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Monday, January 31, 2005Card Throwing NUB
You know what's interesting? How my dad somehow knows how to throw playing cards. Accurately, too. And much, much harder than I can.
GUESS WHAT! Today I impaled my first item with a playing card--a circular poster thing I made in 5th grade about this book. The book was about a teenage astronaut and a massai dude who get along at the very end--called countdown or something along those fuzzy, fuzzy lines. Sure, it's a very memory-filled poster, back to the days of Krevitt and Cocoa and Dudley.
Ha. Funny how I associate David's name with two gerbils.
AMC 12 tomorrow. Aiming for a 150, cuz it's about time I finally did well on one of these freaking tests.
Today I learned that cynthia is much more obsessed with kasugai gummies than I previously imagined.
Candy obsessions are quite amusing.
Very, very amusing.
::mathing time::
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 09:45 p.m.
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Sunday, January 30, 2005Mini med school, round TWO
Had mini med school again today. wasn't too bad--food was of lower quality than before--and I got this bendy stress reliever thingy. People really like kasugai gummies, apparently. I must buy more. More. MORE!!!
So.
I just found out during mini-med that I have a paper due tomorrow that I (almost) forgot about. Hm. Must go read book now. And write paper. And learn to throw cards.
Yep, that's my current obsession--throwing playing cards, cuz you can reportedly put one through a watermelon with practice.
Sweet.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 07:48 p.m.
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Saturday, January 29, 2005Bday of 3J number 2
Happy birthday to the pyrofisted psycho, 3J number two, aka jeremy, who was once a former lamer of the week, because he spammed my guestbook so much that I had to archive it twice.
mucho thanks to jeremy, as because of his birthday party I can now leave my housing unit. He's turning S E V E N T E E N ! His other brothers include 3J number 1, who turned 18 around the beginning of the year, and 3J number 3, who is but a tiny lad.
Let's reminisce for fun, since we are all manly men here, and manly men love to lift weights and reminisce. I've known jeremy since he was but a wee...1st grader? Or was it back in kindergarten? Very long. He wasn't such a freak back then. (kidding, yo) An excerpt from my description of him last year, after winning the afforementioned "lamer of the week" award: Week 1--8/10/03 to 8/16/03 "...Jeremy's other hobbies include terrifying various furry critters and acting out his favorite final fantasy scenes in full costume. He also enjoys dancing to tribal chants and microwaving ants..."
Week 2--8/17/03 to 8/23/03 "...Jeremy is especially proud of the rebellious life he lives--he stays up past 2 on school nights to play outdated games such as 'Diablo II" and "Final Fantasy 3." He is also proud of the various fetishes he has, ranging from a love of matches to a certain person whom I will refer to as 'the sunshine,' a RAY of light in Jeremy's bleak life..."
Ah, those were the good times, weren't they.
But life goes on.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 05:20 p.m.
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Friday, January 28, 2005==Weekly Special=="Those who think they know
EVERYTHING
annoy those of us that do."-Simon's shirt
Too much Time; Nothing to Do
So. I suspect I've pretty much figured it out.
Figured what out, you ask? The parental units. Why they act like assholes.
Oh no, you shouldn't say that, you know.
You're right; it's not their fault they were born with the asshole gene. Maybe I inherited it, cuz that seems to be the case. Sorry, I can't help being an asshole; I was born this way. Works like a charm. Politically correct, too.
Other people get ridiculous amounts of inherited money and luxury sedans from their parental units; I only get dashing good looks and the asshole gene.
Wonderful.
Actually, my theory is that an extreme amount of idleness develops the asshole gene to its full infamous potential--in full bloom, the asshole gene causes the carrier to experience severe bouts of feeling like an ass, acting like an ass, but ironically smelling like mothballs.
Looks like the parental units prove my theory. No wonder they're obsessed with my academic life--it's the only out in their dull existence. Apparently staying home all day and watching Korean dramas (nuna...you know what I'm talking about) or going online to discuss machining in forums or rifling through my belongings just isn't fascinating enough.
Apparently they can't figure out what to do with their time, aside from asking inane questions in a manner purposely chosen to inflict the maximum amount of confusion and the minimum amount of actual comprehension. Questions at normal intervals I can take, but when someone goes up to your room and pops in every fifteen minutes to allegedly make sure you're not:
- looking at dirty pictures
- looking at dirty pictures
doing math for fun looking at dirty pictures- looking at dirty pictures
Even when you aren't using the internet, the lack of implied trust is a tad disheartening. Did I say disheartening? I meant that I'll probably hate myself when I grow up and give my kids hell, and beat the crap out of them with math textbooks until they become smart.
Offended?
Sorry, I can't help being an asshole; I was born this way.
...See? Like a charm.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 09:22 p.m.
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Thursday, January 27, 2005The Vices of Life: Kasugai and PoT
Not supposed to have internet connection to my room right now; IP address was rejected over wireless connection. So I IP hacked and got on the network. w00tage...probably don't have internet rights right now cuz I didn't finish my RSI app..but that's too bad.
So I watched a little too much PoT yesterday. Way, way too much. Like two or three cds of it. Kind of explains why I didn't finish my RSI APP--although my mom did give me a lovely lecture at--get this--12:55 AM which lasted for nearly an hour.
Presented Team Network Design for BPA today--gochu kept on being a penis and tried to ditch us repeatedly. Ha...ha, penis joke. Not funny. Finally figured out how to fold Catty's notes back to their original shape, and persuaded Tiffany to fold my other note into a strawberry.
So I got my parents to buy some Kasugai gummies down by Chinatown, where said candies are much cheaper than up here. Peach is delectable. Although I must try the Kiwi.
