Wednesday, March 12, 2003
Sunday, March 09, 2003
I am Sick
I've been doing nothing lately.. nothing by not going out. I've been staying home because i'm SICK! I came home last night at 7pm.. and woke up the following morning at 11am.. and was STILL tired. Dang.. but i had to go to work - so wakey wakey.
I have a bunch of hw to do tomorrow too.. bleh. Can't write much cuz there is nothing to write about.
I have a bunch of hw to do tomorrow too.. bleh. Can't write much cuz there is nothing to write about.
Tuesday, March 04, 2003
Shopping Spree!
Haven't blogged in a while - let's see....
On thursday i went out with Pae to ktown galleria, Del Amo Fashion Center and Sports Mart.. it was quite a shopping spree for us. Pae got a new pair of eye glasses that have a really nice tint to them. I went ahead and bought some GA (Giorgio Armani) sunglasses, something i've been wanting since SJ. I never owned an expensive pair of sunglasses before. The one i always keep in my car is like $10 from a gas store.
Then at Del Amo i bought some Lean pill that will boost my metabolism because i decided to loose a few lbs before the summer kicks in. Also a Keneth Cole watch.. this is also something i've always wanted. Every single pair of watch that i've owned has been either a fake or a cheap 50cent watch from one of those lottery games at an arcade. I returned them the following day though - because i found out i get an employee discount at Watch Works (20% off).
We also headed to Sports Mart where i bought a ski outfit. I have been meaning to buy something for a while but was too cheap to get anything. It's actually a pretty nice outfit.. and got a damage discount for the pants cuz it had a stain in it. I took the stain out however using Shout Wipes.. (I swear it's mans most incredible invention). I really disliked my other ski outfit because it was SO outdated. The jacket was ugly.. and the pants was overalls that didn't really fit me. So i'm happy.. and it's something i needed anyways.
Why the money spending all of a sudden? Sometimes - i go a little crazy and buy everything that i've wanted. It's not a big problem considering i don't do it much. But i have been buying a lil too much these days.. and should budget myself again. But then again - don't you all feel as if the world is coming to an end? And won't you feel like an idiot if you've been saving money every month instead of spending it and enjoying it - and the last minute before you die; you will think to yourself.. "Man.. i could have done so many things with that money; yet i just kept it in the bank doing nothing." Next time you go out - think about that.. i'm not saying you should spend like an idiot. Just be smart and know how much you can safely spend and not be a Scrooge.
$200 - Refrigerator
$60 - Microwave
$120 - GA Sunglasses
$150 - Ski outfit
$60 - Vaccumm
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$590
I went snowboarding on Friday.. which was pretty coo except for the fact that my friend Jay fell on his back during a jump and had to go to the ER. I had to hopelessly wait there for 4 hours and didn't get home until 10 or 11pm. I'd show some pics.. but Pbase started to charge ppl to use their service. Oh wait.. i can show pics.
I have more.. but don't feel like posting all of them. I also have a video of myself doing a jump - then eating the ice. That was my only fall though.. believe it or not.. i think i got nervous cuz i knew on the back of my mind that i was being taped and didn't wanna mess up.
Saturday - Yong came over and we headed to LA. The night itself was pretty coo except for one part when a few ppl were being idiots and made other ppl uncomfortable. Which in turn, lead them to go home with the excuse, "it's getting late and we are tired." But obviously, i knew it wasn't that - they were probably upset and felt left out. I feel bad for Yong because it was mostly his friends and i told them i would show them a good time in ktown.
However, after they left - Yong Pae and I went to New York New York and had some good times and followed up at a NoRaeBang.
Sunday - i slept most of the day and watched Smallville with Yong. It was a really good episode with Christopher Reeves.. and apparently, Superman was sent to this Earth to conquer and be a Godlike person. That's a new fact into it's saga. I had to go to work at 7pm so Yong went back to SD.
