Twyt no Sekai

Just like SYTYTCD US Season 7 before I quit watching after Alex left, it’s going to be a testosterone fest for Canada this year for me. I can barely remember a single girl (how sad, but seems to be the usual case) or maybe it’s a lack of likability factor with so many.

First, I am pretty sad, that despite casting 11 guys this year for top 22 instead of top 20, they couldn’t fit Alvin, who is made of awesome-ness for this season. He probably for me had the most memorable solo audition based solely on dance and I’m sure his choice of music most certainly helped as well. I only remembered him briefly last year but it was a lot better to watch him this year (I found him a tad spastic in season 2).

He wasn’t as heart broken about it then I thought when he found out (unlike Jenny), which was nice to see as he seemed so grateful. Him, and Justin were the biggest surprise of not making it (been a fan of him since he first audition I think last season). I’m not quite sure exactly what began the interest in Moses, who I can’t find a single clip but now that I think about it, didn’t get much screen time, (maybe it was the half Asian to make a full Asian comment with Alex during Ballroom in finals). I guess it just means that they’re saving them for season 4 to make sure we’re still watching (could we get rid of Leah while we’re at it?)

Well here’s briefly a few dancers I’m looking towards to:

• Jeff (His solo could use a bit of tweaking but seeing him during finals in both years that flexibility even during stretches. OMG!) Will you do Ukrainian solos too? I hope so b/c they’re always so fun to watch.
• Jonathan (Touching story about his passion for dance and what he could have lost) It’s a bit odd how medical miracles happened, but I’m not complaining
• Sebastian (He’s like the fusion of Mark’s quirkiness (season 4) and Billy Bell’s flexibility (season 7) into one being that Rex Harrington made allusion to Edward Scissorhands, AWESOME)

What do they all have in common apart from being contemporary dancers? They’re all season 2 returnees that I recall. I’m also rooting for Yonni, another returnee but in ballroom. I love contemporary dancers and all, but still I love me some hip hop done justice too… So needed more. Then again, if any of them can pull an Alex (who’s technically Canadian anyway), then we should be ok.

I’m waiting for BC feed of CTV to check out their solos. I think it’s a sign… we need an all guys season. or at least do a better job of casting girls. Can’t wait to watch tomorrow. I will ignore Leah or at least try as she screeches on my screen (the dancing will hopefully make up for it).

I’m finally back on day shifts after 3 weeks of sleeping in with those late shifts. Thank god I have a life again! Or at least what little of a social life I’ve got. I thought it was going to be horrible working at 7:15am, meaning I’d have to rise by 5:30am or so. To make things more frightening, I was going to be only taking French calls for the entire day, being stuck on French priority.

I thought it was going to be a hellish day. Little did I know, it was probably one of the most pleasant days I’ve had in terms of a Monday (usually the busiest day of the week). The people were cooperative, nice and grateful (well except for that one outstanding bitchy one, whom I’ve decided to omit from my brains), AND luckily the monitored call was one of the better ones. I hope the rest of the week will be like this.

Who would have thought my slight Quebec accent would work to my advantage. Speaking of Quebec, anyone interested if I posted Quebec City pictures?

We interrupt this rather dull post with my favorite opening of the series that I decided to marathon a few weeks ago out of sheer boredom. So what was your favorite season if you’ve watched this?

It’s been over half a year since I’ve last updated my graphic site with a slew of reasons for that. Instead of opening photoshop to finish those many unfinished projects, I made an offline page containing all of the icons I’ve posted on the site (plus a few new ones) and finished tweaking last night. The number I had was very frightening, and I never realized just how many I’ve had until I counted 626.

Counting wasn’t too hard since I left the page styling relatively non-existent and it worked out well that it was in groups of 10, complete with a filler box to make it even more organized.

Having these anal retentive tendencies, I’ve decided to sort them out not only by series, but for a good while, even by character (I managed to do that for all of the animanga section, scary as that may be). I gave up later on when I reached to the drama section, likely because it was around 11:30pm by then, but have sorted by series at least. I’m not sure when I started making the page, but I know I more or less finished tweaking it yesterday.

I’m still going through what to scrap and what not to. It seemed somewhat harder than I thought. So far, I’ve only removed 30 of them, which in many ways should have been removed way long. Maybe it was for sentimental reasons or maybe I was too lazy, I can’t really say.

Either way, the point is, maybe it’s a lack of inspiration, time and effort that I haven’t made anything. I’ve realized that this will nearly be something of a decade I’ve been working on this site if I give it another few years. Could it be that I am heading towards my retirement of the site? When is a good time to proceed with retiring? Or maybe I should finish those incomplete projects first. I just have no idea anymore. Recently, with using wordpress for about a year, I’ve had strange urges to design my own layout again, doodling some thumbnails at work when I got bored. I don’t want to give up the functionality of wordpress, but at the same time, I kind of miss having my own design. If anything, I should take some time into learning how it works so I can make my own. It just seems like so much mumbo jumbo and I don’t even know where to begin, as my html/php skills were abysmal to start with. Any of you feel this way, namely ones that have been at this for awhile?