Seanwunnabe Rants

Wish you could do this...?

2008-11-30T00:46:00.000-08:00

I'm addicted to this song

2008-11-22T20:01:00.001-08:00

Don't ask why. I want to hate this song at first, but that thought changed over the next 30 minutes.

Damn it...

Youtube

2008-10-27T23:08:00.000-07:00

I checked my whatever-you-call-it thing today, and realized there was 535+ visitors to my blog today.

I know why: my youtube account is closed, and you're wondering why.

Let me explain what happened: I'm actually a North Korean spy that's been deployed in Canada to find out the secrets of a Plutonium-based bomb. But after 9 years of my mission, Kim Jong Il has been, well... ill. (Get it :D Ill? Kim John Il? Ah.. shut up) So I have go back to North Korea to attend his funeral.

Either that, or I'm just really really really lazy. It's not easy making the videos you know. And it had to end some day. Besides... I'm running out of Asians. But I'm actually going to be continuing to blog. Because that's easy. And I get paid. And it's actually educational. (And I know people are gonna be asking HOW?! It's the google ads you see on my blogs. I get a little bit of money when people click them.) And, I'll be on msn every now and then for the people who really helped create the "seanwunnabe" community.

But really, thank you guys for the wonderful time. Who knows, maybe I'll be back next summer when I'm really bored again. (But quite frankly speaking, it's not necessarily school that's keeping me busy.)

I'd be a terrible businessman

2008-10-24T23:02:00.000-07:00

I just got back from the first day of UBC Debate Championship and it was... painful.

The first team we were against pretty much raped us inside out, and the second team, was... okay.

I realized I'd be a terrible businessman for a few reasons today.

1.) I can talk about things, and it's not about a bunch of bullcrap and lies.
2.) I hate wearing suits. It's suffocating me.
3.) I look so freaking pimp in a suit. But it still suffocates me.

I would have took pictures but again, I didn't for a few reasons.
1.) It was rainy.
2.) It was a busy day.
3.) Pretty much, it would have been pictures of random people in suits talking. I don't find that all that interesting.
4.) I don't have a digital camera.

Although I decided in the end to take a picture of myself wearing a suit on my cell. But I have no memory card or cable to send it over to my computer. God, I'm freaking tired. And a little sick?

I never knew girl's watch Family Guy...

2008-10-04T10:21:00.001-07:00

Family Guy is without a doubt the only TV show I watch.

Growing up in a Korean family, I've watched some dramas and I realized "Wow, I must be really gay, or high" so I stopped watching that. (And it was a lot of commitment if you wanted an actual reason.) And I never really found shows like Survivors and CSI and all that interesting so the only time I turn on my TV is pretty much to see the weather news, watch a movie, or play Wii.

But Family Guy is a special case. And that's probably because I'm really f**ked up in the head because I thought it was the best thing to happen on Earth since Jesus Christ. Most of my friends think it is a stupid show.

But girls? I never knew girls watch Family Guy. I've just asked some around and I was surprised... Not trying to be sexist here, but it just doesn't seem right.

Hmm...

Happy Birthday~

2008-09-22T18:32:00.001-07:00

I haven't laughed this hard for at least a few weeks. But it was my birthday on September 19th, and I tell people I want this thing. And they go "are you serious?" Which is a natural reaction. But i ask "what do you think?" and they respond "I think you are-_-"

It was pretty depressing actually to tell people my birthday and they think I'm lying. Mainly because I had this idea to change my birthday to the day after for everyday during the summer, so that every day is my birthday and my wall was spammed with question marks, and/or happy birthday. Many people got tired after a while and just told me to stop changing my birthday...

Oh , and of course the lack of videos thing. I'm really going through some tough time. It's not a matter of school work but there's just lots of planning and scholarship application I want to get done. And beat Zelda Twilight Princess.

Back from hiatus-sort of?

2008-08-29T12:59:00.001-07:00

It's not like I was at vacation to begin with, but you can expect a video soon, and some blogs today.

Got a Wii

2008-08-17T21:15:00.001-07:00

Got a Japanese modded Wii to be specific. It's not mine, it belongs to a friend of my brother.

We borrowed it, but that guy really seems to want to get rid of it as if it was like a voodoo doll of his mom, so we might end up buying it.

I'm surprised to find out out of the 14 games we borrowed along with the console, there was not one mario-related game. Nope. No Smash Brawl, no Mario-Kart, no Galaxy. Just bunch of random Japanese-only released games that I had no idea how to play because I can't read Japanese. I'm not exactly sure what I'm gonna do with this thing. Wii sports is the only decent thing to play.

Fireworks~<3

2008-08-03T00:15:00.001-07:00

There are fireworks in Vancouver now~ yay!

I have yet to go see one actually. There was one today but here's a funny conversation between my friend and I.

Friend: I went to see fireworks~
Me: Oh that was why you were offline all day on msn.
Friend: It was so nice.
Me: My girlfriend was there...
Friend: Why didn't you go?
Me: Because my girlfriend was there.
Friend: What... the... hell...

Christian the Lion~~ T_T

2008-07-27T22:40:00.000-07:00

This video made me cry... The relationship that a man can share with an animal is beautiful, even more so than with another human being. They'll never betray you...

Walk in memories of the past

2008-07-17T23:30:00.000-07:00

While I was going through youtube with no purpose whatsoever, I came across an old video that was oh-so-familiar to me. It was a favorite of mine, and of course, it was an Oscar Peterson Trio performance. I remembered how I watched the video and cried for endless hours in December of 2007, when I heard the news of his death. The way his magical fingers ran across the keys of the piano, the way he smiled and laughed as he created a lullaby, I can never recreate it in my head when I sit in front of my piano.

