First RATV video of the year

Burnaby South Terry Fox Run 2008 (HD) from Jack Zhang on Vimeo.

Girls that flirt over Skype...

The last couple of days, I received calls and chats from random flirtacious girls from around the world. The first was from the US (although I did get a questionable requesting my details from someone of unknown gender nearly a week back of this.), the second tried to call me from France... I'm sorry girls, but now if you're not on my contact list, you can't contact me. And don't even think about requesting my contact details. If I flirt, I go out and walk in the public, never on the internet or over the phone.

Edit: And if I do in a multiplayer online game, it's all joking and kidding around *wink to adee*.

Edit #2: I think I found out exactly why this is. I left my Skype on DeviantArt and the girls just came flocking from all over the world... :S

**** it, Bang Bang's a ****. (venting steam)

Quote for title modified from quote from Entourage Season 3 Episode 12 (Sorry, Ari).

I am officially ending my fandom/obsession/whatever you like to call it with Bang Bang. I tried my best not to say "Screw it" to them, but it was just waiting and coming.

I have 100% assurance without a doubt that they were looking at me going "weirdo." inside. Such pre-occupation and selfishness was one major reason of rejection.

Also, I plan to be anti-social this year as a result since my passion for socialization came from an interest in video (and them). Now it's been bumped back down to the lowered expectations of last year (I'm in Media Arts again instead of Broadcast Comm now) so anti-social is better than social.

And if anyone from that group sees this post, "Don't pretend like you care, you never care!" -Dallas from Ratchet: Deadlocked

Also, sorry IG... I guess my resume will be smaller than expected when you see it, now that this has happened.

"Here here, life sucks..." -Drama from Entourage Season 5 Episode 3

I'm a mess...

"Walsh is a mess... I mean, look at him! He's a crazy artist!" -Vincent Chase, Character on Entourage

That's exactly how I felt today after lunch... a total mess...

(Any further details and this would cross the boundary of privacy. This is all I'm gonna say. And that it's once again related to Bang Bang...)

Hardware overclocking my GPU, it's driving me insane..

Following the article below:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/overclock-graphics-card,1916-6.html

I tried to hardware overclock my 9600GT to the same specs as the EVGA SSC edition. That card was touted as stable and it was also stable when I ran a software overclock of it. Now trying to follow these instructions, I can't because:

1. Everytime I make a bootable floppy, it destroys any chance of it being used again.

2. The USB boot option doesn't work somehow, I've tried everything and it always boots into Windows.

3. I tried a boot CD, but we only had 1 CD-R left and I used it to boot and not to add the flashing app. Plus the stupid DOS did not recognize the floppy drive that I had it on...

It looks so simple, yet has turned into hellfire for me. I hope that:

1. I could take it down to NCIX to have them do it for me

or 2. Get a better floppy drive and disks to try again

But where is hope? It seems too far away to even reach...

Edit: within just minutes after posting this, my floppy drive sprang back to life and created a proper MS-DOS boot disk! I then loaded the overclocked settings into the GPU and I'm proud to say that I have a SSC overclocked Dual-slot EVGA 9600GT.
Now... Back to Folding@Home on my GPU and Seti@home on my CPU...

Could this be a sign of my turning luck?

It's over...

Turns out the prick was right, John did just want my E-mail to say no. F***!

Not only that, they already have access to HD equipment at ACE-IT (Which I couldn't get into). Double F***!

I can't even say how bad this makes me feel... At least it isn't to the point of suicide... yet.

All my free time will be devoted to Team Fortress 2 and fragging the hell out of other people. Time outside of that would be very depressing...

Edit: Wanna know how I feel right now? Download this song: You're Pitiful (Don't worry, This Weird Al song was meant to be downloaded for free.)

Prick flamer returns...

And this time, he laughs in the face of my luck.

I'm furious with this ****. One thing is for certain, I will contact the admins if you are from South. In fact, say who you are, and make it easier for me to report you. Don't say who you are and the admins, EAs and teachers will search the school for you and have a little chat.

Edit: This prick even goes as far as now saying that John Morrison wanting my E-mail was just to say "no". I feel like Johnny "Drama" Chase right now and this is how I feel:

(WARNING: VIOLENCE AND EXPLICIT LANGUAGE (this is the only exception since I feel this pissed))



Much better... Gonna play some TF2 and I'll be calm again...

