Study Habits

Well, we are approaching the end of the first week of summer class (For those taking the six week courses at El Camino), and six sections of notes later, we have arrived at the first exam night, which the exam will be taken at noon tomorrow on Thursday 「木」 and I believe that I will do well on it, or at least that's what I am hoping. I know most of the formulas for it so if I don't succeed, then I deserved it.

School days involve half an hour of driving for a round trip, a two hour class, and 2 hours at the library to do homework and necessary study. This will most likely be the daily schedule from Monday through Thursday 「月から木」 and I'll have Friday and the weekend to cool my brain off. Unfortunately, this is only for one class. I cannot fathom what might happen during the Fall semester of school.

So I think I have these formulas down. Going to go over them quickly with you all now.

30 (√3/2, 1/2)
45 (1/√2, 1/√2)
60 (1/2, √3/2)

Pythagorean Identities
sin^2 + cos^2 = 1
sin = ±√(1-cos^2)
cos = ±√(1-sin^2)
1+tan^2=sec^2
1+cot^2=csc^2

Ratio Identities

tan=sin/cos
cot=cos/sin

Reciprocal Identities

cot=1/tan
sec=1/cos
csc=1/sin

k thanks.

Time to get to work

First and foremost, I will begin with the most "On the surface topics," such as interesting findings. Thanks Khiem for this one,

http://www.popsci.com/military-aviation-space/gallery/2008-05/worlds-spookiest-weapons

And from that,

http://www.globalsecurity.org/org/news/2005/050608-gods-rods.htm

Anyways, I've been doing a lot of thinking and pondering out loud. With much recent motivation and events moving me along lately, I must thank everyone that's been in my life lately because everyone's helped me move along through school and finding a purpose in life. It's good stuff. Even Rikio has been picking up a new interest and I must give him props for finding his drive.

This is really strange, but I feel that I've picked up part of this drive by watching a simple anime, Minami-ke, and really I began watching it not expecting much, but after watching it for some reason, I feel that it has changed me in some way or another. I'm not sure, but it has something to do about the place they lived in that caught my interest. Why did that catch my interest? I keep asking myself. Again, I am unsure. I am mentioning this anime because of either a coincidence that I had my epiphany while watching this anime or a direct relation to it.

My original intentions in life consisted of architecture. I want to design homes and the like. I would like to design my own home one day. I have more interest when it comes to residential design because when you realize that you're drawing a place that people would live in, it places a higher importance on quality of work over a commercial or industrial project. This is why I have a preference to doing residential work.

I was reading in another one of my info books on Japan, this one being about work etiquette and I read for the millionth time about Japan's overpopulation issue. Japan has a mean population of about 128,000,000 people. In a place that is 145,883 square miles, the population is very dense, considering that most of the land is uninhabitable due to mountains and forests. Compared to California alone 163,696 square miles and having a population of about 36,500,000, there is a definite difference of density.

I've also picked up a book about maximizing space in a home by designing it a certain way and it is excellent. It shows all sorts of ways to design a house to optimize the utilization of given space in a place.

So what?

By connecting my want to be an architect and this problem at hand and my wanting to be a resident of Japan one day, I've come up with a colossal life goal: To help combat the population issue. Wouldn't it be interesting to be able to design a structure that could house more people comfortably while also being able to accommodate more people? I think so. This is my drive. I've been getting some positive reactions from friends and family and I think it'll be a good goal to strive for. Yes I know, it will probably be unnecessarily difficult to do, but if it can achieve some major wants in my life, then it is worth it.

So what's the plan?

To put it in a very compact nutshell, roughly the size of a peanut, get out of El Camino, transfer over to a 4yr school, Cal Poly SLO or Pomona, graduate, go from there. Figure out a way to build social networks in both USA and JP.

Right now for the summer, I am currently taking Math170(Trigonometry) in order to take some of the classes that I've arranged to take during the fall: Architecture 150A, Physics 2A, Math180(Pre-calc).

I told my mom this, and I'll tell it to you all. With my drive at full steam ahead, when I arrive there, my plane will crash land where ever it is destined to go to and out of the rubble, I will walk out of the plane, holding a large flag. It's going to be huge. This is the real deal.

Last Week of Break

This week has been quite uneventful, so there hasn't been much to write about. Danny got a new car...2001 Honda Civic EX coupe. Stick. Blue. Relatively clean for under $6,000. I've been writing quite a bit this week and just as well, been playing FF12. Getting my ass handed to me in Pharos Subterra ftl. Anyways, today Alex gave me a call and told me that I have to go to his graduation today at RUHS so I guess I'm doing that later. I had a sudden craving for natto so I asked my mom to pick up some of that at the store on her way home.

