Yee-Hah!

Well, that was easy.

I wasted about two hours yesterday trying to save 20 dollars from buying a text book. Lame.

Also, Staples doesn't have the "That was Easy" Easy buttons for sale. At least not my local one.

I turned the speakers off.

Pretty sad. I am just pretty much trying to do the least possible in the longest duration of time.

It seems to be working.

Ah. The last couple of days before the real school starts.

Snakes on a

I invited everyone to my house, lole.

I even got Brad to come. Originally, Gladys was going to come. She never materialized. I think she got lost.

Anyway, we played some intense Settlers of Catan. Some smash Brothers. Some Sushi eating.

Then we watched Plane. It was exactly as I expected. ~6.5/10
There were major plot holes in the movie, which dragged the score down. Why would the main villian use snakes on a plane? I mean, if he could get snakes which was triggered by a timer-explosive-pheremone-dealie, why couldn't he just explode the plane and get it done with?

Lack of Updates

The reason is simply because I have done nothing notable in the last couple of days.

 

I literally just wake up, eat breakfast at the computer, and take a 30 second break every 30 minutes.

 

If I choose to stop being at the computer, I would be either 1) play Paper Mario, or 2) Watch DVDs.

 

I did go to the library slash Ironwood Plaza. It is neat that Angela Lee is working there, lole.

 

Argh at my Guild Wars. Why does a certain person have to leave the Guild? I dislike the fact that she can't take a little bitching. If someone bitched at me, I'd be like "STFU", and then at night, I'd cry myself to sleep. This way, the people would stop because they would realise that I won't just take shit from them.

 

 

Wow, my mind is bouncing from subject to subject.

Dune 6.

Dune 6 dragged on for so very long in the beginning. I mean, I don't need to know about every single detail of the Bene Gesserit. I feel that the book was just ending at the good part, because the last 50 pages seem to have more development than the first 250 pages.

Stargate SG1 cancelled =/

 = (

I knew it.

Passat

Walking down Steveston (an increasingly popular place for my dreams) , I came across this little flier for a flat slash apartment's open house. I had nothing to do for the rest of the day so I thought "What the heck, why not?".
.
It took me quite a bit of time to locate this miniature sky-scrapper. The reason behind that is the building is located entirely under a giant bridge or parking lot. Whatever the case, it was underneath a man-made roof of some kind. Yes. All Eight or Nine or so stories of it. Another unsual point about the building is that each floor above five is increasingly smaller. That is, the building kind of curves inwards like a Japanese pagoda.

Anyway, since I was already on the second floor of the parking lot, I decided I was going to take the stairs. Along the way, I was thinking to myself "Am I going to be the only person there?" That was quickly answered as I saw a group of people also heading towards that way. They seemed to be the kind of people who would go into a "open house". Since they were all heading for the elevator anyway, I decided to just stick with my plan of going up the stairs. After a quick but confusing trek through the stairwell (Seems like every three floors, there was a shift in the location of the stairwell, but only slightly ), I got to the sixth floor. I got there just in time to se.e a huge lineup of maybe 20 people. I also apparently got there in time to beat those elevator-riders.

At this point, I was really questioning the reason for my visit. I mean, I don't have the money to buy this thing anyway, nor do I really want it.

Fortunately, something went wrong inside of the apartment. Everyone was crowding to see, but since the apartment was full, I couldn't really get in. I could only hear some panik-striken rumours about the truth. From what I could gather (but not see) at the time, the hostess slash owner of the floor was killed or committed suicide via a rock to the head. Nobody called the police yet because they were all pretty sure that she was dead. Soon, everyone else was clearing away and leaving. I finally had my chance to go and see the death. I was pretty excited about the death since it would be my first time actually going up to a corpse and taking a good look at it.
I noticed a hole in the window. I didn't really notice any kind of rocks. Obviously that idea was proposterous. The one of the two men behind  me (the ones who took the elevator) went up do the body and held up the hand. Within seconds, she was up and awake. For a quick moment, I thought I saw her mouth disappear. The other of the two men started to comment, saying that "He couldn't do that in front of the others." There was also a nonsensical explaination about how the revival could occur. Something about blood. I personally thought they were aliens.

