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Samurai Showdown Babies

nothing much happened today. worked more on cs project. worked more on stupid linux. still giving me tons of problems tho. yucky =(

thanks to kharizma, the picture of the week have finally been updated. hope you’ll enjoy it.

if you haven’t noticed i’ve changed my icon theme again. new theme: Samurai Showdown BABIES. hehe ;p

anime page is updated with OP scenes (not songs) of some cool animes i found on someone’s server. ^_^x

only have 1 class tomorrow. lab was canceled. w00h00 for that. b00 cause i’ll probably be working on my cs project. short entry today cause i was weighing, new poll, or more anime. anime won. ^_^x

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Calnime Gathering

we had our first group gathering for #calnime. it was sorta random and we had really no idea what we were going to do nor where we were going. just decided to make something happen on this sunday afternoon. mj30chan was the main planner for this event (all credit goes to her but i’ll still give fantasy the credit of bringing up such an idea, he never got anyone to agree on a date tho) well, mj30chan i guess has the power to get everyone to listen. hehe. we met up @ my apartment and just chilled there and chatted about guess what… ANIME! hehe. i’ve gotta say that i didn’t expect a couple of people to be who they turned out to be. hehe. stupid belldandy – have i told u the story of belldandy yet? if not here it goes…

belldandy was kenny’s roommate last year, a friend of mines in CS61A. i’ve always thought i knew who he was since kenny says belldandy has an ibook. and i’ve seen another guy by belldandy’s real name around the dorm area, also in CS61A and carries an ibook or some sexy laptop around with him. well, belldandy doesn’t know me. one day i noticed belldandy was in my CS61B discussion again (i’ve seen him a couple of times in my CS discussion, but i just assumed he and my TA were friends). but today i decided to confront him. i went up to him and said, “hey , why did you come to ‘s discussion?” he says, “cause i’m in his section.” i said, “i thought u took CS61B over the summer and are taking CS61C now.” he answers, “no, i didn’t, but do i know you?” i answered, “it’s me, krunk! from #calnime!” he replies, “krunk…?” at this point i was as lost as he was and said, “you’re belldandy right?” he goes, “belldandy…?” then i go, “i’m so sorry, i’ve musta mistaken you for some other person.” He goes, “oh, it’s no problem. i didn’t catch your name.” I said, “my name’s nice to meet you.”

i was so embarrassed @ this point, i think my cheeks were bright red. we parted and when i went home, apparently belldandy and my mental belldandy were 2 completely different person. belldandy does know this fake belldandy tho and says the fake belldandy is EXTREMELY SMART, which I knew. sigh… still haven’t met belldandy yet. =( anyway, here were a couple of pictures i took today: (btw, u can click them to enlarge)

calnime - esca

here’s esca (aka dwc). he won’t respond to anyone that calls him esca. administrator of OCF and currently a senior in Berkeley majoring in CS. he’s 22 and is looking for both a job and a girlfriend. email him if you find him cute or a job. he lives on … j/k ;p

calnime - killerspots, zim, mj30chan

here’s killer_spots (left) and zim (right). killer_spots is a mysterious guy and most of his personal information is currently unknown. all that’s known is he’s a sophomore @ berkeley. zim (don’t u just luv his expression) on the other hand i know is currently living with one of my high school friends, lilpebbles. also a sophomore in berkeley and planning to major in Math (apparently found CS too boring). he’s from SoCal and apparently according to killer_spots was on a blind date with some hot chicks. zim has no comment. i’ve been to lilpebbles’ place like 3x, but coincidentally have never met zim till today.

calnime - crimsonangel, killerspots

here’s crimsonangel (left) and killerspots (right). crimsonangel is a counter strike maniac who is a freshman in berkeley. fantasy claims that crismonangel uses a trackball for counterstrike and skill levelwise is about equal to him. however, i forgot to ask crimsonangel’s response to that comment. crimsonangel is also a fansub editor for kouhai-anime and chaotixubs. pretty cool huh?

