My Archives: December 2002
Tuesday, December 31, 2002
Song: S Club Party, S Club 7
My dad's thinking of reinstalling Windows XP, which I am highly against, because I'll have to save my 200+ MP3s (372MB after I deleted 100+ mp3s), my entire backup folders (780+ MB which I shrunk to 647MB in order to fit on the rewriteable CD) AND the anime downloads I've made (well over 4 GBs). I'm not worried about much except my anime downloads. I've been wanting to burn them onto a CD and then delete them off of the harddrive so I wouldn't take up so much space and get my dad curious of what I have in there and go looking. At the moment I only have Ayashi no Ceres burned, but I could burn Fruits Basket, X and Pretear. However, I'm missing *1 part* of episode 23 of Furuba, so I can't burn that. >< >< For X and Pretear, I have half of the episodes on this computer and the other half on my laptop, and I haven't been able to get a network card to link the two computers together, so I have no way of transferring the episodes on my laptop to my computer (My laptop has no CD burner). So...I'm thinking of downloading them again from this computer and then burning them, because it doesn't look like I'm going to get the network card any time soon. With those 3 series burned I can get rid of 1.64GB on there. But still =_= there's about 3 GB left of anime that a rewriteable CD can't hold. I'll need about 5 or 6 rewriteable CDs at this rate. @.@ That's why I don't want my dad to reinstall. On top of which, all of my PSP and PS settings/preferences will be gone, all of my programs gone and I'll have to reinstall. Argh. @.@ One thing I'm glad of, this event did push me to update my backup CD, which hasn't been updated for half a year. xPSHAMELESS PLUG because I just HAD to update before the year's over! ^.~ HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE! Best wishes! xoxo Trin's new years resolution, produce a WISHLIST because I want stuff. XP
Posted by Trinity @ 09:23 AM CST [Link]
Saturday, December 28, 2002
Song: At the Beginning, Richard Marx & Donna Lewis
As I mentioned in the previous entry, I'm thinking of making a portfolio housing all of my non-anime designs. Now, I really would like to separate my anime creations apart from my personal creations. So, yes, I'm getting a new domain. ^_^ This was decided about a month ago, and I wasn't sure when, but then I got a free .nu domain offer from nunames. *cheers* xD I've always wanted a .nu domain, as it's my favorite extension, with .net following closely. However, I currently have no way of paying for the hosting (long story and not b/c I don't have money) so...I need a host, and my domain name will redirect to there. *halo goes up* :P I just need space for my portfolio (small anyway) and the main site. I know Serene would be happy to host me, and I'm ever-so-grateful for that, but I'm already taking up a lot of space on her domain and I don't want to take up anymore. =_= I feel so bad asking her to host multiple times before I got a domain. Also, I hope I can have this portfolio on a non-anime-related domain, since it's more personal. Right now I don't have many non-anime-related domains in mind, since most people I know have anime-related domains/sites. So, I'm currently scrunging the net for a decent-looking host...any suggestions? :DI found this a bit amusing, as I was cleaning out my old drafts in my inbox yesterday. I have a tendency to save my first hosting application and such, and I while I was going over those the other day, I was laughing at myself for how immature I sounded and how I found it ridiculous that I actually got accepted for hosting. I must have been a terrible "newbie" to the internet and the webdesign world. I used abbreviations such as "u" and "thx" way too much, and in general, I really sounded childish. It's amazing how someone can progress huh? :3 I do remember though, that I was never into the sticky caps (tYpInG LiKE DiS) or abbreviating "the" and making it into "de." I actually do understand why some people type like that. Mostly everyone who do not design/make websites type like that online. Maybe not sticky caps but mostly the abbreviating. For instance, whenever I talk to my IRL friends online, they type using a hell-lot of abbreviations and *gawd-awful* spelling, mind you. It's instances like those that I'm glad I have a good "grouping" skills (referring to term in psych) so I can easily seperate "shew as" into "she was."
