星期五, 2月 24, 2006

Serching a Financial Calculater


Mission Objective:

Locate and purchase a financial calculater, preferablly TI - BA II Plus as shown in the picture above.

Briefing
2006.2.17 - 14:15

"You'll need a financial calculator for the exam on Feb. 27th. You have a week to find it. I'm sure if you order it online tonight, you'll have plenty of time to play around with it before the exam."

Mission Start

Day 0
Err... it's friday night before a long reading break. It'll be a pretty funny joke if I do anything about it. After all, I'm not a geek.

Day 1
I checked www.futureshop.ca, found nothing, gave up right away.

Day 2
Sunday......... self-explainatory ..............

Day 3
Checked www.amazon.com, found it. But for some strange reason they don't ship the freaking calculator to Canada. Alright, I know we Canadians has lost the Hockey in Torino, but we are still pround. Stupid American websites don't have to embrass us like this. I was angry and stopped the search.

Day 4
I decided to give up ordering on internet and go to the nearest mall to find one. The end. (All I have achieved that day was made the decision.)

Day 5
AQ opens. Spend my whole day on WoW. Pretty exciting event, took lots screen shots and I'll probably post something about it later.

Day 6
Changed my mind and start looking on Internet again. Found nothing at www.amazon.ca. Found some people selling it on ebay, but ... there was no buyout prices and I really don't have the mood to bid on a calculator at that time.

Day 7
Gee... it's friday already. So I took a bus to Conestoga, looked around for 3 hours, had lunch, and found nothing. CAN'T FIND A SINGLE FINANCIAL CALCULATOR THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE SHOPPING CENTER!!!!!! This is incredible. At the end, I curled up my tails and headed home like a defeated dog.

And just when I thought things couldn't get worse, I took the wrong bus and ended up in an industrial park where there's absolutely nothing but a huge snow-covered-field and a building.

Err... okay. Calm down, Jeffrey. I'm sure you'll be able to get home somehow.

Waited another 30 min. out of nowhere and finally an express bus came. Surprisingly, the next stop is U. Waterloo, just that it stops in front of MC instead of my residence.

Okay. At least I came back. Well... school seems pretty empty since it's on a reading break. I was in no hurry to get back home so I decided to take a look around.

Went to Bomber's computer shop and hope that they have the calculator. Again, no luck.

Played S3 with a girl and totally pwned her. This actually lightened up my mood a little. Although I can't even beat a pro with 20% of life left, at least I can still beat high school kids and other people with XX chromosome.

On my way home, I endup in South Campus Hall's Tech shop. At this point, I was pretty much gave up and went straight up to the counter and asked if they have any finincial calculator.

And.. O M G. I found it!!

Went thru everywhere and it's actually in a store that's closest to where I live.

Well...



Mission Complete!!

星期四, 2月 23, 2006

11 days haven't update my blog seems to be a record after I actually start writing something on this blog.

Well... it is not without a foreshadow. After all, writing diaries on a regular basis is not an easy job for most people.

After awhile, you found out that you're simply repeating yourself over and over again. And over and over again. :p

I guess it's a good time to have a little break.

In this cruel world, nothing lasts.

星期日, 2月 12, 2006

NeoXaser's Blog

超~~~ 級久沒有 Update.

真的不知道在忙什麼. 大概十四號過後情況會好轉一點吧.

星期四, 2月 02, 2006


星期四...

最近要抱怨的事情還蠻多的.

滑鐵盧不夠冷. 阿慧又跑出國. 下星期好忙. 好像快要感冒. 都不下雪......

說起來, 今天應該也挺忙的. 除了星期四三個小時的課要上以外, 大概還要跑 7-11 一趟. 不知道誰寄包裹給我, 每次都要跑很遠才能領. ><

喔.. 新年過了.

新年快樂~~~

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二月也差不多該決定一下我四五月要做什麼了... 考試要報名... 目前只有這件事情跟回台灣是確定的. 機票也差不多該去查一下.

好多事~~~ @@

可時間還是好多. :p

原因不明. >< .

星期一, 1月 30, 2006


Yah~ My new monitor~

SAMSUNG 913V-Black 19" 12ms LCD Monitor 250 cd/m2 600:1 0.294mm Pixel Pitch

To be honest.. still trying to get used to it. Err.. of course I've used big monitor before, but never tried one on my own computer.

Feels... big...

Well, at least before I get used to it.

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It's monday again. Just had another rag try and downed that bastard to 8%. T_T

Next week....... down for sure.......

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Hmm.. I think it's probably becoz I don't talk too much nowadays. Getting this habit of reading out what I'm going to type or just typed. Sorta... weird...

Another test today ><

Wish myself luck. First test of chinese new year.

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She left for trip, feels sorta lonely.

