It's "Monday, bloody Monday..." Yeah I know, the line's supposed to be "Sunday, bloody Sunday" but fuck that shit, today's Monday, not Sunday. So i bought my ticket for the Dashboard Confessional concert on April 14th at Earthlink Live. What a retarded name for a concert venue. I liked the old name better. I don't remember what it was, but it was definitely a much better name. Damn corporates... trying to advertise and further their business without even realizing how much the name sucks, which could possibly even detract from their business image. So anyway, Dashboard Confessional is basically a solo act featuring the punk acousticisms of Chris Carrabas. I think that's how you spell it... hopefully. So anyway, for you blind faithful drones of mainstream popular music... check out "Screaming Infidelities," since that's the song they decided to release to radio. But for you audio kamikazes, venture into the simple but amazing "Again I Go Unnoticed," my personal favorite Dashboard Confessional song.

    Title says it all... what the shit... I have fucking mono. My liver is swollen, I look 8 months pregnant, and it hurts a lot, too. My face is swollen, I look like Staypuft from Ghostbusters. Anyway... Michelle Branch played at the Cotton Club on Tuesday. Yeah, I didn't go. Good thing too, they fucking SOLD OUT of tickets. Who would've thought MICHELLE BRANCH would sell out? I thought I was the only one who thought she was hot. And what's going on with music in general... bands I listened to last year are suddenly being played on the radio. Like last year it was A New Found Glory, now it's Unwritten Law, Dashboard Confessional and Saves the Day. I had no idea, but apparently they all have videos on MTV. What the shit happened. Nah, I'm very happy for them, they deserve it. Punk is making a comeback. Well, at least melodic emo punk... I'm just waiting for Alkaline Trio to bust out, yo. Unwritten Law, Dashboard Confessional, and Saves the Day are amazing bands, but Alkaline Trio's like a step above that. Amazing shit. Since today's theme is "what the shit?"... ok, what the shit is Keli thinking not wanting to talk to me ever again? From what I understand, every time we talk makes her sadder, so she has to cut off communication completely? I don't get this girl. Nah, I'm not too pissed about it. Just dumbfounded. Ok, and what the shit is up with physics 2?! Like the more I study for that damn class, the worse I do. It's like fucking inversely proportional to my grade. I should stop studying. Then I'll make hundreds. My new theme song: Simple Plan - "I'm Just a Kid." New Canadian punkrockers. Album hits sometime in May. Another band that's going to make it big. Their shit is tight. Buy their album when it comes out... in-fucking-credible.

    Dear diary... today was a horrid day. There were bad bad things that happened. Yeah right, I'm not a girl, so let's stop this diary nonsense... So anyway, Yes, that's a random picture of my hand. I was playing with a scanner. It was fun. Countless hours wasted... So my pinky looks gnarled and twisted, although it's not that bad in real life... it's just like that cuz of the aliasing that occurs when you shrink a large image to a really small one with weird ratio... yep. College rears it's ugly head. So, dude, that means I've actually learned something in college! Gee golly willickers, maybe this college thing may work out after all. Five years left, oh how I'm looking forward to those...

Shouts to mah peeps of Metroflow holdin' it down in HOT-lanta! YEEAHH!!

    Hey, I just registered for classes. It was nerve-racking, suspenseful, and fun. Wait, not really. What a relief. Anyway, it was easy to get all my classes since I have junior standing... yeah, lots of credit hours, but they don't mean jack. In my major classes, I'm actually going to be a first semester sophomore. Yeah... it's all because of stupid physics II. I couldn't fit it into my schedule this past summer, and I didn't realize that it was a prerequisite for the REST of my major classes. So that sucks fat donkey hooves. Well, except for 1 class: digital design lab. So I'm taking only my 3rd major class, and I'm a junior. How sad. I'm going to have so many extraneous hours by the time I graduate... Hmm, so that means the Hope Scholarship will expire before I graduate, I think. They have some sort of max credit hours they'll pay for... so I think I'll have to pay full tuition my last 1 or 2 semesters. More suckiness. Anyway, without further ado or garrulous loquatiousness, here's my spring 2002 schedule:

