(03/14/2005) The Reverent Family will have another Family Dinner at John Chang's place on Wednesday, March 16. It happens to be the same day and time as the A Phi O Reunion Committee Meeting, which will be in the MLK Library.

(02/28/2005) The Desk of the Alumni Secretary will be updated soon with the new officer's collaboration. Now I am just doing minor adjustments.

(02/09/2005) I added 60(!) pictures in the 65th Anniversary Report. It is virtually a pictorial log of what happened during the night of December 6, 2004. This is all thanks to the Historian Andrew Phan. It was quite a task to do. I am also in the A Phi O Reunion Committee planning the big event on April 23, 2005. Check out the Desk of the Alumni Secretary for more updates. I am not Alumni Secretary anymore, but I still continue what I was doing last year.. We have new Alumni Secretaries, Eugene Wong and Judy Lee. I am currently inactive because I have to study and work on my career, so I cannot meet the high requirements set forth by the Bylaws of the fraternity, but I still do so much work for this fraternity, even though people do not notice it. Most of this background stuff I am doing will probably be in this website, since I want other people to learn more about my point of view in Alpha Phi Omega, both as an outside observer and an inside actor. 

(01/30/2005) I added 3 pages to the website: Daphne Page with photos about a member, Student Leaders Educate the Community with pictures on the health program, and A Call to Arms with pictures on the Blood Drive. Both articles were produced by Che Ankham for the The Gamma Betan: Alumni Edition newsletter and I published her pictures as well.  The next blood Drive is on February 2. You can also see the Campus Village advertisement featuring some fraternity brothers as well.

(01/29/2005) I finally finished the 65th Anniversary Report, which you can find below in the Articles section. I also updated the Desk of the Alumni Secretary after the 65th Anniversary. You could find The Gamma Betan: Alumni Edition newsletter on the http://aphiogb.org website under Newsletters.

(11/25/2004) What a busy Thanksgiving I had! Sure, I stayed in my apartment all alone, but I had a lot of work to do on my computer, including updating my website. I wanted to update this website early to show a special someone my website. Thus, I present to you the Reverent Family Dinner Report: A Day of Thanks. I had a great time on that Tuesday. I also added Richwood Borja's website on my links page and a Letter of Recommendation to Agenda Lounge, the restaurant that hosted our banquet.

(11/19/2004) I have been so busy with the 65th Anniversary that it consumes my days and nights. I am so glad that I have members on my committee willing to support me to make this event successful for December 6, 2004. I have been updating the Desk of the Alumni Secretary constantly. I also added a Reverent Family Dinner Report, and began the plans for our next Family Dinner, which is on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving on November 23.

(09/27/2004) Check out the Desk of the Alumni Secretary, for it is loaded with updates so you can learn about the upcoming 65th Anniversary and the projects that will manifest towards it. I have a new article, the "Ice Cream Social Report" out as well.