星期四, 1月 26, 2006


該怎麼說呢... 每次看到這種東西都有點被騙的感覺.

DS 賣太好了, 不過這也出太快了吧? 三月? 那最晚去年三月就幾乎已經篤定要出了嘛, 加上計畫, 測試, 量產的時間...

一直到聖誕節過後才公佈這消息當然是怕影響到聖誕的銷售成績. 任天堂無敵了..

星期日, 1月 22, 2006

煩阿~~~~~

殺不死 Ragnaros~~~

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似乎已經好久沒有這麼久沒有更新過我的 Blog 了.

如果硬是要說沒有東西寫的話, 其實也不是很正確. 如果說真的有什麼原因的話, 大概就是懶掉了.

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拖了兩個星期, 上禮拜好不容易才心不甘情不願的又回到宿舍的食堂去吃午餐. 畢竟每天買外面東西吃也是挺麻煩的.

自從回到 waterloo 以來, 已經連續三個星期說要回 Toronto 了. 可是每次都出現意外... 最後沒有一次去成. 我連車票都早就買好了耶. >< .

總覺得有好多事情沒做............

星期一, 1月 16, 2006

電?オンライン:週間?上ランキング

電?オンライン:週間?上ランキング

一陣子沒注意 Console Game 的消息, 才驚訝的發現, 排行榜接近百分之七十被掌機佔據.

而且前十名還有九名是 DS + GBA.

前五名全是 任天堂 DS.

老實說, 畢竟是老任的死忠派, 看到這榜單還蠻高興的. ^^

是說這資料畢竟意義不大. 首先也只不過是一個星期的銷售額, 再來, 現在 PS2 快要壽終正寢, 把它巴假的也沒什麼好特別高興的.

比較有趣的是...

我還以為 xbox 360 去年十二月就在日本上市ㄌ. 沒一個遊戲可以擠進前五十名還真是有點糟. 這實在是我喜歡日本電玩市場的最大原因. 在北美, 歐洲, 真的只要畫面好看就可以賣ㄌ.

遊戲度? 那是什麼?

星期二, 1月 10, 2006

First Week.

Before I realize, first week of school is about to pass.

Oh.. shoot, it has just passed. School started last tuesday. :<

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Weird... there are still a number of things on the list which I should have done, but haven't got time to go finish it.

For example, I'm enjoying eating outside food so much that I haven't started my meal plan yet.

For some reason, I haven't collect all my text book yet.

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Feels like falling behind already... 2006 started slowly.

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Feels sleepy...

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Today in class, one of the front-row classmate was complaining directly to the professor that the course is moving toooooooooo slow.

He was like "Why are we sitting here and listening to these high school stuffs?"

It was rather rude.

Oh well.. kids... they say all sorta of funny things.

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Guess I'll take a little nap now... at 9pm...

星期五, 1月 06, 2006

Things I want to tell her

Gotta write this down before I forgot.

Don't think she'll check my blog so everything should be good. ^^

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After we broke up, you've asked me so many times about how can I still be so nice to you.

The answer is simple.

Because I love you, I love all of you, I love everything that defines you.

Your good, your bad; your smiling face and your angry face. Everything.

I have to admit that I was rather childish during the break up. There was once that I couldn't understand why would you do this to me. But now I do.

It's just part of you. After I left Vancouver, it is inevitable that you'll fall in love with someone else. Asking you to keep the relationship between us is simply impossible. And if you did that, then you wouldn't be the one whom I love so much.

I know time can never go back. It is not possible that once again we love each other like we used to. But I'm still striving to become someone who you can love in the future.

You know, nothing that existed will ever last. I have no idea how long I can keep on loving you and I'm sure the feeling will fade away withing a couple decades.

But I just want you to know one thing.

Eight years ago, 1998 on the night of May 20th, you didn't make a wrong decision letting me become your boyfriend.
5 days. About time to update my blog.

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Both School and 1.9 started on 3rd. Has been quite busy since then.

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I was thinking...

After using the same layout for two years, perhaps it's about time for change. Since most of my friend's blog are all consider dead by now, might also be a good idea to clean up a couple dead links.

I know that appearences is not everything. What really matters is the content.

But due to the lack of content in the past couple months thanks to wow, I guess giving my blog a new look wouldn't hurt so much. ^^

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I'll go back to Toronto this weekend.

I'll write some more next week. Promise.

星期日, 1月 01, 2006

777

Interestingly enough, my first post of 2006 happens to be my 777th post. (Honestly I didn't purposefully made this happen)

Another unwanted coincidence is that my last post of 2005 was at the exact time of 444.

Is there any meaning to these? Probably not.

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First day of the year and I'm about to move back to Waterloo. The only regret from living in Toronto for the last 2 weeks is that I only get to see a reasonable huge snow once. It was at the afternoon of 30th and it was pretty.

