Island Five

Ack. OK I'm going on vacation and for all of you readers' covenience, here's my general itinerary:

Sunday the 30th: camping in Santa Cruz and returning Tuesday the 1st.

Thursday the 3rd: going to Paris and returning Sunday the 13th.

Thursday the 17th: living in our newly finished home in Texas and returning on Saturday the 19th.

I'll be uber busy between vacations so I probably won't be available for talk. :|

If you must, call me on my cellphone (just like you would in the US) but note: while I'm in Paris the phone company will charge $1.29 when reception hits my phone and will continue to charge that amount per minute. International rates are rediculous I know. xD

Posted by Tansen at 11:19 PM | Permalink | Comments (3)

Today was the last... and I mean very last... day of TIC '06. :( We partied from beginning to end and events included pizza ravaging with a side of 11 on 4 frisbee (which we shamefully lost >.>). I also pwned everybody at SSB:M. Hahaha I haven't played that in so long.

My day: I woke at around 8:30 and I knew it was that dreaded day. I never thought it would come so soon but like a sniper's bullet it found me and its presence was acknoledged, if not reluctantly, by everyone. Peter and Tom came over and we messed around with the new Guild Wars professions out for beta testing this weekend. It was fun I guess.

At percisely 11:34 AM I lugged two 12-can boxes of soda out towards the BART station and after I got to Berkeley I lugged them once again, this time UPHILL D: to Tolman. I didn't bother playing games today. They weren't needed. I met up with the crazy group outside and we messed around for a few minutes before the entire group leftover from the AM class went back to the TMF. Overcast in the sky... that's how I feel about today. Inside, craziness ensued as our class convened for the last time. Kyle had old Pokemon episodes playing on his latop ::lmao:: and some of us cluttered around it to watch. Eventually Kass and Trevor ushered us outside to begin the feast. My meal: 3 slices of pizza, one can of soda, four buffalo wings and one regular wing, one eclair, one cup of apple cider. Good stuff.

I sat with Sarah, Janvi, and Koki for a little, not really saying anything in particular, the occasional comment did surface however. A game of frisbee started and I didn't join until later. I just wanted to sit with some people significant to me. How overcast...

Back in class I played (and kicked ass at) Super Smash Bros.: Melee. xD When it was time to leave a large group of us traveled to Tapioca Express and fooled around (GO TO THE DARK SIDE! >:D) for around three-quarters of an hour. Then the final goodbyes were being prepared as we descended into the BART station. Unfortunately the Fremont train came first... Got a hug from Sarah (Heh you've been the one I've talked to the most ::lol:: I'll miss our midnight chats just talking about nothing in particular, just waiting for a new day.. You've been awesome and I'll say it again, NOT stupid. :P) , Janvi, and Koki (No one hates you! :D) ::yay:: and then it was just Trent and me... the ride back was uneventful and not much was said while we walked back home. ::sigh:: So sad..

Interesting people I met and got to know: Sarah, Janvi, Koki, Dennis (not really met >.>), Kass (keep on WoWing) , Trev (dude stop getting into accidents. xD), Lloyd (being slick with your camera today huh? :P), Alex (Hongster, sorry we didn't win the NetHunts... ;__;), Alex (Lam[quake] pro-est origmai folder I've ever met. )YiYi / Cary (have fun in Harvard!), Cindy (sugar! :D), Max (watch that anime like a pro xP), Kyle (I hope you're not Luxon), Vivian (I've never poked you so HAH!), Stevie (you've been a really cool TA), and possibly Terrance (you left early but I think you're cool. xD).

I'll miss all you guys and I really hope to see you all around sometime. If I get the TA job then yay! xD

AIM or Metaverse, don't lose touch guys. ;)

EDIT: We won the Marathon Chat ::lol:: 225 pages compared to Japanese's (100< x <110) pages. :P

Posted by Tansen at 11:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (5)

Whoa. The Marathon Chat got off to a rocky start. I guess we're doing OK. The majority of the time I've been in there is spent reading what others have to say about: POKEMON. WOW. O_O

On another note, Eric came over today and brought me my black button shirt and my $40 headset which I left at his house during the sleepover. Yay! ^__^ After that we went to Rubio's and he bought me some long-overdue food (I've given him so much food from my house xD). The fish burrito isn't nearly as gross as it sounds. I swear on my computer.

