my sexy friend

nyaha!

Just imagine me saying that as I jump out of the shadows to suprise someone.

So, exam results were released yesterday.
Bwahaha. I still don't know what I got. Nyeh. Yeah, I haven't paid up.

Everyone's on their holidays travelling somewhere. *sniff sniff* Except me.
Woke up at 5 this morning to send my parents and my little sister to the airport. Brr. Cold.

Am home alone. Dunno if I should bother going out for lunch later. I probably won't.
I'm SO sick of eating out. =(
My mom used to cook dinner every Sunday till Wednesday night.
It's been weeks or months since that happened. Hmph. So unhealthy.
So I guess at least now I can cook for myself. ^^

Eee. Dunno what to do lah. I think later at noon I'll drag the PS2 downstairs and play myself some MGS. Bwahaha.

Yes yes, really random rambling found in this post.
I'm such a nerd. No suprise.

:D Home alone. :D

P/s. I sound so overprotected, don't I? Like I've never been home alone before.

condolences muttered thousands of miles away

I only just found out what had happened to James Kim. I first heard about it when I surfed by TechieDiva. All that ran through my head when I first started reading what they had wrote was, "Oh no.. They can't be talking about James Kim.." until I got to the part where his name was mentioned.

I am shocked and saddened by the news. It shook me more than what had happened to Steve Irwin because in comparison, James Kim was more of a hero to me.

To each his own.

I started to know about him watching TechTV and I always enjoyed watching him pointing out the pros and cons of certain products. Then TechTV stopped being shown here, no more watching him point stuff out. Then one day I decided to surf about CNET and found him again as I was watching the videos. I felt delighted that he's fine and that he was still pointing things out.

He was a favorite with me because he always had this positive attitude. He was cheerful, friendly, and always smiling.

The story goes:

Mr. Kim and his wife Kati, their daughters -- 4-year-old Penelope and their 7-month-old baby Sabine -- were stranded in their car in a heavy snow after making a wrong turn onto a logging road west of Grant's Pass, Ore.

The Kims lived in San Francisco, where James Kim worked for a tech news Web site. His family owned two boutiques and a coffee shop where he stopped each day, buying a double latte in the morning and a frappe that he brought home to his wife each night.

They were driving home from Thanksgiving in Seattle, and missed a turn when snow began to fall; and their car got stuck.

The logging road they turned down should be blocked off by a gate in November, because it's considered hazardous in winter. But authorities said yesterday that vandals apparently cut the lock; and the gate was open.

For a week, the Kims huddled and ate berries, baby food and crackers. After a few days, they had to burn their tires to keep warm, and to try to attract attention. When they ran out of food, Kati Kim, who is still nursing their baby, breast-fed 4-year-old Penelope, too.

In these times of mobile phones, instant messages and global positioning satellites, it is hard to imagine that you can be lost and out of reach anywhere in the United States. Many news accounts have tried to imagine the pain, cold, hunger and fright the family must have felt -- the excruciating uncertainty, day after day, as they weren't found and couldn't know that hundreds of people were searching for them.

What might have been hardest for James and Kati Kim was to see and hear their children suffer.

So after a week stuck in the wilderness, and no sign of rescue, James Kim decided that a father has to do whatever he can to save his family -- or die trying. He struck out to try to find help. Hungry, weak, and wearing only street clothes, James Kim, a city boy from San Francisco, walked and crawled for ten miles over sharp ledges, through bristling forests and swam through freezing creek waters.

Two days after he left, Kati Kim and their daughters were found. Their health is good. But two days after that, James Kim was found dead in a ravine, of exposure.

So much of modern popular culture depicts parents who are goofy, foolish, clueless and slightly pathetic. Almost every parent is certain they would risk their life for those they love; James Kim actually made that sacrifice.

As Joe Hyatt, a member of the rescue team searching for James Kim, told reporters this week: "He must have been an extremely amazing individual. I would only hope I could do the same for my family."

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Flowers left outside one of the family's stores. (Source: TechieDiva)

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emo for pictures, music, and videos.. emo for life

I wrote a post before this one which I deleted for it was pure crap.
However, I did mention that I needed to clean out my HDD as I am running out of space.

Hello, I'm being emo.
Am going through my pc and whatever stuff is in it.. Mostly songs, pictures, and videos.
All of which remind me of the people in my life.

I'm sorry to those who sent me their pictures in MSN. I know I promised to delete them right after taking a quick looksee but I never had the heart. I don't know why you would want me to delete them. I find all your pictures very much wonderful even if you complain that you don't look good in pictures. Some of you even have good editing skills.

Were you afraid that I might show them off to other people? I promise I won't. Not without anyone's permission first. =)

Most of the songs that I have collected thus far have been because of all the courteous people who have always wanted to share the things they loved. And these various songs remind me each one of them. Reminds me of that certain time when we had fun and laughed till our stomachs hurt. Some of the songs were exchanged because they were funny.

Such as the song where the artist couldn't pronounce the words properly. So the lyrics "I can fly, I can fly.. I'm so proud that I can fly" turned into "I can fry, I can fry.. I'm so proud that I can fry". Or songs which you told me properly conveyed your feelings for that special someone and just wanted me to listen to it so that I would know how you feel.

Or songs which I decided to get after you've sung them to me. (Thank you)
Or songs that you shared with me cos you were so inspired by them.
Or songs that you simply loved.

Then there are the videos. Funny videos. Remember when you took that video of me stuffing myself into that suitcase on your bedroom floor? It was just too bad no one was around to help zip me up. Haha. Then there are videos of drunk friends. Simply hilarious. Or remember when we were all teaching some of you boys to dance?

Sorry, I need to keep those for future blackmailing purposes.

Then there are videos from my past special someone. We met online so he made me a video showing me around his home and his room. And there was the other one where he was just simply being sweet. I didn't even know I still had them in here.. but it does bring back such bittersweet memories. It was love, it definitely was. But he's changed, and maybe I have too.

Then there are those of people falling asleep in the car.. and then you know how they would start tilting over to one side and eventually they would either fall on the person sitting next to them or the window? Well, mine's of people falling asleep and falling on the windows but amazingly never waking!

Then there's the one of the friend who was laughing hysterically for more than 5 minutes in the computer labs and being the loudest one there.

Then the pictures. It just reminds me of the times I've shared with other people in my pictures. I can look at the pictures and remember how we laughed, how the weather was, how we joked, how you weren't feeling well that day, how in some.. how we used to be friends..

How I met the person I love now. How love makes people gain weight. Urgh.
How when you got that thing you've always wanted, you proudly took a picture to show it to me and how I was happy that you were happy.

Sigh.

Emo gila. I want to cry.. babi betul!
Sayang how to delete.. someone buy me 200 gig hard disc la.

killing me slowly with snail paced loading times

I'm alive but experiencing what people call a slow death.