School starts on Monday so I'm ready for that, I guess. I still need to go buy my book, but there is no particular hurry to buy the book. Whatever lol

The Acacia Strain

Talk about a crazy show. There's nothing like watching a bunch of ppl getting elbowed/punched/kicked and a bunch of fights breaking out over nothing while a band is up on stage jamming their hearts out. So, I witnessed three fights, four people with bloody noses, myself getting hit numerous times by ppl in the pit, and a bunch of great bands playing live. As a result, I am half deaf, my vision is blurred, and I have a small lump on my cheek. It was a great show. The lineup included Dear Life, Since the Flood, All Shall Perish, and The Acacia Strain. My, my, what a nice set of bands. The opening band I forgot their name, but they were a group of prepubescent children with an Asian vocalist. I was utterly confused to see this and I was even more confused when I heard it. They were OK, nothing special. I'll give them a break since they're so damn young and opening for some rather widely known bands.

I woke up at 7 today to go work at Joe's. I picked up Mike and we went over. We worked from 8AM-2:30PM and then left. We spent the duration of that time trying to pull weeds from clay-like dirt, which proved to be extremely difficult. I was tired after THAT and it was only 3 when I got home. I took a shower then went to Sean's house to pick them up and drive to the show.

Now, I'm rather tired so I think I want to go to sleep. It would be really nice to do so.

From the World of Insanity and Back

Well, jury duty was only the most boring thing I've done in my life thus far. I went in at 8AM, sat there until 11:30, got let out for lunch, came back at 1:15, sat there until 3:15 before they released us. There was about a hundred people there and over half of them were taken in to be a part of the panel, I was luckily not one of them. However, I had to endure the most boring hours ever. My iPod is the only thing that kept me from crossing the borders of sanity. I'm glad that's over with. I got a new phone. Palm Centro in white. It's pretty cool. Somehow already misplaced the stylus but am thinking of a way to get a new one that will stay attached to my phone.

I went to help my dad with his wisdom teeth. I waited maybe less than 15 minutes while he was in. I helped him outside to my car to take him home. Before leaving, I was called in for a post-operation consultation by a Japanese girl in her twenties. After leaving, I sat in the car with my dad and asked if he wanted to get his Vicodin perscription at Rite Aid or not. However, he began to tell me to "Go after that girl that was talking to us because she was pretty cute" and I was like "Dude dad, I'm asking you about the Vicodin" and he says "Oh" I thought that was kind of funny.

I went to J-town today with Rikio and Tin...but Tin drove this time, holy shit. Yes, Rikio and I had the balls to take Tin on his first freeway drive to downtown LA of all places. Tin isn't that bad of a driver, really. Good stuff. I need to wake up at 7 to get ready and go to Venice to work for Joe at his Palm house to help with the gardening. Acacia Strain show tomorrow too, I'm going to be so freaking dead.

Stupid.

First off I want to say that I have been summoned to go to jury duty after all. I am less than pleased with this because if things go badly enough, then this might fuck with school. I'd like to take a summer class and get ahead in school instead of being pent up in the courthouse.

On a brighter note, I've submitted an application to Golfsmith and hopefully I'll end up working there. Yes Golfsmith. It's going to be good stuff.

What brought about this motivation? Well, Danny, Rikio, and I went to a Honda dealer and I got to test drive a Fit because my brother's getting my car when he starts driving. I found my car. It's flippin' sweeeet. So I'm getting a job to start working my way up for that.

So I have to wake up at 7 tomorrow to get ready to go to this jury duty. Friday I need to wake up at 7 or 8 to take my dad to get his wisdom teeth pulled out and help him back home. Saturday I need to wake up at 6 to go work for someone at my temple at a house in Venice. Later that day on Saturday I'm going with Nigel and Sean to an Acacia Strain show, which is going to be freakin awesome.

Day Three

It's the third day of Artistic Adventures and we have pulled in some pretty awesome pictures. I'll be sure to post them on my website @ http://makoto.soudesune.net .

Today, I went to some parks with Rikio and Mike to get some photos of stuff. We ended up walking down some train tracks to find some flatbed cars that were sitting on the track. We got some nice shots of and around them. We went to Mitsuwa and had some food (I owe Rikio $8 or so) and then dropped him off and picked up Khiem and his friend. We went to TLJ for Khiem so he could purchase a cake for his dad. We then went to the Galleria mall and went up on the roof to think of a new place to hit up. We then decided to hit up the beach. We dropped Khiem off and Mike and I went to Palos Verdes to the gazeebo spot and went down to the beach and photographed some pretty awesome shots. I will be using some of them for the cover of my novel.

Had a barbecue at my house and the food was pretty awesome. I wasn't sure what was used, but it made me pretty happy. I went over to my grandma's house in Marina to pick up Dustin and raced home and some people along the way.

Mike and I photoshopped two of the photos so I'll be sure to especially put those up because they look great.

More Artistic Adventures

Well, I had another weird dream, to say the least, but it was kind of funny this time. It included Joannie and Mike, dont know why. It took place on Hawthorne Blvd. and we were students to some magical school. Mike suddenly springs up the suggestion of eating in his usual energetic tone and then I agree with him. I then jump off the sidewalk in front of a moving car and I die. I am then teleported in front of the restaurant that I wanted to go to and Joannie and Mike was waiting for me there. Apparently, in order to teleport, you had to kill yourself, which was really strange. I woke up sort of weirded out about that but it was funny anyhow.

