Veronica Mars...

Kristen Bell
Hmmm....maybe there is a reason to watch Veronica Mars :D Too bad the DVDs are $50+

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Enzo Time!

With the past few days being pretty nice outside, I have been able to take the new R/C Enzo for little rips on the street in front of the house. The thing is pretty fast like it claims and can easily do 60 km/h with fully charged batteries. But that doesn't last long at all. After 20-25 minutes of constant driving the battery doesn't push out enough juice for the Enzo to tear up some major asphalt. Then it dies completely after 35-40 minutes of continuous driving. Which really sucks as I have to charge the battery for 5 hours to get only 40 minutes of drive time. I guess I will remedy this by going to the hobby shop and picking up 1-2 more batteries so I can have it running a bit longer.

Today I took a few pictures of the actual car so you guys can have a look at it. The previous owner didn't use the Enzo body and Enzo wheels because he was too afraid to wreck it, so he bought a different plain body/wheels and used those to "beat up" on. However I love the look of the Enzo body so I decided to use that instead (plus with it being out on the road there are no major threats of me running into anything like walls) but I left the non-Enzo wheels on. It looks sweet tearing up and down the street with the Enzo body on. I hope the weather stays good for a the remainder of the week so I can get in some more time with it before the snow falls. Perhaps even get some drifting tires on it and learn how to drift with it hehe. Anyways check out the pictures of my Ferrari :D

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Outdoor shot


Another outdoor picture


Indoors


Another one Indoors

Lego Fun!

This past Thursday I was at Toys R Us looking for a birthday present for my brother when I came upon some Lego Star Wars sets. The looked fantastic plus they were on sale to boot so I grabbed a X-Wing and a B-Wing kit and headed to the cashier. Now I know I was there looking for a present for my brother, but you know how it works... you never find something for the person you are looking for, you always find something for yourself! I probably wouldn't have bought them if I was so hooked on the Lego Star Wars II: Original Trilogy Xbox 360 game (Dang is it ever fun!). Anywho I built the X-Wing with Tuyet on Sunday night and then I finished up the B-Wing on Monday. Check out the pictures! I think I might have to keep an eye open for some more discounted Lego kits since these were so much fun to build :D Oh and my brother's birthday is in 2 days and I still don't know what to get him! Ack!

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"foils locked down in attack position"


Luke up close and personal


R2-D2


The B-Wing

Losing

Losing absolutely sucks and that's what we did on Sunday. We actually played a pretty good game and were tied for most of the game. The went up on us by 6 at the end and we stopped them from converting. Then it was our turn for our last drive to tie it up. We made it a bit past half field but then threw up an INT and with that our hopes of beating the best team in our division.

Thinking about the season sorta irks me as we would have won a few games had the officiating been less 1 sided. I know it sounds like a cliche to blame the refs for a lost game but if you EVER play in this league at the U of C you will come to see what I am talking about. The Refs want to be "cool" and it feels like high school where the kid is trying to impress the "cooler kids" and that's how our refs act in games. Lame.

Oh well now that Football is done I am free for another sport. I am hoping some ice hockey and basketball to fill up the very little free time that I already have :D

It was a good season OCELOTS and we did play well. Thanks to all of you who played on my team. I appreciated your effort and hope to play football with you again soon!

P.S. I can't wait for Flag Football with the CSSC in the Spring/Summer!

V for Victory!

This is going to be us today!

Today is the last regular season game for the OCELOTS and we are playing an undefeated team in our division. Their record is 4-0-1 ours is 2-3-0. If we beat them and there are other acts of God that go our way in other games we will make the playoffs (so basically the chances are slim). However our will to deliver the Glory Hawks their first loss of the regular season is great. We are going to go out there and score touchdowns after touchdowns, while stopping every single one of their drives. I know we can do it!

Go OCELOTS!!!

P.S. The Glory Hawks were formerly known as CPD in past years.

What the crap?!

