college - 1st semester, freshman year
01.16.02 / 12:29 pm
oh boy, here we go again. do you remember those random entries a while back where i posted something this crazy korean kid wrote on his xanga? ya know, the one about ultra-violence and bodily functions? well, he's got another winner out and this time it's about my most favorite subject...hei ren:
okay, Bush is trying to nullify Affirmative Action. (this is the ONLY thing that he is doing it right for our country!)
while there are people who are tryin to nullify AA, there are also mass blacks tryin to support AA. (obviously. it supports every nigs, hispanics, and native americans in our country). this is no problem for whites, cuz it doesnt apply to them. this isnt a problem for asians, cuz we study too hard. But oh no! blacks are going to cause a riot! oh no! lights out! nigs will punch all ya'll lights out!
whenever we talk about AA, blacks always talk about slavery. whats up wit that man? slavery happened mad yrs ago, stfu. oh yeah, asians built mad railroads, we should ALL get into harvard. A black kid got into HARVARD, not HOWARD or HARV YARD, but HARVARD wit 1000 SAT. Thats an impressive score.... for a black kid.
my brother and I were talking about blacks yesterday for some reason. we were talking about mercedes then we got into topic of blacks driving benzinos. my brother was saying how if a white guy drives a mercedes in scarsdale (thats where i live), he thinks its hot. But when a black guy drives a mercedes, in his mind he is thinking, "possibly a car theft?" when an asian drives a mercedes, no one gives a shit cuz asians are "good at math". hahaha that was pretty funny.
if AA is gone, there are pros and cons. blacks will actually start studying instead of playing basketball like Lebron James and steal a 2003 Hummer H2 (jk. he bought it) but then they will be shooting bullets like puff daddy did in a club when he was wit his nasty chick J-Ho.
you know, i feel bad for blacks sometimes. scarsdale is probably mad harsh against blacks. If a black guy is spotted in scarsdale.. oh my goodness, there are helicopters man. "drop your gun. drop your gun. put both of your hands in the air." (im just joking) BUT there were occasions where cops really did ask a black guy where he is from. my mom was walking in my school's track one day and a black guy was sprinting around the track. my mom overheard white moms saying, "why is there a black guy running around 'our' track?" you rarely see a black guy in my town. i dont know if its cuz police officers kick them out whenever they see one or its cuz they are afraid to walk around in $200,000+ average income town, but you will hardly spot one. (unless u go to haagan daz)
blacks are madness already. mad tall, mad muscle, mad big (ding dong dong), mad dark skin. wat else do they want? HARVARD? "oh yeah, i go to HOWARD, no no, i mean HARVARD" "really? how did u get in?" "umm....MOTHAF_CKA! *click* *BANG!* run nigggggaaaaa!"
ah another day, another dollar...kinda. well at least today's my last day of work this week. hm other than that, today's just another day. one of the last few days of my long, long winter break. almost 5 ENTIRE WEEKS! hm other than that, not much else is going on. oh btw if i haven't shown you (and for good reason), here are some pics i took of myself being ghetto. yes, being bored over the previous summer will do crazy things to one's reasoning and common sense. pic 1 pic 2 pic 3 haha crazy, huh? did you look at them yet? if you haven't MAKE SURE YOU HAVE! it's good stuff. hm actually maybe you should look here
random word of the day:
nomenclature
1. A system of names used in an art or science: the nomenclature of mineralogy.
2. The procedure of assigning names to the kinds and groups of organisms listed in a taxonomic classification: the rules of nomenclature in botany.
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hey does anybody want a 1996 twin-turbo toyota supra? it's got some mods and it's for sale. some guy on asianavenue just informed me his was for sale and was wondering if i knew anyone interested in it, so in an effort to help a brotha out i thought i'd drop a line here. lemme know if ur interested and i'll get you in touch with him. hm didn't brandon wong say he was maybe getting a new car soon? *ponders*
so i tried looking for an entry where i have NO mention of cars. NONE whatsoever. hm it took a little bit to find, but after scrolling back to...sometime in mid-december, around finals time, i finally found one. jeez, i talk about cars a lot.
song of the moment:
cb mass - "movement III"
"i'm packin' an automatic w/ laser detector attachments. comin' outta my jacket, packin' mo' sh_t than inspectah gadget." what strange lyrics.
01.15.02 / 3:02 pm
ghey. skool starts in less than a week now. *ick* oh well at least i have a 4-day weekend coming up. no work friday OR monday! good times. ne wayz, other than that not much else is going on. my finger hurts less and so does my knee so that's a good sign. hopefully it'll be gone by this weekend or at least next week. also, i can't log onto my desktop on my home computer anymore. i tried getting on this morning cuz my mom told me that my sister managed to get on again yesterday, but she said i'd have to wait a little longer than usual. so i tried getting on my desktop, but to no avail. i even left it on when i went to work out. i came back about 2 hours later and it still didn't start up. so i logged onto the desktop you go to when you just click 'cancel' at the sign-in screen. it didn't freeze up which was really weird. ai yah.
so here are my current picks on autotrader:
mmm...black 1993 mazda rx-7 w/ 5-spd, aftermarket wheels, but 109k mi on the engine. however, due to the high mileage, it's only $12k! that costs less than the really nice 1998 nissan 240sx, also on autotrader. good thing i got that 20 cent raise or else i'd have to wait YEARS before i'd get that much money. *psht* right. also, i found another 240sx. a white 95' 5-spd w/ 47,164 mi on it. the problem is that i'm not sure how much it is and it's located in tucson. dang. well i go to check the kelly blue book price and it goes from $8,600 - $9,100. jeez, i hope it isn't that much. hm not like i'd have the chance to buy the car though so whatever. next up, this grey 5-spd 1990 nissan 300zx twin-turbo and leather interior! it's mildly modded with 65k mi on it. only going for just under $13k which isn't too bad until you realize that z's need a major tune-up at around 60k mi and the previous owner might not have done it leaving you to pick up the hefty bill for the tune-up. then again, you don't find to many twin-turbo z's out there right now, especially none this nice. according to the ad it says it has an estimated 450 hp already, but it's probably 450hp at the crank. probably pulled that number since it's higher than the 'at the wheel' hp which is exactly what manufacturer's do as well. oh well, still a nice z. if i had $13k, i'd definitely consider buying this. also found another 300zx twin-turbo, but this one's only costs $8,800. it's got 79k mi which is on the verge of being considered 'high-mileage' imo. the paint job on it is also kinda funky. it's white on top and the lower portions are painted black. it reminds me a lot of the hachiroku (ae86) from INITIAL D. all it needs is the black rims and the 'fujiwara tofu shop' sign on the side. haha that'd be tight, an INITIAL D 300zx! YEAH! *ahem* ~er, moving on, a white 1990 celica all-trac. these cars are incredibly rare! well considering the fact that they are turbocharged, all-wheel-drive cars then it's quite understandable. these cars could be considered somewhat of a predecessor to the more modern mitsubishi eclipse gsx, subaru wrx, and mitsubishi lancer evolution. don't know the mileage, but it's running for $6,000 which is kinda pricey for a car that old, but considering how uncommon it is to see one, let alone, the chance to buy one, the price seems somewhat justified. last, but not least, this black 1991 toyota mr2 turbo has some potential. a 5-spd w/ 85k mi on it and some basic mods more than justify it's $4,200 asking price. the best part is that it's local meaning not outside of the valley. on the other hand, 85k mi is somewhat high. i mean i got my corolla w/ 83k mi and i've already put about 14k mi on it in less than a year. then again it IS cheaper than my slow and plain corolla was by $200! eh whatever, i guess that's it for now.
is it me or is the infiniti g35 sports coupe just an amazingly sexy car? imo it looks wayyyyy better than the 350z.
song of the moment:
INITIAL D - "space boy"
not by INITIAL D, but i don't know who the artist is. i have been listening to the cd janson burned me non-stop since i got it.
01.14.02
boringness. i'm at work again. interesting things have happened since i got back to work. first, i don't have to fill out that daily checksheet anymore. ah yes, more freedom. on the other hand, i was 'caught' being late AND leaving early the thursday and friday after new years. so now i can't be TOO late or leave TOO early anymore. *sigh* oh well, at least i found out i got a 20 cent raise. sadly, it only adds 7 more dollars to each paycheck. jeez i hope it wasn't like some random mistake where they accidentally add a little bit more this time. so in light of what's happened, i should really get a new job.
hurt my left knee somehow running yesterday morning. i think it's cuz i didn't really stretch or warm-up. hm i'll be sure to remember that next time. so later that night at gungfu wasn't much better. having not gone for....about 5 weeks, it's obvious i was a little rusty. the best part was when i got my finger smashed by my partner's pole. ~oi, it went through the skin too. plus, i think it's bruised/swollen. eh i'll live. after gungfu, i met up w/ janson at china panda and we went to play INITIAL D at golfland. sad part was that the card i got in cali won't work cuz it was from a ver. 2 machine and golfland only has ver. 1. the one at golfland is funny though. it's the english-translated version so their names are all jacked up to the point where i laugh...everytime they call each other these goofy american names. stupid americans ^_^ so yeah, busted 5 bux on it and left. went to janson's house and chilled there and waited for dan to call back. he finally does and we meet up at the NEW applebee's at cooper and warner. oOo now don't you just feel enlightened? well guess what? it gets better. new appetizer. haha. some garlic chicken pizza thing. it wasn't that great though. after eating, janson let me drive his car back to dan's. mmhmm i drove stick all the way back and didn't stall. the ride wasn't even THAT jerky, but there's always room for improvement. wah, it's been a long time since i've felt like i accomplished anything remotely worthwhile. hm so long that i don't remember what the last accomplishment was...wait...graduation. there we go. so yeah, after that we called it a night.
i have lotsa new music to listen to now. i bought perry's "storm" and this cb mass cd in cali and now janson hooked me up w/ a cd full of INITIAL D music! yeah! now driving around isn't so boring. also, the INITIAL D music encourages me to drive like a crazy fob-drifter! too bad my car lacks a lot of necessary qualities in drifting cars. *sigh* must get 240sx. oh well, INITIAL D music is happy therefore i'm happy.
geocities is getting REALLY gay. now i can't let ppl d/l stuff i uploaded nor can they check out pics through straight up links. no more remote linking. so gay. i should get find a new host, but then i'd have to pay for decent service. *bleh* one day...
my home computer is all crapped up now. the one and only computer hooked up to the internet. SO GHETTO! my mom left me a note this morning asking me to check out what was wrong w/ the computer cuz it kept freezing everytime they'd try to log on. well i gave it a shot and it froze up on two of the desktops i tried to log onto. my mom also mentioned CHARIS was deleting random files yesterday which could attribute to this. jeez, first she washes my dry-clean only pants and now fubs up the computer. yay charis.
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song of the moment:
thai - vietnamese gang"
haha this was the song we kept playing in jamie's dorm. now you must go learn the lyrics and bump this phat song everywhere you go. if you're really hardcore you'll check out the lyrics and memorize them so you can sing along. JOY!
01.13.02
*bleh* back in az and worst of all, back at work. so yeah california was fun even though we didn't really plan what we were going to do till the day before. on the other hand, getting lost or having any sort of mishap occur was an 'adventure' according to dan. hmm right. so as with my other random trips outside this state, here's the day-to-day summary:
monday
i woke up bright and early (psht yeah right) and got all my stuff together. waited for dan to get here at 9.30, but apparently he forgot how to get to my house and gets here a little before 10. we head off and hit the border by lunchtime and get a bite to eat. we get back on the road and get to torrance around 3.30 california time. bring our stuff down from the car and rest for a bit then we went to see 'catch me if you can' at 5. it was one of the better movies i've seen recently and better than leo's other movie 'gangs of ny.' then went back home for dinner, but my aunt and uncle fell asleep so we went to some random chinese restaurant near del amo mall. after dinner we went looking for a pc bang cuz pc bangs are always a source of action ^_^ but didn't know where to start so we stopped by this video game store and asked for directions. yeah the ppl in there were pretty nerdy so they knew where one was at. head down the street a couple blocks and find the pc bang, but we decided not to play cuz it's 5 bux for 3 hours or 4 bux per hour. so we walked around the shopping center and our options were: karaoke, eat more, pc bang, or pool. hm hard decision so we decided on pool. unfortunately, it must've been the most ghetto pool hall ever. there were a buncha old korean guys smoking and some random cali thugs w/ their cali ho's. it was so ghetto we only played for a half hour and left. good thing we made up a cool story to make up for the lack of excitement there and the best part about this was that janson actually believed us.
tuesday
our first day out on california roads and boy was it obvious. there were a lot of u-turns, sudden stops, crazy turns, etc. but we finally made it to ucla alright. after parking the car at a meter and getting 2 hours on it we headed up the street onto the main campus. dan asked some guy on the street how far away the main campus was from where we parked and it turns out it was 3 blocks up. now 3 blocks doesn't sound like much except we were walking up hill and exactly how long IS a block? after what seemed like an eternity of walking uphill we see a staircase across the street leading inwards so dan bolts across the street while there are still cars coming. hehe smart kid, there was a cross walk just a couple feet back. when we both get to the other side, we start to walk in and dan calls up his cousin, joe, for directions on where to go. we walk till there's a fork in the road and go left towards a big building we're sure his cousin would be familiar with. however, joe wasn't sure what we were talking about and the reception on his phone was getting bad so we wandered around lost for a while and found out we were in the ucla medical center. so we backtracked to where we started and this time took a right at the fork in the road and got into a more easily describeable area. i called johnny up, but he was in class. oops. so dan and me sit around for a little bit till joe and johnny get there. we get a chance to check out both their dorms and man are they nice. they look like hotels, the outside AND inside! jeez i hate asu now. then joe's roommate hooked us up w/ a dinner at the cafeteria. wow even the cafeteria rocks. it's like eating at hometown buffet, everyday! oOo that rhymed. so now we were done for the day and headed back to the car. wait! the meter! we only put in enough for 2 hours! hold on, about 20 min getting onto campus, 1 hour wandering around lost, about 20 min waiting for joe and johnny, 1 hour checking out dorms, and 1 hour for dinner. hm so that makes about...2 hours AND 40 MIN! haha so we were worried about getting a ticket and hurried back to the car only to find out that we didn't get one. so lucky.
wednesday
so dan decides he wants to go to the graumann chinese theater in downtown hollywood. hm scary area at night, but i guess it's ok during the day so we go. when we get there we find out that all the movies they're showing there either we've seen or they suck. so trying to make use of the fact we're there, we look around the area for...30 min or so and ask for directions to little tokyo cuz we wanted sushi. we get them and get to little tokyo only to find that you have to pay to park EVERYWHERE. the worst part is that it ranges from 5-10 bux so again we go w/ meter parking. i get out of the car and this black homeless guy is asking for money so i dig in my pocket and pull out a handful of change and give it to him. he seems happy enough and goes on his way, but when i get to the meter i find out that it only takes quarters. dang and i just gave him all of mine's. so we chased him down, beat him up, and got my quarters back. j/k. i actually remembered that i left a bunch of change in my car. sadly, the meter had a one hour limit so we had to get everything done fast. we checked out the nearby stores and look for a restaurant. we couldn't find one in the area so we walked around a bit longer till we came upon this other shopping center near this japanese hotel. so we get in and i order 9 pcs of random sushi + 6 tuna rolls = $15! ~oi japanese food is expensive. i eat the first couple pieces of sushi fine, but on the last couple i start to gag. i guess i thought about eating it too much plus the texture of it all was just getting to me. not wanting to throw up on the sushi bar which = massive embarassment, i keep drinking tea till it goes down. haha. so i finished up that piece and gave the last 2 to dan. oops. went over the meter limit again, but luckily no ticket. after lunch we go to the mitsuwa shopping center which is like a mall and play INITIAL D! i busted 5 bux in less than 20 min on it. *grr* not only does japanese food have to be expensive, but the games too! when we finished up what we wanted to spend, we headed out to hollywood again and went to a live taping of 'the late late show' with craig kilborn. we get there, they searched our car, and we wait in line for an hour. the taping of the show was alright, the coordinator guy gave us candy. i was grateful due to the fact i was starving and hadn't eaten in a couple hours. the taping was pretty fun and if you had watched later that night *ahem* you would've seen the backs of dan and my head! wow! we're famous now since we were on tv! too bad no one taped it and kanyon was the only person to see it! mad props to kanyon, our no. 1 fan ^_^
thursday
after i went to sleep the night before, dan somehow got the idea that we needed to go to the la auto show...so we did. boy were there some nice cars there. i sat in all the cars that i deemed "hella tight." haha. let's see there was: mitsubishi lan evo, NEW hyundai tiburon, nissan 350z, benz clk amg, bmw m3, mazda rx-8 and the list goes on. then there were the *bling bling* exotics that i'll probably never buy such as the new ferrari enzo and the lamborghini murcielago. after all that, we got back to my car where i felt somewhat cheated...*sigh*...and my car truly DID suck at that moment. sad, i know. however my spirits lifted when we got to rowland heights and had a huge 5 dollar bowl of nyo roh mien, however that's spelled in english, at diamond plaza. mmm good eatin'. then we went to the arcade and played more INITIAL D! freakin' long wait though cuz all the fobs were out. the worst part was that they mostly drove integra type r's. *ick* what are you? vietnamese? haha j/k good times though. after that we drove around. passed puente hills mall, got kinda disoriented so we backtracked and ended up on the north side of the freeway, went to lollicup next to the two sam woo's, and then across the street to the da hua market. out of all the chinese restaurants we saw, only one had the grade of A, but out of the one vietnamese restaurant we saw it had an A too. haha wow i'm impressed.
