Doggie

Originally posted by doggiedynasty at Doggie Reflection of 2012

Originally posted by doggiedynasty at 21 pictures that will restore your faith in humanity

I wanna show this again because I love it. Well Mr. Owl, last year I wasn't that nice on myself, or others even.

I did this for 2011, and just for the sake of blogging I want to reflect on last year. I'm having lag so I might not type much. Let's me get the morose stuff out the way.

[ Personal ]
I lost someone important, and while I attempt to endure it and pursue a forward-thinking life, I don't think I did my best. I found myself babysitting often too, which isn't that much of a problem.

More importantly, I've been harshly criticizing myself. Attacking my memory, and believing that I severely lack critical thinking (and being unable to debate), because apparently it's a crime to be inquisitive. And when I do get excited, I do tend to ask a lot of questions even if I should know the answer. Even if the answer is easy.

But knowledge is parallel to life experiences, so maybe I can blame lack of experience.

[ The World ]
Hurricane Sandy ravaged the Caribbean and even eastern U.S and part of Canada.

While many shootings happen across U.S.A, the theater attack in Aurora, Colorado, and the heartless massacre at Sandy Hook Elm. school in Newtown, CO. raised questions about what to do.

SOPA, last year Jan, caused Wikipedia to blackout in protest against anti-piracy. Also, sharing sites such as Megaupload was removed.

oh yeah...oppa gangnam style. Interesting.

Lance Armstrong...just lance Armstrong. sports history being wiped off the planet.

[ GAME WORLD! ]


- After years of wonder, in achieved the GOOKINGSWORD from Breath of Fire 3. Also, other items. Reliving the game was great.

- Many Successive in Monster Rancher 2

- In Mario kart Wii, I achieved golds in 50 - 150 cc, all courses. Mirror Mode was unlocked so i have a new challenge ahead for me.

[ TV/READING WORLD! ]
I continue with my Gundam Style! journey Video joke aside, Gundam AGE developed quite a bit in 2012, and I watched it until the ending. I also watched MS IGLOO 1 & 2, and I began the infamous Zeta Gundam.

Along with that, I finally lit my fire for Saint Seiya after thinking on it for many years. So now, I'm watching the classic series (half of it), Omega, reading and watching LostCanvas, and I'll watch Hades Sanctuary. There's a lot of comics such as Episode G and Next Dimension. I'm not sure on what to do.

I finished the tokusatsu series Kamen Rider Fourze and began Kamen Rider Wizard. Maybe I'll develop more love for tokusatsu and watch more Kamen Rider series and even Super Sentai fully. This year I believe is the new dinosaur Sentai.

Finished the wonderful Eureka Seven series.

Trying to read Pirate Latitudes, but I keep stopping.

BLEACH is just wow.

Finished the cyber formula series with the ovas (and its crappy subtitles).

We say goodbye to Aono Takeshi, W. Houston, Dick Clark, etc. I have entries on them under 2012.


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may have more.

2013...

They say that money can't buy happiness, and people who set high goals for themselves are happier.

I shouldn't have low expectations, but I feel like I haven't asserted myself enough for myself, physically and mentally. I felt like not much has happened for me, and I can't live up to my set goals.

2012 was difficult.

I was going to tell myself, or rather blog here that my next year goal was to "Ask less questions" or just "speak less" because I just look like an idiot. Let's see: teen parent prejudice, drug wars, and other comments/questions that really attest to lack of research or my ignorance. But I can't do that can I? That's just who I am right?

IRL and net, I get my intelligence smashed and I feel like a natural dummy because there are things that I don't know. That's obvious for anyone -- you don't know everything. However, having a disorder, insults are too much of a burden that is difficult to forgive and let go now. I can tell myself, "I've learned my lesson", but it doesn't seem that way. Am I really that problematic?

Or maybe I'm just around people who takes things the wrong way, react the wrong way?

Anyways, 2013.

I think I'll start off with not talking about Stink-Pest. I'm tired of talking about her. Sometimes I like it when people regret their actions and change for the better, suffer consequences. If they don't, they'll just keep at it and assume it's OK. Sure, maybe that's treating people like children, saying "don't do that", but that's just reality. But reality makes miracles and glorified things such as the Bible stories looking more and more like fiction. In other words, "character development". If we can make the wrong choices, we can make the right ones, both being able to set examples.

I'm just rambling.

Today on New Years Eve, I'm just trying to see how much TV shows and gaming I can get through. I finished Eureka Seven Ao in the previous weekend and I don't know what to say. Science Fiction, despite it being parallel to fantasy with its speculative content, does not mean the execution is required to be so darned complex. Full of wonder, suspended belief, but not so confusing. And with the main character Fukai Ao being so straight-forward, why bother putting him in such a conflict?

Mainly... quickly SPOILER: travel through parallel universes through different times. Quite crazy. Some parts I wondered was even necessary. I think what saved me is my little knowledge of sci fi and knowledge of the previous series.

