It’s been almost 2 months since my last update, my comp just
keep dying on me until I figured out that it was the power supply.
So finally got my new power supply and so far no big problems
other than the ones caused by xp sp2.

Art Institute
Went during the October break weekend.
Some pics from the museum:


looks like something from a cartoon.


How’d you like to be stab by this dagger.

NBA
I’m sure everyone by now has at lease seen the video of the Piston-Pacer
brawl for a hundred time… The fan who threw the cup was stupid and outta
line, but Artest storming into the stands and going after some random guy
is beyond stupid. He deserves being suspended for the rest of this season.
It wouldn’t be as bad if at lease he went after the right guy. Then there’s
Jermain O’neil who in my opinion took a cheap shot at some guy on the court.
Yes… The guy shouldn’t be there, and he’ll get whatever punishishment for
it on top of getting punch. Still he was standing up and was in no way able
to block or dodge or see the punch. It was lucky Jermain looked like he slipped.
If he hit the thoat, the guy would have died and forget being suspended,
or even playing anymore basketball. Basketball player are physically in shape
and very strong and quick. I wonder if the front 5 rows had shaq like people
or worst 5 rows of martial artists, artest would have to think twice before
going into the stand.  Anyways this was probably the worst thing for all the
fantasy NBA player out there who have the 3 pacers in their team.

Speaking of Fantasy NBA, this year I have a chance of back-to-back
Championship in the highly competitive Eric’s league. I won for the first time
last year and I feel I had a wonderful draft this year. (not perfect but quite nice)
Here’s what my team looks like right now:
Kirk Hinrich, Michael Redd, Manu Ginobili, Rafer Alston
Peja Stojakovic, Drew Gooden, Dwright Howard, Grant Hill
Shaq, Z. Ilgauskas
Jeff McInnis, James Jones, Matt Harpring, Glenn Robinson
Currently in 1st place with a 13 or so point lead but it’s a long season
and some of my player have been struggling lately.

Turtle
The tank is starting to get gross, I think last time I didn’t kill everything off
clean enough so got some left over. Got some new technique to clean the tank
so I’ll try it out this weekend. Saw Allen’s turtle the other day, it look so small
compare to mine… hope my turtles aren’t growing too fast. But it seems I’ll need
a bigger tank real soon. See how that goes.


I think that’s it for now got tons to do
don’t want to write one big update. 

Another day, another entry. I added a bunch more quotes,
close to 30 now I think. I think this one will be a small update.
Not much to it.

Turtles
Well things are coming along I guess nothing really new.
One problem is that I have yet to name them. There are some
suggestions but I have yet to decide so… just for fun I’ll see
what you guys think of these names or if you have suggestions
on them. So far here’s the list, by no means all inclusive.
Ren
Stimpy
Blue
Green
Turtle
Turtle Prime
Bigger One
Smaller One
Spaz
Snarl
Snappy
Dumpy
Smelly
Dumber
Dumberer (WTF)
Gon
Gon II

Pick the two you think is best, doesn’t have to be a pair
you can have Ren and Gon if you want.

Pic of them basking.

Another update, right after one. This one however is just gonna
be some ranting going on. If you don’t wanna read some venting
of frustration then you probably wanna skip this entry altogether.
Now on with the rant.

Rant
What options are there when you want to help someone, but the
message just isn’t reaching him/her. You try and try and try in as
many way to get your message across but the person sees what
he/she wanna see, hear what he/she wanna hear, and do what
he/she wanna do. Most people would say forget it you tried and
the person doesn’t want your help. What happens when the person
say that they wanna change, want you to help… what’s the next
step? Argggggggggggggg  This is sooooooooo frustrating. You
can’t force an ox to drink, but what if the ox is telling you that it’s
dying of thirst? Do you continue to fight this uphill battle or do you
cut your losses and step away… I don’t wanna talk about this
anymore… on to other frusrations.

