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My Parents

They are pretty funny sometimes. In their own way. We were at El Pollo Loco, and my mom was commenting about food, and it had to relate to why certain races seem….fatter…than others…due to cultural food…

So I said, that according to Spanish class at school, that their culture is to take a siesta around noon after lunch. And that schools allow this time for students to go home and sleep.

Dad: Except for Zorro!

Mom: ……pwahahhahahaha…hehe….hahahahah

Me: ….<: )…uh…what mom….

Mom: I just imagined everyone sleeping in their homes, and Zorro is hopping around the tops of houses and climbing everywhere in his outfit!

Dad: heh…he’s probably sneaking a peek at people too! kekekkekeke

Me: ……..heh…..heh…….hehehehehhehe

It’s funny if you imagine it. Somehow Zorro becomes a perverted spiderman weilding a sword.

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Attraction Survey

Today at work, we had a guest speaker who was..oh…mid-20s, and he was cute. He was totally caucasian, and tall….and you know…usually I’m not immediately attracted to white guys, but for some reason I felt like he might be interesting. He was the teacher that I work with’s cousin-in-law, and long story short, the teacher mentioned he was a programmer…and the guy called himself an engineer at one point.

Ooh…so that just makes so much more sense to me. He must have been exuding his nerdy tech tendencies that I seem to be drawn to. But he looked like a regular cool guy too…..baseball cap, converse, blue jeans, button up collared shirt. I don’t know.

Anyway, so I thought about this…and I decided I should made one of those survey things…because I actually use it a lot when I talk about just one thing, but I’ve never put them together. I’d say like “oh, a suit is +10″ or “turtleneck is +10″…but I never really added up the points.

And this isn’t just for significant others…it’s just a general “who I like to be with and find interesting” because I like to meet and get to know people (male and female) like this.

These are ordinal. If you have no clue what that is, -5 to your brains.

Brains: + x/25

• Intelligence in his area of interest and general knowledge. Another +5 if in the area of computer or internet systems.

Affection: +x/18

• He should be able to show that he cares for me in ways I would be able to see. I like to think I’m low maintenance and sometimes I am…but honestly I could be high maintenance when I’m not thinking straight. Who doesn’t like to feel loved anyway?

Personality: +x/15

• A combination of charm, wit, humor, and manliness.

Security: +x/13

• This only applies for marriage material consideration, not friends. Like…thinking waaaaaaaaaaay ahead. It is still here, though, because it is important. I forgot the stat number for this, so I’ll just say “a lot” of marriages fail because of problems that stem from financial issues. I think that if a guy has a high number in brains, then this number shouldn’t be a huge issue. But there are those highly intelligent guys working in 3rd world countries for very worthy causes. It’s very noble.

Appearance: +x/12

• This varies and is influenced by other factors because “love is blind”. Probably the hardest for me because my judgment is often impaired by influence of other factors. +5 if the guy is of Keanu Reeves/Takeshi Kaneshiro/Brad Pitt calibre. But not tooooo hot because that makes me nervous.

Hobbies: +x/10

• He should probably have the same hobbies as me, so I don’t feel guilty if I neglect him because I’m “doing my own thing” or not let me buy gadgets because he doesn’t get excited about them like I do. Interested in knitting, baking, singing in the shower…jK. +5 if he has a history in gaming. That’s video, not animals.

Tolerance: +x/5

• Ignorance is a no-no. There are so many different kinds of people, cultures, and ideas jumping around us that it is impossible to be an objective and reasonable adult if they are ignorant. +2 for loving to travel.

Curiosity: +x/2

• General competence to find out information and self desire to know things and learn.

So that is the base number!

These are bonuses, and some of these are temporary bonuses, because we can’t all be like Steve Jobs and wear a turtleneck all the time. They are more like…things that make me go “!”

Looking good in a suit: +4

Uniformed: +4 (Military, Governmental, Public Services…not Hot Dog on a Stand)

Looking good in a turtleneck: +2

Nice broad shoulders: +2 (don’t ask)

Good with kids: +2 (talking with little kids, acting big brotherly)

Good sense of style: +5 (fitted shirts to show of his amazing body(teehee), converse or vans kind of thing…umm…takes note from a GQ magazine)

Mandarin Chinese speaking: +10 (only +5 if you have an intolerable mainland accent)

And these are the negates:

Acts like a major FOB from mainland China or Taiwan: -10 (I don’t care how long or how little it has been since you crossed the ocean)

Parents are from mainland China: -5 (might change when I actually meet and get to know them)

Bad personalities: -10 (victims of self-righteousness, talking but not walking, overt laziness, lack of life…)

So, after playing with the numbers a bit…I came up with…a minimum base number of 88. And I did feel a little hypocritical, because I don’t think I would get a score of 88. But, I’m not looking for someone just like me. If I did, nothing would get done and we would both be floaty. Do I even deserve an 88 person? bleh.

