Month: September 2002

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Homework on Fridays

arggggh, i hate my cs61b hw. missed out seeba/milkman/lorie’s bbq tonite. was going to be a great reunion too! =( why does our professor have to torture us by making homework due on Fridays!?!?! does he automatically assume that eecs have no life? great teacher i’ve gotta say, but ahhhhhh! any, hw was due @ 12am so i BSed a couple of the questions and submitted it.

i watched ‘The Professional‘ today. great movie! but for some reason, i didn’t particularly liked the pedophile implications they kept on putting into the script. lots of tactics, strategy, and my favorite part was when that French guy (also in Wasabi – also a classic! saw it on JAL (japan airlines)) figured out how to escape. too bad the ending wasn’t… nah i won’t spoil it. hehe

someone pointed out that the prom link in my previous projects didn’t work and it has now been fixed.

amazon.com is awesome. i got my disney dvd 3pak (toy story, toy story 2, a bug’s life) for only $25! they also canceled my another order of mines and to make it up to me, gave me a $40 Gift Certificate. the order it self was only $25! sweet huh?

thanks to RIPFace for providing this clip. it’s like Initial D but in real life! very skilled drivers. wish i had a car to try something like that. hehe. ^_^x

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Every Anime Character

well, today is my favorite day besides saturday and sunday. well, i dont particularly like sundays much, but sleeping in is always fun. on thursdays, i only have one class. after 11am, i’m a free man. came back and took a nice long nap.

best part of the day was when liam came over and we went out for dinner @ some thai restaurant on solano. guy’s nite out again and we were just chatting (mostly gossips, but guy gossip is different from girl gossip, guys just say it to laugh, girls jot it in their brain either to spread or to use it as blackmail later on). of course, then there was trigger happy tv. awesome show.

welp, as promised, new doodles are up. so enjoy ^_^x. you’ll noticed that there’s one with color. it was by accident. my finger was bleeding and it made a red dot on the sheet. i was watching Samurai Deeper Kyo and the main character had red eyes, so i decided to take advantage of that color instead of my normal black&white doodles.

Suppers donated this link. It’s a 4meg picture so i might take some ppl awhile to download, but supposedly contains all the anime characters pre-1990 or even later.

and remember TGIF! ^_^x

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Missing UPC

i was planning more for more doodles today, but that’ll haveta wait. cunndogg’s asleep and i don’t want the scanner to wake him up. anyway, parent’s want me to come home during veteran’s weekend so i guess i’m going home. already booked my tickets on southwest. if anyone else wants to come along, msg me. ^_^x

sad news guys, i’ve ditched my 2nd class this semester. this time it was cs61b discussion. i hope i didn’t miss anything important. it was just that ee20 lec and dis were back to back and they were so boring, i slept through both of them.

i got my new toy today! w00h00! it’s a firewire enclosure for a hd or cdrom or etc. it’s pretty neat. i got several hds lying around so this’ll be my portable drive. really wanted one that supported both usb and firewire for dual compatibility, however my order was canceled cause they ran outta stock. guess firewire along is good enough. ^_^x

one of the stupidest things happened to me today. i was filling out the rebate form for my Fuji CD-Rs. i cut the UPC code out on purpose to get it ready. however, after filling out the rebate form, the upc code was no longer to be found. i was like o shoot! spent about an hour looking for that thing. checked paper after paper to see if it was stuck onto. checked both my trashcans to see if i accidentally threw it away. finally, i retraced my steps and i knew i had the upc sitting there. i recall throwing a piece of paper in the trashcan cause it was no longer of any use. but i’ve checked the trash can at least 8x. even dumped everything out and put everything back in. well, thank god i checked it one more time. it was stuck to the back of some piece of paper crumbled up together. w00h00! saved $10 right there. ironic i was about to throw $10 in the trash. -_^x

finally, i’d like to introduce u to gootecks. many of u should know him, probably by a more familiar name of itsryawn, but check out what a man went through just to get the thing done. i mean i would’ve given up halfway. more info @ FatWallet. FatWallet’s a crazy place all right. i had one of my best bitter arguments with some dude this morning. too bad FW deleted it (or i can’t seem to find it). hehe. anyway, g’nite ^_^zzz

