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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

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.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

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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

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Slicktran’s Visit

it’s the beginning of a new month and guess what! NO SCHOOL TOMORROW! hehe. anyway, slicktran came up to North Cal today and ohfuee sorta gave him a tour of berkeley. slicktran’s appearance was quite unexpected for no one knew he was coming till he popped up yesterday.

christine: so you slept with sam last nite
slicktran: yah
bobybear: you know, that’s politically incorrect

i’ve been mass downloading anime for the past 2 days since i got my cable connection. the atnt connection here is a lot better than what i had to go through last year. well, that was before i made my network of intranet friends where speeds went up to 5megs/sec. musta put a lotta stress on my harddrive. it’s worse this year for incoming freshmen because the new limit is only 5gb. YUCK YUCK YUCK!

the current dreambook links don’t seem to be working on this new server. i’ll try to resolve that asap, but no one usually talks in there anyway. my new service comes with a forum utility which i might be checking out later. hehe.

and as promised, my sketches are up. so check out the doodle section. ^_^x (after a bit tweaking, i also implemented cunndogg’s special ps7 trick and made the file even SMALLER! wow!

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Who’s Hairband Is That?

wow, august is my shortest news log since February! this month was one crazy month i’ve gotta say. 1st week of school is over and now i hit a 3-day weekend. awesome! i didn’t even remember about the 3-day weekend until someone reminded me. although now i recall all my professors mentioning those who has labs on Monday to make up on a Tuesday.

welp, i forgot to tell you guys something very interesting that happened yesterday. i almost broke up the perfect couple because of my careless actions. well, i guess this wouldn’t constitute as ‘news’, but it’s so funny i’ve gotta tell you. as u recall, sueon came and visit yesterday and he visited our new homes. during the walk to ohfuee’s place, kalekkos took off my hairband (no, i’m not a girl but for those that know me, they’ll know why i have a hairband. at ohfuee’s place, i accidentally left it on decathanerd’s desk. guess what happened when cari and decathanerd got home?

cari: who’s hairband is that?
decathanerd: i thought it was yours…
cari: no…

well, the story they told me ended there, but one can only guess how the conversation ended. but everyone that was listening to our conversation could tell cari released a sigh of relief and couldn’t seem to hold her joy inside. I’m really sorry i caused any sort of misunderstanding. ^_^x

great news guys. moving onto another server: catalyst2. the plan i got is 1000MB disk space & 1GB transfer for £11.99/year (US$18.61). not as cheap as cyberwings, but for $1.55/mo with that kind of specs, it’s a steal. i just hope it won’t die on me like cyberwings did. so i’m currently going through a transitional period so some of you may see this on www.krunk4ever.com faster than others who will still be reading stuff through ocf. both sites will be updated; however ocf’s updates will end in 2 days, where i’ll solely put my web data on my new host.

today cunndogg, liam, lydia and I, well it was actually tonite, or even this morning since it is officially 12am already went to a bar. we ordered our drinks and I got a virgin fogcutter (suggested by liam cause it sounded cool). well our waitress apparently only wrote down fogcutter and when i took the first sip of it, it was nasty & bitter. but the show was spectacular. they put dry ice into a little cup and capped it and had holes on the side which shot out steam. it was a extremely fun nite. did i finish the drink? now that’s the mystery.

i promised to showcase my doodles today, but cunndogg’s asleep, and i don’t wanna wake him up with my scanner, so tomorrow. meanwhile, I’ll give you guys the picture of the week. ^_^x

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Who is Dione?

oh sweet so sweet CABLE!!! *big tears rolling down krunk’s face like in those animes* hehe ^_^x. finally got it installed today and I’m a happy camper. already started my downloading process. in the process of getting Hikaru no Go – 45 and Prince of Tennis – 36. this is going to be so sweet!

welp, today sueon came up to visit us Berkeleyians with his family. it was very nice to see him again and because of this reunion, I’ve gotten to see SO many people I’ve been meaning to see. kalekkos, yan-ray, evin-kay, istine-chray, boby bear, cari, avid-day, ick-vay, ason-jay, ohfuee, and of course mechy! (note: people who’s SN/nick I didn’t have has been substituted with pig latin). sueon had to ditch us and meet with his love-boat friends. yeah it’s exactly what it sounds like. hehe. after dinner we went to chill @ sam’s place and we played with swords and fire. nice, eh?

