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September 17th, 2002
*muah muah muah* Visited gz and friends at Stony yesterday. While i couldn't stay terribly long, it was really satisfying for every1 =) I miss u guys so much... *sigh*
Alrite!~ i'm subbing in for my modern American history teacher tomorrow. Gonna b covering some stuff on the Great Depression and answering any questions about all the material up to now. Wow... i must say i'm really excited =) I'm getting to do wut i wanna do sometime in my life... teach history. I actually got on good terms w/my professor cuz i was able to name 3 outta 4 Supreme Court Justices who were not white males... anyways, i figure this would help me in the number one American phobia as well; public speaking =P Heh, I should ask gz for some tips on teaching =)
Aiya le..... my MD remote's been sitting in NJ for the past 5 days... geez, "free shipping means slooooooow shipping" =T I'm looking forward to using the remote cuz i like to put my MD inside my jacket. And on this jacket, the inside pocket is fairly "down there" *ahem*... it jus doesn't look right groping for them buttons.
September 14th, 2002
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September 11th, 2002
It's been a year. What have we accomplished? Is it back to normal? Some, and no. We've succeeded in setting up a gov't in Afghanistan... how long, stable, and prosperous it will be has yet to be seen. The WTC tract of land is now a big hole in the ground. The rubble is gone, but recontruction will take years. Al Qaeda is hindered, but still viable. Bin Laden's still running. We'll never be back to 'normal'. Though, we've moved on, and done a superb job at that. Americans have an amazing amount of hardiness and yearning for happiness. We will remember September 11th, 2001... as a day we survived and dealt w/life, even when many had to give up their lives to do it.
Schl's progressing along well. I can tell art history and business law are gonna be a pain in the ass. A lot of paper. Handout after handout. Geez. Economics of int'l trade looks like it's gonna be a brainy class, our teacher used to work for a major US corporation (he won't tell us wut company, tho he tells us he's been married 5 times) and the gov't of Israel and the US. This guy demands answers! My only gripe of KCC is getting up at 5:47am and getting home 12 hours later every day. I suppose i'll get used to it, just like BxSci. My teachers r all Jewish, which is typical of the neighborhood. (Lotsa older Russian Jews at Brighton Beach.) How is the campus you might wonder? Cozy, pleasant and very windy. The place certainly does look better than Stony. (obviously there are no brigdes to nowhere, two big buidlings connected by a tunnel, lopsided floors, etc...) The campus is much smaller, and features a complex of interconnected academic buildings. The wind and smell of the sea is constant. Especially today; 50mph winds... the campus is a peninsula on another peninsula, rigidly jutting out into the ocean. Today it was so windy, sand was getting blown around and so every1 got sandblasted walking near the beach =) lil bastard sand grains... On the other hand, i hate to say; i miss Stony's variety of food. KCC food is horrible, very lil good food. Everyday i only eat like a bagel and a Snapple >.<
Ahhh yes... and Pete Sampras won =)
September 7th, 2002
OMG, it's been chive buffet here. We grow mad stuff in the backyard, and chives is one of them. There's around 24 sq. ft. of chives... that's enough for like 5 families. The thing grows as fast as grass... we've been eating them like crazy. Cucumbers... geez, we must've eaten at least 90 cucumbers this summer... it's great our veggies r growing... i jus wished we could sell them instead =P haha, I need to raise a bit of money for my MD remote...
In stupider news... those lil junior high punks piss me off. Is this America's future? Loud mouthed, rude, obnoxious sore losers? These kids must not get much attention... i was playing handball w/them and it seems that they need to cheat to play. I don't get how you could insist a serve was out when it's a foot good. Sports really do display a person's true character...
Speaking of sports... Agassi v Sampras; US Open finals!!! I haven't seen these guys duke it out in a long time. It's already amazing they blew past their decade younger opponents and guaranteed an American sweep in the US Open. Sampras leads 19-14 in previous games... so it's still pretty close. I hope Sampras wins... the way he's been playing recently... and his goal for a record 14th Grand Slam win is very powerful. This is gonna b a classic game, cuz it'll pit Agassi's baseline prowess against Sampras' aggressive serve-and-volley style. I love watching these two cuz i get so inspired and by their talent, it really helps in my handball and racquetball. I remember the last time Agassi won, in the Austrailian and French Opens, i was watching whole games halfway out my door in anticipation of emulating them at the handball courts =)
September 3rd, 2002
Yes, fall semester's rolling around. I'm gonna have to work extra hard at KCC, not only because i need to get back to Stony, but the business dept. at Baruch said the classes i'm taking at KCC aren't going to be easy. I'm taking 'business law', 'economics of int'l trade', and 'money and banking'. Then there's an art class and and something else for my damn DECs. I may xfer to Baruch instead of going back to Stony. Though it's not likely since i'd be behind for my year and major they say. Plus, i'd hate to ditch my awesome friends in Stony =)
I was reading Jason's Xanga site and saw he was interested in the new Creative Nomad MuVo. It's an MP3 player that's the size of a lighter. (very nice!) It doesn't require software to xfer songs/files too... the computer detects it as removable storage. I started scouting vendors, but found the $180 price tag larger than my wallet. (The 64MB version is $130... but a dozen songs aren't gonna satisfy me when i commute.) I looked around some more and came across a Sony NetMD Recorder; MZ-N505. It's priced at $150, and can store 5 hours of music on a single 80min MD. I figure MDs only cost a few bucks, so it'd be ok to buy more storage media. That proved unnecessary, since now my MD holds 76 songs, 1/5 of all the MP3s on my computer. You just use this weird Sony software and xfer via USB. The battery life is amazing too, 50+ hours w/a single AA. This new ATRAC3 compression codec Sony has is a real winner. So now i'm a dedicated MD fan. No more thinking about MP3 players! The only thing i need right now is a remote... apparently, only the European version comes with one. Though it looks like a nice remote's gonna cost me up to $60 =T
August 19th, 2002
OK, these sneakers were NOT designed w/handball in mind... the hard flat sole really hinders any movement. Perhaps i haven't really broken them in... but they're not that great to begin with. Dammit, and i thought Riddell made football helmets. I suppose i should wear my new Nikes or at least my old sneaks.
Yea, i think it's time to start planning our next BBQ. Mayby we should try an all seafood deal. Salmon and shrimp would be cool. Hmmmm, I suppose we could try something stupid like squid...
Interesting... a pellet of rice is stuck on my shirt... emmm, i'm getting sloppy =)
August 13th, 2002
Yes! tonite's BBQ was awesome! Ribs, shishkabobs, salad, and salmon. The grilled salmon was the best... CHK's idea to baste in honey/vinegar/brown sugar was really good. Next time all we hafta remember is to cut the salmon slab into smaller chunks; damn pcs. falling thru the grill. The ribs were kinda fatty, but they were good. I marinated the shishkabobs in teriyaki w/some steak seasoning, and diced in one red pepper. We never got around to eating the corn and pie tho... jus too much meat. I think JNG got skinnier too... he ate 1 shishkabob and some salmon (ok, and a 7UP and Nestea)... eat some more dammit =) Hahaha wow, we finally had our BBQ =P
August 8th, 2002
Nothing much happening these days... or rather, too much of the same. My parents are starting to really piss me off now. They are really turning up the nagging. Sounds bad... it is. Far from being a disobedient son, i've been a tolerant one. I jus can't take constant bitching every single day. Every single day. EVERY SINGLE DAY. Did that annoy you? Reading: "Every single day" four times already? Well, that's only four times..... My dad is constantly on my case... i probably deserve it for doing so poorly the past year. But the guy does not know how to do anything else. Our parents are typically very Asian. So Asian, they don't see how studying and being indoors all the time dampens the spirit. Sometimes, studying and working is all they know to do. Their views of American society we live in is skewed and limited. I think it stems from not wanting to get assimilated, trying to keep to their roots. I don't think that's bad... but it's not supposed to be all u can see.
Sometimes i think intensely about why we're here the way we are... i know my parents aren't slackers. They've worked very hard to get to where they are now... but i feel that this is less than they've deserved. There are many factors affecting a person's "peak" in life. I understand that there can be things such as discrimination undermining my parents' efforts. But perhaps the most crucial limiting factor my parents have is not trying something new. Well of course we try a new brand of baked beans or another type of detergent... but it's not like that. A recent example would be phone cards. People have been using them for years, as they present better value than the long-distance plans your phone company offers. My parents however, just used them recently... and have been touting all day long about how good it is. Yes yes, it's really old news. Phone cards are one thing... there's an even better system called OneSuite. (chk out their website at OneSuite.com) OneSuite is like a phone card, but u don't need the card. You sign up and dial their 800 number w/your PIN and it gets charged automatically on your credit card acct. It's very cheap too, comparing favorably to phone cards. While i may b younger, this is a poor excuse for my parents not knowing about phone cards, and less so, OneSuite. I think my parents are in a cocoon, their standard channels of communication the TV and newspapers. Typically, our channels should also include friends, the Internet, and your own personal quests. In these areas, my parents are sorely lacking. It's not that they don't have friends, they do, a good number of really good ones. It's just that they rarely communicate, especially for social occasions. I make/get calls for things like handball and such very often. We don't just play hball, we also talk about other things. Things that would be mutually beneficial, like which company is seeking interns, or classes we're taking. If there were 100 phone calls to my house, 25 would be for me, 25 for my sis, 47 telemarketers, and lastly 3 for my parents... all subjects included. It sounds bad, but I think you just can't get anywhere w/o connections and communicating.
Now, i may be venting here... Having been just bitched to recently does affect your judgements. I see there are also many things I need to improve. I think i need to learn to ask for help. Too often does my pride get in the way. Also, with all the lecturing my parents have doled out over the past decade or two, i've been reluctant to ask for help. It's like, i jus got a 2 hour lecture; lecture me some more =) *sigh* I can tell these are gonna be long days... I'm positive i'll miss my family when it's too late and i'm all grown up and moved out... but for now, please leave me the fuck alone.
August 2nd, 2002
Downpours today. A huge branch on the tree in front of my house cracked off and crashed onto the wide double-yellow street, blocking 70% of it. Luckily, my dad didn't park his car there when he got home... good fortune graced us again when Chuing had his car under the tree jus an hour before... but our stomachs summoned up an urge for Wendy's =) We called the police who called the FD and they arrived promptly to clean up the mess within 5 minutes. It was a really fast and smooth operation... so now it's jus sanitation or the parks dept. to throw out the remains.
So, that was a bit of excitement today. *sigh* We haven't had a BBQ in a long while now. I see so many ppl having BBQs left and right... while our group is scattered and well, not BBQing. Dammit, i went BBQ shopping w/Gongzhu and her friend Weiling the other day and i jus felt so nostalgic and sad over how we haven't had a group gathering of the Four Angels in years. It's always 2 or the most 3 of us. I want a BBQ within the next 2 weeks and this time, we're doing it right. The works =) And no more wasting meat throwing it at the cats! They've been spoiled enough by our gourmet burnt meat.
Geez!, it's time for another usual Friends-Everybody Loves Raymond-Frasier run again... which reminds me... i'm considering making a Movies Review Section. I jus love watching movies and talking about them.
July 29th, 2002
Is this a blog page? Who started calling postings "Blogs"? Was it Blogger.com? I have no idea... but lately, in the past 6 months, i've seen blogs addressed in many mainstream news magazines. (Newsweek, PC Mag, Business 2.0, etc...) Tho these appear to ignore the type of things i'm doing now and concentrate on blogs w/more "important" concerns. (Political decision discussions, as opposed to my rants about not enough bike trails in NYC.) I think it's interesting that the older literary public has noticed blogs. The concept has certianly been around long enough, since the advent of the first few personal webpages i suppose. The attention is really centered around the "big blogs" on the net like andrewsullivan.com. They post about news, politics, religion and sexuality there. If any1's serious about getting their opinions and views out, these are the venues you should seek.
Which reminds me... "Rich Dad Poor Dad" is actually a really refreshing book. I don't agree w/everything it explains, but i can see the logic behind all of its reasons. My dad told me about it after he saw it in the World Journal some time ago... but who really takes their parents seriously? =) Then i was reading Jason's Xanga about it, and decided to get the book. RDPD challenges a lot of the things we're brought up to believe, but it's ultimate goal is to educate ppl on financial intelligence. How money works, and how u should not b a slave working for it. One of the points it makes is how your house would b considered a liability, rather than an asset. I found this confusing, since my dad was always happy about how our house was appreciating so well. Though i thought that no matter how much our house was appreciating, it wasn't much use if we didn't sell it... in RDPD, the author further states how a house was detrimental. Defining an asset as something that returns profit w/o u having to work at it much (which counts out normal jobs like a doctor being an asset) and a liability as everything else: a house is a liability because it normally requires a mortage. (if u bought it all upfront, u rn't having much financial troubles) Wealthy ppl focus on acquiring assets, and minimizing liabilities... this was one of the main arguments in the book. "Rich Dad Poor Dad" isn't about how to get rich quick, but to show u how u shouldn't let money pressures push u around in life. I highly recommend this book, even if u don't agree w/it, it should get some juices flowing =)
Ok, anyways... back to surfing for Jewel lyrics.