At the end of summer I had help a relative of mine to build a computer.
So I go on my task to build this computer. This was not the smooth
task as it should have been… Life just doesn’t make things easy for me.
I first got the monitor from Fry’s, the box looked like it had been open
before but the guy said it was new. So when I brought the stuff over
to the relatives house I setup the comp. When I open the box, things
where masking taped together and looked like it had been open. I was
tired and was like forget it. Then I turned on the monitor and found that
there was a black line of pixels in the middle of the screen with some
color distortion in the middle. And…. this pissed me off to no end,
because now I’ll have to repack the thing and go back to the store to
return it and go somewhere else to buy the monitor. OK all that hardware
stuff done and over with, I installed english window xp along with a bunch of
softwares usually needed for school and general use. So it was basically
all setup ready to go. First thing they ask me is where is the chinese.
Well I was at the request of their elders to put english os on because
they just came from China and they’ll need to learn to use the comps
at school. So I told them there wasn’t any chinese… fast-forward to 2
weeks after that day. I went back to check up on the comp and it seems
they got someone to install chinese window xp over everything. BUT
that person didn’t install ANY of the drivers so the comp had no audio,
no LAN, no 3d video, and none of the softwares that I spend most of my
time installing. And at that point I just gave up… I installed the audio and
ethernet card and that will be the end of me helping them with any comp
stuff. Building a comp is easy and somewhat fast, it’s the installing everything
that takes forever. So much of my time wasted and unappreciated.

Martial Arts supposed to cultivates the body and the mind… However I am
finding trouble applying my previous teachings. I had always been interested
in the philosophical side of Martial Arts more so than the physical. Lately…
I just can’t apply any of it anymore… hopefully this will change as time goes
on. On a lighter note, physically I haven’t been sick for awhile. Being healthy
physically is something new to me these years, ride it for all its worth. 

All these emotions… makes a person very tired. I wish I can turn it
into something solid and kick its @$$. Can you tell I have some pent
up steam . You know one of these days, I am gonna go ape$hit again.
That’s right you read correctly AGAIN . I think that’s it for me, until I
have more to rant about in my next update…

I like how I did the update last time so I guess I’ll keep the
same format. Browse through what you like, skip what you
don’t. Pretty easy stuff. New stuff, added a random quote
module. It has some funny quotes, some enlightening, some
I just felt like placing in here for everyone’s enjoyment. I will
try to add new quotes from time to time to keep things fresh.
Anyways here come a short update.


Turtles
Well they are growing…
My finger got bitten by the turtle for the first time, then
a second time, then third…. and so forth
The bigger one has gotten big enough that it’s mouth
is big enough to bit…. and not let go sometime
So when I feed the big one I should be a little more careful.


Rant
Saw the movie Forgotten, pretty good but I noticed something.
You know nowadays when you see a commercial or a preview
for a new movie, those are basically the best scenes in the movie.
Everything else in that movie probably won’t hold up to those scenes.
So if you go to a certain movie thinking it has more of those great
scenes, you’ll likely be a little disappointed.

It’s been a long while since my last update.
Many things had happen during that time…
A little good, a whole lot of bad.

Anyways, here come a long long entry. Since I don’t think everyone who read
this will be interested in everything, I’m dividing this post into sections. Read
what you want easy as that.

Zoo
Went to Brookfield Zoo sometime this summer, didn’t really go early enough to
see everything but saw a good majority of it. Here’s some pictures from the zoo.

Wisconsin Dells
Spent a weekend during Aug. there. Burned $200+ that I didn’t really have to
spend at the time there… j/k hehe. It was money well spent as I really needed a
break from everything during that time. Went to the water park, go cart racing,
and a few other things.

Went to the Mt. Olympus theme park friday and rode on some roller coaster and go carts.

Saturday we went to waterpark as you can see.
 


Sunday morning we ride on the Duck and went to Ripley’s

Just before we leave, me and Allen both bought a pair of baby turtles.
That’s basically the simple version of what happened that weekend.

Turtles
Got two baby red-eared sliders turtles. Officially my first pet as far as I can
remember. (well… I had a caterpillar for like 2 days when I was 7 or 8)
I have to admit that I knew nothing about taking care of turtles. So then
I went to the libary and crammed all the turtle caretaking knowledge I can
into my head. Then I started on my quest to get everything setup. I started
with a 10 gal. tank and a water filter. The turtles needed a place to bask so I
nailed two pieces of wood together and got this.


It was plain and simple. Nothing much but the turtles needed more.
That’s the blueish green turtle, now it’s so much bigger.
Also the water filter wasn’t working correctly so I had to exchange it.

First I got rid of the wood. Then I got some nice looking gravels, a floating dock
for the turtles to bask, a rock cave for them to hide, a water heater, a new
under-water filter, some fake plants and 2 basking lamps. So now it looks like
this.

