Thursday, December 25, 2008

Mydadisafob

I got on mydadisafob.com!!!

http://mydadisafob.com/2008/12/23/the-names-message/

I'd give out his cellphone number for proof, but he doesn't have enough minutes.

Notes

1) Stupid and easily offended is pretty much the worst combination
2) Making bread is harder than it looks

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Tricks are for kids


Or not. Anything to distract me from studying...

So: Call the first 3 digits of your phone number (A) and the last 4 digits (B)

writing out that equation from my previous post algebraically gives:

[(80A + 1)250 + 2B -250]/2

Simplifying, you get

125(80A + 1) + B -125 = 10000A + B
If A is tuv and B is wxyz then
10000A + B = tuv0000 + wxyz = tuvwxyz.

silly silly

if only heat transfer were this easy

Nike

Just do it.

1. Key in the first three digits of your phone number (NOT the Area code…)
2. Multiply by 80
3. Add 1
4. Multiply by 250
5. Add to this the last 4 digits of your phone number
6. Add to this the last 4 digits of your phone number again.
7. Subtract 250
8. Divide number by 2

I'll figure out why this works after my final is over.

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Idear


You know how they have software to take a picture of you and project how you're gonna look like in a couple years? They should totally sell digital picture frames that have a present-day picture of you that morphs over time. Just a thought.

Monday, December 15, 2008

Sunday, December 14, 2008

Saturday, December 13, 2008

...

Those are berkeley goggles. because I couldn't find a better picture.

what berkeley engineering does to girls


me: why don't you just take care of it in jan?
i'm pretty sure english depts are more lenient about these things
4:18 PM that way you have an extra month for that waste of time crap
Shelly: yea
but i wont be here to turn it in
and crap
i just want to get it out of the way
crap
gotta poo
me: ...
Shelly: i didnt poo for like 4 days in the hosp
me: getting back to your old self i see
Shelly: cuz i didnt eat anything
and when i got back
me: OK
Shelly: it was a nonstop poo fest
me: i get it
4:19 PM damnnn
Shelly: i thought it was done yesterday
GUESS NOT
me: what's wrong with you?
Shelly: kay
small stomach?
who knows
me: NO. YOU TELLING ME THAT CRAP
haha
Shelly: cuz its funny
for me
me: tell joey
Shelly: to know youre squirming
i do
me: sheesh
Shelly: he's desensitized
MUAHAHA
therefore, no fun
4:20 PM he tells me a lot more worst things
trust me
anyway
bye
=D
me: u suck


So all you asian parents who want your daughters to become engineers, be aware. She may never get married.

JK JK.

I actually don't know any Shellys this well, but any of my good friends will be able to figure this one out.

Thursday, December 11, 2008

Four down...

...One to go. Ask me how my week's been. Wait, don't. haha.

Tuesday, December 9, 2008

One down...

...Four to go.



This is the final video of our Computerized Automatic Leveler (CAL - clever, huh?) for my mechatronics class at UC Berkeley. My friend/group member did all of the CAD animation. It's a device that makes things horizontally level. Applications? Tables, car cup holders, rehab devices, etc...I'll put a link to our website up soon.

This project went really well because I had an awesome group. I'm just waiting for the rest of the semester to end. So close, yet oh so far. I have one more final tomorrow, a 20 page lab report due tomorrow, two tradeshows on Thursday, and a ginormous, bound to be @$$-whooping final in a week. Just gotta survive until the 18th. Haha. Wish me luck.

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

BART

I like change because it keeps me on my toes. Did anyone notice when this change happened? I've been in my own little bubble lately.



Look at the ETA. OOOOOOOOooooOOOOOOooo

Tuesday, November 25, 2008

Things you should think to yourself...

...And not ask people:

"Were you malnourished as a child?"

Today sucked.


Spent the whole day at school debugging code/hardware for my project, then went for a drug test for work, then got a flu shot. Then when I got a flu shot, the nurse told me that I needed a tetanus shot so I got one of those too.

Summary of today:
1) MOTHER @&*@(#&! HOLY PIECE OF !&*((#&* DIE
2) Pee in a cup
3) Man, my left arm is sore
4) Eff! Now my right arm is sore too.

Monday, November 24, 2008

Freaky Friday

I think I'm coming to the point in my life where the parents start becoming the kids and the kids start becoming the parents. It's kind of scary.

Sunday, November 23, 2008

Whatever doesn't kill you...

...Will make you stronger. And leave you a little crazier.

Rant of the Day



These are the most effin' deceptive candies ever.

I needed some studying candy, so I went to Target for some sugar. These spice drops were on sale, so I bought a bag. Then I went to Barnes and Noble to read my book.

