http://search.deviantart.com/?q=by:Niou&section=today deviantART RSS for by:Niou en-us Copyright 2009, deviantART.com Mon, 21 Dec 2009 11:20:34 PST deviantART.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss http://s.deviantart.com/minish/widgets/apple-touch-icon-precomposed.png http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/16952942/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/16952942/ Mon, 18 Feb 2008 20:22:09 PST
In four days time, I will be opening a new DeviantArt account. Now that I'm actually finding my own way as an artist, I've decided that I need to establish myself in a more official capacity. I will no longer be checking this account (not that I've been checking it at all recently), but I have no intention of having it removed.

Unless I state otherwise, I will be opening the account under the usename "xcursor," because some prick opened an account named cursor six years ago and never touched it again. I seriously hope the good folks and DeviantArt reevaluate their policies on dormant account preservation, because this is just ridiculous. I spend a good half hour typing random nouns, verbs and adjectives into the username area of DeviantArt pages, and nine times out of ten, there'd be an empty account that just takes up space and a perfectly good name.

I will not be adding much of anyone I currently watch to my new account, only because it would take far too long to dig out my (current) likes and dislikes. It's a shame, since I will be missing out on a number of good deviants, but with any luck, I'll see all of you again some time.

End of line.

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]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/14805489/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/14805489/ Wed, 26 Sep 2007 19:21:44 PDT
Anywhoo, art college is pretty fun. We're learning objectively and stuff. I could compose you up a mean chicken salad if I wanted to, and tell you exactly why it works for me.

I'll be submitting stuff soon, but honestly, I've been swamped. However, I do feel that I've improved artistically, so hopefully the stuff I chuck at you guys will be something worth looking at.

'Till then.

]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/14566658/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/14566658/ Sun, 09 Sep 2007 19:05:18 PDT
Anyway, on to the topic of this journal entry. So, this morning, I was in bed, and basically asleep, when the phone started ringing. Hardly concious, I just let the machine pick it up, when I heard my dad's voice saying "Alex, pick up! Alex, pick up!"

So, naturally, I picked up.

My dad had a message for me. He had found while yardsaling, how cool is this, an Xbox for $15. Naturally, I was elated. It's not a current system, but there have always been games on the Xbox that I wanted to play but couldn't on account of my lacking an Xbox. He came home and dragged me over, because there were some issues on the arrangement of the purchase. The woman selling it wanted to take the hard drive with her, which would really put a kink in my plans of playing.

When we got there, I learned that the owner wasn't actually there; apparently, she lived in that house with a few other woman, but they were moving to another place, and she was at the new place at the time. I talked with the one of the women there. She was nice, and very helpful, and after a few questions, for one reason or another, we decided we had to look in the Xbox box (as I recall, for a controller).

Now, we get to the meat of the journal. I opened it, and there was something inside I didn't quite recognize. In about as much time as it took for me to poke the strange thing, it hit me. The box had a strap on in it, as well as a few other...toys. Naturally, I handed the roommate the box, as I felt she was much more suited to deal with such an object, being a friend of the owner as well as a woman.

So here's my question to you all: if a woman owns a strap on, does that mean she's a lesbian?

Keep in mind, I'm asking because of my own ignorance. I have no clue as to how strap on owners thing, nor knowledge of why they purchase such items.

]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/13763649/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/13763649/ Mon, 16 Jul 2007 23:00:29 PDT
Yay!

]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/13721092/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/13721092/ Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:17:27 PDT
The things burned are aluminum foil, oven crap, old fish, and the batch of brownies I was baking.

]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/13650671/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/13650671/ Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:36:35 PDT
So, although this is really just me thinking out loud (or rather, visually, as typing goes), please, anyone who reads this, give me your opinion.

Is sci-fi better for a story or setting than occult fantasy, or is the mystical element more important than the machine?

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]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/13068185/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/13068185/ Wed, 23 May 2007 19:45:19 PDT
Is it a good idea? Bad idea? Not important maybe?

]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/13056091/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/13056091/ Tue, 22 May 2007 20:21:30 PDT
I've been feeling out of sorts as of late. It's something that I can't quite explain, but it screams out louder than anything else in my life. It has invaded every aspect of...me. And it worries me that this isn't something I can stop.

