omg, i cant believe jamie figured it out before i did, but ish all good. what did she figure out? well she told me bout tabulas. what's so cool about it? well if i update my blog here, it will automatically update it in xanga and livejournal too. i guess it's called crossposting. dont believe me? well you can find where i originally post at:

http://www.tabulas.com/~hormd/

then you can go check my other blogs and read the same post:

http://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=hormd
http://www.livejournal.com/users/hormd/

see, it's the same freaking post. w00t. and another cool thing is that i can upload pix on tabulas for free. booya. i'll put a pic of me and my sibs just to test it out.

okay i lied, it didn't work. but i think it's cuz i messed up. dont know what i'm talkin about? check it out here:

http://www.tabulas.com/~hormd/

abstract: for the new years party, my friends and i decided to find out the effects of a alcohol and cranium.

intro: well more like i wanted to see the effects, and my friends were there to make fun of me. but anyway, alcohol is a depressant drug that goes directly to the brain. cranium has a picture of a brain on the box. i hypothosize that alcohol will impair my thinking ability thereby increasing my chances to lose.

materials: cranium booster box 2 with extra clay, 2-3 shots of 151, 1 glass of jack coke or coke jack or something like that, 1 optional glass of grasshopper (we all thought a grasshopper tasted like mint chocolate ice cream, but justin said it tasted like mouthwash, so a grasshopper is optional).

procedure: we only had enuff to play with 3 groups in cranium. group one barely drank at all. group two was pretty tipsy coming into the game but sobered up in the middle to win. group three was awesome and took sips here and there through out the game.

results: justin was humming macarena, and i totally knew the tune. in fact, i was finishing his humming. i was so excited that i knew the tune, that i couldn't think straight. the name of the song wouldn't come to me. i did recognize it was mexican though.

in another round, all that denise said was "i'm a queen" and i replied "oh yeah, from egypt right? and something bout king tut?" but again no name was coming to me. it wasn't until my other friends started making jamacian accents, and talked bout tarot cards that i realized it was cleopatra.

conclusion: alcohol will help improve your chances of winning. being intoxicated helped me get on their train of thought faster, but at the same time not see where i'm going. although, it could be that me being drunk skewed time a bit so i just be thinking i understood faster. that i cant tell for sure. some further studies could be done to combine a drunk and sober guesser. so the drunk can fill in the blanks easier, and the sober one can clean up.

memories: lina hesitating to give me a hug, justin always losing in mario kart, 151 making me cry, donna guessing dixie chicks outta nowhere, long ass conversation with jo and alan, and even longer with denise.

camera picture album

okay this is weird. i came home on new years around 6am and went to bed. but if i stay pass 4am, then i usually get a 2nd wind and pull all nighters. so i woke up 10am all refreshed n stuff. now it's 2:30am and when i should be hella tired, i cant sleep. so i decided to blog cuz that always takes a lot outta ya. umm today's topic? naruto didn't air this week cuz it woulda aired new year's eve. so i downloaded a random anime and i kinda like this one line in the opening. i figured i'll post it here in case i wanna reminence. it's from "Wind - a breath to heart" OVA.

the falling snow is like an angel's massage.

so i went to a cambodian beauty contest today. well i was just there cuz i my little sister was performing some cultural dancing and i heard my little brother was gonna be competing in a khmer spelling bee. and that happening as intermissions to the beauty contest was a plus...or so i thought...

it was funny watching the contestants walk by and say their thing. at the very end, they would bow to the crowd and some almost hit the mic in front of them; one even lost her balance. after they all started doing some traditional dancing and that's when things got very boring for me...and stared dozing off...

then the host announce it was time for the "traditional SWIM SUIT" part of the contest. i picked up my head cuz all the guys around me were gettin rowdy and i wanted to see wassup. and then they came out. "oh right...traditional swim suits..." i thought, which is more like a blanket wrapped around them. i proceded to fall back asleep.

then it was lora's turn to dance. she did her thing with her group. nothing special, cuz i've seen it before. but i did notice that she was a lil off from the rest of the group. maybe i shoulda paid attention to her when she asked me to watch her practice all those times before. oh well :/

but watching all these beautiful girls on stage got me athinkin. i couldn't really decide which one was beautiful. i mean they were all cute and all, dont get me wrong. and it wasn't cuz i didn't get to see em in a REAL swim suit. i wasn't really attracted to any of em. now i know why denise is always so worried bout me and not being attracted to girls. no i'm not gay, at least i dont think i am. so what does it take to make a girl beautiful to me? i dont know, but it seems like looks aren't everything.

