Another Year, Another Recap

Since I had such a dismal year in 2005, I promised to accomplish more in 2006.

I didn't win the lotto again, and I didn't get to retire and play golf at the country club. Instead, I:

• Got engaged in Las Vegas!
• Had an awesome 27th birthday party at Miyakes with my amigos.
• Threw one sucky bachelor party for my friend Will.
• Attended a shitload of weddings.
• Bought an X'mas tree for Christmas.
• Had our very first Christmas party at our new place and made this video.
• Made many videos that were posted on youtube. one of which won the contest and was displayed on Adam Sandler's official home page.
• Gained 10lbs of muscles, and then lost all of them and gained 10lbs of fat instead.
  
• Wrote a total of 114 blog entries.
• Got 7737 page views to this blog, down from 9000 in 2005.
• My hair was on fire during the month of November and December.

My first impression of the wii

I tried out the bowling game last night on the wii, and I'd have to say it's much more realistic than playing the bowling game on my nokia phone while I'm in the bathroom.

Two thumbs up! =D

Wiiii!!!

The weirdest thing happened to me today.

Wanting to get a nintendo wii, I decided to email this person on craigslist who was selling it for $380. After a couple email exchanges we decided to think of a place to meet.

Then the craziest thing happened!

She emailed me, saying (paraphrasing) "I hope you don't mind me asking this. Do you also work at Google? I remember your name from somewhere, and I just looked you up on the intranet. Do you want to meet at work instead?"

WTF mate again! What are the odds!

But then again, only geeks would camp out to get a Wii before the holidays.

When we met up for the exchange, she explained that she had gotten many higher offers from other people, but she decided to hook up a fellow Googler for the lowest price. Woo!

So I've got the system hooked up to my TV now. I must admit that it is quite addicting. Now I just need a second wiimote and nunchuck...

Mr. Bean

I can't quite figure out why I can't stop laughing whenever I watch the Xmas episode of Mr. Bean.

Check it out

My christmas list

Dear readers (aka strangers),

If you have trouble decciding what to buy me for Xmas this year, look no further! I have created a list of things that I want for Xmas.

In no particular order:

• Evan Bed at Pottery Barn
• Porsche 911
• The Nintendo Wii
• Heavenly Mattress

I know they are a bit on the high side, but I think Santa will agree that I have been good this year! I mean, I have been brushing my teeth every day before I go to bed. Uhm, yeah!

Update: I don't need the Heavenly mattress anymore. I just bought a new mattress from the w store. Hehe.

How to strike a great first impression?

Once upon a time there was a gullible late bloomer named Janice. At age 22, she decided to take on the habit of drinking.

In order to prove her drinking prowess, she appeared at Sino restaurant in Santana Row for happy hour with her coworkers and friends, routinely drinking a long island, a mojito, and a shot of patron.

In less than five minutes, Janice got drunk, threw up 20 times at the venue (with and without covering her mouth with a napkin), and then passed out.

End of story.

For detailed play by play coverage, please visit this and this.

Strange conversation I had last night

During happy hour at Sino last night in Santana Row, I met this girl who was sitting next to me. When she found out that I work for Google, she asked, "Oh! You work at Google?? Do you know Gloria?"

WTF mate? Does she think Google only has 10 employees or something? It's like, "Oh you are Chinese?? Do you know Bob?"

Weird guy

So I looked out the window at my office, and I saw this guy jogging backwards up the hill.

What the hell?

Alive and Well

I've been having an excellent vacation so far. I am about to go bankrupt though.

I must not shop anymore.

Oh, and my hair is super fobby now! ^_^

What's with this whole waiting in line thing...

So, I was watching the news last night and they're saying how there's over 500 people waiting in line outside of the Sony metreon in SF for the release of playstation3. The reporter asked this one dude, who's been waiting in line for over 48 hours already, on why he's spent the last two days waiting in line for the playstation3. His immediate answer was "ebay."

So I went on to ebay and noticed that the highest winning bids are somewhere around $2000 (regular price is $600). So, this guy's gonna end up waiting for about 60 hours, and that means his hour rate there was $23.3. Poor guy.

And for me, I'm very happy with my missing gamecube.

Sup?

Two days til my trip to Asia! I really ought to start packing...

Election Day

Today's mid term election has gotta be one of the most important ones in recent decades. The war in Iraq, government corruption and the lack of a healthy economy have finally agitated us lazy Americans to fight back today.

I am personally quite sick of all the political commercials that have been playing over and over on TV. I am particularly annoyed by the way Phil Angelides tries to win voters over by constantly attacking our current California governor instead of telling us what he would do should he be elected. I mean, if I were running for governor, all I would just say would be something like...

I will stay the course. We have a plan for victory. I am the Decider. It's hard work. My job is to do my job. It's hard work.

Our next great generation

I went to a pet store to buy some dog food for pei pei a few months ago. I gave the person at the cashier $20.02 when the total price was $14.02. Instead of giving me $6 back right away, she had to use the calculator to come up with that! First thing that came to my mind was... how did she get hired to be the cashier? And then the second thing that came to mind was... oh man, the newest generation of kids suck at math! and then I thought... it can't be it. she's probably just an outliar.

Then I read this blog today, and I conclude that they all suck at math after all.

Who uses the Google on the internets?

I know this is kind of old news, but I feel the responsibility to post the video here about the kind of president who is leading our great country.

Enjoy!

I thought I was going to die

About two hours ago, my desk and windows started shaking violently at the office. Then, I heard a loud trembling noise coming from above my head. I looked out the window and I saw a F-15 fighter jet pass right above me, heading towards the Milpitas direction.



For a quick second, I swear I was praying to God that it wasn't going to turn around and hit me in the face.

Luckily, that didn't happen, and I survived.

100 million sites on the web??

CNN: Web reaches new milestone: 100 million sites

At first sight you might wonder how you can possibly visit all of these sites. It's actually really not that bad. Assuming you want to go to all 100 million sites and it takes you one second per site serially, it will only take you about 3.16 years to get that done.

Alternatively, assuming your hands can't type in all these sites too fast and you can't afford to sit around for 3.16 years with no sleep, you can actually write a script to do that for you. Assuming you're behind a 100mbps NIC and assuming an average response size of a webpage is 14kB, then you can probably issue ~892 wgets per second assuming the server side has 0 latency. Given that, it will really only take you ~1.29 days to do that.

Of course, that's only visiting the front page of every site. But hey, at least you'll get to go to the gusiness book of records for this.

Oh but wait, all the search engines out there have probably already done that. Pfft.

Halloween festivities

I had a wonderful Halloween yesterday. No I didn't go trick or treating - And no I didn't wear a costume. I did however attend this giant party here at work where I'd seriously say >70% of the people who were there were wearing costumes. Costumes ranging from Dr. Evil to Star ship troopers (is that what you call them?) to Mark Foley to Pirates to Mr. San Francisco (this guy who's 80% naked wearing S&M outfit and showing off his BUTT!). I was suitably amused.

The highlight of my day came from a quote that my colleague had said in the morning:

When I went to breakfast this morning, it occured to me, "Only in SiliconValley would you see a gorilla carrying a laptop."

I guess I find that to be quite true. :)

Near the evening it finally dawned on me for the first time that I really should go trick or treating. I mean, I've been in the states for over 12 years and I haven't once walked around the neighborhood with a basket-full of eggs. Right at the moment as I was about to leave work and head over to Costco to buy a couple dozens of eggs, Andy called and challenged me to play in a game of ping pong over at his house. How could I resist the opportunity to kick his ass, especially since he said "Oh I'm pretty good at ping pong. I'm pretty sure I can beat you." Oh well. Maybe I will go trick or treating next year instead.