I'm becoming increasingly annoyed at how many "elite" cliques are popping up here and there. I'm disappointed to say that even some of the sites I admire have an "elite" clique of some sort. I went on a hunt for a decent host the other day, stumbled across a few nice domains and looked up their content. One domain had a clique and in the about section, the text went like this: "{{clique name disclosed}} isn't a clique to tell people they're better than others--well, ok, it is." Ok, WTF? First they contradict themselves, second, they are actually admitting this and STILL they form a clique? They think they're better than others? Some people really need a reality check. It's nice that these 15 year olds have nice design skills, but what the heck. What about content?? If a site has truckloads amount of content but a simple layout, does that mean they're any less good than these domain-owners? Some elite cliques are actually only by invitations only. A totally new concept, and a completely rude one. I can understand those "semi-elite" cliques, because they want actual content and a decent layout...but wholely-elite cliques are just pointless and rude.
I finally cleaned out my non-website-related e-mail inbox after not checking it for a month. O.o; 61 e-mails and 3 spam mails @.@
Posted by Trinity @ 08:15 AM CST [Link]
Wednesday, December 25, 2002
Song: Charmed theme, The Smiths
Ok, I've wanted to say this for a few days but somehow I keep forgetting. But there are some real bitches in the world. It's not that I don't realize it, but every time they manage to do something, either to people close to me or to myself, I feel disgusted all over again. In this instance, I am referring to the bitches who have hurt Nahi-chan. I will not be naming any names, and they'll probably never read this entry, but you know who you are. Is it so hard to act mature for once in life? Nahi-chan is the best advice giver I know, and she has done nothing but help others. I feel that it's a huge, *huge* pity that some people would go and abuse her advice-giving talents. I feel disgusted...this has got to be one of my biggest pet peeves, is when someone abuses something so pure and delicate and completely sincere. If you don't like an advice, then don't listen to it. It's your life. But don't turn around and bitch at them back. If you end up tasting the consequences, so be it...some people need to taste the medicine that they dish out. I've been encouraging and listening to Nahi-chan over AIM for 3 or 4 days now, and I've just gotten her not to disappear from the net and think about the future of her online life for a bit more. So Tuesday morning I was at my dad's office (with T1 connection ^.~) and I visited her blog to find another rant. I wanted to comment but since my dad was 2 inches from me, I figured I should stay low profile. But I *did* read the one comment someone left in response. Someone named "Katie." (I vaguely remember her homepage but I was going to respond to her comment) I don't remember exactly what she said, I was so pissed at the time. She said something about "don't take your online life/friends so seriously" and "you're probably never going to meet them" etc etc. Which completely disgusts me. Maybe I won't meet Nahi-chan, but just because one is a few states away or even across the world does not mean that they're any less sincere. Yes, there's only so much you can do with emocons/smily faces, but it's people behind the computer screen, and they're not all stalkers, mind you. They can meet if they want to, and they can become good friends, better than they were already. What she said was ridiculous, and I was too mad at the time and didn't think Nahi-chan would close down her sites so soon. (like the afternoon of Tuesday) I really need that girl's homepage so I can knock some serious sense into her. And you know what, it was so freakin' close to Christmas too...what are people thinking?? Blah. I'm finished with my rant. ><
On to happier things...thank you Rhian, Europa, Tasuki, Starlette and a number of other people for the wonderful gifts. :D They're all gorgeous! I hope everyone had a great Christmas or whatever holiday you celebrate. :3 If you don't celebrate any holidays, at least there's the nice winter break. <3
Finally, this layout...I like it a lot :) It was an experiment in PS a while ago and I happened to save it. I was going through my folders today and came across it so I touched up on it a bit. I think I'm going to make a portfolio for these things so I don't lose them. :DMERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYONE!
