After taking almost 4, FOUR months to finish up the collection, I started reading the Animorphs series by K.A.A. Applegate on June 8, 2006. Completion date is June 25, 2006.

That’s 54 regular titles, 4 Megamorphs, and 4 Chronicles. *dies* Finished all that in 17 days. Averaging about 3.6 books a day. Unbelievable, eh? I can’t believe it either.

Verdict
I still love the book, and I still consider it one of my all-time favourite book series. Tobias, Marco, and Ax are still my favourite characters while the others I could care less for. The first thirty books are great, and then it kinda goes down the drain till the finale of the last three books.

Cassie is still an oxymoron, drove me crazy in the books. Jake is boring as hell. Rachel is just too psycho. Visser Three kicks ass when he’s being a stupid tard. The Ellimist and Crayak back story just confuses the hell out of me. I love the Pemalites, even though their non-violence way does have its limit.

Love Ax’s experience as a human. Especially when I read about him eating the most weirdest stuff ranging from cigarette butts to engine oil to cinnamon buns. XD Tobias, my heart just goes out to him. Marco ROCKS. I love his humour, and I love his ruthlessness. I so want that ruthlessness while I sub. x_x;; I am too much like a cross between Cassie and Rachel. Blargh.

I still want a Taxxon Chronicles… but I guess after portraying Arbron in the Andalite Chronicles and at the end of the series, there was no reasons for it. I like Visser… seeing how the Yeerks mentally become a human. Ellimist Chronicles just confused the hell out of me.

I love the Hork-Bajir, and the story in the chronicle. Dak Hamee, Toby Hamee, and Jara Hamee rules. Aldrea was just plain annoying in both the chronicle and #34 or whatever it is.

Conclusion
Yes, I love this series. Yes, I’m nuts. This series kept me company on my long bus rides to and back from Daechi-dong the past two weeks. Thanks to this series, my English class reading has been … put aside. Now to actually focus on that…

…What am I gonna read on the bus now?! I need a new series. *pouts* And no, I am not lugging that fat ass English book of mine to read on the bus. >_<;;

At least according to this article.

*shakes head* A shame. APA took it off their list, but the Department of Defence still lists that. Aigoo. While this angers me, this saddens me more than anything else. When will people just accept each other, tolerate each other? Never is the answer I can come up with. Us humans are just intolerant species. Complex should be Homo sapiens middle name. If aliens ever do come to Earth, they will run away screaming from us since we do have a tough neighbourhood.

Back to the article. I had no clue DoD still lists homosexuality as mental disorder. Huh. Is being gay so disgusting that it has to be labelled as a mental disorder? I don’t think it is. How is being true to oneself a disorder? How is loving a different gender when love is still love a bad thing? While I may consider myself a cynic, I am an oxymoron in terms of being a cynical romantist. I believe that love is love, even if it is a bitch to find it nowadays.

Then again, humans are easily influenced aren’t they? If someone “straight” can be duped by someone “gay”, then that means their mind has been messed with, and then they believe they are gay, bi, straight, or whatever. Is that why it’s considered a mental disorder? What if it was vice versa? What if the world was entirely gay, and someone who’s straight tries to join society. Would they be labelled as mentally ill? Probably. Or probably not.

Bottom line: I hope the future grows more tolerant with each other. I hope we stop treating others differently just because they are “different.” I hope for all this, but as a pessimist, it ain’t happening. Not the way humans are.

Enough contemplation for now before I go off on tangent and talk about some other topic.

Today was fairly interesting. Before I go onto the main point of this entry, I have to say that my best friend currently is bus #143. That is one bus that practically goes every where in Seoul. From Myeong-dong to Namdaemun to Seoul Station to Central City to Apgujeong to Coex and to my workplace. I feel like I am living in that bus. x_x;;

After cutting work out early at three instead of seven, I rode the trusty bus to Myeong-dong to look for Westin Chosun hotel. Thankfully the map on the website was accurate unlike certain previous Korean maps. *cough* Once getting there, I met up with JJ, one of my online friend. It was a great meeting. It really is interesting to finally meet friends in person. ^_^

We met up and walked into the outer part of Myeong-dong and then found a cafe and chilled there. We just talked about various different things. I just love going to cafes and talk with people. The atmosphere at most cafes are just so relaxing. Afterwards, we walked around bit and got an ice cream cone with 30 centimetre long soft ice cream on it. Yummmm… cheap ice creams! They were about one to two bucks.

