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Dayam, keep a eye out for this one

So while youtube surfer looking for some hot remixes. I stumbled upon this person doing her version of J. Holiday's Bed.



Now ain't nothing hotter than a girl who has singing skills and good taste in music. Upon further research, I found out that this person is Erika David. A 19 year old filipino hailing from the bay area. She's been posting up these random videos of the latest songs showing off her skills. I'm happy to see one filipino sisters doing her thing. Recently she entered in the Colgate Max Fresh contest



and she won. Mass props to her because now she's making a demo up in New York. If you have time, check out her youtube page and see some of the other songs she sang.

Browsing her collection, Erika has a good song collection. So keep an eye out for this one. This one might be he next it girl like Keri Hilson or Crissete Michelle. Big ups.

Here's one of her recent vids.

My apologies

You know its bad, when you updating your blog only once every two weeks. My apologies to the readers out there. I know my fanbase has dwindled. But when your occupied with the real world, its hard to sit down and keep everyone posted with your point of views. I do have a master plan, and things will be changed. So to all the GSC fans out there, thanks for sticking with me. And to all the fans that I lost, things will pick up soon.

G.S.C.

Gorillaz- Dirty Harry Remix

The Dirty Harry beat is hard to begin with. I'm surprised they didn't play something like this during the summer olympics. But I definetely think this remix is tight.



BTW

The producers of the Gorillaz did create a commercial for the olympics.

Let me ask you something...

If you would ask someone what would best describe you. How would they desribe you? Would they say you are the nicest person in the world, or the biggest jerk they ever know. Are you someone they can rely on in a time of need, or don't even bother contacting you because they know you won't answer. Will they say your two-faced, have some issues or too hard to deal with? Are you fun, boring, wierd or just plain?

How would they describe you?

Take a minute to think about it... now let me ask you another question.

Do they way people think about you affect your actions in life? Do you act a certain way in order to have the people around you perceive you in a certain way? Or are your actions purely made by you and you alone.

Take a minute to think about it... now one last question.

Do you care what other people think? Because you really shouldn't. I know some people are self concious, but really, you shouldn't care if people perceive you as wierd, dumb, stupid, good, bad whatever they think of you. The only thing that matters is that the actions you made were purely made by you and not by the influences of others. The minute you stop concerning yourself what people say behind your back, the less stress you have to deal with in life.

Take a minute to think about it.

Macross Frontier- Diamond Crevasse

If your a big Macross Frontier, then you guys know that episode 20 is crazy. Being a big fan of music with animation. The minute they played this song with the ending, I was close to tears. If your not sure what I'm talking about, check out the serious for yourself. It is pretty good. I might just have to put a review of it on here. But for the time being, this song is now going to be put on repeat on my playlist for awhile.



Thank you animelyrics.com for the lyrics

Romanji Lyrics

kami-sama ni koi wo shiteta koro wa
konna wakare ga kuru towa omottenakatta yo
mou nido to furerarenai nara
semete saigo ni mou ichido dakishimete hoshikatta yo

It's long long good-bye...

sayonara sayonara nando datte
jibun ni mujou ni iikikasete
te wo furu nowa yasashisa dayo ne?
ima tsuyosa ga hoshii

anata ni deai STAR kagayaite atashi ga umarete
aisureba koso i areba koso
kibou no nai kiseki wo matte dou naru no?
namida ni nijimu hoshi no matataki wa gone...

wasurenai yo anata no nukumori mo
sono yasashisa mo subete tsutsunde kureta ryoute mo
It's long long good-bye...

sayonara sayonara itoshii hito
anata ga ita kara aruite koreta
hitori nanka jyanakatta yo ne?
ima kotae ga hoshii

moeru you na ryuusei tsukamaete hi wo tomoshite
aishiteitai aisaretetai
hieta karada hitotsu de sekai wa dou naru no?
haritsudzuketeta kyosei ga toketeku long for...

doushite nano? namida afurete tomerarenai

anata ni deai STAR kagayaite atashi ga umarete
aisureba koso i areba koso
kibou no nai kiseki wo matte dou naru no?
namida ni nijimu hoshi no matataki wa gone...

moshi umarekawatte mata meguriaeru nara
sono toki mo kitto atashi wo mitsukedashite
mou nido to hanasanaide tsukamaetete
hitori jyanai to sasayaite hoshii planet...

