Japander

lost my red notebook today. was so worried. it’s like my personal diary, which really is just paper for me to jot down notes, draw doodles, draw more doodles, and do hw. i was about to give up after checking 3 lost&found places where it could’ve been. then @ home, i found it sitting on the shelf! YIPPEE! have you ever lost something which you value more than yourself? you become really depressed. this notebook wasn’t that particular item, but i can recall i’ve lost invaluable items such as hippo & data on my hard drive. remind me to post up my hippo memorial wallpaper for u guys. ^_^x

speaking of wallpaper, i recently switched over to Mac OSX. check out my screenshots:
max osx thememac osx theme

if you have japan fetish like i do, you should check out Japander. you should check out some of Arnold Swazzeneger’s (or however you spell his last name) commercials for Japan. For some reason it just doesn’t look like him. ;p

Japander:n.,& v.t. 1. a western star who uses his or her fame to make large sums of money in a short time by advertising products in Japan that they would probably never use. ~er (see synecure, prostitute) 2. to make an ass of oneself in Japanese media.

if you’re in the bay area and want to attend a screening of “8 Mile” for FREE, then check this out: linky. it’s going be shown this thursday @ the Metreon. ^_^x

thanks to esca, we now have channel statistics for our #calnime IRC Chat Room. check them out here: linky.

First Home Cooked Meal

first of all, i’d like to throw out a big HAPPY BDAY to carii. this will make her.. uh.. i don’t think i’m allowed to give away a girl’s age. hehe. sorry guys, but she’s also taken. but i never said there was no competition. ^_^x

cunndogg really likes his new RC Car. welp, being somewhat of an Initial D fan, i asked if he can get it to drift 180° or even 360°. welp, we took some video clips of it so we hope you’ll enjoy it. the volume is a bit loud, so u might wanna lower it. we didn’t get it to do 360° but we may have succeeded in 180°. ^_^x

clip 1 | clip 2

welp, not wanting to let the lamb meat get bad + we’ve been marinating the remainder of the lamb from last nite for an entire day, we decided to give it another shot. this time i took pix of it:

green bell peppers in lamb juice and teriyaki saucefreshly cut carrotslamb meat kept warm in ovencarrots in lamb juice and teriyaki saucewe're done!adding the carrots to ricethen the green bell pepperand finally the lamb meat!

YUMMY! ^_^x

welp, we went to the bar again tonite. this time with laa, lydia, liam, and cunndogg. we sat down and waited for the waitress to come serve us. she came and took our order and then asked us if we had our id. we were like wo… (although i only ordered a virgin drink, i was surprised also since this was the first time we got carded). we searched our wallets and no one could find it (how convenient -_^x). so she said she was sorry and couldn’t serve us. so we got up and left surprised by this new rule. we decided that the boss was in today, so the waitress had to follow accordingly. oh well, next time. ^_^x we then went to liam’s house to watch “Metropolis” a anime supposedly release last year. i had it, but never watched it. (did that shock u?) i’m really picky about anime. if i don’t like any part of it, i wont watch it. an initial skim of Metropolis didn’t really catch my attention. welp, the animation was great, but the plot was really confusing and required too much thinking for me to enjoy anime. if you like that type of anime/stories, you should really check this out. cunndogg decided it was relating this society to the German Nazis. ^_^x

More Chibi Goodness

Giants were defeated today. sigh… they were so close and yet so far. congrats to the Angels and Angels’ fans. both teams i’ve gotta say were equally good, but as cunndogg predicted, “Angel seems to be a better team this year.” i’ve gotta say, this really came down to management. if Dusty Baker would’ve just put Kirk Reuter as the starter, then we might still have a chance. but Hernandez? sigh…

welp, i didn’t finish my project today, but did get a big chunk done. to my surprise, soda wasn’t packed at all. onward march!

now for the anime update. new episode of Prince of Tennis was released and the long match between Ryoma and Akutzu still has not been finished. The preview shows that it’s likely that it’ll end in the following episode. Dragon Drive has brought more cute Chibi for me!

dragon drive - cute dragondragon drive - cute dragondragon drive - cute dragon

i’m sorry but seems like i wont have time this weekend to include all my old picture of the week. grrr, i still have laundry to do! =(

TLA

turns out the reason the server was down for 8hrs was because of some hardware upgrade. i wonder what excuses they’ll come up with next time. anyway, i’m just glad my site’s back up and running.

