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Welcome to the chronicle of my life. Although some of my posts may in fact be public, 85% of my posts are friends locked, and sometimes grouped for certain friends only.Don't Add Me If You Don't Like the Following:◘ redheads ◘ cats ◘ anime ◘ japanese culture ◘ asian music ◘ fangirling You May Add Me If You Like the List Above and These:♫ asian dramas ♫ random rants ♫ picture posts ♫ fandom ♫ Antic Cafe I do like new friends, so as long as you don't have any issues with the things above, then post a comment here and add me. I'm not likely to add you back unless you actually leave a comment. I never check my profile to see if I have an new friends, so just tell me please. <3
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| I had a dream about my Great Grandfather Dat last night. I had a long conversation about school and told him all about my classes (like Physics and Calculus, etc.) and had in depth discussions about them. Afterwords I cried and told him just how much I missed him.
I hate the fact that this was a dream. I miss him so much. He and Bunny meant so much to me, but I was too young to even begin to comprehend how amazing he truly was.
I would like to think that I truly was communicating with him.
I love you Dat and Bunny. I miss you more than you'll ever know.
Donald Pike
Emmy Award-Winning Technical Manager
Pike's career began as a Music Instructor at Philadelphia Polytechnic Institute. From there he joined Farnsworth Television, Ltd., working as conductor-arranger for experiment television broadcasting. In 1945 Pike joined the Television Development Staff of the National Broadcasting Company. He operated in every technical position in the NBC staff, including that of Technical Director. Some highlights of this phase of his career were Philco Television Playhouse and the first television opera (Aida) which required Pike to read an orchestral score rather than a script. Pike became Technical Director for the RCA-NBC Color Television Systems Development Project Field Tests in 1950. The facilities were used to refine the systems for final approval of the present color television method specified by the Federal Communications Commission. He also served as Technical Field Representative including responsibility for quality control of remote pickups for network service. In 1961 Pike joined the U.S. information Agency in Washington, D.C., and rose to Chief of Production.
Pike then returned to NBC and became deeply involved with color broadcast of events at Cape Canaveral for NASA, since only NBC had color equipment and the other networks had to feed from NBC. He handled the televising of several President trips for Johnson, Nixon, and Ford. Pike has also been responsible for the transmission of several Super Bowls, World Series games and Miss America Pageants. Pike received a Emmy for Technical Production of Stereo Sound for his work on the telecast of Vladimir Horowitz's performance of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3 with the New York Philharmonic conducted by Zubin Mehta. Since his retirement, Pike was asked by the NBC Engineering Department to join their staff in coverage of the 1988 Olympics from Seoul, Korea. | |
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| I'm sorry guys. I'm going to start friends locking my posts again. Not that I really think there are many people that lurk around my journal ( I know of a few), but after recent events I realized that me trying to be nice and leave my journal unlocked leaves me vulnerable.
I hate that it has come to this, but I just don't want to deal with it. I'll probably explain in a locked post. | |
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| Sorry I've been MIA lately, I've been keeping myself busy with FFX and Vet School application stuff.
I seriously forgot how much I love the Final Fantasy series. When I play it I get so nostalgic to a time when I was really carefree. It takes me back to the summer after sophomore year. I spent so much time with friends and with Michelle and Kim. We would all stay the night at Aunt Cindy's and stay up late playing FFVII. I take that back, they would stay up late watching me play it. I didn't need a guide because I had my own two personal guides: Kevin and Wala.
It's sad to think how things are so different now. I don't have time for hardly anything that interests me anymore (besides animals and school), Kevin and Wala don't speak anymore (along with the other boys from that group), Michelle and Kim are married, I'm applying to Vet School. Plus lots more. It's not necessarily bad (well the guys not talking is bad...), but just part of growing up I guess.
So I've been trying to finish FFX. I started playing soon after beating FFVII back in like 2003, but never got a chance to finish it. I picked up again like 2 years ago, but I started fresh just a few days ago. I'm already about halfway through. So far I've played VII, VIII (I need to replay this because I got to the last disc and my save game effed up, so I didn't technically finish it), III (or VI in Japan, the one with Terra), and now X. I just recently bought the remake of IV for DS. I will probably never play IX because it looks awful to me, but I would like to play XII (which I have and own a strategy guide to) and then XIII comes out for XBox 360 in April. So needless to say, FFXIII will be a birthday present to myself in the coming year. <3
Still need to type up the other travel posts. That's coming after I finish FFX. :D
Went to see My Sister's Keeper the other night with the family. UGHHHH TEAR CITY DUDE. But it was good. Apparently ends far different from the book.
Today I also went to Wal-Mart and got to see Mark do a stop for two boys that were shoplifting. It was pretty funny. Mark was waiting for them up front and then stood in their way after they walked outside. He was like "back inside please...". They tried to refuse but he told them there would only be more charges if they argued. :P After that I bought some Burt's Bees face stuff. An exfoliator and the blemish stick. My face feels really nice after using it, so we'll see how this goes. I really like the feel and smell of it. ^__^ It's kinda pricey though. :\
I'm at a spot in the game that takes a turn for the worst. For those of you that played it, I'm about to hit the Macalania Temple to see Seymour. I kinda know what's going to happen, but it'll still be fun.
