- Decided to delay the iPod Touch purchase until the end of the year at least. Rumors abound with new 2nd gen Touches and possibly an iPhone that doesn't require subscription to a certain cell phone company. So, I'd rather wait than buy and regret (as I did with my 1.83ghz mbp, which is still my baby, but aih).

Still can't believe I'm turning 23 soon. Feel like I'm still 18. When will I ever feel my true physical age? Probably never. ^^

- Got into Leuven. On to the next stage of my life? Kinda scared >.< Gotta survive the next three months of work first, though. :P

- Work is busy. Got new assignments, going to move seats, change is a-coming! There was a baby in the office yesterday! Rare occurrence. Also got towels because it's labor (勞工節) day tomorrow.

- People are coming back to Taiwan for the summer! Exciting. I need friends.

- We're shower-less at home because there was a hole in our bathtub which was causing a leak in the first floor. They decided to take out the bathtub and just put in a shower stall. However, while removing the bathtub, they found that one of the pipes has a hole and is leaking water, so that needs to be fixed first before they can finish the shower stall. However, the uncle says that's not possible because the pipe was just recently (read: more than 3 years ago) replaced, and he wants to look at it first before they do anything. However, the uncle is in America currently and won't be back till Sunday (wtf.). Therefore, we have to go to my 3rd aunt's (4 MRT stops away) to shower and then go back out in the sticky night to take the MRT to go home. I feel like the shower is wasted. Might as well not shower for the next week or so. :P Jk. But it is such a hassle and mighty frustrating.

- Maple Story is still as addicting, if not more so. Spent Sunday all day in a little corner at my aunt's playing. Currently level 32 and in the dessert. :D I hope this addiction goes away soon. It really does take up way too much time and is a time waster.

My birfday's coming up! But that's besides the point. I'm trying to decide if I should go for the iPod Touch.

So I need help. Should I get the 32gb touch?



or should I wait till they come out with a newer one because there's rumors? AHHHH. help?

You never really realize how much your memory has declined until you talk to old high school friends who remember everything from high school, but you remember nearly nothing. T~T Sigh. Why does my memory suck so bad?

Met up with Jon for dinner and he was telling me all these funny incidents from high school that I have non recollection of, even though he said it occurred right in front of my face. What the heck?! What was I doing? Where was I? Was my brain not even there?! Ackz, so frustrating. And he mentions names, and I cannot remember their faces or downright don't know who they are. Although it could be because Jon definitely knew more people than I did (at least I remembered people in our grade :P), but some of the names sounded familiar but I couldn't put a face to them. :( This is so sad. I wonder if by the time I'm 40 I'll have any memories of high school left. SIGH.

Anybody got any tricks for improving the memory? I could totally use some right now. Makes me so saaaaad.

It's even sadder when I forget something someone told me a couple of weeks or months ago. They'd be like, I already told you! And I'd be like, eh? You did? Or they showed me a picture but I don't remember seeing it. Happens mostly when I talk to Jenny. AIH.

Anyway, good old high school days. Some times I wish I could just turn back the time and go back to the relatively less stressful days of high school. :P Other times, not so much.


Oh, we've also established the fact that I'm crazy and weird. ^^

(Image from cartoonstock.com.)

Everyone has their phobias, right? Well, mine's insects in general, but especially cockroaches. And I just have to move into a city populated by them. At home we have cockroaches, at work on my desk there's the occasional cockroach, and out in the streets there are cockroaches. AHHHHH. Why why why do these insects (insects?) exist?! What good do they do for the environment? What is their role in this world?! Ahhhhhhhh.

We have a flying one at home right now that no one knows where it is. I just saw one crawling around my desk at work. I should kill it, but I don't dare. It's a phobia!!! >.< What to do what to do?! I just wait till it crawls off the desk or guide it towards an exit from the desk. There are tiny little baby cockroaches, which I can kill, but not the big ones. I've heard horror stories of colleagues who pick up their phone and see cockroaches crawling out of it. Omg, if that happened to me, I'd totally freak out. Sigh.

Ahhh, I need someone who can kill insects, especially cockroaches and spiders, for me. Otherwise my home might become overrun by them. >.< Why do I have this phobia? I have no idea. At least no conscious idea of why. Blech blech blech!!! Just thinking about them gives me goosebumps and makes me shiver. It's gotten worse as I've gotten older. Blah. Insects suck. Cockroaches suck. AHHHHHH.

