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| So yeah, I don't have H1N1 or anything, but I got a really bad sore throat and an ear infection. I kinda haven't been doing anything but playing video games and reading. At least I'm doing something productive. I have recently completed Assassin's Creed and Uncharted: Drake's Fortune last week and picked up Borderlands recently. I currently getting better and WILL get better by the time I take my 2nd trip this year to California. Yeah, I'm going to California again.
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| So, this will be pretty much the catch up blog and after that normal shit and whatever wonders my mind. Anyway, My birthday celebration here wasn't as crazy as LA's but it was pretty big. A lot of people. It was nice seeing people and the people who sang me songs and bought me shots. Thank you for not making me feel like I'm just turning another age, but thanks for acknowledging you guys love my existence.
Besides all the partying, I been trying to find a new job. I been running around applying at different places that does some type of sales. I turned down one pretty good job just because I didn't have the option to go back to school next year. I been looking at cell phone sales juts because I want to try something new. It's pretty much a really established market, just gotta know your knowledge. Hopefully, I get a job in the field.
Lately, since I have no job, I been a bum. I really haven't been productive with this blessed time. The only thing I been productive with is playing video games and sleeping a shit load more. It's funny because I'm not even partying or going out as much as I was before and now that I have all the time to do anything I want in the world, I'm wasting it. I think tomorrow I'm going to put myself on a strict schedule with a to do list and see how much I get done with it. I gotta bust out that MMO grinding mentality out. Seriously, MMO farmers get shit done.
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| So I decided to take a vacation trip with my mom in mid September. We wanted to go to California to see my sister, some family and of course my friends in California. It's been a long time since I was in the nice sunny state I was born and grew up in. Last time I was there, I was only there for one day, and that was for my grandfather's funeral. The trip before that, I just quit UPS and I was there for my younger cousin's graduation. I felt like it was a good time to see everyone and to see my grandmother since I didn't see her at my grandfather's funeral.
Seriously, taking a vacation with my mom, I have to do almost everything. Get our tickets, check our bags, make sure she does everything right for TSA etc etc. My mom is sometimes like a little kid, but then again sometimes she surprises me when she reminds me of things I forget or don't know. But we left early Wednesday morning and got there still in my opinion pretty early. Rented a car and I was trying to get something stylish, but my mom wanted to settle for the Hyundai because it was small. I was like whatever your driving anyways. But the complaints of, "I hate driving" and "Wish you were already 25 so you can drive the rental" soon came five minutes after my mom left the lot. But it's was all good for the complaints were worth it. Why? Because I was going to get a 4x4 Animal Style at In n Out. Seriously I didn't get to have one last time I was there or the time before that. Last time I had a 4x4 animal style was when I was living in California after high school. Man, that meal was so good. It like, a part of me was missing for so long.
The beginning of my trip was pretty much visiting and seeing family I haven't seen in a while. It was nice and refreshing to see family and family friends I haven't seen in a long time. Eating good Chinese food I can't get in Washington. It was nice seeing my grandmother. She told me, "Mike your so handsome, that is why your so short." Seriously, can my family be anymore funny? Anyways, I stayed at my aunt's house for a couple days since my sister was trying to get her finals done. It was nice, during the few days I ate food that I was missing like Roscoe's chicken and waffle house and hanging out with my mom being her navigator since she had no sense of direction. After a couple of days it was weekend and my sister was done with finals, now heading to Hollywood.
My sister has lived in Hollywood for at least two years since last time I was staying with her in Hollywood, not the same place though. My sister has been telling me we were going to get all you can eat Korean BBQ and she had a birthday surprise for me. I was not looking forward to it because usually surprise for my sister means something bad is going to happen to at least one person, usually the one person being me. I invited my friend Narita to come along with my family. The place was called Manna's and I had to ask Narita what the big deal was during your birthday. She told me you get soaked in cheap champagne and I looked at my sister and she said "Don't worry it will be fun!" I hate my sister sometimes, but then again, she can be real fun. When we got there I was waiting on Narita, but I still ate. It was an hour or so of eating and I knew it was coming. My sister then leaves the table and this music comes on. I was like, "Mom hold my phone" yeah my mom was there, she didn't stop my sister because my mom was going to laugh with my sister. I ended up getting soaked with two bottles of cheap champagne and recorded (video is on my facebook). Wow, seriously, did the guy really have to open my shirt and spray it in there too? I eventually changed and headed back home, Narita never showed up to pick me up to hang out with her on the weekend. She ended up getting lost and my plans were ruined.
