For all you techys out there

If you're not a techy, you are still welcome to read because most people who know me know that I'm not a computer genius, in fact, the total opposite. I'm quite horrible with computers. I only know how to turn it on/off and use the things I need to use but i still understood it. It's just a little story that I read early and thought that i was quite cool so i stole it! >=) Enjoy.

Tech Support: Hello … how can I help you?

Customer: Well, after much consideration, I’ve decided to install
Love. Can you guide me through the process?

Tech Support: Yes. I can help you. Are you ready to proceed?

Customer: Well, I’m not very technical, but I think I’m ready. What do I do first?

Tech Support: The first step is to open your Heart. Have you
located your Heart?

Customer: Yes, but there are several other programs running now.
Is it okay to install Love while they are running?

Tech Support: What programs are running ?

Customer: Let’s see, I have Past Hurt, Low Self-Esteem, Grudge
and Resentment running right now.

Tech Support: No problem, Love will gradually erase Past Hurt
from your current operating system. It may remain in your permanent
memory but it will no longer disrupt other programs. Love will
eventually override Low Self-Esteem with a module of its own called High
Self-Esteem. However, you have to completely turn off Grudge and
Resentment. Those programs prevent Love from being properly installed.
Can you turn those off ?

Customer: I don’t know how to turn them off. Can you tell me how?

Tech Support: With pleasure. Go to your start menu and invoke
Forgiveness. Do this as many times as necessary until Grudge and
Resentment have been completely erased.

Customer: Okay, done! Love has started installing itself. Is that
normal?

Tech Support: Yes, but remember that you have only the base
program. You need to begin connecting to other Hearts in order to get
the upgrades.

Customer: Oops! I have an error message already. It says, “Error
- Program not run on external components.” What should I do?

Tech Support: Don’t worry. It means that the Love program is set
up to run on Internal Hearts, but has not yet been run on your Heart. In
non-technical terms, it simply means you have to Love yourself before
you can Love others.

Customer: So, what should I do?

Tech Support: Pull down Self-Acceptance; then click on the
following files: Forgive-Self; Realize Your Worth; and Acknowledge your
Limitations.

Customer: Okay, done.

Tech Support: Now, copy them to the “My Heart” directory. The
system will overwrite any conflicting files and begin patching faulty
programming. Also, you need to delete Verbose Self-Criticism from all
directories and empty your Recycle Bin to make sure it is completely
gone and never comes back.

Customer: Got it. Hey! My heart is filling up with new files.
Smile is playing on my monitor and Peace and Contentment are copying
themselves all over My Heart. Is this normal?

Tech Support: Sometimes. For others it takes awhile, but
eventually everything gets it at the proper time. So Love is installed
and running. One more thing before we hang up. Love is Freeware. Be sure
to give it and its various modules to everyone you meet. They will in
turn share it with others and return some cool modules back to you.

Customer: Thank you, God.

So we did a murder mystery thing tonight for Titus and it was pretty fun but also pretty confusing at the same time haha. I was the "bohemian poet", Donovan Jones, however, my secret identity is MR. X! dun dun dun! Yes, i was the "criminal mastermind" who is trying to buy secret nuclear plans from Ashley Bunsen (Andrew hahaha) at an auction that was happening in Casino Fatale. It's kind of complicated but basically i have 3 people who work for me secretly (or so i thought! traitors!) Ralph Anderson (Kim) who was the bartender who secretly was my henchstress? henchwoman? Anyway, i think she wasn't 100% on my side but i guess she was loyal on most parts. Pat Bullit (Johnny) was my right hand man who is my loyal bodyguard who was the only one who stood by me haha. And there was Countess Alice de ville (Joann) aka TRAITOR! So apparently I helped her kill her husband because he was cheating on her and that's why she works for me. Also, i helped her get rich because she signed a pre-nup and would've gotten nothing if she got a divorce. Because of this, I can make her do anything I want her to apparently, but she's afraid that I might leak this information out so she ratted me out to Matt Bond (Tim) whom she was suppose to flirt with in order for him to get off my tail. He's kind of self explanatory haha, British secret service, trying to outbid me for the nuclear plans. So, actually the night was pretty tame as no one was killed and nothing really happened so i was glad cause i think i did a pretty good job of staying undercover until suddenly Eva Goodbody (Karen) comes up to me and says she wants to kill me! The rule with killing is that you can only kill if you have a weapon (knife or gun) and you have to play rock,paper, scissors and see who wins. If the killer wins, the victim is dead. If the killer loses, nothing happens. If you die, you are out of the game for 10 minutes. So back to the story, so of course i didn't want to die so i kind of stalled for time by asking the host (May) questions and stuff just so i could get out of it haha. But the inevitable happened. I died :( and was mobbed, literally mobbed because people can steal the dead person's belongings. I was just trying to grab my identity + secret card and my abilities becuase no one is suppose to seem them but of course Karen attacked me. My envelope was torn apart lol my phone and money fell all over the floor. In the midst of the chaos and the attack, Sam Riley (Ronald) managed to save me without anyone knowing because he had the first aid kit. It was quite funny actually haha. (By the way, mid-game, he gave up and started telling everyone everything he know about everyone else and he actually helped me a lot haha. I was actually going to threaten him to tell me stuff because I found out that he actually stole money from the Casino.) So apparently on my way down to the ground when i was dying, i kicked karen and she called me mean. haha ==" She KILLED me for crying out loud, see the irony! Anyway, she found out Ronald had the first aid kit so killed him and then killed me again. This time actually killed me and stole everything from me. VIOLENTLY; ripping, tearing, whining, screaming, stealing, while everyone else was trying to mob me again. And so the game ended there. Sad, but hey, i was the bad guy haha. All in all, the game was pretty fun, but quite confusing at first, but it got better and better as people were getting more and more into it. Anyway, here were my goals as Donovan Jones.

