02/10/2011

it has been quite a while since i've blogged due to exams and a whole lot of activities lately (my excuse for being lazy) ...

my dad's still sleeping so i was going to use my brother's computer to blog a bit. so i turned on his nice Windows 7 computer (compared to my sad Windows XP one - but i still like it better ohohoho) and waited (because he decided to install every program he sees and etc.)

and so i opened blogspot.com and weirdly it redirected me to blogger.com (it's weird cause i think jenmonster.blogger.com doesnt work but jenmonster.blogspot.com does. yet the logo thing says blogger. i'm so confused.) and then when it loaded it said redirecting ... and then BOOM IT SHOWED A PAGE.

why did i write that in capitals? CAUSE SOMEONE HAD ALREADY LOGGED IN LIKE MY BROTHER and guess what his username was?

JaceMonster. I KNOW RIGHT. sound familiar to you? yeah, maybe cause his name is Jason and my username is jenmonster? does he not know the difficulties to overcome in finding a username? (i seriously have no idea how to come up with one ... experience after having HanaKimiAddict as my crunchyroll account and stuff since year 6 haha) i also dont really suit cuty-pie-jennifer or something like cupcakessss. hence i had to go searching for those username-generators and i typed in my name and it gave me like a page long list of things. and i was like hm .. reading until JENMONSTER came up near the end and i was getting tired and i was just like FINE.

:) yeah. he's a copycat. i better hope he keeps himself signed on and checking to make sure he isnt following this blog :)

the screen that blew my socks off

omg i can hear my bro getting up so i better leave this page soon :)

22/08/2011

gonna be a short post.

well, my brother woke dad up to ask if he could pay for his Myuna Bay camp excursion thing.

so dad's like half asleep. and my brother goes can you pay? and dad's like for what? then jason's like Myuna.

then dad was like: 买烟啊?! (which sounds like: mai yeen a and means are you buying cigarettes)

and jason was like: MYUNA.

except i dont think jason realised what dad repeated. or maybe dad didnt even say that and actually said MYUNA with a weird accent and i was the one that thought he said 买烟啊. maybe.

07/08/2011

the ebay bid.

my brother had been waiting for it for the whole day ... glancing at the clock every so often. the yugioh card he was interested in would sell to its highest bidder a little past 9.

it was 9. we watched as the count down kept counting ... 5 minutes .... 4 minutes .......

me: why dont you bid?
jason: im gonna bid in the last 10 seconds so then no one has time to outbid me :D
me: but what if you actually have to fill in something afterwards? and then you run out of time?
jason: hmmmm yeah okay i'll bid now

turns out that after you press place bid you do actually have to confirm it and enter the value, etc. so we were lucky we tried it out once.

at this stage we had just put in a $1.75 bid. we kept waiting. 3 minutes .....

then, suddenly, someone placed a bid on top of us!!!!! at $2!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 2 more minutes to go ......

we were all hassled. dad and mum were crouching behind my brother, curious with what the commotion was about. i was kneeling beside my brother.

dad: someone outbid you!! quick, put in another one! $2.50, go $2.50!!!
me: OMG HURRY UP! OTHERWISE HE'LL GET IT! JUST SHOVE IN ANOTHER BID!
jason: OMG WHAT OKAY WHAT DO I BID? WAIT I CAN BID $2.25!

then he bid $2.25. for the next 1 and a half minutes nothing happened. in relative silence, all four of us were staring at the computer screen, waiting for something to flicker. i could sense my brother's excitement .... the card was his to keep! he had been long awaiting this card and needed it to make his deck stronger! almost there!

me: why dont you put $2.75 in the box. so if they really bid they're gonna go for $2.50 and we dont have to waste time typing out the next bid.
bro: yeah .... okay. that's a good idea.

then, with 10 seconds to go, i was the one who spotted the minor movement on the top corner of the window. the words 'you are the highest bidder', set onto a blue/green background had transformed into the words 'you have been outbid'

me (screaming): YOU'VE JUST BEEN OUTBID!! QUICK, PRESS BID! PRESS BID!
jason (presses bid): OMG WHY ISNT ANYTHING HAPPENING!!! OMG! (keeps clicking)

the screen changes to the confirmation screen. we click confirm ........ BUT IT BOUNCES BACK SAYING THAT $2.75 IS NOT A VALID BID! THE NEXT BID IS $3 MINIMUM! it redirects back to the item page. 3 more seconds to go. we're all screaming and my mum and dad are saying 'quick!' in canto over and over again while i'm firing directions and jason struggles to work the keyboard.

pressing bid again, the second of loading of the confirmation screen is agony. pressing confirm ..... all is silent. we are all anticipating the result .....

and the new window says, with red text, that the item had been taken off after its time period.

my brother: :( ................ what?! that's not fair :(
me: awwwwwww
dad and mum (canto): did you get it?
bro: the guy got in with 3 seconds to go!

then my dad goes onto a whole explanation regarding why that was a good try. because now we are experienced, we are equipped with the knowledge for our next ebay battle. you get the gist of what he's saying ...

so basically the guy on the other end waited up to the last few seconds to bid, so that even if we saw it we might not be able to bid on top of him in time. as an extra precaution, he sacrificed an extra 25c to place a bid of $2.75 instead of the next minimum bid of $2.50 ... just in case we had prepared ourselves to quickly overbid him. it worked.

BUT IT WAS A FUN EXPERIENCE OMG. im trying to imagine what it would look like on webcam ... two adults and two kids clustered around a computer jumping up and down urging jason to bid, holding our breaths until we found out that we had been outbidded. it was very enjoyable indeed :P

oh and in case this confused you: you have to go up by at least 25c with each bid

money figures may not be 100% correct, but i tried to remember as accurately as possible :)

30/04/2011

maybe i should get a little more original with my post titles.

well, my brother noted how my bun in my display photo thing looks like a love heart :) ... and the weird thing is it kinda does. ANYWAY.

yeah. he keeps aggravating my dad cause i think my mum picks on my dad so much my brother does that too. so much for trying to improve our already struggling relationship with dad psht.

he throws the most tantrums when you tell him to get off the computer to work or for dinner etc. then my dad gets angry and then my brother gets angry then he will switch his table lamp off violently, close the monitor angrily and turn off the computer from the physical power button. then he will stomp away and my dad will pick on his bad attitude and stuff and then my brother will stomp on the floor even harder and, if my dad says 'look at his stupid face' my brother will say 'YOU HAVE A STUPID FACE' and then it goes on. and it gets annoying and stuff like yeah ...

he also does that if he does something stupid and we start laughing at him or something. like in mahjong i think dad will say something like OI I CAN SEE YOUR TILES. then my bro will overreact and go WHAT THE HELL STOP LOOKING AT MY STUFF and he will slouch in his chair and have that really annoyed, frustrated, omg-what-am-i-doing-here, rolling eyes, glaring face on and make the entire atmosphere awkward. and that defeats the purpose of mahjong - to have some quality family time. so we usually stop playing after someone wins.

but of course, nothing like this happens when anybody is over. and he doesnt throw tantrums 24/7, i just don't post when he's being normal >:) he's actually pretty awesome usually.