First half of October 2010 is a blur...

Saturday, October 2: Spirit of Japantown Festival. Went with Shiva and Marian. Ran into some friends here and there. Had a snow cone thing from the Manju shop. So tasty. Snow cap and azuki beans! XD

Monday, October 4, I think Shiva and I went to the Great Mall. Was really hot that day.

Don't really remember what I've been doing. That's not new XP

Shiva's netbook died last Thursday (Oct 7) ): It was a sad day. Computer Services at SJSU isn't all that good >_> Very slow. They said they'd work on her netbook immediately, and two days later they still hadn't started.

They managed to recover only about 16% of her D drive ): Backed it up on my external drive. Been letting Shiva borrow my netbook. Mother has been wondering when I'll get my computer back haha. I'm just like "whenever my friend doesn't need it anymore."

Sunday, October 10, there was a Queer Dance Committee meeting. I'm actually participating in something. Or trying to. Came up with dance theme ideas and such. Was interesting. No Lady GaGa themes. I would never go to such a thing -_-
But yeah, seems like the Queer Dance of this semester will either be on the last day of semester (Dec 9) or in late February. Hope it's this semester. Would really like to reward myself for getting through this semester. Even though, finals would be the week after -_-

Monday, October 11, was National Coming Out Day. I forgot about it >_> Missed the bbq that the LGBT Resource Center hosted. Oops.

The Dalai Lama came to campus on Wednesday the 13th. Forgot about that too. But there was a lot of security around the Event Center that day -nods-

Today, I went to campus to hang out with Shiva. We and Marian L went to Fry's to buy a hard drive and other stuff. Then to In N Out in Santa Clara. Had some trouble finding our way back, but we did it. Back to campus for a QTIP officer meeting. I'm not an officer, but I'm kinda involved >_> It's weird. I don't know.

Meeting: Pushing for the queer dance to be at the end of this semester. Wanting to change the direction of the club. Planning to change QTIP's name to something more social and less activist, more easily recognized yet maybe less frightening/overly flamboyant (in terms of rainbowy-ness). Problem is the name QTIP already has a reputation. Changing it would mean we'd have to kinda start over but not really...


I'm pretty sure a lot has been going on with me lately, but I just can't recall much of anything. Just a lot of Shiva time XD

Ooh, going to Great America's Halloween Haunt tomorrow with Q&A :D Can't wait. $25 with the group discount. Awesome. Haven't been to a haunted thing before. So I hope it's good. Gonna see a bunch of performances, go through mazes, go on rides, and more.

Tomorrow morning, Mother and D wanna go to Half Moon Bay to check out California's largest pumpkin. So I'll probably go with them to see that. Then I'll get dropped off on campus to get a ride to Great America later in the day.

So many heat waves. In the middle of October D: It makes me sad T-T Do not want heat. Want cold. Where's the cold? Supposed to be a lil bit cooler tomorrow. Supposedly rain on Sunday. We'll see.


Anyway, should get started on a paper for my 100W class. Shiva wants me to do it now >_< She's right. I shouldn't be so lazy and distracted and such.

Hope you're having a good semester/quarter/October/etc.... Ok, bye!

Desktop Recovery

So my desktop got more malware. Just like last time. Except it wasn't AV Security Suite. It was just Security-something-or-other. I decided to recover the desktop, since I put all my music files on the external hard drive already. The rest of the files on my desktop aren't that important to me.

So I recovered it after over seven years. Crazy. So outdated XD

Been reinstalling programs (Firefox, Trillian, Microsoft Office, Norton, etc) and uninstalling other ones for the past two hours.


Oh, before I even started recovering my computer. I thought there was a Recovery disk. So I spent two hours in the morning searching throughout the house for it. Couldn't find it because it turned out there was no such disk XP

Anyway, the search led me to the garage, where I found a bunch of school supplies (two reams of printer paper, four notebooks, two notepads, index cards, and more) that could have saved me much money throughout high school and college -_- Took all that stuff in. Found Brother's old Dynasty skateboard (thought he gave it to our friend Phong, but I guess not) :D Told Shiva about that; now, she wants to kill teach me. Also found Brother's old Chilly Bean fan XD I used to love that thing. It still works! The tech decks are still in the old desk too. Crazy. I wanna go through all that stuff we used to use a lot. But not much time or space to do it.

When I went back in the house, I checked the drawer underneath the microwave for the disk as well. Ended up reorganizing the drawer XD It was so messy. Now, it's neat. I threw out all the old candy that was left in there >_> Put stuff in ziplocks. So much neater in there now. Wonder how long that will last, especially since Mother likes to just toss things in anyway.


But yeah, anyway, back to the computer. Reinstalling hella things. And ahhhh, my desktop is so much faster now :D Pentium 4, 3.00 GHz :O Yee yee! Pretty damn good for a desktop that we bought so many years ago.

