Oh, TV, how I've missed you... I still do

Being so busy, I don't watch much actual tv. I don't follow too many shows anymore because I eventually get so busy and I get so behind in the show that I eventually forget to catch up (or lose interest but not necessarily because the show is not interesting). Basically, what I'm saying is that the extent of "tv" that I watch is whatever I remember to record on the PVR, or whatever I download. Anyway, there's a long list of shows that I'd like to follow but I find myself switching between the following three shows the last couple of days:

I've occasionally caught episodes of Mutant X here and there on Space and I've always found it interesting (I'm a big Sci-fi fan) but never watched it consistently enough to actually learn anything about the characters. I downloaded all 3 seasons of Mutant X years ago and am only just watching it now.

I followed NCIS:LA when it first came out because I'm a fan of the original NCIS. I love the humour on the shows, the crime solving, and the science. But yet again, a couple weeks into the show, I eventually got too bust to follow it consistently. I caught a episodes once in a while but I hate it when I watch and I have no idea what happened to some of the characters because I missed previous episodes. Anyway, I downloaded season 1, and am probably gonna download the next two seasons too.

I got to talking about Sailor Moon with someone a couple of weeks ago and I got all nostalgic. For the sake of... authenticity... I downloaded all 5 seasons of Sailor Moon in Japanese and not English dubbed as I grew up watching.

I like making connections when I watch shows. What I mean is I like looking up the actors (on IMDB, one of my favourite sites :p) and seing what other shows/movies they've been in. And watching these shows have inspired me to watch a couple of other shows that I never quite caught up on:

Tru Calling - a show with Zach Galifianakis before he was famous - a show I actually watched on tv. I even have the first season on DVD, but sadly I can't find the 2nd (and final) season on DVD. So I'm gonna download it when I get the chance. Vampire High is a show I caught on late night YTV during my later high school years. I don't think I ever watched the whole series (a single season) and I doubt that the episodes I did watch were in order. So, this is high on my list for shows to watch. Bleach, the more age-appropriate anime that I kept up with [sort of] for the last couple of years. Of course, I'm a hundred or so episodes behind, which is why it's on my list of shows to catch up on. :p

Happy watching to all! :D

A Weekend Well-Spent

With school (and school work) comes the need for more distractions - a.k.a. "hobbies" - at least for me :p

This weekend, I learned a few things and re-discovered some old hobbies.

I learned to make an animated gif on photoshop. It wasn't so hard. I used 4 pictures, and put them all on the same canvas on different layers. Then I chose "Animation" in the menu, and added each layer to the timeline and adjusted the time delays for each layer. The result was this:

(Click image to see animation)

Puzzle Bobble, oh how I've missed you! I haven't played since High School and here I've gone and downloaded it again. I've had my MacBook Pro for a little more than 6 months now but I'm only just starting to enjoy using it since I have a few "new" old games :) :

and

I had a couple of minutes in between other activities and ended up looking through my cell phone. I began to play with the Paint app, which I haven't done in ages and found some old pictures I made:

Rediscovering the Paint app on my phone, let me come up with an idea for a new pin. And speaking of new pins, here are two latest Fronda Farm pins that we're released at the Conference in August: