Gerardo’s Adventures

Boy, it’s been such a long time since my last entry.

Hi all!

I think I forgot how to write a well structured paragraph.  It’s been AGES since my last write up in on ANYTHING that I just don’t know.  Well, things have changed a whole lot. For starters, I have new roommates.  Karan, carlos, and Mike - all whom are pretty chill.  The new quarter started with a nice welcome with these folks.  Carlos being the party freak, but he is chill most of the day.  Mike is the alpha dog, who likes to take charge but at the same time likes to observe to know what he is working with.  Karan is the one that I share my room with.  He is very cool, likes to smoke a lot though lol.  Karan usually is working hard at his assignments but feels overwhelmed with the studies in this school so he gets his kicks with smoking some chronic from time to time.

So all 3 characters work very spontaneously, doing their own thing most of the time.  Since our first meet up, we’ve been connecting very well.  Mike though, sometimes brings out his alpha-ness to control things in his way at times.  Though mike learned how to work with us all and things are good.  Now besides all of that, my laptop failed.  That was 2 months ago actually, but thanks to it failing it coincided with getting my new equipment!  I thought I was gonna have my laptop in hand to work with my new setup, but I guess that won’t happen now.    Though I’m happy that I have my new setup now.  I installed all the software needed and it’s super fast!  Quad Core i7 @ 2.66GHz per core!  With 9GB of RAM and 1 TB of Hard Drive space.  1GB Video memory and 64Bit Vista (which is incredibly fast and versatile).

After my feverish month on my new system, I’m back doing serious discoveries on what I can and not do.  I discovered I can now make HD videos and 3D animations with Maya and 3Ds Max!  Render of course takes too long with all option sets on, so I take my work to the school and render them there. This is all possible because the school has all computers hooked up in one network, so I can do an instant network render - which I can produce really impressive stuff!  So I’m managing now a side project that I’ll contribute to work on the next year with a friend.

Now other than that School has been a bit smoother this quarter.  I got to chill and hang out with friends.  I got to go to many different parties thanks to carlos, and of course the biggest party was the Halloween party at sunset district with my friend Zip and Glen.  I got very popular thanks to my camera.  All types of connections I grabbed with so many from all around town (even outside of town!).

That was all beautiful but that particular night I didn’t sleep for the cause of my friend zip warning me not to.  Though as you see, someone got penalized for it.  I was happy that I never really did fall asleep but managed to walk back home and rest the whole day off. That weekend was intense! Previously as well I had another party that got wasted so bad that I couldn’t get up to go to the Halloween party.

November came in after all that madness, and parties were not over just yet.  From all the booze I drank this month alone, I think my system would need to rest for the next YEAR!  Now I didn’t see the holidays as a factor, so I have to embrace my fall holiday season.  Christmas and New years are coming, and parties in-between will set me back a bit physically.  I tell you, I never have really went so crazy as this quarter set me up to do! XD  Every weekend there is a party going on, and now I have a new party coming next weekend which is the underwear party.

… Mama mia.

There is so much going on here, I can’t write it all up.  Just brief points because there is so much information.  Though I have three more highlights to add in my blog.  First is the video game highlight, New Super Mario Bros. Wii - A game that brings nothing new to the table but multi-player mario platforming.  A great game to waste time on besides all the partying.  I got four players actually running all at the same time in that game, which is a wild feat to even do.  It’s so much fun, but don’t try it when you’re stoned with magic cookies.

The second highlight hits the heart - Melissa and my other girls who want me.  Melissa, my beautiful lady, she wants me to move back to Boston. Obviously of course I can’t, but soon I will go back home and settle.  Now that’s the problem, other women want to try me out here in the west coast.  There is this young lady in the Philippines that is thinking of me and only holds me tight with the hope to be with me as well.  If only I had a plane ticket or a plane to fly over there then the possibility wouldn’t be so low.  She is pretty, much more than my first filipina girl who I traditionally dated.  Though the trouble here lies with her cousin having difficulty with that idea.  Her cousin wants to be with me as well, but unfortunately her choice affects my brother.  I only say it’s all about time and place.  WE all have to meet up sometime in the near future so things can settle down and clear up.

That’s why my real feelings are staying with Melissa.  Melissa is the only one really that I’m thinking so thoroughly about right now.  12 years since I first met her and started talking to her.  That’s a lot, and she has matured and formed to what I wasn’t expecting to be that very soul match.  Pretty much I won’t be bored with her at all, only if I get way to many arguments and disagreements but I don’t see that at all.  Now I’m forgetting that one person in Seattle WA.  She’s been wanting me for the longest time as well.  Stephenie, is one hot blond but her style sometimes scares me a little.  She is super cool, and her talks over the phone sparks intrigue and curiosity in the conversation.  Though her tastes goes beyond me, and some other little things that can trip me up with it.  Again, she has the shape and form that I love in a women physically, but intellectually we have different tastes that might conflict later in time.

