Finals.

Studying is hard...

but however hard studying is..

it's still easier than getting work done...

I swear I absolutely suck at getting stuff done..

Especially those god forsaken final term papers that end up being quite crappy...

If only everything I study was just independent pieces of information..

and exams would only test the ability to relay that information..

then I would not need to study much at all..

Professors shouldn't assign papers either...

Papers suck.



You can do it if you try
Take one step at a time
-melody. / HOPE

Some motivational song lyrics for those of you taking finals. But honestly, you really should not be reading this (nor should I be typing this) right now.

How is college different from high school? Well, less work, more study. Seeing how I'm a lazy person and dislike working, I like college. More studying isn't really an issue cause photographic memory and good logic still works. So whats wrong? I tend to sleep through lectures, cause they're wonderful places to sleep, its nice and quiet and professors have nice calming tones... in fact, its one of the quieter places on campus that isn't the library. Photographic memory doesn't work when you're sleeping, but learning by osmosis does.. which leads to the next problem. I end up not attending lectures at all. Learning by osmosis doesn't work unless you're in earshot, sadly enough.

Oh, and there's this wonderful thing call term papers. I can absorb information, and I can spit it back out in a logical form. However, ask me to create information and I fail... horribly. Plus, I'm easily distracted.. especially when I'm bored... and papers are boring. Right now I'm supposed to be writing a final paper and instead, I'm writing here. I'm being SO productive.

There's also the little devil called procrastination that I plan on killing... tomorrow.. if I have time.. maybe..

Back to work.

Good luck on finals everyone!

christmas lights

Well a few weeks ago, I was poking around on the internet and I saw some cheap LED lights. I ended up buying 20 of them. For the most part, they pretty much sat in a big pile in my desk. Then finals week comes around and I, instead of studying, decided to screw around with them. They make nice Christmas lights, no? Maybe when the batteries die, I'll take them apart and wire them together in parallel and actually make them into makeshift Christmas lights... just don't stare into them, you'll have a star shaped thing in the middle of your vision for a long long time. They're bright.

Oh, and you get a good view of my computer screen. Facebook during finals, great huh?

Court Desision

I win.

The police requested an extension. The court granted them the extension. Even after the extension, they couldn't make up a viable story to challenge my 10 page long argument (with pictures).

Nothing on record and I get my bail money back. Weeeee

Now what can I spend $519 on... hmm...

facebook disabled + new earhpones(again)

Depressing news (for me) first. I got my facebook account disabled. So if you're wondering where I disappeared off to, it's cause I was "spamming" messages to "unknown person(s)" and a high rate. It ended up being considered "misuse of facebook features" and I got my account disabled.

If messages are not supposed to be used to talk to friends I'm not too sure what they're supposed to be used for...

I'm also not sure how it was spam, every message was unique. I know everyone I message too. -.-

So until then, I'm pretty much going through facebook withdrawl. :[ I guess it's a sign that I should be working on my research paper.
Now to happier news. New headphones! KSC-75

For those of you who wonder why I keep buying earphones/headphones, it's because I already own two and a half very nice sound systems at home, so when I'm staying still, at home, in the living room, I have good sound. But now I'm on laptop, so I want the same good sound I had at home, through earphones. Besides, its cheaper to get earphones.

Bang for buck, this one wins hands down. My Sennheisers cost three times as much (retail) and these sound slightly better.

But sound quality is only better in complete silence. These are open type earphones. So they don't block sound at all. You can hear most environmental sounds around you, and they can hear your sounds too if its quiet enough, and you're playing music loud enough.

Plus, they're not exactly ideal for running.

But they produce very very good sound for their price.

school sweater

I finally got myself a UCSB sweater. I know, took me long enough right? It was pretty last minute too, bought it the day before my freshman discount expired. :P I doesn't have a surfer dude on it like the rest of them, oh well. It's also significantly longer than the rest of my sweaters, so if you thought my other sweaters were long before, this ones a good 5 inches longer. I guess its to accommodate all the tall people here.

You get a view of my extremely filled closet too :P Image is flipped so you can actually read the "Santa Barbara" on my sweater, cause the mirror flips it. So yes, its as if someone was taking a picture of me from inside the mirror. Creepy thought.

my sad ipod story

So my Cx300s broke. I liked them. I ordered another pair since its cheaper to buy a new pair than to potentially pay to get my old ones fixed (yeah, I don't know either....). I ordered my new earphones on Friday.

On Monday, when I was looking through my desk for my ipod, I discovered that they were gone. I'm pretty sure I didn't misplace them, I always stick it in the same place inside my desk. So no ipod to keep me awake in letures. :( And I have to scrap up the money to replace it.

So now I have a brand new pair of nice earphones (white too, to match my now missing ipod) all lonely without an ipod to pair with. :(

R.I.P. CX300. You will be missed.

Remember back in March when I bought a pair of Sennheisner CX300s? They broke. Lets take a moment to remember all the abuse I've put it through..

I drop them on the floor, often. The left earphone normally stays hanging around my next, and often gets flung into walls or crushed when I carry stuff. I exposed the wiring (which I fixed later) by pulling on them too hard trying to pull my iPod out of my pocket. Both earphones have been dissected (and later reassembled on the spot) because they got hit too hard by something.

I run with them I jump with them. Sometimes I sleep with them (since they're kinda sound canceling). Sometimes when I run or jump, my iPod falls out of my pocket, and it either hangs by the earphone on my ear, or the jack disconnects and my iPod falls to the ground. Oh, and sweat and other sorts of bodily fluids gets on it all the time.

Strangely enough, even though my left earphone gets more abuse (the left side is longer, and I normally only wear one), my right one died one me first. Another funny point is that it just suddenly went quiet when I was just walking around (slowly at that), not jumping, running, or playing teather iPod with it.

My warranty didn't expire yet (2 yr), but I don't have any form of proof of purchase. I'm also not sure if all the abuse I've put it though can be noticed, and if it contributes to anything. Perfect example of this is if you decide to shake your computer hard drive, and contantly power up/down your computer within a few seconds. Hard drive fails. But its considered normal failure covered by warranty, even though it was user induced. Now to just wait for a responce.

If it does get replaced, horray! I'll probably buy two more different one. One dirt cheap one for running. Another pair of headphones for dorm use. If not, I'll probably replace it with one of similar price and quality, just to try out other brands.