Stuff :)

Finally the Blogger uploader is working again and I can get back to uploading my pictures. :) The only problem is, it's slower than before. -__- Still think the old uploader was better. Anyways, here is today's Yellowstone post!

谷歌好像把 Blogger 上载系统修好了。所以我现在可以继续上载更多的照片了。:) 可是我还是觉得比旧的系统慢很多。-__- 觉得旧的还是比新的好。这是我今天放上去的文章。

I'm happy I finally kinda returned to school now. Mid-Peninsula High School is really light on homework. Loving it! I've got time to do things I like.

我就的我新的学校很好。没那么多功课。:) 我有时间做我想做的事了。

Thirdly, I started making the Yellowstone videos... After being delayed for weeks. I didn't know what was wrong with my computer, and I kept testing to see where it went wrong inside, because the computer kept rebooting on it's own. Well now I think I've fixed it. The power supply that came along with the computer probably couldn't keep up with the energy required to run the computer, so it kept shutting down because it went over its limit. Now that I've replaced the power supply with a slightly stronger one, working now. Haven't rebooted once on its own. LOL YAY! But now, the videos is a pain in the ass. -__- Due to the large amounts of pictures and videos, it is kind of hard for me to sort through and make them into separate videos. LOL

Oh yeah, one more thing. I think Facebook should use the old "Wall-to-Wall" button instead of the current "See Friendship" button. "See Friendship" sounds kind of gay. No offense Facebook. XD

Stupid global warming...

Right now, it is 90°F outside in Fremont, California. It is the month of October and I still need to use my air conditioner! What kind of weather is this. -__- This weather is so awkward! Isn't it almost winter now? Why is it this hot? It reached 100°F just a few days ago (I think)! I blame global warming. Sigh... Weird weather...

Fremont 的天气怎么这么怪呢！这已经差不多冬天了！外面现在是 90°F！几天前达到过 100°F！我都热死了！十月份还在开着空调吹着呢。。。-__-

Stupid Blogger...

My blog post is up right now, but still, I SPENT 2 DAYS TRYING TO UPLOAD! Yesterday, I can't blame Blogger, it was my fault. I started the upload in the morning before heading off to Gilroy for some clothes shopping. Well, when I got home "Sorry, you have used up all your storage space on Picasa", so I was like ok, tomorrow, I'll buy more storage space and continue posting. So today, I purchased 20 GB for $5 a year and I continued to upload. The photo uploader on Blogger kept leaving me hanging! I tried clearing my cache, updating my Java version and stuff. Didn't work, kept leaving me hanging there frozen... It uploaded slowly after countless retries, and right now, just finished posting up that blog post. Sigh. Stupid Blogger! Your old uploader did not give me these problems! Ever since the new uploader, I've been getting stupid upload problems like this. Why did you guys at Google have to update?

Dang, my past few days have been really suckish... My laptop's Ubuntu partition corrupted... I tried reinstalling, but it didn't seem to work, it just froze! Well it is a really old laptop BTW (not the one I use for my blogging and stuff). I just play with that old laptop. I don't have any important data on that computer... Oh well...

And you know what else? My stupid i7 quad-core is still rebooting randomly by itself! I can not make my Yellowstone videos! That has to be delayed too! My dad is like, I'll fix it, I'll fix it! Well, he didn't really fix it yet... He tried, but no... He failed...

Another thing... Having to deal with insurance company after crashing the car the other day. -__- My first car crash. No one got hurt though... Small dents and some chipped paint. That is all.

But please, if you didn't see my blog post yet, you have to! I got some really beautiful Yellowstone photos on there!

Got scared the shit out of me twice today. -__-

So I was driving... It was around 90-100 in the Bay Area... It was the afternoon and the sun was blinding... Reflecting off the road, I couldn't see really far... Didn't see the road curve, tried to adjust the A/C... Kept going straight, almost crashed. D: Luckily my mom was like, turn the steering wheel to the left! I was like what the hell! 2 second reaction... Slammed on the breaks (I got advanced breaking, so it doesn't matter) and I jerked the steering wheel after I felt the car slow down quite a bit. -__- On the bright side! There was no cars with-in 200 feet of me (after the sudden jerk on the steering wheel). XD

Well just today, the second time, traffic lights, I needed to make a right turn... It was yieled and my mom was like STOP! YOU NEED TO STOP! I was like WTF? Drove onto the sidewalk. -__- I was like, it was yield! Don't scream random directions at me! XD But I don't blame her, even though it was 10-20 minutes after I almost crashed, my heart was still racing. -__-

What a day! -__- Still things like this happen on the street all the time. Luckily no accidents right? :) Thank God! I really need to learn the voice commands for my car. That way, I wouldn't need to look down...