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Random Game

A friend of mine introduced me to this game…where you find out what your band name is, album name, and album cover…

Apparently my band name is The Lake of Darkness. My album’s title is “Has Not Been Caught”.

And my album cover is:

Hm….the lake doesn’t look so dark…but what a coincidence that it actually happened to be a picture of a lake right?

Try it yourself:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random for your band’s name

http://www.quotationspage.com/random.php3 the last four words in the last quote is the album title

http://www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days the third picture is your album cover

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Officially Graduated

I got an email today saying I am officially graduated.

It is kind of a relief.

Even though it was only about a month ago, that I was still taking finals…it feels like it was so long ago.

And just last week I had one of those dreams where you suddenly discover you’ve been missing a class for a week that you didn’t know you had for some reason? And that you’ve missed out on 2 quizzes. And you’re freaking out? Yeah, I had one of those last week. In the dream I thought “wait…what? I thought I thought I was done with all this?…”

It’s kind of surreal not to have that weight on my shoulders anymore.

Still a student of life though. Every day.

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BlizzCon 2008 Part 4- My Hunter’s Mark

I got off my lazy bum for Wunder and Mel.

Aaaaand I video I threw together

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BlizzCon 2008 Part 3- Starcraft 2

I played Starcraft 2 twice at BlizzCon. We were only allowed to play multiplayer, no campaigns, only 1v1 and you are restricted to 15 minutes. I played protoss and everything looks amazing, yadda yadda. You go down the row, and sit down with your partner across from you, and there are headphones you can put on to hear the sound. Ah…nostalgia…the sound of crystals be harvested…I told my friend he couldn’t rush me for at least ten minutes because I’m super slow. Plus, I had to read the tooltips to know what was going on because of the new units.

Apparently this was announced earlier, but I didn’t know they took out dragoons! Here I was, looking for the unit that is supposed to be next to zealots…and it’s this….weird looking unrecognizable…thing. From the tooltip I couldn’t really tell what it did. Something with electricity. And I had to upgrade to learn it…or something. I have bad memory. I made a couple of those….

Oh! I remember. You can create a field that freezes ground units. It’s a really small field though…like…enough for only one unit to be frozen. Not so nice against the 20 or so hydralisks my friend set out on me. Ew…zerg. Anyhow, maybe I wasn’t using it correctly. Learning new units can be a pain!

So I go about my business and I hear

You must spawn more overlords!

…um….what?

You must spawn more overlords!

….are you kidding me? I can’t spawn an overlord even if I wanted to. I’m protoss…don’t you mean “you must construct additional pylons”?

So…I made a couple more pylons, even though I didn’t really need them, looking at my unit count (I’m slow)…

…maybe this a bug…a very blatant bug

and then I hear it….or actually, I only start to notice it now.

The sickening sound of something mutating or hatching out of slimy eggs.

What….the….heck…?! ewwwww zerg……I can’t stand that sound

And then…….the definite sound of zerglings destroying something very quickly. You know that sound…it sounds like “hwa hwa hwa hwa hwa” rapidly followed by your supply depot blowing up.

….what..the heck…

I turn to look at my neighbor. He is playing zerg. He is not wearing a headset.

Uh…I think I have your headset…sorry! You need more overlords btw…

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Blizzcon 2008 Part 2- Pictures

I finally got my camera back and so I can upload the pictures. Yaaay pictures!

The front of the Anaheim Convention Center. BlizzCon wooo. If you look closely you can see my hunter’s mark on the bottom left corner. We were 20 minutes early, but parking made us late. There was a huge line and we had to circle in a line all the way around and up top to parking spaces that weren’t really parking spaces, but everyone parked there anyway.

Some of the banners up top.

We watched Fnatic vs. Made in Taiwan. I was partial to Made in Taiwan because…well…gotta represent! But Fnatic had an asian girl on their team…I felt like how I do at an Angels vs. Yankees game. Taiwan lost though…it’s okay! I’m sure they were happy to be here. They all had team jackets with “Taiwan” in the noticeable public-relations-tourism-graphic font they like to use.

Frostmourne, yours for $400 bucks. The price is going to be raised near the holidays too. Arena winners and the costume contest winners receive one of these. Nihilum won the arena tournament…they are a EU team. I wonder how they are going to get this 16 pound ish sword onto the plane…

Got a croissant during lunch so I could snack on it later in the afternoon. When I think or see a croissant, I think of Burgle and Arloma. Cwaaasooooon.

Mograine and Whiteman. Rise, my Champion!

Kerrigan. She almost makes zerg hot. But they are still gross.

I didn’t see these get used very much. I did take a picture with it but I don’t have it on me yet.

Ooing and awwing.

mMmMmm…..glowy monitors…..not many people on beta since many people were on wotlk beta already for months.

People playing the World of Warcraft card game. I have a deck. Played it about four times. The instructions are confusing.

