Semi-Review: Weib Kreuz Gluhen

Yes, I finally saw Gluhen. I'd gotten the boxset on Boxing Day (how apropos) and finally set aside the time to watch all 3 discs (a day each, 325+ min is a bit long to sit/lay around). Visually, much better than the first series. Everything looked very clean, no problems w/ the art, characters stayed true to their design. Plotwise, it was much better, tighter scripting and events that tied together and made sense. So altogether a major step up from the first one. The story itself isn't really anything we hadn't seen before: clones, crazy school churning out soldier trying to take over the world. I've never been a Yohji fan, and it was a "agh! My eyes!" when he was in his swimsuit floating in the pool. (Omi, Aya, Ken in skivvies is perfectly ok w/ me). And when Yohji did a major betrayal (to spoil or not to spoil? It is over 3 yrs old now.... eh whateverl), I was cheering for Aya to kick his scrawny butt. Too bad about Kyo, he did have a lotta potential. And they really like picking on the young guys don't they? First Omi and then Sena.

Anyways, on to the more important thing. The lovely lovely seiyuus. Can you say squeal-fest?! Or it would have been except that would've drowned out their sex-shi voices, so it was really more a hold-breath fest. Didn't pass out b/c no one had long monologues or soliloquies. I wonder if it was Yuuki-san's voice that they digitized for Persia? They changed it so much, you can't even tell, so unless it's just the pacing for how he speaks...but when it was him, he was so cute. Such a difference between his Persia/Mamoru/Omi voices. Anyways, fine work as always from the rest of Weib, kinda surprised how late they brought in Ken and Yohji. However the major cause for rewind-hold breath-rewind was Seki Toshihiko as Knight. *sigh* When he did his sex-shi sex-shi voice playing chess with Queen... *drool* However some notables seiyuus and their other roles: Berger is Maxima from KOF, Sena is Ranma/Inu Yasha, Tsuji is Major Kusanagi from GITS, Bishop is Clavis from Angelique, Rook has a couple roles from Saiyuki Reload, Pawn is Neji from Naruto, and of course Schwarz members are all popular seiyuus w/ major notable roles. Anyways, I dunno if it was a matter of friends working on the show or just really sweet contracts, but Weib has major seiyuu power behind them, and it's not just the Weib members.

Oh and disc-wise, aside from the major annoyance of the box having a corner dented in, and when I took off the damn security tape (is taping on all 3 sides really necessary?!) b/c the cover wasn't placed properly, the tape was stuck to it, and I'd already majorly creased the paper trying to pull it down. So I had to rip the stupid tape off, and hence some of the cover on the edge. I really really hate that. But that's not MediaBlasters/AnimeWorks fault. What they could work on is: presenting the Japanese credits, having romanji for the opening/closing. C'mon, it's not that hard! Their subtitles are adequate, not great but does get the meaning across. The extras w/ the Weib Kreuz Radio was sugoi as usual. Poor Yuuki-san. He's just so formal and polite, and Koyasu-san and Seki-san seem to love to tease him. They seem to leave Shinichiro-san sorta alone, but then again, he's just quiet but can gutter-talk as well as those 2. Shinichiro-san and Seki-san are really good artists, but poor Yuuki-san! I like his tora though. It wasn't a great drawing, but it was cute. So I guess for extras, sheerly on the silliness and fun of them together, they weren't bad. I'm not sure if trailers should count as part of extras, but at least they play the Japanese themes, and there's no English narrator. I dunno, it just bugs me. Seems wrong. And yeah, if the English track were on the other side of the disc, I'd probably color on the English side so I don't accidentally put it in the wrong way. Although the outtakes were quite amusing. Too many uses of "bitch" though. It was funny the first 3 times.

Lovely thing to distract and support: King of Fighters:Another Day Go Iori!

Happy B-day to Me!

So today was all in all a pretty good day. Didn't start off too great.

I'd forgotten to put a wrap on my wrist last night, but my wrist didn't hurt too much. It was my shoulder, specifically my scapula-area that hurt like crazy. I'm not sure if it's just b/c I tend to sleep on my side and combined w/ the fall yesterday that it hurts, or if it's just the fall that's killed it Still have full range of motion so there's nothing broken or torn, but it hurt. Then when I went to take a morning pee, I got a little surprise. I mumbled monotonely "Happy Birthday to me!"(well this was after only 4 hrs of sleep) and proceeded to get the necessities to prevent messes.

Went a little better, Pokemon Chronicles was a Pichu brothers' episode which is soooo cute. Then went to Warp, and Lin is basically running the entire store, so it's nice even though she seems more tired than ever. Apparently when J went to get my b-day prez (Saiyuki's Sanzo messanger bag) he went to ask Lin if she could get the store to sing me Happy Birthday, 2 of them agreed, but Helen wasn't in, so the other guy did it. Poor fellow, but nice of him. And Lin gave me 10% off too! Then my presents I got the aforementioned Sanzo bag and Genji game. I showed both to Maxine and said "aren't they cute?" And she was drooling Uh huh! Also will be getting the Resident Evil 4 game. Gawd, I'm gonna be pissing myself, especially once D sets up the surround sound. Chris got me the WWE's RPG Know Your Role! handbook. That'll be fun to learn and play. Seems based of the D20 system. J's parent's gave me$40 b/c they couldn't think of anything but that's ok.

Afterwards we went to see Narnia. It was quite good, a bit slow at the start, fair bit of char development for Peter, not much for Susan, and Edmond was still left a bit shallow. Battle was bit short and not quite as epic as LOTR. Maxine liked Mr. Thomas, I liked the Beaver. J was scared of the white witch but liked her. After we went to dinner, I had beef tendon noodle soup. It's hard to get tendon right at home b/c my dad has tried, b/c it involves really long cooking. But it was nice and soft at the restaurant.

