you, srp. ^_^ or to be more specific, the computer tech guys who decided to screw me over, bastard guys.
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- hehe i find this one quite true about my productivity at work *hint hint*
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- this is kinda obvious haha 'bai ren'
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- too young and dangerous to be a nerd unlike some ppl
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- i wish i was more like the f4 from taiwan than the stupid keyboard button. maybe then girls might like me =P
here's an interesting link that'll keep you busy for a while. stupid fish.
06.27.02
so today my work computer is being extremely gay by taking forever to complete simple commands such as minimizing or maximizing windows. i guess turning it off for a couple hours didn't work since i figured i hadn't turned it off for a couple days that it probably was just a little bit warm and needed a break. on top of that the stupid cd player in my car stopped working probably duet o the intense heat of az's summer. yesterday i get into my car and start it up as usual and i skipped a song cuz i didn't really like the current one so it goes to the next song and just doesn't play it. this has happened before ever since i've had the cd player so i just unplug all the connections and make sure that there's no power running through it and let it sit for a couple seconds. i plug everything back in and attempt to turn it on again, but to no avail. it simply stared back at me with just as blank an expression on my face as it did it's own. so i unplug everything again and plug them all back in, but it still doesn't work. then i opened up the cd player and stuck it in front of the a/c vent hoping that after i cool it down a little that it'll start to work again, but i suppose it was damaged beyond just a simple 'cool-down.' man, now i have to use my ghetto old cd player which has no skip-protection which means if i put it down in the car that it'll skip like a mofo so i have to let it sit in my lap when i'm driving. it's sad how the only good thing in my car now is gone and in it's place is a half-assed replacement. therefore, i've come to the conclusion that i will finally get a deck for my car and maybe upgrade the speakers. nothing too fancy, just something that doesn't suck like ths stock stereo system. the worst part is that it's taking from the 'future car'-fund and instead is going into the 'ghetto current car'-fund. jeez and i didn't even plan on spending any money on the corolla. to make it worse i was going through toyota racing development's website and they don't have parts for my corolla. it's not that they don't have parts for corollas in general, just not mine's which makes it even worse. it just goes to show that not even toyota would dare to make this any sort of 'high-performance vehicle.' so this week has been screwing me over in more ways than one besides deprieving me of 'me-time' in which i do stuff that i want, instead of doing stuff that i'm told to do (ex: work), but it's not like i do much there anyways. it's just the principle of the matter. i'm there to do work rather than to jus chill and relax cuz that's what summer is for, but tomorrow i get paid and we'll see now if all that work i did was really worth it.
for pucca and mashimaro cartoons, check this place out. go to the 'flash movies' section.
so last night i had this weird dream where my sister and me were rummaging around some garage with a lot of junk in it and on this work table there's this funny looking little object. so we go up for a closer look and it turns out to be the head of a dead baby fetus. it was quite disturbing. it looked like a wrinkly, brown apple with two little nubs that were gonna be eyes (seeing as it was a fetus they never technically 'were' so i can't say 'used to be'). so yeah then my sister had to pick it up for some reason (i guess to dispose of it or in her case, save it for later so she could eat it ^_^) and put it in a box that i was holding. *end of dream* haha disturbing huh?
song of the moment: kiss - "without you"
the only english song (i think) on the kiss cd
06.26.02
dear God,
how's it going? i'm doing good, but You already know that cuz You're psychic like that. anyways, just wanted to give You a holler and see what's goin on? oh well, while You're listening i have this great idea. You see, You always want us to help others out and stuff so here's my idea. if You gave me super powers i could go around and rescue ppl in trouble and stuff. they'd be like, "oh (super hero name)! thank you so much!" and i'll be like, "don't thank me. thank God for giving me these super powers" but the thing is i kinda don't have super powers n stuff so if You could kinda hook a brutha up it'd be awesome. also, did You ever notice how all superheros drive cool cars? like batman drove the batmobile and blade had that big ol' muscle car, well this is where You can help out. since i'd be a super hero i'd need a cool car too. well to help You narrow down the choices, i picked a few out myself so You wouldn't have to go through the trouble. of course You probably knew what i was gonna pick, in fact You probably have the perfect one in mind too so hopefully You had chosen THIS car (to match my super hero costume of course ^_^), but if that's a tad on the expensive side then it's possible to swing for THIS one. not that ne thing would be too expensive for You, but for ME actually cuz i'm kinda clumsy sometimes. so whatever Your choice (of the two) is it's all good. so yeah that's pretty much my idea to save the world, You probably have a better idea, but i'm just giving You my input so let a guy know if You're up for this idea. You know how to reach me.
