Wednesday, January 21, 2004
Happy Chinese New Year! The new years show from mainland China provided endless odd scariness/"entertainment". Spent an hour trying to get through to China...everyone's trying to call right now so the lines are all busy. Plus our phone sucks, so it was like "quick quick quick, punch in the number before the phone "roams" again!"
Monday, January 19, 2004
Woohoo, finished comp. sci. Project 1 and Homework 1 (hw is longer than project >__<) over the weekend.
I feel so productive!
I feel so productive!
Sunday, January 18, 2004
EEEEWWWWWWWW >_________________<
Ok, well, today Chen and Ming went to donate platelets in order to get community service credit for their MCD Bio class. Apparently, donating platelets involves people extracting blood and then putting it back in after removing the platelets. It's a little more scary than donating blood and you have to weigh more in order to do it. Anyhoo, Chen and Ming walked to a place in Westwood in order to donate the platelets, which is a 2.5-hour process. During the whole time, nurses had to help Chen get her blood flowing because her veins were too thin and she had a low amount of platelets (o.O). Even the nurses commented that she shouldn't have been donating. After they finished, Chen felt woozy after getting outside and sat down on a curb to rest. At this moment, a police officer came over and offered to call an ambulance. Chen protested, but the officer called anyway. An ambulance came, and Chen was put on a stretcher with an oxygen mask and driven a block down the street to UCLA Medical Center. There, she protested some more and escaped before they ran tests on her or gave her anything. When she was about to leave, however, the hospital said they'll have to bill us $200 for the ambulance! AAACCCKK! $200 for a very very short drive and nothing else! And our stupid UCLA health insurance doesn't cover it because the price is not over $250. Aaaackkkk!! Chen argued and complained that she didn't even want to come to the hospital in the first place (she just wanted to sit down for a little bit!), but the hospital replied that they couldn't do anything about it. Aaacckkkkk, what horrible luck for Chen! >____<
Oh, and Karaoke Revolution came. It's a pretty decent game, but it's fun-ness factor is strictly limited by the fact that there are only 35 songs to sing. Plus I only know about 1/4 of the songs (mostly from the 80s -__-;;). It's still a pretty fun game though...and pretty hard (it judges you on pitch)...but I'm not too sure if it's worth $55. Oh well. The PS2 USB headphones alone cost $30 anyway.
Ok, well, today Chen and Ming went to donate platelets in order to get community service credit for their MCD Bio class. Apparently, donating platelets involves people extracting blood and then putting it back in after removing the platelets. It's a little more scary than donating blood and you have to weigh more in order to do it. Anyhoo, Chen and Ming walked to a place in Westwood in order to donate the platelets, which is a 2.5-hour process. During the whole time, nurses had to help Chen get her blood flowing because her veins were too thin and she had a low amount of platelets (o.O). Even the nurses commented that she shouldn't have been donating. After they finished, Chen felt woozy after getting outside and sat down on a curb to rest. At this moment, a police officer came over and offered to call an ambulance. Chen protested, but the officer called anyway. An ambulance came, and Chen was put on a stretcher with an oxygen mask and driven a block down the street to UCLA Medical Center. There, she protested some more and escaped before they ran tests on her or gave her anything. When she was about to leave, however, the hospital said they'll have to bill us $200 for the ambulance! AAACCCKK! $200 for a very very short drive and nothing else! And our stupid UCLA health insurance doesn't cover it because the price is not over $250. Aaaackkkk!! Chen argued and complained that she didn't even want to come to the hospital in the first place (she just wanted to sit down for a little bit!), but the hospital replied that they couldn't do anything about it. Aaacckkkkk, what horrible luck for Chen! >____<
Oh, and Karaoke Revolution came. It's a pretty decent game, but it's fun-ness factor is strictly limited by the fact that there are only 35 songs to sing. Plus I only know about 1/4 of the songs (mostly from the 80s -__-;;). It's still a pretty fun game though...and pretty hard (it judges you on pitch)...but I'm not too sure if it's worth $55. Oh well. The PS2 USB headphones alone cost $30 anyway.
Saturday, January 17, 2004
Went over next door to play Mario Party with Chen & Ming (aka Roman Commander ^^;;) today. So much fun, and I can't believe there's so little repetition in the mini-games. Damn that is one cool game ^_^
And ditched CS discussion today. Went to physics discussion but it was a big waste of time. I think I'll ditch physics discussion from now on and just go to a later section of the CS discussion. Instead, I can just check physics hw every week with nearly anyone, since everyone seems to be in that class anyway. Oof, preparing for an entire 3-day weekend of CS project & hw (hw is longer than project o.O).