July 19th, 2002
I'm home now... Many thanks to Chuing for the lift =) Today was a really shitty hot day too... fuggin Stony so inflexible, not letting me chk out when the RHD has office hours. Is it really so hard for the person who supervises all the damn RAs check my room and hand in my keys?! CHK says in CMU, they have online chk out!
July 17th, 2002
Whew... Microsoft is slated to release Service Pack 3 for Windows 2000. That's great news... since MSFT wanted to stop support for Win2K in early 2004. It appears they'll have to extend that date now. Ugh, Windows XP sucks so much. I think if ppl were armed w/the facts, they would choose Win2K over XP in a heartbeat. Windows 2000 is the only thing in computers that hasn't fuggin pissed me off =)
July 16th, 2002
"It is only in the mysterious equations of love, that any logic or reasons can be found."
July 15th, 2002
I really need a new computer at home... it's a pathetic P200, 32MB RAM, 4GB HD, 2MB video card and 33.6 modem... u DON'T wanna right click by accident, or click a popup... it takes almost a full MINUTE to open AOL. >=T
July 14th, 2002
Well, since i'll b home for the next few months til Christmas, i'll b trying to work out more. Yes, i think it's time to really invest in a nice biking helmet. Especially seeing how dumbass Bloomberg made it illegal to ride bikes on sidewalks... wut the hell is the point of biking now?! I wanna see Bloomberg on a bike in the street... i hate it when politicians listen the the saftey ppl bitching about bikers on sidewalks. Obviously walkers come first... but it's not exactly safe for bikers to share roads w/multi-ton vehicles. I'm expecting NYC's rating on the list of 'cities most unfriendly to bicyclists' to worsen =T Boston and Seattle rank really well as bike friendly cities... they have mad bike only lanes and stuff =)
July 13th, 2002
I've been getting a few responses about yesterday's post. Most seem to ask y i'm saying sorry. This seems rather confusing to me, since i don't know wut else would work. Basically, all that effort invested in me was pretty much wasted. It'll b back, but i'm regretting that i won't b around to show it for a lil while. That's really wut i'm saying it for. Hmmm, that's about it... i'm getting lotsa encouragement, which is really good... thanks u guys =)
As you've probably noticed, this page is taking longer and longer to load. It's taking like 15 seconds on a 56K modem. This page has exceeded 100Kb of text and code. Chuck in the background image and sound and it takes quite a bit of time to load on my 33.6 modem. I'm considering archiving posts by year... or perhaps only showing the current year (having an archive consist of everything before). Well, i'll work on that laters...
July 12th, 2002
My friends... if I can even deserve to call you that..... I have reached a low point in my life, the lowest I have ever been. These past few semesters at Stony Brook have all been a great big lie. It appears that I’m doing ok; going to classes and my everyday routines. This however, is not the case. In reality, I have been neglecting my studies... doing only the bare minimum of work. As we all know, doing the bare minimum doesn't get you anywhere.
Well, being so indolent has cost me dearly. This summer, the Office of the Dean informed me that I’m under academic suspension. They state that I need to resolve any issues that are giving me such poor performances and then hopefully, come back to Stony by academic reinstatement. The soonest I can get back to Stony is Spring 2003. (They want 1 semester of off time) I have tried very hard to convince the faculty panel otherwise, but they stand by their decision. My classes are being cancelled and dorm appointments soon expired.
I'm sure this revelation comes as a shock to you. For that, I am truly very sorry. It is my fault. I know that sorry doesn't cut it most the time, that if one were truly sorry in the first place, things wouldn't happen. I'm telling you right now that if you're thinking this; you're both right and wrong. I AM sorry, and while I know I wasn't sorry enough to prevent this in the first place... I can promise you that I will try to the best of my abilities to never let this sort of thing happen again. I don't know how much you guys can really trust me now... individually, I will leave that to how you know me, and our relationships. But rest assured, there will be no evading responsibilities. I have made serious mistakes, and resolve to never commit them again.
Though I say I am sorry, there are still things on my mind that warrant mention. These are things that show how I now understand my dire situation. My first concerns are with my family. I know this is hitting them hard. Very hard. Their guidance over the duration of my life have not been in vain. The sweat, blood, and tears they have poured into me so that I could succeed are still all within me. I am not a different person, but one who has erred most stupidly. My friends, especially my best friends Chuing and Winson... you guys have always been there for me. We grew up together, learned, and had fun together. My Gongzhu Anne, this has to be the biggest disappointment we have faced. You have been at my side for everything and remain a terrific friend. All my friends have been awesome individuals... I’m very picky in befriending you guys, and I hope you guys know that. I will never forget the support and friendships my family and friends have given to me throughout my life. They will remain with me even if I am reincarnated several times over. That, is the level of my appreciation and your influence.
I wish I could alleviate the pain, anger, worry, and disappointment I am undoubtedly causing everyone. I know I cannot. The only thing that possibly can, are results. Whatever faith you have in me, I don't blame you for disposing of. I can only beg for your forgiveness and for you not to give up on me. From this point on, I can obviously not afford to go about as I have for so long. There can be no excess of entertainment I pursue, but instead, plenty of refocusing and studying towards my goals. I have already failed my family and friends, and most importantly, let myself down.
My options right now consist of attending several other colleges in the region. Kingsborough Community College, Nassau CC, Suffolk CC, SUNY Farmingdale, St. John's University, Long Island U., Adelphi U., York College, and Queenborough CC are some of my choices. I will be living at home during the time I am in one of these schools. I'm still in the process of researching the details, but I’m leaning towards York and Kingsborough. They both have good programs for people in my situation and host decent business and accounting programs. I will need to take a full semester (Fall 2002) at one of these institutions and prove my case to reenter Stony Brook. I have been informed that if I do well, I will stand an excellent chance of being reinstated, and that most of the courses I will take in other schools will have their credit and grades transferred over to Stony towards my graduation. In addition, I have talked to the Campus Residences Director regarding my intention to reserve a spot in Dewey College so my roomie obligations will eventually still work out.
The consequences of these events and actions, I am aware of. My ambitions in life have often been vacillating and not concrete. After being interested and invested in computers for so long, I have switched majors to business management. I aim to minor in history and/or political science. I am also considering a track in international business somewhere. All of this however, is still not going to bode well for my future; as when I am seeking employment. Socially, I will see how much everyone already cares about me. I wish to thank my family in advance. They cannot be thanked ever enough. My friends, thank you... I’d probably be gun running right now if it weren't for our positive companionships. Anne, I don't know how you put up with me, thank you. Everyone, thank you. The good parts in me of the person I am, I owe all to you guys... the bad part of me in the person I am is purely of my own.
Throughout the time I spent composing this text, my view of the computer screen was constantly blurred by the tears in my eyes. I thought of all the times when I was the recipient of everyone’s help. How I failed to realize the importance of my actions. How many countless chances I was given to correct myself. The fun times I had with everyone. The moments when I thought about my future on this planet. All of these thoughts seem pretty distant right now. In time, I will recover. I will continue and realize my education and career aspirations. I will rebuild the trust that has been shattered. I will redeem myself in the eyes of my family, friends, and myself. I will proceed to accomplish this immediately and as quickly as possible. If you have any thoughts or questions, please don't hesitate to contact me. This will be a really rough period in my life, and regretfully, yours too, because of me. I'm sorry.
- David Chang 7-12-2002
July 11th, 2002
Well, Business Ethics was really interesting... we have somewut of a strict teacher... but it was alrite. I really doubt i'll b late or not ready when he calls on me. We were discussing racial and gender discrimination in the work place... which reminds me, i already have a short presentation due Monday. Tho Stony doesn't offer a Speech Class, i figure this class, among others, could work to alleviate that shortcoming. It's amazing how unethical some companies are... for example; Philip Morris (which controls 80% of the cigarette market in the Czech Rep.) actually had Authur D. Little Int'l (a well respected accting firm) commission a report to the Czech gov't how the state would save money from the premature death of smokers. Geez, i couldn't believe the lengths to which a company would go to safeguard profits. (In this case, the Czech gov't was debating whether to raise tobacco taxes.)
It appears my normal day is gonna consist of sleep (sleeping at ~3am waking up around 11am), reading up on my classes, racquetball, eat(breakfast/lunch/dinner), shower, some rest, class (6-930pm), RSP (on Friday/Sat/Sun), chat w/Gongzhu on phone, and finally sleep again. It's actually not too bad... obviously, the one meal a day thing isn't too healthy. But it's still survivable.
Hmmm, our schl jus got new racquets. Wilson Strike/Mach3s... decent racquets. I think they're around 12-15 bucks more expensive than the 20 buk Rippers they had before. Anyways, i used one and man my wrist started hurting. I noticed it was distinctly heavier than mine, but i guess that's where my thinking stopped, cuz i started using it like it was my Ti-175. All those snaps took a toll on my wrist... i now appreciate how light and manueverable my racquet is. I couldn't believe how much my play was limited by a heavy racquet... the new Wilsons the schl got must b like 220 grams each. (in constrast, my Head is 175grams) Not to mention i can't play as well w/an evenly balanced racquet anymore. I'm used to the the slinging effect of head-heavy ones already. Hmmm, i guess another thing w/Wilson racquets is that the handles r usually pretty big. I think this is hugely detrimental (unless u got big hands or prefer big grips). It seems like Wilson is borrowing too much from their tennis division, and almost applying tennis tech in a hand-me-down fashion to racquetball. O wells, smaller grips (i use a "SuperSmall" 3 5/8) yields better grip, more power and control, and better manueverability.
I know, i'm obsessed =)
July 10th, 2002
Grrr, classes later today... living at Irving B106 these days... it's alrite, but it's 1st floor again. (I like second) Wow, i really bought the bare minimum stuff this time. Books, computer and clothes only. O yea, i jus saw the stupidest thing walking to 7-11 yesterday... it was raining and the sprinklers were all on in back of the sports complex. I think it's like that time when it was 90º and ppl were complaining about the heat being on... except the fuggin schl sets it for the whole season and "u can't change it".
July 5th, 2002
Today was such a nice day. 80s and a breeze... basically jus stayed home and played handball. Gongzhu came over and that jus made the day even better =) We ate some pizza and ice cream, and watched Ranma and Slam Dunk. It felt like schl again... unfortunately, i have summer schl soon on the 9th... i figure in 6 weeks i'll all b over... i can't until fall and winter comes. U jus can't cuddle in the summer. (Unless you're in a hotel w/maximum AC, huddling under the covers)
I saw A Beautiful Mind today. At first i thought i'd jus watch the first few minutes... since i jus put it on my computer off my CDs. I do that a lot, burn something and then dig it up months later to watch. So anyways, i jus got immersed in the life of John Nash. I couldn't stop, and by the time i was listening to the ending credits theme, i had lil tears welled up in my eyes. I find stories like these really moving. In general, i guess i'm a sucker for plots w/one person taking on a huge task/organization/gov't and succeeding. A Beautiful Mind, such a human movie =)
July 3rd, 2002
Grrr... this weather sucks! It was 95 yesterday and today it's gonna b 100. These are the times when i hate NYC. I'd so much rather b in say Canada. At least i'm ok in my basement, i feel sorry for all those ppl living in attics and dingy apartments. Actually, i think NYC is special in that way. We have such a range of temperatures and weather. We're as cold as 10 below zero sometimes and as high as 100º. We get snow, acid rain, muggy afternoons, everything... i guess it really wrecks havok on our man-made structures.
Though, it's interesting, since all the most important cities in the world have diverse ranges of weather and experience snow. London, NYC, DC, Tokyo, Beijing, Moscow, Berlin... it's no accident these cities are all located north. Supposedly, as published in Scientific American, northern cities enjoyed a crucial advantage in the ancient times. The fact that northern cities had really cold winters; limited the extent diseases and such would have on the rapid decimation of population. (EX: no mosquitos in NYC in the winter, but in Central America, malaria is a year long threat...) This resulted in more stable societies for northern population centers, allowing for steadier advancement. Southern civilizations also tended to b much more agricultural. This encouraged a bit of "complacency" since it was basically growing season all the time. So perhaps our southern civilization's happily growing their crops in December... meanwhile, their northern counterparts are huddled indoors. Obviously they wouldn't b growing anything in the snow... so jus wut do they do indoors? Well, they're probably feeding off their food reserves and thinking up stuff... stuff like i dunno..... weapons. Wut for? Cuz they're eyeing their food-rich neighbors to the south =)
June 30th, 2002
Ack! Out of Stock! Normally i wouldn't b so alarmed, but they've been out of stock 2/3 times i checked. Grrr... i don't wanna buy from Sports Authority, cuz they retail at 80, not including tax. That's 10 buks more than RacquetballCatalog.com. And since i'm buying 2 of these, it comes out to 20 buks difference. Not to mention i need new gloves, (there's a hole forming already), eye protection (did i mention i'm getting new contacts for racquetball? my fencing ones are shriveled pieces of plastic now) Grrr... tho i need my paychecks to come in for me to feel at ease buying all this stuff.
