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12/30/02
Saturday (12/28), I got a new cell (Ericsson t68i) with a
new plan. My new plan is 300 anytime minutes and 5000 nights and
weekend minutes. For anyone who cares, my new number is 626-542-5192.
Leaving the place where I got my cell, there was this mini-van
blocking a half of the driveway in the parking lot. This other
guy was honking his car for the longest time, trying to get the
guy to move. The guy holding up the parking lot gave the guy
honking his horn the finger. The guy honking stopped his car,
came out, and started getting into the guy's face. I told my
brother to take another route out. While driving away, I rolled
down the window, and yelled, "SHUT THE FUCK UP!"
Afterwards,
we went to lunch, and we went to Roscoe's Chicken and Waffles.
It was full of black people. Sitting pretty close to us were
these old Asian people. That was very odd. I got a chicken and
waffle. I think this place is overrated. It was good, but
nothing too special.
At
night, I went to my dad's holiday party, ate some food, enjoyed
the games they played, and left to go to another party with
Kristina, Brandon, Glo, Jonathan, Koichi, Ron, Jennifer, Janet,
and Dave. We went to Old Town to find a bar or a club that we
could go to that had no cover charge. While waiting outside the
bar right by the Delacey parking structure, Koichi and I saw Dan
Lloyd walk out (he's a grade above us). When we were about done
talking, I think this guy named Jimmy Tripodes came by too. He
kinda reminded me of this guy I know up in the bay area.
Brandon's friend came with his girlfriend and met up with us at
McMurphy's. We decided not to go because it wouldn't be worth it
to pay a cover charge and stuff since it was so late. We went
back to the first place we saw, this Italian restaurant/bar. I
don't know if there was some event going on or what, but there
were A LOT of Filipinos there.
Sunday
(12/29), Me, Brandon and Kristina went to San Diego. I took them
to go eat at one of my favorite Mexican restaurants, Old Town
Mexican Cafe. After we were done eating, we went to a game shop
where I schooled Brandon in Checkers. I showed them
Extraordinary Desserts in Hillcrest. We went to Balboa Park and
checked out the dog park, the botanical gardens, entrances of
museums, and then back to the dog park again to check out more
dogs. Then we went to Off 5th to check out some shopping. Then
went to Gaslamp to go eat at the Finnish restaurant/pub and then
headed back to L.A.
Today
(12/30), I decided to drive up to Berkeley instead of tomorrow
(New Year's Eve) to avoid any possibility of bad traffic. So I
left around 1pm and drove straight up, arriving at around
7:30pm. Dzuy came by, and we went to the city to meet up with
some other San Diego friends. They rented out a room and a suite
at the Radisson Hotel in Japan town. We chilled there a bit.
Initially, they were all suppose to go out to some club, but it
was getting late, and no one was taking any action to go out. So
around 12:50am, I decided it would good for me to leave, since I
had no idea when the party would be ending.
The
fun and scary part of the night came when I was leaving. When I
was turning the corner to get to the bay bridge, I was reminded
of a European countryside or something from the medieval times.
There was this ledge hanging out the side, and a huge waterfall
coming down. I drove through it, and it was just pouring down on
my car. It reminded me of a car going through a car wash. I
could see nothing through the window for a brief second. When I
got on the bridge, I immediately knew that I would not be
driving fast for two reasons: 1) it was freakin wet! 2) driving
faster than 50mph seemed hard, due to the water traction. At one
point, I began losing control. I was steering straight, but my
car was veering to the right. I was like, "WTF!?!" I
let go of the pedal, and I resumed my forward position. As I
drove through, I kept running through mini waterfalls. Water
that was seeping through the cracks from the upper part of the
bridge (going back to Oakland, you're on the bottom part of the
bay bridge). The whole time, I was only going about 50mph, and
not trying to do my fast driving that I would normally do. So in
the second half of the bridge, I decided to move into the fast
lane, and I started going about 60mph. Towards the end of the
bridge, there was a slight turn to the right. That's when I was
freaked out. My car started veering to the left. I turned my
steering wheel to the left. It veered too much to the left. I
veered it back to the right. I started skidding a little into
the right lane. Finally, I regained control. Luckily, there were
no cars in the vicinity. I bet I freaked out the cars around me
though cuz they backed off even further away from me.
12/27/02
Per request of Paul, I am now using a larger font for those that
are visually challenged, resulting in more scrolling downwards,
but less strain on your precious eyes. For those of you who have
yet to notice, I now added a tag board on the left column for
those who would wish to comment on whatever I may have posted up
or just comments in general.
As
many of you were aware of, yesterday was San Marino High
School's 5 year reunion. First off, let me tell you that it was
not worth the $30 that they charged. They gave us 3 coupons for
drinks, but when you got more extravagant drinks (mixed drinks),
you often had to cough up a couple more dollars. Each of those
coupons were maybe $5 each. So that's $15 of the $30 that we
paid. The other portion was hors doerves (dunno how to spell
it), and man, where they gross. A bunch of us ended up
walking to Wahoo's Fish Taco and getting dinner there.
