What has everyone been up to?

[Pikachu]

So, after the uberly long hiatus of some (well most) of Metroplis' members, and the (hopefully successful) return of some into the fold, what have you guys been up to?

Well, I've recentl gone back into webdesign stuff and also going crazy in my respective manga/anime fandoms. I've also beenhanging around LJ a lot.

[Kyreii]

I've been reading Blogs, catching up on my sleep (summer vacation!), going to grad parties, watching the NBA and playing CCG's.

[Pikachu]

CCG? Collecting card games? /guess. XDDD;;;

[william]

I've been reading Blogs, catching up on my sleep (summer vacation!), going to grad parties, watching the NBA and playing CCG's.


Lucky! I'm so freakin' dead during the week from school. :KOd:


My life in the past six months has been nuts. I graduated from high school, spent the most of my summer at home playing Ragnarok Online *coughI'mnotaddicted!cough* and then took the first semester of college off to go live in England for two months with my mom. She quit her job and went to work for one of her old co-workers and is now making some nice money but she has to travel and right now she's in England and has been there since September. It's rough because it's just 'the boys' at home; my dad, brother, and myself.

But we make do! I miss my mom. T_T But she's coming home in just under two weeks for my 19th birthday (it's going to be the best present I've ever gotten, I miss her a lot) and I hope school isn't hectic then so I can spend a lot of time with her.

England was a total culture shock, but in a good way, but also kind of boring during the day because I couldn't afford to go all over the country (holy crap train tickets are expensive) but I spent a lot of time getting to know Swindon (where I was living) and I bought a lot of books. I think I went through maybe twenty or so books in just two months. :eek: I am in love with the city of Bath and Englands mass transit system in general.

Then I came back home, got ready for college in the spring, caught up with friends and then Winter Break rolled around and my family hopped on a plane and went to visit my mom. I got to ring the New Year in with all of London, in front of the London Eye, right next to Big Ben. It was utterly amazing. I would not have traded that for the world. Throwing confetti, yelling, hugging everyone, New Year's kisses, popping open the champagne and sharing it with the family and people on the street. &:

Since then I've been attending the community college here working on getting my general education degree so I can transfer to the UofA (WHO LOST TODAY TO ILLINOIS DAMMIT) to continue my studies in ____ and ___, something I really don't know. My life goals have changed so much in the past year that I can't really say what I want to study or where I want to be in ten years... the possibilities are endless.

I usually read or attempt to write in my freetime, I go and get dinner a lot with friends since it's pretty hard sometimes trying to keep up with them seeing as we now live on opposite sides of the city. I get lonely during the week but I have a lot of awesome people to talk to onlin and I call my friends every once in a while to catch up... and the weekends always make up for it! :snicker: Some very very good times this year that'll go down in the history of my life.

I talk too much. 8o

[Urd]

In short, I've been busy with school and such, as I'm sure many others have been.

On what little personal time that I have for myself, I do some programming with Java. I've recently picked up the JAVA bindings for the GTK and GNOME libraries, so I've just been messing around with that. Of course, I also watch AIR, but I guess that'll soon as the series is about to end.

[Nemesis]

I think all I do lately is angst about class and fangirl over Mai HiME with the #kokki crew. Oh, and I've developed a strange fascination with yuri <_< Yeah, Met being dead is not healthy for Nemi as she looks elsewhere for amusement.

[william]

What happened to yaoi? :(

[Nemesis]

I am still a yaoi fangirl! I just...am also a yuri fangirl...and a het fangirl...

-_-; Okay, I'm a relationship whore fangirl.

[william]

Yuri makes me think of Michiru and Haruka... they were awesome!

I need to not use an emoticon in every paragraph...

[Eric]

Cars. I usually post on ClubRSX (http://forums.clubrsx.com) or E46Fanatics (http://forum.e46fanatics.com).

But other than that, working full time (salaried) and going to college part time.

