I saw the 405 traffic outside my window and said wow I'm sure glad I'm not in the middle of that, and then I remembered something I thought about a few months ago. What if the world today was not "modern" and we were still like in the Western age, but the population was the same as what it is today. Then the primary mode of transportation would be horses. With this many people and seeing how the majority of the population owns cars, would this world be full of horses? How would you maintain horse traffic? During rush hour, if I look outside my window would I be seeing a bunch of horses lined up on the horse freeway moving slowly? How about the problem of horse parking.. and horse jacking?
Thursday, Mar. 7, 2002
My new favorite cereal: Apple Jacks. It used to be Crunch Berries. But it doesn't taste like apples... why do they call it Apple Jacks? Seriously, what were the Kelloggs people thinking? I mean, it's like they were sitting there and wondering hmm what should we name this cereal, and some dude goes how about Apple Jacks? And everyone says umm ok, I guess we can't come up with a better name. For all we know, that cereal could have been called Orange Jacks, and it still wouldn't make any difference, it doesn't taste like oranges, either.
Wednesday, April 10, 2002
-After KCM, on the way to Baja Fresh-
Mike: Hey Yun, are you going to baja fresh?
Yun Soo: Yeah.
Mike: Really? Me too! That's pretty funny, ba ja ja ja ja!! (ba ha ha ha)
Tuesday, April 23, 2002
TJ: Anyone got any AA batteries?
Mike: No.. but I have a AAA card....
Tuesday, April 30, 2002
On Gogurt
Mike: Yeah, my tutor kid always gives me these when I go there. It's so good. *eating it*
John: Mike, you're such a kid sometimes.
Mike: Haha, no kidding.
Monday, May 13, 2002
I think today's society has developed an interesting respect for honesty. "Keeping it real," so to say.
Sooooo, I find myself seeing a lot of so-called "blunt" people who say and do certain controversial things and respond with "Hey, I'm just being honest. Would you rather have me lie about it?" In the simplest and most superficial way to explain it, a guy might find him/self calling a girl ugly or fat. The girl would get offended, but the guy just says hey, you asked me for my opinion, I'm just being honest. A lot of people pride themselves in their ability to be "honest" in any given situation, regardless of who it is they are dealing with.
But why do they talk as if honesty is some sort of honorable justification for hurting someone else's feelings? In my opinion, these "blunt" and "honest" people are merely making a pitiful excuse for not thinking before they speak. Well, I have news for you cool people: there's a thing called self-control. You know how easy it is for people to just blurt out whatever they want? Upon evaluating the situation, if I have to end up making up something or give a crappy wishy-washy answer, then so be it, I choose to respect the feelings of others over giving myself a pathetic sense of self-confidence by saying something I know will offend that person. But if a person respects and trusts my thoughts and asks for complete honesty, I will give them exactly that. It'd be foolish of me to answer everything with stuff that people want to hear. To me, honesty requires discernment. If a situation calls for a blunt answer, then that's what needs to be done. And some people need to be talked to in a certain way to get your honest answer through to them, not just a flat out objective statement. But it makes me sick hearing some of the stuff that's said by some people in the name of honesty.
Quote of the Day:
On camping at the beach:
Yun Soo: Well, it's cool and all, but when you wake up in the morning, it gets pretty gross because everything just gets covered in dew.
Mike: Well, but it's better than being covered in dew dew...
Monday, May 21, 2002
Lunch at Rice Things:
Mike: I'm getting California rolls and chicken teriyaki. How about you?
David JDSN: California rolls, spicy tuna rolls, and crunchy rolls.
Mike: Wow, you're on a roll!
Monday, May 28, 2002
I was eating corn nuts the other night and it seems I can't really understand why corn nuts are popular. It's not sweet, it's rock-hard, and it makes your breath smell horrendously bad. One of those great mysteries of the universe I suppose...
Monday, June 25, 2002
Looks like the summer-love bug is hitting people left and right. Except for me, of course.
