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December 31, 2001: Happy new years guys. Just letting you know that i added a guestbook. You should be able to see the link on the left. By the way, SIGN THE GUESTBOOK.

December 29, 2001: You know how there's just certain ABSOLUTE requirements you make on who you'd consider dating? Well.. here's mine.

Absolute MUST HAVES:
intelligence		- no one wants a bimbo
communication skills    - you wanna be able to talk to your girl
attractive		- i don't ever wanna think my girl is ugly
                          Now i don't mean she hasta be model gorgeous, just
			  fairly attractive.
medium length hair      - hair shorter than her ears is a no no.  If it
                          goes farther than her waist.. its a little scary
relatively similar age  - I'm not a pedophile and I don't think older women
                          would be interested in me.
understanding           - just saves us all the time of killing each other
musical talent          - just any type of musical talent whatsoever
christian		- can't forget this one
Absolute CANNOT HAVES:
tone deaf               - Sorry.. i just can't handle it
really tall             - if she's more than 2 inches taller than me, 
                          i don't think i could handle it
whiney                  - i can handle whining.. just not a lot of it
hates computers         - sorry.. it just wouldn't work out
                          i can deal with her not letting me play starcraft
                          though (i think).
See? thats not so hard. I'm EASY TO PLEASE! Thats a really short list, so I think all the eligle female readers out there should look at that list and see if they "qualify!" HAHAHAHA..... i'm j/k... don't kill me.. i'm j/k.

December 29, 2001: A suggestion from Jason Ko was to put the rants page on the front index page since its never used anyways.. so here it is. The rants link just points here now.

December 28, 2001: I just got my pics from vegas developed. They're on my site at http://ckcheng.ddrfreak.com/pictures/vegas but they're not thumbnailed or anything. The ones from my camera are labeled "kelly_??" where ? stands for a single digit.

December 26, 2001: Clarifiaction: I requested them to take me shopping So I went shopping today with Jen and Michelle (jen's cousin) and we ended up in SF shopping for a couple hours. First, though, I arrived at Michelle's place where her grandparents live and they all speak cantonese and Jen's chinese isn't all that great and she was struggling really hard to say I wasn't her boyfriend. I think the mandarin equivalent woulda been, "Tah boo shr woh duh nan pong yo." Hehe... so that was funny. Then we head off on our bus to SF downtown.

So first stop: Old Navy. Man, this place was SO busy. There were a TON of people... and the funny part is, they have all this stuff in the bargain basement but its so busy and all the stuff is unorganized. It was really hectic and we got out after about 30 minutes. So then we head off to some mall and get some lunch at the cafe above nordstrom (which was pretty tasty).
Finish lunch and head to AE and some other random stores. I really don't wear AE stuff cuz I just can't pull of the white boy image. We end up hitting a GAP somewhere and its not bad but it doesn't have anything that I want.

We end up going to a DIFFERENT gap and they have a pair of black jeans that I liked and even though it wasn't on sale, I decided to buy it anyways. Heh... so that was our trip. We then walk like.. million blocks to north face and it was an interesting experience cuz we walk past a sorta sketchy area and evidently, jen and michelle get uneasy walking past groups of guys... so anytime we walk by a bunch of guys, i'd notice jen would either walk really fast, or scoot in closer to me and or michelle. Hahah.. it was funny.

Anyways, something interesting when I was at gap. So the girl working at the counter is pretty cute and happens to be a friend of Michelle's. Of COURSE, jen and michelle hafta urge me to go talk to her and get her number etc etc... and of course, I don't really wanna embarrass myself. So they're like... "I'll ask for you!" I'm like.. no no no no..! Don't do it! I mean, imagine you're a girl working at some job on one of the busiest shopping days of the year. And this random guy tells you he wants to get to you know you. Man.. you'd think this guy is a freak! or a loser. One or the other. Heheh... so anyways... that was almost embarrassing. They ended up not doing anything exessively embarassing.

