To my dearest Secret Santa (or whoever else wants to buy me a gift)

There are a few things I wouldn't mind seeing when we exchange gifts sometime this Christmas break. (in no particular order)

1) Everybody knows I have no sense in fashion. A new outfit would be cool. New jeans at least.
2) I need new dress shirts. (My size is 16, 34-35) Here are the options:
a) An olive green shirt with matching tie.
b) A brown shirt with matching tie.
c) A blue shirt with matching tie.
d) A grey shirt with matching tie.
e) Ties that match a black, maroon (Concord HS shade), or dark blue dress shirt.
3) A Wiimote for my Wii.
4) For those of you who really want to drop $$ on me, a Tempur-Pedic pillow. My "memory-foam" pillow sucks.
5) Brookstone is always a good option. Well...except for the deer repellent...I don't really have much use for that.
6) The Google Store is still open...
7) A set of 2.1 computer speakers (2 speakers, subwoofer)

A big thanks to my secret santa, whoever you are! Even though I could look right now...man I'm tempted....but I won't. Does writing a computer program that does secret santa make me a dork? Anyways, I digress. To the person receiving my gift, you'll like it. Hopefully. Though I haven't actually finished shopping yet WHICH IS WHY I NEED A LIST FROM ALL OF YOU!

K THX
-Luan

I can't believe its over.

Another semester.  Another semester I thought I wasn't going to pass.  Another semester I somehow managed to pass.  This has been by far the most difficult semester I've dealt with, but I have learned so much, grown up so much, yet I still don't know where I'm going.  

What have I learned, you ask?  Well:

a) This new version of Blogger sucks.  It won't wrap the lines correctly, as you will see later in the blog.  

1) I am never alone.  Even when I think nobody knows what I'm going through, that they can't help me, someone will.  They may be someone you expect it from, you may meet someone new, but somebody will ALWAYS be in the same boat you are in.  I didn't know anybody in my CISC group this semester (with the exception of that ASSHOLE Tom, yeah if you are reading this I'm calling you out you worthless son of a bitch.) Our grades depended on how well we worked on this project.  We all depended on each other to pass our last CISC requirement.  They were the ones that helped me through this the most.  To tell you the truth, as much as CISC475 sucked, I'm glad I was the team leader of my group.  I wouldn't have wanted to work with any other team but mine.  It was a pleasure.  Tom, I hope you fail.  You deserve it and you know it.  The entire class knows about it.   
And Leipold knows about it.   Good luck next semester, ass.  

Not only that, the encouragement I got from my friends was incredible.  The support was awesome. 

In short, thank you to all who was there for me. 

2)  I'm two semesters away from the end.  I'm on month 14 of 20 straight months in school with no break.  I'm ready for a big break.  None of this 2 week 
bullshit.  I'm ready for a full out vacation with O'hana in the summer without any worries.  I 
think I deserve it?
So far its been tough, but it's coming to an end, and I cannot wait for the final semester.  Bring it!

3)  As for my future, I thought I figured out what I want to do, but it turns out I haven't a clue.  I
thought financial advising was the right field for me, but now I'm starting to have my doubts.  Do
I really want to talk to clients all day?  The job has no travel opportunities, and sure I could make a LOT of money, 
but is it what I really want to do?  Would I make a good advisor?  I think I would make a better 
analyst that could HELP advisors.  Who knows, maybe I could write a program that could help 
analyze stock movements and all that cool stuff.  I think someone I know is doing that...I'll have 
to ask him if he needs a collaboration...hahaha.  Maybe when I go back to school for my MBA or 
my master's I could use it as my dissertation, who knows.  See what I mean?  I don't know what
I want to do.  

4)  As much as I say I hate programming, and as much as I say I hate computers, deep down 
inside there will always be that nerdiness inside of me that will always go back to computer science.  
Example, I do a secret santa every year with my small group of friends (really I've only been doing it for 2 years with them, they've been doing much longer before they met me, but I digress).  Anyways, usually we draw when Tiffany comes back for Thanksgiving, but this year we were all busy and didn't get a chance to draw.  So I developed a small program that chooses who everybody gets, emails everybody who they got, and writes out to seperate files who everybody got for "emergency purposes".  Total scalability, the entire state of Delaware could take part in secret santa if they wanted with my program (hmm......).  Yes, I wrote a program for fun.  
How nerdy of me.   But like Tiffany and Jennifer said, it's the nerdiness that defines me.   


I learned that I'm a better programmer than I originally thought and it would be a waste to not use my skills in a future job.  Once again, back to #3, no idea what I want to do.  

5)  I need to get out of Delaware.  Bad.  I need a change of scenery.  I need to find a girl, hahaha.  Sucks that
I didn't have time this semester to deal with relationships, but maybe in 2007.  Or maybe I 
could be like Sandy and Emily and find someone like...2 months after they graduate...hahaha!  
(By the way, we're coming to visit you guys in NYC this January!)  Man, speaking of which, there are a lot of people I want to visit.  Sandy and Emily in NYC.  Tiffany and crew in Boston.  The OG Singapore crew in California.  Singapore! (SINNGGGAAPOORREEE!!!)  Yeah...I need cash.  

One more week and the semester from hell is over.  I cannot wait until I can go home and worry about NOTHING for 2 weeks.  Snowboarding, here I come!!!

Peace.