Anyway, it was time for me to leave, so I took the elevator down this time. Floor number one. I got off the elevator, and felt a really great urge to run towards the river. Yeah, Floor One is really close to the "River Road" dike running trail. I climbed uphill to the gray gravelly place, and I climbed over a rotting wooden fence. Like a child, I ran to the river. No, the physical location doesn't really make sense, unless everything that occured before was beneath the ground, which would explain the giant roof.

Suprise! Shirley, Andrew, and someone else (very possibly Brian) were also taking a brisk walk along the river. Hoorah! I'm not sure what's the reason, but after a quick (I imagine) chat, I decided to leave the party. I started to run towards the parking lot for my car. Shirley wanted to make it a race, or something. She ran ahead of me and I was chasing after her. Before I knew what happened, she was chasing after me. I passed between a couple of cars in the parking lot. After a couple of turns, I think I lost her. Good.

Finally. Passat? Half of the cars looked exactly the same in the parking lot. It had this failed artistic look to it. The "Passats" looked much closer to a PTCruiser than anything, really, but my mind has labled them all Passats. The second man fron the tower came and started to recite the fuel efficiency of all the cars. He must have worked for VW or something because that's all he seemed to know. "The Passat is actually more fuel efficient than its cousin, the Jetta" I was really confused by this point. I thought I was going to get my car.

Gladys + Famous

Yesterday I met a very _____ Gladys on my way to the _____ . At first, she didn't _____ me, but then I deliberately caught her attention with my _____.
So, we were on the ___ bus, seperate, but aware of each other. On one of the stops, we saw a very unique sight. There were about 30-40 Asian women who got on the bus. Most of them had a buspass, so I am guessing that they were part of a strange _____ function or something.

We walked to the bank, I left her there. I hope she gets her monies from her defective check.

Afterwards, I went to the Library  and FINALLY GOT MY CHAPTERHOUSE DUNE.

I'm about 50 pages into it and I'm loving it.

I guess certain types of books are more appealing to me.

For example: Genesis, by Paul Anderson.

This is the only book that I got from my library during my trip today.
The cover of the book shows some kind of money animals with farming
tools, with a man and a woman in spacesuits watching them. With the
Title Genesis, I thought it was some kind of bullshit fusion about how
in the far future, man somehow inadvertantly becomes "God" and creates
man in some kind of twisted never-ending loop.

I'm halfway done the book and I'm enjoying it much more than I should.
I'm just glad that it isn't what I thought it would be.

This highly contrasts that lame Dragon book "Eragon" recommended by
Annie Leung. Ugh.
It just hasn't grabbed my attention yet. I don't know why exactly. I
am just more comfortable with the language of a SciFi book than a
Fantasy book.

I know.

So. I was sitting by my computer in the library when I suddenly see
this asian boy. I thought he looked like David Liao-Hing, so I logged
off the computer, went towards him, and there he was. David-Liao Hing.

He was with his bitch-master, Afraaz, and a friend, Rex, or something.

They were there to apparently try to study.

Boring.

And at the end, I didn't get my Chapterhouse Dune. I wanted to leave
and go home, that's why.

Well, this sucks.

I'm at the library because I received a notice that my hold was available for pickup. Everything would be great except that the book isn't here! No, it is still within the sorting book-returning place. Argh.

So I have decided to rent a computer instead of just sitting at the chair waiting for my book to arrive.

I want to desperately get people to play "Settlers of Cataan".

Fun board game.

Hm, again.

 

You're male. You walk into the washroom. You walk up to the urinal. You're alone.

 

You unzip your pants, and whip out the hose. You aim into the urinal. You wait.

 

You wait. It ain't coming.

 

You hear someone else coming behind you. No, he doesn't rape you. He heads for the urinal beside yours. You look at him. He is your father.

