Dunkin’

Wow, I haven’t been on here in some time. Why does it seem like I’m starting a lot of blog posts off that way?

Anyways, thought I’d grace this with my presence once more. Do you feel graced ? Do you? DO YOU?!

I’ve had a pretty busy past week. On Wednesday I had a gathering at my place for the first time in about six months. It was pretty awesome—-about fourteen or fifteen people showed up! Heh, it’s no wonder we’re called the Army. We had a pretty good time—-we barbequed again. Hamburgers and hot dogs were on the menu, along with a whole lotta bags of chips. Potato chips, cheese curls and the awesomeness known as Doritos. Woohoo!

A lot of the day was spent swimming. I didn’t swim myself but nearly everyone else did. My pants (well, more like knee-length  jeans) got soaked when I was sitting on the edge so I changed to baggier cotton shorts for the rest of the day. Pool games included playing chicken and constructing human towers and pyramids. It was actually pretty cool, over here I think they managed to hold themselves up for a bit less than a minute.

We had music playing and took scads of pictures. Hehe, so many people were swimming that at one point the inside of the clubhouse had a mini-river flowing through it courtesy of people’s swimming trunks. Thankfully, they were helpful about cleaning it up. Mikey found some mops and stuff in the bathroom so the place was dried up in no time. We also played some table tennis. Pretty much everyone that played, including me, sucked at it and thus we enjoyed our mutual lack of talent where it concerns ping pong paddles and nearly weightless plastic balls. At the end of the day, we watched Role Models (which isn’t too bad of a movie) before everyone made their way home.

On Saturday (the 25th)  we got together to celebrate Arthur’s birthday. It didn’t quite go as planned since we all met up between about 2:00 and 3:30 or so and Arthur didn’t show up until after 6:00. The original plan was to go to a restaurant and celebrate his b’day there, but since we were all half-starved and had nothing else to do, we ate without him. (He was with family at the time, and he didn’t know that the reason we were meeting up was for him—-we wanted to keep it a surprise). We went to an Asian restaurant that served Filipino, Chinese and Italian food. (How Italian was on the same menu as Chinese/Filipino food is not something I’ll pretend to understand). We ate our fill and sang karaoke. Well, more like the girls took full advantage while some of the guys put in some background vocals, hehehehe. I didn’t sing, I just listened. I’m a casual observer, y’all.

Afterwards, we paid up and decided to get Arthur to meet us at Nikko’s clubhouse. Some of the guys went out and got ice cream cake from Baskin Robbins and we waited until he came up. We gathered near the doorway, awaited the opportune moment, and shouted the customary “SURPRISE!!!!” Not sure if he was taken aback, but then again he’s not the jumpiest guy I know. (Severely ticklish, but not jumpy). He got a lot of gifts: swimming shorts, goggles, sandals, shorts and a shirt. This was good because his next surprise involved him having a photo taken with the guys near the pool.

Where Have All The Gadgets Gone?!

Just for the hell of it and because I like to try out new things (food is a different story, I’m always cautious around food) I downloaded Google Chrome.

It’s nice. Good interface. User-friendly. Pretty cool.

Except it doesn’t. Play. Videos.

What kind of a browser doesn’t play YouTube/Flash videos? Seriously. I downloaded the latest version of Flash player just like it asked me to. I think I even downloaded three too many times. It downloads with ease—-barely takes a minute. But nope, videos just won’t show up or won’t play. An ‘error’ is always cited. If I go to the same videos on Internet Explorer, they play with no problem at all.

Now I usually use the ‘Net to read stuff. I’m not much of a video watcher. Still, I don’t like it when things aren’t “complete”. If you’re going to pass yourself off as a web browser, you HAVE to play videos! And you HAVE to make it easy to do so!

Does anyone have any suggestions on how I can make this thing work? ‘Cause if it won’t, I’m just uninstalling it entirely and going back to my trusty Firefox. At least that played videos on the occasional occasions when I wanted it to.

