So my brother, Clifford, is in China doing some international learn chinese thing. I’m not really sure what it is but anyway. This kid IMs me using Cliff’s screenname.

cliff: chris how do you play l4d on my laptop/
chenstopher: you need the game?
cliff: yes
cliff: we do
cliff: can u teach me how u do it
cliff: please
cliff: now
cliff: im cliffords friend
cliff: please
cliff: please
chenstopher: i dunno ask cliff
cliff: how do u start the left 4 dead game
cliff: he said u helped him
chenstopher: its linked to steam and cliff doesnt have it on his steam account
cliff: can clifford use ur steam account
chenstopher: definitely not
cliff: why not
chenstopher: cause he cant
chenstopher: go away
cliff: fuck u tough guy
cliff: fucking cheeky basatard
chenstopher: well fuck you too dick wad
cliff: omg im so hurt
cliff: hit me again
cliff: just cos u play omgpop
cliff: amerikan cunt
chenstopher: at least i dont have to go begging to other peoples brothers to play games
chenstopher: shit
chenstopher: learn to spell
cliff: fuck u
cliff: ur a fucking fail in life
cliff: u stay on the cmputer all day
cliff: just cuz u dont have mn
chenstopher: thanks for the info
cliff: ur welcome
cliff: call me

I just thought it was interesting cause I’ve never been called an “amerikan cunt” nor a “cheeky bastard” before. English people are soooooo cool. Can anyone explain what the “just cos u play omgpop” and the “just cuz u dont have mn” lines mean?

Hey look its my birthday. Guess what I did today (so far).

First I broke my HD280 headphones. They cost me $80.

Then I removed a microphone from one headset and soldered it onto another headset.

I bet you’re wondering why it says birthday #20 when I’m only 19. Ok, you’re probably not wondering but I’ll tell you anyway.

Actually, I won’t tell you cause its obvious and if you can’t figure it out, too bad.

Btw, never ever order the Steakhouse burger from Burger King. It’s terrible.

Sleep?

Nahhhhhhh.

age++;

BEFORE

AFTER

Dual 24” LCDs FTW.

Sometimes I wish my name wasn’t Christopher Chen. It’s almost like the combination of the two most popular names ever. I mean think of all the Chris’ and Christophers you know and then think of all the Chens you know. It’s a lot.

The main reason why I wish my name was a little more unique is so that I can buy a domain name with my full name in it. When you see some dude’s website url is like… dannychoo.com, you think to yourself, “Damn man, this dude is the legit shit”. Then you go onto godaddy and check if your name domain name is already taken. Turns out it is. And by some random asian american actor.

Then your start thinking of derivatives of your name domain name. chrischen.com, chris.chen.com, chrischen.net, christopherchen.net, cchen.com, chenchris.com. But then you realize its just not the same and there’s nothing you can do about it so you settle for chenstopher.com.

Another reason is that when I google my name, I don’t find me. I find a shit load of random-ass doctors.

Whatever. I don’t really feeling like listing more reasons. At least it isn’t, say, Hannan Butt. Just keeeeedddinggg.

I just took my CSE214 test.

There were three questions with two parts each. We had to write some methods for some data structures. I breezed by the first two and thought I finished the third but for some stupid reason, it wouldn’t work.

I sat there debugging this one stupid thing for at least an hour. I couldn’t figure out why the stupid chained hash table was inserting null entries when I tried to add something into it. Eventually, I had enough and deleted everything and started over. Took me two minutes to rewrite the method and it finally worked! I tested it with the grade calculator that the teacher gave us and I got 15 out of 15.

I wanted to get out of there so I quickly handed in the files and the paper, left the computer lab, walked downstairs and out the building. Then I remembered something super important that I forgot to do: update the hash table’s size.

FUCK.

I couldn’t go back and add it, I had already left the exam area and handed it in. I felt so dumb. I just couldn’t shake the fact that I had forgotten something totally stupid and now I won’t get perfect scores on all the tests I’ve taken for that class. Yeah, it sounds lame that I am worried about something like that. But I already forgot to hand in the last hw on time (luckily I was allowed to hand it in late). And this comp sci stuff is probably the one of the only things I’m good at so I’m feeling kind of mad at myself ‘cause I forgot to do it.

Now I have to ace the final. Too bad it’s multiple choice. I hate multiple choice comp sci exams.