No image for this entry since when I googled cockroach and saw the pictures I started feeling faint. >.< They're so disgusting!!!! Ahhhhhhhhh.

With my mom back in town and staying at my aunt's because our place is too small (seriously!), we pretty much spend dinner at my aunt's place. And because mahjong is a favorite past time in our family, somehow we always end up playing. Well, I should say they. There's always enough people, so my sister and I head home first to play some Maple Story. Muahaha.

Anyway, last night my aunt was busy, so I took her place for a little bit. By little bit, I mean I played three games, which took about 30 minutes (or less). How much damage can three games cause? Well, in that 30 minute period, I managed to lose 220 nt. It was ridiculous. It was just not my night to be playing because all the tiles I got were either crappy or just added to the confusing mess that was my initial hand. UGH. As if that wasn't not bad enough, the three times I played, someone 自摸 (zi muo) each time (more specifically, my mom twice and my uncle once). Zi muo is when they choose the winning tile from the stacks themselves, which is harder than having someone throw them the winning tile. Which means, an even more expensive loss.

220nt's not that bad considering how other people have lost 1000+ nt, but that's the loss for the entire four rounds, not just three games (which isn't even a round!). If I had continued, I might have won that money back, but I sincerely doubt it because when I played for my mom while she talked on the phone, my luck wasn't any better when it came to the tiles I got (at least I didn't lose any of my mom's winnings. Phew!). I'm just bitter because I didn't do anything and yet I lost 200 nt. If I'd actually won a game or been the one to throw the winning tile, then it would make the loss so much easier to take. Sigh. Some nights, it's your night. Other nights, not so much.

One happier/funny thought I'll leave you with: 自摸 (zi muo) directly translated into English is "touch myself." :P

In continuing with my lunch time updates, today I bring to you the story of my ... uterus? :P This is a warning - this could be a potential TMI (too much info) post, so read at your own risk. Hah. Like I'd ever say anything inappropriate.

Anyway, the story starts last Wednesday. It'd been a pretty hot week in Taipei, and I was really craving ice cream. So after dinner we made a trip to 7-11 to grab some yummy chocolate ice cream (they didn't have the ones we normally get though, BOO!). Next morning, at around 5 am, I remember dreaming that I was having a really bad stomach ache and was passing gas like no other. Then I wake up and I can't figure out if it was the remnants of my dream or if I was really having a super bad stomach ache. After lying in bed for like 10 minutes, I finally realize that the pain is real. I thought all I needed was to take a dump. However, sitting on the toilet for 15 minutes produced no poo, but lo and behold! My fantastic friend, the period had arrived. I finally figured out that I was experiencing cramps (super duper painful cramps that left me in a cold sweat) and that no amount of sitting on the toilet was going to rid me of the pain. Took the day off work and just rested.

I know what you're asking. What's the point of this story and how can I not realize I was having cramps? It should be something all girls know, right? Well, this goes back to the title of the post. A couple days before this incident, I'd told my cousin that I had never experienced cramps and was all gloating and joyful about it (that's why I had no idea it was cramps). Couple days later, damn, I get my first cramps ever and boy was it painful. Never eating ice cream the day before my period is due, and never saying never again.

The End!

Sounds like a serious title, no? Haha, not really. The other day we had our fortunes (八字) told by a feng shui teacher who's supposedly pretty accurate in deciphering the codes of your life.

Mine's not as pretty as my cousin or sister's apparently. They're both going to have decent (read: fantastic!) futures in the entrepreneurial and money-making department. I, on the other hand, am going to have trouble settling down and will move around, a lot (I can see that happening as I am already itching to get out of Taiwan). I shouldn't make long term plans because I'll never have the will power to see them through (yah, I definitely lack in the will power department). I should buy a house (or more) because it'll make me settle down more. Also, I have bad legs (true, my ankles suck) and I will have kids (what?! noooooo. Spare me!). I will meet my other person not in Taiwan, and I will be gone from Taiwan between the ages of 26 and 31. I should go out to study now because the money gods are not currently smiling down on me. I will work better and earn more if I live in a tropical country in the future where it's rarely ever cold as I lack fire in my life. My blood doesn't flow as well as it should (which is also true as my hands and feet are always cold during the winter, and every time I stand up after kneeling or bending over I get dizzy), so going to a tropical, warm country will help me with my lack of fire and bad blood circulation. I am destined for a cubicle job (I think, she just said I shouldn't start my own business and will do better in the office setting. Sigh.), which is poo poo for me because I can't imagine myself sitting in a cubicle for the rest of my life, and I want to do my own things! Sigh.