friday
dan locked the keys in the car so that took up half the day. freakin' 40 bux to get them out and all the guy used was what looked to be a plastic wedge (door stop) and a long, bent wire (coat hanger). that sux since it looked so easy and something we could've done ourselves. oh well so after that we went to uci to visit jamie, but had to pay to park again so we went to meter parking. so ne wayz, she lives near some strange ppl, but at least her roommate, elizabeth, put up w/ me and dan spilling her ice cream, bumping viet rap, blowing those bubbles that don't pop easily, and just being a general nuisance. mad props to liz. so yeah we ate her food and used her computer and bothered the ppl that lived around her, but she didn't mind so mad props to jamie too. wow i sound black. ne wayz, after hanging around her dorm for a while and being a plague unto the general populace, we finally went out. dang went over the parking meter time limit again, yet still no ticket. I AM INVINCIBLE! muahaha. i'll take over the world, one parking meter at a time. moving on, we went to 'the marketplace' nearby, yes that's the name of the shopping center, and got jamba juice. however that only happened after finding out we were in the crappy part w/ nothing cool and then had to cross the traffic-infested street to the 'good side.' on the way there i was in the left lane, found out i had to get in the right lane, cut across 2 lanes of traffic at a stop and a made a right turn. man...too much INITIAL D! hehe. after getting jamba juice we went outside and sit down for a while. funny things happened outside. first as jamie was talking about some guy she knew that 'got around' *wink wink* out of nowhere, this guy walks by and comments on it. it was funny since his little daughter was right next to him. later on this kid comes out of a store, walks up to his dad, and says, "dad i was just walking around and these kids threw a waterballoon at me from their car." *kid points to wet shirt* "oh? where'd th kids go", replies dad. wet kid states, "they went that way" and the father-son duo walk off into the night. haha. that was random. when we were through w/ our jamba juice we went to jamie's church. that night they had a report on their missions trip to china. oOo china. it was cool and then the pastor preached for an hour. i was kinda tired and kept zoning out. i know that's bad. bad me. i think he talked about missions stuff though. ne wayz, after the sermon jamie introduced dan and me to ppl she knew and i met a guy who went to the same jr high as i did back in the bay area. it was a small christian skool and i thought i'd never ever meet anyone from it, but i guess i was wrong. good times. so we head off and get boba and back to jamie's dorm where we hang out some more, but the weird ppl left so it was ok. there was no more bubble blowing, at least on my part, and we only played viet rap once. so jamie's mom picks her up and dan and me go to in-n-out again. after that it's back home by 2am.
saturday
we woke up later than we wanted to since we wanted to leave before noon. that didn't happen. we went out to dim sum at NBC in monterey park. mmm that was good, but that meant we didn't head back home till 3pm az time. so i drove all the way to the border and dan drove from the border back into town. on the way back, i forgot to throw away some bananas that had been sitting in the ice chest all week so by this time they stunk really bad so on the road we just threw them out the window. all in all, we made it back in 5 1/2 hrs. good trip.
song of the moment:
fifty cent - "forgot the name of the song"
they kept playing it on ALL the la rap stations.
01.03.02
guess where i am? work again! jeez didn't expect that, huh? ne wayz, just wanted to comment on something i saw while reading the newspaper. the political cartoon of the day featured the captions, "a time when we need amazing grace" and it had pictures of yassir arafat, saddam hussein, osama bin laden, and kim jong il singing in a choir. so for the uninformed, they are the leaders of palestine, iraq, the al-queda terrorist group, and north korea. funny thing about this is that kim jong il is about half the height of everyone else. call me anal, but that 'short asian' stereotype wasn't obvious AT ALL. nope, not in the least. haha oh well maybe he IS actually shorter, but eh i don't care to check. also, did you know yassir arafat's real name is "Mohammed Abdel-Raouf Arafat al Qudwa al-Hussein?" freakin' long like...something really long. just thought i'd share a random blurb for your reading pleasure.
oOo found a NICE blue 1996 240sx se/le on cars.com. too bad it doesn't list the mileage or transmission, but either way even if it was EXACTLY what i wanted i still couldn't have it cuz *bleh* i only have enough for half of it. how sad *tear*
leaving for cali tomorrow morning so i think i should probably pack my stuff tonight and call up dan to make sure he's not gonna back out. also, talked to david and wayne about going and hopefully they get back to me by today. so then that i'm just looking forward to heading out tomorrow. yay!
just got back from lunch. went out to jack in the box on mill ave with p.larry. we were originally supposed to go to uno's, but the wait was long and i had to get back to work. so let's see, 40 min late, 1 hour lunch, hm maybe leave an hour or so early? wow that's almost 3 hours less of work! good deal.
song of the moment:
perry feat. yg family - "get ready"
perry = good times
01.02.02
happy new year! what a crazy-long new years i had, but indeed good times. ne wayz, i'm at work again, not up to much as usual. *bleh* i have to work tomorrow to, but i'm leaving for cali saturday. hope dan remembers that we're still going. yeah i should probably plan out what we're gonna do before we leave so we don't end up sitting around in cali wondering what we should do. hm maybe i can get another person to go, if they're down w/ last minute stuff of course. yep, so right now i don't have a whole lot to say so i'll leave you with random entertaining thingies.
josh's profile is the best
350z...wah! what a nice car. check out this video clip of it. wah wah wah!
song of the moment:
yg family - "gasoline"
this song is so chill. nice kick-back song. not exactly sure if it's by yg family, jinusean, or 1tym though.
12.30.02 / 11:18 am
hope everyone had a good christmas. here's my (semi)intellectual schpiel for today. lately i've been hearing most ppl aren't really enjoying christmas as much as they used to, friends and strangers alike. is it that as we grow older our interests, views, etc change to the point that what christmas meant to us before has lost, as that old song goes, "that loving feeling"? haha bad example, but i assume you get the point. the supposed "spirit of the season" just doesn't seem to be so prevalent as the years progress. maybe it's due to the way christmas was introduced to us when we were children. we were bombarded in skool with (secular) christmas songs, we made crafts like tree ornaments and stockings, we talked about it non-stop. we were immersed in the whole 'holiday' state-of-mind. furthermore, we all will admit that the most exciting thing about the holiday to us was that we got presents. so from an early age, our most impressionable years, we've (sub)conciously labeled it a 'materialistic' holiday. then as we grow older, these things that used to get us excited just don't seem to matter as much/at all. we grow independent and are able to provide these 'material' things for ourselves hereby cancelling out what we originally grasped as the meaning of christmas, the acquisition of material things. so what was significant about christmas in the beginning is now no more thus making it, to most, an empty holiday. a holiday that lost it's original meaning like july 4th or veterans day and is now looked forward to merely because it's a day-off from skool & work and/or a day to have a party. so sad the way things have become. not to say that i share a similar point-of-view, but i feel the meaning has somewhat shifted from one to another. no longer do i look forward to christmas for presents and all that stuff so maybe i've actually matured a little (not much though), but instead the true meaning. what is that meaning? well take a look at the history of this holiday. go back to many holiday displays ppl have setup. behind all the santa claus, elves, reindeers, lights is a little manger scene. ohhh now you're starting to understand what i'm getting at. then fast-forward a millenium or so to europe as the early church was attempting to help new converts transition into Christianity by setting up a holiday that coincides with the 'winter equinox' of their previous religion. therefore what i'm saying is that the birth of Jesus was the original meaning of christmas and that most ppl feel the way they do because they either don't know or forgot. then again there are probably other little reasons, but i'm speaking about EVERYONE. just the majority.
i didn't write up one of those christmas 'wishlists' this year. haha it'd kinda contradict what i just wrote in a way, but eh jus for the hell of it i'm gonna throw a couple things out:
1. 1995 - 1998 S14 Nissan 240sx: if you know me, hang out w/ me, read this journal on a regular basis then you'll know it's the only thing that i really want right now.
haha short list, huh? oh well this is what i actually got in no particular order:
- a tie
- laser pointer key chain
- computer
- protein powder
- penguin doll that smells like mothballs
- money. i forgot how much, but it was a couple hundred. sadly i spent it all.
- knife
- foam nunchucks
that's all i can remember for now. sorry if i forgot ne one's present. thanx to everyone who got me something. i <3 you.
since i've been off from skool i've had excessive amounts of freetime (outside of work). much of it has been spent watching movies. throw down a couple bucks and you're entertained...er..."occupied" for about 2 hours-ish. so as a public service to anyone reading this i'm gonna give some "reviews", but more opinions (wait aren't reviews just opinions?) of the movies i've seen recently.
lord of the rings 2: the two towers - more hype than actual movie goodness. it had it's good points and it was overall a decent movie worth watching, but i thought it was just "eh, ok." rad battle scenes, but sadly constantly interrupted by ghey parts. i still like the first one better.
drumline - way better than i thought it'd be. black movies ALWAYS rock! i have yet to be disappointed by one. story wasn't too bad and the soundtrack fit the movie well. i have more respect (but still not too much) for marching band ppl now.
gangs of new york - looked like an awesome movie, but it turned out a tad bit over mediocre. the beginning was so tight w/ the huge gang fight, but it kinda went downhill from there. certain parts of the movie were just boring and droned on. last fight was the biggest disappointment in movie history. however there was an overzealous use of racial slurs which i found humorous *coughmickcoughpaddycough*
brother - even though it wasn't in the theaters it was worthy of mention. omg yakuza movies are tight and beat takeshi is like the japanese chow yun fat. this movie rocked like no other. this one is a definite winner so go rent it now!
so many fei chang hao movies comin out soon. jet li's got "crade 2 the grave" comin out next february/march. it's got dmx in it and it looks kinda "romeo must die"-ish. then "bulletproof monk" with chow yun fat sometime next year. "terminator 3: rise of the machines" next summer. i hope it's good since i luved "terminator 2." i heard there's a new "indiana jones" coming out in the near future so that should be good. i'm still waiting for "daredevil" to come out. speaking of comics, "x-men 2" should be out in a couple months or something. then there's "bruce almight" with jim carrey. "biker boyz" and "the fast and furious 2" look HeLLa tIgHt y0! ^_^ sorry, had to do the do mah script. hopefully 2003 will be a good movie year.
still need to find something to do on new years eve. haven't heard much from anyone yet though. hopefully i don't end up staying at home, in my room, having a party...all by myself *tear* what a sad scene it would be. me sitting on my bed in front of my tv, stuffing my face with the lights out and all the bright, flashy things in my room turned out in an effort to give it a more "party-like" atmosphere. *sigh* i need to not be a loser.
lost the front passenger side hubcap on my car. *ick* it's super ugly now. it's like mexi-ghetto. that's pretty bad. so here's the story. i jus picked my sister and her friend up from another friend's house and we were heading back home. i was heading south on mcclintock and made a right turn onto chandler, but i wasn't really paying attention and i turned too far and i hit to curb pretty hard. i think my sister or her friend noticed that it fell off and rolled away so we made a big u-turn and went back to the gas station at the nw corner of mcclintock and chandler. we parked and got out of the car looking for the hubcap and it's like in the lane right next to the median. note: chandler blvd is 3 lanes wide on each side. so after the light turned red for opposing traffic, my sister's friend ran out into the street and grabbed the hubcap for me. oh boy, but that was only half the fun. putting the hubcap back on was an adventure in itself. kneeled down for a couple minutes trying to smash it back into place. after it was put back on, might i say very poorly, we headed home and so ended any sort of excitement for the rest of the night. well later that week my dad borrowed the car and when he came back i noticed the hubcap fell off finally. so now it's this ugly, black, gross, dirty, stock wheel. *ugh* i shudder thinking of how horrible it looks. great story, huh? now don't you jus sympathize with me so much now that my car is in such horrible condition that you feel you'd grant me my one christmas wish and get me a rad 240sx? don't ya? huh huh?! come on ppl, show a brutha sum luv!
jeez, i wish i had a ps2 now. haha maybe i should've added that to my list christmas list. eh, but i don't feel like spendin 200 bux on video games when i've got n64 to keep me perfectly occupied for now. then again, if i got a ps2 i'd also have a dvd player for my tv...hmm...i like that idea even if i do have a dvd player on my computer right now. well i guess i can live with what i've got right now, but i've got my eyes on a ps2. hm gamecube's tempting though with metroid fusion and other awesome nintendo games on it. oh well. i'm sure i can spend 200 bux in a better way...like towards a new car! man, i'm smart.
i'm bored-ded-ded-ded-ded at work again. it sux. i have to work 3 full days this week! how ghey is that?! hm ghey like a certain person who believes that ne thing that rhymes must be true. haha ne wayz, the nazi secretary/supervisor lady gets back from vacation on thursday so that's gonna suck. then i'll have to try harder to pretend i'm actually doing work. oh well at least i'll be in cali next week which means no work for a week! yay! hopefully dan and me will be able to decide what to do that entire week instead of sitting around trying to figure out what to do like we usually do. man, us indecisive chinese ppl.
song of the moment:
chen xiao chun - "shen ah jiou jiou wo ba"
i remember seeing this as an animated flash like the "kan guo lai" song.
12.23.02 / 11:42 am
song of the moment:
good charlotte - "christmas by the phone"
rather than write a big, long entry i think this song can sum up what's been goin on since my last entry. merry christmas everyone.
12.19.02 / 3:53 pm
hm not a whole lot's happened these past two days. i guess all the little kids are done w/ their finals now so yeah. jus been workin n' stuff the past 2 days. ~oi boringness. oh and my last paycheck sucked worse than it usually does cuz i couldn't make up enough time to cover for when i was gone in cali over thanksgiving. *sigh* not much going on this weekend for now either. wow how boring. all i have to look forward to is...christmas, new years, cali, chilling out w/ friends over break, and whatever paychecks i have coming up. yep, i live an exciting life. az is synonymous with good times. yep so this morning bobby came over cuz he only had one final and didn't wanna back home and then come back out once everyone else was done. didn't do a whole lot. bobby ended up falling asleep so i jus went to clean the pool to occupy my time then played some 'diablo'. man, diablo is about the only thing i do on my computer. i really should get a cable router sometime so i can get online on my comp. i have so much stuff to get such as the divx codec so i can FINALLY finish watching 'initial d', chatting on aim+, checking autotrader for cars, reading all of those car forums i frequent, d/l random crap off kazaalite, etc. yep, so much untapped potential/resources right now that the anticipation of getting a cable router is killing me.
getting farther in 'diablo'. i got the butcher's cleaver a while back and jus picked up arkaine's valor the other day. now i'm down to the 7th level and not a whole lots going on. waiting to find better equipment to beatdown on bad guys better and need more dexterity cuz i keep swinging and missing. no fun at all. then in metroid fusion, the latest thing i've got was....the hi-jump/ball jump. i've been using a walkthrough so i don't miss anything so other than that i haven't really cheated AT ALL! WOW! that's rare. mmhmm great way to kill time at work.
ah more pics of that sexy 240sx from the other day. this time you catch a glimpse of the oh-so-good-looking s15 front-end conversion. those headlights...*drool*
song of the moment:
s.h.e. - "beauty up my life"
gotta luv the chinese-fob dance music
12.17.02 / 2:03 pm
funny thing happened this week. it's about one of my uncle's from so cal. earlier this year he went to china for the first time. when i went to cali this summer, i got a chance to visit him and he started to go off about how great china was. then he goes back to china AGAIN a couple months after he went the first time. i figured that he just really likes china THAT much. weeeell, this week i find out that it's not china he likes that much, it's his new wife that no one has heard about! apparently the second time he went back, he got married to some girl who's a newsreporter or something like that. pretty crazy. my parents found out cuz we got an email from one of our relatives. she sent a link in it to one of my uncle's online photo albums. it started off pretty normal with his trip to laughlin, but after the laughlin pics there were these random chinese ppl that we didn't recognize and he was with this girl in one of them. finally a couple pics look like it was at a wedding banquet. soooooooo, turns out he just up and married some girl in china. how funny. after that happened i told my mom i was gonna do that. haha i was hoping she would flip out. sadly, it didn't happen.
last night i had a dream where charis had a pet bunny, but then my parents put it into some soup and drank/ate it. crazy chinese ppl. hm, now that i think about it i remember i had rabbit before. tastes like chicken, but so do a lot of other things.
hm work has definitely been unproductive today. i've been jus surfing the internet for the past hour or more. the secretary/supervisor lady is on vacation so there's no nazi slave-driver to make sure i do work. yay! unfortunately she comes back tomorrow, but i'll only be in for a couple (semi-productive) hours. hm this reminds me of something my dad was telling me last night about his work. he hates it with a passion cuz of all his dumb co-workers and middle-management, etc. i now know where i get my lack of motivation to do work from. still haven't got a new job. i don't think i should right now since i'll be taking lots of time off the next couple weeks. still, i think i need a new job since srp = sucky.
man, christmas is almost here and i still haven't bought presents for everyone, i think. the holiday season is making me poor. *sigh* pushing the arrival of my 240sx further and further back. how sad and depressing. oh well at least i don't have to go to skool for now.
song of the moment:
johann pachelbel - "canon in d"
oOo am i getting 'cultured' or what? not sure if this is the right way to spell his name though. either way, good song.
