Random Notes

Just a few random things I'd like to say.

1) My life is pretty boring. I wake up, eat, play games, chat online, and that's about it. I feel lazy, I need to go to the gym. All that work I put in this summer at the gym feels like it has gone to waste in the last 2 weeks.

2) I'm slowly starting to play less Warcraft. The game has gotten pretty boring to me. I'm completely done with playing the regular game but maybe I will play the custom games for a bit more with my brother and a few friends. Final overall record? 394-376. Not bad. What am I going to do now? Who knows, maybe spend more time at the gym? Perhaps read the Davinci Code that I've been wanting to read for the past year or so now? More basketball and tennis? Hang out with friends more? Maybe even study! By not playing warcraft it frees up a lot of my time.

3) I'm going to try to use as little Microsoft
as possible. Microsoft has grown into a big ass monopoly and their products suck. It's so buggy and crashes all the time and there are so many loopholes and exploits its almost unreliable. Luckily for us there are open source programs (i.e. Firefox), which is good because its free and anybody in the world can edit the program to make it better. 5 billion minds is better than all those minds at Microsoft.

4) Google owns the Internet. I mean, any company that can change a word from a noun (A Google is a number with 100 zeros) to a verb ("Don't know what it is? Just google it.) definately has an impact. Their search engine rocks, we all know that, but what people don't know is that they have pretty kick ass programs too. Google Earth gives you a satellite image of any address in the world. Wow. Google Desktop is pretty cool too but not the best imo. Google Talk will be the next AIM (Down with AOL!). Did you know that Google owns this kick ass blogger as well? Google vs. Microsoft? It has already begun.

5) Whenever I listen to a song, I attribute it to a time of day, season, weather condition, and action. For instance, right now I'm listening to "Be" by Common, and I thinking about a sunny, windy fall afternoon when I'm on my computer programming with the windows open. Now I'm listening to "Sex, Love, and Money" by Mos Def, and I'm thinking about a muggy, rainy summer night when I'm walking outside. I dunno...a little weird?

6) Sometimes I wonder why friends come and go. Why did I meet them in the first place if after 3-4 years we lose touch? Does every person I meet impact the person I am today? What is the purpose of meeting them? More on this later.

That is all for now.

Lessons learned from a vacation

A few things I learned from my recent trip to Miami, Key West, Cozumel, etc.

1) You know the woman that announces which seats board the airplane to avoid mass backups in the aisle? Yeah it doesn't really matter.

2) When you double up your money in a cash game of poker, you really should leave the table.

3) From #2, April 1, 2006 will not be a good day for my financial future.

4) Canadians say funny things. Funniest thing I heard though was when this Canadian girl (whom shall remain nameless) said "As if we are leaving tomorrow!". What confused my cousin and I was that she said it as a matter of fact, not as sarcasm. Naturally, our reply was "But, we ARE leaving tomorrow..." and Canada bashing began.

5) Vietnamese people don't get sunburn.

6) Going in a group of 22 people is way to chaotic.

7) I hate beer.

I can't think of anything else.

Reality Check

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You readers are in for a special treat! For the first time in a while I have made 2 posts on consecutive days. That's right, before you even had a chance to read my previous post I'm hitting you up with another one. Lucky you.

First off in regards to my summer goals:
1) bench press 185 pounds (I've done it...but today I dropped it)
2) curl 105 pounds (95 pounds twice...105 negatives)
3) gain -15 pounds. (i've given up on this one...)
4) learn a new programming language (css becoming a lot more readable to me...as you can tell from my blog)
5) drink bubble tea with friends and introduce at least 5 people to t'licious
(reintroduced 2 people)

Anyways this post is meant to be a reality check. For all of those who have been living in this dream world for the (insert floating point # here) (insert unit of time here) and now have hit a low point which you haven't experienced in quite some time. Welcome to life. Life isn't meant to be perfect. Sure there are high points, but those high points are only rewards for getting through the hard times in life, and going from the high life to rock bottom is the most difficult part in life. However, one can only get stronger by sucking up and dealing with it. I feel that this is the difference between successful people and deadbeats. Successful people can deal with hardships and deadbeats just keep on whining about how much their life sucks and don't do anything about it. And when I say successful I don't mean financially wise, I mean happiness wise.

I got totally side-tracked so I'll stop it at that.

Point is, do not live in the past when everything was so great, one will not grow that way. Learn from the hardships and mistakes and move on.

That is what I have learned. I have learned that computer science is not for me. I am good at programming, the camaraderie among other comp sci majors is great and I thought I would really enjoy it once I got out of school, but then I take this ING Direct internship and I see what a lot of comp sci majors do...and I don't like it. I dread going to work everyday cause everyday is the same old shit...look at the monitor and watch for something to break. Other people rack servers and make sure they are running smoothly, others make sure people can get their email. It's quite boring. The other interns have learned something practical to their studies, but the most important thing I got out of this is that this is NOT what I want to do for the rest of my life. And I realized why I did collections for 3 years and why collections was the only job I've ever had prior to this. It was because it was what I was meant to do. Maybe not collections in general, but to help people earn money, get out of debt, help them become successful financially and emotionally, that is what I really want to do. And it took a job that I thought would be better than collections to show me that.

Thanks ING Direct.

Hope this made sense to everybody.