It's Amazing the Things you can Accomplish Between Semesters

So my mother recently started buying me all those little Nintendo-themed tins with cheap candy in them. My favourite tin is the bombbomb (which isn't actually a tin) and my favourite candy can in the little mushroom. By far the most disgusting was the Wii remote gum. The pepperminty flavour lasts a few seconds but the puke-like aftertastes goes for the whole shot. I look forward to filling it with juicy fruit. As a side note about gum, I cannot see, smell, or taste Big Red without instantly going back to my first years back in Canada after living in Scotland. Never in my life had I tasted so much cinnamon power.

The main point that I was getting at when I started this post actually had nothing to do with gum. It occurred to me last night that while I'm totally fine with video companies making me candy, the fact that Dove makes chocolate is utterly disturbing. Where did they even come up with that? It's like SyFy showing wrestling. It just doesn't sit right. Toothpaste people coming out with a chocolate. That might make more sense. Get some minty flavours going on.

Another thing my mother started doing is playing solitaire on my DSi. I love buying on there from the shop. I do it when I've spent the day on the internet looking at all of the cool games that I can't afford. They're cheap, and you can buy like three of them in one pop, so it's just great. Plus that little present that shows up on the menu is just adorable. One of my favorites is Art Style: BOXLIFE, which I heard of from Kotaku. It's basically a game about cutting up nets to make cubes, but it's done really well has adorable music. It's set up as a sort of office room-style game; if that makes any kind of sense. I highly recommend it though. I like Extreme Hangman as well, which has the awesomeness of replacing the noose with a army of zombies; luckily you have a shotgun, but when you make a mistake, the zombies take a chomp out of your arm. And that's just one of many scenarios like ninja attacks and profanity filtering killer chalk erasers. The only problem is that I'm worried about running out of words. It does have a few (but not enough) cool genres, like Comics and Comic Heroes. And Doctor Mario is just generally nice to have.

I keep wondering about those music game's they've been pushing lately, but I don't want to waste my money. Anyone know anything about them?

News from life in Trinidad: I went outside today! I'm not going to lie, it was scary. The outside world is a strange and frightening place. But it was well worth it for what I saw. I went to the botanical gardens in Port of Spain and took some great shots. They even had what I like to call (since there was no sign) the retro 80s tree.

You see how I shit you not. The only thing it was missing was a big leg warmer wrapped around the bottom of the trunk.

Does this trunk not look like a giant octopus? Because it really was GIANT. See the menacing eye? It's watching you.

In the fanfiction world, I finally finished a new AU science fiction Zelloyd for the Tales of Symphonia section. It was a birthday present for Thingbe. Last April. But it's done now, and should be up tomorrow or the next day. I'm quite proud of it. It's pretty long, which is pretty short for me, and focuses a lot on the characters and their relationships with each other in this cool, post apocalyptic world. I started it a few months after I finished reading 'Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?' by Phillip K. Dick (Blade Runner if you don't know it, and it's an awesome read) so you'll see some influence of that in there. All you really need to know is that Zelos has a pump action shotgun. Oh! And that Yuarcy's in it. Yuarcy being the pairing of Yuan and Forcystus; it and science fiction Zelloyd are both my personal contributions to the ToS fanfiction page. The other scifi Zelloyd (currently the only one) is a one shot I wrote about moon colonization. It's called Founder Effect. And if you like my writing, Touche is an AU crossover high school fic that I'm collaberating with Thingbe on, and although it updates slower than molasses ever could, it's got a great plot coming. And because I'm going links crazy here, this is an AU 1940s fic (also ToS) written by Thingbe, it's called Carry On. I love it.

They Call Him Flipper, Flipper, Flipper...

It's my birthday soon. I know, I know, I'm excited too. My birthday is on September 27th, which is a very cool day. Not only is it MY birthday, but it's also Google's birthday, Avril Lavigne, my cousin Adrian, my best friends aunt, and best of all, Bill Colter, the weatherman from Global News.

Anyways, this year I asked for a tablet so I could try out doing some art on my computer. I don't pretend to be anything like an artist, but I do dabble, and we all know the fun that comes from dabbling. I'd been anxiously awaiting my present when my parents decided to be AWESOME. 'Cause I got my present now. In JULY. Nice job, parents. Buying my love is COMPLETELY the right way to go about things.

Truthfully though, they gave it to me now because they know that when I go back to school I wont have any time for fun because I'll be so busy 'working'. I, uh, didn't argue the point. They seemed so proud. So I get my prezzie now and cake on my birthday! Double win! Hurray!

Onward with the point of this whole post; before I told you about it I figured I should draw something to post with it. I thought it would take me a really long time to get used to using it, but so far it really isn't bad. I'm using a Bamboo (adorable name): Pen & Touch or something? I know nothing about these sorts of brands, but it seems to be good. The drawing surface is nice and big and everything. Pretty much my only concern is that the pen tip is wearing down really fast. It came with two replacements, and it seems like I'm going to need them sooner than I thought... I wonder if all pens are like this or if it's the brand? Or me, I could very well be pressing too hard. In any case, I heart my new tablet to pieces.

The first thing I did was a picture of the TARDIS. Being my first attempt at using it, that picture will hopefully never see the light of day. Apart from that I've been working on the main reason of my getting a tablet rather than just thinking about getting one, which is that my best friend, Thingbe and I are starting a webcomic. I hope to have a few comics finished soon so we can start posting. The plan is that Thingbe will write and I'll draw (here's hoping I'll be able to keep up with her intense writing skillz) and we'll grow to such incredible popularity that we'll be a recognized voice in the gaming world causing us to be invited to E3 and the San Diego ComicCon every year while getting awesome jobs as voice actors. Yes, yes we are that cool. Or we will be. Y'know.

Anyways, I didn't have anything drawn to do a post with, so I thought I'd come up with a cool new profile picture since Emperor Palpatine is awesome, but less than original and it'd be really neat to use something that I made. I couldn't think of anything so after much deliberation, I came up with a penguin (get it? get it?). Since that seemed incredibly dull, I decided to personalize it (which isn't easy with a penguin) so it turned into a penguin in SPACE.

Tah Dah!

Indeed, the Magic Penguin has a name, and that name is Flipper. Together, it's a nickname of mine that's way longer than my actual name. Go figure.

It's a little rough, yeah, but I'm fairly proud. While drawing it I found two things that I didn't know about drawing penguins:

1. There's pretty much one way to draw a cartoon penguin.

2. No penguin looks right without a bow tie.

I think it looks too much like another penguin, but I can't think of one to match it, so I'm just going to assume that it's fine.The only thing I know for sure is that the beak is definitely inspired by Topper from that one old Christmas movie with the song that's like "Put one foot in front of the other~!". Man I love that movie. Santa Claus is coming to town or something? In any case, I think I'll try this out as my dp for a while, see if it fits.

Oh yeah, and one last thing: Metroid Prime 3: Corruption is an amazing game, probably one of the best out for the Wii and I have no idea why I didn't play it years ago.