If you guys still remember Shadow, who you used to be in the forums, he had a surgery today. Something to do with a hernia, I believe.

Im to get a Ipod this chrismas so i might be more active on the forums when/if i get one. But if i do get one I want to know who here has one, Im going to need some Ipod buddys.

i remeber Shadow, hes the one that brought me from Pokezam to here when that site moved here with VR. Well at least me, shadow, and Freezewarp moved from there and some others.

I have a a Halloween dance tonight. Also just finished a football game. We won 43 - 0.

Well it looks like I might go another Halloween without power because for the second year in a row they are predicting a possible snow storm.

Oh boy, Sandy is coming to New York. ._. The wind already started to pick up and it's starting to drizzle. Long Island is supposed to get the worst of it tonight into tomorrow. It is very possible that I won't have school tomorrow, but I also might lose power. I don't know if I should be happy or worried. >_>

You guys should stay safe first and foremost. School can wait until the skies are clear.

I am pretty sure this has nothing to do with Sandy, but for some reason, wind has started blowing strongly in here. Let us hope it rains!

I still remember how I almost always got rain every single day.

Turns out my school decided that it won't be in session tomorrow either. It's nice that I have 2 days off in a row, but I have this huge declamation to prepare for that I barely started. ^_^' Well, you can expect me to be on VR a lot both today and tomorrow.

We're getting the effects of Sandy in Michigan too. It's been cold, windy, and rainy all day today. We're also expected to have rain for the next four days or so. Hopefully nothing bad will happen in that time.

In other news, I'm putting my old DS stylus to good (should read: improper) use by making it keep my circle pad on my 3DS stuck to down while my character is in Gear Station so the Pokémon I have in the day care center gain some experience.
Been going on for almost a day now and said Pokémon has gone from level 78 to 94.

Hurricane Sandy passed by my area already and only left a little bit of overnight rain. Not even an inch of rain, I'm not even a half inch. So, we got lucky that the storm missed us almost entirely. My state still felt the effects of Sandy, but my county only got some drizzle. It's good to live so far inland and away from the coast.

I've been wondering... do we have any FFA members here? I got back from the convention a few days ago, and was wondering if anyone else was in FFA and went to it.

Forget about my last post, the weather was sunny and warm. I am afraid we will not have any rain this year either. Dammit.

Am I the only one here that gets very generic weather?

Just because I'm not sure, I hope everyone's all well and fine.

Too bad Sandy didn't prolong the school delay a little more, though. I hate when any sort of closing ends near the end of the week.

Although I feel sorry for all the people who were hit hard by the hurricane, it was a joke around my area. It was just moderate rain and loud wind. It did more good than bad because it ripped the leaves off the trees, and they won't grow back since it's fall. LESS RAKING, WHOO! My power never even went out, so we did all that preparing for nothing. It was classified as a "super storm" instead, if I recall correctly. The literal worst part was when I was watching The Avengers and the wind got so loud that I couldn't hear Iron Man. ROBERT DOWNEY JR. IS MORE IMPORTANT.
I just noticed today was Halloween as well. I don't really celebrate it... but hey, I might as well do something. So I'll be watching all of the Scream movies since I couldn't decide on any other horror movie, and it IS my favorite.

YES! I'M FINALLY NOT BUSY ENOUGH TO BE KEPT OFF VR! HUZZAH!...Er-hem. Moving on.

Yes, I finally got around to finishing everything important that I needed to get done, so I can finally get some relaxation in and (hopefully!) be on more often. In other news, it's Halloween. I don't really go trick-or-treating anymore (I sort of grew out of it after I started high school) but I did go to school dressed up as the Sexy Sax Man, although I was wearing a shirt, of course. But people got the reference and thought it funny. Yeah, it was a little embarrassing, but I found it enjoyable nonetheless.

Hey everyone what's new?

Generally speaking, if you send a mail to another country, how long does it take to arrive?

Today is election day in the States, which otherwise means the day that every Canadian who even cares a little bit about politics (such as myself) is holding their breath. From a Canadian's point of view, there is a clear winner. Now, I'm hoping with all of my heart that you guys who are legally able to vote in every way did so, otherwise I'll be really disappointed. The predictions for the elections are pretty horrific, to be honest. I'm terrified. Don't screw it up, guys, vote. Don't care for who, that's your choice, but do it!

That moment you go to school and everyone is debating each other on Romney and Obama.

Welp, Elections are done......
Too bad it doesn't really matter to me who won, I did good today.

(I won a $25 bet saying Obama was getting a second.)

By the way, The Legend of Zelda: Symphony of the Goddess, is mind blowing amazing.

Man I'm happy that Obama won that was a close one.

Also since two Canadians post here regularly I going to post this thing my friend on tumblr recently posted.


Seriously though, compared to our money yours seems like it's out of Monopoly Canada.

At least post the right one...

The $20 is supposed to be green. Brown is saved for the $100`s.

Monopoly money?

I've seen a lot of them these days. Everyone is moving to polymer over here.

I've even seen new Malaysian coins that wouldn't look out of place out of a toy set.

