Finals

Finals are coming up soon. I can't believe how fast this semester has just flew by. I have a paper to write in like 4 of my classes that are all due next week lol. I guess I'm going to be busy this week with that. I don't really study much for my tests but maybe this time I can actually take my exams more seriously. I don't know if I want to even bother with HST. I'm already planning on retaking the class so should I bother to waste my time studying for it? I've already missed a couple of days this month. I just hope that I can pass my classes with a decent grade. I'm also a bit worried about my PSY 220. I need to get a B or better on this final exam in order for me to pass the class with a C. Hopefully the exam won't be too hard. I don't know how I'm going to deal with all these papers I have to write. I have a paper for PAR 101, PSY 223, and actually, that's it lol. Not as bad as I thought. Well hopefully I can deal with that then. I wonder how hard summer school will be. I hope it isn't too heavy of a work load.

Diet

I've been on this new diet lately. The thing that got me started on this diet was about 2 months ago when I went to the doctors for a checkup. When they weighed me, I was at 290 lbs. When I saw that I completely freaked out. I don't mind being overweight, but I do mind being over 300 lbs. When I noticed how close I was to 300 lbs, I decided that I had to do something about it immediately. So I first started out going to the gym with my roommate arik but I couldn't keep waiting for him to go to the gym. He told me that I should try going to the gym on my own. I thought about it and I just couldn't get myself to go by myself. So I decided I could loose weight by trying to eat less and eat healthier. So I've been eating less often, also my food portions are smaller. Also, I use salads as filler now if I'm still hungry instead of getting like mashed potatoes or another fattening side dish. When I went home over the weekend, I weighed myself for the first time in a month. I had dropped 23 lbs. I was so freaking happy. I didn't notice anything and nobody else noticed either. But when I saw that scale, I was definitely feeling good about myself. Now that I know that the diet is working well, I'm going to become even more strict with it. Towards the end of last week I was beginning to slack off in my diet. Starting to eat more and more often. Well good thing that I weighed myself so now I'm back on track. Hopefully I can get below 250 lbs. Then I will be satisfied.

My HST class

I'm pretty sure I'm going to fail my HST 101 this semester. The professor that I have is really tough for some reason. His tests are quite the doozy too. I failed my first 2 tests in his class so I'm not very confident about passing his class. I also didn't do very well on my papers. I am planning on re-taking the class either in the summer or in the fall. This isn't the first time taking history here either. I took history last year, it was black history. I ended up dropping that class because of how hard it was. I'm starting to think that I'm just really bad at history. I'm not very good at remembering dates and such. I also don't really study that much and it seems like you need to study a crap ton for history in order to just pass the exams. I'm going to keep all of his tests and take his class again. Hopefully, if he keeps his tests questions the same then I will be able to do much better. I'm still no good at writing papers though.

Date

Well I went on a blind date last night. It was the first time that I had gone on a blind date. In fact, it was actually the first time I'd been on a date. I met her through craigslist. I posted an ad in the personals saying that I was looking for a possible girlfriend. I got a crap ton of fake replies lol. After the first couple, I was able to tell right away which were real and which were fake. In 2 days I got about 20 fake replies and like 2 real replies. Well in any case, last night we decided to go have dinner at a Mexican restaurant. She is actually hispanic. I feel like the date went fairly well but the only problem was that it was very awkward for me. Being my first date I was pretty nervous. I also didn't really know what to talk about. I'm bad at small talking and I have a feeling that she is too. So there were many moments when we didn't even say anything to each other. Towards the end of the date she started talking a bit more and it made me feel more relaxed. I guess if shes talking a lot then that means she is at least a bit interested in me and isn't completely out of place. But the whole thing was still a bit awkward. I wish I could go back and maybe do it over lol. I would be more confident. But I guess it's a bit expected since it was my first date.

Survivor

Oh man, my favorite reality show I think is Survivor. I'm not exactly sure why I like it. Maybe it has to do with the situations that they are put in or something. This season is particularly good because all of the players have played before. I think my favorite survivors of all time are Russel Hantz, JT, and maybe Ken. I only like Ken because he is a gamer like me lol. It was actually very interesting to see Ken in Survivor. He did fairly well actually. Much better than most people thought. But back to the main theme. If you don't know, Survivor is a reality show where people are taken into the wilderness, split into 2 tribes, and they compete in challenges while they also try to survive. Survival includes finding food, building fires, building shelters, and just making good alliances. Of course these alliances rarely last very long but they are usually a good thing to have. To be honest, the thing that I think entertains me the most is some of the conflicts that people get into. I actually don't like watching most people because of their attitudes. But at the same time, there are lots of people that I love to watch because of their attitudes. If you haven't watched any survivor, check out the cbs website and go watch some episodes.

