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June 27, 2001

My computer is too slow. The hard drive is running out of space. And still, I’m too cash strapped to buy anything. But that’s alright. There are zero games on my computer right now.

I even uninstalled System Shock 2 because I just don’t have time to play it anymore. Maybe it’s time to buy another cheap game.

I’m off to Banff again from Friday through Monday. Nice little 4 day paid getaway I guess. Then after that it’s more work more work more work. Work is a lot better lately.

Um… I’m doing a lot more reading too lately. I dug out accounting books from my first financial accounting class to review all the basic concepts and how to do certain stuff. Fun fun. I’m reading/learning about different investment possibilities. Did you know bond returns fluctuate too? Even though they have fixed interest, their real returns can be almost as volatile as stocks. I never knew that.

And I got some photos from the dragonboat weekend but since I haven’t posted any pics up on this webpage yet, I’m not about to begin. Oh well.

I’m tired.

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June 24, 2001

Sigh…

sigh…

Today’s dragonboat racing was very disappointing to say the least. Really, it was painstakingly painfully painful. In our race, we had the fastest time out of all the boats so we were in a very good position to win that round. If we placed 1st or 2nd in that race, we would have made it to the final round.

So here’s what happened.

The race started with a bang (literally). We pulled to a very early strong start and were in the lead. By the mid point or so, we realized the race had been halted. We were really pissed off because we were afterall, going to win the race. Anyways, our team shook it off and headed back to the start line. We waited for the race after us to commence before we restarted.

Finally, it was our re-race. Bang! Again we pulled a very strong early start and were making big leaps. We were really ahead of the next boat. We were going to win FOR SURE. Then… then… sigh… then we hear the announcers yell “Hold the boat” – basically it’s like putting a stop sign in front of a car. So our caller tells us to stop. We do. In fact, when we didn’t paddle, we were still in the lead for a good while.

Then after what seemed like a long period of confusion, our caller told us to go for it. But this time it was too late. 2 other teams had gone past us already. We had lost that race.

So here’s what really happened.

In the first race, one of the boats collided with another. The refs restarted because of this. In the second race, the same boat collided with I think the same boat from before. But the thing is, a restarted race cannot be restarted, so it was to continue.

What pissed us off were these points:

Our whole team wasn’t in a good mood. Most of the girls were crying, most of the guys were really pissed off. I blew up at someone.

Anyways, our guest team from L.A. were really nice to us and even made an archway with their paddles for us to cross under. We soon cooled down and spent the rest of the afternoon knowing that race was ours and we actually won a race.

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June 23, 2001

2 updates in 2 days. That’s a first in a long time.

Today was our team’s first race day. Our first race, all novice teams, we placed 7th out of 9. Our start really sucked but our finish wasn’t bad, we pulled ahead a lot during the end. Our next race, we placed 4th out of 9. Our start here was really good but our finish didn’t seem that good. Our times were 2.15 and 2.11 respectively. Not bad for a newbie team. The funny thing was, in our second race, we did a lot better even though they bumped us up to the next tier. We were supposed to be in Novice, but we were bumped up to Recreational B (higher than A, goes up to E before the next tier). Neato-riffic!

Since I woke up at 6:30am, here I am feeling really really tired at night not wanting to do stupid webpages for a certain ubc club. There’s tomorrow. Actually there’s a paddler’s party after the races tomorrow. Ack.

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June 22, 2001

Good afternoon my pretties. I believe I will start this update off with another bitch session. They’re more interesting than my normal doses of writing, are they not?

It all began yesterday. Yesterday I worked 11 hours. We had this big party last night till 12 at the Grad Centre ballroom. The whole thing was awesome. Tonnes of people showed up, more than the 250 tickets we sold. There was a bar and an enclosed area for all people who are drinking because there are some regulations against having minors in area with alcohol.

Ok, here’s where another asshole shows up. He sits next to the railing that divides the alcohol and the non-alcohol. My coworker tells me to watch this guy and 10 seconds after she says it, this guy leaves his cup behind the railing, walks around to the non-alcohol side, and leans over and grabs his cup again. Wrong move buddy.

So I go over and ask him to either go back into the ‘pen’ or not drink here. He starts yelling and saying this rule is stupid because it’s the same place (he moved basically 2 feet to the other side). You know, he’s right. It is a stupid rule. But you know what? Rules are rules. If the ELI were to be caught breaking this alcohol rule, we’d get in deep shit. Chances are, if we were caught, all future events like these would be cancelled indefinitely.

