Lists

I've been staring at the title of this post for what I swear to have been five minutes. It looks funny. Lists. Then I started repeating it out loud and it made the disconnect between the word and its meaning even more severe.

Too much caffeine, not enough sleep, and definitely not enough desire for sleep.

So this post is going to be exactly what it says in the title: lists. Why? Because I don't feel like sleeping just yet. I'm still trying to chase my mind ('cause it's still running... haha...?)

Television shows watched lately:

• Franklin and Bash
• The Nine Lives of Chloe King
• Mad Love
• Hiccups
• Cougar Town
• Life Unexpected
• Love in the Wild
• Make Me a Supermodel
• Project Runway
• The Other Truth - 真相
  
• So You Think You Can Dance

Facebook games addicted to:

• My Shops
• Green Farm
• Castle & Co
• DDTank

Food I am craving:

• Sushi
• President's Choice Chocolate Chip Cookies (Yes, the brand does matter)
• All Dress Chips
• Ketchup Chips
• Gingerale
• Pillsbury Mini Pizzas 
• Bread from out of the oven
• Warm Toast
• Cinnamon Buns
• Porkchop Bun from Phoenix
• Coconut Bun from T&T
• Chicken Noodle Soup
• Cookies and Cream Icecream from Breyers
• Dairy Queen soft serve ice cream
• McDonald's Oreo McFlurry
• Lava cookie from Red Lobster
• Sunny Side-up Eggs with Toast
• Hot dog with lots of ketchup, mustard and relish
• Pepperoni peeled one by one off a slice of pizza
• Soggy Fries
• Poutine from either Harvey's or KFC

Books I've read lately:

• Random books by Sherrilyn Kenyon 
• Mr. Maybe by Jane Green
• Something Borrowed by Emily Giffin
• Love the One You're With, also by Emily Giffin
• Rules of Work by Templar
• A page of Sweet Valley Confidential by Francine Pascal (don't even get me started!!)
• Last Sacrifice (Vampire Academy Series) by Richelle Mead
• Skimmed The Carlyes Series by Cecily von Ziegesar 
• Started Omnitopia Dawn by Diane Duane
• The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
• Wither by Lauren DeStefano 
• Bossypants by Tina Fey
• Starting Morganville Vampires series by Rachael Caine
• Tried to reread the Twilight Series 
• Rereading Ender's Game series (LOVE!)

The times when I've questioned my own sanity:

• too many to list out

Anyways, hope you enjoyed this time-waster as much as I did!

xoxo

It's just too much...

Haven't been very good about updating my blog. Just too much happens all at the same time, and it just passes me by. First day of work tomorrow and all I can think about is which camera to get...

I am deciding to either get a Holga or a Diana F+.

• buy the kit with flash, or not flash (or delux!)
• mini or not
• what kind of film (120 or 35mm)
• special edition or classic black

Holga is cheaper on all levels, and was what made me look into the whole toy camera thing to begin with. It's known for quality, been on the market longer.

Diana+ on the other hand looks cuter (the Snowcat for example made me want to get one that is way overpriced cuz LIMITED EDITION! See below.) and plus for some reason I can't put my finger on, just attracts me more and looks more stylish in my opinion. However, the accessories that I think are must haves, are way  more expensive than that or the Holga.

The Diana Snowcat in all its beauty-ness.

Other things I have to consider is of course, which film I should use. 120 or 35mm. 120 film I would actually have to go to an actual film developing place, whereas 35mm I can just be a cheapass and go to Costco and make my mom print them.. However, that is why I'm planning on getting a 120, since there are 35mm film adapters, where as, u cant really go the other way around.

I am so confused! Cameras trumps purses and shoes at the moment. School has made me become repelled by fashion. Save me.

New Machine... Sorta...?

Just yesterday night, the night before my politics exam, my Macbook's hard-drive died on me. At first I was devastated to see the "white screen of death" up-close and in person, until something brilliant happened. In the middle of the night, I had to use my long forgotten PC and make an appointment for see a Mac Genius at the GeniusBar. When I got there the next day, I was surrounded by hordes of people lining up to get iPads after iPads, then iMacs after iMacs. Was I jealous? Hell yea! (Not for the iPads though, but that they have money to not buy one, but in a lot of cases, two iPads!)

