THE FUTURE

Now this is interesting. No more consoles eh? I think this is definitely possible, but I'm not economically savvy enough to analyze how likely it is to happen. Technically, it's a great idea -- put all the processing and video rendering of a game on a humongoid server which instantly reads your input, then streams the visual information over highspeed internet to your low processing-power receiver unit. This is seemingly an incredibly efficient and resource-saving solution, but who knows what the reality would be. There also MANY potential fubars (server crashes, internet inconsistency, hacking concerns) which could render the entire system unplayable and unleash a legion of angry pasty nerdos with pitchforks (I would be leading, torch in hand). Plus I imagine that would decrease the price of console units sold, which I assume is a large part of revenue, so it may not benefit the companies as much... however there would likely be a monthly fee which would prolly make up the difference. Whooo knows, what do you think?

Here's a new take on energy saving! WTF how retarded can you get. ELECTROCUTING you if it decides you have no need for more light.... HRM doesnt that USE MORE electricity??? ugh.



And lastly, some geeky April Fool's ideas. I love the blue screen of death one, and I'm definitely keeping that wakerupper.com website onhand BAHAHAHA.

painful howling!!

ROCK BAND! This game is so much fun, even for those of us with pitch problems. The drums are the highlight for me personally. Everyone knows it's quite therapeutic smashing things with a stick without any social stigma... not that social stigma has every stopped me =) I just have to say thank god we have apparently deaf downstairs neighbors. That footpedal is my downfall tho... FRUSTRATION! ::Phoenix Wright pose:: The 360 Fender Stratocaster guitar is big and heavy, takes a little getting used to since the strum bar doesn't click, but I'm sure it just takes practice. The solo keys are fun to play with though... you don't have to strum during the complicated solo sequences, just hit the notes right!!

My only qualm about the game is the typical pitch-oriented karaoke system. It has the same setup as the Singstar Series, you know, the little nodes that you have to pitch your voice to. However, most rock songs, which make up hrmm ALL the songs on the game are really not about perfect pitch. Singing rock songs, you want to be able to belt and wail it out! But the pitch system requires you to sing the full note with a consistent pitch, making most people sound like a 6-yr old girl singing Twinkle Twinkle to the tune of Black Hole Sun....

The game itself seems to be FULL o'Content. The campaign carries you through lots of rewards like tour buses and roadies, and the characters appearances seem endlessly customizable with LOTS of hair styles, outfits, accessories etc. However, you also have to unlock songs in Solo/Band World Tour before getting access to the full song list, so you can't just pick up the game, invite a bunch of friends and play all your favorite songs until you've played the campaign a while.

In any case, I still only currently have the game disc (complete with GIGANTIC spiral scratch straight from the factory, resulting in frequent disc interruptions ugh) and no peripherals, we've just been borrowing them from friends. Although you can use the standard xbox 360 mic, I still need to get hold of the drum and guitar. I'll prolly just buy the whole shebang when I'm gainfully employed again. Keep an eye out for deals for me!

look who's posting after all this time... might as well since i am a broke and unemployed loser. cross your fingers for my interview next week! and... rub a rabbit's foot while killing a black cat with a horseshoe that this "environmental resources specialist" position isn't actually a euphemism for "sewage collector."







isn't this just indescribably beautiful...? i have no idea where it is tho, i'll hunt down the location when mom gets back in the country. mom and dad took these in China last time she went to check on grandma. ... she died this tuesday. mom went to china right away to take care of arrangements. ..... i think that's all i'll say about that for now.

So I was playing with the actor editor on "The Movies" game for kicks... The utility is easy to use but it's hard to specify exactly what you want. I was experimenting with all the different face shapes and proportions and ended up with something I thought was decently good looking.. but when I stepped back and looked at it after being bogged down with details.. I realized I had made an exact pixellated replica of Patrick Swayze... I DONT EVEN LIKE PATRICK SWAYZE WTF.

So here's what I ended up with.


Add a certain mullet...

Mere moments after singing the praises of Tylenol Cold for relieving my cold symptoms!! I realized that I was feeling distinctly... inebriated. After falling on my ass while trying to get a bottle of water and running into the doorframe, it was clear... I was fully drunk from 2 caplets (THE RECOMMENDED ADULT DOSAGE). This lasted for more than 4 hours as the deceitful pills time released inside my body, keeping me in a drunken state while i attempted to study lipid rafts and posttranslational modifications in the endoplasmic reticulum... the words swimming across the page as my treacherous mind itself swam off to more entertaining enterprises. Finally, I've essentially recovered (I can feel my hands now) and begin to study in earnest, but all my cold symptoms are back and I'm sleeeeeepy. What the heck happened here??? I think it must have been the Tylenol interacting with some other meds i was taking... otherwise it seems pretty extreme for just 2 pills to affect me so much, no matter how small I am.