This was the mini-game created by J!nx. You choose a class and you get as many balls and special balls according to your class, and you throw them, either a head shot or in the chest. The interesting part are the special balls. If you get them in, they are either a crit, or it means it’s a greater heal (for priests) and you subtract 2 balls from your opponent…or other specials that make sense for the class. You compete with the team next to you and you move on for prizes. I got in 1 out of 10…it is harder than it looks.

Arts.

This guy was dressed up as a pimp orc and walked around with a swagger and a cane. I only caught the back of him <: (.

Drool.

Slurp.

New for Diablo 3.

She reminds me of Padme

There is the throne and people could wait in line to pose up there with the helm and the frostmourne. I never got around to waiting for this.

Yes, that is what it looks like.

Scary….

Another picture of a mass of people.

The Diablo 3 section. Wouldn’t it be cool if we could play a 40 man raid like this? All together in one room?

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Blizzcon 2008 Part 1- Day 1

Just got back from my first day at BlizzCon 2008. There weren’t aaaas many panels as I liked compared to last year, but it was still fun to see people that have the same hobbies as me! I didn’t take many pictures of the place because I wanted to save my battery life for the contests at night. Taking video of those sucks up much battery life. @_@. But here is what I have today.

The screens made it really nice to just sit down and watch. You didn’t have to worry about getting a good seat up front because the video camera was a lot better than real life.

Some of the art up there. All professional looking!

I like to see how many people are behind me. There were tons of people there. It was hard to get around the first few hours.

Blizzard got three huge rooms this time, compared to the two last year. That’s the walkway to the middle room.

Honestly, this was the best costume I saw and she didn’t win. That undead female is *dead* on! (teehee…). Seriously, the makeup was amazing and she acts like an undead on the stage. The hair is perfect and the outfit is very accurate. She should have totally won. The person that won was a draenei that sat on top of a huge turtle that moved. Yes, it’s amazing that it’s huge and it moves…but this undead female should have gotten at least some credit in the runner ups. I mean, look at those eyes!

I wore a hunter’s mark over my head today and I actually spent a lot of time on it. I’ve never used wire before and I kind of hurt my hands. No pictures of that yet either…but lots of people wanted pictures of me! Well, maybe just 4 or 5, but I heard a lot of comments as I passed by, or people passed me. Like…

“….she’s got a hunter’s mark on her!”
“careful! a hunter has targeted you!”
“….omg that is so awesome”
“omg hunter’s mark!”
“hahha that’s so funny!”
“awwwwwwwWwww!”

Stuff like that ^_^. Makes me happy inside.

I also got a nice complement on my shirt I made. Pictures of that later too. I just had to update.

Also, videos of the dance contest!

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UFO sighting

I didn’t really want to post this, but I feel like if I don’t, I’m just going to forget about it later on. And I don’t really want to forget about it because it is quite a funny story.

I was driving home, and I live in a kind of…hilly area. So I was driving home at night, around 9PM, and I saw something floating in the air. It was disc like, and it had lights on the edge and the bottom of the disc.

OH EM GEE!

Is that what I think it is?! Nooooo way….nooo waaay…what’s is that? what IS that!

It was floating back and forth…and around….in the same general air space. I had to stop so I pulled over to this wooden bridge that leads to a bike path into the canyon. I saw that another SUV had pulled over as well in front of me. I hastily grabbed for my camera but I didn’t have it with me! I had to use my cell phone…but after looking at it now, it is only a white speck in the dark night sky. -__-”.

So I stood there, amazed. In my life, I’ve finally seen a UFO! I’ve joined the ranks of all the other crazies out there. I could finally have a conversation with Mulder!

Then I saw that the UFO wasn’t actually very far…I mean….it looked small because it was far away right? But after my eyes adjusted…something just wasn’t right.

It glided back and forth…and descended….

oh….this is actually pretty small….

and it floated down into the park next to me.

A small remote controlled aircraft with super bright, I’m assuming LED lights.

Too bad <: ( I really wanted it to be real.

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Eavesdropping at Hometown Buffet

Hometown buffet is…an interesting place. Whenever I go there, I feel like “whoa..these people…where did they all come from?” You can take that as it is.

Anyhow, I’m a notorious eavesdropper…

Teenaged boy: You know, you’ve got to admit…as much as we make fun of this place, it has some pretty good food.

Teenaged girl: Wait, what?

Teenaged boy: We make fun of this place, but it has a lot of good food.

Teenaged girl: Mit? Mit?

Teenaged boy: What?

Teenaged girl: <pointing out what she is talking about> Mit?

Teenaged boy: …no, that’s M.I.T. It’s a college!

and also,

Little kid 1: <at the dessert bar> aaaah brownies! My favorite!

Little kid 2: Look! They have rice crispies!

Little kid 1: I love this place! I love everything here! And it’s free!