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Weekend LAN We had our LAN party in my basement on Saturday night. It was a wild. I think there were about 12 computers and 16 people throughout the night. We started off by playing a massive 8 player game of Age of Empires 2 and the power went out half way through the game. The power went out a second time for AOE2 when we tried to finish it. A lot of ass-kicking was done in UT and we also played some new games like Counter-Strike Source and the new Doom3. The gaming didn't end till 9AM and started at around 7PM. I am still recovering from the lack of sleep and images of people getting fragged still remains in my head.

the waiting game So after waiting for a about two weeks to hear back from Cypress I finally emailed them again. I thought they didnt want me. Perhaps they didnt want because my cell went off twice during the interview, maybe cuz my breath was stinky? I donno, I was worried so I emailed them. The the recruit replied and said that I should've heard from HR because he gave them a recommendation for hire and he'd turn up the heat on them if they didnt get back to me soon. Then 30mins later I got a call from a CA area code, it was Cypress. The HR lady (Kimberly) told me that they are going to extend an offer to me to go work for them over the summer as a co-op. Very cool.... now I gotta find a way to tell my currently employer (nicely) that I'm going to leave them and work for a silicon valley company over the summer instead. It's been a rough week, the only good thing was this job offer in San Jose. Everything else SUCKED!!! Tests were hard and kicked my ass, homework sucked and took forever, the fridge sucked as there's nothing to eat, the wallet is empty as I had to spend money to buy food. Some stress relieving is on the way for this weekend.

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Can't sleep Well I took like a 2 hour nap today and now I can't sleep. It's almost 4:30am, why not write something huh? Have you ever taken one of those exams that was just impossible? I'm talkin about one of those classes where you don't attend for a month, "compare" homework with friends, and have no clue what the prof is trying to say and then all of a sudden there's an exam. The exam comes and you're confused as to what to study because the prof can't really speak english and you haven't ever attended class. Then you go ahead and cram like usual except only to find out that there is wayyyy too much to cram and everything you didn't learn last month relates to this exam. So then you just give up and take the exam just so you don't get an incomplete in the class. Yeah, ever had one of those? Well I did last week, god it felt horrible. This is one of the worst cases of procrastination I have endured, ever. It got so bad that instead of cramming in those last 2 hours, I just gave up and took a nap on the couch while my friends continued. Then yesterday, my friends asked me to check the website and see what my score was. We were all joking around that I probably got the lowest score in the class, maybe a 23... To all our astonishment, I got a 74, 3 points above average. I did better than most of the people whom I "studied" with and they actually knew their stuff. Incredible, how can this be?!?! No time to figure that out, we head to Hooters happy hour and eat chicken wings and drink beer to celebrate. Come to think of it, I've had an unusual string of luck this semester when it comes to exams and quizes. I've managed to stay above average in all the classes that I don't attend or every study for. The ONLY class I am struggling in is Chemistry, the first one, the one with all the freshmen. I go to lecture, I do the homework and I study. And I'm getting my ass kicked in the class!!! So I've skipped all the lectures last week and hopefully this week to try and improve my score. If this actually works, I'm gonna have to write a book on how being a major slacker actually improves your grade. Now I've gotta go to bed, so I can make it to my Chem lab. Too bad attendance is required in this one, or I'd skip it too. :P

Break Thanksgiving is tomorrow and we don't have classes for 4 days! Yay! I feel pretty relieved eventhough I haven't really done much this past week except for sleeping and hanging out with friends. I wish I could have some turkey tomorrow. Unfortunately, there will be no turkey at my house and my parents will be hosting some guests which I find very dull and unsociable. Instead of a fat juicy turkey sitting on the table there will be a hot steaming pot of boiling water. Yes, they're having a hot pot thing, which I find to be lacking of flavor and never actually fills you up. You just sit around and dip raw things in the hot water to cook it while talking with people at the table. Since I rarely ever see these people and the only times I see them they have nothing to say, it's going to suck big nuts. I don't care, I'm going to eat turkey this year even if I have to go to Old Country Buffet. Oh man, I haven't had OCB in a long time. Maybe I'll round up some other friends who want to rebel from the traditional Chinese dinner and join me at OCB. Man just thinking about OCB makes me hungry! Actually I think I'm hungry cuz I haven't had anything to eat since this morning. Anyway, I'm eating now, eating some Killian's Irish Red... mmm... beer. Alan is having a birthday party at his house on Friday, I think I'm going to get him something (but I won't say cuz he might be reading this (damn now that I wrote this I better remember to get him something). Diana and Andrea are gonna celebrate their birthdays on Saturday, it'll probably a drunk fest... good, that is always good, until you get too old. (I wrote all that to remind myself of the agend for this weekend, there is always too much to remember.)