high skool - first semester, senior year

12.21.01
wow yesterday was pretty interesting. our group finally started working on another portion of our yg movie. it's still not done though so we're hopefully gonna get it all finished today after i get off work. it's great so far it's about 3 and a half min long, but don't worry. u'll enjoy the end product. it's good stuff. jesus and all. u know how it is. ne wayz after we did all we could last night w/ the movie we went to charlie's (we being brian, david, stephanie, shivaun, and me) for his "party" which means we'll cram 50 ppl in his room and play PS2. it was great. bobby, phi, and vicky were all there. well i finally got a chance to try out final fantasy x. oh man that is some sweet da bien. i luv it...so good...omg...word. afterwards we went to applebee's and i was out till around 11.30 and had to wake up early today to get to work by 8. oh man coffee sure does help when i'm dead tired.

oh man our yg movie is so great. it'll be way better than all the other group's. we got stereotypical gungfu movie, the matrix, american pie, and some other stuff all in one! OH MAN! I CAN'T CONTAIN MYSELF! DEXTER U R SO HOT!....ne wayz so far we have planned a minimum of 2 fight scenes, one which we did last night. imo it was short and could've had some better choreography (<=is that how u spell it?). so hopefully the next one we're doing will be better. so yeah i hear our competition is a certain "star wars/x-men" movie? haha yeah right. what a joke, friend. you cannot compare to our "not another christmas movie" oh man. it's so great. hope u enjoy it tonight!

man stephanie is friggin late. she's supposed to pick me up from work. ai yah. i said 12 and it's 12.40 right now. jeez. chinese ppl. never on time. hehe like me to work, skool, etc. everyday pretty much. bad! bad chinese ppl!

12.20.01
yesterday tragedy struck as i was coming home from work. as i was getting off at the chandler blvd exit on price freeway i noticed a slight decrease in responsiveness in el trucko. as i cruised down the off-ramp the entire engine seemed to just die as all the warning lights suddenly turned on. as if nothing worse could happen, i started to notice a large amount of smoke exiting from underneath the hood. at that point i realized that i'm pretty screwed. the brakes which locked up just barely worked enough so that i didn't rear end the person in front of me. when i came to a complete stop i checked if it would still drive. i step on the gas and nothing happens so i try restarting the car, but to no avail. the only thing this produced was a horrible scratching noise from the engine. by this time it was rush hour and i was holding up traffic. so i decided ot prop up the hood and air out the engine. it smelled sooooo bad! i inhaled a lot of whatever was coming out of it and coughed up a storm. i took a look inside and there was a belt that came off of the pulley it was on, but i thought it was best not to stick my hand into there for fear of horrible bodily harm. along w/ the belt, there was a lot of radiator fluid all over the inside compartment of the engine. there were many cars changing lanes angrily and zooming past me so i thought it was best to move my car off of the off-ramp. i put el truck in neutral and start pushing while holding onto the steering wheel. i make it down the ramp and then someone jumps out of their car and starts to help push. what a nice guy. i'd like to give a big thanx to whoever he was. ne wayz we pushed it from the off ramp onto chandler blvd and into the michaels parking lot right across the street from chandler fashion. i made a couple calls and charlie was the closest person in the area so i thought it best to call him. after he left his house i finally get through to my mom's cell phone and tell her what's going on and she says she'll meet me at home. finally, charlie arrives and takes me home. unfortunately i parked the truck across 3 parking spaces in the back of the parking lot so i was somewhat worried that the car might get towed. luckily, my mom and me came back an hour or so later and straightened it out. when i started pushing it a guy in a truck came by and offered to help push it. now i jus wanna give another big thanx to whoever he was too. back to the story, straightened out the truck and parked it normally and now waited for my dad to get home so he can call AAA and get a tow truck sent out to us. when he got home, he called AAA and about 20 min later they get to where we were and hitched up the truck and took it home. when he took a look at the truck it turns out the water pump shaft broke and the truck overheated. basically the "smoke" was actually steam from the remenants of whatever was in the water pump hitting the exhaust manifold which is like friggin hot from all the spent gases being pumped thru it. so yeah for now it's out of commission so i'll probably be driving the quest around for a while. hopefully my dad can get to it this weekend so that'll be cool. i mean i still had half a tank of gas in there!! oh man that's like 6 bux!! oh well whatever i'm not hurt or dead so that's all that matters. a reassuring thought though, el trucko is not dead. it's just busted. no worries to all the loyal and caring fans out there of this wonderful vehicle known to all as EL TRUCKO.

this morning my dad told me i could go to cali w/ brian's family. sweet. i hope they still have room and don't mind me tagging along. so yeah hopefully it'll be a pretty awesome week.

12.18.01
well it's exactly one week till christmas and my hopes of goin out to cali have been crushed. it seems that i gotta stay around the house for christmas. you may think that it's a good reason. well i say to u rubbish. my parents pretty much screwed over tradition and gave me my "present" a week or two ago. it wasn't really a present, it was more like 50 bux and an excuse about why they were giving it to me early. apparently they didn't know what to get me. helloOo! dexter's got a christmas list on el website for all the public to see. i even tell them constantly that my car is a POS and that it's probably in the best interest of us all that i get one that isn't a POS. well ne wayz there isn't too much reason to stay around for christmas now. you hear ppl say that it's all about family and all that junk, well my family...i dunno. it's weird. i can't stay home for long periods of time, let alone this forced day or two of being confined to the house just like thanksgiving. ugh. it's not that i hate my family or ne thing, i luv them it's just that it's kinda awkward cuz usually when we're all together there isn't really much we can say or ne thing. it's just....yeah we're all here together....what's the point? i dunno. this entire issue of family is weird to me now. i hope i didn't sounds like some greedy bastard earlier, presents and all that weren't the matter at hand. it was the fact that they decided to do something earlier than the actual reserved day, not following tradition as we have done so for as long as i've been around. since that came about i'm beginning to doubt the entire purpose of the "secular" reasons of christmas. presents, christmas tree, family and all that stuff just seems to have been tossed right out the window w/ what they did. i'm not saying that i'm not grateful for the gift it's just the fact that there wasn't a great deal of thought or effort put into it and that itself says to me that it's really not that important ne more. oh well whatever at least i have a couple days of rest to still look forward to b4 it's back to work full-time over break. yay.

12.14.01
wow there are a lot of entries in my gbook now! unfortunately they're mostly from the ONE particular person so i guess that doesn't really count. ne wayz it's friday and i'm glad it is. this week has been kinda long. i've been kinda sick so that hasn't really helped. neat thing though was monday night my mom finally gave in and let me dye my hair. now it's a red-brown color. kinda hard to tell sometimes, but other times it's dead obvious. jus depends on the lighting in the area. i was looking for a really fobby color, but then i remembered that they're kinda grody looking colors and most of all, i'm not a fob. so sadly i had to give up on that. besides that, i haven't been to gungfu as much as i should this week. i went in tuesday and thursday which isn't up to par especially since i'm testing for "black sash/belt whatever" january 5th i think. friday night or something so i should really be getting in as much as i can from now till then cuz i'm kinda "lacking" on some things. oh well whatever i always cram b4 ne tests and i've done it for gungfu ones too so it's all good.

yesterday at work the lady who deals w/ all the student intern stuff at srp had a little christmas party for us all at the "pera club" (<=ask me later). ne wayz we were supposed to bring those white elephant gift things and the limit was under $5. well as usual i had forgot to get something and decided to jus put in 5 bux, but i forgot to get something to put it in like an envelope, hong bao, etc. so i jus opted to not participate in this whole gift exchange business. well it turns out the coordinator lady brought a gift and said that she'd let me take her place even though i insisted not to participate. well first pick i get 5 bux, so i'm up 5 bux now w/o spending ne thing on this. unfortunately if u know these white elephant gift exchange things, ppl can steal ur crap if they get picked after u. greedy bastards. hehe. ne wayz i got my 5 bux taken, but then i got another, but that got taken too. then i got some m&m's in a tube, but that got stolen as well. FINALLY, i pick out one w/ 10 BUX in it! omg! this gift is 5 bux over the limit so now i'm up 10 bux! sadly that got stolen as well. friggin jews. so when it was all done, i end up w/ some snickers in a tube. oh joy. oh well looks like i got my white elephant gift for the yg christmas party take care of. yes! and i didn't spend a dime! so asian! well besides getting out of work for about an hour and a half AND still getting paid, they had food there too so i guess it was a pretty well spent afternoon. well when i got back to the office i was sent out again to go pick copies up from alphagraphics on central and washington in downtown phoenix. i checked th directions on mapquest and it said it was between first and central so when i get there i was looking around 1st st. and central, but it was some empty office building and i was driving around that block for like 20 min. looking around and makin my way around all those blasted one-way streets. so i finally decided to go check if the place they usually send me was alphagraphics or not. so i take central all the way up to...the last street i remember was thomas and i went up a couple blocks more and got to the building and went inside to check the directory. it turns out the place i usually go to is IKON not ALPHAGRAPHICS. at this point i was getting kind've testy cuz it was almost 4, i get off work at 5, and i still hadn't found alphagraphics. so i drive back south on central and on the way back i see an alphagraphics so i stop by it to check if they were the alphagraphics i was looking for. i asked the guy at the counter if they had the copies for srp and he checked the computer. after making a couple funny faces while staring at the computer it turns out they don't have such an order on the computer. this means i'm at the wrong one so i ask if they have an alphagraphics on central and washington. it turns out they do so i call the other alphagraphics to find out where they are. well they are between central and 1ST AVE not 1ST STREET where i had been driving around. i was only a block away and didn't even see it. ugh i was kinda pissed by now....that and i had to go to the bathroom so that didn't help. W/ 3 liters of water in me from earlier i figured i'd have to go sometime soon. ne wayz so i go all the way back down to central and washington and i finally find it. now the hard part was finding parking in the area. so i drove around those stupid one-way streets for another 5 min. looking for parking. i end up parking in a metered spot a block down and walking all the way there, picking the copies up, and getting back to the office as fast as i could. on the way back i think i set a new record for the "company car speed on a city street" w/ 65 mph weaving thru all those bastard slow drivers. ai yah. well i finally get back to work a couple minutes b4 5 and drop the box off and RUN to the bathroom. luckily i made it in time w/o pissing my pants. you know what i did afterwards? that's right i got me a nice refreshing drink of water cuz i was kinda warm from all the running. hehe.