sincerely,
me
06.25.02
it's been a while since i smattered this little corner of the world wide web with my daily thoughts so i've decided to grace the world with what's been goin on lately. well, i've been working full time over the summer, which i think everyone knows since i talk to them on aim all day. man, working has been pretty draining. it's strange how i don't exert myself much physically yet at the end of the day i'm exhausted. so a friend from gungfu gave his opinion and said that you can actually wear yourself out mentally, but i've been trying to figure out what i do around here that is mentally challenging. problem is that there isn't anything really. i think it's just all this tedious, grunt work that i do which slowly numbs my mind and i swear kills brain cells. the worst part is that i found out i might not be eligible for srp's college tuition reimbursement program which means that i only have that scholarship to rely on in terms of 'money i don't have to pay.' it seems that the program is only open to "employees" and me not being and "employee," but rather an "intern." oh well, i guess i can find some solace in the fact that since they're not paying for college that i'm not really...ehh...how do i say it? umm...putting much effort into 'doing work.' in other words if i were to give you percentages of work as opposed to 'non-work' it'd be something like 30%/70%. basically, they're paying me not to do a whole lot. so i'd consider finding another job that'll actually pay for my college tuition or at least a portion of it. it wouldn't bother me if it wasn't as cushy as this job since there'd probably be a little more 'excitement' and i'm not sure whether or not i have to work a certain amount of hours to be eligible to have my tuition paid for. whatever, if they pay for college and i can stand the work then i'd ditch srp for it. even if they didn't pay as much! at least MY OWN money won't go to paying for skool! YAY! yes, if you haven't noticed i'm very opposed to using my own money to pay for 'skool' which is kind've a foreign concept to me. paying? to be bored out of my mind? why would anyone do something dumb like that?! haha. yeah i don't like skool very much, but i guess it's the only time in my life that i'll ever get to be free from all those 'worries' that adults out in the 'real world' have. which brings me to the conclusion that i now have 310 mp3's and 136 music videos/video clips on my work computer and this isn't a very good conclusion, but it just goes to show that you get what you pay for and srp....well they got me! hehe.
jim's dog is the meanest dog in the world.
man, work is sucky. i hope my paycheck cheers me up.
06.24.02
I am Kung Fu Master.I like to be in control of myself. I dislike crowds, especially crowds containing people trying to kill me. Even though I always win, I prefer to avoid fights if possible. What Video Game Character Are You?
I taste like Beef.I taste like beef. I'm probably made of beef. You are what you eat, they say, and if the title didn't mean something else, I would be a beefeater. I think red meat is good for you. Puts hair on your chest. What Flavour Are You?
here's an interesting tidbit of me im'ing this girl that my cousin in cali knows. man, i wish i did this more often:
* note my poor use of korean. i know, i spelled it phonetically-incorrect. someone please shoot me.
06.20.02
remember "where's waldo?" when you were a kid? well check this out! relive those childhood memories!
hmmm it seems after checking insurance quotes from various companies that it's cheaper for me to get the mr2 rather than the 240sx so i guess my decision is starting to sway in the direction of the mr2. well ne wayz, i'd just like to announce the award for 'stingiest jew in the world' goes to my dad. last night when i came home from work i just wanted to tell him about how i was looking through insurance quotes for the cars that i plan on getting in the future. all of a sudden he gets on my case about my current car and all this other stuff. he's like, "well if you get a new car then what're we going to do with the car you drive now?" well that's obvious, it's going to my sister, but i guess i was kind of implying 'future' as in later this year or early next year. then he's like, "well you know we still have to pay all these other things like insurance and license and blah blah blah" to which i only have to say that it's not like i won't completely ditch the car, i mean if i WERE to get one i think i'd still need the corolla around for a litle while just till i get better with driving stick. it's kind of like a 'backup' car. then he goes off about how he doesn't want me to be working all the time to make payments for the car and insurance and all that since i'm going to college and he wants me to focus on that. well, they kinda did set aside money for college for me, but it seems like it's more than enough to cover the cost of it so that's one source of income. then there's the fact that i have money saved up as well. also, i will be working in college, part-time of course, so it's not like i don't have any money whatsoever and that's just to cover the cost of the car. i have a scholarship, srp's tuition reimbursement, and possible gov't grants if my mom ever finishes that fafsa form i gave her a couple months back to cover skool. before i consulted my dad about it, my mom seemed to be okay with it, but when it comes to my dad, everything goes downhill. then he thinks i want a new car cuz my friends think it's, in his words, "shitty." i mean i don't care what my friends think about my car since they're not the ones driving it. plus, all i want in a car is that its fast(or has the potential to be fast), looks good, and is decently comfortable. that's all and yet they deny me that. instead, they stick me with a 'point a to point b' car. a pos gas-saving commuter, the bane of all fast cars. *grrr* stupid econobox, grocery-getting cars, imo they aren't something even worth making fast. i mean it's not like i'm asking for some $50k luxury car and two or three years back they buy a friggin lexus that's almost $30k! hmm let's see, i'm not asking for a new car, luxury car, or anything of the sort. jus something that is relatively cheap(almost 1/3 the cost of the lexus!), but a car i would enjoy driving. come on! damn, it all seems so hopeless now, i'll be stuck with my ghetto hoopty till who knows when, maybe even AFTER my sister starts driving. so guess what that means? i get to share a car with her!! woo-hoo! my ass. it's like they're pretty much buying her a car since the corolla is goin to be hers when she starts driving and i'm pretty much left high and dry to fend for myself. way to go mom and dad. the best part is that i'm the first-born son in a chinese family!!! well, i guess that doesn't matter anymore. maybe too oldskool or something. *sigh* so to sum it all up, my dad's being ghey about me getting a new car. end of story.
jus got back from dropping off some papers that needed to be copied in ghetto phx. *ew* that place is 'no bueno' as they say in mexico. ne wayz, i stopped by the local import car shop, mark performance, next to the mitsubishi dealership on scottsdale rd. it's a really small shop that doesn't really have much. the guys up front were like off doin their own thing. it was kinda funny i was listening to their conversation and they were talking about some asian guy (probably viet) who drives this sentra. then they started imitating him by making all these funny clicky, viet noises and it was really funny. *quack* yeah good times.
