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Halloween 2010

Monday, November 1st, 2010 at 9:50 pm


For the last 3 years, I’ve been attending a halloween/birthday dinner for my friend Benny (who’s birthday is on Oct 31) at Marlowe in Richmond Hill. I don’t usually post images of myself too frequently, despite this site being a blog about me…but I thought I’d make (two) exceptions today. Here are some picture of my & Z’s costume, as well as costumes of which I got inspiration from.


Z and I in some shots before going out as well as before our costumes got ripped and damaged.


Z and I, posing for the cameras. If you couldn’t guess, I’m Russell and Z’s…the house from the Disney movie UP. Notice there’s my stuffed animal Doug from this post. When I said “Doug might prove useful later” way back in/before Sept 18, Z and I had already decided on what we could/should be for Halloween.


My friends and I. We’re a big asian-fest.


Another shot of my friends and i. Doh, I’m not in this group shot! boo….and what’s that white guy doing there!? just joking :D
Hal Johnson and Joanne McLeod from Body Break, a Chilean miner, the Dick in a Box guys, Bert, the japanese dude from Inception, a cowboy, and other people…

The following are my inspiration


So kawaii!


The original Russell! Kudos to you my friend. Beep bap beep bope boop.

Vacation Time….over Q_Q

Monday, November 1st, 2010 at 4:25 am

Sad, sad day. My 9.5-day vacation ends…the last week seemed like a too-good-too-be-true life…the daily stress was pretty much gone, everything was so….peaceful.

I’m not looking forward to tomorrow at all and I think that’s a sign that something’s wrong which is why I can’t really sleep. I mean, I understand that people wouldn’t want to go back to work, to stress, to all that…that’s not what my issue is. I just don’t want to go back to…all of that. All of it. I may be at my limit…in terms of my goals-to benefit-to happiness ratio. That’s what it’s really all about. My personal goals, my happiness, and my pay. Those keep me where I am but…the ratio’s approaching border-line. I needed my vacation cuz I was BURNT OUT. And you know, I don’t think that’s going to change sadly…give it 2 days and I’m going to be exactly where I was. Not sure if I want to take much more of this…the grass is looking pretty green on the other side. And by “the other side”, I’m thinking any other place but here. I know I’ve been complaining a lot recently, most of it is just…talk. Some of you may be thinking I’m miserable…but I’m not. I’m just a bit tired…and my used-to-be-high goals-happiness-benefit ratio was much higher but it’s been going down…the new responsibilities I have aren’t fun. Not at all. I’ve been thinking about going back to being a mindless drone….like the old days. Leave work at work. Don’t stress about larger problems during after hours. Just do my hours and leave it at that. It’s looking pretty good right about now.



So, you may have noticed my vacation schedule stopped being updated. Gomen! The reason/purpose of the schedule was to see where I was wasting my time, as this last week was supposed to be devoted to improving myself in various ways. Unfortunately, vacation mode took over quite a bit…and, well…the days of relaxing turned from 2 days into 4, into 6…and by then, I’d started working on my halloween costume and…well, I eventually just decided to make it a totally veg-out vacation. I have time to learn stuff during the nights and I’m hoping my new “Accomplishments” blog post (to be posted tomorrow – er, Monday) will help keep me organized/motivated and keep the pressure on….

I’m just feeling really unsettled…it might just be because I’m coming off this vacation but…I dunno, it’s hard to say right now as I’m wired.

I think I’ll try to get some sleep….I had a 9.5-day vacation but sleeping from 4:30-8:30 = Warren, coming in pretty tired to work tomorrow…..not a good sign.

Tomorrow’s a new day, a new chance to start the rest of my life. Let’s see where it takes me tomorrow.

How to solve life’s confrontations and arguments in various anime worlds.

Sunday, October 31st, 2010 at 5:09 pm

If you’re in the world of Hikaru no Go, all confrontations and arguments can be solved with a game of Go. Because everyone in this world plays Go.

If you’re in the world of Initial D, all confrontations and arguments can be solved with a downhill race. Because everyone in this world is a speed racer.

If you’re in the world of Prince of Tennis, all confrontations and arguments can be solved with a tennis match. Because everyone in this world plays tennis.

If you’re in the world of Slam Dunk!, all confrontations and arguments can be solved with a basketball game. Because everyone in this world plays basketball.

Warren is a nocturnal creature…Part II

Thursday, October 28th, 2010 at 12:43 pm

I try very hard to use words like wouldn’t, couldn’t, won’t and can’t carefully.
I almost feel like nothing “can’t” be done (ah that childlike optimism)….good for debugging and trying to figure out a problem, bad for not knowing when you’ve lost.

