Konichiwa, ore no tomodachi
December 31, 1999
In 24hr45m, I will start my first Japanese class! Ganbarimasu! That’s all.
Oh yes, greetings to Andrew who loyally visits my webpage all the time at work and tells me to update all the time. Thank you for your continued use of this webpage! It is rare to find such loyal visitors – or maybe he’s just so bored and normally wouldn’t visit. No matter. I wonder how many of you are as great a web visitor as he is?
My domain, jvision.ca is now up. Actually it’s been up for a few days already but I’ve been so busy with school/work/work webpage that it’s going to be such a long delay before anything worthwhile will be up. I separated work and work webpage because I do the webpage at home. I’ve logged over 10 hours (probably around 18) but I only wrote down 6 because I feel too guilty getting paid all that for all the fun I’m having doing the thing. Granted I don’t code myself but who cares. I never really understood why it’s ‘bad’ to use a wysiwyg.
Something about messy code, but when you visit a webpage, you don’t really look at the code anyways right? Your browser does that for you. So then I think maybe if the code’s well written, the browser will display faster. But really… how much faster will it be? I think marginally. That’s a commerce student’s thoughts on that. So… now I ask you com sci guys… what are the adverse effects of using a wysiwyg? As with everything else in the world, probably the business student’s view is so far off the reality.
It’s been three weeks into the real new millenium and I’m having a great time! School is a bitch but an interesting one nonetheless. As usual I’m behind on my readings and homework but this term, not that far off. I’m only about a chapter behind in 2 courses and caught up in another. The other two are write-offs ever since september.
So it turns out I’ll have to re-take 3 courses to qualify as a CMA. I don’t know about CA. I’m finding a CMA more interesting and the correct choice for someone of my interest and work ethic.
And… I think that’s all I have to say. I think Andrew is supposed to drive me to a bar tonight. What a guy; visits my webpage so constantly at work AND drives me to a bar so that I can drink. Three cheers for Andrew! Hip Hip Hooray. Hip hip Hooray!
Enter the Future
Conan O’Brien’s “In The Year 2000″ bit is now obsolete. What once was a childhood dream, now is reality – living in the year 2001. Disney movies such as 2001: A Space Oddysey now look pathetic compared to today’s technology.
My friends, welcome to the future.
Yesternight marked the annual event that is held in a little basement of a little town in this little world. The event: DF2k1. The place: my house (sadly). 19 people came: some left early (sorry to all you bored people), some left late, some left unconsciously. I hosted the event somewhat so sadly I couldn’t drink as much as I wanted to since I needed to maintain control over people. Most people probably got buzzed, a few were plastered to the walls, one guy slept on my lawn for awhile. Conclusion: I guess it was a pretty ok party. The countdown kind of sucked. You’d think that 10, 9, 8… bit would be the highlight, but only me and eri were kissing at the stroke of midnight.
I should have taken pictures but alas, I was too busy bringing out drinks, frowning on spills, and trying to jump from group to group keeping people from being bored. Some group drinking games were played so that was good. Fuck it is hard getting different groups together. I think there were 4 groups plus at least 2 sub-groups within those groups. That’s why I don’t like mixing groups – it’s hard to please all and I don’t like people being bored. So I sincerely apologize to those who felt left out or bored last night.
As for pictures, Brian took many intriguing snaps that have people in awkward positions. Justin surprisingly is not involved in any of them. I have them and will post them up but for now, please redirect your browser slightly to Brian’s page for the lowdown.
This Day; This Month; This Year
If you love me as much as everyone else does, you’ll be interested in my resolutions and plans and crap like that. But if you’re part of the puny minority that doesn’t love me, then first: screw you, second: read it anyway for fun.
This day: I spent the early part cleaning up my mess. You bastards left a lot of cans full you know! But it’s ok I guess, it’s expected. I need to get into the whole school loop of waking up early and doing homework and studying – wait.. I don’t do that. But you know what I mean.
This month: I’ve put away the redesign because I don’t think I can do all the things with photoshop that I want so I’ll try to practise some more and maybe get it done soon. I found a good host for my webpage so maybe I’ll just shove this page up there first. I don’t really want to do that though.
