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If you don’t want to hear a high maintenance girl with a large sense of self-entitlement bitch about a totally superficial holiday, you might want to skip this paragraph. Generally, I don’t care about this holiday much, not are my expectations generally high. Though we had nothing planned, I figured I might as well go downtown and spend time with Kelvin, at least. In hindsight, I probably should have stayed at home. First of all, I was kinda disappointed I didn’t get anything for V-day. I know I really shouldn’t expect anything, but I did hint at some things I wanted earlier this year, so I was disappointed Kelvin didn’t figure that out. We dropped by Sonoma Chicken Coop to get a dessert to-go (mmm… tiramisu…), and I noticed lots of people getting chocolate fondues. I’m thinking, that’s kinda nice and romantic-ish, I wouldn’t have minded fondue… And then we continue on to his apartment. He lives above this fancy italian restaurant, and when we passed by, almost every table in restaurant was occupied by a couple (with the exception of TWO tables). At this point, I’m feeling pretty disappointed. How come these girls get to have a nice dinner and I don’t? You know what my Valentine’s evening consisted of? Eating at Ask.com to partake in their free dinners (it was either that or leftover Olive Garden from lunch) and watching 13th Warrior with Kelvin. Yes, romantic. So I’m feeling a little irked, and I’m sure a couple guys are still reading is and complaining to themselves about how girls need to tell guys what they want and not use mind games and at least you’re not single blah blah blah. Whatever. I’m still bitching. To Kelvin’s credit, he did claim to have planned to get me something special, but it fell through. And he did give a good massage, so now my back doesn’t have a weird crunchy texture anymore :P (btw, if anyone knows a good chiropractor, could you refer me? I want to make sure my back/neck isn’t out of whack. They’ve been achy a lot lately.)

Sorry, but there’s more ranting. Kelvin has gotten into this habit of downloading movies he’s always wanted to see but no one he knew was willing to pay money and go with him to see in the theaters. So he’s been downloading these crap movies and making me watch them with him. Which majorly sucks. He already made me watch Time Machine (which btw SUCKS). He left me watch the last two episodes of Beauty & the Geek UK, but he said I had to watch one of his movies. My choices were The Island and The 13th Warrior. Of course, I’m going to choose the shorter one, so 13th Warrior it was. And you know what? It SUCKED. Terrible, terrible film. Instead of hiring an actor and making him sound Arabic, they get Antonio Banderas to speak with a Spanish accent to sound “Arabic”. So he like meets up with some Vikings, who say he has to go with them to fight some horrible monsters attacking some village in the north. (btw, if you care, spoilers start here.) So they go to this crappy little village and fend off these “monsters” that like to eat people. These “monsters” turn out to be a bunch of guys with bear suits. And even though they outnumber the village like 200 to 1, they attack and retreat THREE times in this movie. The warriors eventually go to the monster’s hideout, where they find the queen of the monsters and kills her. Keep in mind that even though there were like hundreds and hundreds of bear dudes attacking the village, the warriors only had to beat up/sneak by 20 guys to kill one of the two important people in the bear-people population. In the climax battle, where the bear-monster-people head out to annihilate the village for killing their queen, one warrior (who is lame from being poisoned earlier) manages to knock off the head-bear leader guy (the other most important person of the bear-people) from his horse and kill him with a couple swings of his sword. Once this happens, the hundreds of other bear guys decide to stop destroying the village and go home. And then that’s the end of the “unspeakable horror” that was terrorizing the village. What… the… hell… At the end of the movie, Antonio Banderas is sailing off back to Iraq or whereever he’s from, and his best warrior friend waves him off and says in the most cheesiest way, “Goodbye, Arab!” You know, like how a kid says goodbye to his hero as he rides off into the sunset. It’s totally random, and me and Kelvin just busted up when we saw this. Anyways, this movie is basically a bloody crapfest. I give it a 1 out of 10.

Okay, I have to stop bitching and get back to work. I want to end on a positive note though. I managed to “acquire” the soundtracks to two of the most well-done PS2 games evar: Shadow of the Colossus and Okami. Beautiful, beautiful soundtracks. My favorite from Shadow of the Colossus so far is “The Opened Way”, and my favorite track from Okami at the moment is the music for the spider boss. Ironically enough, the spider boss was one of my favorite bosses of the game (it was like, a really weird looking spider, so I was able manage okay). I think I figured out why I loved Shadow of the Colossus so much and what I don’t like about typical Zelda-like action-adventures: I don’t like dungeons. I like exploration and bosses, but not dungeons. And Shadow of the Colossus is basically an action-adventure with no dungeons. Yeah, anyways, I need to get back to work. Belly-dancing was exhausting. If anyone wants these soundtracks, just let me know.

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