| Fanboy to Maximum |
[Jul. 18th, 2009|01:31 am] |
I got the two dorkiest things I've ever bought in the mail today.
A "It came from Nowhere" shirt from Shirt Woot with the Delorean from Back to the Future crashing into the TARDIS, and a TARDIS card tin.
I think I'm gonna try to get Russell T Davies sign the shirt :> |
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| Insight to Cantonese Humor |
[Jul. 13th, 2009|01:13 pm] |
My mom gave me this great gem in the car on the way to work. I was telling her about Fancypants James and how he spends a lot of money.
My mom said that "He has a lot of money" with the italics being an implied statement. She then says "or maybe his dad has a lot of money", but depending on the context, it could mean "or maybe his dad he has a lot of".
It sounds awkward in English, but she basically implied that James' mom is skanky and sleeps around a lot and therefore, he has a lot of dads to give him money. She was just joking and just said it to point out the (usually vulgar) humor in Cantonese, and I'll have to agree that's pretty witty. I can understand why some people rather shoot themselves in the head than to learn Chinese. There's so much contextual meanings or double meanings behind everything that's being said.
My favorite is still Big Ben Tower. "Ben" can be pronounced as "Stupid", so my dad kept pointing out the "Big Stupid Clock" to me in England. |
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| I have a Tamron 70-200 2.8 now |
[Jul. 12th, 2009|11:01 pm] |
I bought a new camera lens.. to the dismay of my mom. It just came in today, so I went outside for a couple test shots.
The lens is MAAAASIVE. I don't know how I'm going to lug it around during a con. It's a perfect portrait and stage lens though, so I'll just have to see at my next con.
( Piccys under cut ) |
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| Dating Compatibilities |
[Jul. 8th, 2009|04:41 pm] |
Burning through some free time. I rather liked these questions.. and the results are pretty good too.
Your dating personality profile:
Funny - You laugh often. People never accuse you of lacking a sense of humor. You don't take yourself too seriously.
Wealthy/Ambitious - You know what your goals are and you pursue them vigourously. Achieving success is important to you.
Outgoing - You can liven up any party. You've got a way with people and have little difficulty charming your dates. | Your date match profile:
Funny - You consider a good sense of humor a major necessity in a date. If her jokes make you laugh, she has won your heart.
Conservative - Forget liberals, you need a conservative match. Political discussions interest you, and a conservative will offer the viewpoint you need.
Adventurous - You are looking for someone who is willing to try new things and experience life to its fullest. You need a companion who encourages you to take risks and do exciting things. | Your Top Ten Traits
1. Funny
2. Wealthy/Ambitious
3. Outgoing
4. Sensual
5. Liberal
6. Romantic
7. Big-Hearted
8. Adventurous
9. Stylish
10. Athletic
| Your Top Ten Match Traits
1. Funny
2. Conservative
3. Adventurous
4. Practical
5. Sensual
6. Romantic
7. Outgoing
8. Athletic
9. Big-Hearted
10. Wealthy/Ambitious
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Take the Online Dating Profile Quiz at Dating Diversions
( Dating Strengths ) |
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| In SLO |
[Jul. 2nd, 2009|03:44 pm] |
I'm not sure if I actually miss this town or if I miss being out on my own, but it feels nice to be back home.
...missing more than 60% of my stuff because I took it back up to SJ with me. |
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| Last Second AX Madness |
[Jun. 29th, 2009|11:34 pm] |
Anybody driving down 101 to AX on Thursday night or Friday? I'm looking for someone to pick me up from San Luis Obispo if possible.
Gogo crazy impromptu convention planning. |
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| Trench coats are Awesome |
[Jun. 28th, 2009|08:05 pm] |
I encounter this whenever I watch Torchwood. I really really like trench coats. I'd really like to have one someday, but I really doubt that I can wear trench coats well as my style. Maybe in 10 years or so, but I feel too young to be running around in trench coats.
This comes from the same adventurer vein I have that makes me like pocket multitools, multipurpose backpacks, and tiny gadgets that can do everything.
Trench coats are still awesome though. I love the whole idea of them, but that just might be the Firefly and Doctor Who styles affecting me. |
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| Curiosity. |
[Jun. 27th, 2009|01:57 am] |
I find life fascinating.. All it's people and it's complexity and how it all inter-relates to one another. How one thinks and feels is affected by past and present experiences. This curiosity drives me to meet new people, learn about all their stories and feelings, and reflect on how this changes my perception of people and society. I wish to know everybody's secrets and see how this changes and shapes their lives. I want to know everyone.. they're so interesting.
