つぼみ

Burnt Fingers

Veya — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:48:34 +0000

Waves in the sand laps over my feet, time and time again. Watching it is soothing, I just want to stand here forever looking over the ocean, watching the waves. I lie down in the sand instead and close my eyes, imagining he’s lying there beside me.
I had another dream last night, full of trains, adventures and dinosaurs but now it’s all so hazy and broken. Dreams bug me sometimes, when I can’t remember all the details but sometimes its nice to wake up just knowing you’ve dreamed about someone and close your eyes again to savour the lingering feeling.

So heres my summer challenge: how many days can I go without yelling at my parents or storming out of the house to avoid yelling at my parents

current record: 7 days

Dreaming?

Veya — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 23:14:07 +0000

I looked down in time to see a figure falling, arm stretched out reaching upwards, eyes wide with shock, staring directly at me only for a moment before he was swallowed in the void. In that moment I felt everything. His pain, regret, sorrow, fear, anger all washed over me in an overwhelming wave. My eyes stung and vision blurred knowing it was I that brought this upon him.
“It wasn’t supposed to be this way,” I whispered to no one, “I’m sorry.”
Someone laughed. It was a cruel, wicked laugh that seemed to come from ever where and nowhere. I turned to face a dark figure who’s cloak seemed to be woven out of darkness itself interrupted by glowing silver runes. Though his face was hidden beneath a hood I could feel his smile as he stood there mocking me.
“‘Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost.’ That is your rule is it not? You knew what the price would be when you started on this quest,” he chuckled. “Do you see now what happens when you through caution to the wind?”
At his words my sorrow turned to rage. I let out a cry as I charged towards him, feeling the sparks of electricity flit up and down my arms as I channeled my anger into a final spell. As I ran he stood unmoving patiently. I leaped up to cover the last few feet as a gust of wind blew back his hood to reveal his familiar grinning face.
“You?’ I gasped in shock, but it was too late.
A blinding white light filled my vision, then darkness.

—-

What a strange dream.

NorthPonit

Veya — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 09:15:33 +0000

After being turned down a few times on skiing proposals, I took matters into my own hands and found the bay area ski bus. They take a tour bus all the way up to Tahoe to deposit skiers who do not want to, or cannot, drive. Seemed like a good deal to me, except for getting to walnut creak at 5 in the morning, but we must make sacrifices for bits of fun. Everything was good till I got to the slopes where it was raining. Yup, raining up in Tahoe. Icy, windy, piercing cold. The bad kind if you don’t bring super waterproof cloths. Silly me, when they told me it might be a bit warm up there I packed lighter. So I got soaked. Through all layers of “waterproof” clothing. Added to that the snow was crunchy so it was hard to make turns so I found myself a road hazard more often than usual. Needless to say, not my best ski trip. Still, got some practice in so definitely not all bad.

Veya — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:39:53 +0000

It has been so long sense I’ve written here, but I had the sudden urge to change my layout.To make it bluer. Yes, I sat down at my desk and wanted to make my blog more blue…
Now this is not completely as random as you might think. After a long, but relaxing, day of gaming and mini painting, I though I would turn in for the night. My bed apparently had different plans however as I found it lacking the necessary sheets and blankets. It was then I remembered that early that afternoon I had decided it was time to wash my bed spread. Foolish of me, really. So here I am messing with my blog and typing away for another….2 min while I await my clean, dry sheets. See? its all very logical.

Also, on an even happier note, finals (or rather midterms) are finaly over! That means I can think of something other than school and getting into college, seeing as that is also finished. Or rather the college part is out of my hands. Farewell stress…..(I wish)

school

Veya — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 04:44:00 +0000

So school started again. I’m stressed and all out of wack from not sleeping much. Ug, I feel like a potato that got run over by a car then scoped off the ground and thrown agenst the wall for fun. I’m not even posting a picture. It would be of some zombie dressed up in a Japanese school uniform. Styner finaly fixed the air conditioning in his room though. Thats all I got to report. I’ll go to bed and stare at the ceiling till I fall asleep. Did’t happen last night. I’ll give sleep another chance though. See if we get along today.