Oh jeez...I'm talking about candy. CANDY IS THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY DAY....wow...
Damn. Can't stop eating them. T_T
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 04:07 p.m.
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Wednesday, January 26, 2005House Arrest, Part II
Interesting conversation during stats today. We learned that Kunjur is a jerk that likes asian moms. Especially moms of people named gochu.
Sherman: I feel sorry for you
me: why?
Sherman: Cuz you live in like a prison
me: well...the food here isn't that bad
They have decided that I'm not supposed to be on AIM and GMAIL accounts anymore, and have thus proceeded to make normal checks of the proxy log.
Damn shanubber. Never taught me anything past script kiddie.
So the parental units are threatening serious consequences if I don't finish the RSI (here's what it means--Research Science Institute, an uber 1337 summer camp @ MIT) application today. Which means they will probably get super bitchy.
I timed them this morning. From when I woke up to when I went to school, 26 minutes of RSI-related lecture. And by lecture, I mean something much louder, angrier, and very choleric. (yay vocab words?)
So I've decided that when they decide to "confiscate" my computer and remove the internet connection to the server, I'll go all 1337 hax0r on them and do a little something that looks like this: format c: ::hits enter::
*sigh*....if only
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 04:25 p.m.
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Tuesday, January 25, 2005The pwners and the p00ned
Not much happening at school--played some chess, doodled some pictures, etc. Beat Arthur Brannon III (w00t rematch), but got pwned by former lamer-of-the-week Phil. Sad, but chess is his life, so what can I say? ;p
And...I think I just pulled that grade in AP Chem by a single bonus question point. Yowza. Xiao won't stop making fun of me for watching PoT, and he sits right behind me...I think it's about time I taught him a lesson. A lesson he won't ever forget.
A lesson in appreciating PoT.
A lesson, that despite the short shorts, the flapping shirts, the large quantity of pretty boys, and the seemingly pointless innuendo-laced banter, PoT is a quality anime about junior high boys playing tennis.
...I'm serious! I watch it for the tennis action!
............no wonder Joy thinks I'm gay.
Anyhoo, in other news, the parental units have become disturbingly furious over the state of my RSI application (read: 1/3 done) and are absolutely horrified by the fact that they're due...on the first of February. In fact, my dad now regularly checks the proxy+ logs to see if the servers "gmail.google.com" or "aim.oscar.whatever.com" shows up.
He even printed out the log files just to show how much of a man he is.
Ha. Good thing he's too short to kick my ass. I STILL GOT PITAS, BIATCH!
Subtly told a freshman during lunch to shut up, cuz he was bragging about his 14-something SAT score. Should have sodomi...um...told him off...less-subtly instead. But I guess that chance's gone, huh?
Parental Units are now threatening to permanently remove my internet access.
Oh, what's this I just found? A hard drive killer? How peculiar, that it should be readily accessible on this floppy disc I just happened to find...=D
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 09:19 p.m.
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Monday, January 24, 2005New Semester; New Beginning?
On World News Tonight there was a report about how this one University dude calculated that today is the most depressing day of the year due to broken new years resolutions, lack of finances, long-span-of-bad-weather, lack of holiday (a month from xmas), and the fact that it's a MONDAY. AKA "Blue Monday."
What a wonderful day to start a new semester.
New Schedule:
Linear Algebra
Latin Honors
APUSH - Linder
Lunch/Indpt study
Gym
AP chem
Stats - Free
Romance - Gatto
During gym, came back from dropping my queen to take a win. I'm a chess dork. ...actually if I was actually competent at chess, I probably wouldn't be dropping my queen in the first place. Worst part is he hung his queen out right before taking mine.
...when Tiffany looks down upon you in dorkiness, you know you've hit rock bottom.
I think I've fallen to just about there.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 06:50 p.m.
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Sunday, January 23, 2005'Better than Skull and Bone' Application
Foo. Am currently working on an application to a mysterious, secretive, and apparently highly selective program. It's so secretive that only half the applicants actually know what the letters of its name stand for (RSI??), and so mysterious that even fewer people know what actually happens there.
Reportedly, it involves the "R" in "RSI."
What I would do to learn what that "R" stands for.
So there's this one place where it asks for your 'field' of interest and 'subfield'--it asks a lot of random questions, things you would never need to know like your social security number (social security?? What's that, mr. president?) or your gender--and I'm not sure exactly what my field and subfield of interest are.
Don't get me wrong; I know what I wish to pursue there, but I'm just not sure how to word it. Aeronautics? Aeronautical? Flying things? Spacey-spacey boom boom machine?
Let's hope RSI officials never find this blog; they'd probably then write me off as a flaming dumbass, and purposely blacklist my name for all of eternity.
And then? Then, I'd be enrolled by default in the College of Dreams.
All because I couldn't figure out what subfield I...oh, wait, Laures just told me.
Nevermind, then.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 05:36 p.m.
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Saturday, January 22, 2005Why Winter is Cold
Winter is obviously cold because of the snow. Snow is cold, and just like when you add an icecube to a room, snow will make winter cold. Thus, to remove the coldness of winter, one must remove snow from the immediate surroundings, so as to reduce the frigidity of the environment.
Therefore, for the benefit of my fellow man, today I proceeded to forcefully oust snow from the immediate area by means of a plastic implement, not unlike an extra large pooper scooper, except it didn't scoop poop like a quality pooper scooper scoops poop.
My pants froze about halfway through.
But, with my rock-steady determination I pushed and lifted and grunted like a constipated wild boar in the midst of copulation until I had raised the temperature of the immediate surroundings by one tenth of one fifteenth of a degree.