Here's something interesting. Spring is a season of love. I dunno, so many people take this time as an opportunity to let their love for someone "bloom". I guess like a prelude to the summer. Summer is a season of love, anyone who has seen Grease would know, recalling the term "summer of love." Fall is a season of love because summer is over and people get lonely or something so they go out and try to find love. Or something like that. Winter is a season of love because it's the holidays and where couples could get cozy or whatever. So when is it NOT a time of love? Every new season people say "oh yay it's the season of love" but when was it ever not a season of love during the course of the year?
Monday, July 1, 2002
Looks like Operation Ant Invasion has begun at our home. My God, they're everywhere. This will surely be an epic battle for survival of man vs. ant that will last throughout the entire summer. May the best species win.
Thursday, July 11, 2002
I wonder how the term "Siamese twins" originated. Siam is a country in Asia, and I'm going to ignorantly assume that Siam was where the first set of twins that were physically connected to each other were born. So if the first connected pair of twins were born in Korea, would we be calling all of those twins "Korean twins" this day? How about if they originated from a country whose name is long and hard to pronounce? Like Kazakhstanian twins. Sheesh, how irritating would THAT be. I'd hate to be the father of a set of Kazakhstanian twins. Everytime the topic of my kids comes up I'd have to say "Kazakhstanian twins" at least 2-3 times in that conversation. I dunno if I'd be annoyed or if I'd be able to finish any of my sentences from laughing.
Thursday, August 15, 2002
We celebrated Ryan and Kim's birthday party at Chuck E. Cheese. They had this whole fake stage with a mechanical animal band playing and singing absolutely horrendous songs. I will never ever EVER expose my future children to such abominations. One of the songs was a Jamacan "don't worry" type of of song in which the lyrics said "if you wait long enough, your problems will solve themselves." What the hell is that all about? This is the kind of message they are sending to kids all over America?!?!?! That they could just sit there and expect everything to be taken care of for them, that the best way to handle their personal problems is to ignore them??? What the hell is wrong with these people? Freaking sheesh!!!
Wednesday, August 21, 2002
JFRO637: haha don't worry
JFRO637: you're coo
Super0406: haha, well u brought out the coo in me
Super0406: or else i would have gone coo coo hahahahha
Sunday, August 25, 2002
I have at last found my true calling in life and what I was put on this earth to become: a tomato truck driver. Dude, they are paying people $1500 per week to take boxes of tomatos and peaches to the company's processing facilities throught the U.S.!!! Those huge trucks that those shipping companies use. So you'd have to have a separate liscence for it. $1500 per week!!! From now on, I will be known as Mike Uh, tomato truck driver. Just kidding, please don't call me that. But man, that's a lot of money they make. About $72,000 a year, that ain't too shabby. They must have it all. To the tomato truck drivers of America, I salute you. You truly are kings among men.
I believe sleep is one of the purest and truest forms of pleasure humans can experience. The worst part of any day for me is waking up and being in an awakened, non-sleep state. So basically, the whole day is the worst part of my day because I'm not sleeping. That is, unless I'm taking a nap. Hahaha.
Thursday, September 5, 2002
I'm a lover of irony, as the blog's title would state. But, I would like to say that I absolutely detest Alanis Morissette's song "Ironic." Why? Because none of the stuff she sings about is ironic!!!! They're just really really messed up situations, but it's not irony!!!! Irony is when you have a situation where one thing is expected, but the opposite of what's expected occurs. So a traffic jam when you're already late, or a free ride when you're already paid, it's not irony!!! You know what the REAL irony about this song is? It's the fact that the song is supposed to be about irony, but all of the stuff that's supposed to be ironic, isn't ironic at all. So isn't THAT ironic, don't you think????
Friday, September 13, 2002
I took my very last stroll down Bruin Walk today as a student of UCLA. As I was walking to my car after my final exam I saw the dorms in the horizon, where college began. I took some time to think my goodbyes to all the good things I would be leaving behind and drove off into the sunset, never looking back.
Actually, there was no sunset, it was 1:00 in the afternoon and I drove into the 405 traffic. And I'm gonna be returning there in a week or so to pick up my degree hehe. But I had a good run. College was awesome, I wouldn't take it back for anything.
-On Meena's dyed hair-
Mike: If your bangs were dyed orange, you could call it orange bangs. (orange bang)
Monday, September 23, 2002
Super0406: so what did u do all summer?