And ditched CS discussion today. Went to physics discussion but it was a big waste of time. I think I'll ditch physics discussion from now on and just go to a later section of the CS discussion. Instead, I can just check physics hw every week with nearly anyone, since everyone seems to be in that class anyway. Oof, preparing for an entire 3-day weekend of CS project & hw (hw is longer than project o.O).
Thursday, January 15, 2004
Just ordered Karaoke Revolution on eBay for ~$55. Hopefully it'll be fine this time since the seller has 100% positive feedback (112) and Paypal Buyer Protection. I'm still not sure how they're going to integrate karaoke with the DDR format, but at least it sounds like potential fun ^__^
And wore really stupid, uncomfortable new shoes to class today. I bought them quite a while ago and never wore them, so they've become too small and really hurt my feet (especially since I have to practically run to class every day). When I finally made it back to the dorm (after having to repeatedly reject Dan's piggyback-ride offers all the way back), there were already tons of blisters all over my feet...ugh, suckiness >___<
And wore really stupid, uncomfortable new shoes to class today. I bought them quite a while ago and never wore them, so they've become too small and really hurt my feet (especially since I have to practically run to class every day). When I finally made it back to the dorm (after having to repeatedly reject Dan's piggyback-ride offers all the way back), there were already tons of blisters all over my feet...ugh, suckiness >___<
Tuesday, January 13, 2004
Dan came over and instructed us on DDR, haha. (Btw he got me DDRMAX2 for Christmas, and it rules...has tons of "real" songs and good stuff from the old mixes ^_^) Lesson One: moving body in sideways pattern that'll allow you to get the arrows more quickly with the least effort. Lesson Two: galloping to get the really close-together arrows. Test One: 10/10 difficulty song "Max Unlimited" slowed down to 1/5 speed (still really fast >_<). Haha, I know, we're weird :P
Saw this on someone's blog. Might as well post it since I never have anything to put down anyways. The orginal blogger deleted some of the entries, but oh well...they're not terribly great anyways. V and XI are so true for me though >__<
II. Please stop with LOL. Only about .4% of people actually "Laugh out Loud" and they are retarded. And don't give me this ROTFLMAO (Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off). I'd actually like to see you try this just so you can snap your neck as you fall out of your chair. Good. Nothing to LOL about now, is there?
III. Don't IM just to say "HI." Talking on AIM is the fast food equivalent of actual conversations. Keep the messages short and sweet. I assure you, you are not that interesting of a person. And if you were, why I am I talking to you behind a keyboard and miles of bandwidth?
IV. You don't have to IM someone every time they are online. Nobody is that interesting. The average person spends more time wiping their ass than talking to their parents. No one can be conversational every time you IM them.
V. Stop with these oblique away messages like "Not here", "Away", "Gone", or using an AIM face. If you had to shit, fine. Tell us, we're concerned for your well being. And for the love of god don't use the default away message: "I am away from my computer right now." Don't you get disappointed when you see that?
VI. If you are talking on a cell phone with someone and IMing that person simultaneously, you deserve the impending radiation cancer.
VIII. Stop using AIM faces. This is the lowest point of human interaction. It is more evolved to go to your friend's house and throw your own shit at their face. hi my name is jon luo :)
IX. If someone sends you a link or a song to download, you are not obligated to ever visit that link or download that song. Making a suggestion is fine, but don't pester them about it for days to come. You are interrupting their porn time.
X. Blocking someone is about the cruelest thing you can do to them. Worse than murder. So if someone pisses you off, don't block them. Ignore them. Fill them with doubt as to whether you are still at your computer. Blocking is basically the Agent Orange of AIM abuse. Savagely cruel, use only when necessary.
XI. One "Bye" is all that is needed to end a convo. Too many convos drag on and on like the first hour of Pearl Harbor. They look a little like this:
Homo69: Ok man, later.
Buttfuk27: Yea, take it east.
Buttfuk27: easy*
Homo69: Yeah I will
Homo69: Later
Buttfuk27: Later, dude
Homo69: Goodnite
Buttfuk27: Oh hey
Homo69: Yeah?
Buttfuk27: Did you finish your paper?
