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Jan. 7th, 2009 07:21 am....okay, seriously though.
I know two people. They are pretty much complete opposites of each other, but amazingly both my friends :3. I'm pretty sure they read this blog too, but who knows. Anyway, I've known one much longer than the other (though I didn't realize that at first, Spotto fail) but at the moment both of them have influenced my personality since the day I've met them, and for that I thank them. What interests me is that they're completely different from each other. Normally people would hang out with people who more often than not share the same viewpoint, interest, or attitude with each other. One is more bold, while the other is more reserved, but there are the few occasions where those attributes may be switched. One is more like Aoi-dono, while the other is like Kirami. (LOL. Damn, too much similarities to other friends. In fact I can even compare them to my high school buddies who are best friends. One is more reserved but weirder which is amusing, while the other is more bold and hilarious.)
Ah, so it is no surprise that I believe they have man crushes on each other. :3
I believe what I am trying to say is that I cannot believe that such differences can be friends. And yet differences is what has ignited so many conflicts of varying degrees over the period of forever. Wars have begun because of differences, fights have happened when personalities clash, and although the people I have described won't exactly be peaceful with each other ALL the time, it still amazes me that more disagreements and arguments have not popped up, and not just them but for all people like this. I suppose the answer to that is tolerance.
One is more aloof, reserved, and prefers the back of the dodgeball court to avoid getting hit, unless provoked, while the other will jump ahead and try to hit everybody while dodging like a raving maniac, unless they're bored. It's the passive and active argument. I've been described as a very passive person, and perhaps I am, perhaps I'm not. I suppose since I'm generally not very motivated and ridiculously lazy, I can be passive in that way. Another way is that sometimes I don't want to do commit to important tasks such as coming to terms with important decisions since I have the fear of doing something wrong, so I leave it to the more experienced.
Now, whether the passive person is like that or just doesn't care, I'm not sure. I'm inclined to lean towards the: "They have no self-esteem" area and I think that's the correct answer anyway, while the other is slightly arrogant. Arrogance is not bad because confidence is good, and as long as they aren't too arrogant there's nothing wrong with that because most of the time he can back it up. So in this case, being bold is good, but at the same time there are times where one should not speak out. And I can tell you since guy's brains are wired differently, most of them have absolutely no idea when those times are resulting in insensitive out bursts, so perhaps in this case being reserved is good for it's the safe way and there is no risk.
Pros and cons everywhere eh.
Regardless, both great people in many different ways. One knows that, the other denies it. You can guess who.
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Another comparison of a different calibre because I do not know these people personally and they're somewhat-kind-of maybe famous. This is hockey stuff and fandom stuff. If you've seen my name on MSN, you would know.
Recently the 2009 IIHF World Juniors ended, and it was an epic tournament indeed. In the preliminary game, Canada was playing USA, a classic matchup. It had almost everything. Big hits, dirty plays, amazing goals, timely saves, and an epic comeback. Now I don't really condone dirty plays for it's very unsportsmanlike, but those types of plays makes the rivalry much more heated up and when you hate the opposition even more, beating them becomes so much more satisfying.
In the first period USA pounced on Canada with three quick goals to take a commanding lead, and the building was all but roaring. You would think that finally after four years of victories, perhaps this is the day Canada would fall off the charts? Before you could contemplate more while hoping this so-far horrible game would end, the excitement finally rises out from down under. John Tavares with an amazing solo effort gets Canada on the board, and it's now 3-1. After all, it's still the first period, everything can't end yet! There's forty minutes of play after the period so all is not lost in tying the score up!
The fans would not have to wait that long. Before the period even ended, Tavares once again shined and shrunk the lead to one. It is now 3-2, tensions are rising on the American bench. How could their lead be cut so short so quickly? The momentum is no longer with the visiting team. The fans are revved up, the players are pumped up. It's time to take this game back from this Americans because this is Canada's game. While Canada celebrates their goal, the agitated Americans certainly show their frustration, or at least one player does. His stick harmlessly pokes out the bench while the canadian players skate by, or so they would think. The stick takes out a Canadian player, and all emotions rise to defend him. A hit is thrown onto another american player, who lays spawled on the ice. Oh, it's on now.
Before they could all calm down though, Canada once again emerges with the tying goal. Everything was up for grabs again going into the second period, with 3-3 as the score. The rest of the game continues, Tokarski making a big save at 5-4, and the final score? 7-4. Would you even believe they were down 0-3 in the first place?
