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Name: Helen
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| Okay, so on the topic of anime conventions...there are a few things you guys should know if you want to go and it'll be your first time there. The Bad Things about Anime Conventions-I'm not trying to discourage you to go to anime conventions. I LOVE it when I can go with friends. However, I don't want you to spit at the mention of anime later on in your life either just because you went to an anime convention. 1) THERE ARE A LOT, AND I MEAN A HECK LOT, OF FAT PEOPLE IN UNFLATTERING COSTUMES OF, POSSIBLY, YOUR FAVORITE ANIME/GAME CHARACTERS. SEEING THAT CAN COMPLETELY DESTROY YOUR PERFECT IMAGE OF THAT CHARACTER. I'M NOT KIDDING. Fat Yu-Gi-Oh, Fat Sasuke Uchiha, Fat Sakura, Fat Naruto, Fat You-Name-It. Okay? If you can't look past things and look at fat people in tights without screaming, it'd be best that you DON'T go. 2) A LOT OF SEXUAL INNUENDO GOES ON. If you don't know what yaoi, yuri, shounen-ai, shojo-ai, lolicon, or shota-con is, or if you know it and can't keep a straight face upon hearing the word(s), then you shouldn't go. 3) DON'T BRING TOO MUCH MONEY. You'll be COMPLETELY compelled to buy cutsy Japanese anime/game toys that you'll probably end up with $0 by the end of the whole convention. 4) It requires, actually, a LOT of maturity to go to anime conventions. You need to be willing to make friends (or at least be nice to people) only because you and that person like the same anime/game. You MUST NOT pre-judge. 5) You MUST be willing to "mingle". By that I mean that if you hate certain anime/game, you need to be able to look past that because chances are someone's dressed up as the character that you hate the most from the anime that you hate even more. 6) You MUST NOT be CRITCAL. Yea, people are going to have REALLY crappy costumes, or just LOOK really crappy in it. It's fine to say "I think another fabric would've worked better", but saying stuff like "OMG she looks sooooooo hideous in that costume! EW!" is not cool D:< 7) You MUST be able to go with the flow. REALLY RANDOM STUFF happens at anime conventions. Just sit back and have a good laugh outta it. The Good Things about Anime Conventions-Alright, so now that you know the precautions, I'll tell you why now you SHOULD go. 1) If you like meeting new people who have the same passion as you, then GO! Duh! Why not make new friends? 2) It's a BIG HALLOWEEN PARTY FOR A WHOLE WEEKEND! WHOOPIE! I love dressing up! XP 3) If you want to see the creative things that people have done to personalize and give life to anime characters, then GO! I love the way people make some of their costumes! 4) If you wanna be on top of the anime world, GO TO AN ANIME CONVENTION. Granted, it won't be as good as, say, downloading the latest FMA movie from BitTorrent, but you get the latest info IN America regarding anime. It's a good time! 5) MEET THE VOICE ACTORS OF YOUR FAVORITE ANIME/GAME CHARACTERS! I go to meet with the voice actors of Spike (Speigel) and Jet (Black) from Cowboy Bebop, and it was AMAZING! It feels really awesome to be able to hear your favorite anime/game character come to life from right in front of you. 6) Enjoy the skits and other programs/shows that they put up! If you enjoy singing Japanese songs, there's a Karoke contest! If you enjoy making costumes, show it off in the Masquerade! Or learn about the fashion of Japan by going to a Japanese Fashion program! They even show preimeres of certain movies! :] Overall, there are a lot of things to do there! Enjoy the creativity that they have there! Go to my facebook account and see some of the pictures I took from last year's Anime Central! :] | | |
| Ok, so before all the loveliness can happen, I have to complain first. Don't worry, I have less complains than I do happiness, so there XP My complaints: WHAT DO GRAPHING CALCULATORS HAVE AGAINST ME?!?! ARGH!!!!! If you talked to me last week or the week before, I probably told you that I lost my graphing calculator AND a borrowed one from someone named Susie. Then if you talked to me recently I probably told you that I found Susie's calculator...BUT BUT Susie's calculator seems to be broken... AND LET IT BE KNOWN that I didn't break it! Seriously! I found it last week and I turned it on to see if it was okay. When I turned it on, it was FINE! I was even able to play Tetris on it for like 5 minutes!!!! DX then like 3 hours later when I try to use it again IT WENT ON TEH FRITZ!!! AUGH!!!!!! So I went home that day and gave it new batteries and restarted it. Again, it was fine! But then during my math period it was on the fritz again!!!! GRRRRR!!!!! DX Now it won't even turn on.... I'm so ticked off ~_~|| stoopidness! ARGHARHGAHRHGAHRHGAHGAH!!!! Okay....*deep breath* loveliness now! 1) ANIME CENTRAL IS COMING UP!!!! <333333 yes I am a bloody anime nerd, leave me alone >_> But if you're intersted in going, let me know! Some of my friends are starting up a group so we can get discounts! XD 2) Last Sunday we looked at a really cool passage in church...1st Samuel 5-6. It illustrated how the Israelites lost a battle to the Philistines and so the Philistines took the Ark of the Lord and put it in a temple where they worship an idol named Dagon. I love the part where the Ark of the Lord basically SMACKS down the statue of the idol Dagon and the Dagonites were all like "What the?!" When I took notes on that part I wrote that God Pwned Dagon and that Dagon+the Philistines got smoked! :3 3) School's actually pretty bearable now that I do my QT's and take a little name every now and then! <3 4) I'm moving to a bigger house! Huzzah! :D I get to paint the walls of my room too! Yay! I shall make it summer-ie so I can forget about this cold winter :3 That's about it for now...yayness! :D | | |
