What have I accomplished in year 2005?

Absolutely nothing.

I didn't win the lotto, I didn't change the world, and I didn't get to retire and play golf at a country club every day.

The only thing that I'm unusually proud of, however, is the fact that this blog has reached over 9001 visitors since April, 2005. And because of this, I'm going to celebrate tonight by drinking 9001 drops of grey goose vodka.

Let's hope 2006 will be a slightly more successful year.

X-mas Lights

I'm sure by now all of you have seen the xmas lights video. If you wondered whether or not it's real, apparently it's real.

Read the article here.



They also have another xmas lights video that choreographed to the Jingle Bells song.

Sucky Weather

It's so windy and rainy out there right now that I can't get myself to goto bed. I thought this kind of crappy weather wasn't supposed to happen in sunny California. It's been three years in a row where it's rainy on new years eve. What's going on?? I'm better off moving up to Oklahoma where I will get to afford a mansion (and unlimited alcohol, of course) if this is how it's gonna go down going forward...

Argh! I can't sleep!

(lesson to self: don't drink 5 diet cokes in one day)

It's 8pm on a Thursday night, where can I possible be?

You guessed it right! It's the usual stay-late Thursday! This Thursday, unlike any other Thursday, is rather special. I'll explain why.

1) It's very quiet here
A lot of people are still on vacation. It's sorta nice to be all quiet here so that I can focus and get a lot done. It made me quite happy that I didn't have any trouble finding parking, but it also saddens me that we couldn't gather up enough people to play sand volleyball during lunch time today. Blah!


2) You get to be goofy and not really be arrested for it
So I was peacefully sitting by my own desk minding my own business, until all of a sudden I heard this loud *click-click-click-click* sound coming right outside of my office. I turned my head around and found my coworker holding what seemed to be the Rapid Fire 20, crazily shooting at the glass window that separates between him and me. Normally, I would call the cops when that happens, but since it's supposed to be holiday season and all, I decided to grab the gun away from him and start shooting other people down the hallway instead.


3) Yoga ball races
A lot of people brought their kids along to work today. All of a sudden I saw 6 3-4 year old kids running down the hallway, each of them kicking their own yoga balls. Luckily my fast reflex prevented me from getting run over by a cesspool of kids and yoga balls.



4) Strongbad's techno music
As I'm typing up this blog, I hear this really nice bass going DOM! DOM! DOM! DOM! This is totally Strongbad's techno music! Whoever's playing it, please don't stop! This is making me want to stay here even longer!


Oh man, it's 8:25pm now. I can't believe I just spent 25 minutes of my life blogging.

/me goes back to work.

Math problem

find X.

I stared at it for 30 seconds, and then couldn't help but crack up for the next 5 minutes. It's too funny.

Real Life Neo?

Does this guy live in the Matrix, or is he just a total psycho?

This is why you shouldn't date a dumb chick...

Women swallows cell phone to end fight

Calm Down! It's just a game...

James sent this audio clip to me today. I guess supposedly it old news, but if you haven't watched it yet, it's definitely worth taking a look. Make sure you have your speakers turned on.

A little background: I guess this was a recorded phone conversation between two World of Warcraft players? This guy's "cloud song" was stolen by the other guy. Judging from his tone, he seemed rather pissed off.

Enjoy everyone! and have a Merry xmas!
You Stole my F!@#ing Cloud Song!!!

Friendster sucks!

I'm sitting here late at night trying to upload some recent pictures onto friendster. So, I click on the browse button, pick my picture to upload and click OK. The page refreshes and I don't see my uploaded picture.

Why? Uhm. Probably because friendster doesn't have a clue how to do the load balancing properly. Don't they understand that they really ought to make sure that their frontends support session stickiness so that stupid things like that won't happen? Now I understand why most people are migrating over to myspace.com.

But really, why can't the engineers at friendster fix it? Oh I know - They're all too busy browsing on random girls' profiles. Perverts!!!

Is it really over?

New York strike over

"They go back right away," said Transport Workers Union President Roger Toussaint

What he forgot to mention, is that they will get their asses kicked by the rest of the New Yorkers right away, too.

Not another Strike?