I ripped into the bag and pulled out a red spice drop because, well, red candies are supposed to taste good. Usually, red candies are cherry or strawberry flavored, and in the worst case, they're cinnamon flavored. I actually don't mind cinnamon, so red candies are a safe bet.

Supposedly.

I bit into it, and it tasted like black licorice! WTF. So I ate a purple one, and it tasted like less intense black licorice. The only ones that tasted good/like what they were supposed to taste like were the green ones (spearmint, still a little weird) and the orange ones (orange, duh). So now I have a bag of spice drops missing all of the green and orange ones. I guess I can throw them at people or give them to little kids I don't like.

Now I know why they use these little pieces of crap for molecule projects in high school chemistry classes. No one wants to eat them.

Monday, November 17, 2008

Books I Need to Read

This is more of a reminder to myself:

Ender in Exile - Orson Scott Card
The Secret Life of Bees - Sue Monk Kidd
Watchmen Comics
Look Me in the Eye: My Life With Asperger's - John Robison

I'll keep adding

repost. sorta.

The grape lady makes me laugh. A lot. Which was why last night's family guy makes me happy:



Comparison:

Thursday, November 13, 2008

Two new ones



Dreams, that is:

1) I was arguing with my mom about things in my family that are taboo to talk about, and it was kind of refreshing because they've been weighing me down lately. I was mad to the point of tears though. Therapeutic dreams, anyone?

2) My friend was giving me a really bad haircut. I'm pretty sure this one was symbolic for something, but iono what yet. I do need a haircut though.

Monday, November 10, 2008

Use this...

...To make your computer run faster
http://www.iobit.com/advancedwindowscareper.html?Str=download

Friday, November 7, 2008

songs stuck in my head this week

Lucky - Jason Mraz and Colbie Caillat


Everybody Knows - John Legend

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Not everyone should vote

This happened like 2 minutes ago:

I have the election coverage open on my laptop, and my mom walks in:

Mom: Whatchya doing? Sleeping? *I do work on my bed
Me: No. I'm doing work. And following the election.
Mom: Oh. Oh hey...Bin Laden is really ahead!
Me: ...

She actually wasn't joking, but then she realized what she said was really stupid and we bust out laughing. Aiya

We rock

It's not done yet, but it's about 90% of the way there. This is our project for a mechatronics design class. We made a horizontal leveler.



Translation:
Me: Ok.
Sarah: So we need the 7414 buffer...blah blah blah
Me: My video's cooler than Sarah's!
Sarah: Shuttup.
Alvin: NOT!!!
Everyone: Hahahahahaha
Sarah: Fail Fail!
Alvin: Make yours change directions.
Everyone: Hahaha
Sarah: *Sings "Lucky" by Mr. AZ

Monday, November 3, 2008

Hah!

I had to watch this twice to appreciate it. Then I watched it 8 more times.

Friday, October 31, 2008

Mi Reflejo, yo

I haven't been feeling like my "normal" self lately. I think this semester is frying my brain.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Throwing the lemons back

I guess I could look at things another way. I got a pretty nice suit (for the interview) for 5 bucks at a thrift store. I haven't been able to find nice clothes that fit me well, so this was unexpected. Also, the fact that I got an interview means that I'm that much closer to getting in. AND, I'm pretty excited about this church retreat I'm going to this weekend. I think things are going to be alright.

I was always the optimistic one.

When it rains, it pours.


I'm not talking about salt. I'm talking about life.

Seriously. This week has started out swimmingly (I only use words like this when I'm sarcastic) - yesterday was uneventful other than a not-so-bad pop-quiz in one of my classes, but today has seriously brought the suck factor to a whole new level.

First of all, I got a ticket that I'm pretty sure I didn't deserve. Here's the story: I put 21 minutes in a meter at 3:03 PM, went into a store, came out at 3:23 PM, and drove off. That was when I noticed this white thing tucked under my windshield, flapping around just to spite me. I pulled over, checked out the ticket, and it said "Parking violation...blah blah blah...issued at 3:08 PM). Wtf? So I drove back to the meter to get proof that I had paid, but it had already expired. I swear, some bitter old meter maid issued tickets before the meters ran out of time, then ticketed cars exactly when the meters ran out. I hate Lafayette.

When I came home, I turned on my laptop and within a few minutes an error message came up that said "No Disk - Windows: Exception Processing Message...blah blah blah." That was weird, so I went online to find the source of the error. NORTON ANTIVIRUS SOFTWARE: the king virus you install on your computer to get rid of other viruses. It turns out that Norton can mess up your system because of glitches in its setup/updating processes, so that's what happened to my computer. Segway-slash-not really: Norton effs up registry values on your computer, and when you try to uninstall it (which is very difficult), it tears a jagged hole in your system. So basically, I uninstalled Norton from my computer (links on how to do this at the end), had to fix everything it left in its wake of destruction, and reinstalled a different antivirus thing on my computer. I was ready to take a nap, but then I noticed a notification that I had a new virus on my computer. This one was pretty nasty, and I think I got it in the interim when I was deleting Norton from my computer. This whole process took me the whole afternoon.