Still waiting for 2 checks. RSP, and the petition job i had for 3 days trying to collect signatures for Jimmy Meng. (AD.22 candidate) I still can't believe the poor organization of that place. Geez, they called me a few days ago for my SS#... isn't it written on the same page as my phone number? They're taxing us 25% too! The bastards. It boils down to the sad fact that we've been toiling around in the heat of Flushing at 7.50/hr. That's pathetic. It's my own fault for not realizing the possibility that they would tax us 25% since i doubt any of us can claim any exemptions. *sigh* I asked around and it appears that i can request tax refunds later as long as my parents report this income to the IRS. So these Jimmy bums better have the paperwork straight when i do this. At least it's alleviated thoughts that the Friends of Jimmy Org. are trying to gyp some ppl. I'd say we were screwed over from the start anyways...
Not much summer left for me... so many things to do. I'm still recovering from yesterday's marathon day of handball... my legs are so tired... i slept and napped 10 hours today... haven't done that since schl let out. It's so cool how a nap makes u feel better. Sleep really is bliss.
June 29th, 2002
I wonder how many of you have younger siblings. I was jus thinking today about the generation gap. How each generation can't really relate to another. We see lotsa "typical generations" all the time: your WW2 vet, the grew up in the 70s stockbroker, the homeless Vietnam vet, even us; so called generation X/Y/Z (i'm guessing Y), computers and the WTC... Each generation has their moments, and their own unique history. Of course our parents understand us... to an extent. I'm sure mine don't understand y i stay up so late so much. Or wut's so fun about video games. It jus isn't easily relatable if they didn't do it at our age.
Do you feel old at times? I sure do, seeing schls change principals and converting to oil heat... i feel as if elementary schl was ages ago. In fact, it's been less than 10 years. Not too long actually. Heh, i'm already out of touch w/the latest Power Rangers (they're coming out w/all sorts of weird versions of that stupid squad) to disses and slang terms in schl. As we grow up, we simply leave our young and adolescent environments. Most of us are in college, perhaps drive to work, pay taxes and take our friends out to eat? Since when did we NOT hang everyday after schl? Pretty unthinkable when we were kids huh? I guess we jus grew up... wut does this speak of our generation gaps? Especially when we have kids ourselves? Can we fairly blame our parents for not understanding us?
The line should b drawn at the point where ppl need to understand that they are not some1 else, and another person is not him/her. Hmmm, i think that means that when there is a generation gap, both parties at least need to kno they're different.
Anyways, my dad is really telling me to go to sleep at this point. It's 1:19AM anyways... June30. Cyas laters =)
June 28th, 2002
Wow, Minority Report was a really good movie. Haven't seen a good movie in a while... for those of you who haven't seen it, (i'm not gonna spoil it) MR's about a society that experiments w/cathching murderers before they can commit their acts. Sounds pretty similar to our current Presidential Administration's policies on detaining suspects. In any case, MR invokes lots of thought, almost as much thought as The Matrix. Watch it guys! =)
It's no suprise the acting in Minority Report was above average... starring Tom Cruise (finally in a movie i can appreciate since 1985) and directed by Steven Spielsberg (sp?). Jus the other day i was talking about the Eastern and Western approaches to "individual presentation" w/my parents. It's no secret Asians in general are crappy actors. In Asian countries, actors like to sing too, and vice versa... often to really disappointing results in one area. I'm not saying we don't have that here in the US; J. Lo for that matter, needs to stick to singing... or acting... geez i can't figure out which one she suck more in. I love Mariah Carey, but she shoulda stopped singing shortly after her Daydream album, and why o why did she decide to go into acting?
Which kinda leads up to my opinion that we don't have a great deal many great Asian actors because Asian society is so fundamentally different from American or European society. Focusing on education: American students are much more likely to b expressive and less shy. (that doesn't mean they're smart, or dumb either...) Asian students on the other hand, generally kno the material by heart, yet act like fresh recruits on the first day of boot camp when a tchr. asks if any1 knos the answer to so and so.....
The results of such attitudes and practices can b seen every time u tune in to Chinese television and some "really important figure" is making say- a nat'l speech. He'll have lil post cards or other written material in front of him as he/she addresses the audience, reading almost verbatim and relying way too much on the words he/she prepared. The American President (perhaps more hi-tech) uses a teleprompter, an electronic device that projects words onto a glass plane visible only to the President. This is essentially the same thing as having paper in front of u, but it doesn't appear that American presidents use it much at all. I agree it doesn't looks too great for an Asian high political official to be so concentrated on the prepared text.
Thankfully, i've actually been informed that some Asian schools are trying to reverse this trend of fear of public speaking. I guess fear of speaking in public ranks pretty high up in the global list of phobias anyways... in Taiwan, supposedly they're incorporating more oral presentations in classrooms. I wonder if those Taiwanese education representatives that visited BxSci a few years back were any influenced by Science. Maybe they were...
We're pretty lucky to be growing up and educated in the US. As shitty as our public schools are... we should b alrite. The conditions for other places is jus far worse. I know for a fact that the Flushing library, AC'd and all, is pretty big compared to the all but the National Library in Taiwan. Hmmm, does this mean we should study harder to take advantage of our environment? (see, that's y there's at least three Internet/LAN cafes within a 5 block radius of the library, to help us resist our urge to study) Alrite, i probably sound like one or more of your parents (heck i even look it w/my grandpa glasses), so i'm gonna stop here =)
June 25th, 2002
Happy Birthday to my Gongzhu. Sagwa de Gongzhu's 19 now =)
Took my sis to BxSci for the math placement exam this morning. Oy, the commute... afterwards we went to the Taiwan Economic and Cultural Office on 2nd and 47th St. to renew some passports. All in all an OK day... hope Gongzhu's having fun celebrating w/her family...
June 24th, 2002
Today i quit my gritty job petitioning for Jimmy Meng. Jimmy's going for representing the Flushing District in the NY State Assembly. There are numerous reasons i feel he is not going to get it... but they mostly center on him not having enough experience and poorly marketing himself. The organization they're putting up to get him on the ballot and elected is jus too disorganized.
Anyways, forget about Jimmy Meng. I need to call Gongzhu soon and there's only 2 reasons i'm updating rite now. One, in response to Gongzhu's posts about her favorite season and two; Tom Hanks.
Winter's great... i think it's accurate how Anne says it amplifies moods. It really does. I feel the most isolated in winter too. Things that r alive must fight to show they are... good points =) Personally, my favorite seasons are spring and fall. It's usually nice out so i can wear minimal clothing and stuff. (not that i wear a lot in winter anyway) But it's perfect for outdoor activities i love like handball and biking. Interestingly, i like fall more because i feel it's more romantic. Actually, i think it leads to romance, since it's followed by winter. It's that time when i start feeling like i need a warm-body next to me that makes me like fall =) Sounds pretty sappy eh? Well play me in racquetball and we'll see how sappy i can get. I like spring too, cuz it means i get to go outside more w/every1. I sooooo cannot b locked up in a room if i can't help it. (did i ever mention that i'm pretty primal? ok, i'll save that for a later post) My gosh, i even love the smell of approaching fall from summer and approaching spring from winter...
I was watching the AFI (American Film Inst.) Lifetime Acheivement Award tonite. This year Tom Hanks was given the AFI Lifetime yada yada... i jus realized right there that Tom Hanks is such a good actor. My mom also pointed out the fact that so little ppl are recognized for thier work so young, while they're still in their trade. Let's think about the movies Tom Hanks have been in: Splash (tho i only saw it on the plane to Mississippi from Taiwan when i was 2), Apollo 13, Saving Private Ryan, Sleepless In Seattle, You've Got Mail, Castaway, Forrest Gump... a pretty impressive filmography... Tom Hanks certainly gets my respect for acting... which also reminds me of how i was thinking the past few days in kaoroke that singers are singers because they can sing. Every time i'm at kaoroke, i'm amazed that these songs r sung by ppl who're screaming or whispering on the verge of breathlessness.
June 16th, 2002
Waiting for pages to dl, so i might as well wait a lil longer and post some =) Grrr, the P200 chip i put in for this computer is barely noticable anymore... speed is indeed addictive.
Some funny cartoons and pics i found surfing around a while ago:
If any of you play Samurai Shodown; Mr.T vs Genjuro...
Yea, i do stupid stuff too =)
But not this stupid =P
June 6th, 2002
It's raining outside... i remember a time when i was a lil kid, and i actually had a raincoat and Transformers.. rainboots? Wow, it was so fun wearing all that so i could b all dry while i played and observed my surroundings. Standing at the edge of the road where the asphalt meets the curve, all that water rushing past my boots to the sewer grating... The incessant *tap tap tap* sounds of raindrops showering my raincoat... (it had a hood) I felt almost invincible to the elements. Now that i've grown up, i still haven't lost that yearning to feel invincible to the elements. I dunno if this explains y i dun mind cold or biking in the rain... mayb it's a different kind of fun. A more confrontational form perhaps?
Rain. Yes, another paragraph about rain... rain is so nice. It keeps everything around me green and cleans off the hball courts of all that fuggin spit.
Just a random thought, but as i was thinking about rain, i thought about bamboo. This guy in Flushing near Parsons and Holly has mad bamboo growing in his front yard. (ok, there's not much of a yard left since it's all bamboo) The bamboo is really lush, green and dense, and pretty high (around 20' i estimate)... OMG, but the best thing has gotta b the sound they make when wind blows thru them... just awesome =)
Hmmm, 1 more month of summer... i'll probably b playing rball at the Y, trying to get that 1 mo. membership. Yea yea, i jus can't wait a month for summer schl to start and play at Stony.
Hmph, in other news, the Pentium 200 system i found in the trash room next to my suite actually works! I put it in the other day, but didn't find a huge increase in speed. It's still noticibly faster tho... I guess the 32MB of RAM is the biggest bottleneck =T
Heh, Gongzhu got her own Internet domain now... for some reason, i'm excited... must b because i've never really known any1 so close w/their own domain. Yay!, i get to have some more imaginative e-mail addresses now =P
May 29th, 2002
Ahhh! SUMMER... *breathes in*.... *cough cough* goddamn ppl blowing mowed grass. Quick update... jus sitting around, seeing my Gongzhu sometimes, reading mad mags, arguing w/the financial aid office, playing some rball... have summer schl starting mid July. sux.
i may b going to MTC for a few days of the week, even tho i doubt i'll learn much anymore... been going there on breaks for over 5 years =T well, at least i'll help out...
lately, lotsa things have made me feel like growing up, as opposed to growing older. meeting Gongzhu's parents, if even not for a lil while, has given me some extra views of family relationships. Digging out my wallet my dad gave me when i was in 2nd grade and actually using it was a weird feeling. (i usually hate wallets; too many eggs, no need, big bulge, etc...) The way my parents treat me is better too, i seem to b getting yelled at less... or is my sis taking more of the brunt? =)
All in all, i can't remember a time in recent memory when time pasted faster. It's times like these when i usually worry of the future =P
May 4th, 2002
Ice cream just makes everything better =) it damn well better, since my roomie pissed me off again this morning... supposedly trying to normalize his sleep schedule. (when we don't have schl tomorrow)
This brings up of the other time when i was sleeping and Boris and Anne were silently surfing the web. My roomie comes in and then leaves. Boris then asks, "Where you going?" "Dave Lieu's; to sleep."
One must wonder how loud Boris, Anne and I were breathing, for my roomie to imply we were in any way going to inhibit his sleep.
It's pretty amazing the range of tolerances we observe in society. Some ppl just can't stand others. In the extreme end, we have documentation of some extreme Germans beating their own handicapped countrymen because they feel; how could these "weak" ppl b German? Other instances, we can see how tolerant other ppl r to constant abuse... like Rick and DaveLee =P
Anyways... for some reason i have this craving for those 25¢ drinks and chips. (BBQ Dipsy Doodles, Onion Rings, artificially flavored lime/punch/grape, etc...) It must be age creeping up one me... it's soooooo hard to find places that offer quarter dollar drinks/chips when 8 years ago, every lotto store and deli had them... dammit, the cheapest beverage on campus is 79¢ and the cheapest bag of chips is 75. fuggin inflation and Campus Dining Services suck.
April 30th, 2002
So glad this semester's almost over... damn, jus when i'm getting better at racquetball too. Heh... It wasn't my first lost to some1 over twice my age, but last Thursday's 21-4 lost was really awakening because my relatively young age and superior physical abilities were grossly negated by my opponent's experience and court savvy. haha... it was a really good night nevertheless... my most demanding and best game yet. Ed (the guy i played w/) taught me a lot stuff continuously for a good hour and a half. One of the more interesting things that would've taken me much longer to figure out had Ed not taught me was the rebound angles of the ball off the side wall on soft/hard Z serves. These days, when private coaches can command up to $2 per minute, i greatly appreciate the time he sacrificed to teach me =)
Hmmm, it feels slightly guilty that i'm updating here when i jus read Elaine's recent post... heh, sorry Elaine... e-mail ya soon!
