張宜惇's Blurty

Subject:	excitement! your new name is FIRE cause i stomped you out!
Time:	11:43 am.

i have two computers. a crap computer and a good computer. i use the good computer so often that the cd rom drive burnt out a few months ago. i then got the cd rom drive of the crap computer (it's a good drive though cause it's new) and transferred it to my good computer. i works smoothly.
a while ago, being bored, i decided to install some software on the crap (currently cdrom drive-less) computer. that computer can't go online so i had to burn the things onto a cd. so i burnt a cd with my good computer, and then removed the cd rom drive and transferred it to the crap computer.

the crap computer won't recognize the cd rom drive though. it's strange bec that cd rom drive was originally its anyway. so i fiddled with some wires, and i accidentally plugged in the wrong bloody wire to a hole that's not meant to receive the wire. well, it had a similar shape. it was one of the little colored wires from the power supply box in the computer (i found out after). i didn't check to see where the wire originated. i just saw that the ends had the same shape. what do i know, right?

now, for the exciting part:
oh, man! two seconds after i plugged the wire into the wrong pins in the back of the cdrom, the fucking wires LIT UP! as in the rubber cover of the wires were AFLAME! i was just standing like a fool staring at it. it wasn't an ordinary fire, bec it was slowly MELTING the rubber covering of the wire (i think it was originally yellow or orange). the fire was more of like the fires in a barbecue, than the flames coming out of a lighter or stove.
so fucked up! i finally came to my senses and started fanning the damn thing. (i couldn't very well pour WATER could i? it's the inside of the damn computer.) the melting and glowing didn't quit though so i finally pulled the plug. Whew. slowly it just became smoke. the smoke was quite thick!
and then my father got mad at me cause he saw the smoke. hello, like i meant to start a fire! anyway, i waited 10 minutes and then used a pencil to tease the stupid wires out of the pins at the back of the cd rom (dont wanna burn fingers), unscrewed the cd rom, and put it back into my good computer (which i'm using now). thankfully it still works. whew.
i wanted to photograph the melted wires with my webcam but it's all black and i couldn't see anything. so nevermind. ahh, now i've had my excitement for the day. i don't think i'll be bored the rest of the day. i dunno what i should do with the melted wires now though. should i just cut them out? they don't go anywhere anyway. and they kinda stink.

thus ends my career as an amateur computer repairman (repairperson/ repairgirl).

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Subject:	alumni, i'm bored again, etc. boredom
Time:	10:52 am.
Music:	business- eminem.

i received a fax from ateneo de manila university about an alumni homecoming just a while ago (Come home to THE ateneo!). and a month ago cecile was telling me about our retarded nursery school mother goose holding one also (calling people up and all. oh! you're the bully who used to pull my pigtails! well, i'm buffer than you now! etc etc). the only place i haven't heard from is my retarded elementary/high school saint jude. i can't imagine how st jude will coerce alumnis to attend. they coerced kids to attend the crappy prom by threatening to deduct points from Chemistry (the hell, right?). maybe they'll threaten to call our employers to deduct salaries or something..
who goes to reunions though? well, maybe college is all right. but who'll go to the st jude HS reunion? maybe nerds who struck it rich (I invented post-its). and again, cecile was right on the money about mother goose. who the hell would attend a nursery school reunion? stupid chinese kids who wanna get hooked to other chinese kids, looking for boyfriends girlfriends. that's who. hahaha.

i'm bored. i'm bored.