And to top it all off, I have an interview for a graduate program at my school tomorrow. I'm not prepared at all, so wish me luck.

Links:

http://www.consumingexperience.com/2007/11/windows-no-disk-exception-processing.html

http://bleuken.i.ph/blogs/bleuken/2007/06/29/viruses-that-uses-autoruninf/

Monday, October 20, 2008

Can't stop them now

I didn't think it was true, but writing your dreams down (or blogging about them) really does seem to help you remember them. This one was from last night:

I was on my hands and knees looking at my front door step because there was a big-ass bug crawling on it. It looked kinda like this, except black, with fewer legs, and with a pair of antennae:



I don't remember being scared - more fascinated than anything - and I remember inching closer to the bug slowly to get a closer look. All of a sudden, someone (no one I know) came out of my front door and stepped on the bug's head. The head didn't crunch like a regular bug's head, though...it kinda just squished flat like it was made out of play-doh. That was the weird part.

I wasn't gonna jot this dream down, but it's been bugging me all day (no pun intended). Oh yeah. I never knew this for sure, but after last night I now know I dream in color.

Sunday, October 19, 2008

Another weird dream

I don't even know how to explain this one. Basically, I was in the audience of Jeopardy, but the unusual thing was that all of the contestants were fobs. There was one guy who was about 20 who was owning, a brother-sister team who sucked, and an old lady. I woke up with the biggest wtf feeling ever.

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Dreams



I think I don't get enough REM sleep during the week, because when I get to sleep in on Saturdays, I have a bunch of really random dreams. I made the mistake of eating before I made a note of these, so I can only remember three of the ones I had last night:

1) My sister Christina won the lottery by choosing 5 of 6 numbers correctly. The ticket was worth 99,870 dollars (weird number). She doesn't bet/waste money in real life, so this dream makes no sense to me. Yeah, I've been thinking about money and how I don't have any right now, but why would my sister win a bunch of money in my dream? Unfortunately, my mind went to dream number 2 before I saw what she did with the money.

2) I had pop-midterms in two of my hard classes next week, on top of unexpected project deadlines and an expected midterm (I actually have a psych midterm next week, but it won't be too bad). This one wasn't too extraordinary, but I woke up freaked out because I felt that I had a bunch of work to do. Then reality set in and I started eating/youtubing.

3) I just forgot dream three, but I have a feeling that it was pretty random too. I'll update this if I remember it or any more of my dreams.

Oh! Fun exciting news. I think I'm going to sign up for a gospel chorus class next semester. I only need 7 units to graduate for my major, but when I talked to registration, they said that I still have to pay full registration fees. Stupid. But now, I guess I can take some fun classes. The only thing is that you have to audition for the class. *Crossing fingers*

Thursday, October 16, 2008

Coincidence

That's enough for today. I just noticed that the pictures I used in the last 2 post are eerily similar...

My Self-Actualization Feedback


This test measures the difference between how you ideally want to be and how you view yourself to be currently. It measures these differences in six major categories: Autonomy, Mastery and Competence, Personal Growth, Positive Relations with Others, Purpose in Life, and Self Acceptance.

My scores (positive differences means I still have some work to do before I reach my ideal self):

Autonomy: Difference of + 23
Mastery and Competence: Difference of +32
Personal Growth: Difference of +30
Positive Relations with Others: Difference of +14
Purpose in Life: Difference of +12
Self Acceptance: Difference of +23

I think that the areas where I have the smallest differences are the areas that I value most. Which kinda makes sense. So positive relations with others and having a purpose in life are really important to me.

Good thing there are still differences between my ideal self and current self. 21 is too young to be self-actualized.

My Attachment Feedback


Bartholomew's four adult attachment styles:

1) Secure - People with this style tend to apprach relationships with a flexible sense of self-confidence. They are warm and affectionate, and have healthy relationships. They are able to recognize their strengths and weaknesses.

2) Preoccupied - People with this style are the psycho girlfriends/boyfriends. They want close, intense relationships, are very emotional, and move on to new partners quickly after a relationship ends. They often feel that they are in one-sided relationships.

3) Fearful - These people find it hard to get close to others, and only open up after trust is built.

4) Dismissing - These are the self-chosen 40 year old virgins. "I don't need you, and you don't need me."

How did I score?

Medium low on "secure," medium low on "preoccupied," medium high on "fearful," and medium low on "dismissing."

Phew. At least I didn't score high on preoccupied. It's weird. I'd describe myself as borderline fearful/secure, and this is what the result of my test was.

