So a lil recap on what happened since my last post...

Thursday i went to eat J-food at Tenko with Kelly. We tried going last week but when we pulled up, it looked like it was closed... as in "Out of Business" closed. *shrug* At least it's open now and it's actually quite a busy restaurant. There were a lot of people and we actually had to wait for a table. The food was pretty good and it was pretty cheap. After dinner i went to meet up with Melody to go work on our JAVA labs. We were at the CS lab from 8pm till about 1am just trying to figure stuff out. I guess we made some progress but we still weren't finished. I got home around 2am and started working on my lab again. Funny thing is i kept working on it and at 4am i got my program to work. Huh... stroke of luck i guess, cuz i sure didn't kno what i was doing.... hehe...

I woke up late for my doctors appointment. It was scheduled for 10am but i didn't get up until 10:15. hehe.. oh well. Kaiser is only 5 minutes away. All i had to do was go check my blood pressure. It actually went up a bit, but i guess that's mainly because of all the stress that's been going on with ICS22. If this stress keeps up i sweat i'm gonna have a heart attack while programming. Just watch.... "UCI student dies of heart-attack in CS Labs." That's what they're gonna run in the school newspaper. =X I had to meet up with my TA at 2pm at the CS lab again. So 12 hours later i'm back in the chair i'm sitting in, trying to work on my lab and bombarding my TA with questions. At around 4 i decide to turn in my lab and i decided to check if my lab worked as intended one last time. Guess what... i found a MAJOR bug in the code. =P It took me another 2 hours to figure out what was wrong. Luckily i had some help from my new ICS buddy Mike. He hooked it up. I had called a static StringBuffer which caused my program to loop my results. I would've never figured that out. Once i took off the static tag, my program worked.

Now i have to start on a new lab. We're working with GUI's. Yay. *twirls finger* I think i'm gonna die this week. Haha... "and the cycle continues..."

Posts are getting pretty infrequent. All my computer time is being devoted to my Labs. Remember how MP3's were a HOBBY of mine? Well.. i guess i just lost a hobby. I haven't downloaded anything new in a looooong time. Let's see..the last song i downloaded....Busta Rhymes - "As I Come Back." Pretty old stuff. =/ Even when i'm online... it's not because i'm chatting with people (well actually i am sometimes, but even that's for HW), it's because i'm waiting for reply emails from my various TA's responding to my questions about my lab. This is the first day since friday i've found a little bit of time to just relax and sit down for a while with no worries. It's mainly cuz i have about 85% of my Lab done. I still have to comment it out, write up my test case report, and do a few miscellaneous things inside the actual lab. Not too much to worry about. I'm koo.

I guess there's a good side to all this stress. Since i'm always at school and worrying about my lab and constantly choosing to do homework/study rather than eat, i'm actually losing weight. Albeit it's not a whole lot... but hey i guess it's better than nothing. But that can also mean i'm just wasting away. I really should start exercising and should try to get back into shape. What's the point in losing weight when most of it is still flab and none of it is muscle? Maybe i'll take up April's offer to go play some tennis with her and Kel next week. Dunno... gotta see how my next lab goes. *Sigh* and the cycle continues...

I dunno. I'm just one big fat stress-ball. I dunno why i get so stressed or why i put myself through so much stress. I really don't need to be subjecting myself through the tortuous ICS minor, yet i push on. Sara says it's an "admirable quality." I say it's just me attempting to torture myself slowly and surely to my deathbed. =X Computer Science isn't what i want to do for the rest of my life. Sitting in a 8x8 sq ft. cubicle behind a computer screen writing code is definately NOT what i want to be doing for the rest of my life. Don't get me wrong... i love computers. It's just i don't "love" the software end of it. I like hands on... tangible stuff. I was talking to Johnny for the past 3 hours and he basically told me what i've just told you. Hands-on is what's for me. It's true though. Give me some computer parts and i'll put it together for you. It's not too hard. I guess it comes from me loving Legos all my life. I still love 'em to this day... just that they're becoming a rather expensive hobby. In anycase, it's not like i'm thinking about giving up on the minor right now. I'm not gonna get beat up that easily. I think that's one of my *good* qualities: persistance. Although at times i do believe it'll be my downfall =P

Anyways... no one's AIM-ing me back so i started looking at profiles... found this one on Kelly's Info... Blogger Code and it gave me this as my "Code": B6 d- t- k++ s u-- f i- o x- e l+ c. Dunno what this is? Look closer at the survey options. After each question, it has part of the code. It's basically the answers you selected. Stupid huh? I thought so too... but then i looked up top and there are decoders found here. I tried it and cut/pasted my "blog-code" into it and it generated the results into a readable form. It's just the answers put in a big paragraph. Kinda cool cuz it's just simple coding techniques. It's funny how ever since i've learned how to code in JAVA and C++, i tend to look at computer applications in a whole new way. I always wonder what the source code looks like and what the underlying structure of it is. Ok... i'm sounding REALLY nerdy...