I have sacrificed my own personal well being so that you, my loyal readers, might be a tad bit warmer.
Be grateful for your heater.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 04:33 p.m.
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Friday, January 21, 2005==Weekly Special==
Three things to live by
Ah it's another friday, but this time I'm short on time so I'm just going to put up a few quotes that definitely kick ass, by a foreign playwright:
"The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it."
"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."
"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
-G. Bernard Shaw
Yep, I love food...how very, very true.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 09:59 p.m.
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Friday, January 21, 2005Judge not by the color of your...emoticon?
AOL...*sigh*...AOL, you dissapoint us.
erAzOrLord93: "dear AOL,
erAzOrLord93: I have noticed that your so-called 'emoticons' are of a disgustingly yellow color
erAzOrLord93: being yellow myself, I feel that those 'emoticons' are a horrible representation of the true skin color of individuals birthed from oriental descent
erAzOrLord93: thus, I would greatly appreciate it if you would change the colorof your 'emoticons' to a much happier, healthier, and sexier yellow
erAzOrLord93: so as to reflect the true nature of our asian skin tone.
erAzOrLord93: sincerely,
erAzOrLord93: a concerned asian"
T w N k L e 225: dear AOL,
T w N k L e 225: i am horrified to see the blatant discrimination
T w N k L e 225: evident in your smileys
T w N k L e 225: you have deliberately forgotten to include a brown smiley
T w N k L e 225: for which me and my fellow brownies could use
T w N k L e 225: do you know how misleading it is to use the yellow ones?
T w N k L e 225: i will pursue legal action if a brown smiley is not put up promptly
T w N k L e 225: i believe this is a violation of the non-discrimination act
T w N k L e 225: An Angry Citizen of Brown Color, Charu Gupta
....WORD
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 05:32 p.m.
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Friday, January 21, 2005"Paul, will you go to winter with me?"
So yesterday, after spending an hour at Jewel with Hui on Wednesday, I helped her ask Paul to winter yesterday.
How, you ask? I would type up a long and detailed post on that, but I figure if you don't know already, then you're probably just not cool.
...fine, fine....here are some clues for you grossly underinformed individuals:
HOW TO ASK PAUL TO WINTER
- get balloons
- get food
- write on afforementioned ballons
- create a math problem
- get a sexy messenger
I, of course, was the lattermost item on the list. You can't pick a better messenger, you know. Of course, now half of Paul's wgt essay class thinks he was asked by a guy. That's too bad for him.
Also went to Chess Team yesterday for the first time. It amuses me how the state competition for chess team is on the same day as Winter, but apparently it poses no problems ;p
ok that was mean. I'm sorry.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 04:50 p.m.
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Wednesday, January 19, 2005Of Math & Debaters
It seems that the school administration increases in incompetence every year.
Sorry, just had to pun the title. Dirty, yes, but never fails to solicit a suppressed snicker.
From guys, at least.
Listened to the lovely catty give her eloquently worded "I-don't-do-debate-anymore" speech. Kind of a sad reminder as to how the cliched, overused, and generally simplistic phrase 'all good things must come to an end' sadly holds true. We had a nice long chat afterwards about a lot of things.
I have confirmed my previous suspicion that I enjoy chatting with catty. I have also made a burrito-bet with her, which means that I will make up for my loss to Hui.
Went to north this morning, and I unobtrusively snuck into one of their 8-person practices and sat down at the table.
Jenny Jen didn't notice me for five minutes.
What a shame.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 09:36 p.m.
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Tuesday, January 18, 2005Lack of Sleep, Loss of Sanity
Not much to report today--scored an astounding 70% on an APUSH test and yet pulled a 92% on the final exam. oh yea, thanks cynthia for photoshop--mayhaps this will soon look...acceptable.
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So it was late late Monday night, the last day of a long weekend--I sat in front of my computer, staring at the blank screen and the blinking cursor and wondered what exactly my life amounted to.
That's when it hit me. Full force, right in the solar plexus, its sheer magnitude overwhleming every sensory nerve. The bluntless of the fact knocked the figurative wind out of my proverbial(?) lungs, and the overbearing presence of poorly used figurative language tore through my raging river of thought. Damn, it still hasn't faded away into the recesses of my mind, but instead lingers on in this realm, a faint ghost of its former self.
wow...L-A-M-E.......*collapses from inane giggles*
No, really--around 1:00 AM this morning, after playing countless rounds of Mario Tennis, solitaire, LoZ MM, freecell, chess, and 007, I realized my Latin semester final paper was due in about eight hours. Minus sleep. I picked a topic. Played solitaire. Wrote my title. Beat Baby Mario in tennis. Pecked out a sentence. Took a short nap.
Two hour later, I had a good solid introductory paragraph.
Half page done; four and a half to go.
That's why I got two hours of sleep yesterday, people. TWo hours--and now I'm running on autopilot, my fingers mindlessly clicking away at the keyboard while my soul wanders around somewhere in aruba. Mmmmm, aruba.
Hm, I'm a dumbass.
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At the other school today, they were having--get this--morning mathteam practice. I don't know what's sadder--the fact that their team members choose to come in the mornings at the request of their coach to do math problems, or the fact that I envy their team. Mathlete at heart, people. Mathlete at heart.
I'm trying to figure out which is lamer--'mathlete' or 'my raging river of thought.' I'm going with 'mathlete'--it's beyond lame.
Look look...this blog is a testament to my incompetency. I must read the Tempest in its entirety by tomorrow to save my grade, and finish two MVC take-home quizzes.