This year: well, this term first – I have 2 accounting courses (on the same days) that I MUST positively absolutely do well in if I want a future. No pressure. I’m also planning to take a japanese course with Aaron that begins in 3 weeks. Um… I plan to be with my wife too. Then in the summer, when my wife goes home, I plan to work as much as I can to take up my free time so I won’t be sad that my honey isn’t here. I plan to work out more and get into training again… something very important to me that I’ve neglected for 3 months, 22 days. Incidentally, 3 months and 22 days is exactly the time that I have been with my honey. Coincidence! Then hopefully my baby will be back in August so I’ll be with her. Then I start school again in Sept and hopefully, if I work really hard all summer and don’t spent a dime, I’ll go to Japan in December. Can you imagine that? Me! In Japan! The last time (and only time) I was there, I was in the tokyo airport for 3 hours.
That’s my year. Lots to do. I better get starting… NOW.
Listen up. This is serious.
December 30, 1999
Firstly, I’m probably not going to update until after Jan 1st, so I wish everyone Happy New Year and hope the next millenium will be good for everyone.
One of the first places to enter the new millenium will be Tonga… some obscure country. They’ll hit y2k at 2:00am our time. The FBI and CIA are going to monitor key places around the world as they enter the new millenium. Some notable places to observe are Tokyo, Hong Kong, Kamchutput (spelled wrong for sure, it’s some nuclear missile site in Russia), London, Paris, and then Rio de Janeiro.
Since many of these places uses the same operating systems for their power plants as the USA, monitoring them will give a good idea on how we will be affected.
I know many of you think I’m a paranoid idiot for believing all of this Y2K phenomena. Let’s get it all clear: I do not believe the world is coming to an end. I do not believe aliens or apocalypse are coming to cleanse the earth. I do believe, however, that power MAY go down – briefly hopefully. I hope everyone has at least some food and water stored – if not for Y2K, then for at the least a quake (we are in the ring of fire remember).
If power goes down, telephones, tvs, banks, satellite relay stations and all sorts of communication systems will go down. Water stations cannot operate without power either. Funny how we rely on computers so much now.
If the electronics don’t affect us, human nature may. It’s going to be chaotic in downtown and any area with a lot of people. With alcohol and drugs going around, order won’t be a priority for many. I suggest you stay in quieter areas to celebrate.
Drive carefully. Drive sober. Keep an eye out for yourself and others. This is the extent on what I can do. Just be careful. Whether or not you listen is up to you. I sincerely hope nothing bad happens and we all have a wonderful time celebrating our entry into the 2000th year.
I personally believe nothing major will happen (as many extremists like Gary North predicts). I think power may go down temporarily, and maybe a small riot might break out. Nothing too awful.
Ok, that’s enough of that. See you all later and Happy New Years one more time.
Woohoo! The counter hit 1000!
December 29, 1999
Bored so here i am
December 27, 1999
It’s 10:51pm right now. I’m going skiing tomorrow! Yeah for me! What sucks is that I have to wake up freaking early tomorrow. If I follow my regular sleeping time of 4am, i’ll have about 3 hours of sleep. Sucks. I’m gonna try to sleep at 12, but I know i’ll just end up rolling around, thinking of donuts.
Went to Granville Sushi today. Sucks. I’m beginning to get more bored of sushi everytime I have it. Then tried to find quake 3 at future shop, but they were out. Then went to Sport Chek and bought a pair of ski pants, gloves, and a pair of big ass goggles that engulf my head.
What else? Then went to costco and bought stuff for DF99. Others have said that it should be DF2000 since it does start in 2000. But I don’t care. As long as I open 1 can of beer before 12, it’s still freakin’ DF99. So screw you guys. Hahah.
Why am I writing what i did the entire day here? I don’t know… really really bored. Oh yeah… hotbar.com – skins for your browser.
