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

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

Remember 9/11

well, guys although my post is about 9/10, the day you are seeing this is probably on 9/11 so i just hope that everyone remembers what happened exactly 1 year ago. i remember exactly what went on that morning. the nite before was a normal nite where i probably stayed up till 5am watching anime. the next morning everyone in my suite was running around frantically. i didn’t bother getting up until my dad gave me a call around 9am and asked if i heard what was on the news. i said i heard something about meteors falling outta the sky. (hey, i wasn’t that far from the truth). he told me that the WTC has been crashed into with 2 jet-liners and looks like it will soon collapsed. i jumped outta my bed and went outside where everyone else was looking at the TV. sure enough there it was. that day was special. it help us realize that we were no longer inside a dream bubble, and made us realize how vulnerable we were. that day, every american put aside their worries and arguments and united for we stood as one country.

i’m in love… with another anime. Chibi is so cute!!! Just started watching this new anime and Chibi’s this little baby dragon:
dragon drive - licking facedragon drive - sleeping bubble

Apartment Renovation

i just realized i’ve been forgetting to change the date on these news logs for the last several entries. but those have been fixed now and i apologize for the missing update yesterday. was chatting with my cuz the whole nite and before you knew it, it was 4am and i needed to get up by 9am so i had to make the hard choice of disappointing you guys or missing a class. yes, yes, i know, toland worrying about missing classes? but i’ve sworn to do better this semester. hopefully i’ll see some good results. ^_^x

just got my wireless card today. it’s a dell truemobile 1150 but really is a rebadged Orinoco gold pc card which is known to be one of the best in the wireless industry. it’s been really fun testing it out with airbears and snakescott’s wireless access point who lives below me.

our apartment is being renovated right now. first they painted our kitchen and now they’re re-tiling our bathroom. the re-tiling started last friday and then he had a 2 day break and now he’s continuing. looks like it wont be done until tomorrow. guess what, that means i haven’t had a shower in 3 days already. but i did manage to wash my hair in the sink, my head got really itchy. so, if something smells, it must be me. hehe

well, i leave you with a hilarious auction my friend just showed me: WONTON SOUP

Drunken Adventures – Part 2

yesterday… whew! what a night! anyway, i was too dr… i mean too tired to really describe anything in details for i couldn’t continue and wanted to end the news and go to sleep. there were couple things we did last nite. after we left the saloon, we went back to our place and ben had previously bought some type of good whiskey (which everyone besides me agree, but then again, who am i to judge when i’ve never had any other type; supposedly this type of whiskey is a lot easier to go down than others). well, cunndogg convinced me to take a sip of whiskey and it was bitter and nasty and burning. recall ralph from simpsons, “it taste like burning.” but the after-taste wasn’t that bad. the bitterness quickly left my mouth. but once again, i’ve proven to myself that i don’t like alcohol, doesn’t matter what type, what kind, or what genre. anyway, everyone was a bit tipsy @ this point. everyone else had 2 glasses of white russian and then a shot or 2 of this whiskey. nobody was drunk, so we decided to take a walk to the park (next to the berkeley rose garden; sorry but i forgot what the name of the park was). lemme tell you, the park was extremely fun! i mean we were riding the see-saw which made our butt sore. then the swings and ben all this time was yelling, “HELP! I’M GETTING RAPE! AHHHHHHHH!” in a shrill voice. Then came the slides. this was the most fun. it’s an extremely long/tall slide to be on a normal playground. looks like it was meant for the water parks. but anyway, i first slid down on my pants and my butt was on fire by the end of the trip. apparently there were cardboard pieces around which u were suppose to sit on riding it down. but for some reason, it wasn’t thrilling enough for us. either cunndogg or ben decided to throw sand @ liam when he was coming down and it triggered a almost frictionless effect. so each of us took a cardboard box folded up with sand and before we slid down we poured it onto the slide. weeee! i swear i was going @ least 35mph down that slide. then of course, the cop. *shivers* would’ve been super bad if he arrested us. 3 calls. the cop received 3 calls of complaint. wow! we must’ve been one noisy bunch of kids. hehe.