 

You continue to try to urinate. Sometimes, it takes some time for that to happen. You close your eyes. You put all your efforts into listening and trying to pee. You know it is coming, just not now.

 

Silence.

 

Nothing is coming out for both of you.

 

You hesitate, and want to leave. Maybe you can fool him and act like you just finished urinating. No, it is too late. You've been standing silently for 30 seconds.He won't fall for it.

 

No, instead, he leaves. He left without actually urinating. He politely walks to the sink, washes his hands, and leaves the room.

 

It is the moment that he has walked away that the pressure is gone. You are once again experiencing the feeling of liquid rushing though the magic tube.

 

The end.

 

Blargh. Some Personal Phailures

1) Doesn't look like I'll be finishing my Zombie this Summer. More a lack of interest, I think.

2) Gone to the Library and got this lamer "Christopher Palini" or whatever book called "Eragon". It sounds like a rip off of Lord of the Rings to me. You know, the whole Aragon // Eragon deal. Also, I have to say that I have NEVER finished reading the LOTR books. I just can't get past all the junk with the weird fantasy names. What I need is a good sci-fi book.

3) Which brings me to Dune. That horrible, horrible, man who has the only copy of Dune in the Richmond Area has not returned the prescious copy of Chapterhouse Dune. Why? Why??? Three days late already.

4) I have still not submitted my application for Co-op UBC Engineering. I probably should do that soon, but the deadline of September 15 is giving me an excuse. I don't think that submitting earlier will cause my chances to be raised... right?

ZSNES, Arman.

 

Wait, what?

Domain Name, Expiry Date
lielinks.be, 2006-11-08

I guess this means that my hosting was the one that's gone, not my domain.

Television Preview.

So, I managed to tag along with my very good friend Princess Bradina Dumpface, and Derek to go to a Television Preview. Those two had just had a romantically engaging movie experience at Silver City. Well, anyway, they picked me up at 6:30ish and we went off to go to the Television Preview. The main problem is that we watched both of the shows before... last year, at this same event.

 

The first one is called... "Soulmate", which is apparently a drama. It is about this the-rapist (let us call her Kate) who hypnotized this man (Brian, lets say.). Kate starts to have visions about this man... that perhaps they've been together in a past life. Now, Brian also senses this connection, so he tries to flirt with Kate. Because the therapist is a whore, they totally had sex. This is about 5 minutes into the show. The next morning, Kate sees her man-lover going away on a motorcycle, so she follows him to the docks. He goes inside a warehouse and she follows. Once inside, she trips a billion alarms, and a guy puts a knife on her neck. She panicked. The guy asks threateningly "What are you doing? Who are you? Who do you work for?", and before she could answer, Brian comes out and was totally like "Yeah. I know her, it is okay." She basically runs out crying and screaming. Brian begs her to meet him that night to explain.

 

Kate was freaked out, and her best friend suggested that she take a trip to Hawaii. The next cut is at the Hawaiian airport. Wow.

There, she meets this other guy( Dave). Now, through cutscenes, we learn that in the past, Dave, Kate, and Brian were all together. Kate was Dave's fiance. Dave was a Colonel, and Brian was a lieutenant. Both of them were about to ship off to Pearl Harbour. "I'm just shipping out to Pearl Harbour. What's the worst that can happen?" "No, Brian. If the Japanese attack, they might go for Pearl Harbour first!" "What's the chance that that would happen, Kate." I'm not making up this dialogue.

 

Kate sleeps with Dave too. Kate finds that Brian is also at Hawaii, for some reason. They slept together again. Through another flashback, it turns out that ww2 Brian kills ww2 Dave because Dave was apparently a traitor to America, selling top secret information about pearl harbour to the Japanese.

 

 

Now, to cut the story short. Brian is a computer virus programmer who sells viruses to Corporations, Governments, and even TERRORISTS! Dave is a computer-crime detective.

