more tattoo assassins hilarity

lincoln brewster's "what kind of man" sounds like a song "the violet burning" wrote and played; "the violet burning" is a christian alternative band my brother is quite fond of.

i think i have a youtube video that will make your MONTH...

tattoo assassins

i've never laughed harder at a fighting game... and final fight revenge was pretty lol-able... enjoy the fatalities...

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fyi, lincoln brewster's vocals sound slightly like chris tomlin's... you'd think it'd be him, if you weren't hearing the electric guitar fills that is signature lincoln brewster he was playing in between the lyrics...

(i love his "best of" cd... i've been listening to it nonstop this week so far; majestic is so far my favorite song on it, and i still regret not visiting his church while up in davis... yet)

i wish i would approach life the way i defend off the ball during basketball when i feel like i'm going to lock somebody down, give them close to 0 touches, close to 0 pts...

that revelation came to me today when i was contemplating why it is so hard for me to change my bad habits, my bad personalities, my laziness. and i wondered why God would not make it more specific how to change your bad habits in the Bible. write it down. if it were there, it would be so easy to just follow it.

well, part of it is because everybody is different; different in being motivated. i realize that i probably get more motivated over negative feelings more than positive feelings. that may not be the same for the next person. times and cultures change too. 2nd of all, i believe it's because i half-heartedly ask it in prayer. you pray, maybe have a plan figured out, but lack the mentality to see it through. i realize that just like how a great defender defends and locks down, it is part ability, part mental. you can have the longest wingspan in the world, the quickest feet, more hops and height than your opponent, it does not matter. if you don't come in with an INTENSE mentality that you are going to lock down your opponent, it will not happen. i realized the value of that mentality yesterday, and how it produced crazy results for me on the court, especially that last game.

today, i realized that it i wanted to change the areas that i felt were lacking in me as a Christian, it seriously would not be a bad idea to go into each area that needs work with that same type of mentality. how i'm going to be able to do this i have yet to figure out(how am i supposed to become less angry to others by being INTENSE?)

btw, i'm not really keen on this whole "new year's resolution" thing. not b/c it's not a good idea, but because you should be ALWAYS thinking of what you can do to improve yourself. i am not writing the above b/c this is close to the new year resolution time. but because the above came to me today.

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i'm a prison in my house for about 6 days b/c of lack of health insurance. i dislike my mom for making me stay at home, but i really don't fault her for it; she did try to pressure me to get the forms finished on time so that my health insurance could begin as soon as possible and not be cut short, it was just that the post office was closed due to power outages when she went.

i do have things i can do that are in the house, i just don't exactly feel like doing a lot of them. like, cleaning my room, and taking some of my packed things out of phil's room, so i can finally set up my guitar and relearn it(i had a booklet + cd bought from guitar center that i never used on how to increase speed for lead guitar; it was written for metal players, but it was still a good thing; i eventually want to crack that out and go through it)

there's also writing a resume. and then actually starting on that whole novel thing i wanted to do.

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verses that i want to memorize soon:

2nd thessalonians 3:14-15
1st timothy 1:18-19

both are really good. i think the 1st explains how you are supposed to deal with fallen brethren. be hard on them, but love them. most ppl tend to only do one. and forget the other. i would argue that most people in this afraid-to-hurt-others'-feelings-world do too much of the 2nd, but there are many who try to overcompensate by doing the 1st without the 2nd.

the 2nd is because i realized the value of faith and conscience going hand in hand. think about all those apologetics books, or the various bible research books i have read. these are all dealing with increasing your confidence, which is tied to your conscience. as it grows, so does your faith. you hear about bible skeptics asking bible experts what they thought when they examined the facts, they will often say their examining of them actually confirmed and increased their faith all the more.

expect me to pick up posting once again, though not as frequently, b/c i don't have internet at home, and no cable(hence not as much on what i feel about nba/nfl) and feel bad everytime i lug the laptop upstairs so i can mooch.

all things said and done, my main thinking as of right now is on the right. now just gotta hope that means i graduated. still seeing if there's some place on the ucdavis website i can find actual confirmation that i graduated.

anyways, i still feel like doing that 1-chapter-of-a-novel-per-2-weeks thing, so look forward to the 1st 2 chapters or so in about 2-3 weeks or so.

can't really say more right now; library's going to close in about 15 minutes and i still have a few errands i need to do on the web; i spent much of late afternoon praying before checking my grades, hence the quick post.

stupid nba.com clamping down so i can't use SDP to download...

anyways, friday's top 10 nba countdown was really good regardless of some teams i didn't want to win, winning; just wished i could actually save it; take a look if you have time:
included:
sarunas jasikevicus' no look to a cutting al harrington
rudy gay slashing and tomahawking for the and1
kobe juking then coming around yao for the dunk
my favorite rookie tyrus thomas coming from the side to swat michael redd's layup into the crowd
amare driving, juking biedrins for a missed swat, then hammers it down

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maybe ben wallace reads my blog... he got 27 and 3 this time. alright, now go for 20 and 10.

