This morning was a late start. I got into work at 11:30am. The reason why is because my friend Rich Cho wanted to hang out with boys one last time before going back to work. He had the last week or so off from work and stuff, and wanted to celebrate his last night out by catching the opening of Spiderman 2. The movie started at 12:20am. He pressured me into going, and forced me to break a promise that I made with my mom to start going to bed earlier. The movie was just so so. I didn't think it was all that great because apparently I drifted off several times in the movie. I think I should probably watch it again when my mind is a little more lucid.

Anyone interested in meeting with a Retirement specialist? I have a financial advisor from Morgan Stanley who seems to be a nice guy looking to expand his clientele. He's young like me but already has a family and house. He also said we was in they Navy for a short time and got to work with some of the stuff that we develop for the Navy.

Posted 2:07 PM by Donald Park

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

Got up early today again. Got into work around 9am...but shortly after getting to work I had a hard time staying awake and kept dozing off.

If any of you are interested in receiving a free uncirculated Iowa state quarter, then (1) Write your name and address neatly on a piece of paper. (2) Enclose along with three first class stamps to cover postage. Money cannot be accepted and do not staple, tape, or affix the stamps to anything. (3) Mail to: Free Coin Processing, Commercial Box 3678, Dept. AI306, Akron, OH 44309-3678. Limit 1 per household. I've already sent one for everyone in my family...so they should be receiving their free Iowa statehood quarter in late August

Posted 5:47 PM by Donald Park

Monday, June 28, 2004

Oh my dear Lord...Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for last night. I had a very VERY peaceful night of rest and relaxation. I actually went to bed before MIDNIGHT and woke up like a champ this morning. I even got into work pretty early as well. Man I feel great. See mom...I'm listening to you. I hope I can keep this up.

So this past Sunday was about "learning to give thanks and praise" to God. I know I need to give more praise and thanksgiving to God, and so this week, I'll try and do more of that in my post. Another thing I can be thankful for is that annoying dog JUNIE is finally gone....ha ha ha :D I'm just kidding Yujin. I miss him already, but I honestly don't miss all the little brown and yellow gifts he left on the carpet. I've tried the Dirt Devil carpet cleaner, and it doesn't get the yellow stain out completely!!!

Last Thursday we had a poker night at our place. We played Texas Hold'em. It was actually a lot more fun than I thought it could be.

Yujin with his game face and sporting his signature poker visor

Injoong, assessing his opponent, smiling with confidence will soon be frowning in defeat.

And they are going ALL IN!!!

Yujin who claimed he didn't know how to play hustled us all out of our money. He took the $35 pot.

Posted 11:29 PM by Donald Park

Saturday, June 26, 2004

Wow, this week has been a really busy, stressful week. So much stress in fact, that my sleep cycle is all screwed up and I developed some kind of a rash. Today I went to work for several hours to finish editing a document that my coworker asked me to work on. At first I was eager to help anyway I could, until I realized what he had asked me to do...ha ha ha. My only consolation is that my name is NOT going on the document change request. ha ha ha :) That document was soooo jacked up. Aside from it being useless, it was just a plain mess!!! So anyway when I joked around about it, he said he was going to put my name on it too. I hope he doesn't.

So anyway I'm preparing this week's sermon slides. There is a portion of the sermon that really caught my attention. The message of the sermon is about "learning to give thanks and praise". He talks about how there are optimists and pessimists. The pessimist grumbles about health problems while the optimist rejoices that he's alive. I'll say more about that later, after I reflect on it a bit more.

Posted 11:59 PM by Donald Park

Thursday, June 24, 2004

So here's part 2 of the loser series. ** read my May 27 post ** Usually a few guys with sports cars park diagonally taking up two spaces. Obviously they are trying to showcase their cool cars to all the other engineers. They think they are cool, but they aren't. Here's some background. There is this one chinese guy at work that is too cool to even acknowledge my existance. I pass him in the hallway all the time, and he always looks away like he's too good to say Hi to me. Everytime I pass by him, I just want to pop that jah-shik in the head. So anyway he's the guy that drives the Camero...and look how he parked!!!