So now I’m gonna see how I can simplify this situation.  Who I really am leaning towards now is Melissa, and she is so far away right now.   But I know eventually I’ll see her again.  I’m trying to see if I can go back to boston again but for the looks of it - with the prices getting higher that I might not get there before Christmas eve.  Though I’ll see what is gonna happen next.

Well, that’s enough.  I forgot to mention my final 3rd highlight because I really forgot what I was gonna say! Well time for me to go away now, for a little bit. lol

Laters!

—- BTW —- Youtube update! I haven’t gone to update since my laptop failed but now I have a new CAMERA! XD —–

Everything started when my phone broke.  Something glitched out once a message was left on my phone, and then it just went bonkers! So currently I’m working right now to fix that problem, but then my favorite game of all time was taken from me and I got a little shocked.  I was sad for a little while, but then when I was offered to go to the Game Developer’s conference, I changed my feelings a little bit.  Of course I was stocked about it but I was still feeling unrest with my game missing.  I wasn’t really ready to go to this great event, but I put my good red hat on and went anyway.

I called everyone on the contact sheet to get my ticket to go to the Game Developer’s Conference.  I got one answer from calling  TEN numbers.  But then one other female on the list called me, so I met up with her to get the ticket.  Then I got to her at this restaurant and not only did I get a ticket, but I got TWO tickets to go in the event.  Afterward I meet with Matt from the list of contacts and we both went in to the event.  It was a good experience and I did get to take pictures.

I took pictures too at the apple store when I went to see in person, one of my game designer idles.  Hideo Kojima was at the apple store at Stockton St and Market.  It was surreal, and finally I got to experience such because I was waiting for something like it to happen.

So after everything was said and done, I relaxed in the main building of my school and soaked in what I have just witnessed.  Then after sitting for a while, the memory of my lost game came to me.  I felt bad, and the act of my game being taken away was curiously eating away with me.  I then told myself that everything balances out, one awesome good even to a shitty one.  I even say it couldn’t of been worse too, but still my trust was broken when my game was taken from me.

… oh well, I guess I’ll have to do without it for awhile.

- g -

Hey peoples!

I know, it’s been a long while since I last wrote on here. Well, it does seems so though, but time here feels so long that 1 day feels like 2 here. I love it! It’s better than just feeling it’s like 1/2 in boston. I’m finally at peace here in San Francisco, so much though that my will to write has dwindled a bit. I guess I’m having to much fun to even try to document stuff here but I will show some stuff I’ve done. It’s so much I’ve done that it will take a while to post them here (which is a good thing!).

I’m going to A.i. school here in California, which is awesome so far. I have no complaints, the people here are so fuck’n awesome! I guess I’m still in my honeymoon stage, but I feel that it won’t go away for a long time. I live with 3 other roomates (One is soon to move out though) and they all are very cool to chill with.

Blasting my music away now, I’m focused on my part time job as a web designer and developer for the New England web company.

Well is time for me to go back and do my homework.

Later!

- g -

A week after my walk, as I predicted before I would be suffering from some after effects of 20 miles.  More so from my heart because the one who I love, faded into memory. The subconscious couldn’t handle it much so it manifested into something more physical.  So now I’m trying to survive the pains and trying to make sense within my second self that we must go on with our lives. So then I found something inside me that wants to do; That I want to create something just to show my sorrow and pain.  Instead of drawing on a canvas, why not create a full out story using an easy to pick up tool to present it?  I always wanted to create a story of my alter-ego, and let people interact with it.  So I then went to buy RPG Maker VX for my window’s Vista OS.

This mini project will give me motivation for something instead of watching porn all day and cry about my past all the time.  I haven’t been able to concentrate because of all the drama in my head but now that I am locked with the physical pain in bed, I said to myself is time to do something to get my sanity back.

So I call this project: Mariolegend VX.

Of course that’s not the title of my game, I already have the title but I won’t show what it is now.  I’ll show the progression of my project from time to time like always.  I’m creating my own graphics and animation, so how you may contemplate that will take some time to do.  Don’t worry, I recently installed some very powerful tools on my computer to hold me for a while until I can get a super machine to make nasty stuff on it.

Just like the past, I promise not to promise when I will release this mini project.  So don’t hold your breath for it.  I’m only talking about it to think out loud and see for myself that I want this for real.

So now is time to go and take my pills.

- g -