calnime - zim, cunndogg, mj30chan, kharizma, fantasy

welp, here’s the biggest group pic. starting from the left, we have zim, cunndogg, mj30chan, kharizma, fantasy. cunndogg as you know is my roommate. mj30chan is if you haven’t noticed yet from my high school Mark Keppel. her brother is also a friend of mines and her little brother is also a friend of my younger brother. a first year @ berkeley and well, nothing much else is known about her. kharizma (cute as one of my friends says; didn’t get permission to name this individual, so i’m better off not posting his nick or i might be in trouble) is a 2nd year @ berkeley… i think. welp she’s from granada high school (somewhere in socal) which apparently is the same as ise (who ditched today). i’m sorry guys, she’s currently taken (but that doesn’t mean she wouldn’t like a little competition). ^_^x fantasy… lol i just remember a funny story about fantasy. the first time we met was in Soda. i go in and he calls for me. and my first response was, “Hey Fantasy.” somehow i felt like a complete idiot. sounded so inappropriate. well, he’s a freshman this year majoring in CS also. lost his hime (princess for japanese-illiterates) a couple times. gets super depressed whenever his him breaks up with him (i’m still wondering if they were ever together). he’s really really tall and let’s see, another counter strike maniac. plays on the stanford server and is ranked ~100 i believe. no one seems to like fantasy and he seems to get kicked/beat up the most in the channel. hehe. i’ve gotta apologize to mteklabs, msticazn, snakescott that i didnt get them in my pix. mteklabs and snakescott are the only 2 non-asians so far that we’ve identified. mteklabs.. not much is known about him besides he doesn’t talk much in the chatroom. snakescott hardly visits the chatroom and gets most of his anime through me & ocf. but he does live right below me. ^_^x msticazn is from gabrielino high school, very close to keppel and is a 2nd year majoring in MCB (i think). also taken. ^_^x

well, we went out to dinner ended up in some thai place on cedar and shattuck. the food was pretty good there. we had so much trouble deciding on a place to eat, ranging from Barney’s (mj30chan: no burgers please!) to Cheese Board Factory (spelling? which was closed). we originally planned to crash @ esca’s apartment and watch My Sassy Girl which DVD worship. but after dinner, everyone just decided to go home cause it’s been a long day and sunday nites = hw nites for many.

The match finally ended in Hikaru no Go 56. it was such a good match (although i have no clue about how to play go). i won’t spoil it for you guys but trust me, it was so beautiful.

thanks to ungsunghero for posting this awesome piano piece: mario

while listening to Linkin Park’s new album “Reanimation“, i heard my name: “Mr Hon”. i was surprised so i looked up the lyrics online and found it to be “Mr. Hahn”. darn, so close! ^_^x

fantasy called me down to soda late tonite and said there was this good caricature and i should take a picture of it. went down there and got this for you guys:

george bush - forget about the economy comic
George Bush – Forget About The Economy

welp, it’s obvious that ppl want links to open up new window. I’ve already implemented that already and even old pages’ links will open up new windows. enjoy ^_^x. new poll should be up tomorrow (hopefully). ^_^x btw, i noticed that after 2nd reading there were tons of typos. it’s 5:11am, don’t expect much accuracy.

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Cal vs Stanford (The Big Game)

Did you guys see the BIG GAME today! We whooped Stanford’s butt! 30-7 dude! Our first win in like 7 years! we’ve been miserable losing over and over to those cardinals (aka trees). After a bit of research, i finally figured out what the axe is represented for. click here to see the “History and Tales of the Stanford Axe” this has been one of the first times in A VERY LONG WHILE that our stadium has actually sold out seats. The commotion was so great near the end, the crowd just rushed in even when there was 11secs left on the clock. After first there were guards surrounding the goal post knowing that college students tend to climb on them and break them after such a game. well, those guards eventually lost to the mob of students and the goal post came tumbling down. ise took some great pictures:

band | band_cal | boller | fallingpost | goal | paper

my other friend snakescott was also there, but he didn’t join in the mob:

snakescott: we won big game though!
Krunk4Ever: yep!
Krunk4Ever: did u see the crowd rush in?
snakescott: dude
snakescott: I WAS THERE
snakescott: I didn’t rush in cause I’m not a moron
snakescott: but I saw every beautiful moment, oh yeah
Krunk4Ever: nice!
snakescott: yeah

the poll above will be ending tomorrow and i’ll be posting the results as well as enforcing them. therefore, vote now and express your POWER!!!

guess what? my south park dvds came! for $10 shipped, i got the entire SEASON 1. one of the best seasons in my opinion. the newer seasons comedy has deteriorated to a much lower standard. although still funny, it no longer tickles my funny bone as it used to. hehe. ^_^x

