#sorta based off of Ponyo

[glasslilyjar]

✩ Tuesday, 29th of August, 2023

I'm not sure I'm gonna write everyday and today's a pretty good example of why. Nothing happened. I guess theres no point in reporting your day if nothing happened for you to report.

I don't actually guess that but that's what everyone says before saying an opinion based statement.

The one this that did happen today was that I made this new sort of tea based off of the movie Ponyo, my favourite. I don't what the drink is called but it's really good. It's honey and cinnamon mixed with boiled water and then you add milk. I learnt that it tasted better in smaller dosages.

Tea is definitely one of my favourite drinks. I really like iced teas like fruit teas. If fruit tea wasn't a thing then regular kettle tea would be my favourite

That's a sorta boring update but still. Tea.

- ✩L

#diary entry #online diary #diary #Tea #fruit tea #boring #tired #beabadoobee #I love Beabadobee

[doorstoplord]

@god and tumblr can you please post this I worked hard on it

#‘you can’t do fine shading with a mechanical pencil uwu’ #fight me motherfucker #I do what I want #leeleeart #sorta based off of Ponyo

[almightyhamslice]

I made a personal Diamond Authority!

Koi Diamond is based off Ponyo’s mom (of course she is) and she’s the kindest of all the diamonds in this authority. Her powers include hydrokinesis and the ability to communicate with animals. Her main ability as a diamond allows her to radiate an aura that calms down any gems around her. Thanks to this, anywhere she goes, everyone de-stresses and is able to better focus. It can be disastrous in dangerous situations, however.

Chameleon Diamond is based off Leon from StarFox. He’s very hyperactive and sorta mad, but he’s good at doing his job as a leader, that’s for sure. His advantages include temporary camouflage and high intelligence. His main ability is what can be described as a chaotic aura, anywhere he goes, chaos and fights will break out. If he and Koi are in the same room, they cancel out each other’s effects. He can also move his eyes individually, like chameleons do.

Herkimer Diamond is not a diamond. She’s a very tall quartz (about the same height as Pink Diamond) with diamond-eyes. She doesn’t really have any diamond-like abilities, she’s just stronger than an average quartz and can manipulate light (photokinesis, I think it’s called?). She knows about Chameleon’s camouflage abilities and likes messing with him and altering his colors by switching around the light around him.

Koi’s insignia is an orange and white diamond (colors are split down the middle vertically) Chameleon’s insignia is a green and dull yellow diamond (colors are split down the middle horizontally) Herkimer’s insignia is an upside-down white triangle.

#steven universe #gemsonas #characters #diamond authority #koi diamond #chameleon diamond #herkimer diamond #coral pearl #tahitian pearl #bulbous pearl #art #faux diamond authority #diamonds

[journeywithaaron]

