Being without a TV, my only way to watch my favorite shows is through Turbonick. However, Turbonick has many, many bugs. For example, sometimes the audio for multiple commercials and/or episodes come on simutaneously, sometimes the videos won't load, and sometimes the links point to the wrong videos.

For example, I wanted to watch "Mystery Girl" by the Naked Brothers Band, but Turbonick shows me the "Face in the Hall" music video in its place, and clicking on "Full Length" leads me to the Season 1 episode "Puberty" instead. It's so fustrating because I've been itching to see that episode ever since I saw the first promos for it

So, share your Turbonick problems here. I'm sure you people have a lot of stories about that wonderful yet horrid site.

Just for fun, here's some English songs by Hong Kong singers. Yes, the subtitles can be a little messed up at times.

I Got it Made
Touch of Love
It's so Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday (cover)

Justin Lo Demo 1
Justin Lo Demo 2
I Don't Want to Miss a Thing (cover)

A Thousand Dreams of You (cover)
Always on My Mind (cover)
American Pie (cover)

Previews for Naked Brothers Band: "Mystery Girl"

Commerical
Clip 1: Alex is looking forward to kissing a girl...
Clip 2: ...but freaks when the girl turns out to be his pal Juanita.
Clip 3: It kind of confuses me to see Nat laughing when he brings up his girlfriend gone for 6 months.
Clip 4: "Mistletoe hat" by the Timmerman brothers.
Clip 5: "Face in the Hall" music video.

I've discovered a Tetris application on Facebook, and let's just say I'm hooked. I'm now the top player in every mode among my friends. I'm still pretty bad compared overall, though. And I feel like my skills have hit a wall, all I can do is hope for a good series of pieces.

I love the Tetris theme song. Did you know it was originally a Russian folk song? Click here for lyrics and a translation. Lucky peddler, he got the girl.

Oy polnym polna korobushka
Yest' i sitets i parcha.
Pozhaley, dusha-zaznobushka,
Molodetskogo plecha.

I have now caught up with all the aired episodes of the Naked Brothers Band. It wasn't easy though. Turbonick didn't have the original pilot movie, and I couldn't find it anywhere else, so I ended up fishing out some serious cash just to get the full NBB monty (pun intended). It turned out that the day I get the DVD from Amazon, someone does put the movie up, on Youtube. Bummer. I guess it's still not a total waste, though, since the Youtube rip is missing a few segments. At least everything else is on Turbonick, if only it was always acessible. That site has more bugs than a rainforest.

About picking up parcels, I was told that Canada Post would leave these at the main office, and when I got my replacement laptop battery (I lost the original on the plane back to university), that was what happened. However, for some reason, I had to pick up my DVDs at the post office. I also needed to provide an second government-issued ID, since I had no proof of address. So I spent a full half-hour walking home from the post office to get my passport and then back to the post office. And that's not even counting the walking I would have done anyway. I'm too cheap for my own good, I could really use a bike sometimes. Furthermore, the DVD case for Fiddler on the Roof, the other movie I bought, was badly cracked.

As for the movie itself. I guess it was OK. All the guest appearances were a little lame however. It didn't matter who they got to do a cameo, in the end, the movie is about the kids, and all the adults in the film took away from that. Also, the first part of the movie (up to the introduction of "Boys Rule, Girls Drool") was a little dull. The rest of it was good though. I can see why the movie was never rated. It's hard to place: it seems to be in between the Y7 and PG ratings (as if there weren't enough different ratings already).

Zooming ahead to season 3, the song "Face in the Hall" is now etched into my memory. I can even remember the lyrics to the entire first verse and chorus, and I'm usually terrible with lyrics. I'm thinking the reason the song won me over so quickly is because it's the way I want to feel: the past is tying me down, and I want to break free of it.

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I saw the commercial for "iOwe You". I wonder who paid for Freddie's new laptop. Also, even a undergrad like me would have trouble getting $526 in any reasonably short amount of time. I really wonder what tricks Carly and Freddie have up their sleeve to help Sam out. Nevertheless, I'm betting Sam gets fired at least once in the episode.

I got 36990 at www.freepacman.org. Man is that game addictive. And it's not even fun. It's more like "That was terrible! I gotta do better than that!" And then you end up playing again and again getting more fustrated all the time.

It's funny that the latest iCarly episode features Pak-Rat, because in my CS clas.s (well, one of them), I have to stimulate a bunch of cats and mice, and only "cat" threads or only "mouse" threads can run at any given time. Look up concurrency in Wikipedia if you want.

