New webcam
August 28, 2002
celebrating the wackiness that is grand theft auto 3.
Edit - 2002/09/22
I was referring to this picture.
It’s been 5 days?
August 27, 2002
It didn’t seem like this long has past since last time. Ah well. Thankfully(?) there’s nothing significant to write about.
We bought Grand Theft Auto today and a new gamepad to go along. Playing it on 1600×1200 is sweet. I didn’t think this game would be so addicting but I’ve been playing it all day. Eri played it a few times but all she did was kill people and drive the taxi and ambulance for awhile. It’s weird, she rushes the ambulance around to save people but she ends up killing a dozen on the way to the hospital. Oh well. As for me, I’m running through each mission as fast as I can. I’m anxious to see the Yakuza.
This week will be the end of this busy season. The week after will be pretty much the last mile for me at this job. Doh.
Hi
August 22, 2002
We just got back from the PNE. It’s been about 4 years since I went and it’s still exactly as I remember it with the exception of a few different rides. The food pavillion seemed to dissappear too or maybe I just forgot where it was located. The prices are as expensive as ever - $10 freaking dollars for a shitty burger, shitty fries, and a drink. We didn’t go on many rides, actually, we just went on the Coaster. I never liked the rides. It’s a combination of me being a chicken shit, the rides not really differing year to year, and the expensiveness of the passes. I wanted to win Eri a big ass doll but all the dolls were really ugly this year and I figure it would cost $20 to win something decent sized anyway. We just ended up watching a bunch of shows, namely the monster truck rally (sucky and loud), the pig race (too short but the ducks were cute), and the superdogs (sucky but cute). I don’t think I’ll go again until I have kids to bring.
I recommend the movie Rat Race. It’s a comedy featuring many big names in the comedy field. It was gag after gag and each gag was hilarious but I found many famous comedians do not add up to a really funny movie. Each had a strong presence on screen and I think in a way, it took away from the movie. But it was funny. And Jared, some guy from my high school, was in the movie. At least I think it was him.
Lastly, following up on Michelle’s update, I tried Grand Theft Auto 3 for the first time a couple days ago. My god, video games have come a long way since my day. Even from GTA 1 - it was pretty tame by today’s standard. But the third one is just crazy! As much as I think violence is not caused by games and tv, this game may cause me to waver in my view. Verdict: This game is very very fun. It puts into a game what every one of us is thinking about when we’re driving in rush hour. I would love to just gun it on the sidewalk, careless of how many people I squish. Best of all is when you run someone over, back up over them, run them over again and so on. It’s very satisfying.
Cool
August 18, 2002
Everyone Updated
August 17, 2002
So I will do the same.
I spent the day at Victoria working. I, along with three other coworkers took a group of 30 to see the island city. I always like Victoria, no matter how boring it can seem. The day went relatively smoothly except for one girl who got a stomach ache on the ferry. I’m sure she was just looking a lot worse than her condition really was.
I’ve been working pretty long days this week so I’ve been neglecting Eri. I’m gonna spend the weekend with her so hopefully I won’t be contacted so easily (it’ll mean I’m actually out). I’ve also downloaded a lot of OLD songs lately, mostly songs I liked or loved during elementary school and high school but haven’t heard in years. My collection of mp3’s is quickly becoming some sort of diverse 80’s stuff. I mean, when was the last time anyone heard PM Dawn or Erasure?
You care not I see. I hope Dennis’ car wasn’t too hard to clean.
Signs
August 14, 2002
We saw it last night. Contrary to what everyone is saying, it is a very good movie and the ending IS very good. I don’t understand why people didn’t enjoy it because it was a very cleverly written story. Albeit it wasn’t a scary movie per se, but I don’t think the point of it was to be a scary movie. If you consider Shyamalan’s previous two movies, they weren’t very scary either. They were more of a thinking movie… Ok, in Sixth Sense, people were scared senseless by the many BOO scenes, but in the end, you were thinking about how the doctor didn’t interact with any living being except Cole. In Unbreakable (my favourite of the three), if you know anything about comics, you’ll understand the intricacies of the hero and villain conflicts. In Signs, the somewhat religious overtones worked well even if you’re atheist or agnostic because in the end, ALL the little stories and scenes came together to thwart the invasion.
All things considered, it was a very good movie. I still like Unbreakable more. I had written a big essay about the movie but decided it spoilt it too much so just go watch it.
Fireworks
August 11, 2002
Today I witnessed my worst pet peeve: big crowds. We had planned to watch the big fireworks finale all week and originally, I thought I would just take Eri to Jericho or maybe Kits to see it. Granted the view isn’t spectacular from these two locations, but the traffic is a lot less heavy. However, Benny invited us to go with him to English Bay today and seeing how I’m always busy when he asks to go out, I promised I would go. So we did.
I parked in the parkade under Eatons (actually, it’s Sears now) and we walked all the way down Robson to get to the beach. Everything up to this point was relatively fine. There were many people walking on the sidewalks but none were too unruly. The problems started when we actually got to English Bay. For some stupid reason, they put up fences around the sand. Why would you want to fence in 100,000 people? They made a few entrances onto the beach, each about 6 feet in width. Imagine thousands of people going into entrances 6 feet in width and you’ll begin to get the idea. Ideally, and theoretically, if everyone walked and NO ONE budged, pushed, shoved, or prodded, people would get onto the beach very efficiently and no one would be mad but throw in what I call the BIG FUCKING ASSHOLE factor and you get one big mess. People kept pushing and pushing. One european lady behind me was holding out her elbow as if it were a lance and kept spearing me with it. I got pissed off because she did this for 6 meters (which took about 5 minutes to travel) so I stood my ground, bent my knees and just made sure she could not move. Then she just shoved her stumpy body to whoever was beside me. If she had only lowered her stupid elbow, I wouldn’t have been pissed. I understand the mentality that people want a good seat and therefore are pushing to get by but please, no pointy objects. I really wanted to just elbow her back in her nose.