It was a long wait before I got to the counter. That was when they told my my iCare was just over! I was ready to faint until the nice man behind the counter told me that he would make an exception for me, How nice! I was prepared to leave my precious Macbook behind for a day or two, until more good news! The Genius told me that he would just grab a hard-drive from the back and change it right away. So he went behind the store, and I was just about to remind him that he left my Macbook on the counter, until I realized he was going to change it right then and there infront of me! So after two screws (as in those metal things u assemble things with, get ur minds out of the gutter! I wasn't that grateful!) my Macbook was ready to go! Notice how I used so many exclamation marks at the end of my sentences? I was really excited. 

As me and my hubby headed home, I was joking to him how, oh, my hard-drive was so old, they probably didn't have the OS I had installed on there. All jokes and games until... I turned on my hard-drive. I saw the dock and I soon realized that I actually got an upgrade to my operating system for free! I guess my hard-drive really was old. Mind you, it was only Leopard, and not Snow Leopard, but you have to keep in mind that my OS was the Tiger OS and I was already one and a half (half being what i considered Snow Leopard to be) behind. Plus, Lion is about to come out soon, so I was really out of the loop. Nonetheless I was happy. What a brilliant and bright day.

On the side note, what I really wanted to share today was this new user I found on deviant art, with the most brilliant wallpapers. I have to say, I'm really picky about what wallpaper I use, but these wallpapers however took my breath away. Simple and Clean, yet nicely designed just like how they're supposed to be. I'm also going to try out their icons. I have my eye on the wooden crate looking ones. Go check them out: Pixartica. Awesome. 

Update on website

As it turns out, the pages of my agenda were sticking together and the storyboard deadline is actually one more week away! You have no idea how relieved I am, there was no way any of that would have been finished in time. Anyways, so I have the main character/ mascot for my site basically complete, although i always can make some more refinements...

Here is a sneak peak :)

This is actually cut out from one of my pages that I have so far. Where, I would not say now, but when it is finished you shall all see :) I have the basic template setup already, but there are still some minor details here and there to be fixed and figured out. My main final intention however, is after that is done with, to incorporate that site with this blog... somehow... We'll see how that goes.

It's been an extremely extremely long week. Two midterms and superlong classes. I'm glad this week is over. And in case anyone is wondering, yes, my week ends on Thursday nights haha. And please don't go hatin' because I do work my ass off on Fridays at home too, just no commute time need. Thank goodness for that.

On a side note however, I have a question. Does iMovie not have a recording function, or does it just for some reason not detect my webcam? When I have more braincells/brainpower I will try to figure that out. When I do, it's gonna be a treat for sure!

New On My Wish List

 

wow, these are the hottest things ever, so much so that this post is just going up like this with no proper capitalization or punctuation or anything, and i wouldnt be surprised if it has a couple of grammatical errors 

I Don't Get it!

Say Cheee....What?

As you can all see from the title of my blog... I am downright puzzled. About what?

Well to start from the beginning, I was browsing Facebook like any other day, and I stumbled onto Jon from TechWaffle's status update about not liking Symbian. So I thought, "Oh, that's interesting, let me google it!" I have had a Nokia in the past, and I was just curious as to what it is. At first I thought it was pretty interesting, and their homepage was nicely designed, I love the whole combining real life photography/videos with illustration thing. However,  when I started to watch Nokia's promotional videos as well as some reviews on the N8, I got somewhat confused, and I just hd to share my confusion or maybe someone can tell me if I'm missing a major point here.

First of all, one of the first things I saw being reviewed was the ability to change the wallpaper to any photos you like or have on your phone. Self explanatory, but HUH?! How on earth is that an innovation, so much that they even have to review it? Is it not, by this day an age expected  that you can change your wallpaper? Second of all, when they talked about the customizable homescreen, they were saying it like WOW CUSTOMIZABLE HOMESCREEN NOW AVAILABLE! Have people stuck their head in a hole and not come out in a while, because this is not really considered an innovation, at least I would not think so. As well, the whole wow-factor of widgets, and how the reviewer just said that users are no longer able to just add widgets, they can now rearrange it!!!

Although, to give it a benefit of a doubt, I did stop watching the YouTube review after around three minutes, but if there is anyone out there that actually watched the whole thing, maybe you can prove me wrong by telling me there was something actually interesting to watch.