If you'd like to join us, come before 12 AM PST on a Thursday 7/27 at http://virtualatdp.berkeley.edu/draft/chat.

Seriously guys, I don't think ANYONE who will ever read this will EVER get in so relax. >.>

Lloyd's first impression of Eevee:
[22:54:15] lloyd: ...a tiny brown polar bear? Eeew. Not delicious.
And then after seeing the pic,
[22:55:22] lloyd: That's an eevee? It looks satanic.
Hahahahahahahaha.

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Well Kass let me off the hook everybody else's on due to my body being retarded, so I'm going to take advantage and sleep early today. =.= Bleeding of the nose is now a constant. My Halo site is "almost" done though. I "just" have 70% of the Halo 2 and a little bit for Halo 3.

Sick day # 6. (and counting...)

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=.= I just woke up from a four-hour nap.... Still not getting better. In fact I'm getting worse! D: Coughing fits now ensue constantly and I STILL CAN'T TASTE ANYTHING! I don't know if it's related but I've slipped into a bloody nose phase... >.>

How am I going to finish my project AND my index in this condition... .__.;;

Well.... off to bed I guess...

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>:O All this heat has made my illness worse. Ugh. I can't even enjoy soup. It's too hot and I can't taste anything. Sigh.

Kurzick - Luxon War: HAH SUXONS WE ARE ON YOUR TURF NOW! ::muahahahahahaha::

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Well I think I've gotten better. o_O Still got that sticky feeling in my throat and my stomach is kinda twisty-turney. Headaches occur occasionally. TIC was.... different. xD We learned some stuff about digital photography from this guy from upstairs. He and Trev have really nice cameras. o.o''

Funny thing that guy brought up though, the idea that your most needed piece of equipment fails to function at the most critical times. How true.... for example, my computer recently imploded and I had to reformat and redo stuff just before the start of our final project. Well I guess that isn't the MOST critical point, but it still counts. :P I remember during the past school year one of my projects got ruined the night before the due date... That was NOT fun. My teacher thought I was lying. >.>

Oh yes, back to digital photography. Our entire class headed out to the "campanile," some distance from the bell tower and our task was to take a picture of anything on the way there and back with either Trev's camera or that other dude's. I took one of the "don't dump crud in this drain" things outside of Tolman. xD When we got back to Tolman though we all took a detour (not really >.>) and climbed that abstract wall-thing, for lack of better terminology. Trev took pics of us being silly.

I just realized how much waste matter I've gotten myself into by gathering 80+ items and explanations to write for my Halo site.

Kurzick - Luxon War: we made SOME progress. Most of the front is on their side now, for today. Still have to clean up some more on the Etnaran Keys.

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Let's see... I think I've been doing alliance battles in Guild Wars: Factions the ENTIRE day... o_O I can't get enough of it. xD I actually helped shove the dumb Luxons back to their side in one part of the map but then I got transfered to another battlefront where we were being pushed back to our side.

Current build: A/W Critical Eye + Way of Perfection --> Death Charge + Unsuspecting Strike + Jungle Strike + (Repeating Strike * X) + Death Blossom w/ "Zealous PvP Daggers of Enchanting", Shadow Refuge for emergencies.

But that's not all I did. I've raked up more than 80 images for my Halo site, with each one having a different thing to talk about. Whoosh this is going to be hard. xD

In other news: It's more than likely I've gotten sick today... >.> Ugh.. I really don't want to miss TIC tomorrow.

