I still haven't gotten the hang of playing KOF 2K2 as well as I'd want to. I seem to fail my combos at crunch time, and it costs me with uber-cheap players like the fag I was talking about before. Kula isn't too hard, except when she starts that onrush of low jump attacks, interspersed with some Lay Spins. It's more like Whip who's become problematic, as it seems even Clark will have a nightmare going air-to-air with her. The Shermie, on the other hand, is fairly irritating. That spinning kick of hers can't be blocked low, and I keep on forgetting that.

Nonetheless, I think if I just master my combos with Takuma and Choi, I can more or less be ready to lay some serious smackdown already. My Capcom vs. Marvel 2 has been improving a bit, and it's a toss-up for me to stick to my Spiral-Cable-Cyclops triumvirate, or Spiral-Storm-Cable, which proves to be deadly when the opportunity presents itself. Storm can knock away an active opponent with a helper still around for her to beat up until they get KO'd. Pretty nifty trick I picked up from one of the people at Galleria, but it seems I'm not yet good enough to actually air-dash quickly enough at will.

As for work, we had an event for Selecta Cornetto at Festival Mall yesterday, featuring Parokya ni Edgar. They were hilarious. They somehow managed to sing "Bakit Ngayon Ka Lang?" and then medley it with "Handog ng Pilipino sa Mundo". Pretty impressive, actually. I had my fill of ice cream, and one of the Radio 1 people at hand there took along a friend with him, who happens to be Atenean AND in Comm. She's a year after my batch, though, so she didn't really strike a chord with me. Still, I enjoyed myself in Festival Mall yesterday, as the arcade was simply great, and everything else about the event was amazing. Parokya never ceases to amuse and delight me. Chico and Delle hosted the event.

I haven't gotten my time log for my pracitcum in RX yet, though. I don't mind. I'll be working there for two months, well over 120 hours. I just need to find the time to actually go to Abby's house and get the pertinent documents...

Today, being a holiday, I managed to go on-air with the Morning Rush, and talk a bit. I'm not as rabid about being a rusher as I used to be two or three years ago. Must be because of THAT summer. Nonetheless, I'm still happy to be around the dynamic duo. I'm here right now, just typing up this stuff, then I'll be hopefully sending in some tournament results in the near future. Heck, I feel too lazy. Maybe I'll pass on it. I'm sure the commish wouldn't really mind anyway. I'm really not too enthusiastic about a lot of things nowadays, and it's not because I'm depressed or anything. I just realized, somewhere down the road, that being too passionate on things is simply not always a great thing. In fact, it often sets one up for major disappointments.

*Time to get in character*

I don't think there's any reason for me to expound why I think summer is so overrated. So fine, Marcelle doesn't have classes, so fine, Marcelle can relax, but so what? Marcelle doesn't really care much about sitting in one place, doing nothing. That's pretty clear to anyone who's known him for years, because Marcelle, since High School and to this day, has ALWAYS been very busy during the summer. This isn't really much of a vituperation, actually. It's just a way for Marcelle to come to terms with a reality he hasn't really affirmed about himself all these years. Summer just isn't his bag.

Couple this with the fact that Marcelle depends upon the Ateneo for his internet connection. Simply put, without the Ateneo, his internet life is severely castrated. Sure, he's not as huge a net addict as some people he knows, but regardless... it's something that he devotes a lot of time to.

Forget it. The weather's too hot for Marcelle to vituperate. He lacks energy for that, but he doesn't seem to lack the drive right now to jump from promotion to promotion...

*Out of character time.*

Whassup, jabroni? You seem to be pretty occupied with your summer job/OJT right now. Still, you haven't lost your touch when it comes to your sharp commentary. For all your faults, what I really like about you is the fact that he's not the least bit worried you're keeping any bad sentiments about me or anyone else to yourself. It's always good to have a person who's willing enough to keep you in check and not care how you feel about it. That's not a bad thing. That's a good thing.