English Translation

When I was still in love with god,
I never expected such a farewell would come.
If I had known I could never feel your touch again,
I would've hoped to be embraced just one last time.

It's long long good-bye...

Goodbye, goodbye, so many times,
I repeated the word to myself,
Waving my hands. It's only graceful, right?
Now, I long to be stronger.

I met you, the stars sparkled, and I was born.
I love you, therefore I am.
What good is waiting for a hopeless miracle?
Through my tear-filled vision, the planet's twinkle is gone...

I can't ever forget your warmth,
Your kindness, and your all-encompassing hands.
It's long long good-bye

Goodbye, goodbye, my beloved.
I came this far because you were here.
I wasn't alone, was I?
Now, I long for answers.

Catch a falling star that looks ablazed and light a fire,
I still want to love, and I still want to be loved.
What good is a lone freezing body to this world?
I long for you to finally drop your act...

What's wrong? Why can't I stop my tears from overflowing?

I met you, the stars sparkled, and I was born.
I love you, therefore I am.
What good is waiting for a hopeless miracle?
Through my tear-filled vision, the planet's twinkle is gone...

If we are reincarnated and can meet again some day,
Please find me and hold me tight,
And make sure you don't let go again.
I wish the planet would whisper to me that I'm not alone...

Kanye West Anime Music Video- Good Morning

Got this tidbit from the Animenewsnetwork. Japan's Oriental Light and Magic company created a music video for Kanye West's song "Good Morning." With this video being made in Japan, it is officially a anime music video. Mass props to the people to the people who made the music video because it is the #1 music video on itunes. I liked the song Good Morning to begin with, and this video just makes the song better. This is defintely going to be my theme song when I felt like I made it in this world. Peep it out. What do you think of the video?

New Goals in Life

So I got some goals that I would like to obtain by the end of the year:

-Burn at least 2% of my body fat and obtain a flat belly.
-Have this blog up and running again and update more than just once a week.
-Create a new blog solely on reviews
-Be able to conversate in Japanese without struggling

A good way I figured to obtain these goals is to try to be one up than a person higher up than you. My motivation right now is to be one better than the best. Like Busta Rhymes showed in his video with Linkin Park:

"Destroy your enemies with success"

Know more friends than the next guy, be on that magazine cover before the next guy, be more wealthier, more skilled, more better than the best so you can become the best. Settling equals to defeat so never settle. If you get success, all the haters can do is hate. Now I'm not saying that you should be big headed when you become the best. But to be the best, you really do got to beat the best. I know I sound like a cheesy cliche right now, but its true. I'm tired of seeing these "what I did this past weekend" bloggers, blogging about partying at the biggest events and having access to places people can only dream of and basically saying you'll never get there and shoving it in your face.

To everybody out there striving to be better, my props go out to you. Keep your head up and fists held high. Scream out on the top of your lungs that your going to make it. Because if you keep thinking your going to make and actually plan it out, you will make it.

Happy one year anniversary GSC blog!

Thoughts and interests for the week

Part 1: Bboy crews

Ok for those who are fans of Super Cr3w. There are bboy crews out there that are way better than the finalist of America's Best Dance Crew.

For example the Extreme Crew from Korea



These guys are my idols.

There is also the Gambler crew hailing from Korea and their going to be in a movie with Omarian in the future



the Mortal Kombat crew from Japan, one of them members of Mortal Kombat beat Do-Knock in singles competition at the red bull bc one 2006 competition



Out of super cr3w, the only guy I give props to is Ronnie. Ronnie was Red Bull BC one champion last year. And he was part of that "battle" between the Jabbawockeez and Supreme Soul (Soul Sector).

Ideally, once I get all my ducks in order, one of my goals in life is to do the elbow spin. Just like these guys.