song of the moment: kiss - "because i'm a girl"
touchy mv makes the song better
06.18.02
aw this sux. i've been goin over some numbers and i realized that i won't be able to buy a new car soon unless i don't spend a penny for the next 6 - 7 months which is impossible. even at that by the time i will be able to afford the car i want, then it'll probably be sold. *grrr* man, if only i could find a cheap car that i like and would be able to drive for a couple years. if i wanted the 240sx i've been lookin at it'll take a year of hardcore saving and i doubt it'd still be up for sale a year from now. also, i can't find any mr2's that are turbocharged. all of them so far are the n/a ones and i don't really want that. ~oi the feeling of hopelessness. i'd consider taking out a loan, but i'm not sure if i could keep up with it since i'll probably have to start paying insurance for my car, if i get it and i can only make so much for working part-time. obviously i don't want to rely on my parents to buy me a car cuz if they pay for it at all, i'll most likely get a car that i don't want. maybe i could convince them into letting me get the 240sx though and if that's possible, all i need to do is get more proficient at driving stick. :sigh: but i don't wanna get my hopes up now so i better stop thinking about it and try to go do some work. late.
dang i jus recalculated everything and at the rate i'm going at now, considering current income and expenditures, it'll take 27 1/2 months or 2 years, 3 months, and 2 weeks to raise up the necessary funds for the car. however, this is going by the part-time schedule i have throughout the year and does not take the full-time summer schedule into consideration nor the possible sick days & holidays, but that is still a veryyyyy long time. maybe i should look for a better paying job or invest in stocks or some crap. i heard selling drugs makes some pretty good money haha j/k, but man i need a get-rich-quick scheme. lemme know if you guys got any in mind. if it gets me some big bucks fast, i'll give you a ride in my car when i get it. haha righttttt.
06.17.02
continuing with the china trip:
day 8
so it was our last day with the tour group and my uncle & cousin, since they weren't going to fuzhou with us. that morning the tour guide took us to this market of some sort where there was like some hardcore shopping goin on. the buildings looked traditional and there were ppl all over the place. also, it turns out that weekend was the 'kids weekend'-thing in china. not sure what it was exactly, but it seemed like a children's equivalent to father's day/mother's day. well, i got a bunch of neat stuff like mao tse dong lighters, a commie watch, and a fake rolex. that rolex took me like 20-30 min to bargain for cuz the guy didn't want to give it up for less than 280. it was originally almost 400 yuan, but i got it down to 200 hundred. oOo how's that for my awesome china-haggling skillz? and i did it all in chinese! wow! i'm not a dumb abc after all! hehe right. so yeah other than that, nothing too eventful went on in the market. i couldn't find a decent butterfly knife though. it seems that china puts out crappy quality ones and they weren't worth paying for so yeah. after lunch, most ppl went to the airport to go back to america, we went back to the hotel cuz our luggage was there and our flight was at about 7 so we had to wait a little while. then the flight got delayed like an hour so we were there till 8 and got to fuzhou by 10 or so and it was ghey and i was like yeah whatever dawg. this is getting way to long so i'm gonna give the abridged version now.
day 9
shopped a lot. bought a ton of dvds and vcds. got spiderman and star wars ep2, etc. also got mosquito bites too. puzzled as to why God made mosquitos cuz they suck (literally) hahaha bad joke.
day 10
more shopping, visited granduncle's house. interesting stuff. had dinner in hotel restaurant. good food, bad service. they ran out of rice, how can you do that at a chinese restaurant?
day 11
last minute shopping, chilled around fuzhou. went back to shanghai
day 12
even more last minute shopping. finally got lord of the rings 2 and 3. flew back to US.
end of story ^_^
a story regarding my sister's short bus obsession.
had a very short weekend cuz of traffic survival skool. all i gotta say is i hate the mvd, dmv, whatever. thanks for robbing me of 8 hours of my weekend and fifty dollars of my own money you greedy bastards. i hope ur glad you have another unhappy customer. other than that did a lot of chilling n wut not, but nothing to extremely exciting and spectacular.