Homo69: Yeah
Buttfuk27: Oh okay, cool
Homo69: ok, seeya later
Buttfuk27: Yep, bye
Homo69: Bye
Buttfuk27: Night
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XII. Don't try to describe your looks in your screen name. If your screen name is SexyGurl25, and you look like the love child of ALF and Carrot Top, that's false advertising. Besides, it really isn't nice to trick MegaStud21, who is actually a 40-year-old unemployed bald man that installed a webcam in your shower while you were at class.
XIV. Don't just type "yea" to your friend when you have nothing to say. I understand the flashing IM is intimidating, and a lot of people need to have the last word, but the "yea" is basically IM code for: "I have lost a lot of interest in this convo, and was kind of hoping we could just drift apart peacefully." or albert's "k"
XV. No more than two numbers in your screen name. Three is okay, but only if it's to signal your birthday. It's already hard to remember what you decided to call yourself online, we really don't need the first 100 digits of pi. If your SN is: Queef67483857, just shorten it to Queef67. Or just Queef. I can't imagine too many people picking that one, it's too honest.
XVI. Don't type "BRB" then drive to Mexico. BRB has a 10 minute window. After that, it's away message time. AOL should install a feature that will automatically send gay porn to all your friends under your name once your comp is idle for 11 minutes after a BRB. ALLLLLBURTTT, when will you learn to stop typing 'brb' when you drive home to mexico?
XVII. You can tell the mood a person is in by how much they type. Example:
PeeWee12: Hey, man.
Meat10: Yo, what's up, dude?
= Happy
PeeWee12: Hey, man
Meat10: Hey
= Melancholy
PeeWee12: Hey, man
Meat10: Go fuck yourself.
= Not happy.
XIV. If the Internet kicks you off, and then you sign back on, it is your duty to re-start the convo. I don't know why this is, but if the other person IM's you with "kicked off?" they are obsessed with you.
XX. If someone sends you one of those IM's that say you must IM 10 other people, in order to save a child dying of leukemia in Indonesia, drive to his house and beat him to death with his own keyboard. Then, take a deep breath, and go check your email.
Oh, and added some more links on the left. Just cuz I don't really visit the old ones anymore.
II. Please stop with LOL. Only about .4% of people actually "Laugh out Loud" and they are retarded. And don't give me this ROTFLMAO (Rolling on the floor laughing my ass off). I'd actually like to see you try this just so you can snap your neck as you fall out of your chair. Good. Nothing to LOL about now, is there?
III. Don't IM just to say "HI." Talking on AIM is the fast food equivalent of actual conversations. Keep the messages short and sweet. I assure you, you are not that interesting of a person. And if you were, why I am I talking to you behind a keyboard and miles of bandwidth?
IV. You don't have to IM someone every time they are online. Nobody is that interesting. The average person spends more time wiping their ass than talking to their parents. No one can be conversational every time you IM them.
V. Stop with these oblique away messages like "Not here", "Away", "Gone", or using an AIM face. If you had to shit, fine. Tell us, we're concerned for your well being. And for the love of god don't use the default away message: "I am away from my computer right now." Don't you get disappointed when you see that?
VI. If you are talking on a cell phone with someone and IMing that person simultaneously, you deserve the impending radiation cancer.
VIII. Stop using AIM faces. This is the lowest point of human interaction. It is more evolved to go to your friend's house and throw your own shit at their face. hi my name is jon luo :)
IX. If someone sends you a link or a song to download, you are not obligated to ever visit that link or download that song. Making a suggestion is fine, but don't pester them about it for days to come. You are interrupting their porn time.
X. Blocking someone is about the cruelest thing you can do to them. Worse than murder. So if someone pisses you off, don't block them. Ignore them. Fill them with doubt as to whether you are still at your computer. Blocking is basically the Agent Orange of AIM abuse. Savagely cruel, use only when necessary.
XI. One "Bye" is all that is needed to end a convo. Too many convos drag on and on like the first hour of Pearl Harbor. They look a little like this:
Homo69: Ok man, later.
Buttfuk27: Yea, take it east.
Buttfuk27: easy*
Homo69: Yeah I will
Homo69: Later
Buttfuk27: Later, dude
Homo69: Goodnite
Buttfuk27: Oh hey
Homo69: Yeah?
Buttfuk27: Did you finish your paper?
