Halloween party at work

We had a halloween party at work from 2pm-6pm today. At around 1:50pm, I started seeing people walking past my office with all different kinds of cool costumes.

Out of the corner of my eye I saw Darth Vader walking down the stairs that were facing right outside of my office. Safely watching from my office with my cubemates, we were kind of in awe that this real life Darth Vader actually did look pretty real, holding a light saber and moving kind of slowly.

But then all of a sudden it looked as though he could not see very well through his helmet and he began to look more like a wimpy version of Darth Vader. He had his left hand held on to his light saber while his right hand was holding onto the hand holder railing along the stairs!

At that point we couldn't help but start laughing at this image of a blind Darth Vader. My cubemate felt bad for him and went up to offer him a beer, which, he politely refused by saying "no thanks" without sounding like Darth Vader. I wish I had a camera to capture it all, but I hope this description is good enough to draw out this image in your head.

water leaks!

So I stopped by my condo tonight with my sister and my brother-in-law to see what's the latest status to it. My sister noticed that there's water on the floor in the bathroom stall. I guess it didn't quite make sense since I haven't moved into the unit yet. She looked up the ceiling and noticed that there's water dripping from the ceiling! Hard to believe this would happen to a brand new condo.

Since it was around 11:30pm, I figured I shouldn't go upstairs to knock on my neighbors door to tell him to stop showering in that bathroom. I'm gonna have to go back there early tomorrow to let him know instead.

I went back home afterwards and called the 24-hour emergency number that's listed in the Homeowners Association Booklet to report the issue. After a few rings, some friggin answering machine answered the phone and says "You have reached the 24-hour emergency hotline. Please leave a message about your emergency and someone will call you back shortly." It has been two hours and no one has called me back yet. So much for calling this an emergency hotline...

Things that I hate #2

Ahhh. another bathroom incident. So I was done using the bathroom and was about to push open the door to the men's bathroom to get out when someone suddenly pulled the door open from the outside before I got to push the door. I almost fell because that made me lose my balance. That !@#ker just walked right past me without saying sorry or excuse me. How rude and inconsiderate is that?!

Breaking (yet obvious) News

WNBA MVP Reveals She is Gay

Nothing against anyone being gay, but wouldn't it be more news-breaking to discover a WNBA player that isn't gay?

DOOM - the Movie

Saw this tonight with Rico, Christophe and Anita. All I have to say is... don't see it!

If you really really want to see it anyway, here's my step by step guide on how to do it if you don't feel like paying $10 for a movie:

1. Download DOOM the video game online
2. Install DOOM
3. Start the game
4. Shoot at a few monsters, die a few times, shoot them again when you respawn
5. Done!

Things that I hate (part I)

Every so often I will run into things that really bother the crap out of me. My problem is that they usually aren't important for me to really complain to my coworkers or discuss it with my friends and family. So I guess what I've decided is to start a "Things that I hate" blog and just write about certain annoying things that I experience and why I think we can do better to fix them.

Things that I hate #1:
Today I was in a real hurry to the bathroom to take a crap (yes drinking milk in the morning can do that to me). I walked into the bathroom stall and quickly pulled out one of those toilet seat protector sheets. I proceeded to gently and carefully place the protector onto the toilet seat. Then, I turned around and began to pull down my pants so that I could begin my crap session. And right at that moment, the stupid toilet sensor thought that I was done and it flushed down the protector! How stupid is that?!!??!

Nerdy Joke

If you are not a nerd or you do not appreciate nerdy jokes, you can stop reading now.

Here goes:

A Spanish class is given the task of chosing a gender for the word
"computer".

The men's group decided that ''computer'' should definitely be
of the feminine gender (''la computer''), because:

1. No one but their creator understands their internal logic;
2. The native language they use to communicate with
other computers is incomprehensible to everyone else
3. Even the smallest mistakes are stored in long term memory
for possible later retrieval; and
4. As soon as you make a commitment to one, you find yourself
spending half your paycheck on accessories for it.

The women's group, however, concluded that computers should
be Masculine (''el computer''), because:

1. In order to do anything with them, you have to turn them on;
2. They have a lot of data but still can't think for themselves;
3. They are supposed to help you solve problems, but half the
time they ARE the problem; and
4. As soon as you commit to one, you realize that if you had
waited a little longer, you could have gotten a better model.


God I'm such a loser for blogging something like this ta 12:17am.