Tell me if you think I'm crazy for taking physics II (that notorious time-consuming monster), diff eq, and another lab (digital design). Yeah, I'll be locked in my room for 3.5 months straight, but I can take it. I hope. Hope a semester away from school hasn't made me soft... at least I'm getting enough sleep now, you know, saving up for those allnighters and such for next semester. Hmm... 16 hours ain't so bad, right? Ok, so. Oh yeah, yesterday I never finished up my music thing I was going on about... my bad, i got distracted by that car... ooh... yum. Okok. So one of my all time favorite bands that I listened to this summer is that great emo punk band with off-the-wall lyrics and hauntingly calming vocals:

Well, it's hauntingly calming until you realize what he's saying. Prime example, "Radio":

Shaking like a dog shitting razor blades,
waking up next to nothing,
after dreaming of you and me,
waking up all alone waking up so relieved,
while you're taking your time with apologies
I'm making my plans for revenge..."

and later on in the song:

I wish you,
would take my radio to bathe with you,
plugged in and ready to fall..."

Other good songs..."Stupid Kid," "I'm Dying Tomorrow," "Sorry About That," "Crawl,"... ok, just get their latest album "From Here to Infirmary." It's blazin phat, kids. Peace out.

    Crazy cool local punk band in Atlanta: Six Ways, formerly know as Six Ways From Wednesday, formerly known as the Chimpunx. Check out "Never Seems to End,"Yesterday I Thought I Knew You," "Ice Cream Man." Great songs. Oh, those songs were recorded when they were the Chimpunx. As Six Ways, "Say Hello to Minnesota" is phat. So Fenix TX is coming to town ("town is classified as anywhere within 3 hours of here since the nearest decent sized city is about 2.5 hours away, be it Nashville or Louisville...) next week. But I don't really have anyone to go with. So I don't know... Good Charlotte is here tomorrow... Nickelback is coming at the end of the month some time...

Still have nothing much to do here. So lonely. Only 2 months til I return to ATL. Can't wait. Small town life is totally not for me. Cool city, nice and laid back, great friendly people... but I've never lived any place so small. I'm city through and through. I'd prefer skyscrapers and heavy aggressive traffic to vast flat farm land any day. It's nice, but it's getting old. Oh yeah, about my previous rant and rave... I didn't mean it when I said I "hate" this place and all those bad sterotypes about this town and Christians, I was just frustrated and homesick. Yeah, I'm a hotheaded little kid. Oh well, so call me a dick. So... class registration tomorrow. 4:20. Good time. Oh, wait, but that's EASTERN time! Good thing I remembered that... gotta register as soon as possible. I need my classes.

Fuck yeah. Me want. Drool... Ferrari 360 Modena Spider. Gotta go with the Spider cuz with the horses that thing puts out, you gotta feel the wind in your face. 0-60 in under 4.5 seconds... oh, my nuts. For you less flashy folks that are turned off by the classic Ferrari Red...

I think it's time... You guys are finally ready for this. Let me introduce you... my people, Michelle Branch; Michelle Branch, my people. She's so cute. So here's a simple math equation for you... girl + guitar = ??. Yes, it = Michelle... and it also = Utopian Reality of Perfection. Hell yeah. So she plays guitar, she can sing, she's cute, and she writes her own music. What more could you ask for? Well, besides all that seated in a deep blue Nissan Skyline GTR (R34). That comes later... But yeah, it's all good. At least pop music is coming back with what could be called "real" music. I hate that prepackaged, overprocessed-sounding, image-conscious type of music aimed at preteen, hyperactive, super-hormone-saturated, obsessive girls. Grr... I have to chill... calm down... goodbye.