People:
In
general, a lot of people looked the same. What was very strange
was seeing everyone drinking, especially a snooty drink like
wine. Another strange thing was seeing all these people smoke. I
never would've known that all these people smoke. Seeing some
people all dressed up was pretty odd too. Overall, I would've
said it was a fun experience, though I wish I didn't RSVP and
had just showed up, pretending that I paid already.
12/26/02
Funny things I've seen on off-topic.net
My
girlfriend gave me a cool xmas present
So
I head over and she has this really sexy lingerie on.
So she jumps on me, kissing me.
Then she gives me a bj til she's "finished" w/ me.
Later when i've "recooperated" she goes...ok here's
your next present.
She lets me take her panties off and she goes
Look it's a tree (she shaved her bush to look like a xmas tree 
)
And then she goes....your present is right under the tree and
smiles
my girlfriend is the best 
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Fun
things retail employees have done.
I
work at best buy and tonight, i almost killed a customer, he
demanded a manger and i went and got one. The man was pissed
that we were out of stock on something 3 days before Christmas.
So when the manager comes and the guy just goes off about how in
the world could we be out of the cheapest laptop. After the mans
5 minute rant, about how crowded it is, and we should have this
and blah blah.
The manager goes "Yeah, we are trying to get Christmas put
on the calender, so it doesnt sneak up on people like
this." And the guy just looked down, shut up, and walked
away!!!
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Last
summer I worked at Best Buy as a service tech, so I had no
shortage of pissy customers with broken computers. Well this old
black guy comes in and cant get something to work(I don't
remember what). It was something simple and I fixed it in a
second and walked in back for a second and then out of no where
he starts going off how I was laughing at him for being stupid
because he was black. I have no idea WTF he is talking about so
I call a manager. The guy is wearing fatigues so my manager asks
what his rank is. He says "captain". My boss says
"well, captain, I am a leiutenant and you will not come
into my store and make a mockery of my army. I am damn sure that
my employee was not laughing at you and I order you to take your
belongings and leave the premesis at once." My boss pulled
rank on the dude, that is when I really laughed at the fucker.
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I used to work at a baseball cards/collectibles store, and my
boss was great, because he didn't give a SHIT about the
customers.
I had some asshole bothering me with stupid questions - normally
I don't care, but it's some kid that comes in like twice a week,
and NEVER buys anything, and my boss knows this. I finally walk
away from him while h'e's midsentence, to grab a coke, and he
looks at me like I'm stupid, finishes his question, and says
"Well?" in a really snotty voice. I proceed to just
look at him for a minute, and finally tell him: "Well,
considering in the past 6 months, all you've done is waste my
time and not spend a dime, I'm going to start charging you $10
per question." The kid is about to throw a fit, when my
boss walks over, and the kid starts grinning cause he thinks my
boss is gonna yell at me. Instead, he says "that's fine
dave, but make sure the store gets half, ok?"
Kid never came back after that.
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owned a customer. I worked at radioshack last christmas. He
bought a cell phone and service. You have 30 days to cancel your
account if you dont want it. He was just being a dick. Well he
comes in later in january, lie 25 days into his contract and
wants to upgrade his plan. Well I updated it, but to a
commercial 250 dollar a month plan. He didnt notice it until the
next bill because the first bill has deposit and setup fees. So
he was 2 months in 500 in debt. Sprint wont allow you to
downgrade plans (they do now) he had to cancel his account.
Cancellation fees for accounts canceled before the first half of
the contracts are like 400 bucks, after the first half on
ontract its 10% of each remaining month.
It didnt go back to me because to upgrade accounts is a user
thing. It is all automated an he was supposed to do it. I wasnt
but he couldnt and was being irate saying I should do it. As far
as they know he upgraded his account, not radio shack. We cant
do that from or computer, it is done by touch tone phone.
sprint policies have changed since, butregardless i owned his
fagget ass.
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I was a cashier at a grocery store for a while in high school.
Housewives used to come in all the time and try to be sneaky
about buying condoms. I used to make a point of
"accidentally" breaking open the condom box.
"Oh, look ma'am, this box is open...HEY! CAN YOU RUN TO
AISLE 6 AND GET ANOTHER BOX OF CONDOMS FOR THIS LADY?"
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i used to work at barnes and noble back in the day...
one time a young couple came in with a concerned look on their
face.. they approached me and asked me where the books on
alzheimers could be found.
i gave them the 
look and said:
you know... i just don't remember. 
the wife immediately gave me the 
look and after a few seconds the husband was
then 
when he saw the look on wifey's face.
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I can remember a few things from my best buy days, This Really
bitchy lady came in looking for a cable for her cheapass $45
printer....I ask her a simple question "How long of a cable
do you need" and the bitch comes back with "WELL how
the hell do i know, your the one that works in computers and YOU
should be the expert, obviously your not!" needless to say
i handed her a $60 firewire cable knowing good and well it was
the wrong cable and said "thats the only one that will
work" she took it like an idiot and returned a few hours
later complaining how "the cable didnt fit", so i
actually grabbed the right cable but didnt make it any cheaper,
25ft gold parallel, longest, slowest cable we had and still cost
more than the actual printer itself.