So what does it all mean?! I have no idea. But I'm taking all this with a grain of salt. Some of the stuff she said were pretty accurate (e.g., my mom has bad uterus - yup, she had it removed a while back), but who knows. Fortune telling's always interesting, but the trick is to not take it too seriously. I'll take it as it comes.

One thing's for sure, I DON'T WANT KIDS (right now)!!!!! ::>.<::

Guess where the lyrics in the title are from? :D Speaking of Valentine's Day, South Koreans have a day in April (the 14th) where it's anti-Valentine's day (called Black Day). Single people wear black clothes and eat black food. Interesting :P I think we need a day like that in Taiwan. Muahaha ... or not.

Work's gotten progressively busier with every new task I need to learn and do. I'm so confused with some of the stuff mainly because I'm getting information from three different people. But it'll work itself out as I get more involved, I hope.

Between work, visiting my mom after work, and going home to play Maple Story, I haven't had much free time to do anything else. Oh Maple Story, how I wish I could quit thee. But with every new quest, new item bought, new skills gained, it just gets harder and harder to quit. It's so addictive since I'm constantly trying to better myself. When will it end? Who knows. Hopefully some time soon. Otherwise I'll never have time to draw, read, talk to friends, or go out in general ... Haha. The RPG has taken over my life. GAH. Well, it's just taken up more time than it seems since I can't spend all day playing it thanks to the real world intruding.

I've had a couple potential blog entries in the back of my mind. But every time I think I'll write it, something else comes up (like work, food, and game :P). One of these days I'll get them down. Hopefully.

(I'm updating during lunch at work. Can't find any other time to update! Ahhhhh)

We're losing everyone ... well, almost everyone. Oh, the pain, it's unbearable (even though it was expected).

Bye bye Love.

and Collison.

and Westbrook.

and (maybe) Shipp.

and Mbah.

and Aboya.

It's been nice watching you guys play. Maybe I'll start watching the NBA now ...

I've pretty much been neglecting, not just the blog, but everything else in life (except work and food, of course) for the past two weeks due to this fantastic role-playing game, Maple Story that my cousin intro'd me to. I play the Taiwanese version as us foreigners aren't allowed to play on the US one. RAWR. It's a challenge trying to read all the Chinese when you're trying to do missions. It's an even bigger challenge when someone starts typing to you in Chinese while you're fighting some evil villain. Why? Because I type like 1 character per second minute (thanks picker!) when it comes to Chinese, and they keep "??" me because I'm attempting to fight while I type. So. Hard. Ridiculous. And when I type in English, they're like, I can't understand! Well, of course. Most of the people who play this rpg seem to be ... little kids who probably don't pay much attention in English class. UGH. Anyway, little rant.

Otherwise, it's a fun game. I'm a magician! And I'm cool because I get to throw fireballs and slash at little mushrooms (and big mushrooms and snails and green blobs and blue blobs and blue shrooms and pigs and pigs w/ bows... and many more; you get the point :P). The addictive part of the game is the leveling up. Every time you level up, you get stronger (duh). And, you get to buy cooler, more powerful gear which you can use to defend yourself or attack or make you magic stronger! Ok, I sound like a nerd. I'll stop now before it gets any worse. Play the game and you'll see why it's so cool/fun/addictive. :)

One last thing - I spent all last Sunday at home playing the game, only to get stuck in some freaking castle in the sky without the knowledge of how to get out. So I recreated a character and started from level 1. Painful. But at least I wasn't at like level 20 or something. I might've shot myself. This past weekend I got stuck in some dessert place, but thankfully I found a way out, which I could've done with the old character, but I just didn't think of it then. DUMB. At least now I know I can explore to my heart's content without worrying about getting stuck in places where one strike by the villain can kill you. :D

Ok, that's it. :) Yay gaming!