I haven't been able to draw. I just...haven't. I sit down with a pencil, I've soaked up as much inspiration as I can, but when I finally start scratching paper, nothing comes out. And when I walk, I feel off balance. And when I talk, I feel like I'm saying the wrong thing. And when I look at myself, I feel like the person I'm seeing can't be me. It's not even a matter of depression at this point. It's simply how my world is right now.

It's feels like I'm losing myself. I just hope it won't be forever.





And that seems way melodramatic. My woes are probably nowhere near that bad, but...that's how I feel.

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Apparently that was the name of a pope of served some time in the 1600s, who was really shrewd (as far as popes go). But in one painting, he was depicted as Satan being smoten by the Archangel Michael.

Weird, huh?

]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/11249080/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/11249080/ Sat, 30 Dec 2006 18:58:34 PST
This Christmas, I got a PS2. A little late to the party, I know, but I love it anyway. I own five PS2 games already, so this was a natural move for me. The only problem I had was that I'm not in ownership of a memory card. The only one I ever had access to I shared with my sister, and she spirited it away to her college.

Anyway, my friends, who are oh so rich and gracious, gave me one of their four spares, since they won't be needing to play the PS2 much longer. Skoff and such. Everything was dandy, but I still wasn't going to play until I could get my hands on my sister's memory card, because I don't have any of my old game data or any new games.

So then yesterday, I went over to my girlfriend's (FYI, my FIRST girlfriend) house to have some fun. We played around a bit, she gave me some files I made on her memory card, and by the end of the day...I lost my memory card.

Now, this didn't deter me. In fact, I went home with two spiffy new games, Jak and Daxter and Jak II, and in a single day and night, I beat Jak and Daxter. No need to save yet. And, with confidence that my girlfriend would find and bring it back to me like she promised, I started on Jak II.

Now, here's the kicker.

I've been playing for almost two days, and, guess what, SHE COULDN'T FIND IT. So now I'm about halfway through the game, by my best guess. I even got the last weapon in the game, called the Peacemaker. Now, I've got two options. Turn off my game, and lose all that progress, or keep it on and risk burning out or glitching. Now, I really don't want to turn it off for the simple reason that the Peacemaker slayeth with the fury of ye gods of olde. But a system like that is too valuable to let burn out.

What should I do? What should I do?

]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/10882286/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/10882286/ Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:51:40 PST
Oh noes. Something's afoot.

]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/10661273/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/10661273/ Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:52:58 PST
I'll have something new soon, in commemoration of this joyous occasion. Until then, lets all just bask in its wonderfulness.

Ah, satisfying.

]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/10550360/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/10550360/ Sun, 29 Oct 2006 15:50:36 PST
For a long time now, I've been flabbergasted by how well some people can color. And just recently, I came across a tutorial (which is now in my favorites) that looked simple enough for me to take a shot at.

So I did.

And for a while, I was doing just fine. Then I got to the actual coloring part. The author of the tutorial said that she used a particular brush setting that she found useful. Airbrush Pen Opacity Flow. So I decided to give it a shot. Much to my dismay, the intriguing color blending that I liked so much was completely absent from my little attempt, and my colors were all separated by ugly, solid, pixilated boundaries. Convinced that I had simply missed something, I went back and reread the tutorial to find what I had done wrong. According to what she wrote, I had done everything right, but omitted one detail. She used a tablet and I, on the other hand, did not.

So, to all you who have used both tablets and mice before, answer me this. Does a tablet make a difference while coloring? I've heard that it doesn't, and that all it does is make things faster, and I've heard that it does, as you can use the stylus like an actual brush or pencil.

Which one is it? Why, oh why, must I fail at this endeavor! What was my fault? What did I do wrong?

]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/10517691/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/10517691/ Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:58:42 PDT
I'll explain a bit. I'm drawing myself, but as if I was a different person. For example, one person once drew herself as an elf. Another few others were spies, characters from the Renaissance, and even Jesus (yes, Jesus). We can bring props, add backgrounds, and even draw ourselves some extra body parts if the need arises.

