The Franco-Taiwanese Alliance

Hi!  My name is Eugene.  I like to play Hellgate lots - in fact so much that I have delegated the updating of my Blog to underpaid people living in a 5th world country.  I also like to say things like “Does water put out fire?!?!??!!” and I ignore my friends’ desperate pleas to replace their blinker fluid, even though I am a mechanic and could do such things in a Planck second.

These past few days, I have been going to Wyotech religiously, and even got a “Perfect Attendance” pin for it!  It looks SOOO COOL.  I am going to wear it on my shirt EVERY  DAY for the REST OF MY LIFE.   Today I finished the final for Wyotech in 21 minutes, because let’s face it, I am frickin’ smart (probably smarter than all of you, except for my girlfriend Alice, because she is smarter than basically anything, including me) and the only reason I am the 4th highest grade in the class and not the first is because I want to try and give other people a chance at being as awesome as me.  Haha. Fat Chance.

Okay, I am going to stop updating now because Alice is SUPER HUNGRY and I am going to happily cook her any meal she wants.  Also because we have to go back to San Jose tonight, and eat some of Alice’s parents delicious food.  Nom nom nom.

Tony posted something yesterday about having an ultimate goal in life, one that you try and bend every action and opportunity toward fulfilling.  I don’t have an ultimate goal in life.  I have about five hundred million smaller goals, many of which I may never accomplish, due to the laziness and ennui that I feel every day, but I don’t have an ultimate goal.  Hell, maybe that ennui is due to the fact that I don’t really have a main, unstoppable passion in life, something that I want to do above all else, and beyond all limits.

For the longest time, my ultimate goal in life was an emotional one, to find a significant other to share my life with.  After my first relationship, which ended tragically, I never wanted to feel either the ache of being alone or the pain of losing a significant other again.  Now, a bit over a decade later, it seems that I may have achieved that goal.  I won’t say that this is definitely it, but things are looking good for that prognosis, and I feel truly optimistic about it for the first time in my life.

But that means I’m left with no ultimate goal… and what’s more, since I have spent most of my life and energy focusing on that one goal, one that was especially ephemeral and not very conducive to actual life achievements, I have very little foundation upon which to build efforts toward further goals, ultimate or not.  Maybe that’s what this blog is ultimately about… my eternal and fractured search for something to head for in my life.  I no longer have the wild fancies of youth that I need to be astonishingly famous and fantastically rich (well, I’d still like to be fantastically rich, especially since the closest things I have to driving passions right now are cars and motorcycles, and they’re expensive), so I think that now my ultimate goal will just end up being some career(s) that I will actively enjoy existing in for the rest of my life.

It’s a good thing I figured out how to use the “more” function in WordPress, or every single danged one of you would be forced to read through my adventures as Sareth, apprentice of Phenrig, on my journey to recover ancient artifacts and uncover my destiny.  Oh, and those of you who haven’t played the game would be exposed to SPOILERS, TERRIBLE SPOILERS!!!  AGGHGHGHRRRGHLE– Read the rest of this entry »

God, my brain is fuzzed….  I can’t do it now, but this is my official self-reminder to start digging around in these PC hardware forums Ryan linked me to:

HardForum

XtremeSystems

Overclockers

AnandTech

And also, this list of Best Buy clearance games, effective 2/26.

Tony Chung is a good friend of mine from high school, and one talented cat. We made a little bit of music together back in school, and would probably have continued to do so if I had been better. He went on to do crazy things, including recording and releasing a Chinese album in Taiwan! I wish I had that kind of drive….

Anyway, he’s always spreading out into more and more venues for success, and his current one is a Lebron James commercial music contest. I don’t really know the details, but he needs support in the voting at the contest website. I’ve listened to what he submitted, and as usual, it’s completely awesome. If I’d known he could make hip-hop beats as well as completely rocking the piano and guitar, I would never have stopped rapping…. So let’s help him out a little bit, and check out this video message from him about the contest details!