Having just sat down comfortably at his house, the door bell began to go off in an increasingly annoying pace - "DING DONG! DING DONG! DING DONG! DING DONG! DING DONG! DING DONG! DING DONG! DING DONG!" In my head I was thinking "SHUT THE F!@# UP!!!!" Andy frantically ran down to open the door and it turned out to be a few kids stopping by to trick or treat. The first thing that came out of Andy's mouth as the kids said "Trick or treat?" was "What the hell???" Haha. What a punk.

After two hours of fierce competition, Andy and I split the series at 1-1. I think I would have won both of the series had he let me use his juiced up ping pong pedal that he was using against me. But it's ok - I don't really need an edge to kick his sorry butt! :-)

The funniest coding question

Found this on expert-exchange.com today:

hi all,

IntTemp = Int((255 * Rnd()) + 1)

I used above ASP.NET code. Problem is in " Rnd() "
Rnd() value is changing everytime.

What is the alternative for Rnd()? OR How will stop Rnd() value changes at everytime?

Thanks

Then someone responded with this:

change the 255 to a 0 and you'll get the same number each time.

I know someone from Wyoming?

I was just looking at my visitor tracking page and noticed someone from Wyoming has been visiting my blog quite often:

host-69-146-138-100.chy-wy.client.bresnan.net

Who are you?

Ooooh... What is this hot, shiney thing?

For those who see me a lot, I've been using the IBM thinkpad for work for quite awhile now. I couldn't really stand it anymore last week as it began to crash on me quite frequently. It was time for a new laptop!

Being the little wuss I am, I figured I should email my manager for approval to get a new laptop before I actually filed a ticket for it. I then spent the next 30 minutes proof reading it over and over to make sure that my request was a justifiable one (and it really was). I don't know why I was so nervous of sending out an email to ask for that, but maybe I just felt like I didn't deserve a brand new laptop? Maybe I'm just so used to using things until they became antique, like the P3-866mhz that I had had for over 10 years? Or, maybe, just maybe I was rejected in the past before at my previous employment when I asked for something that would make me a happier employer?

Whatever it was, I finally gathered up enough courage and pressed send to the email that I had drafted. In less than 30 seconds I got the response back going "Sure, I approve!" I really love my manager.

I immediately filed a ticket to request for a Macbook pro. Under the description of the ticket, I again explained the issues that I had been having with my laptop, and that I had gotten my manager's approval. The helpdesk person replied to my ticket and told me that I actually didn't even need manager's approval since I'm in Engineering. Wow! I should have asked for a replacement a long time ago then!

In just one day, the new macbook pro was delivered to me at my desk, with all the cool gadgets set up and everything. I have to admit I was a bit skeptical about this whole macbook thing since I'd never used a Mac before. But after spending the weekend with it, I am convinced that it is much much better than windoze XP. For example, it doesn't take over 5 minutes for the laptop to wake up after standby. It also connects me to wireless in less than 5 seconds every time I open up the macbook pro. It looks good, it is fast, it is REALLY hot. What more can I ask for?

Going back to this "no approval needed for a new laptop" thing. I really want to emphasize that it's simply awesome. I like the fact that the company goes out of its way to ensure that the engineers get whatever tools they need/prefer that will enable them to become more productive at work. Happy engineers -> write better code -> write better unit tests -> stay at work longer -> work at home more -> work faster -> blog more -> products ship faster. I am surprised a lot of companies out there still don't get that.

NBC's "Heroes"

So I have been pretty hooked to this new TV drama on NBC called Heroes. After watching the first three episodes I couldn't help but realize the screenwriters of this drama are such geniuses. I mean, the fact that it's able to attract the mass audience by having heroes of different ethnicity and social background allow pretty much any viewer to relate to some of these characters one way or the other. For example, I can hear the dish of chips and salsa thinking "I think Pat should eat me... right now! I want to be eaten by Pat..." And then there's this other time where I would wake up in the morning and I'd have no idea where I was and what I had done during the night. But then I would see a bottle of vodka sitting right next to me on the floor. Anyway, you get the idea.

This weeks' episode revealed an extremely shocking motto: "Save the cheerleader, save the world."

So basically the rest of this entire drama will be hinged on a dumb cheerleader from Texas. FARK!!!

One Month 'Til Vacation!

I think I'm going to set that image as my wallpaper at my workstation at work as well as my personal desktop. Don't you feel relaxed just by looking at the picture?? Oh man. I can't wait to go!

Some goals for my vacation

• I will not get near anything that remotely looks like a computer.
• I will make sure to even out my tan on my face.
• I will eat at least 6 meals a day.
• I will play at least four rounds of golf.
• I will get no less than 10 massages.
• I will sleep at least 8 hours a day.

I'm Easily Impressed

Sitting in the customer service lounge at the Stevens Creek Toyota Dealer as I am writing this blog, I look around and I see:

• Two boxes of donuts
• A soda machine
• A coffee making machine (free of charge!)

Wow. They surely treat their customers quite well! Not only do they want you to eat the whole box of donuts and gain 20lbs immediately, they also top it off by offering free wireless internet access! Perfect for losers like me who go into withdrawal mode when I don't have access to the 'net.

I think I am going to start coming here every day, even when I don't need to bring my car in for a service. Hmmm... That's a thought...

Can this be real?

Probably not. Google doesn't do pop up ads.

Trusty little car

Today marks a very special day.

(drum roll please...)

Ladies and gentlemen, my prius has finally reached 10,000 miles! Clearly, this is a significant milestone, and I would like to use this opportunity to thank my dear fiance, Anita, for making me drive all around the Bay Area with this car. We have traveled a long way in a little over six months! I am also quite proud to say that I am doing something to help slow down global warming. In just six months, I have saved over $685 in gas. Long live hybrid cars!


My love (besides Anita)



All of this will change in the next six months however. When my prius reaches 20,000 miles, I plan on doing the complete opposite!


Porsche 911 GT2... here.. I.. come! If I win the lotto, that is.

Poor NFL player

So, you know there are football games out there developed by Electronic Arts that are caleld "John Madden NFL football 200x" each year? Basically, inside the games each player is given ratings on different categories that represents how good of a player you are in the game. This NFL player, named Ethan Albright, was rated the worst player in the game.



Apparently Ethan Albright is a little bit ticked off by it, and so he wrote an open letter to John Madden and CC'd Electronics Arts. It was the most awesome letter I've ever read in my life.

No driving for the next 6.15 years

I made a two furniture purchases^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H *INVESTMENTS* today. After some estimation afterwards, I realized that I need to make up for the money I spent by not driving to work for the next 6.15 years. Here's how I got this number:

round trip commute to/from work: 20 miles
cost of a gallon of regular gas: $2.7
average miles per galon on a prius: 44.5
Rough estimation on the purchase: $1941.84

$1941.84 / $2.7 * 44.5miles / 20 / 5 / 52 = 6.15 years

Dear reader: if you consider me your friend, please spare me a ride to/from work each day for the next 6.15 years.

Investment #1:



Investment #2:

The perfect Gmail picture

Today for whatever reason I got really tired of looking at my gmail picture.

"I need a new Gmail picture!" I said to my cubemate at the office. "Can you find a picture of me that I can replace my current one with?"

(5 minutes later...)

"Hey! I found one! Sending it to you now."

With great anticipation, I opened up the attached picture that he sent me an email and here's what he sent me:





It feels great to find out my training sessions at the gym has finally paid off.

spam sushi rules

They are having a Luau at work here today for some reason. I got to enjoy an unlimited amount of spam sushi on top of all the other good Hawaii BBQ goodies. I think I have eaten about 15 pieces of spam sushi so far, and there are still four pieces sitting right in front of me here at my desk.