December 25, 2001: Ever wonder what guys REALLY REALLY look for in a "perfect" girl? Well, a friend of mine (daveshih), with the help of norman, jimmy, sam, revised a list created by a fellowship of jr high kids. They filtered some of the things out like a requirement to be "slim" and stuff (mainly cuz the girls in the group were about to kill them) but here it is (my comments are shown by a // followed by text):

healthy				// Originally "skinny" but was vetoed
christian
funny    			// I think they should been more specific here
				// funny how?  cuz she's retarded?
not too hyper			// Well.. I think some people like hyper
cool to hang around w/
not stupid, reasonable    	// I think you just eliminated all girls with
 				// this "reasonable" thing
works hard
not careless
good hygiene			// Most girls have better hygiene than guys
loyal, down to earth            // down to earth is tied with reasonable and
     				// I think its too much too ask
not boring
attractive			// Basically, this was the guy's way of saying
				// I want a hottie without offending people
sarcastic w/ tact		// Hmm... thats a fine line to draw
not too ditzy			// YES.  OH man.. NO AIR HEADS
not arrogant			// I can deal with arrogant ... wait.. 
				// no I can't
not too shabby			// Er... right... leave it to Jr High kids
				// to make a list and this is what you get.
likes music			// How is this a requirement!?
sings well, plays an instrument // Too strict.  I'd say one or the other
				// Just some sort of musical talent
can dance			// Psh... this is a stupid requirement cuz
				// there's a lot of guys who don't WANT to dance
 				// I could go on about this but this really
				// isn't a valid requirement
not a control freak		// Hrmm... this will eliminate a lot of girls
willing to share in financial responsibility
good family			// Background checks on family!?
independent, not clingy		// again.. this cuts out a lot of girls
no whining			// Bad requirement.  Guys whine sometimes
				// so its unfair to restrict women not to
athletically active		// This is required?  too picky.  I can deal
				// with a lazy gf
cook, can amke food		// Ermm... this is iffy too.  I can deal with
				// being a house husband if she works all day
organized			// Psh.. this is another weird one.  Whats the 
				// big deal about being messy?  As long as you 
				// know where it is.
no anal retentiveness
understanding/tolearnt
not too neurotic		// I'm glad these kids used tactful terms
gets along w/ family		// hehe.. no eloping i suppose
respectful, considerate		
not too much make-up		// I agree with this one.  No one wants to wake
				// up in the morning and see a stranger
good teeth			// picky picky.  I guess you guys aren't 
				// interseted in japanese people
able to speak english		// this goes along with "communication"
				// which i think should be a requirement
pleasant smelling		// er... I'd take neutral smelling.
no whack fashion sense		// HAHA.. considering most guys have CRAP 
				// for fashion sense.. this is funny
pleaseable			// YES!  I agree.  Nothing's worse than a 
				// person you can't make happy.
affectionate
not too old fashoined		// I dunno about this one.  It doesn't make
				// sense
no excessive amount of body art (tattooes, piercings)
can't be petty
communication! (preferably telepathic) // telepahtic communication would save a
				       // LOT of marriages
generous, not stingy
willing to have children, likes children
not too squeamish		// whats this mean?  These Jr High kids are
				// hecka picky
pleasant voice			// I think you could be a perfect gf without
				// having a particularly pleasant voice 
non-smoker, not addicted to drugs/alcohol
age: 10% rule			// Limpy:  Read this one
well-proportioned		// Uh.. right.  I think they're asking
				// for a chest?
eats w/ normal sized bites and eats meat // I like meat.
can't swear excessively
understands/appreciates sports  // Not necessary for a perfect girl.  
				// just willing to watch.. goes with 
				// "understanding"
good spiritual companion
not artificial (physically)	// no eyelid surgery or boob job i guess
not fake			// i think this goes with communication
trusting			// ugh.. yeah... no one likes a paranoid
				// girlfriend who wont let you talk to any
				// girls besides her.
good skin, soft and moisturized // er.. weird.  Of all the things to ask for
can drive			// Eh?  you sure?  some people would think
				// a perfect girl CANNOT drive and hence
				// is not given a car.
likes guy's friends		// Corallary.  Guy's friends likes her.

Things that didn't make the cut:
slim				// Even though to be honest, you know most guys
				// consider this pretty important (flame me)
good at school			// hahaha... GPA requirement!  hahahahah
similar interests 		// I dunno why this didn't make it.
				// Especially in light of some of the stuff that
				// did make it in
not a ho			// HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
Well folks... there you have it. What a jr high kid wants in a girl.

December 25, 2001: Pics from vegas are up. You can view them here or download the zip file here.

December 24, 2001: Man.... Christmas is TOMORROW! Merry X-mas Eve everyone. Its good to be a live now.