Whole city covered in white while I can barely see the shape of CN tower through all the heavy snows.

Only once. Not as good as twice. But better than none.

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I was going to say some new year resolution. Until I just realized that all the goals has been set clear, there are really nothing new to resolute about. Still the same ones from last year. Not sure if that's a good thing or not.

2006 going to be a huge year for many of my close friends and relatives. Alice's graduation, Dean's graduation (?), Jessica's graduation, Daphy's wedding, Turtle's critical year, Jeremy's first year outta army, Yuki's girl leaving japan... and so on...

I wish everything goes well for them. And of course, everything goes well for her too.

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Obviously there's new freaking way I would have foreseen that I'd be sitting here typing my first blog of 2006 in downtown toronto while enjoying the view of half city-scape with CN Tower. Life is wonderful. ^_^

And I do wonder where will I be when I post my first blog of 2007.

We'll see about that.

星期六, 12月 31, 2005

Happy Birthday to me~

Sigh, loneliest birthday ever :p

Oh well...

星期一, 12月 26, 2005

Without Her.

好... 要開始抱怨ㄌ...

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從聖誕前夕那天開始說起.

24 號, 起床, WoW, 下午邊坐 Subway 邊玩 DS 到 Ben 家, 看 Rain Man, 吃晚飯, 到 Brook 家玩 Xbox 360, 回 Ben 家把 Rain Man 看完, 玩 Last Chance, 心臟病, Poker, 打撞球, 打桌球, 看 Matrix Revolution 看到睡著.

這天倒過得不錯. 晚餐不錯吃, 電影也很好看. Last Chance 也真的蠻有趣的, 五月回台灣的時候帶一盒回去, 應該可以玩一陣子.

25 號, 實在沒事做, 外面的店全都休息, 所以起床吃完飯以後就乖乖坐 Subway 回家.

在 Subway 上大概到第三四站的時候我的 DS 竟然就沒電ㄌ. 沒有電動打我立刻就睡著, 醒來的時候... 又坐過頭好幾站. ㄜ... 已經有點習慣了. 不過 Subway 人少得可憐, 讓我在轉車的時候還是有點滄桑的感覺 - 聖誕節耶.

回家倒頭就睡到今天早上四五點才起來.

恩... 今天是 Boxing Day, 印象中自從跟她分手以後 Boxing Day 就從來沒有出門 Shopping 過. 那反正今天也沒什麼事, 至少也該上街去看看.

一直摸到下午兩點才很不甘願的出門. 到這時候為止我吃的最後一餐是昨天中午那餐.

其實還是很不想去逛街, 是實在太餓ㄌ, 逼不得已要出門才順便過去看看.

目的地是 Eaton Center, 離我住的地方只差三四條街而已, 雖然我不太確定在哪裡. 不過想說只要往人多的地方走就好, 所以隨便看了一下地圖就閃ㄌ.

出門時, 天空不時飄來一兩片細雪, 路上行人少到讓我再確認了兩次手機上的日期 - 今天真的是 26 號沒錯.

走了兩條街, 還是沒看到多少人, 這時候其實已經很想放棄回家去了 - 不過走了這麼遠, 再走一條看看好了.

一轉出 Eaton Center 那條街, 就看到至少幾千個人頭. 現在大概全 Downtown 的人都集中在這條街上了. 人口密度跟隔壁那條街實在天差地遠.

肚子實在太餓, 進了 Mall 以後就先找 Food Court.

....... 找到了以後才發現一點幫助也沒有, 就算我能排三十分鐘的隊買到食物好了, 大概還要再等三十分鐘才有位置坐. =.="

到此我已經完全放棄. 本來有幾間店想進去走走的, 但是跟預期中一樣每間店都要排隊. 我實在餓到沒有力氣排隊了.

人潮洶湧是預料中事, 出乎意料的是我竟然沒有一點點點點耐心去跟人家排隊買東西.

在 Eatons 裡面走了一圈, 就立刻繞了出來, 往回家方向走去. 回來的路上還是一樣, 過了一條街就除了建築物跟偶爾經過的車子外, 什麼生命跡象也沒有. 實在是........

原來計畫是回家路上看到什麼就買什麼, turns out 回家時經過的每間餐廳都休息. 後來到家門口張望了一下, 看到下條街有間我從來沒吃過的快餐店 - Quiznos, 就迫不及待的買了個 Sub 回來了.

等下吃完 Sub 大概洗澡, 上網, 看電影, 睡覺.

Yap... that's my boxing day without her...

It's X'mas

Yap.

And it's raining outside.

Rarely I thought rain is really inappropriate, the only weather that suits X'mas is snow.

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Shockingly... that's all i can think of for now... after blank for 5 days... =.="

WoWing way too much~~

星期三, 12月 21, 2005

不算是 Sightseeing

Just took a walk on Queens. Felt like Vancouver, but much colder.