Now as for the turtles… I got two of them as you already know. A bigger light
green one and a smaller metalic blueish green one. When I first got them, they
didn’t eat at all and was spazing out at everything… As time goes by, they seem
to adjust and started to eat the reptomin. The smaller one has adjusted to
human (or at lease me anyways) and comes up to the glass waiting for food
whenever I go to the tank. The bigger one still spaz out all the time but have to
a degree gotten used to me these few days and will eat off my hand now. They
have gotten bigger and noticably fatter (especially the big one) so I might cut
back just a little on their food. I currently feed them twice daily.

The bigger green one at the corner

This picture would have been better if it was higher and more focus.
(I had to lure them out with a treat while taking the picture with my left hand)
The smaller blueish one on left, the bigger green one on right.
I hope I didn’t traumatize them with the camera flash…

Oh yeah one more thing… it’s been almost a month since I got them, but I have
yet to name them. Any ideas? so far the only suggestion has been Ren and
Stimpy, and Turtle and Turtle Prime?  Anyways maybe you guys got some new
ideas. I think that’s all for the turtles, more infos on future updates.

C.D.
Well I got CD (no it’s not compact disc either). For those who knows well you
know, for those who don’t well too bad  move on to the next topic or
something if you can’t figure it out. I really really hate it…  something that
just does not go away when you want it to. It affects and have affected so
much of who I am. So many things are attached to it that I just have to slowly
attack this thing, one at a time I guess. Arg

Rant
OK… Here’s my rant… that means I am about to just go off and talk about
whatever. It’s like me talking to myself (so it’s real boring stuff, Rant = skip
ahead haha) Here goes…

Human invented languages to express verbally a emotion that they have in their
mind. Somewhere along the line certain words began to hold more importance.
One such word is “sorry”. The word sorry mean feeling sorrow according to the
dictionary. However it now seems to carry so much more important to it. When
someone say sorry, that supposed to make what the person did a little bit
better, a little more acceptable. I personally don’t see why this is… Awhile ago if
any of you remembers, there was a diplomatic incident between Japan and US
over an accident between a fishing boat and submarine. (as correct as I can
remember about the incident) The deal was that Japan wanted a sorry while US
thought sorry means they are responsible and won’t say it. This dragged on for
awhile till a final resolution came about. Seriously tho does sorry really makes
thing any better? Anyways… on to my next rant…

¡u¦]ªG¡vor in english Karma. It’s a buddhist term as most of you probably know.
It recently came into my mind (partly due to watching the movie ¡u¤j°¦¨Ð¡v).
Anyways here’s my take on it… When you do something kind it plants a seed
and it spawns and causes more kindness that’s ¦].(of course the opposite also
holds true for bad) For example, When I was little and still in HK, I would 
sometimes take the bus over walking home from school. The bus do gets full and
sometimes I would give my sit to old ladies coming back from grocery shopping
carrying a lot of bags. For me it was no big deal since it was a super short ride
so I could care less if I stand the whole ride. Sometimes tho it does put the lady
in a better mood than before. So maybe just maybe, that insignificant event
caused the lady to be kind to someone else immediately afterward.That could in
theory cause a chain reaction of kindness which could come back and
unknowingly affect you. (Kinda sound like The Chaos Theory…) This part is the
ªG. So if everyone would just be a little nicer, this world would be a whole lot
better. (Of couse maybe very naive thinking on my part) Why do I think about all
this? Well I wonder… lately things haven’t been well for me.. some coincidental,
some caused indirectly by me, while other are not.. But it makes you think a lot
about things you did in the past and what’s ahead in the future.

Everyone has played Pac-Man… it’s a classic. Did you know that it was originally
named Puck-Man? When the game moved from Japan to US, they feared that
someone with a marker would change the P in “Puck” to er… someother Letter
making Puck-Man to *uck-Man. I myself am actually surprise that they would
even think of that… Anyways just thought you would like to know.