Most any other person that would try and have an attitude with
me i'd just tell them we dont have whatever they wanted in stock
and that i'd "gladly check the other store's in the
area" upon checking i'd usually tell them the farthest
store away that DIDNT have the computer they were looking for.
For all you houston people, I worked at the clearlake store and
sent MANY people to beaumont looking for somthing that wasnt
there.
Some of the more stupied people that come to mind are those that
came in the day after thanksgiving looking for whatever was the
cheapass item in the add, most looking for that $299 computer
tryed to get pissed when we didnt have any instock, when i
pointed out that the sale ended at noon and it was 4:00 they
ofcoarse thought they were somehow special and somehow deserved
an extention on the sell, and when asked why they couldnt
recieve a raincheck and i pointed to the add which CLEARLY had
in bold letter NO FREAKIN RAINCHECKS they tryed to get pissed
off saying best buy wasnt honoring their adds and blah blah
blah........
some of my favorite question:
I'm carrying a 19' monitor through the department and some guy
says "say your not busy are you? can you help me out with
this"
or
i'm answering questions for someone about a computer and another
person steps right between us and starts asking about a computer
on the complete oposite side of the department, i'd normally
just give the the WTF are you doing look and ask them to wait
their turn, then avoid them for an hour or so
OR
the stores been closed for 45 minutes and the same damn couple
thats been debating over the $10 mousepad for the past 4
1/2hours decides to ask you ever fucking question they can
possible think of about it " so you sure it'll work it my
mouse?"
or
those annoying people that come ask you a question already
knowing the answer, "so is this graphics card 4x AGP or 8x
AGP?" me not really knowing or caring would usually just
pick a random one "4" and the person spouts back
"OH REALLY? cus it says right here on the box that its an
8x!", i'd usually just respond with "well if it says
it on the box its usually right. anymore questions or could you
possibly just read the box?"
I hate ignorant people.
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let see......A guy was standing down a isle "looking"
at monitors and when i walked by i caught a glimpse of him
shoving a cd down his pants, i circled back around the isle and
ask him " if he needed any help with anything" like a
typical theif he got defensive and snapped back about something
so i asked "Well do you need any help with that cd down
your pants, perhaps a question about the sensor tags that are on
them?" needless to say he turned pretty red and jetted for
a isle where he dumped the cd and took off out the door
12/25/02
After years of living in San Marino for over about 17 years, I
finally realized that it was an SM tradition for the fire
fighters to ride around town in the fire truck and ambulance,
setting off their sirens all around town going up and down
streets, waking up people who were dead asleep on Christmas Day.
When they were driving down my street, I hurried and got out of
bed to peek outside the window to see what all the commotion was
about. I don't know how many, but several guys were standing at
the end of the fire truck, wearing Santa hats and looking all
cheery. It's odd that it took me so long to finally realize the
tradition. And all this time, I thought there was some big chase
going on. I thought it was illegal for cops n stuff to turn on
their sirens with no real drama. That's San Marino for ya.
Went out today to try and get Dim Sum at 888 Seafood restaurant,
but it was super packed, so we went to this new Shanghainese
restaurant. Normally, I don't try unknown Asian restaurants, but
I will try unknown Mexican places, I think because of the fact
that its hard to screw up Mexican food, whereas Chinese food can
taste horrible if not done correctly. I must say, after the
first dish that came out, I knew that this place wasn't that
great. I got kung pao beef (I know...its not very common),
dumplings and some other stuff. The dumplings here were not that
good. I'd go as far to say it was one of the worst in fact.
Afterwards, I went to get some tapioca milk tea. I must say
again. This place was so shoddy. Only 2 workers here, so
everything was done at a snail's pace, and I think one of the
guys (an old guy, I'd say in his 40s) was making some drinks. I
doubt he was the owner, cuz he didn't know what the hell was
going on, he couldn't really speak English, and he didn't really
know how to make the drinks. The younger guy seemed like he was
doing everything; taking orders, making drinks, passing them
out. While waiting for my drinks, a girl who had just gotten her
drink mentioned that she asked for no ice in her drink. So the
old guy took the drink, and instead of just making a brand new
one, like most American places would, he poked a hole on the
top, ripped open the plastic lid, and proceeded to take out the
ice and then add more tea and milk. This was super shoddy. I
probably would've told them to make me a brand new one, but as
all Asians know, Asian places are all about saving money and not
wasting their time and effort on customer service. Just to give
you an example of what I mean, I went to this Cantonese seafood
restaurant, and they gave me chicken instead of beef in my dish.