JAPAN town

Veya — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 08:32:46 +0000

After what seems like a few months of waiting, I finally returned to Japan Town. Not much has changed really, besides of course the much talked about addition of a manga pay-to-read store. The massive amount of manga in there was tempting but I was reminded of the vast collection stored on the Internet for free. Compared to going rate there ($5 for the first hour then $1 for every hour after) the Internet gets my vote. The first hour of my visit was made a little more then mildly uncomfortable by an unusually bad headache. No squiggly worms or white holes in my vision this time fortunately. Anyways, did some shoping for school, got a cool knife and a awesome CD. Even got to eat yaki niku (super awesome good for anyone who hasn’t had it yet) not as good as the real Japan stuff though…

Almost got lost on the way home though cause Andrew refused to believe that the Powell bart station would be on Powell st. We walked halfway back to Japan Town on Geary before he admitted to not knowing where he was going. Meh, people and directions.

I am currently debating weather or not to buy FFIV for the DS. On one hand, its a FF game I don’t own and the cool graphics, on the other hand, I just finished it when I was in Japan and I have other games to work on. And voice acting…? Perhaps this is something better in Japanese? Hmmm, something to leave for a later date I’m thinking. Maybe after my next paycheck.

Work

Veya — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 04:03:51 +0000

So I got called into work the other morning. To work. At 8. When I was sleeping. When I got there know what I had to do? Sort CDs. That’s right music CDs. Why you might ask? Because some one who quit left their CDs on their desk but other people though they theirs so most of them were missing and I had to track them all down. Weird but defiantly more fun then filing so whacha gonna do?

I’ve been taking public transport more and more recently and every time I go on a bus, I see someone I know. Every time. Its kinda cool.

College

Veya — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 00:15:08 +0000

So my parents signed me up to meet with a counselor who is supposed to help me get organized in applying to colleges. I’m not sure weather to take it as “we don’t like the colleges you have been looking at, here is some one who will correct your perspective” or “you aren’t working hard enough, here is some one to keep you to a schedule” or whatever.
I think I’ve been doing okay on my own so far with the beginings of this application process. I made a list of a few colleges I want to apply to, I printed out some of the applications and even wrote a brain storm for a few essays. I don’t really want help from some stranger that my parents are prolbably paying too much.

That doesn’t mean I’m not stressed about getting into college. I stress over just about everything, important or not. I’m prety freaked out about the whole getting into the right college thing but lotsa people I know got through it in one peice…right??!?!
To all the people who already got in and are going to college this fall:
TAKE ME WITH YOU IN YOUR SUIT CASE! (please?)

East Cost

Veya — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 06:49:02 +0000

It was an eventful week. Spent the entire first day exploring New York City. Central park was nice and reminded me of several books read long ago. The Metropolitan museum was waaaaay cooler then I expected. They had a whole room full of old instruments complete with a row of decorative harpsichords and different types of violins. The best part? The exibit on super hero costumes. I got to see the actual batman AND iron man suits that were used in their respective movies. How many of you can say that?!
Oddly, it made me think how those are the only two movies I’ve seen in theater this summer.

The family reunion thing was crazy as per usual. 20 odd people cramed in two houses. Custome made t-shirts in neon green. Music and games. Quoting home star, playing piraty card games and singing every TMBG song we know. Sailing on the lagoon. Getting sun burned on the beach while swimming with choped up jelly fish. Just the usual get together with my family.

Now I have a sore throat and am debating weather it was due to talking/singing too much, dehydration or a bug. And the sun burn on my foot iches…

FFXII

Veya — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 07:31:41 +0000

After X and XI I was worried the series was going to continue to plummet into awfulness and fade away after so many good games. XII was not in anyway as good as VII or IX or VI but it did manage to recover a great deal of dignity for the Final Fantasy series as far as story line goes. I was not so thrilled about the battle system. I feel very strongly about the job class system. I was at least a bit sad throughout the game when I had to go to the licence board in order to learn new abilities. Sure it had its advantages, I could make any charactor part mage. Gun-mage, archer-mage, pladin, dark knight, magic magic magic magic. That was the one good part of the battle system. I don’t like the real time feel they tried to sneak in either. Final Fantasy = turned based…oh well.

The story lacked an overall epic feel. I missed the whole “I’m saving the world and my failure would mean doom and destruction on the world” theme. However, if you think about it in terms of Final Fantasy Tactics then you might be able to see how FFXII could be the preqil to it. In tactics there was evidince that seemed to imply the past people had relied on machinery such as airships and robots. XII could be the long lost past that was mentioned.

Cid was an enemy in this game. How strange. In fact, there were two Cids. Whatever.

Well I’m thinking of revisiting FFT. Thinking about he game’s opening music sends shivers up my spine.

A warrior takes sword in hand,
Clasping a gem to his heart.
Engraving vanishing memories into the sword,
He places finely honed skills into the stone.
Spoken from the sword, handed down from the stone…
Now the story can be told…