Homo69: Yeah
Buttfuk27: Oh okay, cool
Homo69: ok, seeya later
Buttfuk27: Yep, bye
Homo69: Bye
Buttfuk27: Night
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XII. Don't try to describe your looks in your screen name. If your screen name is SexyGurl25, and you look like the love child of ALF and Carrot Top, that's false advertising. Besides, it really isn't nice to trick MegaStud21, who is actually a 40-year-old unemployed bald man that installed a webcam in your shower while you were at class.
XIV. Don't just type "yea" to your friend when you have nothing to say. I understand the flashing IM is intimidating, and a lot of people need to have the last word, but the "yea" is basically IM code for: "I have lost a lot of interest in this convo, and was kind of hoping we could just drift apart peacefully." or albert's "k"
XV. No more than two numbers in your screen name. Three is okay, but only if it's to signal your birthday. It's already hard to remember what you decided to call yourself online, we really don't need the first 100 digits of pi. If your SN is: Queef67483857, just shorten it to Queef67. Or just Queef. I can't imagine too many people picking that one, it's too honest.
XVI. Don't type "BRB" then drive to Mexico. BRB has a 10 minute window. After that, it's away message time. AOL should install a feature that will automatically send gay porn to all your friends under your name once your comp is idle for 11 minutes after a BRB. ALLLLLBURTTT, when will you learn to stop typing 'brb' when you drive home to mexico?
XVII. You can tell the mood a person is in by how much they type. Example:
PeeWee12: Hey, man.
Meat10: Yo, what's up, dude?
= Happy
PeeWee12: Hey, man
Meat10: Hey
= Melancholy
PeeWee12: Hey, man
Meat10: Go fuck yourself.
= Not happy.
XIV. If the Internet kicks you off, and then you sign back on, it is your duty to re-start the convo. I don't know why this is, but if the other person IM's you with "kicked off?" they are obsessed with you.
XX. If someone sends you one of those IM's that say you must IM 10 other people, in order to save a child dying of leukemia in Indonesia, drive to his house and beat him to death with his own keyboard. Then, take a deep breath, and go check your email.
Oh, and added some more links on the left. Just cuz I don't really visit the old ones anymore.
Monday, January 12, 2004
Nothing even remotely interesting these days. Classes are so boring >___<
Roman Commander came over and played a little Devil May Cry today (Charles played it last time), and he got all the way to Mission 6, I think. That game is so incredibly nerve-wracking to watch....I'm even more sure now that I'll never ever play it myself.
Roman Commander came over and played a little Devil May Cry today (Charles played it last time), and he got all the way to Mission 6, I think. That game is so incredibly nerve-wracking to watch....I'm even more sure now that I'll never ever play it myself.
Sunday, January 11, 2004
Very very good day today ^___^ Chen went with Charles, Carlus, Cynthia, and some guy named John to 3rd Street Promenade (after some multi-player DDR, to see Cold Mountain), and Young had also been gone since Friday, so I got to spend almost the entire day alone w/Daniel. Yay ^______^ (happy happy face). Wish I could've savoured it more though.
Thursday, January 08, 2004
First day of classes today. I decided to skip a discussion and just attend the one philosophy lecture I had today. This is just a class (Philosophy of Religion) I took to boost my GPA, and it seems pretty easy. The prof just rambled on and on about really common-sensical stuff like "Some people think there is a God, and they're entitled to their beliefs. And some people think there isn't a God, and they could be right too. And you might ask, why are they both entitled to their opinions? Blah Blah Blah."