Anyways... something came to me as I was reading some stuff on Firing Squad. I decided to peruse the forums and see what people had cmmented on. And let me tell you this: hardcore gamers are DISGUSTINGLY cynical. They think they know it all. They think they know it ALL. Read some of the stuff they commented on in LOTR. They say stuff like "its missing this part in the book... " and "that part in the book was done better ..." WELL DUH YOU IDIOT! Its a completely different medium. Its like saying the book didn't describe the hall's of the Mine's of Moria well enough! Its so freaking stupid. If you listen to what they say, its all very nice and sounds educated unti you get right to it, its all hogwash. They comment on how they didn't like this part or that part... but it was all impossible to do in a film without excessive narration. Anyways... I was a little aggravated by that.. cuz some people think that I play a lot of games... and I realy don't want to e associated with these arrogant people.

December 23, 2001: Hey guys! Just got back from Las Vegas today. Summary: I suck at gambling. I'm down 65 after gambling away stuff. The good thing is I kinda learned the games there. Roulette is no problem. Craps(sp?) is a little more complex but I think I learned the basics. Anyways... it was an interesting trip. It was fun to hang with my old buds. We stayed at the Monte Carlo and it was pretty nice. Not a bad view of the strip from our bedroom. We visited all the shops in the area. In particular, we went to the Bellagio and to Caesar's Palace. Boy.. those places are nice. The shops are WAY out of our price range. Like this "Tiffany" place. They sell jewelry or something. It was nuts. Prices are ridiculous. Same with Caesar's Palace. Hehe.. the funny part is, the girls that went had to go shopping at the clothing store... and the clothing store was... EXPRESS! Heh.. isn't that funny? We have a million Express clothing shops in the bay area, but instead, we go to Las Vegas and pay 100 dollars a night to go shopping. Hehehehe... still, it was fun.

Actually, last night, we got to see CoCo Lee perform at Mandalay Bay. It was pretty fun. Needless to say, the crowd there sucked but CoCo performed well (even if her accent was pretty weird). Other than that, we just ate and slept a lot. Oh man... the food... the BUFFETS! Especially at Paris. The Paris buffett was great. They had like... veal and crab, and fish, and beef, ham, prime rib... crepes! FRESH MADE CREPES. Oh man.. it was nuts. It kinda hurt afterwards tho... I ate too much.

Anyways.. turns out the housing situation worked itself out real well. So Dave Wong IS moving into my place in 102. No studio for me, but atleast I don't hafta move all my crud. Man. moving all this stuff woulda SUCKED HARD. Well, I'll post the pictures of Vegas as soon as I get them developed and scanned. I hafta scan them cuz I used my "analog" camera.

December 19, 2001: Well, Jason (my roomate) is in SF so I have some free time until he gets back to write a rant.. but the funny thing is... I can't think of some evil thing to write about evil women! Its like I can't think of anything else thats wrong with girls! Maybe they're not so bad afterall. Heh.. had you fooled there for a second didn't I? Heheh.. yeah.. thats right.. girls are bad alright. Today we discuss the effective use of crying. Girls possess the ULTIMATE weapon in winning arguments. Now I know I've mentioned crying before but I think it deserves extra attention. You see, if you're in a rational argument, then crying doens't make sense. It doesn't prove your point, it doesn't convince the other person, and it most assuredly does NOT make the crying person in question correct. BUT, what it DOES to is absolutely FORCE the guy to give in. Now the correct way to use tears is thus. First begin by telling the guy in question the thing you want, need, or feel is right, correct, or is a good idea. If he disagrees with you, try to mutter something coherent back. Now, many girls make the mistake of trying to act rational here. The trick is to NOT act rational. Argue with pure emotion. This makes the guy fall onto unstable ground since he's not used to this emotional warfare. After you notice the guy has started to feel awkward and/or angry, eleveate your voice a little. Try to get a rise out of the guy. Make sure that at the end... he WINS the "logical" portion of the argument... and then BURST OUT INTO TEARS.

Why this works: First, the guy just yelled at you. Second, he probably feels like a jerk cuz he thinks he made you feel stupid by winning the argument. Third, you're crying. YOU ARE CRYING. YOU WIN! Its like, what am I gonna do? Tell you you're wrong with tears streaming down your face? And I just yelled at you so the first thing a guy can think of to make it up is to GIVE IN. See.. this doens't work with girls because girls KNOW that other girls do this. So it works primarily on guys, who's emotional states are unused to displays of extreme sadness. Happiness we can deal with. Guys like being happy, but for some weird reason, girls like being sad and its a good thing, cuz they know how to use their "sadness" to make guys do stuff.