So I went out to lunch with Kent today at Earl's and he was going to be a bit late so before I went into the lounge I decided to stop by the Toys R Us to look at possible birthday gifts for my brother. As soon as I entered the front doors I was greeted to a Star Wars display. There was some pretty cool Lego Star Wars on a shelf but then I saw it...It made my jaw drop, not because it was cool, but because I couldn't believe they would make such a stupid toy! What was it? It was this, the Star Wars Deluxe Millenium Falcon Transformer. What an odd "team up" of toy brands? Why in the would would I want Han Solo and Chewbacca to transfrom into the Millenium Falcon? And why are they robots now? I mean if there Ship was a transformer, wouldn't they be able to kick some true Imperial ass? And why oh why are there smaller figures of Han and Chewbacca? Do they ride themselves? Truly odd and truly crappy.

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Bubble what?

Fantastic :D

I cannot wait to display this on my dashboard!
Thank you ebay

Tetanus Shot...

Remember how I cut my finger on my car really bad 2 mondays ago? Well since I cut it against a piece of metal (and it was deep) I had to get a Tetanus Booster shot to prevent any possible infection. Also I had to get the booster shot because apparently they only last 10 years and the last time I received one was most likely when I was 14, so I was due for my booster. The people at the medical clinic were supposed to give me a shot on the day they patched up my hand, but they had none in stock and told me to come back in 5 days. But I have been so busy with school that I haven't been able to drop by and get one. So I decided that I'd go to the Health Services Center at the University and so I did. I booked an appointment and got my booster shot right after lunch today. Now my left upper arm feels nice and sore (like someone punched me hard in the arm). Hopefully it will be fine by the time flag football rolls around this Sunday (Go Ocelots!)

Ferrari Enzo

I am a proud new owner of the quite rare Ferrari Enzo...a 1/10th scale Tamiya RC Ferrari Enzo that is :D Picked one up used from a beyond.ca member last night. He has had it for only a month but had to part with it due to financial difficulties. So I took it off his hands for quite the steal! Anyways I'm going to try and get a few runs on the street in front of my house before the snow comes down and covers everything. Get this, it hits 60km/h...Crazy!!! This is what mine looks like.

Vroooooooom!

The EVO2 Dual exhaust with cat back is definitely my next mod for my car. It's my attempt to get some more grrr from my NA machine :D Maybe it will be on by this upcoming summer? This and some stainless steel headers would just be.......drool :P

More info on them here.

Oh my goshness!

I'm up late cramming...heh I'll never learn. But just before I call it a night I checked beyond.ca and saw this posted:


Taken from: City Beat
Date: Tue Oct 17 01:15:23 2006
Subject: multi vehicle collision
From: Fire PIO

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CITYBEAT - CITY OF CALGARY PRESS RELEASE
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At 2306 Calgary Fire Department responded to the Calf Robe
bridge on the Deerfoot Trail. Crews arrived to find
approximately 60 to 80 vehicles involved in a chain reaction
collision.

Seven fire department vehicles and 20 firefighters provided
assistance on scene. EMS and CPS were also on scene. Calgary
Transit provided 2 busses to shelter the owners and
passengers of vehicles not able to be driven. At the time of
this posting the fire department remains on scene assisting
with the clean up.

Calgary fire department would like to remind motorists to
exercise extreme caution due to the current road conditions.


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60-80 cars?!!! Wow it must be really slippery out there. I'll probably have to leave for school extra early tomorrow morning. I hope I don't get to my midterm late...that would suck!

Snow!

It hasn't snowed yet but soon it will. The forecast calls for snow tomorrow so I decided to take an hour out of my busy schedule today to put my winters on the car today and remove the 18's with summer slicks off. I didn't want to be caught in the snow with them on as I would most likely curb them on the first day of snow when I'm sliding all over the roads. It was a lot more work then I expected but I got the task done with a bit of help from Tuyet and the bro (help is always awesome). They are now in storage and I am set for the winter! Good news is that they are on now, even better news is that I didn't lose any fingers in the process :D

Sony Ericsson K800i

This is what I ended up getting Tuyet for her birthday. I even bought her a screen protector heh. It's quite an awesome phone and I thought it was going to be "one of a kind" for awhile, but apparently Rogers is bringing it to it's line up (well a similar one the k790) in November...boourns. Oh well it will still be a rare k800i in North America. Specs are available from here. I chose the Sony Ericsson brand because after buying my w810i and just absolutely loving it. The w810i has a 2.0mp camera, expandable memory slot and a mp3 player! I loved it because it was 3 devices in one and meant I could carry less in my pockets. I've been using it for 3-4 months now and have no complaints so I thought I couldn't go wrong with the k800 which is an even fancier version of the w810i. Hopefully I am not wrong :D I hope you enjoy it!