If I remember correctly, Canada stopped circulating their pennies to save themselves a bit of money. And personally, I think that's a brilliant idea and I'm wondering why the US has yet to implement the same thing.

I've actually read that during the late 1700s there was such thing as a half cent!

Goes to show how much inflation we've had in the last 200 years.

This video pretty much explains my outlook on pennies in the US. I don't think they're worth producing, let alone using them.

I can only find one actual good use for pennies. Rolling them down those neato machines you find in the middle of malls where they spin round and round until they fall in a hole~ Love 'em. Other than that they're pretty pathetic and useless. The only coins I actually use are quarters, and if not quarters I usually accept 2 dimes and a nickel (Similar to 2 Pawns = a Queen in Chess.)

I've never seen pennies around here these days. Nobody uses them in Singapore or Malaysia anymore. It's all rounded up or down to the nearest five cents.

Speaking of Canada my dad got a job offer in Vermont and I've volunteered to move up with him if he gets the job. I'll be close enough to Canada to have French radio stations.

Vermont... But that isn't close enough to me, Mag. In fact, you're probably gonna be about the same distance away as you are already, if not more. You should move to Canada entirely. And you'll be further away from Nintendo World... Oh well.

Anyways, as a heads up, I'm not going to Japan in 2013 like I first thought. My Japanese teacher at school actually managed to get our own trip approved by the school board, so in 2014 I'm going to Japan for 10 days during spring break! And I won't just be going to Osaka, I'll be going to Osaka, Hiroshima and TOKYO! I'll finally go to a Pokémon Center and Studio Ghibli, and many more!

I get to go on a Europe trip with some other people for my school in March. London, Paris, Lucrene and Munich. Hope it'll be fun!

Today was so great, it actually brought up my mood up quite some. I had a substitute in ALL of my classes, so basically no work to do for the entire day. Period 1- Crushed the PWT, ate donuts, and attempted the Battle Subway. Period 2- Did a word search and made a ton of movies in Pokéstar Studios. Period 3- Made even MORE movies while doing some 30 minute math in a 90 minute period. Period 4- Cave Story DS port and practiced playing Curly's Theme (Running Hell) on the piano. I can actually do most of it a tempo with my right hand. Then we had a party after school and I brought SCOOPS! Best chips EVER~ So yeah, I'm feeling better for today.

Although I wish I could go to Japan or Hong Kong, I am doing much better in my Italian so that I can travel to Italy with my mom and translate all the things for her and help her purchase new handbags.

I wanna go on a trip to another country. Maybe Italy. Yes, definitely Italy.

Trips to other countries, you say? I've been to two: Canada (which is easily within driving distance) and England (in which I have relatives). I'm also going on an England/Spain trip sometime in the next couple years, and I'm looking forward to that.

Is anybody doing something this weekend?

Nope, nothing aside from the weekly roleplaying group meeting. My life is boring =w=

I just discovered the bus exchange's cafeteria.

Best. Discovery. Ever.

The food there is so cheap, it's bonkers.

I have a lot of homework to do this weekend, so there really isn't much on my agenda for this weekend aside from that. Though I did go see Wreck-It Ralph 3D yesterday. All I'll say is that it was SO worth it.
At the moment I'm watching Avatar for the second time. The twist? This time in watching it in French! I'm gonna try to watch 30 minutes of French TV each day, and a movie per weekend. :3

I have a lot of homework, too. Read The Metamorphosis and write 3 essays to test your understanding of it. By Tuesday. Whoo! And Wreck-It Ralph was soooooooo worth it in 3D. I'm a bad boy, though, because I bought a 2D ticket and still saw it in 3D~ X3

I think I'm finally going to do this. As an early start to a New Year's Resolution, starting in 2013 I'm officially ending my hatred towards Square Enix (The reason I hated them I can't even remember myself) and I'm going to start by playing some of their older games. I've realized that hate isn't good, because it just limits what you allow yourself to do and drains the fun out of your life, and I don't like that.

I have a ton of homework to do as well. On top of that, I was scheduled 8-hour shifts on Saturday, Sunday, and Monday this weekend. I also have my final wave of midterms this week... ugh!

I just got back from the movie theater and I saw Sky Fal I thought it was really amazing, oddly one of the characters reminded me of Ningamer even though we've never actually met in person, must be the British thing.

Okay, I love Japanese class dearly, but I'm finding it quite a chore to memorize 70+ new words and making sure I understand all of the grammatical structures for tomorrow. It's a nightmare... Somebody study for me, okay? Thanks. The amount of flash cards I have is ridiculous, but it is partly my fault for not keeping up with everything...

Football playoff finals on Wednesday. Oh boy...

It's Veteran's Day - the campus is closed. Yet I end up waking up at 6AM and heading to campus because one of our client's at work decided to host Day 1 of 3 of their event today... I haven't slept in once this whole three day weekend! Lol

Learning a new language could probably be the hardest thing to do. Ever. The only languages I know fluently are Arabic and English. I used to know a bit of French and Persian, but the lack of using these two made me forget them... :\

I've always been pretty good in English and Chinese, and I'm a bit... just OK on Malay, but it's a no show for almost everything else.

