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Friday, September 10, 2004

photos galore!

i've finally updated my photo album!

new pictures include san diego zoo, ucsd graduation, camping, monterey bay, summer school, san francisco, las vegas, jacq's going away, and drinking. also, check out the randomness album too cuz i stuck some more random pics in there.

and one last note - i am not bad with punctuation. i do know how to use apostrophes. but yahoo, oddly enough, refuses to allow apostrophes. so some of the captions won't look quite right. but you get the idea.

it's quite a lot of pictures - they're pictures from the entire summer! - so view only if bored.

Thursday, September 09, 2004

i hate the internet.

well, i really just hate spyware and pop-up ads. i hate them with a passion. i hate them with every melodramatic fiber of my being. i want to choke the person(s) who invented spyware and pop-ups, step on their neck, and spit on their face. yes. that is what i want to do.

so i woke up early this morning because i had a doctor's appointment. when i went to the computer to turn it on, i noticed that it was already turned on and there were a bunch of error messages and pop-up ads all over the place. now i KNOW i turned the computer off last night. so i'm thinking either my computer is magical (perhaps demonic?) and turned itself on or my mother snuck into my room early this morning before work to use my computer and just forgot to turn it off. or is it possible that a virus in my computer could turn it on while it's off? i have no idea.

anyway, i spent a good chunk of time this morning downloading a spyware program and removing a bajillion pieces of spyware from my computer. this made me late for my appointment despite the fact that i woke up two hours before it. stupid. the appointment went okay though. when i got home, i spent some more time trying to remove spyware. then i installed norton anti-virus which just took FOREVER. my comp was getting worse and worse until i finally just uninstalled kazaa and hotbar. i think those were the roots of all my problems. i can live without hotbar, but kazaa...i don't know. it's just very cruel and ironic - now that i have dsl, i can't download any mp3s. :( sigh.

but i guess it's the sacrifice i have to make for a computer that actually WORKS. and i thought reformatting the hard drive would solve all the problems and that would be the end of that. guess not.

JUST STOP WITH THE SPYWARE YOU STUPID STUPID PEOPLE. AAAAAAAAARGH!!

sigh. okay. anyway, the only good piece of news today is that i finally FINALLY got my diploma from ucsd. geez, took long enough. ucsd is so damn slow. i put it in the diploma holder thing and it's very pretty. and they got my name right! amazing!!

okay, i guess it's back to cleaning my bathroom now. ugh. it's so hot.

Wednesday, September 08, 2004

DSL!!

yaaay! it works it works!!

my dad and i installed it yesterday after he got home from work. it's only on my computer though because we don't have a router yet. but it works! i love it love it LOVE IT. i've been spending a lot of time downloading programs and songs and whatnot. so that sort of explains the picture below. i finally got hello to work and tested it out with that picture. i love that picture. so now that i've got dsl, i'm gonna work on the photo album i've neglected all summer. so many pictures...


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Tuesday, September 07, 2004

labor day weekend.

wow, so much to blog about. let's start with friday night...

the girls (jo, deb, ha, mar) and i decided to go clubbing in sf at loft 11. the club was pretty small with not much dancing space, but i really enjoyed it. it just felt nice to dress slutty and let loose on the dance floor with my girls. ;) the djs have to learn to not play the same music again though. and what would clubbing be without a really drunk girl? that proud distinction goes to our very own ha. but it was all good because i was starting to get tired and my feet were hurting anyway. i felt so old. anyway, stopped over at jason's place in emeryville to let ha sober up a little (very little) and then got back to fremont around 330 am or something. didn't get to bed till 4.

got up on saturday around noon and just bummed around until the evening. mike came over after work and brought me a little gift. he got me the garden state soundtrack! i had been looking for it but couldn't find it anywhere so he ordered it online for me and surprised me with it. aww. it's really good though. i like it. really good movie too, of course. anyway, around 8, people met up at my house and we were off to albertson's to buy some drinks. after loading up on booze, we headed over to jason's (another jason!) place in san jose. it only took me two shots to get drunk and spoon joanna. speaking of which, she has some good group pics of us up on her blog plus a very embarrassing one of me drunk. luckily, i was able to sleep off the sicky feeling and woke up a while later sober. others weren't so lucky. i spent about an hour in the bathroom with mike helping him. poor boy. i don't really remember what else happened that night. just saw lots of people and talked a lot. i tend to talk a lot (and apparently, a bit loudly) when i'm drunk. anyway, we finally got home around 4, i think.

all of sunday was pretty much spent at my house trying to help mike recover from the night before. nothing like a cruel hangover to make you curse alcohol to hell.

labor day itself was a pretty lazy day. got up late, went over to mike's place to play with chewie, their new dog, and had pho for lunch. later in the afternoon, went over to deb's place to play some games. loaded questions and the naked game. i don't remember the last time i played the naked game. it's been a while.

and that brings us to today. we're still in this horrific heat wave. reminds me a little of vegas, but definitely not as bad. still though. all i want to do is stay inside where it's air conditioned. i did go out briefly though to buy the alias season 3 dvd. woohoo!! this will keep me occupied for a week or two. also received aborn's wedding invitation in the mail today! very excited!

other random news... i've reformatted my hard drive because it had a virus. it took me forever though because i kept getting error messages whenever i just tried to do a system recovery. finally, i just gave up and decided to wipe out everything and start fresh. good thing my aunt's boyfriend had enough foresight to install a separate hard drive in this computer that's used specifically for all of my personal files. so i didn't lose anything important. just have to reinstall a bunch of random programs like winamp and kazaa and such. which shouldn't be too difficult now that we're getting dsl. yes, folks, my family has finally decided to crawl out of our pre-historic dial-up caves and join the 21st century. i actually haven't installed it yet because i was waiting for the activation date which is today. so as soon as i'm finished blogging, i will try to install the dsl. i imagine there will be many problems and i will end up extremely frustrated with the computer and the entire internet in general.

and with that said, i really have nothing else to blog about. so off i go to try out the dsl and test my patience!