I'm really full and I don't know if I can really finish them. Looking at the four pieces of spam sushi, I notice the two of them that are closer to me are screaming "don't eat me!! don't eat me!" whereas the remaining two pieces in the back row are going "eat them you mofo! stuff yourself! yeah!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Oh great. I think I'm starting to hallucinate

Oktoberfest rules

To celebrate Oktoberfest, they made german beer available here during lunch time as well as german hotdogs. I'm on my second beer right now, and I need to pee really badly.

I have been beaten

I always thought I was cool for memorizing Pi up to the 20th decimal place... until I saw this article today:

TOKYO A Japanese mental health counselor recited pi to 100,000 decimal places from memory on Wednesday, setting what he claims to be a new world record.

However, I bet he has trouble memorizing girls' phone numbers.

codesearch is launched

I've always wondered how many lines of "hello, world" code there are out in the world. Now I can find out via Google codesearch. Go check it out!

Before and After

I came upon this old picture taken 11 years ago while I was cleaning up my computer.

Comparing that with a recently taken picture, it is safe to conclude that while my eyes have barely changed in size, my head and my upper body have increased by a factor of 5. My legs don't seem to have changed, either.

Before


After (The guy on the left)

Tight calves

Last weekend was quite festive for me. For those who talk to me often, Will's wedding is this coming Saturday and I was selected to be his best man (or the first one who answered his phone call). I've known Will for like 11 years, and I think I know him very very well. At least that's what I thought.

First off, Will is NOT a party person. He does not drink, he does not go clubbing, he does not do anything. Back in the College days, he would goto sleep, wake up, drink a can of coke, sit in front of his desk, and play video games all day. He would never go to any parties even if his life depended on it.

So it came somewhat as a surprise last Thursday when I asked him, just out of courtesey, whether or not he would want a Bachelor party before the wedding. His rely was "Aren't you supposed to be organizing this?" Uh oh! Hot dog!

I quickly gathered all his friends' phone numbers and began calling them the following day in the hopes that we could pull off a last minute Bachelor party for him last Saturday. Luckily, 50% of them could make it.

We went to broadway in SF and stopped by some bars and clubs. Will actually had a great time! (pictures will be posted later). He was very buzzed after drinking about 2 oz of Corona, and during the rest of the night all he wanted to do was to drink more.

Hmmm.. Oops. I'm halfway done with this blog and I still haven't mentioned why the title of this blog is "Tight calves." Ok here goes:

Midway through the night Will decided that he wanted to eat. We all walked from one side of broadway to the other side, where China town is located. We sat down, grabbed some food, and the majority of his friends decided to go home afterwards. Will didn't want to go home yet, and so we decided to try to take a Cab back to Dennis' apartment on King street to play some pool and just chill.

Unfortunately, it was around 1:30am, which means that's when EVERYONE in SF was leaving the clubs. It was pretty impossible to get a cab.

So what did we do? We decided to start walking back to his apartment! At 1:30am in the morning! Fortunately, a miracle happened midway through our journey, and we were able to get a cab by the time we got near Market street.

We ended up staying up til 4am, and I didn't get back home until 5am. Had to wake up early the next morning to drive my parents to Oakland to hang out with Anita's parents.

To make the long story short, I woke up Monday and my legs were SO tired. So I immediately signed up for a table massage at work. When I went in for the massage, I told the massuse that my calves are really tired from walking all weekend. I told her to focus on them and she did so.

At the end of the massage, she's like, "Oh your calves ARE really tight. Particularly your left calf." I am really confused by why my left calf would be tighter than my right. I mean, it's not like I went to play basketball or anything where I would dunk off of my left leg.

So for those of you out there - Can you please explain why my left calf was tighter than my right?

Thanks.

gamecube bandit?

Hello,

If you were over at my condo sometime this year and borrowed my gamecube, please return it.

No questions asked.

Thanks.

Crime scene by my house

So I was driving to work yesterday morning at 9am when I saw over 10-15 cop cars parked outside of the Brocade building entrance. The entire parking lot was sealed off with the police tapes. I wonder what the hell happened there.

Later on I found out a homeless guy drowned himself in the 3 feet deep fountain while fishing for coins at night.

How do you drown yourself in a 3 feet deep fountain!!?!?!

It sucks to be sick!

I had a very busy weekend. So busy that it got me sick.

I went to Kenny's wedding on Friday at Dynasty and then Wes' wedding on Saturday down at Carmel. The weddings were cool. We stayed at the Hyatt Monterey Hotel on Saturday night so we didn't have to drive home late in the night.

Wes' wedding was very cool. There were only 85 guests invited, and most of them were youngsters like me. And when you have a party with a lot of youngsters, people tend to drink more and have more fun. This one guy who was sitting at the same table probably had a little too much fun. Since I don't remember his name, I will call him "dumbass" here.

A few hours into the party, dumbass came back to the table with a HUGE glass of whisky. He looked like he was in pain drinking it. The girls who were sitting next to him asked him to just go get something else to drink. Dumbass was like "No... I feel bad!" What a dumbass. He kept drinking and drinking. He tried to get the bride and the groom to drink some of the whiskey, but of course they thought that he was an idiot. Seriously, who the hell is this guy? He came to the wedding with no date. His tie is undone. His shirt is unbuttoned. And there's a cigarette sitting between his head and his ear. And no one has ANY CLUE who he is. Is he a wedding crasher?

By the time it's time for dancing and cake eating, dumbass was passed out. His head was placed against the table. His eyes were closed, and nobody seemed to care that he's passed out.

The next morning I heard stories about how someone else at the wedding (who doesn't know dumbass at all) had to drive dumbass' car back to the hotel. While they were driving home, dumbass kept on throwing up in his own car. Dumbass also forgot which room he was staying at. Oh boy. He's going to have a good time cleaning up his own puke the next day.

Moral of the story - Don't be a dumbass!

Shot 81 in golf again, dammit!

I shot 81 at Shoreline Golf Links.

And I'm not happy about it.

Talk about a back nine melt down. I still remember when I watched the way Phil Mickelson choke at the 18th hole at the US open as well as Jean van de Valle at the 18th hole at the British open I said to myself, "Oh boy. How can you possibly lose your tournament away in the final hole!? What are you smoking? You could have laid up, taken a bogey, and still won the tournament!"

Mine was way worse than theirs.

Going on the golf course with the mindset that I wanted to shoot lower than 80, I developed a game plan to achieve it by eliminating the number of putts I would have during the round. Things went on track as I shot 4 over in the front nine (40) with a birdie putted from 10 feet away. I said to myself after nine holes, "Wow, If I shot 3 over in the back nine, I will shoot 79!"

The back nine started with a par and a birdie. Now I'm thinking, Ok, even if I shoot 4 over in the next 8 holes I can still shoot 79!

Then came the 12th hole. 338 yards par 4. Slight dogleg left with water to my left side. Knowing that it's a short par 4, I decided to take out my 5 wood to just get it somewhere in the middle of the fairway. Standing over the ball my mind just started drifting around going "79! 79! 79!" I went ahead and started my backswing anyway, and at that point there's an inner voice going "don't mess up! you dumbass!" I hit the ball, it was low, left, and THUMP it went right into the water on my left side. "UH OH! HOT DOG!" I said. I managed to take a 1 stroke penalty, re-teed up with a driver and drove it 280 yards to give myself a small lob wedge onto the green. Pitched it 1 foot by the pin and 1 putted for bogey.