I dunno why, but recovering the desktop made me happy. Not ecstatic. But I dunno, I felt good when I saw how clear and fast my computer was. Refreshing, maybe? The only sad part about it is that I forgot to save my Buddha wallpaper, so that is lost, and I do not remember where I got it from. It's been my wallpaper for at least four years. Sad I didn't think of saving it. Oh well. Time to move onto a new wallpaper, yeah?


Anyway, today will be filled with computer stuff, organizing stuff, and karaoke stuff at night :D Karaoke with Kat, Kat's friend Sherry, Ariane, Kiet, Andrew, and maybe Shiva :) and maybe more. Who knows?


Time to download Limewire (or is there a better program?) onto the desktop. And download iTunes onto my external hard drive. That works, right? Ah, so fun. So awesome that my desktop is just like new ^_^ Out with the old, in with the new. Kinda :P

I have an IOmega external hard drive o_o

The family thought I deserved it >_>

I spent much of yesterday transferring over 1000 songs from my desktop to the drive. Then today, I accidentally clicked the wrong button, and iTunes organized all 1000 songs into files that I did not want x_x I'm going through them and reorganizing them individually. But it's going way too slow.

T-T

My stupidity.. grrr..

I think I will: Delete everything out of iTunes. Continue to transfer music files into the external hard drive. Continue to delete songs as I go. Once the transferring is complete, add all however many files I have left back into iTunes.

That seems like a good plan, yeah? It would be most convenient.

The only sad part about it would be I wouldn't remember when I added these songs. And I would lose the play count ): I finally got to a hundred plays on "I'll Be Waiting" by IBU a couple of a weeks ago. So sad, but I think I will have to go with relative convenience. Besides, I'm deleting hella old songs anyway -_-

It just makes me sad that I have to do this... T-T


In other news, it seems I may be going to So Cal to visit and stay with Shiva for a few days this week :D How interesting. I'm surprised Mother is relatively ok with this idea.

I just gotta talk to Shiva about rides and times and such. Then I buy the Greyhound ticket and pack clothes. Probably would leave tomorrow night or Tuesday morning. So soon.

For all you people who wanted to catch up with me, I'll be back in SJ by Saturday, yes. School starts next Wednesday. So we'll have like three or so days to chill.


So yeah, that's how things are going today. Interesting, exciting? Maybe.


What else? Not much. I haven't seen a lot of people this summer. But I've been out of the house for almost half of it. So that is quite awesome.


Anyway, back to reorganizing crap!

New Toshiba netbook...

Because my desktop got the virus a while back, Mother decided I should get a new computer. So I now have a new red Toshiba netbook. 10.0-inch screen. About $400. I feel bad that I got this, but now I can actually do more homework on campus XD

She and D called me while I was in the library with Shiva and one of our classmates studying for our midterm tomorrow. She kept calling me to ask me what I wanted and stuff. I didn't know. I'm not that computer savvy.

But anyway, yeah, new netbook. Yay. Now I won't have to kill my back bringing a laptop to campus when I need to use one. And it's got Windows 7 Starter, yee yee.

I'm still gonna use my desktop. When I'm home, which isn't often. At least not for the past two weeks. I'll just use my desktop to print stuff. Since I don't have a cord to connect my netbook directly to the printer. Hmm, need to download and install stuff on the netbook sometime. Maybe tomorrow, when I feel like wasting studying time XD

Anyway, yeah, that's all I wanted to say. Other than "I've never been a laptop person, but now I'm pretty sure I need one 'cause I don't get much writing done at home anymore." Hm...

Root canals aren't that bad...

Past couple of days have been interesting. Haven't updated about any of it because my computer contracted a virus T-T Apparently downloaded itself into my computer. It wouldn't let me connect to any website except for one that "sells" an anti-virus program called AV Security Suite. Couldn't open up the task manager or Control Panel to get rid of it. Kept giving me warnings about how files on my computer were infected. Wouldn't let me open any of my programs T-T

But now the virus is gone. Yay for online removal instructions.

If I couldn't get rid of the virus today, I would have been allowed to buy a netbook O: Wow. Oh well. I'm good with my desktop until it craps out on me or something.

Ooh, D's gonna give me his external hard drive so that I can put my music files in it, just in case my desktop does decide to die.


But anyway, back to Thursday. Went to campus around 15h00 after driving Mother to the eye doctor. Chilled with Shiva. Was going to go to Music in the Park. But friggin' headache meant loud music would not be a good idea T-T

Hmm, it's been a while, so details have disappeared from my brain D: but I remember Jay and Veronica coming over to write stuff in a birthday card to the Naginata sensei. They like the smell of permanent marker, egh XP Then off to Kendo/Naginata.

Gave the birthday card and a nagamaki to the Naginata sensei. Took pictures. Fun stuff. I still find it weird that I'm being included in all these club things >_> 'cause I'm not actually a part of the club.