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Subject:	service apres-vente
Time:	10:24 pm.
Music:	bullet- misfits.

i remember in french class last year we had this dialogue on common french business terms. there was a term there that i've never heard before, "service apres-vente" (after-sales service).
in our country after we purchase something, the store doesn't give a shit anymore after the good is with the consumer. there is no customer service if you have questions, they don't give a shit if it breaks down, it's no longer their business after it's out of their store. tsk tsk. i don't see this kind of attitude elsewhere. only here.
but i was pleasantly surprised yesterday when the girl who sold me my Holga toy camera in March actually texted me if i've shot any photos with it and some lomo-exhibit thing. okay, so she just got my number from her ledger of customers probably, she didn't even remember my name, but it's okay. at least there's an effort to get in touch with the customer and stuff. i guess "service apres-vente" exists here after all. it takes the small-time sellers to remember these things. those who didn't attend business school to learn how to cheat customers.

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Subject:	miniature garden, cribs, horniness, questions, etc
Time:	8:59 pm.
Mood:	silly.
Music:	circles- soul coughing.

1. i was flipping tv channels earlier today and i saw an ad on Channel 2. there was a midget couple (although technically only the guy is a midget. the girl had a proportional body so that makes her just a super short regular person not a midget.) running around a street, melodramatic scenes and instrumental music, really weird. like a soap. and then! they flashed "Miniature Garden" which looked like the Meteor Garden logo. hahaha. that was really funny. i dont know if the actors were computer people or real people. it didn't give the schedule though, damn.

2. well i've been bored so i was thinking of something i wrote like last month i think. anyway i was wondering then why most of the girls i know refuse to admit they jerk off, or at the very least, get horny. and i hit upon a realization last night. shit, they're super getting laid! see? if you're always having sex, you don't really get horny anymore. like if you're always eating, you don't really get hunger pangs. thus confirming my theory that there's more action going on than meets the eye.

3. i saw TJ Lavin's house on MTV Cribs today. he's a BMX rider (dirt) for all you uninformed kooks out there. well, i dont really know much about dirt jumping, but he's one of the most famous. the point is, this is nuts. just a month ago, i saw Eric Koston's condo on MTV Cribs (if you dont know who the skater Eric Koston is, then you suck). why are they featuring these people's homes on MTV Cribs now? it's kind of silly, but anyway, i forgave Eric (naks, first name basis) because he's Eric Koston. but this TJ Lavin guy, i dont really know who he is, but he seems legit anyway, not a blingbling kind of guy.
he has a super cool backyard! it's got this big sliding ramp kind of thing and all these huge dirt trails (or whatever you call them). those tightly packed mounds of dirt/soil that dirt jumpers jump around on. Eric Koston's apartment had a mini skatepark, but only in his garage, and they were like little mini ramps and grind rails only. but this TJ Lavin guy, shit he's loaded. it's a super big house, and it has an outdoor jacuzzi, it's super huge. hmmm.. dirt jumpers..

4. i'll write more stupid things when i think of them. in the meantime, watch mtv, keep eyes peeled for Moby's Jam for the Ladies video. it features fingerboarding. also download In the Pub by 50 Pence, this will make your day.

5. does anyone know how to ship a bicycle abroad? they probably dont allow people to bring bicycles to the airport as part of the luggage, so it's gotta travel separately. is it possible to send a BMX (that's smaller than a mt. bike) through UPS or something? is it expensive? is it even possible? is it necessary to dismantle the bike and stuff? will i even get answers to this mystery? hmmm...

6. what is more painful? slicing or stabbing? by slicing i dont mean long, slow slicing with intent to torture. just a quick deep slice. quick. the depth is the same as whatever depth achieved by the stabbing. but i'm just wondering which is more painful.

7. if someone's hand is gripping something tight, and you chop the wrist off superfast that his reflex hasn't had time to let go of the thing at the moment of the shock of the impact, after the hand is severed, would it still be gripping the object (like the fingers will loosen the grip)? or not?

8. if you date someone who's cheating on his partner, or if you date someone who's got a girlfriend and he broke up with that girl for you, he's going to cheat on you too, cause that's the psychological profile. so, what are you doing with him, right?

9. well i'm pretty damn bored. i will ask more mysterious questions on mystifying mysteries when i think of more. till then! ciao!

