i logged my longest time spent on the bible today yet...

it's something past 5 hours... total(counting the increments together).

on one chapter... hebrews 9.

i love-hate reading hebrews, because paul goes SO MUCH MORE in depth than the other epistles, and you get deep stuff. for instance, hebrews 9 explains the definition of a testator and a testament, and why it's important in forming the new testament(and if you think about their implications, why it's important having God's words PRECISELY and not trying to mistranslate them all around, which is why we have all these kjv-only and etc debates). it also explains why Jesus Christ only needed to die once rather than multiple times, something which, when i still think about sometimes, continues to boggle me, though it's boggled me less today after my studies. which is again, love-hate because i love how much he breaks stuff down, until i realize i'm still trying to write my 1st notes on the book on a word document, meaning i spend so much time cross-referencing books, hoping that the word searches i punch into e-sword come up with the right verses i'm looking for.

but it's ok; i only have 4 more chapters left of hebrews. then again, revelations isn't too many chapters away. i might have to do some love-hate again real soon.

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got tony hawk pro skater 2 and tomb raider 2 at fry's(yes, they do sell them new, you gotta look hard at the cpu games section to find sections for old games) last saturday for a grand total of 8-9 dollars. tony hawk 2: 2:90, tomb raider 2: 5-ish. i love liking old games rather than new ones, because then i can score good bargains like this and feel pretty good about it too. the only comparable bargain in video games compared to tony hawk 2 for 3 dollars was when i got virtua fighter 4 evolution for 10 at best buy. good runners up was phil giving me virtua fighter 2 + last bronx for the pc for 20, and of course, me getting jedi knight: dark forces 2 for 10. i've thought it over and over, and it's the truth: graphics in a video game are overrated. seriously overrated. gameplay matters more. both games are great and run well on my laptop. but tony hawk 2 especially is great, mainly because there's tons to do.

Damn it’s cold today… my feet and backside of my hands are perpetually numb… hard as hell to get through the bible readings today, seeing as my fingers kept freezing up, making it very uncomfortable to type.

For some reason, I started thinking about a number of really cool toys in the past or that are currently out, just a few days ago. Not adult toys(like guitars or electronic gizmos for your cpu), or video games, mind you; y’kno, stuff ranging from action figures to dart blasters that were just cool. I talk enough about fighting games anyways, so no video games on the list. So I came up (offline) with a list of 10 toys in no particular order that I particularily thought were cool, and have really good value even as an adult. I’m also excluding board games, because those are a TON of those, although that might make another good top 10 some other day(Othello is still my favorite board game; good combination of game speed and depth). I’m too lazy to add links, so if you want to actually see the products I’m talking about, you’re gonna have to search yourself.

1. Nerf: N-Strike Maverick
I used to be crazy about owning Nerf blasters, so I could put any particular number or item of them on here and be impressed by them(but I don’t want to turn this into a top 10 Nerfs list). However, this one takes the cake. The whole reason is simply because it actually looks like some type of badass handgun; if you’ve never seen one, imagine a revolver, except that the barrel looks a LOT larger in width. Every played in the arcade Sega’s Virtua Cop or Namco’s Time Crisis and seen what the gun you carry looks like? Or seen the Japanese anime Trigun and what gun Vash the Stampede carries around with him? That’s what the gun looks like; like a bad-assed-up revolver. You even cock it the same way, and get to fire up to 6 darts without reloading. When you do reload, you have to press a side button to make the 6-chambered thing holding the darts swing out the side… just like any revolver. And the best part of all is that this toy is still being sold in toy stores all around; it’s pretty recent. So you can get it if you want; I know that when I got mine, its coolness persuaded Jerm and Jon to get their own. I plan on eventually modifying mine by visiting any Nerf-oriented fansite; most have ideas on how to make it shoot further. (I wanted to also modify another weak blaster of mine which some claim can reach close to a football field’s length) The only downside is that it’s not a perfect repeating revolver as of late; you need to cock it in-between each shot, but then if it was, it’d probably be battery-operated, and usually kids toys are best not being battery-operated.