 

Kate doesn't know where her loyalties should be. She protected Brian once from the military police. She doesn't know if she should protect Brian now. The show ends with Brian's letter telling Kate that they shouldn't be together because he is dangerous, and that if they're really soulmates, they'd meet again.

 

Lame.

First ever, multiple time posting.

Wow. I am on the bus right now, and am watching my Stargate DVDs again. I am surprised at how much emotion is delivered in these episodes. Wow. During those seasons, the Goa'uld was actually taken seriously, and they actually seem highly dangerous. Incredible.

Anyway, I'm completely done my Phil 120 course, with about 86%. Not that bad, I guess.

That means that I have the rest of the summer free and available for anything. Unfortunately, that does not mean much at all!

Boo!

Aw hell no. Now that I've arrived in Richmond, it looks like I'll have to wait about 15 minutes before I can catch ANY bus home. Boo to that!!

-

Home, it seems like I was wrong about the time. The 403 actually came at 3:58, two minutes late.

Laptop (read: Notebook), fixed?

My sister's Notebook from 2003 had been borked for like 1-2 years. I guess I attempted to fix it at that time, but my conclusion was that
the harddrive was broken. My sister didn't want to pay ~300 to have a professional replace the harddrive. I agreed.

About two nights ago, I decided to try and fix the machine. I mean, I decided to unscrew the machine and try to see if the harddrive is replacable. in the last 2-3 years, notebook drive prices have fallen like 75% and therefore has become affordable. So, I did some search on the internet for this model and it turns out that this notebook has been having the kind of problem that my sister has been having for a good long time. THe solution is to get gateway to ship this rubbery cable which connects the motherboard to the harddrive. This is because the old cable is easily knocked out or down. It also seems that when I was looking at the harddrive, I correctly plugged or moved the loose cable so that the machine works... for now. In the last two days, I've only had 2 freezes in the last 15-18 hours of operating the machine (installing windows and programs, mostly. I had to reinstall it twice because apparently the "C" drive is vital for some gateway drivers.)

Yeah. Hopefully, Gateway will be uber generous and ship us the replacement cable even when we're out of warranty.

Looks like what I thought in my dream is coming true.

Stargate SG-1 and Atlantis has the worst ratings ever. Only a general 1.3 rating for SG1 last friday. This is cancellation territory, and that's not a good sign at all.

Bah.

This is so lame.

I'm currently sitting in the halls of Buchanan B, and there are a billion people sitting here. I mean seriously, what's wrong with all the people waiting here to take the test? It looks like it will be at least 2:30 before I can actually get inside the room to do my last remaining test. What's worse is that I probably have to come back on Friday or something and totally waste a good opportunity to have some fun gaming action. Grr..

Fattie, Jacky, and Ryan Seacrest.

This is going to sound desperate or whatever.I don't know the exact details, but about three years in the future, I'm going to meet this fat chick, and we're going to be going out. I think the relationship is pretty solid at that point. She would have started to lose some weight (for me and for herself, of course.) I'm not sure how this is going to happen, and I'm not sure if I am looking forward to it.

So, once I ditched my Girlfriend, I was in the mall, Richmond Centre, with my good best friends Jacky and Terrence. Except that Jacky wasn't really Jacky. He was more like a simplified computer program that follows basic behavior (such as go through the place with the fewest people, and the most reward, etc.) We confronted Jacky (who was getting off his work), and we ended up walking near a fountain. How fun.

Suddenly, I'm not half the man I used to be. Not really. I was trying to go home afterwards. From the looks of it, I was at the Steveston + Number 3 intersection, trying to get on to the 403 bus. I'm not quite sure why, but there is a high school at that intersection filled with them young'ins. I patiently wafted through the crowds of people going on the bus (probably on their way to Silver City, mirite?). Now, because the bus stop is so near the intersection, and the time was around X:39, I knew that I had a good couple of minutes before the bus actually arrives. I walked near the intersection and I noticed a crap load of people. Yes, there were a crap load of people all waiting for one man: Ryan Seacrest. I hear the guy in front of me talk about how much of a lamer Seacrest was, and even said that "I can't help but imagine that even Lier here can beat him up in a bathroom." and the girl behind me was all like "I love Ryan."