*Edit* Oh and i just realized.. it felt really nice hahaha. If I didn't have to study for a midterm, I think I would really have enjoyed it... Can't wait for the midterm to be over so I can take another one bwahaha... ok this is so wrong

Caption contest

Try and top my lame caption!!

why are there always so many animals in my posts...?

i guess i just love animals... alright this is my post about the trip I didn't go on. But my mom and bros filled me in and I felt like I was there =) Despite not having eaten the delicious food and played with the lovely animals and climbed the gorgeous temples....


Kevin standing by a "ting" (a small temple with nearly the same chinese character as my name)


Just for you Gary!! Yes, that is a hugely fat penguin


Is that a walrus in your pocket or are you just happy to... ok nm =p


Did you know that baby donkeys act just like puppies?? They're so endearing when they're young =)


cute =)


my grandpa's dog is so gorgeous... anyone know where to find one like it in america? is it a breed at all...? i have no clue =(


scary kitty... he's actually hissing at the dog (above) that's just out of picture


ARGH ::SQUEEZE::::




he just looks like the typical chinese kitty you see in the wall scrolls..


and here's another set of kitties at the other grandparents house =)


he's rather frightening... this one is kevin's


this is the poor dog they attack ferociously


but when it's naptime, they all sleep in a big pile


evidently, shortly after this he ate that yoyo...




mom flying a kite in tian an men square


and this is a frightening picture of my kitty in america about to maul and eat a grasshopper

good kitty...

(21:12:25) ownsnogoodshirts: question, do hairballs look like poop?
(21:12:47) TiNGsqrd: oh god
(21:12:48) TiNGsqrd: wtf
(21:12:49) TiNGsqrd: is it poop?
(21:12:53) TiNGsqrd: ..............................................
(21:12:54) TiNGsqrd: WTF GARY
(21:13:15) ownsnogoodshirts: ...what? this is a legitimate question
(21:14:11) TiNGsqrd: WHATS GOING ON
(21:14:13) TiNGsqrd: GODDAMMIT GARY
(21:14:14) TiNGsqrd: ::STAB::
(21:14:43) ownsnogoodshirts: because when I went over to your place today
(21:15:04) ownsnogoodshirts: there was a bit of stuff on the kitchen floor, looked like a wet mess of fur
(21:15:29) TiNGsqrd: uhm yea that sounds like a hairball...
(21:15:29) TiNGsqrd: wtf
(21:15:35) TiNGsqrd: i've never seen him do it
(21:15:40) TiNGsqrd: is it just like throw up?
(21:15:56) ownsnogoodshirts: erm, a bit
(21:16:20) ownsnogoodshirts: just a lot of wet fur
(21:16:37) TiNGsqrd: ohh
(21:16:38) TiNGsqrd: ew
(21:16:40) TiNGsqrd: wow!
(21:16:41) TiNGsqrd: his first!!!
(21:16:44) TiNGsqrd: that i'm aware of..
(21:16:47) TiNGsqrd: mooo i'm jealous
(21:16:51) ownsnogoodshirts: ...
(21:16:57) ownsnogoodshirts: welllllllllllll
(21:17:08) ownsnogoodshirts: I could've left it there for you to discover days later o__O
(21:17:12) TiNGsqrd: GAH
(21:17:14) ownsnogoodshirts: but that's kind of sick
(21:17:14) TiNGsqrd: did it smell??
(21:17:26) ownsnogoodshirts: erm, not really
(21:17:33) ownsnogoodshirts: just sort of gloppy
(21:18:17) TiNGsqrd: hahahah
(21:18:18) TiNGsqrd: god
(21:18:21) TiNGsqrd: that's awful hahahahaha
(21:19:03) ownsnogoodshirts: ..lucky me -_-
(21:20:47) TiNGsqrd: HAHAHAHA
(21:20:48) TiNGsqrd: sooo
(21:20:51) TiNGsqrd: otherwise.. how is he?
(21:21:30) ownsnogoodshirts: he was less needy today
(21:21:37) ownsnogoodshirts: mainly just "FEEEEED ME"
(21:22:19) TiNGsqrd: HAHAHA
(21:22:25) TiNGsqrd: I HUNGER
(21:22:26) TiNGsqrd: MEOW
(21:22:29) TiNGsqrd: MIAO
(21:22:43) ownsnogoodshirts: pretty much
(21:22:49) ownsnogoodshirts: so I go over to fill the bowls
(21:23:00) ownsnogoodshirts: and then there's this pile of yellowish stuff on the ground
(21:23:03) ownsnogoodshirts: and I stare at it
(21:23:14) ownsnogoodshirts: and if it had eyes I bet it would've stared back
(21:23:27) ownsnogoodshirts: ::looks closer::
(21:23:34) ownsnogoodshirts: ewww fuuurr stuff
(21:23:44) ownsnogoodshirts: pick up in plastic bag, toss
(21:23:47) ownsnogoodshirts: end of story
(21:24:21) TiNGsqrd: OH GOD
(21:24:22) TiNGsqrd: it's YELLOW?
(21:24:23) TiNGsqrd: EW
(21:24:29) TiNGsqrd: but he's black!!
(21:25:17) ownsnogoodshirts: well, really just a mixed color pile
(21:26:15) TiNGsqrd: oh god..
(21:26:17) TiNGsqrd: but yellow??
(21:26:21) TiNGsqrd: he's not yellow!!
(21:26:42) TiNGsqrd: god this conversation goes on my blog