Stupider news; my present roomie i really causing much displeasure. He's too comfortably selfish. Tonight when Anne and I were gonna watch some TV, He asked how long it was gonna take. Then he went on a break for that exact time estimate we gave him. (by jus going to the opposite room in the suite) *shrug* He already knows we were using earphones. This is jus one instance, there have been many others. He seems to forget he doesn't own a single or too used to the fact that he almost already has one. Anyways, that's all the crap tonite...
April 23rd, 2002
Yay! It is done... i jus ~had~ to post something to feel better rite after =)
April 22nd, 2002
Why the hell is this here? Cuz i'm gonna attempt to reverse (chronologically) the order of entries on this godawfullylong page... Y?, u ask? Well, it's to better accomodate my readers and save them some time... heh, i'm too nice. It's ok, if i fail some class, i'll jus blame it on u guys =P
I kno it's looking pretty funky rite now... please b patient... my attn. span for doing this isn't too long =) O, and i'm making the text for the 'date' of my entries white for easier reading....
April 19th, 2002
it's fuggin hot in this fuggin room... i'm so glad showering is so convenient in a dorm. even better that our shower is so high pressure, there's visible recoil of the shower head from the water =)
April 13th, 2002
Geez, 2 tests coming up real soon... i dunno y i'm not trying hard enough given the immense pride i have for the accomplishments of the human race. perhaps i'll explain later...
April 5th, 2002
I love this Google Toolbar!
March 28th, 2002
I decided to name my black lab "Paws". We've been suprised it can actually stand, and it has pretty big feet. They're lil beads in his feet, and nowhere else. heh, Paws should meet Nuts, my Beanie Baby Squirrel =P Thanks to every1 who gave suggestions...
Hmmm, i jus noticed it's been a year since the "geezer talk". Time is flying by. Chuing's rite, we're old geezers now. Look at me, i'm already wearing grandpa glasses =)
O yea, i forgot to post it before... watch Ice Age! It's a really well made movie. The animation's not as "3D" as something like Toy Story 2 or Monsters Inc., but i dun think that was the point and focus of the animation. The animation is more creative, in a way that isn't as boring as merely simulating common real life environments. The humor's simple and elegant for kids, and also appealing for older ppl. Voice acting was once of the strong points too, and add to the already characterizing visuals on screen.
Grrr, on a stupider note, my sister's floppy drive died last nite. I dun think this is worth mentioning. But i'll mention it anyways cuz i'm a stupid sagwa.. =) (plus, it really pissed me off last night)
March 27th, 2002
Oy, spring break... w/the threat of a massive hw pileup and 2nd rd. of midterms looming. fuck. shit, i jus cursed... o wells...
in other crappy news, i miss my gongzhu =*( o wait, ta yao nie wo... hmoph =) heh, got me a black labrador on her visit to her friend Becky's dorm at Trinity... i need to name it! Was thinking about naming it coco (since it's a black lab anyways)... but i thought a name i use in CS jus isn't fitting for man's best friend. Some of the suggestions i got from my insomniac friends online were 'lucky' (it's named "Lucky Lab" on the tag), 'grim reaper' (??), 'notorious d.o.g.', 'grizzly' (after the proud navy tradition of naming diesel submarines aggressive words?), 'boner'(it was 2:30am), and 'fobbie' (it's made in China)... hahaha, i was even wondering about combining my friend's name and mine; but i got 'dung' =P
wow, this is harder than i thought. i'm taking this seriously as if it were a real dog... *grrr*... need a name... name!..... (speaking of name... i'm looking for a male dog's name... which reminds me, i really should replace the red bow tie collar it has on now somehow)
*sigh*, mayb if i sleep with it tonite, i'll think of a name in the morning...
nitenites =)
March 11th, 2002
So much time! So lil work! wut's a bright college student to do?!
Blah... some cool guy down at the rball courts a few days ago actually taught me some backhand ceiling shots, awfully kind of him =) It's so tough to whip a "backward" backhand... grrr... if i can jus get my backhand whips to execute naturally... i could at least return vertically down left wall shots and low left ground serves w/some consistency and power. Need more practice...Supposed to play at least 4 days outta the week anyways... but ehhhh- o wells. At least i'm going...
One thing that pissed me off this afternoon, was the receptionist in clinic 5W at NYU Dental. She must've been on the verge of exhaustion, cuz she was really slow in responses and hung me up (to get some rest?) after i said 'pardon?' to her really weak voice. (?!) This is behaviour i expect when it's closing time on Friday w/the flu... Quality service ppl r jus so rare these days. I'm so glad it's not jus my schl that has such crappy service =)
In other news, i started working RSP (Residential Safety Program) last Saturday nite... it's not bad... at least i have the dead nights of Friday and Saturday, so i could get some reading in.... for schl that is.... mostly. RSP's pretty cool, it's efficient and has a friendly work environment. And i'm working towards enhancing our saftey on campus. I thought things run mostly by students would've had a great potential for disaster... it's good to b suprised.
March 3rd, 2002
Jus finished reading "Say Goodnight, Gracie", a novel by Julie Reece Deaver. My sis recommended it, saying how it was only fair after i recommended her read "Where The Red Fern Grows" by Wilson Rawls. "Say Goodnight, Gracie" is a really great book. It parallels w/the wrenching of "Where The Red Fern Grows" and concentrates a lil more on the part after the "big event" in these novels... I wish no1 has to go thru the things these characters, and dogs =), have to go thru... but they're parts of life. Go read the books, we highly recommend them =P
Mayb i'm jus growing up... mayb i'm jus thinking i am, mayb i'm already grown up, mayb i'm already grown up jus thinking i'm not; but for some reason now when i read fiction.. pretty much any fic, after i finish reading the book... i sit there and think about it for a good while. Perhaps it's the stories and themes about these books. I dunno.
This rarely happens to me after i watch movies... or does it? Now that i think about it, lately i've been watching a lot of thought provoking movies... "GATTACA"... 'tree hugging strong female roled' OVAs like "Mononoke Hime", "Nausicaa", and "Laputa"... war doc./movies like "Black Hawk Down"... even something i've seen yet again a dozen and a half times; "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"... I'm sitting there thinking about the movie. The msgs. they aim to convey and how it semi-links to my life. I guess i can thank Anne for making me watch these w/her =)
Wut thoughts r going thru my head rite after i watch movies and finish reading novels?
Wouldn't you like to know.....
February 28th, 2002
interesting.. finding out my D&D character. jus the other day, Igs gave me a link to find out my gun =) P90, MP5, and then M4/M203 for those of u who must kno... i think this D&D thingy is more accurate... i'm jus not a P90... so they say:
I Am A: Neutral Good Elf Ranger Paladin
Alignment:
Neutral Good characters believe in the power of good above all else. They will work to make the world a better place, and will do whatever is necessary to bring that about, whether it goes for or against whatever is considered 'normal'.
Race:
Elves are the eldest of all races, although they are generally a bit smaller than humans. They are generally well-cultured, artistic, easy-going, and because of their long lives, unconcerned with day-to-day activities that other races frequently conccern themselves with. Elves are, effectively, immortal, although they can be killed. After a thousand years or so, they simply pass on to the next plane of existance.
Primary Class:
Rangers are the defenders of nature and the elements. They are in tune with the Earth, and work to keep it safe and healthy.
Secondary Class:
Paladins are the Holy Warriors. They have been chosen by a God/dess to be their representative on Earth, and must follow the code of that deity, or risk severe penalties. They tend towards being righteous, but not generally to excess.
Find out What D&D Character Are You?, courtesy of
NeppyMan (e-mail)ewww... i hate big blobs of code all in lower case =P heh, nothing much to say on the last day of february... life's going ok... after my 830 test tonite anyways... o wells, gonna go surf and snack... after i study of course. uh huh.
March 2rd, 2002
GRRRR, i was supposed to go home this weekend to get mad stuff... which would make our lives more comfortable here in the middle of nowhere... my parents r under the impression i have a shitload of work to do (which is true, but i can handle it!, honest...) haha
o yea, i jus found out my webpage is registered by Google. you can find this place by jus searching for "falcon741w" =)
February 27th, 2002
Mmmmmm~ food...
February 17th, 2002
i'm hungry...
February 6th, 2002
Grrr.. 8 in the morning.. class in 3 hours =T my skateboard isn't seeing much action. Anne's on foot.. and ppl look at me funny =)
Roomie's lappie got stolen this week. It really bites when u think about thefts against individuals.. it hits harder. Every1 watch out.. stupid as it is, safety really comes first.
I will most likely b dyeing my hair purple sometime... i can't say i was inspired or wutever by Shampoo... but i'm also bored.. and my parents would have fun. Ok then... nitenites! =)
January 27th, 2002
Blah... the Lego (not Legolas) section is turning out so bad... i think the only pt. of it is that i like it =)
Mad work these days... big bad books ganging up on me. Actually hafta read the stuff before class... My skateboard is only giving me an extra 10 minutes of sleep only 2 days outta the week too =T
January 23rd, 2002
hahahahahha... the pic above proved so popular... that i've decided to give the people wut they want =) These pics have been on geocities for some time, but jus not linked..... y i joined fencing , WINs age 17, after wetting the bed , me, JHS yearbook photo , 7th gr. 'save our harbor' poster contest at the WTC =T , me age 2, at restaurant in Taiwan that my parents frequented ,
Moving along to bxsci =) ..... DaveLee and Herky Bird, uhhh- on the steps... , Monkey see monkey do: Al, me, Igs, and Shaunna hanging =).
These three are BxSci graduation pics, at the glorious arena where our local basketball/hockey teams dominate: my sis couldn't make it, tho i kno she would've enjoyed it =T (geez, i had this weird jus graduated look), who's Chang Sr.? , and -haha.. after my parents told me to smile more =)
Ahhh handball.. unfortunately, this is only some our valued group. From left: Wei Q., DavePark (kinda behind Weiq's grande cabeza.. jp), DaveLieu, me, Han-Ching, Jessica, and MikeJ..)
They made us sit in the gym for some reason; my black homey... Bobby (jp, it's jus really dark there), Sherrell, Albort, Mike, Lelei.
Emily and me , there for me for so long...
Big group photo after we watched Titan AE in Astoria. (From top left, then bottom row: DaveLee, Carrie, Errol, Karen, Lucy, Sherrell, Florence, Michelle, MikeJiang, Lelei, and a girl i dunno =) Albert and mayb Jackie are standing behind me...)
Ehhh, that's about it for the stuff around rite now.. there should b more i suppose... chucked into some album or something... I guess i'll scan them some time. If any1 has any pictures they'd like me to post up, please drop me an e-mail or IM me =)
January 22nd, 2002
i'm in my freakin dorm... the net jus went up. And nicely up too; almost 1MB/sec now =P haha, maybe i'll do better this year.. hahaha.
I was backing up all the essential files for my computer when i migrated OS yet again, and found a lot of pics i forgot about. I was gonna integrate it into my mememe.html page, but i figured no1 chks there anyways, since i don't even.. so here's a nice pic for u guys: 4 Angels, age 11 O and you also may have noticed that i changed my mainpage.html... the modified falcon pic is from mechwarrior2, jade falcon clan =)
Use this 'banner' version of the falcon pic to link to my site. i kno i kno... it's about time i made one =T
January 15th, 2002
Errr, happy new years? Long time me not write here... and for good reason too. I was being butt lazy.. haven't done much this break. Went to C-town to karoake and eat tonite.. met some new ppl =) Pretty fun... Elaine brought along her friends from NYU and Stuy (another Dave in the crowd too), while i basically only knew her... and Vincent, who came along jus for me mostly. (tho he really wanted my CS CD =) heh)
Meeting in front of NYU Stern's... we went to this Karoake place next to a door labelled "karoake champ" and sang some fun songs; "In the end" (which actually sounds pretty good in chorus), "u've lost that lovin' feelin'" (i kno, me and my old songs), "twinkle twinkle little star" (hahaha), and some other Mandarin/Cantonese songs (i jus dunno the names!). We proceeded to a Cantonese restaurant, where we were all starving. =) Every1 ordered meat.. haha, and i got the 'beef chow fun' thingy (noodles and beef thing so popular in take outs). I also ordered a bowl of rice, cuz for some reason.. if i dun eat rice, i feel like i didn't eat substantially *shrug*. We talked about student employment and girl/guy fat buildup/loss areas for a while. These interesting topics continued as we went to "Green Tea Cafe". I got a cool coconut drink (dun look at me like that..). A girl got this peanut pancake which i'm not familiar w/and hesitated to try. We all talked til like 10... it's interesting to meet totally different ppl.. infusion of convos =)
Got Serial Experiments Lain from eLAINe too. Had mixed reviews by friends since so i'm gonna finally chk it out myself =) hmm, which reminds me... i wanna record Shaolin Temple before schl starts. But my video cables are in my dorm =( hmmm, would i even have access to my bldg.?