Speaking of girls enjoying sadness, I recently talked to a girl who was like, "I love movies that make me cry." Now... it might just be me, but crying has always been associated with heavy heavy emotions that are depressing in movies. I haven't really seen a "happy" movie that made you cry. You dno't see people crying in Disney movies right? But movies like "Step Mom" or "English Patient"(which I have never seen so I don't know if its a cry movie) or any number of "cry" movies all seem to play on being sad. So normally, I avoid feeling sad you know? It doesn't make sense. So this girl tells me she loves it! So she kinda playfully gets on my case for not crying more at movies. So I decide to tell her, alright, I've cried in one movie before. Its called "Grave of the Fireflies." And she's like... ooh... I've never heard of that.. what is it? I tell her its this anime.... AND THEN SHE LAUGHS AT ME! I'm like.. DUDE... thats just jacked... cuz like.. she just told me to RELEASE my emotions... and when I tell her I did, this is what I get. Now then. Back to the theme of this webpage. Thus do i say girls are evil. Girls tell you one thing, but expect another. It is impossible to understand girls. Since there is a gap in communication, and guys are stupid, I can only deduce that girls are evil. Now, a girl might try to argue with me on that, but here's the problem: I'm a guy. I'm stupid. I don't understand these things you say to me because I'M STUPID!! Hahahaha... I love that trick.. when you pretend to not get anything they tell you and so they can't win the argument... anyways, more on that later.

Decmeber 18, 2001: Feels like I haven't updated in FOREVER. Man.. by far, this semester has been the most stressful. Heck... two project classes (neither of them that difficult.. but still) finals on the same day. Man.. its just painful. Anyways... I just finished my last final of the semester!! YAY FOR ME! Now I'm gonna play Starcraft until my brains drizzle out of my ears. Oh.. by the way, this is a COOL link I saw on Anna's profile: http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~masterma/GuideToGeekGirls.html. Its about getting a geek girl. And don't lie, you know its cool when you find a girl who understands your CS jokes. (Unerving but cool) Anyways... I'm down to play. PLAY. I'm also going to House of Prime Rib on wednesday after 8. CALL ME SOON if you wanna go. Alright guys... time for me to RELAX.

I figure since I'm referring people to sites anyways, you guys might wanna get up on Anna's site here: http://www.livejournal.com/users/miriya52. Its more of a journal but its stil cool.. and she links to a lof interesting sites. I'm not sure if she should be posting her Screen name like that but heck... I think I do also. Oh well...

December 13, 2001: Any interesting Scheme question (or common lisp). Given a structure (head child child child ...), write a function that returns all the paths from head to leaf.

I have my soln, but its ugly, what did you come up with?

(defun leaf(l)
(null (cdr l)))

(defun head(l)
(car l))

(defun children(l)
(cdr l))

(defun path (l)
(cond ((null l) '(()))
((leaf l) (list l))
(t (apply #'append (mapcar #'(lambda(p)
(mapcar #'(lambda(x) (cons (head l) x))
p))
(mapcar #'path (children l)))))))

December 13, 2001: So everyone these days at berkeley knows atleast a couple people that went to Lowell High school right? Lowell seems to be THE feeder school into berkeley, sending in more than a hundred each year here right? Its a really top notch school, but did you know that you hafta apply to get in? Or that its free to those who get in? Basically, its a public school that you have to apply to get into based on your merits.. much like college, but it doesn't cost a thing!!

Now some of you may be like.. "HEY! Thats sooo goood! Cheap quality education." But realistically, this school was created to help low-income students get into higher learning institutions. Instead, students are now applying who are quite wealthy. It really does defeat the purpose of the school. Let me explain:

So the reason it exists in the first place is to help people with low incomes right? Thats the point behind making that school! Now with people who are really well off applying there, they're taking advantage of a system that wasn't meant for them and taking away the opportunity of lower income students to get a quality education.

Secondly, this is a public instutition! Its paid for by TAX dollars. Now, its a little odd to me that you have to apply on merit to get into a public school. You see, in college, tax dollars are spent on maintaining our schools, but its still required that each individual pays! Why? because look at it this way: Not everyone has the benefit of going to a University of California. Why should all these tax dollars to be used for something that the tax payers will never benefit from? Its the same with Lowell. Tax payers in the SF area will hafta pay taxes to support Lowell (since income tax is what supports schooling) but they 're paying for an institution that they can't benefit from.

