Thursday, September 30, 2004--Sorry it took so long for me to update this. The sad part is, I don't even remember why I didn't update this anymore...
On This Day:
In 2002:
- Andrew Matsuoka makes his first appearance on my Journal.
- The Lobbes incident.
- The 117.4% silver incident.
- Claire Chu makes her first appearance on my Journal.
- Cindy Su makes her first appearance on my Journal.
- Justin Kuo makes his first appearance on my Journal.
EE122 Lecture... was cancelled so that we could study for our mudterm tonight.
Lunchbreak...
Music 26ac Lecture... Kim came in wearing a thick-looking sweater and the weather wasn't that cold anymore. I had the temptation to ask her "Are you hot?" (see October 3, 2003 entry), but I decided against it.
EE122 Mudterm... I insisted on finishing early so that I could go to the
HKN Candidate meeting... but Tracy was long gone, which made me sad, so then I just went
Fencing...
Anyways, now is the right time to tell you a story about the ASUC dance tickets I had won on Tuesday. So I had two of them, but I only need one of them to get to the dance, so I had decided to offer the second ticket to a cute girl. So on Wednesday, I went to Tracy, who took the ticket from my hand, looked at it, and answered "maybe" (which usually means no, btw) saying something about a curfew and 1am being a little late.
Me: It's Saturday. You can afford to stay up until 1am.
Tracy: And how would you know?
It turned out that she would be too busy stressing over a CS162 (?) project to go to the dance.
Me: All the more reason for you to come to the dance and relax yourself.
Tracy: No. Dance != relax. Sleep == relax.
Me: Heh, a CS-style double equal, huh?
Tracy: Yes.
So then, on Wednesday night, I walked into the 3rd floor lounge and saw MJ, so I offer her the ticket. Like Tracy, she promptly takes it from me and looks at it, then says something about her going home for the weekend and that she wouldn't be able to make it. So that's a no-go, too.
Then, today, in Music 26ac, I offer the ticket to Kim. She doesn't even look at the damn thing and says she can't make it.
Yep, that's Kim for you... rude and inconsiderate. Well, at least unlike Tracy, she doesn't use me for homework answers. And MJ is just blatantly unreceptive of me...
Naw, I'm just kidding. They're all such fine ladies, all three of them. I have no complaints. Everything went as predicted. I ended giving my tickets (both of them) to Sherry down the hall (who was possibly drunk at the time) because I simply didn't care anymore.
Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 1) Total: 4
Good Night!
Wednesday, September 29, 2004--What the-- The Geocities front page has changed!
Anyways, Happy Birthday My Website! w00t! What the...
On this day:
In 2002:
- My website is born!!
- Alan Watson makes his first appearance in my journal.
EE120 Discussion...
CS61c Discussion... the dude who complained the class was too easy is still coming to class, apparently.
CS61c Lecture...
Break...
EE120 Lecture...
Music Library for my Music 26ac listening assignments...
Dinner...
Slacked off way too much...
Yay! My cred card limit increased from $700 to $1200...
Gonna do homework now. Good Night!
Dice Roll of the Day: (4, 4) Total: 8
Tuesday, September 28, 2004 - Addendum--9:30am... EE105 Mudterm... NOOO!!!!!
Actually, it was easy, so it's all good.
EE122 Lecture... apparently, some people haven't finished their projects yet... sucks for them!
No EE105 Lab today because of the mudterm...
Music 26ac...
Kim: Why are you coming back out?
Me: I think you can guess why.
And then I ended up sitting next to her. There was a performance by the Yoshida brothers. They were like rock stars, except with traditional Japanese dress and traditional Japanese shamisen instruments (which were stringed, plucking instruments).
TBP Meeting... does CS (Computer Science) count as engineering? Most Berkeley Engineers think it doesn't, but then again, our CS major outside of EECS is pretty toned down.
Dinner at Xroads, during which I saw Steve, Tiffany, Eric, Allison, and Tammy, but Jen was gone, supposedly at the studio again. That girl is crazy... in a good way.
