Busy Weekend!

It's been a busy weekend so far!

I had a birthday dinner on Friday night at Ric's Lounge and Grill. I ordered the usual pasta and $8.75 7-oz steak side order! (So cheap for steak!!). It was a great night with a few drinks and a lot of conversations! Instead of karaoking afterwards, I made the executive decision to go home and play LoL. =P I prefer to game than to sing due to a number of reasons that I'm not going to disclose.

Saturday was busy as well since I was out for most of the afternoon. I don't recall what I did for the evening... besides playing LoL. =/

Sunday was karate once again. Nothing out of the ordinary today. After I got home, I spent time playing MH, learning some songs for the piano and watching an episode of my drama series. I also started Devil Survivor 2 on crunchyroll. It's an interesting anime series so far, but nothing extremely special to hook me quite yet!

As for today's screen cap, a picture from the drama I'm watching (Doctor X). The main actress does her job well, but she has the most intense gaze when she performs surgery

Sometimes it feels good when there's nothing to do!

First day of my break where I pretty much stayed home all day! I usually dislike these kind of days (especially if I've been cooped inside for more than 48 hrs) but it felt really good today!

My day was pretty much ordinary. I finished watching a drama series: Tokyo AIRPORT. The story line was alright, nothing spectacular. Afterwards, I played some Monster Hunters. I finally was able to capture a live Lagiacrus. That took me a while, since I seem to be plagued by bad luck when I try to capture a Laggy. First time I tried, a Ludroth (small monster) jumped right in front of my tranq bombs... Second time was right after I set up my trap, the Laggi rammed into me, stunning me. By the time I was unstunned (by furiously mashing my buttons), he was no longer trapped!

Third time was after I accidently set up my trap, he limped off to another arena. Luckily though, I had an extra pitfall trap ready! I ended up catching it on land!

Besides dramas and gaming, I got in a few episodes of a relatively new anime series: Attack on Titan. It's pretty good so far, though a bit disturbing. I'm waiting to see how it unfolds!

As for today's picture of the day

First Tournament as a Coach!

I went to my first ever tournament as a coach today! The Junior team's tournament took place at Crescent Heights High School. It sure brought back memories since I used to train there under Badminton Alberta. I also had my grade 11 and 12 tournaments/exhibition matches there as well!

Anywhoos, onto the tournament! I arrived earlier than the team since I drove up to Crescent. I was initially worried that I was at the wrong venue since there was no sight of any of my students.  At 5 to 4, the team showed up, which of course, gave me a sigh of relief.

Since the team arrived on time, they didn't had much time to warm-up. A lot of them looked really shaky starting up, but as time went by, they looked a lot smoother/confident. I wasn't able to look at all the players, and I admit I was focusing more on students that I personally taught in class and on the court, though I was able to give some tips I think.

Despite the tournament being scheduled for 4 hours, it finished in about an hr and 50 minutes. It's nice having 8 courts to play on!

For today's picture

My circle pad pro for my 3DS XL. I got it shipped from China on eBay. I have to say that it has really, really, really helped me in MH, especially during those swimming quests!

Don't you hate it when you go to mend a small thing and then...

...some bigger problem occurs?

After epoxying the broken parts (to create more surface area to super glue it together), I went to go flair my wings...

And, I swear I didn't twist hard at all, the inner mechanism snapped. =(

In other words, my initial small problem just got a lot larger. I'm not quite sure how I can fix this problem. I may have to super glue my wings in a fixed position, but that's no fun!

Oh first-world-gundam-problems. =(

I snapped the little golden pegs inside those holes. =(

On a plus side, at least the joint is half-way repaired! Just to epoxy around the new joint and add the ring and voila!

Friday Post??

I believe it's been a while since I last posted on a Friday. I gave up on the food blogs because I found out that I didn't really like taking pictures of food. It was starting to urk me for some reason...

Anyways, I got up and did some chores. Of course, after chores, I went to go play some Monster Hunters. I finally got Kayumba! I realized how important it is to have a Shakulaka (spelling?) along to distract monsters! Not having Cha-Cha beside me during fights was bothersome since I didn't have something distracting the big game from targeting me!

Besides Monster Hunters, and LoL, I went out for Bro Night. We went to go eat at an Indian restaurant in the N.E., by Pineridge. The food there was pretty decent, though I can't say it was the best Indian food that I ever had.

And I have to say that I'm pretty hooked to SNSD's Time Machine! Soo good!

I really like the Chorus for the song! It's from SNSD's repackaged Japanese Album: The Boys (I believe).

First Picture in a While!

Unfortunately, Crunchyroll was down in the morning so I couldn't get my episode of Polar Bear Cafe in. =( In turn, I spent a good chunk of my morning watching SNSD videos... I think I'm getting hooked to that group!

In the afternoon, I ended up playing a ton of Monster Hunters before going to SWL for badminton. Last practice for the Senior team!

And when I came home, it was more and more games...

Anyways, here's a picture of the Gundams I recently ordered!

RG 1/144 Freedom
MG 1/100 Red Astray (something something)
MG 1/100 Aegis

Done! Well yesterday I was done!

I'm officially done University! Well at least in terms of undergrad degrees. I am now David Maruyama, B.Ed, B.Sc, A.R.C.T., and whatever other acronyms I can add to my name. =P

I'll talk more about practicum tomorrow since I'm just waiting in-between LoL games. It was quite a busy day for me today since I had a bunch of errands to do. I also got my Gundam orders in today! I promised myself not to start on them until I finished fixing my Strike Freedom. (I'll start doing the epoxy stuff tomorrow!)