| Unread book meme |
[Apr. 29th, 2008|06:09 pm] |
What we have here is the top 106 books most often marked as "unread" by LibraryThing’s users. As in, they sit on the shelf to make you look smart or well-rounded. Bold the ones you've read, underline the ones you read for school, italicize the ones you started but didn't finish.
( Stolen from Shteevie ) |
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| Home coming! |
[Feb. 27th, 2008|11:34 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Work | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  excited | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Rambling Con-calls... | ] |
I leave tonight at 3:30am to head back home. My Indian exile is over!! |
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| Can I make it? Seabound in march!! |
[Feb. 14th, 2008|08:14 pm] |
Seabound is coming to Seattle march 26, the same day I think I get back from Italy.. I really want to see them, but I dunno if I'll be back in time ;_;
Anyone else going heheh? |
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| Insightful inbox spam |
[Feb. 11th, 2008|06:20 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Work | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  blah | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Hindi Chatter | ] |
Everywork place is plagued by at least one gay/gal who loves to send out office spam as I call it. Inspirational stories, pictures, dumb jokes, why "insert town, company, whatever" is good... Mostly garbage cluttering up my inbox. Indians apparently love this stuff and having them around increases the rate of inbox spam by a lot. This is a snippet of one such email that was actually interesting to read. It was a IM between a man and God.
Man: What surprises you about people?
GOD : When they suffer they ask, "why Me?"
When they prosper, they never ask "Why Me"
Everyone wishes to have truth on their side, but few
want to be on the side of the truth.
Interesting to think about. No one looks at the good, always the bad. |
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| Fierce Scrapbooking |
[Feb. 7th, 2008|11:34 am] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Work | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | bored | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Incessant honking of cars out side. | ] |
http://www.sweetpeascraps.com/pages/gallery.php
Kinda weird of me to post. But I was bored at work and found a link on one of my work buddy's IM comments that lead to his wife's scrapbooking blog. Which lead me to here.
I always thought scrapbooking was some lame time-pass of middle-american mothers... Well it still is, but these are far more artistic than I would have given credit for.
Lots of amazing collage work. Take a peek. |
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| Eww... |
[Feb. 6th, 2008|09:07 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Hyderabad, India | ] |
| [ | mood |
| |  tired | ] |
| [ | music |
| | NIN - Meet your Master (Faint remix) | ] |
Why are all the white guys in hyderabad creepy old dudes?
Gross... |
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| Greeting from India |
[Jan. 15th, 2008|03:25 pm] |
| [ | Current Location |
| | Hyderabad, India | ] |
| [ | mood |
| | lethargic | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out | ] |
That other blog I was talking about...
Well its coming I swear!
Until then a picture of me in some silly clothes--sorry it was taken from a camera phone so it sucks...
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| Update! |
[Dec. 14th, 2007|11:07 pm] |
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So I leave Dec 23 for India. I get into india for x-mas eve. Crazy that I miss x-mas by a sliver... |
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| Buying time |
[Dec. 12th, 2007|06:12 pm] |
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I got me an extension of sorts. The time it takes to process my indian visa lets me have one more weekend in Seattle! Yay |
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| You're sending me to India?! |
[Dec. 8th, 2007|04:28 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  anxious | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Mc Frontalot - This Old Man | ] |
Yeah, work is sending me to India :/ For 2 months... I get to miss everything cool over here. No x-mas with the family, no new years party...
But the company is paying me to go there and when do you get an opportunity like that? Sure, I have to train people, but adventure!
I leave next friday afternoon ;_; I'll make a blog and take pictures for all of you to see! |
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| Test-drive-a-thon part 3: Fit vs. Versa round 2: the manuals |
[Sep. 9th, 2007|01:39 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  thoughtful | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Paul Oakenfold - Dark Machine | ] |
Yay! Finally got to drive a manual tranny Fit as well as test out the versa in manual as well. I aslo got to show Steve the Fit this time around, making a trip up to the Lynnwood honda. It was uncanny, they had the right style in the right color in manual >.> Still being undecided on which car though, fate wasn't enough to get me to take the car off the lot.
Fit:
The first time I got to drive the manual, it was someone else's (ie they were picking it up that day) and I only got to go around the block. The pedals felt cramped and the shifter was higher up from the floor than I was used to. To give it a fair shot, I tried it out again when I could actually "drive" the darn thing. Adjusting my seat more made it less cramped but the pedals still seemed too close together. The clutch was good and the shifter was snappy. It's built so not much movement is needed to get from gear to gear. Still nice to drive though Steve thought it still had some road noise issues.
Versa:
In this car, the act of driving a manual felt more confortable to me. I felt like the pedals were in the right spots and the longer shift stick was more what I've been used to. I felt the versa was more quiet than the fit was driving at higher speeds. And it's a 6-speed, hehe, which I was at a loss on what to do with that extra gear since I've only used 4- and 5-speeds.
I think I secretly like driving the versa manual more. But we'll see when I take Steve to meet the versa later in the week. |
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| Test-drive-a-thon part 2: Fit vs. Versa FIGHT! |
[Aug. 25th, 2007|04:22 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  content | ] |
Today I finally got behind the wheel of the elusive Honda Fit and took a bus ride out to Bellevue to take the Nissan Versa for a ride. I was a much happier driver this time around, both these cars performing well in the first test drive. Both were, unfortunately, automatics again... But they drove well despite it ^^b
( Results ) |
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| Test-drive-a-thon part 1 |
[Aug. 22nd, 2007|09:46 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| | Obsessive | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Delerium - Amnesia | ] |
I like making informed decisions about most things--especially those to the tune to 15k big ones... I've been in a research/obsess marathon with trying to pick out a new econo-box to replace my aging and failing ford "ghetto salad" escort.
I've spend many nights researching the current line-up and have been trying to get test-drives of them:
VW rabbit/Jetta (guts-wise they're the same car really)
Toyota Yaris
Scion(toyota) xD
Nissan Versa
Honda Fit
Mazda 3
So far I've had a hard time getting manuals to test drive, so everything is compared auto to auto.
( Current results: )
If anyone who reads this journal actaully owns any of these cars wants to throw in their two-cents, please feel free. More info for my growing pile. |
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| Dead cars |
[Aug. 15th, 2007|04:09 pm] |
| [ | mood |
| |  cranky | ] |
| [ | music |
| | Collide - crushed | ] |
So my car died again. Stupid pile of crap ><. Maybe me and kitty's cars were secretly twins and mine couldn't take the loss, I dunno. It crapped out quietly, stalling out and letting loose a plume of smoke from under the dashboard as something electrical shorted out. Smells pretty bad...
Anyway, I've been consoling/torturing myself looking a Zs:
*grasps feebly at shiny car*
So beautiful ;_;
Now I need to figure out if I resurrect the escort or look into something newer. Some certified used VW or something. *sigh* |
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| America the lonely. |
[Jun. 19th, 2007|04:41 pm] |
| [ | music |
| | BRMC - White Palms | ] |
Americans are lonely people compared to the rest of the world. Appearently we like to start them out young... This article makes me sick...
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19293872/?GT1=10056 |
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