(We still need to rent out a huge 3 story building for one last Nerf war; I miss the good old days)

2. Larami: Super Soaker CPS 1000
Almost any super soaker was good to be honest for nostalgia’s sake(assuming Larami made them, and not Hasbro, who now owns the company); these were the standard for land-based water fights, since they were pressure-based, not battery-based, and shot water pretty far. However, if you’ve ever seen the Constant Pressure System 1000, that was the pinnacle for land-based water guns, and for Super Soaker. The thing I would say is sorta like the anti-tank rifle of all water guns. It took FOREVER to pump to full pressure(there was a guage on the side that slowly went up as you pumped, like a super meter in Street Fighter), and there were probably 4-5 full shots if you had a max-pressure shot, cleanly unloaded, then pumped again to max, but when you actually pulled and held the trigger, you got this massive stream of water that went about 50+ feet about a foot wide in diameter… for about 2 full seconds. It’s basically like the Stream Machine, but for land(I own a Stream Machine; it’s probably the best water gun… for water-based fights) I never owned one, but I’ve had a couple of water fights in Jr. High School and one of the guys I went camping with brought this with him. There were also two brothers on the swim team I used to be on which had this. To give you further ideas of how strong it was, there was a wire mesh at the end where the water was supposed to come out, supposedly to tone down the power at which the water came out… didn’t really matter I guess. Another thing was after this gun, maybe because of lawsuits or mothers complaining loudly enough, all following Super Soakers never again had the same power as this one. Sure, the ones you see now at Target during the summer have cool additions that the old super soakers don’t have, like easy hose filling and stuff. But this was the granddaddy of them all. There was no comparison. The size was humongous too and had a shoulder strap, making it even more intimidating just by view alone.

3. Kenner: Terminator 2: Exploding T-1000
A few years after Terminator 2 came out, there came all these companies trying to make money off of the movie, because hey, it was a pretty cool movie, one of the best action movies I might add. I ended up getting 3 Terminator 2 action figures from the company Kenner. However, I NEVER got this one, though it was always in stores wherever I went. I’m regretful of that now; this was clearly the best of the action figures that Kenner produced for the Terminator 2 line. Phil kept telling me to ask Mom to get this, but I never listened, and I think Phil always saw values in toys a little better than me when I was a kid. It looked like the T-1000 in the non-motorcycle police uniform, with the right side of its body liquid metal, and the left side of its body looking like the T-1000 in its regular police uniform disguise. Plus, the left arm was reformed into a huge blade. Of course, like the name suggests, there was a small trigger in the back of the figure, near the lower back. If you pressed it, the figure would explode into 4 different pieces(the figure upward of the legs was made of 3 pieces). I really dunno how you can top that as far as a Terminator 2 action figure goes.

4. Hasbro: GI Joe: General Hawk/Cobra Commander/Snake Eyes(black)/Storm Shadow(Cobra)
I think there were 3 main phases as far as toys that I liked when I was a kid; the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles fad, then the GI Joe fad, and followed by the Nerf fad. I, like Phil, used to be big on GI Joe. The difference was that I didn’t take care of them like he did(he has this Storm Shadow one where it has ALL sorts of weapons, and instead of playing with it, he simply wrapped it all up in tissue paper so that it wouldn’t get damaged), I actually played with mine. The end result is many of them are not in good condition; my Snake Eyes has a gimp leg, and etc. It’s really subjective as to which ones of them were the best, because there were a LOT of GI Joe action figures that were out there, which is why I listed more than one, but I would say these were probably the best of them(I hesitate to put Duke on the list, because while the main leader on the battlefield(General Hawk is THE leader of GI Joe), he seems so commonplace nowadays, but then again, so are Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow). General Hawk is so rare(never saw it in stores when I was kid), and he’s the leader, so he goes on there by default. Ditto w/Cobra Commander. If you could’ve found the Black Snake Eyes(the old one), not the Blue Snake Eyes(which was the one I had) in the old days, I think that would’ve been a keeper, given how cool Snake Eyes was. The blue one’s still cool though; it had a TMP(to use CS terminology; at least I think it’s a TMP; small submachine pistol w/silencer), 2 katanas, and a spring-loaded grappling hook that fired(maybe I just think it’s not as cool because mine’s busted up), it’s just that he looks kinda ridiculous wearing a red ski mask and that weird gray body armor, whereas the other one looks more like an actual ninja, being in black and all. Storm Shadow is to Cobra what Snake Eyes is to GI Joe so it’s self explanatory. I actually HAD my own Storm Shadow action figure, when he was on GI Joe and not Cobra, but even then it didn’t seem as cool as the evil Storm Shadow action figure my bro had; only came with 2 weapons, and the spring-winded karate chop was kinda cheezy.
For the record, I think the ones sold today aren’t too shabby either; that is, the Snake Eyes and Storm Shadow one, but there’s two different kinds; make sure you find both and compare before buying.
Lesson I would impart; if you ever want to buy an action figure for yourself as an adult, just leave it in the packaging; don’t even open it; treat it like a collector’s item. Trust me on this one. I finally heeded that advice during the end of December when I thought it’d be cool to actually get the Street Fighter action figures at Toys R Us.

