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August 5th, 2010 . Posted in Rant | No Comments »

So I got to work late today. Not cool. Even worse, the client I had was sitting there waiting for me. Luckily, she came earlier than our originally scheduled time, AND she only got there a minute before I did. If only I’d gotten it right and clicked on “Snooze” instead of “Disabled”! To quote someone I knew, “The snooze button is the most evil invention there was.”

Today was pretty good. Slowly but surely, I’m getting more work, and that’s good, I guess. Haha! Next time, I’m gonna’ sleep earlier.

Photo of the Year!!!

July 29th, 2010 . Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

Everyone knows my rant against Simplified Chinese characters from my post, “Pinyin and the Supposed “Simplified” Chinese Characters“. But I found a site that delivered it even better than I could:
http://danwei.org/humor/the_chinese_characters_tell.php

Let me just share with you the picture that caught my attention:

PRICELESS!

짭새!

May 26th, 2010 . Posted in Rant | 4 Comments »

If you don’t know Korean, then you can play along:

This person…
Likes to wait at the bottom of the hill…

This person likes to wait for people to drive by…

Likes lights so much, that they put them on their cars…

Like a sales person, this person has to meet quotas every so often…

Any ideas?
You guessed it! A cop waiting for you at the bottom of the hill, and then gives you a ticket for speeding, even when you press your brakes! “Protect and Serve” my ass! They just use this money to fill their coffers, so that they can keep their friggin’ retirement pay, which is 90% of their base pay! Hell, the military at best only gets 75%, and they have to do 30 years for that!

Sick, and Just Not Lucky

May 19th, 2010 . Posted in Rant | No Comments »

It all started yesterday… With a headache… At first, I thought it was because I sat in on a sort of lecture session for 8 hours (with a 1 hour lunch break in between, granted). Or maybe the fact that I didn’t really eat breakfast, and all I had was granola bars, breakfast bars
, and water for lunch.

However, the problem didn’t go away this morning, even after having slept early. It probably didn’t help the fact that I decided to go to McDonalds for lunch today, and then spilled coke all over my car. Wonderful! At least I didn’t get a ticket for going 20mph in a 15mph zone like someone i know did. Unfortunately, I think my bad karma rubbed off on her.

My head still feels wierd, my neck is still in pain, and oh boy, there’s a series of other ailments…

呢尐咩人呀？！

May 14th, 2010 . Posted in Rant | No Comments »
Tags: beef, hawaiian, macdonalds, pizza, pork, 麥當勞

我雂晚有人敲我門。原來係住喺八號嘅코리問我要唔要同佢一齊落pub。我同意並決定扎車去。點知一到就即刻餓。想食尐麥當勞。呢條友話佢屋企有pizza食。我問佢咩pizza？佢話係夏威夷（有菠蘿，豬肉片）。我話唔得，因為我喺嗰個死〔門七〕喺海上浮嘅篤屎住咗三年多，所以唔想食。咁佢問我中唔中意牛肉丸加豬肉pizza。咁我問佢「凈番幾多塊」？佢話“凈番成餅嘢！”
於是我哋返去屋企。一入佢間屋廚房，佢喺雪櫃攞出盒pizza，見係Dominoes就諗「欸。。。都仲算骾得落啊挂。。。」點知一打開。。。
成餅嘢得嗰兩塊牛肉丸遘豬肉，其䬷嗰尐都係夏威夷。
屌啦屘呀我火都來埋。若果唔係靈凌晨兩點嘅話，實喺佢面前爆。
屌。。。！

日清升CUP合味道!!!

May 12th, 2010 . Posted in TV | No Comments »
Tags: 日清升.CUP.合味道

I’m hungry!!!!

Possibly going crazy

May 4th, 2010 . Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Tags: Crazy, job, possiblly, resolution, ubuntu, unemployed, vesa, 有可能, 瘋, 癲, 미쳤다, 아마

When the latest version of Ubuntu (10.04) came out, I was hoping they would have updated drivers for the Intel graphics card for one system. It was a slight upgrade, but instead of fixing my problem of not displaying the screen resolution to the full 1080p like it’s supposed to, I can’t see anything now. That is, I’d have to reboot under “safe graphics mode”, and view some 800×600 image. That’s way worse than what I was getting before. Plus, every single time, I’d have to boot into “safe graphics mode” just to use the damn computer!
This isn’t as bad as my other system, which for some reason couldn’t finish upgrading at all. In fact, it came up with a message that said something to the effect of “Your system is no longer useable.” Great! So now I had to install everything by scratch, and lost a bunch of logues and data.

