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On Saturday I went with a bunch of
nerds..Pokémon trainers .. guys... X) to a Pokéclectic meetup. On Friday Craig
(he's an admin on their forums) made me a few competitive pokés and devised 2 team
strategies with the other admin for me, as I haven't looked at Pokémon theory in
over a year, and back then it was a lot less developed! How strange that such a
simple game can be so seriously competitive and strategic!

Australia is hosting an event until the 16th at select EB Games stores: they're


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On Saturday I went with a bunch of
nerds..Pokémon trainers .. guys... X) to a Pokéclectic meetup. On Friday Craig
(he's an admin on their forums) made me a few competitive pokés and devised 2 team
strategies with the other admin for me, as I haven't looked at Pokémon theory in
over a year, and back then it was a lot less developed! How strange that such a
simple game can be so seriously competitive and strategic!



Australia is hosting an event until the 16th at select EB Games stores: they're
giving Arceus away! Arceus is the "God" legendary Pokémon.





yuck xD

I played only 2 battles. Pokéclectic play 3v3 battles in Standard Cup
tournament rules, and on top of that have a "best out of three" system. I won my
first battle against member Jester, he won the next, so the next was a tie breaker
and I won :P But it was like Craig and Daniel (he's super into it!) were playing,
not me ^^;
The next I played was a multi-battle. I was on Toshiya's team and Daniel was on a
team with "xXSweepXx". You can see that battle here if you're interested:





We got pretty lucky really!  My Pokémon are Starlet (Starmie), Snooze (Snorlax)
and Nimbus (Spiritomb) in this battle.



Not sure if I want to keep up competitive battling, I guess I'll
dabble.

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Animé. Animated, Japanese style cartoons.

Manga. Comics, still, not moving. Drawings. Not animated.

Don't mix the two, they're different mediums. You don't say you're drawing a movie,
or watching a comic, right? You say you're drawing a picture and are reading a
comic. Same with animé and manga. You can't draw animé. Actually animate it though
and we'll talk.

On Monday I bought like $20 worth of
bows...


 

These ones I'm going to have to wait to wear until I can

figure out how to style my hair properly (volume! I need it!)

I wanna wear it with a hime hair style, really.

Will be hitting up tutorials when uni is out the way :D


  



I almost forgot this one!


I'm thinking of decoden'ing it~

Does anybody (people I know already mainly...? XD) not have an account on
Kupika.co.uk yet? If so leave a comment and I'll get an invite to you (if you fit
the silly rules) ^^

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I read something I found quite interesting the other day, but didn't stop to
think about it much. Not until I realised how true it held to myself, when I applied
it to a class I take that I don't like.



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I read something I found quite interesting the other day, but didn't stop to
think about it much. Not until I realised how true it held to myself, when I applied
it to a class I take that I don't like.



It touched on how a lot of people judge, assume. We assume the person over there is
This because of That, and if we never see them again, the impression will
stick. Even among the open-minded, it's hard not to judge. Stereotypes make their
way into society too well and we're all aware of them, being aware of it is enough
for the subconscious mind to jump to a conclusion. But this, I knew. It's the part
that emphasised leaving people or things as a clean, blank slate until you learn
things about them rather than filling it in yourself. I was surprised at how foreign
a concept that was to me when I really thought about it; surprised at how much I
assume even though I'm aware that I don't know it. I tend to think when people (who
are able to read my friends only journal) say they don't know me very well, that
they're rather silly and - of course they know me well! But then reading this, I
realised how little I do disclose, even in my emotion-filled gushes and my rants. I
don't think many people really do know what's going on in my mind, could predict how
I would react to a situation, what I would like (and I've been noticing that more
when present-times come around ^^; ). I don't talk about what's going on in my mind
a lot to people other than my boyfriend. It makes me feel like there's a lot to do
in the world and not enough time to do it all, it makes it feel more exciting.



When it comes to people, as I explained to Craig - whom apparently I am a lot better
at explaining to than I am explaining it to a blank text box, I tend to "pigeon-hole"
groups of people. If this person reacted this way to that situation,
and they have this, do that and think that way, another person
who also has this, does that and thinks that way will probably
react the same way. It's not stereotyping per se, as the people could be in
completely different social stereotypes or just be different in general, but it's
those experiences where I've witnessed similarities that I draw the expectation
from. But why?



I take a particular class at university that I thought would teach me a lot about
its specific subject-matter. I thought it would be interesting and wonderful. I made
a lot of assumptions, and put aside what I potentially didn't like; I ignored
it and decided to, essentially, conjure up my own perfect class to take that would
be brilliant, it would be lovely and I would never be upset with it. Why did I do
that? Why did I flat out deny the facts - automatically? Things like this
really make me think, and as much as I think I'm learning about myself, I can't help
but wonder whether I'll learn something that denies all my ideas' plausibility. But
then, wouldn't I deny them?



Apparently I really love my dream world. ♥

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