You can read E7 Ao Reviews here on MAL. Here is also a Ep 1 - 6 review on ANN.

In the end, it teaches me that "the opposite can happen". I won't spoil it thoroughly. Also, I can't find myself to like the characters that much. It's too average, and I wasn't filled with much emotion compared to the original series.

My Gosh, what a week.

Party's over, almost Monday, so I'm gonna relax. After some thinking, I'll try this out: The 30 Days of KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN! (KHR!) [more here]

I also want to do in honor of its comic series, which ended last month. also makes up for my crappy blogging recently What I am concerned about is the days about the anime series (and it's OP/ED). I only watched certain episodes or fights, and it isn't much. I'll see what will happen.

Let's start!

[ THE 30 DAYS of KATEKYO HITMAN REBORN ]
Note: Links will be added leading to the appropriate day entry.

( Here are the days )

Day 01: Favorite male character



As always, it's always difficult to pick my favorite. For KHR, you have Yamamoto's reliability and constant enthusiasm, Gokudera's puppy attachment syndrome, and you have "VOIII" Squalo's aggressiveness. Plenty of interesting characters.

but after some thinking, the choice would have to go to Sawada Tsunayoshi (沢田綱吉), AKA Tsuna. He is the main character of course, so he has the inclination of growing very strong. In KHR, a baby-looking tutor train Tsuna to become the 10th leader of the Vongola MAFIA family, and for God knows how many volumes (6?), Tsuna is in denial and against it. In fact, he's so lame that he's called "No Good Tsuna". He's good at nothing; not volleyball, not tests, not physical fitness, not girls, etc how is he in junior high school? But that adds to the humor. He is a big klutz too. I think he's cute because he's so imperfect.

It's quite strange to see when he's in hyper mode, like he suddenly gains a genius in battling, like he's a natural in it. It might be the effect of the dying will mode, reflecting that he wants to win. It still bugs me. HDWM also gains him physical attractiveness...heheh ^^:

I don't know what it is with Amano (the author) giving Tsuna good fights or good art in his fights. When Tsuna punches someone, it looks great. And anyone who backhands is awesome. Also, he has cool attacks.

I also like Tsuna because he has a strong sense of justice. He likes helping his friends. Probably one of the better examples is his encounter with Birds. Tsuna is not using his Dying Will Mode, so even as NO GOOD Tsuna, he decided to put himself in a position of painful torture to save a close friend of his. He also expresses how tentative he is to cut himself. Or maybe it was stab..I don't remember. Poison and stab?

Tsuna! 2nd would be Yamamoto Takeshi.

tons of people like Kyouya and I think it's weird.

Weird video I found ^;^;

Sorry for going from posting a funny entry to a melancholy one.

I was going to post about it yesterday, but I guess I was occupied. Or maybe it bothered me too much.

Elem. School Massaacre in Connecticut

Especially listening to the kids explain what they saw and heard.

Makes me want to join the police.

I couldn't help but think "why" and "That is quite a shame". I think in MOST cases, children fatalities in school, of that age, happens because children bring a gun to school (edit: To show off). Not because of a raid from an adult; you don't think that someone is going to come in and shoot. That Adam guy had a ton of ammo...what was he thinking?!

It was a raid, and they were children. The U.S President said it better, "They had their whole lives ahead of them".

I also couldn't help but think about my baby niece, who I already feel is potentially in trouble because of her "mom" and the people that she associates herself with. She's not in school, but she likes being around with other people and having fun.

Another thing that bugs me, it's like I hear/read it everytime. Shooters or crime instigators are often described as "reserved" and "quiet", or "wouldn't hurt anyone".

Does that mean I'm a potential killer? Because I don't speak much?

As for my week, I had a break for the first half of the week; second half is house construction. A little difficult; also, tune-up for my awful car.

I'm still quite concerned about employment. If I want a really nice b-day gift, it's to help my mother. And I had the biggest brain fart yesterday. It just proves how hasty that I can be and makes me worry.

Note to self: Make a spoiler tag.

I was considering on posting another "Sonic memory" (#7) entry today, I just need to figure out which game. So right now I am making a list of the entries I've previous made. When I make a new one, I'll come back and update the list.

I just noticed! I just noticed that I made two for Sonic CD! Why did I do that?!?!

[ SONIC MEMORIES ]
ABOUT: In June 2011, Sonic the Hedgehog turned 20 years old and on Twitter, Sega wanted everyone to share their memories of Sonic under the hashtag #sonic20th. I thought that I had too much to share, so I wanted to blog my expressions on the Sonic games that I played.

Memory I: Sonic The Hedgehog
Memory II: Sonic 2
Memory III: Sonic 3
Memory IV: Sonic Spinball
Memory V: Sonic & Knuckles
Memory VI: Sonic CD (Another one)

I WANNA SEE "WRECK IT RALPH"!