JhN7117: nothing really, i chilled most of the time.
Super0406: really? that's cool
Super0406: i tried to chill, but it was pretty hot in gardena hahahaha
Sunday, September 29, 2002
Heabin JDSN: If you get a bee sting, you could put animal poop on it to make it better.
Mike: Dude, that would really sting-k. (stink)
Mike: You can't just let it "bee"? (let it be)
Sunday, October 7, 2002
Anne: You have a fax machine at your house, right?
Brian: No, at work.
Mike: Yeah, get your "fax" straight. (facts)
Wednesday, October 30, 2002
Nothing like a Yoshinoya beef bowl at 2 in the morning... again. What would life be like if I didn't live 2 minutes away from a 24-hour Yoshinoya? Life is like a Yoshinoya beef bowl. You know exactly what you're going to get - rice, beef, and onions. Come to think of it, I personally think that life really ISN'T like a box of chocolates at all. Most of the time, you know exactly what's coming to you depending on what decisions you made and the stuff you said. Yes, life CAN throw some surprises at you, but realistically, how often does that happen?
Sunday, November 17, 2002
-Church chat: Grace and I were both wearing vests-
Grace: Yeah, Mike and I have the vest thing going today.
Mike: Yup. *thumbs up* It's the vest! (best)
Thursday, November 21, 2002
I don't think I will ever understand today's Asian pop culture. Like, if I were to ever disagree or make a mockery out of something that certain people do, most likely the response would be "don't be a hater! And then they would probably go off and talk a bunch of smack about the haters being losers who can't hang or really get mad with the reaction they received. Well, okay.. maybe it's my lack of knowledge about how all this "hater" business works, but by you going off and saying "man, f___ the haters!!! blah blah blah," aren't you being a hater yourself? You love to talk all this smack about people who have a problem with what you do and you label it "hating" but then you're guilty of the exactly the same thing by having problems with the other person having a problem with what you're doing, so you have the exact same problem of "hating" by getting mad and "hating" the "haters." Sheesh, go figure. So stop hating the haters, you hater hater! Hahahaha.
Monday, November 25, 2002
I went to Frys today and some guy almost ended up tripping over his little daughter. Then he gets all worked up and tells her "damn it, you scared the sh*t out of me!" Ummm... okay buddy, that's a really nice way to talk to your 5-year-old daughter. And then once she picks up those wonderful words from you and says it back to you later on, you'll probably get all pissed at her right? What an ignorant piece of crap. Sheesh!
Friday, November 29, 2002
Sam: You know, once there was a dead frog in my laundry detergent box. It was so weird.
Girls: Ewww!
Mike: Really? I guess it got caught up in the Tide.
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
If there was one thing I wanted to change about myself, what would it be? I wish I wouldn't spit when I talk!!! Okay, like, I'm really anal about having clean breath so I always have mints in my mouth. i'm also very anal about keeping my ears clean, so I clean out my ears with a q-tip everyday after taking a shower. But spitting when I talk, I can't really control it, and I don't know of any way to stop it. Sheesh, is there a medicine or something out there that will prevent this???? I don't want to cover my mouth with my hands every time I talk, either.
Thursday, December 26, 2002
You know, the more I think about the whole Antitrust thing, the more horrendously funny the whole situation gets for me. It's just something I'm completely left speechless about. I mean, this wasn't even brought with the intention of being a horrendous or humorous gift. So I've decided to milk this for all its worth. I've created a list of things I would rather receive at a gift exchange than Antitrust on dvd.
1. A blank(or used) notebook.
2. A rubber band.
3. A water bottle. Doesn't matter if it is empty or full.
4. A cactus.
5. Terminator 2 on VHS.
6. Terminator 2 on casette. I just chose Terminator 2 because it was a random movie that I thought was universally acknowldeged as a pretty good movie. And yes, I would rather receive Terminator 2 on CASSETTE TAPE than Antitrust on dvd.
7. Chopsticks.
8. A bag of Funions.
9. One M&M.
10. Aluminum foil.
You get the idea. I thought I've seem some horrendous things this past year, but seems like THE most horrendous thing was waiting till the end of the year haha.