There's a guy who works for the English government and he knows 32 different languages! I aspire to be like him! I'm going to be taking on German and maybe Italian soon. I have a long list of languages I'd like to learn eventually! I'm going to continue to work on my French, Spanish and Japanese though. If I don't become a lawyer, I'm going to become a diplomat for the United Nations. That's my goal!

I was really hoping to take Japanese 2 this year, but not enough people signed up for it apparently. From what my Japanese teacher said last year, six people signed up for it. So six is not enough for a language class, but seven is enough for a Java programming class?

We have 7 or 8 people in my Italian 3 class, and none of us can really switch out or we won't have enough people in the class. Not enough people signed up for AP Chemistry, either, so I'm still angry about that. :I

Foreign languages are like kryptonite to me. Sure, I earned enough spanish credits to graduate high school, but I have forgotten lots of what I learned since then. I'll be happy if I never have to learn a new language for the rest of my life...although I know that likely won't be the case.

I'm starting to think that I should drop AP Spanish. My teacher is starting to expect too much out of us, and it doesn't help that she doesn't believe in extra credit. I'm perfectly fine with writing in a foreign language, but I can't speak it. If I try to carry on a conversation in Spanish, I either trip over my own words or take big pauses to think about what say before actually saying it.

I took honors Italian up to AP when I was in high school. Like Reuniclus, I was perfectly fine with writing in the foreign language, but was completely hopeless when it came to speaking it. I could barely hold a simple conversation in Italian. xD

Yeah, that's the thing: speaking and writing a language are like two different animals. I can write Japanese a lot better than I can speak it. Just because you can write it also doesn't necessarily mean you know it means. And vice-versa.

I'm beginning to like Italian so much that I want to become fluent in it. I can already write it well, speaking it is pretty simple (My teacher, who is Italian, says I have a sexy voice), and my only real problem is with the listening. Other than that, it's a fun and easy A.

I can speak French to about the same degree as I can read it and write it (though maybe a little better at speaking), and I'm really good at speaking Spanish and reading/writing it. As for Japanese, I can read it with ease, but sometimes speaking it is a little less than impressive. Though I still do fairly well at it!

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Originally Posted by Quadcentruo I was really hoping to take Japanese 2 this year, but not enough people signed up for it apparently. From what my Japanese teacher said last year, six people signed up for it. So six is not enough for a language class, but seven is enough for a Java programming class?

I've always wondered whether I should have called these guys handling Japanese language classes here.

Today is very good day my friends. A few weeks ago I found my cousin, whom when she was 4 years old was put into foster care, on facebook. It was very hard to do, as her name was changed. I just heard back from her. She doesn't remember me, but she has a picture of me on her bulletin board. I'm happy, even though as a child I greatly disliked her, but then again, who did like kids younger than they?

HEY THERE VR. Its been a month too long, soo has anything changed since my absence?

So today my bus decided to not show up, at all, which meant I was standing outside in ~5-degree (Celsius) weather for about half an hour. One of the kids was talking with their mother, who I guess had connections to people at the bus garage, so they finally sent out a bus to pick us up at like 7:15. Since I live out in the country, it takes about 20 minutes to get to the high school, and by the time I was there I was about 10 minutes late for class. They let us in without the need for passes though since it was technically the school's fault we were late and not ours.

Also, I finished reading Fight Club today. Dat ending. Did not see it coming. Now I'm gonna go watch the movie to see how they handle the storyline.

Yep, the gym league is new (which I will totally challenge and become E4 soon anyways), and the blogs are new~

Plus the entire forum got restructured to be all neat and organamized. I like it better this way, faster to find things and it's just so ORGANIZED! OCD, WHOO! Plus, LAST 50 POSTS. SO MUCH BETTER THAN 15.

I'm actually gonna start my journey against the league tomorrow.

I'm anxious to see what I'm up against.

I wonder whether I should bother with the leaye since I've noticed that my entire team is relatively under recommended level. Hmm...

On another topic, lately,I've been trying different kinds of music. Along with getting soaked in the rain.

There's only one thing you can do if they are underleveled.
Level them up! Then take on the League.
Speaking of which. I've gotta issue my challenge to the first gym.

Also, soaked in the rain is fun. (unless it comes from an enemy Politoed.)

I've noticed that my musical tastes are very similar to my parents, aside from the recent stuff that I've been trying out on. Guess that's why I'm OK with most kinds of music but metal and songs with too much explicit content.

I'm actually starting to like Internet Explorer. It runs pretty well on my new laptop, so well that I decided to pin it to my taskbar again, after deleting it because I thought it sucked. Maybe now I'll try some other browsers like Firefox. Yeah, starting with Firefox...

Considering this is a Windows 8 laptop (upgraded), I'm pretty sure I have 10, but I'm not too sure...
Oh wait, I just checked. Yeah, it is 10. I took it off as the default browser, but I think I'm going to make my default again.