Now they face the Russians.
After having defeated the Czechs, the Russians are out for some Canadian blood. Losing the preliminary round would not eliminate the team, but it would make the road to gold much longer. Canada having won that, would now move to the semi-finals. Any losses here is the end. No gold or even silver for you if you lost here. So it was now or never...
The game was fairly simple. We scored. They scored. We score again. They score again. Repeat process. What was the bad thing though? The Russians kept tying up the game! How can the Canadians shut them down and secure a spot in the finals like this? Late in the third period, with the score 4-4, it looked like perhaps the game would need extra time to end it, but to the horror of all Canadians, the Russians scored. It was now 5-4, and the Canadians had little time to jump back. For fans such as Spotto, who is used to watching the Canucks never scoring at the last minutes to tie it up when down, I had thought it was all over for Canada. Pack you bags everyone, we'll try for the bronze medal...
How wrong was I to foolishly believe that this young Canadian team was anything like those Canucks?
As if there was some hidden tiny little hope within my body, I continued watching anyway, and even though there was only 17 seconds left, the Canadians took advantage of the what-seemed to be the final icing call. They went to the faceoff and spent as if an eternity at the boards. It felt like the puck would be stuck there and time would run out....and then Hodgson lifted the stick of a Russian defender, Tavares stole the puck and passed it to Eberle! And Eberle pulled the puck from under the spawling Russian defender to TIE THE GAME AT 5.4 SECONDS LEFT!
Can you believe the adrenaline that whole entire process brought?! Canada was 5.4 seconds from playing in the Bronze Medal game. It was that close. Overtime solved nothing, and so into the shootout they went, and they made no mistake. We capitalized on the shootout, our shooters shining and our goaltender standing on his head. The Russians were blanked, Canada was going to the Gold Medal game...
And their opponent? Sweden, who had defeated Russia 4-0 earlier in the tournament. Oh, Canada had a lot to fear here...it looked like they were the underdogs. This makes it so much better.
The game began, and a lot of fun looked to be ahead. Oh, but would it be clean? Certainly not. Our first goal came quick, jamming at the net and pretty much annoying the goaltender. The Canadians did that a lot, and in one incident one of the Swedish defenders struck Tavares in the face. Well that certainly wasn't very nice. More incidents happened, such as tapping the Swedish goaltender, and he decided that the light tap given by one of the Canadians was not a tap, but a dirty enormous hit that did not belong in the IIHF. Oh, how silly of this goaltender.
He did again about five more times. The most notable of which was when Esposito went by him, Markstrom. The star defencemen of Sweden, Hedman, jumped on Esposito right after, delivering punch after punch. That's right! How DARE he tap his goaltender!? How dare he skate by brushing pass to get to the puck!? My god, that should totally be BANNED from the IIHF! Why, what a dirty player!
So far Sweden was not very nice, or sportsmanlike, or even GOOD. The goalie, Markstrom, and Hedman were booed for the rest of the game. Serves them right. Not that Canada was completely nice, Della Rovare, the penalty-minute leader of this tournament decided that instead of simply tapping the goaltender, he would completely shove him into the ice. Still, Markstrom decided to make it more than it seemed anyway, and emotions picked up again. Markstrom himself went after Della Rovare, delivering punches and wrestling with the player. He should not have done that. If he did nothing Sweden would have a powerplay, but now they both went off, so it was only a 4-on-4. What a silly goaltender.
Well, not that a powerplay would DO anything for Sweden anyway. Hodgson and the PKers shut the door during Sweden's powerplay, and that team thought to be the medal favourite went 0-7. Did I mention right after this Canada scored again? Esposito with a beautiful shot. That's how you respond to dirty plays Sweden, not letting your goaltender beat the dirty player on Canada up when he himself is dirty.
The third period commences, and it was now 2-0. However Sweden was still to be feared, after all they did blank Russia 4-0. Luckily, Canucks Prospect Cody Hodgson decided that wiring a sniper shot during the powerplay was the best thing to do, and in Chuck Norris fashion, he did it. It was now 3-0. Sweden tried to scratch back up with a goal of themselves, but that would be all they could do as they our Canadians threw some pucks into the empty net. 5-1. It was over. The fans counted the seconds down by five. Canada won the gold for the fifth straight time. They did it. THEY DID IT.