Posted by Trinity @ 12:07 PM CST [Link]
Monday, December 23, 2002
Song: Saturate Me, Mandy Moore (great song..very pretty)
This song by Mandy Moore is really sweet. :) I was at Best Buy yesterday and stopped by her album to listen to the clips. After hearing Saturate Me, I fell in love with it and headed straight to WinMX to download it. xD I also downloaded the Charmed theme song and the Alias theme song (I know, I know, I'm so sappy, shush. xP) I love the Charmed theme song, but the Alias one was only 27 seconds. =_= It's not actually a song. @_@ Oh well, I can listen to the beat. xPThank you to all for the comments :) I know Calculus sucks x_x I ended up getting an 88% for the final grade. You think he'll round it? XP I've never gotten a B in math that I can remember, so this is rather depressing. But to hell with math, agree? XD
Whoh...I've spent the greater part of the day making little gifts for everyone. ^_^ Go now, and MAKE SURE YOUR INBOX IS WORKING xD Make sure you have your e-mail in plain sight too. ^.~ I made a different gift for everyone, which was rather hard considering I had 20+ people. O.o; I've been listening to all the genki songs and those positive songs (i.e. Supergirl from The Princess Diaries OST <-- OK, I'm sappy but it's a cool song!) I must look like a complete geek singing "I'm supergirl, and I'm here to save the world" while coming up with gifts for everyone. xP Good thing no one's home. I'm having too much fun drooling at the pretty bishounen and the like for these cards. =_= I think I enjoy this the most out of everyone. xP This is testing my little folders to see how much prettiness they can hold. :3 I think I'm actually short on a few WK images. O.o;;;
Oh, look, someone tried to hack into my gbook account....IP Address: 12.246.32.107 with password "haruka." O.o; um...yeah...
Posted by Trinity @ 06:48 PM CST [Link]
Saturday, December 21, 2002
Song: Magma, s.CRY.ed
I'm FREEEEEE w00t!
I am so. fucking. pissed. On the Calc final, I was stuck on this one little question that seemed so easy but I couldn't figure out how to do it. So I come home and ask my dad, and he tells me how to do it. I was so shocked and now completely pissed at myself for not knowing the solution. It was a wrong concept, he'd said to me. Well that fucking wrong concept probably just killed my chance of getting an A in Calc. Fuck. I hate how the teacher weighs each question so heavily, so that if you missed one problem you're already down to a low A for the exam. I had to get a 97.8% on that exam to get an A in the class. I spent 3 hours studying for that crap of an exam. Son of a crapping lizard. SHIT! >< Calculus sucks @$$. >.<In reply you (Mishi), I'm assuming you don't have a site, otherwise you conveniently forgot to leave it...people in Alaska are called Alaskans, people in Hawaii are called Hawaiians, people in California are called Californians, does that make them separate from the U.S.? The reason you gave is a bit asinine and not strong enough for me to see it from your point of view. I know my history well, yes, the National Chinese Party (don't know the direct English translation) took flight to the little island called Taiwan, with no initiate motive of becoming independent. They were escaping because they were defeated by the Communist party. That does not give them any reason to assume they're going to be independent. No country has ever supported them being independent, and no country has ever admitted them as a country. There's no word in Chinese that separates the Taiwanese from the Chinese. They're all referred to as Chinese. Only in the English is there "Taiwanese." I want to go on, but since this is such a sensitive subject, and I haven't heard from all points of view yet, I won't assume anything else. If someone's willing to give me a reasonable explanation, as to why Taiwan even wants to break free of China in the first place, I can still try to see it from their point of view. I am a huge reasonable person. It seems that I don't want to hear what they have to say but I think a lot of it is that I can't see where they're coming from. It's probably biased too because I'm full Chinese but I do want to hear their explanation. However no one as a good one. Mishi's comment didn't give a reasonable explanation, because I can easily counter it. Without a reasonable explanation I will continue to believe what I know. If there is no reasonable explanation for it, that only further proves what I think of the Taiwanese. Furura, that must be a pain to listen to your parent argue over this issue of Taiwanese vs. Chinese. x_x I'm sorry if I offended anyone, it wasn't intentional, and I'm very willing to admit if I happen to be wrong.
