stuff from business class

Keys to Successful Management:

1. Do good work
2. Present the right image
3. Learn the power structure
4. Gain control of organizational resources/upgrade your skills
5. Be computer literate
6. Stay visible
7. Stay mobile
8. Support your boss
9. Find a mentor

- From Gagliardi's class

summers over

So there ends this summer vacation. It's still the best freaking summer I've had thus far in my life, and possibly the best one I'll ever have (since there is no such thing as summer vacation once school life is over). I haven't gotten a chance to do some of the things I wanted to do because I got hooked onto a new game (actually DotA standalone remake) called Heroes Of Newerth. It's in BETA and I can't stop playing it. I hope school will get me off that game soon.

Some good jokes:

My wife and I were watching Who Wants To Be A Millionaire while we were in bed. I turned to her and said, "Do you want to have sex?" "No," she answered. I then said, "Is that your final answer?" She didn't even look at me this time, simply saying "Yes." So I said, "Then I'd like to phone a friend."

A woman was standing nude, looking in the bedroom mirror. She was not happy with what she saw and said to her husband, 'I feel horrible; I look old, fat and ugly. I really need you to pay me acompliment.' The husband replies, 'Your eyesight's damn near perfect.'

When I got home last night, my wife demanded that I take her some place expensive... so, I took her to a gas station. And that's when the fight started.

My wife was hinting about what she wanted for our upcoming anniversary. She said, 'I want something shiny that goes from 0 to 200 in about 3 seconds.' I bought her a scale.

Bike Day

Today I went to Kings Plaza with Ricky, Lanson and David Yan to check out stores. I bought a new pair of sneakers (about time). I’m always very hesitant on buying sneakers (or anything else for that matter) because I’m afraid of disliking the product once I use it—hence a waste of money.

Afterwards, we went back to Lanson’s house and picked up bikes. After a long seven year retirement from biking, I've picked up the trade once again. I learned how to ride a bike during my elementary school years. Ever since my dad threw out the old bike (that he found on the streets mind you), I haven’t rode one since. Ricky brought his bike all the way from Canarsie. David Yan had his own bike. I was the only guy without a bike so I wanted to borrow Lanson’s. However, his bike was a lot bigger than I thought and since I was a newb once again, I was intimidated by the height of the bike. In the end I ended up riding Ricky’s bike because it was shorter. For the very first time today I rode on the streets. My parents never allowed me to ride a bike in the USA because the roads are made for cars, not bikes. It is fairly dangerous to ride side by side on the streets where the cars are. I feared for my life as I rode to Marine Park. Cars whizzed by behind us and my adrenaline pumped when the cars were making a turn in front of us.

After we got to Marine Park it was smooth sailing. I biked around the Marine Park bike lane for ten laps. One lap was about 0.81 miles so I biked 8 miles today, plus some extra distance from and to Lanson’s house. My crotch area started to hurt like crazy when after the third lap but I kept going. Ricky’s bike isn’t as good as Lanson’s because it only has one gear and it was way smaller in comparison. I had to pedal much more before I can shorten the distance between us and even when I went full speed, I couldn’t catch up to Lanson when he was at full speed. Today I learned something new about bikes.

The main reason why I wanted to bike in the first place was because Liz inspired me to go biking. Liz, Eric, Lanson and his bike gang biked from Brooklyn all the way to Manhattan sometime last week. Liz described it as “a life changing experience.” Although as much as I would like to do something exciting like biking all the way to Manhattan, I don’t think I am capable of doing so.I’m still afraid of getting hit by a car on the street because I’m still quite rusty.

A load of bad traits

I have a lot of personality traits that are undesirable. I want to change, but I'm afraid it might already be too late. I wish I can be a nicer person, but can't. Too many years of cynicism and stuff.

I wanted to post how I felt about Walgreens on here, but I decided not to.

Adding To Do list

Okay I plan on doing a parody music video with me "singing" a song. Stay tuned.

This summer in a nutshell

Monday - God damn it's work again
Tuesday - More work ugh
Wednesday - The most boring day of the week
Thursday - Good grief it's truck day... (too much work)
Friday - Truck day part II, the week is over!
Saturday - Central Park for hardcore volleyball
Sunday - Rest at home / bored

Now that work is FINALLY over, I guess I can attempt to accomplish some of my goals for the summer.

1. work on memoir
2. draw some new stuff with the mouse
3. upgrade
4. improve

Dead Fantasy

Dead Fantasy I came out a while ago back in 2007. When I first saw it on Gametrailers.com, I was amazed. I thought the trailer was for an upcoming game. To my letdown, I found out it was only a fan made movie (but a very well made one at that). The graphics are very professional, for a user made CG movie. The fight scenes were incredible and well thought out. The models for each character was very fine and smooth. However, the DoA characters looked much more appealing than the FF ones. Yuna's eyes looked messed up. Tifa's face doesn't look like her. As for the plot, we don't know what's going on, there is no vocal dialog between them, just fight sounds and over the top music.



