diff --git a/assembler.rb b/assembler.rb
index b745edd..462b253 100644
--- a/assembler.rb
+++ b/assembler.rb
@@ -77,6 +77,7 @@ def ori(src, bits, dest)
 end
 
 # store word
+# NOTE: this doesn't work unaligned
 def sw(src, offset, dest)
 	#      oooooo ddddd sssss iiiiiiii iiiiiiii
 	op = 0b101011_00000_00000_00000000_00000000
@@ -93,6 +94,12 @@ def nop
 	word 0x00000000
 end
 
+# load word immediate
+def lwi(val, dest)
+	lui val >> 16, dest
+	ori dest, val, dest
+end
+
 
 
 
@@ -137,20 +144,13 @@ nop ; jmp $base_addr + 16 ; nop ; word 0xdeadbeef
 # ops should always be in format of
 # src [args] -> dest
 
-lui $gp0 >> 16, 1
-ori 1, $gp0, 1
+lwi $gp0, 1
 
 nop
 
-#lui 0, 3
-#ori 3, 0xffff, 3
-
-#sw 1, 0, 2
-
-32.times do |i|
-	ori i, 0xf00d, i
-end
+lwi 0x10040, 2
 
+sw 1, 0, 2
 
 nop ; nop ; nop ; nop
 nop ; nop ; nop ; nop