Anyways so my day yesterday was pretty much run-of-the-mill. Woke up... went to school... went to class... work on program. I started my day at 9am, and ate a sandwich for breakfast. Left the house at 9:45am and got to school around 10:30. Parking takes forever as usual so i just barely made my first class at 11. Ended class at 6pm, then went to help Melody with her program and work on mine. We ended up staying at the CS (computer science) lab for 4 fricken-A hours. Why? Cuz of four fricken-A problems that somehow i failed to see. I was about to beat the living crap outta the computer =X So i fixed it and i finally got my program to work and I helped Melody get her program to work as well. Dude... this programming stuff is hard, but at least it seems i'm able to do it. =/

It also turned out that i picked the worst day to stay at school and skip dinner. Oh yah, lemme add in the fact why i mentioned i had a sandwich for breakfast... it's mainly cuz that was the only thing i ate for the entire day. =P I didn't have any food in me from probably around 11am until 12am. WooHoo!! No food for 13 straight hours (Well... i had water). I stopped by Kelly and April's dorm since Curtis was visiting and April gave me a bag of Morning-Mix to munch on =) THANKS BUDDIE! Why it was the worst day to miss dinner at home was because my mom had cooked a roast for dinner. DAMMIT! WTH?? It was like x-mas dinner at my place. Oh well... i came home and ate leftovers.

Whoa...this blog is getting long... guess i'll stop for now and go see how my own computer is doing. Hey... i just noticed it's a lot easier for me to type on these regular keyboards. I normally use a Micorsoft "Natural" keyboard. Guess all the programming these past few days has gotten me used to it. Ah-well... life goes on.

Kelly and Melody met for the first time today because me and Kel needed some help on our Discrete Math homework and Melody offered to help. Melody is the BOMB... LOL... huh Mel? So Kelly made a new friend today so now we're all ICS buddies!.... ICS baby...fo life.

Really quick... check out this site Kelly told me about today... www.paperclipporn.com.. click on "Nude Clips" hehehheheh....

Damn my PC (Piece of Crap as Kelly would call it) is fricken slow... damn mouse is skipping all over the damn place. I think i need more ram... no wait, scratch that... i need a new Computer...=/

Well... 31 questions for the homework assignment and it's due next wednesday. Yah.. that may seem like a lot of time... but with so much pressure coming down from ICS22... i really don't have much free time. The program is so hard for me to grasp... yet the general concept seems relatively easy. There are people in the class that have already finished the program. If i can see the path of how this program is supposed to run.. i think (*hope*) i'll be ok. =/ It's only the first program and i have 7 more to go througout the course of this class. I'm so tired.... =(

1pm - Lunch w/ Johnny at Uncle Robbies
2pm - Kicked it at Toys R Us for a while ( I like toys )
3pm - Went to Sunny's house (Dayum.. how long has it been??)
4:30pm - Quick Basketball game at Johnny's house (Me and Pooky VS. Sunny and Johnny) Me and Pooky lost =P
5pm - Went to LA Auto Show... mmm... Porsche Carrera GT2 *Drools*
9pm - Eat dinner at Koraku in J-Town. I had the Fried Rice with Omlett and Gravy. Yum
10pm - Shop at Ralphs.... saw Pig feet in the pasta/can foods isle. bleh.....
11pm - Watched "Kings of Comedy" at Sunny's house. "Sum-muh-muh-bish" and "Muthaf*cka" LOL., tooo funny!
2pm - Back home

It's been so long since i've taken a yearbook photo with the old H.S. band. Last time i took it was junior year. I missed my Senior year pic because i had totally forgotten about it. If you look in the 1998 yearbook... i'm not there =) Johnny isn't either. He had the same reaction that morning when we got to school. Several of us were waiting outside for zero period but the door was closed. Me and Johnny thought zero period had been cancelled and we didn't know about it. Then band members started walking from inside the campus in uniform. Hahaha.... i was like.. oops. Delwin looked at me and Johnny and was like, "Where the heck where you two?" Oh well... no biggie. I guess the extra sleep was well worth it. The reason why they make us wake up so early is because the band needs time to suit up, then get lined up, and then wait for the sun to come up so the lighting would be just right. Too bad it never turns out that way. The three years i did take the band photo, we had always missed the perfect lighting time. I think it's stupid =) Dumb photographers... just take the damn picture.