and i gonna try to use my sprintpcs gallery to show off pix. the only draw back is that i can only find the slide show mode and not the thumbnail mode. oh yeah, and i hacked up this link, so tell me if it doesn't work anymore.

i was messing around with the tabulas templating system, and i found out that you can do hella. and since naruto is only the coolest anime right now, i decided to make this my theme. if you're reading one of my other blogs, the link to tabulas is: http://www.tabulas.com/~hormd

the picture is from episode 5 and i actually had to photoshop it together from 3 separate screen captures. i'm quite proud of myself for doing that. i built the template with the recommended screen size of 1024 x 768, which is kinda funny cuz my monitor at home is set a couple notches above that. and thinking up of this template used up all of my creativity so the page is still kinda simple...i think...well sam said there's too much white space. and nobody replied yet when i asked for their opinion. so leave comments dammit.

the heater broke at work today. and i work at a ghetto elementary school. so i was sitting in my computer lab all shivering. anyway, so in order to help pass the time i found out about colorgenics which has some personality tests and stuff. i took one about this walk in the woods and i thought it was so hilarious that i think yall should take it too. so i'mma talk about my results in my tabulas comments so you can do the test urself first.

i think i'm finally outta blog mode. well not really, just dont feel like blogging when i know i gotta make thumbnails. and because of that, i didn't bother uploading all of the pix. instead i'll just show you pix of buses i took with my cell, and there's no thumbnails since they're all pretty much the same.

what's so cool bout the pix of buses? well the story behind it. on my way to school, the bus driver said that he wont be driving through campus and will be dropping us off at 15th. but the bus never made it to 15th, instead there was this other bus blocking the whole intersection. so we got kicked out of the bus a block early. walkin down the ave was cool cuz all the bus look stranded. and felt like it was a good time to bust out pix.

so what happened today? took the bus an hour early cuz i didn't wanna be late for my first day of class. jamie calls me up and tells me that anthony said class was cancelled. hung out at jamie's and jules at red square. had fun making a pile of snow and jumping in it. had lunch at super pho. met denise and jack there. came back to jamie's with tho and rufino to study (well at least jamie and rufino did). met back up with anthony to play some bball. while waiting for the bus, tho and i made a snow dude as tall as my neck. and when i left, tho made it about 6 feet tall, but then collapsed.

lots of fun. dont really feel like talkin bout all the cool stuff. hope jamie takes care of it on her xanga and i can just link there.

i slept in a lil late last night. woke up this morning with no lights. i was about to say "screw work, i'm just gonna sleep here til i need to goto class" which is sometime after noon. then my mom's spider senses kick in and she comes in to ask me what time i need to wake up. i was bout to explain to her that i didn't feel like going to work, but all i could say was gibberish. so she lit a candle in the bathroom so i can take a shower. what will i do without you mom...

anyway, since the power was out, i couldn't check to see if my work was close. so i went to campus anyway, and checked the internet at ougl. yeah seattle schools were close -___- so now i'm stuck here on campus with 4 hours to burn. figured i'll do some blogging which is cool cuz i wouldn't be able to update xanga at the elementary school.

yeah jamie told me i shouldn't make a gallery for all the pictures i take, but instead show one or three pictures. so here's me and jamie checking out jules' snow angie o_0

http://students.washington.edu/hormd/pix/snow01.jpg

little did she know that i had her in my dragon suplex grip. she tried to kung fu her way out, but it was too late. and then i proceded to combo it up by gathering chi in my hand for a mystic frost blast. i sweat this was like something straight outta marvel vs. capcom.

http://students.washington.edu/hormd/pix/snow02.jpg

HADUKEN!

today pissed me off, but i dont get pissed off that easily. since i dont know what i'm feeling, i'll just blog it. i already mentioned earlier today that work was cancelled, and i had 4 hours to burn til terry's class. well then i get an email saying terry's sick and class is cancelled. i was pissed cuz that meant i came to campus for no reason. if school turns its back on me, then i'll turn my back on school.

but then that means i have 2 hours to burn til the next bus comes to take me home. with that time i was thinking hmm, maybe i still have a reason for coming to campus, i'll try to give rufino his shoes before he goes to class. so i call him up to let him know, but then he's like "oh, i'm skipping class cuz of injuries." remember we were playing bball that snow day. dammit, so i did come to campus for nothing.

i looked up justin's schedule to see if he's around. turns out he wont be on campus til i'll leave. alright...well luckily rufino lives nearby so i decided to just drop his shoes off at his place. so i walked thru the slush to get over there, but i was looking for house number something 20. and all i saw was something 30, and next to that i couldn't find the house number at all. and rufino didn't answer his cell or answer the door...