btw, i just realized dione is not dione. i mean dione really exists, but I’ve been associating her with the wrong person. wow, I’ve known this girl for at least half a year and I’ve been calling her dione! wow, how embarrassing. today she tells me her name is otherwise. now I’m back to square one where i know dione exists cause people know her, but i still DON’T!!! hehe. oh well, when the time comes, i know I’ll meet her. i mean this happening is weird enough, but deja vu. ason-jay lost his wallet and we were frantically searching sam’s and my apartment, but no luck. then i checked my IM messages and my friend snakescott tells me that if my friend dropped his wallet, he has it. ason-jay was one lucky boy! he comes in and we say hello (note: I’ve been calling him scott for the past year or so). he locked himself out so he asked if i had our apartment manager’s #. i gave it to him and he gave her a call. he said he was jacob and asked if she was around to open the door for him. after the phone call, i asked what his name was and he said, yeah his name was jacob. i mean how should I’ve known that! i mean someone with the SN snakescott implies his real name is scott, no? it was just one hilarious day.

ooooh, my new scanner is installed and I’ll show you the magic that my cuz showed me with 1-bit tiffs and of course I’ll show you my recent sketches. once again i lost my precious piece of paper which had important info which i jotted down from the first few days of school. sigh….

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Hong Kong’s SinoCenter

wow, it’s been awhile huh? well, the cable guy is suppose to be coming in tomorrow. so hopefully my internet will be set up by tomorrow. meanwhile, school has started and life as a college student resumes. ^_^x anyway, I’ve moved into my apartments and everything is going smoothly. we’re still waiting for our bookcases to arrive. hopefully soon cause we’ve got a ton of stuff to put on it. meanwhile, I’m not ready to show you my 1/2 complete apartment yet, but when the time comes, you can expect a tour. ^_^x

welp, I’ll continue my journey for now then. there’s a place in Hong Kong called SinoCenter where it’s cd/dvd galore. thee entire top floor is filled with just porn. i mean we were led up there by a friend. innocent me and my cuz had no idea. i went to visit mechy yesterday and even he knew about the top floor. hehe. anyway, the 2nd floor was anime floor. it was really cool there. we had a friend from my grandpa’s company take us around from city (are those cities in hong kong? or should they be considered districts?) to city showing us the best places to buy anime and copied software, etc. Of course me and my cuz didn’t buy any illegal stuff (disclaimer just there in case the FBI has their eyes on me). We were browsing through anime when suddenly a guy with a walkie talkie comes running buy yelling, “COPS! COPS! COPS!” Suddenly about 50% of the stores ran out and slam down their gates. it was so fast that i almost missed it. thankfully the store that we were buying stuff from was selling legal anime dvds, so we continue our purchase. after acquiring the animes that we wanted (worth HK$1150), we moved downstairs. we saw on the first floor that there were actually several stores that were caught and they were throwing in the copied cds/dvds into a cardboard box for the police. mechy says that i got a bonus tour and even he himself who claims to goto Hong Kong every year (my belief is that it’s an excuse so he can hide his girlfriend away from us) only have seen that once. hehe.

anyway, i was going to continue my story, but class time and I’ll continue when my cable connection is back up. for those that know carii, she’s been hiding a secret. well, it’s sorta been disclosed already, but i was pretty surprised when i found out. ^_^x

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iDance

since i’m moving up friday, i once again apologize for not being able to post tomorrow. i just ordered my cable modem + telephone service these 2 days. telephone service will be up tomorrow, however the scheduled time for cable modem installation is on 8/30 so i’ll be living on 56k or berkeley’s network for 1.5weeks. i really need to start packing. hehe. ;p

something i found really interesting during my stay @ hong kong was this program @ iDance. but to my disappointment, it wasn’t what it seemed to be. @ first, i thought it was a real-time choreographer creating dance moves according to the beats to any mp3 i select. however, this does open the door to many possibilities such as this. For those that don’t understand Korean like me and want to download this nifty little program, on the upper right hand corner, click on English. hope you guys like it. ^_^x oh yeah, if anyone understands korean, can you help me? i’m trying to register to be able to d/l more characters and songs. i don’t exactly know what resident # is. after a bit more playing around with it, it’s pretty cool indeed! hehe

i leave tonight with you an interesting fact: there’s a lot more KFCs in Hong Kong/China than there are McDonalds. There’s practically a KFC every block in HK. It’s like people don’t know how to walk.

