I'm in

So I just got word back from the UH Hilo College of Pharmacy and I have been accepted into the school. WOOOHOOOO. I'll be starting this Fall '09 which means that I can officially start my life after Spring '13, but I'll still be under 30 so I'm ok with that.

Wish me luck

So I finally got my apps all finished for pharmacy school. I only applied to two schools, University of Washington and UH Hilo. I just heard back from Hilo and I have been invited for an interview for the school. I was actually pretty surprised at how fast they got back to me. PharmCAS sent out my application last Monday and Hilo reviewed the application and got back to me by Friday. Honestly, Hilo is my first choice for a number of reasons, so I'm pretty excited about the interview. My interview is either going to be Jan 20, 21, or 22 so I'll be in Hilo around that time. I know that they offer interviews on Oahu, but I figured that I could go and check out the area once more and visit my family in Hilo. I'm just relieved that the application process is pretty much over and that it's now out of my hands. Hopefully I'll have more good news in about a month.

I hate being ripped off

So I was checking across my usual blogs that I read everyday, Lifehacker and Consumerist, and they had this interesting article. Now it has been a while since they posted a story about that company, but it reminded me about why I will never, ever, ever buy anything from them. Just reading about it just gets me so frustrated, so writing about them is kind of helping me to vent out. I just really don't understand how this is even able to proceed to court. Obviously something is wrong with the justice system and copyright infringement laws. I mean who the hell in their right mind cannot REASONABLY differentiate between AV cables and mini-golf.

One thing that did put a smile on my face was this article. I'm glad that someone was able to stand up to that ridiculous company. It is just absurd in my mind how it works. And their products are ridiculously marked up, upwards of 1000% sometimes. So please please please do not purchase anything made by them. There really is no reason, unless you got it for free somehow, in which case I would just not use it. And if you really need cables, I would say purchase them from monoprice, an amazing site that sells pretty much any kind of cable that you need, and more. Plus shipping to Hawaii is actually pretty decently priced.

Made it on the site

So as you may know, I enjoy cooking and baking from time to time. I recently saw this and got inspired to try it out myself. I give all credit for this idea to the guy from the other site, but he was missing the ghosts after pac-man devours a power pellet. I am also a member for allrecipes which is a great site to get recipes. I have the link in my sites that I frequently visit pane to the right and you should check it out when you have the chance. Well at the site, you can submit pictures of recipes that you have tried so I submitted the following picture and it got voted as a favorite to be shown on the main page for tomorrow (today). I have to say that I'm pretty proud of that since it's a pretty well known site.

Another thing is that the cookies didn't taste that bad either. I'm not a huge fan of sugar cookies, but these were alright...I'm sure the icing had a lot to do with it. I'm trying to come up with other video game ideas, maybe iconic powerups from other classic games.

True geek

Here's a super awesome video that any true geek could enjoy.

See more funny videos and funny pictures at CollegeHumor.

Halloween Night

So here are some pictures from Halloween night. We first started off in downtown at the Hallowbaloo block party and I gotta say that it was probably the best part of the night. It was a good crowd, we could drink on the street, ran into a few friends, and I got to be on the news (K5 news at 9). There was free entertainment and I really didn't have to do much walking around, which was really really great since I had to walk a little weird. I really hope that they have this block party again next year because I'll definitely go.

Wonderwoman, lego man, and cavegirl. Watch out Justice League.

They put my drinking wristband on the lego hand. Classic.

Once we left there, we headed down to Waikiki. As usual, there was a lot of traffic, and even more people. We headed down to a friends party near Kings village, and I swear to god it took us about an hour and a half to get there. I got stopped a lot for pictures and I really couldn't walk that fast. I really have to give props to my friends that I was with for dealing with that all night. I'm sure that it got really old. We hung out there for a while and then took our drunk friends away and headed back to the strip. We finished walking to the other end of the strip then called it a night. I was kinda relieved to get the costume off and walk normal for once in the night. My legs were sore for the next three days and I had a bad rope burn on my neck since it was holding up my legs. The things you do for Halloween. Oh well...it's still my favorite holiday and I can't wait for next year. I've already got my costume planned as well.

Finished Costume

So here is the finsihed lego man costume. I think that it turned out pretty well myself. And I can walk rather fine in it. And it really isn't that hot, but we'll see about that after I've been walking around for an hour. But I will be wearing a camel back filled with ice water to keep me hydrated. Unfortunately, I am unable to go to the bathroom in this costume so I'm gonna have to figure something out later on tonight. Will post more pictures from Downtown and Waikiki. Later.

Newer Pumpkins

So here is the pumpkin that I carved for my work. In case you can't tell what it is, it's our two presidential candidates for the upcoming election. I'm a little disappointed that the McCain part came out a little bit better than Obama, but that's just my perfectionism coming out. I think it might be because of the picture sources that I used...oh well...I'll just be happy if the majority of the residents who look at it can tell who they are. And trust me when I say that it looks much better in person. I'll be posting pictures of my finished costume tomorrow after I do some minor tweaks. And perhaps some day I will post a tutorial.

Pumpkins

So I usually like to carve at least one pumpkin every year for Halloween. But this year, I figured I would try something different and sculpt one instead. I'm pretty happy with how it came out considering that it was my first attempt. I'm really happy with how the teeth came out though...it does look pretty creppy when I open my fridge up after I've forgotten that that's where I've stored it. I also decided to do the pumpkin for my workplace to represent my department. I decided to go the usual route of a three tone pumpking. Since the residents are the ones judging them, I figured that I would do something political since the election is coming up. I'm putting Obama and McCain on the pumpking, that way it caters to residents in both parties. I'll post pictures of the finished product as soon as its done. I've also got some last minute adjustments to my lego costume so I'll be posting pictures of those as well.

Costume Update #2

So I finished painting the head:



It will look a little bit better once I put the screen in the mouth and put a nice clear glaze over it so it has that nice shiny, plastic look. And I know that this may be over doing it, but I may install a small fan inside of the helmet to get more air circulation. I figure if I'm gonna be wearing it all night, it might as well be as comfortable as possible. Next update: the legs and hopefully the finished product.