TheSLiKbandit

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A picture of SLiK in real life.

Information

Real Name	ToBeAnnounced
Registration Date	April 22, 2006
Rank	SwimStar
Regulars	Action Discussion

Note that theSLiKbandit is not your run of the mill AD Regular. His mind is always on the search of answers of all kinds regardless of however trivial or irrelevant they may be. Everything below tells a lot, but not everything.

This page is under construction

Overview

Origins

Jin, SLiK's most used avatar.

In the search for a decent username, an unknown 17-year old found himself frustrated. One day while looking at various pics of cars from Mercedes-Benz, he immediately fell for one of Benz's convertibles, an SLK 230. From then on, he could not keep his mind off such a car for it was a convertible with a folding hard top (which was uncommon at the time). Suddenly, the boy had ended his search for a decent user name. By simply sticking an 'i' in SLK, adding the chassis code for the Mitsubishi 3000GT, and the word 'the', he created the username, theSLiKZ16A. His accompanying avatar was that of The Big O itself. He went on to his first forum, an arcade forum about a local mall that he went to and started his online life. Soon enough, there came one member who attempted to quote him saying, "someone with 'SLiK' in his name". Realizing the length of his username might become an issue, theSLiKZ16A shortened his name to ' SLiK '.

Time passed, and SLiK soon found himself hanging around in other forums. He came across an Initial D site and used his newly acquired username and joined another online community. There, he used those forums to educate himself on online life. He learned of signature making, bbcode, quoting, flaming, trolling, and the like.

Because it was an Initial D forum, SLiK thought it would be appropriate to use an avatar related to the series. He chose the ridiculously talented Bunta Fujiwara as his avatar. For his signature, he tapped into the power of PhotoShop and created a signature using a Toyota Celica GT-Four.

It would only be a matter of time until 2004 when Shinichiro Watanabe unveiled Samurai Champloo to the world. SLiK was intrigued at the prospect of another anchronistic anime. After watching it, he found Jin to be his favorite character as he easily matched his personality. From then on, Jin became SLiK's standard avatar and created a matching signature to boot. Because SLiK enjoys the cold so much (despite beinge a Pacific Islander) he chose to use an avatar of Jin in winter wear. This has become his forum standard. In the [as] forums, he has chosen a Jin avatar wearing a hat instead for reasons unknown.

Interests

Snowboarding

SLiK likes to snowboard as often as he possibly can during the winter. His place of choice is Mountain Creek, located in Vernon, NJ.

Band and Choir

Back in the day, 2006, SLiK graduated from high school knowing he would probably never sing again. He often remembers his past choir trips to Baltimore, New York, Hershey Park, and Virginia Beach quite well and has stories to boot.

2003 at Baltimore

2004 in New York

2005 in Hershey Park

2006 in Virginia Beach

During his choir's Virginia Beach trip, SLiK faced all sorts of hell on his several-hour long bus ride to the hotel. He still has shocking memories of that particular ride, including several traffic jams, the bus running off the road as a result of one jam caused by a serious car accident, and a near miss with a sixteen-wheel oil tanker.

After that ordeal, SLiK's choir proceeded to go to the competition stage. He was confident his group would recieve good comments from the judges. As expected, his group did well with all their songs. All they had to do now was wait for the awards ceremony to see the fruit of their labor.

As a part of every good choir trip, now was the time to go the park where all the choirs would spend their day of fun. This park just happened to be Busch Gardens, an appropriate venue for the choirs to have fun and have the awards ceremony. SLiK got together with some of his friends and ran amok in the park, enjoying whatever rides and attractions they came across. On one ride, the aptly named Big Bad Wolf one of his friends had the slight inkling to take a smoke during the ride. He couldn't believe it. He was sadly mistaken as he saw smoke from the car in front of him rushing to his face. SLiK was laughing out of disbelief as he saw his friend smoke during the ride.

During the awards ceremony SLiK's group rejoiced in unheard of glorious revelry when they heard they had placed first in the competition out of 10 other schools in their district. That night as SLiK was about to go take a swim at the hotel's pool, he decided to bring his iPod with him as he did not have a watch. He needed to bring it with him so that at some time he would join his friends and go out and buy some smokes (though he doesn't smoke himself). After jumping in the pool, getting various pics of himself taken, eating copious amounts of pizza, he figured it was time for him to go get the goods. Upon leaving the pool, SLiK noticed something was wrong. Upon further inspection, he found he had been swimming with his iPod the entire time. Fortunately for SLiK, he had the iPod Nano, a flash drive player. It would only take a couple days for his iPod to completely recover. Days later SLiK noticed the battery life had dramatically decreased. He is currently on saving enough money for the 8 GB iPod Nano.

The next day, SLiK and a couple of his friends decided to sneak out of the hotel and set out for the beach. On an impulse, he and his friends ran towards the ocean only to be frozen by the cold waves. It did not matter to them, for it was Virginia Beach, and it might have been the only time to experience such a thing. Afterwards, the friends lay strewn across the sands, soaking up the sun and telling each other various stories.

Choir History

As far as his singing life is concerned, SLiK has had the distinct honor of being part of his Chamber Choir whom he as been eager to participate in. He was also a 2 year veteran of the Morris County Honors Choir, where he had the opportunity to sing songs of a higher level than most high schools. It was when he spent his time in county choir that he met many interesting individuals who shared his interests and, of course, singing.

Sleeping

Like many of the ASMB, SLiK is quite the avid sleeper. It was once said that he slept for 14 hours, translating into 2:00 in the afternoon. He feels greatly dissapointed in himself whenever he remembers that moment, for he felt he had completely and utterly ruined his day.

Music

The way SLiK approached music was strange in a way, for he grew up in a filipino family. Thus he was surrounded in music yet found it to be a phenomenon that he could not comprehend.

Start

L'Arc~en~Ciel and J-Rock

Samurai Champloo and Underground Hip-Hop

Initial D and Eurobeat

Back in the day, 2002, SLiK was at his local mall when he decided to go to the mall's arcade. He planned on going inside, use $5, play Soul Calibur II, and then leave. That day proved different as he decided to play something else, something other than fighting games for once in his life. SLiK happened to see several racing games before him, but most of them were either too old or not to his liking, i.e. IndyCar and NASCAR. Lo and behold, he found one racing game of interest, Initial D Arcade Stage ver.2. Upon playing the game for the first time, his ears chanced upon hearing Space Boy by Dave Rodgers. He asked himself, "What was this wonderous music?" and "Why is it that it goes so well with the game?". The music lacked the overuse of the synthesizer yet somehow remained upbeat and addicting. It was then that SLiK discovered eurobeat. Afterwards, SLiK began his search for eurobeat. It is said that he continues to search for eurobeat to this very day.

External Links

theSLiKbandit's MySpace

initial-d.com/forums - a forum dedicated to Initial D

Amalgam - a forum dedicated to Samurai Champloo