The Third Try

Response to Comment

2008-03-30T20:06:00.004-04:00

The following is a response to a comment on my last post from "Anonymous".POST SOMETHING NEW! U KEEP WASTING OUR TIME BY SAYING CHECK OUT MY BLOG, BUT U HAVENT EVEN POSTED THIS YEAR!O YEA ITS SO FUN READING THE SAME THING 50 TIMES...For your information, I have not asked anyone to read my blog ever since my last post four months ago. So you either have Alzheimer's, or you're some idiot in my

Mars

2007-12-25T01:03:00.001-05:00

Never mind, I'm updating instantly. I'm posting this just for the sake of not forgetting about it in a couple days.It's a Christmas miracle. At about 1:00 AM December 25, I was able to see Mars. It looked like a normal star, but it was unusually bright with a somewhat red "aura". Something very interesting I also saw was what appeared to be a meteor streaking across the sky close to Mars. It was

Christmas!

2007-12-25T00:23:00.000-05:00

Shoot; I haven't updated forever. My presents aren't bad, besides the fact that I haven't gotten them yet. They're arriving in the mail sooner or later. I might not update my blog anymore.See ya.

Snow!

2007-12-02T13:17:00.001-05:00

Yay, one of the first signs of winter are here - snow! I hope there's a blizzard this year, but I bet the NYC schools will still force us to go. Well, I want to try to build a snowman this year...

Caught

2007-11-21T11:29:00.001-05:00

I'm at computer class in school right now. On my way in, I looked out of the second floor window and saw one of the lunch ladies smoking weed. In other news, I've accumulated another list of stuff to blog about (this time it's called "The Holy Blible"). I have been wanting to blog about it every since the day after the previous post, but you should know I procrastinate. A lot. Yeah.

New monitor

2007-11-11T12:45:00.000-05:00

I finally got my new computer monitor! It's the 22" HP w2207. It's huge, and it can rotate 90 degrees. That way I can browse really long web pages with minimal scrolling. When you rotate the monitor, it rotates the desktop automatically. The colors are really nice, thanks to the 1000:1 contrast ratio. The footprint is not bad either, less than one square foot. You can even put things under the

School... school... Demonoid

2007-11-09T16:37:00.000-05:00

Recently, I got a 100 in both Spanish and Math. Happiness =D. Annas (and Paul, he made me write this) pissed off the Dance teacher this week too, last week being the first Dance class. Dance was boring, Annas (and Paul) made all of us have a silent sitting period. We got the Math score today, he read most of the scores out loud. He says the person's name, they say if they want their score read

iPhone got owned

2007-11-05T23:44:00.000-05:00

Seriously, read this. A person on Yahoo! Shopping did a review on the iPhone, and gave it two stars. He gave all the details. Personally, I think my enV can do more things than the iPhone can. People might say that I'm drugged by Microsoft products, well I am (all hail Bill Gates, he's the one with the money). But that's not the point, look at this.Pros: Styling, touch interfaceCons: No memory

No school tomorrow

2007-11-05T21:05:00.000-05:00

Really not much to blog about. Daryl wasn't here today, that was awesome, the class was almost cheering, though some were pretending to be sad. There is no school tomorrow, so I can relax for a day, and maybe make my parents vote for Obama, although Yahoo's polls show that Clinton has an approximate 2:1 lead over Obama. (44.1% to 22.9%) Every vote counts, you never know. Anything you say about

Tweety

2007-11-04T20:50:00.000-05:00

I got some blood drawn today. I always get nervous when I'm about to get something injected or my blood drawn. I just don't like needles, but I can compose myself pretty fast. I got a Tweety bandage. I have like four more needles to poke into myself... Those are vaccines I think.My hearing test says I have hearing problems. Either the tympano-something machine has malfunctioned or my hearing

Halloween

2007-10-31T20:21:00.000-04:00

Happy Halloween! I scored three-quarters of a bag (a large one) of candy. I used to always go trick-or-treating at night, but this year we went a bit earlier, so there were less people home from work, so we increased our trick-or-treating range 50%. One of the ladies gave me a pen and a memo pad for Halloween. There was a sign outside, saying something along the lines of "School Supplies for

Jack-o-Lantern

2007-10-30T22:03:00.001-04:00

My mom and I made a Jack-o-Lantern. It was fun, especially since we put a weird face on it. That was the first time I have ever made a Jack-o-Lantern. I think it turned out pretty good. We got the pumpkin a while ago from the new supermarket near our house and used a steak knife to carve the pumpkin. The pattern I used was very simple. I go on Microsoft Office Word and print out a ">.<" face at

Luke, I am your father...