And yet, I'm updating this. Go figure.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 08:52 p.m.
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Monday, January 17, 2005Slightly chilly, with a dash of cheese
So we decided to go out to lunch, and cheng wisely came during noon, when:
- It was too late for my dad to say no
- My mom was still sleeping
So along with the paul zhang of hooters fame, we dined at the Olive Garden, where the waiters dress (to paul's dissapointment) conservatively. Made the waitress gimme super-amounts of cheese until there was a layer of melted dairy goodness atop my soup.
Yum.
Had a breadstick battle against the combined forces of paul and cheng, and I suspect I won.
Gotta love those [unlimited] breadsticks. I notice they don't give the breadsticks until AFTER you order--so what if you just ordered a drink with your friends' meal and sat there eating breadsticks until you exploded from carbohydrate overdose? You can't beat all-you-can-eat bread for $1.50
Testament to my idiocy:
Afterwards, we stopped @ paul's house, where using his screenname I decided to ask around for Jenn's number (apush vids)...and no one knew it. I figured she was offline...but then I added her to Paul's list and was, 'whoa she has an away message--let's check it!' So her away message said something about how she was watching the apush videos and instructed those who wanted to watch with her (me) to call her cell.
I also failed to see her cell phone # at the bottom of her away message....
So, I say to myself, I obviously have to call her. What else is there to do except to look up her phone number online? I called her, and then ran from paul's house to her house without wearing my jacket cuz I was a lazy bum.
It was cold today. Especially if you didn't have a hat on.
Lesson learned.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 08:53 p.m.
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Sunday, January 16, 2005Dull. Very, very dull
Today was sadly and unfortunately expectedly uneventful. Boring. Insipid to the point you kind of want to hurl yourself out your window just to see if you can fly by flapping your arms, if only to liven the atmosphere. Sadly, my window is quite thick.
What exactly did I do today? Pretty much nothing. Woke up around noon, went to finish no-honor society's 'mandatory' volunteer hours and screwed around on my computer. Why? Because I'm probably grounded for something--the parental units are not fond of social 'freedom' and 'curfew' is not in their vocabulary. Literally speaking.
Naruto filler episodes are really, really crappy. It feels like mental sodomy, expressed in a japanimation medium.
...and that don't feel too good, people.
Watched 'House of flying daggers" yesterday, and my mom kept repeating to me that the movie was a testament as to why I should never join a gang, because I am clearly a small child whose malleable and moral-less mind will inevitably lead me towards a ruthless, violent, gang-banging life; a life where I'll never become an engineer, doctor, or....engineer. Fav line from the movie: (roughly translated) "Even if I die with my face under a girl's skirt, I can still flirt as a ghost." --Main dude (forgot his name...T_T)
I've concluded I must have low standards. In anime, I mean--one series I watch is about a boy who's got warm hands and likes to make bread, and another deals with a little boy who plays tennis well.
I think I've sunken past low.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 08:21 p.m.
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Saturday, January 15, 2005Best. Volunteering. Ever.
So back in the fall I joined this one club called 'national honor society' (nhs) which apparently emphasizes honor and service and academics and likes to light candles a lot. It's like skull and bone society, except it doesn't have the stick-you-in-a-coffin hazing or exceptionally high standards for membership, and has nothing to do with Yale.
What NHS DOES make you do, however, includes psychologically scarring feats like walking onstage and holding a candle. I hear the incendiary mortality rates from candle-holding increase tenfold during the NHS induction week. There's apparently something about grasping wax phalluses that just brings out the inner arsonist in people.
One more requirement--you have to do volunteering at someplace at sometime. So I went to the library. And door-counted for the library for almost four hours, clicking the little door-counter thingy everytime someone walked in. While reading about 20 different graphic novels.
Things I learned today:
- Goku is proportionally a midget
- random manga is funny
- All books should have illustrations
- plastic bags rustle
- yale almost scares me
Aside from the little sojourn to the library, had a nerdulous meeting today with fellow nerdulous individuals. We did a whole bunch of nerdy things and watched paul watch football. Who names a team after steel? Who names a team after meat and cheese packing? It's obvious teams should be named after ANIMALS.
Fortunately smeer didn't try to microwave a plastic cup to "reshape" it again. Scioly does odd, odd things to peoples' minds.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 09:08 p.m.
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Friday, January 14, 2005==Weekly Special==
Some People Shouldn't Talk
Since it's friday, I'll start a new routine; I've decided that every friday I'll put up a quote of the week, and a maybe nice little anecdote just for kicks. This week's quote:
"It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt." - Mark Twain
So you're probably wondering the man of mystery this week is--surprise! He's not really a man. Some might say he's barely a boy; meet kushal the ball. AKA Kooshball. Koosh loves to talk; some say he even loves to talk in CLASS even more! Here's a brief look:
In AP Chem:
Teach: So when C6H12O6 is dissolved...
Koosh: C6H12O6? That's ionic!
Teach: ...glucose?
Koosh: Oh...glucose isn't ionic?
Teach: We might try to do reverse tie-dying; we'll take a dark shirt and tie-dye with bleach...
Koosh: What if you're allergic to bleach?
Teach: like there are 6.02E23 atoms in a mole,
Teach: there are 12 eggs in a dozen
Koosh: There are 13 in a baker's dozen
In APUSH:
Teach: Keep an eye on Barrack Obama
Koosh: What party is he?
*later*
Koosh: wait, which candidate is which party?
Teach: John Adams was quite conservative
Koosh: John Adams was liberal, though
Teach: ...did you just say John adams was liberal? Adams was NOT liberal. In what way was he liberal?