December 31st, 2001
Last day of 2001. Wut a year... did ok in schl, met some new ppl, lived my life... Looking back on my first entry, i can see that i've never really changed. Things around me however, have never been constant. I wonder how many worlds are out there in space... parallel universes or wutevers... perhaps some of them radically different.
I hate it when i update for no reason and struggle to find a theme or topic. It's so much easier jus to burst on, inform every1 of an event, and jus log off. Rambling or ranting, the posts that i hafta think and compose actually take a lot outta me. In the process of posting, thoughts run around in my head... i think about everything. And i mean everything. Most of the time, tho i'm proud of wut i've done and everything around me... i feel kinda depressed about wut i could've done. It's no good to dwell and regret obviously, but even dealing w/it by NOT dealing w/it, it still takes a bit of energy.
Third paragraph... *sigh*, done w/"dealing with it" for today =T
December 7th, 2001
It's a Friday... and the next 2 weeks will b full of papers and tests. The last real weekend. I finally found out that the science wallpaper from win98 i had on this page before was corrupt. Only the top quarter of the pic was good and the browser read the rest as blank space. No wonder ppl were complaining about the white text at first... It's all revamped now, X-Wing and all =P I kno this background's over twice the previous in size, so sorry dial-up users... Editted out the Lego symbol and sprayed some text so it'd look better. (got the file size down from the orignal 128K to 87) Appreciate the 'easy read custom gray text' too, cuz this revamping cost me 40 minutes of sleep! Not that i'm actually going to sleep w/6 bowls of Rice Crispies in my stomach 2 in the morning...
November 29th, 2001
Two pictures of the Incom Corporation T-65 X-Wing Starfighter: 1 , 2
November 27th, 2001
muahahahaa, the Lego X-Wing... came out a lil over a year ago... I have it now =) The level of my happiness is off the f'n charts!! hahaha, ok.. i'd guess it's safe to say i won't b getting much for Xmas this year =) well, it was all worth the wait, 1304 pcs., almost 5 hours assembly time... i love Lego and X-Wings =P I kno i kno, i'm still coding the lego section =T
November 15th, 2001
2nd rd. of MIDterms almost over... which means almost a movie every other day! I think i already skimmed Shaolin Soccer 5 times.
Wut is it w/Chinese songs?? Every time i hear a good tune come up... some1 starts singing. goddammit, and it'd b ok if the singing was good, but then for some reason in Chinese songs, they always have the music louder than the voice. I need to find that Winamp plugin that filters out voice in MP3s..
Hmmm, barely making any progress on my new sections... thxgiving break i guess. having a whole week off instead of the std. 2 days. Yessir.
October 31st, 2001
It's that time of year again... for my schl to become yet cheaper/stupider... they starting to serve food on plates, and so u have to ask the cashier to give u a plastic container if u want to have yer food 'to go'. For people getting their food to go, this is a waste of plates. Stupid schl.
Y am i posting?... cuz i have so much work to do!... *sigh*
October 23rd, 2001
DIE IMPERIAL SCUM!! i hate being stuck in a Y-Wing... it can't turn dammit. Hmmm, jus read over a few articles on hard drives... scary stuff. Is this MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) fer HDs just a plain average? Considering some drives are DOA (Dead On Arrival), that means the drives that actually really work hafta work extra long rite?... haha ok ok.
October 19th, 2001
*sigh* my new HD's up! yay... no problems so far... only 2 hangs during installation and breaking in. not bad, not bad at all... Glad my tests and everything are over, tho i have doubts about my initial good feelings about how well i did. I think i miscontrued one of the questions and proceeded to make an off-topic essay. Trying out this game called X-Wing Alliance. Pretty fun, but it would b a lot better if CHK and me could get it working on multiplayer mode. It may b our schls' causing the trouble or something wrong w/the net or TCP/IP. But's it's still day 1 on that so i hope we dun wind up lugging our computers together for a NIC-to-NIC connection to play multiplayer =T
October 11th, 2001 OK, called WD again for the 3rd time after they told me to "write zeros to my drive". it's supposed to wipe the drive and mark off any defects... but in the middle of the test i got ANOTHER error; "0558". Some sorta "servo+ malfunction w/10 or more errors present". Anyways, so they're sending me another drive.
Found out that 3Demons still exists... they jus changed all thier server IPs. So far i've played again in Weymouth (66.31.224.27) and Lowell (24.147.255.99). Haven't seen the others up. 3Demons have small games, 10 12 ppl... but they're FF_1 and administrated. This gives realism and weeds out the cheaters. It's amazing the amount of cheats ppl have running (even concurrently!) while they play. Everytime i play, there's one wallhacker (allows u to see thru walls). Or an aimbotter (auto-aim pretty much). There are some other more serious cheats, like no-clip (go thru walls) and team-switch (change teams anytime/anywhere at will). At least most of them get booted after ppl realize..
Reading these two books for HIS. Very vivid in thier accounts of WWII from the prosprective of a rifleman at the Western Front and a Japanese soldier on an island in Leyte Gulf being overrun by Americans. These two books detail great transformations of character by war and in a desensitizing environment, blossoming individuality. wow... shared themes include the seperate worlds of command and the common soldier, morality of self preservation at the expense of others, and personal conclusions/effects of the war. Wut's interesting is that while the two book have totally different authors in totally different places and sides, they share many parallel ideas. Thoughtful books, I highly recommend them.
October 8th, 2001
Alritey... i found out wut's up w/my drive. It's defective/broken/busted/WesternDigital =) Using the WD diag disk for the mayb 16th time, it found 2 errors. Successfully relocating one, it failed on the other and gave an error code 0257, which is the same error code i had on my other 3.1GB WD HD. Fortunately... i'm able to run a bare-bones system on it still. Currently, it has net connection, can burn stuff, AIM, Office and Chuck Yeager's Air Combat on it... yay.
Now i jus gotta RMA the POS either thru my workplace or directly w/WD. Doing it thru my workplace is relatively simple, i can jus take one or "borrow it indefinately" as substitute immediately (that's if i go down there). Or i could call up WD and have them ship a replacement by UPS 2-day air to me, and allow me 30 days to ship my defective drive back. Chuing's informed me that this is when i leave them a credit card number, since w/o one, i would have to ship my drive to them first b4 they did anything... taking around a month. Wutevers, this is getting really annoying, i want a Seagate drive... they've been decent in thier existence as a company. They make great SCSI Barracudas, but that's mostly a money issue. Ahhh we'll see.....
October 5th, 2001
that... was an exhausting game... it's hard outplaying the wall and old geezers =)
October 7th, 2001
My computer is really going down the crapper. Getting hangs, freezes, and errors left and right these days... dunno y, but it's most likely the hard drive. It doesn't save my AIM and windows appearance settings now for some reason too. I installed Win98SE, Win2K, AND WinXP last night/this morning (as well as 2 clean Win98SE installs since summer break) and it's still screwing up. Each time i install an OS (operating system), it's w/clean partitions, formats and drive scans from my "trusty" Western Digital diagnostic disk.
I've had problems before, but not like this, in so many cases. It's amazing i'm on the net rite now..... for u guys who wanna know or can actually help, below is a list of the instances and types of error/problems i run into in which now appear practically daily:
1.
System slowdown at random times, tho this doesn't last too long usually but when it does, this problem usually then becomes problem number 2, which is...2.
Hang. This happens left and right sometimes, where even Win2K cannot come out of. Hang error messeges involving blue or black screens have included: 'stop:address memory dump of physical memory', 'stop:kernel data inpage error', 'stop:unknown hard error', 'inaccessible boot device', and 'stop:xxx000 win32k.sys'. These occur under Win2K, which i'm running now. When under Win98SE, it would jus hang and stuff, since Win98 has poor error logging and almost no error msg. alert3.
Windows 2000 Professional is not saving my AIM and windows appearance settings, even as i am logged on as the admin. This MAY have something to do w/the fact that there exists different accounts and users... but i've never had this problem b4 the last time i installed Win2K on my system as well as the dozens of workstations and servers i assembled and networked in Brooklyn.4.
Startup errors, this includes stuff like "Invalid Boot Device or boot device not found, please insert Disk in A:floppy" This for some reason started appearing last week Wednesday, while under Win98SE, and have since plagued 1 outta 3 times i start my machine. Usually everything starts up fine after i turn the power off for a minute. This is one of my more worrisome problems since it could b my hardrive, motherboard, BIOS, cables... almost anything...5.
Moving on to more hardware related cases, my WD (Western Digital) hard drive just freezes sometimes. The HD light is continuously on, and most of the time, this results in a hang. Previously, a year ago, i had similar problems, but a scan with the WD HD utility solved the problem. Or so i thought. Either MORE bad clusters on my HD have popped up or there's a quality control problem w/my particular HD. Sometimes a BSoD (Blue Screen of Death) comes up and says "Cannot write to Drive C:, Some data may be lost". Tho that was while i had Win98SE, and that error never comes up in Win2K since as i understand it; Win98SE comes up to an error and dies right there... while Windows NT sees the error, and relocates any data in there to a better place.6.
The Western Digital Hard Drive Diagnostic Utility can run an "extended test" on my drive, and actually DID find errors that were correctable (or so it says) twice. The error codes indicated bad sectors and it marked them off. Running normal software scan in OSs however, is another story. Scandisks in Windows, DOS and Norton have hung over 90% of the time. Under Win98SE, the computer makes u run a surface scan which u can skip, but it makes u run it EVERY TIME u start the computer, giving a logical expectation that errors have NOT been thoroughly fixed.These are pretty much my most serious problems. Normally, i wouldn't mind investigating and fixing this stuff, but i have schl now and it really cuts into my time. Jus reinstalling a typical OS clean takes around 5 hours. I had to run to Roger's dorm and then Bobby's dorm in the wee hours of the morning today to get 'emergency' copies of different OSs. (Since i found out my Windows 2000 Professional CD had a scratch on the TOP side... not good) I got WinXP Corporate Ed. from Roger's friend and another copy of Win2KPro from Bobby and installed them both. XP had all basic drivers, but since NOBODY IS SUPPOSED TO HAVE IT YET... there won't b any drivers for my ATI All-In-Wonder 128 Pro until 25 October, which is its official release date to the PUBLIC. So after i got Bobby's 2000 CD, i ran back to my dorm and proceeded to install past sunrise.
I don't know if it's just WD HDs that screw up like this if this is the case. From wut i've experienced, Western Digital and IBM make great mainstream drives, but WD is plagued by quality control problems like bad sectors and IBM suffers from defects affecting its "Sector 1", which jus means the whole drive is toast since it kills the Master Boot Records, one of the two File Allocation Tables and the IBM HD manufacturers data. The WD Diagnostic Utility on thier website tho appears to b my best shot against defects seems unable to remedy more serious problems on my drive. (I've alreaded stated that Windows crashes in Windows, DOS and Norton scandisk operations.)
I hope everything goes smoothly from here, since it appears i've gotten at least 80% functionality out of Win2KPro right now. I'll hafta take my system down my work place again and chk it out. Most likely resulting in a new HD and extensive tests there. There should b something wrong physically somewhere, since i've tried crashing WinNT kernel OSs intentionally w/limited success. But now my Win2K is crashing by itself... very strange. (I love Win2K cuz of it's stability and power tho i sacrifice hardware DVD decoding w/it.) I can only debug my system to an extent in my dorm... so i guess i won't get my system fixed until Thanksgiving break. Hopefully u guys got something outta my shitty time consuming experiences here. (it gets sad when u can actually start to memorize the CD-Keys for Windows and Office rite CHK?) If u guys have similar problems or know of anything that might help, please contact me.
October 4th, 2001
Ahhh, listening to Ranma and finishing up my geo homework. Finally done w/the bulk of the work for this week, jus one more midterm and lab next week... need to get a movie this weekend to watch...
Haven't played racquetball a whole week... and we had some beautiful days too, if only i had more time and our handball wall still EXISTED. Damn new sports complex, the hell we need another sports complex for? Division I? Uh yea, our schl's sports teams rule! I hope they put up a wall somewhere for handball. Racquetball is jus too hot for the summer... *unless* they AC the racquetball courts... (Hmmmmm)
In other news, our joint posting site at 1e6thoughts was taken down. Fortunately we saved the archives and stuff. I guess we'll hafta find another place to post jointly... The anime and other sections of my webpage to b posted are still being coded... besides my own comments, still trying to find decent shots and text so i dun really hafta put in that much of my own stuff. There's tons of goodies out there... I just hafta find and assemble it.
Star Trek : Enterprise came out a while ago. The visuals and scenes r on par w/Voyager... but the acting and eerily familiar casting is something else. No character right now is shining yet, as they haven't even begun to settle in. The series premier episode also contained more gratuity than normal, contained several serious chonological/technical mistakes and perhaps most troubling of all; a feeling of a forced story. I guess we should give them some time and see how well things go. I think this is a more general ST, seemingly not aimed at a niche audience more so. O wells, time will tell...
September 25th, 2001
ok, lotsa tests coming real soon. section coding will hafta wait for a while, as typing all that content and collecting the material takes up a lotta time.