Remember when you used to have to write 1-2 page stories for schoolwork in elementary school?

Made me think how long that was ago, and how it actually might be kinda fun to try creating another blogger site, then writing out a fictional novel, putting in about 1 chapter every 2 weeks, until the end of the year.

The more i think about it, the more intriguing it actually sounds. I really wanna try a hand at this.

Too bad I have no really revolutionary ideas for a story. And I have no intention of making it a sci-fi; it may have fictional things in it, but I want it to sorta be grounded in modern day type stuff. Basically, the furthest I would go for sci-fi would be something akin to Terminator.

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Both TNT games i think disappointed me; injuries prevented me from seeing the full capabilities of the Hornets and the Magic. What a shame... Dwight didn't even show up.

But i did hear great things about the warriors game; baron davis is da man.

i was WONDERING when ben wallace was finally going to get 20 rebounds...

ykno, i personally believed that the way that ben wallace plays against adversity and the way he felt he was unvalued at detroit this season, that he should be averaging 20 and 5 each game this season just to show what the pistons gave up. kinda like when shaq went to the heat.

well, this is the 1st game. granted it was against the sonics, but let's see if he does this again.

harold mcgee's online journal

i had to read this guy's book for FST1 and FST10. should make a good read for you in your spare time.

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edit: i was bored looking at my notes, and thought, ykno, with the shortage of ppl who know taiwanese, let alone teach it, this is the internet, so there's gotta be something...

check this out

if there's two, maybe 3 foreign languages i would like to be fluent in, it'd be: japanese, taiwanese, mandarin. in that order. i know a lot of taiwanese, but i really still believe it's all basic. and i couldn't recognize a single chicken scratch of it on paper. japanese is kinda cause i do end up looking at a buncha websites in japanese that i just don't know how to navigate. and you can't just throw anything into babelfish; if a website supports flash, then you're screwed.

damn, i have even more respect for joe rogan now...

mad respect for any comedian who can heckle the crowd right back with humor(unlike michael richards)

need a usb drive?

"don't call it a comeback..." [/ll cool j]

british karate instructor

don't let microsoft design YOUR mp3 player

interesting way to make super mario bros speedruns competitive

espn.com nba message boards are have so many kobe/laker topics, it's annoying.

not that i frequently post in msg boards anyhow; used to a lot in high school, but now i just troll. if you can't add anything new to the discussion, you might as well not say anything at all, ykno? i figure most of the ppl who post a LOT on message boards tend to be attention whores. especially the ones who try to start topics rediculously fast.

i love sony, more than nintendo and microsoft, but this conference is ass...

FLIP THIS CRAB OVER AND ATTACK ITS WEAK POINT FOR MASSIVE DAMAGE!

the only system i would buy in the immediate future would be a ps TWO.

and don't expect me to buy a ps3 until the price drops like mad. (and vf5 and tekken 6 both come out)

i was never into the newest games anyways... i should be fine...

guy playing the dulcimer...

make sure you watch the whole video; he starts out slow at the beginning, then goes absolutely quick and crazy from about the middle to the end... incredible musician.

so sleepy... so hard to concentrate...

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i realize that anime-wise/cartoon-wise, i really like the girl who is initially good, but turns out to be evil. how she becomes evil and the antagonist is of no real concern; brainwashing, slippery slope, etc. dunno why, it's just that i've always liked that.

edit: i probably like this because it makes the girl seem more tougher. seems like in a lot of those cases, the cartoonists end up making the girl seem tough, but it's not a guy type of tough. more like a defiant mockingly tough, where the girl is toying around with the guy antagonist or what not. just my two cents.

HowManyOfMe.com

There are: 42 people with my name in the U.S.A. How many have your name?

i knew i wasn't the only person with my name. rt is a pretty common full name for male asians i think. i think i MIGHT be the only one with no middle name though.

fyi out of curiousity, i tried this with some other ppl; bob has very low count, sam's pretty commonplace, john(in mountain view fellowship) is laughable(just try it and you'll see why i thought it was funny), jeremy's though blew me out of the water. you should try torrence's as well; made me laugh. i dunno how they get these numbers though. torrence's should NOT say that.

and i also tried some common superhero/video game names just for the rofl factor:
terry mcguinness
bruce wayne
clark kent
tim drake
nathan summers
strider hiryu
ryu hoshi
ken masters
mike bison
chun li

i must say, after trying to fiddle a bit with beta blogger, it's a lot easier to change the template and stuff. i'll probably edit more later.

O-L-D commercial

dunno where i remember these throwbacks from... my memory is weird sometimes...

counter-strike NEO: white memories

seems to be some interactive series of shockwave files which are anime-style but have breaks in between where you can play. (go to the story link)

i still wish i knew how to read japanese; i can't understand a friggin thing that's going on.