At 9pm, there was a chubby bunny contest, which I won. There were four contestants. Shashoto dropped out at only 3 marshmellows. The other two dudes dropped out at 9 and 10. I won with 10 marshmellows in my mouth and an audible but unintelligibly muffled "chubby bunny!" Oh, and I won two tickets (worth $5 apiece) to the ASUC dance on Saturday. I only need one... I wonder what I should do with the other one?
Dice Roll of the Day: (1, 1) Total: 2
Good Night!
Tuesday, September 28, 2004--Just because I can't wait...
Happy Birthday Sarah!!
And here's this year's gift to Miss Tseng... the rare promotional art to the Serra Angel...
Monday, September 27, 2004--A Year Ago Today: Cal PWNs USC! w00t!
Anyways, I skipped EE105 Discussion to finish my Music 26ac reading and questions that I madly needed to do. Fortunately, they limited the answers to 2 pages, so I just wrote short answers to fit within the two pages.
CS61c Lecture...
Lunch...
EE120 Lecture... I borrowed Tracy's Rubik's cube and tried repeatedly to solve it using the technique Olek taught me... and I failed repeatedly.
After Tracy asks me to turn in her homework for her...
Me: Sorry, Trace, I accidentally dropped your homework in the wrong box.
Tracy: ...I don't believe you.
Me: Nah, I'm just kidding... EE105, right?
Tracy: Haha!
Me: Okay, I should stop joking around now.
Music 26ac Discussion...
After dinner, I ended up attending this Gender Equity Workshop thingie in our lounge... when the dude was asking around for everyone's name, I said, "I'm Dwayne, and I have no idea why I'm here."
Fencing...
Must... sleep... !
Dice Roll of the Day: (4, 6) Total: 10
Good Night!
Sunday, September 26, 2004--I finally finished my EE122 project! w00t!
On an unrelated note, Wizards is having an Open Call for novelists. Sounds like something I could actually do! But first, I have to study up on the story for the invasion block and get some details right.
Dice Roll of the Day: (6, 6) Total: 12
Good Night!
Saturday, September 25, 2004--Today, I woke up and, to uphold a promise to a one Tracy Wang, I worked on my EE120 homework. After eating lunchfast and after playing MTG with the new gang at Eudemonia, I finished it.
Speaking of the gang at Eudemonia, me, Philip, Conor, Zech, Will, and Tom (who are trying to form the Cal MTG Club) showed up at Eudemonia to meet each other and to play. First, Zech and Tom played this white versus white uber-slow game while me and Will played Slivers versus non-Ravager Affinity. Then, finally, when everyone got settled down (after Will beat me, but before Tom and Zech finished), we played a 6-way FFA. Tom and Zech had to set their white versus white life-gain game aside, and they pulled out other decks to play in the FFA.
Philip used a green-white deck that featured a combo of Serra Avatar and Armadillo Cloak. I used my Slivers. Will a red-blue Lightning Rift-counter deck. Conor used a blue-green deck that works by getting out fatties and putting Dragon enchantments on them from the graveyard. Zech used a Sunburst deck. And Tom used a Tooth and Nail deck. I was dealing the early game damage with my Metal Slivers, knocking Will, Conor, and Zech down to 19 for no reason in particular. Philip played a Defense of the Heart, hoping to trigger off of my collection of slivers, but unfortunately, thanks to Will's excessive burning, he never had the chance. Shortly after that, the fast game ended and the power game began. Zech tried to play a Blue Bringer, which Will countered. Tom played a Tooth and Nail and tutored out a Darksteel Colossus and a Visara. Zech played a Door to Nothingness, which he would have had the mana for the next turn. "People always ask me if I have the mana, and I always do." Later killed with a Magma Jet and a Lit Bolt. (A bad 2-for-1 and played on my own turn, but I wanted to get in there and deal some damage without having to worry about Visara--the Colossus was tapped. On Tom's turn, he Tooth and Nailed again, this time for a second Colossus and an Akroma, then had his revenge on me by attacking me with the angel and the first Colossus. It was exactly enough to killed me (because Zech had hit me earlier with a 3/3 Suntouched Myr). Finally, with Tom at three creatures (and all quite mighty, too), Philip was able to pop his Defense of the Heart for his own Colossus and a Platinum Angel. The turn goes around... on Philips turn, he plays a Serra Avatar, and he's at 20 life! Equipping it with Lightning Greaves, he attempts to kill Will with the Avatar and Zech with the Colossus, but before he declares attackers, Will burns Zech to death. Then, realizing that he can save himself, he bounces the Lightning Greaves, thus the Avatar loses haste and he survives. Within a turn or two, Philip gets an Armadillo Cloak and manages to equip it onto the Serra Avatar with the Lightning Greaves and proceeds to kill everyone while growing around 60ish life. (Although he claims he once got up to 1016 Life with the Serra Avatar before.) Needless to say, it was the most high-power MTG game that I have played in a long time.