Anyway I was really nice to this guy. I told him that I understand what he was feeling because I think it’s a stupid rule too. But I told him that we have to follow these rules and etc etc. He mumbles something nasty and stomps away. What a loser.

And then I go back to the coworker and tell her what happened. She then tells me that he told her off earlier – “Fuck off!” he said. What a fucker! I felt so bad for my coworker because it was her first time really working at this job and it’s such a pity that she meets this asshole on her first day.

So then I tell another coworker who decides we need to tell our supervisor. Heh heh. Then he (supervisor) tells us that any student who is rude to a staff member can be expelled from the program. Heh heh. I love that rule. It basically means any student I see must be nice to me or else they could get kicked out. I never knew that.

I knew this guy for awhile. I picked him up at the airport earlier this year. I of course was really courteous and showed him nothing but hospitality, but this guy isn’t friendly at all. The fact the he blew up towards a girl over a small rule shows what a little little man he is. He is quite little too. Funny thing is, it seems that he thinks quite highly of himself.

Now let’s talk things other than nasty people. I’m going to Banff for work on June 29th through July 2nd. Yay! Good pay and get to get away from Vancouver. I always like to get away. And this time, we’re only bringing 36 people max so the stress level will go down a lot. So yay for me.

I got up at 3:30am on wednesday morning to register my courses. I didn’t get everything I wanted but still got a pretty good first term. Earliest 8:30, latest 1pm – only 2 8:30′s too. Term 2 isn’t that good but I get Friday’s off. In my 3 years at UBC I’ve never had a weekday off until now. Yay.

Still, I’m shaking in my boots because I have 4 accounting courses (compared to 2 last term), 2 managements, 2 laws, a mis, and an english correspondence. Ok I’m just scared at those accountings. Something like Financial Acct Advanced II, Financial Statement analysis, Principles of Auditing, and Tax Something Decisions Something something. The two laws are Business Associations and Land law (money in real estate!). The rest I don’t really give a rat’s ass.

I’m excited though. It sounds like a good mix of business stuff which I now love more than ever.

Oh yes. Today is the first day of the Alcan Dragonboat Festival, but the races begin tomorrow. Our team (Dragon Along @ UBC) races at 9:24pm (lane 10 I think) and sometime afternoon. I want to see all my friends out there yelling out my team name and cheering us on. If you’re there, I will be happy. If I’m happy, I tend to be more generous. If I’m generous, I tend to buy drinks for my friends.

It’s been a crazy few days.

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June 19, 2001

I would like to take this update and do some serious bitching about people that really make me mad.

Yesterday, I was in charge of this beach volleyball barbeque all day. A small team got everything together and hauled a shitload of stuff down to Jericho and set everything up. We started our big-ass coal grill fired up at around 3pm, in anticipation of a 4pm arrival of people. It does take about 1 hour to get that grill really going so it was perfect.

What wasn’t perfect was that at 4pm, not as many people came as I thought would so our really fabulous fire was burning for nothing but maybe 20 people. By the next wave of people at 6pm, our fire was dying and we didn’t have any coal left. We quickly went out and bought a few more bags of coal right as the next maybe 50 people came.

Of course, cooking for 70 people is a lot more hectic than 20. And of course, because our fire was dying out, we stopped cooking to replace coals. Of course, because these new coals weren’t lit up yet, people had to wait longer. Most people were really nice about it because they knew we were doing the best we can given the situation.

So here we are, waiting for the coals to really start burning instead of just flaming, me and another coworker are kind of stressed because there’s a bunch of people crowding around the grill waiting for their half cooked burgers. Then I hear these 2 assholes talk.

“They should add more coal.”
“Yeah. They don’t even know how to do a barbeque.”

When I heard that I felt all the blood in my body go inward towards the organs – an instinct that protects the vital body parts by keeping blood circulation. Basically, I was really really pissed off at these assholes. One of them was a bitch mind you. I was pissed off because they don’t even know what they’re talking about. When a pile of coals are starting up, you don’t hurry it up by adding more coal. A similar picture would be like adding more water to hurry up water that’s trying to boil (I know, adding coal won’t really decrease the temperature much, but you get the idea).