Blasted Fog
December 26, 1999
This strange fog has been blanketing us for over a week now. In the day, it’s usually not too bad but as night approaches, the fog thickens into a misty soup of blurred vision. It’s actually quite beautiful. It just causes driving to be a bit more dangerous since your range of vision is reduced. So, we did kind of have a white christmas after all. Kind of.
I’m stuck at home today – my mom took may car to work. All the better. Won’t need to be angry at people while trying to find parking at any mall for Boxing Day shopping. Risk being stepped on by the swarms to save the extra 5 or 10%. Nosirreeeeeeee.
I think a family friend is bringing a turkey while we prepare the rest. FF time again.
Hmm… ski trip, DF99, DJ99 (haha). Shit. Gotta get books but don’t even haev a good schedule yet. Soon, I’ll be writing about finishing my finals in April, then summer hops along and hopefully I’ll get a good job.
Yeahday #2 This Month
December 21, 1999
Yeah – finished my last final! No more studying for the rest this millenium! Yeah!
Yeah – got back 2 course marks: 80 and 81% Yeah! I was expecting a 60 or so on one of them. Yeah!
Time to unwind
Christmas
December 19, 1999
It’s Shoo again. With cool purple hair. If you get a chance, see the Love MTV video. She is so gorgeous. Yeah for Shoo!
I don’t think i’m gonna bitch about life today. Even though I most probably failed my comp sci final yesterday and have 300+ pages to read for the final final. Nope… not gonna bitch.
It’s 6 days till xmas. Yippee. (that was a non-excited yippee). Xmas has lost all meaning. It’s all gifts and decorations and shopping malls and boxing day sales now.
At least we have a schedule planned already for the stuff we’re gonna do. Got a couple dinners. Got ski trip. Got DrinkFest ’99 (i’m gonna make a small advertisement for that just for fun). What else? Probably got pool. Got Milk? No that’s not one. Got Quake? … maybe… Got stare at chicks. Got clubbing… maybe. Got making fun of people… definitely. Cool.
Quake III
Had a couple games yesterday. Won them both. One by miraculous comeback. Got a scrnshots of the tallies. Also got a couple weird shots of Quake player towers. You’ll understand what I mean when I put them up. By tonight hopefully.
<12/20/99> – Ok… got those screenshots up now.
Reasons why people go insane
- You have to try on a pair of sunglasses with that stupid little plastic thing in the middle of them.
- The person behind you in the supermarket runs his cart into the back of your ankle.
- The elevator stops on every floor and nobody gets on.
- There’s always a car riding your tail when you’re slowing down to find an address.
- You open a can of soup and the lid falls in.
- It’s bad enougj that you step in dog poop, but you don’t realize it till you walk across your living room rug.
- The tiny red string on the Band-Aid wrapper never works for you.
- There’s a dog in the neighborhood that barks at EVERYTHING.
- You can never put anything back in a box the way it came.
- You drink from a soda can into which someone has extinguished a cigarette.
- You slice your tongue licking an envelope.
- Your tire gauge lets out half the air while you’re trying to get a reading.
- A station comes in brilliantly when you’re standing near the radio but buzzes, drifts and spits every time
- you ove away.
- There are always one or two ice cubes that won’t pop out of the tray.
- You wash a garment with a tissue in the pocket and your entire laundry comes out covered with lint.
- The car behind you blasts its horn because you let a pedestrian finish crossing.
- A piece of foil candy wrapper makes electrical contact with your filling (or braces).
- You set the alarm on your digital clock for 7pm instead of 7am.
- The radio station doesn’t tell you who sang that song.
- You rub on hand cream and can’t turn the bathroom doorknob to get out.
- People behind you on a supermarket line dash ahead of you to a counter just opening up.
- Your glasses slide off your ears when you perspire.
- You can’t look up the correct spelling of a word in the dictionary because you don’t know how to spell it.
- You have to inform five different sales people in the same store that you’re just browsing.
- You had that pen in your hand only a second ago and now you can’t find it.
- You reach under the table to pick something off the floor and smash your head on the way up.