The person who brought out the food went back, and the manager
came back with the same dish. He asked if I would still eat it rather than just
making a new one. Very typical of Asian places. In an American
restaurant, there would be no questions asked about taking food
back, and a new one would be brought out. Anyways, I'm diverging
from what happened. Oh yeah. It took at least 10 min before I
placed my order because only 2 people were working, and the old
guy was only doing the easy drinks where he had to scoop the
stuff out of the canisters in the fridge, whereas the other guy
was doing all the fancy drinks. Eventually, the girl and her bf?
went out, and tried the drinks. I'm assuming it didn't taste
right, cuz they went back, and asked for a new one or
something.
One
more thing. Last night, I had a dream (I think it was spurred by
Me, Ron, and Kris talking about On Broadway, and Ron going with
Jennifer Yee) involving Jennifer being engaged to some Prince.
Jennifer turned out REALLY REALLY pretty, and they both looked really
good together. Not sure what the details
were, but that was the general dream. It was quite
disturbing.
12/23/02
Last night, Me, Glo, Jonathan, Kristina, Ron, Nina, Yanni, and
her friend went to SOHO for a Toys for Tots charity event
being held by DUB Magazine. Special guests included Jon B,
Coolio, and Sugar Ray. This was the first time in a long time
that I went to a club that played hip hop. We got to the event a
little early so not a lot people were there yet. When people did
start arriving, I began to see all the girls/guys all hooched/pimped
out for this L.A. crowd. I wasn't use to seeing the L.A.
clubbing crowd, since I really haven't gone to a real club here.
Almost all the black people were all pimped/hooched out. I saw
this one black chick wearing a Chanel bandanna or something. It
might've just been a scarf that she tied around her head. I saw
some decked all out in their fine jewelry. There were these 3
white chicks dressed like they were going to some formal dance.
They stuck out even more. In the beginning, when the club was
still fairly empty, the group of us were dancing. Eventually,
everyone went to get a drink, so I was left watching the
jackets. Two girls that were sitting by the jacket came out to
dance, and I was just kind of dancing and standing by the
jackets. One of the girls started saying "Dance with
us!", so I danced with them. Then the two of them came up
to me, one behind and one in front, and started freaking me. It
was VERY odd, since I had never experienced this before. Then I
was kind of just dancing with one of them, and when we kind of
finished, she said, "You're too funny." I guess she
liked the way I was dancing with them. heh. When they came back,
the majority of us were dancing. I think I was dancing more than
the rest of them. As the night went on, Kristina and Glo
were the two getting the most drunk. Yanni was checking out this
girl who had implants, and kept staring at em, saying she wanted
them. Jon B came out around 11:30, sang some songs, and we left
during his performance. Outside, Kris wanted to get wonton
noodles or bacon cheddar potato wedges. Driving back, Kris did
some drunk dialing. Went to In n Out and got a snack. Went home
and went to sleep.
Today,
went to the mall and checked out T-mobile stuff. Went to go
watch Two Towers. Had the urge to pee midway through the movie,
and held it for the rest of the movie. Wanted to use the
bathrooms at the theater, but the people were taking forever to
get out, so I just left the place and decided to go home and
take a piss. Longest piss ever that I had. Like LOOOOOOOOOONG.
Went to Tony's Pizza to get a student's special, and realized
that this place was still as unsanitary was ever, with the guy
handling the pizza and money without washing his hands in
between.
12/20/02
Kristina wanted to go to Friday's for Happy Hour today, so I
drove over to Oakland, picked her up, went to Jack London
Square, and ate there. We sat at the bar for Happy Hour, which
was odd, since it was required that we sit there to get the
Happy Hour price, whereas in SD, we could just sit anywhere. So
when we moved to the bar to eat, the waiter came by and got our
order. For some reason, I got the feeling he was gay, but I
wasn't quite sure. I asked Kristina what she thought, but she
was confused too. Let me tell you why I think that. First off,
he came by, and asked if we wanted some drinks on the house (but
I think that was just a ploy to get a bigger tip) and the second
time was when he moved a chair in the walkway closer to us,
Kristina said that he looked at me in a way reserved for only
people you like, and he had a smile on his face when he did it.
I didn't notice that. A little after we got our food, this black
guy sitting at the bar (we were adjacent to the bar) asked if
the spinach artichoke dip was good. We didn't really know at the
moment if it was good or not, so we just said not sure yet. A
bit later, I told him that it was pretty good. He proceeded to
shift his body in our direction, and started asking questions,
and making comments. This is when he began to talk the whole
time, nonstop. He asked what we did, and I mentioned I was
unemployed at the moment. He mentioned that I should look into a
job at Home Depot, and that he has stocks invested in that
company. I made a comment about the quality of the stocks at the
moment, and he started rambling about a house he bought, buying
a house with his girlfriend, how much profit he made, the house
he currently owns, the increase in price of that house, and all
the while, giving us the estimated cost of each place. I found
that quite odd, especially since we just met this guy. What
normal person tells u how much their house is worth the first
time you meet them? All the while, I was checking out what he
was wearing, to get a general idea of how rich this guy was. I
kept getting the impression that he wanted to show off his
wealth, but I wasn't too sure. He wore a Boss jacket, had a
diamond earring, a huge watch, and a gold bracelet. I figured he
wasn't too poor with all those accessories. Don't remember all
the details, but he went into his trip to Thailand, the
Phillipines and whatever, and talked about all the deals he got
shopping there, went into the 3 studded diamond earring he got
for a bargain, how he got 3 custom suits there, and talked about
some computer stuff at the Sony Outlet. Towards the end of our
meal, our waiter was watching the basketball game, and started
talking about it. That made Kristina and I wondering if he
REALLY was gay or not. Oh, and he messed up our check. He didn't
give us the happy hour price. That's all.