So then Zech and Tom try to finish their life gain game while Philip and I play some 1v1s. I use my Rat deck. He uses a deck with lots of zero-mana creatures, including Ornithopter, Phyrexian Walker, Kobolds of Kher Keep, and Crimson Kobolds. The premise of the deck is to use pumps like Giant Growth, Seal of Strength, Bonesplitters, Rancor, and the like to make his 0-mana creatures less weak. In any case, I manage to beat him twice because in his first game, he was mana-flooded (if the deck has more than 2 land, it counts as mana flooded), and the second game, because he lacked a reliable way to remove my Rats.
Later, I beat Conor with my Rat deck... apparently, they're weak against red and black (and any other deck with removal), but strong against green, white, and any blue deck without counters.
In any case, Zech and Tom finally finish when Tom decks out! Zech did nothing to force Tom to deck out. All that happened was that the game lasted for so long in an utter creature stalemate!
So this guy named Merlin shows up, and he played Philip some number of games. In any case, he plays out a--get ready--Chaos Confetti, saying that he always wanted to tear it up some day. So then, later, he tears it up while I'm trying to figure out how to use Zech's camera, and throws it over to Philip's side of the board, destroying 2 Mountains, a Mogg Fanatic, and a Seal of Removal. Zech managed to get a picture of it, though. Then, after Conor, Zech, and I piece together the torn Confetti (despite me bursting into laughter and blowing away the pieces sporadically), we take a picture of that. (Incidentally, there was a stray piece of another card, as seen by the red 1-mana symbol that was randomly sitting around that we accidentally picked up with the Chaos Confetti pieces. "And you thought that was just an urban legend." Well, urban legend no more! Someone tore up a Chaos Confetti!
And... that's about all I can remember about today's MTG fest. Now I gotta work on my EE122 Project. Excuse me!
Dice Roll of the Day: (5, 3) Total: 8
Two unrelated notes:
- Congratulations to Amy Hwang and Tracy Wang, both of whom made it into Tau Beta pi!
- Sarah's birthday is coming up. What should I get her?
Friday, September 24, 2004--CS61c Lab... toward the end of it, this dude was complaining that the labs were too short/easy...
CS61c Lecture...
EE122 Discussion...
And so begins my long journey to finish my EE122 project...
(Oh, I ended up going to fencing last night, by the way...)
Dice Roll of the Day: (5, 5) Total: 10...
So many ellipses... Good Night!
Thursday, September 23, 2004--My legs still hurt... that and I have a lot of work to do. I think I'll skip fencing today, mainly because it isn't fun if you're legs are frickin' sore and if you're worried about schoolwork in the back of your mind. Of course, I'll still drop by to pay my dues and tell Abdul I need to reschedule...
On an unrelated note, I had a dream last night in which Joyce Sakata (my next door neighbor) met Joyce Lai (my friend from the ARML). It was amusing to say the least... Joyce certainly was in character!
EE105 Lecture...
EE122 Lecture...
Lunch...
It was at this point that I realized that I had left my EE105 folder in the EECS Undergrad Lounge at 240 Cory, so I trekked back up to fetch up. I found it, but to my dismay, all my lecture notes had been stolen! That sucks because Boser doesn't put up his lecture notes online. What's most interesting is that whoever took my Lecture notes left my Lab notes... hmm...
