On Friday, the Technical Services and Design Services teams went to SeaWorld. Woo! It was my first time there… here are some photos:

I also finally uploaded some photos I took of Oriana’s dorm room. She’s got this thing for Edward, apparently… it’s a little creepy.

On Saturday, we played the usual ultimate game… I don’t think anyone was seriously injured this time. I watched Equilibrium which I recently purchased on blu-ray with Mark and Ryan, then hung out at Chad and Nancy’s for a long long time.

I think Sunday was fairly mellow… as was Monday where we had the usual WoW night with some DotA splashed in. We finally beat Sindragosa! That cursed dragon… Greg cooked for us and it was tasty.

Oh yes, and on sister-site, Samiticus, the Sam Ni fan site, apparently Viraj has struck again!

I slept in a lot this weekend. It was awesome. Here’s the rundown:

• Slept until around 3PM on both Saturday and Sunday


• At at Madam Mam’s with Sam, TC, and Ryan (got dessert at Chez Zee afterwards)


• Played lots of Starcraft 2 (got gold in all the challenges)


• I got a new Google Voice number to use with Melissa… I got 5**-XKCD =)


• I think I might have played some DotA, but I’m not sure… haha… no, I think I did


• Skyped with Melissa after she moved into her dorm

My last self-portrait was so much fun, I had to do another set. This time I decided on an emo one. I originally wanted to do emo goth, but after a (too expensive) visit to Hot Topic, I ended up a bit more emo punk/rock than goth, so I just went with that. I had the “gear” for quite a while, but finally went and did the shoot with the help of Sam, Melissa, TC, and Oriana tonight (also thanks to Nancy for the hair straightener). Enjoy!

That was pretty amusing. =) I think Sam has a few setup shots on his camera he may post eventually. As usual, Flickr has the rest.

The Expendables was pretty awesome, especially sitting with OMan. OMan gives the movie enjoyment+10. Here are some quick weekend highlights:

• Watched Scott Pilgrim vs The World (pretty enjoyable)


• Played ultimate (I think I hurt my ankle a little again…) then ate at Asia Cafe


• Played DotA


• Played Nertz - Melissa was on a team by herself and she still won (beating three other teams that had a pair of people, including me + Mark). Crazy girl… =)


• My A/C broke =(… but it’s now fixed!


• I moved my computer into the new case I found at Fry’s =)

This weekend kind of started with our BV quarterly all-hands on Thursday. This time we had it at the Austin Music Hall and I took a decent amount of pics (a bunch are of people singing to win ACL tickets):

More, as usual, are on flickr.

We also got Friday off, and I spent a lot of that time playing Starcraft 2. I finally finished the campaign today. It was enjoyable, but a bit on the easy side (I was playing on normal, though so I could speed through the plot). If I’m bored and have lots of free time, maybe I’ll try playing through on a harder setting.

A few other weekend events:

• Heather’s birthday dinner at Daily Grill (I wasn’t impressed by food - probably won’t return)


• Step Up 3D!!!!!


• Went to Austin Stone and saw Oriana, who ninja hugged me in the parking lot

Woaah, I just realized I haven’t made a post for last week yet and this next weekend is fast approaching!

About the only thing I can remember is I played ultimate. Oh… and I helped Melissa move into her new apartment. I guess that’s about it. I should really write these things closer to when they happen. =P

This past week, we made many more failed attempts at Sindragosa (we’re giving up for now and resetting for next week to try again at a later point). I’ve also been meaning to make some more Samiticus posts, as I have material, but I haven’t gotten around to it yet. Maybe tomorrow. Earlier today (well, Thursday), BV just had our latest all-hands at the Austin Music Hall and I have some entertaining pics I’ll get up shortly (probably by the end of tomorrow).

With that said, on to photo editing! Tata!

Melissa took me to Houston this weekend to meet her parents. I passed out on the way there, but was briefly woken up to purchase something with cream cheese in it… it was tasty but then I fell asleep again.

I had been warned that the Lau household contained two crazy shih tzus and to stay away from the angry male one. So far I have been able to avoid a direct confrontation with that one who seems bent on my destruction from the way he barks. Supposedly the pair of dogs is quite infamous and there are a number of people that I have met that now stay out of the house because of them, haha.

Other than that, I have basically just been eating a lot of food and it is very good. We shall be heading back to Austin later tonight. Tata!

I don’t think a lot happened this past weekend. Friday we went to eat at G’Raj Mahal which was not bad. I don’t really remember what happened after that. =p

Saturday, we played ultimate and it was pretty hot with not very many clouds. Viraj managed to drag Chad along and he dominated Viraj who “broke a nail.” Ochs look a fall on the gravel and made his leg really ugly. Andrew was really slow from his Mark-inflicted injury from last week. That said, it was still a fun time. =) After that, we went to Jamba Juice and Sunflower.

We also went to see Inception which was enjoyable. That’s about all I’ll say. You should see it if you haven’t already.

Sunday was Vox and we also played a crazy tower defense map in WC3. Have yet to beat it. =(

We started last weekend by getting an early start on our ICC raid in WoW. We made it to Putricide, failed a few times and stopped. On Monday, we one shotted that punk though (then successfully did Blood Prince Council and Valithria). Woo!

Saturday, we ultimated it up and spent an hour talking about zombies at Sonic. I got bored later that night and watched the tail end of Scary Movie (not a bright idea…).

Sunday was Vox, World Cup and Predators (acceptably entertaining). After eating some food at the Drafthouse, I was still hungry, so I yanked a bunch of people to Jim’s and ate more. Then I was really full.

Oh, and Sam Ni is influential in many forms of art.

Let’s see… what happened this weekend? I probably need to be more prompt with these weekend updates or else I forget. Saturday, we played ultimate which was pretty fun. I got new shoes that I think were much better at keeping me from injuring myself, but I felt slower. Not sure if that was due to the shoes or not though. I don’t remember what else happened on Saturday…

On Sunday, we went to the Quarries to watch fireworks at Andrew’s suggestion. I was very pleased since it was so close to my house and we didn’t have to fight a mad rush of people getting in and out. Here are some pics from that:

Melissa grew fangs and so I had to drive a stake into her heart. =(

… she might come back to life next week though.

On Monday, we played video games, cooked meat, and made chili. I forgot to take pictures.