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Subject:	bruise
Time:	7:04 pm.
Music:	roller queen- jimmy eat world.

i have a bruise on my lower right arm. it's pretty big and ugly. it's on the part of the arm that's same side of the thumb. so if i pick up a book or magazine to read my eyes can't escape seeing that damn bruise. cause of the position of the bruise. imagine in your head for a moment. the position i just described, and the way one normally reads a book. so i just spent the whole day watching tv. i wanted to go online earlier but when i type, i have to look down at the keyboard and i'll see that damn bruise also. because of its unfortunate position.
well now i'm online cause i'm checking mail. but i guess i'll have to go off soon and do nothing. maybe i'll play with my new crap RC car.
the bruise is dark red/black. not blue. blue/light red will get you sympathy. dark red/purple is just gross.

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Subject:	mini RC from Auldey-- it actually looks good.
Time:	1:12 pm.
Music:	war- lowrider.

i bought a mini RC car yesterday. the maker is Auldey. now i know that Auldey is a total crap brand and rips off Tamiya, i'm not stupid. i remember Auldey first reared its ugly head during the heyday of the Mini-4WD craze here in '00-mid '02. Auldey, synonymous to non-fitting parts, ugly colors, and cheapness. but that is exactly why people bought that shit, cause they couldn't "afford" (so they say) Tamiyas. but Mini-4WDs are cheap, only P300+ each. i dont know why they wanna scrimp and buy P100 Auldeys when the diff is only P200? anyway, the craze died because people were dissatisfied with their crapola cars. i was never part of this craze, thank god, i have more self respect than that (if you wanna build models, then build real models. if you wanna collect cars, then collect Hotwheels, if you wanna race, then go the radio-control route. why go for bastard crap?). i had one Mini 4WD though but it was given to me for free, and it was a Tamiya, i'm proud to say. i never go in for this bastard shit.

soooo why did i buy an Auldey then? well, it's because i didn't see any little/mini/micro Tamiya RC (radio controlled) cars anywhere. and i was really itching to have something to radio-control yesterday. i couldn't buy big shit though cause they cost like P5000+. so i bought this Auldey Mini-RC for P500. it's total crap, yes, but it's very cute. and the most important thing is that it is not a knock-off of any existing car because Auldey finally made an original after so many years of faking it. here is the photo. the control is at the base of the car. the car itself is very small! smaller than my ring finger. inside the lj-cut you will find pictures i took myself of the cars. they are blurry though so i found a photo of the car still in its box somewhere online.

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Subject:	fatness/ chip-eating feat
Time:	9:21 pm.
Music:	skull- sebadoh.

There's an article in Details (the 1 w/ Vin Diesel on the cover) about the fat people of today. a lot of people whine about being fat like they can't do something about it ( don't look at me). but if people are lazy, well, lazy=bound to get fat. wait this wasn't what the article was about. the article was saying about how people in the USA idolize fat people who manage to get back to normal state as heroes. it also said that that's crazy because fat (like 400+ lbs ok, so anorexics shouldn't start panicking) is not the normal state. not normal at all. so just bec. they got the motivation to finally slim down to normal state doesn't mean people should cheer them as heroes. they should be congratulated, of course, but heroes, no.
and people shouldn't say this is bullshit because fat people can't help it, it's in their genes. yeah, but the percentage of people who have really fat genes are really low, and yet there are many really fat people. those with merely fat (as opposed to really fat, or regular genes) are the majority. and yet they let themselves go to seed. (but of course in the future the really fat genes should increase, considering the gluttony and sloth all around.)
the article then told the story of that Subway Diet guy who slimmed down to 200+ lbs from 400+ lbs. he was then celebrated as a hero everywhere. but he didn't really do anything! he just ate sandwiches. and the reason he was so fucking fat in the first place was because he chose (CHOOSE= FREE WILL) to eat a bag of Doritos everyday before getting up to get his mail. see? see?