Some Changes
Visited links are now a darker shade of blue. I found the purple really clashed with the rest of the page. Updated Main page. Put up Celebrities pictures which consists of Shoo only right now. Got some screenshots from Q3 last night. Those will be up soon. Message board is back up in case you didn’t know. Um… I think that is it.
Back to studying. Bye.
12/20/99 – Those screenshots are now up!
Yeah and Boo. Tossed day.
December 18, 1999
Yeah: one last final left
Boo: probable failure on today’s cpsc final
Yeah: nearly time to have some well deserved savings
Boo: not enough time to party as much as I want
Yeah: … can’t think of one
Boo: have to study on a Saturday night. Damn.
Yeah: last time this millenium where I’ll have to study on a Saturday night
Boo: plenty of opportunities next millenium to study on Saturday nights
Yeah: quake tonight
Boo: got nowhere to go on a Saturday night so have to quake
Hmm… My webpage format is too chaotic
December 16, 1999
Ok. The Main page is where I write bigger, more interesting stuff. Here is where I post small update notices and worldly events. I feel like writing about daily stuff but not sure where to put them. Here would be the best spot. I don’t want to update the Main page everyday because I actually want people to read it… that’s where my ideas and crap and rants and bitching. The Message board is where you people can input.
Most webpages have a main page that they put a date up, write the stuff and repeat. So you just scroll down for previous posts. I kinda wanna do that here too. This page is too insignificant. The Main page is too important. If I put up another page, it’ll look stupid.
Finally fixed it
Yeah. The message board is finally fixed. Blah. Sucks.
Crud
December 15, 1999
Damn. I think I failed my econ final. If not fail, then maybe 51%. Damn. All that studying for nothing. I learned six chapters worth of stuff in two days. Not bad huh? Glad I didn’t go to class since October. Just wish I didn’t procrastinate until the last two days to study. Damn. Oh well.
The ends justify the means.
I like that saying. Second time I said it lately. Aargh. I’m running on low battery again: finals = -(sleep).
Supposedly, it snowed a bit this morning, early morning. We’re talking 8:30am morning. Thank god I sleep until 12:00 nowadays. But it is chillier than I remember for mid-December. I guess snowing here means that the mountains will have a lot of snow. That’s good cuz I’m really looking forward to that ski trip in a couple weeks with good friends.
Ahh. Only 2 more finals. One of which I’m dead (comp sci) and the other of which I just need to read 900 pages. Literally, 900 pages. Crazy crazy commerce. I’ve been having doubts on why the hell I’m in it anyway? $$$? Why didn’t I go for something fun like human kinetics? That would be so fun. Commerce isn’t all bad… at least there’s some eye candy. Now I must stress the some because it really isn’t very much. Some is better than none I guess. It just turns out that I’m stuck mostly in classes without any of that some. Sucks to be me. I’ve been saying that a lot too.
What else is new? The message board is still fucked up. The guestbook is funny. No new pics or links or writings or anything. I hate finals. Stupid finals, make me neglect webpage. I’m gonna work on a new webpage during the break, either a new homepage or dig that Beyond Reality webpage idea I had and work on it. That’s been collecting dust on my hard drive. Hmm… that metaphor didn’t make too much sense.
I’ve been getting this stupid feeling of loneliness. Sucks. I guess I can’t be happy being single ALL the time. But mostly I am. Just miss talking to someone I like I guess. Sucks. Well, maybe a new millenium will bring forth baskets of donuts for us all. Maybe not. Oh god please don’t let me be stuck at home.
Hey that reminds me. I’ve realized that I don’t have too many friends. Not by force, but by choice. I don’t like making conversations. I’m more of a listener than a talker. I can be when the need arises but in class, I usually say nothing and take notes or doodle. That’s probably the biggest thing holding me back from meeting people. Another thing may be that I feel more than half the people you meet will not end up as friends but only as people you say hi to in hallways or maybe go grab a bubble tea with once a year.
What does this lead to? Isolation. I’m a lost person. Advice: do’nt be like me. Open up to people. I’m gonna try to do that. If it turns out that I’m being too fake, then screw it, isolation for me. Otherwise, I may end up a bit happier.