So I'm trying to clean up my desk a bit, and was getting somewhere when D came and turned on Mythbusters. So I'm watching that now as I'm doing my blog.

Day of Gains and Falls

So today was my day off, and was it busy!! I made an appointment to see my optometrist to check if my contacts were ok. That and a bit of grocery shopping was all I had planned. Yesterday my dad calls me and asks if I want to go to dim sum at 12. Since it wasn't going to be in chinatown, I had to take the bus. So I stick my contacts in(b/c I ned to have them on for 4 hrs before I see the doctor) and as I get to bus stop, I think I see my bus leaving. So as I stand in the shelter, I check my phone for the time to see if it was my bus, and there's 2 msg on my VM. And it's my brother asking if I needed a ride. Well, by now I'm pretty sure that was my bus, so I call him up, and head back to my apt to wait. Dim sum was ok, my bro's gf was there too, but my nieces weren't there b/c they were sick so my other bro had to take care of them. Afterwards we went back to the house to pick up laundry and mail. And bumps and bruises.

This is not how I planned to go down the stairs. This may be a rush-rush world, but in this case I would have liked to have gone down the stairs a little slower. I was not supposed to feel air. I was not supposed to feel pain. My butt was not supposed to connect to the stairs except from the vibrations reverbrating thru my skeleton as my feet struck the stairs. All the stairs. In this case my feet only hit 33% of the stairs. My butt and hip took much more vibration than it was used to. But at least it was used to it. My wrist on the other hand is not used to taking the full weigh of my body plus absorbing most of the kinetic energy of my rapid descent. It is still movable therefore likely indicating that there are the normal count of carpal bones and they are still in their proper places. My wrist is still within the normal bell curve of size variation in comparison with my other wrist. However it would seem the ligaments have been strained, After a day of carrying bags of groceries, it is now in one of my wraps, and will likely be there for the next 24 hrs. I wonder if I could skip work? It is w/ my right wrist and I'm right-handed, and all of our programs require a mouse. Okay, I guess that's kinda bad. Especially after we got a $1.15 raise. So now the base pay is $11.50, there's no salary cap, and it's supposed to be no-strings attached raise. Well, we'll believe it when it's on our paystub.

While I was there I got $50 red pocket money from my dad. Chinese New Year may be next week, but he wasn't sure if he was going to see me then. Then he first asks when my niece Melissa's b-day is, and then goes," isn't yours around the same time?" Yeah, like tomorrow. So he gave me $100 for my b-day which is pretty sweet. I usually don't get that much. I'm also now officially a member of the Gamer Advisory Panel for Playstation. Got a plastic card to put in my wallet and a tag to hang on my keychain. I'm so cool! ^_^

Anyways, my eyes are all good, apparently I have 20/20 vision w/ them, which is wierd b/c I had probs reading the tv screen when I'm playing. Anyways, I'm not sure if 6 pairs for $80 is a good deal or not. Or if it would be covered by my company benefits or if it's been less than 2 yrs since the last time they covered it. I'll also have to call them about the life insurance, b/c I can keep the policy after I leave the company, and I just want to know the rate I would pay. B/c I"m already getting life insurance thru another company, but they charge over... $30 for ... something. Cripes! WTF?! *looking* seems to be life, wage supplement in case of unemployment, hospital stuff. Geez, well if I stayed w/ the company for the rest of my life, I wouldn't need it. But gawd I don't want that.

Anyways, I'll deal w/ that stuff another time (hopefully sooner than later), anyways, I got meself another Beast figure. It's actually a mini-bobblehead of the feline version. Saw one of them capsule machines, and J had a toonie (yeah it's expensive for a random figure) and he picks up the capsule and clasps it in his hands, looks and then goes "Who do you love?" and I go "Beasty!" and he goes "Happy Birthday!" and I go "Yeah, now I don't need any more b-day presents!" and he's like "Man, if I only gotten it earlier and then I'd only have to spend $2 on you." so I go "but if you didn't get Beast it'd be Here's the entire lineup except for Beast", to which he agreed "it'd be so sad if I had to go to till and exchange a $20 for toonies."

Ah, Beast how I adore you so!
All cuddly and furry,
With a brain that's always in such a hurry
If only others respect for you would grow
Your favours they would curry
Your social life a flurry
The weight of your books would make the shelves bow
With so much fanmail it might even bury
But what really makes you purr-y
Is bright students to show
What's better than hentai, yaoi and yuri
Is a beaker full of chemical slurry!

Ahem..., okay, that was a pretty bad poem. But it had form and meter, and was a pain to rhyme.

Anyhoo after Toys R Us(and I know what I'll be getting as present b/c I saw the game was still @ the same low price and J said, "don't get it!") that we looked at some leather jackets. Found this nice one w/ lots of pockets but b/c I have wide shoulders, I need to get L, but then I'm a shapeless blob underneath. That could be fixed if it had some belt or an inner cord to tighten up the middle. *sigh* and it was only $250. Bought lots of grocery. I'm really trying to eat more veggies, but after a couple weeks of frozen veggies, I'm just tired of it and want fresh stuff. Go figure. I didn't care when I was living w/ my dad, but now it's like, I need veggies! Don't have scurvy yet. Got a few things for Chinese New Year. Not decorations, although I could probably use the ba gua mirror. Had this horrible nightmare where I was at a Xmas party for SLRs with the TLs who made up our duties, and Pile was completely blitzed. Like absolutely stumbling around and doing really inappropriate things. So our temp TL had come with a choker and Pile took it off her to try it on, and then he comes to me to point out how interesting it was and how I should try it on. And I'm trying to refuse when he spins me around and then glomps onto me. And I'm looking at my fellow SLRs w/ the look of sheer terror on my face but I'm too freaked to scream. So when I told this story to J, he sorta gets this look of jealousy and discomfort on his face. Whereas when I told D, he was just laughing cause it was so messed up. I think J keeps trying to psychoanalyze my dreams, cause that's what usually happens whenever I tell him one, didn't try to do it w/ this one though.

