Monday, April 13, 2015

A Reminder To Myself

I've known this for a while, but I've only realized it just now. Watching the First Look of the Ultimate Warrior: Always Believe documentary just helped put it into perspective. I now have a definitive answer.

Casually, I've always preferred this term over being anything else, but never called myself this. Not only that, it has always been something I wanted to be. I can be this for my future wife, my future kids, a family member, a friend, a coworker, or a stranger. If I have been this to someone already, I don't know about it or simply can't recall it. I do know that I've innately strived to be this for many years.

A Hero.

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Friday, April 3, 2015

March 2015 Entry



Maybe it's just me, but March felt long.

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- I finished watching all of Heroes (Korean variety show 2010-2011) on 03.03. 40 episodes of fun. I ended up liking all of the cast members even though I only knew a handful of them. My favorites ended up being Kahi, Lee Jin, and Hong Soo Ah. It was unfortunate that Nicole wasn't part of the last few episodes (going through contract disputes at that time). But I do recommend this variety show. There was a lot of great moments that happened throughout.  

- Hung out with a friend on the 16th. Nothing big planned. We mainly talked, had a little tea, and played Smash Bros. It was fun. Trying to hang out more often.

- I was asked to pick up my mom early from work on the morning of the 19th. When I locked the door to leave, I hesitated as I felt the lock didn't lock properly. It was only after we returned home that we saw that the bolt on our lock was off the hinge to unlock so it was stuck in locked position. We called our dad, who was out helping his friend and couldn't pick up my mom in the first place. My plan was to break open a window and squeeze through to open the door from the inside. Dad ended up using many tools to remove the lock and force the bolt out of place for us to get inside. It was a very unexpected and frustrating thing that happened.

- The 20th was National Macaron Day. I visited my friend at her shop of Bite Macaron and spoke to her for a while, just catching up. Then I bought some macarons and left them at HER for the agents to snack on.

That same night, a few of us guys got together at Sushi King to help bring the spirits up of our friend that recently broke up with his girlfriend. A bit odd with the exchange of opinions in the beginning (I wasn't a fan of some things said), but the rest of the night was just spent having fun and being dumb, ha.


- On the 23rd...dropped a big bottle of water on the marble floor, jumped around to avoid the water, stepped on the bottle cap that broke off with pointy tips, my foot ended up getting stabbed. It wasn't that bad really, but I believe that was the catalyst of me getting sick. It couldn't have come at a worse time as a lot of stuff was happening with work and friends. It took a while for me to get better (over a week). I also got a new shirt in close to the day my foot got stabbed, but didn't wear it as I didn't want to put sick germs on it.

 

- Wrestling Isn't Wrestling was a fun video. Good tribute to Triple H's career. 


- I got a couple of new wrestling shirts (03.20). Both are NXT shirts, Bayley and Finn Bรกlor. They're both amazing as is the rest of the NXT roster. But I was ecstatic to get retweets and favorites from both wrestlers. Amazing feeling.



- The WWE Hall of Fame took place on the 28th. I was at work when it started, but I was able to listen to Schwarzenegger and Nash's speeches. Caught up with the rest of the HOF the following morning and the day after. Connor's induction was tear inducing, but amazing.  

- Wrestlemania 31 happened on 03.29. While I originally asked for the day off and was granted it, things changed and I was asked to come in. So I missed all preshow stuff and anything before Triple VS Sting. I listened to that match and was going nuts the whole time. Watching the rest of Wrestlemania was so fun. Caught the rest that I missed that same night. From the bottom to the top, everything was enjoyable. Cheers to all the amazing athletes and production people that put Wrestlemania together every year.  

- My dad was asked to dog-sit his friend's dog while he's away in the Philippines. While my dad told me his name was Joe, the whole time he has been here (still here as of typing this), I haven't said a word to him. I only communicate through gestures and he understands. Coming home to a dog after a long day of work is very uplifting. It is good to have a nice puppy around the house.

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- More DLC. Hyrule Warriors had their Boss pack where you can play as Ganon. Man, that was empowering. Curtain Call had more DLC tracks. They ended their second batch of DLC and they've had some good stuff come through even to the end. And yes, I have bought all DLC possible meaning I spent over $100 for the songs.

 


- Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask 3D (3DS) - Review

It took a good month of playing on and off, but I finally beat the only Zelda game I never played before. While I enjoyed it, I did feel frustrated with it at times. I do understand why a lot of people like Majora's Mask a lot, but for me, it doesn't rank that high in the list of all Zelda games. I will reveal a list of how I rank all the Zelda games in the near future now that I experienced and have an opinion of Majora's Mask.


