Zhanga: May 2008
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Tuesday, May 27, 2008 (1 comment)
Yesterday I drove from Richmond to DC with Tiffany. The GPS said it'd take around 1h:30m to arrive, but the traffic on I-95 was terrible and it actually took over 3 hours. Cars would stop, then the jams would clear up for seemingly no reason whatsoever. Traffic is an interesting phenomenon, but that's a story for another day (maybe). Anyways, whoever invented the "detour" button on GPS gadgets is amazing. We went down probably 50 miles of empty country roads and saw some nice houses on gigantic fields of grass. I think yesterday's the first day I've actually seen a big red barn with an old silo next to it, just like you'd see on a postcard.
There was also this cute little puppy that stuck its head up to the window and stared at me at a long red light. The lady driving that car laughed at me when I took a picture of her dog.
Now I'm in DC eating lunch. When I woke up this morning, I came to a terrible realization -- I can't get out of Tiffany's apartment, and lunch would be limited to whatever I can cook from ingredients in the fridge. Cook! I had to cook! I'm trapped in a dungeon, and Tiffany has the only key to this gate:
So now I'm eating a fried egg and really badly cooked bok choy, after setting the smoke detectors off trying to fry my egg. (Good thing there wasn't actually a fire, or I'd be kind of trapped in here...) This bok choy is really bad. I must revisit my method of cooking this stuff.
The apartment situation is kind of funny. A very small Asian girl is living in a tiny but well-furnished apartment in an all-black area. By all-black, I really mean it. I don't recall seeing a single white person yet, though Tiffany claims to have seen a Mexican somewhere when I was driving. It seems fine though, and even after sunset the area doesn't really feel shady to me. It's probably 20 times less ghetto as Gene and James's, and the people around here seem pretty nice (which is based on anecdotal evidence with sample size 2). Well, except for the cashier at Safeway, but at least he took out his anger on his boss and not us. Oh wait... his boss was white. I guess he's the only white guy in town.
Now I'm done with my really terrible lunch, and I'm still starving because I barely ate yesterday. And vegetables aren't filling. I should have listened to Tiffany when she wanted to buy junk food yesterday.
1:21PM
Thursday, May 22, 2008 (2 comments)
I was looking through some old photos a couple of nights ago. This is #8 of the series of 14 pictures of Drew trying to grind on Tiffany. #8 is actually the only picture where he is not actively doing so:
I tried to lighten the picture so that Tiffany's face might be more clearly visible, but then Drew faded into a glowing blob of white, so I decided not to.
2:19PM
Tuesday, May 20, 2008 (0 comments)
The Zune thinks it's really helpful and clever and tries to guess what album songs are from, and fetches cover art. Unfortunately the fact that the Zune is in fact not helpful and clever, combined with the complete ineptitude of Microsoft in providing Unicode support, means that this feature is pretty useless.
This is 大中国 ("我们都有一个家..."), the most manly song currently known to exist on this planet. Microsoft turned it into some sissy 80's tune:
By the way, 大中国 is actually kind of lucky -- it is rendered in gibberish, but unique gibberish. Most of my Chinese songs just show up as boxes, so it's literally impossible to tell them apart.
5:07PM
Sunday, May 18, 2008 (1 comment)
My birthday was pretty awesome, thanks to everyone who came and made it fun. Ronjon will be dealt with soon. I hope he had fun exploring his gay buddy's caves.
I'll be eating these whenever I need a midnight snack (which is... every midnight). I hope at least one of these cans is loaded with MSG.
I think the best part of last night and by best I mean most depressing, was when I was drinking the Tsingtao that Maylene's dad bought me, sitting on the couch next to Maylene, and this happened:
Me: So how's Leo?
Maylene: Good.
[glug glug]
Me: Better than me?
Maylene: Perhaps.
[glug glug glug gluglugluglugluglug...]
Oh wait, how did I almost forget? This was far more depressing (it's from Maylene, and reminds me of a similar book):
It's ok, though. Still a great night overall.
3:47PM
Thursday, May 15, 2008 (6 comments)
Akbar: Why didn't you major in math?
Me: I don't really like math.
Akbar: But you're good at it!
Me: Yeah?
Just cuz you're hung like
a moose doesn't mean you gotta do porn.
Akbar: Huh?
FAIL! And if you also didn't immediately get it, you fail too and need to watch Harold & Kumar (the first one) again.
In other news, on Saturday night, everyone go to Gene and James's place. If you aren't going to show, I require an excuse like "my grandmother died," "I'm out of state," etc. Religious holidays don't count.
Edit: Oops, I forgot to mention that Saturday night is for my birthday, which is Sunday.
6:56PM
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 (5 comments)
I definitely remember this "I love you inside Ed" song... along with the thousand other bad Indian songs Hanif sometimes listens to. The fake subtitles here are pretty amusing:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZA1NoOOoaNw
And in other news, for some reason Brunswick emailed me a coupon saying I can bring myself and four friends to go bowling on May 20 (Tues) 6:30 PM for free. I don't really know why, but who's interested? I have to RSVP.
2:00AM
Monday, May 12, 2008 (0 comments)
Most important Zhanga post of the year! Pay attention!
Frisbee at field past Fuller's this Saturday (the 17th). I'm thinking around 2 PM. Show up!
4:18PM
Wednesday, May 7, 2008 (3 comments)
How cute, Linux is subtly trying to teach me foreign languages:
Which reminds me, James said that Gene knew Cinco de Mayo meant 5th of May, but didn't think it was actually celebrated then. I forgot the exact quote to put on the quotes page... what was it again?
8:12PM
Thursday, May 1, 2008 (0 comments)
Capital One sent me a form to fill out. So I click the link and guess what? It doesn't work in anything but Internet Explorer. Hello, it's 2008 and IE isn't the only browser these days. So I find a copy of Windows just to fill in their dumb form, and the first couple of fields ask for my first name, last name, and date of birth.
My name is pretty easy, so I type that in. I thought I knew my DOB too, but no, the website wants to be helpful. It doesn't let me type into the box, but requires me to click their little calendar icon thingy next to the field, which opens up a calendar from which I can select a date. Because you know, it's so much easier to click 25 times than to just type mm/dd/yyyy. You think I'm exaggerating when I say 25. I'm not. The calendar only shows 1 month, and there are only 4 navigation buttons: forward/back 1 month and forward/back 1 year. I had to click 20 times just to get to the correct year, and their molasses server took forever to respond to each click. Talk about brilliant user interface design.
I want to find out what crappy consultant created this piece of crap website so I can harrass them. Imagine a 50 year old grumpy man (e.g. me in 30 years) having to click 50+ times to enter his DOB... ugh.
9:52PM
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