New layout for you, eh? Pretty nifty, actually. Now let's see how hard it is for you to come up with a layout that WON'T impress any of us. It seems almost effortless for you to come up with these nice ones. Your dream, on the other hand, is fairly strange, all right. But I'm surprised you kicked Legolas' stand away... especially after your "affair" with him... hope you'd enjoy the summer, even with classes, and here's hoping I can get a few extra tickets for either Johnny English and X-Men 2 so I can hopefully invite you and...

...you. So what're you up to this summer? Seems like you have been fairly quiet these past few days, though I immensely enjoyed your song-tripping. Unwell is still my personal anthem, and hearing that song nearly every three hours on RX still never ceases to hit the spot... I guess I'm really happy about that, indeed. I wanted to help out with her predicament, but it seems I'm in no position to do so. I'm not even sure if she remembers me... Nevertheless, hope you're doing well, and see you when I see you.

Looks like you're pretty much as busy as Charles. Under the weather, even, so I see. If it's any consolation, I don't think it's SARS, and you're going to be fine soon enough. How goes things for you, besides that? Nice-looking new layout, by the way, and I'm amazed you made it mostly by Palm...

New URL for this jabroni. While it has yet to be touched by the trademark Voltage layout masterpiece system, the new server seems to have much promise. At least it's going to be around a lot more than fateback is, which simply means...

I can hardly know how you're doing right now. If it wasn't for the mini-EB we had last week, I'd be fairly clueless on what's going on with you, but hey... it's L5R as usual... nothing wrong with that at all, I suppose. I'm glad you seem to be doing well. Here's to more opportunities for the OB people to get to see each other. By the way, I've been running into a lot of cheesy Iron Man players in Gameworx for the two days I was there... or is that only because I'm using Cable?

Glad you have a practicum job waiting for you this May. As you can see, I'm working for two months with no visible guarantee of getting paid for it. I'm not complaining, though. RX is a great place to be. So... how's your boyfriend? Oh. Right. SSB... Haha-haha!

Hi, Madame! I still have that April Fool's gag rather fresh in my mind. It was a hoot, and I'm glad I wasn't there to find out how long I would've been fooled by it. Your brother's a pretty great guy, and I hope to see him again soon... I hope to see you even just once in a future gathering of sorts, though... actually, nearly everyone hopes so, too. :biggrin: (Why am I typing emoticon shortcut keys when Blogger doesn't support these shortcuts? :laugh: I did it again!!! :sweatface:)

More dreams? Wow... your dreams sure have been fairly strange as of late. Aside from the Sex Bomb dream, I now have a recurring dream (Same theme, prolly different situations.) involving me and some girl I'm SUPPOSED to know, but I don't. And no, she isn't Chinese. I was doing even stranger stuff in that dream than the one with Rochelle... errghhh... anyways, how's the weather there? I'm sweating bullets here right now...

If the hacker guy in The Core existed in real life, I wonder how you'd deal with him? I know for a fact you hate cyber-terrorism. And you never did tell me how you happen to know Mr. Jon Bulaong... anyways, congratulations on graduating, and hope to be your student soon, jabroni!

Is it just my computer, or does your links page still unupdated? I dunno... you have a couple of new entries, but I still don't see the new links there... but hey, thanx for the mini-EB and the ride last time out. That was a great way to just lower everyone's tension levels... :biggrin:

And... *jaded*... I see you've changed URL's. Can you tell me where you are now?

One last thing... as I promised...

Friday's top five: The Top Five Alternate Careers For Celebrities

Today, on the other hand...

The Top Five Songs You'd Play On Your Honeymoon

5. Spice Girls: "Two Become One"
4. Aaliyah (RIP): "I'm So Into You"
3. Evanessence: "Bring Me To Life"
2. Matchbox Twenty: "Bent"
1. 98 Degress: "The Hardest Thing"

Runners-up:
- (Forgot the Artist): "O, Lumapit Ka"
- Tom Jones: "It's Not Unusual"
- Mastaplann (?): "Jabongga
- Boyz II Men: "I'll Make Love To You"
- Madonna: "Like A Virgin"
- Nelly: "Ride Wit Me"

Wow. I'm done! Catch you next time, jabronis!