Part 2: It's wedding season

Back in the day, the formal event my friends and I would look forward to is debuts. Now as we get older, its now Weddings. And for some reason, September seems to be the month that everybody wants the ceremony to happen. This past week I received 3 wedding invitations all in the same month. The game is on, I gotta get my Sunday best on and find me some wedding dates. Because the downside about San Diego weddings is that you basically know everybody at the ceremony. So there really isn't going to be a moment where you happen to meet someone new like in Hitch or Wedding Crashers

Part 3: What did I do this weekend blogs

It seems that blogging appears to be a mainstream trend. Everybody and their dayam momma has a blog nowadays. And the blogs I've been seeing lately is not about opinions or points of views. It's all about "What I did this past weekend" blogs, and thats it. I mean lets be honest, not everybody in the world is going to be interested in you partying it up in a club, getting drunk and hanging out with a bunch of folks on a Saturday night, every Saturday night. Smack me if this blog ever becomes something like that.

Just remember before this blog there was the myspace blog, and before the myspace blog there was the Xanga blog which I hate to admit but it was a "what I did this past weekend" type of blog. So before anybody says I've jumped on the bandwagon, I've been doing this before the blogspot days.

News about anime posts will come up soon. Peace out.

Disappointed with myself

So its been awhile since I posted something. And to the five readers out there, I truly apologize. A lot has been going on, and a lot of stuff has been running through my mind. And for some reason it feels like its just not working for me right now. I made a post sometime last year about feeling like your just existing. Your not making a difference, you not affecting anybody, your just there. In your mind you want it to change, but it just doesn't. You just think about the situation your in and how it will never change. And you start to take everything as a personal hit.

Example, this past weekend I had a great time with my friends. But there was one thing that bothered me. If you want to know what was wrong, I'll be glad to tell you if you ask. But I won't type it here. I'll say this though, I had a golden opportunity to make a good night into the best night ever. And I really think I wasted that opportunity. I'm really disappointed in myself

Trying to stay positive in a negative world is a hard thing to do. I hear a lot of people tell me to keep my head up. But its hard to keep your head up when you feel like you have somebodys foot on the back of your head keeping it down.

I need to find my motivation again.

Til then, I've had this song on repeat for awhile...





P.S. For now, I'm going back to post some regular posts, the rest of my Japan trip will be covered sooner or later.

Day 7: Shibuya and Harajuku

With a couple major cities under our belt and the trip half way done. We decided to check out some of the shopping districts that Tokyo had to offer. Now here's a couple things about the shopping districts in Tokyo:

1. It's pretty expensive
2. All the stores are 7 stories high
3. The fashion is on point
4. You will see a lot of brands you can find in the U.S.

With that said, our first stop was Shibuya. Now if you've ever seen a movie that features Tokyo's busy streets, it is most likely taped in front of Shibuya station. With its 6 directional crosswalk, it gets pretty busy once those lights turn green. Another thing to take notice if your ever in Shibuya is the Statue for Hachiko the dog. Hachiko is a dog that waited for his master at Shibuya everyday when he went to work. Faithful to his master, he continued waiting at the station for 9 years after his master died. In honor of his devotion, they built a statue of Hachiko in front of the station where I hear a lot of celebrities like to drop by and take a picture with the statue.

Continuing on, if your traveling on a budget with barely enough to buy stuff, you're basically window shopping around these areas. These shopping districts are not cheap. On average, a pair of jeans is minimum $100 and a T-shirt with a design is usually around $45-50. Another thing I found interesting was, it was pretty hard to find Japanese brands, a large amount of shops carried brands that you would normally find in the US. But unlike the US, instead of many big complexes of strip malls and department stores. There are a lot of small mom and pop shops. So you can find a treasure here and there.

Harajuku pretty much offered the same type of selection, but with the shops more scrunched up together. If your really into youth fashion, you can definitely find it on the streets of Harajuku. You can for sure find the next trend going to the US in the streets of Harajuku. One thing I did notice about Harajuku is that there is a street with nothing but Expensive American brands, this includes Gucci, LV etc. etc. In fact, you can find all those high end stores all over Tokyo. It ain't that hard to find.