well next week we got finals. it's about time. i was really getting sick of skool and all it's stupidness, if that's a word. although now that i look back on it all i'd have to say this year kinda went by fast. i mean i can remember the first day of skool and the summer b4 it and all that stuff. oh well the sooner i get outta high skool and into college maybe i'll get a decent amount of sleep at night now ^_^ but yeah back to finals, the only one that has me kinda worried now is the math one. i suck at math, seriously. i hate it and it hates me back. today i was surprised to find out i had a B in the class when i thought i had a C or worse. hehe i didn't do too good on all the quizzes n stuff. hw and tests were alright, but man those quizzes brought my grade down. oh well whatever, i'm gonna major in business and i won't do as much math as the engineering ppl, well at least from what i'm told i won't so it's just another reason to look forward to college. other than math everything else should be pretty easy. english i have a 96 in the class and i remember most of what we did this semester so i'm not worrying too much about that. us/az gov't is a bs class and i can care less about it. finally business intership, we're just going over stuff from our economics book which my entrepreneurship class used last year so i'm pretty set. i'll just breeze through next week and hopefully not worry about too much.

christmas is coming up and my parents have already given me a "gift." supposedly they didnt' know what to get me so they thought it'd be nice to just get it over w/ now and give me 50 bux. sounds alright to me although they screwed tradition over. what i wanted was a new car, but i'm 50 bux closer to getting one now. haha but i'll most likely end up spending it on food or something like i usually do. well at least i can look forward to getting some more rest at night and hanging out w/ my friends a little more over the upcoming break. what kinda sux though is that we're not going ne where and i don't think ne relatives are gonna come to visit so i'll probably end up working full-time inventorying more stuff and mailing out random da bien. oi i can hardly wait. at least i'll make some "phat bank" although i'm not sure it makes up for what i'm missing by going to work. argh now i know how ppl feel when they get REAL jobs out in the REAL world and basically work is their life. aw i don't want that. i wanna enjoy my life. hmmmm seems like i'll either have to find a way to make a butt load of cash or hook up w/ a rich chick who'll take care of me : P YAY! haha not likely. ahh the life of the common man, a grunt, a peon to society. how optimistic.

12.11.01
i think i'm sick again. when i wake up, my throat is all dry and i hate that. it's like the worst feeling in the world. it makes me feel like i didn't get a good nights rest and me w/ a lack of sleep is a bad thing. to remedy this problem i usually sleepin first period ignoring my stupid nazi teacher. so this weekend wasn't too bad. saturday morning i wokeup around 8.30 and went to help p larry move to his new house. we finished up around 1 and then i came home, changed, and met up w/ charr, mike, calvin, and bobby on mill and chilled there for a while. word of advice, don't blow off the parking meters there. this seems like common sense, but the ones in downtown tempe are tricky. they don't have it in front of ur space. it's in the middle of the parking lot and it's a little console where u enter ur space number and then put money into it. well it turns out all they guys didn't put money into it, but bobby was the only one to get a ticket. well ne wayz after that we all went our own ways and i was going to chill at howard's for a little while. mike and charlie were gonna go to class and calvin and bobby went to go pickup calvin's car. well plans changed and charlie didn't go w/ mike so we decided to wait up for calvin to get his car and then go to E-ba! wow that place is pretty good. unfortunately they ran out of boba so all we did was drink the nai cha stuff. oh well it wasn't too bad. and we got a discount too. after e-ba, we wandered around mill ave and bobby led us into some pretty....."questionable" stores. we'll not discuss that ne further. but yeah we didn't find much on mill so we went back to charlie's and chilled there for the rest of the night pretty much. sunday was the typical sunday except during chinese skool i was in the student council thing-y so i missed most of chinese skool. that was pretty tight and that was the day of our finals. luckily i made it back in time to take the final, which was pretty much read a page out of our chinese books and that was it. so easy. well that was my weekend. gotta go home now. byebye.

12.07.01
sweet friday is here. it's about time too. i was getting really sick of this entire week of skool, etc. yesterday on the way to work i saw more roadkill. it was great. this time it wasn't a raccoon, it was a kitty cat. ran down right in the middle of it and all it's guts were all over the place. also, there was some streaks of blood and it all looked like ground beef in the supermarket to me. oh i can't forget the look on it's face. it's mouth was wide open and i think it's tongue may have been sticking out. yes that was very descriptive, but i only made it that way so that u could fully comprehend what i saw on the way to work. don't u luv it?

work is pretty normal today. i made a whole bunch of copies and read the newspaper. i might get around to ACTUALLY doing some work today, besides the usual newspaper/copy deal. i got the inventory of the cubicle next to me that still needs to be finished. no bueno, but i was just on carpoint and looked up the subaru impreza wrx. it's quite the nice car. all-wheel-drive, turbocharged rally car. it's quite nice. now i'm jus waitin for mitsubishi to bring the lancer evo's over cuz the current lancer jus sux. most aspects of it retain the evo style EXCEPT for the engine which severely lacks ne real power. 120 HP?! that's like nothing. that's like civic, corolla, sentra-level. ai yah! and nobody likes that.

so today at skool i didn't accomplish a great deal. first period i listened to the skool's resource officer talk. it was wayyyy better than my normal nazi teacher. second period i "finished" my hw and then started reading the "import racer" magazine i bought the night b4. third period we had one of our usual business internship "meetings." basically i ate food the entire hour and read my magazine some more. finally fourth period i took a test on "Dante's Inferno" 55 questions and we got to use some notes as well. all in all, it was a pretty easy test. after i finished i read my magazine some more. u know magazine seem to be the only things i really sit down and read. books are kinda bleh although every now and then there's a good one, but magazines imo are way better. they're more compact there's lotsa color and pictures and things that'll keep ur attention in the magazine unlike books which, unless they're interesting, tend to make my mind wander and daydream. ah the joy of reading.

today i asked my mom a question regarding me getting a new car. she says that my dad is okay w/ an altima (which everyone has). dang i preferred the 200sx, but hey i can't complain, it's a free car. ne wayz i mention that if ur gonna get me a car that i wasn't exactly in favor of that they at least get a manual transmission altima. then my mom replies "ohhhhh i dunno. i don't really want u getting one." i freaked out, but then she says "cuz after 3 years u might have to give it to ur sister." hmmmmmm so i was thinking......if i drive an altima (auto/stick) for 3 years, would that mean i get a new car after that? can u say BIGGER and BETTER! haha yes! sweet i can only hope that my assumption is correct. i mean u can't jus take a car away from someone nor could i really share a car w/ my sister either. so.....say my first REAL car is something in the midsize family sedan class then what would the next one be? can you say SUPRA? ^_^ dang i wish. insurance is so expensive on those. only after i'm 24 or something whenever they lower ur rates cuz ur not a "teenager" ne more. so ne wayz, what's inbetween altima and supra? so far i've ruled out civic, integra, 200sx from the previous choices of mine's hmmmm......skyline if it ever comes out here would be nice. same w/ the lancer evo. so right now maybe a wrx? i dunno. hard to say. i can't really think of ne other cars inbetween. hmmm there's also the rsx. that's not too bad and in 3 years hopefully they'll have a decent amount of aftermarket parts for it cuz right now the rsx is kinda lacking. well only time can tell.

12.06.01
hey lookie! i finally compiled a christmas wish list! enjoy!

not too much has been goin on lately. i guess u could say life has somewhat returned to normal. i took the SAT's last saturday. i feel i did better on them this time cuz i recognized more of the material, but when i got to the last section, which was that long english reading one, i got pretty sick of it and kinda jus randomly guessed stuff to get it over with. ne wayz afterwards i wandered around DV for about 15-20 min looking for Jim Tai, who was supposedly there as well taking SAT II's. i later found out that the SATII ppl were out after one hour or so, so by the time i was done they'd left about 2 hours earlier. fun. oh well later that day i went to chandler fashion w/ my sister, brian, david, and phimus. i saw josh there and he just gave me a ralph wiggum air freshner. it was awesome, but now it doesn't really have ne "smell" left in it. wow it hasn't even been a week. kinda reminds me of my other air freshners in my car. spongebob and that jap one i got both ran out of air freshner goodness in a short amount of time, although the jap one lasted the longest out of all 3 air freshners. i think the weird weather here is what kills them fast. dang and i really liked the way the jap one smelled. ne wayz so i was at the mall on saturday and went around looking for b-day presents for my mom and bwee. after the mall brian n me went to bwee's bday thing at his parents restaurant. good stuff. i ate too much which affected my performance on ddr afterwards. not good stuff. ne wayz the food was pretty good, all 3 platefuls. then everyone went to golfland afterwards. oi i like died on ddr. i hadn't played in a little while (2 weeks), 5th mix was busted, and 6th mix i wasn't too familiar with so that didn't help either. so i ended up playin a decent amount of usa mix, which i hadn't played in a while. it was pretty fun. there were lotsa ppl there. and this one guy playin 6th mix, tall guy w/ a moustach & beard in a ninja burger shirt was tearin it up. after that someone somehow got 30 credits on that one shooting deathmatch-ish game (i forget the name). it was pretty tight so all the guys there were playing that game for a while and then we just home.