welp, MMouse311 seems to be starting a new Yahoo Group with photos and pictures directed to mature audiences. wouldn’t lemme join until i gave out my age in my yahoo profile (doesn’t mean i gave out my real one -_^x) anyone, for those that are interested, the link to join is linky.

today in EE20, the professor said one of the funniest things! he goes, “i’m going to give you a TLA. you guys all know what TLA means right?” most of the class was just lost. he goes. Three Letter Acronym. just thought it was funny and worth mentioning. hehe ^_^x

had lunch with lilpebbly today. i had no idea 99 ranch market existed up here! but she proved me wrong. they also had pretty good pho’ there also. i also diagnosed her laptop and found out that she has a dead harddrive, sigh… it’s so sad when all the info you’ve saved is now gone. and for those that has had such a traumatic experience, you should know that at times like these is when being a friend really counts. oh yeah, for those who ever wants to open a Hewlett Packard Pavillion Notebook, READ THIS before continuing. i was trying to open it from the bottom for so long and almost gave up. welp, they have some funky way of opening this sucka! hehe. ^_^x

New episode of Hikrau no Go is out! w00h00!!! following are some extracts from it:

hikaru no go - sai laughinghikaru no go - sai yelling

Happy Birthday SueOn

first of all, i’d like to wish HAPPY BIRTHDAY to SUEON!!!

this marks his 19th bday (he’s a guy so i won’t worry about him killing for telling everyone his age. hehe). anyway, couple of my friends have turn or soon will turn 20. this marks the end of our teenage-hood (if there’s such a word). sigh… those years were so beautiful and if i had a choice, i’d relive them again and make the best outta it. carii suggested that we’re closer to age of drinking. that’s true but who in the right mind wants to put that nasty bitter liquid into your mouth (was tempted to crap, but crap is usually solid, but then again, lol!) well, we know why carii want’s to grow up faster, although she claims that isn’t true, but i mean to say that w/o thinking… now comon! j/k ;p

welp, my web hosting company claims something went wrong with their ASP server causing my site to be down for 8hrs yesterday. was down from 7pm to 4am and made me reach an all-time low in October of 38 visitors. well, that’s not exactly the truth, i’ve hit 32 in early october, but nothing below 38 since then. but today it rebounded to a nice 71. sounds like i’m some stock reporter or something. hehe ^_^x

new Prince of Tennis and Dragon Drive is out! what really sucks is that one pot wasn’t able to satisfy me again, and the stupid (well, i shouldn’t call them stupid since they are giving me free pot) only gave me enough for one!!! I’m dying here for more!!! I once again got to meet the cute chibi. Here’s some more snapshots of him. ^_^

dragon drive - cute dragondragon drive - biting

welp, crabyaple’s site has been completely revamped and looks amazingly cooler! way to go! linky here! that reminds me. i need to get a new picture of the week! hopefully by today or tomorrow. i’m also pondering the idea of hosting my previous POTW up, but that’ll haveta take some thinking.

finally got my cs midterm back today.

Question 1: 9/10
Question 2: 10/10
Question 3: 9/10
Question 4: 0/0 (extra credit – check doodles)
Question 5: .5/10
Grrrr, i bombed the last question big time! =(

speaking of doodles, 3 new doodles up straight off the midterm. hehe ^_^x

Crazy Day

today’s been a rather crazy day. not only did the Giant’s win Game 1 of the world series, but i ran outta space on my 180GB rig today. The Giant’s were awesome and it was a well played game. when Robb Nen entered the 9th inning, i knew the Giant’s had the game within their grasp. Nen has had a perfect post season so far. Anyway, i tend to like to go against the mainstream because there’s no fun going with the main crowd. if i’m wrong then it’s a given. if i’m right, then it’ll be the best feeling. but looks like giants are going to kick angels butt this time. (angels/socal fans – sorry if this offended you in anyway). anyway, rumor is that robb nen is signing autographs on monday for those that are interested in SF Niketown. More info in this post from FatWallet. I may look like a traitor, but read that post and find out why! As for my hard drive, chk out this pic:

anime hard drive

Any idea what was on this drive? this was all unlicensed anime! this doesn’t included the licensed anime in a separated drive. for time being, new anime will be going into my upload drive. but i really have no idea what to burn right now. nothing is complete yet and i hate burning anime before it’s finished. sigh…

i’ve gotten a question from several ppl regarding the caricature i posted up a few days ago. RTFM means “Read the f*ck*ng manual!”. just to clear this up in case you’ve been pondering on what it means.