So apparently Ryan Seacrest has become a multinational superstar, selling Albums and CDs and movies and all that kind of entertainment bullshit. He even has a "Ryan Seacrest" training camp, which is where the everyone else is going to.

The guy in front of me keeps on bashing Seacrest, which is awesome in my opinion, because I don't like that guy either. The weird thing is that he keeps on calling me "Lier", which totally isn't my real name. This means that the man knows me on the Internet, and apparently the real life too. I looked at him and he looks like a certain macho-bullying person from high school.

And then Seacrest comes. The crowd of girls go wild. He goes down number three road on his was to his special camp, and everyone was cheering and laughing and jumping up and down. He was wearing the dorkiest outfit ever. It looked like a vest with this additional gray layer that was sewed on top. I think this represented the ever-changing and opinionated fashion of the world. Eventually, he reached down to where I was, and all the girls around me was cheering and jeering and everything. I, too, acted like I actually welcomed him. "Holy shit, it is Ryan Seacrest," I said, in a mocking tone. Seacrest didn't pick out my voice out of the hundreds of other fans. I went and put my hands out in front of him and I was, apparently, the only one to put my hands on his jacket.

He looks at me and says "Hey, no touching my vest." He was implying that his vest cost more than most of us will make. The guy in front and I were laughing so very hard afterwards.

---

I'm not sure why, exactly, but Ryan Seacrest's Butler or assistance (who is short and very VERY gay) came out and handed out a paper booklet preparing us for Seacrest's camp. Basically, what's going to happen is a ripoff of the Simpsons, where Krusty had his Kamp Krusty, but he doesn't actually show up except for the first day. I flipped through his package and read Seacrest's motto "Interact with other people the way YOU want them to interact with you", which is obviously just a redress of the biblical proverb. The rest of the pages say something along the lines of "Unfortunately though, it doesn't look like Ryan Seacrest will be making anymore appearance this trip and is unable to share with us more of his teachings other than his motto. The next page had some statements also with a single blank for a name. It is some bullshit like "I will treat ______ with more respect"

I had too much of this horrible dream and I actually willed myself back into the land of the waking.

Racism, again?

This is something I made in the 6ish grade.
Simple, I know.

Summary of yesterday.

Discuss: 

Phil is almost done.

I chickened out yesterday, and I didn't do my last exam (exam number 6)

Instead, I only did exam 5 and 7. This means that the next time the computer lab is open is wednesday.

Of the two that I did, I did pretty well. One above 90%, the other ~86%.

I just didn't feel ready to complete the exam.

How to judge chairs.

My sister was looking in the ikea catalogue for her newly renovated tutoring room. She showed me a chair which she said would be perfect for her room.

I looked at it, and the first thing I said was "Wow. Gilbert."
The chair, like many things in iKea, had a name, and this one was named Gilbert.

Immediately she said, "Chris, you don't judge something by their name. You should judge them by their colour... and how strong they are!"

I was shocked. I shouldn't be shocked anymore because I've experienced this for a long time now.

"So...Wait a minute. By their colour and strength?"

"Yes, and how they feel."

"That's something a racist would say. Clearly you're saying that you want Black people to pick up cotton for you. Only the strong and black for you!"

"I didn't say that!"

"Oh, you clearly knew what you were saying."

"What? These people go to the gas chambers and these people go work in the farm?"

"... Wow. I can't be in the same room as you."

2 minutes later, I re-entered the room.

"What about these other chairs?"

"I see. You prefer the lighter colours."

"I feel that black is good."

"Again with the slavery! I get it. You want black people to work in your farm and mines!"


And I left in a disgusted rage.

That's Kevin and I.