Anyway. HAPPY BIRTHDAY ELIAN! *big hugs* I'm so sorry I couldn't make your a gift on Friday or any time before. x_X Finals week was last week and I was overly stressed. But look for something in your mailbox soon ^.~
Posted by Trinity @ 11:17 AM CST [Link]
Monday, December 16, 2002
Song: Discovery, s.CRY.ed
Ok there is something I have to vent about and it's driving me crazy. I'm also curious as to whether I am the only one who thinks this is a problem. The thing is, our school has a lot of asians but most of them are either Filipino or Korean. So this year I was pleasantly surprised to find a fellow Chinese guy in half of my classes, but I use the term "Chinese" rather losely. This is the reason why. He is from Taiwan, and Taiwan IS_PART_OF_CHINA, am I not right? Anyway, the first time I bought this particular issue up, it was during Psych and the teacher had asked if people of different cultures interpret dreams differently. She looked at me, but I said that he was Chinese too. So then he goes, "well, actually, I'm Taiwanese" and I went jokingly, "well that makes a large difference." I was slightly annoyed at how he was actually thinking that being Taiwanese and being Chinese were two different things. But I let it go that time. It's nice that he has some pride of his heritage, but in part, he's denying it too. I really didn't think much about it until a couple days ago, when another guy bet me $50 in Biology that he's not Chinese. I was like DON'T BULLSHIT ME. >< So he got all excited thinking he was going to get 50 dollars, and blurted out that he's Taiwanese. I was getting madder by the minute and was like "what difference does that make??" He refused to listen to me and went to the guy (who was in our class again) and asked him. He listened for a second and said.."ehh, I'd rather not get into it," meaning the debate on whether he was Taiwanese or Chinese. I was beyond angry then. >:O I don't know what the hell is the problem with Taiwanese people who refuse to admit that they're Chinese. Just because they're an island away from the mainland does NOT make them any less Chinese than the rest of people on the mainland. That's like saying Alaskians are not Americans. ARGH, what bullshit. If someone can give me a remotely good reason, I can try to see it from their point of view.Another thing that I've come across in numerous layouts that's just annoying the heck out of me. (I'm full of rants today aren't I? O.o;) Those sites that put up the code for disabling right clicking. I personally right click to open sites up in a new window so I can still admire those that I've come across. But I HATE it when I can't right click. Those codes are even worse than the ones that give you a MS window that says "No right clicking!" or something similar. With these codes, when you right click you don't get anything. It's so frustrating. ARGH. If people want to right click and save the layout on these sites, they'll have to save like 30 little images because they're all sliced up. I DOUBT they have the patience to do that. Wouldn't it be so much easier to take a screencap?? Isn't that the same then? All they have to do is cut the layout out of the screencap and copy it if they want to. Those no right clicking codes NEVER work. @.@ There are too many loopholes around it.