I realized this week that despite wanting and trying to sleep early and wake up early (by choice), I simply couldn’t do it. It’s not to say I can’t do it here and there, once or twice, but it’s to say that I can’t maintain that for a long period of time. The clock has been built within me as early as highschool, possibly earlier.

I think I should stop trying to fight it. The only reason I’m trying to fight it is for work….but you know, maybe I should just take jobs where this sort of thing isn’t an issue. I can’t change me that much….

At my previous working team and when I played WoW, this would be my schedule
Wake up at 6:45am
Leave at 7:30am
Come home and sleep at 6:30pm
Wake up and Raid (WoW0 at 9:30pm (3 hours of sleep)
Sleep at 2:00 am
Wake up at 6:45am (4.75 hours of sleep)

That was my consistent schedule for almost a year….around 8 hours of sleep, broken up into two. Not fun I tell ya….

Vacation Timeline (Updated)

Thursday, October 28th, 2010 at 2:45 am

Decided to make a new post, my other one was falling too low/off the page:

To Do

Secret Project 1 – ;idwqruhgy (that’s code) (high priority – 10)
Secret Project 2 – obfwrs/xpn (that’s code too) (high priority – 10)
Study. Study. Study. ASP.NET. HTML 5. CSS3 maybe? SQL and LINQ (high priority – 10)
Work of Epic Site, Plan DB, find out how to do the stuff I want to do… (high priority – 10)
Watch Godfather (med priority – 5)
Watch True Blood S3 (med priority – 5)
Watch Dark Angel (again) (med priority – 5)
Maybe draw something… (low priority – 3)
Convert VHS to DVD (low priority – 3)
New theme for warrenshea.com (low priority – 3)
Watch Burn Notice (low priority – 1)
Write Blog Post – What I’m expecting to get/buy in November (low priority – 1)
Write Blog Post – What are my goals for November (low priority – 1)

Schedule
I’m going to try to follow this schedule and update this post as I do stuff…to stay organized and see where my time is being used. I’ve always found myself a bit of a time waster…for example, 2 hour nap tonight -_-; I’m taking too many naps lately…almost every day. I need to break that.


Friday Night (22)
06:30pm – Leave work
07:00pm – Get home & clean condo
08:00pm – Clean Hamster cage
09:00pm – Surfing the web…
09:30pm – Eat and watch Hikaru no go….too tired to study…mind needs a rest.
11:00pm – Reading
11:45pm – Hikaru no Go
12:00pm – Sleep. Ended at Hikaru no Go 20.

Saturday (23)
03:15pm – Wake up (15.25 hours of sleep -_-;)
03:15pm – Hikaru no Go
04:30pm – Eat
05:00pm – Fall asleep….(nap)
06:45pm – Wake up (1.75 hours of sleep)
06:45pm – Hikaru no Go
09:30pm – Got sidetracked and started reading why the Blue Ranger, David Yost, left the Power Rangers show. Then, started watching the Green Ranger, Jason David Frank, fighting in MMA via youtube…
09:45pm – Hikaru no Go
11:00pm – Hikaru no Go + Eat Dinner
12:00am – Hikaru no Go + Drawing
02:00am – Hikaru no Go + Working (Overtime Release)
04:45am – Drove to work to do something I couldn’t do from home…only to find the door were locked. FML.
05:00am – Got McDonalds Breakfast. They forgot the Sausage in my Sausage McGriddle and 1 of my hashbrowns. WTF WHAT DID I PAY THEM FOR?! FML
05:20am – Came Home. Hikaru no Go + Continued to work.
05:40am – Hikaru no Go. Stopped working. I shouldn’t be drinking/have drank that 1 cream 3 sugar coffee…
06:45am – Hikaru no Go + Started to fix my CGI Timeout issue.
07:15am – Hikaru no Go + Posted my warrenshea.com VS CGI Timeout. Wondering when I should sleep….getting tired.
07:45am – Sleep. Ending at Hikaru no Go 52 (watched 32~ episodes today…10+ hours worth -_-;)

Sunday (24)
02:00pm – Woke up (6 hours of sleep)
02:00pm – Hikaru no Go + Work
02:30pm – Hikaru no Go
03:30pm – Nap
04:30pm – Wake up (1 hour of sleep)
04:30pm – Video Conf. with brother to fix his Internet Explorer….spent 1 hour trying to get my mic working so we could webcam…when all he did was call me for a 2 minute conversation. He was too cheap to spend long-distance on 2 minutes….and I wasted an hour. F*CK.
05:30pm – Hikaru no Go + Installing some software/organizing files
08:30pm – Hikaru no Go + Photoshopping around


I was drawing and then I realized I’m not a fan of drawing, my art strength isn’t as great as I remember…and that’s why I like doing digitial art. There’s history, layers, and tons of tools to use. So I took this image and..well, traced it. But turned it from a Get Backers Himiko to a Catwoman from the Batman: TAS….with an orange flare to it. I’m pretty happy with it considering the time, effort and concentration used for it (I was watching Hikaru no Go the whole time).

