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I came across this video today and ended up spending over an hour watching the whole thing.http://youtu.be/z5o3d104SKQIt brings back memories of my childhood when I played Super Mario Bros 3 on my SNES. I obviously wasn’t as good as the person in this video, and it took much longer than an hour and seven minutes for me to beat the whole game, but it still entertained me pretty well.For those of you wondering how that video is possible, it’s a tool-assisted speed run that particularly focuses on exploiting glitches and programming bugs. That means that the person that played and recorded this footage used an emulator on a computer to play the game, and was able to rewind the game, replay portions, and use other tools available on his emulator to make the final product. Quote of the Day“Everybody has a photographic memory. It’s just that some people don’t have any film.” The Daily Shoot Assignment of the DayFind something that’s out of context today, natural or staged, and make a photograph.
My classic Cheetos and lemonade midnight snack.The lemonade isn’t in the picture, though. -__- What I’m ReadingA few days ago, I finished reading a book titled City of Bones, the first book in the Mortal Instruments series, which consists of four books written by Cassandra Clare.
I chose to read this book because it was rated as the #1 book in my high school this past school year, and I thought it was worth reading if so many of my peers enjoyed it.The main character in the story is a teenage girl named Clarissa Fray more commonly referred to as Clary. On a seemingly normal day, Clary discovers, while at a party, that she has special powers that no normal humans have. After investigating these abiities, Clary soon finds herself involved in a world of Shadowhunters, demons, werewolves, vampires, and fairies. Secrets of her past quickly unravel as she tries to learn the true identities of her parents.In my opinion, the book was pretty good, even though it didn’t really catch my attention. Basically, it wasn’t a edge-of-your-seat page-turner, but it was still worth the time to read. I would recommend it mostly to high schoolers that have an interest in generic fantasy-themed books. 
What I’m WatchingI haven’t been keeping up with my reading, so instead of “What I’m Reading,” I decided to do a quick review of a movie I watched yesterday and do a “What I’m Watching” section. The movie is called 
At the beginning of the movie, there was a note that said that the movie was based off a game called Street Fighter. I vaguely remember hearing of it somewhere, but I never played it before, so I knew from the beginning that I was probably not going to understand it as well as I could.Although the whole movie itself was somewhat action-packed, I felt the movie had difficulty leaning toward an attempt at reality or purely science fictional. At times, it seemed like the producers tried to make the movie emulate something that could actually happen in real life, but then in some segments, it completely ignored that and added something farfetched and odd. Basically, it was slightly inconsistent.As for the plotline, there seemed to be multiple conflicts arising and falling that sometimes had little relation to one another. For example, one of the introductory conflicts was when the main character’s father gets kidnapped by a group of criminals. Another conflict arises randomly toward the end when the leader of the criminal group, Bison, receives his daughter as a shipment, and the international police force comes to stop Bison from maintaining posession of the daughter. I don’t know if there was something in the game that involved the shipment of a human being as a package, but either way, it seemed confusing.The Internet Movie Database’s user rating for this movie as of today is a 3.8 out of 10. Although I would probably rate it a bit higher than that because of the random bursts of action and because it incorporates martial arts, one of the only sports that I like, I still wouldn’t recommend it as a “good” movie. I suggest watching this movie only if you’re interested in random bits of entertainment from action scenes, and a little bit of tension here and there from the plot progression.If you have both played the Street Fighter game and have watched this movie, and your opinion differs from mine, feel free to contribute to the Discussion section at the bottom of this blog post. Question of the DayA lot of my blog posts lately have involved my presence at my family’s business. A handful of people have asked me what my family’s business is. So today’s question of the day is, “What exactly is your family business?”Although it may have been a little obvious from the pictures I took, my family’s business is a self-service coin laundry. Essentially, our business is a massive one-story building with tons of washing machines and dryers ranging in size from machines that take a single load of laundry to machines that can wash a few comforters at once.Our customers use our business by bringing in dirty clothing from home and using our machines to wash and dry them. All the machines are coin-operated, so our customers either bring their own quarters, or bring paper money and use our coin changers to exchange them for quarters. Each machine has a different cost to operate, depending on how big it is.The target of our business is generally people that either cannot afford a washing machine and dryer, do not have enough space in their house or apartment for a washing machine and dryer, or choose not to purchase a washing machine and dryer. Of course, people that have blankets and comforters that are too large for their washer and dryer also come to use our laundromat. Occasionally, we have people that come because their washer and dryer at home are broken.I have some 
This is the weirdest watermelon I’ve ever eaten in my life. Not only does it look like it’s bleeding, it was also impossible to actually eat. The fact that I was trying to scoop chunks of it up with a coffee stirring spoon didn’t help either.
And here’s my friend intensely gaming. Sort of. His name is Edward Lam, he one day aspires to be famous and wishes to be known across the world, even in Antarctica.
We then tried registering me for a PlayStation Network account. It asked for my address, so I put something random in, and it kept rejecting it. Apparently, 608 Djhk Dr in Washington, DC is not a valid address.
After I finally managed to put a fake address in, it took me another six or so tries to pick out a valid password.
After what seemed like 15 minutes, I finally finished registering for an account. Unfortunately, when I went to sign in, it rejected my log-in info.
After somehow getting signed in, I played a little Call of Duty for the first time, and stopped when I got dizzy from the rapidly rotating screen. Then we switched over to a fighting game, and I managed to get my first victory over a Level 4 player. The second round, however, I wasn’t that fortunate.
Yes, the second player that I faced was Level 140. I lost miserably.If you haven’t realized already, I’m not much of a gamer.That was my short adventure at Edward Lam’s house. 