For those of you who have no idea what Queens is, Allen told me that it's the shopping street for Toronto. Like Granville back in Van and/or 忠孝東路 back in taipei. I guess.

Well, a lotta of familiar names. Fcuk, Zara, Aldo, Bluenotes, Aritzia, Lemor, Eko, Mendocino, XOXO, Roots, Space fb, C square, Gap, Z, Club Monaco, Costa Blanca, Bedo, Puma, Neon, B2, Stoneridge, Guess, Le Chateau, A.O., Lettieri. Weird that some big names are missing, or perhaps I haven't tried hard enough. =.="

Honestly, I'm not an expert in shopping. As a matter of fact, I hate shopping. But just my humble opinion, I think Granville does a better job as shopping street than Queens. Somehow... the former one seems to be... hmm... younger...

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Will probably go watch another movie tomorrow. And if I have time, I'll go check out CN tower.

Nothing much I can do in downtown other than shopping and ... eating...

Honestly speaking, it's still too cold outside to enjoy a walk. But exploring a new town is rather exciting and fun, it actually took my mind off WoW for awhile.

Oh...

It's Dec. 21st.



91st month, if we're still together.

And the day I got my first class-specific epic - Gauntlets of Might.

Mere coincidence, I hope.

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Well, at least it'll be easy for me to remember when did i get my first epic. ^_^

星期二, 12月 20, 2005

Toronto - First Day.

Hmm... I have a theory about my not-so-heightened holiday mood.

Pobably been on holiday for too long, feels nothing really special about it. Believe it or not, I actually prefer if there's a class to go. No exams and homeworks tho, just classes.

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Toronto somewhat feels colder than waterloo.

I know I know, it's just my biased opinion. After all, I've just been here for a couple days, what do I know?

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Went and watched Nardia last night. And... it was crapy.

Visually stunning, but really really crapy. Hollywood almost always does a great job on screwing up epic novels.

Well, can't blame them too much. Can't expect too much if you want to squeeze a 500+ pages of story into a 2 hour movie. As long as they get the visuals right, it is probably worth watching.

Not highly recommanded, but I guess it is worthwhile.

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Still having zero plan of what to do for this holiday....

星期一, 12月 19, 2005

Toronto

Eeeee.

I'm in Toronto now, and going to stay here for the rest of 2005.

Rest of 2005. Sounds like an awfully long time.

星期五, 12月 16, 2005

Finals Finally Finished

FFF.

Well, I was happy yesterday when it was finally over. But somewhat annoyed at this moment for no particular reason. That's odd...

Happiness matters in height to make up for its lack of length.

The mood of cheering never lasts. Well, at least not over the same matter. No matter how happy we are, sooner or later we'll have to find something else to cheer us up, again.

To that degree, I'm glad that there are so many things that can cheer me up. The snows, for one.

I'm moving to Toronto... probably on sunday and will stay there for a couple weeks.

So far, no plan for this holiday at all.

Zero.

星期二, 12月 13, 2005

零下二十

這幾天忙著考試, 沒什麼時間去注意一些瑣碎的事情.

昨天晚上剛睡醒還昏昏沉沉的, 覺得房間有點悶, 就把窗戶打開一點來透透氣. 不開還好, 一開還真是不得了, 冷風如刀似的馬上灌進來. 害我以為我開的不是窗戶, 而是什麼冷藏室的門.

清醒過來以後, 上網看了一下現在到底幾度... 原來如此, 零下二十度.

在外面行走還真是一件困難的事情. 說是冷到無法想像也有點言過其實, 事實上還是可以想像的, 就想成大概是穿著短袖短褲然後在零下五度的冷藏室裡面走來走去, 大概就是那種感覺. 雖然我穿了兩件衣服加外套, 冷風還是可以從奇妙的地方灌進來.

上半身也就算了, 身體縮緊一點就好ㄌ, 最慘的是牛仔褲跟布鞋穿了感覺跟沒穿一樣. 從大腿一直冷到腳掌心.. >< ...

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聽說零下二十度不會太久.

很快就會零下三十ㄌ.

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今天的天氣蠻差的, 天空沒什麼雲, 太陽很大. 不過我真的懷疑那個掛在天上的發光體是不是裝飾用的. 是怎麼樣可以光線這麼強然後一點熱度也沒有?

不知道零下三十幾度的時候我擦的防曬油會不會凍起來, 然後變成一片面模固定在我臉上...?

星期一, 12月 12, 2005

Finals

2 finals down and 2 more to go.

Honestly... I can't wait ... >< ...

Sweet sweet X'mas is just around the corner. And it's about time I have a vacation.

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Well... ...

Although I'm always on vacation... but a real vacation would be nice :)

Thusday 3:00pm.

Hmm... what should I eat that night...?