Canada won by the way. The fireworks were nice. They were as nice as fireworks can be… you know, flashy explosions containing millions of dollars worth of chemicals.
Leaving the beach was exactly the same as entering. More shoving, more morons, more elbow spears, and a bitch who pushed Eri this time. That got me pissed but it was some short asian girl with a stupid “it’s not my fault” attitude. Fuck you bitch. We walked through an alley running parallel to Robson and that saved us a lot of time. By the time I got back to the car, I was a fireworks display with a short fuse or a loose trigger. We drove out and of course, at one green light (Robson and Howe maybe…), NO cars went through because more morons crossed when they shouldn’t have. At Nelson and Seymour, some kids made some stupid scary faces and stupid noises and us. I would have honestly killed them if there were no consequences. I would have really murdered them cold blooded. One more episode. As I was crossing a green, two really stupid white guys dashed across the street in front of my car. Again, I would have loved to run them over if I didn’t have to go to jail or pay money or whatever. I would gladly rid the world of people who can’t wait fucking 2 minutes for the light to change. Don’t bother to point out the irony of me not waiting 2 seconds for them to cross because I did wait when my light was red.
So we got home relatively fast because we parked so far away. I hate fireworks now. I hate big crowds. I’m really pissed and stressed. I hate big crowds.
God I have a bad temper. It’s just people… calm down dude. Ah fuck off. Here’s a new webcam to show you exactly how I feel.
I AM ARNIE!
August 09, 2002
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Today
August 08, 2002
We went to watch the fireworks with some friends last night. It was the first fireworks I have seen in many many years. I didn’t enjoy the fireworks so much because to me, fireworks are fireworks. Whether they’re from Italy, Canada, or Spain, they’re still just colorful sparkles that make big noises and cause a lot of traffic hassles and underage drinking problems. The only thing I enjoyed was being with Eri. She had been wanting to go for the longest time but I’ve just been putting it off. Anyways, I’m glad that we went because they were pretty nice in a flashy light sort of way. I wish I brought my camera because this house near the beach was selling hot dogs and drinks out of their front lawn. What opportunistic people they are. I envy them.
Thank you Michelle for updating so much. I always enjoy your updates even if sometimes I don’t know what the heck you’re talking about. Keep writing ok? Don’t leave me hanging like the rest of these boys. Ok maybe Dennis is off the hook since he’s struck with diarrhea or something. And Justin updates often too. So all in all, I guess there’s enough to read. I would be interested as to how’s everyone doing. I just found out David is back in Vancouver. I’m so out of the loop (if the loop still exists anymore).
No matter. I’ll fill you guys about me. Working and being with Eri and not frequently being with some friends. It’s mostly work lately. I’m exhausted to the brink of being sick. I also got badly sunburnt on Friday but now it’s ok. The burned areas are now a nice nice tan that I wish covered my entire body. What else… I’m still playing with my laptop. I connected it to the internet for the first time today at work. I’m playing some quake 3 too! It runs so smoothly on all the highest graphic settings. Finally, it looks nice and it runs great. I had a mini-LAN party with two people who have never played quake in their lives. I of course mutilated them (because I’m mean) but they still enjoyed shooting the hell out of each other. I still want to play Red Alert 2 though.
And yet another webcam pic catching Eri by surprise.
Buhhh
August 07, 2002
Why is it everytime I want to update, I have nothing to write about. Why is it I always have so much stuff I want to write about when I don’t feel like writing? This reality is too complicated to be real and it’s also too simple to be fictional. Can anyone explain?
Nevermind
August 02, 2002
Nevermind, I got the game to work now. Sweet. Only problem is that no one I know likes playing the game. A bigger problem is that my roommate (Eri), doesn’t like violent games at all. That more or less eliminates games in general. But if anyone wants a game of RA2 versus me (I’m a really good newbie), then knock on my door and I’ll nuke you back home. Maybe I’ll burn myself a quake 3 disk.
Yay, thanks Dennis
Dennis tells me to something about connecting my computers together and then it works. I should’ve asked him 5 hours before. Oh well. It was a good learning experience. I finally have my own lan. It’s kinda neat.
I was just sending files from my desktop to the laptop all night. Only two things came up: 1. my photoshop CD doesn’t work on my laptop, and 2. I tried running Red Alert 2 multiplayer but the desktop didn’t recognize the network card (what is an IPX socket and why won’t RA2 recognize it?). I hope that’s the only game that’s not working.
Anyways, thanks Dennis!
Hey
August 01, 2002
My computer is acting up again. I think this time my power supply is gonna die. It happened before last year. The computer just wouldn’t boot no matter what I did. I had to replace the power supply to get it to work. So far it reboots at random, I just have to be patient and turn the power on and off about 10 times. Speaking of dead power supplies, Dennis’ webpage is back up. Anyways, if I don’t appear to be on Messenger or ICQ, then the power supply probably electrocuted me and set my place on fire.
New webcam pic.
That’s all. I’m sleeping now.
Hey Michelle’s back!
Welcome back!
Sweet…
My laptop came today! What a nice surprise. Only I don’t have a USB joystick to enjoy any games right now except Simcity 3000. Yay. They didn’t ship me those color palm rests though. I’m on their case. I’m gonna buy that zip drive, a joystick, and maybe a router.
