The other kind of Project
Tuesday, February 28, 2006

I believe this is blogger style #10. Blogger templates just makes it too easy to keep changing things up (^_^)

Anyway, as most of you guys know, I have been planning on going to a project with Campus Crusade to some *cough* asian country. Danny, Scott, Sheridan and Wong graciously wrote me a reference for it :p

One thing that I never considered was that all of these projects start at the beginning of May, overlapping with my graduation ceremony. I really wanted to go with Crusade, but I'm having a tough time figuring out how to handle this conflict. More details can be found on my xanga, which I have resurrected as a blog for the CRU blogring. I'd appreciate your prayers, as I have no idea what I'm going to do until my summer plans get more cleared up :(

Thanks!

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The 2004 Collection.
Monday, February 20, 2006

Hmm, I've been meaning to make this post for a while now - a trip down memory lane, so to speak.

The summer of 2004 (also known as the Summer of Laziness and Unemployment) was mostly spent on improving my HTML and drawing skills. I spent alot of time designing an art website for some reason (d'oh!), and I also mass produced a bunch of photo websites. Most of em are down already (amazingly, my artwebsite hasn't been erased by my uncle yet), but I have most of the html and photos stored in my special "PROJECTS" folder.

Here's a brief archive of these so-called projects:















Project Bailar
















Project Birthday















Project Char-Uzu















Project Frenzy
















Project Rally













Project Logos
= Amazing Calgary Guys + 2004 Olympics




Yah, I have a thing for cool codenames (^___^)
For those who remember, the Car Rally site actually was pretty cool; it popped up as a new window and had a lot of tables, but I wrote that one directly (no practice html), so it doesn't work anymore :(

Hehe so I just felt like making all of you Calgarians nostalgic about 2004 :D
I still have all the photos from each website if you didn't save em to your hard drive yourself.

Other than that, I guess I'd better get back to studying for my midterms (o_O) !

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Nostalgia in Five days
Thursday, February 16, 2006



Another reading week in Calgary, and another week of fun memories (and no reading)!
In order to recap my visit back home for those who weren't there (*cough*Waterloo*cough*), I decided to copy how Wired magazine designs their monthly calendars.

So without further ado...

  • 10th - Took WestJet back home to Calgary. Leather seats + Live satellite TV = why the heck do I keep flying Air Canada ??
  • 11th - Last minute get-together at my house. 2 hours of hoopla devolved into mindless fun where we made up clues for each other to act out. Yet another night where things kept going downhill hehehe...
  • 12th -Went to the new First Alliance Church; had Laksa for dinner (mmm.... malaysian/singaporean)
  • 13th -Actually studied (o_O), and played floor hockey with the guys at night. The guys then filled out a reference form for me; i'll admit they said good things about me, except when it got to the question "How does the applicant relate to members of the opposite sex?" (>_<) - grrr....
  • 14th - Spent valentine's day studying (w00t!!), and eventually dropped in on the guy's bible study. Good conversations sparsed with my usual lame jokes :D
  • 15th - Finally tried out the Xbox 360 @ Sheridan's. Perfect Dark Zero was pretty cool, but Geometry Wars was surprisingly addictive. Went out for sushi for Jeremy's birthday, and later had a 'mini-strath-reunion' with Vanessa.
  • 16th -Watched Team Canada own Germany :D. It was sad that I had to leave Calgary so early, but I'm glad I avoided that crazy -39 weather!

I did remember to bring my camera this time, but I managed to forget to use it alot of the time (-____-). The only photos I took where during Monday night's hockey game - it was fun, but really tiring :o


That's all I have time to post for now. I'll update later after my conference with Campus Crusade (and after my midterms too !). Thanks for hanging out with me Calgarians, I'll make sure to head back sometime in the summer :D

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The Mindless Poster
Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Hehe, I found this article from Wired quite amusing. The author has a rather nonsensical sense of humor, but its entertaining nonetheless.

Here's my paraphrasing of the article:

Four Foolproof Tips to help you fake an intelligent opinion on Message Boards

  • The One-Issue Poster

You may not have an opinion about the current issue, but everyone has an opinion about something, whether it's international trade, domestic education or the way cakes in the grocery store look really good but taste like frosted teddy bear fur. Luckily, everything is connected on some tenuous level, so there's no reason to talk about things you don't care about.

The easiest approach is to blame a current or former politician for everything that goes wrong. But even if there's no conceivable connection, you can always take the digression express: "The war between Belgium and Finland only adds chaos to a world already torn by the lack of good delivery pizza in the East Bay."

  • The Enigma

Don't want to take a stand on a controversial issue, but are dying to contribute to the conversation anyway? Just share a single, vaguely pertinent fact. Context-free data is to an online discussion as raw meat is to a cage full of starving Rottweilers and indignant vegetarians. Say you're looking at an article about gun control. Just pop in and say, "Over 10,000 unarmed people are shot to death by criminals each year."

Are you in favor of gun control or against it? You're not saying, but people on both sides will leap to the attack. You'll be the belle of the brawl. By the way, I just made that statistic up. You can go ahead and make up your statistics, too. It just gives people more to argue about.

  • The In-Joker

At any given moment, approximately 400 catch phrases are circulating on the web. You don't need any actual wit to adopt one. Even if you're not up on the latest gags, you can always fall back on these standbys: "I, for one, welcome our new (subject of article) overlords." "Needs more cowbell." Or simply "Pwned!"

This serves two purposes. First, it establishes you as a hipster and wry lover of textual hi-jinks. Secondly, these jokes sometimes appear to the casual observer to be making a keen satirical point.

Note: "All your base are belong to us" is a tempting catch phrase, but resist. This phrase will mark you as dated and out of touch, at least until November 2008, when the phrase will become meta-ironically hip.

  • The Cynic

This is one of the easiest techniques, and one of the most powerful. Just remember this handy phrase: "What did you expect?" Did the president get caught trading endangered tiger skins for high-grade heroin? "What did you expect? Politicians are all corrupt." Did tornadoes grind Topeka into a fine, wheat-scented powder? "What did you expect? It's in the middle of tornado country." Did alien amphibians descend upon Canada and devour everyone amid bilingual pleas for mercy? "Come on, there are 100 billion stars in the galaxy. Did you really expect that not one of them would be home to carnivorous toad-people?"

You can pick just one of these techniques, or cycle through all of them. Either way, you'll have something to add to any subject, no matter how esoteric, complex or boring. Enjoy.

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