apparently Banana Republic is starting a new line of women’s handbags named hobo bags! now you ladies can confidently approach the likes of Boxcar Joe and Drunken Jim! i laughed for about a minute before i regained my composure. i can’t believe there are so many varieties! you can get large leather hobos, canvas hobos, suede piped hobos, you can even customize a hobo to match your attire!

hmm…this is quite strange… my domain still seems to be up…perhaps it ends after 11:59pm tonight. anyway, today in first period, some my teacher and some classmates spent five minutes trying to spell “osteoporosis”. how hard is that? it’s spelled like it sounds! ai YAH! so after fiercely debating whether or not it was spelled with a “4″, they decided to look it up in the dictionary. and i…i pounded my head on the desk in a fit of blinding rage. (well…not really, i just wanted to include the term “blinding rage” in my blog)

well…this is the last day i’ll have ivanlo.net. yep…the hosting company shafted me. i was supposed to get til March 28th…but i just got an e-mail today saying it’s going down tomorrow. ugh…i’m predicting a massive decrease in site traffic after tomorrow (please prove me wrong). i’ll retake ivanlo.net if/when i get a boatload of money. *sigh*

i find it amusing how using descriptive words can supposedly give a statement so much more “meaning”…some of you refer to this as “being deep”. some of you may be wondering “ivan, why isn’t your blog deep like everyone else’s? don’t you want people to read your deep thoughts?” to tell you the truth…sometimes i think it’s just beating around the bush (plus the fact that i don’t have deep thoughts anyway). i guess it’s just the sort of person i am…i value being able to be concise and to the point (to a certain extent) and about the closest i ever get to being “deep” is when i’m being overly sarcastic or serious. think about the difference between these two statements:

my soul is crumbling into a thousand pieces, each of them falling into the deep abyss of my despair. i try to catch them before they vanish into the great chasm, but the more i tighten my grip around them, the more i lose. my world is shattered…where a grim smile once sat, a horrid frown takes over and contorts my visage.

now i’m sure you all have horribly busy lives…we live in a fast-paced world where we can’t even patiently wait two minutes for food to microwave. you just wasted about ten seconds of your life reading all that sad crap as opposed to the 0.74 seconds you’ll use to read this

i’m sad.

save yourself some time.

today was such a boring day. i accidentally left my copy of The Lexus and the Olive Tree” at home today so due to lack of reading material, i just spaced out during my free periods…really. i pulled out a blank sheet of paper during seventh hour and tried to come up with a storyboard for a mini movie/commercial that i’m planning, but i ended up just staring at the paper with my arms folded. i think i’m nearing the bottom of the barrel…i’m slowly dumbing down and becoming a hollow shell of a person. but enough about that… some guy just came into the store and pulled a couple hundred dollars worth of cards…crazy! this one card he pulled was some guy named “David Tom” (or something that sounds like that) and EVERY TIME he says “David Tom”, i think he’s saying “David Tao”. it’s driving me nuts! oh yeah…just for the record, if i ever get a male cat…i’m naming him “Fei Dzai.”

i met up with Kevin to “jam.” good times. it was a lot of fun and then afterwards a bunch of us got together and watched Snatch. pretty good movie, i must say. very witty. (i especially like the part where a bound ‘Boris the Blade’ gets hit by a car). anyway, when i went home to pick up my guitar, the phone rang. i picked up and this random conversation ensued:

ivan: hello?
Random Caller: hi! may i please speak to ivan? (pronounced “ee-von”)
ivan: you mean ivan? (pronounced the RIGHT way)
Random Caller: heh heh…oops, sorry.
ivan: this is ivan
Random Caller: hi ivan, my name is blah blah blah (i don’t remember her name). i used to go to The University
ivan: ok
Random Caller: do you have time? i’d like to ask you a few questions
ivan: uhmm…actually, i’m kinda busy. i’m just on my way out the door
Random Caller: oh okay, sorry. so tell me, have you considered coming to The University?
ivan: yeah…i DID send in my housing stuff
Random Caller: oh, okay! have a nice day
ivan: *click*

UIC is so weird.

well, coffeehouse was pretty good…the sound system was going nuts at times, but overall it worked out. yep…just wanted to add that.

i found this humorous little tidbit on the internet: apparently Kuzuhiko Nagata, CEO of Japanese tuner Top Secret, likes to rip down highways on tuned cars in the wee hours of the morn’ (who wouldn’t?!). having grown tired of Japanese highways, Mr. Nagata decides to visit the UK with his +1000hp Supra! (read the full story here). but that’s not all…he actually films the footage! (you can download it here) the video starts out with an overhead view of Nagata’s Top Secret Supra burning out on the deserted highway. and then BAM! it’s off…it roars by a few cars and then the camera. a few seconds later, you see a British police cruiser zoom after it with its lights blazing. oops.

CRAAAAAAAAAAP…BRONZE??? it was rigged and YOU know it! friggin’ bahk guais… >=(
a monkey with a gold medal is still a MONKEY

nothing too interesting has happened. i bombed a stats quiz today, but i don’t really care all that much. well, just finished decorating the old side of CCMC for coffeehouse. we got Christmas lights circling around the room….and that’s about it…yeaaaaaah. uh..anyways. ah crap…Michelle Kwan just fell in the long program (JIA YO MICHELLE! JIA YO!) but she still has a chance of winning the gold. heh heh…its not like i’m a diehard figure-skating fan (actually, i’m not that much of a fan at all) i just wanna see my fellow Chinese bring home a big, fat, shiny GOLD medal.

darn it…DGS apparently found out about my little firewall-bypassing mail-checking and found a way to seal off my usual portals (i log in through Taiwan’s yahoo site) and to seal off the mail site itself. ugh…stupid DGS with its stupid no-mail policy…