1 comment Burden - 02.20.08

photo by Jeff Berman, used under a CC-license

Burden:
* Something that is emotionally difficult to bear.
* A responsibility or duty: The burden of organizing the campaign fell to me. [AHD - Answers.com]

Suddenly feels like there's a huge burden laying upon me. Both definitions apply.

3 comments Haircut - 02.16.08

Got a new haircut today. :)

2 comments Slow Motion - 02.11.08

photo by Roger Gordon, used under a CC-license

I normally don't do this, but today, I spent a whole minute looking at the clock while I was in my chemistry class. It was really amazing that when I first look at the clock, the second hand was rotating really fast, but then, as each second passes by, it seems like that the second hand is slowing down, very gradually, till it couldn't get any SLLOOOWWER...

And guess what? That's the one minute of my life that I will never get back. =(

0 comments Facebook - 02.11.08

Err... I haven't log into Facebook for like 4 weeks and when I log in today, it welcomed me with the above message. It totally creeps me out, and it's so wrong on so many levels, like, "free teen chat" - WTF is that supposed to be? I guess the ad targets the pedophiles on Facebook. (However, Facebook isn't sophisticate enough to do so, just placing random ads on random profiles. Or at least, in this case.)

It MUST be.

And "cool teens". Yeah, "cool" and "teens". When these two words come together they are like the best example of oxymoron.

I need to borrow Chris Hansen's line, "Hey, Facebook, why don't you have a seat over here. Yeah, right over there."

0 comments "I Am Sorry" - 02.09.08

photo by Toni Blay, used under a CC-license

"I am sorry." I said, as I was having a weird feeling that she's going to cry.

"You are lying," she replied without even looking into my eyes. Oh, perhaps it was I the one who haven't look at her, but that doesn't really matter, what matters is that, she got the lying part right.

The rest of this post was supposed to be about how lying that "you are sorry" matters little and that the important thing is how the other person interprets it. However, I don't feel like writing all that b.s. right now. Not in that kind of mood right now, and after watching that movie that made me have motion sickness and all other stuff that happened to me tonight.

If what "she" told me was real, this wouldn't be first time I made her cry because I am being such a _____ (insert your favorite word here). She didn't cry this time actually (or so I thought), but I am just saying.

She's not my girlfriend or anything*, but I think it would be interesting to bring this up. I don't like/hate people lying to me yet I myself doing it all the time. Very contradicting, isn't it?

I guess I am just an average guy, that's all.

* Just pretend that I know what you are thinking. It's a true statement that she's not my girlfriend. That's not a lie, and I am not as bad as you might think. You probably wonder who's the "she" in this post. Nah, I won't tell you that. You probably don't know her anyways. (However, there will be a very high chance that if you are reading this and goes to school with me, you will know her.)

0 comments Pi - 02.07.08

After a week of work, I can now recite π to the 20th place, and that is "3.14159265358979323846". I know that 20th place isn't very impressive, but hey, if I try harder*, I can recite to the 100th place in no time!

* I memorize 3 digits per day. "You have to chew slowly to digest well." - Haochi Chen :D

3 comments Dream - 02.05.08

photo by Leonid Mamchenkov, used under a CC-license

I had the most bizarre dream (and to a certain degree, nightmare) last night.

The dream was like this: I found myself holding a baseball bat-like object, repeatedly hitting the windows of my own car, until they were all broken into pieces (for reasons not explained in the dream).

And then, I woke up (while still in the dream), and was like, "Shit! I broke my car windows, what am I going to do?" (It's just a description of the feelings I had in the dream - dialogues/monologues usually don't take place in my dreams, for as long as I can remember.)

Like most of my other dreams, this ended with no clear ending. And I believe several hours later, I woke up, in response to the buzzing alarm clock. I press the "snooze" button, cover my head with the blanket, and went back to sleep.

It's so bizarre that I don't even know how to explain it in a way that you can understand.

1 comment Phone Call - 02.04.08

photo by Mario Sepülveda, used under a CC-license

So someone called my home phone today.

[RING, RING]
Hello?
Szeeee.
Hello?
Szeeee. (now with a creepier noise like those you heard in horror movies)

I thought somebody's trying to scare me, so I didn't hang up. In response, I hold onto the phone, breathing heavily (once again, you can find this in horror movies as well and by the way, I normally do the "eerrrrrr" noise).

About ten seconds later, the other end broke the silence.

Hi, I'm looking for Robert ----.
Oh, you have called the wrong number.

As soon as the conversation ended, I smirked, and my eyes shining, in front of the glowing computer screen.

I was told, on a number of occasions, "Haochi, you are just weird."

3 comments You Suck - 02.01.08

Halim left me this voicemail (original) today and I decided to edit it a little bit. I didn't know that I would be that good at audio editing. Now I just need to show him this, haha. :)-

I can imagine that he will be like this - "Ha, ha, hahaha, this is HILARIOUS!"