Atsushi's Birthday

This was suppose to be posted yesterday, but I fell asleep writing this blog...

A few entries ago, I said the plan was a failure, but in reality... it was just moved to today.

Crystal texted or phoned(I don't know which one) Atsushi one day before asking him to come and fix her computer, though nothing was actually wrong. Atsushi... being him, didn't really think twice and agreed to go after his math class (1pm).

On this actual day(today), Atsushi finally tells me that he needs to go to Crystal's at 1pm... I've been waiting for him to bring that yup since yesterday.

Well anyways, after he told me... I just make up a reason for me to go with him -- took care of that easily! =] Something unexpected happened though, Atsushi suddenly decided not to go to math... which meant that he's going at 12. Crystal get off class at 11, so basically she has one hour to buy cake and get everything ready. Of course, Crystal, at that time, doesn't know anything about this, so I quickly text her... and this time, I made sure I text the right person this time!! Crystal told me to stall for time...

After class, I tried to stall for time by saying that I want food first(he also wants food, too). We went to my favourite restaurant -- McDonalds. I got a text from Crystal saying that we'll go at 1:30pm, so just eating McDonald wasn't enough... So we went back to my residence because I said I need to get something. Finally we head to Crystal's.

The Cake looks good and taste pretty good(a lot better than Pickle Barrel's dessert). While eating cake and stuff, we watched 'Summer Wars', but Atsushi fell asleep. He said it's because he slept at 4:30am, but so did I! I woke up before him, too!!

Atsushi and I had class not long after this, so we left for class... And you know math class is boring... so a picture like this happened. It started with a smily face, but Atsushi just had to add glasses to everything =___=. Anyways that's the picture... lol

~Daniel Chou

Video & Music of the day

Today's music is the ending song to the movie 'Summer Wars'. The song is called '僕らの夏の夢' (Bokura no Natsu no Yume). English translation is 'My summer's dream' -- very suitable for Summer Wars. I just watched Summer Wars for the fifth time today, still enjoy it very much!!

Video of the day is a video by gunnarolla -- a youtuber. It's titled 'what colour is slacktivist's bra?' It made me laughed pretty hard, but also made some really good points. His videos are pretty nice, you should check it out!

Go watch/listen!

~Daniel Chou

Quick Update - 花札(Hanafuda)

Ever since watching 'Summer Wars' during winter break, I always wanted to play the card game Hanafuda. In the movie 'Summer Wars', Hanafuda is the card game which Sakae, the awesome grandma, teaches/trains all her children/grandchildren. It then played a big part in the storyline. Both Cindy and Atsushi don't know how to play the game, so I don't really know who else to as. Looking at the wiki page is too confusing... If you know how to play Hanafuda, teach me!

During the great Hanafuda battle, this soundtrack called '一億五千万奇跡'(150 Million Miracles) was played, ad I find it so effective. I get the goosebumps every time I hear this track. I can't find the link to an online player, nor can I upload it, so if you want to listen to it, I'll send it to you.

Go watch 'Summer Wars!!!' ----> here's the trailers ... sorry I can't find ones with english subs.

EDIT: I found a flash game for it. Here's the link

~Daniel Chou

The things they can make into Movies.

I discovered that they're making a movie for 'The Sims'. Yes, 'The Sims'. I mean, how can they make a movie out of The sims? What plot could they possibly have?

Given the nature of the game, they better make the movie an interactive movie. I want to be able to give commands like "Go to the washroom", "Flirt with this person", "Tickle". I also want the ability to pause the movie, so I can move furniture and items around. I want to be able to trap someone in the bathtub and remove the ladder for the swimming pool after getting everyone in the pool. Also, making the front yard into a maze so the mailman will take 30 minutes to place the newspaper at the specific location, but blocking the entrance right after, so he can't get out. Hosting a house party, but killing them off one by one - similar to the collegehumor video 'The Sims Horror Movie' (link below). Oh the good times...

It's still a working title, so we'll see how they make of the movie. I demand my interactive rights!

Another movie that I found surprising that they're making it into a movie is 'The Smurfs'. Those little blue... people wearing white hats, all topless. Don't get me wrong, I like 'The Smurfs'. It's just that the cartoon aired like 10 years ago, and they're making it into a movie NOW? They things people will do for money. A lot of people will be watching that maovie for nostalgic reasons, me included. Too bad the airing date is July 29, 2011. Over a year from now.

Another movie that's like 'The Smurfs' is 'Yogi Bear'. Yup, that good old brown bear always stealing food off of picnickers. I don't know how this is going to turn out, but it's airing December 15, 2010. At least it's this year.

Speaking of movies, I watched an animation movie recently called 'サマーウォーズ' (Summer Wars). I can't really explain why it's good; it's just kind of good beyond words. If you ever have the chance, check out the wikipedia link below and look at it. I promise you'll like it.

The Smurfs

English Version:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3087992255882358662#

Chinese Version:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-74jet0PuLQ

The Sims

Collegehumor Video:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1922223

Summer Wars

Wikipedia Link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summer_Wars

I highly recommend Summer Wars! Go watch it!

~Daniel Chou