[Pikachu]

Yah. Eric has been pimping wiht the ladies... :| His car obsession went down the day he saw his first picture of Jeri Lee. :p

Speaking of... canwe move the #met chatroom in irchighway? :\

[Eric]

Hahahaha, as you know, it didn't go as well as I expected last night. Actually, that is up for debate. And, and, and..... Jeri Lee is hot! You know, she's probably the only model, that I like, that is younger than me. I guess that means I'm getting old, ahahahaha.

Where is the IRC channel on now? Server?

[add]
Car obsession hasn't really went down. I put down 5 bills to get a new goodie for my car. :D

[Pikachu]

How old is she? (jeri lee)

[Eric]

20, i think. yep, i just checked her myspace. how the hell does she get into all those clubs as a dancer?

[Pikachu]

Fake ID prolly. :| And I'm turning 20 this year. WTF? She's the same age as me?

[Eric]

she's a gogo dancer at a number of those clubs around here. i guess she has some arrangement with management. i've actually been to a few, not when she's around though. i didn't care much for them as i prefer a more older crowd.

[Nemesis]

Yuri makes me think of Michiru and Haruka... they were awesome!

I need to not use an emoticon in every paragraph...


Haha, Haruka and Michiru rock. I guess I was a yuri fangirl from a while ago if you consider that, but I forgot about it after I fell out of Sailor Moon. XD Emoticons are okay!

Maria-sama ga Miteru though sorta made me go "wai! cute yuri rabu rabu!" Plus all these new shows I've been watching. Yeah, I need intervention. I see yuri in Ace wo Nerae now.

[Pikachu]

Can't you like report that to police or something/ XD underage... stff

[Star of Sorrow]

:O

Hmmm. I lost my stepmother in April of last year, lived with my father over the summer vac to ease his loneliness, moved to my own place, started school, beena RO addict big time since then. *nodnod*

[Pikachu]

wow. XD I wonder how manyof you guys are still RO addicts?

[william]

wow. XD I wonder how manyof you guys are still RO addicts?


/hmm I'm not a RO addict at all.

I prefer to call it my "vice of choice."

[Pikachu]

ADDICT! that's what you are!

[Haiyaku]

What have I been up to?

School work! Signing up for IB classes for next year! Stuff! Relationship drama! Friend drama! Drama drama! Drama! That's pretty much it. I've developed a love of saying STFU out loud, and thinking lolz and pretending it's ironic.

[kyrien]

Classes, RO (though I'm on hiatus since nothing much is happening), and RPing xD;. I'm addicted to RPing now. Instead of thinking about RO during classes, I think of RP. fufufu.

[william]

My lack of ROing is due in part to rwen's lack of ROing. If I don't have someone to play with then I get bored. And tanking can only provide so much entertainent before I want to die of bordeom!

[Kinael]

I try to read and stuff. I write sometimes, but nothing amazing . . . yet.

[william]

You'll make amazing someday Kin, and then we'll all be able to say, "Yeah we knew Pierre. He had the highest postcount on Met back in the day."

[Renari]

I'm trying to graduate high school. ><;

[skye_eiden]

I'm art editor for our school paper. I mean.. I was last year's too .______.;; and we won a heck lot of awards. But the thing is, there's this certain uberly prestegous award that we've won for the past two years now. If our publication would win this year (our supposedly 3 years of a row win) we'd be included in that award ceremony's hall of fame.

It's that kind of high pressure which had be tied to a leash, drawing my butt off until my hands are lifeless and me living in a steady diet of 3 hours of sleep a day. =.= I mean if we would lose this year... it would take another 3 years worth of straight wins to get into the hall of fame. yargh. *_* It was sheer madness.

Combine that with the pressures of finding my future college and graduating from my last year of high school ;-; oh the pain! the torture!

[Kyreii]

I'm ALSO an art editor for our school magazine. The bad news is: I'm the only member of the art department so i had to do EVERYHING almost overnight...

I'm entering college...