when all hope was lost, i decided to slush my way back to campus, but then rufino return my call 2.5 blocks later. i drop em off, and he offers to have lunch with me, which was cool of him, but he was all limping, and that slush wasn't making it eaiser. so i just ate by myself at the hub.

came out, and i just missed the bus by 15 minutes. that means another 45 minute wait. the good news was that i had my pda with me bumping some mp3s. the even better news was that the bus was 30 minutes late anyway, so it was really a 15 minute wait. i did not want to be on campus anymore.

then i came home...with the powers still out...we had the generator running, so we could do the basics (computer and bathroom). but the modem was in the unpowered room...so no internet. it was kinda funny watching my sibs tweaking out cuz they couldn't chat. luckily i had my ffx-2.

but when it got dark enuff, we decided to turn off the (very loud) generator and do everything with candles. spent my time tryin to read up on networking stuff. then eventually helped delora with her math hw. it was pretty hard. try using only 1, 5, 6, and 12 once each, and +, -, *, /, (, and ) wherever make those numbers equal 1, then 2, then 3...all the way to 10. i dont remember doing this in the 7th grade.

well anyway, power came back on just in time for the sonics game. and now i'm gonna spend the rest of my time watching the last quarter. currently leading by 11 ^_^

just 2 final things i wanna say b4 i call it a night. and they're both good news.

sonics beat kings 104 to 93

jamie has a better description of my snow day. i think i pretty much spent the whole day with her.

i skipped class cuz i didn't feel like going
got some extra sleep with me not knowing
that groups were formed and now i'm screwed
now i'm all alone and dunno what to do

met up with some friends and went out to lunch
took my time and the fun came in a bunch
reminiscing about how things were back in the day
came into class about thirty minutes late

more groups were formed and the girls picked me
added trotter in the group and we're team sexy
it was good to see classmates all hardcore
even met a classmate i've never seen before

anthony and i went to go play some ball
yeah we haven't really improved at all
played some 2 on 2 and the other guys won
i scored one point and it was eleven to one

came back home and chatted with dan
still needed a group and to know if i can
join with his crew, and he said coo
that was my day, so whadj00 do?

this blog is dedicated to sam "da ladies man" cuz he turned 16 sometime this month. i dont know exactly when, but i do know that his party was tight. all da kids gettin hella old now. andrew went around telling everybody how old he is. i guess i cant go around referring them as the "2 year old babies" anymore.

and like all the parties we gotta play ball. i mean it dont matter if it's hella dark outside, or if the concrete is all slippery wet, or if there's dog doo doo in the grass. but we only got to play PIG cuz there weren't enuff players. hella tight cuz i got jay out who's like suppose to school everybody else. you know at one point, i used to be taller then all these guys.

and for sam's sweet sixteen, his sister actually bought him a car for his birthday.

so yeah, things to remember: having andrew reciting his ABC's and it going like "B, C, E, M, W, 16, 17, 19..." the lil kids learned how to take pictures with my cell and wouldn't give it back to me. then julie would call my cell with hers and just chat with them. good thing i have free weekend minutes.

it's 4:30 am and i just came back from jamie's. and get ur mind out of the gutter, it wasn't like that. after sammy's bday, jamie invited me to go get some bubble tea and a friend's party. so i was like sure whatever. went to the party with bubble tea in hand and met all of her (drunk) friends.

after mingling for a lil bit we took off. spied on her roommates for a lil bit from the study room. got bored and didn't wanna call it a night yet so i stayed there til 4 talking bout pudding. and get ur mind out of the gutter, it wasn't like that.

well anyway, the sucky thing bout me staying up is that if i'm up past 4am, then i usually get my 2nd wind and pull an all nighter. in high school i trained my body to do this so i can stay up all night and prepare for a presentation, then once i finish the presentation, the sleepiness kicks in.

now i'm here 4:41am-ish and i dont really have a goal for tomorrow to accomplish. i kinda accidentally stayed up. and idunno when my body will go back to sleep. so i'm blogging this incident in hopes that it'll make me sleepy...and i think it's working...so please escuse any grammar mistakes in this blog...

in the end, talks like these are always cool as long as nothing important is due anytime soon.

met up with my lab group today after work. there i learned that sandra and laila both speak iranian or something around there. well to be more precise, sandra is lebanese. so i always wanted to be a worldly person, and sandra taught me how to say "how are you?" in lebanese. i thought i'd share with you how it went:


david: key fak sandra
sandra: good key fuk david
david *laughs histerically*


on a side note, might recommence operation smooth criminal.