12.13.02 / 3:15 pm
2 finals down, one to go. man, i don't know how to describe how it went today. i suppose for my math final i didn't do too bad. i was pretty happy with the outcome, only being skeptical on a few of the problems as opposed to being completely lost like before. on the other hand, my macro econ final sucked balls. i missed 7 on the mult. choice part cuz i studied more for my math final last night. so it came up to 18/25 on the mult choice and my written exam stuff was pretty shoddy since all of it was like crazy, insane stuff i didn't remember. oh well. before the final i had an 80.5% in the class! *phew* so close, but now with the advent of this crappy final...iono ne more. if i end up getting a C in that class, then hopefully i'll end up w/ A's in chinese and english and hopefully a B/probably a C in math. yep, chinese final on monday and then i'm done! yeah!
haha meesta' spa-koh!
i like this one =P
song of the moment:
dj mystik - "matrix II trance mix"
the song reminds me of the 'baywatch' theme song, but techno-y. very catchy stuff.
12.12.02 / 12:50 pm
wow i haven't posted a picture (that wasn't from a quiz, survey, test thing) since mid-october
new chow yun fat movie looks soooooooo incredibly tight. sadly, movies that look good in previews usually end up sucking a lot especially ones with hk actors/actresses, but i must remain positive. this is chow yun fat! the guy who played 'mark guh', 'li mu bai', and 'du shen'! so hardcore! go check out the movie's website, Bullet Proof Monk.
hehe found two random videos that you should d/l. they're pretty funny. right-click and 'save target as' to save it to ur hard drive or just click on the link to watch it straight up:
video #1 - dedicated to those crazy ganja crew kids
video #2 - why sony is better ^_^
yay! yesterday i turned in my scholarship application! boy, had to write 3 essays, get a transcript, and resume for it. i think that's the most work i've ever put into a scholarship. then again it's....only the 2nd or 3rd one i've applied for hehe. so while i was there i saw my old chinese skoo teacher. i forgot her name, actually i don't think i even know her name i jus call her 'lao shi.' so yeah it was weird cuz i never see her around campus. hm and that about sums up my wednesday.
btw since more ppl are visiting my site, more ppl should sign my guestbook too. sign my guestbook and i'll give you a big sloppy kiss.....well....no jus sign it and make me happy cuz i like reading what ppl write in it. much luv.
random picture i made today with paintbrush and a GIF animator. enjoy! eh runs a little slow so maybe i should cut the number of frames in half, but you get the message.
i'm getting further in 'diablo!' haha yeah i know. i'm lame cuz a play an old game (which btw rhymed), but i jus beat the weird butcher guy and got a big ol' knife from him. it's tight. i am a killing machine (in the game). slappin' around those dumb midget bad guys. they're goofy and make funny noises. haha yeah what an odd way to describe my progress in 'diablo' and for the spanish-deficient ppl, 'diablo' means devil in spanish. oOo yeah i'm playing an evil game, but it's ok cuz i'm beatin down on 'minions of the devil.' see? that perfectly justifies why it's ok to play this game. like how it's ok to play counter-strike cuz ur shooting terrorists and according to society nowadays, terrorist = bad. then again that excuse only works if ur playing as one of those 'counter-terrorist' guys. yep, video games = spiffy
song of the moment:
move - "gamble rumble"
yes! more initial d supereurobeatjpop! WAH!
12.11.02 / 3:02 pm
well i've noticed that more ppl have been coming to my site, iono how cuz i don't really talk much about it, but thanx for taking the time to see what i'm ranting about eacy day. it means a lot and has inspired me to write a big entry today ^_^
so yeah i'm done w/ all my classes now *breate sigh of relief* so i have today and tomorrow to study and stuff. i have my math and macro econ finals on friday which means that day should be "oodles" of fun. haha "oodles" i haven't heard that word in a while. ne wayz, after worrying about math all semester long i went to check my grade online. guess what? 72% baby! yeah! haha i know it's sad, you must be thinking "why's he so happy about getting a C?" well lemme tell you, first it's college, standards (at least for me) have dropped a lot. second, i suck at math. third, i work and all that other junk so i don't have a lot of time to spend on such trivial things as math. jeez i was so scared that'd i get a D or worse, the dreaded U. yeah, asu doesn't have F's. iono why, maybe cuz we're THE NO.1 PARTY SKOOL! YEAH! ROCK ON! WOO-HOO! haha actually we're probably quite the unintelligent bunch, but ah who cares? so on tuesday i had a quiz in chinese over our 2nd book which we don't read from very much. i didn't study for it the night before cuz i was too busy finishing up all this math hw. well i guess i should've cuz i didn't know wth she was talking about most of the test. haha yeah i kinda lacked 'certain' vocabulary which was vital to me if i wanted to do well on the quiz. *sigh* hopefully it didn't bring my grade down. maybe she'll appreciate the cute answers i put in while i tried to 'figure out' aka 'bs' most of the stuff and give me a good grade. well, i can always hope. then the chinese final is on next monday. after that, i'm free! FREE! yeah, nigga! i suppose i should study for my chinese final over the weekend though *ick* studying? on the weekend? ai yah i sound too much like the nerdy asian kids out there now.
since i've been getting all this free-time lately, i've finally been able to get back into the gym and start working out again. yep, i feel darned good now cuz the past couple weeks have been me doing lotsa skool work and eating a buttload cuz of thanksgiving, cali, etc. *yar* i think i was even gaining weight! *gasp!* yeah so almost every morning now i've been goin to la fitness. watch out bobby, imma be "da D!" haha right.
my new computer is up and running, but still has yet to be connected to the internet. need one of those "cable router" things bobby keeps talking about. so for now i've just used the computer to write papers cuz on the computer w/ the internet i get pretty distracted w/ aim and all that other stuff. then yesterday i installed 'diablo.' yes, the first one so stop lookin at me funny. it's the only game i have for the computer besides those old lucasarts point-and-click games. don't hate, man. those games were way fun, for their time ne wayz. sam & max, indiana jones and the search for atlantis, day of the tentacle, and full throttle. boy, good times. as for diablo, i chose the fighter/warrior/whatever and i'm almost done w/ the 2nd floor,level. yep, i like playing as the meaty, dumb guys in rpgs. why? simple strategy. "point, click, destroy." see? so simpo.
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initial d. the best anime ever. i'm at 2nd stage, episode 4 right now. sadly none of my computers can play it now. the one w/ divx got all f'd up when i accientally deleted the driver for the cd drive. my new computer has no internet connection therefore it cannot d/l divx. *sigh* you may suggest, "why not put the divx program on a disk?" well it's just too darn big to fit. i know, it's ghey.
let's see, what am i gonna do over winter break? i suppose i'm working during most of it. i wonder if they'll let me work full-time? hm i hope so. the holiday season has drained me of much of my income. also plan on going out to so cal for a week. i just need someone to go w/. not sure if dan's hardcore, fer' sure goin so if ne one's reading this now and would like to visit so cal from about....january 3rd/4th till january 10th/11th lemme know. i've got a place to stay taken care of. gotta luv having tons of relatives in so cal. so ya, gimme a hollar. im me, call me, email me, or talk to me in person. i don't care just lemme know! i mean it!
funny thing just happened. the secretary/supervisor lady jus walked into my cubicle and asked me to quiet down my typing. apparently it was too loud. well, the office was pretty quiet seeing as most ppl have gone home already. hm yeah that was a first. see why i need a new job?
song of the moment:
move - "rage your dream"
yeah! initial d supereurobeatjpop! YAY! haha very catchy song.
12.10.02 / 1:15 pm
found a random old bugs bunny cartoon. much hating is all i gotta say. *grr* => click. for more random videos, go here
random chinese joke:
Once upon a time, there lived two brothers - elder one named "Da Niu" (Big Cow), younger one called "Xiao Niu" (Little Cow). They were both English educated. Da Niu could not understand Chinese at all while Xiao Niu managed to write some simple sentences.
There lived one lady - a very very pretty and sexy Chinese lady opposite their flat. Both brothers were hungry to "eat" this lady, but they kept their desire to themselves.
Finally, Da Niu disclosed to Xiao Niu his lustful desire for this lady and requested Xiao Niu to write this lady a loveletter on behalf of himself. Definitely, Xiao Niu was upset and tried to sabotage his brother. So Xiao Niu wrote a note and flew it over to the lady: "Da Niu Bi Jiao Lan" (Da Niu is lazier).
To Xiao Niu surprise, this did not make the lady disappointed about Da Niu but instead she so delighted when she saw this note and immediately hooked herself to Da Niu.
Guess why? The lady has read sentences from right to left.
12.09.02 / 10:19 pm
i just had to post the best link ever. it made my day yesterday. i was soooo happy afterwards and now i keep watching this over and over ^_^ alright go make yourself happy like me now => CLICK!
12.05.02 / 5:00 pm
guestbook is still so...not bustling. *sigh*
finally redid the whole survey from yesterday. it's been a long time since i've done one of these. me <3 surveys, but i hardly ever answer honestly.
Section 1: General
1. Name: hak gui
2. Nicknames: nigga, no. 2, bunnie, fatty, etc.
3. Feet size: about 10
4. Do you have a crush: fanta is better
5. Age: legal
6. Age you act: hm maybe about 5 - 14 yrs old. childish to pre-teen. i get serious every now and then.
7. Where Do You Live: stinky az
8. Where you want to live: cali or maybe canada, eh?
9. Birthplace: fremont, california
10. Favorite Salad Dressing: salad is weak, but if you really must know it's raspberry vinegrette. fruity, huh?
11. Ever gone skinny dipping?: sadly no, but i plan on getting attention by walking around with a stuffed animal. however i'm avoiding banana republic at all costs.
12. What are you watching?: probably initial d again or smallville (LANA!)
13. Last person you talked to: dad, getting directions to brian's house cuz my sister is a bum and hasn't picked up her guinea pig
14. Favorite movie: anything outta hong kong
15. Favorite Book: the ones with pictures are fun!
16. Favorite Type of music: asian fob music, dirty punk rock, hak gui hip-hop, and some techno/dance.
17. Favorite types of cars: ah my favorite question so far. japanese and german sports cars mostly in no particular order: nissan skyline gt-r, toyota supra, mazda rx-7 (fc & fd), nissan fairlady z, nissan silvia, toyota mr2, acura nsx, any amg benz, honda s2000, toyota altezza, bmw m5, toyota soarer, audi s4, bmw m3, the new nissan 350z, and the list goes on and on.
18. Favorite Saying: anything bobby says a lot ^_^, hella (cali-west coast word), and stuff in ebonics such as "nigga"
19. Favorite Fast Food: iono, it's all pretty good unless you eat there too much *coughwendyscough*
20. Favorite Ice Cream: chocolate chip cookie dough or mint
21. Favorite Alcoholic Drink: after trying room-temperature merlot on thanksgiving i'd have to go with ol' reliable, dirty chinese hard liquor.
22. When Do You Go To Sleep: as of this week 11.30 - 12.30, that's pretty late for me seeing as i NEED sleep.
23. Most Embarrassing Moment: now why would i go and do an embarassing thing like telling you about it and adding to this list?
24. Stupidest Person you know: there is no one most stupid person. the ppl who i think are stupid are all equally stupid and stupid in their own unique way.
25. Craziest Person you know: wah! evan yu's pretty crazy! NO WAIT! JIM TAI! OMG! that crazy kid.
26. Favorite holiday: summer vacation and if that doesn't count then christmas
27. Favorite Food: just about anything. chinese, american, korean, mexican, japanese, italian, do mah, etc.
28. Favorite Song: songs that make me happy like YATTA!
29. Favorite Television Show(s): the simpsons, friends, and smallville (LANA! YAY!)
30. Favorite Radio Station: usually on power 92. if not that then the edge or 92.7
31. Favorite junk food: junk food is for fat ppl
32. Favorite sappy love song: sappy love songs = ghey. i certainly am a romantic guy.
33. Favorite color: blue or...the best color ever...BLACK!
34. Favorite Shoes: comfortable, good-looking shoes. maybe skate shoes?
Section 2: THE FUTURE:
1. School: well i'm in asu right now, but i wanted to go to a UC skool (only cuz they're in cali), but you know you wanna go to asu *wink wink*
2. Where You Want To Live: evil ot tnaw uoy erehw <= betcha ya can't figure that out
3. How Many Kids You Want: so i heard about this one japanese cartoon where this one guy has....umm...so many kids that he's the reason there was overpopulation on earth. haha man, i luv japanese ppl.
4. What Kind Of Job You Want: something to do w/ stuff i'm interested in or one where i do little work and get paid mad bank.
5. Wedding song: right said fred - "i'm to sexy for my shirt" and then i take my shirt off or maybe YATTA!
6. Song in your head: YATTA!
Section 3: HAVE YOU EVER:
1. Been In Jail: not hardcore enough like YATTA!
2. Done Drugs: i act like it sometimes, but no.
3. Run Away From Home: why would i do a thing like that? i mean, the answer is pretty obvious seeing as i'm in college and STILL live at home rather than moving out.
4. Hit A Girl: hit ON girls haha when i was little i hit my sister and i got in trouble for it and to this day i don't think i've hit another girl.
5. Lied: you're hot
6. Stolen Anything: somebody call the police this girl has stolen my heart haha i luv lame pick-up lines. yeah i steal food from work all the time, but it's for a good cause. i'm like robin hood, i steal from the rich and give to the poor. poor = me.
7. Broken A Bone: 5, 10, i lost count, but i'll have you know they weren't mine's. MUAHAHAHA! i'm so evil.
8. Cheated On A Test: soph yr biology, jr yr entrepreneurship, sr yr pre-calc, writing answers/formulas on the desk, putting answers/formulas into calculator, etc.
9. Cheated On A Boy/Girlfriend: that's wack yo
10. Gotten Drunk: drunk with power! MUAHAHAHAHAHA! i'm still pretty darn evil hm, but when i actually think about it, no. then again maybe i got so drunk that i didn't remember it at all.
11. Been With Two girls/guys At Once: dood that's kinky, japanese style.
12. Been In The Hospital: no, but i've sent ppl there! MUAHAHAHAHAH! man, i'm so evil.
13. Let a friend cry on your shoulder: my friends aren't mest up, depressed, emo kids, but i suppose if the opportunity arose i'll be there.
14. Fell asleep in the shower/bath: every morning when i don't get enough sleep
15. Gone to Church: fo sho'
16. Never slept during a night: i've pulled all-nighters, but not doing boring stuff like studying. studying is definitely not a good reason for me to loose sleep.
17. Ever been on a motorcycle or motorbike: not hardcore enough
18. Been to a camp: yeah, reminds me of the band camp quote from 'american pie'
19. Sat in a restaurant w/o ordering: no way. what's the point of going to a restaurant if you don't eat?
20. Seen someone die: yep, i was the cause! MUAHAHAHAHA! *yarr* i'm evil like a pirate. j/k only in movies, video game, etc.
21. Gone a week w/out shaving: this one time i tried to grow a goatee. it didn't turn out too good.
22. Didn't wash your hair for a week: ew nuh-uh especially w/ all the gunk that goes into my hair.
23. Broken something valuable: yep, the hearts of poor little girls. MUAHAHAHAHA! dang i'm slick...and evil
24. Thought you were in love: the day i laid eyes on her...silvia...sweet sweet silvia...nissan silvia that is *vroom vroom!*
25. Streaked the streets: not dumb nor inebriated enough to.
26. Screamed at someone for no reason: why scream when hitting is so much less work?
27. Said I love you and meant it: yeah, but skyline gt-r's don't talk back.
28. Been hurt by a guy/girl you loved: my mom used to hit me when i misbehaved as a kid. then this other time my sister punched me in the face, flipped me off, and ran away laughing.
29. Stayed up till 4 am on the phone: i'd have to have a pretty good reason since sleep is VERY important
Section 4: WHICH IS BETTER:
1. Coke Or Pepsi: pepsi cuz they got britney spears
2. Cats Or Dogs: whichever one tastes better
3. DVDs or VHS: dvd = dirty viet doods, right charis?
4. Deaf Or Blind: blind cuz then u'd have like super hearing and sensitivity. plus, you get to take ur dog w/ you everywhere and you get a big stick to hit ppl with. then when u cross the street, there's buzzers to let you know what's up. one time i saw this movie where this blind vietnam vet becomes a samurai and flips out and takes down some mafia.
5. Pools Or Hot Tubs: swimming pool and the table pool
6. Television Or Radio: tv = ur friend
7. CDs Or MP3's: mp3s
8. Apples or oranges: apples...oranges....nope mangos!
9. Gap or Old Navy: gap is more bling
Section 5: WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU:
1. Took A Shower: when i almost fell asleep again this morning
2. Cried: beats the crap outta me
3. Watched a Disney movie: mulan maybe?
4. Given/gotten a hug: this morning when i was saying good bye to my mommy
5. Been to the movies: "die another day" yeah i know i haven't been to the movies in a while.
Section 6: WHAT IS:
1. Your Fondest Memory Of This year: graduation and then summer vacation following it
2. Your Most Prized Possession: no cool car so...um...my girly hands that turn into fists of fury?
3. The Thing That Makes You The Happiest: family/friends, cars, YATTA!, etc.
4. Your Favorite Food For Breakfast: corned beef hash
5. Your Favorite Food For Dinner: whatever tastes good
6. Your Favorite Slow Song: um..iono..a song...that is..uhh..slow?
7. Your Ideal BF/GF: one word => LANA! (from smallville), no wait BOA!, wait...iono.
Section 7: WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT:
1. Bill Clinton: we both used to play the saxaphone
2. Love at First Site: whatever floats ur boat
3. Abortion: wack especially the pics on the internet *icky*
4. Teenage smoking: wait, fobs squat and smoke, koreans smoke and drink, smoked salmon, smokey the bear. hell! smoking rocks!