the rest of my week has been pretty okay i guess. work i FINALLY shipped out all those well logs. i took them to the mail room in 2 big boxes (with my own 2 hands! no wussy cart for me!), but the mailroom guy wasn't there so i wasn't quite sure what to do so i left it out in the middle of the floor and left a little note on it. hopefully he got it and shipped it out. then i had to fedex a tube out so i put the fedex tube together, filled out the paperwork, and put the rolls of stuff in the tube. now i wasn't quite sure what to do again cuz i read somewhere i should take them up to the front desk, but then again i usually mail out tubes through this rack next to the mailbox that says "outgoing tubes." so i figured, well it is a "tube" that is "going out", so i put it in "outgoing tubes." hey it made sense to me so it might as well go there. today i had to do a speech in business internship on me. it is part of our toastmasters section of the class. imo that is the gayest name ever when it comes to public speaking which is what toastmasters is trying to teach. i mean wtf do the words "toast" and "master", together or seperate, have to do w/ this topic at all? oh well i guess i did decent on it. i had 9 "speech errors", didn't go the minimum 3 min, and i completely forgot one part of my speech cuz i jus wanted to get it over with. well at least i spoke in a loud tone of voice. other than that everything else kinda sucked. if u know me then u probably know that i usually am not too comfortable in front of a group of ppl, well at least when it comes to speaking to them. and yes i am very quiet at skool. i'm usually one of the quiet kids that don't say much, but hey i don't care. i don't have much to say to start off with. most of the topics covered i could care less about so why bother having ne input in the discussion at all. that or the teacher isn't exactly....a decent teacher. for example, my nazi, commie, all-around unlikeable first period teacher who looks like wolverine from x-men, today blew up at us cuz someone's phone went off in class. she usually doesn't yell, but today the student didn't admit to having their phone go off so when she asked who's phone it was, there was complete silence. so she stops the video we're watching and says in a loud, irritated tone of voice," i wanna know who's DAMN phone went off." now hold on a sec. isn't there a skool rule about offensive language? now i remember here chastising students in class when they blurt out "cuss" words and now she goes and does it herself. hypocrite. just another reason i think this teacher is on santa's naughty list. also, she has to throw her opinion into EVERYTHING mentioned in class. it just gets so annoying. i can't stand her. no wonder her class is the one i feel most obligated to sleep in. every moment i'm awake is another moment i have to put up w/ her. here's a tidbit on her i found in my skool's website. ai yah our skool's website is so ghetto. it's like a week or two behind schedule and there's so much stuff they have yet to fill in. after looking at all of the other tempe skool's website's (tempe high doesn't count. the skool itself is so ghetto i don't consider it a tempe skool at all), ours is probably the worst. but yeah i just went way off topic and can't think of ne thing else to say.

11.30.01
yay! it's friday! the weekend is here. oh joy! so far i have nothing planned though except the SAT's. so sadly i won't be able to go out tonight so i can go to sleep early and get all rested up for SAT's tomorrow. right now my legs are sore from gungfu and working out last night. ai yah if u ever get a chance to try "ma bu" oh man ur gonna luv it. going up stairs today wasn't too great, but i made it up them. oi and last night when we were doin some light sparring i nailed my partner in the......yeah....and he went down X P then when i was demonstrating something i accidentally nailed him in the jaw. if i had gone ne lower he would've been out cold. along w/ the other close calls i kinda had a lack of control last night. i felt so bad about hurting the guy. SO SAH-REE! moving right along, i got paid today which is another plus. what kinda sux though is that this paycheck is smaller cuz of thanksgiving weekend. oh well i had 4 days off to relax so i can't really complain. well work hasn't been extremely exciting today cuz i've been on the internet most of the time. yesterday i d/l a bunch of mp3's. it was a pretty random group of ppl too. from dmx/mystikal to blink182/fenix tx to even alicedeejay/vengaboys. ew i never though i'd be listening to that and yet i am. how weird. ne wayz with all the time i've been on the internet lately, i learned that every aspect of cars is really detailed and complex. it'd be nice if things were kept simple, then maybe i wouldn't get so lost and lose interest in what i was reading. in english we're reading "dante's inferno." it's an interesting story about dante aligheri's journey through hell, purgatory, and paradise (heaven). dante was a political figure in florence way back and he got exiled by his political enemies so he spent his time wandering around italy and writing this "comedia" of his. b4 i actually read this i thought it was an actual account of dante REALLY going through hell and all that good stuff. hehe silly me. i guess this one book i read about a list of ppl that the author thought would be in hell kinda did it. he mentioned dante a lot and i wasn't too familiar w/ him until now so i jus thought what he was saying about dante going through hell was true. man that crazy dante. YAY today i'm not wearing dress shoes cuz it's casual day and now i'm not getting shocked my my earphones ne more! sweet. okay time to go make copies now. byebye.

11.29.01
i finally figured out how i'm getting all those weird static shocks in my ears when i'm wearing my earphones. i run my feet across the floor which generates all that static electricity and then shocks me in the ear. how inconvenient. ne wayz i'm gonna mail out the well logs next monday. finally i can get rid of them. they're taking up mucho room in my cubicle. now back to inventorying. fun fun fun.

did another section of some sat practice test and i actually did decent. the weirdest thing was that it was a math section. i suck at math so that's kinda weird, but lately i've been missing my computer time at lunch and just studying. even though it's only a half hour it's better than not studying at all. hehe kinda like the last time i took it. so i pretty much deserved what i got last time and as soon as i take the test i better start sending out all those college applications. yeah it's kinda late but i wanted to take the sat's first.

11.28.01
check out the awesome safety features my truck (el trucko) has! Go ahead! Check it out! Do it NOW! mine's is the 10th one from the left. reg cab long bed 2WD. unfortunately this list isn't as accurate as it could be because the oldest model shown is 1988 and el trucko is a 1984, but el trucko is red so that more than makes up for the 4 year difference.
??today i had an early release so i got out at 10.43. i got home around 11 and did the first 2 sections of some SAT practice test. ai yah did crappy and i haven't even finished the entire thing. i'm getting a bad feeling about this saturday. the worst thing is that was about the most time i think i'll be able to study this week. tonight goin to gungfu, tomorrow i have to go cuz i have to assist w/ teaching, friday is yg and then saturday morning i take the test at DV w/ evan! YAY! evan makes it all better. even though he's really smart and i probably couldn't cheat off him, it'll still be fun. the part that sux though is that i can't go out friday night so i can get enough rest for the test. not only have i realized it, but studies have shown that kids w/o enough rest tend to not perform very well. therefore i gotta sleep early no matter how much i wanna go out. doing as best i can on the SAT's is more important. besides, it's just one friday night. there'll be plenty more i can go wreak havoc on.
??ow! these earphones at work are starting to like shock me in the ear! they're kinda like little static shocks, but that hasn't happened to me b4 when i used them w/ my cd player. oh well they're the only earphones that have a wire that's long enough for me to sit back in my chair. oh well. i've been gettin on the internet a whole lot during work now. doing this inventory really sux my butt. the only thing that keeps me going is all these crazy mp3's i d/l onto the company's comp. HD. hehe. mostly kpop cuz i just get them all from solid07.net. got some rufio and ataris, but not a whole lot. i haven't been getting a whole lot of newspapers to ready either. lately it's been just one or two a day and then it's back to inventorying.
??man i've seen some uglyyyyy cars lately. today i saw this ghetto old station wagon, but w/ those mexi-wheels where the wheels stick out a foot from the car. why do they do that? so ugly. ugly like altezza lights on trucks and suv's. in fact altezza's on ne thing but an IS 300. then theres the impala. i mean back in it's day it looked kinda like a muscle car, almost, but nowadays they turned into a family-type sedan. the worst part is the lights. they look like it's got 4 nipples on the back of the car. they're the ugliest lights i've ever seen on a car. worse than the altezzas on trucks. the other day i saw an impala w/ the mexi-wheels. now if that isn't the worst combination of ugly, i don't know what is. next there's the monte carlo. it's big, boxy, and ugly. kinda like a ford thunderbird, but they look a little better, but not by much. the monte carlo's got some sorta sorry attempt at a spoiler on the back of the car. it's this nub that sticks up from the trunk and this is a race car! how can u race that chunky thing!? so big! oh i know, here's the american philosphy on how to build a faster car, "let's put a bigger engine in it." ai yah! they're all the same! big, inefficient gas guzzlers. ah and then there's the classic mustang. i see those things left and right. they're everywhere. mostly high skool kids who had their parents buy it for them or middle-age ppl goin thru some mid-life crisis. those irresponsible high skool kids are the ones driving like maniacs and getting their 25k mustangs wrapped around telephone poles. w/ all the accidents they're getting into they're the ones screwing the rest of us over on insurance and they don't even care! why? cuz mommy and daddy will go out and buy them a new car and pay for their insurance so they'll just go do it again and it's a never ending cycle of shit. spoiled, rich bastards. now the mustang would be a fine example of the "american philosophy" along w/ every other "muscle" car out there: the camaros, corvettes, etc. oh but i can't forget all those huge trucks out there. the typical ford, chevy, dodge garbage. these trucks w/ the 7" lifts and practically 2 ft. tall tires are speeding around up and down the roads and taking up 3 parking spaces at that. for instance, everytime i go to amc 24 i drive around looking for parking and what do i see in the compact parking spaces? a huge truck parked in 2 of the spaces cuz it couldn't find a better space hereby screwing the rest of the ppl trying to find a space. and what's w/ the lifts on half of these trucks? most of the kids driving them around probably don't even off road which is what i'm assuming they're for. it's the only rational explanation for such frivolous waste of money. also something else i've seen is the mexi-altima, old civic & civic hb, old sentra, etc. what's the deal w/ this? when did mexicans all of a sudden get into the whole import deal. i'm pretty sure they could be doing a way better job. i mean i've seen some pretty nice show-type cars done by mexican guys, but i'm talking about those really dirty, ghetto-ass old cars that look like they belong more in the junkyard than on the road. also the whole wack racing stickers and exhaust is just annoying. like ne other ricer on the road except dirty. it's like 10x worse. at least the ricers are clean. now onto an entire company i think is wack altogether. pontiac. all their cars look the same and the grand am is has a really awkward looking body. the lines that run across it are just butt ugly. ne wayz i think that's enough ranting for today. i just hope u all come to realize all the stupid, ghetto cars we have on the roads these days.

