"Hello people! What's happenin'? (in a super perky voice)" 

No? Okay. 

How about, "Greetings. (Does the vulcan salute)". Too geek-y? Yeah, I agree. 

Or what about, "Yo, wazzup cuz? Wha's happenin'?" Nah, too gangsta.

How about I just stick with, "Hey guys! What's up?"

Yeah. Guess I'll keep that for now.

Hey everybody, it's been awhile./! 

I put ./! 'cause I don't know what's the symbol to represent the tone between this( . ) and ( ! ).

Anyway, I guess it's time I changed the format of how I write my posts. It's been a long time coming, but I guess I didn't really feel like changing it until the time was right. And now I think it's time.

Lots of changes happened, or will be happening. 

First off, I'm no longer a student anymore. Well, TECHNICALLY I am, and I haven't officially graduated yet, but I've finished all my modules in my course, and I've gotten my results. Not bad, I'd say, considering the kind of work I submitted. 

I'd have been really surprised if my results were better though, not that I wouldn't want that to happen. 

But, yeah. School's done for me, I guess. All that's left now is to go for my graduation to get my certificate. 

But man, do I miss school...

Not the work, mind you, but the people, the things we did, the laughs that we shared, and the times together. I'll really miss that about being a student. Since we ended, I guess you could say we all went our separate ways. Some to work, some to camps. I miss them. I miss them all. 

But nothing lasts forever, I suppose.

Dammit. Damn ninjas cutting onions. *sniffles* 

But we're all still connected. Through contacts, email, skype, facebook, etc etc.

So it's not goodbye forever, right? *stifles a sniffle* (Oh gawd, since when was I this emotional?)

Okay, enough about school. Guess that'll be the last time I can say that.

Alright. Up next.

Since, I don't know, I can't really remember when, I got into watching anime. I guess it's another source of entertainment for me. But, I didn't realise I would get so attached to the characters. Each series I finish would make me feel sad for awhile, because I would know the characters on such a personal level that it's like saying goodbye to friends I've known for a long time. 

I know that the characters aren't real but the emotions that they convey and the events that happen on screen that induce a response from me makes me feel a sense of familiarity with the characters.

I don't just watch any genre of anime. Like some people, I have a specific genre type. Or more accurately, a genre combination. The genre type I'm looking out for right now in an anime is a combination of ecchi, harem, romance, comedy, and action. It definitely has to be ecchi and comedy, first of all. I suppose it's 'cause I'm managing myself quite well now, because I have...problems. Yeah, let's go with that.
Then it has to have either a combination of the remaining genres, or all of 'em. 

'Cos that's how I roll, playa! 

Ok, no seriously. That's the genres I go for. I won't watch anything else because I'm only interested in comedic ecchi. It's just something about it that makes me feel genuinely happy. Like, just pure, untainted happiness. 

Yeah I'm still weird as fuck.

Most of the anime I watch comes from anime posts in 9gag. I think without them, I wouldn't have been able to find any of the shows I've been watching. So, thanks 9gag for giving me recommendations :)

Next is the biggest change that will happen.

Enlistment day. 

Coming up in 3 weeks time. 

I have to say, I'm not looking forward to Boot Camp anymore. Not because of the training, well, maybe a little. But because, to me, it represents entering into a whole other life. And I very much enjoy the lifestyle I'm having now. I used to think I had my future figured out, career military officer, girlfriend/wife, loving family and friends to hang out with, but now? I'm not sure of anything anymore. Hell, I'm not even sure what job I will end up working in. 

But I do know this. 

If it is at all possible that my current lifestyle can be maintained, I will do whatever I can to make sure I can keep it that way. I don't want to leave this life behind, and label it as my old life. I want it to stay with me, to grow and evolve like it always has, and to make sure I stay the same person as I always was. 

Sounds like a pet huh?

I just hope things will stay the same for me in the future, as it did for me from the day I changed til now. 

Here's hoping.

I gotta go. Catch y'all next time!

Peace!

Incoming transmission.....

[Okay, so I've been real busy the past 6 months. What with my work and now this project. It's officially been a new year for the past 2 weeks but I don't feel any different. 

Must be my perception of time I guess.

Anyway, Happy New Year. 

I know it's a couple weeks late but still....the feelings' there.

(Had to stop writing for awhile and get to the studio)

Now I'm here in the lab, writing this log entry, wondering if we're gonna start anytime soon.
I know I've missed about 5 months worth of stuff, so I'll try to lay it all out, if I can remember them all.