Tonight,
its off to eat at Scala's for dinner, a nice Italian restaurant
in Union Square right by Saks Fifth Avenue, and then we're off
to Zebulon for a bit, then coming back to Berkeley to get a
nights sleep, and we're heading back to LA for the week or
so.
12/19/02
Went to Sonia and Katelyn's Christmas house party in Castro
yesterday. Their place was decorated like nothing I've ever
seen. The stairway was full of Christmas lights, wreaths, and
plants. The landlord's window had a little mechanical man
holding a candle and moved left and right. Candles were lit in
every room, food was dispersed in several rooms, and people
filled every room. The Christmas tree looked very elegant (it
was bought by the landlord too). The party had lots and lots of
food and alcohol. Met some cool people. Had some good
conversations. Brandon and Kristina ditched me to go watch the
Two Towers. I still had fun though regardless. I also felt weird
being in that situation, where everyone had their groups of
friends, and just talked to each other, though not everyone was
like that. Some people went from crowd to crowd, chit chatting
with everyone. No one opened up the bottle of wine I took from
the Alice Christmas party. So sad!
Interesting
story I found on the net http://www.chuckjerry.com/stories/654.shtml
654 Cheeseburgers
and fries
Participants are Jerry,
Brian, Luke and ghetto Bob.
So one night we decided
to go bowling. This is irrelevant to the story except that it
happened on the same night. Ghetto Bob, who is really good at
stupid things that have no bearing on everyday life like bowling
and John Madden football for Playstation and darts and other
stupid things, had just beaten the crap out of all of us in
bowling. Bob scored a 209 in comparison with my high of about
117. At one point Bob had like 5 strikes in a row.
Anyhow, after the
bowling we went to McDonald's. This was not unusual because at
this point in time (summer of 1995. I remember it distinctly as
summer 1995 because that was the summer of the infamous
shout-out book residing in the Guiney basement. I have since
reread the entry for that night confirming its appropriate
position in space-time) we went to McDonald's every day. This is
not an exaggeration. Once i got my driver's license in July 1995
I went to McDonald's every day without fail. So we're at
McDonald's and there is a long hold up on the line and no one
really knows why.
Just then we see this
guy carrying several of those large McDonald's shopping bags.
You have to order a shitload of food to get a McDonald's
shopping bag, let alone several. They're more than happy to send
you on your way with three semi-large bags and the drink carton
also. So he's got his several bags and he goes out the door.
Amazingly, he's followed out the door by several (not one, but
several) McDonald's employees, also with many bags each. Lots of
severals are taking place here.
We were interested at
this point what was taking place. We asked one of the cashiers
what was going on that was important enough to halt the ever
important progress of the line at this fine fast food
establishment. She replied, "This guy here just ordered 654
cheeseburgers. And fries."
"What, 654
cheeseburgers? That's a lot of cheeseburgers."
"Yeah, apparently there's some kind of little league
banquet and they decided to get McDonald's food."
This isn't exactly what
she said. When was the last time you heard a McDonald's worker
say 'apparently'? Never. But still, it was something like that.
So imagine this for a minute. You're sitting around the board
meeting of your little league and wondering what to do for the
banquet and you decide to rent out a nice hall with enough room
for 654 people and to have the event catered by McDonald's. Not
only that, the extent of this meal will be one cheeseburger and
small fries and that's it. That's not a meal if you ask me.
So the four of us were
quite surprised and amused at this turn of events. We batted
around jokes about 654 cheeseburgers and had some good laughs.
Just then a guy who had been eating in the back came up to the
line to get something else. I hate to impose this character in
all the McDonald's stories, but this guy was pretty ghetto.
Anyway, he noticed the hold up in the line too and inquired as
to its cause.
"This guy here
just ordered 654 cheeseburgers. And fries."
"654 cheeseburgers? For himself?
"I don't know man. That's a lot of cheeseburgers,
though."
"True dat, yo."
And then the guy
uttered the line that made this story possible.
"Damn, 654
cheeseburgers. Niggas gonna have diarrhea out the ass."
At this, the four of us
burst into the kind of laughter that makes you think that
everything is right with the world. For days, months, and even
years later we have often recounted the events of that night.
Ghetto Bob's miraculous 209, 654 cheeseburgers, and the
revelation that, indeed, niggas would have diarrhea out the ass.