11.27.01
an intersting article i found in the newspaper:

? ?BEIJING (AP) -- As if by magic, the new Harry Potter movie has popped up in China -- courtesy of the country's notorious copyright pirates.
? ?"Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" ahs not ben officaly released in China, and it only opened Friday in the United States and Britain.
? ?But by Tuesday, video disc peddlers were selling illegal copies of the smash movie, with Chinese subtitles, for the equivalent of just $1.20. The packaging showed the boy wizard on a flying broom and shots from the film.
? ?The copies were apparently filmed with a video camera in a theater, possibly in Taiwan, where it debuted over the weekend. The images were dark and grainy, the sound fuzzy. At one point, a member of the audience walked past the camera.
? ?Despite years of government efforts to curb the problem, piracy of Western movies, music, and software is rampant.

? ?wow chinese ppl. pretty typical if u ask me, but hey it's cheaper than actually seeing the movie in the theater. man these days tickets can cost upwards of 8-9 dollars! so i can see why there is so much piracy going on. well that and chinese ppl are cheap ne wayz. i remember seeing something like this in downtown l.a. or as it is more well known "little tiajuana." this was about 2 years ago, we were wandering around the market type area consisting of mostly hispanic vendors w/ the occasional korean business. i noticed a couple guys w/ big cardboard boxes full of tapes yelling in spanish. so i went up for a closer look and what do they have? that's right pirated copies of "big daddy" and "star wars: episode 1." they weren't even that cheap like the harry potter vcd. these guys wanted 10 bux a piece for them! so there u have it, the modern day pirates and the...actually i don't really know what to say, they're just cheap bastards.
? ?this week is going by soooooo slow. the past 2 days i've been extremely tired in the morning. it must've been getting too used to the 4 day weekend. ne wayz by this thursday we'll have exactly 3 weeks left b4 christmas vacation(not winter break, p.c. sux my butt). so yeah sat's this saturday and i've kinda been studying more even though it's really hard to find time to study. hopefully i'll do pretty good this time. i only wish that i could've done a little more studying cuz i've kinda been putting it off for the past few weeks. on a lighter note, lately it's been really cold. like "wow, i'm cold" and i've noticed that there are still ppl that wear shorts and t-shirts like it's nothing. for example, today at skool i see a couple kids here and there and they're wearing just shorts and a t-shirt. then i think to myself "what is wrong w/ these ppl? they're not even fat and they can wear shorts and t-shirts when it's this cold." i guess i'm just really weird.
? ?here at work i'm back to inventorying stuff in the cubicle next to me. it's tons of fun. seriously it is......not. ne wayz at least i am stationary and use the computer all day. thats' always a plus. i still haven't mailed out all those well logs even though i'm done w/ them. jeez that crap took more than a month to finish. then there's the daily newspaper i have to read and mutilate for precious water articles. these small redneck towns up north are just about as interesting as work itself. they have so little going on up there they write about the stupidest things just to take up space. the funniest part of it all is that their entire weekday newspaper (nat'l news, local news, entertainment, sports, classifieds, etc.) is about as big as the main section of the arizona republic. it's sad. even there sunday newspaper w/ all the advertisements and extra "bonus" sections are tiny. i don't think i could ever live in such a stupid little backwards town such as those up north. there is absolutely nothing to do.
? ?over this thanksgiving weekend i ate so much i'm surprised i didn't gain ne weight. must've been that tabasco sauce i drank on friday night. ne wayz i'll start from the beginning: wednesday - in n out after seeing harry potter, thursday - thanksgiving dinner, friday - leftovers and applebee's, saturday - more leftovers and about 3 or 4 plates of food at david(ou)'s bday party, sunday - panda express and even more leftovers, today - lunch consisted of "tsa jiang mien", the soup that went w/ it, salad, 1 1/2 chimichanga, sandwich, and orange juice. so this weekend hasn't exactly been the healthiest eating experience i've gone through. so i'm back this week at gungfu working it all off. i think i'll be able to make it to all my usual classes this week so i won't worry too much. in fact i'm really sore right now from working out last night. only working out once last week could've been one of the reasons besides actually, you know, "pumping some mad iron" haha. that was gay.
? ?it's nice to see the holiday season come around once more. i really enjoy this time of year. the family, the closeness, the food, etc. i'd say it's number two on my list of favorite times of year, number one being summer cuz there's no skool. but it is nice to have a large groups of days-off during this time of year.also, the whole christmas ambience is comforting. however nowadays i just don't seem to care much for christmas ne more. i remember as a kid how much i looked forward to christmas. i remember all the fun i had in skool around this time, how my entire (extended) family would be just a block or two away, the gifts, just the all-around feel of what this season offers. the best thing to me must've been the christmas tree itself. my family used to buy real pine trees and whenever we'd come home we were welcomed by the sweet scent of pine. now we don't get it ne more cuz my mom says the smell is too strong for her and that it'd only last a couple weeks b4 we'd just throw it out. ai yah cheap chinese ppl. ne wayz we'd spend an entire day putting ornaments up and stringing the lights on it and as a kid, at night, when we turned off the lights, imo it was one of the most beautiful things i'd ever seen. i usually don't use the term beautiful to describe things since i rarely find ne thing worthy of it, but those christmas trees were. so yeah the entire meaning of christmas i think has changed. as a kid i remember it for it's more secular reasons, the gifts and everything. nowadays i think i've kinda gotten past the whole gift thing and actually started to realize the real "reason for the season" no matter how umm...not cool that sounds. yeah so the reason is Jesus. yes i'll admit it. it's becuz of him that we're celebrating this holiday. not the gifts, the food, the whatever. it's Jesus. even though i'm pretty sure that the early church, in an effort to help pagans transition to christianity easier, replaced the pagan's "winter solstice" with "christmas" in which we honor the birth of Jesus Christ. so i don't really think that his birthday was exactly on december 25th, but it could've been about this time of year. but hey i still have an inner child in me so i do still look forward to christmas morning where i get to open up the presents that are under the tree.

11.25.01
? ?oh boy the weekend is over. so fast! ghetto. oh well at least i had fun and had some time to relax and take it easy and what not. last night at david(ou)'s bday party i think i ate more than i did on thanksgiving. wow the food was sooooo good! not only did i go up for 2nds, there was 3rds and even 4ths. i've been a real pig this weekend. i've eaten so much stuff that's bad for me and didn't even work it off. well this week i'm gonna dedicate to getting the most exercise as i can. hopefully i don't get all pudgy and stuff cuz pudgy is old dexter and old dexter is bad. ne wayz i think i had hw but i decided not to do it cuz it sux and i have sat's next weekend so no going out friday night for me. jus studying and resting for the big test. haha right whatever. that's so gay. stupid entrance exam's. well being a dumb asian is not fun nor does it help w/ academics at all. oh well i'll try not to worry too much. but yeah on the way home from charlie's today i saw a sapphire blue supra. it was so nice. imo it's the best color for the supra. oh well sleepy time goodnite.
? ?oh yeah here's a neat link from fun2 => mashi maro
here's matt's profile. it made me laugh. u should too.

one of my recent confrontations with customer...
(ending the conversation)
Tommy: SO, if i dont buy these sweaters today and come back on tuesday or thursday will they still have my size?
Matt: Oh yes of course we always have stock in the back and we can even check aorund the stores if we dont have it.
Tommy: Alright thanks man you were a big help, what was your name again?
Matt: Matt
Tommy: (steps closer to me) so whats the deal with you? are you gay or straight?
Matt: oh, uh sorry im straight
Tommy: Oh, thats too bad cuz you were kinda cute.
(end of conversation)
? ?yea i guess being hit on for the first time at my job is a small price to pay for discounts... but still it freaked the shizzle outa me. on a 2nd note i love you wendy =) and i always will... and im not feminine!

and there u have it. a day in the exciting life of matt and his awesome job at banana republic.

11.24.01
? ?ai yah friday what a fun day. first went to help my dad finish cleaning up our house in gilbert XP then i came back and went to the mall w/ brian, phimus and howard. i got some stuff from br and visited matt there. what a hard worker. afterwards most of us went home and did our own thing b4 we went to polar ice. there wasn't too much goin on at polar ice but for some reason we stayed there the entire time. yeah i tried some ppl's leftover pizza that had been sitting there for a while. it looked okay to me at first but when i put it in my mouth....AI YAH! it was all wet. i think they either poured there leftover water all over it or the grease from the pizza cooled down and soaked in. ew so gross. later we all went to applebee's after being indecisve outside for about 1/2 hr. at applebee's it was pretty crazy. stephane made this huge mess on her end of the table w/ crayons and ranch and all this other stuff so i went to sit on the other end of the table. down there david(tai) n me downed about 1/2 a bottle of tabasco sauce. yum. it burned after a while, but hey pain builds character. after we finished eating we were hanging around outside and david(tai), phimus, and me ended up riding around on the outside of christine's van. wow that was fun. especially when phimus fell off the van. don't worry, he's okay. no harm done. remember, pain builds character. so yeah when we decided that too many ppl saw us riding around on the minivan/soccer mom car i went over to david(ou)'s and watched iron monkey for like the 10+ time. all in all a fun friday.
? ?as for today i was at a friend's b-day party from 12 - 3 and now i'm probably gonna go to az mills and then to david(ou)'s house. fun stuff. i played some pool today as well. i luv pool. i should play it more. very calm, cool and collected game until u miss and get mad, but altogether a game similar to golf. heck u still hit balls into holes there's just less walking involved in pool and less walking means more fun.

