As far as cosplay goes, i've got konoha headbands for the three of us and our jonin trio, and i've ordered my Asuma chakra blades and Asuma/Travis wig. And that's about it so far :P Going into Glasgow on thursday with Anna, for general wanderings, although ill be keeping an eye out for a suitable belt and a pair of suitably yellow sunglasses (not massively happy about that, but meh :P), and a lightsaber. I has an excuse to buy a lightsaber, I am pleased. xD Soo, anyone around on thursday?
And now I must go back to playing Battlefield: Bad Company. It has sucked me in, I have 715 gamerpoints and I want them all damn it!!!
Saturday - Me: Sarutobi Asuma from Naruto; Anna: Yuuhi Kurenai from Naruto; Mark: Hatake Kakashi from Naruto. (Me and Anna will be changing into Light and Misa later in the day too.)
Sunday - Me: Travis Touchdown from No More Heroes (Also gives me an excuse to buy a lightsaber XD); Anna: Lust from Full Metal Alchemist; Mark: Hasn't made his mind up yet :P
Fun times to be had XD Anyone I know off to the may expo too?
Also, Barack Obama with a lightsaber. Coolest president yet?
Thoughts? It's looking a hell of a lot better than that first trailer, anyway. :P
Apparently, even though I get great results when I do the FOA (basically all I do at work, scanning gaps on the shelves with a zapper) and she gets crap, and I mean CRAP, results, I'M doing it wrong and SHE'S doing it right. Let me quickly quote her: "I don't care if you know there are 5 cases of this madly expensive pizza in the warehouse, if there's none on the shelf, we have none."
o.0
Anyway. The rant is basically a prelude to what i'm actually posting about - shes not my boss anymore XD My new boss is actually awesome, as he basically lets me choose my days off the week before XDXDXD Although I can't always get them at that short notice, if I have a couple of weeks notice, I SHOULD be able to get any day off I want. Including saturdays, which includes CS meets XDXDXD
Which obviously means I have to start thinking about putting together some costumes. I think i'm gonna go with Light Yagami first, partly cos Anna wants to do Misa. After that, i'm not sure. I get the feeling there was one I really wanted to do, but I can't remember it :/ Ah well.
Lastly, it's been so long since I posted I don't actually know how many people are on my flist :/ Sooo, comments! Who's out there???
So, Heroes season 3 started. Two episode special, probably with the most pure "WTF" moments i've ever seen within an hour and a half.
Ummm, did I miss anything? X'D
2:30 am. 82 chapters gone. MUST SLEEP. 8 HOUR SHIFT IN 12 HOURS.
Just got my shinyshiny laptop set up, so no more Wiinternets XDXDXD
It's a HP Pavilion DV6810, exactly the same specs I mentioned in my last post. Just to check if I was right, I ran one of those "Can I Run It?" things for Crysis and yes - I can run Crysis. This pleases me. :D
So, yuss - I shall be posting more, commenting more, and generally being online all the time. Unless i'm working, which is full time this and next week. Mmmmmmoneys.
2: Hangovers from birthday pub trips are not.
3: I fail at LJ :/
Sorry for not posting/commenting/doing anything at all, but the only internets I have now is the Wii. So what i've typed so far took aaaages.
Not for long though, as next friday i'm FINALLY getting my laptop XD i'm hoping I can still get the HP DV9820 - which has suspiciously disappeared from Comet's site - cos for £500, a 17" screen, 3 gigs RAM, 250 gig hard drive and dedicated nVidia 256 mb graphics is... pretty fecking awesomely epic XD if that fails, i'm getting the DV6810 - which is exactly the same, but with a 15 inch screen. So yuss, all good XD
ANNOUNCEMENT: me and Anna have been talking about our *so far nonexistent* ability to save money, and decided we're gonna give it a go - soo, we're off to Tokyo next summer XDXDXD Yuka: Help. Where should we go, what should we do, etc etc?
I'm going to leave it at that for now, until I get my laptop - Wii typing hurts my hand T__T
Just noticed how long it's been since I posted properly :/ For which I blame AOL. Finally uninstalled the bugger (and it felt goood), and installed Sky broadband, but it didn't work. >:( I won't go into the details: suffice to say after 90 odd minutes on the phone to tech support, a week of tinkering, asking my dad, another week of tinkering and eventually realising that i've tried everything - EVERYTHING - that could possibly fix it, i've given up and added a laptop to my shopping list. Oh, and come to the conclusion that Dell and AOL are madly in love. SRSLY GAIZ NEVER EVER BUY DELL.
On a plus note, the new router is wireless, and that works fine, hence me posting via the Wii XD
Rant over XP
Soo, in other news, being employed rocks, as I now has a 360 XDXDXD Picked it up with Assassins Creed and Mass Effect, then got G.R.A.W, Prey and The Orange Box last week. I'm not on Live yet, but I will be, so gimme your Gamertag if you have one, then add RyuuzakiMasato when I add you.
Attention CS people! It's not definate yet, but I miiight have the house to myself from 28th june till 10th-ish of july, as a holiday down south is planned but I don't think i'll get time off work. So, If that happens, i'll be having Kuro-con XD I'll post in the next couple of days to let you know if it's happening or not, but this is just a heads up.
Must go now. If I finish the next testchamber, I get cake. Mmmm. Cake.
So, go have a look! Feel free to join up, there's nothing there yet, but i'm about to post the first task. See you there!