And the fact that we are here, cooking for them, really made me angry. When someone does something for me, I don’t complain at what methods they use as long as they get the work done. How rude would I be if I were to go to someone and say, “the way you’re doing that is wrong. but thanks for doing that for me.”

I know the guy, but not well. He never seemed to be such an ass during the times that I’ve talked to him. The bitch however, was always a bitch to me. She sports this big big attitute problem that just screams, “I’m better than you.” But she’s not. She’s nowhere near what she thinks she is. I don’t like myself for it, but I honestly hate her. But since I’m working, I have to put up with shit like her.

Anyways, I spoke to them in a kind of pissy mood. Saying, “I know you guys have been waiting a long time, and I’m really sorry. But we can’t hurry this up so just please be patient. We’re doing the best we can” or something to that effect.

Aargh. Maybe it was just stressed. But I really hate those two now. Oh well

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June 15, 2001

Hi. Ack. I kept having this feeling that something was going to happen today – June 15th. But there’s half an hour left and nothing has happened. Oh well. It wasn’t a good feeling anyway.

There are 3 dragonboat practices left before the race weekend. Tomorrow will be the last 7:30am practice for at least a month hopefully. I hate waking up at 6am. I really hate it. If I had it my way, I’d bring the practice to my bed or maybe everyone allow me to sleep while they paddle. It’s amazing how many people I see during the mandatory practices. I saw so many people that I’d never think dragonboat that do. I saw some people I haven’t seen since high school who dragonboat. Dragonboat is some magical, mystical force that brings the past to the present. Really.

After two weeks of not working much (I’m not bitter), things are once again picking up. My agenda is filled with dates and times and scribbles of things I need to do. And I need to register soon. I have no idea what electives to take. Everyone is taking weird courses like Family Studies or Astronomy or Astrology or Toe Clipping. I don’t want to take courses that I won’t benefit from or that I don’t have interest in. Maybe I’ll take a biochemistry. Hahaha that’d be the day.

Geez this is a boring update. I guess it’s better than NOT updating (hint hint you guys).

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June 11, 2001

I don’t update much anymore. Lack of interest really. There’s just not much to say anymore about the things I used to talk about. But here’s another episode nonetheless.

I haven’t worked much this week. I don’t know… lately I’ve been feeling that it’s time for me to move onto another position. It just feels like I’ve been there long enough. But this job has made me very picky now – I looked at a whole bunch of postings everywhere and it seems nothing compares to this job.

I’m getting really sick of this design. It’s just boring. I never liked it to begin with and it doesn’t work properly under many browsers/computers. I’m going to change it. I might as well, I have all this time lately.

I’ve been reading this book, Rich Dad, Poor Dad, and it’s a very good book. Totally made me realize things that I knew, but never understood. It’s a book that teaches about money. It’s quite broad in that it covers a lot of concepts so it can’t really be summarized well. I suggest this.

This book is so good that it has re-energized my reasons on why I should go to school and why I love what I’m studying. Last year, I just didn’t give a rat’s ass about my studying (and hence my less than acceptable grades), but now I have the motivation I need to jumpstart things. This boy is going places – you heard it here first.

I’ve also been playing System Shock 2. It’s an amazing game. It’s and fps in the most general sense: you’re looking through the first person view and you do shoot stuff, but that’s where this game and a fps end being similar. This game is scary. It is very scary. Playing with the lights out at night and speakers turned up makes even the bravest souls wince with fear and delight. It’s absolutely awesome. It took me somewhere in the neighborhood of 17 or 18 hours to complete (not in one go). Incidentally, this game only costs about $10 in its EA Classics form. I suggest this.

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some stuff

June 01, 2001

This is kind of fun – Bejeweled

And then here are some interesting links

These spin doctors suck
Here it is. Royal Bank (my bank) is increasing prices on some services. Their line to make this price increase sound good?

Bringing Better Value
That’s ridiculous! How can they bring more value on existing services by increasing price??? Value is basically the best amount of goods/services you can get for a set amount of money. So increasing their price really means lowering value. Any B.Comm student knows that. Right?

I hope those spin doctors get fired for that.

Things to see

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stopping a country from having sex

a href=”http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20010712/hl/sex_3.html”>Good luck Kenya!


First The Cover Story—
This is the most heartwarming story since the days of Homeward Bound and its predecessor The Incredible Journey. How warm and fuzzy is this?

Then A Barrage of Other Crap

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