ManekiCat

Ramble alert….

Now that I’m actually on here again, I have a whole slew of things I’ve been thinking of writing about. A bunch of really pointless stuff. But I suppose it isn’t like anyone ever really reads what I post anyway right? So I can type it if I want to! So there!

First thing on my mind: does this blog really even matter? I’m sure no one really reads my blog but me and maybe on rare occasions the 7 people who follow me. But then I just think “who cares? It’s my own blog, I’m writing it for me,” and then I feel a bit better.

Right now, I am reminded of my love for A. A. Milne, the delicious author of Winnie the Pooh, the ORIGINAL good stuff, not the shitty stuff they made later. Well, not everything is shitty, but the book serves the story best.

Example of A. A. Milne’s amazing writing:

“If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together… there is something you must always remember. You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. But the most important thing is, even if we’re apart… I’ll always be with you.”

Or this:

“It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn’t use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like “What about lunch?”

I rather like A. A. Milne. Yes. Very much so.

In other news, my right pinky toe nail fell off yesterday. No joke. I always knew it would, but never thought it would so soon. It has always been a fear of mine because I never thought of how nails grow back and so my expectations was that I would be clipping my toe nails one day and I would clip too much and it would come clean off and I would end up being a right-pinky-toe-nail-less weirdo for the rest of my life. But I wasn’t clipping my toe nails when it came off, though I was thinking about doing that later that night. No, I was just walking around and all of the sudden I felt a tug at my toe as if I had broken off a piece of my toe nail and found the entire thing hanging on by a little section of the side. I freaked out so bad. It was really gross having to take it off. It’s still really gross. I think about it a lot because I can feel the absence of nail sometimes like right now. Especially when I think about it. Luckily it didn’t hurt though. It was just like losing hair. The sucky part is that I won’t have enough toe nails to paint all of my toes for prom. I’ll just have to get prom shoes tomorrow that hide my pinky toes so I can just do the other ones.

Speaking of prom, that’s another thing on my mind. I’m so excited and I’m gonna look so amazing! I have the perfect dress and the perfect hair style and what not! I’m so excited! Like I said before, I’m getting my prom shoes tomorrow. Hopefully I’ll find the right ones! :D

Now I think I got writing out of my system. We’re good. :)

Dream

I have not been on here in AGES. I kinda got a bit busy with life and haven’t had a need to write things for a while.

But now, I have a need.

It would make me so happy to work for Square Enix. So happy. You can’t even know. It’s not one of those I’m-such-a-huge-fan-I-wanna-be-just-like-Tetsuya-Nomura-San-and-be-a-character-designer-and-make-Clouds-all-day-long kinda things like those people who are just fans. My desire to work for S.E. goes beyond that.

Square Enix is amazing.

I absolutally love their work and would be honored to be a part of the production of such works. They make games worth playing. They keep the story in the game. There’s nothing mindless about a Square Enix game; nothing they make is simply hack and slash. Their games have meaning. They don’t just do, they create. What they make is beautiful.

Yes, I would love to be in Tetsuya Nomura’s position. I won’t lie. But I would just be happy enough being a localizer and proof-read stuff all day or be a game programmer. Whatever there is open, I want to take that job. I just want to be a part of what they have because what they have is great.

Besides, Tetsuya Nomura began as a debugger for the company. Promotions would be what I’d need to utilize to get where I’d absolutally love being anyway.

I just wish it didn’t mean leaving my family and friends in Oregon. I suppose it’s helpful that I don’t have much family to leave… but really it probably wouldn’t make a difference if I had 200 members as opposed to my less than ten count. I’d still miss my family terribly. Then of course the issue of whomever I decide to marry. I hope my future husband would be open to the idea of living in Japan.

But that’s far in the future anyway. No need to make final decisions now. For now, I will just dream. :)

Excitement

Some pretty exciting stuff is coming up and it’s making me pretty anxious.

In exactly 7 days I will be preparing to go on stage for the encore performance of “The Yellow Boat”. We’re hoping to get a full house so we will have enough money to pay for the state conference.

Two days later, we will leave to Salem, Oregon for the state conference. I will finally get to check out Salem and possibly see Willamette University. If I’m lucky, this visit will be enough to help me decide where I go to college. If not, I’m screwed. >.< That day I will be doing my tech entry stuff.

The next morning at 10am we will be performing “The Yellow Boat” in front of 800+ people from around Oregon as one of the 3 selected main stage productions. That night, Amanda and I will reveal our Gagalicious outfits at the Gaga dance.

The next day, I will know if I’ve been selected as a tech finalist. Then the Hometown Buffet tradition.

Once all of that is over, I will be going to Abby’s Closet and choosing my prom dress. I NEED this dress to be what I want it to be… if not, I’ll have to either settle for an okay one or pay for my own. I may need to just choose from my current options though. That’s what I’m expecting will happen. Whatever happens, I want to be beautiful. And I’ll find a way to do it. :)

After all of this mayhem, I will need to choose between Willamette and Southern. There won’t be any more time to flip flop. Hopefully state will help me.

During April, I will be receiving my cap and gown. I’m really looking forward to that. :)

May 21st is prom. I am so ready for this year at the Benson Hotel. I’m hoping it will be magical.

Sometime during the end of May is induction. There, I will be given the National and International honors in the International Thespian Society. What a way to end my theatrical career. :)

Sometime after that, I will leave school. I’ll only come back every day to work in the cafeteria and do some other stuff that I might need to do.

June 2nd is my birthday. I’ll finally be 18. Oh my.

June 7th. Graduation. I will hope, hope, HOPE that Obama won’t be there after all so I can cry about leaving school instead of him pulling all the attention from the graduating class to himself. After that, is the big bang of a senior party.