5. Pot: harry POTter, POT roast, POTato, hippoPOTamus, POTty, flower POT, jackPOT, no i don't smoke POT.
6. Eating disorders: get fat, freak! haha j/k
7. Rap: hella hardcore except some ppl gotta stop freestyling. no you are no the next eminem hehe
8. Marilyn Manson: pansy. i heard he has a glass eye and one testicle.
9. Premarital sex: dirty dirty x 2
10. Suicide: wack X_x
11. Drinking: i drink water. chill dawg chill ::rapidly waves hand up and down::
12. Life: is a not-fun boardgame
13. Death: happens
14. God: mad props yo. one luv.
Section 8: RANDOM QUESTIONS:
1. What are your favorite forms of jewelry? my blingin' rolex that i bought in china
2. Have you ever liked someone too young for you? good question
3. Do you think you have multiple personalities? good side and bad side
4. Ever walked in on someone changing or showering? nope, not that lucky.
5. What is the first thing you say on the phone? wei?! haha
6. What are you wearing? plenty, it's cold right now.
7. What did you do yesterday? skool, work, out to dinner for mom's b-day, hw/study, setup computer, sleep late.
8. Who was your last crush? harisu ^_^
12.04.02 / 4:55 pm
*tear* no one signs my guestbook ne more
#@#$^&@#$^&@#&$6 <= insert lotsa cussing here. *argh* i jus finished this REALLY long survey and when i tried to save it, it got deleted. geocities i hate your guts bi-Otch.
a little while back i posted a journal entry from some guy who said that violence is the answer. well he's back now with a topic of great importance. now in no way do i condone of what he's saying it's just that i think it's hella funny. plus, i'm assuming he's a fob so that makes it twice as funny. so here it is:
WHY CAN'T PEOPLE JUST FART?
i was sitting in the classroom one day and i wanted to fart. yes a big fart. (its nastay isnt it? hey u fart too) but of course i had to hold all the nasty smelly gas inside because i did not want people to become toxicated wit my poisonous gas and call the police to arrest me for terrorism. bio-terrorism? possibly. i'm an asian! come on, im not going to cause any bioterrorism. you see any asians cause any terrorism? NO! so let me fart, please. i want to fart. i dont want to hold that gas anymore. i dont want it to contaminate my lungs. its failing already. lungs are failing. livers are failing. pancreas is failing. so let me fart! im not a terrorist. im not a spy from middle east. (even though i always say peace in the middle east)
hey we all fart. so lets all fart together! cause the fart revolution! eat beans! more beans! red beans! green beans! lets make all the bean products skyrocket like NASA! (wha? that was so retarded) farting is good! it releases all the bad gas out of your buttcrack!
next time someone farts, say bless you! farting is good. it cleans my body.
but when someone farts over the limit ( yes there is a limit on farting), tell him to stop eating so many beans! fat bastard!
if it smells too bad, tell him to wipe his ass for once!
what an interesting topic.
start the fart revolution!
12.03.02 / 4:16 pm
got back from cali at 8 sunday night. traffic on the way back sucked balls. a funny thing that happened though was right in front of the outlet malls on the way back, this dog managed to wander onto the freeway w/o getting hit. all the cars came to a complete stop as it trotted along. eventually, a cop shows up on the opposite side of the freeway, jumps the median, and begins to chase the dog around. the dog, thinking that the cop was playing, began to run away. hehe yeah, the cop was old and kinda chunky too so he couldn't catch the dog. don't know if he caught the dog or not cuz we jus left as soon as he ran by. ne wayz, saturday night i chilled w/ bobby out in rowland heights. met up w/ him at diamond plaza and went to arcade infinity which is like the coolest arcade i've ever been to. they had all these crazy japanese games that looked SOOOOOO fun! i saw this martial arts ppp-type game and tried it. boy, did i feel retarded playing it though. then they had th INITIAL D GAME! YEAH! INITIAL D! but it was being hogged by fobs and wannabe-street racers (like me, except i don't have a cool car). then got some boba and went back to his grandparents house so he could get ready for some church banquet at hong2's church that night. the church banquet was pretty cool. i ate a lot, the ppl were nice, and the church building was about 100x better than ours. man, why does cali jus have to be so much better than az? after that we went back to diamond plaza so my parents could pick charis and me up. then...i saw it...parked there in front of 99 ranch market...R33/34 SKYLINE GT-R!!!!!! OMG! it was sooo nice. it was blue, w/ exhaust, big ol' intercooler, nismo wheels, right-hand drive...*sigh* if only i could afford a car like that. i bet the guy went up to arcade infinity to play some japanese car racing games where his SKYLINE GT-R is featured in. i jus felt like stealing it. right there, on the spot. sadly, i had no clue how w/o damaging it. next on 'to do' list, learn how to steal cars w/o damaging them ^_^ j/k <= *see? it makes the previous statement completely ok! i'm not REALLY gonna steal a car....or am i?!* haha right now that i think about it, most of diamond plaza's parking lot had some really nice cars. a couple m3s, amg benzs, and random other neat cars. so yeah jus went home after that and slept. sooo tired. then sunday we drove back and it was long and ghey. *the end*
another boring day at work. just been sitting here for a while reading newspapers and surfing the net. i had to take my ghey math test today after skool so i was 45 min late, but no one noticed ^_^ MUAHAHA! i'll probably leave soon too so yeah. i have a test in macro econ tomorrow, final writing project due in english tomorrow, chinese oral test thursday, and then a written test on friday. *sigh* so much work this week. last night i went over to wayne's for some help w/ my math. i was there from 6.30 till around 10. yep, and then i still had to go home and do more hw. dang, i'm starting to sound like a certain "someone", but i only do hw late cuz i have a lot, not cuz i procrastinate. so ne wayz, next week should be a pretty easy week. my english class ends monday, math tuesday, chinese tuesday, and macro econ...uh i don't remember i jus know i have the final next friday. so the latter half of next week is pretty lax, but should be spent studying for finals = ghey. yep, i've been doing so much skool work lately i have no time for gungfu or working out. i'm getting fat. i should probably use my dad's la fitness membership sometime to make up for this lazy-streak. ~oi plus all the eating i did in cali, horrendous i tells ya. so yeah skool sux.
haven't got that call back from the ppl at bankone. maybe the girl i talked to there forgot to tell her manager or something so i'll probably have to go back and ask. as for bank of america, i'll probably send them my resume online. wells fargo...well iono maybe i'll give them a shot. *sigh* i still semi-want a new job.
a new listing on autotrader. black 97 240sx for $11k. since christmas is coming up, you know you wanna get it for me *wink wink*
11.30.02 / 1:16 pm
so i'm in cali now and i'm sitting here waiting for my parents to finish getting ready so we can go out. today i'm gonna meet up w/ bobby in rowland heights so that should be fun. my parents have some high skool reunion thingy in alhambra to go to so they'll be busy for the rest of the day leaving me with plenty of time to chill. so ne wayz, the past few daya have been aight. we got here late wednesday night. we left from phx around 3 and made a couple stops, but when we stopped at wendy's to get dinner that friggin took an hour or so for a to go order cuz they kept messing up the stuff in everyone's order. omg they were so ghey. i felt like slapping everyone behind the counter. we got to torrance around 11 or so that night, but cuz of day light savings it was only 10. haha man day light savings is kooky. after living in az for almost 7 years now i guess i got too used to not having to mess with that inconvenience. moving on, thursday, the day i thought we'd be at home all day, we actually went out to alhambra/san gabriel to pick up our turkey cuz my aunt had it cooked by some chinese place instead of having to do it herself. oh well whatever works, the turkey tasted fine so yeah. we went shopping around there for a while, the usual cali grocery shopping n wut not. so thanksgiving dinner was pretty good. besides the usual american stuff we had crab as well. jeez, crab is so much work for such little meat, but at least it tastes good. if i was REALLY lazy and all i had to eat was crab, i'd probably starve to death. then on friday, day-after-thanksgiving/biggest shopping day of the year, we head out early (my definition of early being around 8am or so) and start shopping. we only go till about 11 or so and then we go home, but i got stuff for sale so it's all good. we ate lunch and then went to pick up my new computer. finally, no more fighting for it with charis and the rest of the family. now all i need is a refrigerator and sound system for the tv in my room and i'm set! haha i'll only have to leave it to use the bathroom! haha i'm jus too good. yeah then later on that night my family had a surprise b-day party for my mom, but it wasn't really a surprise so it was more of a 'family gathering' with lots of food. good times good times. yeah so cali's been pretty worthwhile so far. we leave tomorrow morning or maybe around noon-ish so we'll be back late afternoon or evening. *argh* home...sadly when i get back i have hw to do and then the following weeks till winter break will be nothing, but studying for finals. *bleh* gheyness. monday or tuesday i have to take a math test and i suck at math, but I HAVE TO do good or else my grade for that class could be...ehh...not good. then i have to turn in my final writing project for english. chinese we're having a written AND oral test i think either this coming week or the week after and macro econ is just straight up ghey...oh and i think there's a quiz in that class sometime that week. *sigh* and that's just the upcoming week which DOESN'T include any of the finals. oh well once i get thru with it i get a whole month off! yeah! well the parents are finishing up now so i'm gonna get going. i'll see you all when i get back. take care.
11.26.02 / 12:24 pm
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11.22.02 / 12:15 pm
an interesting link i found off mike's blog that i said 'amen brutha...er sistah' to => click here to fight the power. fiiiight itttt!
yes, the weekend is here. another tedious week is over. skool today was fairly simple. in chinese we didn't have a test and just read from the book. in english my group presented and i brought the otter pops. this got me out from having to the summary/analysis and present it to the class. iono i kinda feel bad though cuz my mom went to get them for me yesterday and it took her a couple hours to find a place that had them. the reason they were so hard to find was because most stores considered them a 'seasonal item.' yeah that's the gheyest excuse i've heard in a while. if that's so then we should not sell any frozen desserts such as normal popsicles and ice cream if we went by this policy. jeez, when did grocery stores become such ghey jews? anyways, i'm jus glad this week is over. i have a pretty bright outlook on next week seeing as it's thanksgiving week. 3 days...um more like 2-ish days of skool since wednesday i only have to go to chinese and unless we're taking some test, i really have no major urge to go. either way, weekend is here. next week is thanksgiving and thanksgiving will be spent in cali so i'm happy.
man, work has been a-ok lately only cuz i've finally d/l'd some more emulators for the computer. i finally got ahold of a gameboy advance emulator after wanting a game boy advance for quite some time, but never actually buying it cuz i'm too cheap to pay 70+ bux for it. now i can play super dodge ball, metroid fusion, gt advance, and allll those other fun games that i've wanted to play for so long. so after playing for a little while yesterday, i realized that this is what i've been missing out on for the longest time, this is why my life is boring, but is now fun! VIDEO GAMES! YAY! haha cuz as a kid i played them all the time and i was happy as a kid, but now life has got boring (kinda), in terms of what to do to pass the time, but now it's like a part of my childhood has returned. thank God for video games. anyways, getting back to how work ACTUALLY is, it sux balls. i can't make up time now after 5 pm which means that i'm losing hrs. oh great, my supervisor (the boss' secretary) just handed me a checklist of daily assignments i have to check off and then hand back into her. this should be fun. now they're getting extremely big-brother on me. i SERIOUSLY need to find a new job now. even though all i do here is screw around, it doesn't seem like i can anymore. plus, i need some phat bank asap. well not asap, but in the near-future. so i suppose maybe i'll look into some bank jobs this/next weekend and see if there's a way i can get outta this dump ^_^
my latest gripe: kids who's parents buy them really nice cars
that's right, this one goes out to all the rich, spoiled kids out there who can have mommy and daddy just go out and *bam!* buy them the hottest car on the block. it's so sad. first of all, how are their kids going to learn how to value things? i mean, if you can have your parents buy you anything you want, is it really going to mean a whole lot to you? seriously, it's probably just another toy you can toss aside when you're tired with it since hey, it wasn't YOUR money that was spent to acquire this. second, if the parents were to just buy a car for their kids like that, how would the child be able to learn responsibility and all that junk. the kids not gonna work his butt off at some low-end job, toiling away for that meager paycheck every other week just so eventually they can purchase that one car they've been longing for. i mean, this way it'll mean SO MUCH more to you since you know how hard you had to struggle to acquire it. a nice benefit from this is that they're more likely to take better care of the car, knowing how hard it is to get, but these rich kids...*sigh* they won't learn any real-world skills this way, they'll just end up being stupid bums who are in college for 7+ years, still trying to get their bachelor's degree, and just leeching off their parents. another point, to have a car SO nice for put into the hands of one who lacks the experience to drive it. it's like giving a gun to a kid and the kid will probably end up shooting themselves or someone else cuz they don't know how to properly use it. for example, i've heard of kids in high skool with twin-turbo supras that, obviously, their parents bought them. well to start off, most high skool kids have JUST got their license so that means they haven't been driving for too long. so there's a lack of experience there. next, they're young and we all know young ppl think they're invincible and tend to test fate with random acts of stupidity. just look at those kids who tried to imitate the stunts on 'jackass.' first of all, the show has a warning to NOT imitate what they do and also the kids themselves never took into thought the proper precautions before even trying to attempt their stupid stunt. so youth = not-too-smart. high skool kids + fast cars = dead high skool kids & wrecking a perfectly good car. now, i don't so much care about the dead kids, but think of what their families have to go through when they drive their car straight into a wall or something. plus, THINK OF THE CAR! OMG! how can you do that to sucha beautiful thing? it'd be like vandalizing the sistine chapel or horribly defiling some other famous and/or holy place. dumb bastard, i'm glad you're dead. then on top of the point that the kids would most likely kill themselves in the car, the insurance for inexperienced drivers in high-powered cars is disgustingly high. so not only are these kids an emotional burden (if their parents care enough), but also a financial burden as well. eh oh well i'm all out now. peace.
11.20.02 / 3:25 pm
bleh skool = dumb, dumb = bad, bad + me = not happy and this is my universal theory on why stuff sucks. skool's been a 'blast' - the 'blast' part = ghey. monday AND today i fell asleep in macro econ. wow, the chances of that happening...? yeah they're pretty good, but the best part was that today i wore a hooded sweatshirt and the hood doubled for a pillow against the hard plastic of the upper portion of my cushioned seat. i was out like a light for 15-20 min. mmm sweet sweet sleep > macroecon. then on friday i have to give a group presentation on some fairy tale that we had to read. my group's tale had otters in it so our visual aid will be otter pops which are da ish! ish = shizzo, shizzo = (darn spiffy)2. so i didn't have to do ANY of the work concerning the actual presentation. the other group members did a summary and analysis of the story and i made copies of the story (at work, for free i might add!) and then picked up some otter pops ^_^ i like the way this group works. then in chinese this week we have no test on friday (no test = good x 3). man, i'm so sick of this week already and it's only...wednesday, the middle of the week. now only 1 + 1 more days of gheyness and the weekend is here. hopefully the weekend won't be boring and then next week, off to cali! yeah! cali > az! eating and shopping! oh and visiting the good ol' relatives who love me so dearly, monetary-wi$e *snicker* so all in all, a good deal. ai yah! i can hardly wait!
this is THE funniest entry from someone on xanga that i've ever read. boy what a crazy idea though. in fact, hmm maybe i should try it out, not to say that i condone of it or ne thing (what?), but it sounds like a good idea. i mean come on! ne thing to shut the dumb ppl up! you know u wanna read it, i even edited out all the vowels from the "potty mouth" words so the "wack haters" out there won't "hate on me" as black ppl say. btw the overzealous use of the word 'die' in one paragraph reminds me of 'my sassy girl.' so read on:
"i really dont know what to do. i just cant handle some people anymore. if i was someone crazy i would be punching everyone right now. but too bad im not. i want to be crazy. i used to be crazy. i was so crazy when i was a kid. korean moms were afraid that i would punch their kids. "dont go near that kid. he will punch you." i remember some kid telling me he could kick my ass. he was serious too. i got so pissed that i f*cked him (up) real bad. he learned lessons. never talked to me again. when kids are that crazy when theyre young, u know they are going to get crazier. but i didnt. i dont know why. i changed. it sucks so bad."
"violence is a solution to every problem. no wonder violence is such a big problem these days. if someone needs to get f*cked, f*ck him up. if someone acts stupid, f*ck him up. at least tell him he's stupid. so he doesnt do the same thing over and over. "why dont you just talk to him?" how about no? why is violence such a big thing these days? because too many people need to get f*cked. thats the problem. you leave them alone, they will do the same sh*t over and over. we dont like violence. we NEED violence. remember the time when you were so pissed that you wanted to smack someone? (including you girls) why didnt you smack him/her? instead of keeping it inside to urself, smack that shizzzz. if someone smacks me back, oh my god. ill punch him/her (her? possibly? =D) so hard. dont try."