Annoyances and Irritants

Must've be watching too much Colbert Report. First person I'm putting on notice is my roommate. I dunno how his wife put up w/ it, but I suppose it's b/c she understands he's a guy. Major peeve is the leaving of dishes in the sink. It's one thing to do it if you're going to be doing the dishes later, or know that it's someone's job to do the dishes later. But the sink is dirty. That is -not- where you put stuff you will use later. Nor is it where you leave your glasses, when there're a perfectly good and empty dishwasher a foot away. Fine if it needs to be handwashed, but goddammit, I've been doing the dishes, whether handwashing them or filling/emptying the dishwasher 80% of the time. And considering for the first couple of weeks I've cooked 80% of the time too...

Speaking of which, I have to get some spices on my beef liver. It's soaked in the milk long enough. Pink milk anyone?

*back* Next irritant, J. It's not just that my bro is a jerk, and living w/ him and my dad was best when I never saw either of them, but at least when I'm living downtown, J won't have an excuse to see me all the time b/c he drove me everywhere. It's always *whine* "when am I going to see you next?" Really. I hate clingy people b/c they're usually weak too. Anyways, he sends me this email, I tell him, yeah I can do this at this time and I want to do that too, and then he sends me another email asking me if I want to do this and also do that. Didn't I just say that?! And hell, not only did I say it, I wrote it, and while it may have been at 3 in the morning, it was a hell lot more coherent than what he wrote back at 10 at night. I looked at it and was going to reply but it just made me so mad, it was like screw it.

One of my friends emailed me a 2 months ago saying she was getting married and wanted to know if I could go so she could send an invitation. Since she was across the world, it was "sorry, no." And I didn't really look at the date of the wedding, but I figured it'd be a couple months down the road, so I dawdled on sending her a wedding card. Well, it was actually last month. Geez, great notification. Oh well, at least I'd sent a xmas card.

Grrr, trying to change addresses, and they couldn't find my info. WTF? Rep was ok, but it's still irritating that I have to waste a stamp to do it. Considering I had the actual letter they sent me w/ all my acct info...

I'll see if today I can get stuff done. Still have to correct the contract w/ the building, my roommate was supposed to do it, but as usual, he didn't/forgot. I had to remind him to clean up the stove b/c his pot boiled over, since he was just about to go into his room to play my game on his PS2. And it's not like a little mess, it really covered the stove. Yes, I nag, but dammit, if you say you're going to do something, you probably should when the promise wasn't made to yourself.

Quiz: What Kind of Candy Are You?

Gummy Bears

You may be smooshie and taste unnatural, but you're so darn cute.

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Today's fortunetelling

Your Fortune Is

If you run into your ex on the street, just shift into reverse and keep going.

The Wacky Fortune Cookie Generator

Busy busy busy

Well Dec was certainly busy. There was the moving. That went off a little earlier than I planned b/c we were suddenly told that we were going into training, which changed my schedule. So I booked off a couple days to do that. Had to call in sick to work b/c of my back too. J and M helped w/ the move. And J somehow, somehow, I don't have a f*cking clue how, broke my Malm dresser. Not like a corner as if he suddenly dropped it, but the cross brace in the front. And it's not the like bottom one either, but one in the middle, and from the direction of the break the only way that could've been done is if he was trying to carry it by the brace. The decorative brace that's held in place by 2 wood pegs and 2 screws. And it'll be near impossible to fix. So thanks a f*cking lot for breaking my lovely dresser that I'd decorated b/c I liked it so much. It's functionality is also compromised b/c 1 dresser will be fully exposed to the elements, which means I can't put my manga in there anymore. Sure my manga may be in bags, but sunlight can still get in. So now it's out in the living room, b/c 1) it pisses me off every time I look at it 2) there's no room for it in my bedroom. Well actually I might've been able to make room, but I don't want to. J said he'd buy a new one, but what am I gonna do w/ another one? Whatever.

Living w/ a roommate has been... frustrating. He's a nice guy and all, but not very good at cleaning. He has all the supplies, but seems to forget to use them. Actually he does that a lot. I think if it were for the fact that I made supper (cause I get home earlier) and have leftovers in the fridge, he might forget to eat. Actually he forgets a lotta stuff. Lotta veggies in there that he bought and hasn't used. And there was the deli turkey slices he bought and forgot about. I hope cooking them killed the bacteria. Or tomorrow I'm calling in sick b/c of food poisoning. Although at least he's good at saying my cooking's okay. Guess all those hours of Food Network is paying off. Although I tend to cook at lot b/c I don't like have to make something every night. Leftovers are fine for dinner, lunch, breakfast.

Training was ...annoying. Aside from having to get up gawdawful early to get there. Just reading a bunch of generic useless stuff which had no bearing on any of the calls. Simulation that was focussed on stuff we'll forget or don't normally do. Threw us onto the floor w/ no chance to watch the systems being used. Just b/c "we're experienced reps." Well, we're experienced all right, at bullsh*tting our way thru explanations and asking the custs to hold while we frantically flag down a RH to help us pay a bill. It was quite horrid. Didn't understand the layout of the invoice until I had to expl it. Still don't have a bunch of passwords. I have over 30 passwords now b/c I've been trained on 3 systems, and also have management passwords.