12:15am – Hikaru no Go
12:30am – Finished Hikaru no Go (watched 23 episdoes + 1 movie)
12:30am – Organizing files, watching Neon Genesis Stuff (This Blu Ray stuff is sick…can’t wait for the series to come out)
03:00am – Sleep

Monday (25)
09:30am – Wake up…hopefully.
12:00pm – Wake up (9 hours of sleep) + General Internet Surfing
12:30pm – Dexter ep 4 and 5 + Secret Project 1 – ;idwqruhgy
02:15pm – Took out some trash
02:30pm – Starting building some ikea furniture….while watching Dark Angel (in preparation for the novels i’m gonna read)
Edit: Got sidetracked, while putting in the Dark Angel Disc, I decided to watch some How To Train Your Dragon again…
03:15pm – Dark Angel + Ikea Furniture
04:45pm – Cleaning, rearranging items in the condo to fit the new furniture
05:30pm – Dark Angel + Eating
06:00pm – Dark Angel
07:00pm – Nap
07:45pm – Wake up
07:45pm – Smallville – S10 E05 – Isis
08:45pm – Big Bang Theory – S04 E05 – The Desperation Emanation
09:10pm – The Office US – S07E05 – The Sting
09:40pm – Organizing Music Files (yes, I did this for 2+ hours…)
12:00am – Cook some fish…
12:00am – Watched Smallville – S06E11 – Justice
01:00am – Sleep

Tuesday (26)
09:00am – Wake up/Get Ready to go to Ikea/Random Surfing
10:00am – Leave for Ikea
11:30am – Went to Anime Xtreme, bought myself a Gundam toy
12:00pm – Home, got caught up reading: http://peachx.com/, my gf’s friend’s bro’s webcomic. It’s pretty good!!
12:30pm – Build Ikea Furniture….
12:45pm – Skimmed through Power Rangers: The Movie on NetFlix….wow, is that a bad movie…..I wonder if I watched it in theatres?
01:00pm – Build Ikea Furniture + Watching White Men Can’t Jump on NetFlix
02:30pm – Put stuff into the new Ikea shelves
03:15pm – Make some eggs and eat ’em
03:30pm – Trying to get Subcategories to show up in my WordPresss…. I DUNNO WHY IT NO WORK!
04:30pm – Recategorizing stuff….and blogging…
05:45pm – Opening toy….
06:15pm – Leaving for Dufferin Mall
09:00pm – Finally home. Skimmed through The Wizard (1989) and Balls of Fury.
10:00pm – Played Tetris Attack (SNES) for a bit while troubleshooting my PC -> PS3 media files…
11:00pm – Watch House – S07E04 –
11:45pm – Watch House – S07E05 –
12:30am – Watch How I Met Your Mother -S06E05 –
01:00am – Watch How I Met Your Mother -S06E06 –
01:30am – Blog/Recategorize Posts
03:00am – Sleep….finish re-categorizing tomorrow…maybe

Wednesday (27)
11:00am – Wake up, re-categorize posts
11:45am – Started watching Shutter Island while organizing my posts
01:45pm – Finished Shutter Island
01:45pm – Watching Remember Me….need to start organizing my posts again
04:00pm – Watching Balls of Fury
06:00pm – Watching Multiplicity
0~~~pm – ??
09:30pm – Waking up from 2(?) hour nap!?! I think I was drugged.
09:30pm – Watching Back to the Future Blu Ray, organizing Categories for my site
01:00am – Messing around with Halloween Costume
02:30am – General Site Updates
03:00am – Working on Blog Post (will post tomorrow)
05:00am – Sleep

Thursday (28)
12:30pm – Wake up, start watching True Blood, blogging my Things I Own – Things I WTB
03:30pm – Watching True Blood/chatting + Made some pasta
05:00pm – Watching True Blood + Organizing my toy shelves
06:00pm – Watching Back to the Future + Organizing my toy shelves
09:00pm – Watching True Blood + Making a few galleries
11:00pm – Nap
12:00am – Watching True Blood + Random Motivated Photo: Psylocke and Kakashi
01:00am – Watching True Blood + New warrenshea.com theme….
06:30am – Sleep……..True Blood S3 Complete (in 1 day)….frig, these episodes are long!

Friday (29)
01:00pm – Wake up (6.5 hours of sleep) + General surfing
01:15pm –

Costume – Photoshop logo design/print
Finish Costume
9:00pm – Work (ETF)
11:00pm – Finish Work

Saturday (30)
8:00pm – Benny’s Halloween Party

Sunday (31)
1:00am – Sleep

Monday (1)
7:45am – Wake up