12/18/02
Last night was the radio station's annual Christmas party, this
time being held at a hotel in Sausalito. I arrived at the
Fisherman's Wharf around 5:00 to catch a ferry ride provided by
the radio station, across the bay. The ferry ride was anything
but comfortable, as any of you who have been on ferries would
know. The one thing cool about the ride was that I had never
been on a ferry ride in the bay area, and I got to the see the
city lights on the ocean. When we arrived there, we walked a
couple minutes to the hotel, and went into this restaurant that
was suppose to be all nice n stuff, but it was just okay
looking. The best part about it was the view of the city at
night. Food consisted of appetizers (shrimp, salmon, veggies,
bread), and hors doerves (no idea how to spell that) consisting
of fried cheese balls, shrimp with something on it, bite size
quesadillas, some croutons with peppers on it and another
variation of that. Drinks were water, coke, sprite, pallegrino,
red and white wine, and various beers. DJs spun for the party,
the first being a cd DJ and the other actually using vinyl. The
whole experience was weird at first because I didn't know
anyone, but people introduced me to other people and people just
introduced themselves, which made the whole experience cooler.
Most of the people I was introduced to weren't higher up people.
I have yet to meet one of them. I'm tired of talking about this.
One guy I walked by mentioned that a lot of gay guys hit on him,
I did some dancing, got bloated and full off the drinks and
little snacks, took a bottle of wine for myself, and just had a
blast seeing everyone drunk on the ferry ride back.
Afterwards,
I went to Brandon's place, hung out a bit, went to Top on Haight
Street, and partied there for a couple hours. Went back to
Brandon's place, and crashed the night.
Tonight,
I might go watch LOTR or go to one of Brandon's friend's x-mas
party in Castro.
12/16/02
Nothing much happened today except for one thing. As I was
watching an episode of Alias on my computer, I heard a knock on
the door. It was slightly louder than what Jerylin would do, so
I knew it wasn't her, and I wasn't expecting any packages. As
quietly as I could, I slowly crept towards the door, trying not
to make any creaking sounds. But as I neared the door, I made a
couple creaking sounds, and I accidentally stepped on one of
Kristina's flip flops, and that made a sound. As I was walking,
I heard more and more knocking. I looked through the peep hole,
and noticed that it was the landlord. I knew at that moment that
I wouldn't open the door. I slowly walked into Kristina's room,
trying to avoid any confrontation with the landlord. The
landlord kept on knocking. He kept on knocking for at least a
minute or two, and didn't seem to give up. At some moments, the
knocking happened more frequently. In Kristina's room, I called
up Jerylin, and asked what I should do, and she said "Don't
open the door. Just keep quiet." And that I did. The
knocking occurred a couple more times, and finally the landlord
left. I only wonder what the landlord wanted. Was I playing my
music too loud? Did the tenants upstairs complain to the
landlord? Did he want to complain about me having my car in the
garage? Was there something wrong? I don't know. We'll just have
to find out when Kristina gets back and calls the landlord.
Oh
yeah, something else happened today. Brandon, Kristina and three
other people are planning to go watch Twin Towers on Wednesday,
and I was planning on watching it with them that day. Brandon
had bought me tickets to watch the show, but I decided that I
wanted to use my free ticket that I got when I purchased the
LOTR special edition. I was planning on going to the Metreon to
get my tickets sometime Wednesday, but as I checked online to
see if they were still available, I realized that there were
none to be bought. So now my dilemma is whether or not I will
try to go and watch it with them on Wednesday, and try and buy a
ticket, hoping that they only sold out online and not at the box
office too. My other option is to just go watch it at AMC in
Emeryville, where a showing happens every hour, which seems
likely at the moment. If I do that, I'll end up watching the
movie by myself.
12/13/02
This morning, I woke up way before the intended time of 4
o'clock. It was odd waking up that early because that's the time
I go to sleep on some occasions of late night partying and
because there was no sunlight out yet. I had to use the
headlights on the drive. So for those of you who aren't living
in the bay area, it is raining and will be raining the next few
days, so you can imagine my concern when going to the job today.
It was at the Oakland Coliseum parking lot. I arrived
before most of the people who worked there, and when I got
there, all I saw was an electrician truck, setting up the stuff.
I didn't realize that we were doing this for a food drive. So
while waiting, I see numerous trucks supplying air for various
balloons that were being set off to try and take "No
Name" up into the air. Before I go any further, let me
introduce you to the people I met. First off was Jenny, an Asian
girl who for some reason reminded me of Sandy (Lisa's friend at
Cal). She was cool, and welcomed me with open arms. Soon
afterwards, I met a guy named Kevin and a girl named Rebecca.
Kevin was an odd one, saying very random things and trying to be
all funny whereas Rebecca seemed very stern, and not joking
around, though she probably. I felt odd at that point, because
all three of them were conversing in a little circle, and kind
of left me out to stand on my own. I would've imagined that they
would've been talking to me, finding out who I was, and where I
came from, but the only one who seemed interested was Jenny. I
have no idea what they thought of me since they barely talked to
me the whole day. I asked them a couple questions that weren't
answered. I'm not
sure if they just didn't hear me, or if they ignored me because
they didn't think I was cool enough.