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06.16.02
finally part 3 of my china trip:
day 7
we went to ling ying temple in the morning where we saw this old guy bustin out vertical splits up against a tree. it was THE most awesome thing i saw on the trip (besides boa's mv everyday ^_^). we went in the temple and saw the usual stuff, incense, idols, etc. yeah and it smelled funny when we were there, but hey incense always smell funny. other than that there wasn't a whole lot in that place. the scenery around there was really nice though, it was very....chinese n stuff. when we all got back on the bus, they tour guide took us to the lung chuen tea plantation where they gave us free tea and told us about how great they are. it was basically like an infomercial except it was live. here's us being exposed to their powerful, brainwashing capabilities. well, my parents and aunt fell for their wiles and they bought a buttload of their overpriced tea and to this day i have not seen them drink any of it. so after having my fill of tea, we headed to the west lake district and visited the tomb of yue fei. so general yue fei was supposedly a famous national hero who defended china from some foreign invaders, but was later betrayed by his superiors and executed. he was very popular among the ppl for his devotion towards them and his country. this went so far as to have the motto tatooed to his back. very hardcore. the original young and dangerous 'rascal.' so in front of his tomb, they built statues of his betrayors that are in a kneeling position to show a sort of eternal guilt to him. yep, very interesting stuff. kinda like the good ol' three kingdoms stories. next up, we got onto a boat and toured west lake (xi hu) itself. by this time it was hot as hell and i was out in the sun and i got kinda dizzy and a headache too so i went inside the boat and slept. i was pretty grumpy when i woke up too cuz my head hurt. other than that it wasn't that great and we got off and took a bus back to shanghai. 3 hours man, it was kinda long n stuff, but i slept so it was all good. in fact, i was starting to get used to really long bus rides. i guess china sorta helps build up ur patience. the tour group gets back to shanghai in the evening and we tour around the downtown area. we are right across the street from nanjing road, in some waterfront area that shows this crazy looking skyline. while the tour guide was kinda goin off about something or another, this merchant comes up to my cousin and asks her if she wants to buy this mao tse dong watch. she's not interested and then he starts to ask her personal info like where she's from and all that and she's like,"uhh yeah i gotta go." so he goes away and comes back a little later and asks me if i want to buy it, but i tell him i have no money and he's like, "okay okay i'll make it a little cheaper how about $5(usd)?" and i was like, "no, i DON'T have any MONEY" and he just keeps goin on and on about how cheap it was and that i should buy it, but i'm like yeah wuteva dood. so he starts doin the whole 'friendly china person' act in an effort to win me over into buying his crappy watch. he asks stuff like, "where ya from?" and stuff like that. for the 'haters' out there, i was able to communicate with him in chinese so that just goes to show that my chinese doesn't suck THAT much, nerd. he even said that my chinese was pretty good, but he probably jus said that to get me to buy the watch. *sigh* i was gettin all excited about that too. ne wayz, he goes away and comes back like two more times to try to get me to buy the watch and the last time he does i was with my family and i point it out to them. they start to laugh and ask him how much the watch was and he tells them, but since my aunt is like a big 'penny-pincher' (even though she drives a mercedes and bought a butt-load of pearls earlier) she turns him down on the spot and walks away. he keeps pestering and my uncle kinda gets ticked and tells him to go away since nobody wanted it and the guy responds, "i wasn't asking you!" and gets all pissy. my uncle keeps telling him to go away and he gets angry and mutters something in chinese that i didn't catch, but most likely nothing good and then raises his hand and sticks up his....pinky. haha i'm not sure if that's either the way the actually flip ppl off in china or he got the american style all mixed up. so that night, my sister, cousin, and me were all sick of the food by then. it seems like they served the same things at every meal, very gross. so we went to an italian restaurant on nanjing road where for some reason, we had to order in chinese. i mean it was a freakin italian restaurant!! come on! where's the english/italian? hehe i'm sure the black ppl i saw there enjoyed this even more than i did since i was actually the one who ended up doing the ordering. so yeah nanjing road was pretty fun since it was the most shopping i'd done since i'd been in china, a full two hours! also, the road itself was not bad, it had a bunch of stores that were pretty modern, although fobby. still it wasn't bad. it had pepsi flag's at every lightpost and a kfc around there plus, a bunch of shops with some pretty neat china-stuff in it. after the whole nanjing road ordeal we all went back to our hotel rooms for the last time with the tour group. yay! tour groups are evil.
days 7 - 12 coming soon.
the best english paper ever written by a non-english speaking person.
eerie:
"Dont tell me you dont see a slight bit of similarity between phimus and ding ding? Muahahaha Its the evolution of the PHADING" - amelia
06.14.02
alright so let me finish up the rest of what i did in china:
day 5
well we woke up early that morning so that we could get to the airport and take our flight at 9.30 to shanghai. a short plane ride there, as least compared to the 13 hour one we took to get to china. so we get to shanghai and get on the bus again and head straight to suzhou. we meet our tourguide mr. qien, who kept bringing up the point that his last name "chien" was the same "chien" as 'money' in mandarin. what a weird-o. anyways, he takes us to some restaurant and then we head off to tiger hill. it's pretty much some garden with this big leaning pagoda. it's really nice in there in terms of the scenery and what not, a lot like those pictures of green, chinese scenery you see in pictures n stuff. yeah didn't see much there except a really big mural of buddha lying down with one of those buddhist swastikas on it and this grody pond w/ a layer of green slime on the surface. next, we all go to this bridge for some odd reason and said it was a famous one that's been in old poems. i didn't know the poems he was talking about, but if i did i probably would've been able to appreciate it more. after that we went to han shan temple and it's got this temple that looks like that picture on takeout boxes. hehe funny and that pretty much was the end of the day after that.
eh that's all i have time for today. time to go finish some work.
also got the graduation pics up. check it out.
song of the moment: boa - 'no.1'
woo-hoo! boa!!! yay!!!! i saw her on tv everyday in china!
06.10.02
hey everybody! i'm home now! yay! well actually i've been back since last thursday night, but either way it's good to be back. china was pretty fun, even though it had some really, really crappy parts i think it all in all was worthwhile. so where can i start?
day 1
well after driving to cali and visiting some relatives the day before we leave for LAX only to arrive about 4 hours early for our flight. ever since that 9/11 garbage, my parents are got really anal about airport security and stuff so they ALWAYS leave about 2-3 hrs early on average. so i end up bummin it around the international terminal for an hour or two and then have some lunch, but not at the japanese place cuz i wanted A LOT of food rather than miniscule portions of rice and raw stuff. we left the US at about 1pm and arrived in beijing at 7 or so in the evening, china time. so the flight there was long and uneventful. no terrorists, no crazy remake of the movie 'airplane', just pure unadulterated boredom. they showed an old bruce willis movie about him being a river cop, but that was so-so, but sadly the only decent movie they did end up showing. next there was some chinese drama that i didn't really care for, but one part had the main guy telling the girl about all the foods he likes and that just completely turned me off. last movie however was the lamest load of crap ever. it was some gay german movie that was dubbed into chinese and then subtitled in english. good thing about the flight i guess is that they served food, but they have to serve food anyways since we're gonna be in the plane for 13 hours.