Great. Now I'm back to 4 over.

Parred the 13th, bogey'd 14th due to a dumb skyed drive shot because I teed up the ball too high. Went up and down on 15th and parred that as well.

3 holes to go, 5 over. If I shoot 2 over par in the last 3 holes I can still shoot 79.

This is where the meltdown began.

16th hole - 496 yards, par 5. I hit a high draw with my drive and I had 210 yards left on my second shot. At that moment I had two choices. I could either use my 5 wood and try to knock it on the green in two, or, I can take out my pitching wedge, hit it about 130 and give myself an 80 yard shot with my sand wedge. My inner demon struck again. I went to my golf bag, reached out for the 5 wood. My friend Dennis saw that and started going "Dude don't do it Pat. F*ck that shit. Just lay up dude." I responded like a crazy serial killer, "Shut up dude. Just let me play my game!" I proceeded to take out my 5 wood, duck hooked it to the left into no man's land. Yes. It went OB, and that meant a 1 stroke penalty. FACK!!! I ended up getting a 7 on that hole. MY GOD!

Two more holes to go, 7 over. I needed to birdie one of the last two holes to shoot 79.

17th hole - 137 yards par 3. There's water all the way til you hit the green. I noticed that the teebox was moved up a litte, so it was almost like a 130 yard shot to the green. I took out my 9 iron, thinking that I could get there for sure. I hit the ball REALLY HIGH, and all of a sudden the wind starting blowing really hard and knocked the ball into the water. WAAAH. Took a drop, up and down for bogey. BLAH.

So that's basically it. I made three major mistakes that dearly cost me 4 strokes in the back nine. Why am I so stupid? What can I do to get over this pleatau so that I can one day finally shoot in the 70's range?

No need to look further! Bushnell Yardage Pro Golf Pinseeker 1500 Laser Rangefinder is here! This is basically a device which allows you to point at the flag to get the exact distance between you and your target. It instills confidence in your swing since you take the guessing game out of the way. You can now just go up to the ball, check our the distance with the rangefinder, and swing away!

Of course, getting this extra advantage comes with a great cost. The device sells for $395 on amazon. Luckily, I found some dude that's selling it brand new on ebay for $358 with $19.95 shipping and no tax. It should arrive next week at my parents' house so that Anita won't know that I bought this. (I'm hoping that she's not reading this blog! And for the other readers, PLEASE DON'T TELL HER!! Keep it on the DL okay?)



Here's some of its features and specs:

Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description
Your Bushnell Pinseeker 1500 is an advanced premium laser rangefinder comprised of digital technology that allows range readings from 5 to 1,500 yards. Measuring 1.7 by 5.1 by 3.7 inches, the 10-ounce Pinseeker 1500 delivers superb and accurate range performance to +/- one yard. The Pinseeker 1500 features Selective Targeting Modes, superb optical quality, 100% waterproof construction, and Bushnell's RainGuard coating.

The Pinseeker 1500 emits invisible, eye-safe, infrared energy pulses. Its Advanced Digital microprocessor and ASIC chip (Application-Specific Integrated Circuit) results in instantaneous and accurate readings every time. Sophisticated digital technology instantaneously calculates distances by measuring the time it takes for each pulse to travel from the rangefinder to the target and back.

The ranging accuracy of the Pinseeker 1500 is plus or minus one yard under most circumstances. The maximum range of the instrument depends on the reflectivity of the target. The maximum distance for most objects is 1,000 yards, while for highly reflective objects the maximum is 1,500 yards.

The Pinseeker 1500 features a powerful 7x magnification monocular for viewing your target. Optics are fully multi-coated, allowing maximum light transmission for optimum brightness, superb resolution, and contrast for a clear vivid image even in low-light conditions such as dusk or dawn. A liquid crystal display (LCD) is mounted within the optical system and, when activated, displays a reticle for targeting, yards and meters, and Mode indicators.

Laser Rangefinder Features

Standard with Automatic Scan (A)
Scan across the course while viewing a continuously updated LCD display of the distance between you and your target.

Meters/Yards (B)
You can quickly choose between these standard measuring units with a simple press of a button.

Reticle (C)
The distance to objects targeted in these crosshairs will be displayed on the Distance Readout with the press of a button.

Battery Indicator (D)
Flashes when battery power is low.

Target Quality Gauge (E)
Gauge indicating amount of energy pulses being received back from the target.

Pinseeker 1500 Targeting Modes

BullsEye
Geared for close-range use, this mode acquires the distances of small targets and game without inadvertently measuring background target distances. When more than one object is acquired, the closer of the two objects is shown on the LCD display.

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Brush
Ignores the foreground, such as brush, boulders and tree branches, and provides distances on the LCD display to background objects only.

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PinSeeker
Designed exclusively with the bottom of the cup in mind, this mode allows easy acquisition of the flag without inadvertently capturing background target distances. When more than one object is acquired, the closer of the two objects is shown on the LCD display.

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Slope+/-
Measures slope, +/- one degree of angle, and compensated range, based upon ball trajectory and type of club used. All shown on LCD display.

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Laser Rangefinder Tech Talk

A laser rangefinder is a distance-measuring instrument that uses laser technology to calculate the distance to targeted objects. Accuracy is +/- 1 yard, and the distance is displayed instantaneously on a built-in, through-the-lens Liquid Crystal Display.

How a Laser Rangefinder Works
Bushnell's Yardage Pro rangefinders use an invisible, eye-safe Class 1 Laser beam (as classified by the FDA) which is "bounced" off distant objects with the press of a button. Then, the rangefinder's high-speed digital clock measures the time it took for a laser beam to reach a target and return to the unit. Next, using advanced digital electronics, the rangefinder instantly calculates the distance within +/- 1 yard and shows the range in either yards or meters on a through-the-lens LCD Display. The entire process is so fast that less than a second elapses between the time you press the button to generate a laser beam to the time the exact range to your target is displayed.

Reflectivity of Target Types
Because rangefinders "bounce" a laser beam off the target in order to take a measurement, their range is partially determined by the reflectivity of the target. In other words, hard or "reflective" targets -- like a rock cliff or semi-truck -- can be measured at greater distances than soft surface targets, like a deer. Ranges for moderately reflective targets, like trees, fall somewhere in the middle. Most experienced hunters will use their rangefinder to frequently estimate ranges to near and distant landmarks before they actually encounter a game animal. By "pre-measuring" ranges to spots where a trophy is likely to appear, they can concentrate on making an accurate shot when the moment of truth arrives.

Product Description
Bushnell PINSEEKER 1500 Slope Edition is a premium digital golf laser rangefinder designed especially for golf, featuring a built-in slope compensator, superb optical quality and selective targeting modes.

Shiny toe nails

Anita forced me to go to this pedicure place with her yesterday at Santana row named Lavande Beauty Salon. I look around when we got there and noticed that I was the only guy at the whole store! So anyway, we were greeted and seated for our 3:15pm appointment. Since it's my first real pedicure treatment, I was quite nervous.



Moments later, this Vietnamese lady came and sat down right in front of my stinky feet. Then, she told me to put both my feet into this bowl of blue water with leaves, lemons and cucumbers. It was sorta weird. Why do you want to soak your feet into a tub of water filled with wild vegetables?

Anywhoo, after a few seconds she tapped on my right leg. I looked up with the "what's up?" look. She tapped my right leg again, and this time I looked at her with the WTF look. Eventually I think she got frustrated and just grabbed my leg out of the tub of water and began cutting my nails!