[16:08] (*)Let the Shine Be Mine(*): i thought u guys not going
[16:08] (*)Let the Shine Be Mine(*): i get off work at 4
[16:08] (*)Let the Shine Be Mine(*): but i am going with another group of frds now
[16:08] Missing: Lole fine
[16:08] Missing: I don't want you anyways.
[16:08] Missing: = (
[16:08] (*)Let the Shine Be Mine(*): u ask derek
[16:08] (*)Let the Shine Be Mine(*): he might wanna go with u
[16:09] Missing: I like how you used the word "might".
[16:09] (*)Let the Shine Be Mine(*): hahhaa

Financial Plan pt2

DVDs I want:

Battlestar 2.0 + 2.5  (I won't pay more than 50 for both combined)

Stargate 9
Atlantis 2

Deadzone( 4 and 5 when they come out)

24 season 3/4/5 (When the price drops ~30 dollars)

Lost 2 (aiming for 45 dollars)

Here's an important lesson.

Heed my words well.

Do Not.

Do Not accidentally spill lighter fluid on your pants.

Reason:
1) It megahurts.
2) Smells fluidy
3) If you get close to a fire, you lose something very valuable.

Uh, ignore the names of the people plox.

[23:13] 人斬拔刀齋.: yea but they're leavingh by 4
[23:13] 人斬拔刀齋.: or something
[23:13] 人斬拔刀齋.: that's what kevin said
[23:13] Zombie: Kevin is gay, then
[23:13] 人斬拔刀齋.: er, i think that's already true before this
[23:14] Zombie: Wait
[23:14] Zombie: .
[23:14] Zombie: ..
[23:14] Zombie: ..
[23:14] Zombie: ...
[23:14] Zombie: what?
[23:14] 人斬拔刀齋.: dots
[23:14] 人斬拔刀齋.: what?
[23:14] 人斬拔刀齋.: kevin's not gay?
[23:14] Zombie: Kevin is ghey?
[23:14] 人斬拔刀齋.: yes?
[23:16] 人斬拔刀齋.: who's planning fireworks thign anyway
[23:17] 人斬拔刀齋.: i can't tel lif it's kevin or derek
[23:17] 人斬拔刀齋.: they both asked me
[23:17] 人斬拔刀齋.: and tghey both also asked me to ask other people
[23:17] Zombie: Neat
[23:18] 人斬拔刀齋.: they also said chris wants teh butsexks
[23:18] Zombie: Chris?
[23:18] 人斬拔刀齋.: yes chris
[23:24] Zombie: wHICH?
[23:24] 人斬拔刀齋.: j00
[23:26] 人斬拔刀齋.: watch your corn hole
[23:27] Zombie: Wait
[23:27] Zombie: Kevin wants to anally "assert" his control over me?

Financial plan.

Games I want in the future:

Computer:

Command and Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars.
Spore
Supreme Commander
Maybe: Guild Wars: Nightfall

Nintendo Wii
-Mario Galaxy
-Zelda
-. Metroid Prime Corruption
-. Wario Ware
-. Smash Brothers Brawl
-.-. Maybe Red Steel

DS:
Starfox Command
Pokemon D&P
-.-.Maybe Mysterious Dungeon (if it gets 8+ rating)

Hm.

Oh marijuana.

Drugs are bad. Don't do them.

I've finished watching the second season of the Dead Zone, and I thought it was pretty neat. DZ is a show that I would watch on the tele weekly if I could. I just don't know about buying the show's DVD though. At 30 dollars per season, I guess I don't have much to lose.

The other thing that pisses me off is the season set for battlestar galactica is being sold into two halves. 40-ish dollars per half. 4 dollars per episode.
Compare that with the Dead Zone's 2nd season, 1.75ish per episode.
3rd season is around 2.1ish per episode.
Even Lost's second season is only 2.3ish per episode.

Bleh.

Done the third book.

Children of Dune isn't as good as the other two. It felt too long and a bit too sad. I do understand the idea about how knowing the future locks you into that future and that creativity and innovation prevents stagnation and all the good things like that.

It just isn't as good as the others.