Anyways going to a b-day party tonight for JR. The rest of them are going to take him to a strip club afterwards. I'm not very partial to going b/c I don't wanna have to throw my clothes in the wash the minute I get home. Sorry not too thrilled on that. As for the naked girls, it's more like I wouldn't know where to look. It's not an "ewwwww" reaction, but just I'm sure my thoughts will be "fake, fake, horrible make up job, wow that's a good split...a really good split. She's got a nice @ss." The odd fascination w/ something I don't care about but can't stop looking. And the sad part is that it's the same reaction w/ male strippers. I really did look over the wall to watch the WWF match instead.

The Queen wings back

It's been a while, but I'm back online to update. It's not like I didn't have stuff to talk about. Gawd, moved to a place of my own, albeit w/ a roommate. Got trained in a new project at work and then thrown to take calls w/o ever seeing the system being used. But to the stuff that's top of my wonky little head: Xmas.

Aw screw off about the Xmas and Christmas thing. Don't care about gods and even if I did, the Christian one would be bottom of the list b/c it's 95% propaganda, 5% historical truth. So it was my first Xmas being away from my family. Not that we'd ever done much of anything since, oh about 5 years ago. Last couple of Dec 25 have been saying "thanks for x" when we see each other around the house. Often my brother and Dad wouldn't open their prez until after boxing day. And forget about dinner, don't even have anything special. But I emailed my 2nd bro to see what was happening. Iit was kinda like "well I'm not living at home, maybe you guys will try to do something special?". And b/c I was working that day, to do Duty, I was going to be at work until 7. Well my big bro was bringing the nieces over, but they were going to a dinner so wouldn't be there if I were to show up. So I ask my 2nd bro, if they were having anything after, and it was nada. Zip, Really it was the usual nothing that happens on Dec 25, but it still upset me. Can't believe it got to me, but I guess I shouldn't get any hopes up around them. It's not like they care, as they've made abundantly clear over the years. But I guess I'm that beaten puppy, still come back hoping for a bone. Before I'd moved out officially, my Dad had found pots and stuff that he didn't need and told me if there was something else I wanted, that I could just let him know before I grabbed it so he wouldn't try looking for it. That started tearing me up b/c it was so damn nice of him. How sad that I'd be so elated at something that for other families are normal.

Anyways I ended up spending Xmas day reading the paper; clipping items I wanted on Boxing Day; learning to yo yo(I can get it to return several times, but then it seems to tangle up) drawing a pic of Inu-Yasha w/ a Santa hat and sack; and having IM chats w/ JR. I called about 8 people over 9 hrs. That's it. Was nice and quiet, wish every day was like that. I called Bern and RJS on the phone b/c I hadn't seen Bern since she quit, but Bern somehow managed to leave me a xmas card in my folder. RJS I saw at his new job and talked a couple minutes, but I thought it'd be nice to wish him a Merry Xmas. After that, I ended up going to J's family Xmas dinner, and met some of his relatives. I think my last few Xmas dinners have been spent w/ them actually. Huhn. Anyways, called A and TT, and did the whole merry xmas w/ them too.

And Boxing Day. Ah, that vaulted day of consumerism. Well in the British colonies anyways. USA has no clue what it is. Actually I was originally scheduled to work today, but b/c I volunteered for the Duty shift on Xmas, I asked the replacment SLR TL to give me today off. Otherwise I'd have to hunt for someone to trade w/ me, and that usually sucks. So I was able to shop today, and shop I did. Started at 8 and went all around the city w/ J. Bought a lotta stuff, first got a TV bench from IKEA and a few other things. Was quite disappointed w/ the "sale" at BestBuy, Futureshop, Toys'R'us, Zellers. Didn't wanna be trampled w/ Walmart. Only hit one mall, and it was one that hardly anyone goes to anyways, so it wasn't bad. Very disappointed w/ EB Games. Last year they had a big sale, but nada at the store we went to. The store was still busy though. But my Mecca of shopping was nice. Had 30% off everything, so got the DMP yaoi manga for my bud H, and some DVDs. Ended up spending about $200. Also went to a liquidation place, and found a lotta LOTR stuff, so that's for my 2nd bro's b-day and xmas. Yeah, I shop early. So while we were having sushi for dinner, I remembered that I was wanting something else at IKEA but forgotten to see if it was on sale. Since there was still another 3 hrs before IKEA closed, J relented to driving back there. It wasn't on sale but at least I know what size I needed. So I go to him, "are you going to be mad if I don't buy it b/c I made you drive all the way here?" And he goes "Well then I can come here w/ you again to pick it up later. You know I like shopping w/ you." Well okay, that's good.

So while we were driving back home, I get a call from A, b/c TT thought that I was going karaoke tonight, but I'd already told A that I was going to be too pooped to do that, and A just wanted to make sure about that. So of course J asks, "who's that?" So I'm like A, who has the same name as my 2nd bro. So J makes some comment, and I go "No, it's a different A." "Oh is he from work?" says J. "Yeah." J asks, yes asks "Are you going out w/ him?" *blink blink* "No, he just wanted to know if I wanted to go karaoke, but I'd told him that I was going shopping and didn't wanna go karaoke tonight. I wanna go karaoke, b/c I've never been but A always picks the worst days to go karaoke. " Well it was pretty f*cking silent in the car after that. No response after I chattered about my progress in Star Ocean, and I always have to listen to him whine about how hard and boring it is to play Baten Kaitos and how there's no good games for the GC. And then when J was helping me lug my haul to my apt, he was really curt and basically just dumped my stuff. Ya know what? Don't ask if you don't wanna know, and if the answer wasn't what you wanted to hear, then you probably shouldn't have requested a response in the first place. So I really have no sympathy for him. As usual. D, H's hubby, says that it's amazing how I have him wrapped around my finger, but you know what? I'm not wrapping him around my finger, he's wrapping himself around my finger, and I've tried several times to get him off, but I'm not amputating my hand.