To make the long story short, it was a pretty pleasant experience. She cut, filed and cleaned my nails. After that she put some kind of scrubbing material (it looked like a plate of chopped up ginger) on my legs and began exfoliating my skin. Afterwards, she put this white lotion on my legs and began massaging them. "feel good?" she asked. At that point my body was in this state of joy that all I could do was nod my head up and down.

I thought the treatment was over by the time the lotion was applied to my legs. Oh boy was I wrong! She started going "bumping? bumping?" and I was like HUH. "bumping! bumping!?" and I was sooooooooo lost. I reached out to Anita on my right trying to see if she knew what the lady wanted to do to my feet and Anita was like "Oooh! I think she is asking if you want to get your nails painted!" and I went "noooooooooooooooo!" The lady said this time "No! BUFFIING! BUFFING! clear! TRY IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and i was like OK OK FINE!!!!

She then went away and came back with this piece of object that looks kinda like a whiteboard eraser and began rubbing it back and forth against the surface of my nails. It created this really really squeeky noise that was pretty disturbing. I think at some point the noise actually made me pass out. Anyway, I opened up my eyes after it was all done and noticed that my nails were all SUPER SHINY! So shiny that it looked as if she'd put a clear coat of nail polish on them!

I am a little bit embarassed by it and so I am not wearing sandals to work today. :) Hee hee!

Will I go back for more? Hell yeah I will! I think I'm addicted to it now!

Where the hell is Pat?

I've totally forgotten about blogging!

Let's see what I have been up to...

I'm planning my HK/Thailand trip with Anita. We're gonna goto HK in November and then immediately fly to Koh Samui, Thailand for like 5 days. After that we'll fly back to HK and stay for a week to eat a lot of good food. Ahhh I can't wait til November!

Other than that, you guys have got to check out this page. It's awesome.

Ahhhh... I'm melting

Last weekend has gotta be the hottest weekend I have ever experienced during my 11 years that I have been here in the Bay Area. I think the highest temperature was 114F yesterday in Livermore!

A lot of my friends decided to go hang out at the malls to avoid the heat. What a silly move. They all came back and told me that the mall was SO PACKED that it was no fun at all.

I, on the other hand, decided to play 18 holes over at the Canyon Lakes Golf Course in San Ramon where the temperature was at 113F. I think my group was the only group that were out playing golf the whole day! It's so nice to play golf when there's no wait after each hole. I also got the chance to validate the scientific theory that golf balls travel farther when the temperature is hot. One of my drives went 285 yards. :)

Oh and one more thing. I look filipino now.

Ahhh.. It feels great to golf again.

After taking a long break (11 months) from golf, I decided to pick up my golf clubs once again.

I kinda expected that I was going to suck shit for awhile, especially since I quit golf with a bad taste last year after losing like 5 golf balls in one around and shooting 100.

To my surprise, I scored 87, 86, 85 and 86 during the last four rounds that I played this year. Hey! My shots are actually going to where I want them to go! Holy shit! I probably could have scored even lower if my putting didn't suck. I'm averaging about three to four 3 putts per round from 5 feet away. This is so friggin sad!!

My long irons are really coming together quite well too. It's not as consistent as I want it to, and I think my score would improve if I replaced my 2 iron with a 5 wood for 200+ yard shots.

With that thought in mind, I went to the course and got fitted for the brand new Henry Griffits RDH DEEP fairway wood. This is the same brand that I have been using for my driver and my irons. It's a little bit pricey (paid $320 for it), but I have got to say this brand beats any of the other name brands out there any day since these are custom fitted. Shh! Don't tell Anita I paid that much for a golf club!



I am picking up the new club next week and I can't wait to get on the course with it. Ahh, I'm back to becoming a golf nut again.

Oh and also. I never knew what my handicap was until I entered all my scores to www.mygolfrecord.com. Based on its calculation, my handicap is 11.8. Whee! Hopefully I can become a single digit handicapper.

See you guys out on the course sometime!

I want to be a Commander too!

How cool would it be to have Queen Elizabeth give you a Commander (CBE) award at Buckingham Palace?



My Uncle just got one yesterday. Congratulations, Uncle Paul!

Yes I will!

Do It Again Bloopers

And here are the bloopers... Woohoo I can goto bed now!

What would you do

... if you had the remote control that controlled the entire universe?

So, the movie "Click" by Adam Sandler is having this little video contest on what you would do with the remote. Last weekend, some of us decided to go out for some filming to put together a music video for the contest. Let me know what you think! If you like it, make sure to rate it and comment on the video by following the link to youtube!

Rico - Pickup Lines 101

Ok. Aside from filming Rico's ducati yesterday, we also spent some time messing around with the camera. This is a valuable clip to those who wonder how Rico picks up girls at the bar. Please bear with our horrible acting skills (Andy said it kinda looked like porn). Hope you'll enjoy it!

Rico - The Guy on a Bike

Rico gladly brought his brand new ducati over to my place yesterday. Ray and I decided to have some fun filming him and his bike.

Hopefully, this clip will get Rico even more chicks than he's already getting!

Oh My Favorite Sticker

So I finally got this in the mail after applying for this two months ago. I have never been happier putting giant, reflective bright yellow stickers on my car. Now I can drive on the carpool lane with no one else sitting next to me!

I've been told this sticker would make me more productive by giving me an incentive to get in early. So to try to do that, I set my alarm clock to go off at 8:15am. But then I ended up snoozing my alarm until 8:45am because I figured I'd get in to work in no time with this sticker.

After showering and getting ready, it was already 9:10am. Alas, I was unable to take advantage of this sticker. I need a better solution. Oh! Maybe I can start leaving work every day at 3pm to take advantage of this sticker... Hmm that's not a very bad idea.

Happy Friday

I woke up this morning, looked at my clock, and realized that it's already Friday!

My cubemate enlightened me yesterday with this question that I don't know how to answer.

Why does a holiday like memorial day give you two benefits? One, it gives you a longer weekend. Second, it gives you a shorter following work week. So in that sense, I am having both a longer weekend AND a shorter week til the next weekend!

It's also measurements day today at the gym! To prepare for that, I'm going out for some dim sum right now to fatty up myself.

I'm changing the title about tanning since it gets searched all the time. It's annoying.

Soooooo... I usually take very good care of my skin. My face lotion is SPF 20, and I put that on my face every morning after I shower.

Lately, I have noticed a horrible uneven tan on my face. Basically, the side of my face (right below my side burns) all the way down to my chin tend to be a lot more tanned, whereas the frontside of my face is not too tanned at all.

Why? I suspect that I sweat a lot more along my sideburns when I play volleyball, and thereby washing off all the sunblock lotion I'd originally put on in the morning. Ugh, this sucks.

What does that make me look like? A MONKEY!

What can I do to get rid of this monkey tan? I already have those exfoliating face wash, but it doesn't seem to be doing much good.

Help!

Clay Aiken on American Idol Finale

Did you guys watch the finale? Remember there's this guy back in the initial audition who tried to look like Clay Aiken? If you missed the finale, you've got to watch this. This is classic.

Yahoo has such crappy spam filtering

How in the world did this not get caught by yahoo mail's spam filter?? I mean, seriously? I mean, the spammer's code was buggy enough that %RANDOM% didn't really get resolved as anything random, but yahoo still can't catch such a frequently abused subject line? What the hell?!

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Teen first time masturbating with a toy
Four pretty teenies banged by lucky guy
lionnet.infotg/an/003/






%TOE%
Her eyes widened as they fell on the broomstick in Harrys

Woohoo! It's memorial day weekend!