Today - I slept in once again because i didn't have to work. I went to buy food and to the USPS later at night to drop off my rent money as well. That's about it.. nothing much else happened. I still need to go to traffic school.. someone please keep reminding me cuz i'm putting it off like a lazy bug. I will also start updating bjunkyard again - i think it's time to be more efficient.
On thursday i went out with Pae to ktown galleria, Del Amo Fashion Center and Sports Mart.. it was quite a shopping spree for us. Pae got a new pair of eye glasses that have a really nice tint to them. I went ahead and bought some GA (Giorgio Armani) sunglasses, something i've been wanting since SJ. I never owned an expensive pair of sunglasses before. The one i always keep in my car is like $10 from a gas store.
Then at Del Amo i bought some Lean pill that will boost my metabolism because i decided to loose a few lbs before the summer kicks in. Also a Keneth Cole watch.. this is also something i've always wanted. Every single pair of watch that i've owned has been either a fake or a cheap 50cent watch from one of those lottery games at an arcade. I returned them the following day though - because i found out i get an employee discount at Watch Works (20% off).
We also headed to Sports Mart where i bought a ski outfit. I have been meaning to buy something for a while but was too cheap to get anything. It's actually a pretty nice outfit.. and got a damage discount for the pants cuz it had a stain in it. I took the stain out however using Shout Wipes.. (I swear it's mans most incredible invention). I really disliked my other ski outfit because it was SO outdated. The jacket was ugly.. and the pants was overalls that didn't really fit me. So i'm happy.. and it's something i needed anyways.
Why the money spending all of a sudden? Sometimes - i go a little crazy and buy everything that i've wanted. It's not a big problem considering i don't do it much. But i have been buying a lil too much these days.. and should budget myself again. But then again - don't you all feel as if the world is coming to an end? And won't you feel like an idiot if you've been saving money every month instead of spending it and enjoying it - and the last minute before you die; you will think to yourself.. "Man.. i could have done so many things with that money; yet i just kept it in the bank doing nothing." Next time you go out - think about that.. i'm not saying you should spend like an idiot. Just be smart and know how much you can safely spend and not be a Scrooge.
$200 - Refrigerator
$60 - Microwave
$120 - GA Sunglasses
$150 - Ski outfit
$60 - Vaccumm
--------
$590
I went snowboarding on Friday.. which was pretty coo except for the fact that my friend Jay fell on his back during a jump and had to go to the ER. I had to hopelessly wait there for 4 hours and didn't get home until 10 or 11pm. I'd show some pics.. but Pbase started to charge ppl to use their service. Oh wait.. i can show pics.
I have more.. but don't feel like posting all of them. I also have a video of myself doing a jump - then eating the ice. That was my only fall though.. believe it or not.. i think i got nervous cuz i knew on the back of my mind that i was being taped and didn't wanna mess up.
Saturday - Yong came over and we headed to LA. The night itself was pretty coo except for one part when a few ppl were being idiots and made other ppl uncomfortable. Which in turn, lead them to go home with the excuse, "it's getting late and we are tired." But obviously, i knew it wasn't that - they were probably upset and felt left out. I feel bad for Yong because it was mostly his friends and i told them i would show them a good time in ktown.
However, after they left - Yong Pae and I went to New York New York and had some good times and followed up at a NoRaeBang.
Sunday - i slept most of the day and watched Smallville with Yong. It was a really good episode with Christopher Reeves.. and apparently, Superman was sent to this Earth to conquer and be a Godlike person. That's a new fact into it's saga. I had to go to work at 7pm so Yong went back to SD.
Today - I slept in once again because i didn't have to work. I went to buy food and to the USPS later at night to drop off my rent money as well. That's about it.. nothing much else happened. I still need to go to traffic school.. someone please keep reminding me cuz i'm putting it off like a lazy bug. I will also start updating bjunkyard again - i think it's time to be more efficient.
Tuesday, February 25, 2003
eBay Nightmare
It's only been 3 days since the last time i blogged, but it seems like it has only been about a day. I guess time just flew right past me.