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Set of Integers and Natural Numbers are the Same Size

nothing much really happened today. got a lot of hw done and etc. no new anime. sigh…

but here’s something for you to ponder upon. in mathematics, 2 sets of numbers are said to be the same size if u can match up one # from each set all the way to the end. do u still follow? cause the next step will jump out like you crazily. at first i was shocked too and tried to disprove it, but according to mathematics if there exist ONE one-to-one function between 2 sets of #s, then the domain and range are the same size. think about this D:{set of all even #s} and R:{set of all odd #s) and with the function f(d) = d+1 = r; then that’s a one-to-one function mapping evens to odds; therefore both sets are the same size. what threw me off was when liam said that the set of integers and the set of natural numbers was the same size. i was like no way! the set of integers is like 2x the size of the set of natural #s. my grounds was that the set of integers include the set of natural #s (i’m still standing for this pt, although after our TA/GSI told us that liam was correct, i’m just making a fool outta myself). the thing is we can map the set of integers onto the set of naturals with a one-to-one function. think of this function where:

f(d) = {
  (d+1)/2 if d is odd;
  (-d)/2 if d is even;
}

this function maps every single integer you give it, onto the set of all natural #s. think about another equation. the set of all real #s between 0 and 1 exclusive and the set of all real #s greater than 1. they are the same size although the set of it’s obvious (or as liam says, you’ve been fooled) that the set of real #s greater than 1 is larger than the set of #s between 0 and 1 exclusive. lets try the function f(x) = 1/x. Throw in any real # greater 1 and you’ll get a corresponding real # between 0 and 1. throw in any # between 0 and 1 and you’ll get a # greater than 1. no matter what # you try, this will always work.

now i come to my hypothesis. since you can use one function to prove this true, why can’t i use one function to prove it’s not true. such as the set of positive reals and the set of all reals. since i was easily fooled to see the set of reals is 2x the size of the set of positive reals, i went ahead and found the function f(x) = x*x. Given any real #, i will always get back a positive real #, but the phenomenon is that there is exactly 2x the # of inputs than outputs meaning i can get 9 with +/-3. meaning i’ve found an equation which has shown that the size of all reals is actually twice the size of positive reals. liam says i can’t do this because you can easily find a function to disprove anything, but those are just specific cases. the main thing is that if there exists at least one function that maps it from one-to-one, the it’s the same size. i sort of get what he’s trying to lead at, but there is that gap that i see increasing as u approach infinity. anyone wanna prove or disprove this? hehe.

for those that was bored with my semi-lecture, check out this link link. that girl is amazing and this link was donated by AznEECS. g’nite ^_^x

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Completed Bathroom

the highlight of my day was when our bathroom finally is finished. it looks superb right now. new tiles, new facets (or whatever u call that shower thing with knobs and a shower head), and a new paint job. mitch did a great job i’ve gotta say. so tomorrow, i can resume back to normal showers. ^_^x here’s a picture of it:

completed bathroom

well, then again, my highlight of the day could’ve been seeing my ex-roommate for the 1st time again since i’ve returned to berkeley. mandalayx, ben, cunndogg, and i went to mel’s for dinner and guess who we bumped into??? AMBER! ordering food was even more hilarious. when it was ben’s turn to order, he asked for a cheeseburger, when he really meant grilled cheese sandwich. but he was stuttering and couldn’t remember what he wanted. when he finally did, he said, “i’d like to order a grilled cheese sandwich, baby. i’m sorry, i didn’t mean to call you baby.” the waitress goes, “oh, don’t worry about it. in fact, i like it when u call me baby.” ben tries to defend and it just got worse. she says, “now i’m not good enough for you. you’re such a heart breaker.” it was so hilarious! when she brought our food over, she gave special treatment to ben and said, “here you go, baby.”

then we went to safeway cause cunndogg wanted some booze. got more of his favorite seagram. mandalayx sorta disappeared midway talking on his cellfone. we were at the car already and decided to park somewhere else and see if he could find us. it was so funny.