2007-10-28T22:22:00.000-04:00

Guess who I'm gonna be for Halloween? Darth Vader. I made a silly pose for the camera. Though Darth Vader has no real hands... Should've gotten the gloves. I also bought a cool breathing machine. Press a secret button, and it starts to play a breathing noise like Darth Vader's. It VELCROs onto the mouthpiece of the helmet. Sold separately. But I have to find a way to conceal the wire. Picture

Ma'am

2007-10-26T16:50:00.000-04:00

I was going to call my mom's cell phone, but I called the wrong number. When I told the secretary/phone person that it was the wrong number, she called me "ma'am". Do I sound that much like a girl? People thought I was a girl when I used voice chat on Counter-Strike: Source, too. Come on, puberty, lay your wonders onto my voice box!I just got my braces adjusted yesterday, and it hurts a lot today

Crap to blog about

2007-10-25T23:13:00.001-04:00

This is the first time I remembered everything I wanted to blog about in school. That's because I wrote a "Crap to blog about" list! I just scribble down the stuff I want to blog about during class. The list accumulates as the day progresses. No, my handwriting is not always as bad as it on the scan. It's not like I'm handing this in to a teacher or anything. As long as I can read it.First of all

I'm running out of titles

2007-10-24T18:12:00.000-04:00

Uhh, yeah. Yesterday, two kids tried to cut class and not do the Spanish test, but they quickly got caught by the dean. One of them faked that he fell down the stairs and hurt his leg, and the other was hiding in the bathroom, I believe. Well, one of the kids in the end got a 40% score, according to one of my friends. Seriously. How can they cut class? The teachers take attendance every period,

To all you torrent-haters

2007-10-19T21:12:00.000-04:00

This public service announcement is for some of the people in my class who think the BitTorrent filesharing system is slow as hell. As you can see by the screenshot, I am downloading Genshiken 2 02, Bleach 144, and Naruto Shippuuden 31 at a total of nearly two megabytes per second (2 MB/s, or 16 Mbps), which is most likely (emphasis on most likely) faster than any of you have ever downloaded

Bastard is not a curse

2007-10-17T17:09:00.000-04:00

Great, guess what? Some asshole on my bus ripped my recently acquired student ID in half. Great. Well, we never use it anyways, and I think we're going to get a more durable plastic one later on. I'm still pissed at him, though.Today in Social Studies, we learned something interesting. A couple hundred years ago, the child of an unmarried man and woman was called a bastard. When our teacher said

Clover and a headband

2007-10-10T18:57:00.001-04:00

Today and yesterday was interesting. Yesterday, there was a package in the mail for me. I rarely ever get mail, so I was wondering what I got. I looked at the return address and it said "Cartoon Network blank blank". Cartoon Network? Wtf? Oh yeah. I remembered that a while back, Cartoon Network was having this weird thing to probably try to get everyone to watch Naruto. They were giving away free

Inspa World again

2007-10-08T13:22:00.000-04:00

That's right, I went again! On Saturday. Not much to say since I documented pretty much everything about it now. But on the third floor, there's this things called an "Aqua Bar", where there are seats underwater and tables above water, and a TV in the middle. They serve some nice drinks there, and you can literally sit down and drink in the pool. But there was this place where the water gets

Alzheimer's

2007-10-05T17:14:00.000-04:00

Pretty much every day since I posted my last post, I had something to blog about. But I forget what I was going to blog about by the time I got home. Most of the time, it's just Daryl getting in trouble or humiliating himself. Well, yesterday we had a fire drill. And today, we had a fire drill. Pray to God that it doesn't become daily. I might go to Inspa World again this Sunday... And I want to

Inspa again and school, again

2007-10-03T21:48:00.001-04:00

Man, I'm starting to fail at blogging again. My last post was on September 16. Every other day, I have something I want to blog about, but quickly forget once I get home, and afterwards, I can't recall what I was thinking about blogging about. So, the past couple weeks in school weren't bad, but we got to see a lot more of how our science teacher acts when she gets pissed. And she tells us to

Ping Pong

2007-09-16T12:29:00.000-04:00

Yesterday I had my first ping pong class in the US. Well, for the past three years I've been using a grip on the bat that I was used to, but it had a pretty big disadvantage, that I couldn't do backhand. So, the teacher here in the US told me to change my grip, and I suck at ping pong again. It's like trying to change your grip on chopsticks after you've learned one way for many years. So I