I'm starting to get a lot of things for my studio.. when i first came to LA - i thought about living very simple. A bed, desk, computer, and a small fridge. But now - i got all these posters from BR with frames that cost me $24 a piece.. I have a queen size mattress.. Desk with computer obviously - a small oven toaster.. I brought my reclining chair from home and also brought my 13" TV. I have an ab roller in the corner and bunch of other crap.
I recently bought:
1. Stainless Steel Fridge. I'll take a picture of it one of these days and show it here - it's perfect for me cuz it's not too small nor too big. It was $199 but i got $10 off cuz it was the last one on display.
2. I got a 900W microwave. The salesperson at Home Depot was trying to make me buy the 1200W which was $20 more.. but i was like.. err.. i don't need that much power. This microwave cost $59.99
3. I got a small vacuum cleaner. It's very small and compact - yet it's VERY powerful.. i can totally feel that thing sucking air when I'm using it. $60
I still want to buy a entertainment system. But this will come eventually when i have extra cash laying around. A few trips not gone to Ktown might help me do that. haha.
1. 25 or 27" TV
2. DVD player
3. VCR
4. TV Stand with cabinets for the DVD and VCR.
5. New computer speakers cuz mine are sorta broken.
I think other than that - i'm pretty set right now.. i don't feel the need to buy anything else right now.. is there anything else that i even need? Man - i've been charging my card so much to buy all this - now i gotta pay it off.
I also had to deal with eBay for quite some time now. Not really a great place to buy things cuz there are always problems.
1. The first story is when i bought my Geforce3 Ti500 video card off this guy.. i got it for a decent price and when i opened it - the fan didn't work. So i tried to fix it - and broke it. Thankfully the guy had a $200 insurance on the thing - so i sent it back to him so he could claim that. It almost seemed as though it was a scam to begin with. He gladly refunded me my money back. But then now i had to bid on another video card to replace that one.
2. I got a 64MB CF card for my digi cam - which works perfectly.. that was a good transaction.
3. I got a 512MB PC2100 DDR ram cuz one of my ram chips was damaged. OH yeah.. do you remember when my computer kept rebooting and giving me the blue screen of death? It was ALL because of the stupid ram.. not because of the video card.. not because of my motherboard, HD, or anything else. My theory is that when the rear fan broke.. and wasn't working at the correct RPM - the ram got too hot and burned out. Anyways, the computer ran very slowly with only 256MB.. so i bought the 512 and now i have 768MB. The computer is working great. But when i first installed the ram chip - the computer wouldn't boot.. so i thought i had gotten another mickey mouse.. and got pretty pissed off. I was thinking of how horrible it is to keep going back to the post office to return these items and have to deal with bidding again.
However, after a few more tries in different combinations of slot positions - it just magically worked. So now i'm happy and it's all good.
4. The current video card i'm running is a VistionTek Geforce3 Ti200 with 64MB.. i got it for a pretty good price and even got my shipping refunded, cuz the guy forgot to ship it 2 day fedex, instead shipped it with Priority mail. When i got the card - one of the ramSink had fallen apart and was dangling inside the anti-static bag. The backbone metal piece was also bent badly.
Now i was pissed again.. how could this shit happen twice? Ugh! So i used some pliers and fixed the metal piece, but i didn't have any thermal adhesive to put the ramsink back together. I e-mailed that guy and explained what happened. At this point, i really did not want to ship another card back - and have to deal with bidding all over again. OH yes, i forgot to mention - why all of this was going on.
- My video card Geforce4 MX fuxored on me.. so i didn't have a computer for a bit. I went to best buy and bought a Geforce4 Ti4200 for $189 bucks. I knew it was a rip off - but i had no other choice because i couldn't use my computer to buy something online. Best Buy also had a 30 day refund policy so i had 30 days to bid on eBay for a decent card. After the first card i got from eBay came with a bad fan - that was 2 weeks into it.. so i was running out of time to return this one.