WHAT A LOSER!!!

Posted 4:18 PM by Donald Park

Wednesday, June 23, 2004

OMG…I’m such an idiot!!! I can’t figure out why so many people think the picture in yesterday’s post is so, scandalous. So I decide to do some investigation. I go back into Google’s image search to find the website I took the picture from. Now keep in mind, I usually finish the sermon slides late on Saturday night, so I don’t have a lot of time to surf around. I just find what I need and move on. Usually I just grab the picture without looking at the website. So anyway I start looking at the website and I see two shrimp lying on a platter next to each other. Looks appetizing and symmetrical but not really sexual. Then I look at the picture below that and see two dome plate covers. This undeniably looks like breasts. The picture below that is the bread picture. Then the picture below that blows me away (no pun intended). As I continue down the page I’m just flabbergasted that such a thing could happen. Take a look at the website at your own risk

Posted 12:50 PM by Donald Park

Tuesday, June 22, 2004

I forgot to post about this on Sunday. So here goes. What is your initial reaction...that first impression, when you first see this picture. Do you think, Nice picture? That looks delicious? What the heck is that?
Take a look at the picture for just a moment

So anyway on Sunday the sermon was about having a "Hunger for God". I replaced the text "Bread is Life" with "Hunger for God". Finding good visual illustrations for the sermon is pretty hard, especially for someone so artistically challenged as myself. I thought, hmm....Hunger for God...Hunger...people eat food when they are hungry...bread is a type of food...bread is also symbolic for Christians. So I go into Google's image search and find this picture. Looks nice, so I used it for the sermon slides.

Pastor Paul started off the sermon with a prayer, at which time I displayed the title slide with this picture. Immediately someone runs back and tells me that I need to take the picture down. A bit perplexed and almost afraid to ask why, he tells me that the picture is "...well...interpretive". I was like OMG...you got to be kidding me. Why on God's earth would you have that kind of though in a church during church service!?!?!?! So anyway I brush him off and tell him to leave me alone. Then I ran up to second service and sort of noticed that Lynnette had not used the title slide. It wasn't really on my mind at that time. Still bugged by what had transpired during 1st service, I started asking people what they thought of the title slide, or even if they had remember the title slide. Some people were instantly shocked at the pictures, but most people said they didn't really think anything was amiss. I thought possibly they were just too afraid to suggest or mention something so dirty at church, but after telling them what others thought, they conceded that it was somewhat interpretive or suggestive.

So what's the point of this post? It just goes to show you that people have dirty thoughts even at church. You know who you are and SHAME ON YOU!!!!

Posted 7:30 PM by Donald Park

Here are some pictures of me at Color (a small Korean restaurant in N. Philly. This is my friend Pil. He's probably the FOBiest friend I have...but still very Americanized.

Thanks for the pics Joori.

Posted 1:00 PM by Donald Park

Yesterday for dinner I cooked up some kal-bi-chim. Besides it being too watery, the taste was just a little strange, but man was the Kal-bi tender. I think I'll be able to get it right next time.

So anyway I just read an article on CNN about South Koreans bombarding the wrong Al-Jazeera website. Something about using the .com suffix instead of the .net suffix. I just looked at both, and they appear to both be muslim news sites. So anyway South Koreans were leaving all these messages on the website to plea for his release. One person posted this,

"I was not anti-Iraqi. In truth I was little bit anti-American but now I am anti with all my soul/body/money your nation and your people and your religion," said another message on the site. "Let him free."

I couldn't agree more.

Posted 12:09 PM by Donald Park

Monday, June 21, 2004

Here is a picture from yesterday's concert at the Kimmel Center.

