| Current mood: |  accomplished |
| Current music: | Kylie Minogue - Red Blooded Woman |
vacation, part 2
June 29
For the fourth time, thanks to the miracle of connections, we got tickets for Spiderman 2. Yes, for the day before the opening date. I think we know this family through one of our relatives, and their son is taking the entrance exam for a university. This family knows the manager of the Warner Theaters in Taipei, and to celebrate the son's success, the manager opened an entire Spiderman 2 theater room for him and his relatives and friends. I'm hoping my mom kept the tickets we got as proof :D
Spiderman 2 was great. Otto Octavier is my favorite character, though. His animatronic arms are BAD-ASS. I'm not dissing Spidey, though. He's still cool. Judging from Mary Jane's expression in the end and Harry Osborn's discovery, it looks like yet another sequel is in the works.
June 30
Yet another useless note on anime. To anyone else, this won't seem significant. But before I left UT, the last things I collected were Galaxy Angel and UFO Princess Valkyrie. And Galaxy Angel on Chinese tv was replaced with - guess what - UFO Princess Valkyrie. I'm such a dork.
July 2
Made a full recovery. Woot.
Went to another all-you-can-eat bakery with the twins. The same bakery as the first time, but in a different location. And we went in spite of the typhoon that hit Taiwan. And I walked by myself from the bakery to Greenwood in spite of said typhoon. The card I found was worth the trip, though. I'm surprised I actually found it.
July 3
Moved to Michael's place. Nothing else to note, except for the fact that it was very, very windy because of the typhoon. You could hear the wind whooshing almost nonstop.
July 4
Lots of rain today. Guess what's the cause of it?
Michael's dad drove me, my sister, and our grandma to a bowling alley (just to watch people play) and Jason's high school (where we stayed in the car and drove around the campus). Afterwards, he wanted to drive all the way to Hualien for fun, but the highway system wasn't done yet. Should be done by next year, though.
Dinner at a restaurant with a whole bunch of our relatives (and the older twin's boyfriend). 16 people total. All of us then went to Jyou^2 apartment to talk and sing kareoke. The best part was when people started dancing. Michael's parents started dancing, along with Jyou^2 and his mom. Good times all around. My sister and I also tried out this baseball game Jyou^2 had. Came with a foam bat and a sensor on the system so you could show off your mad batting skillz. Ran out of battery, though.
It didn't occur to me that today was Independence Day until late at night. Yay for America.
July 5
Went with Michael on his motorcycle to get lunch for everyone. We also got coffee and stopped by a comic library, although I told Michael there wasn't much point in me going there because I can't read Chinese. Do I represent or what? :P
July 6
Jason went to someone's house for a party. Since I also wanted to stop by Greenwood and buy my shizzle, he gave me a ride. Unfortunately, right after he dropped me off, he got a ticket. He wanted to make a U-turn, but for a motorcycle you have to switch roads twice for safety reasons. I can't even make a simple illustration because Blurty doesn't display certain characters correctly.
Imagine a 4-way intersection, with Jason on the south end. He wanted to head back south, but he had to first stop by the eastern end and then the northern end before he could do so. A cop was hiding nearby, so he got caught. I didn't even see it, and it happened about 5 seconds after I left.
I am now the proud owner of Rei's Green Memory 1/2/2.5 books, in addition to some other works of his. I am also the proud owner of a Greenwood bag with Midori displayed on both sides, in all her splendor. There were wallscrolls with his pictures on them, but I had to pass up on those. First, we didn't have the space in our luggage, and second, I have too many wallscrolls for my dorm room as it is. But $3 for a wallscroll. Man.
Greenwood also had the Sugietsu artbook for sale. And as I expected, it was more expensive than the one in Taiwan. Around $33, compared to $25 over there. I'm just surprised something like that managed to come over here.
We tried to think of a new English name for grandma that night. Her current name is Mator, which is either a bastardization of the word "mother" or some kind of Japanese name (since she knows some Japanese). In any case, I've never seen an English name like that before. I don't think we ever came up with a new one, because there are just too many names in the English language.
Grandma also gave me and my sister red envelope presents. Later on, she told us to switch the envelopes with new ones becuase she wrote English on the envelopes and thought the old stuff she wrote was bad.
July 7
Left Taiwan that evening. Because of flight time and time zone differences, we spent more than a day getting back, but it was only the morning of June 8 when we finally arrived in Dallas.
After watching Kylie Minogue's "Red Blooded Woman" music video, I suddenly got the idea of making an AMV for the song. I'm not quite sure if it'll happen, though. I've had AMV ideas in the past, but they never got off the ground. I have more motivation for this one, but I don't have good video sources (all fansubs, whoo), so it'll look like crap if I do put it together. I would have thought fansub sources were decent if not for an AMV on Afroman's "Because I Got High" - 173 MB of low quality fansub scenes put together. 173 MB and "low quality" should not go together for an AMV. Most good quality AMVs are only around 30-80 MB.
Spent the last few hours in Taiwan trying to record this hilarious radio commercial from ICRT, Taiwan's only English radio station. Involved a guy apologizing to his grandma, where the grandma then says (in Chinese), "Call me "Emma". E-M-M-A. Not 'ah-ma'. We're screwed!" Unfortunately, I never managed to get it. What really pisses me off is that while I was erasing a useless radio recording, I forgot to start recording again, and the commercial started playing >< The problem is that the mp3 player takes a while to start recording, so I only got half of it. I did some other hilarious ICRT recordings, such as a section on learning English, where they talked about insults like "loser", "lame", and "feeble". Best recording ever. Next to that commercial I tried to get. Maybe I should go to their website and make a request.
And thus concludes our vacation. *takes a bow*
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