And back to my story.. when i got the current card i have right now, it was a Monday and actually the 30th day i had kept the GeForce4 Ti4200 which i went and returned. SO.. obviously i didn't want to return the card i bid on eBay because that would leave me w/o a video card on my computer.
The card itself works flawlessly at the moment.. so i'm not complaining but the heatsink worries me because it's there for a reason. Heat is the #1 cause of hardware failures.. so yeah. I e-mail that guy again and told him I would prefer not to ship it back to him.
First off he refunded me $15 for shipping cuz he fuxored up.. and now he even ordered a thermal adhesive from outpost.com for $20 to keep me happy. Now that's a great eBayer. Hopefully when the adhesive comes, the card will be brand new again.
I guess all in all - everything worked out with the eBay deal - but there was so much hassle for some of the bids.. unless you really want something for cheap - i would stay away from eBay.
I'm at the CSULB computer lab right now.. i had some extra time to write all of this. I have to drive to Home Depot today to return an extension plug and buy a multiple extension plug. I will probably also stop by Food4Less and buy some frozen food now that i have a fridge.
I'm starting to get a lot of things for my studio.. when i first came to LA - i thought about living very simple. A bed, desk, computer, and a small fridge. But now - i got all these posters from BR with frames that cost me $24 a piece.. I have a queen size mattress.. Desk with computer obviously - a small oven toaster.. I brought my reclining chair from home and also brought my 13" TV. I have an ab roller in the corner and bunch of other crap.
I recently bought:
1. Stainless Steel Fridge. I'll take a picture of it one of these days and show it here - it's perfect for me cuz it's not too small nor too big. It was $199 but i got $10 off cuz it was the last one on display.
2. I got a 900W microwave. The salesperson at Home Depot was trying to make me buy the 1200W which was $20 more.. but i was like.. err.. i don't need that much power. This microwave cost $59.99
3. I got a small vacuum cleaner. It's very small and compact - yet it's VERY powerful.. i can totally feel that thing sucking air when I'm using it. $60
I still want to buy a entertainment system. But this will come eventually when i have extra cash laying around. A few trips not gone to Ktown might help me do that. haha.
1. 25 or 27" TV
2. DVD player
3. VCR
4. TV Stand with cabinets for the DVD and VCR.
5. New computer speakers cuz mine are sorta broken.
I think other than that - i'm pretty set right now.. i don't feel the need to buy anything else right now.. is there anything else that i even need? Man - i've been charging my card so much to buy all this - now i gotta pay it off.
I also had to deal with eBay for quite some time now. Not really a great place to buy things cuz there are always problems.
1. The first story is when i bought my Geforce3 Ti500 video card off this guy.. i got it for a decent price and when i opened it - the fan didn't work. So i tried to fix it - and broke it. Thankfully the guy had a $200 insurance on the thing - so i sent it back to him so he could claim that. It almost seemed as though it was a scam to begin with. He gladly refunded me my money back. But then now i had to bid on another video card to replace that one.
2. I got a 64MB CF card for my digi cam - which works perfectly.. that was a good transaction.
3. I got a 512MB PC2100 DDR ram cuz one of my ram chips was damaged. OH yeah.. do you remember when my computer kept rebooting and giving me the blue screen of death? It was ALL because of the stupid ram.. not because of the video card.. not because of my motherboard, HD, or anything else. My theory is that when the rear fan broke.. and wasn't working at the correct RPM - the ram got too hot and burned out. Anyways, the computer ran very slowly with only 256MB.. so i bought the 512 and now i have 768MB. The computer is working great. But when i first installed the ram chip - the computer wouldn't boot.. so i thought i had gotten another mickey mouse.. and got pretty pissed off. I was thinking of how horrible it is to keep going back to the post office to return these items and have to deal with bidding again.
However, after a few more tries in different combinations of slot positions - it just magically worked. So now i'm happy and it's all good.