11.22.01
? ?Happy Thanksgiving everyone. i hope ur home celebrating it w/ ur family's instead of out w/ friends and what not. so i redid my page a little due to the excess amounts of free time i have during the thanksgiving weekend. i toned down the twinkly flamboyance of the previous site and preferred something more simple. hopefully i can get it to look pretty decent instead of some amateur weirdness. ? ?it's strange what this day brings. to most it's food, fellowship, and relaxation. however, on this day i have acquired what some ppl might call "a stalker." yes that's right. u heard it. full-blown 100% stalker. here's our im conv. jus to prove it. ai yah IM them if u want. this "person" was pretty adamant about not telling me who they were. u know i luv ppl that try to talk to me, but don't want to tell me who they are. well Rajkumari1602, this one goes out to u. check it out

11.20.01
? ?OMG! i just found a Chow Yun Fat site that has a bunch of sounds from his movies!!!! AI YAH!! i'm ecstatic!! "You don't like my rice?" oh man just one of the many lovely remarks made by chow yun fat that makes him legendary. i luv it. check it out. it's sooooo tight. late.

11.19.01
? ?thanksgiving is coming up! yay! 3-day week! 4-day weekend! yeah so i'm probably gonna be in town unlike most ppl who r goin to cali. so lucky. i was only in so cal over the summer for 2 days. man the year b4 we were there 5 times! no wonder i feel so deprived. ne wayz i'll probably get around to changing the site around. make it a little less flamboyant and keep it simple. that and i still have to study for SAT's coming up. i haven't really done too much, like last time, but i'll probably get some done over the 4-day weekend.
? ?man this weekend was pretty....i don't know how to describe it. saturday i woke up around 10 and ate breakfast and watched cartoons. around 12 my mom, dad, and me went to one of our houses in gilbert to clean it up a little cuz the previous tenants moved out. my dad and i cut up a bunch of the bushes and trees out front and hauled all the trimmings to this place where we dumped all our crap. it wasn't really a junkyard. it was more of a bunch of organized heaps of trash. the best part was getting to drive the back roads of the boonies known as gilbert. oh man does it suck out there. nothing but the smell of cow poop and big ford trucks. i don't know how bobby, dan, etc. put up w/ it. ne wayz it took 2 trips there to dump all the stuff that filled the back of el trucko. afterwards i went home, showered and went to charlie's house for a bit and watched the last half of "full time killer." it's kinda like a more recent john woo movie except w/o john woo. lotsa shooting, killing, etc. it was a pretty tight movie. then me n bobby went to church to meet up w/ p. larry for our discipleship thingy. at 8.30 or so we left and went back to charr's to pick up bobby's cell phone and meet up w/ charlie and calvin. then me n charlie went to wei's house cuz he was having a "get-together" which others interpreted as birthday party cuz he didn't have one. i ended up not getting him a present due to short notice. i feel bad now, but i'll get over it. while i was there i got a chance to check out the new x-box. man that thing is so tight. dead or alive 3 and halo are some wicked games. halo is almost like counterstrike and dead or alive is pretty much tekken. ne wayz lotsa fun.
? ?i got my grades for last quarter in the mail a couple weeks back and it turns out i'm not as dumb as i thought i was. straight a's, but now they're a random assortment of A's, B's, and even a C. AI YAH! A C?! NO WAY! yeah government sux. it's cuz i don't bring my book to class and i disregard most of the hw she gives us cuz i have better things to do. oh well as long as i don't fail the class then it's all good. the best part is that it's only a 1 semester class so this is the last quarter i'll have to worry about it. then next semester it's microsoft excel/access certification which i'm guessing shouldn't be too bad. got a B in math cuz i did crappy on all the quizes. i think the highest grade i got on them was a low B. well thank God for extra credit and hw. they made up for those stupid quizes. as for tests i did decent i suppose. ne wayz lately run-in's w/ skool security and tardiness was non-existant so that's good. although, last week some classmates from that first period class got busted. one of them didn't really take it too well and kinda threw a tantrum. it was funny. i thought most seniors would be a little more mature by now. i guess he just can't solve problems the way i do. you must think positive and find ways to beat the system. only then will you.....i dunno now i'm just rambling. hehe.
? ?so yeah obviously i'm at work again. i finally finished getting those little lists for each folder of the well-logs. now i just have to organize and file the copies of the well-logs now. just another 450 or so to do. this should be fun. wow i just found 2 cans of mandarin oranges that've been in my cubicle for quite some time. they're dusty and they were here when i started. i've found weird stuff in some of the drawers and cabinets of my cubicle. like old slides, girl scout cookies, plastic eating utensils, cameras, change, after dinner mints, etc. well as long as i don't find dead ppl it's all good.

11.14.01
? ?another 3-day weekend come and gone. this one was no different from the others. i accomplished nothing as usual. well actually i worked all day monday instead of taking the day off and sleeping in. i might've done that if i hadn't been sick for 2 days the week b4. that means 60 bux less on my next check! ai yah! that's mucho motivation not to be lazy.
? ?ne wayz my dad doesn't want me getting a honda/acura due to the fact that he doesn't want to learn how to fix another type of car. see we own a toyota and nissan and my dad has helped repair friends' cars of the same make so he's pretty familiar w/ toyotas and nissans. so he narrowed down the cars to: toyota corolla, camry, nissan sentra, altima.....not the most exciting group of cars if u ask me. in terms of the aftermarket, it lacks. although in terms of performance (stock) some of them would outperform a stock civic/acura, which was what i wanted in the first place. then howard sent me a link to altimas.net and it kinda opened my eyes to the whole nissan/nismo scene. i didn't think they really had much goin for them except the 240sx and 300zx. it turns out there are some pretty hardcore 200sx se-r, sentra se-r, altimas, and maximas. now w/ the limits of 10k, 1995+ and nissan/toyota on my new car it seems like i'd go w/ 200sx se-r as of now. from what i saw in an article on there, some guy got his up to about 392hp w/o modifying the engine internals, but all the stuff he did was pretty friggin expensive. also, a stock se-r is right in between a civic ex and a civic si, engine wise and the 200sx isn't too bad looking of a car. ne wayz here's a breakdown of my opinions on the other choices: the sentra se-r is too old and doesn't look that great, the 240sx my parents might not be too fond of since it's considered a sports car (rwd and turbocharged in japan), 300zx is completely outta the question(haha twin turbo baby!), i considered the altima a little bit but decided against it(a better looking infiniti j30, but not by much), and the maxima is too expensive. as for toyota i found even less for it than i did for nissan. the majority of aftermarket stuff out there was for the supra, something i really want, but i can't have due to factors like insurance, how rare they are, and just the fact that my parents probably won't trust me w/ a fast car, for good reason too! my mom saw how i really drive last friday and she freaked haha it was funny i almost took out a minivan backing out at church, but i jus narrowly missed it :D and i tailgated this little pos hatchback for a half mile cuz it was goin under the speed limit and then she started complaining about how close i was to it so i just switched lanes and hit the gas a little too hard, but yeah back to toyotas, there was the rare piping or intake for the camry/solara or corolla, but that was about it. trd did come out w/ a supercharger for the camry 97'-00' and solara, but the gains u got weren't worth the price and sadly turbochargers for either were pretty much non-existant. yeah i think about cars a little too much, but it's okay ^_^ i need to get to work and skool everyday so i might as well enjoy the drive there, but don't worry, no sky-hig supra wing, flamboyant body kit, gallery of racing stickers(aem, vtec, dc sports, nos, spoon, mugen, type r or s, stillen, nismo, trd, si(r), blah, blah, blah, etc.), and a loud fart can exhaust on my car. having stuff like that says to cops "hey pull me over!" not to mention that they're pretty gay when u over do it.
? ?work lately has been kinda busy. i finished printing up all those well logs (455 of them) off of a database on the internet and organized them into their different groups. so i got about 30-40 folders full of paper and now i have to make a list of what's in each one. oh joy. on top of that, when i'm done i'll have to inventory and box up all the stuff in the cubicle next to mine's to make room for the new person coming in. ai yah i already filled up 5 boxes of stuff and i'm not even half way done. and the other day i made 80 copies of one packet! 80 COPIES! well it wasn't too hard, jus set the copier to 80 and left it there for a while. i went and checked it every now and then to make sure it didn't run out of paper. as u can tell i have an exciting job. oh yeah last week i was notified that i'm getting a pay increase of 23 cents. it works out to about 9 bux more on each paycheck. now i'll finally break into the $300 range. sweet.
? ?skools been pretty mediocre as usual. haven't been late for first period ne more, but i still don't like my teacher. second period is math and i don't like math all that much, but my teacher's pretty cool. she's funny and she gives a pretty good explaination of the lesson. it's the class i eat in everyday so i can't really hate it. third period business management. yay so much excitement i can't handle it. seriously. right now we're going over economics. i've been through it twice last year and now this is the third time i'm learning the exact same stuff out of the exact same book. no interest whatsoever. although we do go into the computer lab sometimes to take notes on the computer, which means that i end up getting on the internet and copying the notes down at the last minute. finally fourth period, english or world literature as it's actually called....i think. ne wayz i'm late for that class everyday...2...5...10 min...? i don't know, but my teacher doesn't seem to notice or care so that's cool. it's not like they're doing ne thing important when i get there. she's still taking attendance or getting mobbed by students asking questions. but yeah easy class, i do vocab, take notes, and read occasionally. not hard. i had a 99% last quarter and i was late everyday. it just goes to show that u don't start immediately when the bell rings so teachers should lighten up a bit on tardiness, first period nazi teacher *hint hint* and after all that i'm outta there! free! haha 11.37 and i'm free!YAY!

