, a passenger ferry that makes rounds across the Burrard inlet every 15 minutes or so.
For those who don't keep up with the photo blog, here's my newest Figma addition: Black Rock Shooter. She's gorgeous, as you can see. Her gun is very, very big too. Taller than the rest of the Figmas to be exact.
Snack time! To the left is dried squid and beef jerky. Middle is a red bean filled mochi. On the right is a peanut brittle, which really lives up to it's name.
An owl statue at the Seabus terminal. It's probably there to keep water fowl and other birds from hanging around the terminal. Keeps the birds and people safe. You see these around people's houses sometimes. Usually there for the same reason. Sometimes people just like owls though. Have you seen any of these kind of things in your neck of the woods?
Yum. I kid. This wasn't all that great. Unappetizingly dry, and the filling wasn't very good. I'm not sure how my sister can eat these.
Dinner for Kenn. Forget when this was, but it must be from recent times. Rice with spinach and meatloaf. An egg tart for desert. Yum :'D.
Mom bought these from girls selling them at the mall. My dad ate most of them. They're absurdly sweet. Chocolate outside with thin biscuits filled with a minty cream filling. Not as minty as I had hope them to be though.
Another dinner from recently. Same thing as the other one, but this one has eggs and tomatoes. More filling, and a wee bit more nutritious.
Haven't seen these in forever! They're more or less apple 'flavoured' Fruit Loops, but they're tasty nonetheless.
I see this scene every Monday and Wednesday. Morning classes are as fun as getting your spleen ripped out by a steel fisted orangutan. Sunrises so late, and sets so early...rain doesn't help either.
The left and middle pictures were taken at Metrotown, a large, large mall in Burnaby. These guys from Sandemon's were carving up pumpkins for weeks leading up to Halloween. They're nothing short of impressive. On the right are toasted pumpkin seeds extracted from the pumpkin my sister got from school. My mom shelled them for ease of consumption, though I found that I could eat them with the shells on.
October was a month of a lot of new stuff for me. Lots of clothes. Pictured above:
- 1x New shoes
- x4 Pairs of jeans
- x1 Jacket
- x1 Transformers Tshirt
- x1 Cardigan
Also picked up these. On the left are modeler's side-cutters. They're used to clip the pieces off runners in Plastic Models. They work wonderfully. Middle and right images are of the new plastic model I got. Hoi Hoi-san, Nightmare version. Just in time for Halloween, yeah? She's adorable, about as tall as Domo is, and the decal sheet is a pain to work with. Everything else is great though.
Waiting for the second volume to be released by Yen Press in December. Also still waiting on my shipment of Yotsuba&! manga. Hm.
SPIDERS!!!
Image by socha
So....tired. Anywho, first one in a whiiiiile. I'll try to periodically post these, but I won't guarantee anything.
Hit the jump and read til the end! I stuck a poll at the end, so vote in it!
Hit the jump and read til the end! I stuck a poll at the end, so vote in it!
A while back we spotted this critter 'on the fence'. It dropped the fruit it was carrying and went to grab it. Squirrels are real ninjas. They somehow scale walls and jump from said wall to the fence with a perfect landing. The one problem they have is that they dart across the street at bad times and can't ninja dodge cars.
This, my friends, is a Jackfruit. Looks kind of like a durian, but it's innards are quite different. It's seeds are a bit smaller, and it's flesh is firm and stringy, unlike a durian which has mushy innards (kind of like a living organism). Anywho, this bad (in more ways that one) boy's from Mexico, and I have to say, it was not very good. Not at all. It wasn't sweet (which they usually are), and large parts of it weren't suitable for consumption. And this stupid thing costed about $35.
Cereal of the week. Kellog's Raisin Bran. Can't say I like the bran flakes all too much, but everyone knows you buy it for the raisins, which are a tad bit scarce in the box. Anywho, the raisins are the best part.
Also ate Post Selects Great Grains (Cranberries) this week. It tastes a lot better than Raisin Bran, but isn't quite as healthy, though both of them are very healthy.
Vegetable soup with sliced slow cooked beef brisket. It's like the ones you get on your phở tái. Also have those bow tie pasta noodles that I don't know the name of. They're delicious though (they taste like any other pasta noodle to be honest).
Speaking of delicious, browned ground beef and pan fried potatoes. I always thought I was a meat and potatoes kind of guy. With Italian seasonings, black pepper and a pinch of salt. Derishous.
Guess what I dug up! Our old ZOIDS! Whne I have time I'll cover these guys a bit more, but as it stands right now, I'm up to my ears trying to get into all the right courses before the end of this week. Anywho, from left to right, RZ-042 Command Wolf, RZ-041 Liger Zero, RZ-039 Raynos. I'd love a Shadow Fox, but these older ZOIDS models are pretty hard to find.
FIRST DAY OF CLASSES. This is what goes into my bag. A few things missing, and those few things I didn't bring with me today, which left me in despair.