day 2
like i said earlier, we arrive in beijing around 7 pm and the tour guide took us straight to a restaurant that they referred to as 'ritzy.' well the food was alright and they even served chicken wings, american style. other than that nothing really special about the place. after dinner they took us to our hotels
day 3
our first actual day out so we toured around the major sights of beijing. first, we went to the forbidden palace. that place didn't really look as great as i thought it'd be, but i suppose for being a couple hundred years old that it's alright. i guess it must've looked better in it's earlier days when it was actually used by the emperor and stuff cuz if there was one living in it today, i'm pretty sure it wouldn't be up to 'royal standards.' while we were there, the tour guide pointed out a major hall in the forbidden palace. there were tons of ppl surrounding the entrance just to get a look or possibly a quick snapshot of it. all of a sudden, a short, flat-topped, monkey-looking communist guy walks up with one of those big amplifier things that the police use in hostage situations. he gets super anal and starts yelling at everyone to move aside and keep their distance. for a second i thought you weren't allowed to be up there, but it turns out that some foreign dignitaries from turkey came to visit and they were getting 'vip' treatment. jeez, so much for that whole 'we are all equal'-idea those commies had. anyways, the turks actually get to go inside the hall while all the tourists and 'common folk' were told to stand aside and keep a good distance from the hall. when the 'common folk' were finally allowed back, they all rushed at the entrance and when i mean rushed, they practically ran for their lives just to get a good spot. so me being in china, i do as the chinese and haulass up towards the entrance only to be rudely pushed around in a large mass of vertically-challenged chinese ppl. man, these things were like half my size and they were pushing ppl around like they were a 7ft, 350lb black man. i for one was quite disgusted at the way they treated anyone who got in their way and refused to budge and occasionally pushing back. so i got pretty sick of those dumb chinese ppl and decided to get down from the platform where the entrance was and had to 'go with the flow' of the pushing frenzy. when i finally got down i headed back to the tour group and on the way noticed some lady who got smacked in the face from being up at the entrance. anyways, after the forbidden palace, the entire tour group walked to tienanmen square where all those ppl got massacred. we didn't really get a chance to walk in tienanmen square, but we passed by it as we walked across the street from it. from there we visited the summer palace which was built in and around this lake whose name i forgot. it looked nice, but maybe cuz i didn't actually look around the summer palace, but instead we rode on a boat around the lake and merely passed by it. not a whole lot of excitement would probably best describe the day so far. after dinner the tour group went to watch some chinese acrobats perform, but by then everyone was wayyy to tired (especially since we weren't used to the time yet) to watch the performance so a majority of us slept during most of the show. as for me, i remember the beginning and then the end when they all came out for some big finale. probably the most exciting thing to happen that day was that some sprite i had in my backpack, spilled all over everything in it. well, maybe it was made me more annoyed then excited, but at least i wasn't bored then.
day 4
today we went to some big pearl shop where my aunt went nuts and bought some expensive pearl jewelry. next, we visited the temple of heaven which was just a really tall building with some chinese stylings. nothing really intersting. supposedly the emperor would come there once a year and worship in there. inside the temple there was a tablet from some supposed god of their's and a bunch of funny-looking statues all over the place. this is where i bought my awesome communist shirt, but sadly i got ripped off cuz i paid 10 bux for it. you may think, "hey 10 bux ain't a thang" but remember this is china. everything here is dirt-cheap. plus, it wasn't even some designer brand name, just some scrubby sweatshop, slave child-labor shirt. once i told my mom, she got on my case about it and then my aunt overheard and she did too. ~oi it was gay. this is when i realized my family must be some of the cheapest ppl in the world. next stop was the ming tomb's where the emperor's of the ming dynasty were buried. we wandered around outside for a while and i was surprised to find that it was almost like a park cuz of all the trees and nature stuff around. later the tour group went into only one of the tomb's and i was disappointed to find out that they already removed the bodies of the emperor and i couldn't see them *grr* oh well. after the ming tombs, we stopped by a chinese medicine museum where i met one of the funniest tour guides. he had this funny accent where he'd stress certain letters for example, "hundred" he'd say "hhhhaaaannndred" and "health" "hhhcccceeeaallth." then when we all sit down and get some chrysanthemum tea he tries to say the word "chronic" but it comes out more "ccchooonic." no one knew what he was trying to say until he started to describe it and then someone told him how to pronounce it correctly, but he said "cccchooonic" again. haha it was great. when he was done talking, the pharmacy offered to give everyone a free exam from a chinese doctor. it turns out i'm perfectly normal...well chinese-wise i guess. other ppl weren't so lucky.
that about concludes our stay in beijing (from what i remember off the top of my head). i'll finish up days 5 - 12 tomorrow.