1. Hot property: get the plans for the nuclear weapon out of Ashley Bunsen; you have placs for these plans.

success: after much hard work. Actually, i got Ralph Anderson (kim) to help me do it haha :P

2.Incognito: Keep away from Matt bond;your secret identity is your most prized possession

major success: cause i didn't say a word to him lol. just got my minion to distract him haha

3. Money to burn: You need any information you can get that might help you leverage a purchase of the casino.

success: i did get information but i just didn't get the casino lol

4. A thorn in your side: Talk to Pat and Ralph, find out if the threats from Melissa Havelott are real and if so, do whatever you need to do t o protect yourself.

success: I found out who Melissa was almost right away haha (hilda)

5. More money to burn: you have plenty of spare cash, make sure some goes to charity by bidding at the auction, and try to win at least one lot.

failed: there were only 2 things out of the many that were being auctioned because after the 2nd one, the pendent was found missing so they stopped it. The first item was a drink with Countess Alice de Ville which i wasn't interested in because she's part of my little minion lol. The 2nd item was my skills as a poet, so i would write a poem to the highest bidder so obviously i couldn't bid for my own thing. lol. If you guys want to know what the poem was here it is, kinda stupid but i was bored at work so i started thinking about the game.

I hate my Job,
Everyone around is a fob.
Today's my last day,
Hip hip Horray!

Anyway, this was my little regurgitation of the night. This is only the story from Donovan Jones' point of view though also, there are subplots that involve many other characters. I wouldn't call it an intense game but it was actually really cool and fun. By the way, correct me if i'm wrong because i can't remember every little thing that happened. Also feel free to add on. Thanks for organizing again May!

Ugh! I thought my allergies would go away or at least get better after last Wednesday's rain. Usually that's how it works for me but apparently my body likes to disagree with me.When I wake up every morning, i can feel my eyes swollen, swollen to the point where it kind of hurts! It's kind of REALLY GROSS! not to mention the plugged and itchy nose. Anyway, today will be a good day because i WILL get lots of studying done! I WILL be good and study my butt off so i can be free on monday to visit the minnesotans =D AND paint my paddle! And of course, MURDER MYSTERY TONIGHT! I shall now get started.

I just found out that my midterm is next Tuesday instead of Thursday! OMG i think i need to start studying now!....except it`s 12 already! I`ll wake up early and start i guess. However, this means i need to sleep now. Yes, RIGHT NOW! so goodnight.