5. Transformers Optimus Prime action figure
Now we’re getting into territory that I’m less familiar with, so don’t be surprised if the following after number 4 get less say and mention. I was never into Transformers, however I did watch enough of the Fox Kids’ new version of Transformers as a late teen to witness the coolness that is the leader of the autobots. So by default.

(That’ll be it for action figures; I think all the other ones are subject to various things; while TMNT’s another good line, everybody has a different favorite turtle, so it’s hard to list the best one, and all others are dependent on whether you liked the series and stuff, such as Justice League, Thundercats, He-man, Street Fighter, Mortal Kombat, etc)

6. Trampoline(honorable mention goes to Pogo Stick)
Now you’re probably laughing, thinking whether my house is full of asbestos for sticking weird toys in here after number 5. It’s true; I may be running out of ideas as I’m racking my head. But bear with me. How can you not like this? Have a bad day? Go jump on a trampoline. Frustrated? Go jump on a trampoline. Got too much energy in your system? Go jump on a trampoline. Probably the only place in your house you could legitimately jump up and down repeatedly like a sugar-high kid, have more fun than doing the same thing with a jump rope and not break something or fall off-balance and break something else in the process, as long as you watch how you’re jumping(although I usually end up seeing stuff that is AFV material when things like this occur). May not be bad-ass, but way too fun to ignore. Even if you wanted to now, I doubt you could go and jump on your bed repeatedly; the ceiling’s too low for you to let it all out. The pogo stick goes on there for an honorable mention because it’s essentially the same thing, and probably cheaper, but I’ve never owned one.

7. Rock Em Sock Em Robots
Street Fighter before it made your local Golfland; heck, this is Karate Champ before it made your local Golfland. Try to punch your opponent’s block off; your opponent tries to do the same. How can you not like that? I was reminded of this awesome toy when watching some Justice League Unlimited episodes and seeing the Flash play with somebody else in the Justice League Watchtower over something that looked like this(“Yo Flash, do you think the rest of the League thinks we’re too childish?” “No way man” * zooms out to show the two playing this game * “Yes, I win!” “No fair! Your guy has a longer reach!”).

8. Boomerang
Most people I know have never played with this toy. If you have one, and know(I stress, KNOW) how to use one, it’s a blast; it’s like playing catch with yourself. I have one. Problem is, I could never get it to work right; actually as a kid I usually got it to work right to make it come back; it’s just that I was afraid to catch it as it was coming back at me(imagine me as a kid winding back and throwing this on my driveway, then my eyes getting wide and backpedaling really fast half-trying to avoid it, half-trying to catch it as the thing’s coming back at me). I plan on getting a new one soon enough, the company that makes those weird light neon rings as Frisbees(those are cool too) makes a boomerang that looks like an outer tracing of a triangle.

9. Winchester rifle/AK-47
This one’s actually two different products. I think both of which were cool. However, they’re essentially the same thing; replica guns that make replica gun sounds. When I saw a toy version of the Winchester rifle at K-Mart in Cupertino(it’s now a Home Depot), they used to sell this toy when I was a kid. No batteries required or caps required. You cocked it using the lever on the side, much like a regular Winchester rifle. When you pulled the trigger, you got a sound that sounded very much like the actual Winchester rifle(the best I can describe it is like a “PA-CHUUUUUUuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu…). I think Counter-strike fans that loved using the AWP sniper rifle, would’ve gotten a kick outta owning this.
The AK-47 I saw once at a toy store in Gilroy shopping center. Pulled the trigger, you’d get a 3-shot burst like sound. I just thought as far as replica gun toys making gun sounds, these were very cool, and they required nothing else; no batteries, no exploding caps. Never got either when I was kid, and both aren’t sold anymore in stores.

(I’m really out of ideas, so number 10’s sorta weird)