![What Seven Deadly Sin Are YOU? [?]](http://www.sakuracardz.com/questionmark/sevensinsanger.gif)
You're ANGER! You're not the most pleasant person to be around! You've got a short fuse, and you're almost always mad at the world. You're represented by the color red.
work has been pretty exciting today since i actually have work today, but most of the work has been the biggest stack of newspapers i've ever had to read. i have so much that'll carry over to tomorrow's stack. oOo spooky huh? naw, it shouldn't be unless you're ghey or something. anyways, i'm not gonna start at 9 in the morning now since i've decided to pick up a morning routine of working out, mainly any form of cardiovascular exercise so now i come in at 10. so if i wake up at 7 i get an hour and a half to workout and then another hour to clean up and get ready for work and finally a half hour to get there. i'm starting to like the new schedule already. oh and at lunch today one of my co-workers jacked a whole thing full of sandwiches and hooked me up with one. mmm sandwich. it sounds really good right now considering i'm pretty hungry, but sadly i already ate the sandwich. man, tonight i have to go to gungfu. i don't really feel like going anymore, but i've already come so far that i feel like it'd be a waste to stop now. maybe it's just that i've been out for so long that i'm out of the entire swing of things and just need to get back in and get used to it again or else i've just lost interest in it. hmmm i hope that's it cuz it'd be a damn shame to have spent 3 years learning and then just quit. well, it's not that i'd abandon marital arts altogether, but i think it's the style itself that i'm starting to lose interest in. no, i'm gonna make myself go tonight and my goal is to get in for at least 4 times a week this summer, but i'm not sure what is to come once skool starts. from the way it looks, all the ppl who just finished their freshman year made it seem like it was a nonstop, constant rush of work to be done so i'm not sure if i'll have time for gungfu then. *sheesh* so little time nowadays.
13
I act like I'm 13.
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song of the moment: jordan chan - "xia ban bei zi"
i think that's the name of the song, but i'm not entirely sure.
05.24.02
i graduated! yay! yep, last night at 7.30 the graduation ceremony for corona's class of 2002 began. earlier that day i attended the 'graduation practice' at 7 in the morning till 9.30 as to 'prepare' for what was to follow that night. so to pass the time during the afternoon, i visited all the homies at dobson hs. definitely good times since i was there from 11-3.30. haha it's funny how i'm out of skool yet i still go back, but to another one. oh well, it's not like i was 'learning' or any sort of work like that so i guess that's what made me able to stay there for so long. anyways, the graduation ceremony went off without a hitch and was completed in about an hour and half. wow, what a great feeling to have finally graduated. the feeling of accomplishment is overwhelming as of now knowing that the past 12 years weren't just a 'waste of my time.' so yes, it was definitely a time in my life that i will never forget. the weather was just right, not too cold, not too hot. all my close friends and family were there and wow it was just....*wow* that's all i can say to describe it. well, afterwards i went to applebee's for a little celebration dinner/'xiao yeh'-deal. a lot of ppl were there and pretty much a good time was had by all....at least from my pov. haha another interesting thing took place after we ate. not only did we manage to spot a niceeeeeee black supra, but also everyone decided to give stephanie and me, the graduating seniors, a graduation present. and what might that present be you ask? well, after being told to turn around and close our eyes, we were greeted with a volley of water balloons from everyone there. ~oi i ran like a black man with the cops after him. i luv my friends, so creative. after receiving such a warm present we all headed to david's house to chill for a while and then shevaun taught me how to drive stick!!! yay! it was great. i kinda got it down a little better now, but still need practice to perfect it. i mean like, i got the motions so now it's just time to get comfortable with them. also, i'm still kinda having trouble getting into first gear. then when i decided that i had enough learning for the night we all went to fry's (food and drug) to get something to drink cuz i was maddd thristy. when we got there i was surprised to find so many ppl in the magazine aisle just reading their magazine's. so we decided to do the same thing and did that for a while then left. i just went home after that, but that is a night i will never forget....well the first half of it.
hmm today was kind of an undescribeable day. i can't really put a word with it. i was home for the first half of the day then i went to drop off my sister's guinea pigs at brian's house. after that my sister and i went to fashion square to meet up w/ nazi cuz she bugged me to go haha. so yeah she had to go watch 'spider-man' which wasn't that bad of a movie, with her friends which left to find other things to do. luckily, my best buddy nico called me up and we went to golfland with ben and sam! yay! golfland! the best part was that the 'police 911/2' game had like 70+ credits on it so we all played for free and i finally beat that game. good times. so ben left early and i took sam and nico home. when i get to nico's house we start talking about 'the monster' aka his old skool honda accord. well, it turns out that he doesn't drive it anymore. so i was like, "what happened?" cuz i thought it broke down or something. he says that he got a new car and i was like, "uhhh...okay?" and that it's souped up. at that point i thought he was jus messin w/ me so i was like, "yeah sure okay. whatever you say, nico." it turns out he wasn't kidding. sso his brother is into import cars and modded this 4th gen(i think, whatever's the newest one) honda prelude. it was a VERY tight looking car! it wasn't flamboyant like all that ghetto, ricer crap, but it was clean and sleek. it had tthe whole white with red accents, integra type r-color scheme going on. there was a body kit, exhaust, intake, wheels, and some interior paint as well. simple, but beautiful. i normally don't go for hondas n stuff, but this was the exception. anyways, yeah we parted ways and i went home to eat dinner, clean up, pack, etc. which ends my day pretty much.
i'll be in china till june 6th so don't be surprised if you don't see me around.
song of the moment: edison chan - "gu yi"
05.22.02
the beauty of the oldskool windows program known as......"paint brush":
btw if any car-enthusiasts noticed, in my picture i put myself in 'my' car....the 240sx...*drool* but it's the japanese equivalent, the silvia, which makes it even cooler. i feel japan was pretty accurately depicted cuz of that ^_^
i'm at work again. haha betcha you didn't see that one coming. anyways, i got in at about eight this morning and i'll be out by 12 or so, so that i can meet up with ppl for lunch n stuff. right now i'm listening to some weird techno song and it's in french. i don't get it, but it's kinda funny listening to it. oh and this morning i was listening to coco lee on the way to work and her one song 'ni shi wo de superman' is chock full of chinglish for example 'yao ni zuo wo baby baby.' ???? yeah...maybe i just heard it wrong...i hope so. then i think she starts rapping and i was like, "wtf?!" she had the funny chinese accent and tried to sound ghetto at the same time. it was realllllyyyyy funny cuz it's like...ummm....charlie trying to be black or something. haha yeah funny thought. yep, chinese music makes me laugh, in a good way.