Koosh: He wasn't liberal?
Kushal is an................interesting kid. Between his excessive bouts of classroom participation and discussion-time hoarding, he enjoys telling us he is better at basketball than gochu. I think we should schedule a game between the two, and throw popcorn at the loser. I'm hungry; I want food. This post is done.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 05:16 p.m.
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Friday, January 14, 2005'I only date crack whores'
The j00 of skyrien fame decided to saunter over to our lunch table today with two of his buddies. It's a bit interesting how three college students on break would spend their time sneaking into secondary school, instead of, say, hanging out in a normal locale, but it's all good.
I'd probably spend my break DDRing for hours until I collapsed, dehydrated and completely cramped up.
DDR is phun. I like my homemade hardpad, even in all its ghettoed glory. I've only fallen off of it twice.
Don't have too much to say, except that Jenny Jen is an avid reader of this. *waves* Thank you for your loyal support, Jenny Jen! ....not. jk. or am I? She is randomer than me.
To-do list for this weekend:
- MVC Take-home Quiz
- MVC chapter 14 hw
- Latin semester Project
- APUSH extra credit Vids
- AP napping Math hw
- Read the TEMPEST
- be a nerd:
- Build airplanes
- Build towers
- Build robots
- build mission possible
- crush NNHS scioly :)
j00 had a hat that said the above TITLE of this post (I only date crack whores), and that sneaky, sneaky kid managed to snap an accidental picture of me in said hat, obviously without any knowledge on my part since I clearly posed for it. Now my image is ruined. T_T
...not ;p
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 04:33 p.m.
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Thursday, January 13, 2005The Coronation of the [faux] King
So, got that chem test back--Wood went easy on me and I ended up with a A- on the test. I'm not exactly sure as to how that 45/50 will affect my quarter/semester grade, but since there are no more point-valued assignments or tests or labs this semester, this obviously means I should nap for the entirety of class.
Xiao aced the test, that bum. Therefore I am required to call him the Science King. What a bum, that "science king." More of a science bum. Yes, Xiao, a BUM! muahaha...you just wait until semester two.
Thanks to Hui and her PoT, I have managed to put off all of my school-related items (which, I might add, are all inconsequential) and now have a plethora (wordmasters word! w00t) of school-related tasks to attend to.
Like reading five chapters of APUSH by tomorrow. And a chapter of MVC.
Ever read a mulitvariable calc textbook? It's the dryest reading ever.
Probably a good ten times dryer than Oscar Wilde. And that is DRY.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 05:08 p.m.
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Wednesday, January 12, 2005The Wetting of the Socks
Didn't do too hot on the chemistry test. Would suck quite badly if said chemistry test became determining factor in semester grade, but life can be a bitch sometimes. For some reason I managed to ace the multiple choice section of the shakespeare quiz, but the quote identification...3/9 right. Yea, this is one of those times.
During APUSH we talked about how apparently at Nequa HS security cameras captured an image of a naked man in a trenchcoat wandering around. Due to misunderstanding, it seemed to be implied that the naked dude just happend to stroll around their campus during classes, and yet no one managed to catch him. Then we realized that if a naked guy showed up in the middle of our hallway, we'd probably point and laugh and hurt his self esteem. Best of all would be the fact that naked people are also probably unarmed, so he'd have trouble retaliating.
Lots of rain + warm temperatures + accumulated snow = inevitable wet feet. On the way to mr. ma's car, there is always a ginormous puddle of knee-deep water, infested with leeches, deep-sea eels, and the festering carcasses of unknown creatures whenever it rains heavily. There is also a fence running parallel to the sidewalk that I usually traverse to cross said puddle, but sadly the fence-managers failed to close the gate this time, so we had to wait until Amit drove his van up to us and ferried the group through treacherous waters.
My shoes still got soaked. I then proceeded to attempt the "tidus" look by rolling up one pant leg, but I guess I just didn't have the right hairstyle cuz no mob of anxious fangirls swarmed me on the way to mr. ma's car.
It's always about the hair, isn't it. Time to go memorize two pages of chopin for tonight. But first, some PoT.
Fred tells me PoT was made specifically for "young Japanese teenage girls"....great....
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 04:35 p.m.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005Online Randomness with Jenny Jen
ah, that jenny jen...what will we do with her:
BadmntnPlayer (10:10:23 PM): lol they gave him the talk
BadmntnPlayer (10:10:26 PM): that amuses me
BadmntnPlayer (10:10:28 PM): very much
BadmntnPlayer (10:10:31 PM): to teh pt of giggles
erAzOrLord93 (10:10:44 PM): what talk
BadmntnPlayer (10:10:52 PM): lol the sex one that azn parents do not give
AND....
BadmntnPlayer (10:26:53 PM): jerm is abusive enouhg
BadmntnPlayer (10:26:56 PM): pissed me off one day
BadmntnPlayer (10:27:00 PM): i kicked him in the nuts
......hahaha word :p
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 10:14 p.m.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005...contrabanded Backflops?
Tried a two backflips in gym. Did two backflops. Landed first one crouched on the edge of the mat, but fell forward and off of said mat, and subsequently landed second one on my knees. Then the gymnastics teacher decided it was improper and unsafe for two untrained high schoolers to spot my backflop, as back-flopping is very dangerous, and suddenly became very snitty. Go figure.
At least I didn't land on my neck, like mindaX. Ouch.
Also figured out how to do a 'dragon up' (half-windmill into standing position ALA neo in neo v. morpheus) on my own after attempting one since freshman year, when I ingeniously thought about swinging my legs a little faster. Realized I got owned when vicvic managed one in about five tries. Go figure.
