Showing posts with label 2014. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 2014. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

First of Everything

This had always been somewhere in my head, but then it just never came to me this strong until now. My just recently became ex versus my just recently became my current really did get me thinking. Let's just call my recently became ex Jake and recently became current Liam for clarification purposes. 
Jake had been the boyfriend I dated the longest, and because by first never really rose any expectation besides the fact that he’d do nearly anything for me. And thus, making me compare to him often when Jake does selfish things or be as stubborn as he is. Meanwhile Liam, although never been in a relationship, had always been a nice guy in a sense. Liam doesn’t know how to treat girls, especially girlfriends. He also doesn’t have the boundaries one should have especially when it comes to commitments and such.
Liam, have made countless mistakes during the past few months that it stresses me. Causes me to question whether or not it was a good idea to start it with him in the first place. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I like him a lot, but just seeing how he can’t really treat girls right, and when I mean girls I meant me just pisses me off.
Then I look at my most current crush whom I give up on. Let’s call him Ed for now. It wasn’t his look that got me into Ed in the first place, because when I first met him, I didn’t have these feelings I had recently. It was the prolonged time spending together that got me liking him more and more. And of course, slowly, falling for him and his personality. It’s funny, because I think he is the first person I fell for the personality first, he is also one of the longest crush I have had that showed some sort of interest in me and was willing to pay for everything during our first “hangout”.
To talk about this, we have to rewind back to the date we had, or the “hangout”, or so we call it that. It felt a bit like a date because he paid for the tickets and offered to buy me food in the theater. Even after I refuse, he purchases a giant water bottle for me, which probably costed around $3 dollars because the total came out to be $17 or so dollars when the only thing he bought were a plastic square bag of M&Ms that market value probably costed $2-$2.50 max, a box of sour patch you’d see in the 99 cent store, and two large water bottle, those good quality ones too, that is probably marketed $2 dollars but all charged probably double or triple the price. During the movie,  I got to admit there were many awkward moments, and by the ending, there were millisecond moments where we could’ve probably kissed, but I held back because I never really been on a date date like that before. Not to sound stupid, but I didn’t know what to do, especially in situations like that. The night ended with a goodbye, when we arrived at my house, I got out only to see his disappointed face when I opened the door, “oh we’re not staying in the car? That’s fine” but of course who knew if he was serious about that or not.
But when I saw him taking off, in my stomach, something just doesn’t sit right. In my head, I knew this was it, and if anything were to happen it had to be today because I would probably not hangout with him ever again after this due to the fact that school is starting on one hand, and he works on most days that I am free. And with his raincheck rate, it usually takes forever to schedule a hangout with him in the first place.
So after countless moments of thinking, I decided to dial his number, and closed my eyes, hoping I don’t mess it up. When he picked up the phone, my heart raced to the top of my skull as I can feel the blood of nervousness just pumping through telling me all sort of thoughts and sanrio of how this all could’ve gone.
I told him from one of the classic out of the book for an underage ish type of people. Typical reason, “I left my keys in my house, and my parents aren’t home, I am locked out of my house”
His first response was “oh shit,” and second was, “let me get off of the nearest exit and go back.”

Without second question or doubt, and that’s the type of people I like. Gentlemen and just considerate. Especially with those kind of things, I mean a lot of douche bags would just be like, oh locked out? Sucks for you, too bad. But Ed actually comes back to you. And I am quite grateful for that. Which is why after the first date, it made me want to ask him to a second although knowing it’s a bit impossible.
Why is he driving me crazy. I hate love.