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The sweet feeling of victory.
And so, Spotto is now on the Cody Hodgson bandwagon. Today I was on Youtube in boredom (why else would one be on Youtube?) and I decided that listening to Endless Sky for once would be nice. (Haven't touched music for a while) I stared at the album cover showcased on Youtube and noticed something about Kazumi's actress, Miho Aihara....
Holy.
Both of these people have a bit of similarity. First, their face shape. I ALWAYS notice face shape. Such as the early drawings of Aoi-dono in which her greatest weakness was the angle and the shape of the face. She's fixed it now and the pretty art is practically flawless. Both Miho and Cody have a "plump" face shape. They're not fat obviously, but their face is round and kind of square, not THAT square. Perhaps a square with rounded ends. The placement of the eyes, nose, and mouth. Same with the body...they seem kind of 'big' but not fat or anything.
And it's not just looks.
When you look at them, you think "Oh, well they don't really seem like they stand out much." And that is pretty true at first. Cody Hodgson was overshadowed by the hype of John Tavares, a potential first round pick in the 2009 Draft. And who the hell likes Kazumi? Certainly not me...oh wait I do, but not a lot of people do. There's a good amount, but an even less number in Japan. I wonder why is that. So really, what could these people bring to the table?
Ha.
Miho Mihara was by far the best actress in the Negima Drama. This isn't even a biased statement, there were quite of lot of people who agreed though even if she had the best acting ability and everything, her recognition never quite got as big as it should have. The more major characters were more hyped about by fans, such as Nodoka's apparently very cute actress, or such.
Cody Hodgson had the most points in the entire tournament. The experts say he was the MVP of the tournament, but officially? Tavares got the award. Hodgson didn't even get "Top Three" in the TEAM chosen by coaches. You'd think he would get more. He did get SOMETHING, as he ended up on the IIHF Tournament all-star roster, but you would wonder...Tavares is an offensive force. That's true, but I believe his best game was against USA, and he did not shine as much in the much more important games of Russia and especially Sweden.
Oh well.
Spotto will always go for these people.
The differences...the lack of recognizing achievement (officially), and of course wonderful friends of the first and regretably shorter rant. Lol.
This has been Spotto.
I know two people. They are pretty much complete opposites of each other, but amazingly both my friends :3. I'm pretty sure they read this blog too, but who knows. Anyway, I've known one much longer than the other (though I didn't realize that at first, Spotto fail) but at the moment both of them have influenced my personality since the day I've met them, and for that I thank them. What interests me is that they're completely different from each other. Normally people would hang out with people who more often than not share the same viewpoint, interest, or attitude with each other. One is more bold, while the other is more reserved, but there are the few occasions where those attributes may be switched. One is more like Aoi-dono, while the other is like Kirami. (LOL. Damn, too much similarities to other friends. In fact I can even compare them to my high school buddies who are best friends. One is more reserved but weirder which is amusing, while the other is more bold and hilarious.)
Ah, so it is no surprise that I believe they have man crushes on each other. :3
I believe what I am trying to say is that I cannot believe that such differences can be friends. And yet differences is what has ignited so many conflicts of varying degrees over the period of forever. Wars have begun because of differences, fights have happened when personalities clash, and although the people I have described won't exactly be peaceful with each other ALL the time, it still amazes me that more disagreements and arguments have not popped up, and not just them but for all people like this. I suppose the answer to that is tolerance.
One is more aloof, reserved, and prefers the back of the dodgeball court to avoid getting hit, unless provoked, while the other will jump ahead and try to hit everybody while dodging like a raving maniac, unless they're bored. It's the passive and active argument. I've been described as a very passive person, and perhaps I am, perhaps I'm not. I suppose since I'm generally not very motivated and ridiculously lazy, I can be passive in that way. Another way is that sometimes I don't want to do commit to important tasks such as coming to terms with important decisions since I have the fear of doing something wrong, so I leave it to the more experienced.
Now, whether the passive person is like that or just doesn't care, I'm not sure. I'm inclined to lean towards the: "They have no self-esteem" area and I think that's the correct answer anyway, while the other is slightly arrogant. Arrogance is not bad because confidence is good, and as long as they aren't too arrogant there's nothing wrong with that because most of the time he can back it up. So in this case, being bold is good, but at the same time there are times where one should not speak out. And I can tell you since guy's brains are wired differently, most of them have absolutely no idea when those times are resulting in insensitive out bursts, so perhaps in this case being reserved is good for it's the safe way and there is no risk.
