Last Few Days of Spring Break

These last two days have been pretty fun. On Thursday Wavlet and Kaitlyn came over to chill at my place, and we just watched this movie called Appleseed Alpha. I also got to play the Final Fantasy 15 demo for the first time, which was pretty gorgeous. The demo suffered from framerate issues whenever I did special moves so I hope Square Enix fixes that in the final product.

On Friday Justin, Wavelet, Mark, Kaitlyn, and I went to DC to hang out. We first went to this burrito place for lunch, and I made some pretty bad mistakes there. I ordered a Korean BBQ burrito, which didn't taste that good. I sprinkled some of Dave's Insanity hot sauce on it, which was my second mistake. It was painfully spicy to the point where I teared up and I had to sniffle after every word. The area around my mouth was just red because of how spicy it was. I couldn't even finish my burrito in the end because I ate something prior to going to DC. Next we went to this tea place and relaxed there for a few hours sipping on some nice tea. I drank the Tie Guanyin oolong tea and the Golden Dragon black tea, both of which were pretty nice. Afterwards, we rode the metro to this other part in DC and tried out a nearby cafe. I ordered a Peruvian decaf, which tasted pretty nice. I've been trying to get used to drinking coffee black, which can taste pretty bad if the coffee wasn't made that well. The cafe was pretty huge and was essentially a marketplace for various things. I saw dessert stands, kitchen knife stalls, kitchen utensil stores, butcheries, and dessert stalls. It was pretty impressive. Afterwards, we walked to this ramen place called Toki Underground, which was essentially a big part of why we came to DC in the first place. When we got there though, we found that the place was packed, and that we had to wait two hours to get a seat for the five of us. We decided to hit the bar-arcade next door, which was the big reason for why we came. Unfortunately, it was disappointingly small. A bunch of the cabinets didn't even work properly. The bar area itself was pretty small too. Mark and I spent most of the time fighting each other in Street Fighter II until we were notified of open seating. We went back and ordered our food. I got the curry ramen to see how it compares to Guam's Fuji Ichiban curry ramen. I was a bit disappointed. For a restaurant that was somewhat hidden from view and small, I was expecting really good ramen. I would even dare to say that Guam's curry ramen was tastier than the one I ate that day. I suppose I shouldn't expect much, and it's not like we have many options here anyways. We decided to head back since it was getting pretty late already. We went back to Mark's apartment and relaxed there for a few hours. We watched Miyazaki's The Wind Rises, which was really great. I quite enjoyed the bittersweet romance that was in it. The constant time lapses kind of tripped me up, but the movie was excellent overall. I went back home afterwards. Thus ends my eventful Friday.

It's Saturday today, and I feel like I've done nothing productive. I originally wanted to do the assignments that I thought were due after Spring Break, but it turns out that there really wasn't anything due soon. I suppose that's why I got lazy today. I really need to step up my academic game though. My financial situation is in the danger zone, and I need to find as much financial aid I can for next academic year. Having the video chat with my parents tonight really made me realize how hard they're working for me despite their age, and I need to work as hard if not harder to make sure they're not burdened. I keep saying this, but I can never seem to motivate myself long enough to carry through with actions, and I hate myself for this.

Normal Days

Well, I got Final Fantasy Type-0 yesterday and have been playing that yesterday and most of today. Nothing else really happened. My friends and I are planning on going to DC this Friday to check out this ramen place and an arcade bar. The weather is supposedly gonna be bad, but we'll see what happens.

Beginning of Spring Break

These last two weeks have been pretty rough schoolwork-wise. I had to deal with a lot of homework and most of my exams. Thankfully, I'm now enjoying my spring break. Weekend started off with the usual Anime Friday and some light drinking. We tried to watch this old Gundam series, but we were too distracted with talking. We then proceeded to watch No Game No Life and kept teasing Wavelet about his paranoia with data backups. It was a pretty fun and loud night.

The next day (Saturday), I went to DC to meet up with Sho and his friends, who were checking out the city for their last few days of spring break. We spent most of the day going through the museums, specifically the space museum, the Native American Indian museum, and the garden, which held many types of plants. Sho's friend started feeding some ducks in this huge fountain, and gulls started appearing. He threw goldfish snacks up into the air, and the gulls actually caught them mid-air. It was pretty amusing, and he kept doing it until all the snacks were gone. By the time we were done, gulls were just swarming in front of us waiting for food.

We then walked around the Chinatown/Gallery Place area for a bit before deciding to get some food. Walking around made me realize how nice it would be to live in DC. The roads weren't too congested with traffic, the sidewalks didn't have too many people, and the buildings weren't too high. I'm not sure about the areas outside of where we walked though. Afterwards, Sho and I just chilled at my place for a bit before hanging out with Mark. I wanted him to at least meet some of the anime club guys and show him how cool everyone was. After playing Blazblue Chrono Phantasma for a few hours, we went back to my place and played some Super Smash Bros before crashing for the night. Sho left in the morning back to his hotel in Virginia. I kinda feel bad for not walking with him back to the Metro. 