So what I'd like for you all to do, if it isn't too much trouble, is to suggest to me some aliases I could take on. For reference, I'm a six foot tall male, with black, fluffy, slightly wavy hair. I have both Asian and Spanish roots, traits of which manifest themselves very clearly. I, for all intents and purposes in this project and for every instance in my life thereafter, do NOT have facial hair.

So, what could I be? Please, PLEASE give me ideas. I'm starved for them. I crave the creativity of others.

NOTE: Another example of what people have done in the past (and my personal favorite) was when one girl drew herself with her face completely covered in piercings and heavy makeup, but dressed in a mid 1900s housewife dress, complete with Hoover vacuum. I adore that idea.

]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/10400930/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/10400930/ Sun, 15 Oct 2006 12:26:49 PDT
And yet, as with my more recent drawings, I've been recieving not only fewer favorites than before, but even fewer views in general. I understand I'm not a great artist, but that still doesn't account for this strage inversion.

Because I know that ain't right.

Perhaps my work has just become less interesting. Or perhaps my recent lack of backgrounds makes my work less appealing while in the form of a thumbnail. Or perhaps the old assumption that pieces containing already famous characters or featuring popular subjects rather than original works is just plain right.

Whatever it is...it's frustrating.

]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/10361344/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/10361344/ Wed, 11 Oct 2006 17:46:44 PDT
The tuition is $34,000. Moving on...



Art. I've been checking out the manga/anime drawings section of Deviantart.

Dead. Empty.

People must be checking out the fanart instead, because I've seen a good twenty submissions with zero, yes, zero views. Sadness.



Assignments. I'm expected to read Oedipus Rex by tomorrow. That ain't gonna happen.



Hygiene. I still have to take a shower tonight.



Health. I still have to exercise tonight.



Games. The Wii comes out in a month and I've only got a hundred bucks.



More games. Final Fantasy XII comes out near the end of the month and I've only got a hundred bucks and NO Playstation 2.



Games III: the son of Games. The most recent game I've played is Kingdom Hearts II.



Sadness. Sadness.

]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/10293563/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/10293563/ Thu, 05 Oct 2006 13:33:47 PDT
Joy.

Anyway, I've got a lot to be doing. First, there's some programming work to be done. Tedious, but nothing more than that.

System.out.println("It ain't no thang.");

Besides that, I've a college essay to write for English class. I...really don't have much to say about that. Or any thoughts on why my teacher insists on conducting the class as if it were college level (or as close as a 12th grade English class can get). Those are what I don't have. Yah.

.........

I'm going to write it on my experiences in Singapore.

Also, I've a new storyline planned out. And a few characters for it named Ruger(pronounced like it's spelled), Esser (pronounced like Es-er)and Rosse (pronounced like Ross). They're...well, I'd like them to be older than the characters I normally do (about 14 to 20), but it looks like they'll be done at just about that mark. I'm considering doing a chronological storyline that follows them as they age, but I don't know if that's the case, I'll have sketches of them as both very young and very old (or at least, for me).

In a nutshell, the world I'm putting them in completely consumed by militarism to such a point that children are born and raised just to be enlisted and everyone is a soldier. Of course, there is magic, because that's just something I can't resist in any story, and the world opperates as sort of a parallel to ours with a few variations. Technological progression took a much more mechanical direction, becoming somewhat distracted from electronics such as computers and the like. Industry is everywhere. Weapons as simple as, like, sticks might even have a button somewhere that'll do something cool. But you'll be hard up to even find a good television. Otherwise everything is the same except people are always doing service and fighting wars in the same dingy uniforms. Except when they're off duty, then they wear civilian clothes.

And they're always on duty.

That's all I have for now.

]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/10278992/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/10278992/ Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:17:04 PDT
And I don't know why.

]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/9886777/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/9886777/ Mon, 28 Aug 2006 16:15:14 PDT


-tweet- ]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/9865554/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/9865554/ Sat, 26 Aug 2006 19:00:16 PDT


I’m taking, of course, about the penis.