11.10.01
? ?u know what's the best part about my truck? it's not the affectionate name i have for it(el trucko), it's not the fact that half my seat is missing, nor is it i have no a/c. it's the fact it has free will. that's right, free will. it decides to do things when it chooses. a good analogy might be God - in control: humans - free will, me - in control: car - free will. an example of this free will it chooses to exercise would be yesterday while i was leaving work. i get into the truck like usual and start it up. i shift it into reverse and step on the gas pedal, but it doesn't go anywhere. it just revs the engine. so i was wondering what was going on. i look forward and i notice another parking citation on my windshield wiper. third one now and it always seems to be in this one spot. so i get out of the car to pull it out and check if the security guards put some sort of wheel lock on my car, but there was nothing on it. the wheels were fine. i checked the engine and there was nothing wrong with it. so i get back in and try a couple more times to back out of my parking space, but to no avail. by this time i was pretty sick of it so i just shifted into neutral, opened the door, and used my foot to push me out of my space. after a little pushing i was out and i could finally leave because it decided to let me go in "drive" just not "reverse"........i hate my truck, but the funny thing is my parents expect me to keep it clean and stuff. well if they see it the way i do, what does it matter? the only reason i still drive it is because it's my only means of transportation and that's it. i don't care how it looks. i don't care if it's clean or not. okay so maybe if it was so dirty that it affected the performance(or lack of it) or endangered my well-being then maybe i'd clean it. the weirdest thing though is when i came home i wanted to check it if it'll still back up so when i park it on the drive way i switch into reverse and it moves back. man, talk about free will. hell that's not even the only thing it has free will over. the light inside my truck jus comes on every now and then when it's convenient for it. i used to think that my high beams did the same thing until i figured out how to turn them on. all in all, i'm sick of my truck. it's lucky it still runs or else i'd probably go blow it up in the desert or something.

11.07.01
? ?do asian ppl. all look alike? OF COURSE!
? ?i luv korean ppl. here's one of them. click
i even have comments from korean ppl on it:

XBootyboyX: JEBUS FUCKIN CHRIST!
XBootyboyX: what on earth in allah's name is that?!?

see? they luv it! : D
? ?dbacks won the world series. right on. so now maybe we'll be known for something besides the desert, scorpions, cactus, etc. ne wayz i've been sick for the past 2 days. i've got a low fever, headache, and my body is all sore and tired. it hasn't really been that bad, although i've missed 2 days of work ($60 down the drain) and skool. now i'm gonna have to make up all that work over my 3 day weekend. ghetto. oh well i might not even do some of it cuz yeah i'm just like that. so yesterday i didn't really do a whole lot while i was at home. rested, studied a bit for sat's, watched tv and went to the doctors. the doctor said i didn't have anthrax so that was a plus. then my family went out to dinner at sweet tomatoes. i didn't eat a whole lot cuz i was sick and didn't want to over do it. today i just watched the diamondbacks parade at home. dang they were all riding firetrucks and randy johnson was taping the crowd on his camcorder. kinda strange to see that. hell curt schilling wasn't there cuz he was on some anniversary cruise w/ his wife. oh well at least i saw kim and ppl. WEREN'T lynching him. hehe. yeah time to get rest now. i guess i'll be back for skool tomorrow.

11.04.01
? ?interesting link. ebay's so weird.
? ?i think i can say that i had a really interesting, but good week. after all that "hardcore rebel" shenanigans, i taught bao2 how to drive on friday night/saturday morning. u see it wouldn't be so weird except he's 14 and i made him drive. i'm surprised his parents didn't care that he was hanging out w/ us till 1 in the morning, past "legal" (more like just another suggestion) curfew. on top of that i got paid friday. it was a pretty big paycheck since the secretary lady who does payroll messed up the last time and gave me half my hours and now made up for it by putting all that she missed on this paycheck. so basically i got 60 hrs on this paycheck when i only worked 40. then at chinese skool today, i still hadn't finished the hw which was to write down this chinese story thing twice so i wrote it once and made copies for me and bobby. teacher didn't even notice the difference. :D man i luv chinese skool. then there were some other things that were pretty rad this week.......so yeah, good week even though i still had skool.
? ?yesterday i was home most of the day helping my mom get ready for my sister's b-day party. so all her little freshman friends came over and made lots of noise in my house. oh joy. at least there was food. then charlie, howard, phi, matt, and me went to see the one. while we were in the theater waiting for the movie to start anthony called and started talkin bout the dbacks game and it was friggin 15-0 dbacks bottom of the 4th. everyone heard me say it outloud and they were like "yeah" but w/ more enthusiasm. ne wayz "the one".....ugh what a disappointment. i thought it would be really good. i've been hoping too much for a really good american jet li movie, but it's just not gonna happen. 4 movies later, after his 1st american appearance.....man it's not looking good. i think he's lost his touch. i mean even jackie chan made some pretty good american movies. hk action stars should just stay in hk where they make better movies. so all in all, i'd have to say his best american movie would be......kiss of the dragon, maybe?

11.01.01
? ?added a new section to the pics. go look!
? ?at work again and the az dept. of water rights online database isn't working. dang now i can't get ne work done. oh well. i'll just finish it tomorrow. so yesterday i was driving home and i was getting off price freeway at chandler blvd. and this guy in a nissan xterra from price road cuts me off into the right turn lane. oh man i was sooooo mad. i was letting this car go ahead and i start to merge after that car and he cuts right in. jerk. so i tried tailgating him, but he went another way so i was like forget it. man driving makes me so angry, but at the same time it's fun. just as long as i don't run into ne retards like that guy.
? ?well today at work i forgot my id badge so i couldn't get into the building. it sucked. i had to walk all the way around the building to the visitors entrance and get a visitors badge. it's gay. then one of my co-workers has me go drop something off in downtown phx. and after i get out of the building i'm gonna have to walk all the way around the building again just to get back inside. oh well i took my time about getting it done. i tried to see nazi at skool and at first she said it was cool, but then i wasn't gonna get there in time so i couldn't go. oh well. maybe next time. so then i just stopped by 99 ranch market like i usually do and got something to eat. i still don't know where they sell the boba, but i'm guessing it's near where they sell all that wack cooked food of their's. the other day i was making copies for about.....3+ hours? yeah i went through 4 reams of paper (1 ream = 500 sheets) and refilled the stapler twice. man that stack of paper was around the length of my torso. it was insane.
? ?at lunch today i was SUPPOSED to be doing lunch clean up. haha i found a way around that. i gave one of my friends five bux and told him to do it for me. he gladly accepted. when ur mad ballin like dexta, then u can do stuff like this. i even gave another kid a dollar just to make sure that he does it right. it was muy bueno and i was outta there. now i still didn't have to do it and i won't get saturday skool/suspended for 2 days for not going to saturday skool. i luv it. i beat the bastard system. damn the man. ha! try to give me lunch clean up. u will oppress me no longer. now hopefully i can find where my skool id is at home. i think i left in in some pants. hmmmm....
? ?harvest festival was kinda fun. i'm pretty sure because of it less kids were on the street getting all corrupted or something. hehe and then bwee noticed that the "cali crew" showed up. i think they were in the wrong state. ne wayz, went to nico's afterwards and watched ppl. breakdance. it was tight and david ou was there! YAY!

10.31.01
? ?happy halloween, if u celebrate it or not. i for one can careless. it's just another holiday like flag day, boxing day or valentines day. another way big business tries to hype up an insignificant day so that they can sucker more ppl. out of their hard earned money. maybe i'd care if i had a reason to celebrate them or if i was the one suckering ppl. out of their money ^_^

10.25.01
? ?well it's been an interesting week so far. monday during work, i went out to drop something off for them and when i was leaving the building after dropping off the stuff the car wouldn't start. man that's a quality car. well actually it was the battery but domestics still suck. luckily there was a nice guy there who helped jumpstart my car so it was all good. earlier that day on the way to work i saw the funniest looking roadkill i've ever seen. it was a raccoon that got flattened right down the middle. hehe. and it had the funniest expression on it's face. ne wayz as i was leavin work monday, i noticed underneath my windshield wiper blades that there was a yellow slip. i pulled it out and it turns out i got a "parking violation slip" from srp security. it was the funniest thing ever. what're they gonna do to me? put me in srp jail? apparently the parking space i was parking in was an "assigned" space, but the guy who was training me told me that the department that it was assigned to was dissolved and it was basically free for all parking. well i figured if he could park there, i could to. so i did. that was the 2nd notice i've gotten from someone about parking there. however the first one was a handwritten not so i completely disregarded that. i mean seriously, u expect me to park like 1/2 a mile away in the other parking lot? yeah right! so far so good. just those 2 incidents. nothing else. thank God.
? ?half day last monday. went to the new mall again. that's 4 times in 5 days and the first 5 days it's been open at that. ne wayz went there for lunch at california pizza kitchen w/ charlie, howard, and ting2. nice place. i definately recommend goin there. a wide variety of pizza. i got the tandoori chicken(indian food. yes the tricky ones). instead of pizza sauce they had curry. WHOA! it was so weird, but good and it came w/ mango chutney. good stuff.
? ?my last paycheck was wack. i open it up only to find out that i got payed for only 1 WEEKS worth of work instead of 2. apparently the secretary lady who takes care of payroll mest up. dang. now i only get like half this week. no big deal i'll get reimbursed on what was lost on my next check. it'll be sweet.