The End to the First Half of 2018

Alrighty, since I got my year-end review/bonus/tiny raise meeting this week, I figure I’d do an evaluation of where I’m at now in 2018 and where I want to be at the end of 2018. Fitness I’m going to include this category in my posts now whenever relevant since they are part of the quad-fecta of areas I’d like to work on.  In February, my peak weight was 140.35lbs with a body fat percentage of 27.0%.  As of today, my weight is at 125.40lbs with a body fat percentage of 22.0%. so I lost roughly 13-15lbs and 4-5% of body fat in 4 months.  That amounts to about 3lbs and 1% body fat per month.  I think that of all the goals that I’ve set for myself for the first half 2018, I was closest to meeting my fitness goal.  I had penned in to reach <125lbs at <20% body fat by the end of Q2 2018, so I was just short about half a pound and 2%.  It’s kinda nice to have shed off a bowling ball off my body, and it’s also pretty darn nice being able to fit back into your favorite suit.  But as we always said at Facebook, the journey is only 1% finished.  For the remainder of 2018, I’m aiming to reach 120lbs while being under 20% body fat.  I believe that to be the “healthy” range for me.  I’m waiting for my weight/body fat to plateau based on my running regiment, and when that happens, I plan to look into some weight fitness to strengthen my body to support the stupidly frail frame that I have.  I haven’t shed away with my favorite drinks and foods, but I have definitely started to eat in moderation.  For the most part, there are nights and afternoons where I have some crazy cravings, but fortunately due to my laziness, sleeping it off hasn’t been a problem.    No one has expressed to me that they’ve noticed, which is actually kinda surprisingly saddening.  I didn’t think of myself as someone who wanted to be validated.  But perhaps that speaks positively of how people view me...or negatively.  Depends I guess on how your life outlook.  Hah.  Overall, for the first half of 2018, I think I am most proud of myself for this category of work, and based off my habits so far, I’m relatively confident that I will meet my 2018 goal in this category. Music WE MADE IT!  The first ever KAMASOquartet live wedding gig has been performed.  There were a lot of unexpectedly difficult hurdles and obstacles, but I guess the wedding director appreciating our work means that we did something right, at least.  Haha.  Capping out that weekend was a day trip to San Jose to watch Joe Hisaishi--the man who pulled me from my rut in 2012--live.  I have to admit, that weekend was a very proud moment of this year.  For me at least, arranging is no easy feat.  I took 30 man hours to do Kiki’s, 20 for Totoro, 20 for Ponyo, and 10 for Country Road for a grand total of 80 hours to punch out 4 pieces.  If that was a full time job, that’s 4 songs in 2 weeks.  Since it was a after-work sorta deal, that ended up being roughly 2 hours a day, 5 days a week, for 8 weeks.  To me, that was a huge investment of time, especially on top of my fitness goals and desire to advance my career.  To get told that I don’t do anything and get jabbed lightly that I don’t hang out with them, I have to admit that I get slightly heated and annoyed.  I didn’t think myself to be someone who cared deeply about how I was viewed by my community, but this weekend of going back to what I’ve prided myself in in the past using sheets that came from my sweat and ears that I got to verify live in San Jose was a cathartic moment for myself where I got to say “in your face” to those who decided that my life was something that they wanted to be spectators of.  But people aside, the culmination of all my arrangement and practicing ended in a weekend was a magical moment in my heart, and I think this weekend will convince me that I treat my music hobby seriously for many weeks to come.  That said, the mid-year goal was indeed to write the arrangements for this wedding.  Originally, I was thinking of going gung-ho on music only until the gig, but the weekend has shown me a little, so I’ve decided to aim to finish my Ghibli Book by the end of 2018.  Originally I was fretting over copyrights and whatnot, but if I do this as a private project and not as something to sell and profit off, I think it will be ok.  I think it’s a little ambitious, because that amounts to roughly 2 songs per month, which if I can do one in 20 hours, would be 2 hours a per weekday, or 5 hours per weekend day.  I also hope to (finally) set up a website for this stuff.  Granted I can’t publish anything really unless it’s my original compositions, but I guess having that site up and resources readily available to plug myself into weddings would be a nice source of finding opportunities to exercise this hobby.  Who knows, maybe all this will eventually show me that I can do away with engineering for the rest of my life.  Hah... Career And the worst for last.  Ah, what a bubbly failure this one ended up being.  Exactly one week ago, I boarded Cathay Pacific with two full sized luggages, one backpack, and one carry on suitcase after completing my Master’s in HK.  On this day exactly, I was sitting in my ex-managers office, interviewing for the position I am in.  In that interview, he expressed to me that he worries that this job would be too boring for me, that it wouldn’t be challenging enough.  I responded that the company deals with something that I am interested in, and if I found that this position was too boring, I would love to switch over to a role where I can be a bigger contributor.  When I said that, I meant that I wanted to end up in software development.  He replied that our department wants focals to work at least a year in their position before switching over.  When I accepted this position, in the back of my mind, I was already thinking about ways to switch over.  One year has passed since then, and a lot of the initial conditions have been changed, but one year later, I can confidently say I am not much closer to software engineering than I was the day I accepted the position.  I can’t walk into any interview room confident in my ability to write code or to evaluate code.  My resume doesn’t reflect the ability to code, and as time keeps going on, my resume will slowly shoehorn me into a deep career of test engineering.  It’s a field that can pay well, but it is definitely the field that tends to get bullied a lot.  Again, after the one-year, and half-year commitments, I expressed a desire but didn’t jump in deep enough to get any closer to my desire. But you know, fall 6 times, get up 6 times.  As long as I continue to respond to my guilt and disappointment with reinvigorated passion, I think in time, whether 6 months or 5 years, I’ll one day find the strength and determination to make a strong jump backwards into the career line that’s next to me.  So for the remainder of 2018, I hope to be able to put myself in a position to apply to entry level software engineering roles by fall.  That means, for this summer, I hope to finish two specializations (Java and Algorithms) on Coursera, finish out 30 days of code on HackerRank, create a health app, write more scripts at work, and develop a mini mobile game.  Quite a loaded summer, but the hope is that by the start of 2019, when someone asks “can you code?” I can confidently reply with “yes I can.”  Hopefully this past half-year is the last time I have to fall over. Final Half-Year Review Remarks Whew I’m back to my wall of text tendencies.  When I graduated from UCI in 2015, I looked back at the 5 years of college that I had and thought “man that is the fastest I will ever grow, and now growing will slow down.”  And I was wrong, because in some aspects, I felt like I’ve shrunk, actually.  I think that since graduation, my pride and bitterness have spiraled into something that is dangerously hard to control.  The part of me that declares goals and doesn’t take action is still present, and a new desire to be viewed by my community in a certain way has manifested itself out of nowhere.  While I highly value peace and balance, I think a lot of the negative aspects of who I am now crept up from tilting too far into the peace side of things, which became more like lethargy than peace.  I guess, then, the abrasive community that I find myself in now was right in calling me out.  I believe that in the past half-year, I did accomplish many things that I have not accomplished before--tanking my weight down a bowling ball and pumping 4 arrangements that I actually don’t want to burn.  But for me to match what I declare to dream to be requires even more work than what I think to be my personal limit.  The upcoming half-year, I hope to find out whether or not this limit is the actual limit, or just a mental block that I put on myself to allow myself to continue to dwell in those negative aspects of my personality.  Of course, the hope is that I can break the limit and combat my negative tendencies, but I do have a tendency to fail quite spectacularly.  But that’s ok, as we also said back at Facebook.  Fail fast, fail harder.  Hopefully the next report in will show signs of more action.  Not a bad first half of the year, but let’s use both the negatives and positives to motivate ourselves into finishing the year strong!