Normally I wouldn’t pay much mind to something like this. I mean, what is a penis other than a tube used to expel certain fluids and waste? But in all its simplicity, there are still so many facets that elude me. I don’t mean on a biological level, as I have almost no business discussing anything that directly addresses or involves science, but more on a what-the-hell-is-that sort of level. The first and perhaps most prominent of my wondering would probably be about the appearance. On one occasion, I heard one friend regard the penis as something one might see in a science fiction movie, hardly resembling any other outward part of the body in neither form nor function. Aside from that, the recent discovery of what a circumcision was precisely on my personal behalf has brought me to wonder, was I ever circumcised? Determining that isn’t quite as simple as opening up your pants and taking a look, and while I’d rather not conduct any further research on it for personal reasons (largely that I don’t want to take a gander at some guy’s wang), I would like to know what a regular penis looks like, as to the point at which one could call a penis regular.

Now, it isn’t really fair of me to be making judgments based on appearance, singling out this particular organ because it doesn’t look much like a leg or a nose. But as obscure as this fleshy aberration (wholly, as with all other parts associated with it) is, one could say much of the same about its female counterpart, the vagina (which should be regarded in a similar manner), or the main conduit for solid waste, the anus. Of course, those can be spared until another deviant journal entry, but I thought it only fair to acknowledge them before continuing.

Another query I’ve had on my mind is why it received a nickname, as the vagina and anus, of an animal that could be found somewhere of a farmer’s property. I wonder, how did this come about? Nothing (no animal, at least) short of some sadly deformed eel or fish comes close to resembling this short length of flesh, and even less inspires thought of the two holes otherwise.



Why why why why why why why!?

As I’m quickly losing interest in this wisp of a thought, I’d like to finally ask why many, many men believe that a large penis is a good penis. To please women better? As a testament of their own manly manliness? Because it signifies them as more capable of producing young? Because they think it’s cool?



Yeah. I’m done. ]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/9808131/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/9808131/ Mon, 21 Aug 2006 18:56:08 PDT ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/9405295/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/9405295/ Mon, 17 Jul 2006 12:22:19 PDT
-twee-

-confetti-

My dad got me up this morning at ten o'clock because he needed me to come with him to the hospital. We recently found out he had kidney stones, and today it was causing him a lot of pain.

We waited for about half an hour before a nurse came and asked us some questions, and in a few hours my dad told me to just go home.

When I got home, I realized that I didn't have my key with me, so I sat down on our porch swing. It was about 12:30.

In about thirty minutes a woman came up to me with some pamphlets for Allen Lightmen (at least I think that was his name). I told her that I was locked out of my house, my father was in the hospital, my mother was in Kyrgyzstan, my sister at a college program and that I was too young to vote, so she gave me some information and went on her way.

My sister came home at around 2:40, so I got to go inside. We haven't actually gotten a cake.



I love my birthdays. ]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8990166/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8990166/ Tue, 06 Jun 2006 15:16:22 PDT
I can't help but feel like I've missed something. ]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8951911/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8951911/ Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:12:13 PDT
Three projects due next week. One of them a video rendition of Macbeth. Only two days of school left, one of which is review day. SATs tomorrow at eight o'clock in the morning. After Prom sunday at one o'clock in the morning. Seniors graduating monday, but I can't go because of my projects. English paper due in the next four hours, which is late by five days.

.........

I need some coffee or something. ]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8847913/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8847913/ Mon, 22 May 2006 18:24:24 PDT _O

One of my memory cards became corrupted. Apparently, something similar to what happened to it also happens to some computer files, and afterwards, require formatting. If you tried to use a corrupted program, which becomes corrupted for some god damned reason or another, then the problem would spread to whatever else you tried to use it on.

Unfortunatly, formatting anything ends up erasing all the data you had saved. Now, this was one of my gamecube memory cards. Lets see what I lose...

Super Mario Sunshine - No big loss.

Super Smash Brothers Melee - Ow, annoying, but dealable.

Bloody Road, Primal Fury - ...I have no idea what I was smoking when I got this game.

Digimon Rumble Arena 2 - What? I like Digimon...

Evolution Worlds - It was ten bucks. Not a good game, but not a big loss, either.