BLAH. I wish I could do what Furura does. x_x How can people make simple layouts seem so pretty?! @.@
I have fallen in love with the wonderful music of s.CRY.ed. *_* Every song I download from their Original Sound Track album is so good. It's so rare to find myself liking every song from one series. The last time and only time I've experienced that was with Gravitation. The OST of s.CRY.ed seems to have 21 or more songs on it, I think I'll make a Scryed CD. :D
Posted by Trinity @ 01:40 PM CST [Link]
Friday, December 13, 2002
Song: Kiss In the Dark, Masami Okui
OMG! THE NAME ROCKS! *glomps* I didn't think there would be a shigure.nu so soon. Unfortunately it's not centered around Shi-chan. ;_; It's funny how I stumbled across it. I was going to a Tatsumi (Yami no Matsuei) shrine and saw the url. xD Speaking of Fruits Basket, I finished the series today. The ending was COMPLETELY unexpected and just shocking. I was indeed shocked. I was pissed about an hour before that, because of my ever so slow computer as well as the fact that streamload told me the rest of episode 25 was temporarily unavailable. ><LINKAGE PLUG! xD *shameless* I rearranged and cleaned out my linkage list. O_o; It had way too many people I don't know on there. xD It's kind of getting full with that layout ^^; maybe I should have made it bigger. I think Shiori would like the font I used for the linkage section, with her crazy K obsession and all. xD Pity she's away at New Zealand. ;_;
This week has been complete hell for me, like I predicted over AIM with NAHI-CHAN the previous week that this week would be pure hell. Unfortunately, I was right for both of us. x_x I really couldn't go online at all except for a few afternoons where I really had to get a breather. I was loaded with exams, papers, projects, homework and upcoming finals. I slept no more than 3 or 4 hours a day and there were times where I'd get away from everyone, because I knew I would snap sometime if I was with anyone for too long. In school on Monday, I was so frustrated and annoyed at how immature everyone seemed all of a sudden. O.o; I was ready to slap people. =_=;; As I said, it's just been a huge, stressful week and I am EVER SO GLAD that it's FINALLY over. Unfortunately I practially failed my Calc test, it was word problems and my greatest weakness in math. We were let out early today at 12:30, so I practically flew home. :3 I can finally do something I've been wanting to do all week, relax. xD
Tas has been nagging me about making a new Addiction layout :P so I think I'm going to do that this weekend, if not today. I want the overall structure to stay the same, since it's easy/fast loading and it's about as organized as I can get. xD But I can see that the structure may get tedious after a while, so a fresh new layout every now and then won't hurt. :3 So I've decided to make a main page layout that'll change every so often, so people won't get too bored. ^_^ Tas went over her bandwidth for the month of November, largely due to Addiction. =_=;;;; She had to pay around $35 (?) more, and I felt so bad. x_x I'm thinking how people may be direct linking some of the images, so I sent Tas the no-direct-linking code and now it's up to her to figure out how to set it up. :D My own domain's bandwidth isn't too low either, I've only had Ai no Yume[NET] for about 2 months and the bandwidth for November already exceeded 1GB. X_X I only have 5GB per month, and I don't know what's making it go up so much...I've already activated the no-direct-linking code and it actually works. :P Other than that I don't have anything to download from on Ai no Yume, and not many people know about the domain yet, so we have a bandwidth mystery here. @.@
We have an anime club at our school, finally. xD Unfortunately it's at the other campus, about 50 miles away from our newer campus. Our high school is weird, it's split into two campuses, one for freshies and sophs and the other (newer) one for juniors and seniors. I guess it's good in a way, the underclassmen seem so annoying when you're a senior. O_o;;; The soph + juniors online are pretty mature for their age for the most part though. :3 Anyway, the anime club is at the campus with the underclassmen, so it's hard for me to get over there, since I only have the car every so often. *curses* From what I heard there were only 4 seniors over there last week, where they showed Haunted Junction. IMO, that anime looked too cute for my taste x_x but it didn't seem like it to the guy I was talking to. Next week they're supposely showing GTO (Great Teacher something-or-the-other) and as I have no clue what it is, I'll dig it up on anipike and see. But all in all, an anime club at school's better than none! XD
Posted by Trinity @ 11:40 AM CST [Link]
Sunday, December 8, 2002
Song: You're Unbelievable, EMF
GUESS WHAT SHOCKING THING HAPPENED. Honestly, I've been using Paint Shop Pro for the last 2 or 3 years. I love the program to death and despite what everyone else says, it's certainly NOT the "second best" compared to Photoshop. So back to that shocking thing...I GOT PHOTOSHOP TODAY. No, not the trial version, but the actual version. I can SAVE ahahahaha. xD You know what was funny...I spent the whole day trying to figure the thing out. It took a lot longer than PSP to open/load, and everything was so complicated. O.o A simple step in PSP would take an extra 3 or 4 steps in PS to get the same effect. I think that's what bothered me the most. I was annoyed by the end of my 5 hour stab at how to use the crappy thing. But hey, I did it. Yes I did. This is the FIRST LAYOUT I have ever made in Photoshop. *shock* Today's an important day in history. =P Do I hate PS? Not really. I definitely don't like it as much as I love my PSP. xD Bah. Swell.