I got into work around 11am...but was feeling like crap the whole day, cuz I'm also kind of sick. I think I have the cold or something. I hope my cough doesn't get much worse.

Posted 8:38 PM by Donald Park

Sunday, June 20, 2004

Currently listening to Aqua - Dr. Jones

So yesterday night I met up with Toni, Juri, Sun, and Pil at Color. Semi was going to meet up with us too but she is **start Ben Stiller impression** really, very, incredibly, ridiculously, unbelievably, extremely, exceedingly, extraordinary, exceptionally, bad with directions **end Ben Stiller impression**. So she just decided to go home instead. We had a good time, even though only 2 bottles of 소주 were consumed. Went home and prepared the Sunday slides. Got to sleep around 3am.

Got up around 8:30am today. Took a shower and got to church around 9:45. Service went off without a hitch. Then had a web meeting. Decided on a few things, and then went to the Kimmel Center for a performance by David Kim (the concert master that also goes to our church), and 조수미 (Sumi Jo). The first half seemed long and boring. I actually kept dozing off. The second half is when Sumi sang and it seemed a lot shorter than the first half. I managed to stay awake through the whole second half. Even though this kind of stuff really doesn't interest me...it felt kind of neat to dress up and act all snooty, like I had money kind of a thing...he he he.

After the concert, a bunch of us went to Buca di Beppo. After the meal we had a conversation about what Buca di Beppo meant. I thought it had something to do with lips, but turns out I was completely wrong.

What does Buca di Beppo mean? "Buca" means basement. "Beppo" is Southern Italian slang for "Giuseppe," or Joe. So our name means "Joe's Basement" -- because we opened our first Buca di Beppo in a basement, and because the very first "Buca" we had ever experienced was the basement restaurant opened by the grandfather of our Chairman, President and CEO Joe Micatrotto, in Cleveland's Little Italy neighborhood.

So anyway after linner (lunch/dinner) I drove Mark, Ellen, Allen, AND Sujin back to the church. That's 5 (FIVE) people in my tiny car. It was kind of cool to fit that many people in my car. However while driving down the street, I bottomed-out my car because of all the weight...and that just going down a normal street...no speed bump or anything.

Also today some damn Muslim extremists took a South Korean hostage and threatened to behead him if South Korea doesn't pull its troops out of the area in 24 hours. As of now I formally must confess that I HATE ALL MUSLIMS. How can I make such a strong, generalized opinion of a certain race? My feeling is that even though mainstream Islam does not support terrorism, they fall awfully short of denouncing terrorist activities. If they truly felt the way most of the world felt, wouldn't they be rallying against this kind of stuff? Yet all you can hear is a pin drop even amongst all the crickets chirping. The crickets are even sitting this one out!!! F all you F'ing Muslims out there. And if this really upsets you, then take a stand up against those terrorist. BE HEARD!!! Let the world know that Islam does not equal Terrorism.

I know this sounds bad, and I was kind of saying this facetiously, but I said to my roommates that the U.S. should just take its whole nuclear arsenal and carpet bomb the whole arab world. What good do they do for us except for cheap oil? And even that is bad for the environment!!! Wouldn't all the world be better off without the freaking Arabs? I'll probably regret saying something like this when I run for President of the United States some day...he he he.

Wow...this turning out to be a long post. So why am I listening to Dr. Jones by Aqua? Well ever since my last underway on USS Pinckney that ended in a medical emergency...this song has kind of taken special meaning. When I started to bleed uncontrollably, I freaked out. I ran to the kitchen and asked for a glass of ice (I thought applying ice to the ulcer would slow down the bleeding. Theoretically it should, but practically it didn't do squat). I was taken down to the sickbay and the medic on duty at that time was a Dr. Jones. That's when I kind of thought of this song. yeah I know it's more of a love song and all, but

BTW...not like any of you really cared, but I found out that the CO of the USS Pinckney got replaced because of all the bad stuff that's been happening. Unofficially it's been branded as the Black Pearl (after the movie "Pirates of the Carribean"). First the bus accident that killed several sailors on its way to a namesake ceremony that included the widow of William Pinckney (for which the ship is named after). Then on its way through the Panama Canal, one of the screws (propellers) got damaged when a concrete bouy got sucked up into the propeller. Then after limping its way through the Panama Canal and along the Mexican coast, I get on and have this medical emergency which requires it to have an unscheduled stop at a Mexican Naval Hospital.