The Big Screen

2007-09-09T18:06:00.000-04:00

For the past couple days, I was using my computer in my basement. No, it's not because I'm antisocial. I'm not. It's because I have this RPTV (Rear Projection Television, just think big screen) that I recently connected my laptop to, so I'm using my computer on a 60 something inch television. It's very good quality, and I recently downloaded the full HD version of Naruto Movie 3 and played it,

Not again

2007-09-07T22:29:00.000-04:00

Last year, my experience with the school buses were not very amusing. This year, it's no different. On my school bus pass, it says to go to a certain bus. So, I go there. The driver goes past my stop and says that he doesn't go to my stop. So he had to turn around and go back to my stop, and then he told me never to get on his bus again. Rude... Well, I guess I'll just hitch rides with Bailey

Just another day

2007-09-05T19:31:00.000-04:00

Today was just like any other regular day in school. So, not much to talk about. We did almost nothing in our classes. Today's computer class was to play this terribly animated Flash game online, involving missionaries that look like monks, and cannibals that look like... something sorta like Shrek but greener. We hardly did any work except in Social Studies. We just had to do a couple of

Audition

2007-08-28T00:08:00.001-04:00

I started playing Audition. I'm not bad at it but I'm not good either. My username is Born2killx. How unpredictable. I need suggestions for new screen names...Here's a pic of me in Audition....Yeah, it's fake... Well if you ever want to play Audition with me, I'm usually on AIM.

Me are back

2007-08-22T02:55:00.001-04:00

I'm back in America! I got back from the awesomeness that is Taiwan yesterday at 12:40 AM. I stayed up until around 6 and fell asleep for about 13 hours until 7 to 8 this afternoon. And I only wanted to take a little nap... Well, as you can see by me posting this at 3 in the morning, I am not tired at all and I have a lot of jet lag. Well, there's not more for me to say.Except that I ate at

Insert Title Here

2007-08-20T00:25:00.000-04:00

Yesterday was quite eventful.We were going to go to the zoo, so we took the train there. When we were there, we found out that the damn zoo closed because of the typhoon! So we walked around there for a while, and I saw a cool Coca-Cola store that sold Coke in those old glass bottles. Then we ate at McDonalds where a couple of employees were entertaining little children on stage by pretending to

Something wicked this way comes

2007-08-16T05:45:00.000-04:00

Remember when I posted about the typhoon? That was about one and a half weeks ago, right? And from then to now there were three small typhoons, including the first one. Three typhoons in one and a half weeks sounds crazy, but a fourth one, possibly a rather large one, is going to be strongest on Saturday. All of the small typhoons caused flash floods in southern Taiwan (we live in the north, in

Dead Presidents

2007-08-12T05:38:00.000-04:00

Hi. I'm calculating the approximate amount of money that I'll make by the time I get back from Taiwan. First of all is the NT$3,000 my dad gave me, and then another US$20 from my aunt, because my grandmother refused to accept it and gave some to everyone instead, and another NT$1,000 from my uncle because I begged it off of him when he was going to give NT$5,000 to my grandparents. Last is the US

...Damn

2007-08-08T03:08:00.000-04:00

So, I was trying out this homebrew I put on my DS, NitroTracker. I didn't want it, so I deleted it. I wanted to delete NitroTracker.nds, NitroTracker.SAV, and a folder. Instead of deleting NitroTracker.SAV, I deleted a folder marked ROMs. That folder had all my downloaded NDS games in it, as well as its save files. Now I have to re-download them all if I can find them again, and then play the

Typhoon

2007-08-06T21:15:00.000-04:00

A typhoon is going straight through the middle of Taiwan tomorrow morning at about 5! (Aug. 8) That's tomorrow afternoon at 5 (Aug. 7) for readers in NYC. It's not a big one, probably normal-sized, but theres going to be a hell of a lot of rain. Before, when it was raining harder, I already saw about an inch of rain in the "middlest" part of the street. Just imagine what will happen when the

Tranquility

2007-08-04T06:45:00.000-04:00

The past couple days without Valerie and Christopher were so nice. It was calm, but it feels a little too quiet without them sometimes. My last ping pong and that "other" class (which I translated on Babel Fish and came up with the translation "Inference") is coming to an end in a couple days. My computer class will go on until August 16th. I've looking into ping pong on Wikipedia and found out

Oh joy

2007-07-29T08:14:00.000-04:00

Oh joy, oh rapture. No, I mean it. My cousins are leaving tomorrow morning at 9:00 Taiwan time. That's pretty much tonight at 9:00 for blog readers in NYC. They're going to be gone, so I'm finally going to have some peace. Well, I'm going to be boring and ask my cousins for their final remarks to the blog readers. (I'm finally disclosing my cousins' names! Valerie, 10, and Christopher, 5.)Valerie

What?

