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Name: Ricky
Country: Canada
State: Ontario
Metro: Toronto
Birthday: 8/31/1984
Gender: Male
Interests: Study (hahahaha funny), internet, online forums, mobile phones, going out, etc.
Expertise: None really... But if i really had to name some, i would say that i'm most familiar with:
a) Mobile phones
b) Some aspects of business (since it's what i study after all)
c) Anything in life that really interests me
Occupation: Student
Industry: Business
Message: message meEmail: email me
MSN: emailricky@gmail.com
ICQ:  616373
Member Since:
7/12/2004
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| W00tw00t, I finally got my widescreen 1680x1050 monitor to work with my computer! Hothothot. I had to buy a new card but at least it's a good one at a good price and would be useful in the future when and if i upgrade to Vista.
Ming and I are so proud of ourselves today when we "negotiated" a $250 graphics card down to $100. We were originally planning to try and negotiate down to $80, but after seeing how pissed the woman seemed to be when we asked for $100, we didn't want to piss her off more. Her son was in the background saying how she's getting ripped off since she's selling it for so damn cheap but oh well, her loss is our gain.
All thanks to Ming though in hooking everything up and clearing all the garbage from my (and my brother's comp). Damn "doscan.exe" better not run like crazy again or i'm going to be pissed.
And sorry wai about having to wait. We should get you a DS so you can play MarioKart all day long. 
Here's my sexy monitor in all it's glory.
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| What an eventful Friday. Went downtown in the morning to give an office tour of EY to the offerees. Seems like EY is having another good year again (at least from York). Most people accepted and it seems we've already met our target of acceptances. We even had more from York than we really had to hire from what I heard, since they already met their quota after all the summer interns signed back from York since we hired so many for the summer. But hey, who can reject good candidates. All of the offerees were really cool people, but I wouldn't have expected less from the recruiting team anyway  . The highlight of the visit was lunch at Jump, where we had a full course meal. Going out for food is always the best part of recruiting. Since there really isn't a budget, we can go wherever we want and eat whatever we want. Surf and Turf for lunch for $47? That's nothing. How about a $35 cheeseburger at Bymark? Oh wait, you need to remember to order an appetizer and dessert too, which would cost another $40 or so.
After the tour, I went back uptown to go to a wedding. We arrived a little past 6 pm, since the dinner was supposed to start at 7 pm. I should've known that that was the expected time, since we didn't really start eating till around 9:15 pm or so. What did I do in between? Just hanging around acting cool I suppose, haha.
Weddings are such a marvelous thing. I don't think there would be really any other occasion where everyone is so happy. There were so many people too, around 450. All in all it was a really nice event. Gotta go to another one next month, and for that one I'm actually one of the relatives of the groom, so it should be fun. Man, there are so many people getting married this year.
Here're a few pictures
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| Have been really busy lately with school, all the assignments, and just general work. Good thing is that Paypal actually refunded me the money, not that it really matters since the bank already dealt with that, but it's good to know that the frauder's account got suspended. What an idiot.
On another note, all the offers are out now, and I guess everyone has a general sense as to where they're going next September for those who got offers. I feel kinda jealous though seeing all these people get multiple interviews and multiple offers while I only got 2 interviews and one offer last summer, lol. Oh well. What really surprised me was that the hiring practice for full time seems to be totally different. Each of the firms seem not to look for that "personality" that they want in their candidates, but instead are all trying to get the same people. Weird.
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| I came home today and checked my email as I do everyday. To my surprise, there was an email from Paypal telling me that I had made two payments (one in USD and the other in Euros) for a total of around $1,200 to the same person today. At first I wasn't that concerned because there have been so many spoof emails lately that are merely taunts to get your password. But then after I looked at the email more closely, I realized that it had actually came from Paypal. So I logged into my Paypal account and sure enough, there are records me of making two payments to some random person.
Getting a little freaked out, I emailed the person who received the payment and told her that I believe that whatever money that was sent to her is a unauthorized payment from my account since I've never made any payment to her. I have a feeling that she's involved in this too but it's probably a "shell" Paypal account or else it would be pretty stupid of the person to send money to their own Paypal account and risk getting traced since you have to provide personal info to Paypal when you register.
Anyways, after that I called eBay and they told me to file a dispute resolution claim and that they will most likely reverse the transaction. Hearing so many horror stories of eBay, I was skeptical in trusting them and so I called RBC right after, and with their amazing customer service, I got a lot of empathy and they told me that they do indeed see two pending charges on my account although it has not been posted it. They reversed them, deactivated my card, and told me that they'll send me a new one within a week or so.
After doing all of that, I got an email from the person who received my funds telling me that she has no idea who I am and that she doesn't know what the hell is going on. Although she could be innocent, my gut tells me that it's highly unlikely because 1) She accepted payment and 2) Both amounts were payable to her within the same day.
The thing that confuses me the most is how my account could've gotten hacked into. I'm thinking about keyloggers but after talking to my tech resource friend, he said it's highly unlikely.
Well, at least i'm not out any money.... for now.
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| Alright, so after all the fuss and commotion surrounding the snake from yesterday and telling everybody about it, my parents thought it may be a wise idea to call some sort of municipal department and report it to them to see what they can do or if they want to do anything, such as searching the area.
So I searched on the city website, and the closest related department that I found was the Toronto Animal Services Department. Given that their mission statement was "
To promote and support a harmonious environment where humans and
animals can co-exist free from conditions that adversely affect their
health and safety." I already thought ahead and realized that maybe calling them about an animal that we tortured to death and tore its head off afterwards wasn't such a good idea. Nevertheless, given the lack of viable options, I had to call them. Here's a (rough) transcript of our conversation:
Rep: Toronto Animal Services
Me: Hi, um.... we found a snake in our backyard
Rep: You found a what? A snake? Holy muthfucka!
Me: Err..... ya.... and... ya we were scared.
Rep: What did it look like?
Me: Well.... it was kinda long... and green, with stripes.
Rep: O.....k.... and it was small right despite the fact that it was long?
Me: Well... ya, but we were forced to kill it anyways
Rep: Why did you do that?
Me: Well, cause it was slithering towards our house and we were freaked out and were afraid that it would slither in.
Rep: Silly child, snakes don't slither into houses. They burrow and live in the ground and they may dig holes in the foundation (as if that's not bad enough), but they don't slither into houses. So what you did was wrong.
Me: My bad. So... um, do we have to report this or anything, or does the city want to come take a look around the area?
Rep: Well, these are just regular garter snakes, and they are completely harmless. So next time you see them, just shoo them away and stop killing them.
Me: Aight cool, later!
So ya, I guess we shouldn't have tore off its head either.
P.S. My mom commented afterwards how the mice that was digging into our trash were gone. I wonder if the snake ate them. I guess we killed our benefactor :(
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