"from this day, if anyone acts stupid, he dies. says something stupid he dies. im going to curse at them at least. i know the consequences. if he hits me, he dies. very simple. i cant let these dumb people make me angry. i need to punch them one by one. so they can shut up."
"too bad i cant punch people in scarsdale. ill get sued. cheap jews. they just want money. "he punched my son. im suing him" consequences? im not the one who's punching. my dad will punch me. very hard. til i bleed to death. its called gook rage."
finally, go to => evan's site and listen to his music! it's good for you.
11.19.02 / 3:48 pm
welp, haven't been up to a great deal lately. this weekend i didn't end up doing a whole lot just the same ol' stuff as always. it's been getting kinda boring lately. man, i wish i could find something new! EXCITING! but eh...hasn't happened yet. anyways, saturday i saw harry potter 2. even though i haven't really gotten into hp all that much it was still a pretty decent movie. as you'd expect, there were little kids all over. good times especially when they start yelling at very..."appropriate" times of the movie. what's worse was that the older kids didn't behave much better. these teenage girls sitting next to us were giving one part a standing ovation. nerds. yep, other than that i can't really remember much else that really entertained me this weekend er i mean, except the most awesome music of local protege musician, evan yu. seriously, i wasn't kidding in the last post either. you may think that i always make fun of ppl or stretch the truth or something, but this time i'm being serious! *sigh* no one ever listens to me. so if i've finally persuaded you go check out evan's music. remember to actually listen to the music though, that way he can go to the top of the 'good music list' instead of the 'gay music list.' hell, even if you don't wanna go there, GO! then click on the link to listen to one of his songs and once it starts you can stop it so at least it registers as another d/l! ok i'm taking this too far now, jus go there already seeing as i've already pestered you enough => CLICK CLICK!
so i was reading the newspaper again at work today and some GREAT topics jus inspired me to post them up on here:
1) article on 'nude' paintings. a quote from the artist:
"Everyone needs a nude somewhere in a bathroom, bedroom, or hallway. It makes you smile when your day begins"
- Natalie Krol, The Daily Courier, 11/12/02
now do you REALLY need a 'nude' in all these places? i mean come one, the bathroom? i'm not sure you'll be going there to just wash your hands anymore (although with the 'nude' in there, you'll probably NEED to wash them when you're done *wink wink* ^_^). then would it really bring a smile to my face as my day begins or would i simply stare or blush at it? iono what's up with this crazy kid.
2) a letter sent into the newspaper complaining about how it's not how guns kill ppl, it's how ppl kill ppl. it reminded me of the shirt that andre the giant was wearing in 'happy gilmore.' for those of you who don't remember it said, "guns don't kill ppl, i kill ppl." haha that silly andre the giant.
last week i was coming home from work driving south on 101, north of i-60 when all of a sudden i pass by 2 new nissan muranos! oh man, so sexy! they remind me of the porsche cayenne, but cheaper! sweeeet! so for more info on this sexy beast of a car go to nissan's official website.
finally, my new distraction at work, 8-bit theater. if you've ever played the old 8-bit nintendo games such as final fantasy, megaman, and zelda then you'll truly be able to appreciate this. even if you didn't, i suppose if you like rpg's in general you could relate to it. okay fine even if you don't like rpg's there's still humor in it that everyone can understand! so go! it's so funny! ok i'm done. late.
11.16.02 / 1:12 pm
not by popular demand or as a favor, i'd like to recommend this link solely because i love this kid so much! plus, his music's not half-bad either. in fact, if him and beethoven were to fight in a no-holds-barred cage match, he'd completely rape beethoven 10x over. now, to the real deal. the good stuff. where it's at, i give you...the music of the sexiest, berzerker, king of desert vista...EVAN YU!
oOo last week i got to catch a glimpse of the new nissan murano suv. boy is that thing sexy. kinda like the porsche cayenne, but cheaper! yep, i saw two murano's on my way home from work going south on 101 north of i-60. mmm so sexy. find out more about it at nissan's official website.
11.13.02 / 2:56 pm
eh not much has been happening with me. i had a good three-day weekend where i got a chance to relax and kick back. i even took a nap for once! wow! yep, it was good times. friday, went to abf then went home cuz my sister had everyone over. we end up at oasis cafe for some REALLY GOOD BEEF GYROS! mmm beef gyros. so it was jus david, shevaun, stephanie, brian and me for most of the time. everyone else left early. boy'd they miss out hehe. yep, then i got to drive shevaun's car cuz she's cool like that. i'm slowly getting better at driving stick. i don't do that scary 'hydraulic' stuff like i did before nor do i stall unintentionally now. either way, keyword = SLOWLY. soon....soon i'll be able to drive it decently, then good, then REALLY GOOD and then i'll take over the world! MUAHAHAHAHA! hmm maybe the first couple, but probably not taking over the world. oOo i just stumbled across active autowerkes website! mMm turbo m3...soooo sexy...!!! *drool* hehe one day...along with ALL the other cars i want haha. ne wayz, back to my weekend, saturday i went to work out w/ the guys at the new la fitness and bobby made us play basketball and i realized i will never be black enough to play that game. after that, we went to david's not-quite-surprise party. the big boy turned 17 now! haha yeah you probably thought he was 20 something didn't ya? yep. we chilled at david's for a while and i ate wayyyyyy too much, but the food was good so yeah whatever dood. then we saw '8 mile' that night and it turned out to be a pretty decent movie. i sure enjoyed it, but the ending...ehh...realistic, but not enjoyable to watch. sunday, went to church and then out to lunch with charlie, wadj, angeles, calvin, and phimus. first, we wanted to go to yamakasas, but they wouldn't open till noon and we were hungry so we went to shinbay wayyyyyyy out in ahwatukee. stupid shinbay was closed and very secluded so after looking for lik 15 min we find out they don't open for lunch on sunday's. plus, dishes there were about 16 bux each! ~oi good japanese food is expensive. so we jus went to hong kong gourmet buffett. mmmm good stuff. thinking bout it makes me hungry all over again. after lunch i jus went home and chilled for a while. my parents had guests over for dinner so i stuck around for dinner and helped out beforehand. after dinner dan, josh, and charlie showed up at my house and we went to arisoo where there was FREE FOOD! YEAH! I LOVE FREE FOOD! hehe didn't eat much there though. in fact, we weren't there that long to start off with. OH! on the way there, dan was gonna make a left turn into the shopping center, but it was really dark and he turned straight into the sidewalk and we were like "WTF?!" and we had to go against oncoming traffic to find an entrance. luckily, only one car passed us the whole time. hehe later on that night on our way to cindy's house, dan was in the far left lane and i told him it's a right turn at the stop and he jus FLEW across the street into the right turn lane COMPLETELY cutting off this HUGE truck that was going to make a right turn. it swerved outta the way so much that it was facing the sidewalk and at a complete stop. yep, dan almost killed charlie that night cuz the truck was on charlie's side of the car. hehe. then when we turned south onto dobson, it was dark again and dan turned into the wrong lane of traffic again. sad thing was that there was a median so we had to do a u-turn and turn ourselves back around and then make another u-turn at the stop. yeah, dan's a pretty crazy driver. when we got to cindy's we jus sang karaoke the whole time. it was good fun though cuz kanyon's a really good karaoke person. haha and fuwa was his awesome partner in crime singing nsync hits and other random "top 10" songs. yeah so after that kanyon jus took me home. on thing i've noticed these past couple weekends is that i never drive! how come i always end up having someone else drive me? it's not on purpose, it's just indecisive us are like, "so ya want me to drive?" "uhhh iono" "well..." "yeah i'll jus drive" "not it's ok, i'll drive." ai yah! i feel bad cuz these kids (mainly bobby) have cars that guzzle gas like a mofo. either that or the fact that sometime's driving can get tedious n wut not so-on-and-so-forth. yeah, this coming weekend, i'm gonna drive now! ME ME ME! haha yeah back to story, monday was a lazy kickback day. i woke up and got online and sat around for a while before i went out for a jog. i came back and christine calls and says that brandon and jon wanna hang out so i get ready and meet up w/ them at sweet tomatoes for lunch. i stuff myself and i get to check out brandon's new stereo system! SCORE! it's pretty mad phat cool tiz-ight boss hella fly on-and-on. then we went to the mall where we did a whole lotta nothing and i jus go home and take a nap. yes! nap! i luv those! why i don't i take more naps? oh yeah cuz i don't have time to. yeah that pretty much was my weekend.
skool = ghey, but at least this week is a 4-day week since we had monday off. i got a 62 on my math test which sux balls since i studied for that piece of crap too. guess i jus kinda 'overlooked' certain topics that were on the test and then ended up jus guessing. *sigh* math and me never get along. well according to my teacher and i quote, "you all did EXTREMELY BAD." his exact words. it was pretty funny considering it was all said w/ his usual middle-eastern accent. hehe. i suppose the silver lining might be that a majority of the class did pretty bad too so i guess maybe he graded it on a curve? oh well i hope he did cuz math is ghey like a mofo. chinese is the same as usual. next friday, we DON'T have an oral quiz! yay! i hate those! mostly the part about going in front of the class to speak is what bothers me the most. *argh* gheyness. so yeah that and english. let's see english.....starting our fourth writing project which is on 'beauty and the beast.' kinda strange topic, but whatever. hopefully i can pull of an A in the class cuz that's all i care about. also, it's one of my more enjoyable classes so i don't mind it so much. macro econ is goin the same as well, sooooo incredibly boring, but i didn't fall asleep in class today!! yeah! aren't you so proud of me? i ALWAYS fall asleep in class! haha. other than that nothing's new in that class. wow, isn't skool jus SOOO exciting? i'm jus lookin forward to thanksgiving when i go back to cali! yeah!
random fact for today: did you know hulk hogan, pro wrestling star, drives a supra? here's the pictures if you don't believe me.
11.06.02 / 4:03 pm
took the macro econ test today and got a 9 out of 11 which is about an 81%. better than my last quiz so i guess that's okay. i averaged out the three quizzes i've taken so far and it's about an 81% so i'm barely hanging in there. as for the chinese oral quiz on friday, if i don't end up finding a partner by tomorrow, then i just won't go to class that day ^_^ i mean what's the point of going if you don't have a partner? no one to do the quiz thing with so....obviously yeah. it just means i can sleep in an extra hour hehe. so now i just gotta study for my math test tomorrow. i did some studying already on monday night thinking that i could take the test on tuesday, but it turns out it's only on wednesday and thursday so i can study a little more tonight and hopefully get a decent grade on this test. then in english, i got some 'peer reviews' of my paper and overall i guess it was pretty good. i had to read it aloud to my group so i read it really really fast. they seemed to think it was okay which is pretty good for a paper i wrote at about midnight, half-dazed and ready to sleep. so i just have to revise it a tad and it's good to go. however, i don't think that it'll be as good as my last paper which was crazy in-depth stuff and totaled about 7 pages. this one so far = 3 1/4pgs. but yeah whatever, i'm not stressing over it. so this week is turning out to be not as bad as i thought it would. now, i'm just waiting for it to end so i can enjoy my three-day weekend! yay! three-day weekendddddd!
searched for cars on autotrader again. found 1 2nd gen. 95 mitsubishi eclipse gsx, 3 s14a 95-96 nissan 240sx's, and 2 2nd gen. 91-92 toyota mr2 turbos all within an approximate $4000 - $7000 range, but i'm gonna have to call some owners cuz they didn't list a price with their car. then i followed up and checked their kelly blue book prices and found that the cars were either a couple hundred under or over that price. hmmm yeah whatever i suppose that's a good sign...i think...
11.05.02 / 4:37 pm
i got a busy week coming up. wednesday i have a quiz in macro econ and have a choice to take my math test that day or thursday. then on friday i have a chinese oral quiz and writing project #3 is due in english. ai yah, what a busy week. no time for gungfu. oh well at least i can "somewhat" take it easy this week. outside of skool, work's the same. i've been going to a lot of summer internship info meeting/seminars, etc, but none of them seem to really appeal to me. eh i guess i'll jus go find some sorta intel internship or something of that calibur....if not i can always get a bank teller job. *sigh* i need to stop being lazy and find a new job. OH! my mom showed me this whole deal with 'bank one' where if you open up a new account with them, they give you 50 bux, but ya gotta keep the account open for at least 6 months. hm i'm considering it cuz come on! it's free money! besides, i must 'take control of my finances' or something like that since i'm in college now. must invest money, must make more money, so on and so forth. anyways, i don't know if you know this, but my car is still slow, ugly, and uncool. just thought i'd share that with you. yep, now i have approximately a year before i will be able to get my hands on a new car. a year! do you hear that!? which means i have a year to get enough money to buy it and learn to drive stick ^_^ the problem is that i don't know too many ppl that have manual cars. *bleh* oh well, i'll find a way somehow hopefully, but think about it. in a minimum of one year ME ME ME could be in something not-so-slow, ugly, or uncool! wow, that's a step up from where i am now, but...it'd be even better if it was fast, sexy, and very cool! wow! yeah! rock on! okay enough of that, but yeah at least i'm thinking of stuff in the long-run rather than...next week or something. see? that's responsiblity right there. haha.
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11.01.02 / 12:16 pm
boy did i do crappy on my chinese test today. i must've forgotten a good deal of the words that were on the test. i hope i somehow still manage to get a B on it. ne wayz, english was a breeze since half the class didn't show up. so i got to leave early, but i didn't get into work that much earlier so...yeah whatever. yay! i'm goin with ben to the casino tonight! yeah! good times and i'll be sure to not carry more than i plan to gamble therefore i won't end up getting addicted, betting my car, and then end up having to walk home. haha. so yeah i'm glad the weekends is here now. i was getting pretty sick of this week, but sadly next week is probably gonna be worse. i have another writing project due next friday, chinese oral test next friday, test in math on either tuesday or wednesday, plus work and gungfu won't be helping much with this, but once that week is over.....three-day weekend! anyhow, last night i went to kfc and got that whole "buy one 3-pc meal, get one free" deal. mmm fried chicken = soul food = black ppl food. haha and today for lunch i got a fried chicken salad at work. it's pretty good too. oh oh oh i just remembered that yesterday in chinese, one of my classmates that talks like santonio spanderas from power 92 (gay + hispanic accent + lisp = santonio) came to class dressed up as robin from 'batman & robin.' yeah, it was pretty....homosexual, but little did i know HE ACTUALLY IS! actually, that's not much of a surprise. he seemed pretty flaming to start off with. he dressed nice, talked funny, and giggled a lot. haha yeah i just thought i'd share that with you cuz today in class it turns out he brought in a pic of his bf and showed it to my teacher and my teacher said he was cute. hehe crazy commie teacher from taiwan.
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10.31.02 / 1:19 pm
happy halloween. hm skool was so *bleh* today. well, considering the fact that i had math today would probably be a good reason why it was so boring, but since we were "hardcore" reviewing for our test next tuesday/wednesday, we didn't have to do tonight's hw assignment. as for chinese, it was the same ol' dilly-o. read from book and have teacher yell at us or go off on tangents about something or another. this morning i woke up to find many little "hardcore" bruises up and down my arm. they kinda look like a weird rash almost. either way, i won't go tonight to give myself a break and go do...uhh...stuff. yep, stuff. don't worry though, i still have skool tomorrow so i won't be out late *trust me* today at work they made me stuff like....500+ envelopes. it was so "hardcore", i couldn't handle it. actually i could, but i got a paper cut and my hands are all dry now. oh well, at least it killed like...an hour or two. now back to just sitting in front of the computer, typing away. i wonder if anyone even reads this anymore? hm...i wonder...with that said, if this were 'open diary' i'd ask for notes, but it isn't so...um...go sign my guestbook and tell me that you read this or i'll be sad and blue. i'll be sadblue *sigh* no! i must be strong. from now on i vow to be against sadblue. i shall be....eulbdas...okay bad 'kung-pow' reference, but still yeah make me happy and go sign my guestbook fer cryin' out loud....weee-ooh-weee-ooohhh! haha 'kung-pow', what a "hardcore" movie!
here's my rant for today, watch out! what a pleasant drive i had this morning. traffic backed up like a mofo in every direction, which set me back 15min, cuz some dumb bastard "accidently" crashed his car into two other cars on the 202. ha! what a joke. okay so i guess the first two cars crashed and one guy got out and was diverting traffic, no biggie right? well, then this other jerk had to hit the guy diverting traffic and then crash into the two cars and guess what? it set on fire and kills the other guy from the first accident! way to go, jackass! what a way to go! kill some people and have THE ENTIRE section of the freeway which would have a domino effect on ALL the other major routes in the valley! man, people are gonna remeber this jerk and how retarded he is. get this, it was intially a "minor collision" and then outta nowhere, einstein here plow his truck into this mess. *sigh* why're ppl so frickin retarded? anyways, i get to my first class and ppl are talking about it saying that "oh yeah, traffic was bad and i was held up." a solid 6+ ppl were late to class and a handful more were affected by this. so ghey...stupid drivers. here's an article covering this. i pretty much covered everything in it though so just for your reference if you don't believe me.
