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| well, 2 days in a row. somethings up right? eh. no, not really. just chillin at home.
installed ut2004 and played at max settings. wow. perfectly smooth. my 2ms (millisecond) refresh rate LCD kept up just fine. i'm a happy camper. which means i'm now looking for something more intensive to give my system a workout. downside is that i've had my system spontaneously restart 2x on me today. once when i was firing up limewire after installing it, and the other was after installing the X-Fi sound patch for UT2k4. meh. handles fine now.
father was to bring me lunch today, but got held up at the house cause the glass people came to install the new window (we/they had a break in) so he came upstairs (he's on the 9th floor/different company). to pick up the rent (i grabbed it from the renters last night before badminton). i was looking at the little bowl of whatever he gave me. turns out mother made a batch of stew. nice. i kinda wanted "mui garden" curry. but stew's good too. it's fresh. meaning no reheats yet. so the meat isn't fall apart tender yet. and she's missing the potatoes. and there's no brandy in it... no fried onions either... blah. mother doesn't cook with it. however, her proportions are better than mine, i always put too much meat. it was definately a nice surprise. and of course, my dad stuck me with 2 pears. i guess i gotta eat them. he always forces fruit on me. ugh.
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speaking of badminton... i'm not stiff, and i'm not completley sore just a minor bit. like when u stretch, and you feel it's too far... but it's just a little less than what i can usually stretch then i feel the soreness. i was definately hoping for more, but considering i didn't collapse on the court like a dumbass, i should count myself lucky. my left forearm is definately soreish. the end result of this being lots of sweat, a good time and wanting to do it again. also left me very tired at work today. sleeping at work = bad. stupid job. argh. i have to keep getting up and walking around so i don't fall asleep at my desk.
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hmmmm.... lessee....
entertainmentwise.
my new soundcard? can we just say it's the best audio i've heard not counting that Bose
demo i went to down in the states. my parents' sound system, as good as it isn't set up right and the room totally sucks for acoustics. so lets just say i'm very very happy with my sound card. there is not more low end hissing even after my 3+ meters of headphone extension cable. so now that i've heard good sound and with my eventual replacement of my mp3 player (iriver ifp-799), i want to get something that sounds at least kinda close to it does on my home system. but i think i've kinda dug myself out a little hole here. imagine this. u know how your computer sounds pretty good? with onboard sound? better than you mp3 player (if you set it up right), yeah, well my old Sound Blaster Audigy (newt's now) sounded way way better. my X-Fi sounds miles beyond that, so my standards are once again at an unattainable level. go figure. apparently the 5th gen ipod (know to u ppl as the ipod video) actually sounds pretty good. well if i get one, it'll be a 6th gen (hopefully with the touch screen)... but that is still a long ways off. and after snowboard season. we'll see if i
a: still have job
b: still have money
just imagine. ALL of Weezer, ALL of X Japan, ALL of Dragonforce, ALL of Billy Talent, ALL of Mika, ALL of Savage Garden, ALL of Greenday, ALL of M.O.V.E. *sudder*.... the possibilities and all at near lossless :D
hell, the 60 gb player would hold EVERYTHING i own.
oh well. money makes the world go round. and i spend it like it ends tomorrow
ps. i got a hair cut. it's horrible. too lazy to do anything about it... it shall sit there until it blends in :p
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| so, tomorrow makes 4 weeks that i've joined the contributing member of society. and i must say, it sucks. at least the taxes do anyways. considering i get to keep about 75-80% of what i make, i can't believe this country is emptier than it is.
i'm already pretty pissed at our leftwing country. stupid nurses, teachers, construction workers. piss off unions....
.... anyways. work isn't hard. but i'm going to have to find ways of keeping myself up.
it's not a very social atmosphere. people don't really chat much so it's a big change from how i did things at BCIT. at school it was both ears with music cranked, and if somebody
wanted to talk to me, a pen/pencil would fly past my face. at work, i can't really do that, it's bad enough that i'm constantly jacked in, but with my silicon bud headphones, it would be very bad to have my boss talk to me, and have me spin around, take off my headphones and say "huh? i didn't hear a word you were saying"...
however, i have to give this to them. everybody works hard. and so far, in 1 month with
plenty of deadlines crunching by, i haven't see anybody raise their voice or freak out. i think i'm with a solid group. bad bosses suck balls. considering mine don't run around tearing people new holes, i'd consider them good bosses. and with me being the newb, i
answer to pretty much everybody. airport, city maintenaince facility, miliarty admin
building, candy factory, airport baggage handling system... those are what i've worked on
so far, and under somebody different everytime.
however, the ever since friday afternoon (until tuesday noon), i spent me entire time
running around printing off emails for project manager. apparently all external work
related email are archived, legal reasons i think. pretty boring work, but still. they're
paying me $18/hour to print emails, staple them together and stack them. so no complaints here.
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playtime:
SATURDAY = movie: "My Super Ex-Girlfriend"... funny movie. it hurt to watch. some parts were just like reminders of what whackjob girls are like. ugh. can u say close to home?