Music 26ac... sat next to Kim again, but almost fell asleep on her because #1, we sat right next to each other rather than (as I normally do it) leave one seat between us (due to a room constraint), and #2, I was so frickin' tired...
Dinner... I ran into Fen at the DC, so I ended up eating with her.
Dice Roll of the Day: (4, 1) Total: 5
A piece of advice that applies to anything: "It's best not to think about it..."
Good Night!
Wednesday, September 22, 2004--Happy Birthday to my mother!
EE120 Discussion...
CS61c Discussion...
CS61c Lecture...
Lunchbreak...
EE120 Lecture...
Went to the Music Library to do my listening assignment...
The end...
Dice Roll of the Day: (6, 2) Total: 8
Good Night...
Tuesday, September 21, 2004--I woke up this morning and discovered my legs were sore and stiff. Ow!
A Year Ago Today: I beat FFTactics.
EE105 Lecture...
EE122 Lecture...
EE105 Lab... it took so long that I had to buy my lunch from the GBC and eat it during
Music 26ac...
Hanging out in the HKN Soda office...
TBP Meeting...
Upon getting back to my dorm...
Joyce: Oh, you're just in time for Double Jeopardy!
Me: Eh, you know I work late on Tuesdays...
I spent the rest of the night doing CS homework.
Dice Roll of the Day: (4, 6) Total: 10
MTG Mood Meter: Ow
Good Night!
Monday, September 20, 2004--The worst thing about updating late is that you forget stuff. Fortunately, that also means that anything I say is most definitely worth saying, because I have already forgotten things that aren't worth remembering.
EE105 Discussion...
CS61c Lecture...
Lunchbreak...
EE120 Lecture...
Later that night, I went fencing. At one point, I was like "Man, my legs are so tired... let's keep fencing!" It was clearly a mistake, because now (Tuesday and Wednesday), my legs are so frickin' sore that it's really hard for me to climb down stairs or down steep inclines. Grr...
Afterwards, we went to Ben & Jerry's for ice cream, though, so it's all good.
Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 5) Total: 8
Good Night!
Sunday, September 19, 2004--Sorry about the uber-late update. I've been busy as of late...
In any case, today, I went to try to do my homework, only to realize I left the book at Berkeley (which was where the homework problems were). So instead, I played the piano and looked pointedly at websites that I no longer remember.
Anyways, I later returned to Berkeley. Yay! I spent until roughly 2am checking EE120 answers with Tracy. Boo!
Dice Roll of the Day: (2, 2) Total: 4
Good Night!
Saturday, September 18, 2004--Woke up in the morning... played the piano... worked on my special project... drove parents to Chinese School to pick up my bro who had the other car...
Speaking of which, Frank got his driver's license today. It was his first try, and no less at Santa Teresa, with only two points against him. (For those of you who don't know, the Santa Teresa DMW is hard as hell...) Lucky for him, he's had 3 years of me driving, so that he could learn from my mistake.
Anyways, back to my story... lunch at McDonald's... ah, here's the meat of the entree:
Champions of Kamigawa Prerelease today!
Anyways, I showed up at about 1:30pm, and did some business (sold some of my lesser cards), and waited until 6:30pm before the 2nd Flight started. Man, I swear they started much earlier than this for Fifth Dawn. And the room they used today sucked, too. For Fifth Dawn, they had it in the Camino Room, but for Kamigawa, they had it in the Cardinal Room. (There's also a Stanford room... yes, the Prerelease was held in Palo Alto, but eh, what are you going to do about it. At least Berkeley still has Games of Berkeley and Eudemonia, and some of the best players in the world.)
Anyways, the promotional card was a Ryusei, the legendary red dragon.
I received one Tournament Pack and 2 Kamigawa boosters. Memorable cards include a foil Gibbering Kami, three Befouls (one of which was foil), Gutwrencher Oni (and a Blood Speaker to get it out), Akki Lavarunner/Tok-Tok, Volcano Born, 2 Reach Through Mists, a Peer Through Depths, a third Kitsune Healer, Samurai of the Pale Curtain (sweet artwork), Vassal's Duty, Budoka Gardener/Dokai, Weaver of Life, the black Myojin, and Shisato.