Amazing Grace

Feebas is dead. He died of constipation. Yes, it's true, my fish died b/c it couldn't poo.

For the last couple days, geez maybe it's been almost a week, he hasn't really shat, and started to lose his appetite. Sometimes he'll just do that, so I didn't worry about that. Then he just started lying at the bottom of the jar among the roots, which was still part of his behaviour, but usually only when he's sleeping. And he still tells me to piss off when I touch him w/ the popsicle stick. And he didn't have a popping eye, wasn't covered w/ any growths or swimming funny. So after a couple days I looked it up, and yup, seemed like constipation. So one of the remedies is pea. Which I guess is a good laxative for people and fish alike. Unfortunately pea meat doesn't float. So I had threaded it and was dragging it thru the water trying to entice him to nibble it. Nope, never, ain't gonna happen. From a fish that has 4 diff foods and will only eat the most expensive. And it's not like I could shove it down his throat.

So this morning when I woke up and went to see if he'd be interested in eating pea now, after having nothing for several days, he's at the bottom of of the jar by the roots again. But his gills aren't moving. So I drag the pea on a string by him, no response. Poke him w/ the popsicle stick. Nada. Really poke at him w/ the stick and kinda turned him. Okay, definitely going down the toilet. So that's where he is now, somewhere in the sewers. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, water to water.

I will be getting a new fish. After I move into my apt and get things a little settled. My plant likes to have fish poop as fertilizer. The root development on it is phenomenal. And I will be starting it on flakes. Gotta get rid of those flakes.

This is why I have a blog

Okay, no foolin'. I forgot my nephew's name. All I could remember was that it was really common and boring and I didn't think it was that great. So I had to look thru my blog to find it. *sigh* It's true.

Anime Xmas music is so cool.

I'm moving... So I should be packing.... So I should be cleaning.... So I should stop typing.

Pardoned?

So Pile is on his vacation, and I'm still doing SLR stuff. My supervisor thought that what would happen is that they'd pull me off SLR duties for a while as punishment b/c I represent management. Everytime he says that I laugh my ass off b/c I haven't done any management stuff in months. Just stuck on the phones. Apparently 3 OMs got involved in the whole thing. My OM said to just forget about it, both were wrong, and she admitted to it and apologized, it's beating a dead horse. Another OM wanted the punishment, and I couldn't figure why until I remembered she was the one who complained about my behaviour after I told quite politely that I felt I was being punished for something I didn't do when they wouldn't let me go on a biz trip b/c their system wasn't working.

Anyhoo, today at work, they were tarring the roof, and the fumes seeped into the centre. People were leaving in droves and when the agents mentioned safety and health regulations concerning pay, which sounded perfectly logical, management denied that the fumes were toxic. Great. Nice to know management looks out for workers' health. Anyways I made the mistake about caring about reps pay and sick days and wrote that in a note to a supervisor and got into sh!t for it. I'm such a troublemaker.

But it's nice to see some of my sticklertude pay off for something. There's this one supervisor who just doesn't do his job. Whenever reps want to go home, they have to go to their supervisor first. But when the supervisor is off, then it can get a bit vague. In a meeting, we'd decided that the rep goes to another supervisor and only if no supervisors are avail, do they go to Duty manager to be signed out. Well this supervisor will send all reps back to Duty Manager, even when they're his reps. And then when I insisted that he's supposed to sign the reps out, he goes to Pile to complain. And Pile wrote that the reps are supposed to go to Duty if their supervisor and supervisor partner's not around. And Pile claimed to have talked to me about it. Well...the manager in charge of the Duty Desk came up to me, and told me that I was totally right for insisting that reps go to supervisors to be signed out, Pile was completely wrong, and the stupid supervisor has been coached on proper procedure. It's so nice to be vindicated.

Mailed a package to my friend w/ all her books. 4.213 KG!!!!! Can you believe it?? And b/c the box was too big, it couldn't go as small package. Paid almost $60 for postage, and added insurance too, which only cost $2. Argh!!!! Everyone I tell about the cost, just says they hope she's sending me something. Which she is. So it's all good.

I dunno what's wrong w/ the stream for Anime Hardcore, it just won't start up. So I'm listening to Enka & More, and it's different. It's not bad, they have enka for the opening theme for Tsukikage Ran. It's very dramatic, actually kinda makes me think of Chinese Opera but not as high-pitched warbling screeching. Yeah, I'm not a huge fan of that stuff.

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"Intellectually" Intelligent You're 'Intellectually Intelligent.' That pretty much means that you're good with theoretical ideas and concepts - but this comes to you naturally. More or less, you're a natural brainiac. Good for you. 40% theoretical intelligence 40% natural intelligence

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Yeah, that's me, I'm not focussed on having to learn by reading or listening or doing. I can learn either way, and of course it's better to reinforce it by doing all of it. I'm known to rewrite key points in a notebook, in addition to colour-coordinating highlighting the book and writing my oft-sarcastic comments next to it. I can read a crochet/knitting diagrams and generally figure them out even though I can't read Chinese. And although it's not mentioned in the quiz, generally I'm balanced btwn being creative and logical. ...Though I like to freak out every so often.

Update on Pile, I was discussing w/ my friend that the next time he calls on me, I'll just do the John Cena thing w/ waving my hand in front of my face and saying " You can' t see me" and walk away. That'll mess his head. Bwahahahahaha!