I think i'm gonna *try* to get some more sleep tonight. I still have math homework to do, so i'm gonna do a little of that before i head off to bed. On another side note, Kelly was able to add Math Lecture and Math Discussion today =). Seeeee Kel.....nothing to worry about =).

No encounters with police cars tonight. Mainly because there was a lot of traffic coming back home. Oh well... better than speeding, hehehhe.

Anyways.. it's late now. It's about 3:15am and i got early class tomorrow. So hasta la bye-bye. Oh yah... i have a new nickname. Well.. not really a nickname.... Kelly addresses me by snapping her fingers to get my attention =) HAHAHHAHAHA!

I guess i'm finally over being sick. Still coughing a little, but nothing bad. Looks like the weather is going to be nice this week. Low 70's is better than Low 60's. =) Guess i'll survive for class tomorrow.... YAY.... umm.. i think? Oh well.. better than having to go to class feeling like crap and not paying attention. This way i can go to class feeling good and then sleeping well.... hehehhehehe. j/k!

So tomorrow (actually today) is the first day of classes for me *whoopdie-dooo... twirls finger*. Break hasn't been much of a break. Didn't really do much besides eat and chill with the guys. It's nothing special since i see those foolios all the time anyway =P. We should really find something to do. We've done just about everything there is to do in this town. Hey... LET'S GO TO THE ZOO!!! Forreal! I know Johnny's down to go! Any other takers? I'm SERIOUS!!!

Well... guess it's about time to start reading about my rantings about school again. Oh.. before i do start my rants... have some fun with THIS... and maybe win something while you're at it.... (Click "What's New" and then Click "Free Stuff" and play the game)

The visit with the doctor was fairly short compared to the wait to actually see him. I sat in the waiting room for at least 30 minutes before going in. The nurse took my temperature and checked my blood pressure. I scored a 164. A normal person my age should fall below 140. Shoot. Guess i'm gonna die of a heart attack or something. Come to my funeral please? I promise you'll be in my will. =) Then i waited in the room for another 15 minutes before the doctor came in. He spent about 5 minutes checking me, gave me a prescription, and got me outta there. Yah baby. HMO's. It's all about economics and being a financial institution. This country is going to hell. =/

I picked up my medication this morning. I got some antibiotics for infection and codine for my cough. I knocked out 10 minutes after ingesting that stuff. I spent most of my day in bed. Funny thing is i'm still tired, but i feel a little better.

I had a dream while i was knocked out. I dreamt that my car was stolen. This is the second time i had a dream like that. I seriously freaked out. If you know me at all, you know i LOVE my car. When i first got the car, i drove it to school and between classes, i would literally baby-sit my car. I'd get out of class... grab some food and go sit in my car until my next class. I did that for about 2 weeks until i got lazy. I still worry now... just not as bad i guess. It's my baby!!!!!

Well, almost time to take my medication... yuck.

Me and Johnny went down to Old Town Pasadena to check out the "Food Bowl" they were having today. Various restaurants from around the area set up booths on the street and sold food. There were a few booths that looked pretty appetizing... Islands for one... but we didn't get anything since the fair required us to use tickets that were sold in a strip of 9 for $5. Traffic was murder to and from Old Town BTW. We left after walking about 30 min and Johnny just dropped me off back home.

That's my day... and i'm still sick =(

In anycase... if you didn't do anything this new years eve/day, don't worry. I didn't do anything. I sat at home and watched Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back on my sister's computer. If you like stupid movies about nothing with an all-star cast... go watch it... it's random as heck and funny to boot, although a lot of people think it sucks. In a sense it does... but it has it's good points =).

Every year i make a new year's resolution, but i never keep it. I guess i'll just make one again this year for the sake of tradition. Who knows... maybe it'll come true =)