I decided to play a red/black deck, mainly because of triple Befoul and because red and black have so much removal! Here is my deck:
9 Swamps
8 Mountains
Lantern-Lit Graveyard
Nezumi Cutthroat
Cruel Deceiver
Kami of the Waning Moon
Bloodthirsty Ogre
2xNezumi Ronin
Gibbering Kami
Cursed Ronin
Blood Speaker
3xBefoul
Gutwrencher Oni
Akki Rockspeaker
2xBattle-Mad Ronin
Glacial Ray
Brutal Deceiver
Yamabushi's Flame
Hanabi Blast
Akki Lavarunner/Tok-Tok, Volcano Born
Sokenzan Bruiser
In my first round, I played this kid who went Blue-Black, I believe. The first game, I creamed him with my Gutwrencher Oni. The second game, he had my back to the corner half the time, but because he didn't know that once I declare blockers, the creature is blocked, so it saved me 8 damage (I won with 11 life, so it wouldn't have mattered anyway), but eventually I won, I think also with the Oni. In any case, he had the card Scuttling Death which was really annoying. That's the card he messed up on twice to save my life. I eventually blocked it with something else and both of our creatures died. Another time, he had a Cruel Deceiver, and I attacked into it with my Sokenzan Bruiser, hoping that he wouldn't reveal a land, and that I'd destroy his Deceiver outright. Well, I got lucky. (Or maybe not, considering most decks aren't more than 50% land.) In any case, it was a solid win. Record: 1-0
My second round was against a kid who went Green-White. I creamed him utterly, with the Oni, I believe. Not much memorable stuff in this round. Record: 2-0
At this point, I was getting nervous because I had never had such a good record going into the third round. However, I was happy because at this point, I was guaranteed a prize. (2-1-1 is the minimum to get prizes, and I could most likely draw fourth round to split prizes.) On an unrelated note, the guy sitting next to me offered to give me the last of his fries if I'd throw away his trash for him, which I did. Come to think of it, I never got dinner... I already forgot that I was hungry, but now that I think about it, I'm hungry!
Anyway, my third round was against this dude named Johnathon, who also played green-white, I believe. In any case, I creamed him the first game. Second game, I got out my Blood Speaker, but I sac'ed it too fast and revealed to him the Gutwrencher Oni, and he then decided to respond to my sac by burning the Blood Speaker to death. I decided to let him have it because technically I didn't stop to give him a chance to respond. In any case, he got out a Long-Forgotten Gohei, and proceeded to beat me down with his spirits. Third game, he got out two 3/2 flying white guys, and this one 3/2 non-flying white guy. (I forget their names.) In any case, I draw the Befoul I needed, but I played it on the non-flyer (who was untapped--I wanted to attack for damage) instead of on the flyer, which I couldn't block. As a result, he had a clock on me and eventually beat me despite my strugglings. Record: 2-1
My last round was against Greg, whom I had played in the 5th Dawn prerelease, who used Vedalken Shackles on me. (We drew last time.) Greg made a deal with me that whoever won would give the loser 2 boosters, so that no matter what happened, we'd both go home with some prizes. I offered to draw outright, partly because I didn't want to risk a booster and partly because I wanted to go home (it was 10pm), but Greg wanted to play, so we played. It turned out that it was a good thing I had accepted the 4/2 split. He was playing a black-white deck, and in the first game, I creamed him, using all three of my Befouls. At one point, he played a Bushi Tenderfoot, and double-enchanted it with Indomitable Will, and managed to kill a creature of mine, flipping it to become Kenzo the Hardhearted. It was insane, and I was worried (10 damage per turn, even though he was at 2 and I was at 20). In any case, I topdecked the third Befoul and killed him, and then won. Second game, I simply brutalized him. In neither game did I get out my Oni. Oh, well. Record: 3-1
So we split the 6 boosters and I got 4 of them. Memorable cards include: two more Reach Through Mists, a second Peer Through Depths, Kitsune Blademaster (sweet artwork), a fourth Befoul, a second Blood Speaker Honden of Life's Web, a Brothers Yamazaki (it's cool because you can have two without the legend rule kicking in), a second Vassal's Duty, Kitsune Mystic/Autumn-Tail, Kitsune Sage, Isamaru, and a Hisoka, Minamo Sensei.