Posted 11:59 PM by Donald Park

Friday, June 18, 2004

It just occurred to me that Father’s Day is a fundamentally flawed commercial holiday. What is Father’s Day anyway? Is it just something that the business world conjured up to sell more shirts and ties? The origin of Father’s Day actually has noble intentions as read in this article The History behind Father’s Day. However the business world has tried to commercialize this day. Why doesn’t it work? Because we live in a patriarchal society where the fathers are the bread-winners. And because the men usually make all the money, he can buy anything he wants, anytime he wants. And since gifts are supposed to be from other people (not from youself) your family members can never get you anything you couldn’t already get yourself...which means the only thing left to get are all the sappy sentimental stuff that don't really appeal to men anyway. Well...my pastor has been telling us that fatherhood is really something of a blessing and that the small stuff like hearing "Daddy" is the most precious thing in the world. I think that might appeal to some men, but I think the majority of men just put on a show and say that their heart melts at that kind of stuff when it really doesn't. Then again, what do I know, I don’t have kids. So anyway all the great gifts that a dad would want is stuff he could get for himself...and why wait to get that large screen TV or kickin’ stereo system, or super fast computer. He doesn’t need to wait for Father’s Day to buy a gift that he can’t get for himself on Father’s Day anyway. That’s like women shipping flowers to themselves at the workplace from "anonymous" or "secret admirer". You aren't supposed to do it. It looks vain. So that's why Father's Day is and never will be a big commercial thing.

Well looks like them damn terrorist did it again. This time they took one of our own. Paul Johnson, Lockheed Martin employee. I wonder if our company will do anything on a corporate level for his widowed wife.

Posted 2:40 PM by Donald Park

Thursday, June 17, 2004

So tonight I brought some people together for dinner. John and Esther, Allen and Laura, and Carolyn came over for dinner. I cooked curry rice and a salmon fillet, and some shumai. I wanted to cook kal-bi-jjim but I didn't have enough time to prepare it. Anyway after dinner, Carolyn asked me if we had a cake. I said no, but facetiously suggested we could make one. She sounded interested. After all Allen's birthday is in a couple of days...there has to be a cake!!! So I beat up the cake mix quickly and threw it in the oven. Within a hour we had it cooked, frosted and cooling down in the freezer. Still a bit warm we topped it with candles and cut it up. The white frosted carrot cake was delicious. We ate the WHOLE THING. Take a look at My Yahoo Photos of Allen's b-day dinner.

Posted 11:48 PM by Donald Park

I'm having people over today for dinner. I want to cook something special. I have this pressure cooker that I've never used. My mom gave it to me so that I could cook "birdseed bap"...you know the Korean rice with all the little beans and seeds and stuff. This past weekend while I was at Jimmy & Jenie's wedding, I had the kal-bi-jjim which was really good. I love how that stuff just slides right off the bone and melts in your mouth. So that's what I'm going to try and cook tonight. We'll see how it turns out.

According to Merriam-Webster the top 10 favorite words of 2004 are the following:

Here is a picture of our guest dog, Junie. He'll be with us for the next couple of weeks.

Posted 3:35 PM by Donald Park

Wednesday, June 16, 2004

So here's what I mean. Look at all the wonder choices of detergents there are.

I like expensive detergents too, but 1/2 off was a bargain too good to pass up on...so I bought the cheaper looking Arm & Hammer detergent. I figure, even if I have to wash the clothes twice, what have I really lost?