Now hard to believe, but with all the walking and traveling. Our day was pretty much consumed with those two shopping districts. With myself feeling under the weather, I had to call that a day. FYI, Japanese medicine is not that strong compared to US medicine. So try not to get sick if your out here.

Day 8-13 is coming really soon. So stay tuned folks.

Lack of updates

Wow, 12 days and I haven't updated this site in awhile. I really feel bad about it especially since I have 7 more days to cover about Japan. It's crazy when your trying to do regular life stuff and time just flies by. I have plans for this site, which might include seperating the anime side of this into a totally new blog. Once everything gets organized, this site will be back and updated. I should update this sometime this week. So stay tuned.

Day 6: Yokohama

Originally this day was suppose to be the day we go to Osaka, but after reading my guidebook on the Subway. I noticed Osaka was more of a shopping, nightlife town and not a day trip. So after a couple train swaps thanks to our JR rail pass. We ended up in Yokohama.

You hear about this city mentioned in many shows and movies. I've come to find out that this city does a lot of importing and exporting. Yokohama being a seaside city, the nice cool ocean breeze was a different pace to the concrete jungle of Tokyo. Now the distance from Yokohama to Tokyo is not that far. It's like going from Downtown San Diego to Oceanside. At this point of the trip, my buddy and I have come to start taking advantage of maps instead of wondering around. So the first thing we hit up in this city is Yokohama Stadium. Baseball is pretty big there, unfortunately I wasn't able to attend one. But that just gives me another reason to come back to this town. Since cars isn't a big thing, the stadium was surrounded by a park and not a parking lot. Which is definitely a good thing. So the area looked nice. Granted it wasn't a big park, but still it was cool seeing green surrounding a stadium instead of asphalt.

After seeing the stadium, we headed towards the "bay area" of the city. Now I really wanted to check out this statue of the water god that was mentioned in the guidebook. Upon arriving at the statue, we come to discover that the statue was donated by San Diego. So it was a piece of our home placed in their home. The statue was given to them as a sign of good relations between the US and Japan. This whole area was beautiful, being from a town surrounded by beaches. Seeing the ocean reminded me of home.

After being reminiscent, we hit up the one thing that we kept hearing from locals about Yokohama. That Yokohama had one of the biggest Chinatown's that I've ever seen. I know I know, I know what your thinking. Why are you visiting a Chinatown in Japan. I was a little hesitant to check this out. But this place was huge, I mean really huge. Not like a block like the Chinatown in London. This was like a small suburb size in a big city. It was pretty cool checking this place out. There were temples, souvenier shops, meat buns and roasted chestnuts all over the place. If you ever wanted to ride a rickshaw, this place has it. If your looking for a martial arts outfit, this place has it. And you know its pretty cool to check out Chinatowns all over the world, so far I hit up Chinatowns in Japan, England, France and the US.

That pretty much sums up the day. We got back from that city around 7:00 PM. Had some dinner and just called it a day.

Til next time.

Day 5: Kyoto

One of the deals that you can get being a travelor is a JR rail pass. With the JR rail pass, you basically get access to all JR trains, buses and ferries across Japan. Since I didn't want to stay in Tokyo the whole 2 weeks I was there. We decided to check out some of the shrines in Kyoto. Now the distance from Tokyo to Kyoto is about the same distance from San Diego to San Francisco. Now here's the cool thing, we took the Shinkansen to get to Kyoto. And the Shinkansen is the really fast bullet train, so we got from Tokyo to Kyoto in 2.5 Hours. Now while riding the train, we were able to see Mt. Fuji, unfortunately I wasn't able to take a picture because I was on the wrong side of the train.

Upon arriving to Kyoto, we first went to the Fushimi Inari Taisha. A little background on this shrine thanks to Lonely Planet, this shrine was dedicated to the gods of rice and sake by the Hata family in the 8th century. Upon arriving to the shrine, its a custom to wash your hands and drink the water at the entrance. I believe it was a form a cleansing before entering a place to pay respect. This place was pretty big, covering a whole mountain, so it was definitely a hike. But the view was just beautiful, the whole mountain felt like it had a lot of history in it. This was one of the biggest shrines they have in Japan, so it had a lot of graveyards and mini shrines honering the dead. You will notice along the walkways hundreds of wooden "torii." Now Torrii's is like a gateway, once you walk through one, its like cleansing your spirit before paying your respects. And with the amount of shrines they had in this one area, it was no surprise why they have so many.