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Personality


I have to take these personality tests for my psych class, and some of them have been pretty interesting. I'll start posting the results of some of them sometime soon. I'm too tired to do it now. Yeah, yeah. I know. I'm getting old. But I'm gonna be at school for 11 hours tomorrow, so shuttup.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Today

1) The new MacBooks look pretty cool.
2) I started blogging over a year ago. The anniversary passed and I didn't even realize it.
3) Whenever I get something "new" chances are that it's broken and I have to return it.

Sunday, October 12, 2008

Me

I realized two things about myself recently:

1) I need failure to bring myself back to the ground and closer to God.
2) Not getting enough sleep is my kryptonite.

The first thing isn't just school related - a lot of things in my life are going kinda haywire right now, but surprisingly, I'm not as stressed as I've been in the past. The reason is probably that I've been praying a lot more (not for a way out, but for God to supply me in these situations), and reading the Bible a lot more. It seriously makes a difference. So in the end, maybe these failures aren't such a bad thing after all. I hurt, but I have faith He'll carry me through.

I'm not sure what to do about the second thing though. If I slept well through the whole night, I'd have a solid 7-8 hours of sleep everyday. The thing is, I think my mind is awake behind my back in my sleep (if that even makes sense). What brings me to such a conclusion? In the past week I've woken up in the middle of thinking about a problem more than once. And it's not that I'm non-functional during the day. It's more like I'm careless and make stupid mistakes/say stupid things, etc...Basically it's like being drunk all the time, but not feeling good. Sigh...only 2 more months (of this semester).

This is a little off topic, but I can't seem to bring myself to submit the rest of my grad school aps. They're all pretty much done and all the info is loaded online, but I know it'll sting to pay the fee. And I don't think I'd even consider going to MIT anymore. I know I wouldn't be happy with two more years of constant intellectual beat downs and weird and/or non-social people. It took me way to long to find people I like at Berkeley. Sigh...only 2 more months (before they're due).

Tuesday, October 7, 2008

Oh man.

...WHY DIDN'T I THINK OF THIS?!?

http://everythingiate2008.blogspot.com/

Friday, October 3, 2008

Gotta keep remembering...

...That there are bigger things in life than school.

Sunday, August 24, 2008

Thursday, July 31, 2008

work bathroom etiquette


1) if you're taking a dump, LOCK THE STALL so that you don't blind 21 year old interns.

2) wash your effin hands.

3) don't talk to me across a urinal, especially if that's the only time you're gonna talk to me

Tuesday, July 29, 2008

my mom is going to drive me crazy


my sister's laptop broke, so we're helping her get a macbook/ipod touch combo with my student discount. basically, my mom is doing a pretty good job of being the most effin' impossible person to work with. the following are the text message convos that happened over the past 2 days (she texts me at work like every 5 minutes - ARGHHHH!). commentary in italics:


monday:


mom: channon and i want to get christina a mac. she need laptop because hers broke. do u have discount?


me: she said she doesnt want 2 get one until she goes back 2 school. so ittl last longer


me: but ya. up til sept 15 i get 100 bucks off and a free ipod //it's a pretty sweet deal


mom: can i pick you up after work today and we go to mac store?


me: we can wait until the weekend //usually my sister takes eons to decide what she wants, and i wanted to make sure she wanted a macbook. if you get her something she doesn't want, even if it's nice, she won't fake appreciation and this usually pisses off my mom.


me: ask christina if its ok. she might want 2 pitch in too. //she told me she wanted to spend about 500 for a cheap laptop.


mom: i want to surprise her. //usually a baad idea with christina


me: she might b more mad than happy


mom: can i use your discount? if not its ok. //which in momspeak means, to spite me, she'll go and get the macbook without me = without discount. and she's a tech retard/easily suckered, so this is not good.


time for damage control. i called channon (my other sister) to talk things over with her and we fixed things. in the end, i was gonna be sly about seeing if christina really wanted a macbook (i kno she wants an ipod touch), and we were all gonna split the cost. when i came home from work, christina was looking at macbooks and she really wanted to get one. she was talking about ordering it online by wednesday because she's leaving next monday, so it was time for plan b. i said, "think about it a little more because i'm pretty sure you can get the deal in stores too. that gives you until friday to decide." i said i'd help her look at options at work tomorrow (today) to help her decide. phew!


tuesday:


me: she wants one. want 2 pick me up 2day and get it?


mom: k //so far so good


me: i have my bike so bring one of the restaurant table cloths in the garage //she's really anal about getting her car dirty. my dad has a restaurant. we don't jack table cloths.


mom: can u bike home first or we can go 2morrow //see? but if i go home first and then we both leave, then christina will get suspicious.


me: No she said she was gonna get it by wed


mom: did u tell her we were going 2 get it 4 her?


me: No. me n channon talked. i pay 100, chris pays 400, chan pays 500, and you pay 200. that way everybodys happy.


mom: how did u know chris wan it


me: because i'm cool. i have 2 work now. ill b back at 5. pleasant hill.


mom: i don want ur bike in the car //MASSIVE EXPLOSION OF BAD WORDS IN MY HEAD


maybe i'm just tired, but hot damn. i had to get this out so that i wouldn't be pissed at work.