    Hi. I am back. I think. Nine months has it been? So... you would think since I'm in east-bumblefuck Kentucky that I'd have time to work on this page. Ok, yeah, I actually do. I've just been too lazy. Cuz I'm a lazy-ass. Umm... I'm blue. I hate this place. NOTHING to do. Way too religious. I think every single year at this time, Halloween becomes a huge controversy... whether churches should recognize this as a special event to entertain their children, or shun its celebrations because of it's pagan origins. Well who the fuck cares? Children have no idea that it's pagan. They probably don't even know what "pagan" is. All they want is to have a little fun, dress up in costumes, and get as much candy as they can carry. Fuck this shit, I hate these "righteous" Christians here who, in an attempt to purify their lives, end up arguing over something pointless. Halloween, at this time, this present age, is totally commercialized; it's lost all of its original purpose. Not to badmouth Christianity, I just think some retards take things to far. To clarify, I respect Christianity, its core beliefs are similar to mine, just as most people would find with ALL religions... basic love for yourself and others. But... but I find that Christianity is quite contradictory in many ways... that's for another discussion on another day. Goodness. I feel so out of place here. First, I'm Asian. The only other Asian people I've seen here are my roommate and a woman at work. Most everyone else is a typical smalltown Kentuckian - redneck if you will. Second, I'm Buddhist. Churches line the streets here. You'll see at least 2 on every street. Third, this place is totally conservative. Support for Bush everywhere, you know, from those NRA people. Yep. Every other person here is a hunter or NASCAR fanatic. Confederate bumper stickers on every pickup truck (which, by the way, outnumber regular cars at least 10:1). And those of you that know me, sometimes I dress a little differently... my hair, my clothes... you know. I sometimes get weird looks. I think I scare some people. They treat me differently. Like Kroger today... It was kinda busy, traffic jams here and their down the aisles... This old-ass lady, headed towards me stops in the middle of the aisle to check out something on the shelf. I start moving forward and she looks up at me and gives me the subtlest look of disdain, and goes right back about her business, not moving an inch to let me by. Bitch. I don't know if she's like that to everyone or not, but she needs a reality check. Just cuz she's an ugly fucker with some money doesn't mean she's the shit. She might be "shit," but definitely not "the shit." Huge difference. If she were the shit, she wouldn't be doing the shopping herself struggling to read the labels with her failing vision trying to keep a healthy diet. Who cares, she's gonna die soon anyway. And I had 2 other similar encounters at Kroger today. I don't what's up these people's asses today. God, I'm so pissed. So look at this picture. Amicalola Falls this summer. I'm buff (not really):

    Hey kids. More suckiness is at hand. Too much homework. That's why I'm doing this now. Hey... I got a postcard from Keli yesterday. yay. I win. HI KELI. Oh, also, we (meaning me, Jacob, Jared, Thomas, and Sachin) filled up Matt's car with packing peanuts last night as a belated birthday gift. See lots and lots of pictures here. I'll put up more pics soon of when Matt discovered his car's new found occupants. Oh, and I'll put up the pic of me making a packing peanut angel from the remains after he cleaned out his car.

    You know what sucks? Shadowrealm went private on Galaxynet. So now I can't get my small sized movies easily anymore. Now it's all larger avi's or divx or vcd's. Oh well. Bye bye.

    Boo-hoo. Keli's gone again. Suck. At least 2 months before I see her again...if my dad let's me go to France...

So, a new year, the REAL millennium, and I am one year older. Big fat one-nine. Yet, I've been told I act nothing like that... I'm supposedly more like 14 years old or so. Ok, well, I've finished my style sheet implementation and some minor improvements along the way, although most everyone will probably not notice any changes. But that's ok. School starts in 4 days. That's not ok. And neither is Keli leaving me again. *2 months* - comforting thought. So, uh, yeah, I'm tired for some reason, so I'm going to bed. G'night.

    Hey! Last night, when I was bored (isn't that when crazy stuff starts happening?) I was flipping through channels on tv, and paused on the Discovery Channel. I saw some weird faceless hairy thing laying stagnant on a sterile operating table, all bloody and full of neatly ordered holes. A little time passed, and through a little more in depth listening and observation, the hairy mass turned out to be a scalp. The scalp was attached to this middle aged dude who was going bald. He was getting a hair transplant. It was really quite disgusting. I'm not sure how the holes were made in his scalp... maybe a drill? But anyway, the doctor put in these yellowish white chunks of something into each bloody hole. I assume those were the implants. It took the doc almost 2 hours to fill in like 431 holes. Very disgusting. And bloody. Why would anyone go through this? It's almost worse than a combover. The implants lay dormant for up to a year before they start growing, so until that point, you have very unsightly round wounds/scars where the implants were placed. If I start going bald, I am definitely going to let nature take its course. None of this nastiness or other useless attempts at trying to conceal my hair loss. Eww.