Now we were suppose to go to another shrine that day, but we didn't know that most of the temples and shrines close at sundown. And we arrived in Kyoto 3 hours before sunset. Since we were only able to hit up one temple, we decided to hit up one more spot before we ventured back. And we definitely got the otaku out of us when we checked this place out. It was the Manga Museum in Kyoto.

Now the manga museum is exactly a Manga Otaku's dream. It has a collection of all the manga's ever made. And the best thing about it is, you can pull the books off the shelf and read them. Of course you have to know Japanese, but dayam all the manga at your fingertips. You can read anywhere in the museum, and there is a park area outside to read at if your that type of person. I admit man it was crazy holding the first volume of initial D in my hands. There was also some interactive area's where you can create your own characters and pretend to be voice actors. If that wasn't enough, the museum use to be a school back in the day. So we were walking in the halls of a Japanese school.

At this point, it was getting late, so we got a train back to Tokyo. Now thinking I would still be able to see Mt. Fuji, I asked for seats on the mountainside. Now I was on the right side, but it was already night and I couldn't see nothing because it was pitch black. We got back to Tokyo around 11:00 in the evening. And it was cool to see that the city was still running like people were just getting out of work. The funny thing is, that people were still getting out of work. So much to learn about this place, so little time.

Til next time.

Day 4: Shopping at Akihabara

*Warning: For those who dream about going to Akihabara all the time, I wouldn't read this post. It might shatter your perfect image of the place.

Ok so its a Monday, we have another 10 days in Japan. Might as well go shopping, and what better way to start than at Akihabara. Now check this out, like I said before there are rows and rows of shops that are nothhing but seven stories or more. Each having a specific theme whether it would be games, anime, electronics, or all of the above. If your going to seriously check out everyshop, your going to need a couple days. Did I forget to mention there are arcades galore? But I gotta give those fighter genre players out there, the competition is fierce out there. If your a novice, your not going to get a single hit on these cats. Believe me I know, and I thought I was a pro at Guilty Gear XX too.

So pretty much the majority of the day was trying to go through all these shops. Checking out so many random anime shops, it was crazy to see all the dvd's they had and random items that were on sale. But here's the downside for all the US shoppers. All the dvd's are region 2 and unless you know Japanese, there are no english subtitles. Unlike american dvd's, tv show dvds have only 2 episodes and each dvd is about 30-40 bucks each. Everything is pretty much expensive in Japan, so if you want a good time, think of a budget that you want to bring and increase that by 50%. But if your looking for a quick souvineir, than the capsule machines got your back. For about 200 yen, you get a figurine that'll probably cost 5 bucks here in the states. And they got miles and miles of these machines everywhere. Now I didn't come home empty handed, I actually came back with this beauty right here that you'll rarely find in the states.

After Akihabara, we ventured into Roppongi a little more. Now this time we ventured into Roppongi Hills, which is a mixture of business, mall shops, and hanging out at the same time. Get what I'm saying? So basically you got a mall, business building and a open park area all scrunched up into one. It's a nice area. Crazy thing about this mall is the gap between the shops, the walkways are literally a yard wide. So all the shops are close to each other. So close that you could hear the other shops talking ish if they want to. We got lost walking around in this condensed area, so we called it a day there.

That night, we ended up at Sam and Dave's. Our homie brought a wii there, and we ended up playing some Mario Kart and Guitar Hero up in the same bar we first partied at. I thought that was pretty cool.

Nothing too exciting, but its still shopping in the anime and electronics wonderland.