What really gets me is that it's like I'm not even buying this stuff for myself anymore. I mean how jacked up is that when someone is opening your stuff first before you even get to it!!! That's so WRONG!!!

Like last week when my co-worker went through my desk just to get some food (I'm pretty generous, frequently giving stuff to my co-workers...so this one guy knows I always have food). I walked into the building just as this was happening. He was going through my desk to get to a box of twinkies. Just as I walk in the building and round the corner of the aisle...I hear MY cabinet door slam shut (because it makes a distinct metalic noise). I see John poke his head from out of my cube with this guilty smirk on his face. I knew he had to have been going through my stuff. Only later when he wouldn't leave did I find out he actually took a twinkie out and hid it under my desk, just as I walked in. I had caught him in the act. Now I lock my cabinet. I mean WTF?!?!? My cubemate was there the whole time, and it was just a big joke to both of them. I tried to embarrass him talking loud enough for all the employees in the area to hear. Any remaining trust and respect I had for him quickly crumbled at that point. I say "remaining" because he contantly "borrows" money from my change cup, or drinks my sodas. Once I bought a case of soda before leaving on vacation, only to come back a week later with nothing left. The lazy bum didn't even want to replace it, he just wanted to pay me for it. I was like HELLS NO. What am I...a delivery man?!?!? He finally replaced the case of soda with two cases of soda some several weeks later. I was only able to finally finish my soda after he fasted from soda during Lent. I don't drink soda at work anymore. I make tea instead. So anyway I now keep my cabinet locked with my change cup inside. But now I also have some dirt on him, because if he ever gives me trouble, I can report him for THEFT!!! ha ha ha. Can you imagine losing your job because of a twinkie!!! MUH HA HA HA

Am I being petty? I don't think I am. I just ask for a little bit of respect and common courtesy.

Another look at my new bottle of detergent. Looking at it again and again makes me cringe.

Posted 11:10 PM by Donald Park

Tuesday, June 15, 2004

This is why it's so damn annoying living with disrespectful roommates. I'm about to run out of laundry detergent so I buy a big bottle of Arm & Hammer laundry detergent. I haven't opened it yet, but some BASTARD that I live with uses my detergent without asking...and because there was no need to ask to use any of it, the perp felt no reason to hide his tracks, and so left a huge trail of detergent streaming down the BOTTLE!!! Stuff like this really ticks me off. AND THERE ARE ALREADY 6 OPEN BOTTLES OF DETERGENT!!! WHY THE HECK MUST THIS PERSON OPEN UP A NEW BOTTLE OF DETERGENT?!?!??!? If you are going to steal detergent...use up my almost empty bottle!!! I know I'm being petty, but at least I'm being respectful.

Posted 11:01 PM by Donald Park

Monday, June 14, 2004

A barking dog woke me up this morning. It was Yujin's dog. Junie is staying with us for 2 weeks. He's kind of a cool dog...much more tame than Marty was (the dog that got loose, because Paul "the dog-killer" Chun, let Marty out of the apartment and run away to freedom, and subsequently into the path of a car. Sometimes too much freedom is a bad thing.)

Work was extremely difficult today. That's extremely difficult fighting off the ZZzzz. Even now my left eyelid feels heavy although I don't feel like sleeping. But at work, I couldn't look at the computer screen for more than 10 seconds before I dozed off into la-la land.

Came home and cooked this pasta dish. Basically you mix the water, sauce, and uncooked pasta into a dish and bake it in the oven for half an hour. It didn't come out that great though. I'm determined to finish it though. I HATE throwing away food. I've gotten so used to it though since living with my roommates. It's almost becoming second nature, something that would most definitely make my parents cringe.

