gloominess kills

not that i like sun, either. i'd prefer gloomy weather over sunny anytime, but driving with gloomy weather puts me to sleep. simply because it's an extremely comfortable weather to sleep in.

z.

out to get some dimsum with parents and sister, only to find that the dimsum places are all packed with about twenty people in line. so we gave up dimsum and had pho instead. not bad, only i had too much hoysin and now i feel like throwing up. blarh.

just checked soccernet. apparently czech came back from a two-goal deficit to defeat netherlands 3-2. poor dutch. i was rooting for them, too. =/ i feel bad for ruud. he's such a good player, but the team overall sucked.

i lied about making an entry on kaku. i haven't gotten the time yet. still need to crop his pictures, which i haven't done since i was watching initial D and my sister was (again) hogging the phone line last night. speaking of initial D, have i ever said that sequels are never as good as the first one? well, the second stage of initial D was clearly not as good as the first stage, at least the first four episodes i've seen last night. takumi gets more ambitious and is more into racing than before, which defeats the purpose of his character as the i-don't-give-a-crap-but-i'm-hella-good guy. it seems like the second stage is done by another person, not the original mangaka. either that or the guy had a change of heart. because the first stage was clearly set based on the idea that underpowered car can defeat the powerful ones because power is not important; it's the skills that's important. and now in the second stage bunta wants to replace the engine with a powerful one. it seems to me that in the second stage, bunta wants takumi to go into the racing world by thinking about replacing hachiroku engine and talking about the importance of power. this is different from the first stage, where he seems to be uninterested in the racing world. he's a genius, skillful, but uninterested. well, ok, he IS interested, but his interest isn't shown openly like in the second stage.

enough about initial D. i'll watch more tonight and see how the rest of the second stage goes.

arlongpark has released chapter 326 raw. and captain panda has the summary.

i just checked my 120GB harddrive which has only 1.27GB free space left. i wonder how come i've used up that much. apparently, i have
~ 14.7GB of games installed
~ 13.4GB of games installers in form of CD images
~ 485MB of personal documents
~ 2.46GB of software installers
~ 7.37GB of pictures, including my manga
~ 66.9GB of video files, including divx movies and anime series.
and some other crap in many folders that i'm just too lazy to check.

i need blank cds.

on a side note, if you're going somewhere, ask the people you're going to whether they'd like to stop by a memorial park along the way. if they do, DO NOT WEAR A RED FLOWERY BEACH SHIRT like what i wore today. people in the funeral home will think either you're a disrespectful kook or an idiot when you walk in there with shorts, beach shirt, and sandals, asking where the bathroom is.