Quiz: What would your role be in anime? (Girls Only)

You are basicly the one who keeps to your self!You
like to be alone,but you secretly love the hero
you travel with.^.^


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Well, they've got the first part right. But secretly in love w/ the hero I travel w/? Well it sure isn't J b/c he's my sidekick. He's never taken charge. So hero would be who I'd follow. But who'd I follow? Could it be...O_o

Quiz: WHICH ELEMENT ARE YOU?

Styx


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I really don't get it, but it was a lot better than some of the other results. Check out the one for P!$$.

Crucifixion is delayed

So I was telling everyone on Monday that I was going to be crucified. Well, I know it seems a bit dramatic, but really, who's going to be scapegoated? The SLR who has good quality but crappy stats, or the only HR person that has any idea where things are. I wasn't Kasumi from Ranma, I was more like Akane and very willing and ready to whip out a mallet, barbell, kendo sword, .... wait, I have to listen to Sanzo sing "Game". ...

Oh that was lovey. Oh and "Blow Winds" is next...*dreamy sigh* The three of them sound soooo good together. It's too bad that Akira Ishida is too traumatized to sing anymore. Some jerk said his voice wasn't very good a long time ago and he hasn't sung a char song since. Unless it's in a huge group like Capt. Animate's "Double Dear" where there were 8 seiyuus singing. Well that was a little off topic.

Anyways, in the email I wrote and edited, my TL said I came across as a bit aggressive. Except I couldn't rewrite it before he sent it to the OM b/c my stupid Lotus at work was dead, and I didn't see Gary around to fix it. Although he fixed it for me the next day, but I think it was too late for that purpose. Anyways, on Monday, I did't get crucified b/c my TL was away b/c there was a problem w/ his wife's pregnancy. I'm not sure what it was, but probably the bad kind. I sorta feel bad that I benefited from their troubles but at least the drawing and quartering has been delayed. Now if I could just avoid me and my TL being there on the same day that Pile works until he goes on vacation, maybe I'll be all clear. But really, I never used profanity or flipped her off. I treated her w/ a hell lot more respect than the customers treat us, but you don't see us constantly going "oh you're so rude, I'm going to hang up" Grow some balls Bitchpoo!

Again, I missed the opportunity to go out w/ friends and do afterwork activity. One of the RSD had a b-day party and I was invited, but had to decline. Oh well, I guess I shouldn't kvetch, I got a ride home. But since I need to build up my supportive network at work for this HR crap, it would've been a good opportunity.

Wow, finally found the song. I'd burned a couple CDs and didn't label them right away, so since I had the time I thought I'd do it. I found the playlist for one of them, but I couldn't find it for the other. So I've been trying to find each track again in my huge list of mp3s. Which is a lotta songs to try to match. The sad part is that I could sing or hum most of them, but I have no clue where they're from. Some of them I'll get a good guess and pick it out right away after looking thru the list, but "Fun Fun & Shout" from Jungle wa Itsumo Hare Nochi Guu forced me to load my entire mp3 folder. Mind you I have 4 sets of mp3 folders, which avg 300 files each.

So finally got A and TT to get H's prez. Well TT didn't go b/c he's working but he's going to pay me back, but hauled A into Warp. As expected, he didn't have the list of what H wanted, so I'd already written it out. It was a bit annoying to hear him complain about having to spend so much and it was just to get 1 manga. Considering I've probably spent over $150 for her, him complaining about spending less than 10% was irritating. After we went for dinner b/c that's all he could talk about. Had an all you could eat, and he ordered 6 tamago negiri, 2 plates of beef teriyaki, and 18 salmon maki. That's it. The menu was pretty big, but nope, that's all he ordered. Which he didn't finish. I had about 6 of his maki and then had to rock-paper-scissors/ja-ken-pon him for the remaining 2 separately which I lost, so I said I'd have 1 and then we'd have to throw again, but he said I was supposed to have the last 2. Which I refused b/c I'd had 3 mackeral, 2 squid, 2 toro, 1 baked oyster, 1 seafood (crap forgot what it's called b/c never had it before but it was gooooooood), 2 cones, 3 gyoza, 1 sunomono, 1 veggie tempura dish. So he ended up hiding it in the napkin b/c otherwise would have to pay $0.88 for leftovers. Argh, I'm still stuffed and it's been 6 hours.

Smackdown Tribute to Eddie

I didn't cry as much for the Smackdown tribute, I guess b/c it's been a couple of days and I've been able to get used to it. But it was still horribly sad. The cruiserweight was pretty cool. I think Benoit was really out of it for the first couple minutes of the match, and HHH was carrying him for a while. Seeing Chavo again was great, and I didn't know it was Chavo that found Eddie. That must've been so hard.

I wonder when we'll find out how Eddie died. ...*searching online*...Oh...well at least he didn't suffer. I kinda thought it might be his heart, b/c of his past drug abuse. Road life is superhard. Here's a really good article on the official release of his death.

So my day was spent sleeping for about 2 1/ hrs cause I got a call from Robert just before I was going to go to bed. I miss that crazy Aussie. Joanna's throwing a housewarming party for his new apt, but aside from the fact that I'm working that day, J's also picking me up from work so I can't do any afterwork activities. Yesterday night, I was invited by Rebecca and Chris to go out for a drink b/c we'd all had lousy days, but I couldn't go out again. So it's like how I told Robert, once I move into the new place, I'll be able to do more stuff b/c I'll be close enough to work that I won't need a drive (15 min walk close enough?) Although that's assuming I'm still working there. F*ckers. (Yes, I just throw it out every so often when I think of them)

How's about a joke? When does HR work?
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Only when they're in the same sentence. Hehehe