I haven't been feeling well today. My throat is pretty scratchy so I just made a pot of Korean Citron tea. That stuff is amazing. It tastes great and is so good when you are sick! My Aunt actually turned me on to it. I love it. <3
Also! Joanie (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) candyviolence) is coming to visit when she gets back to Gainesville. :D Yay. I need my dosage of Joanie. And I need to see some friends that don't suck. Like a recent friend of mine. Ughhh....
Oh, and lastly, I chatted with Risa (kurarisa) the other night for like hours. It was really nice catching up and made me realize I need to go on AIM more.
Tomorrow is laundry and more FFX! Mark is off tomorrow though, so need to spend some time with him too. XD
Oh, and PS! I also really want to play the new Star Ocean game for 360. It looks fun. Has anyone played it? Does anyone on my f-list play video games anymore? :P | |
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| So I don't remember a lot of what happened once we got back. A lot of the things that occurred in Korea basically blended together. I'm just going to tell you things that happened based on pictures that I have. XD;;
At one point in the week Missy, Nick, Peter and myself went to Everland. It's a really big theme park that is located in Yongin. We rode the really big wooden roller coaster there called the T Express. It's huge! It's the worlds steepest, ninth fastest, fourth tallest, and sixth longest wooden coaster! Impressive? Haha. It was seriously one of the only roller coasters that I've ridden and was a little bit frightened. LOL. But it was a lot of fun.
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| I finally got copies of Missy's pictures from Beijing, so here are some more pics from China that were not in the earlier posts. <3
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| Once in the Narita airport, we bought a NEX train ticket to get into Tokyo. It was the fastest, but it was like $30. Ouch. We got lost trying to find the damn train. We got on the wrong one, luckily got off, asked someone and BARELY made it on the correct train in time. It was kinda scary. On the way in I had onigiri for the first time. >_<;; Yeah, I know. But as least it was in Japan! Haha. It was really good! We had tuna, salmon, clam, and umeboshi plum. I was too afraid to try the clam though. :P It was really cool though because on the way in it started out as rice paddies and farms. Then as we got closer it got more and more city-like. It must have been laundry day though because EVERYBODY had all of their stuff drying in the windows or balconies. Haha. No, in Japan apparently everyday is laundry day becuase the next going back to the airport we saw everbody's laundry out again.
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| I know I haven't finished part 3 of my overseas trip, but I'm getting there. Right now Missy and I are dealing with a crisis.
We had bought tickets to Baltimore to go see the Vamps concert for tomorrow. We fly out today. Missy went to go get our confirmation number AND OUR FLIGHT IS NOT CONFIRMED. I swear to GOD I will rip someone a new hole if I do not have a flight to Baltimore TODAY.
I WILL NOT MISS THIS CONCERT. I WILL SEE HYDE AND KAZ. THERE IS NO WAY THIS IS HAPPENING. | |
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| Missy, Nick, and I got back from Beijing on Monday and they didn't have to teach on Tuesday either! As soon as we got home on late Monday night, we decided to go eat. We went to this little restaurant around the corner. I don't remember how Missy and Nick phrased what we would be eating, but it turned out to be the vertebrae of pigs in a hot pot style. It sounds disgusting, but it was amazing! The meat was so tender you could pull it off with chopsticks! It was seriously some of the best pork I've ever eaten!
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| I am still working on part 2 of my overseas traveling, but here is an update in between! :D
I got back from NY alright. I had an amazing time. I'll have to do a thorough update about that soon. ^__^ Lot's of very graphic pictures there. ;D
Thursday was Mark's brother Chris's birthday. I ended up baking a cake all day long. It was a three layer French Vanilla cake with homemade rich chocolate icing. :D It was so yummy! The icing was especially good. I had to go to Wal-Mart to get a traveling cake platter somewhat like this. I ran in to Mark and we decided to get a carpet steamer. :X
All he wanted to do when he got home was clean all of our carpets and furniture! XD;; I love that boy, I swear. Haha. We ended up cleaning 1.5 rooms before we took off for Tallahassee.
The cake survived the trip. :P We got up there around 11:00 pm. We ate some yummy ribs that Chris cooked and watched the end of the Magic/Lakers game. We had a lot of fun. Most of the people left after that so Chris, Mark, and I played some Mario Kart Wii. :D Lot's of fun ensued.
Chris told me that my cake was great which made me happy. Especially since I was guessing what kind of cake was his favorite. :P Mark told me vanilla with chocolate icing. Turns out chocolate/chocolate was his favorite. Haha.
We had to come back home today though because Mark had to go in to work for literally 20 mins. on his day off to file a report. Ugghh... Either way, we unleashed a mean dose of spring cleaning in our apartment. Everything is nice and sparkly clean! :DD It's sad how much joy we get out of a carpet cleaner. We're such a married couple. Speaking of marriage/engagements, it's crazy how many people are diving into all that jazz. I know of a few couples who just got engaged, just heard of one soon to be, and two weddings coming up in just a few weeks! What's in the water people, seriously?
I guess that's all for now. I'm thoroughly enjoying my school-free summer though. Just thought I should let everyone know that. ;D | |
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