anyway the point of this post is that today i finished a whole BAG (it's very big) of chips (Munchies- they're a mix of Doritos, Cheetos, some Nova looking chips, and pretzel shaped chips) while watching my Greenhills obtained DVD of The Italian Job. according to the bag, there are 140 calories per serving, and 9 servings all in all. that's 1260 calories all in all! one thousand two hundred and sixty! maybe i should repeat this feat again in two days. (i can't tomorrow. i'm already feeling sick from this experiment in gluttony.) and get even fatter than i am now and become a national hero. yay. but the point is, you choose to be fat. it's a choice. yeah. it's a commitment to spend more hours in a day seated than in a standing position/ walking. really. i spend maybe a total of 3 hours a day walking/ standing. or even less. i aspire to be Homer Simpson.
The Italian Job wasn't super great, but the chase scene at the end was cool. it's like 2 Fast 2 Furious with little cars (Mini Coopers) and a helicopter (then an SUV at the latter part).

this is one of the most retarded things i have ever posted. i am very proud of myself. i wonder what "deadly/capital sin" i should promote next.

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Subject:	i think i'm gonna be sick
Time:	11:07 pm.
Music:	water runs dry- boyz II men.

okay, firstly, i'm actually getting news from the ESPN action sports page. what's happening to the world. and they're actually on *my* side (in a way. partly.).
secondly, thank god it's racing and not flatland or street or vert or freestyle whatever. racing. if they start standardizing the first four disciplines i mentioned i'm gonna really go on a rampage.
thirdly, "action sports" sounds so much more pleasant to the ears than "extreme sports" or "alternative sports".

BMX Heads to Beijing in 2008

07.01.03
by: Alyssa Roenigk
EXPN.com

The Olympics will include BMX in the 2008 lineup. When we heard, we were stunned. We were thrilled. We were high-fivin'. And we were booking our plane tickets. Beijing … here we come.

But what discipline would it be? Vert? Where's that Brit Jamie Bestwick? Should we call and tell him it's time to start working on a double tailwhip flair?
Park? Do we track down Dave Mirra and tell him to make room in the trophy case for an Olympic gold medal?

Downhill, maybe? Someone had to know.

Hello … IOC? USOC? UCI … bingo!

"We voted to add traditional BMX racing with eight-man heats," says Johan Lindstrom, BMX coordinator for the International Cycling Union.

"There will be a men's and a women's event, both for medals, and they will replace two track cycling events that haven't been determined," he says, and tells us the athletes must be 19 years old and the number of riders invited to the games will be limited. "Only 50-100 riders total, but the most successful national teams will be able to bring three or four athletes."

Wait, racing? Are you sure?

"Oh, yes. We're all very excited." Well, the IOC may be, but we needed to hear a freestyle rider thoughts ... and cancel our flights.

So we woke up Chad Kagy to find out if he'd heard. "Olympics? Nah, man. I didn't know."

What'd he think about their choice? "Well, it couldn't be freestyle. It's too hard to judge. There'd have to be strict rules and then we'd end up like figure skating, with everyone doing the exact same thing. That's not freestyle. That's boring."

So racing's the way to go?

"Nah. I wish it were downhill, it's a much livelier way to look at racing. On a regular track, you have 5-year-olds and 60-year-olds racing the same track as the pros. With downhill BMX, there's a 40-foot chasm on the track. There sure as hell isn't any 10-year-old with balls enough to clear that."

True. But the Olympics are going younger. Mountain biking ... snowboarding. They're obviously trying to appeal to a younger generation.

"Yeah, but crowds and TV audiences want to see something spectacular and see carnage. They either want to see you go upside down a few times and spin around a bunch, or land on your head.You don't get that in traditional racing.

"But thanks for the info. I gotta go to Woodward now, though."

Off to ride, huh? Only five years till Beijing ... starting your Olympic training? Chad ... Hello?

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