"Are you gonna win at the Wynn?"

Hi everyone! I'm back from Vegas!




and I lost $500.

We got there on Friday night and we immediately changed into our superhero outfits to cruise around the strip. Since we were staying at the Venetian, we decided to walk right next door and check out the new Wynn hotel. It was just like another Bellagio, but slightly nicer and bigger. When we first got there, Nick was like, "Are you gonna win at the Wynn?" I guess that really got Mike and Andy pumped up. Originally we were gonna go over to the Rum Jungle at the Mandalay Bay to go clubbing, but when we got there, they decided to spend the night playing craps instead. I warned them not to gamble on a friday night since we'd still have Saturday and Sunday to gamble, but they didnt listen. By the time we were done gambling at 5am, I think collectively we were down by about $800.

We spent Saturday sleeping in and then going clubbing at the PURE at Caesars Palace. That's supposed to be the most happening place in vegas nowadays. Luckily we got there at 8:30pm and only had to wait for three hours to get in. Oh man, once we got in, _______________ and then ________. And I was like Oh my god! ________ and he ____ and she _____ the both of us! What a _____ ! ____________________________________________________ what a night!

Sorry for cutting all the details out. I really cannot tell the entire story here. :) I guess that's why they say whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. It's true!

And here's the only picture taken at PURE that I can show without getting anyone in trouble.

Las Vegas... here I come!!

Wow. It has been two (or is it three?) years since I last went to Vegas. I'll be going there this weekend with Andy and some of our old college buddies. I am totally expecting a good time on Friday night and then a really crappy Saturday and Sunday due to alcohol overdose. But I still gotta make sure that I go down to the casino and play at least three to four hours of blackjack. I hope I still have the basic strategy matrix memorized.

Wish me luck everyone! If I don't update this blog for weeks after this one, it either means I've won some sort of jackpot and got so rich that I no longer care to entertain you guys here online, or I've lost everything in my bank that I can no longer afford to go online.

/me goes to sleep.

How to mod your new ipod nano to have 200gb of space

I've always been a fan of ipods. I bought their U2 ipod a year ago and then the ipod shuffle a few months after. When the ipod nano came out, I told myself that I'd definitely need to get one since it's so damned tiny. The only problem that I have with it is that it only stores up to 4GB of songs, which equates to roughly 1000 songs. This doesn't equately nearly to the 30GB U2 ipod that I have. Because of that, I hesitate on getting the ipod nano until they come out to support a lot more songs.

By the luck of a draw, I came across this article which teaches you how to mod your ipod nano to have 200gb of space. I am gonna put in my order tonight and become an official ipod nano owner!

The coolest thing just happend!

I guess weird/cool things kinda come one after the other. I've been playing beach volleyball at work during lunch time for the past two weeks. Sergey showed up today and played with us, and I got to set the ball to him a few times and vice versa. Very neat!

I saw the weirdest thing yesterday

I've never been a big fan of fancy cars. But every so often I'd see pictures online of people standing in front of their own exotic cars and taking pictures of themselves trying to look cool. I guess it's okay if you're so proud of being over $30k in debt and you want to announce to the world about it, but it's certainly not cool to take pictures of yourself standing in front of some junkie old car trying to look like a stud.

With that said, I saw one of the funniest things in my life. I went into work yesterday to finish up on some work. Since it's Saturday, there werent too many people on campus at all. For those of you who have been to the office, across the street there are more offices and there's a big fat logo that says "Google" on it. Anyways, so I'm driving into the parking lot and I couldn't help but notice these two guys taking pictures of themselves across the street right in front of the logo. I guess that was ok, but then I noticed that they were wearing google t-shirts and they had brought their electric scooters with them! By then, I just kept saying WTF?!@# to myself in the car with the windows rolled up, of course.

Safely watching it across the street from my car, one of the guys proceeded to take a photo of the other guy standing in front of the logo and the scooter, with his arms crossed, looking totally hardcore. And then they switched place and the other dude did the exact same thing. Oh man. That's too weird. Imagine asking your coworker, "Hey Bob, you wanna come to work tomorrow and take some nice pictures of us with the scooters?"

While I was on my way walking into my building, I saw those two guys approaching towards my direction with their scooters. I gave them an evil grin and said "Yo! Nice pictures! You want a picture with the two of you together?" They were so embarassed that they just ignored me and took off with their scooters. How rude!