to indulge another wave of nostalgia and missing my family...

us at our cutest at the great wall

we failed at trying to reproduce the wall carving though...

highlight of my night

this'll do, i'm too lazy to retype it

(18:22:53) TiNGsqrd: mwahaha i went to a club last nite
(18:23:06) TiNGsqrd: and as i was on the dance floor, i see the 3 largest people in the club all coming at me...
(18:23:12) This is KenHuang: lol
(18:23:20) This is KenHuang: this is gonna be good
(18:23:27) TiNGsqrd: somehow an intersection of fates brought these large lard bags in my direction at the same time...
(18:23:34) TiNGsqrd: they were each like 3 times my width...
(18:24:04) TiNGsqrd: they all reach me simultaneously, squeezing me between their girth, so i literally POPPED out of them in the opposite direction they were going
(18:24:17) This is KenHuang: uhh
(18:24:18) TiNGsqrd: like with a BACKSPIN at a high velocity
(18:24:18) This is KenHuang: wtf
(18:24:26) TiNGsqrd: i was lucky my friend caught me before i fell over
(18:24:44) TiNGsqrd: no the really wrong thing ..
(18:24:49) TiNGsqrd: i'm not exaggerating at all
(18:24:52) TiNGsqrd: this is a fully true story
(18:24:57) This is KenHuang: wtf
(18:25:45) This is KenHuang: thats quite odd
(18:26:19) TiNGsqrd: i know...
((18:26:31) TiNGsqrd: and the funny thing is, i saw it coming...
(18:26:40) TiNGsqrd: my friend was facing me and he saw my eyes get wide
(18:27:01) TiNGsqrd: i was like omg omg OMG OMG ::POP FALL OVER::
(18:27:19) This is KenHuang: hahaha
(18:28:48) TiNGsqrd: the backspin is what really got me...
(18:28:59) TiNGsqrd: it's just not right..

mull over this one a little while

Dave: Eh you, more papier! ::snapsnap::

Gary: Eh! Bu neng papier!!

*EDIT* ok we're up to 4 out of 31 people who face away!! WOO keep em coming


Alright, so the verdict is in, out of a total 27 people who've answered my question that ends all questions, 2 people have agreed with me that generally facing away from the showerhead is the correct form in the intricate ballet of cleanliness. This means you Gary and Jon!! And as further proof I provide you with historical evidence of said established Fact, kindly provided by Gaoi himself:


To quote the illustrious Gary: "Exhibit A. No words needed."


Alright alright, two out of twenty seven only barely qualifies as proof... but the truth is, I'm very short and if I faced the shower I would drown. Which does not explain how Wen has managed to survive this many years with her life intact... And how can you stand spending a shower staring at the wall?? Explain yourselves all! Don't think you can get off that easily!!

ok this is important to me:

Do you shower facing the showerhead or away from it? Don't ask, just answer!