Monday, July 28, 2008

question.

do lady suicide bombers get 50 virgins after they die, too?http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080728/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Thursday, July 10, 2008

People suck.


I was riding BART to work the other day, and lately it's been packed. I dunno if its the gas prices, or the heat, or whatever, but there's never an open seat on the morning train anymore. Basically, this means that I get to work grumpy because I don't get to nap on the way to work anymore.

The train was as crowded as ever yesterday--no open seats again--and this prego chick got on at a stop. The effed up thing is that NO ONE got up to give her a seat for a couple stops. I would have, but I was standing too. Finally, a retarded person in a seat by the doors got up, so I let prego know that a seat was open.

How messed up is it that a retarded lady had to give up her seat to a pregnant girl on the train? Kinda makes me afraid to like have a heart attack or something on BART. Mofos would probably keep minding their own business, or take pictures with their cell phone cameras. Nice world we live in.
More bad new. I gotta take the GREs this Saturday. Wish me luck.
I wanna end on a good note, so I'll just say that there's a company picnic this Sunday with free booze. AND I found out that my boss isn't gonna be there, so :)

Monday, June 30, 2008

books are fun to reading

these are the books i've read so far this summer (and enjoyed):

The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
Choke - Chuck Palahniuk
The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Bill Bryson
Persepolis - Marjane Satrapi
Persepolis 2 - Marjane Satrapi
Double Cross - James Patterson

these are the books i've read so far this summer (and not enjoyed)

Kaplan's GRE Comprehensive Program
Princeton Review: Cracking the GRE

Saturday, June 7, 2008

Funny thing...


...happened on the way to work yesterday. I was riding my bike to BART, as always, and everything was going great. It was unusually warm out for 7 in the morning, I was listening to my iPod in one ear, jamming out to some Jason Mraz, and I wasn't tired as hell like I was all week. I turned onto a big street and I dunno why, but I didn't notice a bunch of broken beer bottles in the road ahead of me. I was about to veer left into the street, but there was a car, so I turned right really fast instinctively. Right into a metal pole. I wasn't going that fast, but momentum conservation (engineering nerd, whatever) was enough to throw me off my bike onto the sidewalk. I didn't really get hurt (couple cuts on my hands and legs), but my ego took a pretty good hit cuz I'm pretty sure that some people saw me fly off my bike from their cars.


It made me late to work cuz I had to put the chain back on and bend some stuff back the way it was supposed to be, but things worked out because my supervisor was in a meeting and didn't notice what time I came in. Plus, I was so pumped from the circumstances that I didn't need my morning cup of coffee.


Eff people who don't clean up after themselves. And to all you people who got a good laugh on your way to work, you're welcome.

Wednesday, May 21, 2008

TLC, not tasty little crackers

Wow. Thank you God for this marvelous 21st birthday. A final, a drug/alcohol test, and a sunburn. What else you got for me?

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Dogs ARE smrt

My dog, Suki, is normally the feistiest little bitch (it's techinically correct here) ever and doesn't like new people. As soon as they come in, she starts barking, and if they try to hold her, she snaps at them, starts shivering, and/or tries to get away.

That's why what just happened is sooooo weird. An old family friend just came to visit, and what shocked us all was that Suki didn't bark once AND even jumped into the friend's lap and sat there for a while, calm as ever. It's the first time she's ever done anything like that. She still doesn't even like my dad.

I've always heard that dogs are smart and they can tell when people like them, but I never thought it applied to chihuahuas--they're mean as hell to everyone. Our friend is at med school studying to become a pediatrician, she loves animals, and she's the gentlest, sweetest person ever. It's weird, but I think Suki picked up on that. I'm still in shock.

Tuesday, May 13, 2008

Ivan is a...


Corporate whore. I got a summer internship with Bechtel, and I'm gonna be working on the BART retrofitting project for earthquake safety. Woohoo.
This has been such a crazy semester, with all the stuff that went down at school and at home. Surprisingly, everything looks like it's tying together nicely. Go figure.

Monday, May 12, 2008

What the deuce.


Something really really pissed me off today and this is what resulted during fluids lecture. It's pretty funny now. I'll rant about it later when it doesn't matter anymore.

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

the truth hurts.

i just realized that i've been at school, on average, 9-12 hours a day for the past couple weeks. ouch.

Sunday, April 27, 2008

So hungryyy...

