Monday, August 9, 2004

Insert witty title here.
Mimmi- Yes, it is promising. Because I made it. :}

Mal- I haven't used Kazaa since March of last year. :|

Azure- It's in "the shop" right now. Let's see what they come up with, and we'll find out if you're a credible source or not. ~_^

Shin- Heh, I leave suddenly all the time.

Mal again- Damn cockroaches. They ruined the salsa.. And are the millions and millions of spyware you're talking about ninjas, because they never showed up on any Spybot (Search and Destroy) searches, or on my startup list.

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Well, as I stated earlier, the computer's in the shop now, and I'm hoping those guys don't just sit on their asses and flip a coin to see if they're going to do anything or not.

Actually, I didn't go to the shop. I was asleep and my dad took it on his way to work. I haven't talked to him since. Perhaps there is something I should know, or maybe they screwed him over.

"Yeah, we'll make your hard drive bigger, sir, by ONE WHOLE MEGABYTE! Give us some RAM and we'll weld it right in there."

*shudders at the thought*

Not much else to say on that topic. I ran a spyware check on this laptop, because it was running slowly (Well, slower than 128MB RAM should be going), and Spybot found fifty-six items. That left me scratching my head, considering the only things I've put on this laptop are AIM, Yahoo DSL and Spybot itself, but I have come to the conclusion that Weatherbug and that other little AIM add-on are to blame.

Damn AOL. Corporate bastards.

I also saw Resevoir Dogs the day before last on Bravo, and I was blown away. I had never seen any Tarantino films outside of Kill Bill at that point, outside of Pulp Fiction's twist competition the night before, and it was awesome. I'm a bit tired to get specific, but, as expected, the dialogue was what brought me in. The whole "Like a Virgin" thing seemed a bit unnecessary, but I'm either not looking deep enough into it or it may have been needed to give a little more shock value to the Orange and White car scene. It felt out of place, but I was entertained, so it wasn't all bad.

I felt the resolution at the end was a bit weak, but I didn't really feel that way until afterwards. I like to imagine that the one with the diamonds (OMG I SPOYLD TEH MOOVY!!1) got caught by the police, simply because I wasn't rooting for him throughout the course of the movie. He was a funny, interesting character, yes, but he didn't deserve the diamonds.

I got upstairs at 3:30 AM after watching the ending and fell asleep rather quickly. I had to wake up the next morning at 8 to take my grandmother to the airport, and I knew that before I decided I was going to start watching Resevoir Dogs at 12:20 AM, but it was worth it. A quick shower in the morning jostled me out of my half-conciousness, and I took a short nap on the way to LAX.

We simply left her in the line, where she would soon be receiving wheelchair services. Last time we left her at the airport, it was all sad and touchey between her and my mom, but this time it was just a hug, a goodbye, another hug, and "call me when you get there." I was actually surprised how quickly we got out of there.

We stopped in Valencia, a nice very commercial city that we used to live in (When I was one and a half we moved here), and I was pretty eager to go check out the cool, two story, recently rennovated mall. We first stopped in the food court, which was the most overhauled area, with a small but nice selection of restaurants (They have best service at Panda Express). I then told my family I was going to go wander about for forty-five minutes, eager to see the cool stores they were bound to have.

And what a let-down I experienced. It has become a yuppie fashion mall. The Electronics Boutique was small and cramped, and their B. Daltons was okay, but they didn't even have a DVD store. What kind of mall doesn't have a DVD store?

A crappy yuppie fashion mall. Damn you, Abercrombie & Fitch!

Disappointed with the indoors shopping, I then walked across the street to the outdoor shopping which, apart from the sushi bar and the cool glasses store, had no redeeming qualities. I discovered the Imax had a Tilt! Arcade next to it, which had an impressive selection of fighting and shooting games (There was a cool Silent Scope I had never seen in person before, with a lame eight-year-old who had his arm way below where it should have been, and it wasn't because he was short), but the only sign of Bemani/music games was a delapidated, torn apart Pump! It Up pad next to the Wheel of Fortune game. That left me feeling quite sad, and I didn't go into the two-story Borders book store because I knew my mom and my brother wanted to go in there as well. I met up with them, we browsed through the stylin' glasses frames at Optyx, and went over to Borders.

That place is so cool, heh. Tons of fiction and magazines on the first floor, including a nice selection of manga, and they have a comprehensive CD and DVD collection of floor two, accompanied by non-fiction and the children's section.

I was looking for the Pulp Fiction DVD, and found it in the Action/Adventure section.. Now I may know next to nothing about that movie but is it really that action-ey? I was under the impression that it was more of a drama, but whatever. I'll still watch it, despite problems in the categorization department. :P

My brother bought another Calvin and Hobbes book he had never read before (I swear, they must systematically hide them in the back, bringing them out once we've bought the "last one") and my dad got a book about Gettysburg.

I didn't buy anything. I wanted to find a cool novel to read, but I don't want to read a book only to find that it's not on our Accelerated Reader list and that I spent two months reading what could have been something else. AR sucks.

Tomorrow: Torture Your Funny Bone 2. Fear its greatness.
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