And then life ends and a new one begins….

The Lion King

I just realized that The Lion King is my favorite Disney film series.

The animations and character styles in all three of the films are stunningly beautiful and I can’t help but love the unique look to the faces and bodies of the lions. Not to mention there hasn’t been a sequal yet that I haven’t enjoyed. Though The Lion King 2 lacked a bit in story plot compared to the first movie, it still isn’t too bad compared to some of the others I have seen (an example: The Little Mermaid 2 which I hated for the annoying songs and unappealing story line that seemed a bit ripped off of the first movie). The Lion King 1/2 was hillarious! I really enjoyed Timon and Pumba’s side of the story.

Along with the movies, the musical was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen. The visual elements of the production were absolutally amazing, not to mention the costume designs and movement. I haven’t seen many professional plays (only The Lion King, Chicago, and Guys and Dolls) but out of what I have seen, professional or not, The Lion King has been my all time favorite and will no doubt stay that way. Even what I have seen in youtube videos from Wicked couldn’t top The Lion King, not even when Elphaba rises into the air as she sings Defying Gravity.

One of my teachers mentioned one day that he went to see the movie in theatres when it came out. However he walked out of the theatre because he believed that the coloring of Scar was racist. While he can and does continue to believe that, I would have to disagree. Though it is actually more likely in the wild for the lionesses to mate with the darker maned lions (this is because the darker, longer maned lions are generally healthier: http://www.suite101.com/content/the-sexual-behaviour-of-lions-panthera-leo-a133514 ), Scar’s mane was much shorter than any of the other lions in the pride lands. Mufasa and Simba’s manes were also pretty dark too, though not as dark as Scar’s. So technically, Scar would have had no problem being the alpha lion in the real world, except for that his weak frame would have made him easier to beat in a battle. However, were he alpha lion, his weak frame might have been reversed because he’d recieve more food.

Besides the actual science behind the colors, we must remember that this is a movie and not the real world. A lot of consideration goes into every element of a movie, including color choices. The Lion King is basically the story of Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The brother of the king kills the king and takes over the kingdom, leading the son of the late king to kill his uncle. So because Scar is the evil character in the story, being the one who kills Mufasa, he must be created to appear as such a character in order for the audience to easily identify him as that antagonist. Light is usually associated with good and dark associated with bad (such instances include evil witches wearing black robes and good fairies in white dresses, or angels in white robes and hell being dark and demonic). Scar being colored darker than Mufasa and Simba COULD have been about race, but more likely it was about the good and the bad. Scar was probably colored darker to represent his evil nature. Imagine what it would have read like had all of the good lions been dark and dreary and Scar with a vibrant colored pelt.

Going into The Lion King 2, one might argue that the colors of the characters in the banished pride would reinforce the idea that The Lion King is racist. However, most of the banished pride is bad because of Zira, the leader of the banished pride. She is a follower of Scar and wants to overthrow Simba. Also, not all of the banished pride is dark furred. Vitani, the girl lion cub of the banished pride has very light fur, though she is an antagonist throughout much of the movie. Kovu also serves as the movie’s darkest furred primary lion character, yet he is a protagonist.

So during the composition of this post, I forgot where I was going with this. I have taken a few breaks from the work and lost train of thought many times.

In short. I love The Lion King!

Fisherman’s Horizon, CCTV, and Inspiration

First off, I’d like to say I LOVED coming onto my page and hearing Fisherman’s Horizon. That was always my favorite Final Fantasy VIII song, along with Breezy which I will post next.

Today I went to an acting workshop in Salem, Oregon. It was very fun! The instructor, Bob Olin, has been in various short films and on stage productions and what not and was a joy to work with today.

We worked with CCTV, a local TV station in Salem, and there may even be a show about the workshop! I’m not very sure of all that TV stuff because I think they’re just ideas right now for Bob and the people working with him. But it would be cool to be on TV!

Bob said that Salem needs more actors and films. CCTV shows a lot of independent and local productions he said. I may look into that myself.

On another note, I need to figure out how to get creative inspiration for my art. FAST. I find good ideas every month if that! And what I mean by good ideas is an idea like my dead bunny that I go in with strong and come out with a finished product I’m proud of.

On top of that, I need to learn how to be unique at the same time. A peer of mine always has great ideas. I’ve even snuck into her art drawer at school with a friend and took a peek at all of her work. It’s so great! It makes me envious and want to do better myself!

This post kind of sucks. I really had nothing to say. I’m just wasting time until Jonhnathan gets back on Skype, so since I haven’t posted anything recently I figured why not. :)

One thing I should do though is figure out how to reorder my songs on my page. Then I can keep Fisherman’s Horizon as the first song after I post more.

Planting Seeds

During my freshman and sophomore year in high school, I spent my time running a Japanese club and petitioning for the course to be brought to my school. Because I required to years of language to graduate, I gave up my struggles and took Spanish, the only language offered at my school. Just minutes ago, my counselor, the one who helped me with my efforts two years ago, told me that next year Japanese may be offered at this school.

FML.

Yet I may have had something to do with that. I took my ideas to the principal two years ago with 31 signatures of students that were interested in the course, but there were no results. At least not until now. Well, next year I suppose….

It is a good thing to leave behind for my school however. I’m glad that I have made my mark by bringing classes to my school.

Last year, I began a glee club based on the show “Glee”. It ran pretty well and we had a lot of fun. This year, there is a show choir class. There is no way my club didn’t inspire that!

Even though I’m missing out on Japanese in high school, I will be okay. I am going to take Japanese in college and feel proud to have made a difference at my high school.

“Life is good.” :)