New Hikaru no Go was released today. The series is getting so exciting and tense, i practically beg for the next episode. Next episode *should* be released tomorrow. they withheld these episodes for weeks because they claim the cliffhangers were so horrible. IT’S SO TRUE! After watching this episode, the suspense was already too much to bear. I watch the preview and the suspense grew 10x worse!!! I also killed myself! Then hoping i’d feel better watching the new episode of Naruto. That left me hanging too! sigh… stupid anime, it’s like a drug u get addicted to. you know you’re addicted but it’s just so GOOD! hehe

I also watched K19 Widowmaker. Really good movie in my opinion. Very similar to U571, but it’s about Russians and nuclear subs. I’d like to give some quotes i found interesting:

We are all good communists here.
But the committee ruled because it was not war time, because it was merely an accident, they were not worthy of the title hero. What good is our honor from such people.

I remember there to be at least a couple more quotes i liked, but can’t seem to find them as i’m skimming through it. oh well. g’nite ^_^zzz

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New Nike Shoes

just got my new shoes today! w00h00! click here to check them out. paid only $6.60 shipped. had a $80GC to NikeTown which I got because my old pair of Nikes had a hole on the bottom of the shoe and the inside of the shoes got super wet whenever it rains.

nike shoes

thanks to ungsunghero for donating this link. story is hilarious in some ways and painful in others. ever had that sorta experience. well, the original story is here. it’s bout some old guy accidentally burning and scarring his wee-wee by using his laptop on his lap. OUCH! if you like these type of stories, i’d like to direct you to fark.com which has tons of these stories. ^_^x

went to see one hour photo @ Wheeler tonite. Movie was sorta disappointing in that the story never really capture the audience to follow it intensely which a good suspense thriller would require. Robin Williams really wasn’t meant to do these type of horror suspense movies. he’s the funny type of guy for great comedies! but who would’ve known, carii and deCAThAneRD went to watch this too! cunndogg and i decided to leave those 2 luvbirds alone. don’t wanna bother deCAThAneRD if he tries to pull some moves. hehe -_^x

cunndogg told me this funny joke today:

There were 2 friends who were from the South and have moved onto college. One of his friends went to a Northeastern college and invited his other friend to a party. The friend gladly accepted the invitation and the party was a hit! The visiting friend decided to try his luck and hit on some chix. He saw a couple cute ones and asked, “Which university are y’all from?” The girls giggled and replied “Yale” The friend then screamed, “WHICH UNIVERSITY ARE Y’ALL FROM?“

thanks to Cantaka for providing this link. Rumor is that AT&T and Comcast Cable may be soon implementing a new rule to their broadband cable internet. Rumor says that they will enforce a monthly download limit of ~10GB. YUCKY YUCKY YUCKY =(. i myself d/l more than that every couple days. if they switch on me, i’ll switch to DSL. easy as that! ^_^x

Merged my Anime List & #calnime page together into 1 now. decided that they were relatively the same thing and added and changed some links which you may find helpful. if you find any dead links or something wrong, please notify me IMMEDIATELY. thanks ^_^x

Watched The Ninth Gate on DVD tonite. an awesome movie which dives deep into the satanic world and how humans sell their souls to satan. If you’ve never watched it, i super recommend it. Well, it’s time for Hikaru no Go! FINALLY A NEW EPISODE! ^_^x

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Hippo and Hippo Jr.

nothing much happened today. was rather boring. spent most of it sleeping. hehe.

welp, i’m brain dead @ the moment. so i’ll just post up some pictures of hippo and hippo jr.:

good hippoevil hippohippo with hippo jr.

Story actually goes like this. i got hippo and mono from a fund raiser for my science club. turned out to be a lot cuter than what i expected. hippo was definitely cuter and i was actually going to give it to my brother for christmas but i ended up keeping it. hehe. well, hippo came with a hook which i hooked to either my backpack or my pants whenever i went out or to school. it was like a new thing and hippo enjoyed sight seeing. one day, i realized he was not hooked onto either my pants nor my backpack. i frantically searched for him and asked every single one of my friends if they’ve seen hippo. apparently one of my friends said she saw it on the top of my car, which i recall never placing him. sigh, as you can tell, i was majorly depressed. i emailed the fund raiser company asking if they had any left which i can purchase from. the sweet lady replied back apologizing that they no longer carry this item, but will try to see if they have any left overs. well, this story has a happy ending and 2 days later i got another email and said they found ONE LAST ONE and was going to mail it to me for FREE! i was like AWESOME and i couldn’t thank the lady enough. welp. hippo jr. and mono are here with me in Berkeley, but hippo (sr.) will never be forgotten. *sniff*