4. The current video card i'm running is a VistionTek Geforce3 Ti200 with 64MB.. i got it for a pretty good price and even got my shipping refunded, cuz the guy forgot to ship it 2 day fedex, instead shipped it with Priority mail. When i got the card - one of the ramSink had fallen apart and was dangling inside the anti-static bag. The backbone metal piece was also bent badly.
Now i was pissed again.. how could this shit happen twice? Ugh! So i used some pliers and fixed the metal piece, but i didn't have any thermal adhesive to put the ramsink back together. I e-mailed that guy and explained what happened. At this point, i really did not want to ship another card back - and have to deal with bidding all over again. OH yes, i forgot to mention - why all of this was going on.
- My video card Geforce4 MX fuxored on me.. so i didn't have a computer for a bit. I went to best buy and bought a Geforce4 Ti4200 for $189 bucks. I knew it was a rip off - but i had no other choice because i couldn't use my computer to buy something online. Best Buy also had a 30 day refund policy so i had 30 days to bid on eBay for a decent card. After the first card i got from eBay came with a bad fan - that was 2 weeks into it.. so i was running out of time to return this one.
And back to my story.. when i got the current card i have right now, it was a Monday and actually the 30th day i had kept the GeForce4 Ti4200 which i went and returned. SO.. obviously i didn't want to return the card i bid on eBay because that would leave me w/o a video card on my computer.
The card itself works flawlessly at the moment.. so i'm not complaining but the heatsink worries me because it's there for a reason. Heat is the #1 cause of hardware failures.. so yeah. I e-mail that guy again and told him I would prefer not to ship it back to him.
First off he refunded me $15 for shipping cuz he fuxored up.. and now he even ordered a thermal adhesive from outpost.com for $20 to keep me happy. Now that's a great eBayer. Hopefully when the adhesive comes, the card will be brand new again.
I guess all in all - everything worked out with the eBay deal - but there was so much hassle for some of the bids.. unless you really want something for cheap - i would stay away from eBay.
I'm at the CSULB computer lab right now.. i had some extra time to write all of this. I have to drive to Home Depot today to return an extension plug and buy a multiple extension plug. I will probably also stop by Food4Less and buy some frozen food now that i have a fridge.
Friday, February 21, 2003
Free Gatorade!
Another pretty productive day.
I went to school early today - and made it to class a whole 5 minutes early. I think my teacher was surprised, cuz she kept looking at me and bulging her eyes open.
Then i went straight home and got a call from BR asking me to fold down the chinos (cuz i'm the only one who knows how to do them in a special way). There is some visit from a corporate person tomorrow so i went in for 4 hours and did that.
Later i picked up Simon and went to eat some dinner at a Chinese place, and we all went to play basketball. I'm so out of shape.. i couldn't do much - but i got a second wind on our last game. I guess i had to get my body working again. We finished our last game with a bet - loser pays for gatorade. Me and Simon beat James and Jay - so we headed to Chevron and got some free gatorade.
I dropped off Simon and wanted to ask my uncle to borrow the truck so that i could buy a fridge, but he was busy on the phone and i didn't want to bother him, so i just came back home.
Oh yea - i mailed in my fafsa today - haha! i was procrastinating on that for so long. I also mailed all of my tax stuff to my dad to get it to our agent.
I went to school early today - and made it to class a whole 5 minutes early. I think my teacher was surprised, cuz she kept looking at me and bulging her eyes open.
Then i went straight home and got a call from BR asking me to fold down the chinos (cuz i'm the only one who knows how to do them in a special way). There is some visit from a corporate person tomorrow so i went in for 4 hours and did that.
Later i picked up Simon and went to eat some dinner at a Chinese place, and we all went to play basketball. I'm so out of shape.. i couldn't do much - but i got a second wind on our last game. I guess i had to get my body working again. We finished our last game with a bet - loser pays for gatorade. Me and Simon beat James and Jay - so we headed to Chevron and got some free gatorade.
