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Memories
My first year at UC Davis was filled with incredible and memorable experiences. I can go on with countless stories about everything. As of right now, I know like 8 or 9 incoming Freshmen, and i wish it was a year ago so i could just go through my first year all over again.
So one thing I'm going to do is add a few memories to this page. For those who lived with me or knew me at Davis, this may bring back memories. And for those who weren't there, well now you can get a sense of what went down. Back to UCD.
September 24, 2002 - White Boy
This day was the season premiere of Smallville, and everyone who knows me knows that I'm
infatuated with Kristin Kreuk. I remember going into Jon and Dennis's room downstairs because there
were like 25 people stuffed in one room to watch the show. It wasn't just a show, it was an event.
Well, after the show I kinda bummed around their room. I remember Judy found out
I was Vietnamese, and were like "whaaaat." So to prove it, I said something to Judy and she was
like "whaaaaaaaaaaaaat." It was a pretty trippy moment for her. I think Queena, Tenile, and Jon were there
too.
Anyways, later Judy wanted to go party so I went with her and Qub. There were plenty of parties, but
nothing really great. So we ended up just going to every party on Russell. The next thing I know, we all
start going with Mariko, Emily, and another guy to Cuarto. We just chilled there for a while. And then
we walked back to our area. It was probably around 2:00 AM and Judy, Qub, and I were pretty much awake.
We went into Judy's room and all three of us talked until like 4 something. I recall stepping outside for a quick
second, then a certain someone was in the halls and wanted to see what we're doing. But since Judy didn't really
like her, we ran from her and slammed the door on her face. This was the first time I really met Judy and she is
fun to be around. We've had many other silly moments together, such as me keeping her awake at night and
our "Pics of the Month"...from this day on, all the Chinatown people called me "white boy."
October 15, 2002 - Fruit Golf
So I bring my 3 golf clubs from home and decided one evening to walk around Indio with it. As usual,
I make my way downstairs to Chinatown and I see boxes lying around. Being the random guy that I am,
I start hitting the boxes. Queena sees me and gives me an apple from her fridge and tells me to take
a swing.
I prop the apple near the bathroom and prepare to swing. Now, I expected the apple to fly across
the hallway; maybe a few pieces here and there. I prepare to swing...then BAM!.......
The apple shatters entirely and splatters across the ENTIRE hallway. Literally, the apple
was in tiny pieces. It stained all the walls, doors, ceiling, and all the way down to the end of the
hall. Everyone there were like "whoooooooooooooooa!" Jon put me on the "Cool List" for that.
People starting getting worried that we'd get in trouble, because the place was so fucked up messy
with apple bits. I just walk off and go grab a broom. As I made my way back, I saw like 5 Chinese girls
clean up the mess for me. I'm say, "don't worry I'll take care of it." They ignore me and continue to
sweep and vaccuum for me.
This moment was unbelieveable. The apple broke into a hundred pieces and it flew all through Chinatown.
I really wish I had this on tape or at least took a picture of it. It was extremely positive. And then to
have other people clean for me...damn, this was too good.
October 27, 2002 - Party Boy
The afternoon before, about 6 of us watched Jackass: The Movie. I have always thought party boy
was hilarious, so I downloaded the Party Boy Theme music. Qub walks in and we came up with a plan to
do party boy. Jay sets up his speakers while Qub gets Lizelle. And yes, that means I am Party Boy.
The plan was that I would just dance like party boy, that's all. While Lizzy was taking forever to come out,
I decided to just take off my shirt. So, when she comes by, Jay bumps the music and I jump out and
do the Party Boy dance topless. Qub and Jay are laughing their asses off. Lizzy was like, "eeeew Andy!!"
It took us a few minutes to stop laughing. At that moment, it was simply hilarious.
With something this funny, we HAD to do it again...and again...and again. I would get Heidi, Emily, Wendy,
and a whole lotta people next. I remember Plua SPRINTING across the hall when I took off my shirt. When I did it
for Judy and Halona, damn...all five of us were literally on the floor laughing like crazy. All our stomaches
were hurting because of all the laughing.
A very memorable one was when I did it for our RA, Rocio. By then, I had gotten 20 people already. In order to
get her to come over to my room, someone told her that Qub and I were arguing. She comes over to my room, and
I'm like, "I want to party!" Qub then said, "Rocio, you wanna party?" Of course, she's confused. Then the shirt
goes off, I pull off my pants...and party boy her like crazy. The entire building was watching and we were
all in tears after this. It was madness that night. It was prolly 2 AM when this took place. The next day, I had
like 5 people come up to me giving me pictures of what happened. And after the day, girls were offering me
their thongs to I could wear for more Party Boy-ing...I doubt many people would wanna see my left nut hang out.