For starters, my job went quite well. I actually miss the perks of working there. Having access to restricted areas, eating discounted food, getting a higher pay than the others, etc, these things don't come around very often. My job also required me to be on standby 24/7, but I didn't, and still don't, mind it. In fact, I was happy working in environment. Doubt I'll ever get to work under similar conditions again.

I guess Destiny was okay. I kinda found it somewhat confusing though. The story didn't start off with something to ease you into the plot, and the rest of the story was somewhat disconnected. The ending, in my opinion, honestly sucked. I don't mind the cliffhanger, but I felt that there wasn't a sense of closure to the game. Like, if they wanted to have a cliffhanger at the end, then they should have at least closed off the game better. Like Halo CE & 2, or Mass Effect 2. Felt quite dissatisfied with the game.

I think Advanced Warfare doesn't really live up to its predecessors' gameplay. I FINISHED THE WHOLE PLAYTHROUGH IN 1 DAY! The older games I needed to play for at least 3 - 4 days, but this new COD is crazy short. Soooo dissatisfied.

Finished Halo 2A. Really enjoyed the new graphics and HD cutscenes. I hope they redux every Halo game with the same remaster. Right now, I'm currently focused on completing Spartan Ops. I got another 2 episodes to go. I just hope I finish it before Gold runs out.

I played the Halo 5 Guardians Beta. Honestly, I think the new controls and abilities are a logical progression of the Halo series. What I didn't like, is having my ass handed to me on almost every match. Goddamn, those players were the truth. I couldn't even get a shot out before I died. THAT'S skill right there. Since the initial release, I have played quite a few games and usually I died because of either being careless, or server lags. Server lags are what pisses me off, and I bet they do for everyone else. I sprayed an enemy player with 2 full clips of my SMG, and the guy STILL managed to kill me with a melee attack. That shit right there, be retarded as shit. If that doesn't piss any player off, I don't know what will. I've died more than I've killed, and I gained more Assists than any other player I've encountered. I should rename my callsign to "ASSISTANT".

Well, I guess that's all I've got during the 5 months.
Until next time.

Peace.
]

End Transmission.

Incoming transmission.....

[It's been awhile since I've done this, so bear with me.

So, I just started working. Not going to say which company but I will say it's at a fairly important place. The job isn't too bad; the team has been good to me so far, food's good but a little pricey, environment's quite hectic but still tolerable. All in all, still an okay job with just 2 issues: the hours suck and the management suck even harder. 

I'll start with the hours.

Put simply, I'm on a 12 hour shift. Whatever happens during the 12 hours is I and my team's business. When I clock off, I thought that whatever happens that's not part of my 12 hours is not my business. Oh I have never been so wrong. Turns out, I'm on standby 24/7. Even when I'm off duty, I'm working. I can't say that I blame shit that happens at the wrong times but why am I on call every minute of every day? Just the other day, something happened at 3am and the entire department was called back to work. 

At 3am. 

On a weekend. 

And they expected us to reach the office in 15 minutes? 

That. That right there is Olympic track timing.
Nobody can reach the office in 15 minutes, even if there wasn't traffic. Bullshit expectations, I swear.

Now for the management.
I don't know what exactly it is about the guy, but he's just giving off bad vibes. Like, his attitude, his behavior, his overall image. It just puts me off. I can't quite exactly explain it, but every time I see him, I just feel like avoiding him as much as possible. Yeah in front of everyone he's all smiles and shit. But I can't help but feel like he's judging me. I just feel all uncomfortable with him around. I'm okay with everything else about work, just that if he's around, I just feel like work sucks.
He's the main reason for my negative feelings during work.


Anyway that's the shit I gotta deal with from now on until the end of the year.
Now for entertainment part.

Movies I've watched recently:
-Transformers: Age of Extinction (not much of a storyline)
-How to train your dragon 2 (Awesome)
-Hercules (Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson! Whoo!)
-Guardians of the Galaxy (Better than Iron Man 3 honestly)
-Space Pirate Captain Harlock (Not a bad animated film, just couldn't understand the story until right at the end)
-Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (The lift scene OMG haha)

All the movies were great, except for transformers. not much of a storyline there. Just one big explosive film. Literally. Everything just exploded.

I didn't catch all the easter eggs in Guardians of the Galaxy though...
I only caught:
-The dark elf
-The Chitauri soldier
-Howard the Duck (I don't know who that is but I'm assuming it's important)
-Cosmo the Dog (Ditto this guy)
-The celestial head Knowhere


Games I've played recently:
-Nothing yet. Still waiting on:
      - Destiny
      - COD Advanced Warfare
      - Halo Master chief collection

November's gonna be epic! HALO 2 REDUX!

Anyway, story of my life.
Peace.
]

End Transmission.