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Beyblade

welp, i just scheduled my cable service to be installed on 8/30 which means i’ll need to live on 56k for a week. sigh… should’ve done this earlier.

here i’ll continue my stories of my travels. my first destination was japan. my cuz and i arrived at Narita Airport (Tokyo’s International Airport). My cuz tells me that this is the sinking airport and the government is rapidly seeking solutions since this airport is relatively new. i later find out from my dad that the whole japan is sinking. but then again, these sources aren’t exactly reliable. hehe.

of course as an anime otaku (fan/geek/freak), being in japan means ANIME! too bad none of the animes broadcasted on TV TOKYO had subtitles. 2 animes I saw being broadcasted was Inu Yasha and Beyblade. Inu Yasha’s pretty popular in USA already, but I was laughing when I saw Beyblade. Remember that old game Crossfire. Well, it was very similar to that. Here’s an intro to Beyblade. It was like 2 opponents spin the top-like thingy and then call upon power moves for it to attack the opponents top-like thingy. What was worse was when I went to the AXN convention in Hong Kong, kids were actually playing this spinning game. I mean you can’t call upon special moves like the anime, and there was like a tournament or something. If you goto the homepage of the intro-link i posted above, i think it has info on Beyblade tournaments. I mean, isn’t this just a game of luck? or is it not… okay, okay i agree any type of game, there’s always a skill/luck ratio, just like poker, but i mean besides being able to spin it the hardest to make it last longer, what else can you possibly do?

well, after reading about MAGLEV (magnetic levitation trains), i have always been curious about them. one thing i missed doing in japan and hopefully would be able to do it the next time i go is ride on all it’s bullet trains. japan is one of the nations with the most efficient means of transportation. as we were going toward mt. fuji, we passed by a MAGLEV rail. construction is complete and i was told that usage of the MAGLEV will begin in about a month. the MAGLEV was originally an idea of an American (quoted from my cuz), however, his models were very unstable and therefore received no sponsors. the Japanese took this idea and began research. one of their main worries was the results of human interaction, since human bodies contain iron and they wanted to know if it would cause any harmful effects toward us. after many years of research, they actually found out it was the opposite. magnetic effects actually help the body circulate the blood better. that’s why you see those asian magnetic bracelets which claim to be a medicinal miracle. i believe Germany has already began using MAGLEV technology while Shanghai has begun it’s construction to bridge it’s 2 main cities, creating an 8-minute ride to it’s new airport.

well, i believe that’s enough for today. the stories of my travels shall continue tomorrow. g’nite ^_^x

toland ink stamp
one of the toys i bought in hong kong

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Back From Trip

GUESS WHAT! I’m back guys! The last 3 weeks have been a blast for me! I really had a great vacation and you know it’s always much much funner when you’re with peers instead of adults. I’m not saying families don’t have good vacations. I’m just saying that for us, vacations always seem a lot better if you’re going with peers. For those that didn’t know the reason of my sudden disappearance, I went on a trip to Japan, Hong Kong, and China with my cousin (4 years older than me). For those that goto UCI, he’s a computer science major (currently junior). well, in the next few days, i’ll try to tell you as much as i can remember from my travels. over 600 megs of pictures have been uploaded to my dotPhoto album. So enjoy ^_^x. Comments haven’t posted yet since we are talking about 499 pictures. hehe

i also got some awesome video clips which I’ll be posting soon. sigh… i can’t believe school starts in 1 week. =( my journey through Asia shall continue tomorrow. so stay tuned!

picture of the week has also been updated. enjoy ^_^x

mashimaro and pikachu stuffed animal
comparison: US$4.50 for mashimaro (CHINA); US$13 for pikachu (USA)