So come math team, we take the joyous ILML, the formerly-prestigious-now-defunct math competition. I remember how in junior high we laughed our mathlete asses off at how central couldn't even manage to score 36, and yet individuals from our junior high were ranking in the state. It appears to me that there is something wrong with the answer key this time, but I guess that's what they all say, huh? Would have gotten a 6 otherwise. Go figure.
Looking forward to the late arrival, for it means that I may stay up later today watching Gundam SEED and PoT (instead of getting valuable sleep) than usual. PoT is so...^____^ *sigh*.........w0rd
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 08:09 p.m.
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Monday, January 10, 2005Operation: [V.S.L.]
Looks like operation: celebrate gochu's birthday aka v. special luncheon was a success. Apparently my sneaky planning is unparalleled (except for Serena's, as Serena actually did everything. But I helped plan.)
THE OBJECTIVE:
- Celebrate Gochu's Birthday
THE PLAN:
- Locate and retrieve target "jenny jen"
- Transport payload to central command
- Perform extraction of payload
- Deliver birthday foodstuffs and "jenny jen"
- Re-deploy "jenny jen" at northern command
The Execution:
- Casualty count: 0.00
- Operation Status: Success
Anyways, in gymnastics I finally pulled off my first [spotted] backflip. Tried a better butterfly, but that pulled hamstring is just coming back to haunt me. Note to self: the splits are not for boys.
Science Olympiad attendence has reached an all-time low. Productivity at the meetings has also nearly reached an all-time low. Someone just called to interview me about DDR. I'm going to go watch PoT now. Oh yea, and I have stated that I will beat Xiao on the next chem test. Booyah.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 08:14 p.m.
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Sunday, January 9, 2005Belated Birthdays and Mini Medical school
For those of you who are sadly and grossly underinformed, today the sixteen year old BOY we know and love as gochu grows to be a seventeen year old...boy. You know the lyrics, "I'm not a girl, not yet a woman?"
He's not a man yet.
Just kidding, gochu. Happy seventeenth. Happy 18th to cynthia, but I don't think she reads this.
Gochu came over and owned in chess (chess? what a dork) and brought Quiznos to eat before we went to Edwards mini-med. Awesome part of Mini-Med: someone donated sandwiches & refreshments, so there were platters of wraps and croissaints and brownies for our taking. I ate a croissaint, and took two tuna sandwiches home. And then ate those. Mmmmm food...
Fellow mini-medical student Madison attempted to kill my arm twice with the blood pressure tool thing, but fortunately my excellent physique prevented my arm from exploding. And I figured out how to take a temperature aurally instead of anally, so it's all good.
Now a chem lab and half a chapter of math sits in front of me, unfinished. I think it's time to go watch PoT. Episode 33 or so.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 06:57 p.m.
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Saturday, January 8, 2005Regionals and a Haircut
Apparently a 'continental breakfast' consists of Krispy Kremes and bottled juice. Juice I like, but since when did fried rings of processed lard become part of a balanced breakfast?
BPA regionals today, with that dreaded CISCO SYSTEMS ADMINISTRATION test. You know, that exam I crammed for during the past week, reading CISCO books 24/7? Turns out our BPA coach forgot to mention one little detail about the regional CISCO competition...
...
...I was the only person in my competition. As was gochu, which means we -both- win our events by default, and we -both- automatically advance to state.
Then, using Robert Morris College's awesome internet connection, I went yahoo chessing. It's kind of sad how I'm in CISCO (FYI CISCO is about networking and internet) and Network Design events for BPA, and yet I can't even figure out how to setup the proxy server at home to play yahoo chess. Got pwned by a dude from bulgaria.
Anyways, back to watching PoT. On episode 30 or whatever... can you spell l--o--s--e--r?
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 06:15 p.m.
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Friday, January 7, 2005Billiards with the College Folk
Woke up today after not enough sleep, and reached over for my glasses. Then I fell asleep again, woke up--couldn't find my glasses. BAD.
I also noticed a contact lens was ripped, which is rather peculiar considering my mother has recently spent an alarming amount of time in that bathroom "inspecting" the condition of my lens case. She knows those were the last lenses I had, and has been saying how I couldn't get more lenses until I cut my hair short. Saying? No, threatening.
maybe that ripped lens wasn't entirely an accident....*cough*
Anyways, during 8th per. sledding I chanced upon serena, moy & tiffany. Upon seeing tiffany, I ran over and ecstatically hug-tackled her. I don't remember much of what happened, though. All I know is we both ended up on our backs.
In the snow.
Painfully on top of her sled. o_X Ouch.
they came over; we had food, drank, and generally merried our time away with polite and casual reminiscing.
good times. Tiffany has the cutest Naruto coin-purse ever (frog!)
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 08:24 p.m.
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Thursday, January 6, 2005And the voice rang out 'freedom'...but not quite
Shakespeare, MVC, latin quizzes to-morrow.
To-morrow is last day before BPA. I have much more CISCO to cover.
...*sigh* chickened out of doing a backflip. We're going sledding in gymnastics to-morrow. Does anyone else find this somewhat odd?
damn, finished 16 episodes of PoT already. Where the hell does my time go?
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 07:20 p.m.
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Wednesday, January 5, 2005FINISHED with First Semester
Done, at least, with Cisco Semester 1. Would have been done yesterday, had Hui not lent me PoT. Or had I not watched PoT. Or had I watched just one or two or three episodes of PoT, and exercised some self restraint. WHY IS PoT SO ADDICTIVE???
Note the newly added comments link a little bit down. Nifty, no? But of course. The little grasshopper is slowly learning.