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so in closing, i'd just like to say that.....tell me the number of times i used the word "hardcore" and i'll give you a hot, sexy......HIGH-FIVE! jeez ur dirty.
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i think that's the name of the song...very "hardcore"
10.30.02 / 2:48 pm
hm what a day. skool was alright as usual. chinese went by the way it normally does. english i got my paper on wide-leg jeans back and i got an A+! yay! even better since my paper before that was a C! wow...well i was happy after that. then lunch where i saw calvin wong for the first time on campus this year. he just popped up outta nowhere like some sorta....thing that pops up outta nowhere. then i had macroecon where class just droned on and on and i always manage to take like....2 pages (front and back) worth of notes for some reason. oh well. last night, i actually went to gungfu on a tuesday night! wow! i never go on tuesdays! at least not since skool started, but i went ne wayz since class started later which gave me time to do hw when i got home, but i ended up just playing goldeneye. haha i'm bad at this 'time-management' thing. oOo tomorrow night is halloween and i most likely won't go to gungfu which means i'll end up doing other....non-gungfu related activities. good times. OH! next weekend we have a three-day weekend cuz of some holiday (the name i happen to be forgetting right now)! yay! finally, a twinkle of hope towards not burning myself out w/ skool, blah blah blah, you know. then two weeks later is thanksgiving break where i might go to cali cuz my dad has some old class reunion going on. after thanksgiving i think i only have two weeks left of skool then FIVE WEEKS OFF FOR WINTER BREAK! word nigga, and i'll probably end up working full-time and then going to cali for a week (by myself unless someone wants to come with me). so yeah, i just need to go through a couple more weeks of gheyness and then i can finally take a nice, long break and to that i say 'amen.'
from this day forward your Wu-Tang Clan name will be:
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btw, if you hadn't noticed, i decided to put up somewhat of a frontpage to this site now so i (and possibly you) can keep track of the things i add, delete, etc. and do other random stuff that is associated with such a page.
now here's a random quote that shows how stubborn us americans are:
"if God had wanted us to use the metric system, Jesus would have had 10 apostles."
- jesse helms
10.28.02 / 2:37 pm
i hate how everytime i try to take internet quizzes, the stuff they have you copy and paste to your page screws up my page. must they use such complex coding that conflicts with mine's? bastards. ne wayz, last night or should i say this morning i was up till 1.30 finishing a paper for english. after i was done, i checked my email and i got an email from my english teacher saying that class was canceled and the paper was due wednesday! *argh*!!! i stayed up for nothing! not only that, but i did the ENTIRE paper when all i needed was an outline. dang, and i could've gotten a good night's rest rather than rolling out of bed and rushing to get everything done this morning and falling asleep in class. ghetto....well i took care of the whole 'mandatory freshman advising' so i could pre-register, now i jus hope that those slackers at corona sent my transcripts in or else imma be 'fei chang' pissed off. ai yah for my advising thing, i just had to get my counselor to approve my schedule for next semester, but freakin i had to wait an hour just to see her for a minute or two! now i can't log onto the asu site thing where i can pre-register! grrr i'm getting angry....okay wait n/m, i just got into the website and finished it all. man, i'm gonna have some loooooong mondays, wednesdays, and fridays (9.40 - 1.30, 4 classes!), but only one class on tuesday and thursday. *argh* stupid chinese had to be everyday. oh well, i don't think i'll be taking it next year though so whatever.
i just *found* (josh definition) some pizza in the company fridge. mmm 2 sweet sweet slices of pepperoni. boy was i hungry, but now it's all gone. yum. that's another thing to check off on my checklist of stuff i should do before i leave srp.
10.26.02 / 2:04 pm
*sigh* another
great car that i can't have so i'd just like to say a few words to whatever is preventing me from attaining this:
" *ahem* 
i dislike YOU immensely"
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10.18.02 / 3:38 pm
finally, today is friday. the weekend is upon us. yay! however, since i already know what i'm going to do this weekend, that kinda takes the fun out of not knowing what to do. oh well, at least i don't have skool, work, or gungfu so i'm happy. funny thing though, today is payday, but i don't see my paycheck on my desk anywhere. ai yah, i'm semi-pissed, but i guess since i got the whole 'direct-deposit' thing going, i don't really need it for now. i just kinda wanted to know how much i got, me being the curious individual and all. work's been *bleh* all day. i haven't done a whole lot. maybe made a copy or two and read some newspapers. thank God, if it got anymore busy, i'd probably cry or something. i turned in my english writing project today. i forgot that i had to turn in certain hw assignments in with it. the thing is that i DIDN'T do some of the assignments (i forgot, chill nigga). oh well as long as she likes my paper and i don't get a C+ like i did on it last time. what an odd grade that is anyways. i figured it was at least a B paper. eh whatever, i'm not crying about it. so yeah last night after gungfu, i met up with bobby, brian, kanyon, and caroline outside of the mci building where bobby works. man, that area gets friggin ghetto at night. there was this one jerk that kept doing doughnuts in his white mustang. he must've done it on 3 or 4 seperate occasions. yeah so that kinda go annoying. also, random cars here and there would peel out or race each other at the corner and eventually a cop pulled like 2 guys over. haha it was great. so that night i learned that kyoto bowl as really not-good sushi. it's like...not the worst...but definitely not the best. oh well either way, i can't complain about free food so yeah sushi...mmm. as for me getting a new job, i've been too much of a lazy bum to go lookaround for one. in fact, i haven't even filled out the application for wells fargo, but that's okay. i'm a procrastinator. i'll do it later ^_^ i'm not sure if i wanna go to abf tonight. the one thing that annoys me about it is that i work like 5 min away from asu, but i have to go ALL the way back home and then drive back up to asu which makes for an unhappy me (unless i had a cooler car, but then i'd still probably complain cuz i'm putting miles on my oh-so-cool car). either way, too much wasteful driving = not happy me. i guess that's another reason i still went to yg for a while, although i still kinda think that the drive should be a little shorter. 10-15 min drive to church? *argh* i'm too much of a bum. i think i should be more of a bum and just not go. hehe too lazy. eh well i think i better go mmmaybe look for some work to do (yeah, right), but i'll most likely end up just surfing the web some more, looking at cars i can't have and not being happy about it. oh well. laaaaaater~
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10.17.02 / 12:40 pm
yesterday i took my mid-term for macro econ. boy did i do crappy. haha i made some mistakes i feel like kicking myself for. next time i'll be sure to read the entire question before i answer it. impatient me. oh well not much is going on now skool wise. math today i didn't really get what he was saying, but that's usually how it goes. freakin teacher always stands in front of what he's writing on the board so i never quite see what he's talking about and by the time he moves, he's already done talking about what he just wrote so i'm like, "wtf?!" ne wayz, i'll probably call up my friend some time this week and meet up w/ him for math. oh and yesterday in the mail, i got a letter from asu that says they still haven't received my high skool transcript. wtf? i filled out the form and requested that corona send it to them. stupid office ppl. argh, now i have to go out of my way and waste my time going to corona to tell them they f'd up. how ghetto, i am displeased. *roar* feel my wrath haha. how funny. moving on, in chinese class we're having an "asian languages" picnic next friday at around 3pm. i doubt i'll go since i'll be at work, but maybe if some of you guys who actually read this wanna go i'll change my mind. $3 bux a ticket and i'm pretty sure the food is all-you-can-eat. good deal, huh? then in english i need to finish up my final draft for our writing project on fashion. lucky-me chose wide-leg jeans. ah the days of wide-leg jeans....i remember them fondly....so ghey....so ghey....haha so yeah skools jus kinda okay at best, could put a little more time into it and then i won't get sucky grades, but eh...work..gungfu..you know the routine. sooo boring, but work = $$$ and gungfu = hardcore, so quitting either won't happen ne time soon unless i get rich all of sudden and then i can just quit working which would be really nice, but what are the chances of that happening? hmm must get rich quick....that's the ticket! haha right....oOo is300 angel/demon lights soooo sexy...well! work's been jus so-so as usual. nothing cool ever happens at work. it's like i never have a good story to tell ppl that makes up for the gheyness of work. for example, if i worked at a telemarketing place i could talk about the most retarded ppl i call up and trust me, i've heard some pretty funny ones. oh well whatever, it's not like the work here is hard. just boring as...fcuk? that's ok to say right? i mean it's on t-shirts! french connection euro trash t-shirts! jeez, euro trash...so dirtyhairysmellyunclean. that would explain the 'trash' portion of 'euro trash' though. okay i wanna take a nap now. g'nite.
10.15.02 / 4:10 pm
I'm 18! yay!
just one day late, but whatever. i don't feel like writing out what i did all weekend so i'll just say that i had a GREAT last "underaged" weekend. so yesterday i only had one class which kinda sucked cuz a lot of ppl are on october break right now plus, it was my b-day so i should've just ditched ne wayz. well after class i went home and picked up charis and then met up w/ my parents. we all went to todai for lunch (what almost every asian does for their b-day) and i stuffed my face. mmmm i didn't eat a whole lot, but i ended up being pretty full ne wayz. after lunch i went home and just chilled for a while. bobby and brian came over later on, but they both had to leave so i hung out w/ dan and josh, but as usual we don't know what to do. i hadn't seen nico for a while and we were in his neighborhood ne wayz so we stopped by for a while and watched breakdancing videos. ~oOo hehe then josh had to go home cuz don (joseph smith) was being a mormon. i went home again and tried to finish up some hw, but ended up just leaving the house w/ everyone to go visit jocelyn. hung out there till around 10 and came home. it was a good day, nice and relaxed. no work, no gungfu, and...well a little skool which kinda tainted it, but oh well overall a good day. *bleh* i'm tired~
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i only have one mid-term and i have to take it tomorrow in macro econ, but i haven't quite studied for it. however, i heard it's only the material on the first 2 tests we took and some notes from monday (b-day, didn't go). boy this should be fun. in chinese yesterday, the teacher pulls a fast one on us and gives us a pop quiz on the material we were going to read in class that week. supposedly she expects us to read it and know the material beforehand. how ghey is that? stupid commie. oh well at least she gave us cookies today. in english i still need to revise my rough draft cuz the final draft is due friday. i have all the notes and stuff i plan to do to the paper, but i just haven't gotten around to doing it. jeez. as for math....well i still don't quite get it. maybe i should go see my friend for help. he even asked why i haven't called him yet. i'm just a lazy bum w/o a lot of time to do it so *bleh* i'll figure out some time to go see him. *sigh* skool is a biznatch...
10.10.02 / 2:25 pm
4 more days till i'm 18
well, tuesday i got my math test back only to find out that i did better than i had expected, a 73% rather than the 40-60% that i had in mind. so i was pretty happy with that, even though i could do better. then wednesday i took the macro econ test and got 8/11 which again is a C. ~oi and they tell me that a C is average in college. haha, well at least i've been doing as much hw and extra credit as i can so hopefully it'll at least be a B by the end of the semester. as for today, it was the usual thursday. chinese then math then work. not very exciting. tomorrow i have that oral exam in chinese again. i hate those. my partner and i always have a crappy dialog cuz we spend about 20 min working on it. haha. yesterday my partner didn't have time work on it after skool so he said he'd call me up later that night, but i was at gungfu so i missed his call and tried to call him back at around 10.15 and 11.00, but he was already asleep. dang and i thought all college students slept in the 'wee hours.' so tonight he's supposed to call around 6 and i'll probably be late for gungfu, but i think skool's a little more important, even though i'd rather go to gungfu ^_^ ne wayz, work's been semi-okay the past couple days though. i haven't been given any ghey projects or anything of that sort, but the random co-workers still do to pop in unexpectedly with random stuff. *bleh* as long as they only take 5 min total to finish, i don't care. speaking of work, i went to the 'inroads' informational meeting yesterday just to find out what it was. turns out if i get accepted into their program, they hook me up with an interview to a company in the fortune 500 thingy for a summer internship. oOo that'd be nice, mostly cuz the lady said that the average amount of money an intern would make was around $4-9K! jeez! that's like....a good chunk of money for a car! yay! well...only if i get into the program and get hired by some *bling-bling* company. until then, i guess i'll stick to bank teller or data-entry of some sort. dang, i need one of those 'get-rich-quick' schemes that don't involve selling drugs or some other illegal business. hehe.
here's a beauty. a 1997 mitsubishi eclipse gsx for $9,900. *sigh* sadly all i can do is sit back and watch some other lucky bum snatch it up. when will i get to be that lucky bum?
random cool link for today. it's one of THE coolest things i've seen in a while. it's like all those steve terada, jet li, tekken, wushu things. crazy i tell ya, but u'll enjoy it. click!
immabustacap. this morning on my way to skool, i was heading west on rio salado parkway, just before mcclintock. i was in the left lane and this bastard guy just merges all of a sudden into my lane without looking. ya know why? dickhead was too busy talking to his friend next to him. *argh* stupid driver. well yes i did keep my cool and didn't switch lanes, accelerate, flip him off while i was passing, then cut him off and slow down. yep, all i did was notice that he drives a 2-door white chevy cavelier, license plate #(wait i forgot, but i had it written down in my car), with a chapman isuzu sticker and an asu license plate border/holder thing. so if you ever see this car, do me a favor and break something for me. thanx!
10.08.02 / 5:06 pm
6 more days till i'm 18
well, i had a GREAT weekend. haha, if you don't know why i wouldn't have either until saturday morning after i got done working out w/ brian i get home only to discover that i had cancer. HA! fooled ya! no, but seriously it was a SURPRISE b-day party for me. i like surprises as long as they're good so this would fall under the 'good' category. yeah i definitely was not expecting it, let alone suspect anything was even going on. man, you ppl....leaving a guy clueless like that. well, it's okay. i still luv ya. so yeah, it was a lot of fun. first i was taken by surprise by a large group of asian ppl and then was promptly tossed into the cold, salty pool w/ clothes still on. oh well no biggie. right so it was mostly just ppl hanging out at my house, eating lotsa food, watching harry potter/gone in 60 seconds, playing n64, just having a good time in general. oOo there was even a game of twister going on that i didn't participate in cuz i don't really play twister, but it looked like fun! so yeah after the party, we decided to help bobby install his dash-trim kit in his car. boy was that fun messing w/ all those funny shaped pieces, but sadly, no intake to install. *sigh* maybe next weekend. haha. after we finished that up bobby and me went to pick up christine and headed out to fashion square wayyyy out in scottsdale to meet up w/ brandon, brandon's sister, jay, and diana. shopped a little there and then went to cpk at biltmore. mmm cpk. good stuff. bobby thought the guys that were in the table next to us were gay cuz they kept staring at him. haha all the boys just can't resist bobby's sexy looks such as a certain someone who keeps calling bobby's cell at the most random, odd times. yep, so that concludes saturday. sunday was my normal sunday. went to service, but was so late for sunday skool that i ended up just going out to eat cuz i was hungry. went home and didn't do much like usual, but hey it was a sunday afternoon! then at night, it was the traditional "do hw at the last minute" schpiel. good times. stayed up till midnight doing my rough draft for english and finishing up my chinese hw. yep so that about wraps up my weekend altogether. anyways, saving the best for last, i just wanted to say thanks to all the ppl that made the surprise party possible. thanx u guys, much luv and to everyone else who made it out or just wished me a happy b-day (even though it's 6 days aways) thank u as well, ur the greatest. as for ne one who couldn't make it well, some of ur excuses were good enough to let you off such as the "i was at a mexican party and they were all drunk so i couldn't just leave them lying around on the streets drunk." wait, you mean they aren't already drunk all the time? oh my bad. haha. j/k
10:40 pm
i just went over the practice quiz for my macro econ test tomorrow and i don't know a lot of it. dang, i hope i don't fail this miserably. hopefully, i can just ask tyna or christine tomorrow before class. *argh* i shouldn't have fallen asleep in class last wednesday! haha yeah now i realize that class is kinda important.....sometimes.....when i deem that it is important. anyways, tomorrow i also have a conference w/ my english teacher, but it's only for 10 min to go over my current writing project for her class. after that i won't have english the following friday and monday! yeah! so friday and monday i'll only have one class to go to! yeah! good times. plus tomorrow, at around 4, i'm gonna go to some summer internship seminar thingy at skool so i guess i'll leave work early. i'll also probably end up working on this friday's chinese oral quiz w/ my partner after skool so i'll most likely get into work a half hour later and then leave an hour and a half early. ai yah, but at least i'm making it all up friday. *sigh* my paychecks are sucky. i get even less than i did before cuz i think i changed some tax stuff and now they take more taxes out, but i'm sure i'll get a decent tax return or something cuz last year i ended up not taking enough out and owing the dirty gov't some money. *grr* oh well i better get to bed so i can wake up early tomorrow and be ready for my test. g'nite everyone.
i finally uploaded that pic i was talking about last week. so now i leave you with this:
God bless korea
10.04.02 / 3:25 pm
10 more days till i'm 18
today was pretty freakin' sweet. well, besides the chinese test where i forgot some random characters and definitions my second class for today was canceled so i got to leave skool at like....10.30! so basically i was only at skool from 9.00 - 10.30! yeah! plus, i got into work earlier which means i get to leave earlier too! woo hoo! also, the archives lady (the one i told the story about) wasn't there today so i just kinda did work for an hour instead of the 1 1/2 - 2 hours i normally get stuck in there for. overall, i think i've been having a pretty good day and tonight at abf they're goin to fiddlesticks and you know what's so great about fiddlesticks? they have ddr there! yeah! 4th mix plus, nigga! haha okay yeah i haven't played it in a while so i'm kinda excited. anyways, today i didn't bring lunch to work (which i should have to save $$$) so i bought a personal pizza thing from the cafeteria. ~oi it sucked. i thought it was one of those big combo pizzas with like a lot of different toppings, but it was just a veggie pizza! aw screw that! i wanted freakin' vegetables AND meat cuz ya know us humans are omnivores, but most of the time i'd rather be a carnivore. *bleh* vegetables can get icky sometimes. well, speaking of vegetables, have you ever wondered what the vegetable ppl on 'veggie tales' tasted like? hmmmm....i mean they always look so good...and fresh....mmmmm veggie tales....rightttt. let me guess, you got a weird look on your face now. that's okay. i can't see it....or can i?! look behind YOU! haha j/k i can't believe you fell for that, nerd. like i would suddenly....POP OUT OF NOWHERE! did ya look again? haha if you did you must be the most gullible person in the world. don't deny it, you looked. wow, i think i've just had too much of a good day. wait, now that i think about it, on top of all that great stuff that happened today, the weather's still really nice! YAY! good weather! sadly, on the news this morning i saw that it's gonna heat up over the weekend again back into the low 90's. *grrrrr* stupid weather. immabustacap.
man, i found this really cool picture on asianavenue the other day (i know what you're thinking, "why the hell were you on there?!") well yeah i hadn't got on that in a while so i thought i'd just check-in to see if ne thing was really that new. as always, no. there was absolutely nothing that blew my mind....except that awesome picture that i found on this guy's (i think) website. unfortunately, it's on my computer at home so i guess i'll just upload it this weekend if i ever get around to it.
so...since my b-day was coming up and a certain SOMEONE keeps asking what i want for my b-day i've decided to make this picture to help get an idea of what it is that i wanted (not that you really have to get me anything cuz ya don't):
song of the moment:
boa - "no. 1"
yay! boa!