Valve came out w/the ATI fix for CS last friday; relatively fast... damn, if only Nvidia had All-In-Wonder type cards... as supposedly the best driver team in the industry. It's interesting how companies can easily market thier products simply by having a spectrum of the same thing. For example, Nvidia works on a kickass chipset, and then releases it in several scaled versions to the public. (the vanilla version, then MX, Ultra, Pro, etc...) this technique is also seen in stuff like cars and indeed even ATI is employing this method more.
O yea, that new Mercedes commercial out (for the M-class SUV i beleive) ... I'm looking for the background music for it. I have a short snippet that i recorded off the TV, but it ain't too satisfying obviously. It's got an instrumental featuring the violin or cello (or wutever stringed instrument) in the background. Sounds nice. Tryin to also get the "cotton" commercial's music... yea, that guitar thingy where they sing 'cotton, the fabric of our lives..' =) damn this stuff is hard to find. If any1's interested, take a look at my MP3 list thru my AIM acct. at "Aya16CE", or read the "TXT" file linked above in this section.
September 21st, 2001
well well well... CS1.3 came out a couple days ago... and we are PISSED. Apparently, the CS team and Valve did not fix bugs concerning the use of OpenGL and ATI video cards. supposedly they're working on a fix to b out in a few days. This is no excuse tho i think. There's no reason for a software developer to prematurely release an incomplete product. I know these companies are subject to pressures... but they should've informed us of any problems earlier, not when ppl started noticing and complained. A third of the ppl out there own ATI cards and in doing this, Valve has made a big mistake.
Probably not the case, at least i hope so; but i jus have this sneaking feeling that Nvidia put Valve up to this. I mean, both Nvidia and ATI have had release and hardware problems before... but Valve loosely associated ATI cards and wallhacking together. To my knowledge, ATI cards have no readily exploitable vulnerabilities to its OpenGL code. If u had a lot of time and expertise, i think all graphics protocols can b taken advantage of. BUT certain uncommon graphics cards HAVE been taken advantage of, as well as the ASUS GeForces2s (which has an Nvidia chipset).... ASUS GeForces are not no-names, but are THE exploitable OpenGL wallhacking card for CounterStrike.
It's probably no coincidence that Nvidia releases its driver sets timed when ATI comes out with new cards. The last round of Detonator drivers from Nvidia were available weeks before, but Nvidia waited... waited for ATI's new Radeon2s to come out. It's dirty business... even the increases in performance w/the installation of the Detonator drivers should b noted. The new drivers increased performance by nearly 50%... which is a whopping figure in any case. Now how come NVIDIA didn't come out with THOSE drivers before? If they didn't know exactly how good a card they had on thier hands before, then great job! But if they indeed did know the potential of thier cards but intentionally used that along with drivers as a market manipulation, then Nvidia is one evil company. I hope this isn't the case, since Nvidia does make good cards.
O wells, Valve ~should~ have those fixes out sometime soon, we all jus hafta wait. Currently, ATI ppl can play in Direct3D if they r not serving, but it's an inconvinience and (more importantly) a degradation of graphics and gameplay. CS1.3 has been a great disappointment to many... (i hope that hitbox rumor isn't true also, since i see a lot of ppl complaining about headshots) *sigh* I really wouldn't mind if Valve and the CS team were still in beta and freeware stages, but this encompasses retail releases. Ppl PAY to enjoy these games, not for them to screw up this bad.
September 19th, 2001
Coding the Lego and anime sections offline... the Lego section will concern my concepts and philosophies of constructing any structures. (yes, i actually have philosophies about Lego) The anime section will mostly deal w/reviews, insights into American/Japanese art, culture, and society, and perhaps the economics of anime (?!) Heh, i'm probably not making too much sense rite now... jus stayed up all night. haha, a cat came in my room from the balcony/suite before. (which is why i stayed up) It's all grey with yellow eyes, which looks green at certain angles. It stayed for like 3 hours... eating, drinking (wut a leech), licking itself (damn they must hate showers) and napping on my stomach! (um, it's not afraid of humans at all) I guess it must b some1's cat around here... it'll b back... that's how they r; u feed them once and o boy, it's as good as yers =) O wells... it's good company when i'm up anyways... ahhh wish i had a dog walk in tho... i guess i'll settle for "Kelly Kitty".
September 17th, 2001
Updated the Line Of Fire (LOF) section. Nothing much, jus a lil stuff on how well Bush is actually handling this recent string of events. I put those thoughts up in that section cuz my interests actually include politics and political theory. I've taken "comparative politics", europe after 1945", "the second world war", and "politics and society" so far in Stony. I think i'll take "traditional china", "the japanese economy", and mayb "chinese2" sometime later.
September 16th, 2001
i jus found out that 3Demons is no more... the MA based CS ring didn't have enough finances or something... so there goes my nice list of administrated, FF-on, team oriented servers. They had a server in every major location in Massachusetts i believe. (Boston, Bellingham, Cape Cod, Weymouth, Wellington, Quincy, etc...) man, even tho internet servers for CS allow me to play all more maps, i will miss the best of them. the others have so many cheaters and mad f'n cursing going on =T
OK, enough of that... the thing lately has been coping w/the WTC incidents... *sigh* i think in this horrible act of war we can actually see heroes of our daily lives. any fireman or volunteer rescue worker will always receive more respect from me than any celebrity or wutevers. there were only 2 times these past few days when i felt really really sad; when i watched over and over the replay of the towers collapsing and having it sink in, and when i saw ppl waving and cheering for rescue workers going to and from the site... it was so moving watching ppl cheer the ppl who helped... if i were a rescue worker... all that work for jus cheer on the way would b a bargain. they r truly heroes.
Afterwards, i found myself feeling much better... and the fact that every1 is determined to rebuild only reinforces my healing. i took down my United States Postal Service motto for my AIM profile, in case ppl get the wrong idea... ("Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds") it seems inappropriate if misconstrued. anyways, i'll end this post w/another quote this time from Winston Churchill: "we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender..."
September 13th, 2001
still pissed and sad..
September 12th, 2001
it is the day after... and i'm still so pissed and sad. this was something very close to me. the collapse of the Twin Towers really struck home the indiscriminate fury and senseless violence of terrorism. i kno the OK City bombing was pretty big, heck, even the 1993 WTC bombing... but that time, it wasn't as devastating as this one... but this act in NYC on the WTC and in Washington against the Pentagon; i found it necessary to use all my energy to rein in my feelings. i wasn't in a talkative mood at all the whole day, restraining any gut reactions and trying to convince myself i would not b affected by the sequence of events now burned in my mind.
rite now, i'm trying to think of a way i can prevent this kind of thing from happening again. i realize i am but one person... every little bit helps tho... i keep thinking about my future more and more: wut am i gonna do when i grow up... i need to make a difference. anything is possible, but the fields of intelligence and those relating to the military now seem to beg me more than ever. business and compsci r great, perhaps more pragmatic... but shouldn't ppl go w/the things they like and do best? i kno there r some obstacles to this path. For example, i don't always do things in logical/priority fashion, like my term paper procrastination. i'll hafta work on logic and efficiency in prioritizing my tasks more... tho this time it will b a much much more concentrated drive...
life is difficult... too many things to do, too many things not to do, and too many things i would like to do.. we must do wut we can and think is rite... and i don't mean in the way like "religion at its best" jus a while ago >=|
September 3rd, 2001
ahhhh... Labor Day... believe it or not but some businesses still have thier employees work today... oy. Well, i'll b going back to schl in a few hours. Had to come back for some stuff (fridge, more printer paper, money for txtbks more expensive than Lego, clothes, etc...) After getting some feedback from ppl, i've editted my last entry on relationships to make it clearer. most notably the addition of numbers. it was also bought up by Elaine that i should have paragraphs... hmmm, good idea... i will definately take it into consideration in future posts. the only thing is that my absence of paragraph form sorta allows u to get an accurate reading on my brain... since in my head this is how it's all running around; all messed up and amok =) usually i don't have any sort of format for ramblings... hehe, i remember in freshman bio when we had to get our lab binders checked and the tchr remarked on how the girls had thier stuff more organized in trappers, folders and crap... to which Dennis said, "Easy access..." I guess we're not the only ones vouching for 'easy access' rite Chuing? =) (Our friend CHK here takes everything to 'easy access'; from bookbags to binders and from graduation gowns to double slit dresses) ok ok, new paragraph for now..
Even tho i stubbed a finger today in handball, haha... i think i'm gonna up my racquetball activity up to 4 times a week. Friday and Saturday at least, and then 2 more days of the week... i plan to work on my technique, shot selection and endurance... all from being fresh at the court to the end of the day, since i think one of the most important things about any sport is pushing yer limits higher and higher... hehehe, kinda like 'limit breaks' in Final Fantasy. Thru this, u can improve... even under stress. After the 1st round of midterms, around the start of October, i will jus walk around looking for games... those old pros better watch out...
Werd, i also had this really awesome dream before... it's 7am now... i dreamt i had 2 dogs and i was in schl... we went thru like classes together and stuff... *sigh* i want a dog so bad... i think the only 2 things i've ever really wanted since i was very little were dogs and bikes... and since i already have 2 bikes now... i need my dogs! Gonna get one ASAP when i get outta college later... a nice Labrador mix or two would b great, jus like in my dream... o wells... i suppose that will hafta wait =T hmmm, given the choice i think i would rather have some dogs than another relationship... *woof woof*
August 28th, 2001
well, there goes the 1st day of class.. bright n early ones too, and a nice 3 hour lab from 7-10pm (Mondays only) Ok, so now on to the primary purpose of this post... i had a nice reminiscent conversation w/some1 and so i'm gonna talk about some stuff that few ppl kno and isn't evident in any other place of this webpage: dave's love life... "dave's love life?!", u say. yups... i'm jus gonna lay it all out. well, not every single little thing, but enough... i'm gonna hafta tone down some parts as well and also try to make it as good as i can while making exact names and stuff unknown. to some of u it won't really matter anyways. besides, the real reason of my posts and everything is jus so ppl can kno me better, wut i think and why. details about my days and stuff are fun, and if they can reflect some of my philosophies, then all the better. so anyways here we go..... i admit, i've gone after a few girls... pretty much starting from 7th grade at 237 i've "paid attention"... since then, there have been 5 girls. (i talk about them in chronological order here) ok, going back again on my "influences" and how they played a role in my relationships... i guess i lean towards conservative/traditional values because of my parents. they've been very helpful at the times when they helped out. they talked about how they handled stuff and thought about choosing ppl... my friends have been pretty good too. even tho some of them don't work out well, we can all still learn from that. remarkably, the media and wutevers have had very little influence on me.. o wells. from the beginning, i think i was too much of a nice guy... i didn't like picking on girls, esp. if i liked one of them... guys and schl facualty r another story... *sigh* U could always tell which girl i liked if i teased a group of girls but one of them was 'spared' =) This was one of the things that didn't allow me to get "Chicken" (nickname we had for the girl l liked in 7th grade)... plus, as always, i was too shy. the next relationship i had right after that was better and worse. we talked a lot and stuff but then we stopped talking afterwards. i really didn't get y ppl would not talk to ea. other afterwards until then. it really sucked. i was sad for a long time there. it got better at the end of the year when we were about to graduate, had class trips and the senior dance... i learned a lot from that relationship. one of those things was dun call her too much... hehe sorry Kath. i'm still suprised at how parents treat thier children; esp. Asian parents to thier daughters. i kno they dun like guys calling but they need to cut guys some slack... ask yer own daughter about the guys who call and find out some stuff first, dun blow ppl off initially jus cuz of the bad stuff u hear that might happen. there r parents who really care about thier kids too but they rn't as over-protective and thier kids turn out fine. my parents r pretty open about this and i hope i'll b as open when i've got kids too. alrite, enough about my parents now... the next thing i got into, which is the 3rd girl, would happen in a place where i would spend an hour every morning of freshman year in HS: the cheesebus. i was really excited about high schl (actually, mayb not the 'schl' part). so there i am, sitting there like some freshmeat and another girl walks into my life... or rather, down the aisle of the bus. we started talking pretty soon... but my previous encounter w/a girl was still in my mind. i took it real slow... haha, Sean and WINs would say 'toooooo slow'... i was a bit more involved now too, putting in more effort and dealing w/shyness and stuff. we still had fun times... she was very easy to talk to and i could relate to her background well... interestingly, her name started w/a 'K' too. but afterwards... i didn't do much, and we so jus remained great friends since then. Well..... if i called too much for Kath, u'll b pleased to kno i really upped the rate on my next (4th) relationship. After "the second K", and during the second half of freshman year, i got to kno a friend better and better who i had met since the first day of schl. We were open and involved and enjoyed ea. others' company. (her parents also handled me well and understood this kinda stuff better too) We called each other. a lot. late at night. til sunrise. and then we would meet up a few hours later in schl. haha... it all started when we boasted to ea. other about how long we could talk on the phone. =) it may have gotten outta hand but we were playful about it so actually the time seemed to fly by... we stopped going out and stuff afterwards because supposedly she didn't want a serious relationship while we were students. in a way i would have to agree w/her because we did spend a lot of time together doing non-academic things, *ahem*... but that's ok. This reinforced my thinking on concentrating on my studies first, and then other stuff... but it did not stop me from falling in love again. (ack! and it's not even addicting!) hahaha, this brings us to my most recent relationship... junior year and beyond in HS. Coincidentally, this time it stated w/a method of mass transportation too =) I would walk to my house from my bus stop, but sometimes i would get off at my friend's stop and walk w/her and mayb some other ppl. Anyways... it was during this short 3 block journey where it really started. For one thing, not only did this girl have a good and interesting background of all sorts, we were friends from JHS. the thing that really did it for me was when she sang and complained to me... it's very strange. i felt close to her for that.. and out of that; better friends. i dun think she even knows how much of an effect her singing and whining had on me =P well, in more serious a matter, i learned sacrifice among other things in this relationship. one of the things we would talk about was her and another guy she liked. again, my thoughts were for her, and so it was real tough for me when i encouraged her to like another guy and console her when she was depressed. afterwards, i finally did tell her wut i really thought tho and she understood. we got along well and stuff... tho i think i put out most of the efforts for fun between us, which leads me to the final lesson i learned w/this relationship and the stuff that follows... i put in my efforts for her and respected her privacy, which she acknowledges... but we were all rather busy in HS. we had our seperate teams/classes and other functions... we had our fun on special days (bdays, dances, holidays, etc...) but wut i could not work out was her lifestyle and later, her philosophy and values. perhaps my last sentence is too strongly worded, but i have to express it like so otherwise the ideas would b lost. but in reality and my intentions, it is not harsh. ummm, so on the last day of HS, we parted pretty much... geographically =) we still keep in touch, but not as much as we're very busy and seperated. ehhh- esp. seeing since i can't walk her home anymore =T From that pt. on, i felt more and more isolated from her... and she didn't respond as much. As a result of these feelings, real or imagined, i believe a person should only love another if that love is at least returned and acknowledged in some way. in such a situation, there is no blaming around or finding who is at fault... u need to realize it and move on. there's no1 at fault here anyways because no1 is obligated to do anything for any1. It's all a lil murky here but it's basically the point and thoughts that i am trying to get across to whoever is reading this..... As of now, 'dave's love life' isn't exactly in high gear... Of course there are inherent risks, but it's never stopped ppl. before... I think most of u guys can relate to this stuff and all the things i've gone thru... and so i conclude this really long post w/my quote: "Fire keeps the heart warm."