Oh yes, about my day, I spent it shopping for the rest of the books that Helen wanted. And I got meself a Naruto pillow w/ Iruka and Kakashi on one side and Sakura and Sasuke on the other. Except the girl at the counter kept pressing down on it when she was trying to figure out how to ring it in. So I'm getting super-antsy b/c I don't know where her hands been, but I just ask her in a joking way to stop de-fluffing my pillow, so she puffed it up for me. Gave it a wash though. Not sure how to wash those types of pillows. B/c I think it's silk-screened on a nylon/polyester fabric w/ polyester filling. So I just put some soap on a cloth and washed the surface. It's wierd too, Iruka is spelled Ruka on the pillow. I hope it's not a knockoff. I'd hate to think I spent $20 for nothing. Especially so I'd have 2 pillows w/ Iruka on it. I'd like to have him as my sensei. And it's not just so I could listen to him all day. *lecherous grin*

Yeah, finally d/l Ai no Kusabi, and burned it to disk. Watched it on my tele w/ my headphones on. Skipped to the good parts. Stopped breathing and blinking a couple times. And can officially say that Seki Toshihiko has the sexiest voice. A lotta knuckle-biting.

*sigh* I don't wanna go to bed. B/c that means I'll have to go to work. And I don't wanna go to work b/c it sucks. Or should I say it'd be ok if 2 people were eliminated from there. *sigh* Oh shat, I left laundry in the washer. I hate it when it starts to dry...and smell. Yuck!

*listening to "Toki ni Ai wa... " and it's hard to sing and type at the same time*

Saw Genji for $29.99, which is a really good price for a new game. Except it only has about 8-10 playtime. But the main char is soooooo cute. I dunno if I should get it.

Okay, gotta get laundry.

Stinky Pile

So part 2 of the HR incident.

Pile pulls me aside, not when I'm on the phone, but when I finally get off the phone to watch over the floor activities. Prick. F*ck your production minutes. I don't know why he's in charge of Lead Reps. We're like thoroughbred horses, treat us right and we'll win races. Treat us like crap, and we'll kick down the barn. He doesn't know how to manage us at all. Anyways he says that "he wants to hear my side of the story." Bull f*cking sh!t. I don't need to incriminate myself especially with his f*cked up interpretation of things. He'll find offence in anything. I think I know why I don't like him so much. It's b/c he reminds me of my middle brother. So I tell him I want my TL, and he says he's my TL b/c he writes up the Performance Appraisal and my TL just does my TKS. What really happens is that my TL sends Pile all the information, and would write up the PA if they'd let him. Whatever. I get more "Hi!"s from an OM than I do from Pile.

Anyways I email my TL what happened but b/c the work firewall prevents access to blogs, so after I got home, I had to add more things. Argh. Anyways, another craptastic day. Actually even the tastic isn't there b/c one of my friends had to go home b/c her back seized up. Didn't get any crochet done, totally forgot when I was supposed to come back from lunch so I had a super long break. Just spectacular. This day warrants a Death Note and I know whose name I'd write.

Quiz: What was your job in a past life?

The Animal Spirit!


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Hmm, animal spirit. Probably why I don't have a lot of tact and get straight to the point. And think kids should be drowned if they're acting like idiots. Or if someone drives into the lightpost b/c they're DWI, they deserve the wheelchair or coffin. And if aliens can do better w/ the planet(which probably won't be hard), then they should enslave the humans. And if it weren't for the allergies, I would like to be a vet, although it'd be hard to down the animals b/c a lot of them are abandoned. And I hate insects too, so that'd be hard too.

The worst place to find customer service...

So I go to pick up the Employment Confirmment form that I'd requested on Wed, and drop off the medical reimbursement sheet, and pick up other forms that are needs from this reward program that's ending. The forms are supposed to be ready in 2 biz days, and HR was closed on Remembrance Day(unlike the rest of us) Yesterday when I went in, no one was at the counter and I could see the 2 people huddled in the back interviewing someone. So when I went back before it was supposed to close, they'd already locked the door.

So when I go in today on my 15 min break, no one's at the counter again, and the only people at the front look like they're taking the eligibility test. So I'm about to search the back again, and the girl pipes up and asks what I need. So I tell her that I'm there to pick up the forms I requested. She gives me a blank look and says she doesn't know where they are and I have to wait for this other girl Bitchpoo to return from her hour long lunch. So I tell her I'm on a break, and the forms are supposed to be ready by now, and does anyone else know where they are(cause I can hear other people in the back). She gets all uppity and says she's a temp so she doesn't know. And then this other guy comes out and asks what he could help me w/. So I repeat the same thing, and he doesn't know where they are either but at least he's more helpful and says that since I can't wait, he can take down my info to hand to Bitchpoo. So I give him my info, and then Bitchpoo walks in. By this time, I've already wasted 10 min of my 15 min break. And Bitchpoo also doesn't have the forms ready but tells me to sit down so she can print them out. Well I don't know why everyone tells me to sit down (the height advantage aka power advantage? I'm only 5'2") but I tell her that I can't wait for it, so she tells me to come in after work. Which is 8:30. And I tell her that they're closed by then, so she tells me she's going to leave it at Security. Well I don't really trust the competency of half the security people, but fine whatever.