One interesting story to tell: apparently there's a three card combo (Reach Through Mists, Peer Through Depths, and Sift Through Sands) that, when played in a single turn, allow you to summon The Unspeakable. It reminds me of using Dark Supplicant to summon the Scion of Darkness, except the Unspeakable isn't as good as the Scion, and the 3 instants are harder to pull of than sac'ing 3 random Clerics. Still, I feel like building a deck around it... maybe...
After that, I finally went home and arrived some time at 11:30. *yawn* It's getting late! Good Night to you all...
Dice Roll of the Day: (5, 2) Total: 7
Friday, September 17, 2004--Happy Birthday, Frank!
A Year Ago Today: I meet Tracy Wang... even though I mis-remembered her name as "Chelsea" instead.
I also need to add an "A Year Ago Today" to yesterday's entry.
CS61c Lab...
CS61c Lecture...
EE122 Discussion...
Then, I went home. w00t!
Also, that Chrono Trigger sheet music I ordered arrived! w00t!
Dice Roll of the Day: (4, 3) Total: 7
Last night, I had a dream that I was living in a dorm room with a little Asian girl named Joy O'Seiff. Apparently, her name was a combination of Joy(ce) O'(Reilly) and (Gabriel Na)ssif. How amusing... She wasn't that cute, though.
Good Night!
Thursday, September 16, 2004--EE105 Lecture...
EE122 Lecture...
Lunch...
Music 26ac Lecture... with Kim... there was an African American Ewe performance, a dance-drumming thing. We got dismissed early because the Ewe dudes finished early.
A Year Ago Today: I "met" Melody Hsu.
In any case, Joyce wants me to watch Jeopardy for her while she's at the Architecture shop tour... she's becoming more like Jen every day.
This is being typed in the middle of the show. I'll tell you if Ken Jennings is still winning some other day. (As of yesterday's airing, he's up to 46-days.)
I also have fencing tonight, which I will have to tell you about later.
Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 6) Total: 9
Good Night!
Wednesday, September 15, 2004 - Addendum--On my way to EE120 today, I ran into Vy, one of the girls from the Cheney 7th floor last year. Apparently, she remembers me, and she actually thought I was older than her. I dunno why... Apparently, she doesn't know me too well, but then again, I don't know her very well either, outside of this commercial:
Vy: (speaking of the Harry Potter Books) ...but he's part moogle, too!
Me: You mean muggle. Don't confuse moogles with muggles, my dear.
Vy: Ahaha... moogles are cute!
Me: Yes they are.
Also, Vivian Liu IMed me today... WTF?!?
Wednesday, September 15, 2004--"It's best not to think about it..."
EE120 Discussion... but Tracy wasn't there...
CS61c Discussion...
CS61c Lecture...
Lunch...
EE120 Lecture... apparently Tracy had some mad programming to do for this cs162 project, so she missed class. In anycase, Anantharam spent the entire lecture trying (and failing) to teach the class how to solve differential and difference equations. It was boring, since I figured it out just by looking at one slide. (I slept through most of the lecture.) Of course, I had learned differential equations before, so I had an advantage. Who says high school is useless?
Went to the Music Library to listen... the African Drum Gahu is pretty cool!
Dinner...
Slacking...
Dice Roll of the Day: (2, 4) Total: 6
Some random person with the AIM "yubiquee" is IMing me. Kellie knows who it is, but she's not divulging any information.
Anyways, Good Night!
Tuesday, September 14, 2004--EE105 Lecture... For some reason, I decided to sit next to Daisy today, even though Daisy and I don't exactly get along for reasons beyond the scope of this Journal entry.
EE122 Lecture...
EE105 Lab... it was on a circuit simulator called SPICE, invented at Berkeley.
Quick lunch at the GBC...
Music 26ac... I sat between Kim and Vincent (who is also a TBP officer). Anglo-American religious music... yum...