Because of the construction they're doing at this residence hall, they closed the path that we usually take to go to class, Puzzles, and Reiber for food on the weekends. So now we have to take this roundabout path around Hedrick that makes it take 5 minutes longer to get to class, which means I have to wake up 5 minutes earlier every day! Except I most likely won't, so I'll just be late by an additional 5 minutes every day. Ugh I didn't think Hedrick could suck more and now I've been proven wrong. Not only are we the furthest from the class and on a huge hill, but we also have no gym, our dining hall closes on the weekends, and there's loud construction noise all the time >__<
Because of the construction they're doing at this residence hall, they closed the path that we usually take to go to class, Puzzles, and Reiber for food on the weekends. So now we have to take this roundabout path around Hedrick that makes it take 5 minutes longer to get to class, which means I have to wake up 5 minutes earlier every day! Except I most likely won't, so I'll just be late by an additional 5 minutes every day. Ugh I didn't think Hedrick could suck more and now I've been proven wrong. Not only are we the furthest from the class and on a huge hill, but we also have no gym, our dining hall closes on the weekends, and there's loud construction noise all the time >__<
Wednesday, January 07, 2004
Phew. It's good to be back in LA. Winter Break was relaxing but also....very....boring -__-;; Only went outside the apartment a total of about 5 times during the whole break. Almost all the free time I had was wasted. The only thing I accomplished was finishing Final Fantasy X-2, albeit with only 85%. I missed everything in Ch.1 (-__-) and did all I could throughout the rest of the game (though skipping over the dungeons and the crazy time-consuming digging mission). The good ending is very satisfying though, so it's all good ^__^
On our way back, at the airport, something really stupid happened. For Christmas, I got Daniel this letter-opener in the shape of a gunblade and wrapped it up and tossed it in my backpack. When I packed a few weeks later, I stupidly forgot to take the gift out and put it in a suitcase, so....of course....the X-ray picked it up at the security checkpoint. So they ended up rummaging through all of the backpack and unwrapping my gift >__< So I had to give it to Mom to have her send it through the mail. Ugh, so stupid on my part -__-;;
After we got off the plane, we had to wait about an hour for a UCLA-bound shuttle. During this time, a really really annoying middle-aged guy came up to us and began this horrible and very scary "conversation":
Annoying Guy: Are you related?
Us: Yes, we're twins.
AG: That's what I thought. Have you hugged each other today?
Us: Uhhhhhhhh......no.......
AG: Hug right now. Com'on.
Us: Uhhhhhh......no it's okay (extremely scared at this point)
AG: No? Then hug me then. Com'on.
Us: Uhhhhhh......no it's okay (very very very unbelievably scared at this point)
AG: High five then? Com'on. (raises his hand)
Us: Uhhhhhh....(ignoring him)
He finally left after we ignored him, but then returned later to continue the "conversation", during which he said things like "How'd you know I was going to be here? Haha." -____-;;; Luckily the shuttle came soon afterwards and we were able to escape his scariness.
We arrived in the dorms yesterday afternoon. Didn't really do anything after that (classes start tomorrow, and they are going to suck). Watched Chen try to get hidden aeons in FFX. Watched Dan (god it's good to see him again) try to speed through FFX2 so he can start new game plus (he ended up with 62% -__-). He also took me out to the California Pizza Kitchen in Westwood last night for our "3 months", haha.
Ugh, don't want classes to start >__< I can't emphasize enough how much worse this quarter will be compared to last quarter (in which I only had 3 pretty easy classes). Ugh.
On our way back, at the airport, something really stupid happened. For Christmas, I got Daniel this letter-opener in the shape of a gunblade and wrapped it up and tossed it in my backpack. When I packed a few weeks later, I stupidly forgot to take the gift out and put it in a suitcase, so....of course....the X-ray picked it up at the security checkpoint. So they ended up rummaging through all of the backpack and unwrapping my gift >__< So I had to give it to Mom to have her send it through the mail. Ugh, so stupid on my part -__-;;
After we got off the plane, we had to wait about an hour for a UCLA-bound shuttle. During this time, a really really annoying middle-aged guy came up to us and began this horrible and very scary "conversation":
Annoying Guy: Are you related?
Us: Yes, we're twins.
AG: That's what I thought. Have you hugged each other today?
Us: Uhhhhhhhh......no.......
AG: Hug right now. Com'on.
Us: Uhhhhhh......no it's okay (extremely scared at this point)
AG: No? Then hug me then. Com'on.
Us: Uhhhhhh......no it's okay (very very very unbelievably scared at this point)
AG: High five then? Com'on. (raises his hand)
Us: Uhhhhhh....(ignoring him)
He finally left after we ignored him, but then returned later to continue the "conversation", during which he said things like "How'd you know I was going to be here? Haha." -____-;;; Luckily the shuttle came soon afterwards and we were able to escape his scariness.
We arrived in the dorms yesterday afternoon. Didn't really do anything after that (classes start tomorrow, and they are going to suck). Watched Chen try to get hidden aeons in FFX. Watched Dan (god it's good to see him again) try to speed through FFX2 so he can start new game plus (he ended up with 62% -__-). He also took me out to the California Pizza Kitchen in Westwood last night for our "3 months", haha.
Ugh, don't want classes to start >__< I can't emphasize enough how much worse this quarter will be compared to last quarter (in which I only had 3 pretty easy classes). Ugh.