Today was the day that I wanted to go to the airport to get some photos in but as we found out, it was nearly impossible to do so because parking sucks balls there. We went to In-n-Out and picked up some animal fries and went to pick up Khiem. We went to RUHS to take some pictures and had a good time there for a while taking pictures there. I found out that the resolution of my camera was not set to the resolution that I desired. It's okay though. I can go back and take more later. I believe that I have sparked a new hobby amongst some of my friends and it's good because we really have nothing better to do around here.

I also went to play basketball today and I got a rather good workout. I am pretty happy about that because I feel good now. I also learned that my shooting form needs a lot of work. After basketball, Tin, Mike, and I went to Alpine village and picked up some sausages. We then went to Nijiya and got some noodles. We went to my house and made some magical food in the kitchen. Kimchi fried rice, some noodles with green onion and garlic, and the cooked sausages. It was quite excellent.

The Dream & Artistic Adventures Part One

It started with a dream. A really messed up dream. I had a dream last night that had to do with a perscription drug that made people happy. Some kind of medical breakthrough that improved the well-being of people. This drug, everyone took, except for the few people whom I knew in the dream and myself. The drug turned out to be psychologically damaging and made people begin to freak out. By freak out I mean they were clutching their heads, screaming in pain as if they were feeling physical pain, but nothing was wrong with them. Some of them were screaming that they were on fire. So with the group of people that I was walking with, we ran away from the road because cars were crashing everywhere. We went into an alleyway where a group of guys with weapons stood us up. One had a fucking dagger and the other had a sixshooter pistol...Somehow we escaped without harm, but there were people that were still screaming their heads off about being in pain. That's when I forced myself to wake up. I woke up and I was like "What the hell was that!"

I played GTA4 for a bit and I felt like crap for the first half of the day. Rikio came by and we went to DiAngelo's later for pizza, which was really good, by the way. For $15, we got a pretty tasty pizza. After that, we didn't know what to do so we went into PV but we quickly turned around and we went back to my house. I grabbed the digicam and we went back to PV, hoping to make it up there before the sun went down. Unfortunately, the sun was down by the time we got there. What I wanted to do was take some shots but I guess I'll be doing that tomorrow. I'll post the results tomorrow! We went to the LAX in hopes of getting photos of the runway but after walking for four miles or so, we were unable to find a good spot for a runway picture. Maybe that will be best done during the day as well. We went to Marina Del Rey to a VONS to buy a DRINK and then we went HOME.

New music albums added to playlist:

"Kasumi" -Kasumi

もっと大黒家

Wow well today, I took my last exam for the semester, which was Geometry. I went in thinking that it was going to be difficult but it was actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. I was pretty stoked walking out of the classroom. It was a pretty nice feeling to know that I'm done with the semester. What sucks is that I have jury duty next week and I still need to find out whether or not I actually have to serve it or not.

I went over to a barber shop to meet up with Matt and Rikio after class and then Matt went to work. I stuck at Rikio's house and we eventually went to Mitsuwa to grab some bento and we took it back to his house and ate it while playing Halo 3. Tin and Evan came by later and we just fucked around for a while before Evan left. Danny came by and then we set off to K-town in search of food. The place we were counting on being open was closed, so we went on down to J-town and went over to Daikokuya. I guess they forgot about one of our orders of ramen but either way it was great. It was probably the best egg+pork I've had there yet. Anyways, after depleting my wallet, we left and then went home. Here I am, typing this to you. I WAS tired while in the car but like I said in the car to the guys, "I'm tired now but I bet you I'll be full of energy when I get home," I wasn't kidding because that's what actually happened. hahahaha

School will start again in two weeks, and I will be taking Math 170 (Trigonometry) with Tin. I hope that it'll be somewhat easy. I also hope that I can find a place that I'd be willing to work at for the summer, thought it is probably too late. I don't care. I don't want to work over the fall because I'll be taking more difficult classes and I am unsure how much time it will consume out of my schedule.


New music albums added to playlist:

"I Loved Yesterday" -YUI
"Parasite"-See You Next Tuesday
"Reprise" -Shimokawa Mikuni
"Masochist" -Elysia
"The Respect (Reissue)" -Emmure
"Goodbye To The Gallows" -Emmure

A New Layout!

Haha yay so I got a new layout for the blog. I could not pass up on the opportunity to use the picture of Enma Ai that I have up now.

School's ending. I have my Geometry final tomorrow. Turns out that it wasn't on Tuesday. I got hosed. =[ But anyways, it's fine. I'll just go in and take it. I think I'm ready... I hope I'm ready at least.

I haven't really been writing much in my blog lately and I don't know why. I guess I just haven't had much to say. I'm so boring! Why!!

For those that do not know, I'm making it public that I have had a writing project that I've been working on for quite some time now. I should be done by the end of summer. Ironically enough, it is titled, "The Summer's Ending" as a tentative title. It might be something that I'll stick with but hang on folks.

I guess I'll be hanging out with Timmy tomorrow and his new old Civic SI. I get to see it for the first time lol woohoo. Hurray for Timmy and saving gas.

Note to Self: New guitar strings for both acoustic and electric.