This curiosity and my desire to live in every experience is a primary drive to how I live my life.. and I love every minute of it. The good and the bad and everything inbetween altogether.
*has been musing* |
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| Ewwwww... |
[Jun. 22nd, 2009|02:21 pm] |
There should be a law against me mixing drinks. I kept dozing off at work, so I just mixed together hot chocolate powder, double shot of espresso, water, some sugar, and liberal use of the cocoa powder. I... have no idea what I just made.
Don't get me started on whatever I end up doing with alcohol. |
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| Crazy Coinkydink, Drunken Adventures, Chasing Trains, Theater Sneaking, and Late Night Dennys |
[Jun. 19th, 2009|10:17 am] |
Yesterday was.. interesting. I really miss questing about the bay area. I love my crazy adventures.
Never before have I seen an outgoing frat boy computer engineer. I know a couple people from Poly who are frat guys in CSC, but they weren't the YEEEA LET'S GO PARTAY! types. Well, an intern here is one of those crazy types. He always talks about partying and he arranged a party bus last week to go up to San Fran and go bar hopping. He's like a fountain of knowledge for clubs and bars in the Bay Area, and he's really sociable and arranges all these events for us to go to. It's really weird because part of me doesn't really mesh well with his personality.. at the same time, I do because that's the role I fill when I'm with shy, quiet people. I wonder if this is any indication of what my social life will be after college.
After work, I hopped on the light rail to go to downtown SJ for Third Eye Blind. The park was PACKED.. and I could barely move around. I couldn't find any of the other interns, so I just walked around looking at everyone. I will never understand why every single large event I've been to needs to have beer. I feel like I'm being economical for being able to have fun without drinking all the time (but not necessarily at all.. as we'll find out later in the story). I stood in the middle of the park, and I saw someone who look suspiciously like my friend Mike from De Anza 2 years ago. It's been 2 years, so I wasn't sure if it was him. When this guy talked, he had the same arm waving expressions as Mike, so I inched a little bit closer to him, and yelled MIIIIIIKE! to see if he looks over. Turns out it IS my friend from years ago, so I spent the rest of the evening with him and his friends. I only really know one song from Third Eye Blind... and it seems like that's the same for everybody else, so we left after Semi-Charmed Life.
Into a bar! I've never been a bar regular, so I had to ask around for suggestions. I ended up with a Jack and Coke and it was yummy. I felt fuzzy after 3 sips, and I was floppy and pink after half the glass. Lots of laughs was had, and I went to go trek up to Milpitas to hang out with Shea, Ben, James, and FancyPants!James.
So I catch up to the light rail train while it was stopped at a station. I rushed inside, but since the train wasn't going anywhere for a while (it just kinda sat there and the driver was reading a newspaper), I ran back out to buy a ticket. Just as I got my ticket, the train started to leave D: I started running after it, and I found that I was keeping pace with it. I ran ahead and tried to catch it at the next station, and I even had a fair distance advantage when I got there, but there was cross traffic in the way, so I couldn't hop over onto the train. I figured since I had a head start, I'll keep running until the NEXT station after that to get on. We both get to the station at the same time, and I was jumping over railings and curbs to get to it in time. I touched the door just as it closes and leaves. Urgggggh... I started running trying to reach it at the station AFTER THAT, but the train went into a tunnel for light rails, and I decided not to trek into it. I ran back to the last station and waited for the next train ;_;
I got to the Great Mall around 11pm, but MGL doesn't close until midnight, so I milled around the mall until Shea and crew got out. I waited until a movie was over and snuck in through the exit into Century Theaters and played a couple rounds of Time Crisis and snuck into a movie. I sat outside for a while after the theaters closed and daydreamed about epic adventures once I'm out on my own and can drive. I really want to take a week or two off and go down Route 66 someday to work on an epic photo project.
Eventually, Shea and crew showed up and we went to Dennys. RegularPants!James had this horrendous mass of... something somewhat edible? We stayed up till 2-3am and went home.
