Toby Mac -- Made to Love

nice song

photo diary 2008-03-30

bored

i am seriously bored. Only a mantis like this doesn't fail to amuse me, :)

hoorai!

MY LIFE FOR THE HORDE!

Shaman is the most depressing class in the World of Warcraft, and people who play as a shaman will constantly ask a philosophy question: "What the hell am i supposed to do?"

My character in WOW:

The Wingmen

The funniest show I have ever seen, "The Wingmen". It is about several guys starting their dating advice and service. YOU HAVE TO SEE THIS ONE! IT"S VERY FUNNY!



episode 2, 3 are on youtube too.

episode 2



episode 3

stfu

This blog is intentionally unrelated to real life. Coz real life sucks. What do i type when I play DotA, when people are bitching at me?

STFU, biAtch!

pet

Back to the days in Minnesota, one of my friends is a chinese post-doc in the Bio-department. His research is all about flurting with a monkey. He will do a lot of stuff to keep the monkey in good mood, otherwise he would not get research results. A year later, the monkey broke up with him and he changed lab.

Do you believe people have cockroaches as pets? I found a video on youtube about researchers doing studies on cockcoaches. Lost the link though.

Have nothing to blog about. Here is a japanese dog to make up for the content.

photo diary 2008-03-23

Lighting makes all the difference.
Definition of color: Objects' response to lighting.

photo diary 2008-03-22

from now on I will start my photo diary once in a while, using my new camera.
Today Lily, her roommate Haimei and me went to a local theatre for an afternoon movie. We picked a movie called "10000 BC", and during the movie they were talking about how handsome the main actor is. The actress is hot too.

After the movie, we went back to their apartment and cooked together.

Here is Lily.


Haimei.


me


Their apartment


my apartment. Don't want to explain, but you don't want to see this in real life, :)

wheel of fortune

"Wheel of fortune" was the favorite show of my first roommate in the US and myself. In July 2002, when we had nothing to do, we killed time by watching this show on a tv that was definitely older than us. Why this show? because that tv only had signals of 2 stations, and the other station played golf 24/7. The lady in the show seems will be there forever.

I don't remember a lot of my first roommate. He farted a lot. Actually, the fact that he farted a little more frequent than usual didn't bother me, what bothered me was when he farted he pretended that I didn't hear it. I don't know what he will say about me, maybe "tian spits in the shower"? well I don't spit anymore, to clear things up.

ps. time flies. sigh. if I was teenage i will be a mother-fucker.
ps2. speaking of memory and mom, when I was in elementary school, I found my best friend's mom hot. I didn't know anything, but I could tell I was attracted. Nothing happened though.

7 habits of effective people

1. do it
2. just do it
3. WTF let's do it
4. do....it
5. OMG i have to do it
6. so do it
7. let's do it!

the 100th post

FROSTMOURNE, an epic sword in the lore of Warcraft, is wielded only by the death knight, Arthas, a holy-paladin-turned-evil. I want this sword, but have to wait because right now it is only available for auction. It will be a perfect Halloween gadget, and can be a good showoff in the living room for my future house. I hope it brings some mystery to the building.

ps. There are other swords, blades, whips for sale as well. LOTR, Star Wars


ps2.

what does it even mean?

Lily is a graduate student at Jackson State University from Beijing. We are working on a same project, and the way we communicate is through Microsoft Messenger (a.k.a MSN). One day she asked

Lily:"Are you a christian?"

Me: "Yes."

Lily: "Yeah you look like a christian."

Look like a christian..hmm..After 5 years of believing, someone finally gives me credit. So thank you. But I didn't ask the question in my mind "but wait, what does it mean by saying "look like a christian?""

I don't know. I am not even confident of the fact that I "look like a christian". You don't know my struggles, but, hey, thanks for telling me that, that helps my spiritual growth a lot.

Last nite Lily, a non-beliver, invited me to a Bible-study. After the Bible-study, I was humbled. My heart is like a floating balloon, if it rises too high it explodes; on the contrary, if a balloon sinks in the water too low, it explodes as well. The Bible study calms me down. I have nothing to be proud of, however.

Lily and her roommate will only be in US for two years. They are in a government exchange program. If I was allowed to ask them to take back to China only one thing, I would say it is your belief in God. Three things on the top of the list being in US: christian, national parks and AMC theatres.

I will guide them through all these three, of course.

ps. The next post will be the 100th post of my blog. I didn't think I could make this far. This blog started at 2005, when I never thought I could keep it till 2008. I guess I am just a natural blogger.

me

I like this picture of myself: it's accurate description of me -- confident and silly. Confidence and silliness always go together.

first class

Today I taught my first college class ever. I murmured a lot, thanks students for not throwing chalks at me. I finished my prepared material half an hour earlier, but I can't dismiss the students, because students paid for their time. So I have to fulfill this "massage" session by teaching something that I wasn't prepared, that's for sure a challenge but I will take it.

Car maintainance check at 45000 miles. I will definitely drive more.

Obama came to Jackson State University today. Mississippi is absolute crazy for him. No matter him or Hillary takes presidency, US history track will be changed a bit.

winky

"..If you have problem, you can connect me."

This is an email I got from a girl at work. Hint: her English is not good. CONNECT?? winky smiley

ps. sometimes typos are sexy

You are not prepared!!

my first video podcast "you are not prepared!!" is in the making.

content: me demo-teaching a college class.
actor: me
narrator: none
editing and cutting: none

My boss asked me to teach 3 classes starting next week, for the time he is traveling.

thought of the day: I might buy a condo in Jackson this year. Or I can wait till next year. Depends on market, who knows. If I move to another place I can rent it out, so be able to rent it out in future is the key.

world of warcraft trading card game tournament

I am not a huge fun of trading card game. Trading card games are strategy "duel" card games when two players use their own monster cards, spell cards, trap cards, etc to fight against each other. If you spend more money, you can buy more cards and build more powerful deck and win. That's the part of the game I don't like, you have to invest more money to be able to win a card game, which totally misses the purpose of card games: for fun. The only trading card game I have played is two years ago on my computer, a Japanese trading card game called "Yu-ki-wo".

That been said, I am a huge fun of warcraft and its mother company Blizzard Entertainment Inc.. Speaking of loyalty, I started to play Blizzard's game since junior high in China. It was "Warcraft I" and "Warcraft II", and it was the time when Blizzard and warcraft wasn't huge, but I was like "this game was so different that it had real stories behind it" when even now most games are still mainly killing and fighting. Blizzard's games have a culture, which is the key for their company culture and binds the players and employees together. "They will be huge" I thought like a farseer back to the days. A little bit more history, in 1997 they published a game that changes their company's fate, "Starcraft" which wasn't surprised to me. I wasn't addicted thought, after entering college I have tons of schoolwork to do. I only played with friends in pubs once per week. What totally got me addicted are the "Diablo" franchise series they published. They are the first ever real-time role playing games, they are so new and huge. Then the warcraft III in 2001, then they realized they can do a lot more in warcaft. Then the World of warcraft, a game that change the game industry and create a genre called "massively multiple online" role playing game (MMORPG), that has 50 millions active subscribers and that Blizzard's mother company, Vivendi Inc. wrote in their business plan to ask Blizzard "to make games in type of World of Warcraft".

Well that's way off, I am getting there. Now warcraft has come to trading card game, and it has worldwide tornuments very often. $20 dollars for a starting deck and fun is not too bad. If there is one in MS and within 2 hours drive I will certainly attend.
here is the information:
http://entertainment.upperdeck.com/wow/en/default.aspx