welp, that’s all for tonite. cya tomorrow. btw, if you have time, i’d really appreciate if you sign the guestbook. Arigatou Gozaimasta. ^_^x

Apartment Manager Complaining About Noise

my envision 17″ flat screen monitor came in today! can’t believe i’ll be getting this free after rebates. well, there were $7 of tax involved but hey, that’s still a great deal! ^_^x another good thing about UPS is that they accept shipments too! sent out 2 boxes through UPS today, both through the same UPS guy. the UPS guy was nice, helped carry my monitor up 2 flights of stairs, but then when he was walking up the 3rd flight for another delivery, he dropped one of the boxes marked ‘FRAGILE’. *shrug* thank god that wasn’t my package.

throughout my life, there has been only a few people who could actually piss me off. i mean they really have to try super hard to do it! i’m not one to get easily pissed off. in fact even when someone tries, i usually just brush it off as a joke. i can’t even remember the last time i was pissed, but my landlady just went overboard. during the first week we moved in, she called down and ‘asked’ us to quiet down so she can sleep. i agree we were playing our music a bit loud so we apologized and turned the volume down. the next day she called again and said we were talking too loudly while we were just talking at normal noise levels. well, since she was the apartment manager, we didn’t wanna have any trouble with her, so after 12am, we talked really softly up to the extent of a whisper. then one time she called @ 11:30pm (even before the curfew she set) and asked us to be quiet. another nite, my partner was working on a project and we received a call. what turned the tables was when she called my roommate’s parents and complained. i mean to go to that extent is just declaring war. now instead of asking, she demands. my roommate and i got so pissed we asked liam for help (since his mom’s a lawyer) and he helped us find the tenants’ rights advocacy group and we explained the situation. the person @ the end of the line told us it was absurd that u cant even speak @ a normal noise level, and told us that we didn’t have to worry about this leading up to a case to evict us. what i really want to say next time she calls is ask her to be reasonable. we’ve tried to compromise, but having to whisper?!?!? i mean she’s the one that made the attack first and hasn’t stopped firing @ us.

thanks to HKenshin, he gave me these 2 links to d/l kenshin manga:

the 2nd link contains better scans imho, but only contains the Memory Arc and the Jinchuu Arc. this was and still is my favorite anime as u will see i like to use his smiley face ( ^_^x ) if u still don’t get it, read the manga. ^_^x

Fear of the Shadow

BIG SIGH OF RELIEF … finally got the midterm over and it wasn’t as hard as i expected. answered every question besides the extra credit. think it went something like this, “who were the antagonist in the battle of theodyte” (don’t think i spelled theodyte correctly). during the practice i was stumped @ every single problem, but i actually managed to complete the stupid midterm today with not much trouble, not sure how much i got right though. probably have tons of small errors.

on my way home today, i had a shocking experience. you know how gophers are afraid of their shadows and we always (well, i did) thought it was silly. i mean it’s a harmless shadow. but today, something happened that changed my perspective. while i was walking home listening to my minidisc, i noticed someone was following me. nothing to worry about, just kept walking along naturally. the person moved closer behind me each and every time i checked, but never before me. suddenly i stopped, turned around and THERE WAS NOBODY. all this time, i have been wary of my own shadow. and trust me, i was really frightened @ the end. could’ve sworn beads of sweat was coming out on a freezing tuesday nite. still sends shiver down my spine every time i remember it.

just completed an anime series called Hack Sign. awesome soundtrack, but storyline got extremely weird. the ending was somewhat satisfying besides the fact that it said: to be continued…

welp, that’s it for tonite folks. tune in tomorrow. ^_^zzz

Hitting a Wall

went to review session today for upcoming cs midterm. this one is going to be a killer. sigh.. wish me luck guys!

thanks to fantasy for donating this link. it’s a bit gross, but super funny. the warning has been given so don’t attack me if you find it repulsive. ;p

thanks to crabyaple for donating this link. welp, there’s 2 things you’re suppose to find on this map here. many including myself has asked the original poster what the heck he wants me to see, but if you study the map carefully, you’ll find 2 specific things you wouldn’t believe existed on a map. i won’t be giving away the answers so if you’re stumped, contact me through email or aim. ^_^x

thanks to panzer for donating this link. welp, i’ve gotta say, this article was very good at summing up everything. i mean everything it says is so true!