Pancakes and Parakeets

So, first off, pancakes. :) I made pancakes today for the first time in my life. They were amazingly good. :O Loved them. Except the first 2... They were completely black. XD Then the second 2 was oddly shaped and partially uncooked... Well the rest of them were good. I think I made around 10-15? Dinner went great. :) Here are a few pictures.

That's cinnamon and maple syrup you see. :)

Now onto my parakeet story... So the other day, I was giving my 2 parakeets (1 recently flew away. -__-) and my cockatiel... I usually do this once every 1-2 weeks. They enjoy it. LOL Especially the part when I dry them off with a not too hot hair dryer... Well anyways, I accidentally startled my blue parakeet (Blue) and she flew off and landed on my cockatiel (Lemon)'s back. XD He ended up giving her a piggy back ride (or birdie back ride). ROFL... Later Lemon got annoyed pecked her a few times... She wouldn't get off, so I had to remove her... Maybe her talons are to sharp? Well here are 2 pictures. :D (The green parakeet's name is Chirpy) Make sure you read the captions too. XD

Lemon's all like, WTF?!

Lemon: Do you see a way out of this?
Chirpy: Nope!
Lemon: -__-"

Deer Poop And The Model Buffalo

Now looking back at my Yellowstone pictures. Well before that, you know how photographers take several pictures consecutively just in case the first picture is bad? Well I think I took a picture of a deer pooping with the poop still half way in the air. XD Take a look. Look closely at behind the deer with the GPS collar, you'll see this blob of stuff. (You can click the photo to view the full size)

一般摄影师不会只拍一张照片，一般会排好几张。我现在在看我的黄石公园拍的照片。我好像拍到了一张鹿拉屎拉到一半的照片。哈哈！仔细看呢个带定位系统的鹿后面，你可以看见有一个东西。（点照片可以把它放大一点）

Now onto the story of how I almost walked into a bison. So there was bisons all around me... There was one in the middle of the sidewalk. It was lunch time, and I was kind of sleepy. It being a real bison didn't really occur to me. I was like, that model of a bison sure look life like... Then I got super close, maybe like less than 10 feet away. I was like, wait! something is wrong. Why is no one petting it and taking pictures with it? o_O Then I saw it turn its head towards me and grunted twice through its nose (probably a warning), and in my mind I was like WTF? IT WAS NOT A MODEL? I was about to turn around and run, but as any wilderness survival book would tell you, do not turn around and run at a time like that. A warning is not threatening, if you run, you may trigger the wildlife's killing instincts. You are suppose to back off slowly and don't show any signs of fear. Dude, that seriously scared the shit out of me!

对不起，我不会翻译中文。我会翻译的部分就是我差点撞了一个野牛。

This is the buffalo in the middle of the sidewalk.

This is the buffalo turning its head towards me and giving me a warning. -__-

Well please wait for my Yellowstone pictures on my photography blog soon. :)

Update 09/27/2010: First part of my Yellowstone pictures posted up! Check them out here!

This school is so awesome!

I went to the try out day at Mid-Pen today. THIS SCHOOL IS SO AWESOME! We got to play Halo during break and there's wifi on the whole campus! Also in Algebra 2, they gave HW that was due 4 days later that I could finish in less than 10 minutes! I think I'm gonna be going there from now on. :D 1 small problem though, no Asian people. :( Unlike MSJ, there is like no Asians there! It is kind of awkward...

I MISS MY PARAKEET :(

It's been a week since Courage flew away. My little green parakeet. I really miss him, but he never came back. :( I wish I can see him again. Really! He was my most favorite bird out of my 4 birds! If you see a green, thin looking parakeet with a red metal tag on one of it's legs somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area, it's probably mine. If you find it, please contact me here!

Last seen: Fremont, CA
Age: around 2 years old

IS THIS WHERE OUR TAXES IS GOING TO?

