Ryuu no PUREETO

I've been playing Pokémon Diamond recently, and I actually managed to stumble upon two shiny Pokémon, which are basically just extremely rare (somewhere along the lines of 1 in 8,192 chance in each wild encounter) and have different colouring than normal.




I found my first, which was a shiny Onix, at Iron Island. It was really tricky to get because it was in a double battle where I was forced to fight along with Riley and at first I was really annoyed because I thought you weren't allowed to catch Pokémon in double battles. (Which is true, but if one of them faints and the other is left you can catch it) On the first turn we basically knocked both the Onix and Golbat into red health, and I think the Onix summoned a Sandstorm. Unfortunately I had to knock out Riley's Lucario which would have otherwise tried to faint the Onix, and the sandstorm took care of the Golbat. Then I proceeded to put it to sleep and it was caught.

EDIT: I didn't realise it was so unclear in the pictures but basically the Onix is greenish-brown coloured.



Just recently I found a shiny Staravia (but now a Staraptor as pictured) in the Trophy Garden while trying to get wild Eevee.

I wonder if the encounter rate has been increased? Otherwise I'm just extremely lucky. Although, the shiny state doesn't really affect status or anything as far as I know.

Yam Cake

First year is...done? Nice. And now's it's time to move out.
Having an almost four month summer vacation is different, and the year DID seem like it went by faster. Now it's time to slow way down and relax a tiny bit in the summer. :P

Digging through old receipts I found out that I actually went to a lot of movies this year, at least to me. I don't usually go to movies too often, but being able to walk to the closest movie theatre really helps :D I'm definitely going to miss being downtown and able to walk to so many places nearby.

Sep 11: Borat
Oct 02: The Illusionist
Oct 23: The Prestige
Nov 02: Manufactured Landscapes
Jan 15: Pan's Labyrinth
Mar 15: 300 IMAX
May 05: Spiderman 3 IMAX

PS: OMG THE DUSTBALLS THEY'RE EVERYWHERE.

Manufactured Landscapes

Alphabet City

Punyaan

Just went and saw a recital by an aquaintance of Dennis', and she was really good. Opera school is next for her.

It's kind of odd having an extra two months of summer vacation, and I'm sure there will be a lot of forgetting involved. <_>

And as coincidence would have it, I'm out of town again during course selection so I'll have to figure that out.

Lake Titicaca

Last Thursday I went to see 300. Yay 300!
It was in IMAX. Yay IMAX!
We sat in the second row from the front. Yay neck injuries!
I guess it was wrong to guess that going thirty minutes beforehand wasn't enough. If we went any later I wonder if we would've even been able to get in.

IMAX's little sequence thing before the movie was so hilarious. It felt like I was in some motion simulator ride in an amusement park.

Before the movie we ate at Milestone's, which was pretty good. More expensive than usual of course but it was rather filling too.

Today's weather is really nice, which is lucky because I had to walk over to Indigo's to get something anyway. On the way back I passed by some singing monks. They were pretty good.

Whetted Curiosity

Last night there was much hopping through deep snow. This morning there was much wading through deep puddles.

Bottom of pant legs...so wet...

Snow Night

It just started snowing like crazy an hour or so ago. So apparently all class after 5pm today are cancelled.

Urban warming got beat and we managed to get a quarter of a Snow Day. Oh burn.

Now about getting to the restaurant...