Haha, my office kit just came. Now I can have random stationary around my desk. |
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| Third Eye Blind @ Music in the Park in Downtown San Jose - Thursday, June 18, 2009 5:30pm - 9:00pm |
[Jun. 18th, 2009|11:54 am] |
Copypasta from a NetApp Intern group.
Third Eye Blind ("Semi-Charmed Kind of Life", "Jumper", etc.) will be playing at Music in the Park in San Jose. Music in the Park is a free concert sponsored by the city of San Jose and some other folks. Fahrenheit's "Lounge in the Park" will be serving food and drinks (including their apparently famous Sangria).
There is no age limit for this event. There's also lots of light rail stations near the park.
The event begins at 5:30PM but there's an opening act. The whole thing goes till 9:00PM.
For more info:
http://www.sjdowntown.com/Music_in_the_Park.html
I'll be there if anybody else wants to come. |
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| Failure to Schedule |
[Jun. 8th, 2009|07:23 am] |
AHAHAHAHA.. it's not June 9th! I have a 7am final TOMORROW AND NOT TODAY.
*Suspi may or may not have gone insane due to last second cramming and lack of sleep.. but thinks everything will generally be okay* |
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| End of the School Year Post..... wait.. OMYGODITSTEHENDARGH |
[Jun. 8th, 2009|12:08 am] |
I'm so happy that it's the end of the school year. I'm excited about all the stuff I have lined up for summ...OH GOD WHY IS IT THE END OF THE YEAR ALREADY I NEED ANOTHER WEEK THERE'S TOO MANY DAMN PROJECTS DUE IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS D: D: D:
*Suspi realizing that he has two finals tomorrow that he hasn't studied for and a final project due on Thursday that he isn't sure how to do yet.* |
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| Creepypasta |
[Jun. 5th, 2009|03:14 am] |
D: /x/.. why do I get an urge to read you at 3AM?!?!
*hides under his covers.. where monsters are probably waiting for him* |
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| Stealing Fancypants, more silly bike adventures, painters poles, fishies |
[Jun. 1st, 2009|03:14 pm] |
This has been an interesting weekend. It was the CSC Banquet on Friday and I dressed up all nice a spiffy to meet with companies. By nice and spiffy I mean.. my shirt button popped off and I pinned my collar together. My suit jacket didn't match my pants, my tie was too small for my shirt, I only had white socks, and my only nice shoes are worn and faded. I was helping set up the banquet for about 2 minutes before I came up with an ingenius plan. Steal James' clothes (fancypants cosplayer with a taste for expensive clothes) XD During the weeks leading up to Fanime, our group was using me as a model for his cosplays whenever he was unavailable because I was roughly the same size as him. So I called up James, raided his closet, and went to the banquet looking snazzy.
My bike is a deathtrap. It always was, but moreso now that the brakes have snapped. I've gotten in the habit of jamming my foot into the space between the frame and the front tire as an emergency stop, and my shoe has been developing a nice gash through the bottom of it. Until the end of the year, I'm borrowing Tim's bike. The tires were a little flat, so I swung by the gas station to see if their air pumps are compatible with bike tires. I walked in and asked if the air pumps work on bikes and the cashier shot soda out of his nose laughing at me. I've never tried it before D: how would I know? Apparently that's how most bikers refill their tires.
I bought an extendable painter's pole. It's really cool, I just hit a switch and pull and it extends out. I plan on putting on tripod threads on the end of it and use it as both a ghetto monopod for my camera and a lighting boom for portraits. I don't really have assistants, so once I get the lighting setup working, I'll see if I can use it AND take photos at the same time. It would look a lot like this.
For the centerpieces of the CSC Banquet, they put goldfishes in a vase to swim around. After the night was done, we got to take them home. I was super excited because I knew how much Jill liked fishies, so I brought her 3 of them. She later calls me distraught that she couldn't take care of them and that she would need to give them away to the pet store. As it turns out, goldfishes are kinda hard to take care of and they need a lot of space and maintenance. We decided to keep them, and I went out and bought a 10 gallon aquarium for them all. Hopefully they'll survive. There's a tiny one that likes to bury its nose into the gravel. |
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| Residual Cosplay |
[May. 29th, 2009|11:33 am] |
Today, I saw someone in a red shirt, shorts, a baseball cap, and a messenger bag slung behind his back on campus. My brain went.. SCOUT COSPLAY!
Fanime does odd things to your perception of the world for a couple days. |
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