[17] Sprite Entry

by: Derek Yu @ http://derekyu.com/about.html

I thought that little pixel was just hilarious. Anyways, I entered a sprite contest at Newgrounds. The rules/guidelines were, that you take a sprite from the old video games from Super Nintendo or Sega or whatever, and draw that sprite in HD (High Definition). I had come across this contest about 5 days ago so I didn’t have much time to do any practicing and trial and errors and such. But after hundreds of pixel searching I decided to do a character from Tales Of The World : Narikiri Dungeon 3.This game is for Gameboy Advanced and was only released in Japan because many characters from all the Tales series is in this one game. Anyway, the character I chose was named Kyaro and her and her little buddy, Fio, change into many costumes.

Luis told me I should do the Nurse costume, but I really wanted to do the Idler costume. I ended up doing the Nurse simply because I was running out of time. So, I drew it, outlined it with a regular glidey gel pen thing and turned out horrible (I don’t have any art supplies :/ ) but nevertheless I scanned it and colored it in Photoshop. Now…the problem was, that I’m terrible in Photoshop. In school, all the art classes I took, didn’t teach anything about Photoshop or anything so I basically just wung it!

Unfortunately it didn’t come out the way I had hoped…and I went to Newgrounds and looked at the entries again and realized, that there was no way in hell that I would ever win because the entries were far more superior than mine, simply because their coloring technique was much more advanced…but I had worked on it from 7:30 to 2am and Luis told me there was no point in working that hard, with a program I wasn’t used to, for nothing and that I had to at least post it, and feel accomplished and gain a personal victory…so I did and now I’m just waiting for the results :/

*sigh* I posted it in my DeviantArt page as well and am hoping for some constructive criticism…hopefully I’ll get some soon. I definitely need to improve.

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[15] Last Straw?

On Friday I was supposed to go to a Carnival located in Unionville…just a little ways from my house. Luis didn’t want to go though…He wanted to go to Bridgeport to hang out Igor instead. I didn’t mind hanging out with Igor, he’s my friend too.  The idea from what I was told…was that we were going to go to Cold Stone and hang out with him.Unfortunately…Luis doesn’t completely know the way to Igor’s house…so we got lost. We hit Redding…Bethel..Danbury…a good portion of the time I was asking if I could turn around because it was obvious we were no longer in Bridgeport. But he kept telling me to keep going, keep going…In Danbury we found a Gas Station and he stopped in and asked for directions…he wanted to go on the highway and the lady he asked said it would take longer but she gave him the directions anyways. Luis told me to go on 84West…and we ended up in NY state. We turned around took 84East and got to Igor’s at around 2:30am…we left my house around 8:30…

Luis told me, before we went to sleep at 3am, that he was going to stay there in Bridgeport so he could go tot he YuGiOh Regionals, and I’d have to drive home alone in the morning. I didn’t think it was fair…the entire half hour that we had been there they had discussed YuGiOh, I had used up a FULL tank of gas, and my entire night…and I had to drive home alone the next morning? It just wasn’t fair…and it isn’t the first time he’s made me waste time moneya nd gas for him to play cards in Bridgeport!

Not only that but earlier that day he asked me to skip out on work and go with him to the regionals…so he could feel better…I told him that wasn’t fair because I only work 2 days a week, and he doesn’t do anything like that for me. He will NOT skip out on a tournament or regional just to be with me. I know because I’ve asked. Also, he had asked me to pay his phone bill for him…

He’s asking me to pay his bills and which means he cannot afford anything and he’s spending what very little money he does have…on YuGiOh? I just couldn’t take it anymore. I told him it was the most fucked up thing he had ever done to me and I broke up with him…as I was driving home, through text messages because I did not want to see him. He kept saying “I know Im sorry” but he doesn’t know and he isn’t sorry because he doesn’t change… He’s completely unfair and inconsiderate. And then he got mad at me…granted I told him he was still a child and worthless and if he continued doing what he’s doing that he wouldn’t go anywhere in life…but at that point in time I believe I had every right to be angry.

Once I got home he had shut off his phone and just didn’t want to talk to me. He wouldn’t even answer my calls. So…I did something really drastic and probably the worst thing I could ever do. I took the laundry he left at my house that I had washed,and ripped them apart…literally. I also cut up his cell phone charger he left at my house…and he knows.

I did apologize for it, I left him a voice mail telling him I’m sorry for what I did to his things but I’m not sorry for what I said. He called back about an hour or 2 later and said he didn’t care what I did to his clothes because he “knows” I didn’t mean it and he still loves me and stuff…I hung up on him. And around1am he sent a text message saying “I still love you, I hope work went well. Gnight” so I don’t know if that means that we’re officially over or not but regardless…I can’t continue in this relationship if he’s not going to change and start growing up…

I’m not the best girlfriend, I realized that. I am fully aware of that. But he’s just about the worst boyfriend I’ve ever had…

So then why do I still care about him so much?

[14] Toby

There is so much for me to update…but I’ll begin witht he first major topic…

I’ve had a cat named Toby for about…8 years now. He was my favorite because eh was a really strong cat, and when he as younger he was so playful..he’d even do flips, and at times he’d juump out the second floor window of my bedroom just so he could go outside. Toby, was the man cat of the house hehe…to me it seemed like he was indestructable…he’d never die.

Unfortunately however…on Monday, July 9th 2007…Toby died. The neighbors that live up the driveway from us hit him with their car. He wasn’t mangled or anything…he just had a massive gash on his neck..signifying that he was knocked really hard…critical injury. It wasn’t a painless or quick death either…because he had enough strength and energy to crall towards are back door and lay himself to rest by our Suzuki…

It had been years since I last saw my Mother cry. She just isn’t the woman to cry. But this hit her hard, I felt terrible. What was worse is, that just an hour or more before Toby was killed, she saw him outside relaxing and just being his normal self. She wanted to bring him inside the house then, but figured he’d be okay for a little while longer…

My Father was very angry, I was just completely distraught. I had cried for a good hour and once I was finally finished crying I just became angry at the neighbors. They know we have outside cats but they speed up and down the driveway all the time…that, and it was the second cat they had done this to that belonged to us…I wanted to go to their house and gie them the biggest piece of my mind ever. I wanted to punch them in the face for being so reckless. Needless to say I wasn’t in the right state of mind to deal with anybody…and I realized it and just went to my mom and comforted her.

Unfortunately at this moment I don’t have Toby’s picture uploaded ontot his computer I’m currently working on…I’ll have to wait until Monday to get my laptop back…until then…

Rest In Peace Toby. We love you dearly.