10.03.02 / 2:42 pm
11 more days till i'm 18
how odd. i'm kinda starting too feel old now that i say that. oh well, at least i can gamble, buy cigarettes, and vote now, but if you know me i don't currently do any of those so why start now? ^_^ so yeah, i didn't end up punching any old ladies in the face yesterday so it's safe to say that i think i won't loose my job. if i don't get what the hell i'm saying, it's a long story so just ask me. yep, so skool's been going somewhat okay, but not the greatest. i took my first math test yesterday and i realized how much i REALLY suck at math. *bleh* i remembered about half of the material on the test. as for the other half, i bs'd it. man, i wish i had my calculator so i could've put all my notes on it, but my ghetto hak gui sister stole it. *grrr* earlier, in macro econ, i fell asleep in class again, but for a whole 20-30 min straight! wow...how great, huh? you sure must be proud of me. right.....moving on, i haven't been to gungfu all week. monday i was just really tired and did hw. tuesday was pretty much the same thing and studying for my math test. last night i was still tired from staying up studying so i just stayed home and helped my dad replace the struts/shocks on the van. i'll probably end up going tonight since i feel like a bum for not going all week so i can learn better ways to punch old ladies in the face. haha.
~oi i just got an email from one of my supervisors that's asking for a weekly status report just like everyone else has to do. darn, i think they're trying to keep tabs on what i've been doing all week such as a whole lot of nothing. haha my status reports will probably consist of something like:
* read newspapers
* copied papers
* sat around
* mindlessly wandered around the internet in search for absolutely nothing
* ate some food on the job
* looked for leftover food in the meeting rooms
* took a nap
* did hw and studied a little
* played video games
* looked for ways to make quick money on the internet (but failed)
* searched for a suitable car online (also failed)
hehe so as you can see, for a week's worth of time, i don't have much to show for it. *sigh* maybe i should start making stuff up? hehe naw i don't think i could get away with that unless i really, really tried, but that's too much effort when i could just actually go out and do something productive ne wayz.
man...the weather sure has gotten REALLY REALLY nice lately. i love it. yay! let's all run around "nekkid" cuz it feels so good! hehe righttttt so ne wayz the weather's almost like cali except for all the crappy desert scenery and a buttload more bai ren. it's funny how when the weather gets nice in az, everyone notices. such as a recent trend in acknowledging the weather is nice on tv, newspaper, online journals (you know who you all are), etc. i guess it's cuz we were all still reeling from summer heat so a nice change in the weather is quite easily noticed (and welcomed). it's about time az's weather stopped sucking. well...i guess it's better than hot and humid places aka coastal regions of china
song of the moment:
nelly - "hot in here"
"so take off all your clothes" cuz the weather's so nice ^_^
10.01.02 / 3:15 pm
i'm at work right now. *bleh* it sux mostly due to the fact that they want me to go help out in the archives which i despise. ~oi all that dust is gonna be hell on my nose and it's sooooo stuffy in there. hmm maybe if i find more work to do around here then i won't be so obligated to go there. ai yah just another reason i'm looking into getting a new job. stupid srp maybe if they hadn't taken aim away and given me a raise. oh well, their loss...i think hehe. ne wayz, this weekend wasn't too bad. friday night i went to abf for the first time. all i can say is, it's shorter than yg. haha so therefore i'm going to that from now on ^_^ no, but seriously yeah i don't feel so old there like i do at yg so eh whatever. after abf went out to ihop w/ all of them and then met up w/ bobby and dan at a mcdonald's parking lot, the typical place where we end up staying for a few hours. it was weird cuz i was out till about 2.30 and my parents didn't call at all. hmm i guess they didn't wake up in the middle of the night and check if i came home. good times. then saturday morning i changed the oil in the car and did all the random maintenance work for it. around 3 or so brian and me went to the mall, but i didn't end up wanting to buy ne thing....except a 240sx, but yeah...i don't have enough money *sigh* one day....ne wayz later on bobby shows up and jeff keeps calling him. haha it was great. "bah-bee, i vant yor buooodeee!" (in a deep german woman's accent) yeah kinda strange, but a good laugh. yep so later we met up w/ my nerd sister and caroline and on our way out brian almost ran over that martin kid, according to my sister. ::squish:: after we left the mall we went and picked up jocelyn and were gonna go to rigatony's, but the wait was 45 min. and there was no parking. we were also gonna go to the korean bbq place instead, but caroline "didn't approve of it" so to speak. we finally decided on olive garden near fiesta mall. sadly, we had to wait 45 min. there so we should've just stayed at rigatony's, but that's okay cuz the food at olive garden was still really good. maybe it was really good cuz we were all so hungry...no wait, it was really good unless ur really rich and always go to fancy restaurants that are 10x better than olive garden, the "fancy" restaurant of the 'common folk.' so yeah, being the indecisive asian ppl that we are, we had the waiter bring out the best 5 dishes instead of wasting all our time trying to figure out what to get. wah! so smart, huh? and what's even better is that the food was good! yay! good food! when we finished dinner, everyone came over to my house and we watched 'friday', the funniest black movie i've seen in a while and like i always say "God bless black ppl." well maybe i don't always say that, but after watching 'friday' i wanted to. ne wayz sunday was the pretty avg sunday. went to church and then out to lunch. ah, but this time no wendy's like we always do. no, this time we had subway, a nice change of pace i might add. so as the group of loud asian ppl began to accumulate at subway we decided to go look for 'sign-a-rama' to make those wacky t-shirts we've been meaning to get. unfortunately, after about a 1/2 hr of searching we found out they moved to a different location from what ne of us remembered and they're not open on sunday. bummer, but at least...aw nothing compensated for that. dang. so brian just took my sister and me home where i just sat around playing n64 for a while and doing a whole lot of nothing. i eventually got around to doing some hw, phone, computer, etc. and THAT...was my weekend. man, i wrote a lot.
skool...yep...enlightening...tomorrow or thursday i have to go into the math testing center to go take a test which means that i'll have to stay after skool or ditch a class just to take a dumb test. how ghey. not only that, but it's MATH! i hate math! i am so sucky at math it's not even funny and it leaves me wondering how i got into a somewhat high-level math class for a freshman. keyword = somewhat, cuz there are higher classes that freshman are in, duh! oh and on friday i did that oral test for chinese again. this time i said almost nothing haha, but they actually noticed me not speaking so much this time, but i suppose that's what i get for putting about 20 min of preparation time into it. oh well, the next oral test is on next friday so i got plenty of time to figure out something to talk about even though i happen to be a pretty bad procrastinator. yay procrasinating! kinda like what i'm doing now to avoid going into the archives hehe. other than that, english has been pretty easy as usual and macro econ is a joke. haha! look i'm laughing cuz it's so funny! okay yeah that was ghey, but it's such a blowoff class i wonder why i even go ne more. so i guess that about sums it up for skool.
while going through my daily task of reading newspapers at work, i came across a letter sent in to the editor that i could really relate to and completely agree with. check it out:
Inconsiderate drivers the cause of road rage
"Editor:
When you stop to think of how road rage happens, you have to come to the understanding that the blame is on the person who is, one way or the other, in the way of someone else.
Don't you get irritated when two or more people stop at the end of an escalator and you hurriedly ask them to step aside? How about someone who blocks the aisle in a supermarket? Only total clods do this.
We have two types of drivers: one who travles in the left lane, but not passing other vehicles and the other is on a two-lane road without regard for the vehicles trapped behind . There's no point in my belaboring the two conditions. They cause road rage. Why in the world police officers fail to ticket these violators is far beyond my understanding.
On the open road, if someone has room to pass you on the right, nine times out of 10 you're the cause of road rage and the object of ridicule. It's the responsibility of all drivers to stay to the right except to pass. There are those who would claims they are going the speed limit and have a perfect right to drive in the left lane. That's ignoring the desires of the majority of drivers and showing yourself as a rude person who just refuses to be inconvenienced by giving someone the right of way.
The bottom line is that there would be no road rage if people drove their vehicles with consideration for others."
- Duane Olk, Cottonwood. Camp Verde Bugle. Friday, Sept. 27, 2002. pg 4a
word brutha. seriously, these days ppl lack any sort of regard for others on the road and i quote bobby, "imma slap someone! do mah!"
song of the moment:
sarina paris - "angel"
yeah, i bought the cd last night. so what? don't hate. nigga pleeez.
09.24.02 / 5:21 pm
found a couple more random "pay you to do stuff" sites today. bleh, but i don't think anyone will actually sign-up. come on! they're free and all you do is read their email! if you don't want them to send it to your own personal email address go make one up at hotmail or yahoo! pleasssseee! ^_^ my job doesn't pay me enough to get enough money to buy a car! (well it would, it's just that i'd be out of college by that time) so help a brutha out! fo sho! i'm not a homeless person on the street corner so you know it won't go towards drugs and booze! ai yah think about it, this is a good cause! actually don't think too hard, just trust me that it IS a good cause. how? well....when i get my car i'll take you all for a ride in it. haha. j/k okay yeah i'm done.
getpaid5times.com
email pays you
lotta fun lotto
09.23.02 / 5:01 pm
oi i'm sooooo sore from yesterday. could not get up out of bed today so i had to roll off and wobble my way out. skool was ok. got an 85/100 on my chinese test which is okay i guess. i made like a billion little mistakes so it all added up to quite a big chunk of my grade. eh whatever. other than that skool was ok. finished up some hw at work and read some newspapers. other than that, it's just been another boring day. ok time to go home now.
09.22.02 / 7:57 pm
*bleh* this weekend was kinda crappy...didn't really do a whole lot that 'tickled my fancy.' friday night i saw 'ballistic: ecks vs. sever' but that movie kinda sucked. all it had was action and a weak plot. ne wayz, jus went out to eat after the movie as usual. then saturday i sat at home allllll day. it sucked hardcore. i did get my haircut, but the stupid lady didn't cut the hair on top at all so everything else is trimmed short except the top. argh i didn't find out till i was checking it in the mirror on my way home and i even tipped her too! so ghey.....later on that night though brian, bobby, matt, jocelyn, and me went to asu's mu bldg to play some pool. on the way there we got long john silver's which i hadn't had in forever. man, i luv deep-fried, oily seafood. we played some pool then went to e-ba. i got a mango boba which tasted all weird cuz i think they mixed it w/ some almond stuff. ew it was pretty nasty. after that we jus wandered around mill ave and called it a night. then sunday i was at gungfu all day for a seminar and my legs are tired and will most likely be sore tomorrow. well during the lunch break i went to eat at 'china way' which was just across the parking lot and i saw ivy (fob girl). i hadn't seen her in a long time. yep, it was pretty crazy. she works there now and dislikes her mom quite a lot. haha oh well ~oi what a boring weekend.
yay! this made my day complete. smile!
song of the moment:
rufio - "above me"
09.20.02 / 2:25 pm
tgif, nigga. i am quite glad today is friday. another longggggg week of skool, work, *blah* is over. so last night at shangri-la on alma skool & elliot, the parents of the chinese girl on survivor were having a big party and "everyone" was invited. actually, my chinese teacher told our whole class to go so i figured, "how're they gonna know who exactly IS in my class?" hehe so yeah i called up some ppl and matt and cindy showed up and we ate all the free food we could ^_^ then the channel 5 ppl were there, but we didn't end up getting in any of the shots they took that night. so about 15 min into survivor we jus left and i was gonna go to gungfu, but we chilled outside for a while. matt left, but cindy and me talked for like an hour and then i went to gungfu, even though class was over, just to see what's up there. hung out there for about a half hour and then just went home. wow what an exciting thursday...wait no, just free food.
here's something amusing. if you've ever played with "snaps" or whatever you call them (the little rocks wrapped in paper that 'snap' when you throw them on the ground), then you most likely will enjoy this.
man, work sucks. straight up s-u-c-k the big one. omg, yesterday was a solid hour of copying followed by another hour on the stupid micro film scanner/printer thingy. today was most likely more than an hours worth of copying. omg i hate my job. so i've decided it's time for me to go on strike again and start leaving early once more. the past two weeks i've been good and stayed the ENTIRE time even though i could've just walked out. on another note, i got my paycheck today and i told the secretary lady who messes w/ payroll that i was gonna make up for an hour of work i missed last week, but that never showed up on the paycheck so i think i'm gonna have to walk out an hour early someday. anyways, maybe i should start looking for a new job. that'd be interesting, but i'm not sure if i'd ever find a job w/ a cubicle, personal computer, internet access, laid-back atomosphere where i can do hw, and flexible schedule. hmmm....yeah i think i better start looking for a new job.
last night at shangri-la, i think i saw THE 240sx that's on intense motorsports website or one that looks pretty similar to it. omg...turbocharged 240sx...*drool*...so nice, but it was white and i don't like white cars and then it had black rims. i'm not to fond of those either, but...turbocharged! omg so fast! one day i'll get my 240.....
09.18.02 / 2:51 pm
found another site that pays me for random crap, but this i've actually made money with so far seeing as all i have to do is read the emails they send me. some other places want me to freakin like sign-up to these lame, useless services or order this crap off their website and then i'll get some money or whatever, but screw that lame crap. so here's the site that actually has accumulated some money:
as for the one's i put up yesterday, i'd go with "it pays to learn", "survey saavy" hasn't sent me anything, "inbox dollars" sent me only one email so far, and "netflip" just straight up sux cuz you have to have a credit card for almost all their offers. oh well whatever.
moving on, skool today was ok. chinese went the same as usual, no biggie. then english i didn't have to do ne thing cuz we were in our groups reading and peer editing our conflict papers. my group decided to read mine's today which meant i didn't have to ne thing, but sit there and listen to some of their suggestions. in macro econ, we had a test and i got a 10/11. argh so close. i even went to christine's dorm to study for it! ai yah oh well at least i got to take it easy last night. i even got my chinese hw done there which is always good. oh well i still got outta class 45 min. early so it's all good and now i'm at work *bleh*. since i got in early i can put in an extra hour to make up for the one i missed last week and for sure i got all my hours in for my next pay check! YAY! but next week i have a dentist appt so that means i gotta leave early. hmm maybe i'll find a way to make up for it.
~oi reading some ppl's online journal's sux balls >.< (haha weird face) yeah some of these ppl are sooooooo depressing, so ghey, so not hot right now. yeah and i was tired this morning. i contemplated not taking a shower to sleep an extra 20 min, but i think it's best that i don't feel all icky throughout the day so ugh....kinda tired now and i'm probably goin to gungfu tonight. at least i had a meatloaf sandwich for lunch today. that must've been the highlight of my day today. yep, that's kinda sad, but weekdays suck in general for me. it's just skool, work, then gungfu. rinse, lather, repeat...that gets incredibly boring after a while, but i guess it's better than it being pull-your-hair-out stressful. i dunno, it does start to get to me after a while. arghhh...maybe i should've gone to cali for college n stuff *sigh*
09.17.02 / 3:57 pm
in my lame attempts to fund my "let's get me a new car fund" i've scoured the internet for anything that'll pay me to do stuff. so i've come across a couple and here for your viewing pleasure are:
Signup at InboxDollars.com and Get Paid to Receive E-Mail!
check them out please!!! haha omg i'm so desperate.