[Sakurasun]

It's mostly been school with me. Studying, sats, extracurrics and I've also recently taken up the position as editor in chief of the school paper so that keeps me pretty busy. @_@ I hardly even have time for my website/writing. T_T

[Eric]

http://www.coredump.ws/pictures/fastttttttttt.jpg

New toy. :)

[Scarlett Fire]

I had school and hyperventilation. And mice infestation in the house. *shudders*

wow. XD I wonder how manyof you guys are still RO addicts?

*raises hand* More MvP's for meeee~

[Laavabepp]

tons of work : isp, assignments, tests, quizzes.. ahhhhh .. and many morning practices .. my arm hurts from over the weekend training -.-; ...

[Rady]

::hops in:: Well Met isn't totally dead hrm.. okay bad joke XP Anyway, I've been up to no good, like dying over major switch in 3rd year u_u;; so not fun. And some personal mental stress (in fact a lot)... otherwise, life's been the same as when I was on Met before. ::laughs::

[Laria]

It's amazing how much life can change in two years. College is...exhausting and exhilarating at the same time. :P So right now, I'm attempting to double major (English and Professional Writing), currently one of the Assistant Editors for my school's undergraduate journal, part of worship team for my fellowship group, and somehow just became secretary for the literary club. Oi...........I'm gonna die!!!!!!! And next year's going to be worse!!!! *cringes*

[fathom]

life's been a bit more hectic this year mostly since i'm in my last year of high school, which means uni applications and now i'm waiting for replies. i got in 2 of my 3 unis that applied to although i've already decided which one i will go into. but my parents still want to wait for the 3rd one.. >.> wtf.

umm.. oh! i'm also in the yearbook committee as head of clubs and events. i wanted to be head of arts and lit but i didn't apply on time so i never got an interview.. ; ; so i was just a little staff member at the beginning and somehow, and quite randomly, i was chosen to be head of clubs and events. i don't know really know how that happened XD yeah.. i think that's about it.

other than that, besides the increase in workload, my life hasn't really changed much.

[Eric]

I remember those days, ahaha. Right now, it's work, work, more work, and college.

[Sarah]

school's been dominating my life right now... plus i dont have a comp class anymore so im not on met...

[Kritiker]

Was busy with real life and university

[phlyRy]

i feel like i'm going to explode. frustration is my life. anyway, i feel like an old fart here being the only one not taking classes of any form, but just working. of course, i try really hard to pretend that i've not yet graduated college and still hang out with people, but they tell little stories or rants that i'm not particularly interested in. sigh.

[Scarlett Fire]

It's the other way for me. :p Had some trouble with my health so I'm stuck in HS while others have moved on up and simply moved on with their lives. And I'm not really up to talking about college with my friends, or much of anything else really. I'm trying to cope.

So please excuse me if rarely talk here as well. xD I guess I'm just not able to participate in lively conversation still. (But I will try!)

[JFA_bobguy]

Aargh...just...three...more...quarters...!! Seriously, school has taken over my life. Well, programming classes have, anyhow. Other than that I've developed a healthy number of console game obsessions to keep me going somewhere other than crazy. Anyone who has won all 300 battle trophies in the new Star Ocean will soon find their memory card missing. =P

[Pikachu]

Save me guys!! T_T 2 more finals. T___T *weeps*

[Kyreii]

I'm going to Singapore on May 2!!! LOL, first time overseas!!!

[Laria]

I'm going to Singapore on May 2!!! LOL, first time overseas!!!

OH MY GOSH, TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!! LOL I want to go home so badly! I might, *might* get to go back this summer, but it's a slim to none chance since my dad's parents are coming here instead for a few weeks. I miss everything about Singapore...except maybe the schools. Lucky, lucky Kyreii!!!!

[Kyreii]

OH MY GOSH, TAKE ME WITH YOU!!!! LOL I want to go home so badly! I might, *might* get to go back this summer, but it's a slim to none chance since my dad's parents are coming here instead for a few weeks. I miss everything about Singapore...except maybe the schools. Lucky, lucky Kyreii!!!!

err... that would be fine if you lived in the Philippines. :)

I wanna try jumping of a bridge and wall climbing. :) Let's just hope my mass can withstand those activities...