You know what I figured out? Gymnastics with a pulled hamstring really, really sucks. The only perk appears to be the unlimited use of the bouncy blue mat thing, AKA "floor," for feeble attempts at wushu skills. Wang 1 tried to teach me an aerial (handless cartwheel) today, but my form sadly never made it to that stage. He says I should just go to chinese school and learn wushu there.
Can't go to Chinese school; have edwards mini med school soon. Hopefully will meet lots of interesting and cool peopl...wait, did you say mini-medical school for high school students? Cool and interesting? Never mind. =P
Now, to learn all those CISCO IOS commands...
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 10:17 p.m.
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Tuesday, January 4, 2005A New Hope: "Almost Okay"
New color scheme today. It's like...a little less white, and a little more green. Color #'s courtesy of emmy, who so kindly described my [newly revamped] site not five minutes ago:
KaminoSukiKohana: but it is much less fugly
KaminoSukiKohana: it is almost oaky looking now
thanks emmy. I still maintain watercress goes badly with this layout, though.
I think I'll call this my second layout. UBE Version 2.0
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 08:12 p.m.
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Tuesday, January 4, 2005The good, the bad, and the fugly
There is something decidedly much, much more satisfacotry about writing these posts myself than having xanga hand me my ass on a silver platter. Thank you, xanga-bashers. You've changed my blogging life.
Now on to news. Good news, and bad news. Good news = I learned how to do a butterfly in gym. You know, basic wushu skill, involving twisting while jumping and flailing your legs in a futile attempt to go jet li. wang 1 says that my cartwheel is still a 'powderpuff girl' cartwheel, and thus I am still far from an aerial. Other sort of good news: I did the splits for the first time today during gym.
About those splits--have been stretching every day for last couple months. But see, that's where the bad news comes in. Listening to wang 1's advice about ballistic stretching, (i.e. "bouncing") I got the splits (4" raised mat, foot on mat, slide other leg back-->go into splits...) and then...well...started bouncing. He told me to!! Then I felt a rather uncomfortable popping. In the underside of my forward leg. Suddenly couldn't do the splits. Suddenly leg felt stiff.
yes, that's right--I managed to pull something. AGAIN. Wang 1 tells me that it just means I'm not flexible enough.
yea, coming from the kid who touches his head to his toe during the splits.
I guess that means I've just got to start stretching again.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 06:48 p.m.
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Monday, January 3, 2005Cisco, cisco, and more...orange juice
Cannot apologize enough for how freaking butt-ugly this site looks, but pride and what not force me to refuse a personal offering by ms. catty to layout my blog for me.
Some things, you just have to do yourself.
I was cramming for the cisco test, and right now I'm on chapter 4 of 15, semester 1. There are five semesters, and the regional BPA (business professionals of america) competition is on saturday. (Come and cheer me on!! But make sure to dress in business attire.) My dad just happened to remember he had two official CISCO ccna "self-study" books for the real adult-person exam (I'm taking like...a kiddie test :D)
So here's my dilemma: Do I continue on with the 5 semester program, knowing it's significantly less detailed and ultimately lacking in depth and knowledge? Or do I read the 1000+ pages of cisco "official" guide? Being the obviously wise teenager I am, I'm asking this question on a blog for which no coding for 'comments' or the like has been included, meaning that only the significantly stalkerish would respond.
My guess is those people who would bother to respond to a question I posed on a blog so very derelict in appearance would probably not be the best people to take advice from.
but what do I know; I'm just wasting my valuable minutes here blogging and drinking orange juice. Straight from the carton. Disgusting in most cases; however, this carton is nearly empty, and by drinking directly from said carton, I save water that would otherwise undoubtedly be wasted washing a cup that I wouldn't really need to use. Yep, that's me--saving the environment, one unwashed cup at a time.
wish me luck. I seriously hope I can finish semester 1 today. Freaking jumping monkeys of yesterday.
That was probably a euphemism for something flaming. Oh well.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 09:03 p.m.
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Monday, January 3, 2005 Too much food and not enough Cisco
Guess what--BPA regionals is THIS saturday. I have to learn 5 semesters of cisco systems administration by then. Currently on semester 1, chapter 3. 15 chapters in semester 1. this doth not look goodeth.
So at scioly, was talking to Hui. Something like this:
Hui: I did SO BADLY on my Bio final!
me: what, did you miss a WHOLE POINT and get a 99%??
Hui: I wish. I missed six points. SIX!!! I can't believe I missed six points *hui-pout*
me:...and what was the final out of? there's a curve though, right?
hui:yea, it was out of 120, but the curve's out of 100.
me:What is that, like a 114%?
hui:*sadly*....yea. *sigh* I shouldn't have done that badly!
me:oh, hui *extreme sarcasm* how could you do that badly??? a 114% is obviously horrible...
later on:
smeer: *looks at stack of cds* What's PoT? is PoT an acronym for something?
us (me & hui...i forget who said what):yea...the p is a noun....like a title
smeer: does p stand for...possible? pot?
us:a NOUN....
smeer: pot? potential?
us:um....title...like a title you'd give a PERSON...
smeer:p stands for person?
us:no, it's a title you'd give to a person
smeer:Psychiatrist? Psychologist?
us:title, not occupation. let's see EXAMPLE....say...in feudal times, a COUNT
smeer:OH! DUKE!
us:....it starts with p....
smeer:huh?
us:like...if you were in a court, there would be the KING or the QUEEN or the...
smeer:PRINCE!!!
us:now you can guess the other two letters!