09.13.02 / 2:51 pm
yay! it's friday and i got through my chinese oral exam okay! my partner did a majority of the talking so it saved me from a lot of extra work ^_^ yep so i'm assuming we did good since the teacher didn't have any points to improve on, but merely comments on the content of our conversation. oOo our conversation was so convincing that the teacher actually believed i'd been married to a japanese girl for 3 years! or maybe she's jus really gullible. oh well. then english was just the normal bs class. my english teacher rarely grades on the actual content of our work. she gives us points just as long as we wrote a decent amount of stuff down. today in class i took notes for about the first 5 min and then doodled on my paper for the rest of class. it was great. just like the good ol' days in high skool. good times good times.
haven't been up to much at work today. i mean i did have work, but it was all easy stuff as usual. read some newspapers and then made an excel spreadsheet thing from some information off an old map. now all i have left is some copies to make and i'm done for the day. ne wayz, in between all that working i've obviously been surfing the web and i was at carpoint and i've fallen in love with the ferrari 360 modena. ai yah so nice! *sigh* if only i had $140-170k...well i guess a guy can't have everything. still got my eye on a 2nd gen mitsubishi eclipse gsx though since there doesn't seem to be too many 240sx's out there right now. i checked autotrader and a couple other internet car sites and i only managed to come up with one 240sx that i'd consider buying. however, the wheels were ghetto hubcap ones, it had 72k mi on it, and it was a 95 with the normal looking headlights, not the cool s15-ish headlights on the 97-98's. then there's my infatuation with the bmw 3-series/m3 and the acura nsx, but yeah...they're kinda up there with the ferrari as of now. dang, it sux being a poor college student, but i guess that's why i'm living at home. that and i can stand my parents unlike other people. so i guess the eclipse is a decent, budget-oriented, substitute for the lancer/evo...oOo lancer/evo!...*drool* man....cars, why do they have to be so expensive?!
09.12.02 / 12:20 pm
so today i got into work a half hour earlier cuz my last class got out early. we took a "fun" little quiz and were immediately let out afterwards. then tomorrow in chinese i get to take an oral test in front of the whole class! YAY!. *bleh* yeah right, so me and my partner have to hold a conversation for about 5 minutes on whatever topic we choose. i guess we're pretty much winging it since he lived in china till he was 10 so he's doing a majority of the talking and i'll just put in a little here and there. haha good deal. somewhat nervous about this though since it's my first time doing this. almost everyone else in the class took the first year course and they built up to the point where they're familiar with it, but lucky me gets to start off like this. eek i'd have to say this is the one thing that's been stressing me out the most this week. first of all, i don't like getting up in front of the class to speak. second of all, my chinese is jus kinda....yeah well it's not bad, but it's not top-quality, grade A fob chinese and what the hell am i gonna talk about? nothing really relevant is all i can think of. plus, these tests are every other friday so i can expect about 5-6 more the rest of the semester. hopefully i get over this nervous feeling and maybe my chinese will actually get better. oh well. moving on, walking back and forth to my car is getting veryyyyyy tedious. omg yesterday i actually ran out of water so i was getting REALLY thristy on the way back to my car. *ugh* must think positive, "it's good exercise." i'll just keep telling myself that and stop complaining unlike other people *ahem* ne wayz, the third week of skools almost over and i'm starting to get more comfortable with this whole environment and lifestyle although i can't say there was much change in the way i live due to college probably jus more studying haha. like last night i actually remembered i've been falling behind in stuff i'm supposed to read so i sat down for an hour and got some of it done. i almost never read in high skool, i didn't really need to. however, now that i think about most of what i read, i don't really think i even needed to read that either since i've been doing okay in class for the past 2 weeks i've neglected all this 'assigned reading.' so yeah i guess that's it about skool. ~oi that was long.
i read a newspaper article today in the 'fort apache scout' (page 4, 9/6/02) and it was talking about static hazards at gas pumps and how people actually manage to start fires at gas pumps with all the static electricity on them. haha it's kinda funny cuz i went to the website it got a lot of it's information from and it had some descriptions of what happened to some of the people. almost all of them went something like, "i opened my gas tank door and unscrewed the cap and there were just flames shooting out of it!" hahahah that's soooo funny! that sounds like it's straight out of a movie or cartoon. then the article gave some statistics about this and i quote:
"out of the 150 cases, almost all of them were women"
hahahaha boy is that funny. first they can't drive and next they can't even fill gas up right ^_^ it reminds me of this picture i saw once of a woman driving in her car and the picture was taken from behind the car. the funny thing was that she had her gas tank thingy open and the nozzle from the gas pump still in it...but she was on the ROAD! crazy lady forgot to take out the nozzle when she was done filling up and just drove off ripping the whole nozzle off the pump! yeah okay so i don't really mean that all women drivers are bad. i'm sure there are plenty of good ones out there, but stuff like this kinda makes it seem like they are bad drivers. then again i guess the same could be said of men as well. eh whatever. so the reason they said that men weren't involved in these fires was:
"most men never get back in their vehicle until completely finished. this is why they are seldom involved in these types of fires."
so yes, don't go back in your car whenever you're refilling your gas. you get all static-y from the interior of the car. so i hope this was informative to everyone especially my gas-getting buddy. peace out nigga.
song of the moment:
ludacris - "move b***h"
"ahm doin a hundred on da hi-way so if ya do da speedlimit get da f**k outta mah way" cuz i hate traffic and slow drivers
09.05.02 / 3:56 pm
oOo more interesting links. today's i found on good ol' asianavenue so you know it's gotta be wack in some way or another. check it out, the korean animal protection society. go into the 'animal issues' link on the right and check it out.
skool's goin okay for now. math is still kinda crappy, but i at least found someone who can tutor me as long as i can get in after skool on wednesdays. chinese is pretty easy considering that she speaks a lot of english and a majority of the vocabulary i already know or isn't that hard. the only problem i might have is with the grammer and some sentence structure stuff, but oh well. plus, i got a test tomorrow over the first two chapters so i should probably go study either tonight or tomorrow morning before class. english isn't that bad either. we write really simple papers and have our classmates 'evaluate' them. haha so basically we jus BS some stuff and yeah not a whole lot of work goin into that class. as for macro economics, omg...i finally found out how boring that class is. on wednesday i freakin fell asleep for a while till christine woke me up cuz we started taking notes. yep, if it were cooler in that class, i'd be out like a light. also, the chairs are padded and more comfortable compared to those ghetto desks in high skool and the teacher doesn't really care if we fall asleep in class so eh whatever. all in all, skools goin okay. only class to worry about is math cuz i hate it. hehe.
09.04.02 / 2:57 pm
well...interesting link i got today...lifegems.com. i don't know whether this is a good thing or an extremely "rotten.com" thing.
well, i had a great labor-day weekend. did a lot of chilling and taking it easy. not much stress maybe except when brian and me were watching the y&d prequel in front of my mom. bad idea. ne wayz, saturday i bummed around all morning and did chores. around 2 or so i went over to matt's so we could head out to kierland commons wayyyyy out in scottsdale somewhere. saw my first ever "fcuk" (that's f-C-U-k, not f-u-.... you get the point) store which seemed extremely euro-trashy for the most part. as for the rest of that little shopping center...it seemed to cater to more of the 'older crowd' aka golf-playing, snowbirds. so after that annie, jocelyn, matt, and me went to the almost, kinda nearby fashion square. i haven't been there in a while so i was surprised to see structure gone and an "express FOR MEN" next door to "express." how weird. i associate express with women's clothing and now there's an 'express for men.' sounds kinda...feminine, but that's okay. i got over that by buying pants there ON SALE! hehe. by about 6-ish we were all gettin a tad bit tired so we decided it was time to leave. i got back to matt's house and we all parted ways...well just me actually. went to brian's and played some pool volleyball, very poorly i might add and met the new kid. his name's jeff. he looks like david0u so david, if ur reading this, he's like....the third guy that i think looks like you. the glasses, hair, and height are all there. after a nice round of stuffing my face and a rad game of pool volleyball, most of us went to see 'feardotcom' which has got to be the crappiest, not-so-scary movie ever. sure it's got disturbing images and stuff, but the plot is so shoddy that they don't have much reasoning for what goes on most of the time. that in itself is going to take the spooky-factor down a couple notches. however, cindy told us about the scary japanese movie that makes ppl barf and sleepless for weeks. very scary stuff. something about the "girl" crawling out of the tv at the beginning kinda turned me off on top of the barfing and lack of sleep i'd probably get from watching that movie. i hate scary movies *bleh* the next day went to church as usual, but sunday skool was all wack cuz of the big 'orientation' thingy. after lunch the y&d kids all went to the princess in scottsdale for a *bling bling* round of swimming. basically, all it was was a bunch of loud, rowdy asian kids at some hotel's pool. pool was pretty nice, but i doubt the ppl that were already there found us nice. they kept moving away from us to the opposite ends of the pool even though we kept going back and forth because of all those weird, spur-of-the-moment games we kept playing with that beachball. at around 4 i had to get goin cuz my mom wanted me home for dinner that night cuz she was inviting ppl over and cooking up a lot of food. so the food was good and i said i'd stay home for the night, but after a couple hours ended up seeing 'undisputed' at chandler fashion. luckily, that movie was way better than 'feardotcom' cuz it was all about one big, cocky black guy beating up a not-cocky, smaller (but still large compared to most ppl) black guy. it was great. it was like a black version of rocky except rocky would've had to been in prison. haha. then on monday, labor day, brian came over and we jus watched the y&d prequel except my mom came home and started ironing clothes so she sat down and watched it with us. ~oi...bad idea. haha after it finished she was like, "that was a very bad movie. did you buy that?" and so on and so forth with the typical nazi asian parent questions. that about wrapped up my entire 3-day labor day weekend extravaganza (oOo betcha u don't see that word to often).
i have a year and a half or so to scrounge up enough money to get a 240sx. hmm maybe i can find a better paying job to help hasten the pace at which the income flows cuz as of now after calculating approximately how much money i'd have by then, it doesn't seem like i'll be able to get a great one...if i could even manage to find one available. stupid rare cars and their hefty price tags. so ghetto. on top of that i jus busted 558 bux on tuition, 202 on books, and 50 on parking. that's more than 800 bux right there. omg...i feel so hopeless.
08.30.02 / 12:07 pm
yay! first week of skool is over! yeah nigga! all i can say is that you walk SO MUCH getting around campus. ai yah, no wonder ppl bust it fob-style and ride bikes around campus. so after the first day, things slowly got better. i now know not to ride that stupid flash bus cuz it takes forever for it to get around. also, i must walk at least a half-mile just to get onto campus from wherever i park. an added bonus might be the "temperate" az weather. haha yeah right. freakin hot like a mofo outside, but at least i have water so i don't drop dead from the heat. ne wayz, classes have been alright. today in chinese i counted how many ppl are in the class and it turns out there's 5 1/2 chinese kids to 11 1/2 white kids. what an odd ratio for a chinese class. oh and my teacher looks like a female version of sammo hung. haha it's great and the weird thing is that she's from taiwan, but knows a ton of stuff about commies and the mainland version of chinese that sounds all ghetto. then there's this one weird cantonese kid in my class who's really loud and has an extremely awkward voice. he always throws in comments about everything, but it's not so much annoying as it just makes him look kinda.....ghey. eh, whatever. next class, i got english or math depending on which day. so i guess before i go any further, it'd kinda help if u knew what my schedule looked like:
Monday - 2nd yr Chinese: 9.40 - 10.30, 1st yr Composition: 10.40 - 11.30, Break: 11.30 - 12.15, Macro Economics: 12.15 - 1.30
Tuesday - 2nd yr Chinese: 9.40 - 10.30, Brief Calculus: 10.40 - 11.55
Wednesday - 2nd yr Chinese: 9.40 - 10.30, 1st yr Composition: 10.40 - 11.30, Break: 11.30 - 12.15, Macro Economics: 12.15 - 1.30
Thursday - 2nd yr Chinese: 9.40 - 10.30, Brief Calculus: 10.40 - 11.55
Friday - 2nd yr Chinese: 9.40 - 10.30, 1st yr Composition: 10.40 - 11.30
basically, i have classes everyday which sucks, but at least i'm only in skool from 9.40 till about 11.30/1.30 so not too long as opposed to high skool. so anyways, back to english and math. english is a pretty cool class. we do a lot of group work and easy writing assignments n stuff like that. however, math sux. i hate it. i hate math. i jus plain suck at it and it doesn't help when you can't understand ur teacher. okay so my teacher is this middle-eastern guy so he's got the heavy accent. the first day i got stuck in the back of the room cuz all the seat in front were taken so not only could i not understand him, i could barely hear him at times. on top of that, the way he teaches is kinda...sporadic. jumping around different points n stuff. he "tried" teaching us about limits on tuesday, but i doubt a majority of the class understood it. thursday got a little better, but not by much. i got a seat closer to the front and he kinda went over stuff from the first day and i kinda got the gist of it all, but it's still kinda sketchy. *sigh* what a dumb class. then there's macro econ which isn't that bad of a class. it's one of those big lecture hall classes and the teacher doesn't care if ur late. also, it's a "come and go as you please" policy so i can leave anytime i want so long as i don't make a big scene in the process. as for the work, we haven't really gotten any. he's just been lecturing and the class has been taking notes. he tends to go off on a tangent sometimes which is kinda entertaining (and kills time ^_^). so all in all, class aren't that bad. hmmm what else? well i've jus bumped into random ppl inbetween classes throughout the week. saw anurag the other day and bumped into (other) bobby tuesday/wednesday morning. then there's jus a large group of church/skool friends that appear at random. yeah....oh every morning i'm at skool at least a half-hour early cuz of ghetto parking. omg, but at least now i can get a parking space rather than driving around for 20 min and then ending up parking in the northeast portion of lot 59 ::bleh:: ah anyways, enough about skool. it's the weekend....labor day weekend! yeah! 3-day weekend!!!
today i got into work an hour early so that kinda makes up for the two hours i lost due to a longer skool day on monday and wednesday. as for my 'silent defiance' i still don't have aim back which means i still leave work early. as for the ACTUAL work part i haven't really done much either. jus the daily newspaper deal and whatever else they need done. forget the archives. that place sux. stuffy, dusty, and the work is so incredibly tedious. man, i'm sleepy right now. maybe i'll go take a nap or something. *yawn*
got bored at work today. here's the fruits of my labor(mad props to mspaint.exe):
cool, huh? you can right-click and save these pictures and use them as a desktop wallpaper to remind urself each and everyday. hehe. oOo how's that for "artsy" and "creative?"
well monday is labor day and everything i normally go to on a weekday (skool, work, gungfu) are all closed so that leaves me with a full-day of freedom. hell yeah. as for what i'm going to do....that is still tentative. i'll most likely end up playing n64 for half the day and then if i don't go out with friends then i'll be on the computer the other half. *bleh* who needs to go outdoors when you have all that you need indoors? plus, the weather is hot as hell outside so that's not much fun either. wait....movies! a/c and entertainment, what a great combination.
08.26.02 / 4:31 pm
whew! first day of skool over. man, all i can say is that it wasn't quite rough and wasn't quite smooth either. i left the house around 8.45 this morning which gave me almost an hour to get to class. getting to asu wasn't a problem, but finding parking...*ugh* that was the bad part. it took me about 20-30 min to find a space, but that was only cuz the parking personnel opened up the expansion lot thing. stupid me parked next to the entrance which was closer to the exit, but farther from campus. then i decide to WALK all the way to class from the parking lot which took another 15-20 min which means i'm about a half hour late for my first class, 2nd yr chinese. so i finally find the building, but it takes a couple minutes to find the class too cuz i didn't know it was on the basement floor. just stroll into class while the teacher is talking and take a seat in the back. you know what the weird part is? a majority of the class is composed of bai ren. yep, that's right, second year chinese has mostly bai ren in the class. how weird, huh? i thought they'd still all be in first year, but whatever. the teacher didn't even speak chinese to us, hmm gee i wonder why? so ne wayz, class ends and i head to the next class (first year composition) and try to make sure i'm not late for it. i get there EARLY and take a seat NEAR the front ^_^ wow, i'm such a good student. we didn't really do much in that class either. the teacher jus gave us our syllabuses and made us play this "get to know your classmates" game, the one where u tell 2 truths and 1 lie. we get through all the ppl and she lets us out early! yay! so i wandered around campus for like.....half an hour and recognized some faces here and there. then i called up christine to meet up for lunch and eric and her show up and we get food at the mu. ai yah, i've been eating all this fastfood/junk food all day cuz i didn't bring my bottle of water and some sort of sandwich. after lunch, headed over to macroeconomics which was one of those big lecture hall classes. the teacher was pretty funny and he let us out a half hour early so it was cool. after that i had to make the dreaded trek back to my car which was parked north of the stadium ~oi. at least i had tyna there to keep me company. yay! stupid flash bus took forever to get to the stop though and we were jus watching all the *bling bling* cars go by (2 porsches, numerous bmw/lexus, and random assorted import cars). man....stoopid rich kids and their parents buying them niceeeeeeee cars. hehe, well doesn't that sound like SOMEONE? tee hee. so yeah i finally get into work a couple minutes after two and guess what? they hadn't even noticed that i hadn't come in yet! haha that's great cuz you know what that means....hehe. so yeah i think i'm gonna go pick up my books after work today since it's on the way home. hope i don't have to pay TOO much for them. welp, peace out.
