It's as if I try to influence and take control of other people's lives, but want nothing to do with my own! It's time for me to take control of my own life. I can't change other people, but I can change myself. I want to save lives. People aren't listening to me now, when they should, and even when I'm proven right in things today, I am still not trusted or followed, not even by my closest friends.

Bottom line, I need to change myself, and so I will. Furthermore, I will no longer offer advice. The things I speak to them are perfectly sound and true, but go unfollowed, unheeded. Almost purposely. So to that, I say farewell. Get by on your own accounts BY your own accounts. You'll have no real input from me.

I have my own problems, and I need to face them now.

The fight is everything.

To live is to fight, to fight is to live!

Alfredo Quiñones-Hinojosa

I will never forget this name.

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I'm disgusted with myself.

I think I honestly need to get out of the house during the day.
Then, maybe, I will study, let alone studying more.

I'm guaranteed for med school...

Now, how much do I want to stay in the States for med school?

In the interest of blogging...

I shall blog.

For Christmas, Alex helped me get a 32 inch Samsung Series 3 flat widescreen TV. I'm sure I'm skimpin' out on features too, but I must say that Bluray makes a big difference in clarity. On the flipside, I'm (kind of) appalled at how clear makeup and acne show up. Take Smallville season 7... Damn. The makeup was also really clearly evident on the Bluray for 300. Whatever. It's all good...

And, I cannot help but stuff my face with strawberry Fruit Roll-Ups. At 50 calories, it's flatout awesome.

AFFECTS Fitness Academy and AFFECTS Martial Arts are shams!

I'm sorry. I just felt compelled to bring this back up, as Ray Ashton ("Captain Forehead") seems to have expanded his line of absolute bullshit.

The site is now http://www.affects.biz/
There's stuff that he's offering that he didn't offer before, such as "RAAM."

#1. If a martial art is going by an acronym... BEWARE

#2. He says, and I quote:
"After you have experienced only one formal session of RAAM, and you still believe that you know of another system that is more real-life, more practical and faster than RAAM then you may qualify for one whole year of free RAAM classes or any other AFFECTS' classes of your own choosing! We are certain that you will not find such a system any where in the country."
- Grand Master Ashton

I guess I wanna try this out, just so he can lose money on me. :-P
But fuck it, I know people, personally, who would not appreciate his comments. Don't tell me an actual soldier, trained by our US military, would fall to one of these AFFECTS acolytes. That's just stupid.

Please do not be duped by this swindler. His "martial art" and mouth has gotten him into quite a bit of trouble.

I'm just here to set the record straight. In two of my previous blog posts, I detailed some of my encounters with him. This all culminates in him wishing to kill me, and telling me he would if he was ever disrepected again. No lie. Please read them, carefully, and then ask yourself if you would want a master who threatened to kill a non-believer. I would seriously think about it before signing up for his 'martial art' sham.

And by the way, I'm not sure that Barack Obama or these beauty queens, whose pictures appear on the webpages, would endorse or appreciate their images being used commercially for this Affects Fitness bullshit.

The posts are below at this link:
http://wayofthedragon.blogspot.com/search?q=ray+ashton

You can get in touch with me on AIM: SANSHORYU

"Sorry I've been away so long. I won't let you down again."

This is very powerful to me. I've been selfish, when I know I can do better for more people. Never love one above all others (besides God), love all humanity instead. Maybe that is why I can do what I do, and why things are the way they are.

Gotta get back up and soar. No limits. No obstacles. No regrets. I have loved, and lost, but I will love again. But now, there are more important things for me to do, and I see them. But there's something... wrong inside me.

God, please help me return.

In this, Superman becomes Ryu.

A day...

Nice music...
Yelled at the parents :(
Asked God for forgivness :)
Kissed the parents :)
Ate at Kirin
Played pool
Saw Ashley
Listened to Rock
Chilled with David, Neal
Heather...
Chilled at Tex Mex
Kissed Ashley in an overall greeting.
Watched Alex play Guitar Hero III
Listened to said nice music.

Gnite

Gotta finish out Week 3

Started it out well.
Need to finish it well.
C'mon God, gimme strength!

It will NOT happen again!

I loved her...

I really did.
Why else could it still be lingering?

PS3 vs Xbox 360: The Controller

Let it be said that the PS3's and Xbox 360's respective controllers are awfully similar, and keeping that in mind, I'm comparing them.
Mind you I don't give a crap about the Dual Shock 3...

Grip:
Both feel good and comfortable, but the 360's feels kinda bigger and actually contours to your hand.

Analog sticks:
In feel and placement... the 360's is very clearly the better of the two. The 36o controller's left stick is placed in a better position for functional FPSing.

D-pad:
PS3's is the better, no question. The 360's blows ass.

Face buttons:
This is a matter of preference, do you like the softer buttons (PS3) or the harder buttons (X360)?

Shoulder buttons:
I largely dislike the bumper buttons on the 360, except for when reloading in Halo 3 and Gears of War. So I rate the PS3's bumper buttons (L1 and R1) higher.
The triggers are another story. The PS3's triggers (L2 and R2) suck. The 360's are far superior.

Power:
360's sucks because it requires a battery pack (and batteries if you don't have a rechargeable pack, and a USB charging cable or a charging socket). Suck it, Microsoft!
PS3's has its battery built in and is chargeable via mini USB to USB plug. Bravo Sony!

But... overall, the 360's controller is more functionally sound, but the PS3's is the better value.
Now I'll leave it up to you...

Happy New Year!

Kokuryu reemerges, but not because of sadness or a longing to fill the void.

Retirement is over.

So I was flippin' thru the channels and found the "Double Dragon" movie...

... and I was amazed at how the production sets and values just rival those of the Power Rangers TV shows.

The Transformers SCORE, not soundtrack...

... is excellent. I couldn't give a rat's ass about all the different music by whoever artists, but Steve Jablonsky's score is most excellent.

Hypotheses Biological

I hypothesize that a certain degree of development is random. Penetrance accounts for the fact that identical genetic information between a plural will often result in different phenotypes. If this is so, then the only way to get 'desired' characteristics is to repeatedly express the same template in multiple subjects, separating those that are desired.

I also hypothesize that the cure to cancer is within the body itself. I take for example, the repair of thymine dimer mutations within DNA.
From Wikipedia: " Excision repair enzymes and the DNA repair system can often recognize and repair this type of damage by the large kink in the DNA that it causes. In many organisms (excluding placental mammals such as humans), DNA photolyases can repair the damage directly by cleaving the dimer.
Unrepaired or mis-repaired thymine dimers and the resultant mutations can contribute to the development of skin cancers."

The body does it itself. As such mutations can cause cancer, then hypothetically, the cure for cancer can be found within the body itself. If something is not right, the body's own machinery must be able to fix it. If not, I am 100% positive that enzymes can be engineered to hunt down specific mutations to correct. However, as there are many types of mutations, it will conceivably take a while to find ways, enzymatic or otherwise, to fix the different mutations in DNA. However, as oncogenes are often, if not always, the epicenter from which cancer begins, those are the points where we need to be looking.