Hm, the sensei for Kendo said that I lied O: He said I said I would show up to all the practices. But I didn't T-T I said I would try to come watch sometime. Haha he went out and brought a cushiony chair into the basketball court for me to sit on XD He told me if I keep showing up, he'd bring in a chair for me every time haha XP

So I sat in the chair and watched the few people who showed up practice. Tried to take pictures, but Shiva's camera is too slow or the people are just too fast :P haha Veronica broke Jay's naginata in half XD That was pretty awesome. I mean, not for the naginata. But it was interesting to see. I looked over at them for two seconds before it happened.

But anyway, fun stuff to watch. Shiva and I left the practice about an hour early. Back to her place. Then out for a walk and food. Iguana's, my first time there. Ran into Jonathan G (the guy I met at parties) and his coworkers. Talked for a while. His coworkers left. He stayed to walk with Shiva and me >_> Ate foods in front of the SJ Rep. Yay, wind and stuff haha. Green sauce was interesting.

Walked back to room. Sprinklers! I got soaked. I meant to pull Shiva through with me, but she resisted -_- Darn you, Shiva.

Anyway, Jon went home. Shiva and I went back up to her room, though I wanted to keep walking outside. Outside was nice. Would have gone back outside, but somehow we managed to pass time in her room for quite a while before going to sleep. Oh yeah, CUTE KITTEN VIDEOS.... ^_^ Adorrrable.

But anyway, we ended up going to bed at like 1h30 or something like that :P An interesting night's sleep it was for me.

Waking up was interesting too. I had set my alarm for 6h30 as usual. I woke up at 6h30. Got up at 6h40. Shiva made me go back to bed for an hour -_-

Marian gave us both a ride to the dentist all the way past the car dealerships on Capitol O: So far from campus.

45-minute appointment. And Shiva has to go back on Friday 'cause her root canal's not done, hm.

Bus and light rail back to campus. Took about an hour. Went by really quickly.

What did we do the rest of the day? I don't really remember. Though, I do recall being attacked by Shiva's fingers T-T I could still feel the tickles when I went home. Phantom tickles -shudders-

Oh, we also watched "Sherlock Holmes" :D Interesting movie.

Holmes: "Madam, I need you to remain calm. And trust me, I'm a professional. Beneath this pillow, lies the key to my release."
Maid: -screams, runs-

And I didn't know that Sherlock Holmes could plan out physical attacks in his head so quickly o_o Those scenes were pretty awesome.

If you haven't watched the movie, you should. It's pretty entertaining.


Mm, other than that, there's not much else for me to share about Thursday and Friday. Well, I could... but nahh... :P You don't need to know everything haha.


Yesterday and today was full of me driving family around. Fun stuff >_> But anyway, now, it seems that I shall be chillin' with Shiva and Harrison some more before 10 and sleep :P

So good night haha.

Virtual Memory Minimum Too Low

Hmm, I didn't get to update yesterday because my Internet browser apparently crashed. Or that's what the little warning message said.

Anyway, I really was just going to say that over the past ten or so years, my family managed to save up $238.61 in change. Mostly my mom did. She doesn't like using change.

So yesterday, we decided that our containers of change (sounds so euphemistic) were too heavy to leave in the house. We went to Lucky and used the Coinstar. Took about fifteen minutes to get all the change in. There was one useless dime that we tried putting in three times, and the machine kept coughing it back up. And there were two pennies that were glued together haha.

But yeah, that was fun. People were staring at us because we stood at the machine for too long or something. I dunno.

And I totally believe this entry would be more interesting if I had updated about this yesterday, post-excitement and all :P


Anyway, the reason I couldn't use my entire computer yesterday was because the virtual memory was low. I didn't know what that meant, so I asked Ryan T. Basically, when it's low, the computer slows waayyy down. For my computer though, it wouldn't even open anything. It didn't even want to shut down.

But today, D sent me an email to try to fix the speed problem. And so far, I think it's working. No error messages yet, and I've been on the computer for about an hour. So that's good.

As long as it works tomorrow for half an hour in the morning, I will be happy. I need to sign up for my classes. If I don't get to log on at exactly 0940 tomorrow, I'm gonna be pissed.


I'm hearing sounds in the corner of the ceiling and walls of my kitchen. I think birds have made a nest in our wall just outside the kitchen and under the patio roof thing. Cool. Though, my mom isn't happy about it. If the birds' eggs keep dropping, ants are going to keep coming up for more.


Yeah, ok. I seriously need to get to the library this week. I'm sooo tired of going online all the time. Want books.

New monitor?

I got a new TV screen/computer monitor -__- Why? I don't really know. We're tight on money, but the family is still spending on things we don't need -_- Yet, Mother loves to scold us children for how we spend money.

Anyway, yeah, it's big. 19-inch screen. And I can watch my local channels now :P Both analog and digital until analog is phased out.

No study group today. Canceled plans, how fun. Mm, but I'll study. I need to. Anthropology is difficult. But I'm tired -_-

Can't wait till I get my grades, register for classes, and throw out needless past homework. I've already started preliminary elimination of homework. I've kept the good stuff, the memorables. Still a lot of papers, but less than before. Can't wait till I put away all this stuff for the summer.

Ok, I'm really tired.