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Car Trouble

met a rather interesting family today in the garage, they were pushing their car outta the garage. i offered to help and they said, u can help starting by moving out of the way. i was thinking, “okay, not going to help u guys then. your lost” as i was leaving, i asked if the car was down, and they laughed, “Oh no! it’s just the car is so big and the parking lot is so tight, we didn’t want to run into the pillars or other cars. so we thought by pushing we’d get more control.” i responded with a simpled word: kewl. and the lady snapped back, “not cool!” weird encounter i must say.

Here’s a really old joke which i dug up in My Documents:

This is the transcript of the ACTUAL radio conversation of a US naval ship with Canadian authorities off the coast of Newfoundland I OCT/95 Radio conversation released by the Chief of Naval Operations 10-10-95.

Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees the South to avoid a collision.
Americans: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees the North to avoid a collision.
Canadians: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees the South to avoid a collision.
Americans: This is the Captain of a US navy ship. I say again divert your course.
Canadians: No. I say again, you divert YOUR course.
Americans: THIS IS THE LARGEST AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH, I SAY AGAIN, THAT’S ONE FIVE DEGREES NORTH, OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.
Canadians: This is the light house. Your call!!!

Thanks to ungsunghero for point this out: CNN: Global goofs: U.S. youth can’t find Iraq. this article shows how dumb our society is when 11% of 18-24 yr olds can’t point out where USA is on a world map. i mean COMON! this is where u bust out your Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego skillz. that game was so fun. i remember i would skip recess everyday and play with my friend Ivan. sigh… haven’t seen Ivan for so long i dont even know where he is anymore. But play Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego was so exciting. it was actually something i looked forward to go to school for. playing in our class’ apple IIe computer. hehe.

cunndogg just told me some very interesting facts about Canada and England. Supposedly, Canada is still an British Colony and the Queen is still holds the executive power. She gets to appoint who the governor or Canada is and can dissolve the parliament at her will. i always thought she was just a symbolic icon but supposedly cunndogg says she can dissolve Britain’s parliament too. she just doesn’t use her power. and to think i always thought the prime minister had the most power. another interesting fact is u know how Canadians talk by adding and -ay to end of their sentence. (ie. What’s up-ay? How’s it going-ay? You the man-ay) so when deciding their name for their country or colony, the picked up random letters from a hat and the guy reading off the letters said: C-ay, N-ay, D-ay and there you have today’s spelling of Canada. hehe ^_^x

here’s something i learned i found very funny. in programming we often use the variable foo and i thought it was just a random word made up from nowhere. but apparently there’s some history behind it. the word foo was said to be extracted from fubar (foo-bar) which stands for ‘f*cked up beyond all recognition’. i find this fact very amusing. hehe. ^_^x

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Saturnus in Witch Hunter Robin

been a rather busy day. but my ebates check arrived yesterday and got cashed today for a whooping $12 something! lucky ungsunghero has a friend who buys through him and he’s getting all the commission fees. 1 17″ LCD and 2 >3MP digicams. *drools* @ all the commission ungsunghero is going to make. of course he forced me not to say who he’s buying it for.

updated calnime page for those who are interested in checking out new animes, but don’t particularly like or know how to use mIRC or other iRC clients. ^_^x

well, it’s late tonite and i’m sorry for another lousy post, but while watching Witch Hunter Robin, i noticed this familiar picture:

Saturn Devouring His Son by Francisco Goya

for those that still don’t remember where this poster was, i believe mrs. mac had it on her wall. maybe not? but very close at least. really miss her. she was a really fun teacher to have.