and now for the anime update. new prince of tennis and dragon drive came out today. (i know, i should be studying but who can stand not watching a face like this):

dragon drive - scareddragon drive - excited

dragon drive - chibi shakes head
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dragon drive - chibi sighs
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i’m sorry, but no doodles today. maybe after my cs midterm. ^_^x

ungsunghero: i (and at least 3/4th of my college buddies) have hit a wall
ungsunghero: two depressing points:
ungsunghero: 1) my roommate and i were discussing future plans
ungsunghero: and how college sucks in general
ungsunghero: and especially how, after graduation, life is so uncertain
ungsunghero: even more so than after HS
ungsunghero: and i swear he nearly teared up when he said how much he’d miss our place should he move out after graduation
ungsunghero: (pull out a kleenex, if needed)
ungsunghero: it got worse when my friend IMed me a few minutes ago
ungsunghero: talking about how she was overwhelmed with four classes + work
ungsunghero: plus the fact that she’s had a bout with a week long cold
ungsunghero: she’s considering dropping a class
ungsunghero: which got me thinking…
ungsunghero: boy is life rough!
ungsunghero: i have THREE classes (one lab)
ungsunghero: she has four AND work
Krunk4Ever: same here! high five!
ungsunghero: and i’m the one itch-baying???
Krunk4Ever: well, i’ve had these moments before
Krunk4Ever: future is scarcy
Krunk4Ever: scary*
ungsunghero: while my friend (she’s still fighting her illness, btw) has to struggle with four and work
ungsunghero: isn’t it?
Krunk4Ever: but i figured if i take life one step @ a time
Krunk4Ever: i’ll reach there eventually
ungsunghero: yeah
ungsunghero: but it’s rough when you hit a wall
Krunk4Ever: yah
ungsunghero: but imagine how much worse it is when a bunch of people sympathize (sp?)
ungsunghero: when they’re all crashing into walls
ungsunghero: and, like i said…i’m bitching about three classes!
ungsunghero: and she’s dying over 4 and work
Krunk4Ever: stupid dog, u know that search dog. he starts scratching himself when u leave him idling
ungsunghero: and so is my roommate
ungsunghero: eh?
Krunk4Ever: winxp search
ungsunghero: i see
ungsunghero: anyway…i’m sad
ungsunghero: and i feel bad
ungsunghero: bad in the sense that i’m bitching over 3 classes
Krunk4Ever: dont feel bad.
ungsunghero: bad in the sense that i hit a wall this early in the qtr
Krunk4Ever: what’s life if u can b*tch about it
ungsunghero: and bad that all my friends have hit the same wall
ungsunghero: and i can’
ungsunghero: t do anything about it
ungsunghero: but sit back and watch
ungsunghero: have you ever had to sit back and watch something so horrible, but you knew you couldn’t do anything about it?
ungsunghero: or at least, in a dream?
Krunk4Ever: many times
Krunk4Ever: but since u cant do anything about it, life moves on
ungsunghero: how about in real life?
Krunk4Ever: when u hit a wall. u either stop, climb over, or walk around it
Krunk4Ever: if u see someone hit a wall
Krunk4Ever: and cant help them over
Krunk4Ever: that’s the suggesting u give them
Krunk4Ever: suggestion*
ungsunghero: i don’t understand
Krunk4Ever: what ur friend needs to understand is there are choices u have to make when u hit a wall
Krunk4Ever: although it may have some bad consequences, it beats standing there staring @ it
Krunk4Ever: and when someone complains about something, they’re not really looking @ u to help them solve it
Krunk4Ever: it’s words of comfort and acceptance and acknowledgement they’re looking for
Krunk4Ever: stuff like, ‘i feel ya’, ‘yah, that class is a killer’, ‘i’m dying here over too!’ and etc
Krunk4Ever: only when they ask seriously: “What should i do???”
Krunk4Ever: that’s when they’re requesting for help
ungsunghero: that’s not my problem
ungsunghero: i did offer her my condolences
ungsunghero: i even offered to help her with classes
ungsunghero: (since i’m such a nice guy)
ungsunghero: but it’s just the shock…
ungsunghero: to think that everybody is so messed up
ungsunghero: i just had a “town hall” meeting with my roommates again about how life is so screwed up
Krunk4Ever: remember what kimura said
ungsunghero: and it’s only THIRD WEEk
Krunk4Ever: the chicken w/o the head
Krunk4Ever: well, all college students are like that
Krunk4Ever: well, most
ungsunghero: yeah
ungsunghero: it’s pathetic too
ungsunghero: and i feel for my friends
ungsunghero: i hope the feeling is mutla
ungsunghero: mutual
ungsunghero: i’m so disoriented right now
ungsunghero: you’re the only person i know that hasn’t yet told me that s/he has hit a major wall
ungsunghero: i’m going to bed
ungsunghero: hopefully, you’ll allow me to continue/finish this convo tomorrow
ungsunghero: g’nite
Krunk4Ever: g;nite ^_^zzz
ungsunghero: and aren’t you going to tell me to calm down?
ungsunghero: or to keep cool?
Krunk4Ever: i think i’ve implied that already ^_^x
Krunk4Ever: and u seem calm
Krunk4Ever: just a bit shaken
ungsunghero: definitely
ungsunghero: remember…i’m screwed up
Krunk4Ever: what i’m worried is about that girl friend of yours
ungsunghero: and yet BETTER OFF than others
ungsunghero: oh…that was just the latest example
ungsunghero: my roommate is in the same bind
Krunk4Ever: i c
ungsunghero: 3 MAE classes
Krunk4Ever: im guessing htat’s some really hard classes
ungsunghero: and a lower division class that requires 200 pages of reading/week
ungsunghero: yeah
ungsunghero: mech/aero engineering
ungsunghero: = MAE
Krunk4Ever: yuck
Krunk4Ever: but it sounds like a cool major
ungsunghero: yeah
ungsunghero: i’m worried about many people
ungsunghero: and i know for sure that my roommate worries about me
ungsunghero: i just hope the feeling’s mutual w/everybody else
ungsunghero: thanks for letting me vent
ungsunghero: part 2 is 2m
ungsunghero: haha
Krunk4Ever: np ^_^x
Krunk4Ever: okay
ungsunghero: ZZZ..