10.20.01
? ?went to new mall thursday. it was pretty nice. got lotsa free stuff. had some pretty good stores there. yep that is the conclusion i came to after being there for 3 HOURS! ai yah! oh well it was funny cuz when i went to get some food the guy at the counter(who i think was the manager cuz he was dressed nicely and VERY outspoken) took my order. he decided that i deserved something free. so he gave me some chicken teriyaki bowl thing. u know what he said? "here i got something i want u to try. i think u'll like it." WHAT?! why'd u pick teriyaki chicken bowl my friend? is it cuz i eat rice and this goofy chicken crap?! IN A BOWL?!?! and u know what else? he thought i'd like it cuz it was free. wait is it cuz i'm sneaky and stingy that i won't buy ne thing unless i get something for free? dang dude that was wack. but hey who cares? i got free food that didn't taste TOO bad, so i'm happy.
? ?i found cool pics....look:

found them all here.

10.18.01
? ?FUNNY KOREAN POOP GAME!!! go play it. haha it's funny.

10.17.01
? ?found new link. funny as hell. go to it. thank God for FOBs. late.

10.16.01
? ?i'd jus like to thank all the ppl. that wished me a happy birthday. it means a lot to me that u care and for all the other ppl. that didn't, well i didn't tell too many ppl so it's cool.
? ?saw another white '97 supra today. it's been a while since the last time i saw one. dang. oh well. i've kind've been debating on what car i still wanna get. civic si is good and all but it's pretty expensive compared to the integra gsr. well probably cuz the si i'm aimin for is a 99-00 and the integra i'd go w/ is probably 95-98 or so, but the integra has 10 more hp and only weighs a little bit more. both of them run on 91-92 octane and all that good stuff, but they have both have better mpg than el trucko so maybe gas will be about the same. that and vortech has a supercharger for both the civic si and the integra gsr so it's all good. turbo on the other hand is too hardcore for dexta right now. too much trouble/maintenance for now. also too costly for a poor highskool student to maintain. so that's why i'm goin w/ a supercharger. reliability and low maintenance. also, turbos take time to spool up b4 boost kicks in so ur not up and at it off the line cuz that's pretty much what city driving is. stop light to stop light. i'm not really in it for the hardcore drag racing or auto-x so i don't need a really hardcore car. jus something that's quick and gets me around. so that's where the supercharger comes in. boost right off the line w/ more low end power. so yeah.

10.14.01
? ?well i'm 17 today. yep that's right. it's my birthday. yay hooray today is a wundafoh day. weird how i don't really care about it ne more. i remember as a kid i'd look forward to this day just so i could have a big party w/ all of the people i luved most in this world. all my friends and relatives, jus there w/ me, havin fun, not a care in the world. how wonderful it was to be a kid. sux though. those days are gone. i miss them. oh well whatever wish me a happy birthday or something when u see me if u want.
? ?check this crazy stuff out. this one goes out to all the fobs out there. i luv u guys. u make me feel so white.
? ?friday, the usual yg then we went to applebee's. it's been a while. saturday went to help p. larry pick up a soda machine and take it to church. went to charlie/howard's house, but charr was gone so brian, howard and me went to pc house and saw a very disgruntled josh. so we left cuz we heard that there was "pump" at the peter piper's across from amc 24, but i went home to change my brakes on el trucko and that took forever and i got to peter pipers by 10.30 or so. played for a half hour then me n phi. went to our gas station and chilled for a while. today was pretty normal. church, lunch, golfland then peter piper's again w/ anthony. crazy kid. afterwards went out to dinner w/ my parents at red lobster, but sadly chuck wasn't working so no free food for me. dang. oh well i'm back home now sitting in front of the computer. how exciting. i luv my life.
? ?i saw david friday!!! YAY!!!! DAVID!!!!! ne wayz he was at the corner of rural and knox as i was just gettin outta skool and i saw him and he saw me so he jumped in my car. it was neat-o. david's so cool. hehe. hadn't seen him in forever.
? ?hmmmm....everyone wants me to go to hc. well....ugh....i dunno. skool dances don't really appeal to me ne more. feel too much like an ass to do ne of that crap ne more.....yeah it's fun having everyone tell me to go. it makes me feel so good. ugh life is soooo wundafoh, fuck skool dances.
? ?well my new favorite song is "passion" - yoo seung jun. enjoy! ^_^

10.7.01 ? ?my mind is blank right now, but i figured i should write something. well this week has been pretty busy. i took 2 days off from gungfu just to work on an essay for english. i have NEVER done that b4. hopefully i get a decent grade on it. i mean i actually put some effort in it. yeah i needed rest too. i'm at gungfu till like 9.30 so i get to sleep around 10.30 and wake up around 6.30 so thats 8 hrs., at the most, of sleep. that's not enough for dexter to function on.
? ?work has been kinda weird. they gave me this "project" to do which is get on ADWR (az dept. of water rights) website and print up all their well logs. that's 458 i have to go thru. they take time to load up each file and i have to go thru them and make sure they have a well log and then print them up. they're givin me a month to finish it. i'm at 110 or so right now. not bad for one weeks worth of work i suppose. just another big "project." oh and on friday i forgot my check at work. i realized this right when i got home. so i got the honor of driving back that 20-30 min. drive to work jus to pick up my paycheck that i hope none of the janitors would mess w/ cuz it's sitting right out on my desk. it was cool though cuz i drove like 85 down the freeway in a minivan. not something u'd see everyday. well actually maybe, stupid soccer moms.
? ?so i guess i decided on a car finally. '99-'00 electric blue pearl honda civic si. it's a step up from the regular civic and is probably better for some "fast and furious" action. but they're kinda hard to find. luckily i found 5 ads for them in the classifieds today. but they were like 13k-19k so that's not too cool. other possible cars: well howard proposed an integra gsr today. sounded pretty good except that they were ranked number one most stolen car in america so i'm kinda weary of them right now. other cars that are in the civics class aren't too appealing to me. when will they bring out the TRUE skyline or the lancer evo VIII. now those are some badass cars. one day.....one day.....
? ?well guess what? i got a flyer to alice's party today. oh boy. fun stuff. spectrum......well what's there to say, but "yay, hooray, today is a wundafoh day!" well not really i might as well entertain myself while i'm there and get some mad beatdown on w/ some ghetto dummies. if not there will always be food or hopefully hot chix, but considering the facts this IS alice's party so......u get the picture. hehe.
? ?that reminds me, last friday at in-n-out saw a red 300zx drive by and right behind it was a red SUPRA! omg it was amazing. everybody stood up and stared in awe, jaws gaping wide at the glory of such and awesome car drive by. gracing us w/ it's presence. it was truly a magnificent experience. ^_^
? ?well lately i don't really get so down n stuff ne more. i guess i've been to tired and busy to ne more. i also replaced the depressing ataris w/ the upbeat and hip, no strings attached RUFIO!!! wow! they're pretty good. they're just like the ataris except w/o all the other stuff that the ataris remind me of.

10.1.01
? ?changed around "me" section. take a look.
? ?i'm home tonight. i needed a break. i almost fell asleep on the way home from work while i was driving so obviously that means no gungfu tonight. besides i have plenty of hw to take care of. so hopefully i get a decent night's rest. trying to write an essay on the similarities between the vietnam war and the iliad is kinda hard, but i got part of it done already so it's bueno. i hope this week goes by fast. so yeah my dad's goin back to seattle this weekend cuz my "chang puo" passed away. i think that'd translate to.....my dad's father's brother's wife. so basically my grandaunt. hehe chinese ppl. are so funny. i luv it. well i'm gonna go get rest now cuz i need it. late.

9.30.01
? ?wow my weekend is over already. weeks are soooo long and my weekend just flys by. that sux. no wonder i hate skool and all things associated w/ the weekdays so much. i don't even have time to take 20 min. naps ne more. ai yah. not a whole lot goin on lately. same as usual. i'm sick of it too. well yesterday was home most of the day then went to golfland w/ brian n phi. then went to p.c. house and watched phi. play cs for an hour. some guy called in some souped up nissan 300zx called me "hop sing" as i pointed out his car so i told him to fuck off and gave him the finger. bastard guy. he better hope i never see his car or else it's gonna get some sugar in the gas tank or something. stupid car of his sounded like shit ne wayz. something was up w/ his engine or exhaust. so one day i will have that supra and beat his ass in a race that he challenged me to ne wayz. after that luvly time at pc house we went to charlie's and watched the edited, malaysian version of "swordfish" it was cool when john travolta had guns. the other stuff was just bleh. when we finished the movie we did our typical "meaningful" talks at a gas station in the back of my truck. how fun. after that we chilled at a coffee house for a little while. and that was my entire saturday. ~the end~