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Silent Soda

nothing much happened today. went to class and started my project for cs61b. during ee20 lecture, on the board it wrote: “(Makeup for last Friday) Review Session, Cory 277, Tomorrow @ 6PM” I was like O SH*T! another midterm? makeup midterm, what the heck is going on. I find out later it was a makeup session for a discussion which apparently the professor was late to. *whew*

last nite on my way out to soda, i heard a PAK! i was like WO! then another PAK and i saw San Francisco Tribunes around me wrapped in blue see-through plastic. this was @ 3:30am and there was this guy driving in a small car throwing newspapers out his window. the scene turned out to be hilarious and i waved goodbye to the newspaper delivery guy as he drove away. after i went to soda, this is the FIRST TIME the entire 2nd floor was empty. I even went into each room to double check. it was silent as a (well not silent since the computers were humming) but u get the point. it was like ghost town, when usually there’s at least 5 or 6 ppl working on their CS projects and hw.

welp, today’s entry is going to be short. 5am and i have 9:30am class tomorrow. i’ll end it with what crabyaple sent me: a link that’s so scary that even if i warn you it’s scary, you’d still be scared. don’t believe me. well try it. i dare you! -_^x

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Shipping Pennies

bleh, it’s 1:50am and i need to head over to soda to finish my cs lab. grrrrr. oh well, 1 more episode of Cooking Master Boy before I go. hehe ;p

i was just thinking with ungsunghero, that if i won an auction and the seller accepted pennies, it would be very expensive to ship it. i just immediately assumed that $1 or 100pennies ~ 1lb. but ungsunghero proved me wrong and said 6 pennies = 1 ounce. so if 16 ounces = 1lb, then 96 pennies = 1lb. to ship $41 or 4100 pennies (weighing ~43lbs) would cost $18 for UPS Ground. i was expecting at least $30 to ship it, but wow! only $18. hehe.

was reading a newsletter and i noticed these semi-funny stereotypes:

It’s also fun to observe the impressions Americans make on the Japanese, what stereotypes they come up with when they think of Americans. In Gunma, where we live, most gaijin ride mountain bikes, especially Mormon missionaries, so mountain bikes and foreigners go together in the minds of Japanese. Americans are famous for being optimistic in all things — I once doodled a happy face on a piece of paper and was told “That’s very American” by a Japanese friend. Americans are famous for being bad at math (something I am personally guilty of), and according to my wife, Americans are never on time, although she might be just talking about me.

isn’t it asians that are never on time. i remember someone told me that. could it be… damion? hehe. -_^x

for those that didn’t know. a new ninjai episode has came out. it actually came out a week ago, but i forgot to tell you guys.

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Postcard Freebies

guess what today is!?!?!
HAPPY BDAY BRANDO!!!

damion droped by today outta the blue. well, not totally outta the blue, but i wasn’t expecting, well, more like i forgot i should be expecting him. hehe. ben called a bit later and he drove us to safeway for grocery shopping. damion actually requested my help on building his new computer last week, but it just sorta slipped my mind or maybe i was expecting him to IM me. hehe. anyway, his computer is up and running now. stupid WD hds gave us some trouble. who puts MASTER & SINGLE DRIVE on 2 separate jumper settings. stupid Western Digital. =( took like 15mins to figure out the stupid problem. then we went to Mel’s for dinner. good milkshakes they have there, but barney’s oreo milkshake is still the best imho.

well, want freebies? like my george foreman grill? welp, as long as you’re a california resident, you’re capable of receiving the following items for FREE:

  • Austin Powers – Goldmember DVD
  • $100 Gas Vouchers
  • $50 US Saving Bonds
  • Digital Pen Camera
  • George Foreman Grill
  • Cuisinart Mini Food Chopper
  • JWin Personal CD Player
  • Web Camera
  • Touchscreen Digital Organizer
  • Electronic Organizer
  • Credit Report

All you have to do is mail out a postcard which i found out you can obtain for FREE! Liam said that the postcards were free @ Tower Records, but @ Mel’s we found a whole bunch of free postcards there too! carii says IKEA has them too! wow! had no idea free postcards were everywhere, i was even about to pay $.20 for each if i couldn’t find any. index cards worked for awhile, but several got shot back because apparently the size of a postcard must exceed 5.5″. anyway, for more detailed instructions on what to do, check out these 2 threads on FatWallet: thread1 & thread2

oh yeah, for those that don’t know, my guestbook creates a new page every time it hits 20 posts. no, your post did not disappear (unless you’re the guy that clicked submit like 60x) and you can chk the previous posts by clicking the selection menu on the upper right hand corner of the guest book page.

quote of the moment (from Fantasy):

i regret… that life isn’t like an RPG where u kick ur reset and load from save to solve all your mess ups

so true, yet life would be so perfect it’d be boring.