Are you serious? We pay our taxes so stupid police officers can fire their stupid tasers with out aiming when they are to lazy to run? Dang, dude, I think someone should fire a taser in this officers head just to teach him a lesson! An officers job is to protect people, not to seriously injure someone!

Stupid Google Voice...

Stupid Google Voice texted me twice on my phone. -__- How the hell should I know that I have to uncheck 2 options in 2 different sections in the settings page to cancel out text notifications? I mean, I already unchecked "Send SMS alerts to phone" on the main page. Shouldn't that take care of it?

Now there is going to be a 40 cent text charge on my phone bill this month....

A trip to Yellowstone

My trip to Yellowstone was really fun. :D Well Yellowstone, Grand Teton, Salt Lake City and what ever was on the way. Best 8 days of my life. :) I got around 8 hours of driving experience too. The only problem was my parents made me drive around the speed limit which was 75 MPH while the rest of the cars were driving at least 90 MPH! -__- I was like, look at how many cars passed me now! But they are like no, don't go over 80 MPH, we don't want anything to happen. But lucky for me, I still got to pass a few trucks. XD That was fun. Drove around 600 miles? I think. Well there was no cops on that road. It was all desert and no towns in like 70 miles. What would a cop be doing there? HAHA

Passed a few prisons (I know because I saw signs saying prison area, hitchhiking prohibited). Good place to put a prison, even if the prisoners escaped, they got no where to go. My mom was like extremely worried, kept pulling on my chair to check my speed, which got annoying, so later I didn't even put my head on the head rest, because she kept bouncing my head back and forth which was a really big distraction. My dad was reading stuff off of his iPad and didn't really pay attention. So yeah, helped drive a lot for him. LOL

Also lucky for me, escaped the heat wave at Fremont. :D It was all good. It was around 78°F during the day time and 48°F during the night time. Well night was pretty cold. :\ Good thing I had jackets.

The rest of my trip was good too, saw a lot of views inside Yellowstone and Grand Teton. First day, we lived at Wendover, NV. It was pretty much all driving, so we slept... The next day, we drove to Salt Lake City, visited the Mormon Church (really big church). Never knew Christian beliefs can be so different. Don't like the idea of a prophet though, I still think everyone is equal. No hierarchy system. Salt Lake was cool, but we didn't stay for too long, just took pictures and left. Then we went to Kennecott Copper Mine for a visit. It was cool, took pictures, and we were on our way to Yellowstone.

We got to West Yellowstone really late. Stayed at Three Bears Inn for 2 days. Later we lived in a cabin near Yellowstone Lake. It was good, had a shower and toilet. :D I was afraid there wasn't gonna be one... The views in Yellowstone was good. But it was quite different from when I went there 8 years ago. Some of the hot springs dried up and stuff. And when we went before, we soaked our foot in the hot springs which has no more water now. For Old Faithful, we were so lucky, that geyser shoots up once every hour, we parked got there. Waited 5 minutes and BAM! I video taped the whole thing. :) Wait for my video on my photography blog. I will be posting up the video and pictures from Yellowstone once I'm doing picking them out and touching them up.

We saw a lot of bison in the park. First I took a lot of pictures of the first one I saw. Later they just got plain annoying. We were driving, then we saw a bunch of cars moving slowly, I was like, oh come on, stupid traffic... Once the traffic cleared up a bit, we saw this herd of bison walking slowly on the road. I was like, THIS WAS THE CAUSE FOR THE TRAFFIC? Delayed us for one hour. So after that, when I saw bison, I was like, eh... They are everywhere, no need to take pictures, I got enough. LOL I also video taped part of it... Wait for my video on my photography blog. :D

So after Yellowstone, we went and toured Grand Teton for one day. We stayed at the Elk Refuge Inn in Jackson Hole. Apparently when the French settlers found the place, they called it "The Three Breasts" in French. Teton means Breasts in French. Which means, Grand Teton means Grand Breasts. Grand Breasts National Park. XD That sounds hilarious. And this also proves people back then had the same dirty mind as people now. LOL

So that pretty much sums up my vacation. We lived at Elko, NV for one night, and drove back to Fremont the next day.

Make sure to check out my photos on my photography blog once I post them up!

Update 09/27/2010: First part of my Yellowstone pictures posted up! Check them out here!

Here is photos I've uploaded to Facebook:

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6