Thank u for yer time =)
August 27th, 2001
Changed the BGM for this section to a Kenshin song. The original song: Power of the Dream by Celine Dion is still available for dl here
August 25th, 2001
*sigh* well... so here i am sitting here w/all my packed stuff littered around me. Went to 'Nan Bei He' for the Nth time this summer... haha, can't get sick of the food for some reason. Jus read some tragic news on the death of Aaliyah in the Bahamas. Apparently she died along w/7 others in a small-aircraft crash. Really sux to die young... not to mention rich and famous. Hmmm, still gotta make those new sections for this webpage in schl... this semester; i plan to up all my grades by half a letter, get seriously good in racquetball, not gain any weight, and watch a movie and some anime every weekend. i think it's a doable thing. We'll see... I guess i better get to bed...
August 17th, 2001
an interesting day... walked around a lot doing errands and running around later soaking wet at Shaunna's early bday party... CPS rules... hehehe, "hey i think that dude's chking u out" *pointing to lifesized cardboard picture of a guy holding a Palm* denial. anger. depression. bargaining. acceptance. "we can show u the door, but you must walk thru it yerself" and i leave u w/one last quote, the one that made some1's day: "how U doin~!" =)
AUGust 9th, 2001
Hmmm... jus updated the Writings section. I'm planning on adding an Anime and Lego Section during the coming semester and seriously considering adding a Virtua Fighter 2 and Samurai Shodown 2 Section nested inside somewhere somehow. More on this later. Schl. starts real soon; we've got 2 weeks of summer left. half of me wants to go bak while the other half doesn't want to. logically, i'm gonna only do half my work there again =)
AUGust 4th, 2001
hmmm played some CS today, *sigh* missed Amy... i'm getting real slick in updating to this page; using 1E6thoughts and this place interchangably... anyways, it's cut-n-paste time:
i'm having so much fun w/this double male ended audio cable. i can finally record stuff from cassette to my computer now... ahhh, all those old songs not on CD... well, just this afternoon i got the idea to record the whole series of tapes for Xi You Ji or Journey to the West. i dunno if u guys r familiar w/the story, but it's really interesting and produced well. the voice acting is one of the best i've heard. the sound effects are not as exceptional as the voices but they also have a similar standard. the songs and poems r made pretty well and some of them r downright hilarious =) u guys r welcome to borrow the tapes if u guys want. they're in mandarin tho. i guess it's both good and bad, since some of u who speak cantonese may have a difficult time figuring out the details. but some of u who took Chinese in HS *hint hint* and some of u learning mandarin now *wink wink* might find this useful. anyways, i'm having them recorded as WAVs. the problem is; even at the medium sound quality they r in, they take up lotsa space. i tried to match the audio quality rate of the cassetes w/my digital recording rates. even at 16,000Hz/16bit/stereo, ea. ~20 minute side of this 12 tape (48 sides total) set take around 60 megs ea.. this is not good. if any1 has or can find a WAV to MP3 converter, i would really really b happy. i've tried several programs within my budget (which is around $0) and none of them work satisfactorily or at all. at this rate, one CD will only b able to hold 5 tapes (or 10 sides) thus making a complete recording of all the tapes at 5 CDs. if i had them in MP3 format, i'm pretty sure i can get all the tapes to fit on 1 CD, 2 at most. in any event, i'm gonna burn these recordings now in WAV format. they're simply taking too much space on my HD. i suppose i can have them converted to MP3s at a later date. well, that's about it... tell me if yer interested.
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OK, i'm adding some stuff now in edit. I've decided to record at 8bit instead of 16. this decreases ea. file size by a good 50%. there's a slight decrease in fidelity, but it's not something that you can notice w/o listening very very closely the same clip over and over again. So now everything fits on 3 CDs now... hey, at least it all fits into one CD case =)
July 25th, 2001
Lately, i've beginning to ponder the influence things have on me. i suppose my parents have the most influence, followed closely by my friends, physical abilities, interests, etc... well it get's murky then on since physical abilities or interests can b influenced themselves. so i guess it's mainly ppl.. all these things around me make the person... and when i think wut influences the ppl that influence me; i see no end to this cycle =) it's strange. mayb some influence gets lost along the way due to time/resistance/death/wutever... but in a bigger picture, i think wut really influences ppl is the group of ppl they live with, live in and kno of. (like yer environment and BIG environment which encompasses yer knowledge of other ppl's environments) anyways, influence makes us do things and think things in "our own" lil ways. i listen to my parents, telling me i need to do better in my compsci classes. i hear my friends tell me wut the wanna do next week or the next decade. i see strangers living out thier lives when i walk around. i witness world events on TV. it's really quite interesting when u think about it. so much input, yet, u can only do so many things at once. right now, at this pt. in time, i'm unsure of wut i want to do. life's short? hmmm i am pretty much at least at the one-fifth mark. on the other hand, i have time, perhaps lotsa time. but, i kno we can't do all the things we wanna do. my parents urge stable and good jobs and wise choices. my friends and i converse of a range of stuff, including mayb too idealistic of futures'. in addition, the world environment begs/offers things that only a truly human human would undertake. i can't seem to find something that's a mixture but yet fun. it sux how there r times when we hafta yield to influence huh? o wells.. tomorrow's another day. it should always b like this... hehehehe, i'll probably play handball again... ahhhh, there's nothing quite like peer pres- uh, i mean influence =P
July 21st, 2001
wow, looking back on my first entry.. i realized how old i'm getting... hahahahahaha... dammit i can't stop cracking up about that "geezer talk" =) o wells. i stopped playing handball recently (at least for this week) and i can't eat anything harder than cold french fries... i got all 4 of my stupid wisdom teeth "extracted". i must say my dentist did a damn fine job. the top 2 that were pretty much normal were out in 1 minute. my bottom left took a bit longer, say 5 minutes... since he had to cut some gums to reach it. ok, the last bastard took a good 20 minutes. i asked: wut's taking so long? "o, this one's more of a problem... but it's all good" so when it's all done i look on the table and "wut the..." there were 5 teeth on the tray! "i had to drill the last tooth in half to get it out" wow. i can see y this guy graduated early =) we're very fortunate in this time and place to b having such good medical care. i mean it's awareness level is quite high. most places, ppl don't care/know/get much medical stuff. *sigh* there's really nothing quite as important as yer health... so wut the hell am i doing up 2 in the morning? uh, excercising of course =) nitenite ppl...
June 11th, 2001
ok, i'm at the office rite now... and i see the 'huge' white blob now CHK. let's jus say your desktop resolution is set pretty high. (my highest possible monitor resolution is your lowest possible) anyways, for visitors of this site, this can be a problem , since 800X600 or better is pretty commonplace. i'll try expanding the background pic to cover more area, or use something else. so far, summer has been pretty good. kicking back working and commuting... so fun. hahaha. well, not everyday. went biking and rowing on saturday w/some friends in central park, a nice day. then 'some' handball the day after. lost 6 lbs. since schl let out. scary. see wut happens when u dorm? grades came out. did pretty good. except in math. this'll really screw me over as compsci goes along tho. i'm thinking about going into forensics or business instead. i may also do computer security or that 15th sub-basement level of the pentagon thing i've talked about. "i dunno. damn, we're 19 already. life is passing us by. we're old geezers." (u know, i'm cracking up like crazy rite now as i type this... there's more than one occasion where i jus remember wut happened that chicken nugget laden night and start laughing... to the puzzled look of strangers) look wut u guys did... welps, gotta get back to work now...
May 15th, 2001
*sigh* schl's over... jus took my last final. which was really hard, not to mention i hadn't slept in 20 hours and had a stomachache during the last hour of the test. damn, it was hell... anyways, i need to abu- utilize this DSL connection for another day... and backup files before i dismantle. too much stuff to pack! too tired to pack... ok no more updating right now; i'm off to sleep... damn, and it's Discovery Tuesday too =T (o yea, i jus changed the text color to black, u happy now CHK? ya weird MSIE bum... hehe)
May 6th, 2001
Ok, a fellow admin helped me decide that linking our group postings is ok =) so here's the link for our little place in cyberspace...
May 6th, 2001
It's the wee hours of the morning... and i just came out of a refreshing internet counter-strike game full of teamwork and cooperation. this is in stark contrast to the freelancing styles found here on the LAN at USB. whether on CTs or Ts (i prefer CTs much more because of the AUG and M4), nearly every1 on both teams advanced within fire support distance and provided coordinated backup. teamwork was intricate enough to the point that we could proceed thru hallways and stairs w/intersecting fires and Z-entry patterns as in real life CQB. Around half of the players were total strangers, but quickly picked up on the teamwork when they became involved in it. The core players of our teams; '=[SF]= Python' and 'asdf' (me and some other dude in Mass.), were taking down nearly every1 in our path... we knew which of us were lower on health and/or was better equipped... and so navigated dangerous chokepts. and entry pts. accordingly... both of us rarely died (i don't remember the exact records now but we were both around doing at least around 2:1, not as high as most my internet games but the other teams were pretty good too). All thru the whole time, i did not hear much sniper rifle fire. i think this was because every1 was concentrated on CQB teamwork and methodology, which rendered sniper rifles pointless and inappropriate. every1 basically used SMGs and assault rifles, and an occasional shotgun and MG. (typical FBI Hostage Rescue teams have 4 man teams; the 1st is the best assaulter, the 2nd and 3rd are backups for fire and last guy is the heavy weps and explosives expert. that way, if the 1st person, usually the team leader requires it, the 4th member can lay down heavy cover fire or throw the grenades for the assaulters.) there were some sniper rifles around, but they were all of semi-automatic type. Even this fact shows how teamwork oriented the server was, since while bolt-action rifles are traditionally the usual sniper rifles; this became a hinderance when nowadays, snipers need to engage multiple targets in a short amt. of time. bolt-action rifles not only may give away position when u use them, but require u to re-sight your target(s) over after every shot. the semi-automatic sniper rifles were developed to eliminate such vices and so we now have superb semis like the PSG1, G3 and M14/21. with the volume of ppl in the server, these were the only ideal sniper rifles to use. with less ppl, one the stronger bolt-action snipers might've been acceptable. if u use one when there's a lot of ppl coming, it makes no sense since you're just shoot and scooting, yer job as team sniper is not fullfilled to it's potential and the team suffers. if anyone is interested in some good teamwork and actual counter-strike, i suggest the "3Demons -Weymouth" CS server. (24.147.151.53:27015) It seems to be one of the best servers i have found, even tho it allows u to see yer stats. in some of the servers i play in, the admin blocks out stats and bans the Arctic Magnum. In addition, the 3Demons server always has friendly fire on, as opposed to the surreal FF off of our schl's LAN. Team-Killers also sit out the next round and lose some health in addition to money. The benefits of internet games over LAN are not w/o price tho: internet servers have more cheating than LAN servers. i believe this is only the case if the server admin is lazy. the 3Demons server however, seems to be in good hands. The 3D server also cycles thru a list of maps, letting players experience more scenarios and improving their situational awareness and teamwork skills. The more environments encountered and played, the better u can become. I tend to favor internet servers a lot more than LAN servers now since every1 in Stony seems to just play mainly de_dust and maybe italy or aztec. There's virtually no variation here. I think it's pretty depressing how there could be 4 seperate dedicated servers on the LAN and every1 is in the de_dust server and absolutely no1 in the other newer and more varied places. I appreciate whoever reads this huge block of text/rant/strange utterings, etc... and suggest that if u have a decent internet connection and a valid Counter-Strike key, to go play some internet games on the good servers. Strive for teamwork, and don't b afraid to suggest new ideas and tactics. ppl WILL listen if u don't behave like most of the ppl i find here in USB. In the meantime, i think if i ever play CS, it'll most likely b on the 3D server =)
May 1st, 2001
ACK! my writing portfolio's due very soon... so i may get a lil lazy here til then =) Some of my friends have started similar writings of their own ( Elaine T. , Mike S. , Dave L. , and Iggy C. ) Take a look at them; very thoughtful stuff. There's a few more "collective" writings, but i've gotta get every1's permission b4 i link so u guys'll find out by the next entry here.