I've been meaning to blog for the past couple of days but never really got the chance to. It's kind of late right now so I will keep it short. I just downloaded the first 2 Narnia movies because i was listening to the cd for the first movie, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and I just couldn't stop because it was just soooooo good. Musically, some of the songs are quite catchy (not to mention the CD was put together by some kickass Christian bands/singers) and lyrically, it just blows you away. Usually, when i listen to music, lyrics aren't the first thing that I notice, it's usually the general melody or the arrangment of the song. So when I listened to the CD for the 2nd, 3rd, 4rth time, I got more and more of it and WOW. As you can probably tell, I'm not very good with words cause i probably used/will use the word "wow" a million times throughout but oh well. I just think that it was ingenious of C.S. Lewis to write fantasy books that have biblical teaching embedded in them. It's kind of werid but cool at the same time how he portrayed the gospel in a fantasy kind of way, making it in a sense more believable for your average non-christian. The movies simply just blew my mind! While I was watching them I was just thinking wow, C.S. Lewis is a freaking genius. I have never actually read any of the books except The Silver Chair which is the 4rth one out of the 6 chronologically. I remember I read it in Gr. 5 which seems like a million years ago. At that time, I didn't even know that C.S. Lewis was a Christian. In fact, I had no idea that he was a famous author. I thought he was just some guy who wrote a few books. When i read The Silver Chair, I read it as just some story book becauase obvsiuoly you don't really analyze a book when your doing a book report for a grade 5 class. Not to mention I was still in ESL back then. But after watching the movie, I have this weird urge to read the the entire series haha. I actually really like fantasy books/movies or whatever so I know I will enjoy it. If you look at one of the older posts, you'll see that one of my goals for this summer is to get into the habbit of reading and read at least 5 books. I guess this will help me more than fulfill that goal. But I still have to finish Dancing with a Ghost. By the way, the Narnia movies are now officially one of my favourite movies. Probably until i read the book and see how much of it is missed out/changed and what not. haha

I guess I'll dedicate this little post to explaining my name "It's not always sunshine." So my mom was talking to me and telling me about how she was having a casual conversation with someone and for some reason I was brought up. This peculiar man, for some odd reason thought that I was a super keener at school who does super well. He had this absurd idea of me being a perfect student, child, christian...well...a perfect person. Honestly, what the heck.....I am no where close to being the good kid that he imagines me to be. After my mom told me about this, i was just thinking, well, this seems kind of like how a lot of people think I'm just always happy and smiley. I just can't understand why people think that way. I mean, I am, for the most part a happy and optimistic person i guess, but is anyone always 100% happy? It may sound ridiculous, but i'm human too, and I have and feel other emotions lol. So that explains the name :) It's not emo, it's just the truth.

UGH. I never would have thought that blogging would be so difficult! I feel so stupid trying to figure this thing out. On the other hand, while reading up about it, I feel like a geek. Anyways, I finally met up with a bunch of high school friends for lunch today at well tea. I was quite excited about this because I haven't seen them all in a long time (some since the end of first term, and some since Christmas!). The weird thing about it is that it felt kind of awkward, I'm not sure why exactly....I'm thinking it's because I've lost touch with them, but they're still in touch with each other which is kind of sad (I think we should go out more if you guys are reading this :)).

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So I've been really bored lately and am doing the usual, aka procrastinating so i picked up guitar-ing and now my fingers are disgusting lol. I can't help but play with it cause I'm so bored at home haha. Plus, it was one of my goals for the summer to learn the guitar so I can't really just give it up.

Talking about goals for the summer, here are the rest of them. (It's not the to do list, just a few goals)
- finish dancing with a ghost lol
- hopefully find and read at least 5 more books (most of you know reading isn't a big hobby of mine but i'm trying!)
- not lose contact with some of the people i haven't seen in a long time
- pass my summer school course with at least a "B" (my inner asian is telling me to go for the "A" though)
- stay in tune with the news and not tune out the world
- and find a freaking job!

Anyway, back to editing the blog.

It's been a long time since i actually read the news or even cared about whats happening around the world. I'm not one of those people who enjoy reading, especially the newspaper. The only newspaper that i "read" is the 24hrs, and that's only if i'm still conscious and bored on the bus. I'd much rather enjoy myself lying on the couch, watching tv. But for some odd reason, I felt compelled to go and read the news today. And guess what i saw? A child from New Hazelton by the name of Jor-el Macnamara was murdered? Details aren't clear because it's still under investigation, but the police suspect it was a homocide. However, the child's face was found all bruised and battered up. It's heartbreaking to see any death and especially the death of a toddler simply because they have so much ahead of them.

Honesstly, not until the recent mission trip up north did I ever hear about this little town and all the communities surrounding it. It's so sad to hear about this becuase this town was once the most lively First nations reserves. Now, no offense, but it's just a big mess. I don't know what it is, but there are major issues going on in New Hazelton and in the areas around it. There's so much pain, anger and hatred and it's only leading the communities into a viscious circle of empending doom.

There's lots more to say, but i'm tried. goodnite

I don't understand why I always stay up so late. It just doesn't make any sense to me. It's not like i don't get tired. It's not like I don't know that it's bad for me. It's not like I don't know it'll screw up my daily routines. Then why? Why do I, in fact, why do people in general like to stay up late and do absolutely nothing? It kind of bugs me. Anyways, going to sleep now, nites.