HOW ANIME TURNED ME INTO A PSYCHOLOGY STUDENT
August 31, 2008, Sunday. 12:58 AM.
At this time, I'm trying to finish making my notes for my Psychometrics class. While writing it down in my notebook, I listened to inst...
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Life: 08/30/08 | Posted By: The Mask | | Personal | Tags: anime, career, influence, psychology
- Yes, I didn't use the bullet tool.
- Posted my fan comic, "Collective Moments". It's my comic series for my Group Dynamics class that explains why crowds behave the way they do. Click here to read.
- Contacted Shahllen today. After reading his latest misadventures in Chatlogs of Doom, I thought it was about time for me to do something about it.
- Short post, yes. Gotta go now. HAVE A NICE DAY.
Life: 08/30/08 | Posted By: The Mask | | Personal | Tags: comics, shahllen
- On this day, let it be known that this will be first time that I, The Mask, would actually use the damn bullet tool for posting. (*bonks head with a balloon for not learning this earlier*)
- Intramurals in the university is this week. Yeah...right. With projects to do, I don't think I'd wanna watch the event anyway.
- Projects to do: Structured learning exercise and Guidance Program for our Guidance Counseling class. The hard one is the Guidance Program, with all the paperworks and the letters and stuff just so that you can interview a guidance counselor.
- We've been contacting a guidance counselor in the past weeks to schedule an interview with her. After weeks of negotiation, she told us on Friday that she can't accomodate us due to her busy schedule. Reaction: Well...what can we do? Find another counselor. Sigh.....Waahh!!!
- We were supposed to have make-up classes for Psychometrics this week due to it being cancelled countless times because of the holidays. But then, it was cancelled. Partly sad, because of the many hours wasted. Partly happy, because I have more time for that project I just mentioned.
- Plug of the day: My friend NinjaGirlSango has these nice wallpapers. I suggest you check them out and give out some love.
- Other projects to do: Make comics for Group Dynamics class (which I plan to submit here). Revive my Filipino site for Detective Conan. Make some fanwords about anime and back-to-school. And another song parody of Death Note. (Insert Kira's evil laugh.)
- Some of my college classmates are starting to learn that there is this guy in theOtaku named The Mask who's actually their clumsy, geeky, eyeglass-wearing classmate. Protect the walls, sound the alarm! There's an invasion coming!!!
- I'm not sure, but did this bullet tool make me a bit crazy today?
- That's all I can say. Have a nice day.
Life: 08/25/08 | Posted By: The Mask | | Personal | Tags: bullet, crazy, intramurals, ninjagirlsango
If you didn't notice, my seventh fan word is up. It's a re-submission of my Top Ten list from 2006. This list explored how anime characters respond to that infamous chicken joke (How did the chicken cross the road?). If you haven't read it, you can always take your handy-dandy mouse (or whatever device you're using) and click here.
On other stuff, I got to read the Detective Conan manga today. I'm at Volume 2, in the "One Billion Yen Robbery Case". Quite a powerful story, I gotta say. And yeah, I'm still so way behind. Hopefully, I can reach whatever the latest chapter is by the end of this year. That way, once Gosho Aoyama ends Detective Conan anytime soon, I'm more or less prepared to know the ending.
On more stuff, tomorrow I'll be taking my final midterm exam, which is for Psychometrics. Right now, I'm making my project for the subject. It's simply a case study of myself with some psychological stuff involved. It's fairly easy, but I'm trying to make sure I don't go out and revealing everything about myself. It's just a project anyway, and printing costs are not that cheap.
And that's about it. Nothing too exciting, huh? I guess that's what college does to you: it makes your life less interesting than high school.
Anyway, take care and have a nice day.
Life: 08/15/08 | Posted By: The Mask | | Personal | Tags: conan, detective, project, top ten
AUTHOR'S NOTE: This Top Ten list was originally posted on April 14, 2006 in the old Articles section of theOtaku. Back then, people were raving and ranting about Gundam Seed and its sequel, Rurouni Kenshin was still doing pretty well in terms of popularity, and most people thought of L simply as the 12th letter in the alphabet.
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Today's Category
TOP TEN ANSWERS ANIME CHARACTERS WOULD GIVE TO THE QUESTION, "WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?"
NUMBER 10: "If I had the power to cross the road back then, if only I can get a hold of such power... Any chicken who has cried over his lack of power will think that... Probably... But from the time it gets a hold of that power to cross the road, it becomes the one who makes others cry." - Athrun Zala (Gundam SEED Destiny)
NUMBER 9: "The chicken is simply following the fundamental law of nature. The strong shall live and the weak shall die." - Shishio (Rurouni Kenshin)
NUMBER 8: "It is because the chicken that crossed the road was not an amateur. It was a specialist." - Sousuke Sagara (Full Metal Panic!)
NUMBER 7: "Bansai, bathtoy, wise guy, waterboy, chickens cross the road tonight! Yay!" - Ed (Cowboy Bebop)
NUMBER 6: "When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth about why the chicken crossed the road." - Conan Edogawa (Detective Conan/Case Closed)
NUMBER 5: "You know why big chickens cross the road first? To protect the little chicks that come after them." - Ichigo (Bleach)
NUMBER 4: "Crossing the road because another chicken crossed the road... crossing the road because it crossed the road... will peace really come from that in the end?" - Cagalli Yula Athha (Gundam SEED)
NUMBER 3: "I believe that a road is a structure, and a chicken has legs for walking. Ms. Kaoru believes that a chicken cannot cross the road... *smiles* I just love her naive impression of the chicken! I wish that it's the truth, but I'm afraid it isn't." - Kenshin Himura (Rurouni Kenshin)
NUMBER 2: "If the chicken has the power to make a difference, why not cross the road?" - Kira Yamato (Gundam Seed)
AND THE NUMBER 1 ANSWER ANIME CHARACTERS WOULD GIVE TO THE QUESTION, "WHY DID THE CHICKEN CROSS THE ROAD?":
"It's... actually, It's a super-magical chicken. It has been hiding this fact for a long time. But it has this precious kingdom to go back to. The reason why these super chickens have to cross the road is that their great chicken king Rubalru had a miracle vision when he was about to die. The person who gave him this vision is called Great Kandora! When Kandora used his super magic power, King Rulbaru's Super-Ultra-Magical-Force was freed like a bird and made him cross the road! Just then, what happened was when King Rulbaru was resting, an enemy kingdom suddenly attacked him. He was in such a terrible situation! He then asked Kandora for power! And then-!" - Ayame Sohma (Fruits Basket)
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AUTHOR'S NOTE: Just so you know, if I pushed through with changing the list today, Number 2 would've been Naruto saying "Because the chicken believed in it!" and Number 1 would be Death Note's Light Yagami saying, "Because the chicken whose name is written in this Note shall cross the road."
Feature: 08/14/08 | Posted By: The Mask | | Crossover Anime and Manga | Tags: chicken, classic, joke, top ten