Posted 9:25 PM by Donald Park

Sunday, June 13, 2004

Wow...it's been a while since I've last updated. I guess I just got busy toward the end of the week with various things. Today I woke up late for church. I even had a dream about being late for church. If I didn't have that dream I might have completely missed church. Isaac got things started for me, but ended up really screwing things up. The pastors were NOT happy. Stayed for 2nd service and after that went to the church picnic. Took Joel's prelude out for a spin...but his cat-back exhaust was sooooo freaking loud I couldn't hear myself think. I'm glad I haven't made any engine mods.

Yesterday I went to Jimmy and Jeanie's wedding. It reminded me of my brother's wedding because Jimmy was doing fine up until the ceremonial bow to the parents. He started to bawl like a baby when hugging the parents. Jeanie was completely fine though. After the wedding we had a reception dinner at the church. The food was GREAT!!! Then after the dinner we went to a post-reception party.

Jimmy and Jeanie getting married at Bethany Church in Wayne, NJ.

I think he could actually be wiping a tear right now.

Dancing together at the post-reception party.

Jimmy taking the garter belt off while her dad turns a back to the event.

As with tradition, the lucky man who catches the garter belt gets to put the garter belt on the bride. Little does he know that Jimmy switches places with his wife, so he actually ends up putting the garter belt on Jimmy's oversized hairy legs. It was so hilarious because, just after he caught the garter belt and learned what he was supposed to do, he questioned the idea, saying that he was a pastor. The MC reassured him, he didn't need to worry about that. Ha ha ha.

Posted 10:10 PM by Donald Park

Wednesday, June 9, 2004

Yesterday when I was glossing my tires, I got my first mosquito bite of the year!!! :( It still itches.

Posted 11:45 PM by Donald Park

OMG...this is almost disturbing. Gmail invites can be found on eBay!!! People are actually bidding on this stuff. What some people will do to make a buck. It's shameless. Do a search on "gmail invite"

In other news...my coworkers still are gossiping about my test leads dirty panties that she left on the ship. The team had taken a $20 bill and all signed it with some kind of message...and placed it in the bag...I guess so that she would all know, they all knew about her bag of panties. They were even joking around about placing her dirty panties on eBay. Ha ha ha.

OMG...this is even more disturbing. I just did a search on used panties. Eww..Yuck. I'm surprised some of these pics make it on eBay. Where are the eBay cops?!?!

Posted 10:25 PM by Donald Park

So I'm at work and it amazes me how wild gossip gets around. Some of our coworkers returned from the latest underway on the Destroyer. The story started to circulate that the test lead (the one I hate and spread rumors about me) had left a bag of her panties on the ship. So they were given to another female coworker for her to return. So big deal! Someone left something on the ship, but man everyone was so interested. Then questions of why they were left, where they were found (some speculation that they were in the officers' quarters), if they were clean or dirty, etc. Then I realized that people were gossiping the same way when I went to the hospital on my last underway.

Posted 3:17 PM by Donald Park

Tuesday, June 8, 2004

One of co-workers was telling us this story about a russian nuclear submarine that was bought by another country. The US wanted to make sure the submarine was going where it was supposed to (certainly wouldn't want a nuclear sub in the wrong hands)...so they tracked the ship that was transporting the nuclear sub. Then I had to ask my co-worker the simple question. "Why would you use a ship to transport a sub?" With a shrug of his shoulder, he answers, "I don't know, I guess the sub doesn't work". With that, everyone laughed. There was actually a lot more to the story but I don't want to bore you with technical details.

Lately I've been thinking of my mom. She's the BEST MOM IN THE WORLD...even better than your own moms. Your moms don't even come close to mine. I especially LOVE the way my mom looks right into my eyes...and we don't have to say a word, but I know what she's thinking...that I'm the most precious son in the world, and that's why they stopped having kids after me...beause they knew they couldn't get any better than me. The first 2 sons weren't good enough and so they had to keep trying until they were happy with the perfect Son.

OMG...I just realized that I got extra Gmail invites. This is way cool. I feel like I got POWER!!!! muh ha ha ha.