Garland's the anchor?!?

Garland Chang, who has appeared in my Japanese Groovitron Fever and Angry Dance video, got to be the anchor for the school announcements today...

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...I'm speechless, I'm at a loss for words as to how this would turn my luck even worser than before...

If my luck does not turn, I will have to start believing the end of the world prophecies. (includes December 21st, 2012 and the Large Hadron Collider (starts collisions October 21st, 2008))

First flame on my blog...

Sure, YouTube is notorious for flamers but for the first time today on my Blog, a flamer popped up insulting Bang Bang.

Perhaps I wasn't clear, but I think the "no swearing" only policy needed to be updated to a ZERO-TOLERANCE to swearing and flaming... and that has just been done.

If it was one of my friends (Garland or Amrit), I'll have a word with you if you see this post.

If it was a random person at South, grow a pair, seriously.

And if it was Domagoij, the mom lover, you are banned from my blog.

Update: It's very likely this is a targeted flame, since he just did it again...

Things not going really well since my LA trip...

First, I put my backpack in checked luggage on our plane to LA and when we got there, we discovered my PS3 BD game case was cracked and broken by rough baggage handlers at LAX...

Next, on our way to San Diego, our bus gets pulled over and ticketed for blocking an intersection...

Next, my camera breaks in San Fran due to a bad tripod...

My luck was thought to have turned at my IG visit, for a moment it probably did...

Next, we didn't want to go through more wrecked equipment on our flight back so we frustratingly tried to get the backpack into checked luggage, and what is thought to be because of that delay, we were seated in the VERY back of the plane with a loud and crying baby in the utmost back seat.

Next, My seemingly successful overclock of my Quad-core no longer works when I started to use a optimized Seti@Home application for super fast processing. Subsequent attempts at resolving it only bring up new problems. (Right now it seemed to be very stable at 1.45V but it somehow popped (like a circuit breaker) and restarted. And even now at stock speeds, the computer will soft reset if the power supply gets hot. I'm also wondering if I have too little wattage or a broken power supply... Anyways, it's VERY confusing)

Next, I did not get a interview request from my ACE-IT program...

Next, the group, Bang Bang productions, has still yet to get back to me about anything regarding us & them.

Slipping into quite a depression after the stuff about the computer, the ACE-IT program, and a day where I couldn't broadcast in Bcomm and Cody Knight did, learning that the end of the world is nigh with the LHT in Switzerland was all that I needed to hear to get me into a gigantic depression I'm in right now. I also believe that these terrible lucks most likely aren't just a coincidence, having a whole month of misfortune is quite a lot, it almost seems too much...

I desperately need something to pull me out of this...

EP Daily: the demise of the (video game) Electric Playground

Though only a couple of episodes aired in this new format, it's basically now a clone of "The Circuit" on Space. It looks like new episodes of Reviews on the Run are canceled too (from it being dropped on their official website)... Talk about reinforcing the cause of joining Bang Bang productions, they now truly are my last hope now! Being a cameraman for a show that probably is the same as a show like The Circuit (although using XDCAM HD would be nice), it might just not be my kind of thing, It's like being the paparazzi now with the other focuses on things like Electronics, Movies, Sci-Fi and such... I loved it when their primary focus was video games.

Even if I still had to join them for a good entry on my resume, it's probably just to make a living... But hey, at least I still have a job doing camerawork...

New HD Vlog entry

Jack's Vlog (HD): Broken HC7s... Which one is better off? from Jack Zhang on Vimeo.

Feel free to leave comments on the video's page.

Bang Bang Productions, get back to me!

That's right Riun, Cody, John, etc... I need at least some reply from you guys, it's been a summer and no video was produced... If you read one of my earlier posts, you know I have the latest Canon HV30 camera for use in production for true 24p. To be honest, I always had the feeling of ignorance so I hope there's something up for this school year...

In other happenings, I sure hope the ACE-IT thing is sorted out today.

Update: As of now, they say my inclusion must be a group decision. (and yet we wait longer for an answer...) As for ACE-IT, it looks grim, as many people were not at our school due to the fact most people are already going to their first day there... If that is the case with being rejected from ACE-IT, Bang Bang is my last hope for a successful video editing career path...