23 years young

It's hard to drive a car full of balloons. That's how I drove home last night. After I got picked up and taken back to my cousin's place, I see my car filled with balloons. That's how my friends decided to surprise me for my birthday. Crazy. Good surprise. Not an easy driving experience.

Two more weeks til I leave for Taiwan. I bet I won't be completely unpacked by the time I leave. Thanksgiving was great. Got to go home and hang out with family, cousins, and friends. Now I'm back and I have to finish a project in the next two days. *sigh*

It's cold in California when you don't have a heater.

Master crastinator

Another great time to blog is when I'm procrastinating. I have 2 assigments due this week (read: before Wednesday cuz this is Thanksgiving week) and a project due next Monday. But since I'm heading to Columbus for Thanksgiving, I really need to get it done this week too. So that's 3 assignments. And I'm here blogging. Whoo hoo! I wanna get out of school.

Yesterday, had a church Thanksgiving potluck. Lots of food. It was good. Lots of leftovers. Then we played poker. And I lost $5.

I wanna play football this Thanksgiving.

still waiting

Again, waiting for my group members. I find this is a good time to blog.

My high school's 5th year reunion is coming up. It's the Saturday after Thanksgiving. I'm not sure if I am going or not. On one hand, I wouldn't mind seeing what other people are up to, but on the other, it's being held in a bar, and I don't drink. And I would rather spend that time with friends and family since I'll only be in Columbus for a few days.

I need some places worth linking to. Everyone that I told to use Mozilla, you can go download Firefox. It's the new browser for Mozilla. It's only a browser though, so if you use Mozilla for email and stuff, you'll need to download Thunderbird also, Mozilla's email app. Goto www.mozilla.org and get Firefox now!

My razor doesn't work. I'm gonna go unshaven until I go back to Columbus and I get another one from my Dad. I could just go buy another one myself, OR buy a regular (non-electric) razor just for the next 3 days, but where is the fun in that?

Thanksgiving potluck at church tonight. Good food, oh yeah. I'm bringing corn.

waiting

I'm waiting for the rest of my project's group members to arrive.

Billy Graham crusade is here in LA this weekend. Some people from church are going tonight. Benny is playing at a friend's party tonight also. I'm here trying to finish a project.

How much time is wasted on waiting? Probably lots. Especially here in LA. So much traffic. We need some private jetpacks or something.

Wednesday, November 17th, 2004 A.D.

Hmmm, 10 days since I last posted. I've been busy with school work. A particular project actually. Didn't realize how much I disliked school. Parts of school, I guess. I wonder if I would feel the same if I had gone straight into grad school instead of going to Taiwan for 6 months. You know what they say (and by "they", I mean "I have no idea who they is"), after you start working or whatever, your lifestyle changes and it's hard to go back to the "student" lifestyle. Sherry, what are your experiences with this?

SCUBA diving was fun, but tiring. I almost died out there. It's pretty hard to swim with 40 lbs. of stuff strapped to your body. I'm really looking forward to going home for Thanksgiving, because 1) who doesn't like vacations? (except Dad) and 2) my part of the project should be done by then.

I want to play the single player for Halo 2. And I want to play Half Life 2. And I want to get this stupid project done. And graduate school. And be taller. And I wish my girlfriend lived in California. Ah, so many dreams.

Let's go out for some smog-filled air

I went to see Sam's musical today. His high-school was putting on "Miss Nelson is Missing" and Dwa-yi, Joe, Kathy, the 3 "future stunt doubles", Karyn and I went to watch. Good musical. Reminds me of when I used to play in the pit orchestra for our high-school musicals. Their theater is not as big as ours. It probably seats about 300-400. And it's brand new. Which tells me that California high-schools are not used to the 1000+ auditoriums that are common in Ohio. Anyway, one thing that I talked with Sam about was that they do not have a cafeteria. They just sit at the outside tables. Nobody sits inside to eat lunch. And their buildings are not all connected. So you have to walk outside to switch classes (possibly). This was similar to Taiwan where the whole building was basically outdoors. The hallways were not "enclosed". Basically it was just a collection of classrooms. Once you exited the classroom, you were outside. Places that have nice year-round weather can afford these luxuries. Very different from "when I was their age."

The size of the United States, and the money really make our lives much more comfortable than in other places in the world. You really, really realize it once you leave the country.

The incredible Incredibles

I saw The Incredibles last night. I have to say that in my opinion, this is the best Pixar movie so far. It was that good. Hilarious moments, great pacing, animation is awesome as usual, and great plot. This is the reason Pixar is where it is, and the Final Fantasy movie sucked. Pixar starts with a great story and then does everything else. They know if they don't have a good plot, the movie will suck.

If you watch the movie, don't stay until the end of credits. There's nothing to be seen. There's also no outtakes in this movie. Minor disappointment in what is otherwise the best movie this year probably.

If you see the movie, notice the part where the Mom looks at the computer screen to figure out where the Dad is. I was thinking, "That is so not real." There is no program that I think is that user-friendly. What are the odds that you randomly are given a computer screen of someone at work, and you will be able to interpret it in a few seconds time? That doesn't happen in real life. No wonder computers are so hard to use.