wow, check it out. my last blog was a whole week ago. does that mean david is already out of his bloggin phase? maybe. but i was doing so much stuff this that i didn't wanna bother blogging it. the only thing i remember is anthoy's bday and smallville at jamie's. everything else is a blur.

so i'll just talk about what i did this weekend. just came back from snowboarding with justin and chris. too bad whatever happens in canada stays in canada. didn't take any pix with my cell cuz chris brought his digi cam. i'll try to post those later.

umm things to remember: getting a lot better at snowboarding; we did not go clubbing; "after party at room 222"; it's a freakin snow trip and girls be wearing hella hoochie gear; raver vs pharrell; getting dragged on the tbar...umm, why am i still talking?

yeah nothing interesting to blog about. the funny thing is that i've been on campus til hella late at nice. it's friday night and i just got home at 8:30 which is the earliest this whole friggin week. i think. at least it feels like it. staying out late can make people delirious. i wrote a song about it:

i just wanna be with you
get in an infinite loop
cuz we're not here to study
girl suck me recursively

my love will never be null
my C will never be dull
my trojan cant be erased
just wanna find ur base case

the morning sun shine peaked into david's bedroom, and thus begins a new day. david woke up to the sounds of siblings saying, "when did it snow last night?" and to the random beats coming from lora's xanga site. lora's loops annoyed steven and he turned on the computer to put on his own breaker beats. with both computers being used by his sibs, david decided that it was a good time to start on his homework. but he needed somewhere to read, and he couldn't with the combined racket going on upstairs.

he started down the stairs hoping for some peace and quiet, but he knew it was too late before he even reached the bottom. there in the living room was his grandma watching home movies from cambodia with the volume all the way up. feeling trapped within his own house, david felt like he needed an escape. it wasn't then til he realized that there was a laptop not being used right now. he thought, "maybe i can take this outside to do some homework."

he packed up the laptop and got ready to step out until the sight of snow stopped him cold in his tracks. it looked a bit chilly outside, yet the sun was still shining. he decided to read in the living room instead and hope that his homework music will drown out the other noise coming from the house. unfortunately the only homework music available was soft piano music. but turned up to the right volume, it worked out just fine. with the book in his lap, the laptop next to his side, and sun warming his back, david was finally in study mode. to make things complete, he put up his away message saying "dont talk to me unless it's about the homework, or if you wanna go hang out and play frisbee"

after completing chapter 10, david continued to do his write up. he sat down where the laptop was and the seat was warm from the batteries. and placing the warm laptop on his lap gave him this warm fuzzy feeling while doing this write up. it wasn't long until david's friends decided to invite him to play some frisbee. david could always count on his friends to distract him away from his homework. frisbee was played, dinner was eaten, and when the day was over, homework was still not done. that is because david was challenged to a game of rise of nations. and he ended the night with his ass pwned.

i'm gonna be keeping myself busy, and i just wanna analyze where i am right now and see if i've improved any later. i wanted to calculate how much effort i'm putting into class, and i think i'll calculate it by how many articles/chapters i've read over the number i should've read.

info 311: 17.4%
info 341: 39.1%
info 344: doesn't really count cuz there's no required reading, and projects are really prototypes that dont need to work, and as long as you can BS the essay, then it's all good.

not only am i taking 15 credits, but i also have a couple part time jobs. i'm working 13 hours as tech support at an elementary school. and now i'm gonna try to squeeze in 6-10 hours as a data structures tutor. so far so good with juggling that in my life.

it would also be nice to have a social life somewhere in there. i've been kinda cheating lately by killing 2 birds with one stone. instead of going out and hanging out with my ischool friends, i "hang out" with them while spending hours doing labs and/or tutoring. and there's also my oldschool friends where i cant do that. but these friends who help me get interested into the computer also help me get away from the computer, so i'll kick it with them whenever.

and then there are some friend's i've been neglecting. i apologize for making promises i couldn't keep. if it makes you feel any better, whatever i was doing at the time was hindered by me thinking about you.

and now yarun wants me to participate in the khmer new year show. when he asked if i was gonna do it or not, i was bitching and moaning how busy my life is already. he simply said, "so what, that was me last year and i was able to handle it." so later today i'm gonna go try out.

i've come to the conclusion that i'll half ass myway through classes and still get awesome grades. and because of that, i spent my day not doing my hw. instead i was tutoring laila, tina, tho, and ryan with cse. went to a khsa meeting later to see how i can help with the new years skit. they got me reading poems o_0 met back up with anthony, rufino, and jamie for dinner. finished the night at jamie's helping her with cse in exchange for her giving me a fashion show. it's really too bad i didn't take any pictures.