worst part of my day was my confrontation. everyone kept saying i had this girlfriend which i never met. i mean, i would know right? or am i just blinded since i’m in the middle of the situation. sigh…

guess one! there’s been a new site being spread around the Berkeley Newsgroups. It’s called Final Distance. it’s been added to my links section but is supposedly a great tool for help in planning out the optimal class schedules. u input your list of classes and then it’ll choose the best discussion section/lab section to fit in the most packed schedule. it also factors in lots of other factors that u may select. u can even tell it no classes before 10am or something. really interesting so if you’re in berkeley, u may wanna bookmark this link. ^_^x

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Cell Phone Buzz

expected my day to be extremely boring. turned out pretty okay. i was first woken up @ 7am when natdogg had to leave. then i remember when andrew left and said something about leaving the dishes for him to attend to when he came home. then all was well until i heard my computer go BUZZZZZZZZZZ BUZZZZZZZZZZ BUZZZZZZZZZZ BUZZZZZZZZZZ BUZZZZZZZZZZ. i was like oh shoot! don’t die on me!!!!!! was going to jump off my bed and see what was wrong, but suddenly realized it could be my cellphone. so i waited for awhile and it stopped. so bleh, i’m still sleeping, don’t bother me. an hour later, it came buzzing again. decided it was finally time to get up. i think this was around 1:30pm. got up to see my 2 missed calls. turns out to be liam. gave him a call back and he asked if i wanted to watch the 49’ers game together. i was like, “sure, why not.” however the game turned out to be a great disappointment with the broncos winning 24-14. sigh… i recently found out that CAL Bears (berkeley’s football team is doing great this semester) 3-0 so far. that’s 3 wins and not 3 losts.

for saturday nite, cunndogg and i dedicate it to 2 hrs of tv. 4 of our favorite show comes on back to back. comedy central presents .. “fudge! i bit too far into my nail, and now it hurts!!!” sorry got sidetracked there. anyway, comedy central presents “The Man Show”, “Crank Yankers”, “South Park”, and our favorite one of all: “Trigger Happy TV”. That show is so hilarious. You’ve really gotta see it to experience it. liam dropped by again after dinner and waited for his special someone to call him.

anyway, another thing that made my day was episode 7 of Dragon Drive is out. once again i got to see the cute dragon:
dragon drive - hiding

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Heaven 911

another boring saturday it is. so i’ve dedicated today to be links day where i’ve post all the links i’ve been accumulating for awhile.

my friend airzjordan sent me this mp3 provided by HOT 99.5 which as people claimed is a tear jerker. in case the original link doesn’t work, try this (YouTube). it’s an extremely sad song and i must warn that by listening to this song, it may cause depression and many other symptoms which i will not be held accountable. OR it may cause furious reaction against someone/group which i will again not be held accountable for. if you accept these terms, please proceed. ^_^x

the internet has given us anonymity, but some people like to take advantage of that and cheat others with it. check out this news article as one such individual tells his story.

thanks to ungsunghero for providing this hilarious link, although many of u may find this not funny at all and in fact really scary. here’s the links to the pictures: pic1 | pic2

welp, my day started out quite boring, but ended great. natdogg, cunndogg’s friend came over and we went to the saloon again. no arrest this time, but we had some great chats and some girls were checking out natdogg. then we went walking around the streets bumping into other drunkees and one of the girls was singing and tapping everyone’s shoulder that was walking by. we then raced down several streets or was that before we bumped into the other drunkees. hmmmm, can’t seem to remember. anyway, during our time @ the saloon, cunndogg and natdogg had a bet that cunndogg couldn’t take the nasty drink he ordered and cunndogg said he’d take 2 if natdogg pays for the drinks. the bet was made. cunndogg allowed me to have a taste and i took a *tiny* sip and immediately spit it back out. it was freaken nasty!!! but cunndogg was the man and he took 2 glasses down. it was called the zombie or something. he was really wasted by the time he finished. anyway, when we got back to the apartment, cunndogg had another drink, called the tango dew which he made himself by looking it up on the web. he had one earlier and there was not really much alcohol in it when he let me taste it. then he fixed it up again and said it was different. it sure was, there was A LOT more alcohol in it this time and i took a kleenex afterward and wiped my tongue. really nasty after taste. anyway, that’s all for today and g’nite ^_^zzz