2007-07-22T04:35:00.000-04:00

My 10 year old cousin is from China but has a British accent because she used to be from Hong Kong. Something about her makes me laugh. She doesn't know what Zelda, Elvis Presley, preschool, or sarcasm are. In other news, I went to this other crappy waterpark in Taipei and the tubes you had to rent! They costed NT $50 with a $100 deposit. Me and my older cousin had our tubes stolen, my aunt

Jesus...

2007-07-17T05:26:00.000-04:00

Now I remember why I didn't want my aunt and two cousins to come to our house... When I came back from the classes, my younger cousin broke my 3D puzzle, lost some of the pieces, and put something I wanted in chronological order in color order (I know, I'm crazy and pissed). My "older than the younger cousin but younger than I am" cousin used my computer when I specifically told her not to, and

A Trend

2007-07-13T21:23:00.000-04:00

Heh, I started a trend. After I started my blog, my friend Sara soon made her own blog, Meshugeh. Then my other friend Ryan soon made his blog, "the. convivial. blog." When I went to visit his blog, I found out that my other friend Iris also made a blog! It's called osht its DynawaveXD.Random factoids about our four blogs.I made the most posts.Iris' blog is the only one which the owner did not

Seven Words of Idiocy.

2007-07-12T06:41:00.000-04:00

KidThinksJesusChristIsACurse (Word)Yeah, some little kid in my Chinese class said that Jesus Christ was a curse when I said it. He's an idiot, but not nearly as much as Daryl.On TV, there was this weird TV commercial of a bed store called "Bedding World" and its logo was a picture of a naked blond woman on a bed. Wtf?In computer class, every monitor in the class is connected through a special

The Dark Ages

2007-07-11T05:18:00.000-04:00

Sorry about the days I weren’t posting again. When I get home from the classes, I just do my homework, watch some TV, and totally forget about blogging. So. On Sunday, I went to a waterpark in Taipei, called 八仙樂園 (If you see squares, question marks, or random characters, then you don't have the Chinese language pack installed on your computer). I was playing on this little thing, where I grab a

Greetings from Taiwan!

2007-07-03T22:24:00.000-04:00

I'm in Taiwan now, and finally found the time to post on my blog. It's great here, except for the daily Chinese class and homework. I also have computer, ping-pong, and some other class. I didn't take computer or the other class yet. This year we have cable internet in the house! No more public Wi-Fi. The speed is not bad, either. The time here is 13 hours different from the time in NYC. 12 hours

Leaving Soon

2007-06-30T17:03:00.000-04:00

Soon I'm going to leaving for Newark Airport to go to Taiwan! I haven't been there for a year, I go every summer. I can't wait to get there this year. I miss Taiwan and my grandparents and my friend in Taiwan ;_;. Well, I'll either write back at Newark or when I get to Taiwan.By the way, for you loyal blog readers, please check the blog every once in a while instead of me asking you to every time

Freedom!

2007-06-27T22:10:00.000-04:00

Finally, freedom! Today was the last day of school. I brought my camera. I took 88 pictures. Three people had camera-phobia. So I uploaded the pictures to Google Photos for all my friends. I took a huge group hug picture, but by my criteria it was terrible. There were three rows of people so I couldn't focus properly and only the front row was clear enough to "pass" no criteria. Yes, I'm

Sweet!

2007-06-26T19:59:00.000-04:00

Guess what? I got it! My Inspiron E1705! It's awesome. And much bigger than I have expected. I forgot how big 17" widescreen was. But it's so awesome. Windows Vista Home Premium, the Aero theme which makes the borders look all cool and transparent-ish. Even the screen is glossy and cool. When the laptop is plugged into the outlet and is charging, the screen gets so bright my eyes are sort of

Long time no see

2007-06-26T17:12:00.001-04:00

Sorry I haven't posted for so long... I had some stuff to do. Back to business. Expect a crapload of stuff for me to write about.So, during the weekend, my parents and I went to a really cool spa called InSpa. It's like 3 stories high and each floor has lots of cool stuff.The entrance (below first) is the dressing room and the hot tubs. The men and women's hot tub places are seperate, because we

He has no friends

2007-06-21T15:26:00.001-04:00

Today in school lots of bloggable things happened.First period, Science. The scowly sub Mr. Cole was there again today and we had to write the same worksheet we did a while ago.Period two, Law. We all got ice pop things and watched part of this weird movie called Forrest Gump.Period three, Math. We just worked on out homemade board games. Boring.Period four, Art. We each got a black folder to put

Consider Retirement?