Sonic Adventure Battle 2 - I liked this game, and it was a bitch to finish all of Shadows missions...but I can do it again.

.........

Wait...if I lost my Sonic data, then that means...

.........

O_O

THE CHAO! WHY!? WHY THE CHAO!? TAKE ME INSTEAD!

.........

Formatting sucks. ]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8836032/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8836032/ Sun, 21 May 2006 14:38:26 PDT ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8810891/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8810891/ Thu, 18 May 2006 18:48:50 PDT
I baked her a cake last night. She left for a four day long party tonight. Go figure. She's supposed to be back Tuesday, but after that she's going back to College. Of course, she was home long enough to drop off her laundry and a lot of crap that, lucky me, was stuffed into my room.

I've got homework to do, now.

Oh, right. Congratulations, Seniors! You made it! ]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8711198/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8711198/ Mon, 08 May 2006 14:18:33 PDT ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8634785/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8634785/ Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:38:04 PDT
But that's no reason to stop trying.

Recently, I've felt the need to start fresh. Ordinarily for me, this means to revamp all my characters and tweak my storylines, and maybe draw or write something new. But this month, I've been feeling particularly drained of creativity. Maybe I was feeling stale, maybe I've just been in a slump, but whatever it was, it encouraged me to make a new storyline. I had a lot of fun deciding on a new world, a new time, new characters, new feel. I was pretty settled when I got to 19th and 20th century Europe with a fantasy twist. I even had a few characters planned, and a whole visual deviation to fit. It was going to be great.

And then I realized how much it looked like I was ripping off Fullmetal Alchemist and Steamboy. And boy, did that get me steamed.

My initial concept for a main character even had the same haircut as Alphonse. Needless to say, that really sucked. And when set in that time period, how are you suppose to make a character with missing limbs or add a twist of magic realism to technology and science with those two as running mates? It's damned hard is what it is. My foil turned out as a girl with an arm missing that, while there's much more to her story than this, is an orphan mechanic. I spent a good two hours banging my head against a table with that one. A magic robot...sounds cheesy here, but was made out to be really cool in my mind. I have no damned clue if I'll be able to get this off the ground with all these thoughts dragging me down. And I don't think there're enough body snatchers, tattooed arms, crippled children or fireballs that'll help me with that.

Last thoughts?

Clockmakers. It's biblical, yo. Magic in the air. DEMONESES? o.O

I'm off to make crappy poetry for my Creative Writing class. Ta. ]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8571322/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8571322/ Mon, 24 Apr 2006 13:13:40 PDT
Now, I don't really expect you to know what the day of silence is. Its an even that takes place April 26th and is organized in a number of US schools, where the students are given the opportunity to support the rights of gays and lesbians by being silent a whole day. It’s actually a lot of fun. My friends and I are all going to take part. They even hand out these little pink triangular stickers that are actually pieces of paper you need to pin to your clothes, but it’s all good. Plus, its fun to try and communicate without talking. And, of course, it’s for a good cause.

How shutting up for an entire day contributes to that cause, I have no idea.

But that's how it is. I'm thinking of making a deviation in celebration of the event, but I've been pretty busy, so it might not happen. But it'll be fun. And the Gay/Straight Alliance club will be hosting a party afterwards. Neat. ]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8461745/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/8461745/ Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:52:55 PDT
I'm going in for surgery tomorrow morning. Come to think of it, this'll be my first real opperation. Ever. I feel oh so special. I've been told it takes about a week to recoup from the kind of surgery I'm getting, because they actually have to cut open my gums first before they yank them, but my spring break ends monday night. I'm so lucky. Of course, I've stocked up on all sorts of nonsolid foods. Jello, pudding, and all sorts of mushy, creamy, squishy foods I could find to make the whole experience that much less painful. I found out that the place I'm going to gases you for the procedure, too, so that's a good thing. I really don't want to be concious for this sort of thing.