Michigan is sunny, after what seems to be...eternal gray clouds and heavy winds.

I'm back. Boring week as expected. I went high, then I went low. Maybe because it's Saturday.

Yesterday was the birthday of voice actor, Ishida Akira. Maybe I can talk about him more another day. Amazing guy.

Two things weighed on my mind a lot throughout this week: Hurricane Sandy and the upcoming election. Seriously, the latter is only a few days! For some reason, I've been skeptical about where I'm supposed to go for voting. I assumed the same place as virtually always; however, there was one other place (during Kerry vs incumbent Bush Jr.), and it stuck out on my mind for some reason, creating my uncertainty. Feel pretty dumb.

Election Day is going to feel a little lonely; the days leading up to it has been somewhat, because I knew my father would be stuck like glue to these events, especially now. He's pretty humorous when it comes to his opinions, even though they felt very party-biased most of the time. But he and I (and mom) are really into personality.

As for Hurricane Sandy. Again, I am in Michigan; the core didn't reach me but I had rain and heavy wind. Compared to some storms that my area has received, I was lucky to not have trees fall near any wires, and to not have flooding. Lights flickered, but power stayed on.

New York and Jersey, stay safe and continue to persevere. It's great to see people put differences aside and work together to support a fellow man. On the other hand, it's sad to see that it's a crisis enforcing that, breaking the life that is taking for granted. In the political world, we have the President of the United States and the Governor of New Jersey, who are the opposite parties. The latter and his party barely accepts the activities of the POTUS, until now. He is praising the POTUS for assisting him with disaster relief (or the like); since Governor Christie did, he gets criticized by his own party?

Like I said, I like character. That's just ridiculous. Political polar opposites or not, what happened to "the right thing to do"?

I appreciate heroes and what they do to help others. That's why I like firefighters, law enforcement, soldiers, etc. I like reading stories about them when they do good deeds. I wish I was genuinely the same...but, I'm a coward.

And is NaNoWo even possible?

VID TIME. Music history


And while playing DEAD SPACE on PC, Mark's mouse doesn't work:


Also, I wanna mention The official Hakuouki dub.

...sometimes, my curiosity is bad. Just...wow. Sometimes I wonder, how is some of dub acting even acceptable to watchers? Some of the "Shrine of Funimation" fans still bother me.

sinnesspiel and munou_no_taisa would choke someone. MoF, if you guys see this, don't watch it. Turn away, now.

I should've blogged earlier, then I would've remembered the strange dreams that I had. Since it's mid-October, the days are getting quite cool. I got my sweaters ready; also, plenty of rain and strong winds. Gloomy weather making me drowsy before the evening. I don't like taking too much naps.

Time for a b-day! October 15! Of course! I must express my appreciation.

X-posted at katsuki_masako



TWITTER WORLD: TEARS OF JOY!

The 15th of October was K-chan's (Katsuki Masako (勝生 真沙子)) birthday, and over Twitter she received many messages from fans expressing their wide support and love. She replied to virtually everyone who celebrated her birthday, giving her thanks:

お祝いメッセージ、ありがとうございます(*´▽｀*)滅茶苦茶嬉しい(≧▽≦)わざわざありがとうございますm(_ _)mこれからも宜しくお願い致します(#^_^#)

"On celebration message, thank you so much! I'm really really happy! Thank you very much! I'm looking forward to hearing from you again.(#^_^#)

She also expresses her feelings on her blog: Birthday!

She is surprised by everyone's MANY celebration messages overflowing with love. The thought of this overflowing gratitude, she reaches to us....with a photo of flowers!

You know, it's been a year since she had Twitter, and she just started her blog last month. I'm still surprised at this, and I am also surprised by her character. Quite a kind person; she also seems curious and likes to try out new things. I still find it humorous that one of her favorite movies is The Exorcist and that she took her sister to the theater to watch it. bad bad girl..lol.

Very silly person. Also, a gamer!

The Bee Gees
I forgot to mention. Or maybe I didn't want to. Bee Gee's Robin Gibb...Thank you for everything.



I can't pick a favorite song, and I can't stop watching these Billboard videos...

Here's one for ABBA. Facing my Water-LOO!

Continuing 30 Days of Seiyuu meme. Links to previous entries are given.

Since the meme ends here, I get to update the links and show the entire list. So what is the last day?

Day 30: Your favourite seiyuu ever

There's just no way.

There's a a large world out there. Like I said before, I like VAs too much. I can't possibly pick one favorite.

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Kinda of a dull end to a long meme, huh? I'm sure there are some names that I wish I could've added, but forgotten for some reason. Onosaka, Suwabe, Irino, maybe Midorikawa more, ItohKen, Koshimizu, Hirata, NakamuraY, Konishi, both Ogata (Kenichi and megumi), Kakihara, Takayama, Kanna, Yao, Nozawa, Genda, Kenta (Miyake), Hatano, etc