Tribes 2

Over the weekend when I went home, I grabbed my copy of Tribes 2. I knew it wouldn't work on the mac OS but I was thinking that maybe crossover would be able to run it. And I was right. Yesterday after I downloaded it I started playing it. But unfortunately, I found out that the online capability of Tribes 2 was shut down. I guess not enough people were playing it to keep it running. Tribes 2 was really a great game. It was the first really innovative FPS. Many people think that Halo was the first really good shooter game but I think that tribes was much better. The thing that I liked mostly about Tribes 2 was the jet pack concept. I think Halo is going to have jet packs in their next game lol. I guess Halo is a bit behind. This game also had vehicles. Vehicles included motorcycles, tanks, fighter jets, bombers, and more. People even made mods for the game such as the construction mod. I remember that I had so much fun with the construction mod. You could make nice looking houses or large buildings. I remember there was this one house design that I liked to make. Single floor, no rooms. Basically just the living room with a chimney. If I were to go back and do it again, I'd like to add bedrooms, bathrooms, and closets. Maybe even a kitchen and many other rooms. Well enough about construction mod. I would recommend Tribes 2 but since the online play has been shut down there isn't much that you can do anymore.

Copyright laws

When I say copyright laws, I'm basically just referring to the youtube video copyright laws. The reason I bring this up is because youtube has removed so many of my videos due to some copyright. I wasn't using the videos for profit or anything that would benefit me. All of my videos were posted simply to share something with the world that I thought was interesting. All these strict rules came into place when Google bought out Youtube. I think that it's not fair to have so many videos blocked. I think the fair use policy allows for the use of copyrighted material for certain things such as teaching or commentary or some other things I don't exactly remember. I think everyone liked youtube a lot better before Google bought them out. Back a few years ago before youtube was bought out, you could find almost any video that you could think of. After Google bought them out, it seems like half of the videos that were up, violated some sort of copyright law.

New apartment

My roommate, my friend and I are looking for a new apartment for all 3 of us to live in next year. I forget the name of the subdivision but the area looked very nice. Right now I live in a 2 bedroom apartment. The only real complaint that I had was the size of our kitchen. We barely have enough cabinet space for me and my roommate to share. In the 3 bedroom that we looked at, there is literally like 2 times more cabinet space, along with a pantry. Our rooms are larger too. And the best part I think is that each room has it's own bathroom attached to it. I'm trying to figure out which room I would want and I'm gonna list some stuff.

Room 1: closest to entrance. Separate from other rooms. Next to outside stairwell so I may hear people. Might hear people coming in.

Room 2: closest to kitchen. Room seems a bit larger than others. Corner around room where I could have desk. Next to other's bathroom so I might hear them. Possibly next to person living next to us, so there might be some noise.

Room 3: corner room. public bathroom. Largest bathroom. Corner so it may get hot from the sun. Look at angle of the room relative to the sun before picking this. Might be good at night because 2 windows on corner to let in breeze. Will be next to roommate and might be a bit noisy.

My trip to Raleigh

Well over the weekend I went home to Raleigh. The only reason I went was because my parents wanted me to help out with an event they had going on over the weekend. My dad has a fairly large event that happens each year. He has his black belt instructors camp, along with his black belt world tournament/festival. When I went home on Friday, people were gathering from all over the world to attend the instructors camp. I'm not kidding about around the world either. We had people from Korea, Canada, India, and from all over the United States. People probably came from other areas that I didn't even know about.

Friday night we all slept at his tae kwon do school because it would have been pointless to go all the way home and come back out early in the morning to drive all the way back. On Saturday morning is when the festival was going to start. I thought I was going to go to the festival but my dad wanted me to stay at the school to redirect anybody who didn't know where to go. I think that this was actually good for me because I wouldn't have had anything to do at the festival anyway. When I was at his school I just spent my time playing some games and watching some anime lol. It was nice and quiet too.

That night when everybody came back, it got pretty loud. There was a large dinner party and there was some live music. My sister's music teacher actually came out and played some classical music for our dinner. After dinner there was some karaoke and an awards ceremony. Nothing to really talk about there. After that I went home and talked with my sister for a while. I really enjoy spending time with my sister because we don't really talk much otherwise.

Finally on Sunday I went to visit a friend of mine who I haven't seen in like almost a year. I also met his roommate who I haven't seen in like 3 years. We had a good time just catching up and playing some games. After I hung out with him, I had dinner with my mom, sister, and grandma from virginia. We ate at cheesecake factory. Food was excellent as always and then we all went home. I had to drive all the way back to Wilmington and it was already like 9 at night. I got back here around 11:15.

Dragonball Kai

No, no Dragonball Kai isn't a continuation of Dragonball GT. Dragonball Kai is actually a remake of Dragonball Z. It's not a complete remake however because they removed all the fillers and digitally remastered everything from the original. I think that they also revoiced everybody. Some characters got new voice actors but most of the characters are still voiced by the original person. Dragonball kai is usually put up on most anime sites on Sunday morning. Right now in the series, they are up to where Goku has just defeated Freeza and he is trying to escape planet Namek before it blows up. I think it is at episode 53 right now. That is amazing because episode 53 in Dragonball Z was around the time when Goku had just arrived on Namek. They basically cut out about 40 episodes of filler which is really good. One of the biggest fillers they took out was the journey from earth to Namek that bulma, krillin, and gohan went through. In the original dragonball z, that journey took around 10 episodes but in dragonball kai, that journey took like 2 episodes. Another big filler that they took out was the training between gohan and piccolo. Those episodes lasted around 10-15 episodes but in dragonball kai, it was cut down to about 4 episodes. I really like how much they are cutting away from dragonball Z. There was so much useless stuff in the original, but now they can just stick strictly to the storyline.