The only thing I thought was interesting, was the ability for transparency amongst their "layers" and how different applications can appear on the screen at the same time, even through conference calls. But then again, why would you (not on a testing its limits sense) use video conferencing, watch a soccer game, and want your music playlist visible at the same time?

Seriously...

Oh, and on a sidenote, if anyone wants to actually watch the review I was referencing to:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNsraQS3Ig4&feature=channel

Entry Since Forever

Wow, it really has been a while since I've come on here to update. It's been a busy summer, and it's flying by so fast! For those of you who didn't know already, I've been interning at U2R1 Media. It's been an awesome experience so far. Lots of pink: by far the koolest office I've seen to date, with the koolest people working here by far.

So what have I been up to lately? Sadly to say, besides the internship, not much. Although, I have started to use twitter again, and facebook a bit more often than I dare admit. It has been made a lot easier and more convenient to post since I've installed TweetDeck, so posts are coming along more often than before.

Speaking of technology. Everything of mine seems to be falling apart lately! My laptop now has a weird watermark on the screen, and I'm thinking because of this, a gradient has been created on my screen. It hurts my eyes looking at it. Other than that, my Blackberry has decided it is a great idea to fall apart on me at the same time! It now randomly shuts down, as well as not charge properly. I'm guessing it's the battery, plus my charger getting old. Therefore, not charging or retaining charge properly. Good times. So how I'm fixing these two problems is:

1. Buying a new iMac to replace, or so at least part of the time I can work on it instead of my 15" Macbook (which is now approximately 3 years old almost!) But since another iMac is due to come out soon, I'm debating whether to get another one now, or wait. 
2. As for the phone problems, I'm planning on caving in, and getting an iPhone. However, I do like Androids from the few times I've touched them. And I say touched, because I didn't really spend a lot of time with it, so I'm still debating. However, I do like the the UI of the one Android phone I did play with: HTC Desire. 

I don't know, for those people that do read this, tell me what you think! I'm tied, and basically I just want anything with a battery that comes out!
Well that's it for this ranting post, tata for now!
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 Disclaimer: I've now been notified that my Macbook is not even 15 inch, but 13.3 inches. FML

OMG!

Okay, so this news actually deserves an oh em gee!
Turns out some drunk guy from Apple "misplaced" the next generation of iPhone while at a bar drinking!
Get informed here

Surprisingly, I actually like the new design! I hope Apple sticks with it! 

Quick Summary

So today was an awesome day.
Made dinner for baby, with ribs (did not turn out as good as I hoped), honey garlic wings, mashed potatoes with garlic butter, and cauliflower in a cream of mushroom and cheese sauce.
Was really full and statisfied.
Why these fragmented sentences? Well, because we tried the Passion and Mango Alize.
It was awesome, but it does not result in a good blog entry, plus my Mac is malfunctioning again.
You know what that meannnss! Time for a new Mac. Now I just have to wait for the new one to come out, then I'm all set. Might  well get the new "iPhone 4G" or what they sometimes call the "iPhone HD" LOL! Right now I'm plenty interested in what Apple comes up with, after the whole iPad mishap
Currently my favorite rumored design is this one:

Click the image above for more views.
So after a great ordeal of eating and drink.. and lots of laughing, we decided it was a good idea to play Call of Duty. It was fun, and interesting. Haha. All I got from those games were that the dogs were a real pain in the butt!

Pictures of the actual evening will be posted up here when baby has time to upload them. They were taken on his phone using this new camera app. It is absolutely amazing!

Also, if anyone, and I do mean anyone, knows how to fix this problem with my Macbook, it is much appreciated. The problem is, I would type a bit then it backtracks by itself. So I would end up typing words in the middle of words which turns out to be jibberish. It is really bothering me, especially when I'm somewhat still buzzed and have to update my blog. It would sometimes highlight all the text somehow by itself as well. Someone help me!!!

So that is all the goodness I can afford for tonight. I'll update more when I'm more clear headed. And that being said, please forgive me for all my errors like spelling mistakes or grammar, or just pure nonsense for tonight. I promise you a better entry.

Oh, and more to come, more reviews on Playstation 3 games! Keep checking back and I'll keep you posted! Good night y'all!