[Laria]

err... that would be fine if you lived in the Philippines. :)

I wanna try jumping of a bridge and wall climbing. :) Let's just hope my mass can withstand those activities...

Darn....I'm in Texas.... :p It's ok! I'll be optimistic! If I don't go home this summer, I'll go back next summer.

That sounds like fun. The food is to die for....The zoo is really, really nice, too.

[Kyreii]

College!!! Our college is so damn big and the buildings are about ten minutes away from each other. I'm not an avid fan of public transportation so I end up walking my way between subjects. I just hate my English class since its on the 5th floor (no elevator...)

[dark angel]

Well, in December Uriel and I got married, and in Feb we moved to Manhattan, NY. It's crazy here, expensive, but wonderful to live in such a big city where tons of things happen!

There's Kinokuniya and Ashiya, 2 huge ass Japanese bookstores that whore away my money. Chinatown does this also.

Thats about it XD Stuff is boring since I graduated college, so now I'm trying to teach myself Japanese. It's certainly hard but well worth it.

[phlyRy]

dark angel: it's great that you moved to new york. i used to live there, and i know plenty of people who are still there and a few who are moving there. take care there.

[AnguishedBlade]

I'm pondering why people choose to shut themselves from others so that they can stick with their circle of freinds. I always wonder why they choose to stay in that circle. Maybe it's because they feel they are staying with superior beings?


But what if I wanted to join that circle? Alas, I can't....because I've been shut out. Does that mean I'm an inferior being? As far as I know....I'm a really lonely guy. I need to be with others. I can't choose not to. Nature intended man to be with his fellow species.

When I see or hear people talking about blocking people from blogs, IM's, cellphones, or any form of communication, I think to myself...I think; This is happening to me. I'm being blocked out from others lives. I'm alone. And I feel sorry for the ones that were blocked out.



Ah, but this is "philosophical" shit coming from an emotional, loser pussy-bitch kid who no gives a shit about. And the stuff that comes from people like me is always ignored or mocked at.

SUPER LONG EMO RANT, IGNORE IF YOU WANT
Whatever. Like I fucking care. I need a place to vent my shit out. Otherwise....I'll let it build up, let it get to me.....and one day, I might go to the kitchen and plunge a knife in my heart. Or maybe I'll drink myself to death. Maybe I'll jump off a fucking bridge. I need the world to hear me out.
So mock me all you want, you fucking fuckers. I gotta vent. And I don't care if you don't think it's interesting and/or funny. I'm not asking for your sympathy either. I just need a place to speak up. And I don't like people who are always so happy-go-fucking lucky. They're always the ones who don't care. I hate it when people tend to stay from negative people. I'm one of those negative people. I'm always negative. I'm gonna be as negative as I want. I hate it when people don't listen or care when I talk, or rant, or vent
out to them. I hate it when people choose to ignore me. I feel like punching those unsensitive cold motherfuckers on their face. I don't blame them, but I still fucking hate it. Everyone around me is happy. I'm not. And despite all the nice things I have, and a good family. I'm not happy. I always feel like shit somehow when I leave school. I always see other people communicating with others. I always see videos of these breakdancer, and hip-hop kids....and they're getting pussy simply because of the fucking music they like. It does not make me feel any better. Not any better at all. Hell, I feel worse when I watch my TV. All these celebrities, and whatnot are so happy, and I'm so damn envious. So envious that I fucking hate these people.

There are days I feel so down, that I sometimes consider breaking my promise of being alcohol free, that I feel like going to the fridge, and drink 12 bottles of beer. If there is hard liquor, I might end up drinking the entire fucking bottle till I end up in the motherfucking hospital. But fortunately I haven't done that yet. But you don't care.

And this is also the reason why I almost never leave the forum. Now you know why a loser like me dosen't shut the fuck up. So anyway, to the people that ignored this rant...I got two words.

Fuck you.