R.E.M.

sigh… midterm went okay. didnt have enough time to finish though. was stuck on problem 3 and when i checked the clock, it was already 10:37 and i had 23 minutes left to do the remaining 3 problems. sigh…

after we came back from our midterm, liam and i had a interesting discussion about fact. it all started with a snapple cap (which now contains interesting facts). his said, elephants are the only mammal that can’t jump. mine said, there are at least 9 million other people with the same exact birthday as me. i said that’s not a fact, they can never prove that. then liam goes and says it is a fact because it is in reasonable statistical probability. i shot back and said probability isn’t a fact and he replies then nothing is a fact. i said, well i know my birthday is on blah blah. he asks, how did i know? i said, ppl told me, birth certificate, etc. but he says how does that make it a fact? can’t the ppl who told you be wrong? your birth certificate be a mistake. it all comes down to the probability of it being an error is very minuscule. and if the probability is small enough, we recognize it as a fact. i guess my reply to that would be that snapple’s assertion has not been proven because they did not know my birthday and further more the world is approaching 6billion people yielding a average of less than 16million people who are born on the same day. that’s just only an average meaning some days yield more babies while others don’t. i believe i can disprove the likelihood of this probability by pointing out that people who are born on February 29th (leap years) would only have an statistical probability of 4million ppl with the same birthday, almost half of snapple’s prediction. therefore, i believe there is reasonable doubt that this is not a fact.

during my nap today, i noticed something very peculiar. have u ever wonder if your brain runs at a different speed during your sleep? well, i had something like that happened to me today. sometimes i don’t close my eyes completely when i sleep leaving a tiny gap to see the whole outside world. when you sleep, you sense of feeling also becomes numb. while i was sleeping, i felt my hand sliding off my face very slowly. i was wondering why but i couldn’t stop my hand from moving. while half awake, i wanted to see what else my body can’t normally do. what i found out is that my eyes see stuff moving at a slower rate than normal time. each frame freezes for a bit before moving to the next. it was really cool! however, during this experiment i had another weird sensation. i think i moved my head too close to the edge of the pillow and my head started to roll off. however i had no feeling of rolling off. all i felt was something rubbing my face and that the world my eye is seeing is rising above me… in slow motion. i went back to sleep after that freaky experience. hehe

new episode of Hikaru no Go came out today! w00h00! also would like to remind those who follow ninjai, that episode 8 and 9 have been released. ^_^x