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Name: Clive
Country: Canada
Birthday: 1/13/1985
Interests: Gaming, anime, chatting and women.
Expertise: Gaming, anime, chatting and .... that's it...
Oh yeah, and I fry a pretty mean dumpling.
Occupation: Student
Industry: Engineering
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Member Since:
1/16/2004
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| To the one person who still checks this site...
I now rant exclusively through facebook notes. So add me. And read.
:)
Bye!
(It's been a good run, Xanga. I will always remember you fondly.)
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| WOooOOOoOoOoOOoO!!!
So my bro called me at like 8 or 9 am on boxing day and said "come shopping". Works for me. Since it was so late in the morning, I figured all the good deals would be gone by then, but my bro, being the smart guy he is, decided to hit the A&B sound in north van.. in some.. weird... mall thing. I guess very few ppl know about that one or something cauz when we went in, it was practically empty.
Anyhoo, I asked some employee if they had any of these 37" lcd tvs left in stock ($499!) and, of course, he said they didn't.
My bro also asked an employee about the tv and got the same response. Never taking no for an answer, he asked yet another employee who just came back from the employees-only part of the store if he saw any of the 37" tvs back there... and he did!
Apparently some guy stashed two away in the back of the store... and we scooped them up :D
Powersauce.
So I bought myself a dirt-cheap, half-decent 37" lcd tv this boxing day :)
And since my bro's the awesomely nice guy that he is, he let me 'borrow' some of his extra equipment lying around in his basement... nabbed a nice AV receiver, a subwoofer, a couple of speakers and a bunch of component cables offa him.
Sooo that night, when I got home, I stayed up til the wee hours of the evening putting everything together :O
and... yeah, everything worked.. and looked great!!! The only problem is i assembled the whole thing in the living room... which seemed a bit of a waste since I spend most of my time in my room anyway (despite the fact I'm the only person living in my 2 bed room + den apt right now...)
Soooooo I've spent the last 2 days rearranging, disassembling and reassembling all the furniture in my room in a desperate attempt to cram my new TV and all that audio equipment (along with my ps2 and wii) into my room which already houses my three fish tanks, 21" crt monitor, computer and a twin size bed. Btw, my room is tiny. I seriously do not know ANYONE with a smaller room. I think all my friends have giant rooms because apparently, my room's standard sized.
Anyway, nobody thought I could do it. but...
TA DA!!
I did it! :D :D :D
And I didn't have to huck away any tanks or anything either!! ANNND I stole the leather recliner from the living room and shoved it into a little niche between my bed and a little table thing holding up my 10 gallon tank. So now I can lounge around and watch my tv and play games allllll day. Maximum obesity, here i come!
There's only one major downer with my new setup... there's no room between my computer desk and my bed for a chair.. so to use my desktop PC (like i am right now), I have to sit on the edge of my bed to type :(
The lack of a backrest kinda sucks if i'm at my computer for a long time. but oh well, can't have it all :p
Oh this winter vacation's been pretty awesome so far :)
The perfect mix of parties and alone-time plus new toys = whooooop!!!
on a sad little note, my ps2 looks better than my wii right now cauz i don't have wii component cables ... i bought some online but who knows how long it'll take for 'em to get here :(
well, guess i'm done. happy holidays, everyone :)
I guess white Christmases aren't just an urban myth around here :O
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| So I got a Wii today... it was a totally random, impulse buy. Sorta. I
got a wake-up call from ICBC today and they decided to give me a small
but sizeable amount of money because I whine a lot. Hurray! I guess all
those days filled with achy muscles and headaches weren't for naught.
Anyway...
As it turns out, I'm one lucky man. Apparently Wiis are in very short
supply right now.. (xmas season and all), but the first place I went to
had two left in stock.
:)
Victory for Clive.
AND, the guy in front of me bought a wii... and presented some sorta weird $30 off coupon.
So when it was my turn to pay, I smiled, batted my eyelashes and asked
the nice cashier if she could give me $30 off too... and she did! So I
got my Wii for $239.98 + tax! It's true, really! Minus the eye-lash
batting part.
Fate smiles upon me this day.
Oh, and I bought a Wii instead of an x360 because i don't have an HDTV... and x360 on a regular tv looks like horse poo.
Anyway, I think I'll go play with my xmas gift to myself now. None of you will be seeing me for quite some time :p | | |
| Don't get me wrong, I'm all for saving the earth. Go plant a tree. And hug it.
now.
see?
But sometimes... sometimes being green comes at a high cost.