Pros and cons everywhere eh.
Regardless, both great people in many different ways. One knows that, the other denies it. You can guess who.
-
Another comparison of a different calibre because I do not know these people personally and they're somewhat-kind-of maybe famous. This is hockey stuff and fandom stuff. If you've seen my name on MSN, you would know.
Recently the 2009 IIHF World Juniors ended, and it was an epic tournament indeed. In the preliminary game, Canada was playing USA, a classic matchup. It had almost everything. Big hits, dirty plays, amazing goals, timely saves, and an epic comeback. Now I don't really condone dirty plays for it's very unsportsmanlike, but those types of plays makes the rivalry much more heated up and when you hate the opposition even more, beating them becomes so much more satisfying.
In the first period USA pounced on Canada with three quick goals to take a commanding lead, and the building was all but roaring. You would think that finally after four years of victories, perhaps this is the day Canada would fall off the charts? Before you could contemplate more while hoping this so-far horrible game would end, the excitement finally rises out from down under. John Tavares with an amazing solo effort gets Canada on the board, and it's now 3-1. After all, it's still the first period, everything can't end yet! There's forty minutes of play after the period so all is not lost in tying the score up!
The fans would not have to wait that long. Before the period even ended, Tavares once again shined and shrunk the lead to one. It is now 3-2, tensions are rising on the American bench. How could their lead be cut so short so quickly? The momentum is no longer with the visiting team. The fans are revved up, the players are pumped up. It's time to take this game back from this Americans because this is Canada's game. While Canada celebrates their goal, the agitated Americans certainly show their frustration, or at least one player does. His stick harmlessly pokes out the bench while the canadian players skate by, or so they would think. The stick takes out a Canadian player, and all emotions rise to defend him. A hit is thrown onto another american player, who lays spawled on the ice. Oh, it's on now.
Before they could all calm down though, Canada once again emerges with the tying goal. Everything was up for grabs again going into the second period, with 3-3 as the score. The rest of the game continues, Tokarski making a big save at 5-4, and the final score? 7-4. Would you even believe they were down 0-3 in the first place?
Now they face the Russians.
After having defeated the Czechs, the Russians are out for some Canadian blood. Losing the preliminary round would not eliminate the team, but it would make the road to gold much longer. Canada having won that, would now move to the semi-finals. Any losses here is the end. No gold or even silver for you if you lost here. So it was now or never...
The game was fairly simple. We scored. They scored. We score again. They score again. Repeat process. What was the bad thing though? The Russians kept tying up the game! How can the Canadians shut them down and secure a spot in the finals like this? Late in the third period, with the score 4-4, it looked like perhaps the game would need extra time to end it, but to the horror of all Canadians, the Russians scored. It was now 5-4, and the Canadians had little time to jump back. For fans such as Spotto, who is used to watching the Canucks never scoring at the last minutes to tie it up when down, I had thought it was all over for Canada. Pack you bags everyone, we'll try for the bronze medal...
How wrong was I to foolishly believe that this young Canadian team was anything like those Canucks?
As if there was some hidden tiny little hope within my body, I continued watching anyway, and even though there was only 17 seconds left, the Canadians took advantage of the what-seemed to be the final icing call. They went to the faceoff and spent as if an eternity at the boards. It felt like the puck would be stuck there and time would run out....and then Hodgson lifted the stick of a Russian defender, Tavares stole the puck and passed it to Eberle! And Eberle pulled the puck from under the spawling Russian defender to TIE THE GAME AT 5.4 SECONDS LEFT!
Can you believe the adrenaline that whole entire process brought?! Canada was 5.4 seconds from playing in the Bronze Medal game. It was that close. Overtime solved nothing, and so into the shootout they went, and they made no mistake. We capitalized on the shootout, our shooters shining and our goaltender standing on his head. The Russians were blanked, Canada was going to the Gold Medal game...
And their opponent? Sweden, who had defeated Russia 4-0 earlier in the tournament. Oh, Canada had a lot to fear here...it looked like they were the underdogs. This makes it so much better.