10. Record player(was called a phonograph)
Lemme know if you can actually think of something that was MEANT as a kid’s toy for number 10 that was cool; til then, this is my entry; hey; sometimes when you were a kid, the best toys were the things you abused, no lie.
For those of you who were old enough to either own a phonograph or have parents own a phonograph, as opposed to a CD player, there was way too much fun you could have with these shenanigans while 10 inches of vinyl was rotating(much to the risk of actually ruining the record permanently you were playing, but you were a kid, you weren’t worried about things like that happening). You could turn it off while it was still midway in playing a record, and the sound would SLOOOWLY grind to a halt, which usually got giggles out of me. You could jump up and down while it was playing, seeing if you could jump the needle to another place on the record all the while causing scratching sounds to come out. I loved turning the rotating contraption off, but not the amplifer, and then spinning the record backward quickly and giggling at the sounds that came out. And then, if the record was busted, usually what would happen was when the needle got to the place which was busted, it would just keep repeating that area over and over, and over(I fondly remember the “Raiders of the Lost Ark” record would always get to the part where Indiana Jones picked up the relic and then the announcer would be stuck saying “the walls began to shake… began to shake… began to shake… began to shake…” ad infinitum, usually stopped when Phil would go over and jump up and down violently near the record player, causing it to jump)
I make it sound like I ruined all the vinyl records my family had on this, and that’s not true; my mom and dad probably would NEVER let me abuse the records that long, or at all. However, there were very rare periods of time when they were not in the family room, my inner child would emerge, and the above would happen, and those times usually got laughs out of me. Good times.
(If you want to recreate this feeling, go download Ots CD Scratch[a free turntable software], pop in a music CD, take the virtual needle and just run it SIDEWAYS across the virtual record; don’t tell me you won’t laugh at the sound; you’ll never be able to ruin the CD you’re playing this way, nor be able to change its position by jumping up and down next to your cpu, though, although I suppose that’s a good thing)
FYI, the phonograph we had was not only a phonograph; it was also an AM/FM radio player and a cassette player. Incidentally, my brother beat me to breaking the tape player part because he stuffed coins down the tape opening when HE was a kid. Heh heh.

Ok, that’s my list. To be honest, there’s probably some toys that I missed that were just cool, and I’m sketchy on number 10, as I was running out of really good ideas, but I’m only one guy, so please comment away, or write your own list; I would love to see what toys I didn’t list(or in the case of number 10, things that could’ve been abused as amusing toys).

health insurance is still in the process of approving my application, which is why i've practically been seen nowhere out of my house since tuesday. could get approved on tuesday, but could take til thursday or so. no phone calls yet. could be anything in between, so i could end up missing another bible study.

which is why i haven't really done anything for the past week or so; if i can't go out, i can't really do anything job-wise yet. the constant is that i've been getting back towards reading my bible a lot more consistently now. ever since summer 2006, i now take all my notes for the bible onto word documents; i used to take them on just plain paper. and i still have those pieces of paper, but it's so annoying leafing through them. and while i can read my handwriting, it's still annoying, because of the inconsistencies of handwriting, especially when writing hurriedly. plus, since i switched from the NIV to the KJV, i may glean different thoughts and reflections from the same verse. so. all the more reason to keep the notes on word documents. i basically have about 70 word documents, one for each book of the bible(66), each numbered. the other documents are for keeping track of which book i'm in, charting how long it takes me to read 1-2 chapters in the new and old testament each day(to see if i'm slacking when i'm reading or getting sidetracked), and 1 i have for writing down background information regarding how the KJV bible came to be. downside is of course, i need to be near my computer to take notes. but i think it's worth it. and the price of the printed paper would be free; just need to bring a disk to the local library.

i've been thinking though; i usually divide the reading plan into 1 new testament verse and 1 old testament verse per day. that sounds good. except the old testament has 39 books, the new testament has 27 books. at this rate, i would probably never get to ever diving into the books of the prophets by the end of this year, a place i have never gotten to; i've gotten somewhere into jeremiah the last time i was deep into reading the bible each day. hence, a better idea would be to divide between books 1 and 33, and 34 through 66. book 33 is micah, and book 34 is nahum. that sounds good, except most of those books are about 3 chapters long at most; a lot of the books of the OT are still much longer; isaiah places in at about 66 chapters, followed by jeremiah, which is pretty long too; ranging into the 50s or so. so i would argue making the cutoff at daniel(book 27); daniel through revelation for the "NT;" (which is good b/c daniel has a lot of antichrist prophecies as well), and genesis through ezekiel for the "OT."

i HAVE however, resumed looking into the whole KJV debate; i sorta ended up putting that stuff on hiatus somewhere in the summer of 2006, late summer. never got around to finishing the 2nd of the 2 books i had bought a long time ago. nearing the end, so that's got a lotta juices turning again. i'm thinking of buying 2 or 3 more books.

my mom checked out the entire simpsons dvd from the library, season 2 today. the simpsons of old is SO much better than the new ones; takes a lot more thinking, but the jokes are a lot funnier. i still love when homer tries to jump the canyon on bart's skateboard, falls, etc. doh xn. the lion in the water during the stuntman's routine was great too; couldn't stop cracking at that.

my laptop's sound card is totally messed up. if i'm not using the "iMIC," i can't hear anything; sound is very inconsistent; sometimes it'll come out like someone's trying to scratch a record on a turntable. really, really slowly. i knew someday i would eventually have to buy a preamp or something like that to my computer for making song recording better and easier, but didn't anticipate that the time would come a bit sooner than previous; i can still hear sound if i plug the iMIC in and stuff. however, i can't really record using the iMIC; the sound output and input is a LOT lower.

that's it for now.

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)