Then, Vince and I went to the Foothill DC because it was more convenient than walking 15 minutes to X-roads and walking all the way back for the TBP Officer meeting. At the DC, we ran into 4 other TBP dudes and Daisy, who declined to sit with us because "there was no room at the table".
Me: I think she declined because of me.
Vikram: Yeah, I think it is your fault.
Again, refer to the first paragraph of this entree.
TBP meeting... Robert gave me a gigantic stack of old TBP president contact info and wanted me to contact them to fill out some form etc etc.
Dice Roll of the Day: (4, 4) Total: 8
Ahh... Good Night!
Monday, September 13, 2004--EE105 Discussion... apparently, our TA has an AIM SN... how amusing...
CS61c Lecture...
Lunch break...
EE120 Lecture... since Tracy opted to sit somewhere that I did not want to sit, I fell asleep during lecture. Oh, and Block Dude level 7 is so frickin' annoying.
I went to the Music Library to do the listening. However, while listening to the second song, the comp I was using broke down, so I hopped from one computer to another trying to find one that worked. I saw Kim while I was hopping around. Unfortunately, I still couldn't find a working comp. Then, Kim left, and I immediately moved into her vacant seat because her comp was working.
Dinner...
Fencing...
Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 5) Total: 8
It's getting late... so, Good Night!
Sunday, September 12, 2004--Today, I spent lots of time doing my homework because I had a lot of it due Monday and I had put it all off until today... hey, I like having my Fridays and Saturdays free!
So... yeah, I was doing homework until dinner time...
Dice Roll of the Day: (1, 5) Total: 6
Short entry! Good Knight!
Saturday, September 11, 2004--How about a moment of silence for the tragic events that happened today 3 years ago...
...
(This is funny because, unless you read my website aloud, my website is always silent.)
...
Okay, so today, I worked on my secret project, and then I went to the football game (although not with the same group of people I wanted to go with... they decided to stay in their dorms and do homework on a Saturday! Who the fork does homework on a Saturday, anyway?). In any case, we creamed the New Mexico Aggies (what the hell is an aggy, anyway?) so badly that it was a boring game. We won 41-14 in the end. At least the final score was a palindrome!
Other than that,
Dice Roll of the Day: (6, 4) Total: 10
MTG Mood Meter: Eyes of the Watcher
Good Night!
Friday, September 10, 2004--CS61c Lab...
CS61c Lecture...
EE122 Discussion... So many people doing a last minute homework rush... which I turned in later.
Friday! Yay!
AO... secret project... Food... Dice Roll of the Day: (5, 6) Total: 11... Good Night!
Thursday, September 9, 2004--H[censored]... WTF?!? Oh, shit!
EE105 Lecture...
EE122 Lecture...
Lunch...
EE120 Lecture...
Dinner...
Fencing...
Homework...
I stayed up until 2:30am doing homework... because I'm a slacker...
Dice Roll of the Day: (4, 5) Total: 9
Good Night!
Wednesday, September 8, 2004--EE120 Discussion...
CS61c Discussion...
CS61c Lecture...
Lunch...
EE120 Lecture... Tracy had a muffin she wanted to get rid of, so she tried to feed it to me... it kept me awake during the second half of the lecture. It was a very convoluted lecture... he spent over an hour on convolutions.
(Speaking of convolutions, doesn't the world "convoluted" imply the word "convolute"? Yet, ZolaOnAol recognizes "convoluted", but not "convolute". How... strange...)
Anyways, afterwards, I went to the Music Library to listen to some music. Then, I ate dinner. Now, I'm slacking off.
Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 4) Total: 7
There's more I could write, but I'm getting lazy. I'll put 'em up as addendums some other day. Good Night!
Tuesday, September 7, 2004--EE105 Lecture...
EE122 Lecture...
EE105 Lab...
Late lunch at GBC...
Last night, I found out Kim was in my Music 26ac Lecture, so I met up with her and was about to sit with her today, but she sat too close to the front for comfort, so I ditched her and sat somewhere else. Don't worry about Kim, though. She certainly didn't mind my ditching her.
TBP Meeting... watching Karen type up the meeting minutes is amewsing...
Late dinner at Xroads...
Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 2) Total: 5
Good Night!
