2008.04.04
MY ROOM 06'
The following are pictures of my room back in 2006. While my room doesn't look as awesome as the following pictures anymore, my collection of useless crap has tripled. My room might look completely awesome to some people, but I'm sure everyone else thinks I'm an idiot for wasting my money on such useless shit.
Oh look at all those posters of celebrities on my wall. It looks like an average teenage girl's room. Well I did decorate it back when I was sixteen.
This was my little nerd section. It wasn't much back then but I'll just tell you now that I own so much shit. I need to take an updated picture. There's also plenty of other toys you'll notice like Parappa the Rapper holding a box of McDonalds french fries. I also have the Chocobo one. And when you pull both of their french fries they vibrate. Nothing like putting personal vibrators in each Japanese kid's happy meal! Or happy "set" I should say.
I know, I had so many Dir en Grey posters. Well they were cool at a time. And OMGWTF IS THAT A CLOUD STRIFE POSTER? Yes it is. Back in 1998 the China Town in Las Vegas was anime fan haven. I bought a shitload of Evangelion and Final Fantasy VII posters there (keep in mind I was 12 at the time so of course I thought FF7 was cool) and they were $1.99 a piece. As for that other FF7 poster, it came as a freebie with that one FF7 strategy guide by Versus. It's better than looking at empty wallspace so that's why they're up. While I may hate Cloud I'd rather look at him than Rei Ayanami.
Sanrio plushies in Guam were cheap and I was a bored lonely loser who had money to throw away. So I wasted it on a great deal of shit I'll most likely be giving away to charity. I know, I hate Inu Yasha but the only reason why I bought that stuff was to rip off some loser Inu Yasha fans. I knew of plenty but they would not talk to me because they always acted like they were above me for being into anime and they knew I wasn't. So that left me with a bunch of useless Inu Yasha merchandise. *sigh* I'm still hoping I find someone to rip off in the future.
If you look closely you'll see an Eiji plush from Battle Arena Toshinden. There's a funny story about that toy. Back in 00' there was this big ass fair going on in the Navy base I used to go to school in Japan. I came across a bunch of my friends and they won some shit from some games. One had a Sophia plush and another had a Tracy plush. They were making fun of it to me (especially Sophia) and they were like "What kind of four dollar whores are these? What kind of prizes are these?" When I saw them my eyes became wide and my jaw dropped. I was like "BATTLE ARENA TOSHINDEN PLUSHIES! WHERE DID YOU GUYS GET THESE! OMG THAT'S TRACY AND THAT'S SOPHIA!" They were weirded out and lost. Oddest of all was that I had a reputation for being best dressed, stylish, and all that other bullshit. I was "kewl." So the two underclassmen felt weird for insulting something that the hip upperclassmen liked.
Two years later those plushies still didn't escape from my mind. I even made a journal entry whining about what was lost. How I could've paid those girls to have those toys. (Damn straight one man's trash is another man's treasure - I wanted to throw down money on plush tits!) One of my friends mentioned that she got one too two years ago and she gave me her's the next day. I know she thought I was a fucking idiot for making such a big deal out of it but I was happy to have an Eiji Shinjo plush.
I once had a hamster army as you can see in the top left side. I got that Kirby plush in the middle as a going away gift from one of my good friends. The coolest thing about it is that it actually talks! Sort of. There's an Um Jammer Lammy clock to the right side. I bought that for 19.99. I wanted the Parappa clock but it was 60 bucks. He ain't that special so I settled for the silver medal. If you look closely you can see Akuma from Street Fighter in front of my computer standing next to some buddha homeboys. Behind the desktop computer is a Hamtaro backpack. Yes I felt ashamed buying that since it was clearly for children but I couldn't stop myself from buying novelty items.
I got a great deal of my Janne Da Arc posters on ebay. I remember bidding on some auction that had tons of JDA pictures ripped out of magazines. I do not know how much money I wasted on that shit. NEVER WASTE MONEY ON PICTURES OF CELEBS. Though I of course still listen to their music. As you can see I have quite a lot of shoes I never wore. Yeah I tried getting into the whole shoe craze thing and just like my past obsession buying clothes - I normally don't wear any of them and just wear the same three things everyday. :3 That is one ugly ass Cowboy Bebop poster but I only bought it because I wanted to cover up that part of my closet and it was only three dollars.
To the left is a box of blonde bleach from the days when I always bleached my hair blonde. I kept it for the cool Ai Yazawa art. (She's probably most known for Nana and Paradise Kiss.) The top CD is the first press edition of Janne Da Arc's "Another Story." Really cool art, I was a little sad to find out Akihiko Yoshida didn't draw it since it reminded me of Vagrant Story. Below it is a first press copy of Dir en Grey's debut major album "Gauze." I wish someone would buy that from me. The figurine below is a figure of Dizzy from Guilty Gear. I just wanted a Ky Kiske figure but the damn machine kept shitting out Dizzy figures. I gave up after the third Dizzy figure I got. :( Right next to it is Kirby candy that came with cool toys. Now I don' t know if they did this intentionally but the candy tasted like shit. Funny because there was a Kirby episode that featured candy that tasted like shit but came with cool toys. To the top of that is a FFX Yuna lunchbox. I felt too nerdy to walk out the door with it though so it ended up just being a novelty item.
Yeah so I could've just went to the dollar store or some shit to buy school supplies. I may have not grown up Asian but I still have Asian genes in me. It made me dumb enough to waste my money on four dollar pencils and other useless crap. That Cinamoroll calculator doesn't even work anymore.
Fads at it's greatest. I don't use any of that shit anymore. I've now overcome my Sanrio craze and learned to only buy Kirby merchandise because I'll always have undying love for him. Now I don't give a shit about cinnamoroll. Even mascots suffer the fate of pop stars.
That's one of the prettiest yet useless binders I have. Mainly because it uses four ring sheets and there's only three ring card sheets in America. To the side is my Parappa the Rapper eyeglass case. It was cheap and broke. To the bottom of that is a Hamtaro notepad. I know, shame on me. I bought that when I was a senior in high school. I should've been like my peers and bought memo pads with 50 cent's face on it. To the top is a Hamtaro plush obviously. It came with the first episode of Hamtaro on VHS - all for 9.99! Somehow, I still regret not buying that Hamtaro playhouse...
I wish I could rip out those toys from their packaging and play with them. But considering how much I move I'd only regret it if I did. There's also the packaging for the Suikoden 5 memory card displayed there. The memory card was in my PS2.