After work, I went to Aaron\’s new studio to help him…with…TADA…his internet connectivity problem.
This is where I learned that Windows has too many stupid quirks (thanks naim). After about three hours of twiddling with this and that, I had to settle for a dreaded reformat. Good though, because I got paid pho and cranberry juice! And while I probably may have wasted my evening browsing the web aimlessly (no pun intended)…I actually got ideas for my paper.
WHICH I HAVEN\’T FINISHED YET. >:O
As a last method of procrastination, I have decided to BLOG!!!!
This is the one reason that I have not finished a single assignment. It\’s silly, but whoa, does it make you feel good when you find the answer!!!
I don\’t know why I have been so unmotivated lately to do any work. It\’s there waiting. And it\’s not like it is so complex that I cannot finish it (ahem, besides perl…how did I get myself into that class again?). And the topics for my cog sci paper is interesting, considering that I have argued a lot with people over the concept of a \”friend\”. (Yes, my paper is on the contest category of \”friend\”–what makes someone a friend? people often introduce aquaintances as friends. are people you hang out with only in groups a friend? post comments about there here!) And…caution: more demovitation ahead.
Of all places, I found some good sayings in a…Chinese newspaper my dad was reading.
Save water. Shower with your SO.
Love is photogenic. It needs darkness to develop.
God made relatives. Thank God we can choose our friends.
Children in backseats cause accidents. Accidents in backseats cause children.
Hard word never killed anybody, but why take the risk?
There should be a better way to start a day than waking up every morning.
A dress is like a barbed fence–it protects the premises without restricting the view.
I bought daffodils last Friday and apparently I have forgotten about them. whooops.
And speaking of which…it\’s the return of the Friday Five (although today is saturday…)!
1. Do you like talking on the phone? Why or why not?
I used to dislike the very thought of picking up a piece of plastic and use it to communicate with somebody. But I have gotten used to it. It\’s better than talking to someone online, because on the phone, more of the real person is reflected. You can hear the tone. You can hear the intention in the voice. Everything but the image is there.
2. Who is the last person you talked to on the phone?
My sister. She called my apartment phone on the way back from her review session. We talked about random stuff. It\’s always interesting to talk to her on the phone. No silences. No gaps. It\’s like an immediate understanding. YO LADY. And surprisingly, yesterday I basically sat back and listened to her complain about her former friends. *pat pat lady!*
3. About how many telephones do you have at home?
In my apartment, I have a phone (with an answering machine) and my roommate has her own phone in her room. Then I have my cellphone that has no reception in my apartment. And my roommate has her own cell. At my house, there is a phone upstairs in my parents\’ bedroom and one in their \”office\” aka play room. Then there is one downstairs in the kitchen. There\’s no phones on my sister and my floor at all although there\’s a total of three phone jacks there. One jack to the regular line in each of our rooms. Then a jack to a private line for the sweet nectar of the internet…
4. Have you encountered anyone who has really bad phone manners? What happened?
I think that would be me? :) I know when I call my friends now, i expect them to recognize who I am. And because I got influenced heavily by a former friend, I sometimes spontaneously say, \”OKAY BYE.\” I know it probably is harsh to some people…but timid as I am…i don\’t know what\’s the best way to say \”good bye\”.
5. Would you rather pick up the phone and call someone or write them an e-mail or a letter? Why or why not?
It depends on the situation. If it\’s of importance (I 8 U. U 8 ME. I THINK WE SHOULD TALK or I want to know how you\’re feeling), I would normally call. For work, I usually call because I want an immediate response. Writing a letter means a slow response. I write an e-mail when I want to be as articulate as possible. But I find it much better to talk to anybody on the phone, because it means both people are really aware and..active.
Last year when Seth told me he drank to wash his life away (and I never know whether he\’s being serious or not), it seemed fine. It was his thing. But when I see it that happen to people who normally never do it, it\’s depressing to me. And all at once pathetic.
there is one class I absolutely do not like this semester. and I really dislike having to display my negativity toward school (because I\’ll be pessimistic for the rest of the time)…BUT COG SCI 101 SUCKS. It\’s called The Mind and Language.
I still don\’t understand how Alecky found it so interesting. It must be because…KNOWLEDGE IS SEEING.
My favorite search engine ever!!!! This logo I like the best…
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Sometimes you forget how the simplest things can really make you happy.
Like this. It was something I had read in my friend\’s pseudo blog…and just stuck out in my mind.
Happiness is…
Being in a crowded city intersection using a remote control to continuously pop open the trunk of a car while hiding while someone keeps shutting the trunk and she knows who keeps popping open the trunk but doesn\’t know where he is and she is looking around smiling as she keeps shutting the trunk and everybody keeps staring at her thinking she is weird.
sometimes you forget what good things you have and you just have to focus on the bad.
thank you shinelun for giving me all the candy (tee hee!), driving me around, showing me a picture that I wasn\’t supposed to see (MORE TEE HEE), and most of all…listening to me babble about nothing that is truly important…
My e-mail is annoyingly down according to this article. To think that I made my uclink e-mail my primary address, because I didn\’t like any other web-based services…
As of 2 p.m. Wednesday (March 12), the UCLink e-mail system remains down and unavailable. There is no firm estimate for when the system will be back in service, but it is not expected to be restored before 6 p.m. today.