::sniff::

::cough::

::sniff::

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Well apparently we've changed seats while we were at home. o_O

-more later-

Later: I just (not) got back from watching "An Inconvenient Truth" with some other people including Trevor, Kass, YiYi, and Lloyd. Good movie. xD RESCUE THE FROGS PEOPLE! D: There were some strange things going on in the world that I was somewhat aware of yet never really took notice of. Ol' Gore did a good job with his slideshow presentation which some people *cough* thought would be just like any other boring one. There was also this cg rendered movie with a polar bear swimming around and then it comes upon this pitiful slab of thin ice and when it tries to get on for a rest it splits so it has to keep swimming... Poor bear... ::sniff::

So today in class Kass did a lecture on JavaScript.. It was interesting I guess. I was talking to her early morning today and I engaged her in a conversation about.... WARCRAFT XD... so I almost prevented her from even prepping the lecture. ::lol:: I spent the rest of the time finding pictures for my Halo site. Yeah that's about it for today....

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Oh wow. I got pwned by Flash today. I nearly broke my head on my hand from all the ::facepalms:: I had to do. FLASH IS EVIL! T____T Well if you want to see my 10-sec animation, here: http://tol4mac13.soe.berkeley.edu/~tansen/log071706.html. Don't forget the popcorn.

In other news: I got Guild Wars: Factions! Yay! But then they announced Guild Wars: Nightfall so I'm like F***!

EDIT: Hahahaha go to this site, open a new window and go to any other site, and then copy and paste the "description" into the address bar, press enter and be amazed:
http://ytmnd.com/sites/profile/509519

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New groups today in TIC >.> I forgot my StarCraft CD's... :( So then I went with YiYi, Alex, and some other dude to get crepes. xD I had applesauce and cinammon... it was really good other than the fact that I think they forgot to spread out the cinammon... :O HOT HOT HOT. Apparently we're supposed to learn about Flash today.

-more later-

Later: Whoosh! After an intense workout of the brain Kass' allowed me to do my individual project on Halo. Yay! The Flash demonstration was amusing I guess, but our practice time got screwed over when they found out we couldn't install Flash 8 on the TMF comps during AM. ::lol:: New group: Trent, Joshua, and me with Alex as our TA. xP

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Yay! Thanks to Kass for this! ^___^

Anyways... I guess I'll talk about what happened before and during Eric's (the totally cool programmer friend) party Friday-Saturday.

Friday

I got up at around... 9-ish? I played around on my computer and then headed for Berkeley at around 11. Got there, had lunch with people (Pat Brown's Grill again... they really skimped out on the chicken strips today >.>). Class was fun as usual and we didn't have any class work. It was a pretty laid-back day I guess. After that I went with Sarah, Janvi, and Dennis to Ben & Jerry's for ice-cream - I got a strawberry-banana smoothie - and then huffed it back to Albany. Richard and Jack came over and my mom drove us all to Eric's house in Hercules (we all brought our computers :D). We got there a quarter before seven and aparently we were also the last to arrive. I saw Wayne, Jeff, Henry, Narin, and Mike already setting up their own computers. The first few minutes were spent setting up (Jack's computer needed immediate formatting) and the rest of us installed Quake III Arena and stuff... I brought my uber long ethernet cable too :D It went from the downstairs living room, up two flights of stairs and about twenty feet to the router. Hahahaha! The next few hours consisted of Quake, GTA: San Andreas, Guild Wars (me >.>), a movie: Falling Down (Lol hella funny), Mario Party 64, WarCraft III, and food :D The last thing I did before midnight was talk to people (one person actually >.>).

Saturday

Yep. Still awake. Worms World Party until around four o'clock and then sleepz. I was the first to wake and my mom had come to pick me up to send me to an optometry appointment. My vision hasn't changed for years apparently (happy about that ^__^) and I got back to Eric's around eleven. The rest of the people had also awoken and we all dragged ass to the nearby park to play ghetto baseball... xD We had an aluminum bat, a tennis ball, and we jacked four large rocks from the beach area over a fence. xP When I got back to Eric's house the most crappy thing happened. My computer recieved an un-cancelable update from Microsoft that "security-ed" all my programs and basically rendered it useless. A reformat was in order when Eric noted that my processor had reached 80 degrees Celsius (O_O WOW). Good thing it didn't melt. Hercules is REALLY HOT btw... >.>

Sunday

I got home eventually and fixed my computer... Sigh.... Everything's gone...

Monday early early morning

Here I am now... With my... empty comp... Yep.

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