SUNDAY - built my new computer. i sold my old one off for $800 and got to keep the burner, soundcard and wireless network card.
i bought a shiny case, and a killer 600 watt power supply. the computer is actually a "budget" machine. the cpu is the older single core type. but i finally got a gaming capable video card. and i traded off my old sound card to newt for a gig of ram. cause i got a new sound card. in maybe a long time i'll have enough money for a serious system.
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so i was originally going to get myself a new athlon 64 on the am2 socket for upgrading
reasons. considering that the new am3 is actually going to be backwards compatible i
thought that would be an awesome idea. but then i put some more research into the the
conroe (aka core duo) and it blows the amd cpus away. but checking my monetary situation (aka what i will be buying in the future) means i can't afford a conroe cpu. i will have to cheap out. so i ended up getting an amd 4000 single core with a micro atx board that jon offered to me for cheap. i got a creative x-fi sound card outta the deal so i'm a very very happy camper. i also picked up an eVGA 7600 GT CO 256 meg 128 bit vid card. not the best, but at $180 it's cheap. big thing is that my system is now much quieter. and my sound is killer.
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i also grabbed my mom's old crappy ghetto blaster to hold me over until i eventually get myself a real stereo system. but for now, i can't really complain about my setup. the only thing i could use is another gig of ram. but i'll make do for now.
MONDAY = load backups into new system. yay, everything is there! + aggravate over how i can make .flac's play on my system. finally got it to work much too late in the night.
TUESDAY = vicky + me badminton @ bcit. fun stuff. not tiring, but sweatyish. my left forearm is a bit sore though. i don't think i'm going to do so well in the morning.
so as of right now, life is looking mighty shiny (yes, i've started rewatching firefly). the only thing i'm angsty about is missing snowboarding for 2 weeks straight. i guess this saturday i can make it up. it's getting towards snow season. i can finally get my jacket repaired. stupid north face, and fake "infusion" technology. take a hint from helly hansen and do it right. argh!!!!
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jamming to
Utada Hikaru - ULTRA BLUE
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| well. things in my life sure have changed in a hurry.
i guess you could say i'm pretty much settled into my new place. living out rocks. fresh groceries rock. my own food rocks.
me and roomie get along pretty well. it's been come home, and make dinner and eat while the two of us watch Angel (rented).
July 4th
i started work. - work is good. simple. not stressful. i go to VCC for $2.90 breakfast and $5.95 lunch a lot. and i'm keeping my goal of
buying fresh groceries. i just pop into T&T supermarket afterwork if i need stuff. i should be bring lunch to cut back on my spending.
work is also busy. i only have 7.5 hour days, but i'm working like 8.5 sometimes 9 hours? sometimes i got home early? on average, i'm
aiming for an extra hour a day so i can rack up extra time off when the snow comes.
July 8th and 9th.
headed down to the States for shopping at the Premium Outlets with the cousins + amy.
hahaha, i can't believe amy came along for a family trip. jason, janette, newt and amy left on the night of the 8th after shopping and
stuffing ourselves at the casino buffet. i ate a lot. not at the top of my game, but i definatley made back my money. i still feel guilty
to my body for eating that much garbage in one go. oh well. suck it up.
ron to body: hey? u wanna complain? gain some weight, then i might just notice.
body to ron: stfu. if i gain weight, you're only going to stuff my full of more crap.
ron to body: true dat. i win either way.
body to ron: i hate you.
and speaking of health. i keep telling myself i'm going to go out and run. but after work, i'm just too lazy. it'd be a lot better if my
feet actually felt comfy after wearing dress shoes, but they don't. and thus fashion culture is partially to blame for people not
excercising.
.....back to the outlet day trip....
anyways, what happened after we stuffed ourselves at the buffet, i went and lost $5 at the casino on slots. i think casino odds are crap.
don't play, i was never really up anything. so it's not worth it.
after that, a bit of driving to everett where i crammed 6 people into a hotel room so we only had to pay 20 bucks each for the night. :)
sweeeeeet.
morning? full breakfast included! eggs, sausages, waffles, cereal, hashbrowns... americans are fat because they are supplied with all this
cheap food. i'm sure i'd be fatter too if i lived in the states, if not, just more cloggediered arteries.
we had to go back to the outlet cause bev ditzed out and managed to grab 2x left shoes.
ed got a pair of pumas, in white, black and yellow. FOKKER COLORS!
and at the puma outlet, talked to some chick who had fokker colored nike turb oz shox! apparently she scored the last pair. blah. but i
ended up double checking just in case. i was actually going to buy them cause the color proportion was bang on. oh yeah. ed got a pair of
asics gel 1110. haha. another convert! asics for the win!!!
July 11th or 12th?
lunch with dad and newt at VCC's "JJ's Restaurant". 6.95 for cod and couscous with parsley butter or something. wow. so good. so cheap.
apparently they have a monday-thursday thing of $15 for 3 course dinner in case anybody is interested.