So
eventually, we began starting to setup, despite the rain. The
tent was the first thing put up, and once that was up, we setup
the tables, chairs, and everything else. Our little Alice table
was placed adjacent to the food bank truck. This is where we
were taking donations from people. I think the original idea of
the whole event was that people would donate money, and we would
blow up balloons with their name on it to try and lift "No
Name" up into the air, but because of the weather, we
decided to scratch that idea and just announce their names on
the air. Three of us were blowing up the balloons. I had a very
difficult time tying up the balloons due to cold hands? In any
case, I was weak sauce, and could barely tie a balloon whereas
the girls were tying them up one after another. I felt incompetent
for some reason. heh. Kevin and I began taking donations soon
after, and eventually, the job just ended up being solely mine
since Kevin had to go help out at the table with all the morning
show people, and the girls were doing random stuff. There was a
special guest appearance by Jonny Mosely, which I wasn't
expecting whatsoever. What was interesting was the car he was
driving. I believe it was a Mercedes Benz 300D, a better model
of my 240D. I believe most of you guys out there know what I'm
talking about. His car was a maroon color, and I think he was
off snowboarding or something, because he had something about
the size of a snowboard on top of his car. His car was parked
right next to mine. Aww yeah! Towards the end, while everyone
was out watching No Name's attempt to fly, I walked towards the
area where everyone was crowding before. While there, I saw this
guy, and he noticed me. He started pointing to the Pecan pie,
and pointing to me. I kept shaking my head "no", but
he kept insisting that I take a pie. So I took one, but quickly
set it down to do stuff. Later, he came over to where I was
collecting donations, and asked where the bathrooms were. I
think he was hitting on me. Anyways, most of the
day was spent standing behind the table, collecting donations,
writing their names on a card and pocketing the donations.
So
I did this from 5-10am. Throughout the day, Danielle (my boss),
kept on being funny and saying "Welcome to Alice!!"
with a huge grin on her face. She kept apologizing and saying
that this is the worst it'll ever get. She repeated saying these
numerous times in the same fashion. In the end, I finally got my
Alice t-shirt to wear for future events and whatever. Right when
I got onto the freeway, I realized that I forgot to get my mini
swiss army knife back from the balloon lady, who had borrowed it
at the beginning of the event. So, I don't know if I have to go
buy another one, unless she returns it to Alice, and remembered
my name, or remembered that I was the one Asian guy working
there. Man, I just got that sucker like 3 months ago too.
When
I got back, I took nap for a couple hours. What happens tonight
is still a mystery.
So
tonight, I was checking out the Alice website, and I noticed
they posted up pics of the event today. To my surprise, there
were pictures of the guy who was trying to give me a Pecan Pie.
He's a comedian named Scott Capurro, and he's gay. So maybe
he was hitting on me? I don't know.
12/11/02
Today, I went to go sign papers for employment at Alice Radio. I
felt very welcome to the place, starting with the friendly
officer at the front, and being greeted with a huge smile from
the supervisor. She congratulated me and gave me a handshake. In
the elevator, I asked, "I thought you weren't going to get
back to me until this Friday?" "I didn't want to
forget anyone I liked, and I wanted to just start hiring,"
she replied. It felt good to know that someone thought I was
worthy enough! aww yeah! So we go in, sign papers, and she tells
me about future events this week. At first, she was going to
have me do two events, one at the Guess store at I don't know
where, and help out at the morning show on Friday. I agreed to
do both, but she said I should just do the Friday one. I don't
really care, but I need to bitch a little about the time.
5am-10am on Friday! I don't know when the last time I woke up
that early to do something was, but it was a LOOOONG time ago.
In the office, I saw so much free shit ranging from cards, cds,
t-shirts and anything else a radio station would have, and I
wanted to take some of them. That was the highlight of my day.
Now its time to find another job to make ends meet.
12/10/02
Sorry for not posting up new entries for those of you who check
my page daily? I've been having problems accessing my Geocities
website to upload my pages. But here it is.
For
those of you unaware, I got a part-time job at Alice radio, a
station similar to STAR 98.7 or 100.7, depending on where you
live, but it isn't STAR because there's a STAR already. Doesn't
pay much, but it should be a fun and awesome experience. I get
to meet new people, which is a definitely plus, since I just
moved up, and need to meet new people. I'm not sure when I
start, but hopefully it'll be soon, because I need to occupy my
time with things other than surfing the net and other stuff.
Now,
the only thing I'm worried about is if I'll be getting a call
back from this other job I applied to. If I do get that job,
then my next concern is when I might be able to go back to LA,
and after that, how long I can stay there. So my future trip
back to LA is still undecided. I really want to go to our five
year reunion though!
12/06/02
Got this awhile ago from Lisa. Found this pretty interesting.