Well, plans were ruined but my sister's boyfriend Matt volunteered to drive me down to the OC from LA. Seriously, vacation saver, I still owe him one. I eventually got to meet up with Narita at a bar called Mesa. Seriously, bad ass bar with a retractable roof. I really drank so much that night, I usually don't drink two four horsemen. Narita took me home thank god, no condition to drive. I ended up playing video games with Mike, her husband. She kept saying I was shooting rocks on the ground, but I'm pretty sure I got some zombies, pretty much later passed out in a guest room.
I woke up with the worst hangover ever. I needed something watery and something hot. Narita and Mike decided to take me to get noodles. I tweeted that I was in Costa mesa just to remind people I wasn't in Seattle. After the noodles we went to IKEA to get a shelf (Yeah, I know random) and I got a facebook update that my friend Sarah, which I haven't seen since probably Junior High was live in Costa Mesa and she wanted to see me. Narita and Mike were like, "yeah sure lets see your friend" and ended up visiting her at work. It was crazy since I haven't seen her in such a long time and I didn't ever expect to run into her. I told her to call me after work and see if she wanted to hang out later. We ended up going back to Narita's and play video games and construct a shelf.
By the time early evening hit, we were hungry. We decided to get seafood and Sarah called me up. Told her if she was hungry she can come along and she agreed. I ended up getting crab because 1. I dunno how to eat craw fish 2. I don't like peeling shrimp. Anyways, it was the kinda place where the seafood is served straight up on the table. I was pretty damn messy and Narita got the pictures to prove it. After the meal, we all headed to Dave and Busters. I like the setting at Dave and Busters better than Gameworks just because the place seems like it was made for an adult to just be a kid and obviously drink till there is no tomorrow. I didn't drink much, but I did have a long of fun being with everyone. I really felt like I was on vacation. It got dark and it got late and we went back to Narita's to watch Lost. Yeah, Lost. What? Nerds like Lost, practically made the night even better. I ended up convincing Sarah to take me to get more food and I wanted Mexican since I didn't get any on my vacation yet. Ate some good food in that hole in the wall, made me pass out.
When we were hanging out, Sarah agreed to hang out with me the next day since Narita had work. My stay at Costa Mesa was extended another day and my mom called because she was worried about me. I love my mom, always asking if I'm eating three meals a day. Anyways, we decided to catch a movie and watched "9". Good animated movie. It was nice hanging out with an old friend you haven't seen in a long time and we were both glad to see each other again in our lives. She asked me if I was hungry after my mom and I decided to get my last meal of In n Out since I knew when I get to my sisters, she would have no part in that. Yeah, it was nice eating one last 4x4 animal style with animal style fries and my large Dr.P that I remember it now how satisfying it was to eat it. Sarah agreed to take my home and relieve Narita of her duties of having to drive me home. I went to go pick up my things and gave a good bye hug to Narita. It was good to see her again and glad to have a friend like her still in California. The drive was an hour and a half back to LA. I said my final goodbyes to Sarah as well and told her to keep in touch and if she ever come to Seattle, I will drive. The last couple days of my vacation was going to be with my mom and sister.
Well, pretty much hanging out with my sister is crazy because there's always something my sister needs to do. We went to the farmer's market near her house to get some good food and later caught a movie to watch, "district 9". I liked it, but didn't think it was the greatest thing. Later that night ate Italian food at a really nice place and then had dessert at this really amazing ice creamery. I had a root beer float, first one in a long time. The next day was pretty much see my grandma and aunt one last time and pick up some thing before heading back to Seattle. Luckily I had a lot of suitcase room because my mom wouldn't have been able to fit all the stuff we brought back home. Got on that plane and said bye to California until next time.
Pretty much loved my vacation. It gets better and better every time I go back, just because every time I go back, I always have something to do. I think I will probably go back again next year, but only for a week again. I think I will go two weeks once I'm 25 and able to rent a car, that way I don't feel like such a burden to people. Anyways, I think maybe early next year I will fly down to Vegas for a couple of days. I'm long overdue for gambling.
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| So September 4th to the 6th was the Penny Arcade Exhibition, where the largest nerd gathering happen in the Northwest. Pretty similar to Sakura Con, but with gamers and a lot more people, especially this year. It was sold out like when they use to have it at the Bellevue convention center, but the last couple of years they had it at Washington State Convention Center to accommodate to the large crowd. Unlike last year, I went Saturday and Friday for the tournament. This year it was pretty much, go for the tournament. I been hyping the guys to play in the tournament, most of them were pretty unwilling at first, but I got them to go.