Basketball
Well I’ve mostly if not completely stop playing indoor basketball. That’s right I
have gone back to where it all started for me, my basketball roots is streetball.
When I am playing streetball, it’s a whole other game. I play with people I don’t
know therefore I don’t have to answer to any of them. When I first play ball for
HKSA I have to admit that back then I was wild and selfish. But I could score…
back then tho so could everyone else on the team so my @$$ was on the bench
during most of the inter-school tournements. Under the guidance of the coach. I
learn real quick to become a team player, to pass first shoot later. Of course
things can never ever stay the same. Team play fell out of order and individual
play became the norm for the team. All of a sudden not shooting means not
having the ability to play. I went to the bottom in terms of offensive option.
Worst yet, people started to question my abilities. They think “if you are so
good, prove it”… well I wouldn’t mind if people would actually pass me the
f***ing ball more. Then I get blamed when I play, I get blamed when I don’t.
Anyways it doesn’t really matter anymore I’m having so much fun playing
streetball now. That’s what it’s all about anyways, having fun. It also feels so
good under the sun and with a little wind blowing through cooling you off. It
would be nice to have a water fountain on the court tho as you would naturally
get thirsty from playing. One bad thing about streetball… about a week ago,
this little kid (7 or 8 years old) stole my nice ball. I was playing a full court game
when I saw the kid picked up my ball and took it to the other court to shoot.
Next thing I know when I finished the game, the kid’s gone and my ball’s gone.
That just ruined my week… seriously the ball could be replace but 7 or 8 kid
stealing in broad daylight, that’s just not right.

Cooking
Well I didn’t really cook much if any at all but did make my very first
cheesecakes. I really like it and for a first time, it was a success. (I little less
lemon zest) I made it for my sister’s graduation party and her friends finished the
whole thing. Here’s a picture of it.

Have a couple of recipy of things I want to try but when I have time I guess.

B-Day
Lastly I have to thank all those who remembered my B-day.  (Even if some
were belated… ) Also thanks to the one that sent me those presents, I really
liked them but you really shouldn’t have.

Conclusion
Anyways this post took me awhile to write, feels like I just wrote an essay.
I think this covered some of the stuff that happened to me, since I didn’t want
to vent everything and tried to keep this post as positive as possible. If this is
the only part of the post you read, then let me tell you that you didn’t miss
much hehe. From now on, updates will be more frequent as I don’t feel that
writing essay long post are any fun.

Sick sick and sick… Yep I’m sick Again
Full update when I feel better.

Mini-post,
Made Tiramisu from scratch, meaning I made the lady finger also instead of buying it. Overall I would say that it is 80% perfect. I should have made the lady finger layer a little thicker.



That’s all for this update I guess…

Well there never was a part 2 but anyways here’s the next update…
(For Allen: It’s been a long time since my last update )

Today the invitation for my cousin’s wedding came in from Hong Kong….
Too bad the dinner was 3 days ago…
The invitation was sent like 20+ days ago takes like a month to get here,
did they walk the invitation here or something. In this day and age of modern
technology why is snail mail still taking forever to get here.

Starting to get sick… which I hope I don’t and get better real fast
Anyways not much of an update but I’m on dialup now.

It’s been awhile since I posted so here’s a mini-post part 1.
(but there might not be a part 2 haha)

The committee from this year and next had a nice dinner at
Prof. Wann’s house,but we didn’t take any picture of when
we were preparing the food which would have been nice.

Anyways here’s a random set of pics from the dinner.


Weird picture of me eating something next to Siou


Steam crab… good stuff


Speech time… looks like I was asleep during it…
Which I wasn’t…    really I wasn’t 

I left a little early because I had to drive to Indy Airport to pick up Monique.


Anyways some interesting links:

If I live in Manhattan, I wouldn’t mind going a couple round of this. (dude Jon you should seriously try this, haha)
http://pacmanhattan.com/

Everyone have heard of the phrase “white men can’t jump”.
well…. someone forgot to tell this guy…
http://sublimedirectory.com/stimes/11-24-2003/barney.wmv

that’s it for today’s update… I think

Super nice weather yesterday, it was Purdue’s Spring festival
and the Chinese Calligraphy Club was part of it. It was really fun
We wrote ppl’s name in Chinese Calligraphy along with some henna tattooing. Our table was pretty popular with everyone.
(Oh yeah for those who don’t know I am the VP of the club)

we had a nice spot by the sidewalk under the shades of trees


here’s me doing ppl’s name for a few hours

Me doing another name for this little girl


the president of the club doing the same thing on the
other side of the table as ppl gathers around


some henna tattooing

Henna is this paste that is made of natural stuff which “stains”
your skin for maybe 2-3 weeks. You have to leave the stuff
on your skin for a couple hours and wash it off.


this is what the paste look like on the skin,
after you wash the stuff off you get a darkish brown “tattoo”



After the event I went home and took a long nap and missed dinner

Anyways see I updated