Anybody been to the newish Kaiser building? Well, if you're not in electrical or computer engineering at UBC, you probably haven't.
So I guess you wouldn't have experienced this first hand... but let me rant about this..
urine stinks. it does. it's a fact of life. you know what stinks more than urine? dried urine. it does. really. yet another fact of life.
this is why modern-day urinals flush themselves. it's to prevent stink... i think. oh, and that little urinal cake on the bottom works wonders too.
so anyway, the urinals in the Kaiser building do not flush. And there is no urinal cake.
who the f*ck came up with this bright idea? i swear, no matter when you walk into one of the mens washrooms in Kaiser, the overwhelming stench of dried urine fills the air. it's freaking horrible. i seriously get nauseous.
oh, but it doesn't end there. oh no. these flushless urinals are really shallow. that's right. shallow as in it's not deep. you know how urinals generally have a sort of deepish basin to collect your righteous, liquid excrement? well these flushless urinals don't have that. it's like you're peeing on a plate. it's pretty much flat and lacking of any depth.
ok, you don't have to be a physics major to understand the problem here.
splatter.
splatter is every-freaking-where.
it's absolutely disgusting.
again, i seriously hope someone got fired over this. if you think i'm exaggerating, i invite you to take a leak over here as my guest. and while you're in there, inhale deeply and thank the heavens that the mouldy, 50-year-old washrooms in your buildings do not smell this bad. oh, and while you're here, look at the walls and floor around the urinals... notice the discolouration... and notice how said discolouration occur in splatter-like patterns.
now you may be wondering if the toilets are also flushless. Thankfully, they are not. Although I wouldn't be surprised if the toilets in the next building UBC erects are just holes in the ground and the toilet paper rolls are replaced with stacks of 24s collected from the garbage bins around campus.
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| Man, I haven't blogged in a looooong while... but I'm bored, so here I am.
My
step-mom's out of town for six months, so I've got the whole place to
myself again. That's always kinda fun.. but cooking this time around
seems much less exciting. Usually when I'm stuck home alone, I take it
upon myself to learn how to cook and make fun, semi-fancy, semi-healthy
meals everyday. Sorta. I usually do this once my stash of
instant-noodles and frozen dumplings run out.
But this time
around... I dunno, cooking seems more like a chore than anything, so
I've been 'enjoying' Kraft mac n' cheese way more often than I should.
On a related note, I used to love this stuff as a kid... why the hell
does it taste like puke now? :(
Well anyhoo, that's about it.
School's not kicking my ass now (since I'm only taking four courses
this term), so yay! In fact, I'm kinda kicking school's ass... I'm
kinda pulling straight A's right now (except for APSC 450 which,
ironically, is the 'joke' course of the engineering curriculum) but I
always bomb finals so I'm expecting B's this term.
There's one thing that's been really bugging me lately though..
For
the past few months, I've been getting these weird nightmare 'streaks'.
Sometimes I'll have pretty intense nightmares for a few nights in a
row... and it REALLY sucks. After four days of not getting a good
night's rest, you become... irritable. And you can't think straight.
And your hair hurts. Lots of bad things happen.
Anyway, I'm in
the midst of another nightmare streak right now, so I no longer look
forward to lying on my bed and dozing off after a long day. It's pretty
sucky. Everyone likes sleeping :(
Well anyway, so I looked up
'constant nightmares' on google (and we all know google really should
have M.D. appended to its name) and it says I have issues. Lots of
issues. Unresolved, repressed issues. Unresolved, repressed issues that
need to get sorted out by a really expensive shrink.
Super.
Btw,
when you go to the doctor and tell him you think you have x because you
looked it up on google, they might get irritated. Example: I think I
have cancer because I've had a sore throat for two days.
Well okee, random blog over. Just wanted to pop in and write something.
Oh, I watched Beowulf in IMAX 3D the other day...
The
movie itself was pretty 'meh', but the 3D was kinda cool. I mean, it
was moderately entertaining in Literature 12, so I guess it'd be
moderately entertaining in movie format. One thing that really pissed
me off about the movie is that they try a lotta 'cheap' scare tactics
on you..
like the camera will zoom out... and it gets really
quiet... and you *KNOW* something is gonna pop out and freak the shit
outta you, but you're just not entirely sure when.
oh, and then something pops out and freaks the shit outta you.
fair enough, but they do it like seven times in the movie. jeez, let me relax and enjoy the movie, man.
what's
worse is that it's in 3D... so the thing that pops out and freaks the
shit outta you actually pops out and freaks the shit outta you.
ugh.
But anyway, that's about it. Cya folks! | | |
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