| I'd like to complain about something first before I present my love xanga entry: XANGA YOU'VE BECOME TOO COMPLICATED! I CAN'T CHANGE LAYOUTS CUZ I DUNNO WHAT THE HECK'S GOING ON AT BLOGRING.NET. NONE OF THE LAYOUTS I TRIED TO COPY AND PASTE INTO LOOK&FEEL WORKED SO SCREW IT! Yea. I can't change layouts. So I hope you guys like this one cuz it's gonna be here for a while...Btw the girl's name is Naminee (Na me nay), she's a character from the RPG Kingdom Hearts II by Square-Enix. She's a memory restoring/stealing witch. As you can see, she likes art a lot. So anyway! Onto my entry... I was an 8th grader when I first came to CCMC Friday Night Youth Group. It felt really good to be there. I liked the songs we sang and the messages we discussed. However, I'd always leave Friday Night early or right when it ends, almost as if I was fleeing. I didn't leave early because I had Chinese School the next day or because of something pressing. I'd leave early because CCMC forced me. No, I wasn't bullied or threatened, but I'd leave early because otherwise I'd feel sorry for myself. Whenever Friday Night ends, there's free time for people to chat and socialize .Those times were horrible for me because I just joined and I knew next to no one. Barely anyone made an effort to talk to me. And I, in return, didn't really bother to chat with anyone. It was awkward and it made me feel sorry for myself. Thank goodness though it didn't stop me from coming. So I had a hard time intergrating myself 3 years ago, and sometimes it's still like that. Sometimes I still find it hard to intergrate myself into CCMC. I blame no one for this. I'd have to blame myself too if I want to blame anyone else. Community is a two-way thing. If I want to feel like I belong, I also need to make an effort to belong. But for the past 2.5 years I made minimal efforts to know anyone. Only recently did I really connect with anybody. What's also sad is that Jessica Hwang and I knew each other since 5th grade, but we also didn't really bond with each other until 5 months ago. What an idiot I've been. I can't help but sit here and wallow in my regrets. I regret not getting to know the seniors until now and I regret not doing a better job of trying to know the younger people. I sit here and think to myself "What if someone's hurting in CCMC right now like I did when I was younger?" and tears come. When I learned how great God's love is, it makes me joyous, but it also makes me sad. It makes me joyous because I know it's very inclusive: everyone's invited. But it made me sad because I know that out there, someone's hurting alone in his/her room like I did earlier, and he/she is hurting alone because I didn't think to invite him/her into God's love. Instead of sitting here and overwhelm myself with my regrets (as the Devil would like to see me do), I want to share it with all of you so that you would not have the same regrets as me. Somewhere, some one you know is hurting because he/she doesn't know Christ. I pray that God will make it clear to us who that person may be so that He can use us to evangelize to that person. | | |
| So while in Winter Camp Jason told me that if pictures/art were better than words (since it's said that a picture's worth a thousand words) then the Bible would have been illustrated with pictures instead of words. At first, as someone who deeply appreciate art, I was somewhat offended. But I was also stoopid at the time, so I didn't have any witty comebacks either ._. Now that I think about it though, why don't we have a Bible completely illustrated in pictures? Okay, yea, so the Bible's pretty long if we want to illustrate it with drawings/pictures, but it's not impossible! I've read a comic illustrating the life of Joan of Arc, for crying out loud. Not to say that she was as important as God and his ministry, my point is that it's still possible to illustrate something literary that's seemingly endless. I mean, we could have this Picture Bible released on a weekly basis. Each week 1-3 chapters in the book is illustrated or something. I can just imagine kids go: "Dude, did you get this week's Picture Bible?!" "Heck yea! It looks awesome! It'll show how David takes out the giant Goliath this week!" "Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeet!" Okay, maybe not as ridiculous as that. But just as comics like Superman and Spiderman captured the hearts of youth at some point in time, why can't a comic about God do the same, if not more? I mean, this way we could limit a lot of misinterpretations/misunderstandings of the Bible too. The only obstacles that I see are which version of the Bible to use, who has the perserverance to carry it out, and it'll limit some people on how they want to view God. What do you guys think? Is this feasible? ps: my mom just told me that it's impossible for me to get a scholarship ._. I mean, I know a senior girl who gets drunk like every 3+ days and ditches class regularly every week got a scholarship in Biology, why can't I? >_>|| | | |