Posted 11:42 PM by Donald Park

Saturday, June 5, 2004

Smarty Jones also lost the Belmost Stakes. Ha ha ha. Philadelphia should be renamed The City of Brotherly Losers.

Man, watching all these Ronald Reagan tributes, makes you think how important health is. The world's MOST POWERFUL MAN, didn't even have a memory of the life he lived when he died.

Posted 10:21 PM by Donald Park

This is a sad day. I'm preparing tomorrow's powerpoint slides...and I just found out on CNN Headline News, that former president Ronald Reagan has passed away. He finally lost his battle with Alzheimer's Disease. He lived to be 93 years old...the longest any president has lived. Rest in Peace.

Posted 5:03 PM by Donald Park

I should know better than this, but I'm at Burns Honda dealership waiting to get my car tires put on correctly. I'm on these public computer terminals set up for customers. Places like these would be an excellent place to setup keystroke loggers...that way any Joe Schmoe and figure out your password and what not.

Anyway, as I said a few weeks ago I noticed that my rims were rotated correctly. I brought my car in to have them fix the problem but the guy came back to me and said the tires were already on correctly. Apprently the directional tires were installed on my directional rims wrong. This whole time I've been driving on my tires in the wrong direction!!! I can't believe I could be so stupid and NOT realize this sooner. I can't think of a time when the tires were taken off the rims...so I'm thinking they were installed on the rims incorrectly to begin with!!! That was such a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG time ago!!! I'm really peeved and embarrassed that I didn't notice this sooner.

Moral of the story!!! CHECK THE WORK THEY DO AT THE DEALERSHIP!!!

Stepometer = 2984 (6/4/04)

Posted 1:35 PM by Donald Park

Friday, June 4, 2004

Can anyone figure out this omelet game?

Posted 2:54 PM by Donald Park

So last night I get a call from my roommate Shao at 3AM. He calls to tell me our friend Jimmy is in jail. I'm like "What? You mean Jimmy, as in Jimmy-and-Jeanie Jimmy? His reply, like the only Jimmy we know, Jimmy. He tells me he needs to be bailed out of jail for an outstanding speeding ticket and I needed $24 to bail him out!!! I call the Cherry Hill police department, thinking this is either a joke or a misunderstanding. I call for Jimmy Kim, and they said there is no one there by that name so I try his Korean name, and they asked me if I'm the one that's supposed to pick him up. They give me directions to the police station and so at 3 in the morning I drive over to the police station. At one intersection near the police station, a cop in his cruiser eyes my car really really hard, like he was just loooking for a reason to pull me over. What a prick. Anyway I'm a little bit worried since my roommate has told me aftermarket HID lights are illegal, but I've never heard of anyone getting a ticket for that. I get to the police station and pay the $24. The police officer tells me to walk outside and wait at the release door. Just then the door opens and I see that it's not Jimmy. It's someone else from my church instead. I'm like, you're not Jimmy. So anyway that was kind of wierd. This guy who shall remain anonymous did not pay for a speeding ticket on time, and a warrent for his arrest was made. When he was pulled over again, they arrested him because he was a month late for paying his speeding ticket. Dang...I didn't realize speeding tickets are no joke. That little disclaimer at the bottom of the ticket warning you if you fail to pay or plea to the offense, they really will arrest your butt. Didn't come into work until 11:30...because of that late night escapade

Just read an article about a bar in NJ that was taken to court because of discrimination, not against some black dude, or even an asian dude, but against just a plain ol' DUDE. This guy was fed up with paying more than women on ladies night...because they get a discount. This is the bars way of trying to promote business. I must say though I agree with the decision though. In this day and age where women are demanding equal treatment and equal opportunity of this and that, and blah blah blah, it's nice to make something stick that women won't like. But what this idiot failed to realize is that he just made it much more expensive to take out any girl on a date.