Anyways.. I'm just miffed cuz I found out today that Lowell is free and requires applications. If you're a lowell student or alumni, I'm not mad at you.. just the system.

December 12, 2001: Boy, today's rant is either gonna make you angry or make you laugh. So I'm talking to this female friend of mine and the conversation basically goes like this:

girl: ahh! I have a HUGE crush on someone!
me: cool (typical guy response right there)
girl: NO!! Its bad!
me: why?
girl: cuz I may not be able to get him and I've always been able to the people I've liked in the past!!

So... let me clarify what that means. So basically, this girl is angry because she's had a perfect success rate at getting guys to like her. She's ANGRY because she might end up liking someone that wont like her back!!! HOW EVIL IS THAT!? I mean seriously, its like a goaltender ... "what my save percentage?" Its the same thing almost... its the success rate of seductions. SROS! So like.. I'm like dude... thats not right... MOST people have expereience unrequited love at one point in their lives. To be angry that you might experience it for the first time in your life is like... its like... i dunno... unfair to the rest of the world that has to deal with it!!!

Anyways... I think its time us guys came up with a new statistic. We'll call it the SROS percentage (success rate of seduction percentage) pronounced ES-ross percentage. That way, we'll know which girls are good at getting their man. We'll learn to avoid those. These are the evil ones... the ones that are experienced in wrapping you around their little finger. Girls with low SROS rates will probably be avoided just as ferverently though... altho I'm not too sure about that one. So if you're a girl out there, try and work on your stats. A High SROS is intimidating.

December 11, 2001: Go here and watch this: http://photo.sohu.com/61/37/Img147223761.swf

December 11, 2001: So two things on my mind today. 1: Why is it that guys want a girl more than girls want a guy, and 10(thats binary btw): this rant thing is giving people a skewed perception of who I am.

Lets start with the first thing. I was talking to a friend of mine and it seems that girls don't really need guys! Not like guys want girls anyways. Like... you know, guys create webpages about it(*ahem*), have forums for it (*cough* *cough*) and talk about it and whine about it with their friends but girls don't really seem to do that! Why is that!? Its so not fair. Guys are left just wanting and wanting and girls well... it doesn't matter for them, so there's this conflict... guys want... girls don't. Do you see the problem here?? Bah... its not fair i tell you. But seriously, why is that? I mean, what is it in our minds that makes guys want a girl? I think I know the answer: "lust." Yep... you got it, guys have problems. I think that the biggest problems guys have in general is lust. Which isn't to say girls don't have big problems too, but lust isn't really one of them. From what I understand, its jealousy. Girls get really jealous, guys get really.... er... we want girls real badly. Its really odd isn't it? I haven't confirmed this with any girls but thats what people say.

Second thing on my mind is the skewed perception people have when they meet me through my webiste. I am NOT a lonely horribly bitter man who feels only anger and the female race. By no means! I am a conservative guy who just likes to write about stuff I see around. It just happens that girl-guy issues are very interesting to write about. This starting out as a rant about current events and such so really, I'm not some loon that has no life (well.. I don't really have a life) , and just sits around waiting for the perfect girl to come walking into my apartment (altho that would save me a lot of time/trouble/embarrassment). Anyways... I'm just asking people not to thin kof me as some desperate fool who will die single. If i DO die single, I bet I'll be laughed at though. Anyways... I just feel like I've got a lot of pity coming my way and I dunno if thats a good thing. Hehehe... so don't pity me! I am a good guy! I am happy with my life!

December 9, 2001: A friend of mine has had a rants page for a while but I didn't know about it. Its interesting cuz its all from a girl's perspective so take a look. Its found at http://www.geocities.com/gracie923/thots.htm.

December 7, 2001: Work today was really tough. It wasn't really all that busy, but what happened was one of the students that I sponsored for the project wasn't able to finish her projet and she brought it in and I told her that , you know... it just wasn't sufficient to get full creidt. At best, I could try for partial credit and that she had till wednesday to finish it and email it to me. The thing was, I think she was really stressing about it cuz she broke down and started crying and I started to feel a little uncomfortable. I mean, imagine you're in my position. I feel bad but I can't really tell her "it'll be alright" cuz really, she's still gonna miss a lot of points. I'm not gonna give her points just cuz she's crying.