Humph.

Toilet Lids Diving into Pools of Chapped Lips!

The title is a Junk written several years ago (by yours truly) that I’m quite proud of…mainly because I think it’s really oddly amusing. 

Actually the Junk is a bit longer than that, but that’s the best part of it. For those who don’t know, Junk is a form of writing that my sisters and I made up that consists of making up grammatically correct sentences using the weirdest imagery possible. The results can be downright hilarious…if that kind of humor is up your alley.

Lana was the original creator—-though creating an odd form of writing wasn’t her intention at the time. She was studying for a computer test and Word was one of the things she was going to be tested on. So, if I remember correctly, she typed up random letters, and then deleted them systematically until she came up with a sentence that wasn’t underlined in red and green. I walked in (I was 13 and Lana was maybe 15, almost 16) and read what she wrote:

“So bored of stuff that don’t need a fee to plop in the trill”

“No cucaracha can dance on an igloo with a fish in his brute”

I then proceeded to laugh so hard that anything I tried to say turned out to be completely incoherent. I tried to say the first one out loud but couldn’t get past “stuff” because I couldn’t breathe. I thought it was the most hilarious thing ever. I don’t even know who would find it as hilarious as we do…but we think it’s pretty freaking funny. I guess you could also say it’s can be pretty disturbing too. Like a smile creeping over a bald spot (Lana’s creation). Or streamlined thigh hair (my creation).

We went through a phase where we banged out several pages of Junk and laughed super-hard every time. I know we printed them out at one point but I don’t know where they are. Maybe in some abandoned box in Lebanon. I hope they’re not all lost, because we had so many! I even had a bunch memorized but it’s been a while and most of them have flown out of my head—-save for the really odd ones that stuck around my brain.

Speaking of which, Lana—-there was this one Junk you wrote that had something to do with turtles…and moisturising cream? Or something? Bloody hell, I can’t believe I forgot it! It was one of my favorites! I even rounded off one of Mr. Rapa’s tests with it in high school. There was a bonus question I didn’t know how to answer so I put that Junk in there instead. I think his comment on it was “interesting!”. At least he had a semblance of a sense of humor.

To round this off, here is a Junk written not too long ago. Our Junk writings are few and far between nowadays, but this was a collaborative effort we wrote on each others’ walls on Facebook. The black is Lana and the red is mine.

And as the liver-scented feather duster knitted the wind chime, it sighed deeply at the thought of its creation leaving the nest and one day becoming the world-renowned Molding Tick. It was deeply saddened by the thought and instead decided to crochet a fork. This fork immediately decided to spring to the life-falls of Babylon, where it began to hang around the tree trunks of yore and warty underground writers. Soon the liver-scented feather duster felt that it had developed enough gangrene to continue reciting the freakishly lengthy but gorgeous tome of “The Wretch of Boon”. The grizzly bears of Quark Raccoons were finally able to rest in their verified state.

What Has Four Legs and WHO CARES?!

I wrote my Business Finance test early this afternoon, and it was hard and I disliked every friggin’ minute of it.

But I’m done and I don’t have to worry about it anymore and it simply feels awesomeness.

I’m FREE!!!!!!!!!!

*Frees around*

Now I’m not Trying to be Rude…

No, really, I’m note trying to be rude. Not even close. It’s the first line of a song I’m listening to.

Well, I’m so freaking GLAD!!!!! that this past week is done! DONE DONE DONE! My three presentations coupled with one report per presentation! Dee! Oh! En! Ee!!!!

WOO-HOO!!!!

Now I’m currently studying (or, really, I’m currently I’m updating my blog because I don’t feel like studying but anyways) Finance because I have my final exam on Monday the 13th. It’s my only final because all my other subjects either didn’t have finals or the presentations were technically the finals—-they were worth as much. It’s been an insane week, and freaking stressful to boot. It also didn’t help that my body was flypaper for bacteria too.

Still it’s done and over with!!! Woooooooot!!!!