From what's in the picture, it's typical stuff. Two water bottles, one for when I'm on the road, and one for the actual classes. Binder, pens, pencils and erasers are self-explanatory. Keys are near the top of the bag (that white figure is on my keys). PSP for the trip, though I never used it today. I also pack my laptop in my bag, and all together it ends up weighing somewhere around 20 lbs. It's probably too heavy, and bad for me, but I'll get through the year...somehow. Ignore those cards on the wallet. I put them in the shot for fun because I probably won't be using them for a looong time. Castle Fun Park wasn't very fun either.
What I forgot this morning:
Memory Stick Pro DUO adapter
Laptop charging adapter
iPod USB connector cable
It meant that both my laptop and iTouch were running on limited battery life. Luckily my iTouch managed to survive for over 5 hours on only 15% battery charge.
Breakfast this morning. The mornings are cold over here, and especially cold up in North Vancouver. The same vegetable soup, except this time with rice vermicelli. Warms you up, but I can't say that it's very filling.
Left the house at about 6:50 am to catch a bus to the train station. Traffic was pretty nice this morning. Hopefully it'll stay like that throughout my two semesters. I get a Student uPass, which is a transit pass that gives me unlimited zone and ridership until the pass expires at the end of the semester (in December), so Transit is the cheapest and most convenient way of getting up to Capilano.
Coming off the train. Vancouver's newest Skytrain line, the Canada Line, makes it super, super convenient for me, as I live conveniently near it. It cuts travel times from almost an hour from here to Richmond to just under a a half hour. Also cuts the time it takes to get downtown by at least 50%. The line opened just before the Olympics came to our neck of the woods and was super welcomed. The trains have a top speed of 80 km/h. Bet most Vancouver residents didn't know that. Doesn't seem very fast, but it bypasses all traffic, so it's never impeded. Unless someone tries to commit suicide and jumps on the rails.
At Waterfront Station, I hopped on the Seabus to cross the Burrard Inlet and get to Lonsdale Quay, North Vancouver. The weather was really nice today. Also was on the new Seabus on both trips too. A shot of downtown Vancouver from the Seabus.
Inside the cabin of the Seabus. Nothing really special. It's only a 12 minute crossing. The Seabus seats quite a few people, and I have never seen it operating at full capacity, though I know that it does during peak hours and celebrations (like the Festival of Lights).
You can't read the text on the boat but, I kid you not, it said Port Kenny. You might not realize it, but Kenn isn't exactly my actual name. For those who don't know me, my full name is Kenny, not Kenneth, Kennedy, Kentucky, Kenninineet, or Kenjinder.
That's how long it takes, approximately, to get from my place to Capilano. About an hour and fifteen minutes. It says 12 because I started the stop watch kind of late on the first bus.
I'm proud (not) to call this my lunch. There's actually three cookies there, but I ate one, and another is in the bag. That coffee left me feeling really, really funny for the rest of the day. Felt really tired and needed to use the washroom all the time. Also think I was twitching all day too.
Image by Kei-Suwabe
Class wasn't exactly eventful. First day of classes is rarely eventful to be honest. First class was MUS 100, Music Theory. The whole class was essentially review, though modal scales was new for me. Most people learned it, but I did my Rudiments with the RCM in the late 90's, before they changed the curriculum. That was the only new thing I learnt today.
Second class was MUS 112, Sight singing / Ear training. It wasn't entirely interesting either. Instructor had a nosebleed throughout the duration of the class though. Learned Solfege (doh re me fah so la ti doh) and also learned that I can't hit high notes very well. This class ended at 12:20, and my next class wasn't until 4pm, so I plunked myself down in the library, broke out the laptop and prepare for a long wait.
Image from Danbooru
Spent a good chunk of the day on my laptop, named Nanami as it runs the Windows 7 Nanami theme. As I forgot my adaptor, Nanami only had a limited charge time. I probably should change the settings back to energy saving mode. Tried to blog from the campus library, but my camera's memory card wouldn't fit. Nanami doesn't accept Memory Stick PRO Duo. Anywho, I now know that not many people are online at around noon. Izzy, Weej, and Ivy eventually kept me company at around 1~2 pm.
Image by Ryouga
疎外感
今日もひとりぼっち。
今日もひとりぼっち。
Don't worry. I'm not feeling lonely or depressed. Well, a bit depressed, but that's due to the high costs of post secondary education. Anywho, I chose the image because, after waiting for at least 4 hours, I walked into the 4pm class, Choir, only to find 3 people there. Last semester there would be at least 10-12 people already there, even before class started. I was perplexed. Richard came in, we argued a bit, then I went to take a look at the signs on the bulletin boards.
'NO CHOIR SEPT 7-10' Gee. Thanks for not putting it on the website. So anywho, went up to talk to Lars (instructor) and found out that I enrolled in the wrong class. I should be in Section 2, not Section 1. Gonna have to change that tomorrow. Richard stayed to practice on the nicer piano, while I went to home grab some food to fill my starving and empty stomach.
Shot from the window of the Seabus on my trip back. Afternoon was gorgeous, the water was calm, and the sun was blinding me as it reflected off the waves. Nothing is more calming than great weather and not being able to look out the window because the sun keeps getting into your eyes.
Vote and help prove Izzy wrong!
Is this creepy or not?
Kudos to Ivy for finding the source of the nightmarish dog costume...though she's on Izzy's side of the table.
And on a completely different note, I've become quite the confidant character in this chapter of life.