The game began, and a lot of fun looked to be ahead. Oh, but would it be clean? Certainly not. Our first goal came quick, jamming at the net and pretty much annoying the goaltender. The Canadians did that a lot, and in one incident one of the Swedish defenders struck Tavares in the face. Well that certainly wasn't very nice. More incidents happened, such as tapping the Swedish goaltender, and he decided that the light tap given by one of the Canadians was not a tap, but a dirty enormous hit that did not belong in the IIHF. Oh, how silly of this goaltender.
He did again about five more times. The most notable of which was when Esposito went by him, Markstrom. The star defencemen of Sweden, Hedman, jumped on Esposito right after, delivering punch after punch. That's right! How DARE he tap his goaltender!? How dare he skate by brushing pass to get to the puck!? My god, that should totally be BANNED from the IIHF! Why, what a dirty player!
So far Sweden was not very nice, or sportsmanlike, or even GOOD. The goalie, Markstrom, and Hedman were booed for the rest of the game. Serves them right. Not that Canada was completely nice, Della Rovare, the penalty-minute leader of this tournament decided that instead of simply tapping the goaltender, he would completely shove him into the ice. Still, Markstrom decided to make it more than it seemed anyway, and emotions picked up again. Markstrom himself went after Della Rovare, delivering punches and wrestling with the player. He should not have done that. If he did nothing Sweden would have a powerplay, but now they both went off, so it was only a 4-on-4. What a silly goaltender.
Well, not that a powerplay would DO anything for Sweden anyway. Hodgson and the PKers shut the door during Sweden's powerplay, and that team thought to be the medal favourite went 0-7. Did I mention right after this Canada scored again? Esposito with a beautiful shot. That's how you respond to dirty plays Sweden, not letting your goaltender beat the dirty player on Canada up when he himself is dirty.
The third period commences, and it was now 2-0. However Sweden was still to be feared, after all they did blank Russia 4-0. Luckily, Canucks Prospect Cody Hodgson decided that wiring a sniper shot during the powerplay was the best thing to do, and in Chuck Norris fashion, he did it. It was now 3-0. Sweden tried to scratch back up with a goal of themselves, but that would be all they could do as they our Canadians threw some pucks into the empty net. 5-1. It was over. The fans counted the seconds down by five. Canada won the gold for the fifth straight time. They did it. THEY DID IT.
WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The sweet feeling of victory.
And so, Spotto is now on the Cody Hodgson bandwagon. Today I was on Youtube in boredom (why else would one be on Youtube?) and I decided that listening to Endless Sky for once would be nice. (Haven't touched music for a while) I stared at the album cover showcased on Youtube and noticed something about Kazumi's actress, Miho Aihara....
Holy.
Both of these people have a bit of similarity. First, their face shape. I ALWAYS notice face shape. Such as the early drawings of Aoi-dono in which her greatest weakness was the angle and the shape of the face. She's fixed it now and the pretty art is practically flawless. Both Miho and Cody have a "plump" face shape. They're not fat obviously, but their face is round and kind of square, not THAT square. Perhaps a square with rounded ends. The placement of the eyes, nose, and mouth. Same with the body...they seem kind of 'big' but not fat or anything.
And it's not just looks.
When you look at them, you think "Oh, well they don't really seem like they stand out much." And that is pretty true at first. Cody Hodgson was overshadowed by the hype of John Tavares, a potential first round pick in the 2009 Draft. And who the hell likes Kazumi? Certainly not me...oh wait I do, but not a lot of people do. There's a good amount, but an even less number in Japan. I wonder why is that. So really, what could these people bring to the table?
Ha.
Miho Mihara was by far the best actress in the Negima Drama. This isn't even a biased statement, there were quite of lot of people who agreed though even if she had the best acting ability and everything, her recognition never quite got as big as it should have. The more major characters were more hyped about by fans, such as Nodoka's apparently very cute actress, or such.
Cody Hodgson had the most points in the entire tournament. The experts say he was the MVP of the tournament, but officially? Tavares got the award. Hodgson didn't even get "Top Three" in the TEAM chosen by coaches. You'd think he would get more. He did get SOMETHING, as he ended up on the IIHF Tournament all-star roster, but you would wonder...Tavares is an offensive force. That's true, but I believe his best game was against USA, and he did not shine as much in the much more important games of Russia and especially Sweden.
Oh well.
Spotto will always go for these people.
The differences...the lack of recognizing achievement (officially), and of course wonderful friends of the first and regretably shorter rant. Lol.
This has been Spotto.