Strike shuts down NYC transit system

"Transit workers are tired of being underappreciated and disrespected," said Roger Toussaint, president of the Transport Workers Union.

Since when did anyone assume that bus drivers should get a lot of respect? Go back and start driving your bus before millions of New Yorkers suffer from the cold weather!

Life Update

Got IM'd from my sister in HK asking me to update my blog. Uh, I didn't know that she regularly reads my blog!

Two notable events happened since I last updated:

Last Thursday - Went to E*TRADE's holiday party. Talked to a lot of my old co-workers. Somehow they all think that I'm a millionaire now. That can't be right. If spending 23 out of 24 hours of each day drinking and passing out will get someone rich, I should be the first to know. Afterwards a few of us headed over to Fahrenheit Ultra Lounge in downtown san jose for my coworker's Birthday. It was joyful watching Christophe get hit on by a 40 year old blonde girl.

Last weekend - Went snowboarding in Tahoe with Andy and Christophe. Paid something like $260 to sleep over at the cabin, and then spent 6 hours driving back from the snow storm. That was a weird trip as I was able to stay sober while Andy was passed out after drinking one bottle of Mike's hard lemonade. The trip was okay. I thought I spent too much time sleeping in the car and the cabin though. I think my eyes were only open for about 12 hours while I was in Tahoe during the entire weekend.

Pictures to come later.

12:36

Spent the last half hour or so watching the coverage on the execution of Tookie.

The time of death was 12:36am.

It's pretty sad.

Very sad.

Should Stanley Williams die?

Govenor has two more days left to decide whether or not Stanley Williams should be executed on Tuesday.

For those who haven't been following this news. Stanley is some dude who was found guilty in killing a few people back in 1979. He was also the co-founder of some gang back then. However ever since he's been in jail he's turned his life around 180 degrees.

I think he probably shouldn't be executed. If George Bush got re-elected after murdering thousands in Iraq, why shouldn't Stanley, especially since he's already been in jail for so long?

Williams' fate now up to governor

cheap Dells on ebay?

So, my cubemate asked me today if I thought his dad should buy a brand new, unopened box of dell computer system on ebay that was priced significantly lower than what's on dell.com.

I told him, find out if the guy who's selling it is chinese. If he's chinese, don't buy it.

He called me a racist. And I said, oh yeah? go buy it then! and while you're at it, go find a real prada wallet in China town too.

He listened to me and went ahead and bought the computer on ebay...

Story time

So, I went back to my parents' house tonight to pick up my suit from the closet in preparation for this Friday's company holiday party. While I was going through my closet I found my copy of DOOM 3 which I had bought from Best Buy the first day the game was out at the stores.

Surprisingly the game is still in its original box, unopened and still has its seal on. I can't play it because my computer sucks. Come to think of it, I don't even know why I'd bought the game to begin with. Anyhow, it's been in my closet for over a year at least.

It just so happened that I had promised Trevor a month ago that I would give him my copy of DOOM 3 since I don't really have a reason to keep it. So when I saw the game in my closet, I immediately took it out and put it on the floor in the living room so that I would bring that along with me when I would leave my parents' house.

Those who know me would know that I'm quite a forgetful person. So yup, I'd accidentally left the box of DOOM3 on the floor when I left my parents' house.

My mom called me up while I was driving home and she's like... "Hey Pat, I think you left a movie on the floor. It is called D-O-O-M (she was spelling it out!! hahahahaha)." So I was like "Ok don't worry about it I will get it next time." Then she's like "Is it a good movie? Can I open up and see it?" LOL I started cracking up! She didn't know what DOOM was and she thought it was a movie! Well maybe it's not entirely her fault either since there really was a DOOM movie that was released recently.

Ok this is the end of story. I'm so happy that I have taken out 5 minutes of your life. Now go back to work!

I Got Up Way Too Early...

...and read this:

TSA: Small Scissors to be Allowed on Flights

FINALLY! So now I can do what I always used to do with scissors on the plane:

• cut my hair
• cut up cucumbers to prepare for my cucumber water
• cut letters out of magazines for ransom notes
• make paper dolls
• test out my knife sharpener

I need coffee!!!