I love long weekends. You hear me? I loooooooooooooooooove long weekends. Having long weekends is the reason why I live my life. Having long weekends is what makes me want to get up and dance!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

*bounce bounce bounce*
*bounce bounce bounce*
*bounce bounce bounce*(that's how I dance)

So I know what we celebrate on long weekends such as Thanksgiving, Labor day and so on. But what are we celebrating on memorial day weekend? Does anyone know?

Personally, to celebrate such a special once in a year weekend, I plan on BBQing, golfing, and watching videos on youtube all weekend long. Hell, I might even take a few glasses of drinks to top it all off on such a special day of celebration.

The sad part about memorial weekend is the fact that it usually signifies the finales of my favorite shows: 24, Lost, and the American Idol. But don't worry! I found this site about Lost and this site about 24 that will keep me entertained for awhile.

Happy Memorial weekend everyone! If you know of something fun to do this weekend besides staying home, give me a call!

WTF

I usually head to the microkitchen and grab a snackbar to eat every day at around 4pm-ish. Last night, Anita recommended that I should try out their LUNA bars. "It's really good! you must try it!" she said.

I grabbed one from the microkitchen and ate one today. It wasn't too bad. I took a look at the snack bar wrapping and it said "

The Whole Nutrition Bar for Women"

Since when did I become a woman? Am I going to die now?

What do people do here at work?

The answer is here.

xbox, anyone?

After watching this commercial, I have decided to stop playing any console games forever.

Dilbert pokes fun at Google

It seems like Scott Adams has been having quite a big of fun drawing about Google in the past four days. :-)

Another blonde joke

Photo taken when Texas scored the winning touchdown.

Oh man.. talk about writers' block!

This website has been pretty dead. I feel obligated to update this so that my loyal readers won't start visiting sucky pages like http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com instead.

Let's see what I have been up to. My 20 sessions of personal training has come to an end. The end result is that I did noticeably get bigger and I definitely feel healthier. I believe at the end of the 6th week I weighed 182lbs. Up 10lbs from when I first started. My bodyfat% didn't change much though.

I've decided to buy another 20 personal training sessions. This time we'll be focusing more on getting a lean body as opposed to muscle gains. This program is definitely tougher than the mass gaining routine. I've been eating 2700 calories a day and doing cardio five times a week. My next measurement day is this coming Friday, and I will keep you guys posted on the latest result.

Other than that, I've just been so busy with work. As some of you may know, I'm know sort of doing two different jobs now. I've been so busy that I didn't even catch the American Idol last night. This is major tragedy.

VIM 7.0 is out!

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/vimannounce/message/161

Here are some of the new features:

- Spell checking support for about 50 languages
- Intelligent completion for C, HTML, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc.
- Tab pages, each containing multiple windows
- Undo branches: never accidentally lose text again
- Vim script supports Lists and Dictionaries (similar to Python)
- Vim script profiling
- Improved Unicode support
- Highlighting of cursor line, cursor column and matching braces
- Translated manual pages support.
- Internal grep; works on all platforms, searches compressed files
- Browsing remote directories, zip and tar archives
- Printing multi-byte text

This guy sings better than me!

I fell asleep during a massage today!

So I decided to book myself a 90 minute massage today since I didn't get any sleep last night. I am so mad that I kept falling asleep during the massage, and as a result wasn't really able to enjoy it fully. I kinda felt bad for the massuse though, because every 3 minutes, I would snore REALLY loud. So loud that I'd wake myself up... and then I'd do the same thing again, and again, and then again.

I wonder if she really massaged me for the entire 90 minutes??

aaaaaaaaaarggggh... make it stop!!

I've been bringing pei pei to sleep over at my place this week since my family is on vacation. For whatever reason, her snoring is particularly unbearable tonight. Her snoring woke me up an hour ago and I havent been able to go back to sleep since.

I'm so tempted to give her some benadryll to knock her out right now... or maybe I should knock myself out with that instead... or knock both of us out? Hmmmm....

and the bulking results are in!

My bulking cycle ended two days ago, and my trainer took my measurements to see how much progression we'd made.

It turns out that I went from 172lbs to 186lbs. I gained 8 lbs of lean muscles and 6lbs of fat. Here are my gains:

Neck: 0.5 inch
Upper arm: 1.5 inches
Forearm: no gain
Chest: 1.5 inches
Waist: 0.5 inch
Hip: 1.25 inches
Thigh: 0.5 inch
Calf: 0.25 inch

Not too bad for four weeks of training.

The cutting cycle starts tomorrow, where he wants me to do one week of maintainence calorie intake, which is 3300 calories for me, and then 2700 calories per day onward. He also wants me to do cardio five times a week (blah).

It's peanut butter jelly time!

http://www.jetblue.com/travelinfo/routemap.asp

after it loads, click on the map, and then hold shift and type p b j

quote of the day

"So that's not the point. And don't say anything about POST, please, POST is not any more secure than GET, the only people it hides anything from are the dumber half of the AOL users." - Some random guy on slashdot

Short update

Sorry for not updating this blog for awhile! As you know, I have been very busy with consuming 4000 calories a day. I started on March 24th at 172lbs, and as of last night, I'm now at 188lbs.

200lbs, anyone?

Ray - I don't know how you weren't able to gain any weight. What the hell is wrong with you?

Al Gore gave talk on Climate Crisis

Al Gore came and gave a talk on the climate crisis on Friday. As you all know, he's been retired from politics since 2000 and he is now focusing on really solving the global warming crisis.

Comparing to the late 90's, I found that he is now a much better presentor; His presentation was impressive, entertaining, and most importantly, his concern about this issue is very real and is scientifically accurate. Although most of us engineers are already aware that we have the ability to make a difference and begin to fix this crisis (like driving a hybrid :) ), the general Americans, as Gore pointed out, are still blinded by this as he blames the US media and the whitehouse for not bringing any awareness of this whatsoever.

There is a documentary coming out in May called The Inconvenient Truth, which attempts to bring awareness to this crisis and all proceeds will go to the a foundation that's dedicated to help fix the issue. I think everyone should go see it. If you don't think this is real, think again.

Bush needs to realize that having all the oil in the world don't do him any good if there's no planet left for him to enjoy. Sigh.

My new lamborghini has arrived!

So, my sister mentioned that she was going to buy a lamborghini while we were having dinner together last Saturday night. Somehow she convinced me that I really needed one too by going, "You know, if you get one too, then we can become lamborghini buddies!"

"Okay!" I said. So I spent the whole Sunday morning last week calling at least 10 different dealers to see if they had the any lamborghinis available. All of them had a 3-6 month long waitlist, until I got lucky and found the dealer at Walnut Creek where they just had someone cancelling on the order.

I drove up to the dealer right away, wrote them a check, and drove home with my old ferarri. The lamborghini wasn't going to arrive until Tuesday (yesterday).

They were nice enough to drop off the car at my work yesterday. The car has all kinds of toys: navigation system, voice activation, bluetooth, ipod support, rear view camera, etc etc.

My miles per gallon going to work today was 43mph. :-) Long live lamborghini!!!

Now comes the difficult part. I need to give my new car a nickname. My sister is calling hers "silver mouse" since the car is silver, and my family has a tradition of naming our cars after animal names. I thought about "white pigeon," but that sounds kind of femanine. Then my mom came up with "white bunny," but that is kind of femanine too.

Any suggestions, guys?

Here are the two ugly^H^H^H^Hbeautiful pics that I took this morning:





PS: :s/lamborghini/toyota prius/g

This juggler got so owned

First, watch this clip. This guy thinks he's an amazing 3-ball juggler:



Then, watch this one by Jason Garfield, who utterly owned the first dude by performing the same song with 5 balls:

Personal training status update

It's been a week since my training program has begun, and so far I've gained approximately 5 lbs. I'm pretty sure they are all water weight though since he is having me take the apex volumnizer to gain muscle mass.

