iBlog: Christian Fundamentalists at an Extreme

Link: What Happens With a Exchange Student At An Christian Fundamentalists' Home

Sometimes, I think that people get turned off by having faith, believing in God; and now I know why. This blog of a Polish exchange student tells the tell of his adventure living with what even I would consider a Messed-Up family.

He was set up to live his exchange in America with this Christian Fundamentalist family. Now there is a reason they call 'em Fundamentalist, because they keep to the tradition of the religion. In all honesty, I kind of felt bad for the kid. I mean, he's seeing the extreme side of a certain faith. Of course he'll be a bit REALLY turned off by the whole experience. Even I would.

Also, its not "Christ-Like" to call people to have the devil in them. THAT is totally not what having a Savior is all about. When you put it like that, you are hating more of the person than the sin. Like Jesus said, "hate the sin, not the sinner." (well, I think he said that??)

I am very much surprised that there are people that call themselves "Christian" that are like this. This story reminds me of the movie "The Waterboy" where the waterboy's mom says things like that (you got the devil in you!). Jesus didn't teach us to to say that (well except when he told the devil to get out of Peter), he taught us to have compassion for others, not insult them when they are down, and definetely not to scare you from a relationship with Him.

I'm glad the kid left that family. Now I wish someone can explain or undo what he has witness.

iBlog: The Increased Stupidity of Humans Buying On Ebay

Link: Dollar On Ebay
I just found this site on Ebay where a "One Dollar Bill" was sold for $11.18.
This is probably one of the most stupid purchases ever to be made. I credit the fact that the seller can ever remotely get people to look at this product and consider buying it! The sells pitch that the seller used to sell the dollar bill was that the serial number was unique and that if you turn it upside down, it would be the same. LoL. This is some messed up way of making it special, but I guess it got him $11.18 for it.

My First EarthQuake

Dazed and still half asleep, I wake up to the walls of my room shaking and quaking. I wonder what in the world is happening. Soon I realized that this small island that I'm on is actually have AN EARTHQUAKE! Its surprising that an earthquake would actually happen here in the Hawaiian Islands, but in all actuality, there recently was a small earthquake that happened a couple of months ago, so its not totally surprising to have another one.

This one happened to be a much bigger wake-up for the local people here. The quake showed up on the Richter scale of over 6.0. That is pretty strong in my case since I have never been through an earthquake before. That Sunday, I thought I was gonna starve because I didn't really have any food to eat. All the places to get food were pretty much closed. All I had left at home was a bit of some crackers and some fruits.

I went to church that morning and we had service without any lights and A/C. I found it ingenious that P. Ray turned a car battery into a power source, but after a while the wires couldn't handle it. It was a change of pace to have service with no power, but we got through it. It didn't hinder our worship for our Lord.

In everything, I thank God that there was not too much damage to the islands and that not many people got injured. The worst of it was just that the electricity for the whole state went down. Soon and just in time, the power went back up right when the sun was going down and it was beginning to get dark. It just goes to show the dependency of us when it comes to how much we need electricity. But, that's how life is.

Fall Semester Can Be Oh So Busy...

I'm in bed and close my eyes and the next thing I know, I'm waking up to my alarm clock from my phone (Black Eyed Peas-Where is the love). I look at the clock and its only 7:30!! Now I know its back to school.

Classes were boring. Labs are lame. When I'm not in class I gotta go work. Computers always have problems in the Electrical Engineering Department. During the summer I was working on making a computer lab. After all those long hard hours, it was finally in completion. Today when I was leaving work, I saw a class in that room (also saw Gibu sitting there doing nothing! LoL nah jk) and I felt so proud of myself.

So Far So Good

Well it turns out that I just freaked out when my setup screen showed up when I did a system repair on my computer. Stupid me... Went through with my setup and everything is all good and dandy here.

A few days ago was my birthday and Ginger got me a Nintendo DS Lite. Its a pretty cool piece of hardware. She also got me a game (Mario & Luigi Partners in time). Its a pretty interesting and funny game. The Mario brothers go back in time and team up with the baby Mario and Luigi to help save the Princess Peach. Its a pretty straight forward game but so far its been entertaining.
What I want to do is try and turn my new NDS into some sort of organizer. What would be cool, and I saw some rumors a while ago, is to turn this thing into a Palm organizer. I read from some articles a while back that Nintendo was gonna liscense the Palm OS to put onto the DS. Now that would be something. That would actually be an awesome item, but so far I cant really find much on an organizer for the NDS.

My Super Short Stupid Moment

I cant believe I did that. I cant believe I did that. I cant believe I did that. Stupid me, not thinking before acting. How could I have overwrite my whole computer without making a backup first. AHHHHH!!! Geez, now I guess I'm screwed.

Went to CompUSA yesterday (On my Birthday) and got myself "Search and Recover 3". I haven't used it yet but I gonna try it out to get my information back. Lets see what did I lose. Pictures, Movies, Documents, MY RESUME, and some program files stored away. Darn... Well, I guess I can look at the bright side, now I have an excuse to get myself a new laptop... YAY!

iBlogs: AOL's Manual to keep Customers from Leaving

Link:Consumerist's Blog on AOL Manual
There are some things in this blog that just cracks me up. I find it somewhat amusing and a tad bit annoying when customer service representatives don't help out the customers. I mean if you call to cancel, STOP HASSLEING THE CUSTOMER AND CANCEL THE STUPID THING ALREADY. This manual that AOL has is probably the worst thing that a customer service representative can have for a customer.