I think I’m done babbling now. Time to exercise and then shower.
Peace. Health. Happiness.
Quake
Ah, good stress relief. Failed a final today. So took it out on Indigo. Played two games, 1 for 2. Got some screenshots.
Earthquake
December 11, 1999
Someone messaged me this morning saying that he felt the quake. I just woke up at the time and wondered what the hell he was talking about. So… I looked it up.
From www.mybc.com:
VICTORIA (CKNW/AM980) — An earthquake measuring four on the Richter scale has given a good jolt to Victoria, the Lower Mainland and Fraser Valley. It hit just before 5:00 a.m. this morning, and callers say it lasted roughly five seconds. Taimi Mulder, a seismologist with the Pacific Geo-Science Centre, says she doesn’t expect aftershocks. The tremor was centred deep underground about 10 kilometres northeast of Victoria. There are no reports of damage or injury.
Yeah Day #1 of this month
December 10, 1999
Finally, I’m blessed with a good day today. I don’t remember the last good day I had but I do remember the worst day I had in this while. Anyway, I’m calling good days Yeah Days now. Usually I just bitch about stuff on this page, but today I’m gonna speak about the good stuff that happened.
It kinda sucked first because only got a few hours of sleep… studied till 2am last night. Well, got up, went to Andrew’s, went to Kevin’s, then to school with the carpool. Wrote the stupid exam. It wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be: quite confident… I just hope I didn’t jinx myself.
Then after that, went home, then daddy drove me to DMV. Got my license back (didn’t have to take another pic – used old "good" one. yeah!). Ate dim sum. Got my car. Drove to metro. Shopped with Jess for a little bit. Stared at girls. Then drove to Oakridge. Picked up mommy and sister and sister’s friend. Then got pizza. Then got home <yeah!>. Then ate 3 pizzas. Then drank some pepsi. Then writing this. The will go to shoot pool tonight. <yeah!>. Then will probably go to have drinks or food. <Yeah!>. Then will go home. Then will sleep good.
Yeah days are fun.
Ahhh. Three more exams to go. Two hard ones and one straight memorizing one. Then there’s a ski trip planned. Then there’s DrinkFest ’99. Then the millenium ends. Then I start a new year and try to resolve issues such as procrastination, laziness, skipping-class-ness, and try to exercise more.
Ok… done. Bye.
T’was the night before Accounting Finals
December 07, 1999
and all through my house, my family was sleeping, but not this poor mouse (Jerry). The study session at D. Lam library proved to be extremely informing – I’m rather screwed for the final. Solution: pull all nighter and study till the crack of dawn, or the crack of my head… whichever comes first. Sigh. Then I’ll have an afternoon to sleep and then one full day of studying before the next final. Most probable is the event of me staying up again to study. At least my finals are spaced out a bit. I have a friend who has a crazy crazy finals’ schedule. Good luck to him. Good luck to me. Good luck to all of us with finals.
To prepare for the upcoming battle with the Sandman, I stowed away safely; one litre of water, a big cannister of cookies and biscuits, and of course, my lovely lovely pack of Du Mauriers – which is dumb because I don’t smoke in the house anyway. Aargh. My first smoke will probably be at the bus stop at 7:30am (only eight hours from now).
Quake, eat, drink, toilet, study, quake, study, study, study, shower, bus, final, home, sleep, sleep, sleep.
This news should’ve been on the main page. It was supposed to be a short rant on how i’m not gonna sleep tonight. Oh well.
Yeah yeah, I know the message board is fucked up. I’ll fix it later. Much later.
I am eating my noodles
December 06, 1999
and listening to an old Dream Theatre album right now. It’s 12:13pm, I’m in my tear-offs and t-shirt, waiting for an Accounting review session. Last count of days to first final – 2.
You all probably heard of the miscommunication of the latest Mars probe… it doesn’t take a rocket scientist to realize that they screwed up AGAIN (Second probe written off in 3 months).