Anyways, it was tough. I dunno if I coulda done anything short of debugging it with her, but she had a lot to take care of. Well, while she debugged, I went to help another student and when i finished, the student i was sponsoring had left and it was the end of my shift so I left also. I dunno really what to do.

December 7, 2001: Man.. what a day. I've been doing NOTHING... even tho I was supposed to work on 186. Anyways... you know whats a really interesting way of finding out how people see you? Look at their buddy lists. Its really intruiging how people categorize and compartamentalize their friends. Here's an example. My buddy lists is grouped like this:

+ Monta Vista (x/40)
+ CAL (x/62)
+ Dae Sung (x/39) Thats the name of my church
+ Church of Cupertino (x/1) An old holdover from when i started using IM
+ Non-categorized (x/14)

So you can see immediately that high school friends and college friends are different. I kinda always figured that was a natual way of looking at things but really, its not evidently. So here are some examples.

Example 1:
This guy I know groups 'em by age. Yeah.. thats right. So he's got a group for first year students, for second year students third.. fourth etc... Kinda interesting eh? Its just interesting because these buddy lists show how you group the people you know. Grouping by age is pretty interesting cuz it seems means even a year difference is significant.

Example 2:
So this other guy I know categorizes it like this: -BEGIN DISCLAIMER- I don't categorize this way so don't get mad at me -END DISCLAIMER- He has a group for pretty girls, okay girls, ugly girls, then at the very end, guys. Funny eh? It says a lot about your personality how you group people. Evidently for this person, guy friends rank low. Hot girls rank high. Which isn't too different from most guys, but to conciously put it down into a buddy list is kinda interesting. Anyways, I haven't peeked at too many people's buddylists but I think its a rather interesting topic of discussion.

Heck.. one particularly funny incident occured with Tom Wu. Tom Wu lives in a place somehwere with a bunch of guys. I do NOT live with him, BUT I'm over at his place sooo often that he actually put me in the category that he reserved for people that lived in his housing complex! Funny isn't it? So, if you're ever interested in finding out where you are in my buddy lists, you can go ahead and ask, altho chances are, if you don't know, you're probably in the non-categorized section.

December 5, 2001: Alright... good and bad news today. For some reason, its traditional to start with the bad. So Professor Clancy says that I wont be able to TA next semester. Too many dang Grad students applying for the position. Still.. maybe its a good thing, cuz I'll be taking gold lessons next semester. Yeah.. thats some news.. I'll be taking golf lessons with Andy Hwang in Jan. Yep. Oh well.. next semester will b interesting.

On a happier note, its winter, so all my rants about how girls look good with sunglasses and stuff don't really apply. As a result, I've noticed another interesting apparel item that I think look attractive on young women. Ever seen a girl wear a peacoat and a scarf. Its really cute cuz its like.. they're all bundled up and stuff. Anyways, I noticed this a while ago, but it kept on slipping my mind. I have a feeling most guys would rather see girls in skirts in winter.. but I don't really find shivering and huddling all that attractive... so dress warmly dude. Hah! This makes me remember those High School days where Cheerleaders HAD to wear their uniforms to school even in the WINTER! Heheheh... sucks for them. I mean, I always wondered why they did that. It was like.. befor a game or something, they had to show school spirit, but still, there are other ways you know? So anyways, everythings wrapping up this year. I have 1 more homework assignment due and three more finals and then I'm done! w00t!

So anyways, plans for this winter are starting to develop. I'm already going to vegas and probably a retreat with my church, but it seems that a plan is in the works to go skiing during the break too.

In other news, I have it on good word that being a girl sucks. So the reason being is that girls are melodramatic. When I first heard this, I was like.. "eh? thats not so bad.." right? Cuz i mean... melodrama isn't that bad.. its just a little exaggeration here and there. But i listened further and here's the problem. Say you have friends who are really really melodramatic. Well, they tend to have more problems and they blow it out of proportion. Well, if you're the level headed friend, then they'll always come running to you with their stress and as a result, you get all this tress right? Yeah.. so thats why it sucks.

Turns out PMS is no cake walk either. So I always figured if i were a girl and I KNEW I was having PMS, then like, I could make sure I was extra nice today so that the PMS wouldn't really show right? Well, I've been informed that this isrn't really the case. Instead, what happens is you think to yourself, "I can be a punk today because i have pms" and you justify all your actions based on it. Which makes sense. And get this.. this is the worst part. When you live with another girls, you start having the same cycles! Isn't that nuts? I mean.. this naturally implies that girls who live together are gonna PMS at the SAME TIME! Man.. thats bad... two girls in close proximity that are angy/depressed/emotinoally unstable at the same time. See.. this really explains why girls have so many problems with their roomates. Cuz they'll just be argumentative at the same time and they freaking LIVE with each other. Ugh.. its bad news man.