Many scoff at N.J. ruling over 'ladies' nights'
New Jersey's top civil rights official ruled this week that offering discounts on "ladies' nights" is unlawful because it discriminates against men. (Related item: 'Ladies night' nixed)
And now, everyone from the governor to women's rights activists is talking back. Their response: It's not that serious.
"We're shaking our heads in disbelief," Deborah Dowdell, president of the New Jersey Restaurant Association, said Thursday. "Discrimination is such a serious issue, and it should not ever be taken lightly. But this is not discrimination. Ladies' night doesn't fit into that category."
The director of New Jersey's Division on Civil Rights, Frank Vespa-Papaleo, ruled Tuesday that the Coastline, a Cherry Hill restaurant and bar, violated the state's anti-discrimination law with its ladies-only promotion.
The decision was in response to a complaint filed in June 1998 by David Gillespie. He claimed he was the victim of bias when the restaurant allowed women free admission and discounted drinks while men had to pay $5 to get in and full price to imbibe.

Thank you David Gillespie for ruining it for everyone just because you have gender issues.

Posted 2:00 PM by Donald Park

Thursday, June 3, 2004

So this morning I get to work at 8:15am. This after a somewhat restless night of sleep. For some reason my feet seem to be on fire. I occassionally dip my feet into cold water to cool them off. The rest of my body will feel cold to the touch, but my core temperature feels a little bit high...but not like a fever.

So I'm on the phone with my dad and he tells me that his computer at home is acting up again. After talking with him for a little while I find out he has been infected with the Sasser Worm. It's kind of funny that with so many parallels between the medical and technological worlds, my dad would understand a thing or two about viruses...but when it comes to computers my dad might very well be the CDC archive for infectious diseases because he doesn't have a clue how any of it works. So I tell my dad what to do, but is unable to do so. Then I call my brother Brian thinking that maybe he can use this software program to connect to my fathers computer remotely and fix the problem that way. In the following IM conversation that ensues, I tell him that this is his chance to claim the TMFS (The Most Favorite Son) title. Tauntingly, I tell him that mom often addresses me as "TMFS Don". I ask him if he knows what it means. Well aware of what it means, instead he write "to my f**king son" :0 I couldn't believe my brother would write something like that. He really is a bad son...in fact so deserving of TMWS title. So here's to you The Most Worst Son Brian. ha ha ha. SUCKER!!!

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Posted 11:33 PM by Donald Park

Wednesday, June 2, 2004

I actually got up kind of early today. Got into work at 10AM after taking my sweet time and having breakfast at home. A bowl of cereal AND a bowl of oatmeal! More than anything I just wanted to get rid of all the old cereal and oatmeal that I have. These days I'm trying hard to get rid of old food. I can't just through it away, and if I do just throw it away, I might as well try cooking it to see how it turns out. Which is exactly what I did with the rice crispy treats I made last week. They were pretty bad.

Today at work, my coworker asked me if my blue pen was mine, or if maybe I accidently took his. I confirmed that it indeed was mine. Then I hear everyone around him start to laugh. He couldn't find his pen, because it was propped up on his ear!!!

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Posted 5:59 PM by Donald Park

I'm such a whore for the TV show COPS. I just can't get enough of how unbelievably STUPID people are. I guess I also am glad I'm not white trash. Or maybe I subconsciously want to be a cop.

Posted 12:50 AM by Donald Park

Tuesday, June 1, 2004

Didn't do anything on Memorial Day except pick up Yujin and Lynnette from the airport. They are now engaged. I'm proud of myself because I got into work at 10:30 this morning. Getting into work early these days has been REALLY REALLY difficult.

After work I stopped by Han-ah-reum and picked up lots of food. For dinner I had ºÒ°í±â and salmon sashimi. The salmon sashimi was $10 but worth it :P
Also picked up a bunch of dumplings. I almost can't wait for dinner tomorrow!

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Posted 11:26 PM by Donald Park