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One Week Without Showering

it’s been exactly 1 week. i mean ONE ENTIRE WEEK and i’m not joking about it either. Last time i took a shower was last friday morning before the apartment maintenance guy Mitch came and tore it apart. Till today, the bathroom is still in process of renovation, HOWEVER the tiling has been completed. Mitch says he’ll just need to paint on Monday and we’ll be set. Mitch is actually a really cool guy. knows how to joke. super friendly and just the type that you feel very comfortable chatting with after one or two encounters.

anyway, back to the shower business. reminds me so much of calvin and hobbes when calvin won’t allow his mom to bathe him. i mean i’m sure almost everyone has had that pt in their life. well, maybe not shower, but at least disagree on WHEN. i mean my mom has to tell me to go to shower many many times before i actually take my butt off my chair. i mean i take a shower when i feel like it. should i feel like sleeping, shower in the morning. but, this whole week, i felt dirty (literally, not the opposite of literally). head was itchy, but thanks to the kitchen sink, i was able to wash my hair there. back to calvin, with his enjoying of outside fun (including snow ball fights and rides downhill and into ponds), i’m pretty sure he gets dirty rather quickly. if his mom would only let him be dirty for a couple days, i’m pretty sure calvin would have a different look on taking a bath.

well, have i taken a bath yet or not? that’s the big question right? i mean i even got a haircut by the famous sam with his clippers today! but i’ve gotta thank him for one more thing: him letting me use his bathroom. after that shower, i felt clean. you never know the true meaning clean until you’ve experienced messy and dirty. ever have a really messy room, but one day you took control and decided to clean your room. you’ll notice SO MUCH extra space and how much nicer it’s to live in a clean and organized enviroment. then 2 days later it returns to its normal messy self. hehe.

it’s currently 4:48am and i still have stuff to say, but i guess that’ll have to wait till tomorrow. g’nite ^_^zzz

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Stable Pairings

one of the hilarious things happened in my cs70 class yesterday. we were learning about stable pairings and to show this, our lecturer had this little demonstration. he asked for volunteers and 6 guys went up. well, the game goes like this. there are 4 guys and 4 girls and they want to find the configuration which will give them the most stable pairing of all. the thing was they needed to list their preference from 1 – 4 of the other group. The 2 groups were {boy 1, 2, 3, 4} and {girl 1, 2, 3, 4} and the lecturer even asked why several ppl chose that configuration. one said, i’d definitely not chose 3 cause he looks weak. REMEMBER, this was 6 guys in the front. it was hilarious, after they had their preference on who they wanted to marry (both boys and girls who were acted by guys had their preferences). so round 1 came, the setting was set in the medieval ages where boys would come to the girls tower and kneel down and propose). this is how it works, if the boy proposing is higher on her preference list than the one she already has, she kicks the previous one away and accepts the new one. If not, she just rejects him. So the guy goes through all of his entire list of preference until he finds a stable pairing. our job was to prove that given n boys and n girls, that there will always be a stable pairing. and sure enough, there will always be one.

good news guys. i’ve updated both the picture of the week and added a ton of new doodles. enjoy ^_^x

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911 Lotto

the 9-11 front page will be left for one more day. since my report is still about 9-11. thanks to elbandmonkey, who showed me this link. Backup of it is here in case the original link changes. If you still don’t see what’s so obvious, highlight the following invisible line it says: the winning lotto #s of NUMBERS: 9,1,1. Coincidence? or Fate? i’ve gotta say tho, that i’m glad nothing serious happened today. peace!

anyway, our bathroom has finished being tiled. but still unable to use it yet since the tile needs to dry and harden. he says we should be able to use it on friday. sigh… i’ve been washing my hair in the kitchen sink for the past few days. sigh…

currently doing my cs70 hw which is due tomorrow. so gotta get back to work. only 1 class tomorrow! w00h00! ^_^x