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Busy Busy Busy

Midterms, assignments, quizzes...I am going crazy. This sememster has really been taking a toll on me. Only 1 1/2 months left, I just have to get over the midterm hump of this month and then it's smooth sailing from there onto finals. I can do it!

Yeah this was a weaksauce attempt at getting any kind of inspiration/motivation to get through this midterm season...

At least I tried :D

Friday, October 13th

Exactly 10 years ago from this day I crashed my first car (badly). I bent the control arm, bashed in the front of my bumper, popped my 2 front tires and had my life flash before my eyes. I won't get into the details but all I have to say is....poor stop sign, it never did anything to me but try to save my life from oncoming traffic. And on that fateful night I plowed into it. I remember the horror I felt that night and I will NEVER EVER be that reckless again...EVER, and so far in the past 10 years I have lived up to my word.

Anyways thinking back makes me think of all the good times my first car gave me and all the hardships it put on me just from breaking down all the time! It was a 1992 Hyundai Scoupe, click here for specs. 81hp! haha. I owned the car for 2 years (96-98) and it was such a beater (partly from the way I treated it), but for a car of only 4 years old it acted like it was 10+ years (just from all the breaking down of parts). It was laid to rest in the early Winter of 98 when an idiot rear ended me hard on the way to school and it became a right off.

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Mine was exactly the same as this one, well mine was black, but besides that it looked exactly like this. Heh now seeing this I sorta want to buy one as a winter beater. I'm sure I could find one for $500 and maybe this time around I'll have a bit better luck with it (since I will definitely treat it 100x better than I did with the previous one).

What a weekend...

While you were all stuffing your faces with Turkey I was sleeping and resting. I ended up catching a slight stomach flu Thursday night and basically slept all Friday (cuz I was so tired from puking) and rested all Saturday. Which also meant I missed out on celebrating Tuyet's Birthday...Happy Birthday Tuyet! I did give her a present though but it's just not the same when you don't go out and celebrate it as well. We will postpone celebrations for the weekend of the 21st. So prepare yourself for some fun hunny!

To top it off, I cut myself badly when I was installing my new Dryflow AEM filter earlier today. I cut myself on top of my left thumb and I could see the bone when I pulled the cut apart. At first it didn't hurt but then the adrenaline started to wear off and I really though I was going to faint. But a bit of fresh air and sitting down helped prevent that. Anyways my Dad and Tuyet took me to the medi-clinic so I could get stitches, but instead of the convential thread and needle they glued me together (literally) using "glustitch", it's rather neat.


So since I cut myself on metal (and it was a deep wound) I will have to go get a Tetanus shot now at the end of the week or next Monday to prevent infection. Booo! I'll have to look into getting mechanics gloves now just to be on the safe side.

Anyways I hope everyone had a good Turkey Day and stuffed themselves a bit extra for me!

Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy

As much homework as I may have, I still somehow find time for a bit of video gaming. Anyways I bought Lego Star Wars II: The Original Trilogy for the Xbox 360 last night and played a bit of it today with my bro and we were both impressed. The game play is great with a 2 player co-op option and the game follows the Star Wars episodes IV, V and VI. Why did I buy this game? Well I bought EA's NHL 07 just last week and after trying it a few times with Kent, we both came to a conclusion that the game sucks just like it does every other year and the suck factor increased even more with the "new controls". So pick up Lego Star Wars II and forget about EA's NHL 07.

October Already?

Dang did September ever go by fast! Hopefully October doesn't go by as quickly (and I hope its not too cold), Perhaps she can ensure the latter :D