Monday, September 6, 2004--Did some homework because I shouldn't slack off this whole long weekend... even though I probably did, but I did do some homework.
After returning to Berkeley... well, there's really not much of this story to tell.
Dice Roll of the Day: (4, 5) Total: 9
Short entree. Good Night!
Sunday, September 5, 2004--It occured to me. Kim = Sarah. How amusing... I can't let that happen again. Although Ke and Mark will claim that Kim = Cindy, but those two comparisons are based on two totally different things.
In any case, on the MTG Worlds 2004 Live Webcast today, I got to see Affinity LOSE, LOSE, and LOSE... and the whole thing was won by a 15-year-old kid. Wow...
And... umm... that's all folks!
Dice Roll of the Day: (5, 1) Total: 6
Good Night!
Saturday, September 4, 2004--It finally came down to it, huh...
(Final Fantasy 8) *8*Apparently, FF8 isn't quite as easy as I thought. There's something called Sorceress Adel, who can be quite a bitch (in more than one way). She kicked my ass repeatedly in combat, and for once, I need to actually think about a strategy to beat her. (Haven't had to do this since FF5, methinks.)
Of course, part of the reason is that Seifer carries a stock of Auras which I can Draw off of, and Auras are very powerful because they allow me to use Limit Breaks at high HP, and Limit Breaks are very powerful.
But still, the only way I can imagine myself having a chance of beating Adel is a suicide blitz. Deal enough damage to kill her before she kills me. With or without Aura, I'm dead as soon as she casts Ultima.
Thankfully, I know that Quistis' Homing Laser deals a good 6k to Adel and Zell has godly powerful Limit Breaks, so if I could just get that up and running, Adel will be Adead in no time.
...but I prolly won't get a chance to try it until next week.*8*
After that, I read the MTG coverage for Worlds 2004, then went to sleep at around 3am, planning to wake up at 8:30am to see the live webcast at 9am.
Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 5) Total: 8
Good Night!
Friday, September 3, 2004--Ahh... Friday...
So I did the CS61c Lab within an hour, and therefore got the extra credit. Yay!
After a short break, CS61c Lecture... The Kilo Mega Giga etc mnemonics are quite humorous, yo!
EE122 Discussion was cancelled this week, so I played some more WoW while waiting for my mom to pick me up.
And then when I finally got home, after playing WoW for another few hours, I finally got bored of it... solo'ing gets old, ya know? And I'm not a multiplayer player... unless you mean a different kind of player...
Dice Roll of the Day: (5, 1) Total: 6
Zugzug! Good Night!
Thursday, September 2, 2004--My excuse for not updating until Sunday is that I just got the World of Warcraft beta stress test today, so I was up playing it.
A Year Ago Today: Abhishek Mishra makes his first appearance in my online journal.
In anycase, my day started out with an EE105 Lecture...
...which was followed by an EE122 Lecture...
...which was followed by a lunch break at the GBC...
After resting up a bit in my dorm, I went to my Music 26ac Lecture...
It was only after dinner that I checked my e-mail and realized that I had the WoW beta, so I set about downloading and installing it. However, it was f~~~ing huge, and I eventually went to fencing while it was still downloading.
When I got back, it had finally finished, so I set about the long process of installing it. Finally, I played and went to sleep at an (uber-late) 3am.
Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 6) Total: 9
Good Night!
Wednesday, September 1, 2004--Early in the morning, I decided that the lines at Copy Central were short enough for me to grab a copy of the Music 26ac reader... so I did.
9am EE120 Discussion... Basically, we just go over sample problems, except the TA made a mistake on one.
10am CS61C Discussion... which is directly before
11am CS61C Lecture...
Lunch at the GBC...
2pm EE120 Lecture... it's like a review of EE20.
Afterwards, I went to the Music Library to do the listening for Music 26ac. Then, I went to grab the cards Justin ordered. Finally, after a long uphill battle, I went to a TBP Officer meeting, the majority of which did not concern me because I would not be going on the retreat for various raisins.
Belated dinner at the Crossroads...
Now...
Dice Roll of the Day: (3, 1) Total: 4
Good Night!