Well, that's about everything. Now all I have to worry about is how well it goes, eating, drinking, brushing my teeth, and talking after its all done. Fun. Well, wish me luck. ]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/6036733/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/6036733/ Tue, 26 Jul 2005 05:52:57 PDT
Guilty Gear is one of the best fighter games I've ever played, and is the absolute best 2D sprite based one I know. Creative characters with fun moves, original backgrounds, and general balance from one to the next, as well as wicked music and an interesting storyline (although I'm sure most people don't play for the storyline). It has quickly became my obsession, and has sent me into a mad frenzy to find where I can purchace a copy, although there is one thing about the game that bothers me, and his name is Sol Badguy.

On the whole, I enjoy Guilty Gear very much. Some characters, in my opinion, are better than others, but for the most of it they're very balanced. Sol, however, is my only exception. As a computer character, he's a bit tougher in the higher up levels about as much as Millia or Potemkin become. I always did hate to fight him as Ky right before the boss since he would always beat me...as a player character, though? Let me tell you this.

Twelve times I have been challeneged by someone playing Sol. Many of those times I was playing Ky, so the battle kind of made sense according to the game. I've also played Johnny (who I had never played before and was testing out when I got challenged), Zappa (also new but I got challenged anyway), Axl, Bridget a couple of times (I love that crossdressing yoyo-boy ^_^), May, and even Faust, who is hella' fun when I get to play him. Sadly, however, I lost each and every time to these people. Now, I know I don't suck that much. I've beaten the game a couple of times, a high score or two, and I've only played this game a few hours for about 5 days each. I know it can't be a coincidence that all these people just happened to woop my butt using the same character consecutively, especially since they all had the same tactics. Is it just me, or is Sol overpowered? I've quickly came to hate the guts of whoever programed this guy. The fact that he's also the "hero" of the game only further caused me to vommit in rage.

If anyone wants to post their opinion, by all means go ahead. I'd love to hear what other people think. Maybe I'm wrong, and I just do suck, or a string of very strong players beat me who just happened to play the same characters, or I'm just right since one of the times I was beaten I looked around to see who it was only to realize that it was a button masher. T_T ]]> ~Niou http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/5992197/ http://Niou.deviantart.com/journal/5992197/ Thu, 21 Jul 2005 02:53:13 PDT
I've never done a journal entry before, but I thought this would be the perfect time. Do you know why? It's because I'm in Singapore! Many of you may not know it, but on my mom's side I'm all Asian.

It's been wonderful coming back here. This'll make it my fourth time in my life that it's happened. It's not quite like how I remember it two years ago. Things I didn't notice before I'm becoming aware of, you know? Shopping here is prime. the biggest place we've gone to is a place called Plaza Singapura, and it was nine stories tall, if the basement levels were counted, but they're mostly food courts and stuff, and the top floor is a Cinema. There are lots of cool things to buy, and plenty of places to go. For instance, Plaza Singapura is on a street called Orchard Road, which is a street full of more than nine other malls I can think of right now. Cool, eh?

My mother and sister, whom I've came here with, and I have all gone many places. The Jurong Bird Park, the Sentosa Beach resort, a pool at my Uncle's place, markets, and a lot of other places, too. The oddest thing to happen, however, would have to be in the Bird Park. When we were in the walk-in Aviary, a bird just flew out of nowhere and landed behind my neck. At first it was funny. A little bird on my shoulders is a good story and a funny picture. But...it didn't let go. Then it noticed my necklaces (I wear two necklaces that say 'Snake' and 'Dragon' in Chinese) and tried to take them. It was hanging from my necklaces for more than three minutes, and would bite me if I tried to get it off. It gave up eventually, but...it was weird.

There are some things I'll miss, though. This is a seven week trip, so I won't be home until seven days before school begins again, and then I'll be a Junior! No time for joking around, and barely any time for friends. It'll be a sure task, one that I'm not sure I'll be up to, but I'll have to try. For years my grades have been less than outstanding. This I think is my chance to make things right and prove to my parent's I'm really something special. A bit cheesy, but it's how I feel.

And as for Singapore, I know this is a weird thing to ask, but does anyone have and suggestions for what I should do here? I don't really expect anyone to know anything about it, but it would be nice to have a plan. Have a happy summer, because I won't be on the computer much! ]]> ~Niou