So I had to reject all 4 of those thongs.
October 31, 2002 - Halloween
For the past 3 years, I didn't do anything for Halloween. After coming back from class at 7:30 PM, I figured
I would have nothing to do again...damn, I was hella wrong. I come back and everyone is ready to go out. I hear
that some people are going to Tecero for the Haunted House. For those who don't know, the Tecero A building
is the haunted building. There are stories about that place. People hear things at night...
On this day, Street Fighter players from Davis and Berkeley are going against each other in
3 games, each in a 5-on-5 round robin format. I qualified to be on the Davis Marvel vs. Capcom 2
team. I remember this being an awesome event. We were doing very well, winning lots of games. When it comes
to MvC2, Berkeley overall has better players than us. When it was time for me to play my 5 matches, I had
a couple of exciting moments that made the crowd yell, which was positive. Do to a couple of mistakes, I
went 2-3 against the UCB team, which was pretty good considering we had only 7 wins and 18 losses in that
game.
You'd figure an engineer, doctor, and psychologist would know better...I start my weekend by going back
to my room to just relax a bit. I see Megan who is visitng some people in Indio, and she says that no one
visits her and Jen at Ryerson. So Qub and I decide later to go visit because we are nice like that. Too bad
when we came by, Jen was napping. Anyways, later we all went to a free hip hop show at Kleiber. It was fairly
entertaining, but we left early.
Back at Indio, more people were around and we just kinda bummed around in the lobby. For a while, we've
been toying with the idea of doing a Jackass video. So Qub calls up Juan and Sammy and they come over.
And it begins. I won't get into detail about what we did because we have the video, but I ended up with
a bruised back and a minor numbing of the left side of my body; Qub has a mild concussion; Jay had a fat
headache; Juan's ribs were sore. Yea, we aren't super cool like some others, but as i prefaced earlier,
we're smart guys. We ain't getting paid for this shit, so we ain't going balls out. Pretty much everyone
who has seen our video has found at least something to laugh about, which is good.
After we were done, we went to the Old Teahouse for, well, tea. Megan brings up the idea that we should just
stay up all night, and being idiots that we are, we said yes. Aaaaand the next thing I know, it's 5:30 AM
and Megan hops on my bed and goes to sleep...
So to wrap this one up, we plan on doing more Jackass-like things. We will see how bored
we get in our apartment. It may not be like on TV, but it's from UCD, absolutely free, and fine with me.
It was the time for students to start looking for apartments. Actually, we're supposed to be looking
since December. People were laughing at Jay, Qub, and me because we were like "whatever." So we decide
to go apartment hunting. Now, we don't know where the hell people are staying. All we have heard about
were places like "Sorrento" and "Allegre" and we were like "uh...yea." We get on the bus and go towards
South Davis. We have NO IDEA where to go. We look around to see if there are apartments around. After a few minutes,
we getting pretty comfortable in our seats and didn't wanna get off the bus.
Then we decided we HAVE TO stop soon. We see some random ass apartments and then an auto mall. And
we're thinking, "shit we're lost." We walk around looking at some of these places. They were all closed
so we just ended up walking around different places. There was nothing very interesting, except for
El Macero...damn, that was quite interesting...Qub hiding behind a garbage can. Hahahaha. We also
went to a Sear's store. Seeing that pretty much shocked us.
Anyways, we wait for the bus to arrive, which took like 30 minutes to get there. Although this
proved unsuccessful, we had a fun time just roaming around...that area. I ended up eating dinner
with them, and Libby as well. I only remember this because we talked about where we would bum
around if we can't find a place to live. I recall Libby being really vicious, which I found to
be quite amusing.
After a royal screw job from a couple of apartment places, my buddies and I are in deep shit.
Well, on this Wednesday, I was working on my last essay for my honors Compartive Lit class. I
had so much to write and proofread for that essay, I was skipping other classes for it. It was about 3:20 in
the afternoon, and i had about 40 minutes to finish, edit, and print the paper. Qub runs in and tells me
that there is an apartment that has 3 rooms available, and that if we want it, we must sign the lease NOW.
This day started off shitty as hell. I thought I failed my ECS40 (Software Engineering) final and
then I FAILED my ECS20 (Discrete Math in CS) final. And I was in the worst mood that day. Then I had to
do an entire essay that was due in 12 hours. I remember going to dinner with a whole bunch of people, and
what stood out the most was me teaching girls self defense. I don't wanna get into full detail, but basically
I had girls grab their breasts and attempt to "shift" them. When I was demonstrating it at the table, people
were just rolling with laughter. Megan gives me one of those confused looks that I always get whenver
I act like a moron. People were looking at me like I was some comical genius, but I was just telling
girls how to protect themselves. That totally made my day a lot better.