...for Korean food. This lady is my new hero.

http://blog.maangchi.com/

She's got videos on Youtube and I want to make everything she put up. I just have to get off of my lazy butt and go to the store. Sigh...

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

Nutshell, Nutcase, whatever.

First of all, isn't this the effin' worst thing to see first thing in the morning?
So yeah. That's how my morning started. The next thing I did was get all of the cleaning chemicals out from under the bathroom sink and drench this mofo. Laugh all you want, but I just want to say that even elephants are scared of these suckers. And for good reason.

The past two weeks have been currrraaaazzzzyyyyy. Midterms finished, so I had a lot of time for research. My research partner and I designed and built a small chamber for holding biological solutions, which would be frozen in a controlled manner and charged with electrodes. It's a simple design, but here's what we came up with:

Here's a test where we froze the chamber with distilled water inside. You can see the solid-liquid interface in the picture. The rims on the top and bottom aluminum caps are for the electrodes to clip onto, and the cooling plate is at -20*C.
The application? Cancer research. In cryoablation, a treatment method that freezes a tumor in cycles, sometimes cancerous cells at the edge of the tumor don't freeze completely and they aren't killed. This is because the frozen mass of cells is surrounded by the patient's warm body, which tries to thaw it. My professor wants to see if applying controlled electric pulses, in addition to the freezing treatment, will completely kill the cancer.

He really liked the design and the sizes of everything, so we're gonna start working with cancer cells starting this Friday. I'm telling all my friends that I'm playing with prostate cancer and leukemia-before I kick their asses. Not my friends' asses. The cancer cells'. I reallllly hate cancer.

I could also potentially have a job with NASA this summer. Wish me luck.

Tuesday, April 15, 2008

BART happenings


Usually the ride back on bart is pretty uneventful; if I come back late I can't sit and do work or anything so I'm stuck looking at (mostly) the exhausted and depressed faces of other riders who wish they had better jobs, lives, etc...And people wonder why I'm in such a bad mood when I come home from school.

I thought it was gonna be same ol' same ol' today when I got on the Fremont train, but at the Rockridge stop, some guy got on that looked like Snoop Dog. No joke. I wish I had my camera on me or something. Then when I transferred at MacArthur and got on the Concord train, there was this guy that looked like Martin Yan from "Yan Can Cook!" That's when I really wish I had brought my camera to school. Lesson learned.

Finally, when I got off at Lafayette, I saw some old asian lady pick a ginormous booger out of her nose and smear it on the side of the car, just below the window. I don't think anyone else noticed cuz all the people around her were sleeping/rockin out to their iPods. I was pretty grossed out tho. So basically, instead of watching the normal depressing BART scene I was amused, amused, and disgusted. Third time is not always a charm.

Imma go wash my hands now.

Thursday, April 10, 2008

Haiku Thursday

Good Advice

"Don't get off the bus,"
She said. "Why?" I questioned her.
"The road is lava."

Lean On Me

If you need a friend,
I'll be here for you always.
Just don't tickle me.

The Awful Truth

I'll spend my whole life
Fixing my parent's mistakes
And making my own.

Wednesday, April 9, 2008

Limerick Wednesday

Holly's Bad Decision

Holly ate at Taco Bell.
It didn't sit so well.
'Cuz everytime she danced a jig
A fart she would expel.

She tried to hold it in all day,
But 'twas to no avail.
For everywhere she went that day
She left a smelly trail.

What happened last was even worse;
It's just too gross to tell.
So people, learn from Holly now,
"No quiero Taco Bell."

It's too hard to study right now. Wasting time is much more fun than fluid mechanics.

Saturday, April 5, 2008

Dark and Twisted...

...Sense of humor? If you have one, then check out these comic sites (if you haven't already discovered them).

Cyanide and Happiness
www.explosm.net/comics

The Perry Bible Fellowship (not religious in any way)
http://www.pbfcomics.com/

here are samples from each:

Cyanide and Happiness:


Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net

Perry Bible Fellowship

Monday, March 31, 2008

Change is bad.

I'm sad. Blingo is no longer powered by Google. It now searches Yahoo, livesearch, and Ask.com. Boo.

Tuesday, March 25, 2008

2 things

1) I want to build a giant microwave so that anyone who sticks their baby in a microwave will have an appropriate form of punishment.

2) I've been having dreams where I'm running lately. Not from a monster or anything...just running. I don't know where I came from or where I'm going, but I wake up before I get there.

Thursday, March 20, 2008

Sproul Plaza Freeze

This was one of the cool parts of my day. I found out this was gonna happen from a friend, so I made sure to have my camera today. Just watch. It wasn't as cool as the Grand Central Freeze (no pun intended) in New York, but it was still pretty neat. The song in the background of the video is We Will Become Silhouettes by The Postal Service.