You deserve to be punched in the face for being so damn ignorant of others. Know that there are people who ENVY how you live. You could be dirt poor but have lots of freinds, while the other guy next door can be well-to-do, and is almost always ignored by everyone outside his home when it comes to socialization, and not to buisiness. (And I don't care if I spelt buisiness wrong, as this is a rant, and don't want Professor Smartass correcting me on grammar and spelling) I know I'm a socially fucked up kid, but I'm no Jefferey Weise or Dylan Klebold. I'm not a cold heartless murdering fucker. I just want the ears of a thousand people. I want to send a wake up call. And fuck those fuckers at Something Awful. Fuck the people who make fun of others on the internet. Fuck them. FUCK THEM ALL. Fuck those heartless fuckers who continue picking, and putting down on others, and not expecting a school shooting. It's not fair that the kids being picked on get bombarded with that shit. Sorry for my language. But this is how a "[insert derrogatory term here]" talks. And if you make fun of me for it, I envy you. I envy you because you have many things I don't have. I envy you because you have many freinds and accquaintances. But I don't. And you're so full of yourself, that you feel that you must mock others to make you feel more higher. Well, I must really envy you. And more likely, if I really envy you, I really fucking hate you.


There. I said it.

[kyrien]

Whoa whoa whoa. Calm down o_O;. Did something happen?

[dark angel]

phlyRy: Thanks! It's very hard living in Manhattan, we can barely afford to eat! But its nice here. I am also trying to deal with not taking classes anymore and feeling old and out of the loop ;__;

[MaD_HaTtEr]

Well... I went to a new city to study Design. Havent got internet there (as I said in another post) so... I kinda ended up neglecting Met! x_X
Cool thing is now I'm learning lots of stuff about websesign and such! ^^ pretty useful!!

anguished:
Social life is what you make of it, if you choose to end up being an antisocial person... well... It's a choice. I'm not saying I know your problem or that I have the answer for it, but no one here is to blame for it. If I ranted here about not knowing if I have money to continue studying, if my parents get divorced or not, if people from my family dies... Would you care?
Things happen to everyone, life wasnt made to be easy. Unfortunately for some, some societies are very cruel, but hell, I live in one of the most old fashioned complexed xenophobic societies of them all and I still know I have to fight for what I want in life. Suicide is no answer. Shouting sometimes is good, but in a propper environment. If you feel unhappy about it all why not see a phychologist? I'm not saying you're mad, but I've been to one too and I'm not mad either. That is... If you want a solution to your problem, which I think you dont. People DO listen to you, you have the proof of that in the RPG thread where everyone loved your concept.
It is true that people tend to back off from negative people. It is also true that negative people tend to back off from positive ones. Impressing people with negative stuff is no way to make oneself be heard, it's a way of losing the wanted attention.
I'm not lecturing you... I'm proving you that people DO listen to you. The thing we help you get up, but we wont carry you. You've got to push yourself up or you'll live your life in constant angst, thus having only yourself as an obstacle to happiness.
I repeat, I'm NOT lecturing you. I'm just giving you the attention you wanted with a logical answer.

[Laria]

Wai!!! I've been pretty much out of town the entire summer!!! I can't believe it! And after all that talk about hoping to go to Singapore....well, I guess that's next summer. Fortunately for me, Singapore (bits of it) decided to come to me instead. My grandparents and an uncle and aunt came to the States for a three-week road trip up to Canada with my family. In addition to that, I went to two different Christian summer camps and on a mission trip, all of which rocked and were awesome in totally different ways.

My summer's been so incredibly busy that I haven't had much time for the Net and didn't have Net access in most places which is why I've been absent. So sorry about that....it's good to be back! I missed everybody!

[chacocat]

AB: Go vent on DeadJournal. That's what it's for. :)

I've been hung up on LiveJournal ever since it opened to the public. lol XD I love the communities there so that's kinda why I've been MIA on Met.

Now I'm going off to university in Toronto and preparing for the move.