Now that I've gotten over my initial shock, onto other matters. I got the chance to watch the dubbed INUYASHA yesterday while babysitting. I've heard that people were content with Inuyasha's voice, but not with Kagome's. So I thought I'd see for myself. Honestly speaking, I am swearing that Kagome's voice actress is one of the senshi in the dubbed BSSM. I can recognize those heart-attacking voices everywhere...or maybe they just all sound the same. Inuyasha's voice was better, but not the greatest. I think I like Kappei (original seiyuu of Inuyasha) too much, so this may very well be coming from a highly biased point of view. =P Shippou's voice was awful too ;_; The poor guy...so unemotional. I didn't find the originally amusing scenes half as funny as I had when I saw them for the first time subbed. @.@ Now Miroku's voice is a darling. :D I loved his dubbed voice ^_^ It's a lot like the subbed, and he's actually funny at times. Although, they all said Naraku's name wrong, =_= sort of like the Sakura name in dubbed CCS. They certainly like to stress the middle syllable rather than the first ne? I watched Cowboy Bebop too :D The voices were actually pretty nice ^_^ It was pleasing to my ears not to hear squeaking once in a while. Faye's english voice actress is very deep compared to the squeaking girls of the dubbed BSSM. Still, I must admit, the dubbing is getting better to some slight extent, only on Adult Swim though. The warning on Adult Swim, saying that viewers must be 18 or over...that's just bullcrap. The stuff they show don't even have the slightest ecchi-ness to it, unless you count how Miroku's a lecher and feels Kagome and Sango's butt a couple of times. O.o Ah, speaking of which, Sango hasn't appeared. ^_^ I hope her voice actress won't be too hard on the ears. x_x
This layout is very wintery, shall we say?^_^ It's freakin' icy over here, we've already gotten about 5 inches of none-stop snow since the end of November. Christmas is only 3 weeks away =_= I really need to start shopping for gifts.[EDIT] W00t! Go check out this! Kirby rocks! XD
Posted by Trinity @ 01:29 PM CST [Link]
Friday, December 6, 2002
Song: Kiss In the Dark, Masami Okui
Due to this new monitor and this extremely high resolution screen, some of the sites I've come across look really screwed up. x_x Some of my own sites look screwed up, and I can't make a new layout correctly. x_x I can change the font and all, but my dad likes it this way, so I have to keep it this way since it's primarily his computer. *insert curses*WooHOO! Alias was *awesome.* The part where Jack turned around and saw Irina in her bra xDD His expression was priceless. I also loved it when they were posing as a family vacationing, and Irina kissed Jack. xD I was laughing so hard at his stoned expression, it was too funny. @_@
Two SPANKIN' NEW SITES! Go visit! ^o^ The Gravi Logs layout was so bad x_x I have zero inspiration, plus it's the first layout I've made in my horrible new, huge screen, where I can't see how it looks on th 800 resolution. <.< Marurori made the cute layout of Pretear Logs ^_^ Don't hesitate to join if you're either a Gravi or Pretear lover! :D
Next comes my condensed rant of the day...and Nahi-chan can skip this since I blurted it out on AIM for you. xDD
Firstly, we got a new monitor and the screen settings are completely off (which I mentioned previously)...well, now my dad decides that since he's heard from several people at work that you need to use the LARGEST resolution in order to view it correctly....so, the resolution was switched from 1024x768 (which I didn't like anyway) to 1280x1024 @#$%!!!!! *stabs* Now if that's not enough, my dad thinks the words are super tiny so he increases the font size from the normal 96 DPI to 144 DPI...increase of 150%..I mean what the hell...so as you can assume, everything looks huge and ugly now, I can't design crap because I have no idea how it'll look, and all the fonts are huge, which makes all the sites look incredibly screwed, with the exception of a few. Not enough, apparently...my dad decides to buy a new computer table, since our old (but perfectly functional) table is ugly...so he goes and buys a wooden table. Beautiful, elegant, yes..but Why the hell you'd buy a wooden desk for moving your mouse on, writing on and what not. So, as soon as I move the mouse, he screeches "ahh no don't do that! You're scratching the surface!" So...I back off..he goes online for 5 hours to find a surface protector for the table...and we have that now and the mouse actually requires MUSCLE to move dammit....did I mention the keyboard is on one of those "slide-in-slide-out" thingys a little under the table? I am having a hard time adjusting to that.... I miss s.CRY.ed ;_; It's such an awesome anime and I've only seen the first 4 episode out of the 26 total. I want more but I don't have a source right now. @#$% @.@ My source for Hellsing's stopped too xD also on episode 4. Only Furuba has been consistant, and it's getting better than ever now. :D I've almost finished it and there's a HUGE spoiler in episode 24. O_O;;;;; Furuba is by far, one of the best anime I've seen in a long while.