2007-06-20T15:49:00.001-04:00

Okay. Today, during Science in 8th period, we had a sub. He's a really old guy with white hair. One of the tables in my class kept "poking fun" at the old geezer.The guy is pretty weird. Whenever he talks, he opens his eyes really wide and scowls at someone like they did something wrong. He never notices when he is being teased. But the funniest thing is his hearing.His hearing is so terrible.

Lunch Food

2007-06-19T16:28:00.000-04:00

Today was another quarter day. Nothing interesting to write about so I'll just explain my stance on NYC lunch food. For anyone who eats hot lunch in a NYC school, let me ask you two things. What were you eating, and where did it come from? The NYC lunch food system really needs to cook real food.A big part of the problem stems from the fact that most food is not prepared on the school premises.

Cha-Ching

2007-06-18T19:06:00.000-04:00

It's been more than a year since Iris and I started the Maple Mushroom Community, which is now dead. In it's early days, we started a little shop to try to make some money. One and a half years later, I was finally able to collect enough commission for CafePress.com to send my dad a check of the collected money. In total, we made $32.54 in one and a half years. It's a good start. Sort of.So, what

They live

2007-06-18T14:17:00.000-04:00

Today was a quarter day in school. What's the point of having two quarter days in a row when instead you could have a half day and a day with no school? The New York City school system is corrupted (in more ways than one)... First period was just free play in Gym so there was no work, and second period all we did was chat with each other and do stuff, which makes today one of the easiest school

Crabbing

2007-06-17T19:22:00.000-04:00

I had a lot of fun today. My dad and I went to Jones beach. Before we left, I made a little something out of marshmallows, toothpicks, and an Oreo cookie. Yes, I know I'm crazy. Did you know that if every Oreo cookie ever made were stacked on top of each other (over 490 billion), the pile would reach to the Moon and back more than six times? Okay, back on topic.When I went to the beach, I had a

Johns Hopkins CTY

2007-06-16T13:50:00.000-04:00

Yay! People applauded for me as I got my certificate for being one of the top-ranking students to take the SCAT for Johns Hopkins' CTY (Center for Talented Youth) Talent Search. I went to Sarah Lawrence College, about 15 miles north of midtown Manhattan, this morning to attend. Not to my surprise, my friend Iris was there. She took the test a couple months after I did and also attended the

AlphaSmart Neo

2007-06-15T18:57:00.000-04:00

Take a look at this awesome product. It's a cool little word processor that you can take anywhere with a battery life of 700 hours on three AA batteries. You can type stuff on it and upload it to the computer via USB as a text or MS Word file. It's sort of like a laptop, but it only has a word processor and calculator so you won't lose track of your work since you can't go on the Internet or

Inspiron E1705

2007-06-15T16:48:00.001-04:00

Yesterday my dad and I ordered a laptop online from Dell.com. It's the Inspiron E1705. It's pretty nice, in my opinion. I got it from their website, so I could customize the hardware. 1 GB of RAM and a 120 GB hard disk. My mom doesn't think the quality of the processor is important, so she made me get the default Intel Core DUO 1.83 GHz processor. I have a feeling I'm going to upgrade the RAM

Idiot.

2007-06-13T22:29:00.000-04:00

I laughed at Daryl's humiliation twice today. First time was during Gym. I stole his combination lock and for the rest of the period, Mickey and Austin and others were running around with the lock and for a while, Daryl got confused because two people took out their locks and Daryl kept getting back the wrong lock.The next time he was humiliated was when a dumb kid set off the fire alarm in

Unimaginably Hideous

2007-06-12T20:31:00.000-04:00

Everyone in my class has heard of the story of Daryl's horns. Is it real? Or is it just a lie? I set out to find out. After several days of camping out, I got a clear shot of his face when his horns were not retracted. What do they look like, you ask? Take a look for yourself, of Daryl's actual horns!Woot for PhotoShop!Edit: Now Daryl wants me to bring a copy of the picture to school...

Try again?

2007-06-12T18:29:00.000-04:00

I'm having another go at this blogging business. The first two tries ended up in one-post abandoned blogs, so here we go again. Ahem... some current happenings, perhaps?After I reordered my R4DS with the right zip code, it finally arrived. I use it with my 1 GB microSD card. I have over a dozen ROMs and several homebrews. My DSOrganize homebrew has some weird problem, but I won't get into that.