[Winter]

*waves sadly to Met*

I'm on my way to report for Jury Duty. I'm so freaking tired. It's 6.30am right now, and I've been awake for an hour and a half already. I don't want to go, I'm missing at least today at work. It's also likely that I'll be at the courthouse longer than I'm usually at work! :-P Just keep your fingers crossed for me that I don't get picked for a trial. My family is going to be here this evening! If I get picked for a trial, I won't see them for a good two to four days. *sigh*

[Star of Sorrow]

Aw, I'm sorry. =(

I actually got jury duty summons, as well, but I was able to get o ut it because I don't live at my father's anymore.

[Eric]

*waves sadly to Met*

I'm on my way to report for Jury Duty. I'm so freaking tired. It's 6.30am right now, and I've been awake for an hour and a half already. I don't want to go, I'm missing at least today at work. It's also likely that I'll be at the courthouse longer than I'm usually at work! :-P Just keep your fingers crossed for me that I don't get picked for a trial. My family is going to be here this evening! If I get picked for a trial, I won't see them for a good two to four days. *sigh*

Just tell them you strongly believe in capital punishment and jaywalkers piss you off and you believe they should be castrated as punishment.

[Winter]

it's all cool. I didn't get picked for the case because I ride my bike to work and school. (it was a case where a guy got run over by a car while he was riding his bike). So I'm done with Jury duty!

[AnguishedBlade]

Now, would you like some fries with that?

[Winter]

Hehehe. Nonono. I gave up fried food. But I will take some carrot sticks.

[phlyRy]

speaking of deadjournal, i actually surfed it and i saw an entry like this:

1. Open up a blank Word document.

2. Type in Q33 NY in capitals (this is the flight number of the 1st plane to hit the WTC)

3. Highlight it.

4. Change the font size to 48.

5. Change the actual font to wingdings (1).

[Star of Sorrow]

omfg, wtfbbq??!?!?!?!?

That's seriously fucked up.

[Haiyaku]

If you do it in Webdings 2, it becomes obvious that what really happened is that someone with a tatooed hand found the treasure in front of the two garbage cans. In Webdings, it's the fact that, in the past, back at the campsite, you found love at first sight. Awwww.

[Sevi]

Now I'm going off to university in Toronto and preparing for the move
I go to university in Toronto. That's awesome!
What university are you going to/do you go to?

I've uh... been working... and then working over time... and then some more over time... But hey- Money is Money...

And that deadjournal thing weird.... I like webdings... and wingdings... and all those dingy-things...

[chacocat]

I go to university in Toronto. That's awesome!
What university are you going to/do you go to?

I've uh... been working... and then working over time... and then some more over time... But hey- Money is Money...

And that deadjournal thing weird.... I like webdings... and wingdings... and all those dingy-things...

I'm going to the University of Toronto. :D

[Laria]

I just visited Toronto this past summer! Love the Chinatown! Canada in general is really pretty, too.

[Sevi]

I'm going to the University of Toronto.

Nice. I'm in my third year there. I love it. Its such a gorgeous campus. I'm hoping to do my grad school there too, if they'll accept me :S

Love the Chinatown!

As do I, its one of the best places for random vegetables. My office is nearby it, so I stop by sometimes to pick up large, ripe, amazing fruit for cheap. Its also a quality place to buy good umbrella's at unbelievably good prices.
I feel like a bad infomercial... but its so true.

[Laria]

Not to mention the good Chinese food in Toronto's Chinatown! Yummy!!!

I'm already feeling sad about going back to school in a few days because there aren't any good Asian restaurants in my college town. And no Asian grocery stores. So once my roomies and I run out of Asian groceries, we'll have to drive four hours to get more. >_<

[Kinael]

speaking of deadjournal, i actually surfed it and i saw an entry like this:

1. Open up a blank Word document.

2. Type in Q33 NY in capitals (this is the flight number of the 1st plane to hit the WTC)

3. Highlight it.

4. Change the font size to 48.

5. Change the actual font to wingdings (1).

What. That is, like, sooooo 2001.

[Eric]

^^

yah that.