They totally should have gotten the Acapella groups in on it, who'd stop singing at the cue. That would have gotten more attention.

Here is the Grand Central Original for comparison:

Tuesday, March 18, 2008

At least they stopped at "edible"


...as opposed to tasty, delicious, or delectable rape. gotta love the local asian grocery store.
"Kids, guess what's for dinner? EDIBLE RAPE!!!'
"Not again..."

Wednesday, March 12, 2008

_________?

I woke up today, and for a couple seconds I didn't know who or where I was. That's happened before and it scared the crap out of me then, but I think it's one of the best feelings now. I think I need some changes in my life.

On a side note, someone said to me "Yo tengo un pregunta," to which I said, "congratulations?" after a short awkward pause. I know what it means now.

News

I love/hate comcast news. Here's a headline from today: "Woman Sat on Boyfriend's Toilet Seat for 2 Years." The hospital needed to pry it off of her.

Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Thank God for Good People

I didn't tell that many people because it was a sore spot for a while, but I lost my Ipod a couple months ago. It's not really a big deal, but this was after I broke my camera and I was tight on money at the time, so losing my Ipod made me feel that much worse. I totally gave up on it because I figured someone found it and kept it, but today I got a really nice surprise.

I happened to check one of my email addresses that I never check because it gets a lot of spam, and I saw a message that said, "I found your Ipod." I thought it was spam at first, but I thought, that's a really weird way to send someone a virus or advertise something because how many people lose their Ipods? So I opened the email, and this guy named Even Marcelo said he found my Ipod on the street, that it had been run over by cars, but could still play music. He told me where he found it, which was near where I thought I lost it, so I know it's mine. He even sent a picture of it:

Notice how the LCD screen is cracked? My Ipod is a bad@$$. Anyway, he told me I could pick it up whenever (I dunno where he lives), but I feel kinda weird about that because I'm paranoid. Even though it's some really nice person who didn't keep my Ipod, which now has sentimental value. What's really kind of odd is that he took the effort to get my email address off of my Ipod (I didn't know you could do that, but I did buy it online), so maybe that's the source of my trepidation. I'll probably go with someone so I don't get killed.
Isn't it weird that we're suspicious when people do nice things for us? Still, it's good to know (or hope) that there are good people in this world.

Tuesday, February 19, 2008

Uh, thanks?

Look at the bottom left corner. Does that strike anyone else as a strange promotion? I mean, maybe if I was 80 or something, but I'm actually 20. Here's what was inside, because I was curious:



Final Destination? No free Ipod? Haha. I would have laughed/been a little scared if it said, "P.S. From GOD." Congratulations, Thomas Louth. I am like so jealous.

Sunday, February 17, 2008

yikes...

...I haven't posted in a while. Sooooooo busy. I guess I'll just throw out some questions that popped into my head because of some experiences in the past couple of days.

1) What is the proper reaction when the guy at the urinal next to you farts while he's taking a piss? Do you laugh, pretend like nothing happened, or make a disgusted face? I wasn't sure, so I did all three. In that order.

2)Is the left side of a flight of stairs the "fast lane" too? Cuz I was about to road rage some old lady's @$$ going down the escalator at BART. Not really, but she almost made my miss my train.

3) There's wine and cheese, so is it okay to have wine and cheezits? Just wondering

Saturday, February 2, 2008

Random Randoms


*I just finished a 10 page paper for my technical communications class, and I have that precarious feeling that my computer is gonna crash. That's why I emailed it to myself, uploaded it to webfiles, and put it on my flash drive in case Murphy's law comes into effect. Stupid Murphy. What kind of name is that, anyway?

*I've always preferred supermarket donuts over Krispy Kreme, but now that they closed the nearest one to my house, I really want a Krispy Kreme donut. Sigh...You can't always get what you want (And if you try sometime, you find you get what you need?)

*I counted and figured out that I eat, on average, 10-15 eggs a week. I mean, I seriously ate 5 today. That's probably not a good thing.

*I've suddenly developed an addiction to scarves, and I've hated wearing them my whole life.

Tuesday, January 29, 2008

CoOL...

My cuz from Reno got these salt and pepper shakers from Thailand, and I thought they were pretty cool in that weird way:


AND. They hug, too, so you've got functionality and anti-racism appeal!

Sunday, January 27, 2008

Freaky Friday

I had a pretty late night yesterday because I was taking care of some stuff I put off--taxes, FAFSA, resume for an upcoming career fair, looking at summer internship sites (yeah, I have a pretty lame life)--and I figured that I could sleep in today and be late to church.

God had other plans.

I woke up at 8 (8:06, to be exact--I remember because I looked at those evil red lights on my alarm clock and was pretty pissed) to my mom yakking in the garbage can. I went out to see what was up, hoping to God it wasn't food poisoning because we had the same thing for dinner last night. That's the last thing I need right now. Luckily, it wasn't because I didn't feel sick at all, so I was sent to the store to get some ginger ale and gatorade. I got back at 8:21, still half asleep, fed my dog, and went back to bed until 10, when I usually wake up. Then I rushed to church.