And now to get this stupid Finance thing out of the way. What’s really weird is that on Thursday I took my book down from the shelf to pack it for this lovely weekend of study. But when I opened my backpack yesterday….it wasn’t there. I had actually envisioned myself putting the damn book in my bag, and it WASN’T THERE!!! I had to go back to college today to pick it up—-which leads to my next topic:

Security at college is a  seriously major pain. All I wanted was a few minutes to get to the SRC office to pick up my book. But one of the guards was talking to me like I was a brain-damaged slug. “Do you think the SRC office is open? It is not. No one will open it today.”

I knew the SRC office wasn’t open—-I hate it when idiots talk to you like you’re the one missing the majority of your brain cells. I told him that I needed my book in order to study for the finals, and after he consulted with God-knows-who on his walkie-talkie he deemed me harmless enough to go through. The security guard we usually deal with to open the SRC office (who is a pretty sweet guy) opened it up for me with no issues whatsoever. I swear they need to improve communication in the security department. The ones at the gate act like anyone who goes in on a non-college day is fixing to blow up the place. Freaking annoying.

Anyways, this is my rant/post/bright purple dragonista of the day. ‘Til next time!!!

All I Wanna Do is Dance

Okay, here is a much more positive post, as promised:

All righty, I know it’s been ages since I’ve even mentioned it.

BUT!

The Scribe issue #3 is out! I had thought it wouldn’t be out until tomorrow, but apparently the printers have already completed their job and everything! Nine hundred copies are now stacked in the SRC office awaiting distribution tomorrow. I already took one for myself (I’ll get more tomorrow) to show my dad. I think it’s miles better than the last one, which was even better than the first one. Hopefully improvement will keep up this upward slope, hehehehe.

I find that the colors in this one are more consistent, without it sort of spontaneously jumping from one color scheme to another. Another highlight? They actually included my ‘Letter from the Editor’ page this time, hehe. So that’s a definite plus. The photography style in this issue is also more artistic and cleaner. I’m seriously happy with it, and I can’t wait to send it out to you guys! (You know who you are, hehehehe)

Well, I’d love to stay and talk everyone’s ears off about this, but I have a lovely presentation tomorrow and I need to review the material so I can at least give off the illusion that I know what I’m talking about. All I hope for is that I don’t get one of those unstoppable coughing fits in the middle of my speech. Or engage in a sudden super-messy sneeze. Good thing I have a partner in this one, ’cause doing this by myself the way I’m feeling now does not sound appealing. Not in the least.

Wish me luck!!!

Nooooo!!!!

It’s official!

I caught another cold!

Damn you Justin! DAMN YOU!!!!

(Justin being the teacher I’m almost certain I caught this thing from).

Bleargh…my throat hurts and I have a phlegmy cough. This is not the week for this….

Don’t worry, sooner or later, I will come up with a nice, positive non-complaining post. I will!

Oh Four Oh Four Oh Nine

I think I kinda sorta pulled my first study-related all-nighter in a pretty long while. Though it doesn’t count fully as an “all-nighter” because I did manage to catch some sleep between 1:00 and 4:30 in the morning.

But I finally freaking finished one of my essays!!! Woot!!!!

Now I have about a zillion more to go.

Well, hmm…technically I have one I have to write up by myself from scratch. The other two reports are pretty much already written, since the ‘final’ product is really a combination of everything we’ve done over the semester. I do have to create three PowerPoint presentations though. Such is the awesome life of Me.

Well I’ve been up since 4:30 and now it’s 8:03…my stomach’s growling but I feel kind of nauseous so I think I’m just gonna fall into bed. (I had my 3 1/2 hour nap on the couch, where I slept like a half-dead zombie). I have to get up soon though, because my partner is coming early today (or so she said she would) to work on the crap-load of things we have to do.

I also think I’m coming down with a cold. Not Good.

And…I think I’m complaining too much. I’ll stop here.

See y’alls!