a couple funny stuff happened this week. a lot of small stuff that i didn't wanna bother blogging, but after awhile i just had to.

me and rufino walking back from lunch

david: hey man, why aren't you taking the stairs up?
rufino: cuz i just ate.
david: why you gotta take the elevator? you're such a fat ass!
*and then as they turn the corner, there's a fat lady also waiting for the elevator*

justin after finally getting a dsl line

justin: hey, tell me where i can test the sexiness of my dsl speeds.
friend: [sends suspicious link]
justin: dude, this is just porn
friend: you said you wanted to download porn videos right?

david and dan talkin about group project over aim. instead of emailling the group a recap of the conversation, david decided to email the chat unedited. david should've edited this out:

dan: god, why can't [the other team members] be online?
david: u'd figure mac geeks would have nothing else better to do...
dan: lol yeah, espeically cuz you can't play games on macs
david: hahaha

my little sister after reading the title to my xanga

delora: life is but a dream...isn't that a song?
david: yeah.
delora: from row, row, row your boat?
david: yeah.
delora: omg, corny...

side note: actually i was biting off the ending of cowboy bebop. after the ending credits it would show that message.

the elementary school had a teacher day off, so no work for me today. instead i went to school for a fake tutoring session. which is where i goto the te lab and tutor, but i dont tell anybody i was gonna be there. the funny thing was that i ended up tutoring anyway.

laila and sandra showed up and helped them with their lab 3...kinda. well more like got laila started, but then i convinced sandra to have lunch with me. i kinda feel bad stealing sandra away from laila, we gotta make it up to her somehow tomorrow. but i had a fun time lunching with sandra. jamie got me interested in finding out first impressions of me after she told me her's (from annoying jerk to nice guy). sandra said i went from stuckup techie to goofball.

so sandra read me some bedtime stories (computer networking book) while i took my nap. i translated any jargon she didn't get. and later i met up with anthony to do our lab 3. ran into some problems and stayed there for hecka long. i had to call tho up to cancel the bball game, even after all the nagging i did when he said he was too tired. man i didn't have to work or goto school and yet i didn't come home til 9:30. and i'll just mention ryan and rufino's name somewhere in there in case they get mad for me not blogging about them.

so i guess singing "your body is a wonderland" to laila wasn't enuff for ditching her the other day. in fact she was pretty upset but there's more to the story.

see sometime last week, jamie asked me if i wanted to be partners with her for lab 3. "sure, why not" i thought but then anthony started on part one and was wondering when'd we'd meet for part 2 of lab 3. so i was confused about who i was partners with. i mean even laila was asking when we were gonna meet for lab 3. finally the email came out that said to work with your original groups.

so me and anthony finished it yesterday, but i totally forgot about telling the girls. laila did ask when we were gonna meet for lab 3 and i was too busy trying to figure out who i was working with that i forgot to reply. so now i feel weird to put her name on our paper, but i also feel crappy for ditching her like that.

she was frustrated when she found out the situation today. i really hate to see my team members like that. i didn't know what i was really feeling, so i was gonna bust out some lyrical ramblings, but then i was thinking...rambling aint gonna fix anything, how bout u do somethinga bout it. so lets see what happens next...

i really liked these lines too:
did you see?
her eyes wont make contact with mine
did you hear?
she left without saying good bye

flame on...

i look around and no one is near. my fight is over but i can still hear battle cries from afar. to my left i see an exit, where i see peace and tranquility in my life. to my right i can only see darkness, where i can feel dispair and destruction with each breath i take. turn to page 96 if you want to take the easy way out, or turn to page 04 if you want to finish it til the end.

i stand there deciding which way to go in the silence. but it was too silent. suspicious of what happened to all the battle cries, i ran into the darkness not knowing what i'll find. but it was too late. the battle is over with no winners and no losers. i was all alone again.

then a beam of light fell from the heavens, bringing back warmth into my body. i looked up to see an angel descending down while the clouds make way for her path. the darkness trembles before her brilliance and scramble to hide behind rocks. the angel almost blinds me with her raidant beauty, but i stay put waiting for what she has to say.

her angelic voice sounded remarkably like ryan's when she said, "dude david, just go live happily ever after or something." you are forced to turn to page 96.

another boring day at school. went to class, went to tutor, left early cuz i was too tired. the cool part was that i met bonna at the bus stop. damn, i haven't talk to her in a hella long time. and it was the coolest 30 minute bus ride home ever. we talked about all sorts of things, and i found out that she's the same as me. if i was to fall in love with myself, i'd prolly fall in love with her. it's really too bad opposites attract.