He has had me done pushups, sit ups, back and leg exercises so far. I've been sooooooooo sore. Today I can barely walk today and my hamstrings are KILLING me. ARGH!

As for food intake, I've been trying to eat 4000 calories a day. This is actually very hard to do. I almost wanted to throw up staring at all the food I had on my plate during lunch today. I think I need a cheat day or something where I can just go and eat ice cream, french fries and all that good stuff.

I haven't noticed any changes in terms of my appearance except that my stomach seems to be getting bigger and bigger. The trainer said it's normal since he's having me eat so much in an effort to gain 10lbs of muscles in 6 weeks. Let's hope he's right on this. Otherwise, I'll be fatter than ever!

More update later.

My birthday surprise

As stated in my previous blog, Anita surprised me on my birthday by decorating the whole place with balloons when I got home. Here are some of the pictures:

Let the training begin!

I blogged earlier this year that I would start working out and lose 20lbs in six months. Well, after almost three months, I have only gone to the gym once. My weight remains at 175lbs and my bodyfat % remains at 21%. Not good.

So I decided to turn this whole thing around by getting a fitness assessment today at 24 hour fitness. He said that he could increase my muscle mass and lower my body fat % down to 12% in 6 weeks while keeping my weight at around 175lbs. All I needed to do was hit the gym 3 days a week and ate good foods for the next 6 weeks.

"That sounds great!" I said. Thats when he went on and told me that I should get the 20 session package which would cost $1100 total. Since I have been making no progress at all without a personal trainer, I decided that this might be well worth it if it works.

My first session starts this Friday. So I should be done with the program by early May. Just in time for the beach! Woohoo!

Birthday Pictures are up!

Jacqueline's camera

Trevor's camera

MJ's camera

Rico's camera

Andy's camera - NEW!

There are more coming from my camera.

My Best 14th Birthday

I had the best birthday of my life yesterday! I came in to work and realized they had decorated the entire cafeteria and other places with St. Patrick's day theme. After having lunch there and listening to irish leprechaun music, I did a little bit of work and then went down again to have some really bitter green beer.

When I got back home, Anita surprised me by decorating the entire condo with balloons and irish clover leaves. On top of that, she also got me a green birthday cake!

Then comes the birthday party at Miyakes. They made us wait for over 1.5 hours before getting us seated, so we first spent some time across the street at Rudy's, an irish pub that was pretty packed for a Friday. Anita tied a green balloon on me so it was funny watching me walk around with this balloon following me. Some girl at the bar came up t ome and she's like "Oh it's my friend's birthday and I was wondering if I could have your balloon?" I was like "hell no! It's my birthday too! And my name is Patrick!"

Miyakes was so much fun. I lost track of how many sake bombs we did. I think the wait was well worth it. I was feeling ok the entire time until Ming made me chug a big bottle of beer with him! that just totally killed me.

After dinner some of us headed over to Blue Chalk for some good music/dancin'. I seriously don't remember ANYTHING there.

Thank you all for coming to my Birthday. It really was the best birthday celebration I've ever had!

I will post pictures later.

Let the countdown begin...

3.5 hours til sake bomb time!!!

Let's do some warm up everyone!!

waiter: When I say sake you say bomb!
waiter: Sake!
everyone: bomb!
waiter: Sake!
everyone: bomb!
waiter: When I say sake you say bomb!
waiter: Sake!
everyone: bomb!
waiter: Sake!
everyone: bomb!
waiter: ichi! ni! san!
everyone: *gulp gulp gulp*
waiter: go go go!!!!

Now repeat this 20 times!

See you all there tonight! :)

Happy St. Pattys day!

Happy St.^H^H^H Patty's day everyone!





Happy birthday to me... Happy birthday to me...
Happy birthday to me.. happy birthday to me!

You know you have made it to the big time when google decides to change their logo for your birthday!



To celebrate my 14th birthday, a bunch of us are heading over to downtown Palo Alto to get some Miyakes for dinner, followed by bar hopping around the area. One sad thing that I need to mention, is that I have never worn anything green on my birthday! Shameful, don't you think?

This explains SO MUCH

I learned a new logic today.

When you think of it...
A herd of buffalo can only move as fast as the slowest buffalo. And when the herd is hunted, it is the slowest and weakest ones at the back that are killed first.

This natural selection is good for the herd as a whole, because the general speed and health of the whole group keeps improving by the regular killing of the weakest members.

In much the same way, the human brain can only operate as fast as the slowest brain cells. Excessive intake of alcohol, as we know, kills brain cells. Naturally, it attacks the slowest and weakest brain cells first.

In this way, regular consumption of alcohol eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine.

...and that's why you always feel smarter after a few drinks!

Microsoft redesigns Ipod packaging

Ever wonder what would happen if you got a bunch of microsoft folks to design the packaging for the apple ipod? Watch this and find out!

I don't get this

CNN: Miss Deaf Texas struck by train, killed

So, if you're deaf, why would you want to walk around train tracks?

Wild accidents at Russia's Tunnel

This video camera that's mounted inside the tunnel has captured many crazy accidents that's happened in the past. The one that I'm particularly confused is the one at 0:57, where one truck hits the wall, and then it becomes two trucks. My coworkers and I can't quite figured out how that happened.

Kobe is gonna be pretty jealous

Utah Jazz player's wife encourges him to wander once a year

What does she expect to hear from him? "Oh baby, I think you should do the same too!"

Please buckle your seatlbelt as we may encounter turbulance when landing

Hungry!

Just got back from MJ's 40 year old bday and I'm so hungry. I took out this instant cup-o-noodle and realized that it's not really instant. So far it's taken me 5 minutes to boil the water, 1 minute to pour the water into the cup, and now there's still 3 more minutes before I can eat this stupid thing. Why can't someone make it more instnat than that? Sigh...

Microsoft Claims Best Search Engine coming in 6 months

Microsoft yesterday said they would have the best search engine in six months. This is funny because I remember reading something similar to that six months ago, too.

Now, I'm not saying that they are bluffing. Microsoft is very capable of doing and executing things very well. According to a reader from slashdot, some stolen code from Microsoft's next big search engine looks something like this:

<html>
<head>
<title>Microsoft Search Engine</title>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Refresh"
CONTENT="0; URL=http://www.google.com/>
</head>
<body>
Wher e do you want to go today?
</body>
</html>

This guy is pretty funny

My friend sent this to me. watch it here. Or if you want the bigger version, click here.

Ahhh.. what a nice way to start the week

Hmmmm.... I'm on my second redbull and vodka right now... This is what happens when you start living on your own.

It's been rainy and windy here today. My cubemate is from Seattle, Washington, and he's getting pretty freaked out that people in california are so sensitive to rain. Today, he's like, "I just got a text message from the shuttle service saying that the shuttle would be delayed due to WEATHER. What's wrong with the people here!" He went on and said "Yesterday I went to a grocery store to buy a bottle of gatorade, the cashier was like, man, it's been pretty chilly here huh?" And it finally got him when our company's 5k Mardi Gras run that's supposed to happen was postponed because of the rain. At that point, he picked up the phone, called his best friend up in Seattle, and started telling her that Californians are FREAKS.

What are you talking about! Rain is evil. California does not deserve any bad weather. Period!

/me goes back to drink some more.

Google Page Creator Launched

Google Page Creator was launched today. To celebrate this, I went and created my own highly awesome webpage. Check it out!

It's a beautiful day!

The sun is finally back out! With the warm weather, beautiful green mountains, and the birds chirping that's going on outside, it's time for me to hit the gym and run on the treadmill!