It was one of my aspirations to one day see him in a concert, maybe even have the honor to shake his hand and start a conversation with him.

No matter how much time passes, it seems like he's one person I'll never be able to forget.

Question that's not worth asking

2008-07-16T01:37:00.000-07:00

So my friend was supposed to (hopefully) get her driver's license N (stands for Nubcake) tomorrow, and we decided given she passes we (might) go to McDonald's, or you know... Something that probably won't cause cancer.

Then she asked me How about sushi? Do you like sushi? And a second after, she said the exact thing I was thinking. "I probably shouldn't bother asking, huh?"

The fact she asked me the question wasn't funny, it was the fact she had such a slow epiphany, but then again, she's blonde.

My other 2 blogs

2008-07-10T00:35:00.000-07:00

So I was looking through cbc.ca as always and I decided, instead of creating a massive text blog for 9 news story each day, I decided to just make a shorter one, numerous times per day. You'll notice if you visit my news blog, I started to upload a picture as a header for each blog, and discuss one news article per blog. It's a lot of work, but I'm trying to do whatever I can to make it more interesting and get more readers.

Also you'll notice I have lots of duplicate articles in Tech blog with my news blog. That's only when a specific tech news I talk about is also highly significant to Canadians. But anybody who reads my personal blogs are my favorite stalkers that read all three of my blogs everyday... so yeah. What's the point?

2008-07-08T20:06:00.001-07:00

F*ck Canadian Telecommunication providers.

Telecommunication companies are the worst type of corporations ever-they hold too much power in this new era of modern technology. If you use Bell for your internet provider, you've already been screwed in the ass. They throttle your internet. They limit your download speeds on P2P. That's not good. Net neutrality is slowly dying.

If you don't know what net neutrality is, that's the term to describe a situation where everyone has a fair access to internet. Throttling your internet is slowing your internet down. Why is Bell doing this? Because there are so many people downloading enormous amount of contents that their servers are at risk. But there's a limit... Limit which they have well crossed. And you know it's bad when a company that is from another country-Google-is criticizing our telecommunication provider.

What does this mean to you? It's not just Bell customers. When this goes allowed, other companies will do the same thing-not to maintain their servers-but to get money. They know that internet is a valuable aspect of our lives. They're going to abuse their power to provide that. The telecommunication companies will introduce internet service plan A and B. A is more expensive. Everyone will waste their money on plan A... Why? Because they will throttle plan B users like hell. But in the end, you're not getting faster internet by choosing plan A; you're just paying more for the service you should have got anyways.

But that's not where my telecommunication company bashing stops. Did you know that Bell and Telus recently announced that they'll charge you for receiving text messages? 15 cents for every text message received. Starting August. Now I'm not a heavy texter. In fact, I seldom use the text message function, for some minor reasons. I have no text message plan so it costs 15 cents per text message, I'm a slow texter anyways, and I have no friends. For the rest, texting is essentially costing you twice as much as it cost you before. 30 cents per exchange.

But why am I getting angry over it if I don't really text that much? Because there are advertising companies that will somehow figure out my number and send me spams. The solution is obvious it seems-bye Telus, hello Rogers. But what if Rogers does the same thing? We'll see. Roger's expensive plans are not worth it unless I get a lot more spams.

Rogers is being a dick too, though. You know that iPhone that everyone's so excited about? Overpriced. Way, over priced. If you're going to get it for the 3-year contract, you better have at least $2, 600 ready, because that's how much it will cost you on the long run at the least. Out of the 23 international carriers worldwide, Canada is charging the most for the iPhone. And it's contract will cost you about 67 dollars at least a month. That only gives you 150 minutes of airtime and 400 mb of internet. iPhone was meant to be a heavy internet browsing gadget-400 mb just took away the point of having it.

Take AT&T for example, an infamous, well-disliked iPhone carrier in US. Even they have a plan that has three times as much talk time and unlimited internet usage for a 2 year contract at the same price of the service provided by Rogers.

I thought about getting the iPhone before, but no thank you now. Even if I get the phone for free, I still wouldn't take the plunge into that kind of overpriced service fee. Oh, and there's no unlimited service, not that it matters because if there was, looking at the annoucned services, it'll probably cost about 100 dollars a month.

Of course, Apple criticized Rogers for that, and when they didn't respond, Apple gave them a "whatever, you're own your own" attitude. But deep inside, they know they screwed up, so why be stubborn about it? Proof? They redirected lots of iPhone shipments coming to Canada to Europe because they know it won't sell.

Was about to eat a bowl of Cup Noodles today...

2008-07-08T19:22:00.001-07:00

I was about to eat a bowl of cup noodles today, and as I poured hot water in to the flimsy Styrofoam casing, I pondered "will this kill me?" And so I read the nutritional values, just as I always do when I eat something (because I am fat).

Two thing caught my eye.
1.) They listed the nutrition facts as 1/2 cup. It's pointless to argue, I know, but I still find it annoying. People USUALLY (99.9% of the times) eat cup noodles whole. They don't eat half and save the other half for later.
2.) The sodium for half the cup was 66%. 1560 mg. That's a lot of salt. That means if you were a college student, (stereotypically assuming you eat 3 cups of noodles a day) you consume 4 times as much salt as you need every day. That's 9.4 grams of salt every day, or 3.4 kg of salt a year.

Umm... salt poison anyone?

And yet... fully knowing that this is going to shorten my life span, I heartily eat it. I'm a dumbass-yup.

Hello World

2008-07-08T19:20:00.000-07:00

This blog is meant to be for my... personal blogs. You know, since no one ever cares about my personal life. And if I put it on my technology or news blog, that makes no sense.

So it'll be for my youtube viewers, and random rants... Yup.