- After completing Majora's Mask, I slowly got to the demos I've had piling up. It was only 5, but some have been sitting waiting to be tried out for months.
WRC FIA World Rally Championship (3DS)
Undead Storm Nightmare (3DS)
Citizens of Earth (3DS)  
Azure Striker Gunvolt (3DS)  
LEGO Batman 3: Beyond Gotham (Wii U)  

- Got my Smash Bros OST from Club Nintendo. Seeing as I couldn't recall some of the tracks, it shows how much I played the latest iteration of Smash Bros. The songs are good though.


- amiibo...I'm addicted. This month alone, I more than doubled my collection and I want more...all. I am still going with the "buy the ones I really want day one" while everything else is moved to the "maybe" section of amiibo I want. But I want all of them, ha. Sales will definitely help with buying the ones in the "maybe" list. Shopping around for those rare ones though, yikes. I don't mind paying a little extra for them, but I won't spend twice the amount on one. But yeah, if you have a hard time thinking of something to get me, help me with my amiibo collection, please. No duplicates or custom ones though. I just want the originals in their box.

Something odd, I update my personal Twitter with my new amiibo, but not my gaming account. I'll try to at least do that from now on.







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- The Houston Escape Room has been very busy. The beginning of March, our second room (Grandma Codebreaker) officially opened. It took a while for me to warm up to Grandma's room, but I really like it now. If you haven't been to that room yet, sign up. It definitely is different from the first room.  

- Last month, I talked about the pregnancy reveal we did. The mother-to-be kept asking me questions about my preferences to things as she wanted to buy me something in thanks for what I did. I refused all as the experience was amazing itself. But she persisted and ended up mailing me a nice "thank you" card along with a gift card (03.05). Very touching.


- I had my longest day at HER on the 10th. It was a 12-hour day with 2 corporate events. One started at 10AM and the other was a group of 20 8th grade girls (split into 2 teams). I was drained, but things went well.


- For some odd reason, the traffic was bad almost every day going in to work in March. It seemed like I had to increase my leave time more and more when before I was able to leave 10 minutes after the hour. While it has calmed down, the 17th was the worst. I was 30-45 minutes late. To make things worse, it was a hellacious day. A lot of things went wrong and all the agents were going back and forth with so many things happening behind the scenes. The saving grace was that all the groups that came through were fun.

- As I mentioned earlier, I bought the agents some macarons in celebration of National Macaron Day (03.20). I'm glad they didn't eat them all so I could have a few the following day, ha.


- Sick and work do not mix. On the 24th, I wasn't at functioning the best. I ended up only facilitating half of the last team as I couldn't stop sneezing and feeling so hot. I wasn't feeling good the next day either so I took the day off. but I mainly took it off so I could get better the following day as a friend was coming through the room. I felt a little better, but I wasn't at my best when my friend arrived. It was still good to see her come through after talking about it for so long, but I wasn't being as upbeat as I would have liked to have been around her. She had fun though and that's what matters. As far as my sickness, I got better on Friday (my normal day off) and was way better that weekend.

- One of the most unfortunate things to happen at HER was our a/c going it. It happened the weekend of the 28th. We put 2 fans in Mo's room, but that room just becomes so warm in general. Grandma's room was still cooler, but eventually heated up. The lobby became the hottest unfortunately as that's where the customers have to wait. Not too many customers complained, but it was obvious that the heat was getting to them and the agents as well. As of typing this (04.03), the a/c is finally fixed. But before that, that was a hellish time for all of us.

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- For the first time this year, I was able to sleep normally without any white noise going on. It felt so good. There were a few times when I was sick that I had to go back to having white noise, but I'm able to sleep normal again.  

- Some new Kpop videos caught my attention this month. Gain is just sexy, but the song is so-so. I'm starting to like Red Velvet more now. At first I liked Automatic more, but Ice Cream Cake grew on me. And Minah's solo song is good although I was hoping for a little more. Out of all those, Ice Cream Cake is probably my favorite.





- And I finally watched BoA's Who's Back concert (03.30). I did say I would watch it in March. It was in danger of not happening because I simply forgot about it whenever I had free time. But it was a fun concert. It was good seeing the new songs performed (made me like them more). And then her performing classics were great. My favorite sequence of songs was done during the karaoke portion. Just a good string of songs back to back. My favorite part was during Bump Bump. I always did a hand gesture during "VIP" basically just spelling out the letters with my hands. BoA did it herself and I lost it. I was so happy and ecstatic at that point. So dang cool to see her do what I had been doing for one of my favorite songs of hers.  

- Again, most of my time is spent at the Houston Escape Room. A lot of things are happening (and have already happened). Seriously, stay tuned.

- And that ends March. April is already busy and full of things happening so stay tuned for that.

Thanks for reading. Be healthy, be safe, be thankful, and be loved. 


Take care. DFTBA.

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