One plus point - I work saturdays, but not til 6, so I can come to all the CS meets! Minus point - i'd have to leave after a couple of hours, unless I somehow get a day off.
Slight moment of panic as soon as I hung up, as I thought to myself - When the hell is my computing exam?? But is ok, is on wednesday.
And and and, I work weekends, but not till evenings! I get to keep my sleep-ins!
XDXDXD
GOOD PAY + GREAT HOURS = VEEERY HAPPY KURO-KUN.
... If I get it. *suddenly remembers that first job interview wasn't actually an interview. "Can you do this?" "Yup." "You're hired."*
And now the fear...
T__T
Oh wellz.
Then it hit me that after prelims, I've got april, then REAL exams.
So um yeah. It WILL happen. I promise.
... Just not for quiiite a long time yet.
Sowwy gaiz. ;-;
Nickelcon II was fuuun XD
It also made me remember that time I tried to organise my own little party/cosplaycon thingy at my house during the christmas holidays. So, I has idea. I've not asked my mum yet, but I still want to do it. I was thinking not saturday tommorow, cos that's too short notice, and not next saturday, cos i'm at my dads that weekend, but the saturday AFTER that. Nickel, Yuka, Sian, tell me sharpish if you can make it or not. Also, i'm the most forgetful person in the world XP so, if anyone from the CS meets that i've met wants to come along, you tell me too. And sorry in advance for forgetting you. I didn't mean it. Honest.
Soo, make with the commentage. I'll post on CS as well, so there's no excuse for not replying. Ooh - almost forgot, it needs a name. Nickel had Nickelcon, I dunno what to call mine :/
...That made absolutely no sense at all, did it?
Oh well. So, updateage. Christmas was generally good. I finally got my first cosplay outfit :D It's Nero from Devil May Cry 4. 'Tis most awesome, fellow cosplayers shall be seeing it at the meet. I also got a funky fold up skateboard thing called a Stowboard - i'm in a huff with it now, cos I rode on it when it was wet and I fell off and sprained my ankle >:-[ Now I have to wait for the rain to stop. And if the pattern of the last couple of years continues, and the river gets even higher than last year, my house is gonna end up flooded. Most incredibly not fun. Also got Guitar Hero III on Wii, some doovdes, lots of choccys and a couple of random things. Like a shirt with one of those bar graph equalizer things that shows how loud music is on it. I'm not wearing that in the rain. Nope.
New year was good fun. Was meant to have Anna, Tony and Mark over, but Tony couldn't come, so it was basically just me Anna and Mark. Ended up watching Naruto, so Anna likes that now :-) Got a bucket of beer in ice for us all, but Anna didn't want to try any and Mark had had enough before he got there. So I had to have it all myself. Lots of beer plus no hangover equals confused Rory.
That be about it for now. Shall be seeing everyone at CS whenever it is. Yuka, tell us when it is sooon!
Life is good. Schools going fine, already doing better than last year in Physics and English; i'm nice and healthy, even lost a little weight; and still in love XD
One thing's been annoying me for a while though. I have a job, and I work saturdays, only saturdays. When are all the Cosplay Scotland meets? Exactly. So, me has idea. Christmas hodilays are coming up, and I thought, if I can persuade my mum to go to Ikea or some similarly boring place that she likes, some of you lot from CS can come through to Stirling one day in the hodilays. Not much to do in Stirling, but my house has films, music, foods, and a Wii. If we're lucky, something good might be on at the cinema too. Yuka, Nickel, Sian, Matt and Debbie, you're all invited. That is of course, if mum'll oblige me by buggering off. If i've forgotten anyone that i've met and you want to come, speak up, my memory's like a seive :P Obviously easier for Debbie to get here, you live near me anyway. My newly converted Narutard friend Mark might come too, and maybe Anna too, i'll see what she thinks. So, commentage, people, tell me if you'd like to come, and when would suit you if you do. Tell me soon as, so I can give mum plenty notice and leave myself plenty time for begging XP
DIRECTIONS: Leave me a comment saying anything random, like your favorite lyric to your current favorite song. Or your favorite kind of sandwich. Something random. Whatever you like. I respond by asking you five personal questions so I can get to know you better. Update your LJ with the answers to the questions. Include this explanation. When others comment asking to be asked, you will ask them five questions.
My questions from
1) What's your favourite genre of movie?
Hmm... bad question. If a movie's good, then it's good, and I like it. Usually. If I had to choose one genre, it'd be comedy. Shaun of the Dead, that kind of thing. Stupid stuff.
2) What's your most prized possession?
Prooooobably my electric guitar. That or my Wii. No, my guitar.
3) What's your favourite carbonated beverage?
I don't like fizzy drinks. I know, I know, i'm a freak. Ooh, I like beer though. Mmm. Beer.
4) Are there any TV shows that you watched as a kid and enjoy to this day?
Looney Tunes and Tom & Jerry. I end up watching them quite often when i'm babbysitting my little brother, and they still rock :P
5) Assuming time and cost were non-factors, what would be your dream cosplay?
A PERFECT Devil May Cry 3 Dante. Real leather coat, custom made working BB guns exactly like Ebony & Ivory, and instead of his big Rebellion sword, the two red and blue ones, Agni & Rudra. I'm definately doing it someday, but unfortunately, cost and time ARE factors. Especially cost.
I got shifted from my Media Studies class to European Studies, all cos I did alright in English in 4th year. Thanks a fucking lot.
Strange though... I feel pissed off at this, but happy at the same time...