9.26.01
? ?so today is wednesday. i'm actually on during the weekday for once. it's amazing thanx to this early release crap. oh well. whatever. getting out at 10.40 sounds good to me. so yeah. i think i'm getting fat again. too much eating n not enough work. yesterday i had like 2 pieces of cake at work, but that's only cuz it was free. and like i had fast food all weekend. ugh. i gotta lay off that crap. even if it tastes so so good. ne wayz i haven't got much angry music to listen to any more. my mp3's mainly consist of kpop, ddr music, some punk, and a random chinese one here and there.
? ?last week at work i actually had a decent amount of work. like i couldn't get on the internet at all. unfortunately this week hasn't been like that. i go looking for work only to get little menial tasks that take up 5 min. of my time. not cool. and then when i get to work in the archives all those dusty old papers make me sneeze and stuff. it's not cool either. so work has been kinda jus been the usual lately, but getting paid makes up for the *bleh*-ness of work.
? ?so far everyday this week i've seen a civic si. 3 on monday, 2 yesterday, and 1 today already just on the way home from skool. nice. about the only nice stuff goin on lately. aw poo~. ne wayz here's the awful truth on si's. i know. i was shocked too. now in a state of disbelief i constantly ask myself,"God, why? how could this happen?"
? ?skool sux, when will it be the weekend? maybe a holiday or late start? kinda sux though cuz corona doesn't have late starts ne more. that got me pissed. i'd rather sleep in than get out earlier like today. i plan to go to sleep when i get home, but i can't. i don't like waking up for a couple hours and then trying to go back to sleep. what i'd prefer is a big chunk of sleep rather than little bits of sleep randomly scattered throughout my day. it's ghetto fabulous.
? ?i was wondering, wtf is hard rock corona? i mean i hear it's a dance after a football game, but...they just had one last saturday i think. sadies i think it was? no wait 2 weeeks back. but still,damn, seriously that's a load of bull shit. so what if the football team loses? u gonna celebrate that? i'm pretty sure they will. it's like "hey let's have a dance no matter what the outcome of the game is" wow that's the most retarded reasoning to have dance that i've ever heard. maybe i'm jus not a "dance" person. no i'm not talkin bout ddr.
? ?la la la la la i like those fazoli's commercial that make fun of asian ppl. they make me laugh. like the 1st one w/ the asian lady tryin to say some wacked out italian word. the guy is teachin her, but she jus can't seem to get it. hmmm...i wonder, is it cuz she's asian? and then there's the one where there's a support group type of thing goin on and this one "italian" guy is goin around the group checkin up on ppl. and then "mr. wang" quickly stands up and shouts "FIGARO FIGARO FIGARO....!!!!" w/ an asian accent. funny stuff. u know what'd be more funny? if a black guy said it all ebonix'd out. now that'd be funny. funny like black ppl. playin PPP. now that's funny. ne wayz yeah funny commercials. watch them sometime.
??jus a really funny pic i found. ^_^ and no i don't care if it offends u. live w/ it.

9.23.01
? ?la la la i'm listening to frank sinatra. he's the man. u probably think i'm weird, but he's awesome. so yeah stop. hmm...what'd i do lately? skool, work, and gungfu. sounds kinda familiar. ne wayz, i finally saw "romper stomper" and "american history x" i was somewhat disturbed. well romper stomper was pretty anti-asian, but they bashed viets and to tell u the truth, i'm not that moved/bothered by it, but it was still pretty wack. russell crow was such a dirty bastard in that movie. in fact everyone was. they lived in dusty warehouses w/ junk all over. it makes me glad i live in a house w/ normal ppl. very glad. however, american history x was just an awesome movie. even if i only saw bout an hour or so of it, it was still cool.
? ?i luv br in fs. it's got the fat mexican guy w/ an accent AND lisp!! WOW! so funny. in fact all the guys that work at br have a lisp. i think they're all gay or something. seriously. nicely dressed, lisp guys are signs of a very flaming individual. on the other hand i believe it does not reflect others that buy the clothes. i mean they were all bai ren so that can be expected. hehe.
? ?i wanna new car. i mean if i can't have a supra, 300zx, rsx, is300, etc. seriously a civic will do! prefereably 96'-00' EX, silver. green, blue, and black will do. okay i'm being anal i'll stop.
? ?where has jim tai been lately? i hardly see him ne more. i mean like after during chinese skool during "recess" and afterwards, but he leaves like immediately. dang jim, if ur readin this we gotta hang more.
? ?yesterday i made it from brian's house to evan's house only pressing the gas pedal like 2 or 3 times. it's so simpo. jus don't accelerate on downhill and coast after them, take it easy on the break, and jus yeah. fun stuff. top speed was about 40 mph goin downhill. no gas. i swear. it was fun. also, if u go uphill and kill all the speed u have, no accel. at all u'll still inch forward slowly. dang. i wanted to start rollin backwards. oh well. someday.

? ?on a rather random note, while chilin in the amc 24 area i saw an NSX. it was tight.
? ?let's see, today...went to golfland w/ mike, charlie, n wei hua for mike's mom's company picnic. good times. lotsa ddr. gettin pretty good at dance maniacs. afterwards, chilled w/ phi n brian. afterwards ended up hangin out w/ some skool friends i haven't hung out w/ in a long time. i think i should chill w/ them more. i dunno. every friday, yg and "applebee's" it's kinda gettin to me i guess. i've been missin lotsa shows my friends play at the nile/buddha lounge n stuff so i think i probably try to get back into the scene. haven't kept up w/ it for a while due to skool, work, gungfu, etc. although i'm not at skool very much ne more, all these other things seem to suck up all my precious time. this hectic schedule of mine's friggin sux. i'm so tired everyday, all day, especially in the morning. it's not fun. no fun at all. no sleep makes for a very grumpy, pissed off dexter which would be me nowadays. having "issues" doesn't help either.

9.13.01
? ?....everything sux right now. this kinda cheered me up for a while though....but now back to bleh....

9.9.01
? ?another weekend come and gone. oh well. no time to write much so here's an awesome link provided by the one and only EVAN! check this crazy stuff out. p3ac3 out.

9.3.01
? ?last week was mediocre once more. like usual. ugh. when will skool end? ai yah. i've been tired all week due to a lack of sleep becuz of bastard skool starting at 7.45. pos skool. well i did see about 3 supras total. that's amazing considering how rare they are nowadays. the second one was at applebee's friday. nice red one. then last night on the way to charr's house i was trying to take a different way thru his neighborhood and just ran across this other red supra. it was pretty tight. i stopped and stared at it for a minute and the owner came out so i hauled it outta there. then there was the acura nsx i saw on the way home last tuesday and the 2 nissan 300zx's wed. and hummer thurs....wow and i thought az sucked. now it doesn't suck AS much. still sux though. yeah so gt3 is a pretty fun game. i think howard knows what i'm talking about. oh and here's a neat link i found on the supra. it shows just how sweet they are. check it out.
? ?saturday went to the korean nat'l demo team tae kwon do demo. at chandler high. it was pretty tight. they had kids from like 10 or 14-18. wow they so good! ^_^ friggin "dragon, tornado, butterfly, etc. kicks", aerials, and all this other crazy stuff, but sadly i missed the wushu demo. in scottsdale. i'm kickin myself in the ass now for that. i found out about that the day b4 and i didn't even know the beijing wushu team was gonna be there as well as jet li's sifu. man.
? ?he new church is kinda weird and smelly. hehe j/p. yeah it's really big, but it looks kinda old/ghetto-ish and there's no pool table : (
? ?dang man brian's in the country of the neighbors to our south or as i like to call it......ne wayz reekin havoc there. haha crazy mexicans w/ their cheap fireworks and underage drinking. "folex's" and "foakley's" it's what mexico is all about. that and the drug trafficing, immigrant smuggling, and vincente fox. well ne wayz this weekend was kinda quiet w/o him around. him and that crazy brother of his. what's his name? like johnny #4 or 5? i can't remember.
? ?i've been meaing to upload some articles of funny stuff i found at work, but i haven't gotten around to it yet so yeah. eventually i will though. they're funny so yeah. good stuff. also tweaked w/ the old news stuff. moved it around and what not.

8.27.01
? ?AHHHHH!!!! I SAW A SUPRA TODAY!!! AHHHH!!!! i was on the way home and i noticed the tail lights and was like "is that a supra?"....and it was. i think it was this one. yeah that supra's from the phx. area so i'm guessing that was it. it looked just like that one. 1050 horsepower baby! wah! what can u do w/ soooooo much hp? it's more than like ferraris and lamborghinis!! the one in "the fast and the furious" only had like 700hp and it beat that ferrari/lamborghini(i forget). the one i saw has like 350 more! AI YAH!!! insanity it was.
? ?early release today so i got out at 10.37 or something. i can't remember. ne wayz i went to gameworks and finished off this old card i had. ddr jigga! it was pretty empty there at az mills. that's like the first time i actually parked near where i wanted to go.
? ?i feel like i'm gonna pass out. my head hurts, i'm hot and i'm tired. they weren't kidding about that so-called "heat wave" goin thru az. ghetto truck has no a/c. I BLAME U TRUCK!!! I BLAME U FOR MY DISCOMFORT! AHHHH!!! yes i did drink water today. i even had a bottle of water w/ me when i was in the car. not cool.

8.25.01
? ?skool sux. a whole lot, but at least i have a half schedule unlike all those wack seniors that're stuck around all day. hehe. i'm making the most of my senior year aight? chill. yeah so i get out at like 11.37 now. no more bastard skool after lunch for me. that's right. instead of sleeping in class during skool, it's sleeping on the job while getting paid. hehe j/p. yes so works been fun. the last couple days i've been on the internet a lot now, but yesterday the first HOUR i was there, i was copying. that's it. nothing else but copying. this job has potential. i will get far w/ these hardcore skills. yeah i've learned interesting things as well from work. things like az has towns called "hookers hot springs" and "booger's canyon." wow! az is sooooo cool......? stupid az.
? ?fun day. had to wake up early to help the church move. that was fun. we dragged the old ping pong table upstairs and after we put it in the yg room it like fell apart. oh joy. after all that work. then saw jay and silent bob strike back after lunch at that old viet restaurant next to the old lee lee's. blah blah blah blah. i'm tired. and stuff sux like....lain. yes lain sux. stupid lain. makes me wanna shoot myself in the head. as u can tell jap ppl. r wack.
? ?why am i so apathetic lately? apathy mixed in w/ some good ol' feelings from summer like discontent, monotony, other crap. wow it's already kicked in. man i wish it'd stop already. it's worse than summer. at least during summer i got a decent amount of sleep to cancel out all those times i'd have to lounge around in such *blah*-ness....see cuz more sleep = less time to go thru all that. so simpo. bastard skool cutting into my sleeping time. wow it seems like life is just a bunch of meaningless motions and my only escape is sleep. wow that sounds kinda sad. hmmmm.....like me?