April 27th, 2001
Wow, there was a fire in the building across our quad plaza just recently. I called the authorities at 333 and it took them six (6) rings to pick up. SIX RINGS?! I don't know how many of u guys have dialed 911 by accident, but w/them it's like: *RIIINNN- "Officer Winslow..." The person who responded also hung me up right after she repeated me and said that "we have an actual 240 in Hamilton." errr, how often do we have fake 240s? Do ppl often open their suite curtains, have a smoke generator and lotsa bright red and orange lights? Then two dozen firefighters spent 20 minutes to get a hose up to the 2nd floor suite to put the fire out. That's after they took 10 minutes to get here. They didn't look too animated either. Geez, it makes me feel kinda/more paranoid witnessing how slow and inefficient our SBFD is. I'm sure that if every1 in the crowd watching the fire fighters went up to the room, opened the door and took a piss, the fire would've been out in no time...
April 19th, 2001
Sitting in WRT now... Mike's a fairy eater... "I wish I read more books." Going to de_dust right after this class........................................... (hball)
April 15th, 2001
Ummm, i forgot the HS papers =T, but... i do have some essays due up soon =) Yay. Just recently, i watched a network television "investigative report" claiming that we did not land on the moon. There are a few things not easily explained, like the mysterious deaths of several key figures in the space program. These coincidences however, pale in comparison to the counter-arguments to this report, which i can think of right off the bat. First off, the claim that astronauts cannot pass thru the Van Allen radiation belts is false: simply exit the belts through the top or bottom of the Earth (parallel to the Earth's axis of spin). Every1 who has taken physics knows that the EM fields around a magnet (like our planet) come out of the "poles" and this where the radiation has a loophole and is also most thin. The pictures depicting multiple light sources is easily rebuffed with the explanation that there can easily be more than 2 light sources in space: the reflection of the camera holder, the sun, the Earth, or any spacecraft. Optical instruments are also very sensitive, in fact: with night vision goggles these days (standard NVG/ANG9s from the US Army), u can play a baseball game in a pitch black indoor stadium with only a single candle lighting the place. Thirdly, tapes have shown that astronauts seem to be running when tapes are played at 2X speed... well, our astronauts ARE human right? obviously in a low-gravity environment, we cannot run properly: because our feet do not touch the ground as often! Conspiricists state that there should be blast craters from the rocket engine of the LEM lifting off... keep in mind that the moon is only 1/6 Earth gravity, if u thought 198lbs. for yer 5'8" frame is overweight... just tell every1 u're 33lbs., on the moon =) It takes minimal thrust for a launch off the moon, especially as it has no atmosphere. Which reminds me, the American flag is seen waving on the moon. Obviously there is no atmosphere on the moon, and so astronauts had to unfold the flag and it's wire frame fabric, which can quiver from the guy trying to drive it into the moon's surface. Photographs on the moon are very clear, despite claims that the cameras were mounted on the astronauts' chest and very unwieldy. This is simply all of shutter speed. The less time a film is in exposure during motion, the less blur. There are photos that are difficult to explain, like camera crosshairs appearing behind objects, thought this might be due to photo editting (not necessarily tampering) and overlays. A coverup regarding tampering and even faking the whole Apollo program would be extremely difficult. As discussedby my AST248 paper, a coverup would involve too many ppl and no1 can shut every1 up, esp. for nearly four decades... Conspiricists argue that Area51 has the facilities and looks of the place where such a plot could've been staged. But aircraft hangers look like film studios and people who claim that the Nevada desert looks like the moon forget the fact that Earth is too a heavenly body. Almost all planets have and/or will go thru period(s) of interstellar bombardment and such. There are other arguments for and against this moon conspiracy, but as one scientist concluded: "Anyone who doesn't think we've been to the moon, is a nut." It is my conclusion and humble opinion that this "Fox Network Television Investigative Report" is nothing but another publicity augmentation effort by a nat'l network to suggest ideas FOR the public w/o decent acknowledgement of counter-arguments and scientific support.
April 11th, 2001
OK, Blogger actually works for me now... (u can make yer own place at: www.blogger.com) Three of my friends and I have made a joint posting forum thingy there. It's called "Bitter Somethings" and boasts a wide variety of topics, even tho it's like a week old. We have stuff ranging from bean burgers, sex and bikinis; to water guns, Vietmanese restaurants, 404 pages, and some guy going hysterical over the time =P Anyways, it's fun to write stuff... which reminds me, apparently the papers for HS i wrote and plan to post in my Writings Section are on my computer and CDs at home, so they will b posted up this coming weekend when i go back. Welp, it would seem this NewUD Section will have a bit of competition as i will hafta find a way to post stuff up for both of these places.
April 8th, 2001
i have jus got my hands on two (2) XP75 Version2s Super Soakers!!! $10.99 ea. from a dumb place called KayBeeToyStores (which doesn't know it possesses such sacred treasures). These are 2nd generation 75s, w/the single-notch reservoir locks, one-peice pressure rings and improved tank/intake interface screw. Therefore... these two watersport tools will serve for years... right now they're officially named Castor and Pollux, after the twin stars in the constellation Gemini and the two villians in Face-Off. In my opinion, the XP75, CPS1000, XP20 and SS20 were the best Super Soakers ever made. The were all rifle sized and pistol sized, and so did not hinder movement or fence scaling... two all too important factors in urban (WIN's house) combat. While the CPS1000 out-classes all of my other favs... the XP75 has a secondary "shotgun" option and the XP20 and SS20 are a profittable balance between firepower and capacity. Most SSs out there look futuristic, flashy and whatnot; but the CPS1000/XP20/XP75/SS20 are sleek, functional, efficient, capable and durable. These models are simple, single nozzle, single pressure/reservoir, plunger valve type. NONE of that superficial/vestigial dual chamber, quintuple tank, backpack monsters... Combat experience has proven that these factors are crucial in watersport domination (in addition to proper tactics and discipline). Ummm... i'm waaaaay too excited now to type anymore... um... i need to errr... use that bathroom, yea, that's right =)
April 6th, 2001
Ahhh.... friday... i mean dammit, it's Fraturday... I HATE CONVENTIONAL MEMORY!!! GRRRRR!!!
April 1st, 2001
Hey! chk out wut i found while shopping for a carbine and Amy a while ago... CS is in the NYTs!
Mar. 22nd, 2001
Wow, an update... i know u ppl have been chking back dat and night for this one =P haha... my writings section will b up soon... I'm on break now... damn AST248 paper is really getting to me... not to mention the writi- and for those who find it interesting: a pile of books around 30 inches high JUST fell off my desk taking down a speaker, who knows how CDs and my vintage 1991 Cirrus Logic 2MB VGA 14mhz graphics card. Of course..... and the cause of most of my concern is...... dammit! i lost my page in philosophy!!! (and trust me, u do NOT want to lose yer page in a philosophy book) *sigh* so... it's near 0230 and i'm still awake... it's the soba noodles i tell u... "save the noodles!" haha, every1 watch ch.11 WPIX at 2:00 and 3:00... Batman Beyond and MiB kick ass. Kelvin tells me that the animators for BB left for the Zeta-Project, which jus pisses me off... Recently (exactly 24hrs ago), i registered a name on www.blogger.com A wierd ephemeral posting place that i can't get to work for some reason... takes longer to load than boiling a pot of water dammit... so i am considering just updating this particular page more often for that purpose... (Jackie, i can't even get plain words up!) anyways, this is probably gonna be a long post, since i don't feel like picking up my books now =T o yea, any1 know of a lubricant that's thinner than water and doesn't leave a residue? the spring and slide for my repeater are shownig signs of extreme deterioration. *ahem* WINs... and get yer bike back too ya bum. Which reminds me, why is LEGO so expensive??? Does any1 out there play Falcon4.0? The US only has around 15 years of oil left under the current rate of use... and the rest of the world; 200 years (counting forseeable finds) left. Since LEGO is made of plastic, which requires oil for mfg., THAT'S why LEGO is so expensive. I'll take that.
Um, does this worry you like it worries me? =)
Nov. 20th, 2000
Ahhhh... finally, my own copy of Parasite Eve ... let's go Chrysler!... hehe. (that's b4 she turns into Eve BTW, dammit; it's always gotta b the pretty ones! grrr) U may b wondering y i'm updatin this section now... it's cuz i'm bored. And i must sustain this crap... lol. o wells, been playing CounterStrike since schl started... u guys in USB may see me on the LAN occasionally as "asdf"... now now, i've been been drawing criticism about my name and about how i oppose clans... but that's jus cuz i'm carbining them to death... and as for my "Amy"... well, we won't get into *that*... anyways... i dunno if i warned u guys enuff, but waktea is not very good for u... i dun hafta tell u guys about my friend who drank it and got so hyper he false started 2 times and got disqualified now do i?... ahem. Um, unfortunately i won't make the annual ThxGiving BxSci alum reunion... sorry guys... gotta comparative politics test that day...
ok, til the next NewUD ppl... (and that Bruce Lee and essays section is getting worked on... i'm coding it offline currently... ul it sometime soon...) Y DOES LEGO COST SO MUCH?!
Nov. 3rd, 2000
Man, been months since i wrote here... oh and for all u ppl, this page is called "NewUD". not "nude", but "NewUpDates" geez... sick minds out there =) Anyways, here i am, typing this crap from internet deficient University at Stony Brook. Schl has been fun, but challenging... i thank all the ppl who have made it that way... Hmm... ok, screw this, i'm link a PRE document i made before and posted on the LAN here since it's 6:20 in the morning and i jus stayed up all nite... again dammit... stupid midterms... anyways, here's the TXT FILE . It contains some thoughts, contact info, lists, requests, yada yada... ok, i'm going to eat breakfast...
Feb. 3rd, 2000
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Feb. 2nd, 2000
Haven't updated in a while, so let's jus say i was 'inspired'. Geez, this college stuff annoying, can't wait to go tho. Some ppl *ahem* say i use my page to channel my negative energies... well, better this than them huh? To those wondering about the uhh- MP3 of the week thing?, um... demolished by Napster =T Do not bike on snow covered playground rubber. WHHAAAAAAAA!!!! *THUMP*
August 26th, 1999
"Uhhh- if it's good enuf fer Lance it's good enuf fer me..." uh huh... o wells, desperate attempt of us to burn sum fat while eating fast food and deep fried shrimp 3 in the morning=T
*sigh* schl's up soon...
July 28th, 1999
well... summer's underway... oh and there's a new page up within, the "MP3 of the week page"... (the green lightsaber's the link)... where that is located; "the world may never know"... hahaha alrite...
Due to the pitiful performance of 'my' XP70's (M201-0) trigger and profound spontaneous generosity of a certain bovine, i have acquired a standard issue CPS1000. Now fully MODded and commissioned as the M201-1 "Mist"... yes, feel the recoil w/this mass of plastic... whoa... g/l to "OFF"...
*sigh* bak from Canada too... Canadians have infinite patience almost... beautiful place... interesting ice formations=)
July 4th, 1999
wow, schl's out... *sigh*
Hooyea!... July 4th was interesting... but busting outta yer house 1 in the morning is always interesting=) Geez... too bad sum1s a Sept. boy, skateboard five miles fer sum Flush Trek to eat CHK's BBQ?! My tummy hurts... i think it's not supposed to b red like that... *GNARL* Oh wells, it was fun... gee, i jus love The Siege... hehe
well, shortly after all this i will b doin wut i like best, and that would b flying!!! i'll b sumwhere in the middle of nowhere huntin fer glaciers in Canada... i jus love airplane transfers...
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