I dropped off Simon and wanted to ask my uncle to borrow the truck so that i could buy a fridge, but he was busy on the phone and i didn't want to bother him, so i just came back home.
Oh yea - i mailed in my fafsa today - haha! i was procrastinating on that for so long. I also mailed all of my tax stuff to my dad to get it to our agent.
Wednesday, February 19, 2003
So Many Things I Need
Very productive day today. I was able to force myself to wake up - then i finished my laundry - went to the post office to ship back a video card from eBay that was DOA (damaged on arrival) - went to get my haircut - went to blockbusters since it was on the way back to see what the deal was with them charging my credit card.
I guess that's not much, but it was a lot for me. Oh yeah, i also went to Home Depot to check out some fridges, and i found the perfect size for me.. it's $199 - the only problem now is that i have to find a truck to put it in..
Now that I'm going to have a fridge, I'm gonna need a microwave. Dang.. so many things i have to get. I also want to get a bigger TV.. and a TV stand - VCR, DVD player. I'm so greedy huh? I'm almost done with my FAFSA too - hopefully I'll qualify this year and get some money to pay all this crap off.
That's about it for today - do you ever have that feeling in the back of your mind that you're forgetting something, or forgetting to do something? But you just can't figure out what it is? Then you forget about it thinking it was nothing, and later it hits you smack on the face. I got that feeling right now.. it sucks.
I guess that's not much, but it was a lot for me. Oh yeah, i also went to Home Depot to check out some fridges, and i found the perfect size for me.. it's $199 - the only problem now is that i have to find a truck to put it in..
Now that I'm going to have a fridge, I'm gonna need a microwave. Dang.. so many things i have to get. I also want to get a bigger TV.. and a TV stand - VCR, DVD player. I'm so greedy huh? I'm almost done with my FAFSA too - hopefully I'll qualify this year and get some money to pay all this crap off.
That's about it for today - do you ever have that feeling in the back of your mind that you're forgetting something, or forgetting to do something? But you just can't figure out what it is? Then you forget about it thinking it was nothing, and later it hits you smack on the face. I got that feeling right now.. it sucks.
Thursday, February 13, 2003
UPS Sucks. Use Fedex
Nothing much going on these days.. it's v-day tomorrow so the mall was packed. Specially 10 minutes before we closed.. i guess all the slackers decided to head to the mall at that time. I woke up late today.. actually i woke up at 10am.. then decided to sleep another 15 minutes.
I woke up again - went to turn on the shower, and looked at the clock and noticed it was 11:40am.. DOH!.. so whatevers.. i didn't go to class. I feel so guilty whenever i don't go - because i miss out on what i have to do for hw, miss on lecture, etc. I e-mailed my teacher just now.. hopefully she won't be angry. (i didn't tell her I overslept.. haha).
I went to work on time though.. work was really busy - so time flew by. Now i'm at home.. pondering what i should do.
OH! the thing that sucks though - is the freakin UPS guy came hella late.. so i wasn't able to catch him. I stayed home until 2:30pm.. and he never showed. But once i got back from work, i had one of those slips on my door saying he was here. That bastard.. they usually come at 12pm.. but NOoooo.. not this time. uGh!
I woke up again - went to turn on the shower, and looked at the clock and noticed it was 11:40am.. DOH!.. so whatevers.. i didn't go to class. I feel so guilty whenever i don't go - because i miss out on what i have to do for hw, miss on lecture, etc. I e-mailed my teacher just now.. hopefully she won't be angry. (i didn't tell her I overslept.. haha).
I went to work on time though.. work was really busy - so time flew by. Now i'm at home.. pondering what i should do.
OH! the thing that sucks though - is the freakin UPS guy came hella late.. so i wasn't able to catch him. I stayed home until 2:30pm.. and he never showed. But once i got back from work, i had one of those slips on my door saying he was here. That bastard.. they usually come at 12pm.. but NOoooo.. not this time. uGh!
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