still need to get a hold of the entire 'young and dangerous' series and my first vcd is scratched so it skips and that's no fun at all.
who the hell is 'del the funky homosapien?' and what a weird name.
so i read the newspaper today and there's this story in here about some guy from england. apparently he was arrested for retrieving golfballs from the bottom of lakes at golf courses around the country. the police found him all suited up, lakeside, and hauled him off, but he was released and given some minor punishment. this guy would collect the golfballs and then sell them for twenty cents each. he makes about 20k a year on it and even files tax returns for the money he makes from it! then last night as i was watching the news on fox 10, the chandler police were cracking down on people with outstanding warrants so they sent letters to these ppl's house. the letter states that they won a dvd player and to go to some place and pick it up. the newscrew followed a couple ppl as they were escorted from the front desk to this 'backroom.' hehe once they entered they made a lot of noise like it was a big celebration, but then the police bum-rushed them from behind and cuffed em. the victims had THE most shocked look on their face as they were questioning the police in disbelief as to whether this was a joke or not. haha it was so funny cuz it reminded me of that episode of the simpsons where homer wins a new boat, but it turns out the police were cracking down on all the criminals. man, that was great. the best part was some ppl still believed that they won a dvd player and insisted on getting it even though they were being arrested.
today's 'new' paintbrush creation:
05.21.02
burn your altezzas.
so i'm here at work right now working a FULL 8 hour day so this should be fun. well, i've been in for about 2 hours now and i haven't got a single ounce of work to do. hmmm i guess that streak of work i had has ended. well, looking at the bright side of things, it gives me more time to d/l stuff and read up on cars. yay! so a majority of you kids out there are taking finals now i'm guessing. well good luck on them cuz afterwards....freedom. oh it's so nice that feeling you get when you finish your finals for the second semester and then the dismissal bell rings...ahhh pure ecstasy. the thoughts that would run through your heads might be, "i'm free!" or all those great things everyone has planned for summer. chilling with friends, sleeping in, bumming around all day, goin outta town, jus relaxing 24/7 for 3 months. yep, good times indeed.
grrrr....240sx....*sigh* i wish you were mine
here's a nice pic for ya:
hmmm tomorrow i think i'm meeting up with ppl for lunch after they get out of skool so that means i won't have to work a full day! but then it also means i'll have to get up early if i want to get my four hours in and meet up with them on time. *bleh* oh well whatever, i have all summer to sleep-in. then thursday, after the graduation practice thingy in the morning, i think i'm gonna go to dobson and pay some ppl a visit since i've never been to dobson anyways. then that night i graduate! yay! probably gonna go out afterwards and get so wasted i completely forget who, what, where i am. haha j/k. that's justin's dept ^_^ ~oi then leaving for cali on saturday and flying out to china on sunday! woo hoo! china! i will live like a king there with my american currency! hopefully i can pick up a buttload of vcds, lighters, retractable batons, and any other cheap stuff that entertains me. oh yeah and the food! hopefully my taste buds aren't too american for the typical chinese fare over there. then there's the more.....'eclectic' food...hehe come here doggy doggy....so i can eat ya! j/k but i wouldn't mind trying dog only to find out what they REALLY taste like and then i can tell people i've eaten dog before and be hardcore n stuff. well, not really. people will probably look at me funny and then keep a 5-foot radius from me. cool, then ppl might stop invading my personal space aka my 'bubble.' yeah and as david said, "all the girls there are asian!" hehe that's kinda obvious, but he said the supposed ratio of good-looking ones to the not-quite-so-good-looking ones is kinda lower compared to america's. *darn*
hmmm i need a haircut....and some more gel. a new kind though cuz dep 10 doesn't work quite good...maybe i just wasn't using enough. eh, who knows? oh, bobby.
i'm kinda bored now. it's 1.30 in the afternoon and i've read only one newspaper. that is the summation of all the work accomplished today. omg, that's amazing isn't it? ai yah and not a lot of ppl have been on aim either so it's not like i've had great, meaningful conversations with ppl today. jus ur random chittah-chattah. blah blah blah blah i'm just sitting here killing time. ~oi i need something to do. well at least i'll only be in for four hours tomorrow in the morning so i won't have to do the whole eight hour deal. jeez.
a look at what MY 240sx might look like....if i ever got it *sob*
song of the moment: sechskies - "com'back"
PUMP!