| 1. Enriched Chemistry (Antink) 2. PE Leadership through Teambuilding (Shumate) 3. Sociology (Maxstadt) 4. Mandarin Chinese (Lee) 5. Lunch (Konrad) 6. AP Calculus AB (Martina) 7. Study hall (Willson) 8. American Literature (Harrold) Yea Some updates on my life since my last entry... 1) I was going to move into a new house...but I don't think that's happening any more. Appearently the seller keeps trying to jack up the price. My mom already offered 2 prices prior to this price that they're seeking now, so my mom just decided to stop and get on with our lives. To be honest, I liked the house, but it's not worth this much hassle over. The backyard is SUPER small, which means there won't be enough room for my mom's pretty flowers. The front lawn is SUPER big (contrast that with the backyard), which means my bro will have to mow the lawn a lot and he'd nag us to the death about it. The rooms are also kinda crappy...The only reason we'd want it is because it's bigger and has a finished basement. But w/e. Maybe the seller will cancel and sell it to us later anyway, knowing that we're not willing to pay their price any higher...blah 2) Winter Camp was pretty fun. Below is a list of the most important things I learned from it: -The Bible almost FORCES us to be happy. Sure, there are times to mourn, but there are also proper ways to do it. Unacceptable mourning is when you get so hung up on it that you can't go on with your walk with God. Other than that, you should be joyful all the time, knowing that the Lord is near and that He is with us. -Quiet times are important. A lot of times I don't do it because I feel like I get nothing out of it...but read on to the next point to see why my view on QT's changed. -At Winter Camp I met a girl named Edith. On the last night of winter camp I talked with her. She told me she was confused, and I asked her what confused her. "I don't understand why God chose me." That was so incredibly humbling. It reminded me of when I first asked myself and God that question. "Why me, of all people?" I talked with her some more, and I could defintely see her take a bigger step towards God. It made me happy knowing that I was the one who was there to personally witness her first firm step towards Christ. Then this joy reminded me of the QT that I did a while ago on Luke 15, where Jesus talks about the parables of the lost, and how Heaven parties when just ONE lost sheep is found. When I first did that QT I was like, "Okay, that's great, but that sounds like it has NOTHING to do with me...." But now I understand it. As much as Luke 15 was talking about God's relationship with someone else, God can, at the same time, use his relationship with that person to stregthen his relationship with me. I'm really glad that I met Edith. I felt like at that moment God was saying to me: be an older sister in Christ to this wonderfully amazing girl, whom I love. So I'm going to be an older sister to her :] If I find any of you not treating her right, I will beat you up >:O (jk, but seriously, be nice to her :]) -This sounds really stupid...but I've never felt so close with the speaker and his wife before. Gerald and Angie were really nice to me, and that made me really happy. Not to say that previous speakers were bad, but they always felt really distant to me...I don't blame/hold grudge on any of them though, since I understand that they have only really 36 hours to get to know people, and there's 80+ of us, so...yea. 3) I'm actually feeling kind of upset/apathetic/sad/nervous/shakey right now. Today was course recommandation and I kinda started to feel upset thinking of how all the seniors are moving on to college when I just started to know them better...And I'm going to be a senior soon. There's no way I can hold back all the seniors, so I guess the next best thing I can do is to just be closer to the underclassmen right now so they won't feel this way when I have to move on (if any of them cares...hahaha...) This brings on so many regrets though. I feel so inadequate now because I never really bothered to know my church family, and makes me feel stupid cuz now all I can do is be upset about it... 4) My mom's leaving for Taiwan in 3 days (some time January 10-11) 5) And finally...my prayer requests: -My brother: I don't want to see him suffer because I didn't bother to be a role model to him while we still live. -My mom: Her whole leaving for Taiwan thing. Hopefully she can be safe on the trip. -One of my relatives: actually, I'd rather keep this one slightly discrete...but just for my relatives I guess. -Myself: I'm one heck of a fickle person. I have hardly any resolve or endurance for long-termed things. So I need more perserverance, especially for my relationship with God. Also, appearently I'm taking an ACT practice exam this Saturday...defintely need prayers for that ._.|| (even though it's practice, it's something that my mom's gonna look at to see how well I'm gonna do in real ACT's, so she's gonna flip out on me if I don't do well on it...~_~||) -Edith: Because that's what big sisters do :] I guess that's all... | | |
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