*smeer runs off to ask hanjay*
So afterwards we went to taco bell, and I got their grilled stuffed burrito (good) and the potato and beef burrito (not good). And a pintos and cheese, of course, because who can possibly resist a small serving of beans and cheese and red sauce? Came home, just finished [another] dinner @ the dinner table. Feeling quite bloated. Ahh, excess calories. Gotta love modern fast food :D
damn, that html took forever to type out. stupid tags...jk
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 07:36 p.m.
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Sunday, January 2, 2005Last day of break, last hour of sanity
I just realize I've sat with my APUSH book open to the same page for...what, four hours? Four awesomely productive hours, where I listened alternately to ayumi hamasaki and jay chou or linkin park and AFI. You have to love the juxtaposition of sounds. And played solitaire, because you can never play too much solitaire while listening to music
Plus, the parental units left the building sometime around lunch, meaning that I could play music at...wait for it....FULL VOLUME! w00t ^___^.....angry music just doesn't sound the same unless it's loud, ne?
Anyways, since it's the last day of break, let's recap what I've failed to accomplish. Hmm, shall we see?
- Learn Cisco (bpa competition this coming saturday...ohhh crap)
- get ahead on homework (sorry shakespeare...I got bored after the two introductory scenes)
- Get the splits (well...i'm about 2 inches off the ground...so I didn't completely fail :D)
- Learn a flashkick (goes with the above...but I guess i kinda needed to be flexy before I could get a flashkick =/)
- re-watch ALL of neon genesis (sigh...dark anime, and giant synthetic lifeforms kicking the shit out of things. how can you not like??)
- actually get good at something (wow...my math has gone down the crapper. *sigh*...wanna make usamo again, but....)
- take over wisconsin, like I said I would. *sigh* it just seems like a string of failure after failure =/
BUT on the flip side, I did manage to accomplish some cool things. take note:
- I can now do MaxX Unlimited on Heavy!!! 320 bpm (Wait...I could do that a couple months ago...oh right, I kept failing after that)
- josh/me somehow fixed my computer-randomly-restarts prob :D (at least...it hasn't restarted in 3 days)
- I managed to NOT kill myself. take that, catty...depressed my ass =D
- I watched all two seasons of dark angel, and many eps of OC season 1...and burned the former for my nuna and the latter for...two..wait..THREE people. no wonder I'm outta cds
- recovered my right hand to the point I can now use it for non-violent purposes (hmm, still can't physically strike things with my knucles :()
- learned to turtle (up next...topher will learn a windmill and FLARE :D)
So my html skillz suck. big deal, i'll take all you html pples on in DDR and see how well ya fare. Doesn't matter, though, cuz life's a bitch and then you die. Maybe 2005 will be a good year to die.
Can you tell I really don't want to go back to school?
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 07:03 p.m.
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Sunday, January 2, 2005 C L O S E R and the mad hw rush
Guess what...that's right
I got out of the house yesterday!!! Ah, mucho thanks to grace, whose apparent influence (plus, it was her bday) managed to overpower my usually oppressive parental units. Went to go see closer, and they actually checked IDs to see if we were 'students.' No more R-rated sneak-ins, eh? Must say, quite an interesting movie. Very...uh...thinking-person view on life. And love. And sex. Go see it.
In the world of academia, I realize I have mucho reading to do, including 4 chapters of the revered Bailey. And a shakespeare play. And an RSI app, but that's not really reading. foooey.
so anyhoo, i'm trying my best to make this blog not suck, but it's still pretty damn horrendous looking. sorry, populace, but it seems like the talented layout-people I know are all very, very busy.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 12:06 p.m.
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Saturday, January 1, 2005Back to the DDR basics :D
So I decided that my RSI-research wasn't going too well. In fact, I had nothing on the app really done, so I figured, hey I'm not going to do any work now, I might as well go DDR. Plus, there wasn't anyone else to talk to on AIM.
I think this site is a testimony to why certain people should use things like xanga instead of things that require actual html knowledge. Sure, you could argue for html competency, but some of us are just really, really lazy. Really lazy.
So I found out I can pass maxX unlimited on HEAVY from ddr max 2....i guess it's kind of cool, cuz I got it last year for xmas...but too bad this wasn't my first time passing it...although I suspect I've gotten significantly out of shape since last time.
I really need to get back to doing something productive. over and out.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 05:05 p.m.
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Saturday, January 1, 2005 Nothing left to accomplish
There's one more day of break left, and here I am, sitting in front of my computer, and ignoring the mounds of work which I realize I must soon attend to or else my ass is fried.
Figuratively, of course. One thing I realized yesterday--I work very, very, very fast when I want to. Did a chapter of MVC in about half an hour--impressive, considering I didn't remember half the things in there. Now, I've just got to read a couple shakespeare plays and about four chapters of APUSH, and aside from a couple math hw assignments (I've been behind...a lot :D) everything academically should be fine and dandy.
chatting with esther about the fugliness of this page. trying to find a skilled layoutress and a good host for pictures or something.
Trying, but failing. Story of...well...story of a lot of things.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 03:03 p.m.
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Saturday, January 1, 2005A new year, eh?
Ah, my very first blog entry in a real blog. Note my attempt to refrain from eprop whoring. Someone with 1337 (haha...wow such dorkage) html skills want to like...make this blog not suck?
Asides from that, this is rather interesting for me to be online this late. Long story behind it though, a story not for delicate ears.
I've realized how seksi butterfly knives are. Butterfly knives are totally cooler than switchblades any day.
So this it, the first post of the new year in the ugliest blog EVER.
Cathy would be dissapointed in the sheer fugliness of this site.
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Topher released a bout of insanity at 01:41 a.m.
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