well, any tech-saavy fan would’ve known that Microsoft is releasing Windows XP SP1 (Service Pack 1) on 9/9. however, for it’s premier members, it’s been released already and someone leaked it out onto the net. now everyone is downloading it. worried that you have a cracked version? well TweakTown has found a way to bypass that and let you installed SP1. rumors about it crashing your system, not letting you boot into windows, and others such and such, have not been verified yet. but so far the only problem people has is that if your cd-key is one of mass generated, it will halt the installation half way through and you’ll return to your regular windows xp, with no changes (as they say). anyway, the fastest link ppl have found so far to download SP1 is this. it’s a 130meg file so be warned. ^_^x

anyway, more doodles for you! chk it out! ^_^x

Drunken Adventures – Part 1

several exciting things happened to me today. actually several very exciting things happened to me today. first thing was i got 3 shipments: 1 from UPS, 1 from Office Max, and 1 from Office Depot. finally got my wireless nic, bookcases, and plastic drawers. actually this caused the 2nd interesting event.

I was on my way out to class. Office Depot calls and tells me that they’re planning to ship within 45minutes. I’m like okay.. so this was my first class i ditched this semester. sigh… once it starts, you can’t go back. good thing is my apartment is almost ready for display.

Next thing was i realized i’ve been getting a lot less email lately. then i found out that one of my forwarding accounts/very very extremely old email account: krunk@hotpop.com stopped forwarding my emails. it is now fixed, but:

hotpop email status
85% of those was junk mail.

Well, i’m saving the best for last. You know you’re having fun when the cops are after you. well, not when but before they’re after you. hehe. cunndogg, liam, ben, and i went to the saloon again and we got our drinks (mine was non-alcoholic; just a statement before you start thinking otherwise). we then took a walk to the rose garden/park. this was the extremely fun part. i missed those days on the swings, the see-saw, the slides, the monkey bars, but today i got to try them all out again. there’s apparently a curfew for the park and we were being extremely noisy. suddenly sirens came on from two different directions and were heading toward the park. the four of us just got up and started running. at that moment, we all felt like fugitives. it was a very scary, but exciting experience. the cops apparently weren’t after us, but little did we know… so we decided to crash over @ lorie’s, seeba’s, and dan’s place. this was around 1:30am and the lights were all off, but the windows were open. so we rang the bell, several times, and were waiting for them to get outta bed. we’re mean huh? anyway, after 5-6mins no one answered and we decided to leave. we were on our way back when SUDDENLY outta no where came a voice:

“TOLAND AND LIAM. HOLD IT RIGHT THERE.”

we were looking everywhere and finally saw ben using a cone as a megaphone. suddenly he started walking quickly toward us. apparently he spotted a cops car and saw he coming. outta the park emerges a police officer. WE’VE BEEN CAUGHT! he was not a happy camper. he claims his already gotten 3 calls that there’s been a noisy bunch of kids inside the park causing public disturbance and told us to go home immediately. then he said, “you, with the camo-jacket.” cunndogg was wearing his camouflage jacket tonite and began questioning him. he said he smelled alcohol in his breath and asked how old he was. but cunndogg was slick and got off safely. well, we’re finally home and i’m happy to report that i’ve had an extremely exciting day. ^_^x

g’nite ^_^zzz

In God We Trust

grrrrr, we miss the delivery truck today =(. it was suppose to contain our 3 bookcases. came @ 1:05pm which I was home but apparently I was on the phone with AT&T as i noted on yesterday’s news so they got a busy signal when they tried calling me down.

thanks to mkko, he found a hilarious film on the net. I present to you In God We Trust. hope you’ll enjoy it as much as i did. ^_^x

ATNT Broadband Service

sorry about not updating last nite. i hope this mid-afternoon update will still be welcomed. for those who didn’t see my away message last nite, i’ve been doing a lot of reading for my german class. had a week of reading to catch up to and finally finished @ 4am which then i collapsed onto my bed, skipping my daily news update and even changing my away msg. as alphabons notes:

AlphaBons (8:36:57 AM): your rite cuz, the next set of motherboard are getting Serialized ATAed
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Auto response from Krunk4Ever (8:36:57 AM): [away] reading 100+ pgs due tomorrow @ 11am. sigh…
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AlphaBons (8:38:22 AM): if ya visit Tomshardware.com theres an article on new motherboards coming out the DDR400 and half of em have serial
AlphaBons (8:39:07 AM): okie dokie your prolly sleepign or <horror> still reading, skim baby skim!
Krunk4Ever (9:27:23 AM): lol

the worse part of this all, the teacher tells me today that nobody seems to be dropping this course and i probably won’t need to come back next week. sigh…

i’m very happy to announce that there’s currently a GREAT deal for ATNT Broadband service. On a TV commercial last night, ATNT was advertising a $19.95/month for the first 6 months if you sign up now. The problem was this offer was for new customers only and the definition of new customers was that you didn’t have AT&T Cable services within 60 days prior new installation. I got mines installed last friday on a different deal: $29.95/month for first 3 months. You can tell it isn’t AS HOT immediately as the current promotion. So I gave them a called and asked if I could switch over to the new plan, but the CSR (customer service rep) said i had to be a new customer to get this plan. I said i’ve only been a customer for a week and since i’m on no contract, i could easily cancel this service and reapply. (@ this time, i didn’t know about the 60 day rule). welp, there ya go, she brought up the 60 day rule alright. I then suggested that my roommate could always sign up for this service while I canceled mines since he is a ‘new’ customer. She put me on hold for 2minutes call back and said she’ll do it for me. tada! nice eh?

here’s the instructions if you want to try the same thing (you can’t have a contract for this to work. but you can still try):

  1. Call 1-888-262-6300 (ATNT Broadband Customer Service)
  2. Press 1 on your phone for sales.
  3. Mention you saw their TV commercial advertising $19.95/mo for the first 6 months.
  4. Ask politely if you can switch over to this plan.
  5. They probably respond that this promotion is only for new customers.
  6. Tell them that you don’t have a contract and can easily cancel this service and then reactivate it with the new promotion.
  7. They’ll probably respond that new customers are people that didn’t have ATNT cable service for at least 60 days.
  8. Tell them that if that’s the case, you can cancel the service and tell your roommate to create a new account with their new promotion.
  9. (this implies that you’ll still get the promotion, but it’ll be more work for them to cancel/setup your service)
  10. If they still deny you, hang up and try again in 30minutes and hope you’ll get a nicer customer rep.
  11. REMEMBER: THERE’S NO HARM IN TRYING MULTIPLE TIMES. ALL THEY CAN DO IS DENY YOU.

welp, this mid-afternoon report will be short since i’m doing one tonite. ^_^x

.hack //Sign OST1

sigh, i’m #1 on the wait list for my german class. hope i get in. hope i get in. *crosses fingers* but then i’m @ a dilemma where I need to catch up on 200pgs of reading. sigh… to attack or not to attack. if attack, you’re @ a disadvantage. if not attack, it’s giving up before even trying. sigh…

my friend crimsonangel posted up this link. warning: content may not be suitable for children under 17. in some way it’s disgustingly gross. in other ways, it’s hilarious what other parents post up on the reviews. oh yeah, i forgot to mention that the reviews are what you’re suppose to be checking out.

today will also be the last day I’ll be posting on OCF. from tomorrow, only the new site will be getting updates and OCF will have a forwarder to the new URL. thanks to PuchikoChan who directed me to .hack //Sign OST1. now you can feast your ear on the 2 pieces which people have been raving about.

sigh… i’m drifting asleep here. need my beauty sleep. AHHHHH just found out i have cs hw due on friday. yikes! well, i’m heading for bed. g’nite ^_^zzz

Earthquake in Monterey Park

*drum rolls* @ 9/3 12:09am, both sueon and crabyaple im me and tell me about this earthquake that just ran through monterey park. they said it wasn’t too bad but these always come so unexpected, they’re so scary. i mean this one wasn’t so bad, but who knows how strong the next one will be when it strikes. *shivers*

well, our 3 day weekend is over. lorie and dan invited us cunndogg and i over for a bbq tonite. it was fun and sure brought back a lotta memories chatting about old times. the funniest part was we were lost for an hour trying to find their place. silly us thought we would remember how to get there. all we needed to do was walk up euclid and turn right on eunice. hehe.

if you haven’t noticed, i added my class schedule to the menu. before u come asking me why i’m taking german, it’s an comp/lit class to fulfill one of my humanities. it was the only thing still open that fitted my schedule. stupid english classes are so FILLED this semester. i also redid the menu pix to shrink their size. i hope you guys liked the doodles i put up yesterday. ^_^x

just an update on ninjai. the 7th episode has come out so if you haven’t seen it yet. it’s pretty cool. ^_^x