This student is so screwed...

Just watch it. Apparently this professor from Berkeley had his laptop stolen by a student right before an exam.

Dude, where's the bus?

US olympic skater Johnny Weir said that he didn't win the skating competition because he missed the bus:

"I got here at around 20 (minutes) after nine and that didn't leave me much time. I mean I have to squeeze myself into a sausage (suit)," he said."

What the hell is a sausage suit! It sounds like an amazingly cool costume and everything, but do you really need 40 minutes to to wear your sausage suit?? Searching for "sausage suit" on Google Image yeilded this:

Michelle, please don't withdraw!

This is major drama. Michelle Kwan has withdrawn from the olympics! Please don't quit. I'm one year older than you, and I haven't quit drinking because of any personal injuries. Similarly, you shouldn't quit either just because you had suffered a severe groin injury during your practice.

Again, please don't quit. If you quit, I'm going to stop watching the winter olympics this year, which means NBC will get poor ratings, which means NBC will go bankrupt, which means a lot of people at NBC will get laid off, which means a lot of people won't be able to afford their mortgages and so on.

Anyway, you get the idea. For better or worse, you owe us all to at least go and give it a shot.

Ok, maybe I'm just being unreasonable for saying all of this, so please don't send people to break my knees because of this.

How much is my house worth?

$0 according to www.zillow.com.

I'm very sad now.

How much is yours worth?

How asian guys can get white girls

Every time I go clubbing with Christophe, tens and hundreds of asian women would be all over Christophe.

I asked him how he did it, he would always come back with "I don't know."

So I've always wondered why it isn't very common for white girls to date asian guys. Luckily, I have found this video which explains it all.

It's Superbowl sunday!

...and I'm not really looking forward to it.

Two years ago I had the dramatic experience of seeing Janet Jackson's right breast during the after time performance.



This year's superbowl they are having Rolling stones perform during the half time. I don't think I want to see saggy breasts once again.

I'm outtie!

This is a historical moment. I'm blogging at 4:46 in the morning!

Why am I up so early? I'm about to head out for the company ski trip! I'm so tired though. Hopefully I'll be able to fall asleep on the shuttle to Squaw Valley.

I'll be back tomorrow night. I will try to blog again then iff I'm not super exhausted.

Bye!

AAaaaaaaaaaaaaaa rRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Word has it that Chewbacca has started his own blog!!!

High-intensity interval training

While researching ways to shed off some of my fat before summer arrives, I came across this technique called HIIT, which stands for High-intensity interval training. It goes theory is this:

As opposed to running slowly on a treadmill for 30 minutes for cardio exercise, you can burn more fat and calories by alternating your cardio with 30 seconds of jogging and 30 seconds of sprinting for a much shorter period of time.

That sounds pretty good. The instruction says to start off your first week's training by doing this routine for only 4 minutes, and then slowly increase the interval by 1 minute after each week.

So 5 minutes ago, I went down to my gym, hopped on to the treadmill and began toggling the speed between 6 mph and 9 mph every 30 seconds. I could tell that the fat ladies next to me thought I was semi-psycho while they were slowly walking on their treadmills at less than 3.5 mph.

After 4 minutes I was done. On my way out of the gym I swear the people there had this "WTF" look on their face. It was pretty funny!

This is creepy

Hello Kitty becomes robot receptionist









According to the article:

The Nagoya-based agency is also offering the services of Ifbot, an elderly-care robot that chats and poses riddles and arithmetical problems to train the brain and help avoid dementia.

Yeah right. The elderly is suffering from dementia if he/she can't figure out that it is a robot that's posing the riddles and arithmetical problems!

I feel like singing again

She's out offfffffffffff... my liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife
She's out offfffffffffff... my liiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiife
And I don't know whether to Laugh or Crrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy
I don't know whether to Live or Diiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!!

watch video here

NOoOOOOOOO!!!

The worst thing ever just happened to me. My TIVO malfunctioned and did not record tonight's episode of 24!! My life is SO over.

Something that irks me a little that I just need to throw that out

I hate the fact that 0 / 0 != 0.

Why? It breaks all graph plotting programs. Particularly gnuplot.

I think I know what is going to happen next...

Being a die-hard follower of FOX's show, 24, I didn't need the media to tell me this in response to bin Laden's latest offer:

U.S. rejects bin Laden tape's 'truce'

When the tape appeared to the public earlier today, I'm sure that Jack Bauer was on the phone with president Palmer. Palmer said to him, "you know very well that we do not negotiate with terrorists!" Jack replied, "I understand, Mr. President. But we are out of time. Bin Laden will be launching his attacks soon and we need to get to him, now."


After the conversation, Jack jumped into a boeing 767 plane and threatened to kill the pilot if he didn't fly over to Afghanistan immediately. Meanwhile he's on the phone with the CTU asking Cloe to analyze the authenticity of the tape.

Finally Jack arrived in Afganistan, found Bin Ladin. He pointed the gun at Bin Laden telling him that it's over and to hand himself over to the police. Just when you think that it's all over, Bin Laden said, "Not so easy, Jack. Bring her out!" It just so happened that Bin Laden's minions had Jack's daughter, Kim, captured. "Dad!" yells Kim. "Kim! what the F!@# are you doing here!!! you're not supposed to be season 5!"

"DING! DING!... DING! DING!" (the end of episode)

Prankers!

Since my team is responsible for launching projects, naturally we have a whiteboard that's hung against the glass window in my office facing the hallway which is written:

"LAUNCH COMMAND"

A week ago I noticed that the board had been changed to:
"L UNCH COMMAND"

And today, it'd been changed to:
"BRUNCH COMMAND"

I figured I was supposed to be angry at the person who played this prank on us. Instead, this is making me more productive at work as it reminds me of the joy of eating whenever I go in and out of my office.

I shot the sheriff

But I didn't shoot the deputyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot the deputyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot the deputyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot the deputyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot the deputyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot the deputyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot the deputyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot the deputyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I shot the sheriff
But I didn't shoot the deputyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

I love the American Idol!

Watch the video here

Wow, it's been quiet here

I didn't notice that it's been almost a week since I last updated this blog.

I have been busy figuring out what my new year resolution should be. Since I'm not all that creative, I came up with the all too common resolution. Yes that's right, I want to get back in shape!

To start off, I've created a diet blog to keep track of my progress. My ultimate goal is to lose 10lbs by June. I know it doesn't sound like much, but given the fact that there's always food around whereever I turn my head towards to, it is quite a challenge.

I hope all of you would visit the diet page often and leave me encouraging comments. I'm serious! Andy is supposed to join me as well, but knowing him, he's probably going to procrastinate again.

How men screw up romance

This is another must see.

This is my 52nd time watching this and I'm still laughing. Hehe.

Ahhh.. Finally somewhat furnished

After 2.5 months of furniture hunting, I've finally furnished up my condo. Here are some poorly taken pictures:

living room



living room again

the new tv stand and the new 50" plasma

from the living room, looking at the dining room and the stinky kitchen


where I usually sit down to eat my KFC and California Rolls

this is where I usually stand around for 5 minutes to dream about the kinds of awesome cooking I am capable of doing before I sadly head over to KFC for my 3 piece chicken meal


this is the the view from the balcony. When I'm bored, I hang out at the balcony and say 'sup?' to those people who walk by


this is the 2nd bedroom that's used as the office. I usually start out sitting at the chair on the right, slowly move over to the sofa with my laptop, pass out, and then finally wake up and frantically wonder where the hell I am.


the master bedroom. as you can see, I'm too cheap to buy a bedframe for now.