Aegri somnia -- Ex mero motu

[[no i've forgotten those
words stale and cold
frosted with abuse.]]
~
blue shadows on naked skin
the pre-dawn light trembling outside of time.
as if seeking for just the location of my soul,
your fingertip searches me.

the you that shimmers before me,
blooms in season like the ephemeral flower.
the scent of life in your grasp,
scattering in splendid form.

return to me, as if you were never lost.
you passed like a shadow over the face of the moon.
return here to this waiting hand,
frozen, shivering until we meet again.

when you closed your eyes as if in prayer,
the world disappeared for me into the darkness
but even so, a heartbeat again stirs
searching, for a constrained eternity

rise up to me, flowing swift from the tide of dreams
with grace, to meet and love in gentle repetition.
you, too will find a light held in wait
heart and body forgotten.

staying at gary's =) WOOO

I'm lacking all communication with the world for an indeterminate amount of time =) Why is everything going wrong with the world right now eh??

But yes, I've come to do some maintenance on a campus computer while I have the chance.

The 4th was so great!! Drunken debauchery and drunken stories that I've filed away for my future use since I was pretty much the only sober one likely to remember what I heard =) The highlight was really the beach though... I was determined to shove Aaron into the ocean but he fought me as best he could. Poor guy tho, he really never had a chance :: flexing tiny muscles ::

But yea... I never realized how terrifying it could be to know that you have no way to communicate with people... I tend towards being solitary in any case.. but to have all family in another country, no means to contact people to plan activites, no satisfactory people in your living area, and be unable to drive is really a combination of circumstances designed to cause a mental breakdown.

Just to rub salt in my own wounds, here is a picture from a visit to China several years ago. Those are my brothers in the forefront, and a cousin in front of me, waaay in the back waving.

Every passing day makes me realize how much I need my family around me... I wish to God I could be in China with them and my Grandmother. I'll try to fight off the melodrama, but six weeks is a long time...

simple pleasures =)

the view out my window yesterday morning



the view out my other window last nite


thank heaven for stephanie, she coached me on bio 102 material from 1-4am last nite and has work 9-5 today... i literally knew nothing before she taught me and would have failed my midterm hands down. now i know angels do exist (^-^)

my fashion-conscious hilary duff-idolizing roommate decided that she needed pictures of my outfit today back-to-front for her class project, and in my delerious state i agreed (>_<)

bear in mind this is after pulling an all-nighter and walking through a disheartening drizzle after fully failing a midterm... 22 hours of wakefulness doesn't do much for the complexion and rain doesnt do much for the hair... ah vanity









i'm trying to be less camera-shy

my aaron post

this is my best friend aaron

otherwise known as nick carter


mm isnt he sexxxy


rawwrr




he is very friendly, he will pick you up if you are hitchhiking =) click on him!

kitties

more marine world kitties



splashy


pacy


lioness booty

rough sketch.. shall i continue?




i've been working on it too long to really see it... ::rubs eyes:: and i literally did no studying for my mt in an hour...

sorry it's a bad cap, i just took a pic with digicam

more marine world =)

ray ray turned 12 last wednesday, and at 10 years younger than me he stands about 1.5 inches shorter ... now tell me is 1.5 inches growth in 10 years fair???

saturday we went to marine world to celebrate his last year before becoming a teenager ehehe...


kevin and ray looking a little irritable while waiting in another endless line


yay jambo!


mwahaha mom really enjoys jambo, but the large white lady steals the show


where's waldo?? can you find aaron buried in the pigsty that is my room?

mwahaha i love this picture... can you find:
4 used water bottles (1 pt each)
haw flakes (2 pts)
a bottle of lychee jellies shaped like a doll (2 pts)
tigger (tricky one, 5 pts)
2 koalas (more tricky, requires intimate knowledge of my room, 10 pts)
a turtle (tricky, 5 pts)
a pillow (1 pt)
2 blankets (1 pt each)
sheets (1 pt)
a speaker (3 pts)
disinfectant wipes (3 pts)
a camera cord ehehe (2 pts)
and a purse (also tricky, 5pts)

let me know how you do! moohoohahaha
and ask me if you find yourself stumped *wink*


i think ray had a great birthday celebration at marine world



this lil fennec fox is a cancer survivor


pacing lioness

is there a single person i'd rather "phunk" than gina gershon? *wink*

AARON WHY CAN'T I COMMENT ON YOUR BLOG??

a few pictures from last nite

and another


last one