(PC World) - A 52-year-old Taiwanese woman who pleaded no contest in one of the largest software piracy cases in the U.S. was sentenced to nine years in prison Friday, one of the longest sentences ever in this country for a case involving software piracy. Lisa Chen was arrested along with three associates in November 2001 after local sheriffs seized hundreds of thousands of copies of pirated software worth more than $75 million that Chen and her associates were believed to have smuggled into the country from Taiwan, the district attorney for the county of Los Angeles said last week.
12/05/02
Went clubbing to various places. Had a blast. =)
12/04/02
Yesterday, after playing Metroid and running some errands during
the day, I headed out to the city for a night of clubbing at Top
in Haight. Drum and Bass was the music being played last night.
I'm not a HUGE D&B fan, but I tolerate it, and occasionally,
there are some songs that I find very fun to dance to. The
headliner of the night was a DJ called High Contrast, supposedly
some big DJ that Brandon, Kristina, and some other D&B fans
wanted to see. He had a pretty good mix of songs. Very upbeat
and happy compared to most D&B music played out there (at
least from what I've heard). Overall, I had a fun night. Of
course, I was the only one not drinking again.
11/30/02
Per request of Paul and Rass, I am adding an additional journal
entry tonight to mention tonight's events. But before I get to
that, let me tell you what happened the weekend that Glo and
Jonathan came up. So, after surprising Glo upon her arrival (she
thought she was going to Jonathan's cousin's place), we went to
go eat at Tommy's Joynt, a cheap, yet scrumptious, cafeteria
style restaurant. We ate there, and chit chatted about random
stuff. On the way back to Brandon's place (we walked), we walked
through the transvestite hooker area. All of them were speaking
Spanish. As I walked by a larger one, he stuck out his hands,
and pinched my cheek (face cheek) and I reacted by just moving
my face away. I never looked back to see what monstrosity
touched me. The next day, we went to eat at Johnny Rockets where
half our order was messed up, and we ended up getting half our
meal for free. We then went to the SF International Auto Show
and perused the numerous cars there. I was most thrilled about
the Volvo SUV, being a huge Volvo fan. I was also thrilled about
checking out the new Mercedes line-up. I could care less for the
American and Korean cars. No offense, but they make the worst
cars out there. That night, went to a Asian fusion restaurant?
Pretty good. Then went to a club that played house.
Next
morning, went to get breakfast/lunch in Hayes Valley. The most
amusing thing during our meal was this gay guy who was sitting
adjacent to us. A pigeon flew up from the ground, and the guy
screamed like a girl, and brought his arms to his chest, while
moving himself away from the pigeon. Then we went to the
adoption center on Fillmore and checked out the kittens and
dogs.
Came
back to LA for Thanksgiving, and the first thing I did was sink
my fingers into Metroid Prime. After much anticipation, I
finally got to play it, and I must say WOW, this game rocks.
It's better than I expected, and I had high expectations.
Thanksgiving
dinner was at my cousin's place. We thought we would be cooking
something, but ended up not, since my cousin's mom bought a
precooked turkey and a prime rib, and all that was necessary was
for us to heat it up. Overall, I was pretty satisfied with our
meal.
The
day after, Kristina and I went to South Coast Plaza to do some
shopping. I wasn't in a shopping mood, so I didn't purchase
anything, whereas Kristina did. Then, went to Costplus to do
some shopping.
So
today, Saturday, I went to go eat at Julienne's, figure out a
new cell phone plan and pick out a new cell phone, went to Curry
House to eat, visited Lisa, Paul, and Rass. The interesting part
is here. So while at Kristina's place, waiting for everyone to
arrive, I receive a call from Lisa's cell. Thinking it was Lisa,
I was kind of surprised to hear that it was Paul talking. He
started blabbering about stuff, and then hung up. Then throughout the night, I kept getting a call from him, but I knew
he was drunk and was just trying to pester me or something, so I
just kept rejecting his call. After dinner at Curry House, Brian
and I went over to Lisa's to check out the situation. During my
time driving, I received two more calls from Paul, and each time
I rejected the call. When I got there, I found Paul and Rass,
crouching in the garage, giggling like little girls. Out popped
Paul. He ran towards us, and gave us a big huge. Inside, Paul
and Rass were being just as rowdy and obnoxious, especially
towards Lisa, who was vexed already. Lisa was headed out to
Santa Monica to go meet up with some friends, and during the
whole time, Paul just kept being obnoxious and what not. So as
Lisa was driving her car out of the driveway, Paul kept harassing
Lisa, and I don't know what led up to this, but next thing I
know, I see Paul on top of the hood, then on top of the trunk,
then kicks the car as Lisa drives off. A minute later, we see
Lisa coming down the street, all pissed off about what just
happened. I decide to leave. I'm tired of talking. Me, Brian,
and Rass come to my place, while Paul stays to "talk"
things over with Lisa.
Yesterday
(Sunday), Kristina and I left around 2:30, heading back to
Berkeley. It took us almost 9 hours to drive back. Ugh..
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