So later, my TL pulled me off for some coaching and gave me some extra time to fiddle around w/ the program, so I ask him if I can head off to HR to see if they got my crap together, so he's ok w/ that. No one's at security, so I walk into HR, wait for the other person ahead of me to finish, and there's Bitchpoo at the counter. So I start saying there was no one at Security and that I'd just come in to see if she'd already given it to Security, and she huffs off to the back and gives me my stuff. And she goes "Oh, and I thought that you acted very rudely when you came in earlier..." Well excuuuse me! If I see incompetency, I don't react well when it's incompetency that can affect me. So I tell her well Sorry but I needed my stuff right away and no one seemed to know how to get it. And then she's gets all uppity and says "well can't you see that we're shortstaffed and have a lot of new people." Hey, it's not my problem if HR can't keep their own people, and can't train the new people on anything. Maybe that's why they always tell us to go online. So I tell her, "That's fine she's new, the other guy was great and he was new, but she could still apologize that she couldn't help" And she had the gall to ask why they should apologize. Heh, you know, w/ all the bull they give us about Quality and Good Customer service, we're all now trained to recognize good cust svc. And any time that something bad happens to the customer, even if it's their own bloody fault, we have to empathize and apologize for the INCONVENIENCE it has caused them or we'll lose marks. So I tell her that. Well, not the whole bit about training for quality, but that it was inconvenient for me. So I'm not sure if she got it or not, but she launches into her tirade again that I was rude, so I tell "the feeling's mutual". Then she's goes "well then I can get your OM and my supervisor and we can discuss it with them."

And while I'm trying to expl why I'm pissed, she keeps interrupting me and vice versa, so she tells me to shut up. So I let her go for couple min, but remember kiddies I'm still under coaching and don't have that much time to get into a catfight w/ her, and when she takes a breath, I launch in. And at this point, I'm so furious my hands are shaking and my voice is trembling. And I start gesturing to make my point and then she whines that she doesn't like me pointing at her. If it weren't for the counter between us, I'd be doing more than pointing. But I tell her I'm pointing at the sky which was where my finger stopped when she made her little protestation. And then she bitches at me that why did I make her have to do everything right away when I was my shift was over in an hour. So I had to repeat again that I'm only on coaching and it was only the blessing of my TL that I was able to come out, and that I didn't know that I would have time to come out. How disgusting that I even had to justify my visit. So I start talking and she starts interrupting, and I had to use the ResDesk phrase "I gave you the courtesy of letting you finish, now please give me the same courtesy of letting me speak." Yeah, how sad was it that I even had to use it?! So anyways, I finally get to tell her that I'm upset b/c expectation was set but not met, I had to waste 2 trips to get my stuff, and waste my break time. But I basically end w/ "well I apologize if I caused you offense, but it looks like it was a misunderstanding on both sides, but as long we both understand that, it's all fine. Thank you for the documents, I will get the other form that you didn't have from communications." Yes, I summarized the argument and I think Bitchpoo was kinda stunned b/c of that. There were people behind me but I walked out so fast, I didn't see who they were, but I'm sure they had fun afterwards. The kinda "wtf just happened?!" b/c they've probably seen me on the floor.

So right after I go tell my TL, and my TL was quite amused by it. Then while I'm on a call, Pile comes over and says he wnts to talk to me after the call. Well the call lasted about an hour and it was lunchtime. So I quickly go over to my TL and ask him if he knew what he wanted to talk to me about, so my TL tells me to let him know if Pile does talk to me. So when I tell him I'm going on lunch first, he just asks if I'm in the next day and he'll talk to me then. So when I tell my TL, my TL tells me that if it's about the HR incident, that I should request that my TL be there, but since my TL knows that I don't use tact except w/ customers (I don't mince words, it's just not in my nature. Hell I even told him that I have problems telling customers I can take care of their problem if I think I can't b/c it would be lying. ), he had to tell me what to say to Pile so that Pile doesn't take offense, b/c he has a really thin skin and doesn't forgive anything. The annoying part is my TL isn't in tomorrow(though I suppose that would be today, I have to go take a shower and go to sleep).

Latino Heat Forever

Watching RAW righ now...and it's so....unbelievable that Eddie Guerrero could be gone. I checked WWE.com and they haven't released why he died in his hotel room. I just hope it wasn't drugs...b/c he'd fought so hard to get his life back together after having so many problems w/ them. Watching the things he's done over the years, just brings back so many fun memories. My favourite is the Lie, Cheat 'n' Steal w/ Chavo. That was just too funny, and you never felt bad for the victims b/c it was all so obvious or they deserved it. A sorta Robin Hood justice I suppose.

Watching the matches. And they're really wrestling w/ their hearts out. The tag champ match was a pretty funny, and helped you get into enjoying the wrestling. Angle-Benjamin was a solid tech match. HBK-Mysterio was absolutely awesome. I'm quite surprised by the Diva match. That was very good, and displayed their talents. I'd like to see Malina wrestle more, she's a little spitfire.

I think I really noticed Eddie when he wooed Chyna. I always knew he was there when he arrived from WCW, and the rep and talent he carried. But I think I noticed his personality w/ Chyna. I was actually first kinda ticked at him, b/c I thought Chyna was too good and you knew he was planning something. But he was so funny and goofy, it was sweet.

*sniff* Listening to everyone talk about Eddie is just so sad. You just hope that when it's your time, others will talk the same way about you. *sob* Gawd, when they start crying, I do too. I dunno, I guess I'm a empathic crier. *blowing nose* Ah, this is hard to watch, but it's harder for them. I'm just an audience member, someone who watches and reads, and feels the emotions that they try to invoke. Sometimes I'll criticize and stay away b/c it's just gotten too silly. But they're still out there, working away, getting injured, training, missing their family. And to lose someone like Eddie, who fought so hard to be at the top, to always put on a great match....it's just seems so wrong. Did God need him so much ....that it couldn't spare him ...for a little longer? To let him enjoy the fruits of his efforts?? He was helping so many people...not just in the WWE...but the rest of us, who could say...Hey, there's a great role model, there's someone who fought, suffered, survived Hell to come out and be funny, charming and humble. Maybe it was an act in the ring, he still had a lotta issues. But he still gave us hope. *sob* I'm really an agnostic, but I pray that Eddie's spirit is at rest, however it did get detached from his body. Thank you Eddie, you're the best. *sniff*