Weekend Blues

I just felt like a sad panda for most of the day. If I knew how to describe the feeling, I would but it's just a whole conglomerate of thoughts and stuff all intermixed together that it's just tough to explain. Anyways, I just wanted to rant for a bit before heading to bed.

Which Naruto Character are you?

Which Naruto Character Are You?
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More ninja action!

Want to see some wild uncensored ninja action??? Well, you won't see any here in this blog, but at this link, you'll be close to seeing some ninjas go wild :P

Oranges to Oranges, Dust to Dust...

I finally got to move back to my former office today and AWAY from all the noise of the construction at last! Yesterday, I was peeved at the fact that dust just started accumulating all over my office desk and laptop keyboard since the workers were taking off the ceiling tiles along the hallway, and behind the tiles were probably 50 years worth of dust accumulating all along the ceiling, and now the dust had more places to go >.< Luckily, the part of the building where my old office was had just finished its renovation, so before I headed back home, I moved all my stuff back to my old office and reclaimed my old desk. Unfortunately, at least for this past morning, some workers were emptying the portable bathrooms, which just happen to be located just outside my office, so there was a pretty bad lingering stink when I got into the office this morning and through part of the afternoon >.< Oh well, hopefully things'll be less hectic and noisy from now on.



Man, it's halftime right now and USC has completely taken over the Orange Bowl game against Oklahoma up 38-10. Oklahoma struck first with a TD, but USC has now managed to score 35 points with Matt Leinart doing his best Payton Manning impression as he throws for 4 touchdowns IN A HALF! But Oklahoma has been shooting themselves in the foot with 4 turnovers, giving USC great field position that translated to 24 points. Bob Stoops better be giving his Oklahoma players a great motivational speech during halftime; otherwise, it looks like it'll be another long off-season for the Sooners without a National Championship. One funny note: Ashley Simpson sang to end the half-time show, and most of the stadium seemed to be booing her after she finished her song :P



Update: USC roxored Oklahoma 55-19.

Rainy Monday

It almost seemed too appropriate that it would be raining all day in Columbus for the first day of classes here at OSU. But for me, it actually felt a bit refreshing coming back to school now and getting back into the daily grind. I have two classes this quarter: EE711 (Antennas) on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, and EE894 (Method of Moments 2, also popularly known as MoM) on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The antennas class is taught by our lab director John Volakis, who is generally a good guy but very vocal and demanding, but he seemed to give the impression that he's going to put his best effort into teaching the class. As with most first days of classes, the student attenence is huge, but I was even surprised to see around 50+ students in the antenna class, with a majority of them being undergraduate students. Since I never had an antennas class before and a good portion of electromagnetics focuses on antenna design, I figured it would probably be in my best interest to get one in :P



Cingular finally managed to finally get my brother's new phone up and running today. My mom, brother, and I got a new plan from Cingular right after Christmas since our family plan with T-Mobile expired on Christmas day, and I just couldn't pass up getting a Razr for $50 in Flushing, NY :P My brother also ended up getting a new Motorola V551 since the T-mobile coverage at Princeton, NJ where he lives is kind of spotty. Number transferring proved to be strangely easy for me and my mom; I had my number carried over in about 3 hours, and my mom's number carried over in a day. But my brother waited 3 days, and still no service for his new phone. A quick call to Cingular rep insured, and we found that there are still "bugs" in the system to carry numbers over, and the rep said that they have had problems where random numbers to be carried over would be "missing". But I'm glad to see that Cingular fixed the problem rather quickly for my brother, though he had to wait an extra 3 more days. As for me, I'm a happy panda with my new razr ^^ The extra thinness makes it more comfortable to keep in my jean pockets compared to my old Samsung S105. Also, the speakerphone feature of the phone absolutely rocks! Now I can just set the phone on speakerphone, leave it on my desk, and do other things like fold laundry while still being able to talk on the phone ^^ The reception also seems to be much better at my apartment, so another added plus to a great phone.

HL2 Fun

Apparently, the Half-Life 2 engine is rather customizable, so when you have a customizable game engine and people with some sick humor, this is the result! Ok, the results aren't that sick, but the pics are pretty darn funny ^^ I especially liked the "look ma...no hands!" pic :D

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to everyone out there ^^ Hopefully this new year will be good to you all ^^ I'm finally back at Columbus again after a 1.5 week hiatus, and once the 3rd rolls around, it'll be back to classes and research once again. But it was good to go home and relax for a bit and not think about school for a bit.



I didn't get that many items for Christmas since there wasn't really anything I really wanted to get. BUT...I did get this for Christmas ^^



It's small...

sleek...

and bright...

in more ways than one!



Needless to say, I was happy to get one of these ^^