Various random days including July 14th and 15th...
= vicky time. i don't even know what to properly call it.
it's just us chilling out and eating, tv and chatting.
i am such a girl!
i need more guy friends in my life.
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monetarily. i'm am hurting. i managed to drain myself to just about $1000.
it's kinda sad really.
here's list of some stuff i ended up getting.
$250ish at Mexx for work clothes
$45ish at payless for work shoes.
$40 for clothes iron
$20 for laundry hamper
- actually newt owes me like 200 for the ram i picked up for him.
$135ish for a pair of Wusthof kitchen knives. i will justify this later.
$60 at nike outlet
$10 for oakley ear socks - totally a stupid expense.
$100ish for proper dress shoes.
$135 for 2 knives? kinda seems ridiculous right? just think how long you have had your kitchen knives? odds are your parents were probably
using them before you were born. and they just get sharpened when they need to be. well, essentially these knives are to last me forever.
or at least until much later in life. so that's why i went all out. i needed kitchen knives, and what's the point of paying 40 bucks for a
crap ass knife that i will have to replace with better stuff? so i just bought the good stuff right off. and they are NICE. sharp, well
balanced and very solid.
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i'm am constantly bored so i spend a lot of time on the computer. i should be out there making friends or doing stupid stuff instead of
sitting at home watching stuff shows.
here's where i sit on my to be watched list
Fruits Basket - 7 of 26 eps
Gunslinger Girl - 1 of 26 eps
Gundam SEED C.E. 73: Stargazer - 1 of 3 (to be released)
Godfather
Constantine
Angel - must rent from rogers
Blood+ 34 of 50 eps (to be released)
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Listening List:
Hitomi Takahashi's new Single - Communication finally came out a couple days ago. good stuff. plus i managed to dig up bits of her blood+ singles album. i wish there was a way to get some of the older japanese stuff. the turnover for the torrents is ridiculous, 2 weeks and the number of seeds seriously drop. 1 month and you're down to like 5 seeds. good luck getting stuff older than a month. ugh.
with me not updating for so long, i think i've probably go enough content for another blog.
so if i'm not lazy, you won't have to wait longer than a week this time.
laters ppls
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| this is totally messed. how is it that my life just always works out? 
again. blogs are usually emo but i don't think everybody's life just sucks that much? does it? how hard is it just to be happy with what you have?
as of right now, i'm polishing off my guinness and i'm surrounded by my toys and novels. my life is good. 
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so i've moved. without a hitch. 
rent is CHEAP, like 425/month cheap. who'da thought i'd be next after jon eh?
roomie is a geek. joss whedon (buffy, angel, firefly, serenity) is so the man.
the kitchen is mine, he doesn't cook. MINE. muhahahah.....
here are the downsides, i'm spending money like CRAZY for the next month.
here's what i've brought in so far
- lots of groceries. i got the house it in the fridge was liquor and sauces. that's it.
- laundry hamper
- 19" LCD monitor
- dish rack w/ draining board
- surge protector
- clothes hangers
here's what i still have to get
- desk (found for 60 bucks. GOOD DEAL - frosted glass and birch)
- chair - still looking, but probably to staples cause of hookups
- knife set. maybe cutco, most likely i'm going "easy" and spending about $200 on a small 3 piece wusthof set.
- risers for my bed to raise up about 4 inches so i can stick drawers under it.
- router for sharing the net access
- theater system
i'm going to have to go easier on my spending or at least pace myself.
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i spent almost the entire day w/ bev. i never spend time with bev.
downtown shopping for me and for her. all u can eat @ robson sushi.
i left her after a while and managed to bump into her on the bus on the way back to her place. what are the odds eh?
chilled for dinner, headed home.
but first, a trip to walmart and london drugs. still looking at knives. those who know me well know that i do NOT skimp on the research when it goes into my spending money. i look real hard before i spend my hard earned cash. and yesh, i was looking at knives.
i also bought the laundry hamper and dishrack and a bundle of hangers.
my life is chill.
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dinner tomorrow with emily. taking her to osi osi? her suggestion.
woot. i get to see dazzle. will she remember me? probably. she always loves me.
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on the music front, the new Billy Talent CD is out... the music is soooo good.
it's less angry angst, more grown up sad angst? but while mainting everything that is billy talent. the bass and the voice. oh THE voice! tis good stuff. go get!
ps. hermonine love you long time 
http://www.angryzenmaster.com/
grooving to:
Devil in a Midnight Mass - Billy Talent from Billy Talent II
cheers!
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| this for someone special, my heart bleeds through my pen
love is crawling there,
if you couldn't walk.
love is changing what you want,
instead of settling for what you think you deserve
love is caring for someting more than you care for yourself
love is asking for help,
despite pride, embarssment or fear
self doubt and confusion fad away,
but love endures
hahaha i'm so full of shit,
a: there isn't anybody
b: i found it in a webcomic
c: i'd say i was sorry for messing with you, but i'm really not.
http://www.leasticoulddo.com/index2.php?date=20040520
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