So it's 1 or 2 AM, and Jay and I decide to just bum around in Heidi's room. We start talking
about naming kids after X-Men and other Marvel characters. So we're naming random characters
and any funny ones we were just laughing our asses off. I could go on for an hour about
this, but the funniest ones were Beast, Hobgoblin, and Iceman.
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Sorry, but typing and remembering all this took me HOURS. And I still have at least 40 stories I can
write about so I'll add more soon.
After 30 minutes of mindless fun, the 3 girls came back, and let's say they were less than sober. All of a
sudden girls start kissing me and I get lipstick all over my face and neck. I guess now, I'm a pimp golfer.
What a way for Halloween to reflect what I am not: a pimp and a golfer. Anyways, the 5 of us leave for
Tecero A. As soon as we got there, it was hella crowded. Long ass lines. There, the other three girls left
and we were accompanied by 3 others. I met Audrey, Chelsea, and Lulu, who were friends of Gina and Jay.
We finally enter the haunted house and it was well-designed. There was some scary and clever shit going on
in there. Jay got the shit scared out of him though. Hahahaha.
When we left, we chilled for a bit until Jay and I were driven back to Indio. I then got a call from
Lizzy, telling me to go to party. It was still only 1:30 and i didn't wanna study for a quiz the next
morning (haa!!), so Jay and I get ready to go party. We see Plua, who was going to a friend's place. We
decided to walk her to her destination, and then we'd go to that party. As we got to the parking lot,
we see some Indio people roll in a jeep...people come out and a couple of them were drunk of their asses.
I won't name names, but basically, Jay, Plua, and I had to help these people in to the building and take
care of them. THEN, more drunkards come back from whereever they went that night, including
Gina, Lizzy, and Rachel. And for some reason, a couple them end up in my room. They are on the floor or
just on my bed. Things are just straight up crazy right now. I remember having to take Rachel and Jenny home
and seeing more craziness.
I could go into major detail as to other stuff they went down that night, but it's waaaay too much here.
This was like the first night that I know of that EVERYBODY went out at the same time. Indio was pretty much
empty. This Halloween is the most memorable and eventful Halloween I've experienced. And boy was I in deep shit
when I had a quiz coming in a few hours....
November 9, 2002 - UC Davis vs. UC Berkeley
Afterwards, we all went to Hot Pot for some delicious food. There were like 20 of us all together.
I remember whenever Eric Hsu went over a speed bump, the Lews and I would just hear scratching and we
would just go "ouch!" The last thing I remembered about this event was going by a frat party, and
we saw some Asian girls and all 5 of us in the car turned and looked. Yea, that was tight.
November 15, 2002 - Jackass!
January 18, 2003 - Apartment Shopping
March 12, 2003: eMERgency!
I sit there, waiting to piss my pants...then I pump out more BS for my essay and get ready to leave. I had
to get to class early and turn it in. I got there as fast as I could and waited for my professor. She actually
comes late, and I run up to her and tell her, "Doctor, it's an eMERgency!"...pronounced "eee-mAIR-gency" with
some kind of accent. When i said it, i didn't realize HOW i said it until a second after I said it.
Ok, it doesn't sound funny to most of you, but when I told some girls in Indio, they were cracking up like
crazy. On the other hand, guys didn't find it funny at all.
Moving on, I biked to Lexington Apartments to sign the lease. The other guys were there waiting for me
because I was the one with the check book. As we were signing, there was a sheet talking about "sex offenders"
and we weren't sure whether to sign it or not. When Sammy asked, "If sign it, does it mean we are sex
offenders?" The lady looks at us and laughs. We give a confused look. We're like, "seriously, do we sign
this?" She laughs and says, "oh you boys are funny." And we're still confused as hell. In any case,
we sign the lease and do all the necessary paperwork. As we bike back, we are extremely excited.
Damn, this upcoming year is going to be insane...and the fact that Don Juan is living right next to us...
Craziness.
March 20, 2003: Self Defense
April 1, 2003: Naming My Children
The way I said "Hobgoblin" made Jay and Heidi hurt with laughter. It got to the point where
Heidi told me to stop saying it. And when I said it again and again, Jay could hardly breathe and
my stomach was hurting. I pretty much said "Hobgoblin" with some sort of English accent. As I continued
to speak with an English accent, Heidi was dying with laughter while I was crying right after. Then I talked
about my naming my daugther "Iceman," which got some more laughs.
Another thing was that I was gonna name my 3 kids: "Pi," "R," and "Squared." And if someone were to ask me,
"where are your kids?" I'd simply reply, "Oh, they are around the area." Jay is laughing like crazy again.
Megan is in my room, using my laptop and she yells out, "I feel sorry for your kids!" Oh man, so much
laughter this night. Felt great.