(08/01/2004) I created a links page to house the interesting websites that I recommend and save space on the index page. The last item on the bottom of the index is my latest and most exhaustive creation, Desk of the Alumni Secretary. Please glance through this area to see my ideas. I would appreciate your feedback on this, as it will improve my role in the fraternity. Because this website is accessible to a greater audience (due to the Desk of the Alumni Secretary), I cleaned up some articles in this site.
Other interesting things between the last update and now is that I went to Dave and Busters for the Reverent Family Dinner. Well, it did not feel like a dinner. It was more like a fellowship. After all, it was planned and announced by Barney, who sent phone messages to as many people (I did not get one). Basically, we heard from word-of-mouth that the gathering was taking place. There was no exception in the guest list as anyone who could go appeared. Notable things that are worth mentioning is The Great Mall, where Dave and Buster's is located. This shopping center is more of an amusement park. It is so large, that it would blow any mall rat away. There are exhibits that that resemble time capsules of the past, like an actual classic car on display. I also went to a $1 Store. Could you imagine a $1 Store in the mall? Knowing the inflation of prices in malls, it would be a money -losing task to sell anything at $1. Yet, amid extraneous luxury, a store like that survives. Malls have the highest property values next to downtown business districts. It is amazing that a $1 Store can make its rent in the sea of green paper land. I looked around in the store and saw typical discount stuff. It was not bad, but they did not sell any food! It could be that the eateries in the Great Mall prohibited the store from selling edibles. Dave and Busters is an entirely different story. That place is a crossbreed of a casino and Chuck e Cheeses. It feels like a nigh club, with bouncers checking I.D. in tandem with minors desperate to get in (alcohol is easily accessible there). Inside, there is a dining area, a bar, and a gaming area. The gaming area is divided into two sections; an arcade and ticket machines. You need to purchase a club card that hold two accounts. The first account is the token account that allows you to play games for a required amount of credit. The ticket machines enable you to win tickets, depending on your luck and skill. tickets (you guessed it) are redeemable for prizes at the ticket redemption center, ranging from a little rubber toy to a Playstation 2 (good luck winning that). The tickets are then transferred to your second account that holds the number of tickets that you won. Thus, you use the card as credit to purchase prizes. The arcade is advanced beyond anything close to a game expo. The consoles utilize many tools such as swords, gun turrets, multiplayer racing, kayaks, guns, hoses, etc. The most interesting feature was the mech fighter game. This simulation puts a player in an enclosed pod with high-tech controls to battle other mechs in a virtual landscape. You have to see it to believe it. The Great Mall shuts it stores by 9pm, but Dave and Buster's remain open and customers must enter from the outside (which looks like a fancy restaurant/bar with its long line of eager people).
On May 28, I drove with some fellow members to Stanford to visit the Zeta Chapter. I can tell you that they are a tier or more above SJSU. Stanford is one of the most difficult schools to apply in the U.S., according to the statistics. When you meet these people, you will find out why. Though they tend to be humble and say things like, "no, I was not the smartest person in my class," they are intellectually superior to most other college students. Reed Musselman, one of Gamma Beta's members, works at Stanford in the laboratory. He drinks like a dad and talks like a scientist. On a random occasion, he may explain the scientific processes of anything. Stanford students exhibit this behavior. I talked to a Stanford student about the Angel tv show and explained that he is a vampire with a soul, then out of the blue he asked a discrete mathematics question  regarding the contrapositive of that statement. I knew what he trying to deduce, but we laymen do not usually bring this type of question up. Ping of M.I.T. called this behavior "nerding." There are many pretty-looking female students, but they tend to dress conservatively with sweat pants. There are two reasons why they could do this: they are engulfed in their studies so much that their appearance is not a priority because they lack the time, or they have no obligation to physically attract anyone else because they are geniuses and thus they can do whatever they want. Regardless, it does not concern me, but I wanted to point that out what happens in this type of environment.
Regarding the APO fraternity at Stanford, the group is quite small. It is so small that all except four people can be an officer of the club. They are better singers than us, too, as if they took a choral class paid for by their parents (probably a private tutor, too). They sing "brothers clasp the hands of sisters." They pledge allegiance to flags of other nations where its members descended from (we were supposed to do that too, but we tend to forget). They play three-dimensional tic-tac-toe in their spare time. When they say "Be a leader, be a friend, be of service," they pound the air as if they were trying to make mashed potatoes. They do most of their services on weekends, since they have to study during the weekday for many hours each day. Freshmen must live on campus. The campus is very big and very circular. Half of the campus is like a deciduous forest. Other than that, they are just like us.
I did not learn much from the USC and Cal State L.A. chapters when I met 6 representatives on July 31. We gathered at Lee Diaz' house in San Gabriel to cut wooden letters. I was 39 minutes late, but the wood bringers were 1 hour and 43 minutes late (APhiO time, as they like to say. They are even later than us!). I played Hotshots Golf 3 with Elizabeth while we waited (it makes golf more exciting like Tiger Woods). The two USC people, Lee Diaz, the president, and Elizabeth Farr, Section 4 Vice-chair (and resembles Michelle Hale), already have bachelor's degrees, but they do not talk like they do. They acted like regular Southern Californians and relate well to the CSULA people. I learned how to use a power saw as the group cut two sets of letters and some paddles for their fraternity. It was very hands-on. USC's Alpha Kappa chapter does not have an Alumni Secretary and had not contacted their old members. However, President Diaz plans to start getting in touch with them (he acts as the Alumni Secretary). I gave him some tips and my website. The president of the Lambda Mu chapter (I forgot his name) conducts most fraternity business at his house. Their group is about 22 people strong. The land near CSULA is very quiet because disturbance is discourages by its residents: you do not have a loud a party at !0:30pm on a Friday.

(05/15/2004) The Ray Hancock Reunion is on May 19, 2004 and it will happen at Carmel Beach (wherever that is). I set up the plans. I suppose that it is an exclusive to Pledges of the Fall 2003 Ray Hancock class. The link is in the Pledging section. My next editorial, The Greek Mafia, is up in the Articles section. I am the next Alumni Secretary for the club, so I will later make an Alumni section on this website and start an Alumni Club. Everyone is invited to join. PLEASE JOIN, I AM IN DESPERATE NEED OF YOUR HELP!!
The Spring 2004 banquet was unexpectedly awesome. Sure, I sat in a bad location and everything was so expensive, but I had a great time. It felt like going to a wedding reception with the forget-me-not decor. It looked like Alpha Phi Omega and Gamma Beta were betrothed on the day of May 9, 2004. It was very formal. Everybody who attended looked amazing, especially Joe Aceto with his t-shirt tuxedo. I have to say that the water served was excellent: it was tasteless, odorless and ice cold, just the way I like it. This banquet was better than last semester's banquet. Almost everything was better, except for the music. Seriously, the banquet committee needs to find better DJs. Despite that, I still danced until it was over because I wanted to live the moment and take this opportunity to experiment. Besides, I needed some exercise, and the dance floor was a good workout space. I usually dance alone because I do not like touching people. It feels so restraining when when you are dancing with someone else. They watch your moves, and if you make a mistake, you could hurt them or yourself. I was appalled at the way some guests danced, and that is why I do not dance like other people. If I danced like that, I might go to jail because dancing that way is scandalous. I suppose that we will follow the Las Vegas motto for the banquet; what happens here, stays here. Thus, I will not discuss any more details on what happened at the banquet.