The team was decided to be Me, RJ, Jomel and John and we would be called Choo Choo since we wanted something ridiculous sounding, but had a cooling meaning to it. The meaning being, the rape train was coming for you. We were coming up with this name while sitting at Denny's getting dinner the night before. We ended up sleeping late and waking up early for registration for the tournament. While we were getting ready we had Bloodsport playing in the background. My dad came into my room and look around and saw computers and empty beer bottles everywhere and just sat down and watched the movie. I was laughing a bit inside. We got to PAX around 10 AM.
I ran up to the convention while the guys were getting their media badges. I signed us up and then I got into the line of merchandise. I got the new Hadoken version 3 and button masher t-shirts and a new white six mouths sweat jacket. We walked around checking out random booths trying to win stuff. We had lunch and got free energy drinks and wondered what the tournament was going to be like. We all tried the Venom energy drink and didn't think much of it, nothing new nothing great. I saw some friends there, Monica, my cosplayer friend, was one of them since she was working the Tekken booth. As 6 started to roll around, we headed up to see what we were up against.
When we got back to the PC gaming area, we praticed a little before the tournament started. We saw a lot of teams, 47 to be exact. I was hoping for the full 64, but its cool, less noobs to own. As names of groups were called. A lot wondered about ours, but they would soon know what it meant. Our first couple of rounds were easy with groups quitting out half way through the match because the point spread would get to the point where their would be no chance to win. When we got around to the 4th round we were getting hungry and weren't allowed to leave the convention hall. I called Monica to see if she can grab me some food, but she was already heading out. We all drank our energy drink to get something in our stomaches. I found my self yelling Choo Choo as a massive rape on the other team was on them; it was hard and it was fast, just like the rape train. We ended up playing a lot of easy matches until we were one of the final last 3 teams. Our last match was going to be our hardest that night. We didn't get to play a full campaign all night and that was how it was going to stay and we were wish to play a full to see who was really great out of all the teams. I wasn't there for the prize even though we found out they would be new i7s, but I wanted to fight a good match against people who were just as good.
As we played the second to last match of the night for spot to play for 1st. It was two levels, the last two of Dead Air. We knew who they were and we knew they were good. We didn't take our chances since they were league players. We won 4th level and stopped them before they activated the event on their turn with the tank. All we needed to do was stop them on the 5th stage and we would have our spot for 1st. Unfortunately, their whole team made it to the plane in the finale. This meant with the point multiplier on the finale, this put them in the lead. All we needed to do is get two member to escape an we would win. They screwed us in the beginning with the early tank and we wasted too many medkits. We ended up dying and left with 3rd place out of 47 teams. We left we t-shirts, but we didn't see this as failure, but victory. Next year we wanted to dominate not just in Left 4 Dead 2, since it coming out in the one year anniversary of Left 4 Dead, but we wanted to play in every computer tournament possible like Modern Warfare 2 and Team Fortress 2. We wanted chances to win and spread our name. We also wanted to do the booth tournaments too. Next year we will be more ready. Now, it was 2 AM and we were starving from about 8 hours of straight intense gaming.
We eventually got home and went to Jack in the Box. We ate and talked about the good memories we will have at our first tournament. I ended up going to the next day by myself as my crew had to continue with their lives. I cosplayed as Ikkaku Madarame for Saturday and saw Jason and his girlfriend there. I got my picture taken a good amount and I collected more collectible stuff like Guild Wars 2 art book, Bio Shock booklet, Diner Dash apron and some other stuff. By Sunday I pretty much saw everything. I decide to take the day off and start looking for leagues for us to join. PAX 10, I can't wait already.
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| Damn last time I wrote in here was when I was playing Warhammer, I haven't touched that game in like a month. Anyways, latest news is that I quit Fry's, a lot of crazy shit has happened since my last entry and I think each of those crazy things deserve its own entry. But quitting Fry's was pretty much just sick of putting up with shit. Honestly, I really didn't mind the job, but when your telling me to do my job but I'm not doing my job, but really I am doing my job, really pisses me off. They cut my pay too, so I really couldn't stay there to do that same things I was doing but getting paid less.
But expect a separate post of:
My Arrest (Seriously, not fun)
PAX
California Vacation
I will also touch up on things that are happening in my life and such after I make these post and future plans, hopefully I stick with it this time and make sure I update.
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