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mmm new stuff
June 3rd, 2002
we need a new phone so i went and bought one. This GE silver phone was on sale for $43 and it has digital answering machine. that’s what we like. and the cashier who checked phone out for us actually got pissed at andy. Andy wrote this on my ** today:
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Ying and I went to Best Buy to get a cordless phone and answering machine special. When we got to the checkout, there is a blonde girl there with these bright blue color contacts and she starts like this:
“Do you know that Best Buy offers a 2 year replacement warranty for $9.99?”
Andy: “I know, but I don’t want it.”
Girl: “Well its a really good deal, blah blah blah, and with electrical storms peoples phones have been breaking, blah blah blah.”
I looked her in the eye this whole time she was going off with that bullshit and finally just told her, “If I break my phone, I’ll just have to buy a new one!”
After this she acts all huffy and puffy, not smiling, asking to see my ID when I used my bank card with a snotty attitude, rolling her eyes.
Personally I think she’s upset because her bimbo charm had absolutely no effect on me.
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and there’s my comfy chair andy bought me not long ago. he surprised me with it after i complained i was getting back pain. WOW.. i can’t believe it. and he insisted to put it in the room altho the space is very limited. but i love it.. i probably wouldn’t let him do that if i knew beforehand *hehe*
is suicide morally wrong?
May 29th, 2002
i thought i’m mostly over the stage contemplating life’s ambivalence all the time. but this thread has gotten me sentimental again. life’s so sad sometimes - no simple right or wrong can describe it. i typed this on that thread.
here’s an extreme case and it’s a true story. i wish i have the original version but i will try to describe this as best as i can.
ling is a doctor in china before the cultural revolution (CR) started. she has been awarded the best doctor in her community for many times. when the CR started in china, the red guards went to her house where she and her parents resided. the red guards dragged out her dad who was a famous painter and had his art works displayed in america. they found the receipt her father had from the american museum and called him a spy. they started beating him as well as her and her mom. they broke everything in the house and took them outside to the streets. marched them around with them wearing tall white paper hats with their names written under a red cross. with heavy banners hanging around their necks with very thin wires. after a day of torture, they were bruised and had blood all over their bodies. they were not allowed to eat. everything in their house had been destroyed. electricity and gas had been cut off. perhaps to prevent them from suiciding. it was very obvious tomorrow they would be dragged out for more humiliation and torture. at this time, they found a small knife which the red guards had left due to carelessness. all they wanted was to die and to break free from the torture they could not bear. ling is a doctor, she knows exactly where to cut would kill a person instantly. her mom said: how lucky we are to have a doctor daughter to help us to die.
is suicide morally wrong in this case?
What about my grades?
May 28th, 2002
Hey! I didn’t do too bad either! I got:
Comp II: A
MacroEconomics: A-
Guitar: A
Forms of Lit. Fiction: A
Calculus I: B
Oh yeah, here’s a great one:
Sunday night, Dodo and I were just about to go for a walk when my brother and his girlfriend knock on the door and ask if we want to go minigolf. We decide to go.
All of the minigolf were closed, so we ended up driving downtown. As we approached a stoplight, there was a red car to our left that had four teenagers, two boys and two girls. They had to be around 16 years old.
I looked over, and the driver was looking at me. I held his stare (as I have seasoned blood for staredowns) and the punk tells me to my face,
“You have a staring problem!”
I promptly responded with my middle finger and an explicit retort.
At this point, the teenagers break into a power trip, proclaiming how they were going to kick my ass and everything else. They were following my car and honking and driving crazily. The following continued for quite some blocks, and we came to a bridge where I was going to turn and they planned to go straight.
The punks pulled alongside my car with their feeble cussing and challenges. I told them if they wanted to fight so badly they could follow us some more. They were laughing and yelling, so my brother responded in perfect dramatic eloquence:
He flapped his arms like chicken wings and exclaimed, “Bawk, bawk, bawk!”
They became frustrated and sped their piece of crap car off as fast as they could, and we proceeded on our way to McDonalds for some ice cream cones.
Sure enough as we were getting out of the car at McDonalds, the punks were honking their horn and yelling again. I told Dodo and my brother’s girlfriend to go call the police inside, and that my brother and I would handle the scrubs.
Once again my brother erupted in perfect stagemanship yelling: “Get your ass over here you little *****!” and jumping and throwing his hat to the ground. Now the thing to understand is that my brother is a gargantuan individual. The sheer size of him was enough to turn the faces of the punks cold, but then his un-mediated rage surging directly at them with a scream at the top of his lungs caused the punks to turn absolutely pale.
Undefeated, though, they came back again into the parking lot and were honking their horn at us. My brother and I were standing alone outside our car waiting for them, but the would not even dare to pull their car within 50 feet of us. The cowards would only yell and honk their horn.
Once they got wind that the police were coming, they ran off. But this little event was certainly unexpected entertainment for the night!!
4.0!!