This also goes a long way into confirming to myself once again that I'm glad i'm a guy. I can deal with being stupid, but I don't think i could deal with PMS and evilness.

December 3, 2001: So How young is really too young? I know a guy who thinks girls at age 16 are just perfect for dating. (I think this gentleman is 20 right now) I think thats a bit young, but lets remove the age 18 barrier since I'm obviously not trying to SLEEP with the girl. So that just leads to the maturity level.

Now I've always been a big fan of the NO cross institutional dating theorem. The theorem stipulates that no person should date another person who is outside their institutional level. So, that basically means, if you're in High School, don't date someone in Jr High. If you're in College, don't date someone in High School. If you're working your first job.. don't start dating a college student. So that pretty much summarizes the cross institutional dating theorem. For those of you wondering, NO, college students should NOT be dating Jr High school students. (limpy.. that means you.. heheheh)

Of course, we've also got the percentage theorem. You shall not date a girl who is more than 10 percent of your age younger than you are. So if I'm 20, My limit is 20 - (0.10 * 20) = 18. So eighteen year olds are as young as I can go if i were 20 (i'm 21 so its a little different but watever). This one if pretty popular. It validates some of the more complex cases in the prior thm such as a freshman male in college dating a high school senior. The problem with this is that when you get into your 40's or 50's, you're limiting yourself to only 4 or 5 years different? Really.. at 40, it doesn't matter anymore. You could probalby date a lot younger... maybe below 30 even. So yet again, another thm falls short.

I'm not really sure on dating older girls. I figure the same theorems apply but I think that it just doens't happen that way.

Onto our final theorem. This one comes straight to you from Michael Gorlin. I hafta paraphrase to keep this rant in the "G" category. But essentially its "If you can tell she's anatomically female then its okay." This one gets a little shady. Actually.. it gets a LOT shady. Well.. thats mike for you, and I don't think I'll get into the details on this one, but hey... gorlin is gorlin... hehehe.

December 2, 2001: Its DECEMBER! Finally.. man.. this month took its freaking time getting here. This has been, BY FAR, the worst academic semester of my college/highschool/jr high/elementary/kindergarden/preschool educational career. (Did I miss anything in that list?) Anyways.. AT&T @ Home went down. Thats right.. all of the cable networks are down. Basically, I'm in lab right now getting over my internet withdrawl symptoms. Dude... I haven't been able to play Starcraft ALL DAY. No email... no nothing.. no chatting! If you guys ever seen me online in the next couple days... you had better IM me! Cuz I wont be online for long! Anyways... lab is pretty hectic right now. Seems like everyone is working on a 122 project. Evidently... it SUCKS... a LOT. Bah... I feel for those guys.

So anyways, no girl problems recently so I guess this rant is sorta low key. Heh... altho there were cute girls at that concert I spoke of on friday. Altho I guess I shouldn't get into specifics cuz people tend to think I'm a jerk or something... For some reason, anytime I mention a particular girl being cute, I get a lot of mixed responses. Some girls end up thinking I'm the biggest jerk... so I just avoid names these days. But whats up with that anyways? I mean... ALL GUYS CHECK OUT GIRLS! Yeah.. you might think "Wellll.... MY boyfriend is a GOOD GUY! He doesn't check out girls because I'm all he needs." Psh... you're guy may have a halo around his head, but old habits are HARD to break. Your little angel probably glances around a lot... he's just grown more discreet about it when you're around. And then of course, there are those times when he's with just his guy friends (assuming yer one of the nicer gf's who actually let your bf's hang out with their guy friends). Thats when your perfect bf reverts into the girl-radar-on-full-alert-woman-hunting male. Yup... guys are jerks.

Well... anyways, I'm kinda sitting around and doing nothing in lab. I wish there were some eye candy in here. Actually... there are girls here. Some are quite attractive... but again.. the percentage is low. And you know.. frankly... its hard to check out girls when they're all facing a monitor... Its VERY obvious if you actually go STARE at them... but thats the only way you'll see their face! Bah.. lab just sucks... Anyways.. caht with me while you can!

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