On Sunday I spent most of the day playing Warframe and osu!, which I kind of regret. Wavelet asked me to chill with Justin and him later at night, but I told him that I had to do some assignments and was also tired from the day before. I finished my paper for my marketing class, which I hopefully got a decent grade in. Since these papers are auto-graded, it's hard to say what my grade will be... By the time I was done, it was already midnight. I had a long 3 hour nap at around 6 pm so I wasn't sleepy at all. I spent 4 hours playing osu!, trying out multiplayer with Justin, and catching up with Sean's score. Not a very productive day.

And now it's Monday. I woke up pretty early considering I slept at around 4:30 am. I played a bit of osu! and Warframe again. 

Anime Friday

Nothing much today except that I spent most of the day watching Gundam Build Fighters and Nichijou while grinding in Hyperdimension Neptunia. I went to Anime Friday tonight and got introduced to Onii-chan Dakedo Ai Sae Areba Kankeinai yo ne! (OniAi for short), which is fairly amusing. Justin managed to convince me to play some Osu!. I also got to try sake for the first time today. It tasted decent for a $15 one from the local liquor store. Overall, it was a great time with buddies.

Snow Day

So school got cancelled today because of a winter storm passing through the area, which was really good for me since I needed the extra time to do schoolwork. I also managed to sell my Final Fantasy X/X-2 HD remaster today for a decent price (though I feel like I could've gotten more for it). Ah, one of the people who asked me about the FFX CE was actually the tsundere girl that hit me during the Late For Anime School race, an anime club event. This might sound weird, but it was a pretty memorable experience. I managed to persuade her to come to the auction this coming club meeting so I'm hoping to see her there. I'm also considering selling my Lightning Returns CE too, though I'm not sure at what price yet. It was a pretty pricey mistake to buy CE versions of games considering I'm still in college and need the money. Colin gave me some Club Nintendo registration codes, which I'm pretty grateful for. Maybe I'll send him a gift redeemed from all those codes. Mark has been playing XCOM Iron Man mode today, and he named all the characters after the anime club members. Apparently, I'm a heavy and still alive at the time of writing. He's talked about doing this for a while, but it's a lot more amusing than I thought now that he's put it into action. That's about it for today.

Reminders to Myself

Well, I'm back again. After some careful consideration, I decided to keep going with this blog. I realized it would be a great way to hold my memories of situations and events in case I ever need to bring them up for some situations. I recently had an interview for an internship with Liberty Mutual a little over a week ago, and I did terrible in it. I could not recall situations that would answer the questions that were asked. A few days I ago, I got an email saying I didn't pass the interview. I was expecting it, but I still felt pretty down. With some sort of diary, I can at least have an idea of what I should say for situations like these.

I suppose I can start from earlier highlights in the past week and move through to current events. On February 27 I finished putting up most of the prints I bought from Katsucon on my wall. I felt pretty satisfied by it, but it's definitely going to be a pain to take all of them down when I eventually move elsewhere. I hereby declare this my Weeb Wall.

The rest of these last few days consisted of studying for my exams this week, one of which I finished  today. I'm gonna need to actually start doing the readings so I can do well in class. The last exam will be on Thursday. However, my friend Naya told me there's gonna be some snowfall Thursday morning that will last till noon. I wonder if the exam will be postponed.....again? Another friend Kenji reminded me of the time our little circle of friends went to the Guam public library to help out with reading to little kids and stuff. I'm going to assume that it was for community service. I also gotta recall situations where I explained difficult concepts to people, which I couldn't do during the interview. I remember trying to explain to my roommate Mauricio how building computers (actually just assembling from parts) is easy and is like putting together a puzzle. Once you know where all the pieces fit, it's an easy process. Another time was when I was explaining to Colin the concept of net neutrality, and how without net neutrality, ISPs can regulate Internet speeds and bandwidth for specific services (this was the gist of it). I think he was able to understand by the end of my explanation.

In the Facebook chat Anime Friday (which changes names literally every single day), the members started talking about top ecchi animes that border on hentai. Yosuga no Sora eventually becomes the focus, and now everyone is just talking about it. It's apparently a wincest anime where in the first episode, ***SPOILER*** the sister bangs his brother, but it turns out it was just her imagination. ***END SPOILER*** The chat is ongoing while I am writing this sentence. Unfortunately, I now want to watch this anime just to satisfy my curiosity.

Final Fantasy X HD Remaster for the PS4 has been announced, which really irks me since I bought the collector's edition for PS3 last year. I'm considering selling it since I don't think I'll play it anytime soon, and the selling price is just gonna keep dropping. Since I've already played FFX in the PS2 days, I don't think I'll pick up the PS4 one either. Who knows? It might even get ported to PC like the FFXIII series did.

I suppose that's it for now. This entry was pretty lengthy, but I guess it's because some of it was just catching up.