Day 3 Asakusa and Harajuku

So day 3 comes around, my time clock has been adjusted and today was packed with stuff. To start off we met up with Laurie and Nathalia from Sam and Dave's and headed down to Asakusa to check out the Senso-Ji temple. Now coincidentally there was a festival going on at the same time. So this place was packed with people. The festival is called the Sanja Matsuri. Now during this fetival you get to see about 100 portable shrines being paraded through Asakusa. So you see groups of people all wearing the same clothes and start chanting out stuff. But it looked like each shrine was individual, so each group was showing their pride. I was personally happy to take a visit to a temple during a festival because I always wanted to try the food at a festival. So if your looking for authentic japanese stuff. Definitely this would be the place to get it. There were so many items such as kimonos, yukatas, sake sets, anything you think is Japanese they got it here.

Asides from showing your respects at the temple, there were also little activities that you could partake in. Activities included fortune telling, carnival games, and trying all the various festival food. Now if you want to imagine what kind of food they had out here, its definitely not fair food. You would find things like Okinomiyaki(Japanese pancake), Takoyaki(Octopus balls), various bbq sticks, roasted chestnuts and the list goes on and on. Dealing with the crowds was difficult at times, but its all part of the experience.

After enjoying this festival, we all went to a totally different festival down at Harajuku. Harajuku is one of the many fashion districts in Tokyo. Here Tokyo's fashion is on point. If you want to know whats the next trend going to the states in 2 years, you'll find it in Harajuku. Now you can guess the theme of the festival by checking out the title: One Love. Before checking out the one love festival we checked out Yayogi park. Yayogi park has a wide variety of characters and performances. Here you can see everything from skateboarders, Dixie bands, jugglers and even dancing elvis's. It was a really big park, so you see a lot of people enjoying themselves. Now at Yayogi park was the One Love Festival. So there was one love spread everywhere. I never seen so many Japanese Rhastafarians in my life. Let me tell you, there was beer and tequila everywhere. Aside from the drinks and the jerk chicken, there was a collection of Japanese Reggae performances. And let me just say that japanese reggae is off the hook. Look it up sometime. Now I noticed during the concert that everybody had two fingers in the air saying "blap blap blap". Now basically thats their version of showing love. Shooting imaginary guns in the air. It was still a great festival though. It was tight to see how one love is spread throughout the world.

Now how did we conclude the night? Our host with the most cooked a Adobo Dinner for all of us, throw a little wii action in it, and you have a dope night.

Normally I would insert some pictures at this point, but our homegirl Laicie actually made a video of that day.

Till next time.

Day 2: Akihabara and Tokyo Midtown

After a night of drinking and being in the same clothes for the past 36 hours. It was due for a change of pace, and my homie decided to take us to the Otaku Paradise. Thats right folks Akihabara. And yes, the rumors are true. Anything and everything electronics and anime can be found in this part of the city. There are shops that are 7 to 9 stories high with nothing but electronics or anime. Sometimes even both. You can find them all over the place. Their electronics stores there make our best buys look like nothing. I mean, there was a 160 inch HD Flat screen there. Try and top that. There are huge advertisements everywhere, and you see workers promoting maid cafe's on the streets. There is also a wide variety of street performers depending on the day of the week. Now keep in mind, everything in Japan is expensive. So if you were planning on copping the new Evangelion DVD, plan on spending $50 on it. Also keep in mind that if you want to get DVD's here, its region 2, so you need a region 2 player. We were only able to check out Akihabara for only a moment because it was about to rain and we had no umbrellas.

After checking out the land of anime and electronics, me and my homie decided to venture into the city on our own. So we ventured into one of the many rich malls in Japan. This one being called Tokyo Midtown. Now if you want to imagine what kind of stores are in Tokyo Midtown, think your richest mall and add $100 more than you can afford and you get Tokyo Midtown. This mall had the top of the line brands from all over the place. Remember you need the dough if you want to shop here. Keep in mind that Japanese fashion is on point. If their not sporting the latest urban trend, then they got the top of the line brands. This mall had some good stuff though, like cooking classes on demand, bougie restaurants, and a food court where you definitely gotta know your japanese to order. But don't be afraid, remember, they do speak english.

Now I wish I could say I did more that day. It was our first Saturday out in Tokyo. But the jet lag got to me. So the minute we got back to our friend's pad, I just crashed. But that will be the only night that I crash prematurely. Till next time.