Saturday, February 8, 2014

Good bye floppy birds for good ? (Being taking down February 9th, 2014)

Have you heard of the newest rising star in the apple store recently? If not, look around, even in the play store, it's a pretty hot game. Made it to the number one list within days, and the game doesn't have much to it besides tapping on the screen making sure the bird flies in between the pipes. Yup, it's floppy birds. 
As of now, many of the games that's along the same branch are also on the top ten, which includes ironpants, super ball juggling, 

shuriken block, and a copy verison of floppy bird called flappy planes by some other Asian. It's scary how it's all dominating the top list chart when all they do, and the whole purpose of the game is to tap for each and every one of them. I never understood, even up to now, why all my friends are addicted to it. And heck, were in the same generations too. This game isn't just popular for teens but from kids to adult as well. Each trying their best to beat their friends score, or to test the impossible. 

To be honest, my highest score was 4, so there, laugh all you want. 
However, the jokes may be on you now. So, according to the Vietnamese creator of this game, Nguyen Ha Dong, he declared that he is going to take the game "floppy bird" down 22 hours from then (when he posted), although the reasons are still a bit of unsure, all we know as of now is that he said he is taking it down for personal purpose even though he earns about $50,000 from advertisements alone a day. How crazy is that? 
(His tweeter is @dongatory , so if anyone wanna protest, there you have it.

So according to buzzfeed:

Nguyen Ha Dong, the indie game developer who created overnight

 hit Flappy Bird, just tweeted that he is planning on taking the game down tomorrow.

I am sorry 'Flappy Bird' users, 22 hours from now, I will take 'Flappy Bird' down. I cannot take this anymore.

Although some people have accused Dong of ripping off other games, he said the decision was not because of a legal drama.

It is not anything related to legal issues. I just cannot keep it anymore.

The 29-year-old from Hanoi, Vietnam created the game last May, but it surged in popularity early this year.The Verge reported it earns $50,000 a day in ad revenue.

I also don't sell 'Flappy Bird', please don't ask.

A few hours before, Dong tweeted that the game has ruined his life.

I can call 'Flappy Bird' is a success of mine. But it also ruins my simple life. So now I hate it.

He’s also recently expressed frustration at all the attention garnered from the game’s popularity.

Press people are overrating the success of my games. It is something I never want. Please give me peace.

Despite the seemingly imminent shut down, Flappy Bird seems to have recently gone under renovation.

Erin Chack / BuzzFeed
Adam Davis / BuzzFeed

Pipes look more polished, the background oscillates between night and day, and Flappy Bird changes from red, blue, or yellow

In the meantime, devoted fans have begun tweeting #SaveFlappyBird.

RT TO KEEP FLAPPY BIRD ALIVE! IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS FLAPPY BIRD WILL BE TAKEN OFF THE APP STORE!#SAVEFLAPPYBIRD



Friday, February 7, 2014

Starbucks Star Dash Event ; now thru February 11

I'm pretty sure everyone here's heard of the Starbucks gold card, which many of us tends to dash for. Haha, see what I did there? Just kidding. However, from the end of January till February 11th, Tuesday, Starbucks are doing a star dash event where if you get 4 stars, you will get a bonus of 10 stars, and of you earned 7 stars, you get the bonus of 20 stars. And this is by far one of the most amazing event in comparison to other kind of event they had, like the holiday star dash where 7 stars only gets you $5 dollar and 10 stars get you $10 dollars, which doesn't really profit. I mean yeah I guess, since there's free money involved, but still, in comparison to today's event, it's way out of it's league. 

Sadly, I didn't know about the star dash until a week ago. Thus, I had to literally buy a coffee everyday in order to finish it before February 11th (because I don't really drink coffee on weekends). 
But as the work of my action. As of now, I have six stars. Literally just one more star to go to get 26 stars!(:
So I'll probably buy myself a coffee next Monday and get myself some 20 bonus stars! Haha (: 
Yay green card! And no, not the visa green card. 
Did I mention I received a green badge as well?(: ehehehe


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Don't believe me? Bam!
Lol crazy stuff. But all of you views should definitely join this team of the star dash. Just keep asking people if they want Starbucks, and if they do, tell them you'll get it for them and have them pay you back. After all you're not going to drink that much coffee. ( ´_ゝ`) too much caffeine is totally bad for you.