    So, this whole winter break I've been chillin' with Keli, watching my vast collection of divx-type movies ("vast" = 56 movies, not really too many), and nothing else worth mentioning. But, things I have NOT been doing include studying for finals...for the first time ever in my life, the semester ended BEFORE the break. So that's tight yo. Umm... I've watched about 30 movies thus far, averaging almost 3 per day. Yep. lots of time to waste. Last night I watched Men In Black. It was an ok movie. Right now, I'm sort of recoding the html for this webpage. I'm attempting to use a cascading style sheet to reduce the coding clutter that you do not see. Oh, and learned how to change the colors on the scrollbar to your right (I think this only works in IE 5.0). It looks so bad-ass now. It's not fully implemented yet, though. My about page is the only completely updated page, so you can go check that out if you wish. I have quite a few more pages to work on. so, yeah, just more stuff to waste more time, of which I have PLENTY at the moment. Bye bye now.

    Oh, wait, I've got a cool picture for you. I'm so proud of this pic. It was taken after our intramural team won the B-League soccer championship game. We were celebrating, and a teammate wanted to lift me up over his head, so he did. Until he dropped me. On my head. I think it might have hurt, I don't remember. But I do remember stumbling around for a few minutes and the headache i had the rest of the night. Oh, the fun we had. Click on the pic for the larger version.

It looks like I'm breakdancing in the air! Yeah! Mid-air windmill. I am the greatest breaker ever! Well, almost, you know, except for all those other breakers who are better than me. Ok, I'm done.

    Hey, check it out. My perfect schedule:

This is awesome! Well, except for the fact that the music class is already freaking filled up. Bastards. So now need to find a class to replace that. Hmm... got some time, though. Registration is Nov. 11 @ 2:45 for me. Registration started Nov. 1st, but that was for seniors. Since I'm a freshman... well at least I register on the first day possible for freshman registration. Anyway, this semester ends in less than a month. I can't wait.

    At the moment, the election results have still not been finalized. Freakin' Florida, man... it was a crucial state. And still is. Gore must pull it off or else Bush will mess us up! Anyone see that SNL skit last Saturday? Well that's what I'm talking about.

    Napster is in cahoots with BMG! I can't believe they are negotiating a subscription service. Well, at least we'll still have Napigator.

    Remember that cool robot dog from Real World that Road Rules stole? Well one can be yours for a little pocket change: just under $1400. These things rock.

    Check out FlexNet, Hawaii's 1st ISP... good stuff. But check out the 3rd sentence on their main page:

We don't have a tech support staff, so you have to know what you are doing.

More random quotes from FlexNet:

We Rock.

...we will kick your butt (and modem) out of FlexNet.

FlexNet users re-sell our services...We don't mind, as long as you provide adequate support for your customers because we certainly won't.

You've Got a Mind. Time to Exercise It.

This concludes yet another random update cuz I didn't feel like doing homework. Later.

    This is Austin, coming in live from Georgia Tech. Well, since I got here, everything has been great, except for classes. I could do without the actual schooling part of college. I love not having to report to my parents about my whereabouts, the freedom to do whatever, and the blazing fast internet connection. The only sucky thing is that, *sigh*, Keli came back for a week and a half from her summer vacation, only to leave me again to head off to college in France. I miss her already. Only four months until she returns for Christmas. Can't wait.
    My classes: Calculus I, Intro to Computer Science, English II, Psychology 1000, History Technology and Science In the Industrial Age, and Health.
    Man, this page has gone to shit. I can't think of anything to do for it. I must have webpage-writer's block... I was thinking of a phat new redesign, but I don't think I'll have enough time for that. And I also wanted to add a whole bunch of pics and stuff. And some new random pages or something. But I don't know... some day.

    Hello hello. Another archival update; = shorter page loading time. This past week I discovered an mp3 player made by Sonic Foundry called Siren Xpress. The sound quality seems better than Winamp at times, but the normalizing sucks. I think it emphasizes pops and cracks. Furthermore, in my opinion, there are a lot of needless functions, while it also lacks certain functions Winamp has. It also uses more resources than Winamp. The skinning capabilities rule, though. Much better than Winamp in that respect. I've been working on a skin for the past day and a half. It's a pretty cool little program, but I guess I'm just used to Winamp, so Winamp beats out Siren.

    This is what you would call a kick ass mirror - a mirror made of wood. It was on display at SIGGRAPH 2000, a computer graphics conference, in New Orleans. Each cube of the mirror is a wooden block with a tiny digital camera in the middle. The cameras' images are processed by a computer that changes the angle of each block. At the top, you can see a light beaming down on the blocks. The light creates a shadow on each block, with the lightness/darkness dictated by the angle. I definitely want one for my dorm room.

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