10 things you may or may not know about me(b/c i'm bored of filling out my written final):

1) i'm not a light sleeper nor a heavy sleeper, but that doesn't mean i'm normal; when at a social sleepover or something like that where i'm not sleeping by myself, i take forever to fall asleep if there's any noise, and take forever to wake up and get up. i guess that also brings up the point that:

2) i'm not a morning person, but i try my ass off trying to be; i hate staying up late, but just can't pull myself out of bed in the morning.

3) i chew gum to stay awake, as opposed to drinking coffee. (chewing gum actually has a TON of health benefits; in addition to helping clean your teeth, it can help relieve muscle tension, helps you stay awake if you're constantly chewing, also can help you concentrate better at times, and keeps your mouth and throat somewhat moistened, and not dry; try looking up the facts sometime; you'd be surprised) i keep 2-3 packs of gum in my backpack(both to stay awake and to quickly clean my teeth after meals on campus), and at least 1 pack in the car(to prevent drowsiness). (fyi, if you're stuck on which flavor to buy, cinnamon is always the right way; it's not always my favorite flavor, but its sharpness usually never gets too dull, and tends to last long)

4) i pace the room more times than most people would do, often deep in thought(maybe that's why i'm never fat)

5) i seem to really like collecting stuff. this can be bad when i'm window shopping sometimes. that doesn't necessarily mean i'm a compulsive shopper. just means that sometimes if i want to get something, if it's in a line of things, i might want to get the other respective things as well for completeness' sake.

6) i'm a sucker for nature; love how the environment looks a lot, love dem animals(even animals and creatures i used to be afraid of like spiders i have huge amount of respect for).

7) i might be the only person in the world that actually eats cereal and milk separate. a lotta times, i'm not even eating a bite of cereal and immediately taking a sip of milk. i finish the cereal, then go to the fridge and pull out the milk and the glass.

8) while a southpaw, my right hand is probably stronger than my left; there's been a couple of things i could probably carry better in my right hand than my left. i do eat w/chopsticks and write with my left hand though.

9) i tend to scratch my head at the very top of my head(as opposed to the back), where the slight amount of scalp is most visible.

10) my pinkies look severely bent in, but there's nothing wrong with them; it's a genetic trait i inherited from my mother. ppl always give disgusted looks when they see my pinkies up close(IF they do; they rarely do)

i'm actually hoping ai ends up in minnesota.

"everybody thinks they have a mismatch, and that's when the ball stops moving"

i remember espn recap of pistons against mavericks starting with this quote from chauncey billups.

it's back...

picks of the week:

1. bible verse:
hebrews 5:11-14; i remember it from reading the bible last night, and don't have it memorized yet, but it's an awesome verse; talks about the lack a spiritual maturity amongst christians. specifically, how you should be eating solid food now, but still need to be fed with milk. and that- oh why don't i just post it here:
"Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing.
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.
For every one that useth milk is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe.
But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil."
2. food:
not really thinking of any food at the moment; my throat is dry.
3. music equip:
give me about 2-3 weeks, and you might see me actually start to fill this section again. i'm still thinking of getting something that enables me to hear myself when playing the guitar but still have an output, but i'm not thinking about it at the moment.
that being said, i DO need new earbuds; my old ones are broke; officially broke. i can't hear anything out of the right earbud. prob gonna hit fry's once i get back from school.
4. place:
i have a feeling i'm going to be spending a lot of time at the library next week. and the arboretum. i'm thinking of just getting a disposable camera and going over to the arboretum and snapping a lot of photos next week. the place is so serene sometimes, and i can remember how many times in the past i ventured there to think and put myself at ease.
5. song:
tim hughes - jesus you alone; try looking it up on napster. not the one where tim hughes, matt redman, et al are on it. just tim hughes. and oh yeah, matt redman - you never let go is also pretty good.
6. sports game:
i'm tempted to gush over pistons at mavs, or sixers at chicago, but i thought for a change of pace, i'd think about niners at saints on sunday. yes, niners lost badly. but i was in awe of reggie bush(mixed in with feelings of glumness how niners could be so weak on defense). the guy created so many openings for himself, it was insane.
7. thought:
this is it; one week of studying hard, and i'll be done. and it needs to be HARD studying. oh, to only not screw up and slack and get distracted! and i'm honoring my mom's requests to not drive home right when i'm done, b/c i'll be done at 6:30 on saturday. so i'll come home during sunday morning, probably after going to church. if the weather's ok, i MIGHT play ball.
8. video game:
i think you'll enjoy this cvs2 match; nakanishi is one of my favorite cvs2 players, since he plays guile and ken(sometimes ryu as well)(misses a few oppurtunities i thought to close the match, but overall good match to watch): yamazaki93 vs nakanishi
9. other(product):
earbuds, and a usb drive. i'll probably get a license plate that says "uc davis alumni" next week.
10.other(various):
charles barkley said this on tnt: "if dwight howard is not leading the all-star ballot, there is a travesty" or something like that. i'm biased towards him, but as of right now, i have to concur.