So, how is life for everyone? I noticed, Serene's finally got her blog back! w00t! I still can't seem to see it on my home computer, but I can see it at school. xD and look, Nahi-chan's got the BEST Totchi-oshi image on her blog! XD I love her new layout for her domain as well. xDDDDD Especially the warning page :P
Posted by Trinity @ 06:06 PM CST [Link]
Sunday, December 1, 2002
Song: Sea of Love, Fly to the Sky
I'm alive. Yes I am. I'm also glad for Thanksgiving break. I haven't been to the mall in half a year, seriously. O.o; What a social life I have. <.< But I went to the mall the other day and ought two comfy 'activewear' pants and a sweater. I'm in one of them now and lovin' it. >DWe got a new monitor today xD I love it...well, most of it anyway. It's a flat screened, 17" super-thin-high-tech piece of device. :D Only thing is...it's optimized for 1028x1024 resolutions. O.o;; I currently have it on 1024x768 res., and boy does everything look small. *is used to 800x600 res.* Things look blurry already >< on top of which the screen is incredibly bright, making my eyes hurt x_x Our previous monitor had a darkened protective screen in front of the monitor screen, which made it a lot better to stare at. I've already adjusted the brightness and contrast, but it still seems bright on lighter backgrounds. Black backgrounds and such are fine, however.
Don't you just love crappy dramas? O.o I was on my way out of the washroom when I witnessed what was perhaps the fastest death I've viewed yet:
Trin: *strides out of washroom* *glances at TV screen*
drama: *man gets shot by an arrow while riding on a cart* (think old fashioned Chinese drama)
Trin: *strolls over to kitchen and pours tea into cup*
drama: *man's companions carry him by a doorstep and sets him down on ground, man in agony*
Trin: *sips tea* *glances at screen again*
drama: *man's companions weeping by his grave*
Trin: O.o; *sips tea and goes to do homework*I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving. :D I was sure busy as heck. x.x For four days, I don't think we were in the house for anything but sleep. <_< Thursday we went to my uncles for Thanksgiving, which was fun since I haven't seen my cousins for about 3 months. Friday was the only day we stayed at home, and I was completely bored. x.x My dad was also home because of the holiday season, although my mom had to go to work. Having my dad home meant no prolonged usage of the computer and no freedom whatsoever. x_x We talked and ate, and I watched The Princess Diaries. xD Saturday was my mom's birthday, and I was decorating the house Friday night so I didn't get up till 11am. We were scheduled to go to my dad's friend's house for a party so we drove for a half an hour to his place, since he lived in a different city. We left right after lunch and strolled around the *huge* mall in that city for 3 hours, then headed over to his place. Today is probably the only day where I do my homework while watching some TV on my couch, while I'm downloading on the computer, :P like any other Sunday. All the best shows are on on Sundays. xD X-Men evolution, Alias, Charmed, etc. Anyway..I'm off to do my homework now xD I can be so easily distracted. @.@ Bet you I'll be doing my homework tonight when I'm watching Alias. xD