DF II came out in March 2008. A movie of such a high quality takes well over a year for them to create (Monty Oum's site). The second one is even more epic than the first one. The fight scenes do not disappoint. Some more characters are introduced.



But what's amazing is that not one, not two, but three parts of the saga was released this year! DF 3, 4 and 5 came out last month. The plot is coming together a bit now. In #3, Tifa gets beaten down by Hitomi. What's odd about the 3rd onwards is that the characters aren't godlike anymore (they were giving each other everything they got and didn't seem to slow them down at all). Each of the characters now show signs of fatigue, and more interestingly, blood. Before, they shot and cut each other but they just got right back up. Now, everyone gets beaten to a bloody pulp.

I'm looking forward to #6 and stuff. Too bad it will come out NEXT YEAR TT.

Oh and where to watch it? Here it is.

SPOILERS

Yuna arrives in the beginning and gets ambushed by Ayane and Kasumi. Yuna's about to lose the 2v1 fight when Rikku arrives to even out the fight. The fight seems quite even until Hitomi arrives and kick the crap out of Yuna/Rikku. In the end of DF1, Tifa shows up and saves them.

In DFII, also the most epic one yet, they continue to fight nonstop. The fight scenes are really incredible. Tifa casts many spells from her materia, such as fire, ice, lighning, demi, haste, time, etc. Of course, the 3v3 doesnt last all that long, and another DoA character arrives (I don't know her name). When the 3v4 situation goes in the favor of DoA, FF gains two more allies, Rinoa and Kairi. Rinoa looked like an angel, she held the gunblade and a pair of wings. Kairi held the dual keyblade and smashed face. Towards the end, Rinoa splits them all up, making the 5v4 into a five 1v1 fights.

DFIII - Tifa vs Hitomi. Sadly, Tifa loses. Although the fight started out even, and Hitomi was poisoned, towards the end Tifa lost all of her materia and ended up losing the fight. In the end of the scene, they show Helena activating a bunch of Kasumi clones. This part confused me.

DFIV - Yuna vs Kasumi. Yuna fights Kasumi head on until a bunch of Kasumi clones appear. Yuna changes into summoning mode and calls on Shiva, Ifrit, Bahamut, and Unicorn. However, the overwhelming amount of clones mops the floor with the summons. When Yuna is just about to get slashed up, Cloud appears and saves her. They ride away together.

DFV - Tifa's story continues. Just when Tifa's knocked out of the house, a bunch of ninjas come after her. They chase her and pin her down. She puts up a good fight, killing about 30 ninjas or so. However, she gets brutally wounded and in the end, they take her away using a hellicopter.

B Express slapped in the face

B trains going down under

Well the MTA continues to screw over the city. This time, the B train will no longer make express stops--at least for two years. Commuting times are expected to go up by at least seven minutes. the B train will make local stops, but running on the express track at AVE M, J, H, Cortelyou Road, Beverly Road and Parkside Ave. What does this all mean!?!? It means the MTA sucks ass. B trains will be slower than the Q train and overcrowding is going to get worse. And it's going to take them two years to fix up a couple of stations. On the weekends, no trains will stop at Ave M/J/H at all.

House of the Dead: OverkiLL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MKUSSFzRZGY

Oh god I ran through the entire game last night at my cousin's house. Holy shit this is the funniest game I've ever seen XD.

Guinness World Record: Setting a record in this brand new category, the title recognizes The House of the Dead: OVERKILL as the most profane video game in history.

This game is your typical arcade shooting game, except on the Wii. The gameplay is quite dull and you don't do too much but shoot. I played the entire thing for the story line and it was worth it. The main characters were hilarious and good god, I swear, half the dialogue consists of fuck, shit, bitch, mother, etc. The jokes are vulgar but that is what makes it funny.

Anyway in the video above shows basically what the game is all about--nonstop cursing by Detective Washington (he's modeled after Samuel L. Jackson).

I would not recommend getting the game, just watch the storyline on YT and call it a day.

Also, it should be rated like M or something because of all the profanity lawl. Edit - it is rated M, lolcat.

Rats with Wings

Look at that fatty over here. Today I will talk about the lovable pigeon. Pigeons are often dubbed "rats with wings". The other day when I saw a couple of pigeons flying on the subway tracks, it got me wondering--why don't we ever see small pigeons? Do pigeons just magically grow up to be big and fat? I have never seen a baby pigeon in my life.

Another thing, don't pigeons make mistakes? People make mistakes, they get into car accidents and other injuries. How come we don't see pigeons getting injured like flying into a wall or getting run over?

It's funny how the mind can wander.