Sadly, she had to go off to Dongdaemun to shop with her mum. I wished we had more time together, but oh well. Better than not meeting at all. ^_^

Yesterday, like few minutes ago, was very … exciting ^_^

Senior “Prank”
Senior prank, a tradition right? Yet, at the same time it could be categorised as very mild vandalism act. Of course if you cross that certain line, it really becomes a major vandalism incident. Well… SAHS, my HS Alma Mater and where I work, finally had its senior prank. Only… the “prank” came after the seniors all graduated… Okay. Maybe it should be called Alumni Prank now.

Basically, they did the typical TPing in the courtyard with spray with paint and whatnot. What they also did was glued the doorknob to prevent the keys to go in, and the most digusting part, I heard canned soup, and literally crap was strewn all over the main building hallway. Either they got the manure from the countryside or… well… someone really did take a dump there. x_x;;

Was supposed to work today there. Went there in the morning, saw all the teachers outside. I briefly thought… a fire drill or something. Then I discovered what happened. While I could not go in, I did go in after they cleaned most of the mess up. Unfortunately the smell was still there. Mixed with cleaning solution trying to disguise the smell… not a good combination. GAG. In fact, this was so bad that school got cancelled and is resumed on Thursday (which was supposed to be the students’ day off) and even UMUC’s night class got cancelled.

I do hope that these alumnis are not 18… because this is a serious act and they are no longer protected by the juvenile law thingamigie… *sighs*

Soccer
Just finished watching the World Cup game of Korea (Dae Han Min Guk!) vs. Togo. Which I keep wanting to call Toga since that’s what I heard someone call before I discovered it’s actual name. x_x;; Well, it was quite exciting. I still say some people cannot kick in soccer. But oh well. Korea won~ Mum and I went crazy the second time they scored. Or was it the first time… whenever it was. Mum went more crazy than I did though. I was pretty calm throughout most of it. XD Yay, Korea. At least they won this game unlike LOSING their first game back in ‘98 World Cup. Hope they win the next game. If not, oh well. I’m still betting my guess on Brazil or Germany though. And even France. XD My extent of soccer is not very wide… so whatever.

Saw a bunch of people go to City Hall from my area today. Saw a bunch of people on decorated motorcycles. Maybe one of these days I’ll attend one of those crazy soccer gathering and see how much fun it is to be doing that “Dae Han Min Guk” chant and that “Pissing” I mean… er PILSUNG Korea thing. ^^;; I swear… in 2002 World Cup, Mi Son and I had a blast trying to figure out that second chanting thing. I heard Pissing Korea, and she heard Miss Korea. XD Hahaha. But then we finally realised they were saying Pilsung. ^^;;

Sobriety Cell Phone
My old phone is slowly dying… crappy model it is x_x;; Oh well. It lasted me for a good six monthish. However, I am now the owner of this awesome new cell phone. Behold its SILVER colour! The sports car shape! And … the breathalyzer… Which is ironic since I do not drive…

It has the following features that I am well aware of:
* Camera phone @ 1.3 megapixels
* Remote Control feature for a LG tv which I do not have
* Two games
* 3D Avatar thingie
* Sobriety Test
* Calculator that even has those sine, cosine, tangent, square root, log, ln, exponential, degree, and rad fucntion!
* Stopwatch
* MP3 Player

I got this baby brand spanking new for 200,000 won ($200). Actual price was 250,000 won ($250) but I got a discount. A very nice discount. The case was 7,000 ($7). No more card phone though… and a new number. Makes me sad. x_x;; I now have a monthly plan thing. $35 bucks for a month, and I get 660 minutes with that. Of course if I go over it, I have to pay extra. Ah well. Not bad really, and I don’t call much with it anyways.

I almost bought this one phone for 210,000 won ($210). As I left to go to the ATM, my friend and I were like talking about brand new phones, and she told me that the phone I wanted to get was NOT new. I freaked out, went back and demanded for a new one. Unfortunately, to get a brand new one, I had to sacrifice quite a bit… like losing my old number, moving to a monthly phone plan, and losing the sliding capability.

Love the phone though. I just love it. First brand new phone I ever own in my entire life! The last three phones of mine were all second-hand. ^_^ And now I have internet access on it. Of course that cost a lot of money to use so watch me not use it.

Conclusion
Not a bad day at all… Quite different from usual. Prank gone awry, world cup fever, and getting a new cell phone. And getting 100,000+ hit to this site. Definitely a good day.

Just a quick note that sometime between yesterday and today, this site’s counter finally went over 100,000.

That’s a pretty big feat for me. XD And it took almost five years! Woot XD. Of course that combines TC Kingdoms and Psychomaniatic Dreams in the last five years. Maybe that’s considered cheating, but I beg to differ. It took a long time to get here.

So I’m guessing 5 more years it will be 200,000, eh? XD All I can do is wish and just move on with the time.