05.20.02
my first day of non-skool has been pretty interesting. i woke up around 9 and had to go to the doctor's for an appointment at 10 just to make sure that i'm okay since we're going to china soon. nothing really special although i'm going to a new place now for some reason. i guess my mom didn't like the old place we were goin to. oh well, nothing big really today. went to mervyn's afterwards cuz my mom needed something from there so i just wandered around the store for a while till my mom was done. yep, exciting to the fullest. when i got home i tried to refill a butane lighter, but when i opened it up all these little pieces fell out and it took forever to get them all back together cuz i have big, clumsy hands compared to those tiny little metal pieces. well i finally refilled it, but it wasn't lighting anymore. *tear* david says it's just too full and i should give it some time. i hope so. i really liked this lighter too. well, i'm at work right now just getting swamped with work. it's crazy. lately i've gotten about 50 billion new weekly responsibilities. in a way that's good so that it doesn't look like i'm some lazy bum who's on the internet all the time, but it still is work. anyways, i think i'm gonna go to gungfu tonight. it'll probably be the only time i'll get in this week and then i'll be in china for 2 weeks. i luv how consistent i am with gungfu. so yeah, good times and graduation is on thursday. should be good stuff.
wow, i've been chewing on the same toothpick since 9.30 this morning. it's 3.30 now ^_^
had a pretty good weekend again. wow that's like....3-4 weekends in a row. life is good. well friday night went to yg as usual. i had to participate in some skit on the dress code that night. it was slightly interesting in it's own unique way. could've used more 'believable' humor though. anyways, afterwards went to del taco and the cashier guy talked to me and thought i was japanese. it was funny cuz his accent was really out-there and he couldn't pronounce my name. david says that his friends went there and got ripped off and came back the next day to get his money back, but it was closed cuz the cops were cracking down on the drug-dealing and other such nonsense going on at this del taco. pretty crazy. so back to the story, we ate a buttload of cheap mexican food and i learned it's kinda like a dv kids hangout cuz everyone we saw in there was from dv. hehe if only steve chang had been there. so yeah brian and jack saw some ppl they knew from skool outside and there was quite a lot of conversation going on especially about cars. then i saw an oldskool mustang that was bumpin some afro-beats. it was such a conflict of cultures. oldskool mustang = saltines, afro-beats = antique farm equipment. it was weird so i thought i'd just share that with you so you can say that it's weird too. so yeah, the next day the food from del taco proved to be deadly to some so i don't think we'll eat there anymore. then saturday i was forced to be mexican and do yardwork for half the day at one of our houses in gilbert. i have begun to really appreciate mexicans now and that they are more hardcore in my eyes from being able to do yardwork for a living. so to sum it up, i hate yardwork. why do you think they make prisoners do it on the side of freeways? cuz they need it cleaned up? well, not as much as they want to make these prisoners suffer for their crimes against society. these gov't-types are pretty crafty 'killing two birds with one stone' like that. after being let go from yardwork for good behavior, i got to drive the parents' lexus home. fun stuff. chilled at home for a couple hours to decide what to do that night. i was gonna see star wars episode 2, but plans changed....then changed again and then i was gonna go see it after all. went to applebee's to meet up with charlie, angeles, phi, and calvin. after dinner we went back to charlie's to kill some time and wait for waj to get off work. by about 8 we're at his house to pick him up and his dad tells us these hardcore stories of when he went hunting. he even had pictures of it too. freakin hardcore. in this one pic he had this big ol' scary looking gun and what he shot with it. he friggin blew a bigass hole through the deer's neck. i was like, "whoa!" yep, just like joey lawrence. well after the story-telling we head out to esplanade 14 wayyyy out across the street from biltmore. it was quite a long journey, but luckily i wasn't driving. when we get there it was about 1/2 till the movie started and there was a small line outside of the theater so it wasn't too bad. charlie was kinda pissed that nazi and her friends changed the time they were gonna watch the movie to an earlier one cuz kanyon had to be back by a certain time. so we go into their theater and charlie yells something really loud right as the previews were going. hehe that rebel. so yeah we watched the movie, which btw was VERY awesome, and then called it a night since the movie got out at around 12.40. sunday i went to church as usual, but decided to join dave's sunday skool class for the day since they were goin to coffee plantation ^_^ chilled at coffee plantation for an hour or so and went back to church only to go out again to boston market for lunch. yep, the typical sunday. would've gone to chinese skool, but it was just the graduation thing and i didn't really feel like going so david, bobby, my sister, and me went to chandler fashion for a couple hours. bought a decent amount of stuff and saw bebe in that kids abercrombie store cuz we were trying to figure out why there would be two abercrombies in one mall. afterwards i went home and just watched some tv, internet, etc. for the rest of the night. yep, so star wars pretty much made my weekend. well that's it.
potato head, paddy, spudnigger, mick, narrowback. down with the rice king. long live the bumblebee known as i.
star wars: episode 2, attack of the clone wars. what a great movie. ~oi it's one of the better movies i've seen in a while excluding 'spider-man', but imo i think it far surpasses 'spider-man.' points of interest? well everybody must agree that the yoda fight was the most well-liked scene in the entire movie. omg, you wouldn't believe how quick that little bugger is. he was jumping all over the place, bustin out some crazy stuff you'd see from movies outta HK. weirdest thing though is that after he is done, he picks his cane back up and resumes walking like he actually needs it. it was very weird. then the 'thing' goin on w/ anakin and amidala, awwwwwwww i'm such a sucker for that mushy stuff. it makes me all....warm and fuzzy inside. also, there was all that background history for episodes IV - VI like more insight on the clone wars, boba fett, anakin, owen & beru lars, etc. yep, i guess i got really caught up in the movie cuz i was just like, "whoa! so that's where they came from" or "what happened" or yeah. i dunno, i just really liked the movie and i can't believe there are ppl out there that didn't. eh, can't make everyone a fan, but i'd seriously recommend going to see this movie even if you aren't one of those star wars fan boys. jeeez and natalie portman...man...haha pretty hot and then there's the t.h.o scene which i think was on the ship before anakin and her go to rescue obi-wan from that one planet. *sigh* i think i'm in love ^_^ haha so yeah go see the movie.