Another school shooting. This time in some small town in Oklahoma. I’m sure this is just the beginning. You know the old saying, “retard see, retard do”. Only way to stop this? Well, DON’T ALLOW PEOPLE TO CARRY GUNS! “It’s in my constitutional rights…” Yes it is, but how many people are willing to give up a life to carry a firearm? I sincerely hope that no one would. These aren’t run-down, end of the road druggies who are getting shot (well I’m sure they are getting shot) but these are school children! Kids! If I ran the show, I’d melt all the guns and make another automobile or something.
Well, you probably noticed that the Message board is all messed up. It shows two of every message you post. Sucks. I’ll fix it when I have time… so don’t expect me to fix it anytime soon. Go write in the guestbook for now. Haha just remember that your IP hostname gets posted there too [esp. dennis haahhaha j/k].
Finally got some Quake 3 screenshots to put up, but haven’t yet. These are hilarious! Do you all remember Duck Hunt for the Nintendo system? Well, me and Dennis invented Duck Hunt 64 ~ a new, improved version played in Q3! No dog though. Hmm, make a dog skin and get a third in to pick up the corpses?
Anyway those will be up soon, by tonight I hope.
Good luck to all of you who have finals. Screw all of you who don’t.
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18:10 – Ok, Put up those screenshots
Bored so here I am
December 04, 1999
Tried to study, but failed miserably. So, I modified the links and links index pages a bit. Probably edit some other stuff too.
Revision of opinion
December 03, 1999
Last night, Steven Seagal was on the Art Bell radio show. After hearing him talk about issues, I have changed my opinion of him. He is in fact a very intellegent, thoughful person (but I still hate his movies). He didn’t seem to have any emotions last night though. However, he does seem to have a very good knowledge of martial arts. He had a view on time warping where he made a reference to the Philadelphia Experiment (194x?). Overall, he’s not as boring as I thought he was, based on his movies.
I didn’t think it was him at all. I listened to him speak for at least 15 minutes before Art says, "Now Steven…" and then I finally realized this was none other than Seagal.
I rant and I bitch only to update this webpage.
December 01, 1999
It’s been a few days since my last rambling and since I got out of school earlier today, well, here I am writing this non-interesting update. There are officially two more days of classes left but for me, only one (I skip on Fridays). Yeah! I have two more assignments due tomorrow and sadly, I haven’t started one and the other is still very incomplete. To top that off, I have two finals next week: Accounting and Decision Making. Yeah.
I’m so stressed. This must be the third time I wrote about my upcoming finals! Aargh. What sucks more is how some people place their values and morals on you when they are extremely unwelcome to do so. I have been feeling that lately and just ignored it since what I do not pay attention to will not bother me. Hopefully that will go away soon.
I hope all of you are faring better than me in studying and piecing together the last assignments. Oh well, at least the Winter break is upon us. Hopefully this year will not bring on mounds of the cold white stuff but just got some new snowtires just in case [even though I don't get my license back till the 8th].
Sadly I have no plans this xmas or new years. Well, my previous plans have been postponed slightly due to unforeseen circumstances. My backup plan is to Quake all day and night. Hmm I hear it’ll be out sometime this week. $$$. That game rocks. More screen shots to come (I always forget to take a screen shot after an impressive frag).
Oh well, it’s finally December ~ the dreariest of months, so take that biggass coat out of the closet, buy some pink mittens, and put on some of those stylish rubber boots in preparation for l’hiver. I plan to bring out them skis and poles, touques and goggles, and burn them for I won’t need them when I’m stuck at home contemplating on whether to redesign this webpage or stick with this design (v1.4???). Anyway enough of me… at least until the next read.
More webpages of the damned
Oh my god! I just found out that Steven Seagal has his own webpage. That guy must be one of the crappiest actors that make million dollar movies. My theory is that he’s a robot programmed with a knowledge of martial arts but the programmers forgot to insert the emotion chip in him. But I guess I got to respect him because he’s an environmental activist. Finally one thing going right for him. Well, check out the page – it’s pretty cool. Warning: FLASH webpage.
Of course, he himself didn’t make the webpage, I think a company called Screen Eye did it. Their webpage is cool too.
Also updated Who Am I page