May 28th, 2002
YAY, i just checked my grade, i got a 4.0 this semester
A in computer organization and hardware (2 points from an A+ ;_;)
A in interpretation of literature
A in modern china
A in principle of chemistry
altho i hoped for something better than 4.0 but i guess 4.0 is a ok grade 
period <.<
May 25th, 2002
period always gives you crap. i don’t feel like doing anything today ;_; maybe i really need a break sigh… we went to godfathers for pizza today with andy’s brother and his gf. i was so full. i still feel my stomach stuffed ;_; it’s not a happy feeling. i might walk all the way to kfc later when it closes to see andy. when i am melancholy, i feel rather attached to him 
i just want to be in his arms 24/7 such a baby. when i think i will be away from him for a WHOLE MONTH soon.. i just want to cry ;_;
the popup killer is the most ingenuin software ever. if you use pure essence webmail, i’d recommend you install that first =) it’s just awesome! i downloaded some songs from celine’s new album “A New Day Has Come”. most of them are pretty good. “Amazing Grace” sounds like a chinese song i know? did they rip it off? i guess it’s fair since those taiwan pop singers ripped off so many english songs.
dad’s hospital trip
May 22nd, 2002
i hate american hospitals. they always make you WAIT forever! if doctors in overpopulated china take this long, the patients will probably die waiting! i swear we waited for two and half hours just for a job that could be done in 10 minutes today. they did come and did it at the end. it took 5 minutes.
my father broke his leg last week. he finally was convinced by his boss to see a doctor. the appointment was today 10:45, they looked and took x-ray, found a half inch fracture on his lower leg bone under the knee cap. we thought they were gonna put a cast for him, they only ended up putting a brace.
we didn’t get home until 3pm!!
tired tired tired.. hospitals are NOT FUN!
bbq sunday
May 20th, 2002
yesterday was the nicest day ever. the bbq was great, so was weather, people and the card game afterward.. yummm… i didn’t get online all day and i didn’t even think about internet WOW.. i’m so proud of myself!!
andy made potato salad, marinated beef steak and salmon. he grilled them along with some spicy italian sausages. my friend Xu brought vegtable salads and watermelon. after the wonderful meal, we went to play frisbee golf. sugar bottom frisbee golf course is so nice.. we did all 18 holes. and had a big watermelon waiting for us when we were done.
after that, we drove to Xu’s house and played cards with my dad. man my dad was the killer, i was happy i was on his team beating the other two in “40 points” - a chinese card game.
when i took my dad home, he said he has a tooth brush for me. i was expecting one of those cheapo tooth brushes from a dental office visit or something. (well, my dad’s a stingy butt) but he pulled this cybersonic electronic tooth brush for me. i was like WOW.. that’s so not like him.. anyway.. free things are always good.. we even tried the tooth whitener last nite.. i like it 
so that’s it.. i’m back online today.. crush me with IM, emails and u2us
OMG, first donation to dnw!
May 17th, 2002
I have just received first donation ever for dnw, it’s $20 from Amy. Thank you!! I’m so excited and so surprised I never expected anyone would be generous enough to do that. Now I really want to start working on http://php-princess.net/dodo (btw, thanks for the under construction notice daynah!) I still need a name for it?! What should I call it? It’s gonna be dedicated to my php tutorials and scripts.
anyway, i missed the bus today. i got up early again to work on hacks for dmb and then went out to play frisbee golf with andy and his brother. i felt asleep after they left and missed my bus ;_; so i had to call andy to give me a ride from kfc =P oh well, at least i’m at the lab now.
btw, lele, are you ok?
on the bus
May 15th, 2002
i finished my last final and was on the 6:30 bus home.. at the second stop, the bus driver was slowly pulling out of the stop to leave and all the sudden, i just heard this terrible outcry “NO! NO!” and i turned around and saw this guy who seemed to be running his life for the bus had just fell miserably on the ground probably coz he tripped himself. poor guy. at least he got enough attention to make the bus stop. but i couldn’t stop laughing when the picture repeated in my head.
got home, i found out andy has to close tonite so i have to eat something before he brings me kfc. and i wanted to have some kimchi and guess what? he tied that sucker so tight that i felt like breaking my hands to try to open it. it’s not like the first time it happens to me, i can never open any lids he put on. but this time i was hungry… i wanted food!! ;_; i struggle for FIVE MINUTES before i finally open that thing with red marks all over my hand ;;_;;
i’ll be finished after today!
May 15th, 2002
yup last final. it’s the modern china final from 4:30 - 6:30.. after that, i’m done with this school year!! then i will start my BUSY summer!
tenative web project plans:
- finish softlead *fix up* part
- talk to laurie about another project for her
- work on the two year celebration for dmb
- work on different new hacks for dmb
- work on the ecard shop for dmb
- start moving my scripts to http://php-princess.net/dodo
- start working on that site.. new layout, search function, blah blah
- start a forum on php princess board for people asking questions about my scripts
- make new layout for regretless, new themes for pure essence
- add more contents to pure essence
- trying to figure out anything to add for dnw
- work on the clique script
- test it on new millennium
will i be able to finish these up before i leave for china?
i will be in china for more than one month!! from July 3 - August 6 *WOW*