Computer woes aside, I’m still trying to find a job that pays well. I screwed up my phone interview yesterday, so that job’s probably gone. Looking at the dwindling money in my bank account doesn’t help. This makes me think even more and more about moving back in with parents for financial support, which is very depressing for several reasons:

moving back in with parents. This means…
- I have to listen to my parents nag at me for various things.
- Have to deal with the older sister on some level.

(On the good side though, whenever I’m asked to troubleshoot their computers, I won’t be forced to use GoToMyPC.com to fix their computers. On the other hand, that means I’ll have to fix every damn problem they have.)

Moving back to LA will suck, because that means…
- LA traffic. (I should get my motorcycle License and weave around it.)
- People are paranoid as fuck, and for some reason they think that I’m the type of guy that wants to get in a fight. Fuck you all! Leave me alone!
- If you piss someone off on the road, they’ll follow you home (and then bring some people back with them later in the night). :This has happened to me on more than one occasion:

Thinking about these things is making me go crazy. In fact, I’ve found that I’m beginning to talk to my Cookie Monster figurine.

Yep… Going crazy.

Afghanistan vs Japan

April 16th, 2010 . Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

So I’m watching an old episode of Bill Moyer’s Journal –good show, by the way. This episode originally aired on April 9, 2010, and the guest was Andrew Bacevich, and he echoed something that I’ve been hearing about the War in Afghanistan.
“We’ve been in this war twice as long as we have as WWII.” is one of the phrases I’ve heard somewhere. In this show, Mr. Bacevich has said, “…One of the obvious things about the Afghanistan war that is so striking and yet so frequently overlooked, is we’re now in the ninth year of this war. It is the longest war in American history, and it is a war for which there is no end in sight.”

Now he fought in Vietnam, so one of the things that comes to mind, is one of the former President’s of South Vietnam (who was a former general who came into power through a military coup) –maybe it was Dương Văn Minh– during an archived footage, said something to the degree of “If Americans want to win, they have to strike hard and fast. Because Americans can’t fight long wars. You can fight a war for maybe 4-5 years, but can you go on for 7-10?”

It got me thinking, what if the bomb hadn’t been dropped on Japan back in WWII? We had plans to invade Honshu, and everyone was expecting very heavy casualties. How many more American lives would have been lost? How much longer would it have taken before either side gave up or called for a truce? Would we have given up then too and pulled out like we actually did in Vietnam?

I hate these giant what-if questions normally, but I don’t know… Just got to thinking about it all of a sudden. I’m sure the same issues would have popped up: “For the amount we’ve put into this war, is it really worth it?” “How many more Americans have to die?”

French TV

March 24th, 2010 . Posted in Rant, TV | No Comments »

They take the worst America has to offer, and then dub it in French. They do however have an interesting show on their MCM NETWORK, where they slap copyright protection in the face by mixing up all sorts of songs into a giant hodgepodge of interesting stuff. Truly shows how copyright laws need reform. But back to the music, one song they used a lot was Stromae’s “Alors on danse”

又要捱

March 19th, 2010 . Posted in Rant, The Corporation | No Comments »

真係要退出豫備軍。但係因為收咗佢哋畀嘅”安家費”(即“入伍金”)就要繼續做落去到二零一一年十一月。
一早知道會咁麻煩就唔會逃出現役走入豫備軍啦！送羊入虎。。。
屌。。。！

點解會咁諗呢？　因為為咗佢哋，我每個月都要揸兩個鐘頭車（去往每程嘥成廿蚊美金），呢個禮拜尾因為有人退伍，要著藍軍禮服。本來佢哋應該發出一套畀我哋，但係又慢到柒死 (有啲軍服等到而家都未有)。所以要自己買返一套　（去咗一百卅幾蚊美金！）。今日走咗上去，達到嗰個死柒目的地，發然咗我冇帶到頂帽。屌啦媽呀！已經九死一生喺路上平安無事上咗去啦，有要冒多一次險走返落去！返咗落嚟，而家只能夠等到冇咁塞車，等到啲唔悉得點揸車但係又莫名其妙攞都個駕駛照啲樸街八婆冇咁多嘅時候再上去。

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Photo of the Year!!!

짭새!

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呢尐咩人呀？！

日清升CUP合味道!!!

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