I finally got my hands on "Gym Teacher". It was quite nice, but very exaggerated. No one could be that weak. And for Stewie to complete even a simple vault after 20 years of no practice is pretty ridiculous too. I also watched "iStage an Intervention". I wonder if Sam knows she could have killed Freddie when she rigged his bike. No wonder Sam owes him money, she wrecked his clothes and laptop.

I can't wait for the Season 3 premiere of the Naked Brothers Band. Seeing how Nat deals with Rosalina going away on a cruise is going to be amazing. Apparently, since we already know what "Face in the Hall" sounds like, he's going to be quite upset. But I don't think he could ever truly hate her. Don't be surprised if he walks out in the middle of recording the song. As for Miranda's role in the movie, it's been rumored that she and Nat kiss, so who knows how this is all going to be resolved. I do think that somehow Rosalina will stay in the end, given that Miranda is probably guest-starring in only this episode and I think we'd hear about it if Allie quit the show.

Turbonick is so buggy...

Time for another screenshot, from the Naked Brothers Band's "A Rebel and a Skateboarder". Imagine the girl of your dreams calling you chicken. Poor Nat.

I've been watching a lot of the Naked Brothers Band lately. While I had known that Nat was two years younger than Rosalina, I didn't realize until today that that is probably the biggest way I relate to the show. But that's all I want to say about that.

I've been thinking about that letter again. I do have a draft written up and ready to send, but I'll probably end up trashing it. I don't even know what I want to say anymore.

Back to the Naked Brothers, I'd read some news regarding the upcoming Season 3 premiere, "Mystery Girl". Looks like right away, Nat and Rosalina's relationship will be put to the test. And things will start to heat up between Alex and Juanita too, which should be fun. By the way, Miranda Cosgrove is guest-starring.

I highly doubt I'll got back to doing a daily screenshot, or even a daily blog, but for today, here's "Fishing for Love".

(Rosalina runs off, embarrased)

NAT: On the cheek! Doesn't count!

If that's not love, then what is? Yeah, I just started watching another kid show. I'm so immature for my age it's freaky. That being said, Nat and Rosalina are so cute together. First exam tomorrow. Meh.

I finally got Internet in my room! Woot! I love the new Californication ad. All the blue makes TV.com a lot easier to look at. The WYSIWYG editor is broken again, though. It's so annoying. Time to surf some sites I couldn't possibly visit on campus... hehe...

Since I've been told that Bell needs to visit my residence again, I won't be getting Internet until Friday, more than a week after I was supposed to. I want my fees lowered to reflect this. Can you imagine no internet at home for 2.5 weeks?

I can't wait for Season 2 of iCarly. I can wait for my midterms and assignment due dates though. Ugh...

I keep message logs of all my MSN conversations. That's just for me though: I never share the logs with anyone, and I've never used anyone's words against them ("but didn't you say?"). I have noticed, however, that there are 32 logs. One log is more than double the size of the next largest one, and larger than logs 3 through 32 combined.

The most painful conversations are not in the log though. I had those conversations on my desktop computer at that time, and I didn't set up logs on that computer. I have noticed that there have been no logs between Sept 2007 (a few months after we broke up) and May 2008 though. Then, in May and June, we chatted a little, but I stopped when I realized I was always the one who was trying to start any conversation. We had one more chat last month. I've mentioned it in my blog before. She put up this random TV quote and I got the crazy thought that she might have meant it. She didn't.

I have a letter written up, but I'm too scared to send it.

• I don't want to freak her out or make her uncomfortable.
• I don't want to come off as pathetic.
• I don't want to say anything I don't mean.

Heck, I don't even know how I feel anymore. I mean, it has been over a year, and I haven't exactly been miserable the whole time. But I can't stop thinking about her. I write about her in my blog all the time. There's been several times in the past where I've gone and read every single email we exchanged (except those in my high school email account that got deleted when I graduated, but those email were all for academic purposes only anyway). I recently printed out some photos that we took together once. I put them up on the wall, took them down, put them up again, and took them down again. They're in my drawer now. Oddly enough, all those photos were taken before we started dating (online, that is).

She goes to university down under. She asked me whether she should transfer. Since she really didn't like her old university, I told her to go even though I knew how hard it would be for us to see each other if she went. But I highly doubt difficulties in seeing each other was the only reason why things didn't work out. I wish I knew. Give me the assesment, I'm not afraid. Well, I am, but I still want to know.

So now what? More of the way things have been for the past year, I guess. Whatever that has been.

You are so hard to forget
Floating and sinking in the sea of my heart
How much courage does it take to change myself?
How do I still my tumulous heart?