When I got back, my mom still wasn't able to keep anything down, which was kinda scary because it was 4 hours later. I called the Kaiser advice nurse, who told me what to do and set up an appointment for the afternoon. Apparently, you're not supposed to drink a lot right after you vomit. You're supposed to wait an hour and then slowly take sips every five minutes until you can keep it down. I always drink a whole lot of water cuz I think I'm gonna be dehydrated.

It came around to the appointment time and she still wasn't doing any better, so I lined the car washing bucket with trash bags, brought it to the car along with an umbrella, and took my mom to the doctor. I actually had to get a wheelchair for her which is big cuz anyone who knows my mom knows she wouldn't be caught dead in a wheelchair unless she felt like she was dying. She's the lady at the gym who goes 100 miles an hour on a treadmill at the steepest incline and doesn't break a sweat. Anyway, we got to the doctor who was pretty cool, and it turns out that my mom only has a severe case of vertigo, which isn't contagious (PHEW!). A nurse gave her a phenergan shot in her buttcheek which made me laugh because I thought that only happened in movies for kicks. After the appointment, I wheelchaired her back to the car, went to the pharmacy to get her drugs, and drove home.

I settled down, and it was right when I was making Jello and porridge for her when I realized, "Crap. When did I learn how to do all this?" I mean, it's not a big deal, it's just that I never really saw myself doing for my parents what my parents do for their parents or for us. Freaky friday.

I don't wanna grow up.

Friday, January 18, 2008

Sleeping to dream...about school?


The back-to-school "nightmares" started again. The one I had last night was new, though--usually I just dream about stupid things like not being able to find, or get to, my classes. Or there's that rarer, but more hilarious one where I have to take a dump but am not allowed to leave the classroom. Actually, I used to get that one a lot when I was in elementary school.

Here's what I remember (I totally should have posted it this morning when it was still fresh, but I woke up late and had a busy day): I was meeting my professor (don't remember what he looked like in the dream) for an interview for a research project with him. Everything went well, but he got a call at the end of the interview and left the room. As he left, some guy in a white coat came in and said that I had to take a test to see if I was qualified or something like that. I remember thinking, "this was weird," but going along with it because I figured it was a written test and I'd be okay. We went to another room and he gave me a vaccination for hepatitis 4 (I know, right? What the hell?!?) and drew some blood. That's when I woke up. Aiyayai. Funny thing is, I'm actually more fascinated that these things go on in my head than creeped out.


Why am I so weird?

Wednesday, January 16, 2008

Currently addicted to...

Yelp.com and grapefruit. The second one is big for me because I usually don't eat fruit. That's all.

Sunday, January 13, 2008

Saturday

Saturday Highlights:
1) My sister got some hair from a beauty supply store to make a wig or something. No, she doesn't have cancer--she just got a haircut a while back and misses long hair. Anyway, it was real human hair from a chick in India, and it really creeped me out. Especially when she touched me with it and did this:

I dunno. It just reminds me of that Simpsons episode where Homer gets a hair transplant, but he doesn't know that it's hair from Snake, who has been executed after Bart rats him out to the cops after he robs Apu or something. Anyway, the hair possesses Homer, who murders all the people involved in Snake's capture/execution.

2)That's me making sushi, which explains why I don't look freaked out. And which also brings me to my next highlight. I made California Rolls! This is how they turned out:

JUST KIDDING!!! haha...Those are the end pieces. This is the real picture:


I'm in the middle of writing a personal statement right now, so I had to make this quick and I left out a lot of crap. Why is it so much easier to post here than to write this verdammt thing? Ugh.

Saturday, January 5, 2008

Best of both worlds

I think I've had a pretty full winter break so far. I spent a week in SoCal and chilled with friends/went to the beach, and then I visited my cousins in Reno this weekend. Yep...we were crazy enough to drive in this winter storm, but we had a Jeep and went 30 miles an hour at the icy parts so it wasn't so bad. I think I was a little overprepared though...To the point where I brought a 9-volt battery and some steel wool. Yeah, I know.




This is what the jeep looked like after one of the drives. And that's not even the worst it got.



It was pretty sweet though because I got to see falling snow for the first time that I can remember (here's a short, terrible quality clip that I took),




Eat a ton of seafood and prime rib (these are rounds one and two of about four, plus dessert),


















and best of all, be with family.

I gotta put something beach-related in this post, so here's a clip I took of a running bird on the beach. I dunno why, but these birds make me laugh.



I used to think that there was nothing better than the sun and sand, but snow is giving the beach a run for its money.