Archive for the year 2005
Posted on September 8, 2005 by Ching under Toys.
I’m advertising my phone because I just love it. It’s got a built-in mp3 player and everything. I love my speaker phone. I love my camera. I everything about it. Really, all that’s missing is a radio tuner. If they ever invent a camera phone with an mp3 player and radio tuner both, I am so there! Oh, and did I mention that it’s a swinger (as opposed to a slider like my old phone). How fitting, huh? It’s so funny because one of Brian’s coworkers got the exact same phone at the same time I did. Actually, we received our phones a day apart. The only difference is his is legit through Cingular and mine is an unlocked version so I can use it with my existing T-Mobile phone service. He actually prefers T-Mobile to Cingular but he said he had no idea that he could get it unlocked like I did. He really wanted the phone so he ended up getting service through Cingular. Honestly, though, I think he got a better deal. I mean, I paid about $350 for mine compared to about $100 for him after his rebates. Sometimes I miss the perks we used to have when Brian worked for T-Mobile. We loved availing of the phone discounts! Of course, the free cable service makes up for it. For instance, we would never have gotten a DVR otherwise. Now I can’t even imagine living without it. Technology is addictive. But I digress, back to the phone thing. You know how Brian was vehemently against Sony Ericsson phones? I can’t even begin to count how many times he has attempted to talk me out of getting my phone. All the propaganda and all his efforts were in vain, though, because I got the phone anyway. When I received it and he got to play with it, he was thoroughly impressed. So impressed, in fact, that he wouldn’t mind owning one himself. The other morning I was whining about how I thought I was dying per usual. He was still in bed, half-asleep, but he managed to respond. He goes, “Can I have your phone?” I glared at him for two seconds and then busted up laughing. Anyway, I’m supposed to be doing homework right now but I got home late from mom and dad’s. I went over there to deliver my Visual Basic .NET text book. Dad wants to brush up on VB before he goes to England. While there, I thought I’d hook him up by downloading Visual Studio .NET from the MSDNAA website. He returned the favor by giving me a copy of the gala video. Way to barter! I just didn’t feel like doing homework by the time I got home. It was already 9:30 pm and Brian was going to arrive home shortly so I didn’t really want to mess with homework. Procrastination. Homework just doesn’t do anything for me. P.S. Sorry about the lame blog entry. I just felt like I needed to post something because my readership was declining. Give me a couple of weeks and I’ll type up a sex story. 😉
Posted on September 7, 2005 by Ching under Web.
Remember when I wrote that blogging has gone mainstream? Well, I’m making that statement again but this time to the power of ten. Full-featured, free blog sites are popping up everywhere like mushrooms. You all know about the usual suspects. However, I came across a couple of new ones just last week that are worth mentioning. There’s Blogsome which is powered by WordPress and then there’s BlogSpirit. I’m not sure what the second one is powered by, though. I’m not abandoning Blogger and converting my blogs by any means. I just wanted to inform you guys of my new discoveries. Really though, I’ve been looking around because I’ve decided to start my own anonymous blog. I need more literary freedom than what this blog and the other one has to offer. I’ve been trying to avoid starting an anonymous blog, but you all knew it was inevitable. It was bound to happen sooner or later. So fine, call me a sellout. By the way, Anonymous Lawyer actually answers anonymous emails from random readers. What a great guy!
Posted on September 7, 2005 by Ching under School.
School and work have both been stressing me out lately. So much so that I’ve neglected this blog. At least, I’m pretty fanatical about sending pictures from my camera phone right? So even though there’s hardly any updates anymore these days, you can at least expect that there will be new pictures each time you visit. Anyway, it seems that the storm has subsided – or so I hope. Knock on wood. I pray I haven’t jinxed myself and things will continue in this path. I guess that mostly applies to my work woes. School will continue to be relentless as always. The main source of misery for me has been Accounting. That class makes me want to jump off a bridge! The professor is great and all that. He is very knowledgeable about the subject. My problem is that the guy has no concept of the struggles of non-traditional students. He assigns homework like his class is the only class you’re taking and you don’t have a job. Hello?! I have a full load of 12 credit hours and with my fulltime work schedule, keeping up with the homework is almost impossible. I was going to say “challenging” but that would be a terrible understatement. So if I’m grumpy and crabby most of the time, you have my work and school stresses to blame. I feel so sorry for Brian for having to put up with me when I’m in one of my moods. I wish I could control my temperament but I can’t. You really wouldn’t want to be my husband. But hey, at least I have an excuse. So when school isn’t in session, I’m pretty tolerable. Or so I’d like to believe. Speaking of school, over the last week I’d been stressing over not becoming part of this one girl’s group for a project in one of my classes. We were part of the same group several semesters ago and she didn’t do anything! I didn’t want a repeat of that so, over the last week, I had been devising ways of avoiding being in her group. Believe it or not, I actually emailed a couple of people in my desperation. Much to my relief when groups started forming today, people just naturally migrated to grouping within their vicinity. I think I ended up with two good people. What a relief! I didn’t have to do any scheming after all.
Posted on September 5, 2005 by Ching under Family.
Is it me or do my parents look goofy in this picture? I guess I should be glad they look fun rather than stiff. Imagine these two, drunk on sangria and playing karaoke challenge in the living room. It’s hilarious! Anyway, my parents are the only people I can karaoke with because they’re the only people who can endure my awful singing voice. Don’t worry. You will never have to witness any of my performances in local karaoke joints. My vocal stylings are strictly confined to my parents’ living room.
Posted on September 5, 2005 by Ching under Life.
Jen came over today to check out my new phone. Of course, she tells me about the Samsung e635 which has almost identical features and maybe could have made my life a lot easier. I just signed up for the $5.99 T-MobileWeb thing so that I can get my email to work. I’m supposed to wait 24-48 hours. I’m hoping that it works when I wake up tomorrow. Cross your fingers.
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